Video by Utpal Marshall
On March 3rd 1979, Sri Chinmoy completed his first marathon in Chico California in a time of 4:31:34. Each year since then, his students in New York and around the world have honoured him by running the 26-mile distance.
Video by Utpal Marshall
On March 3rd 1979, Sri Chinmoy completed his first marathon in Chico California in a time of 4:31:34. Each year since then, his students in New York and around the world have honoured him by running the 26-mile distance.
Sri Chinmoy offers a ‘Oneness-Earth’ programme, attended by ambassadors, religious leaders and UN officials at the United Nations in New York. Televised excerpts are broadcast nationwide by CBS-TV on Christmas Day. The song ‘Oneness-Earth’, composed by Sri Chinmoy the previous day, is sung at the event.
Sri Chinmoy participates in a 48-hour, non-stop relay called the Queens Culture Run, which began on the evening of 14 December in his honour. He runs the initial 13 miles plus several other segments, including the final mile. The run ends with a public meditation in Queens on 16 December.
A 50th birthday tribute for Sri Chinmoy is read into the Congressional Record at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes 20 poems on ‘Confidence’, which are later published in his book, Two divine qualities: Confidence and Sincerity.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Dan Lurie, famous weightlifter, a three-time winner of Mr. America’s ‘Most Muscular Man’, 1942-1944, and publisher of Muscle Training Illustrated, at Dan Lurie Barbells Company in Springfield Gardens, Long Island, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers his heartfelt remarks at a ceremony honouring orphanage founder Mr. Vanasin Vongbhun at the Pinnacle Quality Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Orphaned at an early age himself, Sri Chinmoy also addresses the many children who have attended.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Dr. Bhadra Ranchod, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Parliament of South Africa, at the Holiday Inn in Cape Town, South Africa.
Sri Chinmoy sketches large Soul-Bird drawings that are hung on a hotel window in Panajachel on the north shore of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Datuk Samy Vellu, a senior member of the Malaysian Cabinet and Minister of Works, at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 45 people, including Joaquim Cruz, 1984 800-metre Olympic gold medallist; Clayton Stent, Mayor, Taupo District; and Anna Tyler, World Duathlon gold medallist, and World Triathlon Championship silver medallist, at Great Lakes Centre in Taupo, New Zealand.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Omer Bilgin, member of Turkish Parliament for over 20 years and Minister of Tourism for Turkey for 10 years, at the Sheraton Voyager Hotel in Antalya, Turkey.
Video by kedarvideo
Sri Chinmoy sketches large Soul-Bird displays hung on a hotel window in Panajachel on the north shore of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.
UNITED NATIONS — Ambassadors, religious leaders and U.N. officials joined Sri Chinmoy here December 14 in a programme celebrating the holiday spirit of human oneness.
Televised excerpts from the programme, called “Oneness-Earth,” were broadcast nationwide by CBS on Christmas Day. Sri Chinmoy concluded the event with these words:
“The desire-man demands division-earth. The aspiration-man yearns for oneness-earth. Oneness-earth means God-Satisfaction in its universal dream-reality. Dream is the oneness of the earth-family; reality is the perfection ever-transcending of the earth-family.”
Other speakers included the Ambassador of Panama, a representative of the African National Congress, the Director of the International Year of the Child Secretariat, the U.N. Observer for Pope Paul and officials from the U.S. Mission and the United Nations.
Published in Anahata Nada, Vol. 4, No. 12, January 4, 1978
Oneness-earth, oneness:
A life of fulness.
Division-mind dies,
Oneness-heart flies.
Heaven’s God-length:
Oneness-earth’s strength.
Today’s Vision-Plan:
Tomorrow’s God-man.
Sri Chinmoy composes this song on December 13th for the Oneness-Earth programme held on the 14th at the United Nations in New York.
Published in Chandelier, Part 1
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Antalya Culture Centre in Antalya, Turkey.
Sri Chinmoy with his devoted dogs, Kanu (left) and Sona (right).
Sri Chinmoy offers a ‘Oneness-Earth’ programme, attended by ambassadors, religious leaders and UN officials at the United Nations in New York. Televised excerpts were broadcast nationwide by CBS-TV on Christmas Day.
at the Pinnacle Quality Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand
Dear brother-friend, Mr. Vanasin Vongbhun, I wish to offer at the very outset my heart's deepest love to you and to all your students who are here now.
My dear young friends! I call you my friends, my brothers and sisters, because you and I are in the same boat. I am absolutely one of you. I lost my parents when I was quite young. At the age of ten I lost my father, and the following year I lost my mother. So I became orphaned at the age of eleven.
Affection, love, compassion and all the other divine blessings I received from my parents only for eleven fleeting years. Parents' affection can never be replaced. Again, there are many human beings who are extremely compassionate to orphans. Here is the most radiant example. Mr. Vongbhun is all kindness, all affection and all protection to each of you.
