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 lecture, entitled ‘Curiosity or Necessity’, at St. David’s College, University of Wales, in Lampeter, Wales, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation and concert at Queens College in Flushing, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers the closing meditation at the International Yoga Teachers’ Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (86) at the Memorial Arena in Victoria, BC, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy lifts the winner of the NY Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association Bodybuilding Championship, ‘Best Built Man’, and receives an award from the association at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best in the West for the 12-lb. shot put with a distance of 9.21 metres in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy holds the Peace Torch with Dr. Censu Tabone, Prime Minister of Malta, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song, entitled ‘The Saint-Bird in the Political Sky’, in tribute to the President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (441) — the 41st of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — in Labouisse Hall at UNICEF House in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (572) to an audience of 7,000, including Canada’s Minister of External Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy, and his wife, as well as Member of Parliament Mac Harb, at the Corel Centre in Ottawa, ON, Canada. Sri Chinmoy’s concert is dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev. Afterwards, Professor Laurence Ewasksho of the University of Ottawa presents Sri Chinmoy with the ‘Voice of Universal Music’ award on behalf of the University’s Music Department.
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the World-Harmony-Pilgrim-Dream Concert for Peace at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the 128th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s birth at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
OTTAWA — Canada’s Minister of External Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy, and his wife, as well as Member of Parliament Mac Harb, attended the Peace Concert Sri Chinmoy offered Nov. 20 at Ottawa's Corel Centre.
Afterwards, Professor Laurence Ewasksho of the University of Ottawa presented the spiritual leader with the ‘Voice of Universal Music’ award on behalf of the University’s Music Department.
Sri Chinmoy also completed several hundred bird drawings in his hotel room that weekend, commemorating the 25th anniversary of his life as an artist. He drew his first Jharna-Kala rose in an Ottawa hotel on Nov. 19, 1974. ‘Jharna-Kala’, the Bengali for Fountain-Art, is the term he uses to describe his paintings.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 29, Mid-November 1999–Mid-March 2000
Sri Chinmoy composes a song, entitled ‘The Saint-Bird in the Political Sky’, in tribute to the President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel.
Words and Music by Sri Chinmoy
O Saint-Bird in the Political Sky:
The whole world wonders how you so high fly!
O poet-flute, playwright-gong: Havel,
You and your Peace-Dreamer-Heart together travel.
Father and child of Czech Republic you are.
Treasured in the hearts of Peace-Lovers near and far.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (572) to an audience of 7,000 and receives the Voice of Universal Music Award from the University of Ottawa at the Corel Centre in Ottawa, ON, Canada. Sri Chinmoy’s concert is dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev.
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the 128th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s birth at Public School 86 in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best in the West for the 12-lb. shot put with a distance of 9.21 metres in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Sri Chinmoy plays with a basketball at Aspiration-Ground.
by Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy recites one hundred poems from his book ‘Peace-Blossoms-Fragrance, part 1’ on Sunday morning at the Aspiration-Ground in New York. Sri Chinmoy wrote these poems in New York on 11th and 12 November 1994.
Listen to Sri Chinmoy reciting 100 poems...
God's Eye frightens me
With its infinite Justice-Power.
God's Feet illumine me
With their infinite Forgiveness-Peace.
Goodness
Is peace-drop.
Oneness
Is peace-sea.
Peace
Is successful mind-surgery
Without incision.
The eye of peace
Is microscopic.
The heart of peace
Is telescopic.
Peace
Is the oneness-bridge
Between my satisfaction
And the world's satisfaction.
Peace
Is not in self-assertive
Foolhardiness.
Peace
Is in God-assertive
All-pervasiveness.
Peace
Is in God-quest.
Peace
Is in self-conquest.
The victory of the soul
All-where
Is peace.
The appearance of desire
Nowhere
Is peace.
Peace
I did not find
In my beasthood.
Peace
I now find
In my sainthood.
Peace
Is not in occult wildfire.
Peace
Is in spiritual zephyr.
Possession-greed
Is peace-starvation.
God becomes the peace-possessor
Only when I smile and sing.
God becomes the peace-loser
Only when I cry and sigh.
Man the universal God
Is the flower of peace.
God the transcendental man
Is the fragrance of peace.
My peace-heart-nest
Is God's perfect
Satisfaction-Home.
Unfathomable
Is my God-obedience-joy-peace.
Peace
Is not in kingdom-wealth.
Peace
Is in freedom-silence.
My silence-blossom-meditation
Is nothing short of
My peace-freedom-multiplication.
Peace
Is the illumining and fulfilling
Expansion
Of my soul-horizon.
Love-students
Eventually become
Peace-professors.
Mind-division-supremacy
Knows no peace.
Heart-multiplication-intimacy
Knows nothing but peace.
I enjoy peace
Only when I am not afraid
Of changing my stubborn mind.
When I give God
My resolute achievement:
Surrender,
God gives me
His absolute possession:
Peace.
When I think of peace,
My mind heavily sighs.
When I pray for peace,
My heart pitifully cries.
When I meditate on peace,
My soul proudly smiles.
My gratitude-heart-peace
Has not only reached
A very old age,
But also will live forever
No peace
In my mind's God-emptiness.
