“A moment of inner cry is a day of outer prosperity.”
– Sri Chinmoy
In our outer lives, prosperity is associated with material wealth and riches, popularity and power, comfort and luxury, abundance, wellbeing, winning, high achievement and success in any field. Yet outer prosperity is fleeting, meaningless, unsustainable and unfulfilling if it does not flow from a sincere inner cry. An inner cry is the only reliable guarantor of prosperity’s integrity and longevity.
Beyond prosperity, what we all yearn for, is satisfaction. Satisfaction is the Holy Grail of human longing, embracing our inner and outer existence. There is nothing we want or need more, than to be truly satisfied in all our being.
From where, then, and how does satisfaction arise? On what does it depend?
“Our true satisfaction
Entirely depends
On our own sincere inner cry.”
– Sri Chinmoy
Our inner cry is the source and sustenance of all satisfaction in our life. If we are without an inner cry, then what is there to satisfy? For us to feel and achieve satisfaction, something must be satisfied. What is that something? Our inner cry.
“You can never reach complete satisfaction
In your heavenward journey
Without your heart’s aspiration-cry.”
– Sri Chinmoy
Our inner cry envisions our goal, takes aim at the goal, sponsors and guides our journey and ultimately unites us with our satisfaction-goal. Our inner cry is the spark that ignites our aspiration, the fuel that inspires our meditation and the vehicle that carries us to our satisfaction.
Satisfaction is not a final or static state: lasting satisfaction must ever grow, deepen and expand. Lasting satisfaction can flow only from an ever-fresh and continually transcending inner cry.
“My satisfaction-peace
Is not the success
Of my outer smile
But the progress
Of my inner cry.”
– Sri Chinmoy