On his 76th birthday, Sri Chinmoy’s students present him with a 76-foot-long pencil at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York. The 10½-ton pencil, with a rubber eraser and a lead tip, set a Guinness record for being the world’s largest pencil. Sri Chinmoy then used it to draw a picture, moving a pad of drawing paper along its tip.
Sri Chinmoy sings The Invocation at the Aum Centre on his birthday. He plays the harmonium he bought from Sher Singh, the gatekeeper at the Indian Consulate in New York.
Sri Chinmoy requested that those who sing or listen to this song, please always fold their hands. He also requested that this song be sung only in its pure form and never harmonised or arranged in any way.
Sri Chinmoy composes The Invocation sometime before August 27th, 1967.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, at which he sings 206 Bengali songs by heart (in two sessions) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Sri Chinmoy finishes the 2nd annual 47 Mile Race at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, Queens, New York, in a time of 12 hours, 41 minutes and 48 seconds.
Sri Chinmoy finishes the 3rd annual 47 Mile Race at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, Queens, New York, in a time of 11 hours, 27 minutes and 24 seconds.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Wyclef Jean, 3-time Grammy Award winner, hip-hop, rap and reggae musician, in Jamaica, New York.
Meditation reportedly helps Sri Chinmoy lift over 7,000 lbs. of weight. Chinmoy is said to have started with a 40 lb. barbell.
Published in the Bedford Bulletin, August 26, 1987
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at Columbia University in New York.
Mysticism is not only a human belief but a divine faith. This faith is the creative principle of life. Mysticism is also the outer expression of man's inner flowing of life.
Published in Meditations: Food for the Soul
My morning begins,
And my Lord most compassionately tells me
That what I need is not an aggressive
Vital-determination
But a progressive heart-realisation.
Published in My Morning Begins
My evening descends,
And now I am a God-determination
And God-satisfaction-heart
Instead of a vacillation-indecision-mind.
Published in My Evening Descends
Surprised beyond measure — my tiny earth-frame
God has invited to join His Cosmic Game.
Published in My God-Hunger-Cry
Mine is the heart that never needs
The whispers from back-seat drivers.
Published in Enthusiasm, Part 8
Sri Chinmoy offers the U Thant Peace Award to Satguru Sivaya Subramuniya swami, founder and publisher of Hinduism Today magazine and International Hindu Leader, at the United Nations in New York, NY, USA.Read more...
