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’s students hold a parade in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA, to celebrate his Jharna-Kala artworks achievements.
Sri Chinmoy holds an open air mediation with his students in the forest at Bear Mountain State Park, located on the west bank of the Hudson River in upstate New York, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best long jump in the West of 3.71 metres at the Sri Chinmoy Sports Day at Fox Lane High School, Bedford, NY, USA.
A mention of Sri Chinmoy’s Jhana Kala art gallery is noted by The New York Times in an article about the changing face of Madison Ave. in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a personal best javelin throw in the West of 29.96 metres at the Sri Chinmoy Sports Day.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 24 children, members of the Omsk Choir from Siberia, Russia, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Zimbabwe is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy inaugurates Aspiration-Temple at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 37 people, including Pandit Uma Shankar Mishra, sitar player, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Exhibition Hall of the Herson Regional Artists’ Association in Herson, Ukraine.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Aurangzeb Khan, the Tallest Man in America (8’ 0”) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation for peace at the closing ceremony of the World Harmony Run, held in the Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and performs 99 songs on the esraj at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy visits the Self-Transcendence Marathon in Rockland Lake State Park, Nyack, New York, NY, USA. Before the start of the race, he offers a prayer and gives a short talk about the marathon.
Sri Chinmoy holds the Peace Torch as he offers a meditation for peace at the closing ceremony of the World Harmony Run, held in the Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, Manhattan, New York.
World Harmony Run founder, Sri Chinmoy, leads a moment's reflection as representatives from the United Nations community join him on stage.
Sri Chinmoy then offers the following speech:
God the Creator has inspired us to serve God the Creation. The World Harmony Run is a prayerful and soulful journey to enter into the world of universal peace. We are praying to God to guide us, lead us and make us feel that we belong to one home, one heart and one life.
This world of ours has everything save and except peace. There are many ways to bring about world peace, but we feel our way is the way of prayers and meditations. Our prayers and meditations are helping us to arrive at the destined goal, and this goal is a universal oneness-heart-home.
May God bless us with His infinite Bounty so that we can fulfil His own Vision in and through our lives. What He expects from us is a oneness-heart-home. We feel that inwardly, and outwardly as well, our World Harmony Run is serving the world community so that it can become a oneness-heart-home. Not only the participants and well-wishers, but also those who are not yet born, will be able to feel the beauty and the fragrance of our prayerful, soulful, humble efforts.
At the beginning of our journey's start, millions and millions of years ago, we were one. And we feel that at the end of our journey's close, again we shall become one, one, one.
Published in The Inner Meaning of Sport
Sri Chinmoy at the Self-Transcendence Marathon in Rockland Lake State Park, Nyack, New York.
Rockland Lake State Park, New York
Marathon is
An unimaginable joy-experience
Of the heart.
Marathon is
An unbearable suffering-experience
Of the body, the vital and the mind.
Short talk offered before the marathon:
I have invoked special Blessings of my Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme for all the marathon runners. Each marathon is an unimaginable joy for the runner's heart. Again, each marathon is an unspeakable torture for the body, the vital and the mind. Our philosophy is to transcend — transcend the physical pain and transcend our previous achievements. My blessings, my love and my gratitude I am offering to each and every runner.
And my special request to you all is this: when you find you are tired, extremely, extremely tired, exhausted, then do not continue, do not continue.
All my love. Start!
Published in My Race-Prayers, part 3