I was born in a village. In a village there are many good children and, again, there are many bad children. In my family, when we lost our father and mother, some children of our age were very unkind to us, while other children were extremely kind and compassionate. In India, when we lose our parents, for a month we have to lead a very strict, disciplined and austere life. We cannot sit on a chair or sleep on a bed; we have to sit and sleep on the floor. We cannot have any kind of comfort. During that period I had to take an examination. So I was answering the questions from the floor, while my classmates were all on chairs. Some of my classmates were laughing at me while others, including the teacher, were showing me such affection and love.
Then I went to another school in another part of India. There the students and teachers were so kind and affectionate to me because I had lost my parents at a very young age. So if there are bad students who do not show kindness, affection and sympathy to you, please forgive them. There will always be good students who will show you their affection, kindness and love.
Now a few words about your teacher, your friend, your leader, who is your father and mother in one body — Mr. Vanasin Vongbhun. Yesterday I had the golden opportunity to speak with him for about an hour. He told me everything that he has been doing for the past few years with the children who lost their parents at the very beginning of their life's journey. The ideas and the ideals that he has placed before you are extremely beautiful, powerful, illumining and fulfilling.
As I understand, you are all the sweet children of the Lord Buddha. He embodies infinite Compassion and he has very, very special affection and compassion for all of you at every moment. As you know, when the Lord Buddha came into the world, his mother had to go to Heaven. So he also did not get his mother's affection. But after he attained the highest Nirvana and received the infinite Light, he used to contact his mother in Heaven. He used to give her Light in infinite measure and keep her in the highest plane of Heaven.
You children can also give joy and affection to your parents in Heaven. Early in the morning, when you pray, you can ask God to give your parents joy, love and light. God definitely will listen to your prayer. You should pray to the Lord Buddha. He will do it for you the way he did it for his own mother. So by virtue of your prayer, you can help your parents in Heaven.
Also, every morning please offer gratitude to the Lord Buddha for giving you special concern, shelter and protection here on earth under the guidance of your great, divine leader. If we show our gratitude when somebody does something good for us, God immediately increases our good qualities. He gives us more love, more joy, more affection, more strength, more peace and more of everything than we deserve or even need.
You have to pray to the Lord Buddha at least twice a day — every morning and every evening — for his Protection and his Illumination. Every morning and every evening, please pray to the Lord Buddha for his infinite Compassion, infinite Affection and constant Protection so that you can become good citizens of the world and do something very good and very great, not only for your beloved country but for the entire world. The more you can pray to the Lord Buddha, the more happiness and fulfilment you will receive from your lives.
Once more, I wish to personally thank this supreme teacher from the very depths of my heart. Dearest friend, I deeply appreciate and admire all your divine qualities. In so many ways you are serving your young brothers and sisters — giving them a new promise and a new hope of becoming perfect citizens of the world. Therefore, I am extremely, extremely grateful to you and extremely, extremely proud of you.
* The previous day, Sri Chinmoy and Mr. Vanasin Vongbhun had an hour-long meeting.
Published in Lord Buddha’s Compassion-Hand
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Published in Two Divine Qualities: Confidence and Sincerity
Kuantan, Malaysia
Sri Chinmoy comments after Amritananda reads out his award-winning poem about the oneness of all God's children and the single mountain-top at which all paths converge, concluding with "Dedicated to Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, who has climbed the mountain, and understands, and teaches well."
My dearest Amritananda, I appreciate your poem, I admire your poem and I adore your poem.
One individual can be both the Heaven-ambassador of peace and the earth-ambassador of peace. A single individual can be the Heaven-ambassador of peace and the earth-ambassador of peace. And that ambassador is your soul, that ambassador is your heart. Your soul and your heart are both peace-ambassadors. You are the peace-ambassador of Heaven and the peace-ambassador of earth.
Not as a great educator, not as a great religious newscaster, but as an individual who has combined the mental approach and the spiritual approach to new peace-building, you are at once the hope-bearer and promise-fulfiller. You start with hope and you enter into the promise-world. Then you keep your promise.
This world of ours should have known much, much more about you, for in you I find a real synthesis of the mind and the heart. The wisdom of the heart and the knowledge-intelligence of the mind you have in infinite, infinite measure.
You are telling the world, “Do not give up hope, do not give up hope!” Hope is there. Hope is inside our heart, hope is inside our mind, hope is inside our life; and this hope eventually takes us to our promise. Hope shows its sweetness-beauty, and its slow and steady progress to promise. Promise says, “If you are with me, O hope, then I am destined to bring about world peace.” Hope and promise are like two wings of the same bird. This bird is constantly reminding us, “Stop not! Do not think you are a failure, even for a fleeting moment. You are the eventual winner of the peace-world.”
My dearest Amritananda, your soul is flooded with hope and promise. Similarly, your hope permeates each and every cell, every limb of yours. We feel that your message to the world is something beautifully blooming, sacredly blooming, and soulfully and powerfully blooming. Now you are in the blooming stage, but there shall come a time when your soul’s promise and your heart’s love for the world will be manifested here in the heart of the world.
I am all love for you, all love for you, all gratitude, gratitude, gratitude to you and all pride in you, pride you, my dearest Amritananda.
Published in My Golden Children