November 2
Sri Chinmoy applauds runners at the Sri Chinmoy 24-Hour Race (Nov. 1-2) awards ceremony in Greenwich, Connecticut.
November 2
An exhibition of 100,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s small bird drawings, entitled ‘Dream-Freedom Peace-Birds’, opens at the Heritage Building in Ottawa, ON, Canada. The exhibit is dedicated to Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva, wife of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
November 2
Sri Chinmoy meditating with his newly printed book, Transcendence-Perfection — containing the 843 poems he had written in 24 hours the day before — at the Flushing Unitarian Universalist Church in Queens, New York, during a night of meditation and festivities.
November 1
Sri Chinmoy offers a soulful tribute to his students at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, before they run in the New York City Marathon.
November 1
705¾-lb lift
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 705¾-lb. lift, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Help In Reaching My Goal
by Sri Chinmoy
This morning I reached my ultimate goal — 705 pounds. I have done it with my Beloved Supreme’s infinite Grace. Just before I started lifting, my prayer was:
My Lord Supreme,
My Beloved Supreme,
Your infinite Compassion decides
The choice hour for me.
Your infinite Compassion also transforms
My human greed
Into Your divine Need.
When human greed becomes His divine Need, then one can be of real inspiration and true service to mankind. So this was my prayer, and a few minutes after it was offered, I was able to lift 705 pounds.
When I lift, there is always some divine Grace in the form of gods, goddesses or relatives and friends who come to inspire me. They are of real help. Today it was my dearer-than-the-dearest Mother Kali who came. Inside me she is always visible, but today I saw her very vividly on the wall, where the window is. She had a larger-than-the-largest garland around her neck. I saw it when I was lifting. On my third attempt she was looking at me so powerfully and compassionately. On my fourth attempt I clearly saw her placing her feet on the metal plates and the bar. Then I saw in my intuitive world that I was going to lift it. On that attempt, I was looking only at her face. My concentration was so powerful at that time, I didn’t see the garland, and I was wondering where it went. Then, in my highest point of concentration, I saw that the garland was on my neck. Then I made the attempt and I was successful. She had garlanded me before I had actually made the lift. Then I lifted it again on my fifth attempt. After that she was playing with the garland she had placed on me.
Now I can cut jokes. About a month ago some of the disciples didn’t have faith that I would be able to lift 700 pounds. I said I would put them into garbage bags. So many disciples I put in garbage bags! Today I can open up the garbage bags and release them.
Published in My Weightlifting Tears and Smiles, part 2
November 1
People In The News
Sri Chinmoy, the Indian yogi who heads the UN Meditation Group*, surpassed his own unofficial world’s record for poetry-writing in a 24-hour period by writing 843 spiritual poems between midnight Saturday and midnight Sunday. The 44-year-guru, whose disciples include jazz-rock guitarists John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana, h.ad previously written 360 poems in one day on April 28. He said he used powers of concentration developed through meditation to keep himself going.
Published in NEW YORK POST, November 1st, 1975
* Later renamed, Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations
November 1
Bharat Dulal Bharat Dulali
Words and music by Sri Chinmoy
Lyrics:
Bharat dulal Bharat dulali
Jagichhe abar agni mantre
Oi je bajichhe Bharat mayer
Abahan giti gabhira mandre
Nikhil janabe Bharate pranati
Bajibe Bharata bijay danka
Agni pujari jyotir senani
Duribo amara bishwa shanka
Bharat Bharat e maha Bharate
Rajibe achire charama shanti
Mitthya dainya pabe samapti
Bharat hridaye phutibe kanti
Translation:
The sons and daughters of India are arising again with incantation-fire.
The deep and sonorous notes are being played to invoke Mother India.
To India the world shall offer its salutation.
Once again India’s Victory shall be proclaimed.
We are the soldiers of light and the worshippers of the Fire-God.
Away we shall chase world-fear.
India! India! In this great land of Mother India, before long the Peace of the Beyond shall reign supreme.
Falsehood and emptiness forever shall end.
Beauty’s light and delight shall blossom, grow and sport in the love of India’s heart.
Published in My Aspiration-Heart’s Country-Life-Salutations
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (467) at CoreStates Spectrum to an audience of 10,500 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
November 1
The open-air billboard exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s 13’ x 25’ Jharna-Kala painting ‘Journey’s Battle Victory’, commissioned by The Eyes and Ears Foundation in conjunction with San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, opens at the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Read the report...
Words on the display card:
This Collection of Birds
Was Created This MorningTuesday, 1 November 2006
By Guru
At the Hilton Hotel, Room 1428
Between the Hours of 4am and 4:45amIn San Diego, California, USA
November 1
Sri Chinmoy completes writing 843 poems in 24 hours — from midnight October 31st to midnight November 1st — at his home in Jamaica, New York. The book of these poems, entitled Transcendence-Perfection, is published the next day by Agni Press.
