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.
A chrysanthemum flower is named ‘The Honourable Sri Chinmoy’ by Frank J. Longo, Mayor of Bristol, in Bristol, CT, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ’Success-Height’, in the Oxford Union Debating Hall at Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — Peace: Divinity’s Dream on Earth — at Cathedral Church of the Saviour in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Listen to the CD...
Sri Chinmoy receives the Nehru Medallion from UNESCO.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings opens in Il Saggiattore in Rome, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Palazzo Colonna in Rome, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Pilgrim of Peace Award from Gianfranco Costa, President and Founder of the International Centre for Peace among Peoples of Assisi, at Palazzo Colonna in Rome, Italy.
Sri Lanka is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom Nation.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Medal of Friendship from President Nambaryn Enkhbayar of Mongolia, at the Government Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
My Prayerful and Soulful Dedication
To
Diana, Princess of Wales
Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird artwork for Diana Princess of Wales, containing 362 individual birds.
ROME — The International Center for Peace Among Peoples of Assisi presented Sri Chinmoy with its 1998 Pilgrim of Peace Award on May 16 at the Palazzo Colonna, a royal palace dating back to the 14th century.
Previous recipients include Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Mikhail Gorbachev, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, tenor Luciano Pavarotti and UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar.
Gianfranco Costa, President and founder of the Assisi-based civic organization, said:"We hope and pray that through the innumerable actions that Sri Chinmoy is doing for peace, the Millennium of Peace will take birth....
“With immense and deep love and gratitude, we offer the little pilgrim into the hands of this great man who has done so much, is doing so much and will do so much....”
The event ended with a Peace Concert by Sri Chinmoy.
Sri Chinmoy and Gianfranco Costa pose with the Pilgrim of Peace Award.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 27, April–early August 1998
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — Peace: Divinity’s Dream on Earth — at Cathedral Church of the Saviour in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Listen to the CD...
Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia
Tumi je amar
Pulak smritir abhina hiya
Ogo America biraje tomar
Pranati janai tomare amar
Kritagya chite amar pranati
Published in Namo Namo Namo Shakti Pujari
At a practice for Madal Circus, Sri Chinmoy plays with two of his pet monkeys. A few days later, he comments that in comparison to the monkeys he had in India, these American monkeys were saints! Madhu, the one on the left is a girl, and Jadhu, the larger one on the right, is a boy — both were named by Sri Chinmoy.
Sri Chinmoy at the Green Leaves and Ripe Fruits race in New York.
On 23 February 1998, Sri Chinmoy was advised by Mr Gianfranco Costa, President of the International Centre for Peace Among People (Assisi, Italy) that he had been selected as the 1998 recipient of the international ‘Pilgrim of Peace’ award for the “international significance of your activities for a culture of peace”. The first recipient of this prestigious award was President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1988). Other recipients include United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, His Holiness Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa. At Sri Chinmoy’s request, the award ceremony was held in Rome on 16 May 1998, two days prior to Pope John Paul II’s 78th birthday, as a special birthday offering to the Pope. The ceremony was held on 16 May 1998 at the Galleria Palazzo Colonna, Rome, Italy; and was attended by many distinguished international ambassadors and Italian representatives.
Mr. Gianfranco Costa, President, International Centre for Peace Among People, Assisi [translated from Italian and abridged]: Kindest ladies and gentlemen, good evening. I am offering to you all the greetings of the International Centre for Peace Among People. Thank you for being present at this magical event, which is so important because we are giving the Award to a citizen who is a world authority on peace.
Salutations to all the VIPs who are present here tonight. Soon you will be inundated with inspiration and delight from the concert Sri Chinmoy is going to perform.
Our Centre has asked the United Nations to declare the Third Millennium as the “Millennium of Peace.” The first person to be awarded with the "Pilgrim of Peace" Award, President Mikhail Gorbachev, has definitely changed forever the course of world history.
We hope and pray that through the innumerable actions that Sri Chinmoy is undertaking for peace, the Millennium of Peace will take birth.
We really feel that the United Nations is our common home, the home of all the people of the New Millennium.
I would like to embrace you all. I am sure that tonight we shall leave this room changed and more determined to bring about peace. We shall make miracles and, above all, Sri Chinmoy — who is such an important and great authority on peace — will help us.
When we go to the United Nations again in the future, we know that we shall have a new and extraordinary friend. Things will happen that could never happen without him.
What years ago was a utopia, and now is a dream, from this evening will become a reality.
With immense and deep love and gratitude, we offer the little pilgrim into the hands of this great man who has done so much, is doing so much and will do so much, this man who today is here with part of his large family: Sri Chinmoy.
[Mr. Costa presents Sri Chinmoy with the Award.]
Published in A Peace-Collecting Pilgrim-Soul
A lecture by Sri Chinmoy
in the Oxford Union Debating Chamber
at the University of Oxford, England
Where is man’s success-mountain-peak, where, where, where? It is in man’s possession-dream. It is in man’s frustration-reality. It is in man’s destruction-inevitability.
Success-height, what is it? It is futile emptiness. What is missing? Light, light that illumines man’s endless darkness, is missing. What else is missing? Delight, delight that feeds man’s beginningless hunger, is missing. In the life of a Truth-seeker, success-height is utterly meaningless and, in the life of a God-lover, it is absolutely useless. A Truth-seeker constantly needs progress-vision. A God-lover sleeplessly needs progress-realisation. Progress-vision and progress-realisation alone can inundate a Truth-seeker’s and a God-lover’s life with infinite Peace, infinite Bliss and infinite Satisfaction.
Success-life is an outer cry. Julius Caesar represents this cry for humanity: “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Progress-smile and the inner life go together. Inner aspiration-cry and outer progress-smile will always go together. Here we can invoke the soul of the immortal poet William Blake. The seeker-heart in him envisioned the Infinite in the finite; his was a cry of the finite for the Infinite:
To see a World in a grain of sand
And Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
This is what a seeker-heart longs for. Each second is a golden opportunity for a Truth-seeker and God-lover to make progress. His heart’s mounting cry constantly helps him grow into something high, higher, highest and deep, deeper, deepest. It is his bounden duty to pray soulfully and meditate fruitfully so that his progress, which is undoubtedly the progress of his Pilot Supreme in and through him, will be limitless.
In order to achieve success, an individual may adopt foul means. Again, in order to achieve success, he has to face countless difficulties: the challenging world, the teeming doubts, fears, worries and anxieties, the frightening experiences he has to encounter. But he who wants progress, only progress, in his life takes these unfortunate incidents as his experience-light. For him, each incident is an experience and each experience helps him grow into a larger reality.
Progress-life alone can satisfy a seeker’s Lord Supreme. His Lord Supreme tells him that He is extremely proud of him, for in him He has discovered a chosen instrument of His. Again, the seeker is extremely proud of himself, for he has chosen to express, to reveal and to manifest the inner divinity in fullest measure. God’s Vision and Reality—His Eternity’s Vision and His Infinity’s Reality—only a seeker-heart can embody, reveal and manifest this immortal message. He does it by virtue of his progress-life, and his progress-life is always founded upon his self-giving. Today what we call a self-giving experience, tomorrow that very thing presents itself before us as a God-becoming realisation.
Published in The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind, part 1
Sri Chinmoy
My evening descends,
And I ask it
How I can spend my night
With fathomless happiness.
My evening says,
"Do not wave your mind's ego-flag
The way you did during the entire day."
Published in My Evening Descends