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 gives a lecture, entitled ‘Hinduism: Its Spiritual Significance’, at the Adult Class of Comparative Religion, Chaim Weizmann Chapter of Hadassah, West Hempstead, Long Island, New York, USA.
Sri Chinmoy visits the Daibutsu (Great Buddha) at the Kōtoku-in temple in Kamakura, Japan, for the first time. He writes two poems, ‘The Home of Awakened Mankind’ and ‘To Kamakura’, both later published in My Salutation to Japan. While in Kamakura, he also visits the home of Roshi Philip Kapleau (author of the Three Pillars of Zen) and his family.
Sri Chinmoy writes 30 poems (71-100) in the Tokyo Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan. Later published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 1.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (135) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (162) at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy first meets with Vladimir Petrovsky, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, at the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Mission to the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy is the guest of honour at a ceremony naming Puerto Rico a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom at Muñoz Rivera Park Peace Pavilion in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India, at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy performs 10 crunch abdomen-ups pushing 367-lbs. in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a New Millennium Peace Concert to an audience of 5,000 at Central Park East Meadow in New York, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy’s students also sing two special songs he had written in honour of City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, who attends the concert.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Scottish Rite Temple in San Diego, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy dines with Ravi Shankar and his wife Sukanya at the popular vegetarian restaurant, Jyoti-Bihanga, in San Diego, CA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy dines with Ravi Shankar and his wife Sukanya at Jyoti-Bihanga in San Diego, California. Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna–Kala artworks decorate this popular vegetarian restaurant.
In Kosovo, the Albanians are fighting the Serbs. In the West Bank, the Jews and the Palestinians constantly wrangle over land. In Kashmir, the Muslims and the Hindus are struggling over land sovereignty.
Events such as these are the driving force behind Seven Minutes of World Peace, an event scheduled for Saturday that is sponsored by a group of the same name.
In 1984, under the guidance of guru Sri Chinmoy, the group initiated a worldwide seven-minute observation of meditation and silent prayer as a means of spreading the spirit of peace on earth.
The mission statement of Seven Minutes of World Peace aims to focus global attention on the need for international peace and the inter-faith spirit of the United Nations.
USF senior Thucdoan Nguyen, a disciple of Chinmoy, said through worldwide participation she is optimistic that her dreams of world peace can become a reality. Nguyen said the seven-minute meditation affects each individual differently, but typically the reaction is joy and delight.
According to Tilvila Hurwit, an organizer for the Seven Minutes of World Peace in the Tampa Bay area, the cultivation of peace may have far-reaching effects.
“World peace starts in everyone’s heart,” Hurwit said. “Peace starts with one person at a time?”
Seven Minutes of World Peace believes that inner peace may lead to outer peace and consequently to worldwide peace.
In Tampa, this global observance will be held at Martin Luther King Plaza beginning at 1 p.m.
■ Linda Man
Published in THE ORACLE, University of South Florida, Vol. 36, No. 43, Friday, October 23, 1998
This grainy reproduction is the only known photograph of Sri Chinmoy (right) on his first visit to the Daibutsu (Great Buddha) at the Kōtoku-in temple in Kamakura, Japan.
He writes two poems, ‘The Home of Awakened Mankind’ and ‘To Kamakura’, both later published in My Salutation to Japan. While in Kamakura, he also visits the home of Roshi Philip Kapleau (author of the Three Pillars of Zen) and his family.
Sri Chinmoy performs 10 crunch abdomen-ups pushing 367-lbs. in Jamaica, Queens, New York. Earlier that morning during training, he offers the following prayers:
1. At 5:15 a.m. before lifting 270 lbs with each arm four times.
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2. At 5:23 a.m. before lifting 130 lbs with each arm simultaneously.
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3. At 5:29 a.m. before lifting 145 lbs one hundred times (50 right, 50 left) for a new record of 2 mins 40 secs.
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Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 1
– Sri Chinmoy |
Published in My Salutation to Japan
– Sri Chinmoy |
Published in My Salutation to Japan
* The date appears in Sri Chinmoy’s original handwritten manuscript, entitled ‘My Japanese Poems’, though it is omitted from the published book, My Salutation to Japan.
Sri Chinmoy writes thirty poems (71-100) while staying at the Tokyo Prince Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
Why not take a chance!
Be a climbing cry
Or
A running smile.
