1.
Offering worship to You,
I am so happy My Lord.
I am also happy
Because this happiness of mine
Nobody can steal.
Adorare Te devote
Me laetificat, Domine.
Gaudeo gaudium meum
Nemo a me tollet.
– Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 5, Agni Press, 1979.
2.
God the Truth
My mind admires.
God the Love
My heart needs.
Deus Prima Veritas
Menti meae admirandus.
Deus Summa Caritas
Cordi meo anhelandus.
– Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 20, Agni Press, 1981.
3.
O Lord, where is the Truth?
“Where your Beloved is?”
Who is my Beloved, Who?
“In whom your life is peace.”
Domine, ubi est Veritas?
“Ubi tuus Dilectus.”
Quis est meus Dilectus, quis?
“In quo est vita tua pax.”
– Sri Chinmoy, My Flute, Agni Press, 1972.
4.
My first discovery:
God cares for me.
My last discovery:
I need God.
Invento mea prima:
Deus curator mei.
Inventio mea ultima:
Indigeo Die.
– Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 20, Agni Press, 1981.
5.
God the Teacher
Instructs me in the morning.
God the Father
Blesses me in the evening.
Deus Preaceptor
Docet me mane.
Deus Pater
Benedicit me vespere.
– Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 41, Agni Press, 1982.
6.
To own peace
Is to own a living God.
To own a living God
Is to become another God.
Possidere pacem
Possidere est Deum vivum.
Possidere Deum vivum
Fieri est alter Deus.
– Sri Chinmoy, Transcendence-Perfection, Agni Press, 1975.
Do livro Simplicitas Cordis: poetry of Sri Chinmoy, Agni Press 1983 – New York, ISBN 0-88497-659-9
Traduzido ao latim por Ralph Lazzaro, Director of Language Studies at the Harvard Divinity School