Sri Chinmoy has been writing poetry since his youth in India, but his contribution to the world of devotional and spiritual poetry has taken on mammoth proportions since he came to the West in 1964. His poems express a wide range of spiritual sentiment, experience and wisdom, and have the rare ability to convey with a few simple words deep spiritual concepts and eternal truths.

Below is a selection of Sri Chinmoy's poems that contain the theme 'blue bird' – a phrase that he often uses in reference to the soul. The poems and prose displayed on this page were sourced from Sri Chinmoy Library, Sri Chinmoy Poetry and Sri Chinmoy Songs. Two other sites that offer selections of poetry by Sri Chinmoy and some of humanities greatest inspirational poets and luminaries are Poet Seers and WriteSpirit.

Poems

These first verses are the lyrics to a song that Sri Chinmoy wrote (while on a six week visit to New Zealand in 2002) to honour and highlight the inner propensities of The Blue Bird café. The song can be heard here »

The blue bird, the blue bird, the blue bird, the blue.
All you are is supremely true.
Your soul is Infinity's flight.
All-where you sprinkle nectar-delight.

I am a blue bird of the blue sky.
I dwell in the heart-sky
Of infinite silence.

If you really want to escape
From your mind,
Then you have to go
Beyond the mind.
How do you do that?
You have to make friends
With the blue bird
That is deep inside your heart.
This blue bird will help you fly
In the firmament of Light and Delight.

When our life's enthusiasm dies,
The blue bird in our heart-sky
Stops flying.

My heart's aspiration-plant
Needs seven determination-smiles
Every day
So that it can grow soulfully,
Confidently and triumphantly.
And these smiles must come from
My heart's blue bird: My soul.

The blue bird deep inside my heart
Tells me that when I reach
The summit of my realisation-mountain
I shall see that the beauty of truth
Is in life itself.

The blue bird enters
Into the world-heart
For the world's liberation.

Your heart-bird cannot use
Its blue-gold wings
Unless your diamond faith has attained
Total sufficiency.

In the depths of my heart
A blue bird is constantly singing.
Although I am now chained
To earth-bound time,
My blue bird is telling me
That if I listen to it
While it sings soulfully,
It will free me from earth-bound time
And carry me
Into God's Vision-Sky to fly.

I am divinely and supremely happy
Because my blue aspiration-bird
Is flying
On two beautiful and powerful wings.

What I need
Is a soulfully receptive world
To hear
My heart's blue bird singing.

If it is a question about God,
Who can answer with more authority
Than the heart's blue bird:
The soul?

Slowly and steadily
My prayer ascends,
Like a blue bird.
Softly and divinely
My service descends,
Like a heavy rain.

With the compassion-eye, my blue soul-bird
Is calling me to fly in the sky of peace.

Struggle!
Struggle vehemently against darkness!
Your soul, the blue bird inside your heart,
Desperately wants from you
The transformation of your earth-life.

O my mind,
Instead of dying for
An ever-new curiosity,
Can you not long for
An ever-fresh luminosity?
Thus you will be able to please
The Real in you:
Your own Eternity's blue bird,
Your soul.

Now is the time for me to claim
My divinity's immortal blue bird
Inside my aspiration-heart.

Implore God's Grace.
You will be happy.
Explore your heart's silence-breath.
You will unmistakably discover
The blue soul- bird within you.

Inside my sleepless eagerness
Man's doubtless newness
And God's earth-transforming Fulness
Shall blossom.
This is the message supreme
Which my heart's blue bird
Has brought to my self-giving life.

Let not death
Weigh upon you indefinitely.
Go and make friends
With the blue bird
Inside your golden heart-cage.

You can be happy
Only when your mind accepts the fact
That somebody else has more knowledge-light
And your heart accepts the fact
That somebody else has more wisdom-delight.
Who is that somebody?
None other than your own
Eternity's blue bird-your soul.

Alas, the blue bird
Inside my heart
Instead of singing
Heaven-free songs
Is hearing earth-bound sighs.

Leave me alone, O world!
Blame me not!
I shall be liberated
Without your help,
For the blue bird of my soul
Has come to the fore
To liberate me.

The blue bird of my green heart
Has a special message today:
Before long I shall see
The lotus-red Feet of my Lord Supreme
Inside my surrender-life and gratitude-heart.

My heart's aspiration-plant
Needs seven determination-smiles
Every day
So that it can grow soulfully,
Confidently and triumphantly.
And these smiles must come from
My heart's blue bird:
My soul.

There is no bird above me.
There is only one blue-gold bird
Inside my heart,
And its name is my soul.

Awake to the hymn
Of the blue bird within you.
Your past failure-life
Will then be able to sit
At the Compassion-Satisfaction-Feet
Of your Beloved Supreme.

If you do not sleeplessly
And breathlessly cry,
How will you see your heart's
Blue aspiration-bird
In full flight?

Prose (excerpts)

The soul is a blue bird which flies in the firmament of Consciousness, Light and Bliss, eternally singing only one song-the song of our Beloved Supreme's constant Victory here on earth and there in Heaven.

In the depth of my heart the blue bird smiles and the blue bird plays. The festival of lustre-form and celestial-delight is inviting everyone. The sun, the moon, the mountains and the ocean all have come. Today I shall listen to the call of Infinity. We shall run toward Infinity. Right in front of us is the ladder of Light. Our hearts have become the flower of Light Divine. We are the hope of our Lord Supreme. The world-creator is none other than our love.