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 delivers a lecture at Cape Cod Community College in Hyannis, MA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Meditation’, at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song, entitled ’Albert Einstein, Scientist-Sage!’ about the great Nobel-Prize winning physicist.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert to celebrate his fourth Piano Anniversary at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy hosts a banquet for Vladimir Petrovsky, Director-General of the United Nations, Geneva, and his wife Mira, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts two 500-lb. dumbbells (a total of 1,000 lbs.) overhead simultaneously from a standing position, at his home gym. Read more ... Later that same evening, Sri Chinmoy attends a special celebration to honour his achievement at Public School 86 in in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Mozambique and the Heart of Mongolia Awards.
Sri Chinmoy and Vladimir Petrovsky deep in conversation under the large Jharna-Kala painting at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Sri Chinmoy raised two 500-lb. dumbbells off a metal support suspended above his shoulders on Feb. 16. Just three days later, he succeeded in lifting two 650-pound dumbbells. “I never, never, never, never imagined I would be able to lift 1,300 pounds,” he declared, saying it was all due to the infinite Grace of the Supreme.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 29, Mid-November 1999 – Mid-March 2000
Albert Einstein, scientist-sage!
The wonder supreme of a vision-blaze.
A power-tower in a tiny frame.
Energy and mass enjoy their game
Of oneness-fulness, perfection-height.
Einstein, all-where your sleepless light.
In your greatest revolution-role
The world’s fastest evolution-goal.
Published in The Heart-Home of the Immortals
by Sri Chinmoy
Today while I was cycling on my stationary bike, I was listening to a tape of my organ music. I was saying to myself, “How can I be the player? It is transporting me to the highest Heaven.”
I could not imagine that I was playing. I continued cycling for half an hour.
Published in A Mystic Journey in the Weightlifting World, part 4
On stage at a special celebration at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, Sri Chinmoy looks at the photograph of himself taken earlier in the day lifting two 500-lb. dumbbells — a total of 1,000 lbs. — overhead simultaneously, at his home gym in Jamaica, New York.
by Sri Chinmoy
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
What is Your Grace?
Your Grace
Is Your Omnipotence-Embrace.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 8:06 a.m. before lifting 500 lbs. with each arm simultaneously seven times (Total: 1,000 lbs.) New record.
Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 12
by Sri Chinmoy
Today I lifted 1,000 pounds with both arms for the first time — 500 in each arm. When it came to the fourth lift, I turned on the camera and it went so well. Then I lifted it four more times.
Can you imagine — 1,000 pounds! Is it believable? It is not physical force; it is supernatural. Luckily my back is all right. No wonder why I am shrinking! From 5’8” why did I have to come to 5’7”?
Normally when weightlifters reach a certain weight, a very appreciable weight, they advance by ten pounds at a time. Many years ago I also did that. Now I go by 100 pounds.
Today my bodyweight is 170½ pounds. So I have lifted almost six times my own bodyweight. No matter how you look at it, the fact is that I am dashing against 1,000 pounds with my 170 pounds.
I am so lucky that today the still pictures worked and the video also worked.
Published in A Mystic Journey in the Weightlifting World, part 4
Sri Chinmoy hosts a banquet for Vladimir Petrovsky, Director-General of the United Nations, Geneva, and his wife Mira, at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
God asks me to take
Only one step forward.
He will gladly take care of
The rest of my journey."To establish peace, my brother Vladimir goes from one place to another like a bird. He produces an inner music. This inner music is the music of love, peace and oneness." — Sri Chinmoy
Published in Vladimir Petrovsky: Builder of a New Heart-Firmament
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York
Meditation is invocation. We invoke God's Presence. God's Presence is satisfaction.
Meditation is an act of inner listening. We listen to the dictates of God. When we listen soulfully, devotedly, unreservedly and unconditionally, we derive satisfaction in boundless measure.
Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction. Transformation of life is the culmination of divine satisfaction.
Meditation is self-giving. We give what we have and what we are. To the finite reality we give what we have. To the infinite Reality we give what we are. What we have is concern. This concern we offer to the finite. What we are is willingness. This willingness we offer to the infinite.
Assurance we offer to the earth reality. Acknowledgement we offer to the Heaven-Reality. To the earth-reality we offer our constant assurance that we are undoubtedly and unmistakably for the earth-reality, for the transformation and illumination of the earth-reality. To the Heaven-Reality we offer our most sincere acknowledgement of the supreme fact that we are of the Heaven-Reality, that our source is the Heaven-Reality.
Meditation and prayer are two aspects of one and the same soulful reality. The Eastern world is fond of meditation. The Western world is fond of prayer. Both prayer and meditation lead us to the selfsame goal. Meditation and prayer are like brother and sister; they are divine twins. We can say that prayer is the female and meditation is the male. Prayer says to meditation, "Look, brother, there is something high above. Let us cry and fly, fly and cry, and there above we shall get everything that we have been longing for." Meditation says to prayer, "Look, sister, there is something deep within us. Let us dive deep within and we are sure to get everything that we have been longing for from time immemorial. Let us dive deep within.
Sri Krishna meditated. His meditation-power has taught us many things. But the most important thing it has taught us is this: Truth will ultimately prevail; the justice-light of Truth will one day inundate the entire earth-consciousness.
Lord Buddha meditated. His meditation has taught us that this human life of suffering will, without fail, one day come to an end. The excruciating pangs that each human being undergoes will one day come to an end, and human suffering will be transformed into divine ecstasy.
The Saviour Christ prayed. His prayer has taught us many sublime, soulful and fruitful lessons. It has offered us the message of divinity in its tangible form. But his most essential teaching is that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us. This Kingdom of Heaven is God's creation, God's Vision and God's Reality. God's transcendental Vision and God's universal Reality are within this Kingdom of Heaven.
Let us meditate devotedly, soulfully, unreservedly and unconditionally. From our meditation we shall discover the supreme truth that as we need God, even so God needs us. We need Him constantly to reach our own highest height. He needs us constantly to manifest His own deepest depth.
Published in A Seeker is a Singer
by Sri Chinmoy
in Kijal, Malaysia
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
I am a member
Of God’s
Inner Circle.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Published in Guru the Heart: Ongkar the Soul