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 ‘Confidence’, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song in honour of the ‘New York Road Runners Club’.
Tributes for Sri Chinmoy’s 50th Birthday are read into the Congressional Record at the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Sardar Dhillon, India’s High Commissioner to Canada, at the United Nations in New York. The photo of this meeting was chosen by Sri Chinmoy to on the cover of his book ‘Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 53.’
Sri Chinmoy is named ‘Peace Ambassador in Puerto Rico’ by Governor Rafael Hernández Colón of Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 7040¼ lbs. using only his left arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (365) — the 27th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Russian Cosmonaut Gennadi Strekalov at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes the English translation of ‘August 15, 1945’, Dyulok Chariye, his epic 180-line Bengali poem written at the age of 13 and dedicated to Sri Aurobindo for his birthday, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Cambodia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy visits an exhibition of his Jharna-Kala artworks at Newark International Airport in New Jersey, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 34 people, including Dr. Kul Gautam, Deputy Executive-Director of UNICEF; Lindy Remigino, 100 m Olympic gold medallist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people, including several members of the family of the late Jesse Owens, legendary Olympic gold medallist — Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin, two of Jesse Owens’ daughters, and his grandson, Stuart Rankin, Jr.; Ted Erikson, 3-time English Channel swimmer; Adolf Kiefer, 1936 Olympic gold medallist in backstroke; Willye White, Olympic silver medallist in the long jump and 4 x 100 m relay, at Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, IL, USA.
ALBANY — Musician, artist and spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy will present a concert of music for meditation at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the Place Theater.
Chinmoy, who plays the flute and the esraj (a Bengali stringed instrument, has performed in several New York City concert halls. He is spiritual leader of meditation centers in 65 cities including Albany. He conducts twice-weekly meditation sessions for United Nations diplomats and their staff.
The free concert is being held in conjunction with a 700-mile relay walk which will pass through Albany at 9· 30 on Monday morning on State and Swan streets. The Sri Chinmoy Center is sponsoring the walking tribute to the state.
Published in the Schenectady Gazette, page 2, Saturday Morning, August 4, 1979
I am a member of the New York Road
Runners Club; indeed!
Promise, courage, newness, closeness,
Oneness-perfection I feed.
Quality my progress-choice,
Quantity my success-voice.
Himalayan pride, Atlantic light
With me every day run.
President Lebow, the world’s temple-body
Salutes your wisdom-sun.
Published in Run and Become, Become and Run
by Sri Chinmoy
at Aspiration-Ground, Queens, New York
Dedication:
Today’s Peace Concert I am very prayerfully dedicating to Swami Vivekananda, who was beauty’s life from Bengal, purity’s heart from India and Divinity’s Soul from the Universe.
Published in Vivekananda: Divinity's Soul-Rainbow and Humanity's Heart-Blossom
My Lord does not believe
In my very clever mind-flattery.
He believes only
In my life’s world-service-tree.
This prayer and others in this series are offered by Sri Chinmoy at the conclusion of the weekly Saturday morning ‘Runners are Smilers’ two-mile races held in New York. In 2002 Sri Chinmoy renamed them ‘Self-Transcendence Races’. They arre later published in My Race-Prayers.
Administrative
Bulletin No: 4729
Proclamation by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
TO PROCLAIM MASTER SRI CHINMOY, AS PEACE AMBASSADOR IN PUERTO RICO
WHEREAS:
Sri Chinmoy is the central figure behind a profoundly spiritual and creative movement throughout the world and whose realisation has been manifested in and through his unending
services to humamity;
WHEREAS:
Through his worldwide series of Peace Concerts and lectures, Sri Chinmoy is constantly awakening the divine qualities and true peace-loving self of humanity;
WHEREAS:
As director of the United Nations Meditation Group, since 1990, and director of the Peace Medication at the United States Congress for the past two years, Sri Chinmoy has displayed his outstanding capacity in guiding and inspiring those in the highest ranks of world power to strive for Peace and Universal brotherhood;
WHEREAS:
His continuous work for world peace has been recognised and praised by the General Secretaries of the United Nations: U Thant, Kurt Waldheim, and Perez de Cuellar, as well as by the Panama government upon granting him its highest honour, the “Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa” and by Pope Paul VI;
WHEREAS:
For the past 10 years Puerto Rico has benefited from the valuable contributions of Sri Chinmoy as a spiritual leader, a humanist, and master track and field promoter through his meditation centre on the Island;
WHEREAS:
Sri Chinmoy, who has rendered such unparalleled selfless service to uplift the consciousness of humanity at large, is deserving of our highest recognition, respect and gratitude:
NOW THEREFORE:
I, RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON, Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with deepest pride and satisfaction proclaim MASTER SRI CHINMOY AS PEACE AMBASSADOR IN PUERTO RICO and deserving of all the courtesies and privileges befitting such designation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF:
I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to be affixed at the Capital City of San Juan, this 4th day of August, A.D. nineteen hundred and eighty-six.
Signed:
RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON
Promulgated according to law this the 4th day of August 1986.
Countersigned:
HECTOR LUIS ACEVEDO
Secretary of State
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
in the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations
We are all God's chosen children. God has perfect faith in us. Let us try to have an iota of divine confidence in ourselves.
If we want to have confidence, we have to be true to ourselves. If we want to hear from God that we are good, great and divine, then we must always be true to ourselves.
Temptation, depression, frustration and destruction go together. Man's confidence and God's acceptance go together. Man's confidence is man's joy and God's divine Pride.
Confidence is growth. It is the flowering of our human aspiration and divine liberation. Aspiration is what man has and offers to God. Liberation is what God eternally is, and He offers Himself to mankind. He scatters liberation all around us.
Confidence is the illumining conscience deep within us and our fulfilling inheritance.
God says to man, "My son, I have all confidence in you because you are of Me." Man says to God, "Father, I have full confidence in myself because You are for me."
God says to man, "My son, I have all confidence in you because you want the Truth and the Truth alone." Man says to God, "Father, I have full confidence in myself because I know that You are not only the Truth but You are also my Truth."
God says to man, "My son, I have all confidence in you because of our present divine conversation." Man says to God, "Father, Father, Father, I have full confidence in myself because of Your present and eternal Compassion for me.
Published in Union-Vision
A running anecdote by Sri Chinmoy
In 1944, when I ran 400 metres, I did it in 56 seconds. In 1946, it was 54 seconds. Then, for years, it was always 53.6 seconds or 53.8 or 53.9. Now, O God, it takes me so long.
I used to do 100 metres in 12.1 or 12.2 seconds. Then, when I was finished I used to laugh and smile and go away. Now, I'm taking 19 or 20 seconds, and I'm not laughing when I finish.
Published in Run and Become, Become and Run, part 4