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 talk, entitled ‘Freedom’, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy completes 200 poems in 22 hours — from 12:01 a.m. to 10:01 p.m. — (published in parts 2, 3, 4 and 5) and then in the next few minutes spontaneously dictates a further 8 poems (published in part 6) as part of his series The Golden Boat, in Jamaica, New York. The 200 poems are printed in four volumes by noon the following day. (Part 1, also containing 50 poems, was written a few days earlier on 29 January.)
Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations sponsors a special programme to pay respects to Nelson Rockefeller who passed away on 26 January. Sri Chinmoy opens the tribute with a short meditation and meets with distinguished speakers John Lindsay, Mayor of New York City and Jacob Javits, Senator from New York.
Sri Chinmoy and the meditation group at the United Nations hold a centennial tribute to United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the UN. The programme also includes the performance by the meditation group singers of two songs dedicated by Sri Chinmoy to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Message of Peace’, at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Yehudi Menuhin: O Soul-Smile Rare’ in preparation for his meeting with the Maestro the next day.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park off the coast of Queensland in north-eastern Australia is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Xiao Wu Nan (Woolf Shaw), a Deputy Minister in the Chinese Government and China’s Vice-Chairman for Social, Economic and Cultural Communication. Mr. Shaw presents Sri Chinmoy with two Chinese scroll paintings, at the Hilton Hotel in Nanjing, China.
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations community paid its final respects February 2 to the man whose inspiration and practical power played a crucial role in the establishment of the U.N. complex in New York.
Nelson Rockefeller “was a monumental man with a great influence on his time,” New York Senator Jacob Javits told the diplomats and U.N. staff members assembled in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium here. “He well deserves your tribute as representative of the diverse peoples of the world.”
Another speaker, former New York Mayor John Lindsay, spoke of how Rockefeller was “prepared and willing to follow the dream that came out of (his) ... enormously incisive vision” which saw “as far to the horizon as any other human being in modern society....”
He said the U.N. service was most fitting since the world body’s headquarters now stands on land donated by the Rockefeller family.
The programme, sponsored by Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations, opened with a short meditation by Sri Chinmoy, followed by a performance by the Meditation Group choir of a song the Master had written about Rockefeller.
Two of New York’s great political leaders, former Mayor John Lindsay [left] and Senator Jacob Javits [right] pay their respects to Sri Chinmoy at the memorial tribute for the late Nelson Rockefeller held at the U.N.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 5, Number 2, February 1979
Sunshine State Joy Ride,
Oneness-light, our pride.
Sunshine State Joy Ride,
With us, God the Peace-spreading Guide.
Florida, we love your teeming glories;
Our heart and lives in your God-stories.
Published in Namo Namo Namo Shakti Pujari
by Sri Chinmoy
while in residence at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India
I said to Nolini-da: "Yesterday at the playground you told us that you were sharing with us your last life experience. I was so sorry to hear that."
"Tell me, what else do I have to write? Have I not completed my life-story?"
"I don't think so. You have not told us about your sports life in your younger days. I have heard so many stories about you as a great football player."
"I see, I see. But you know that in those days there was neither Mohan Bagan nor East Bengal to inspire us. Anyway, I shall try to write about my football and sports capacity."
Published in A Service-Flame and a Service-Sun
by Sri Chinmoy
Am I too slow or is it true that the green light does not last as long as the red light? This morning I was on Main Street. I was waiting and waiting for the red light to turn green. As soon as the green light came, I started walking. But before I had crossed half of the road, it started blinking.
Published in Run and Become, Become and Run, part 20
Sri Chinmoy lifts Xiao Wu Nan (Woolf Shaw) in Nanjing, China. He is the Vice-Chairman of China’s Social, Economic and Cultural Exchange Association, a position that is ranked as a Deputy Minister in the Chinese Government.
Mr. Shaw presents Sri Chinmoy with two scrolls by a famous Chinese calligrapher. He compares the words on one scroll — “The saint comes like rain, which falls to earth just in time” — to Sri Chinmoy’s arrival in China.
A lecture by Sri Chinmoy
Conference Room 9, United Nations, New York
Freedom. Freedom is the creative force within us. Freedom is the sustaining life within us. Human freedom is an experience of the body, in the vital and for the mind. Divine freedom is an experience of the soul, in the heart and for the mind, the vital and the body. There is practically no difference between animal freedom and human slavery. In the domain of the destructive vital, our animal freedom roars. In the abyss of our sleeping inconscient body, our human slavery snores.
God’s Freedom lies in His constant Service to mankind, in His unconditional Self-giving. Man’s freedom lies in his God-achievement, life-perfection and life-fulfilment.
The freedom of the doubting mind is undoubtedly a reality. But this reality is fleeting, flimsy. The freedom of the loving and aspiring heart is an everlasting reality and an ultimate sublimity.
Freedom of earthly thought is good, but quite often it opens itself to false freedom. Freedom that comes from following the heavenly Will invokes God’s Presence in us. It invokes His divine Promise in and through us and His supreme Self-assertion and Self-manifestation in and through us.