I assure you,
God is awaiting
Your great arrival
At the end of both roads.
Spread your cheerfulness.
God’s Love you will feel
Infinitely more.Deepen your soulfulness.
God’s Satisfaction you will feel
Infinitely more.
This is the message I have heard
From the lips of rank fools:
Man can hide
If he wants to;
God cannot abide
Although He wants to.
A simple truth:
God is.A brief message:
God loves me.A deep realisation:
I am of God alone
And
I am for God alone.
A full harvest of peace
I collected
The day I realised
That neither earth’s great hunger
Nor Heaven’s good feast
Desires my eager presence.
76. The road from heart to heart
The road from heart to heart
Has perfection-trees
With satisfaction-fruits
On either side.
I have all along seen it.
I live for You alone,
My Lord of Compassion Supreme.
I live in You alone,
My Lord of Satisfaction Supreme.
To reach God’s Height
I have discovered
A secret way:
I just touch the lowest man’s
Filthiest feet.
Who lives above me?
Certainly not my Beloved Supreme.Who lives below me?
Certainly not my Beloved Supreme.Who lives inside me?
Who else if not my Beloved Supreme!
80. Three are the false excuses
Three are the false excuses:
Sorry, I have no time.
Alas, I am not ready.
Surely God does not care for me;
Therefore, why should I...?
True sacrifice glows.
True happiness flows.
True perfection grows.
True gratitude sows.
Three times God will allow you
To speak with authority:
If you know the Truth,
If you have the Light,
If you are the Sea of Peace.
83. Heaven descends, earth ascends
Heaven descends
When I consciously
And soulfully serve.Earth ascends
When I unreservedly
And unconditionally love.
Two
Are my secret wishes:
I shall show God
Man’s transformation-head,
I shall show man
God’s Compassion-Feet.
Only one stride ahead:
God’s Compassion.Only two strides ahead:
My transformation.Only three strides ahead:
God’s Satisfaction-Smile
And
My gratitude-cry.
A dreamless night
Grants an unpromising day.
A sleepless night
Grants a sickening day.
A wild sound-call from below
Frightens me,
My entire being.A perfect silence-call from Above
Enlightens me,
My all.
I took my failure-life
As my secret rehearsal.
I take my success-life
As my open and free performance.
I barter my aspiration-cry
With humanity’s indifference-sky.
Why am I such a fool?
Indeed, this is the lesson supreme
I have learnt in my Lord’s
Compassion-Forgiveness-Perfection-Satisfaction-School.
Selflessness means
Freedom-dream.
Closeness means
Freedom-reality.
Oneness means
Freedom-Immortality.
91. The symphony of mental clouds
The symphony of mental clouds
Always has the same message:
Human life is doomed
To dine with ignorance-night.
Everything in life grows,
Then goes;
But not my God-realisation.
It grows only to glow,
It glows only to grow,
And it never, never goes.
Not beyond man’s possibility
Is God-realisation.
Not beyond earth’s possibility
Is earth-transformation.
Not beyond my possibility
Is my Himalayan self-transcendence.
My life is burning out.
I see no boatman.
My life is burning out.
I see no boat.
My life is burning out.
I see no life-river.
Alas, alas!
Nowhere my three old, good friends
Are to be found.
Material things age and ache.
Spiritual things grow and glow.
And my God-hunger
Is a birthless and deathless thing.
I do not interfere in God’s Affairs.
Every day I let Him
Create a new world.
God does not interfere in my affairs
Either.
Every day He lets me
Destroy an old world.
An idle desire awakens
The ignorance-prince in me.
An idle thought destroys
My heart’s inner beauty-world
And
My life’s outer duty-world.
Life is lovely.
Therefore I live.Prayer is lovely.
Therefore I pray.Creation is lovely.
Therefore I love.
Nothing is equal
To my God-need.
Nothing is equal
To my God-satisfaction.
My aspiration-world
Is sleeplessly crying
To enter into
My God-realisation-world.
O my narrow faith,
How long am I supposed to live
In your tiny hole?
I am suffocating, I am dying.
Leave me alone!
Just for a second
I wish to enjoy
The Universal Breath of my Beloved Supreme.
Published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 1
It is only through inner peace
That we can have true outer freedom.— Sri Chinmoy
Listen to Sri Chinmoy reciting
Recorded at PS86, New York
Published in Silence Calls Me