Sri Chinmoy raised two 500-lb. dumbbells off a metal support suspended above his shoulders on Feb. 16. Just three days later, he succeeded in lifting two 650-pound dumbbells. “I never, never, never, never imagined I would be able to lift 1,300 pounds,” he declared, saying it was all due to the infinite Grace of the Supreme.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 29, Mid-November 1999 – Mid-March 2000
Sri Chinmoy hosts a special function for Aleksandr Razvin, Deputy Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations, at Annam Brahma restaurant in New York. On the wall behind, hangs one of Sri Chinmoy’s large Jharna-Kala paintings.
Seated in front of the brightly coloured Jhama-Kala Card Co. display at Annam Brahma restaurant, the Mayor of Kathmandu and Sri Chinmoy are engaged in delightful conversation.
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
at Columbia University, New York
I pray. I pray because I am hungry. I have an inner hunger for my Lord's Compassion-Flood and Satisfaction-Sea.
My prayer is a two-way conversation between my heart's soulful cry and my Lord's blessingful Smile.
My prayer is at once my assurance and my confidence. I assure my body, my vital and my mind that they are of the Supreme and for the Supreme. I offer confidence to those who are sailing in the same boat and heading towards the selfsame destined Goal as I, and yet are wanting in confidence.
Each day I renew my prayer. That means that each day I intensify and strengthen my commitment to my Beloved Supreme. It is my commitment, my sole commitment, to please Him in His own Way constantly, unreservedly and unconditionally.
I pray to my Lord Supreme that I will be conscious that His Existence is constantly with me. I pray to my Lord Supreme that I will be constantly, consciously with Him. I feel that when He is with me, I am partially perfect, but when I am with Him, I am totally perfect.
My Lord Supreme, out of His infinite Bounty, has already chosen me to be His devoted and surrendered instrument. Now it is I who have to choose Him as my Eternity's only Pilot Supreme. It is I who have to make the supreme decision of choosing Him all the time on the strength of my inner cry. When I choose God unconditionally and when I remain with God constantly, at that time I am completely perfect.
My life is a combination of unanswered prayers and unoffered prayers. When my prayers are not fulfilled, I am not sad. At that time sorrow does not torture me, for I know that my unanswered prayers are blessings in disguise. It is my unoffered prayers that pain me constantly. My unoffered prayers take me far, farther farthest from God's Justice-Light and Compassion-Height, while my unanswered prayers are always helping me far beyond my imagination. The divine seeker and the divine lover in me teach my unconscious body, my uncontrolled vital and my unillumined mind that my unanswered prayers are blessings in disguise, for my Beloved Supreme knows what is best for me always.
My prayers are my Lord's Compassion-cultivation and my own satisfaction-harvest. I pray, I pray.
Published in Wisdom-Waves in New York, part 1
by Sri Chinmoy
given in Sabah, Malaysia
No prayer, no prayer,
No prayer:
Life is an ignorance-lair.
No meditation, no meditation:
Life is an utter imperfection.
Sound
Is man-cheering.
Silence
Is God-becoming.
Life-river flows.
Patience-tree grows.
Life is a thunder-gong.
Death is a silence-song.
My life-story
Is painful.
My heart-song
Is Godful.
What is peace?
The absence of selfishness.
What is bliss?
The presence of oneness.
Published in My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 14
by Sri Chinmoy
given in Penang, Malaysia
My gratitude-life
Is the only way
For me to please God.
To serve God
Is the greatest honour.
I do not see You, but I do feel
That You are in the depths
Of my heart, my Lord.
Before you look
At the world,
Muster all your love.
Life means
Adamantine determination.
Heart means
Constant aspiration.
Inside my Master’s smile
I see my new world
Blooming.
God really wants to love us.
Alas, why do we make it so difficult
For Him?
It is we
Who take ourselves away
From God’s Forgiveness-Reach.
To falsify anything in life
Is the height
Of our stupidity.
Published in My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 51
by Sri Chinmoy
given in Chiang Mai, Thailand
The mind loves
The zigzag road.
The heart loves
God’s sunlit Road.
My God-gratitude
Is my heart’s
Most powerful strength.
