August 24
Sri Chinmoy playing harmonium in concert.
August 24
Sri Chinmoy writing on a bus trip.
Sri Chinmoy at the Self-Transcendence Marathon in Rockland Lake State Park, Nyack, New York.
Sri Chinmoy’s race prayer
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
August 24
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
August 24
A parade in Manhattan is held to honour Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Exhibition Hall of the Herson Regional Artists’ Association in Herson, Ukraine.
August 24
The New International Madison Ave.
Among the galleries, too, a decidedly international flavor has taken hold... A shop at 74th Street is entirely devoted to paintings by the Indian mystic and yogi, Sri Chinmoy.
Published in The New York Times, August 24, 1979
August 24
Sri Chinmoy presents the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ Award to the tallest man in America Aurangzeb Khan (8 feet) after lifting him at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
August 23
Listen to Sri Chinmoy reciting The Invocation
Note:
The poem above, dated August 27, 1967, is most likely recorded at Sri Chinmoy’s home on East 84th St., Manhattan, which at this time also serves as the Aum Centre. It is written either on or sometime prior to the recording date of August 23rd.
August 23
Video by kedarvideo
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Riverside Church in New York, where he also gives a organ recital.
August 23
Sri Chinmoy gives a mouth organ performance with his students, Vinaya (left) and Nadeshwar (right) at Madal Circus in New York.
Sri Chinmoy, standing outside Perfection in the Head-World barber shop, watches the parade taking shape across the street near PS 86. Starting at 10 a.m., the parade travels up Parsons Blvd. and continues for 7 miles in the borough of Queens. It is organised by Sri Chinmoy’s students to celebrate his upcoming 50th birthday, and incorporates marching bands, floats, banners and hundreds of participants in fancy-dress costumes.
August 23
A Letter to Sri Chinmoy
from Nelson Mandela
First President of South Africa
Nobel Peace Laureate (1994)
My Brother, I applaud your lifetime of service to humanity in the great cause of world peace. I will always remember our meetings with much joy.
Lifting
President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana
at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York
Our beloved President Bharrat Jagdeo, I am extremely, extremely grateful to you for coming to our Aspiration-Ground and blessing the citizens of many countries.
Something most significant took place between your soul and my soul in 1964. You saw the light of day in 1964 to bud, bloom and blossom, slowly, steadily and unerringly, to be of service not only to your beloved country, Guyana, but to the whole humankind. For that, my heart is all gratitude to you and all pride in you. Something quite significant happened in my life as well: I came to America in 1964 to offer my service to America, and then slowly and steadily I was able to be of service to many, many countries of this world. So, I feel in the inner world there is a most significant inner bond between your soul and my soul.
May God, the Author of all good, shower His choicest Blessings upon your devoted head and self-giving heart and life. I am extremely proud of you and extremely grateful to you. Already you have done many, many, many good things to elevate the consciousness of your country and to raise the standard of your country. In our humble way we wish to congratulate you on your country’s stupendous success and tremendous progress, which is all due to your sleeplessly self-giving life. — Sri Chinmoy
Published in My Golden Children
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.