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 spends a day out in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, USA, where runners from America’s ‘Liberty Torch’ and Canada’s ‘Oneness-Heart’ compete in a 13-mile race.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens in the Town Hall, New York, NY, USA.
A two-month exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior in conjunction with the National Parks Service, is attended by the Department of the Interior Under-Secretary James A. Joseph and members of the U.S. Congress, including the Honorable Geraldine Ferraro, at the National Visitors Center in Washington, DC, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Rayburn Office Building, U.S. House of Representatives, and meets with Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor, in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 300 lbs. using a seated calf-raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (341), the third of 39 Peace Concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda’s 39 years on earth, in David A. Stein Junior High School, Bronx, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy begins writing daily rhyming poems — meditations for each day of the year — subsequently published in My Silence Heart-Blossoms, part 1, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (406), performing on 50 instruments from various nations around the world — the 6th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the UN General Assembly Lobby in New York.
The University of Cincinnati becomes the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace University. The same day, Mayor Roxanne Qualls dedicates the city of Cincinnati, USA, as a Sri Chinmoy Peace City.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Monsignor Thomas Hartman, Rabbi Marc Gellman and Tibetan monks, as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 white horses at the Tiara Resort in the Terelj National Park, Mongolia.
A two-month exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, sponsored by the US Department of the Interior in conjunction with the National Parks Service, is attended by the Department of the Interior Under-Secretary James A. Joseph and members of the U.S. Congress, including the Honorable Geraldine Ferraro, at the National Visitors Center in Washington, DC.
CINCINNATI — The University of Cincinnati became a Sri Chinmoy Peace University — the world’s first — on May 23.
The same day, Mayor Roxanne Qualls dedicated the city of Cincinnati as a Sri Chinmoy Peace City.
The university and city join more than 700 other landmarks and places around the world, which have been dedicated to the cause of world peace in the spiritual leader’s name. They are referred to as Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossoms.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 25, April-July 1995
A short anecdote by Sri Chinmoy
When I take exercise in my main room, I put the tape recorder in another room so that I do not become totally absorbed in the music. Usually I take exercise for about 40 minutes. Every day I take a new tape and listen to it. I specially like the tapes of some famous Bengali singers singing songs by Rabindranath Tagore. Indian tapes are so unique! Sometimes there is talking during the singing, sometimes they cough. Everything is there, and then they sell these tapes!
Published in My Weightlifting Tears and Smiles, part 3
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, the third of 39 Peace Concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda’s 39 years on earth, in David A. Stein Junior High School, Bronx, New York.
Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert dedication:
Today's Peace Concert I am devotedly dedicating to the indomitable lion-hearted soul, Swami Vivekananda, who challenged the pride of ignorance-night for the manifestation of divine Light here on earth.
Published in Vivekananda: Divinity's Soul-Rainbow and Humanity’s Heart-Blossom
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, performing on 50 instruments from various nations around the world, for the United Nation’s 50th Anniversary, at the UN General Assembly Lobby in New York.
by Sri Chinmoy
at the UN General Assembly Lobby in New York
Prayerfully and soulfully I am offering today's Peace Concert to the world-illumining soul of the United Nations.
Sri Chinmoy offering his Peace Concert dedication...
Excerpt from a special message sent on 23 May 1995 by His Excellency Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union and 1990 Nobel Peace Laureate:
It is not by chance that the United Nations has been giving increasing attention in its activities to the spiritual improvement of the human being, and Sri Chinmoy plays an enormous role in that noble work.
I wish to express the hope that the music you are going to hear today will strengthen your confidence that life and the world in which we are living are still beautiful, and that we are duty-bound to do all we can to make them even better.
Excerpt from welcoming remarks given at the Peace Concert by His Excellency Mr. Karel Kovanda, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations:
In this hectic life that we are all living here, and for some of us even more hectic than for others — those of us who have little babies and those of us who serve on the Security Council — Sri Chinmoy manages to bring a little slowness into life, manages to help us appreciate the minutes rather than just the days, and for this we are very grateful.
Excerpt from a statement on the occasion of the Peace Concert at the United Nations by His Excellency Dr. Jorge E. Illueca, Permanent Representative of Panama to the United Nations:
Sri Chinmoy has been a cherished friend for almost twenty years. During this time I have been privileged to participate in a number of activities of the Peace Meditation at the United Nations, and I have observed with growing satisfaction the growing impact of his message of universal harmony and understanding…. Sri Chinmoy has a pure vision of what the United Nations means inwardly and what it can become outwardly. The efforts of the United Nations for peace, justice and development need a solid spiritual foundation, and Sri Chinmoy has been working tirelessly for twenty-five years to strengthen that foundation.