Cry, cry, sleeplessly cry
Within.
Fly, fly, breathlessly fly
Without.
The God-doubting mind
Everywhere spies.
The God-searching heart
In the vast blue sky flies.
My prayer-life
Is
My God-addition.
My meditation-heart
Is
My God-multiplication.
The rising sun
Beautifies me.
The setting sun
Purifies me.
Published in My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 61
Sri Chinmoy visits his elderly Canadian disciple Arati at her home in New York. Here, Sri Chinmoy stands in front of a mantlepiece on which Arati keeps some of her favourite photographs of him. On the wall above, hangs one of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala paintings.
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at All Angels’ Church in New York City.
Sri Chinmoy meditating at his home in New York.
Sri Chinmoy chatting with his disciples at his home in New York.
WASHINGTON — Sri Chinmoy will be delivering a series of seven lectures at George Washington University here on four consecutive weeks, beginning Jan. 21.
The talks will be held at Marvin Center, Room 426, on Jan. 21, Jan. 28, Feb. 4 and Feb. 11. Afternoon lectures will be given at 3:30 p.m. on the last three dates. Evening lectures will be held at 7:30 p.m. on each of the four days.
The Master’s Wednesday evening public meditations at All Angels’ Church in Manhattan will be held on Friday evenings during the months of January and February.
Published in Anahata Nada, Vol. 2, No. 12, Jan. 1, 1976
WASHINGTON — Sri Chinmoy concluded his Wednesday lecture series in the nation's capital last month.
The Master delivered two talks Feb. 4 and three on Feb. 11 to conclude the seven-talk sequence at George Washington University.
Published in Anahata Nada, Vol. 3. No. 2, March 1, 1976
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations community paid its final respects February 2 to the man whose inspiration and practical power played a crucial role in the establishment of the U.N. complex in New York.
Nelson Rockefeller “was a monumental man with a great influence on his time,” New York Senator Jacob Javits told the diplomats and U.N. staff members assembled in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium here. “He well deserves your tribute as representative of the diverse peoples of the world.”
Another speaker, former New York Mayor John Lindsay, spoke of how Rockefeller was “prepared and willing to follow the dream that came out of (his) ... enormously incisive vision” which saw “as far to the horizon as any other human being in modern society....”
He said the U.N. service was most fitting since the world body’s headquarters now stands on land donated by the Rockefeller family.
The programme, sponsored by Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations, opened with a short meditation by Sri Chinmoy, followed by a performance by the Meditation Group choir of a song the Master had written about Rockefeller.
Two of New York’s great political leaders, former Mayor John Lindsay [left] and Senator Jacob Javits [right] pay their respects to Sri Chinmoy at the memorial tribute for the late Nelson Rockefeller held at the U.N.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 5, Number 2, February 1979
New York Governor Mario Cuomo chats with Sri Chinmoy Jan. 29 at an interfaith programme held at the United Nations to celebrate the Columbus quincentenary. Cuomo had invited the Master, who had opened the programme with a meditation, to sit next to him on the dais.
Published in VOLUME 21, MID-DECEMBER 1991–MARCH 1992
Sri Chinmoy gave a series of four concerts and meditations the weekend of Jan. 28 in North Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
The Master, accompanied by a dozen carloads of disciples, began his 1,200-mile weekend trek in Chapel Hill, where he told a University of North Carolina audience: “Aspiration is our achievement in our inner world. Dedication is our achievement in our outer world. Surrender is our achievement in our higher world.
“In Heaven we achieve a fruitful smile. On earth we achieve a soulful cry. In ourselves we achieve a prayerful life.”
Later that day Sri Chinmoy played on the flute and esraj and disciple music groups performed to an overflow audience at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C.
As seekers, “our inner choice is Infinity’s perfection-poise,” the Master said in a brief talk.
“Sri Krishna’s choice was a sea of harmony. The Buddha’s choice was a sky of illumination. The Christ’s choice was a flood of compassion. And our choice is a heart of poise that can easily brave all the buffets of life: poise within, poise without.”
Published in Anahata Nada, February 1, 1978, Volume 5, Number 1