What is false freedom? False freedom is our constant and deliberate acceptance of ignorance and our conscious existence in ignorance. What is real freedom? Real freedom is our conscious awareness of our inner divinity, and our constant inseparable oneness with the Inner Pilot.
What can false freedom do? False freedom can do much. It can totally destroy us. It can destroy our inner possibilities and potentialities. It can destroy our inner wealth. What can real freedom do? Real freedom also can do much. Real freedom can make us grow into the very image of our Supreme Pilot.
We have two types of freedom: outer freedom and inner freedom. Outer freedom constantly wants to prove its capacity. It wants to prove its sovereignty. Inner freedom wants to prove that it belongs to God and God alone.
Outer freedom has a new goal every day. It wants to discover this goal only in pleasure. But inner freedom has only one eternal Goal, and that Goal is to achieve the conscious awareness of God and the conscious manifestation of God in and through itself.
Outer freedom is satisfied only when it is in a position to say, “I have no superiors. I am my only master.” Inner freedom is satisfied only when it can soulfully say, “I don’t want to be superior to anyone, but I want God to be my superior, my only superior.”
Forgetfulness takes away our freedom, but God’s Forgiveness brings it back. Teeming desires take away our freedom, but God’s Compassion brings it back. Self-importance and self-assertion take away our freedom, but God’s Light brings it back.
It is our self-awareness that retains our freedom and God’s divine Pride in us that perfects our freedom. In the perfection of our earthly freedom we grow, and we sow the Heaven-seed within us. And in the fulfilment of our inner freedom we see Heaven and earth as complementary souls. For earth offers its wealth and capacity, which is receptivity, and Heaven offers its wealth and capacity, which is Divinity and Immortality.
Published in The Tears of Nation-Hearts
by Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy completes 200 poems in 22 hours — from 12:01 a.m. to 10:01 p.m. — (published in parts 2, 3, 4 and 5) and then in the next few minutes spontaneously dictates a further 8 poems (published in part 6) as part of his series The Golden Boat, in Jamaica, New York. The 200 poems are printed in four volumes by noon the following day. (Part 1, also containing 50 poems, was written a few days earlier on 29 January.)
When he was a child,
One day
His father said to him:
“Don’t think, my child.
God never thinks.”
Since then, he never cared
To learn the art of thinking.When he was a child,
One day
His mother said to him:
“Don’t sleep, my child.
God never sleeps.”
Since then, he never cared
To learn the art of sleeping.
Lord, Lord,
Save me, save me.
I am in terrible danger.
I am fighting against time
To prove to my spiritual children
That I am a poet of high magnitude.
Father, do save me, save me.“Son, don’t insult Me.
You and I are perfect strangers
To the birth and life of defeat.”
I love the trophies
Of a world-conqueror.
They show me
What God the Beggar
Needs and gets.I love the smiles
Of a world-lover.
They show me
What God the Emperor
Gives and is.
Published in The Golden Boat, parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
A lecture by Sri Chinmoy
at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
Peace is my mind’s newness. Peace is my heart’s soulfulness. Peace is my life’s fulness.
My newness-mind will not have an iota of doubt. It will have implicit faith — faith in itself and faith in God. My soulfulness-heart will have no insecurity. It will have only confidence-light. My fulness-life will have no sense of separativity. It will have only unity and oneness — a oneness-home.
Peace is not an attainment. Peace is an enlightenment. Peace will not come from possession of this world. Peace will come from perfection of this world through perfection of oneself.
Peace is the beauty of the outer discipline. Peace is the purity of the inner obedience. The outer discipline perfects the human in us. The inner obedience fulfils the divine in us.
Life is a self-transcendence-flight. Peace is a God-discovery-crown. Life is Eternity’s hunger-cry. Peace is Infinity’s satisfaction-smile.
In the ordinary world, ignorance-night reigns supreme and the ignorant mind cherishes war. War wants to show the world what it can do: in the twinkling of an eye it can destroy everything.
In soundless silence, peace tells the world who its owner is. Its only real Owner is God the transcendental Delight and God the universal Light. A true seeker of peace, a genuine lover and server of Truth, who is a true God-lover in the inmost recesses of his heart, receives this soundless, undeniable message of peace.
The message of peace is that God the Creator and God the Creation, God the Possessor and God the possession, are inseparably one. This is why no mind-power can ever destroy the world, and this is why heart-power will one day unify the length and breadth of the world and establish a oneness-home in the seeker’s heart-garden — his heart-garden of peace.
Published in The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind, part 3
by Sri Chinmoy
at Nexus Resort Karambunai, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Rabindranath Tagore, Kaji Najrul and Ramprasad all received some touch from the soul or from the psychic being, from their inner existence. That is why their poems and songs are so soulful, so melodious.
Najrul wrote songs about Indian Gods and Goddesses, about Mother Kali or Lord Krishna. He also wrote He Partha Sarathi and a few other songs of the highest order. He was not God-realised, but he wrote such wonderful songs. In Ramprasad’s case, he got a glimpse of God.
Published in Only Gratitude-Tears