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.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Sri Chinmoy Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert together with a piano performance at the Novotelhalle in Freiburg, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Buchman Hall in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of the 78th Birthday of Pope John Paul II, at the Church of Santa Maria in Campo Santo in Vatican City.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Bleecker Street Theatre in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, arranged by Dr. G. Mend-Ooyo, President of the 26th World Congress of Poets and President of the Mongolian Lecture Academy of Culture and Poetry, who also offers Sri Chinmoy the Pegasus Literature Award at the Government Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
ULAAN BAATAR — Sri Chinmoy delivered a poetry lecture at the Government Palace here on May 18, which was introduced by Mongolian MP Tugusjargal Gandhi.
Afterwards, Dr. G. Mend-Ooyo, President of the Mongolian Academy of Culture and Poetry, presented Sri Chinmoy with the Academy’s ‘Pegasus’ Award.
Dr. Mend-Ooyo later presented the spiritual leader with a copy of his newly published Nomadic Lyrics, which had been dedicated to him.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 44, Mid-April–July, 2007
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of the 78th Birthday of Pope Paul II, at the Church of Santa Maria in Campo Santo in Vatican City.
“I dedicated this concert to the Holy Father:
“We are praying to the Holy Father to bless us all on this most auspicious occasion. May his Birthday illumine each and every human being on earth. I pray to our Absolute Lord Supreme, out of His infinite Bounty, to keep the Holy Father in the physical body for quite a few years more. Each day the Holy Father brings to the world a new hope and a new promise for the betterment of humanity. May we all feel our Holy Father's blessingful presence as we dedicate, prayerfully and soulfully, our Peace Concert to him.”
— Sri Chinmoy
– Sri Chinmoy |
Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 7:52 a.m. before starting to exercise on his stationary bicycle.
Published in My aspiration-heart cycles, part 2
– Sri Chinmoy |
Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 8:25 a.m. before using seated double-arm machine up to 280 lbs.
Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 14
– Sri Chinmoy |
Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 8:35 a.m. before doing a seated double-dumbbell lift with 240 lbs.
Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 14
– Sri Chinmoy |
Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 8:51 a.m. before doing a standing double-dumbbell lift with 1,300 lbs. four times.
Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 14
– Sri Chinmoy |
Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 9:24 p.m. before doing seated double-dumbbell lifts with 260 lbs., 280 lbs. and 300 lbs.
Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 14
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, arranged by Dr. G. Mend-Ooyo, President of the 26th World Congress of Poets and President of the Mongolian Lecture Academy of Culture and Poetry, who also offers Sri Chinmoy the Pegasus Literature Award at the Government Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
a question at the United Nations
Question: Why is it so hard to find peace of mind?
Sri Chinmoy: As individuals, we do not have peace of mind because we feel that we are the most important person on earth. We feel that if we do not do this or say that, then the world will collapse or everything immediately will go wrong. We can get peace of mind only if we can consciously feel that we are not indispensable. The moment we sincerely feel that we are not indispensable, we will not have to go anywhere to get peace, for peace will immediately come to us. If we feel that it is our duty to serve the world, that is good. But if we feel that it is our duty to illumine the world and that if we do not illumine the world, then the world will remain full of darkness, then we will never have peace of mind. I am not indispensable. You are not indispensable. Only God is indispensable.
Another easy way to have peace of mind is to feel that nothing is unduly important in our lives. If we have lost something, we must not feel that our life will be ruined. We should just try to feel that the thing we lost was unimportant. Everything and everyone on earth can desert us, as long as we do not desert God and God does not desert us. God will never desert us because He is all Compassion, and even if we try our hardest, we will not be able to desert God because He is omnipresent. So we need not worry or become upset about anything on earth. Except for God and our inner cry for Truth, nothing on earth is indispensable. If we have the inner cry, then we get God. And once we consciously get God as our very own, we have everything.
Published in My Meditation-Service at the United Nations for Twenty-Five Years
When you are with your Master-Lord and when you are without your Master-Lord.
When you are with your Master-Lord, even ten thousand elephants cannot budge you an inch.
When you are without your Master-Lord, even the tiniest possible ant can take away your very life-breath.
When you are with your Master-Lord, the entire aspiring world soulfully adores you, to tell the truth.
When you are without your Master-Lord, the entire aspiring world shockingly ignores you, to say the least.
When you are with your Master-Lord, your life means sweetness, your life means happiness, your life means fulness.
When you are without your Master-Lord, your life means temptation, your life means frustration, your life means destruction.
When you are with your Master-Lord, give him at every moment your physical breath, your vital breath, your mental breath, your psychic breath.
Your physical breath is your ignorance-surrender.
Your vital breath is your action-surrender.
Your mental breath is your thought-surrender.
Your psychic breath is your will-surrender.
In doing this, at every moment you will grow into an ever-transcending, ever-illumining and ever-fulfilling instrument of your Master-Lord, both in his universe of realisation and in his universe of manifestation. You will become undoubtedly his absolutely most perfect instrument throughout Eternity and you will be always with him, for you are eternally his life-breath-manifestation.
Always be with your Master-Lord.
You will be his Eternity’s choice.
You will be his Immortality’s voice.
May 18, 1978 Sri Chinmoy
Published in I Wanted to be a Seeker of the Infinite
A story by Sri Chinmoy
told at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York
I am making a confession. Usually I do not believe in confession; I believe in forgiveness and illumination. Seven or eight, or perhaps even ten poems I have "copied." Copied from where? Copied from the wall!
It was around eleven or twelve o'clock at night in Pondicherry. My brother Chitta and I stayed in the same room. We had turned off the light. He was in his bed and I was in mine. He was fast asleep. All of a sudden I saw that the room was illuminated. There was a long wall on my right side. Right near my feet was the entrance. What did I see? A full poem, in Bengali words! The poem was written on the wall, but there was no name. It was so beautiful! Then I meditated and meditated. I knew that those words had come from another world. Some poets, I have heard, have had the same experience.
I copied several poems and I claimed them. Those poems came from the poetry-world. From this world, poems or words can come into your heart or into your ear. One of the poems I still vividly remember: Srashta amar jagater jyoti. That poem came from the poetry-world.
I am sure that many, many poets have had the same kind of experience. Many, many poems, line by line, may enter into your heart, into your mind, and then you just copy them. In my case, the poems were written on the wall at night.
Published in The Temple and the Shrine