Poem 1.
Eternity's Vision-Reality Song
Beloved Lord Supreme,
Do You approve of
My self-transcendence song?
“My son, not only do I approve
But it is I who will
Sing in you,
Sing through you
My Eternity's Vision-Reality Song.”
Poem 843.
The Heart of My Gratitude-Sea
Lord Supreme, Absolute Supreme,
Father Supreme, Beloved Supreme,
With Your infinite Bounty I started
To compete with my previous achievements.
I have far surpassed my previous achievements.
Now the golden fruit
I place at Your Feet.
In me, through me, You have achieved
This humanly unbelievable achievement.
But divinely, it was not only possible but inevitable.
This is not a miracle, O Lord,
This is just a reality-experience
Which inspires me to transcend
What I have
And what I eternally am.
O Beloved Supreme,
In absolute Silence-Light
To You I offer
The heart of my gratitude-sea,
The breath of my oneness-sky.
Published in Transcendence-Perfection.
Transcendence-Perfection
The story of Sri Chinmoy’s remarkable achievement
From the stroke of midnight, Sri Chinmoy’s house is abuzz with activity.Sri Chinmoy begins writing his first poem but he is not alone. Around him, are teams of local New York disciples, each with their assigned jobs. Everyone is racing against the clock because not only does Sri Chinmoy want to write as many poems as possible in one day, he wants the book published in the quickest possible time.
Hours before midnight, Sri Chinmoy was attacked by shoulder pain. And as the hours wear on fatigue is taking its toll. Sri Chinmoy employs anything he can to keep his physical going. He sings, plays the flute, stands on his head, Indian-style, and does leg exercises in that position. He walks upstairs and downstairs to check on the progress of the helpers.
He commented later, that when he wrote The Goal is Won he had lost several hours; on this occasion he had lost only forty minutes out of twenty four hours. So the next time he writes poetry in this way, he will not be able to gain working time but will have to increase his speed.
Nevertheless, Sri Chinmoy is not going to be defeated by time. At one point, he exclaims, “All right, baba! I can’t waste any more time. I am a busy man! I always compete with myself — what can I do?”
Sri Chinmoy had set himself an intermediate goal to go beyond 360 poems in 12 hours — his previous 24-hour poetry record was 360 poems for The Goal is Won, set on April 28th, 1974. To Sri Chinmoy’s great joy he passes 360 by 12 noon. He is now assured of setting a new personal record. Yet, as Sri Chinmoy later tells his helpers, “this is our achievement.”
As soon as Sri Chinmoy completes each batch of hand-written poems, they are checked and counted, and then scurried off to the Compugraphic, a few blocks away, for proofreading and typesetting. The galleys are then quickly taken over to Agni Press for the layout, plate making, printing, collating, binding, and trimming.
The teams of helpers soon find themselves hours behind Sri Chinmoy’s output. As Sri Chinmoy finishes writing at midnight, many of the team still have another day of work ahead of them.
Right until the very end, even the number count is still uncertain. But by the evening function the next day, the book Transcendence-Perfection is done! Two hundred thick volumes printed and bound. Page after page, all gracefully typed, containing the 843 poems, complete with a glossy cover featuring one of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks.
Only an idea two days ago, it is now a solid, tangible reality.
Adapted from a report in Chinmoy Family, Oct. 1975-Feb. 1976
Sri Chinmoy begins writing short, four-line, rhyming couplets in Jamaica, Queens, New York. The poems are later published as Silence Speaks, spanning nine volumes.
Poem no. 1
All I need
Is my soulful heart-access.
All God wants
Is my fruitful life-progress.
Here and Now
Nine prayers by Sri Chinmoy
at the Peace Concert in King’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
HERE and NOW
I must go forward,
Pleasing God
With every sure step.
HERE and NOW
I must silence
My ego-mind-boxer
And
My ego-vital-wrestler.
HERE and NOW
I must end the length and breadth
Of my
Ignorance-stupidity-capacities.
HERE and NOW
I want to be
A God-listening ear
And
A God-pleasing heart.
HERE and NOW
God tells me
That if I want to proclaim
His supreme Victory,
Then I must make my friendship
With patience solid.
HERE and NOW
I must start feeding myself
With God's
Compassion-Eye-Beauty
And with God's
Forgiveness-Heart-Fragrance.
HERE and NOW
No more
The mind-fantasy-world.
More, ever more,
The God-intimacy-world.
HERE and NOW
I have come to realise
That each divine thought
Is an earth-awakening
And a God-Victory-ringing bell.
HERE and NOW
I am enjoying two things —
Secret and sacred God-whispers
And
Open and unreserved God-cheers.
Published in Here and Now
November 1
Sri Chinmoy at the door of Pilgrim-Museum, adjacent to Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York.