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 performs his esraj music in concert at Public School 86, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Ambition, My Friend Unparalleled’, after a morning meditation, at Jamaica High School track, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy starts the runners off at 8 a.m. in the second Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race in Greenwich, CT, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert for athletes of the World Masters Games at the Tapia Theater in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 450-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meditates at the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by Hiroshima Chūgoku Shimbun, ‘Midland News’, a Japanese local daily newspaper based in Hiroshima, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (127) at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy receives Sudhahota Carl Lewis’ winning shoes from the Olympian’s gold medal long-jump performance at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ramsewak Shankar, President of Suriname, at the United Nations Church Centre in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (244) at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes 13 large Jharna-Kala paintings, commemorating his completion of 100,000 Soul-Bird drawings in Jamaica, NY, USA.
After a sudden trip to India to visit his sister Lily, who was seriously ill, Sri Chinmoy returns to New York, NY, USA. Upon his return, he narrates stories of his trip, which are later published in his book, My Express Visit to India.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Mani Sankar Mukherji, renowned Bengali novelist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 2,400 pounds using a standing calf-raise machine, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens at the Nehru Centre in London, UK.
Chūgoku Shinbun, ‘Midland News’ is a Japanese local daily newspaper based in Hiroshima
Reporter: What were you meditating on when you stood in front of the Peace Memorial?
Sri Chinmoy: I was meditating on peace and offering my prayers to God for those people who were killed during World War II. Hiroshima is now a place full of purity and inner beauty.
Reporter: From now on, what kind of activities will you do for peace?
Sri Chinmoy: If you want peace, you must pray and meditate every day. Hiroshima is the city where unimaginable destruction took place. The old was destroyed, and now the new has been built. This experience of building the new should continue and continue forever here in Hiroshima.
Published in Japan: Soul-Beauty’s Heart-Garden
A talk by Sri Chinmoy after a morning meditation
Ambition, my friend unparalleled,
You are helping me
To come out of lethargy-destruction.Ambition, my friend unparalleled,
You are helping me
To smash asunder the heavy and tight shackles
Of frustration-slavery.Ambition, my friend unparalleled,
You are helping my mind
To free its luminous vision
From the prison of teeming doubts.Ambition, my friend unparalleled,
You are helping my heart
To free its marvellous peace
From the cave of torturing insecurity.Ambition, my friend unparalleled,
You are helping my soul
To dream in and through me
Clearly, swiftly,
Powerfully and triumphantly.Ambition, my friend unparalleled,
You are serving my Beloved Supreme
To make me a perfect instrument of His,
Cheerfully, sleeplessly and unreservedly.Ambition, my friend unparalleled,
When I use you divinely
I create not only a satisfaction-world within me
But also a promise-world for the entire world.
I create a new dawn for me.
I create a challenging and fulfilling reality
For the whole world.Ambition, my friend unparalleled,
When I undivinely use you,
I destroy my inner world
That wants to grow and glow.
And I also destroy my outer world
That wants to ascend and transcend.Ambition, my friend unparalleled,
I shall always use you
In a divine way
So that you can at every moment be proud of
My sincerity, my dedication and my transformation.
Published in AUM – Vol 6, No. 9, September 1980