Published in My Prayerful Salutations to the United Nations
Sri Chinmoy lifts a white horse and its Mongolian rider with an eagle perched on his arm. It is one of forty-one white horses Sri Chinmoy lifts at Tiara Resort in Terelj National Park, Mongolia.
At a previous lift, four days earlier, one of the nomadic riders presented Sri Chinmoy with a white racing stallion as well as a white mare. The horses remain in the country as a legacy to Sri Chinmoy’s indomitable spirit.
by Sri Chinmoy
while in residence at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India
Playground. Nolini-da said: "Last time I took you from Manik Tola garden to the jail. Today I will tell you about the life we led there for a year. A certain court officer said to Sri Aurobindo: 'Aurobindo, so at last you are caught; you are caught. Sri Aurobindo said to him immediately: 'And yet I will escape; I will escape!'"
Nolini-da's account of this significant incident produced a most thrilling and illumining effect in my heart.
"To continue, I have divided my jail life into two parts. This time I shall tell you about our stay in the cell. I hope next time I shall be able to tell you about our court life.
Published in A Service-Flame and a Service-Sun
by Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy begins writing daily rhyming poems — meditations for each day of the year — in Jamaica, New York.
Silence-blossoms have awakened my mind.
My tears and God's Smiles clasped I find.
My orphan tears begin my day.
My princely smiles blaze the Way.
I keep my heart's streaming tears
Sleeplessly alive,
So that my Lord's beaming Smiles
In me can thrive.
Energised by my self-improvement task,
In my Lord's Transcendent Sun-Flames I bask.
Obedience longs to feed the Lord
Infinitely more.
Self-deleted, fastest it runs, arrives
And touches the Shore.
I shall climb up
My soul's dream-flooded staircase.
Endless obstacles
Dauntless my heart shall face.
Fastest runs to the Goal Supreme
My Lord's Love-Train.
Singing and dancing, therein my breath —
No bondage-chain.
Published in My Silence Heart-Blossoms, part 1
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
I scold you people from time to time, but I know that that method is only for temporary use. It is like going to an emergency room. In an emergency room, how many people are cured? So many people die while the doctors are operating. How much failure we experience in an emergency room! Again, sometimes we get results. The normal way is to take medicine, get injections and so forth; that is the real way to become cured. With that way you have got a solid base. But in an emergency room, how many people go to God while being treated!
In the spiritual life, if you really want to make your Master happy, you must not be afraid of your Master — no, no, no! The Master has not come into the world to strike people. That was for Julius Caesar, Alexander and all those military people. But sometimes I scold you as a last resort. In the Bhagavad Gita, before the Kurukshetra battle, how Sri Krishna begged and begged the Kauravas only to give five villages to the Pandavas! The Kauravas had the kingdom, but they would not give up those five villages. Three or four times Sri Krishna went to the Kauravas’ palace, but they would not listen to him. They said, “Without a fight, we shall not give to the Pandavas even the quantity of sand or mud that will fit through the eye of a needle.” A needle is long but the eye is tiny. How much can pass through that tiny hole? Then Sri Krishna felt that the situation was hopeless and said, “War is needed.” The war was a last resort.
Here also, as a last resort, I scold you people. Otherwise, I plead with you, with your heart, with your mind, with your vital, with your physical. So to all my disciples I am saying, do not be afraid of me, but be identified with my sufferings. To be afraid of me is a stupid, useless approach. To be identified with my sadness, with my tears, is absolutely the right approach.
Let us not take the fear approach. Let us take the love approach. When we have fear, then we will hide all our diseases. When some people have diseases, they are afraid, as if they have committed a robbery. They feel that they have done something wrong, so they have to hide. Is it not the height of their stupidity? If something is physically wrong with them, then let them go to a doctor. Fear they are cherishing, but again, they are not even praying. Fear is dominating their whole day and night. They have no time to pray to the Supreme. In them we only see fear, fear, fear. They feel they will be exposed. What stupidity! They can pray to God to cure them if they do not want to go to a doctor. It is God who gave those individuals the little capacity they needed to become doctors. They can pray to God, to the real Doctor. But they have no time to pray; only fear is killing them. Here the Supreme has sent a representative in the form of a spiritual Master. The disciples should say, “Let us go to him. He will be able to cure us.”
Published in Sri Chinmoy Answers, part 12