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 receives an honorary proclamation in Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a silent meditation at a special ceremony to launch the New York City Marathon at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Amphitheatre in New York, NY, USA. There he meets with ultra-runner Ted Corbitt and presents an award to Fred Lebow, President and Founder of the New York Road Runners Club. As part of the programme, a song composed by Sri Chinmoy entitled ‘Marathon’ is sung by his students.
Sri Chinmoy first meets with Emil Zatopek, 1952 triple Olympic gold medallist for 5 km, 10 km and marathon, at the start of the New York City Marathon on Staten Island, NY, USA. Before the race, Sri Chinmoy also met with ultramarathon champion Don Ritchie.
Sri Chinmoy runs the New York City Marathon in a time of 4:48:53 in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts a small house and lifts animals on a seated calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation and lifted 8 US government employees at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 12 people, including Charles Smith, 1988 US Olympic bronze medallist in basketball, at the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Shigeto Kanayama, Director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and Hiroshi Nishida, Concertmaster, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds the opening meditation at an interfaith celebration in honour of the United Nation’s 50th anniversary at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes the first 10,000 poems of Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees in 9 months, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert to an audience of 8,000, which he dedicates to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN, USA. At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 30 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, in honour of Karen Karagezian of the Gorbachev Foundation, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
NEW YORK — Spiritual Master Sri Chinmoy led a team of 150 disciples in the New York City Marathon October 21.
Wearing dark purple shirts and pale blue shorts, the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team was the largest team entry in the 26-mile race.
Dozens of other disciples, who didn’t run, assisted the race organisers before and during the run.
A group of disciples also added a touch of musical dynamism to the scene by singing several of Sri Chinmoy’s running songs over the loudspeaker just before the race began.
Prior to the start, Sri Chinmoy chatted with ultramarathoner Don Ritchie and Olympic triple gold medalist Emil Zatopek, who served as Grand Marshall of the New York Marathon.
Sri Chinmoy had met Ritchie this past June when the runner visited his spiritual Centre after setting a new world record in a 100-mile run in Flushing Meadow Park.
For Zatopek, the only athlete ever to win three gold medals for the 5,000-metre run, 10,000-metre run and marathon in a single Olympics (1952), it was his first introduction to Sri Chinmoy, whom he had heard a lot about.
“This is the best blessing I ever had,” he told the Master.
Sri Chinmoy, who regards running as a physical complement to the inner life, normally trains about 80 miles a week.
The New York marathon was his sixth this year. Only two weeks earlier, he had run the historic Marathon to Athens marathon in Greece.
Captions:
Emil Zatopek, Olympic triple gold medalist, greets Sri Chinmoy before the start of the New York Marathon, above.
Below, the Master chats with ultramarathon champion Don Ritchie.
And, pictures from a Marathon scrapbook, right.
Publsihed in Anahata Nada,Volume 5, Nos. 9-10-11, Sept.-Oct.-Nov. 1979
Emil Zatopek, Emil Zatopek!
Teeming world records in a beaming deck.
O birthless, deathless will-power;
In endurance-life, Everest-tower.
Emil Zatopek, Emil Zatopek!
Breathless interval training-pioneer;
A sure oneness-heart far and near.
Published in Run and Become, Become and Run
Sri Chinmoy meets with Emil Zatopek (above), 1952 triple Olympic gold medallist for 5 km, 10 km and marathon, for the first time at the start of the New York City Marathon on Staten Island, NY, USA. Before the race, Sri Chinmoy also meets with ultramarathon champion Don Ritchie (below).
by Sri Chinmoy
I am trying to reach people in various walks of life who have inspired others — in sports, in literature, in science and in politics. Since they have inspired many people, I am trying with my limited capacity to encourage and inspire them. When someone does something great, he is cheered by his colleagues. They congratulate him. Here also I am trying to congratulate them with my prayerful meditation and inner oneness with them. I just lift them up to show my deepest appreciation of their achievements.
Published in Lifting Up The World With a Oneness-Heart
Sri Chinmoy completes the first 10,000 poems of Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees in 9 months, in Jamaica, New York.
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Published in Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 10
Prayers by Sri Chinmoy
at the Peace Concert at the Xcel Energy Centre in St. Paul, Minnesota
HERE and NOW
I have come to learn
That God’s Compassion
Is my only heart-compass.
HERE and NOW
I ask God:
My Lord,
Where can I find You?
“My child,
Inside My Blessing-Eye-Smiles.”
HERE and NOW
God asks me:
“My child,
Where can I find you?”
My Lord,
Inside my gratitude-heart-tears.
HERE and NOW
God asks me
To come out of my mind’s
Insecurity-cave
And show Him my heart’s
Most powerful
Light-delight sea-waves.
HERE and NOW
I have come to learn that
Only at God’s choice Hour
The mind retires for good
And the heart aspires
Throughout Eternity.
HERE and NOW
My soul wants me
To put an end to humanity’s
Widespread inner peace-starvation.
HERE and NOW
God tells me never to enjoy
Prayer and meditation-holidays
If I want to remain
A choice soldier of His
For His full manifestation
On earth.
HERE and NOW
God kindles in me
Limitless aspiration-heart-flames
To clasp His Divinity’s Feet.
HERE and NOW
When I give God my possessions:
Devotion-tears,
God gives me His Possessions:
Nectar-Embraces.
HERE and NOW
I have thrown my open heart
Into God’s
Compassion-flooded Eye.
HERE and NOW
My sleepless God-obedience
Has conquered
All my inner enemies.
To name a few —
Pride, insecurity, fear and doubt.
HERE and NOW
God tells me that it is quite easy
To satisfy and please Him.
He advises me to take every day
Just a few aspiration-steps,
Dedication-steps
And devotion-steps
Towards my ultimate Goal:
His universal Fulfilment.
HERE and NOW
God tells me:
“Cry not like a beggar
For your own liberation.
Smile and strive,
And strive and smile
Like a hero supreme
For My complete manifestation
Here on earth.”
HERE and NOW
I must terminate
My long-standing friendship
With ignorance-night.
HERE and NOW
I must become
A fathomless
God-faith-reservoir.
HERE and NOW
I must resolve
To take each and every day
As a God-service-day.
HERE and NOW
My crying breath
And streaming tears
Must enter into
God’s Heart-Room.
HERE and NOW
I must totally break
My ego-horn
Into millions of pieces.
HERE and NOW
I must push myself
Most powerfully
To reach a new
God-satisfaction-height.
HERE and NOW
I must dauntlessly stop
Impossibility
From blocking my Godward way.
HERE and NOW
I must offer
My gratitude-heart-present
To God.
HERE and NOW
I must end all my
Desire-tiger-attacks.
HERE and NOW
I have come to realise
That only when I end
My pride-exhibit
God will begin
His Pride-Parade.
What for?
Just to bless and crown me.
HERE and NOW
I give God what I have:
My weeping heart.
And God gives me what He is:
His Smiling Eye.
HERE and NOW
God tells me
That I can turn my head
Away from Him
If I want to.
But He will never allow me
To turn my heart
Away from Him.
HERE and NOW
All the desire-worlds
Have ceased
Running after me.
HERE and NOW
I have come to learn
That everything of mine
God loves,
But He loves
My devotion-heart-throbs
Infinitely more.
HERE and NOW
I must cast aside
The tears
Of my unaspiring days.
HERE and NOW
God tells me
That He can never be too busy
For His Heart-bound children.
HERE and NOW
God makes my God-realisation-hope
Stronger
And my God-manifestation-promise
Clearer.
Published in Here and Now