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 an afternoon lecture (12:30 p.m.), entitled ‘Do We Love God?’, in Omaha Milo Bail Student Center, at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, NE, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an afternoon lecture (2 p.m.), entitled ‘The Spiritual Life’, in Room 103, at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, IA, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (7:30 p.m.), entitled ‘Silence’, in Battenfield Auditorium, Student Center, at Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kansas City, KS, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening lecture (9 p.m.), entitled ‘Prayer’, in Room 217, Haag Hall, at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, MO, USA.
Sri Chinmoy arrives in Sydney at Kingsford Smith Airport in the early morning. Then, holds a mid-day, public meditation at the University of Sydney, in Sydney, MSW, Australia.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Aspiration and Realisation’, at the Town Hall in Sydney, NSW, Australia. Some 400-500 people attend the meeting at which all his Australian disciples sing the ‘Invocation’ together for the first time.
Sri Chinmoy offers an esraj concert and a public meditation at Loyola College in Montreal, QC, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the ‘The Symposium on Life, Death and Psychic Research’ in Montreal, QC, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Liberation’, at the State University of New York in Oneonta, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Special Service Award from the New York Road Runners Club.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, with performances on the piano and pipe organ; delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Meditation’, and recites 5 peace poems, at Alumnae Hall, Brown University, in Providence, RI, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Khalid Khannouchi, the world’s fastest marathon runner (2:05:42) at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Ukraine Award.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 22 people including musician Ravi Coltrane, son of legendary musicians John and Alice Coltrane, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
After having just been lifted at Aspiration-Ground by Sri Chinmoy, his guests, Dr. Kenneth Kamler (left) and Ravi Coltrane (right) view Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings with exhibition curator Ranjana Ghose (centre) at Pilgrim-Museum in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
NEW YORK — The New York Road Runners Club presented Sri Chinmoy with a special service award at its fourth annual awards dinner March 5.
In presenting Sri Chinmoy a silver bowl in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the running community, the Road Runners called him “a man who by his example has changed lives throughout the world.”
Publsihed in Anahata Nada, Volume 10, Nos. 2-5, February – June 1983
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, with performances on the piano pipe organ at Alumnae Hall, Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island. Listen to the concert...
New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand!
Softness, oneness and fulness-hand.
Lambs, lambs, lambs, lambs, lambs —
One thousand plus one!
My little friends, together we have
God’s twinkling Eye won.
Published in Country Songs, Part 2
After lifting 22 people at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York, Sri Chinmoy invites some of his guests to Pilgrim-Museum. Here, musician Ravi Coltrane, son of John and Alice Coltrane; and Dr. Kenneth Kamler, known for his medical treatment of Everest climbers; join Addwitiya Roberta Flack and Sri Chinmoy.
During the meditation held in St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University, Sri Chinmoy reads out a number of prayers on the themes of ‘Before I pray’ and ‘Before I meditate’, which he had recently written.
by Sri Chinmoy
My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For a possession-night,
May I pray to You
For a renunciation-flame,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For a renunciation-flame,
May I pray to You
For an acceptance-lamp,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For an acceptance-lamp,
May I pray to You
For a oneness-column of light,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For a oneness-column of light,
May I pray to You
For a surrender-sun, May I?
Published in A Seeker is a Singer
My Supreme Lord,
Right after
My aspiration-height-prayer,
May I pray to You
For a dedication-length,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Right after
My dedication-length-prayer,
May I pray to You
For a union-depth,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Right after
My union-depth-prayer,
May I pray to You
For a perfection-cry,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Right after
My perfection-cry-prayer,
May I pray to You
For a satisfaction-smile.
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Right after
My satisfaction-smile-prayer,
May I pray to You
For a gratitude-heart,
May I?
Published in A Seeker is a Singer
My Supreme Lord,
For You I have two beautiful gifts:
My prayer-sound,
My meditation-silence.
Today I am offering to You
My prayer-sound-gift.
Tomorrow I shall give to You
My meditation-silence-gift.
Published in A Seeker is a Singer
by Sri Chinmoy
My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To destroy my uncomely, unaspiring
And undivine thought-world,
May I meditate on You
To grant me a pure, progressive
And promising thought-world,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To grant me a pure, progressive
And promising thought-world,
May I meditate on You
To completely silence my thought-world,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To completely silence my thought-world,
May I meditate on You
To grant me,
Out of Your boundless Bounty,
An adamantine will-world,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To grant me an adamantine will-world,
May I meditate on You
To richly bless me
With an unalloyed, unreserved
And unconditional surrender-world,
May I?
Published in A Seeker is a Singer
My Supreme Lord,
Right after my meditation
On the blossoming Peace,
May I meditate
On the illumining Light,
May I? *My Supreme Lord,
Right after my meditation
On the illumining Light,
May I meditate
On the immortalising Delight,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Right after my meditation
On the immortalising Delight,
May I meditate
On the fulfilling Oneness,
May I?
* The first verse has inadvertently been omitted from the printed publication but is preserved in the original recording.
Published in A Seeker is a Singer
My Supreme Lord,
Yesterday I placed at Your Feet
My prayer-sound gift.
Today I am placing at Your Feet
My meditation-silence gift.
Published in A Seeker is a Singer
Listen to the original recording of Sri Chinmoy
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Meditation is God-discovery. Meditation is self-mastery. Meditation is man's Eternity's progress-light in God. Meditation is God's Infinity's Satisfaction-Delight in man.
Meditation is for the truth-seeker. Meditation is for the God-lover. God's transcendental Vision-Eye blesses man the truth-seeker. God's universal Oneness-Heart embraces man the God-lover.
Yesterday's meditation-message: "Realise God." Today’s meditation-message: "Realise God, plus manifest God." Tomorrow’s meditation-message: "Realise God, manifest God and, finally, become another God."
My mind’s good meditation is the bankruptcy of my self-doubt and God-doubt. My heart's better meditation is my vastness-fulfilment and my oneness-perfection. My soul's best meditation is my life’s God-manifestation here on earth.
Before I meditate, I compel my reasoning mind to disappear. Before I meditate, I beg my loving God to appear.
After I meditate, I soulfully offer myself a new name: gratitude. After I meditate, God, out of His infinite Bounty, blesses me with a new and fruitful name: satisfaction.
Each time I meditate on God, He teaches me a new life-surrender-song. Each time God meditates on me, I offer Him a new gratitude-heart-song.
Earth meditates for man's transformation. Heaven meditates for God's Satisfaction. I meditate for my nature's complete perfection. God meditates for the universal manifestation of His own Transcendental Consciousness and Transcendental Vision here on earth.
Published in My Heart's Peace-Offering
Listen to the original recording of Sri Chinmoy