All peace
In my heart's God-madness.
A God-love-runner
Will have peace
Only when
He self-givingly passes on
The torch of peace.
My peace-empty mind
Doubles God's Tears.
My peace-abundant heart
Triples God's Smiles.
My mind's complete frankness
Is God's Peace.
God's unconditional Oneness
Is my mind's peace.
Peace
Is my inner life's only choice.
Peace
Is not my mind's imagination-tree.
Peace
Is my heart's reality-fruit.
Peace
Is not world-escape-relief.
Peace
Is world-transformation-belief.
Peace
Is my heart's
God-Compassion-hunger.
Peace
Is my soul's
God-Satisfaction-feast.
Peace
Is the spiritual
Beauty-fragrance-bloom.
Peace takes birth
Only in oneness-love's abundance.
Peace
Is the connecting link
Between
My transcendental self
And my abysmal abyss.
Peace
Is a constant realisation
Of my God-oneness-soul.
Peace
Is a rare experience
Of my God-aspiration-heart.
Peace
Is a fleeting miracle
In my God-awareness-mind.
God wants me to make
A little garden inside my heart
For Him to come and sing
Every day
His morning Peace-Songs.
O my mind,
When are you going to realise
That your life without peace
Is nothing
But a nightmare of nonsense?
My mind wonders if anyone
Has secretly but kindly noticed
That it has been praying to God
For peace.
My heart's God-confession
Is my fastest peace-bringer.
O my Lord,
Give my mind a severe headache
If it hesitates
To pray to You for peace
Every day.
Among my heart-poems,
My peace-poem
Is by far the best.
I want more than
God-disobedience-absence.
I want the complete end
Of God-disobedience,
To inundate my life with peace.
May my heart-surrender
And my mind-willingness
Speed up
To bring down boundless peace
From Heaven.
Do not stop your heart from crying
If you want peace
To blossom perfectly
In your entire being.
Peace
Is indeed the miracle-cure
For the doubt-infested humanity.
Peace,
You are the sweetness-whisper
Of my God-satisfaction-sunrise.
Seeing God is not enough.
Serving God is also essential
For your life to grow into
An abiding peace.
My vital, my mind,
Please, oh please, stop fighting!
I clearly hear peace
Knocking at my heart-door.
I live only for one purpose:
Peace-manifestation here on earth.
Not by deceiving ignorance,
Not by threatening ignorance,
But by illumining ignorance,
Can we have peace-abundance.
God never made
A peace-famine-world.
It is unmistakably
A man-made-disaster.
When the faith of the mind
Runs low,
The peace of the heart
Is compelled to run slowly.
When you do not have peace of mind,
You walk and walk along
The road of nothingness
That leads nowhere.
May my aspiration-heart's peace-sun
Sleeplessly be on the rise.
My life's peace-achievement
Is not only within the bounds
Of possibility
But also in the freedom
Of inevitability.
The inner speed of the heart
Entirely depends on
The breathlessly smiling peace.
My meditation-silence
Expedites
My God-Peace-Home return journey.
Peace
Has the rarest capacity
To illumine the world
With God's own Smile.
Complete self-surrender
Is perfect God-Peace.
My mind's happiness-sun
And my heart's peace-sky
Are making me
What I am supposed to be:
A perfect instrument of God.
Now that I live
In a desire-free zone,
The peace of the Beyond
Is beckoning me.
Now that I have become
A perfect stranger
To my old galloping desires,
Peace is speeding towards me.
Because I was born
Under God's Compassion-Star,
My body, vital, mind and heart
Can ceaselessly play with peace.
God surrounds my life
With limitless peace
Only when I surround God's Life
With my breathless love.
Cling not
To your life's past facts.
Cling only to your heart's
Fast-blossoming dreams.
Peace will be all yours.
O truth-seeker and God-lover,
You have only one task to perform:
You have to keep
Humanity's sacred peace-dream
Alive.
A man of peace
Is indeed
God's unfinished
Compassion-masterpiece.
Where forgiveness
Is in very short supply,
Peace will not offer
Its visible appearance.
O seeker,
How can you ever have peace
If you madly envy others
In their nearness to God's Heart?
O my mind,
I beg of you,
Do not deplete
Your store of enthusiasm,
For I still need
Peace from within,
Peace from without.
I became
The beauty and fragrance
Of peace
When I smiled
At my gratitude-flower-heart.
As long as we allow our minds
To be the world's
Separativity-specialists,
We will never have
Even an iota of peace.
You can have nothing else but peace,
Only when you utilise God
And God's Will
Lovingly and self-givingly
In all that you do
And in all that you become.
Always practise
A God-surrender-life.
Peace itself will come,
And befriend you.
Ask the ancients
What is best.
The answer is peace,
And nothing else.
Ask the moderns
What is best.
The answer is speed,
And definitely not peace.
O my mind,
How can you have an iota of peace
When you allow yourself
To be flooded
With worldly questions,
Interrogations and suspicions?
My peace is my Lord's
Supreme Victory-Trumpet
In me and for me.
Published in Peace-Blossom-Fragrance, part 1