Sri Chinmoy sings Dyulok Chariye, a song based on a poem he wrote aged 13, dedicated to Sri Aurobindo's birthday on August 15th, 1945.

Sri Chinmoy sings Dyulok Chariye, a song based on a poem he wrote aged 13, dedicated to Sri Aurobindo's birthday on August 15th, 1945.
Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Mayor Edward Koch’ in honour of the newly elected mayor of New York City, NY, USA. The song is performed during his meeting with the mayor at City Hall the next day. (Edward ‘Ed’ Koch serves three terms as mayor of New York City from 1978–1989.)
Sri Chinmoy runs a 5-mile race in 41:23 (an 8:17/mile pace) at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY, USA. It is part of a 31-day Grand Prix series.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at 133 West 24th Street, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 400-lb. lift using a seated calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meditates on stage at the India Day Parade in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (122) and organ recital (3) at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives a piano performance at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (423) — the 23rd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy’s book, ‘August 15th, 1945’, is published in New York, NY, USA. It contains the original Bengali poem ‘Dyulok Chariye Nara Narayan’ written by thirteen-year-old Chinmoy in Pondicherry, India, on August 14th, 1945 — the day before Sri Aurobindo’s Birthday; plus his own English translation he completed between 9 June and 4 August, 1996. See also: Video of Dyulok Chariye
Sri Chinmoy holds a full-day function in honour of the 50th Anniversary of India’s independence, at which he offers long meditations and paints 50 Jharna-Kala works of art and releases 50 doves. He also offers a Peace Concert (519), performing on 50 instruments – the last of 50 concerts dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of India’s Independence – at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy sets a new record for a 500-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Morocco is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 47 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes 300 Soul-Bird drawings, totalling 7,305 since he began a new style on June 9, 2005, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
by Sri Chinmoy
dedicated to the United Nations
at Aspiration-Ground, Jamaica, New York
O my United Nations, a good many world figures and also the common man are of the opinion that you have now become a useless nothingness. But my aspiration-heart and dedication-life shall never and never subscribe to their view. To me, you are and you will forever remain a fruitful fulness awakening the sleeping humanity to create a oneness-flooded peace-world.
— Sri Chinmoy
Published in My Prayerful Salutations to the United Nations
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Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 9:31 a.m. before doing 500-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift — a new record.
Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 15
In Pondicherry, at the tender age of thirteen, Sri Chinmoy composes the Bengali poem ‘Dyulok Chariye Nara Narayan’ in homage to Sri Aurobindo — the day before Sri Aurobindo’s Birthday.
In New York, fifty years later, on July 8th, 1995, Sri Chinmoy sets the poem to music. And on June 9th, 1996, he begins translating the poem into English and completes the translation on August 4th so that the book can be released on August 15th.
Listen to Sri Chinmoy reciting the poem
Here are the first four lines of Sri Chinmoy’s original Bengali poem:
Dyulok chariye nara narayan
Sparshila aji dhuli
Tar jaya gan chalo mora kari
Sakala karma bhuli
And, Sri Chinmoy’s English translation:
God in human form
Descends from Heaven today
To touch and feel
The breath of earth-dust.
Comrades, His Victory
Let us proclaim, casting aside
All our world-responsibility-obligations.
The entire Bengali poem together with Sri Chinmoy’s English translation is published as August 15th, 1945 by Agni Press in 1996.
Sri Chinmoy personally signed his book India, My India — Mother India’s Summit-Prides for Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. In a section of the book dedicated to the legendary Indian sarod player, Sri Chinmoy described him as a cultural luminary.
The title page inscription reads:
To, My most Esteemed
Brother-Friend,
India's Himalayan Pride
Ali Akbar Khan Ustad
of the Highest Music-Height.
With my heart's infinite love,
joy and gratitude,Sri Chinmoy
Aug. 15th, 1997