When he was at age twelve his parents passed away and he entered the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, which was a spiritual community near Pondicherry. Chinmoy had profound inner experiences and he soon achieved very advance states of meditation from spending twenty years of spiritual practice. He was a very spiritual person, and his work shows its. He saw spiritual forces behind all great advances in religion, culture, sports and science. This quote is one of his beliefs, which influenced his poetry. “Our goal is to go form bright to brighter to brightest, form high to higher to highest. And even in the highest, there is no end to our progress, for God Himself is inside each of us and God at every moment is transcending His own Reality.” (Chinmoy)
Chinmoy's birthplace was in Bangladesh in 1931 and he had six brothers and sisters. His poems were greatly influenced by his parents death, because after that he went to Sri Aurobindo to study spirituality, which is what most of his poems and writings are about. (Chinmoy)
Due to Chinmoy staying in Sri Aurobindo for twenty years he soon started meditating for many hours on end which got him into more spirituality. In addition to the meditation, he wrote many poems with the encouragement of the older members of the Ashram in his mother tongue - Bengali. This is one of the reasons he started writing poetry in the first place, and the fact it is about spirituality. (Chinmoy)
Later in Chinmoy's life he was inspired to travel to America to offer his spiritual tradition to the West. He settled in New York and started offering meditation classes and lectures on Spirituality. These classes helped him to continue to promote harmony which is what his poems are about. (Chinmoy)
So Sri Chinmoy's life greatly influenced his poetry in a way that it just is his natural thoughts all the time. He is a very spiritual person and for the past thirty five years he has offered weekly prayers and meditations at the United Nations. Even though many do not believe in spirituality will like his poems. They are more about world harmony than spirituality itself. (Chinmoy)
