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 completes 100 large ‘finger paintings’ in 12 hrs. 45 min., in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy concludes his first Australian lecture tour, flying out of Adelaide in the early morning to Perth on the west coast for a connecting flight to Madras in India. From there, he goes on to Pondicherry for a two-week stay with his family before returning to New York.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 200 lbs., using only his right arm, setting a new record for his weight (157 lbs.) and age (54 years), at his home gym in Jamaica, New York. Later, Sri Chinmoy is awarded a Certificate of Recognition and Merit by the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States for his noteworthy achievement in lifting 200 pounds with one arm. A similar certificate is presented by the British Amateur Weightlifters Association.
Sri Chinmoy pays tribute to his homeland India at a special function sponsored by ‘Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations’, at the UN in New York. Almost 100 Indian officials from the Indian consulate and the UN Secretariat attended, including special guests of honour P.A. Nazareth, Consul-General of India and his wife.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and an organ recital at the Odd Fellow Palæet in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert with a piano performance, delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Oneness-Nest’, and recites three poems, at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Community United Methodist Church in Jackson Heights, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture at the International Relations Centre in Kyoto, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy plants a Peace-Tree at Hana-Haku (Flower Expo) Park in Osaka, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘Australia – My Indian Mind Is Flying’.
Sri Chinmoy offers a 4-hour meditation in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy’s artworks are exhibited at Drei Mohren Hotel in Augsburg, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at New York University in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Sala Palatului — Palace Hall — in Bucharest, Romania, which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev. (2,500 people attended.)
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Colombia Award.
Germany is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert to celebrate his 28th Western Flute Anniversary in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives a short talk, entitled ‘To the End I Will Love the United Nations’, at his home in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
UNITED NATIONS — Nearly 100 Indian officials from the Indian consulate and the U.N. Secretariat gathered here March 13 for a special tribute to India sponsored by Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations.
India’s Consul General in New York, P.A. Nazareth, and his wife were guests of honour.
Sri Chinmoy, who has been conducting peace meditations at the U .N. for the past 17 years, presented the Consul General with a plaque, and the Meditation Group singers sang a song Sri Chinmoy had composed about him.
Deeply moved, the Consul General declared: “I have never been so honoured before in my whole life. This is something I’ll never forget.”
He said he accepted the honours as “a very moving tribute to India.”
He also praised Sri Chinmoy’s work for peace at the United Nations and elsewhere, comparing Sri Chinmoy to “a great tree rising above the forest, trying to communicate the vision he sees to the rest of the world.
“This is not just a meditation group but a whole peace movement,” the Consul General said. “It is certainly as important as anything done in the great conference halls of the United Nations.”
The programme ended with many Indian members of the audience joining the Consul General, Sri Chinmoy and the Meditation Group singers onstage to sing India’s national anthem.
Indian Consul General Nazareth and his wife join Sri Chinmoy in singing the Indian National Anthem at the U.N. programme honouring India.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 15, December 1986 – March 1987
My Indian mind is flying
To offer you my admiration-gong.
My Indian heart is flying
To offer you my aspiration-song.
Published in My Aspiration-Heart’s Country-Life-Salutations
Video by kedarvideo
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Sala Palatului — Palace Hall — in Bucharest, Romania, which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev. (2,500 people attended.)
An anecdote by Sri Chinmoy
at PS 86, Jamaica, New York
As you know, my most favourite instrument is the esraj. The esraj is the source of my musical world. The other day we observed the anniversary of our esraj. The source of my esraj performance is Australia. On television in Australia I played the esraj.
I also started playing the Western flute in Australia. The flute I remember. It was in an Australian bus that I started. I tried so hard! The first and second notes were all right, but the third note was out of my control.
Published in Only One Power
by Sri Chinmoy
while in residence at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India
"Yesterday while we were playing volleyball, the ball went out of the court and dropped near you. You stopped it with your left foot with perfect ease. I was amazed to see it. Your position was right wing. You stopped the ball with your left foot and kicked it to us with the same foot. You had such control that you could kick the ball even with your left foot!"
[Nolini-da:] "Ah, you didn't know that my left leg and right leg were perfect rivals. I was always extremely good with both legs. My corner kick was marvellous. It appeared like a rainbow and always dropped the ball near the goal post The ball used to go very high and it created a kind of delightful sensation. Again, when it was necessary, I used to use my left foot for what you call a grass-cutting shot. Sometimes I feel like writing more about my sports life."
I said: "How I wish you would do that! We would all be deeply moved and grateful."
Published in A Service-Flame and a Service-Sun
An anecdote by Sri Chinmoy
Today I went walking at St. John's University. Coach Hart came up to me to say hello. I asked him, "Are you Coach Hart?"
