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, entitled ‘Intuition’, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Immortality’, at the University of Maine in Orono, ME, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘What Has Life Taught Me?’, at 10 a.m. the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Humanity’s Teachers’, at 4 p.m. at the University of Arizona in Tempe, AZ, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Realisation’, at 9 p.m. at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, USA.
A bridge connecting Central Falls and Cumberland in Rhode Island, USA, is dedicated as the first ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom’ in the world. Two measured one-mile courses are also dedicated.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and piano performance, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert dedicated to UN Secretary-General U Thant, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the start of the Self-Transcendence Six and Ten Day Races organised by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, USA. The ten-day event starts, followed by the six-day event four days later on 28 Aprll, with both races finishing on 4 May.
The bridge connecting the towns of Cumberland and Central Falls in Rhode Island has been renamed the ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace Bridge’.
Mayor Francis Stetkiewicz of Cumberland and Mayor Carlos Silva of Central Falls each walked one mile for peace and then met at the bridge for the dedication ceremonies on April 24.
Commenting on the symbolism of the peace bridge, the Master told the two mayors: “With your hearts of magnanimity, you are proving to the world-at-large that oneness-peace is ... a self-evident reality.”
Published in Anahata Nada, Vol. 18, April-July 1989
Words and music by Sri Chinmoy
I must never give up.
God loves me.
God needs me.
God will make me another God!
Published in Aspiration-Plants, Part 1
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and piano performance. in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert dedicated to UN Secretary-General U Thant, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York.
at the 2-mile Self-Transcendence Race in New York
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Published in My Race-Prayers, part 2
Sri Chinmoy answers this question
at the United Nations in New York
Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to achieve peace of mind and supreme satisfaction. Right now we are hankering after many, many things, but nothing we get satisfies us. Spirituality tells us that satisfaction can be found only if we lead a good and divine life — a life of simplicity, purity and humility. When we lead a divine life, we try to transform and illumine our bad qualities and expand our good qualities. In doing this, we are to some extent satisfied with what we have and what we are. But at the same time, we are all the time trying to go beyond what we have and what we are in order to become more receptive to higher realities. By following the path of spirituality, eventually we achieve the divine love that illumines our entire being and offers us perfection in life. Through divine love and divine perfection, we achieve oneness with God, which is nothing short of supreme satisfaction.
Spirituality is very complicated for those who do not practise it. But for those who practise it, spirituality is very simple. If we expect from spirituality peace, joy, love, closeness to God and oneness with God, then spirituality is bound to give us these realities. But if we expect from spirituality earthly name and fame, earthly prosperity and so forth, then spirituality will disappoint us. Only divine things — peace, light, bliss, joy, happiness and satisfaction in the purest sense of the term — will spirituality give us.
The source of spirituality, according to Indian tradition, is yoga. Yoga means union with God. From yoga, spirituality has come into existence and from spirituality, religion has come into existence. Then, from religion, philosophy has come. Philosophy reminds us that this is not the only world, that there are many higher and inner worlds, and it tells us to enter into those worlds.
Published in My Meditation-Service at the United Nations for Twenty-Five Years
Listen to Sri Chinmoy’s reading
at a Peace Concert in 1995