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 a talk, entitled ‘Life’, at the home of Mrs. Consuelo Pineiro (Shanti) in Miami, Florida, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds a special meditation on the anniversary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s death and delivers a talk about the UN’s second Secretary-General, in the Meditation Room of the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 31 people, including Ken Anderson, no. 1 high school basketball player in the US; Mark Jackson, 1987 NBA Rookie of the Year, former all-American basketball player; Shelton Jones, 1987 all-American basketball player; and Ken Smith, no. 1 basketball point guard in the US – in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy honours the finishers of the 12th Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY, USA. The race also doubled as the TAC USA National 24-Hour Championship and culminated in a women’s world record for Ann Trason.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Peace Osaka Hall in Osaka, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy meets Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Madhurima Judith Light, Emmy Award Winner, stage and television actress in the long-running television series ‘Who’s the Boss’, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (morning, an audience of 2,100; evening, an audience of 3,180) at the Zenith in Munich, Germany. These concerts are Sri Chinmoy’s 4th and 5th of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.
On the final day of his 3-day Weightlifting Demonstration at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA, Sri Chiinmoy lifts three planes at Princeton Airport, NJ, USA, and lifts a large stone at a Stone Museum, also in New Jersey.
With art paper stacked high on his lap, Sri Chinmoy produces painting after painting at his Jharna-Kala Gallery at New York’s Grand Central Station in Manhattan.
Actress Judith Light, who had played the role of Angela in the long-running television series “Who’s the Boss,” visited Aspiration-Ground Sept. 17 to participate in Sri Chinmoy’s “Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart” program.
“My dear sister Angela, you have inspired millions and millions of people by offering them innocent joy and innocent delight,” the spiritual teacher said. He called her “self-giving heart and life” a tremendous help to all aspiring human beings.
He also sang a song he had composed in her honor, entitled, “Who is the Boss.”
Commenting on his lifting program, Sri Chinmoy said, “This is a group effort — you help me; I help you. But to tell the truth, only God can help us .... We cannot help anybody, but we can pray to God to act in and through us so that our dedicated service can blossom every day, every hour, every minute, every second.”
The actress replied: “I want to thank you from my heart .... I’m grateful to you for everything that you’re doing for the world — the demonstration that you are, the inspiration that you are, the model that you are.”
She also told him that when he was lifting her, “I could feel you underneath me before you lifted me up. I could feel your energy. It was a very powerful experience for me."
During the program, Sri Chinmoy also lifted her husband, soap opera star Robert Desiderio, and her two managers.
Actress. Judith Light visits Sri Chinmoy at Aspiration-Ground.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 33, August–Mid-Novemver 2002
Video by kedarvideo
Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts (morning, an audience of 2,100; evening, an audience of 3,180) at the Zenith in Munich, Germany.
One of three planes Sri Chinmoy lifts at Princeton Airport in New Jersey on day three of his 3-day Weightlifting Demonstration.
Sri Chinmoy honours Ann Trason, overall winner of the 12th Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens New York.
The race also doubled as the TAC USA National 24-Hour Championship and Ann’s winning distance of over 143 miles was not only a women’s world record, but she beat some of the best ultrarunners from 17 US states.
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
at the home of Mrs. Consuelo Pineiro (Shanti)
in Miami, Florida
Life has an inner door. Aspiration opens it. Desire closes it. Aspiration opens it from within. Desire closes it from without.
Life has an inner lamp. This inner lamp is called aspiration. And when we keep our aspiration burning, it will, without fail, transmit to God's entire creation its effulgent glow.
Life has an inner Voice. It is the Saviour of mankind. This Voice is the Light of the Supreme. Life is protection, life is perfection, life is fulfilment when we open to this Light of the Supreme.
Each day is the renewal of life. Each day is the rebirth of our inner assurance that each individual is the chosen instrument of the Supreme to reveal and fulfil the Infinite Divine here on earth.
The outgoing life finds nothing but trouble, torture, misery and frustration. The inflowing life discovers the Sea of peace and bliss.
How to start life's inner journey? With the simple idea, the spontaneous thought that God-realisation is your birthright. Where to start? Here. From within. When to start? Now. Before the birth of a second.
Life is love. Love is life. Life fulfils God through love. Love fulfils God in life.
To illumine our life we need pure thoughts. Each pure thought is more precious than all the diamonds of the world, for God's Breath abides only in man's pure thoughts.
Life is always at work. It is ever active, dynamic. It tries to help the soul to complete its yet unaccomplished task, the divine Mission. The soul needs life's help to unfold itself fully. Life needs the soul's help to fulfil itself both physically and spiritually.
Birth and death play. They play together. Their game is the game of harmony. And it is always played on the infinite breast of Life.
Life is a thick cloud to him who keeps on brooding. Brooding and despondency are the worst foes that kill life in all its divine inspiration and high ideal. No more brooding, no more despondency. Your life shall become the beauty of a rose, the song of the dawn, the dance of the twilight.
God is in life. But life must awaken to the light of His Presence, His Transcendent Feet.
Published in AUM – Vol. 3, No. 5,6, Dec. 1967 – 27 Jan. 1968
Inspirational messages by Sri Chinmoy given after sports practice at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York
My aspiration is my preparation
My aspiration is my preparation.
My dedication is my preparation.
My preparation is for my emptiness.
My preparation is for my fulness.
My emptiness is my readiness.
My fulness is my readiness.
My emptiness-readiness pleases
God the Compassion-Giver.
My fulness-readiness pleases
God the Perfection-Proclaimer.
I love my body.
Therefore, I am patrolling its boundaries
Carefully.I love my vital.
Therefore, I am controlling its aggressions
Forcefully.I love my mind.
Therefore, I am challenging its doubts
Dauntlessly.I love my heart.
Therefore, I am changing its needs
Wisely.I love my soul.
Therefore, I am flying with it
Devotedly.I love my Beloved Supreme.
Therefore, I am crying for Him
Sleeplessly, unreservedly
And unconditionally.
Inferiority, my inferiority!
Do you not realise
That you are hurting
My beautiful eyes?
How can I forgive you
And why should I?Inferiority, my inferiority!
Do you not realise
That you are killing
My soulful heart?
How can I forgive you
And why should I?Inferiority, my inferiority!
Do you not realise
That you are disappointing
My hopeful soul?
How can I forgive you
And why should I?Inferiority, my inferiority!
Do you not realise
That you are deserting
My blessingful Supreme?
How can I forgive you
And why should I?
Published in Aurora-Flora
Listen to Sri Chinmoy reciting...
Sri Chinmoy recites three prayer-messages from Aurora-Flora during his public meditation in St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University, New York.