He said, "Yes, Sri."
Then I said, "Has Agraha spoken to you?"
He replied, "No problem, no problem! You look fine, you look great!"
I am so grateful to Coach Hart. He is the one who has given me written permission to walk on the track at St. John's.
Published in Walking-Challenging-Becoming, part 1
Sri Chinmoy dedicates his Peace Concert at Sala Palatului — Palace Hall — in Bucharest, Romania, to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev. (2,500 people attended.)
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
at his Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in New York
Oneness-nest is the monumental magnitude of human life. Oneness-nest is the pathway to Infinity's perfection-delight. Nothing on earth will ever be immortal save Divinity's fulness-light in humanity's oneness-nest.
Our aspiring heart easily, quickly and unmistakably finds oneness-nest. Our unaspiring mind right now does not feel the supreme necessity for oneness-nest. But there shall come a time when our unaspiring and doubting mind will be transformed into an aspiring mind and aspire just like the heart. At that time our mind also will definitely find oneness-nest.
When our mind can soar above desire-clouds, we will have peace, and inside this peace what will loom large is oneness-nest.
When we can leave fear outside our heart's door and doubt outside our mind's door, we will have peace of mind, and inside this peace of mind we shall find oneness-nest.
Just like the seekers of the hoary past, the present-day seekers are all longing for oneness-nest. Inside each and every seeker is a soul-bird, and this soul-bird inside us has been singing throughout Eternity for the establishment of oneness-nest, which is God's supreme Victory here on earth.
In the near or distant future, our soul-birds definitely will manifest this victory here on earth. But first, we must give to God what we have: our sleeplessly unconditional surrender. Then, in return, God will blessingfully give us what He eternally is: His Fondness-Oneness-Nest.
Published in My Heart's Peace-Offering
recites by Sri Chinmoy
at Buchman Hall in New York
My life desperately needs peace.
Therefore, on the strength
Of my heart's aspiration-cries,
I must immediately silence
My mind's ego-thunder.
Farewell, farewell,
My old expectation-friends.
I must have an absolutely new friend,
Detachment,
If I sincerely need peace
In the very depths of my heart.
Reluctance, leave me alone,
Leave me alone!
Willingness, I am of you
And I am for you.
Let us pray together
To our Inner Pilot,
Let us together meditate
On our Inner Pilot
For peace,
Abundant peace, infinite peace.
He will grant us,
Out of His infinite Bounty,
At His choice Hour,
Peace, peace, peace
In infinite measure.
Published in A Heart of Oneness-Peace
Reminiscences by Sri Chinmoy
during a function at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York
I wish to read out a poem of mine which I wrote many, many years ago. Perhaps many of you, if not most, were not born.
Long, long before I was born, Sri Aurobindo wrote a story called Kshamar Adarsha, “The Ideal of Forgiveness.” I rendered that story into Bengali verse. It was about two hundred lines. Then it was sent to Sri Aurobindo. It was first printed in 1955, but when I rendered it into Bengali poetry, it was 1946, so I was at that time fourteen or fifteen years old.
My Bengali teacher, Prabhakar Mukherji, wrote the introduction to my first book in English. It was called Flame-Waves. *
[After reading the introduction and the poem]
In those days my English was totally different!
Now I shall read out a few poems.
This is my very first attempt, my very first poem in English.
[Reads “The Golden Flute”]
This was my third poem in English. It is my personal experience.
[Reads “The Absolute”]
This is my fourth, fifth or sixth poem.
[Reads “Revelation”]
This is also among my first ten poems.
[Reads “Apocalypse”]
[Reads “Struggle’s Gloom”]
This is the last one I am reading today.
[Reads “Immortality”]
These poems I wrote in India, when I started writing poems in English.
* Flame-Waves was printed by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press in 1955.
Published in Only One Power
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
at his home Jamaica, Queens, New York
Whoever leads the United Nations should use only the heart, only the heart. If he uses the heart, the rest of the world will connive at, or ignore, the shortcomings of the United Nations. The world will feel that the UN has a heart, a sincere heart. That sincere heart will be able to gain the confidence of the world. Now, because of unfortunate things that are taking place in various countries, the world does not have the same feeling, the same sympathetic heart.
Two things the UN can do. It can bravely speak out and say what it feels is the right thing to say, and at the same time it can beg the world to come to its rescue. It can also unreservedly take advice from the nations that are most sincerely ready and eager to help the United Nations come out of a very serious crisis.
I only love the United Nations. To the end I will love and love the United Nations. One good word if I hear about the United Nations, I literally dance in the sky.
Published in His Compassion is Everything to Us