This artwork, created in New York, is gifted by Sri Chinmoy to The Victorian Arts Centre (later known as Arts Centre Melbourne) and is accepted by Antony Rouse, Assistant General Manager in November 1996. It remains in the permanent collection of Arts Centre Melbourne, Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral and presents him with the U Thant Peace Award at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan headquarters in New York.
Afterwards, the Prime Minister wrote:
“Your good wishes have emboldened me to serve the cause of the Nation with vigour and zeal.”
Ravi Shankar, Sri Chinmoy and Sudhahota Carl Lewis enjoy a relaxed moment on the back porch overlooking the Pacific Ocean at the hermitage and retreat of Paramahamsa Yogananda in Encinitas, California. Ravi Shankar, who had invited Sri Chinmoy to the ashram, accompanied him as one of the head monks escorted them around the grounds.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 400½-lb. lift for the first time, using only his right arm, at his home gym in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
by Sri Chinmoy
Today’s weightlifting prayer that I gave before I tried to lift 400 pounds is different from some of my other weightlifting prayers. That is because, in the intuitive world, I knew that I would succeed in my lift today. That much intuition I have. I knew at least a half hour in advance. So today my prayer was:
My Lord Supreme, my Beloved Supreme,
I know, I know, each miracle performed
Here on earth by human beings
Is the descent of Your special Compassion-Blessing
From Your high Vision-Light-Heaven to earth
So that she can inspire her children
To believe in Your higher worlds and inner worlds
And thus become Your choice instruments
To manifest Your Divinity here on earth.
Published in My Weightlifting Tears and Smiles, part 1
by Sri Chinmoy
What I do in lifting heavy weights is something really significant on the physical plane — bringing down light into inconscience. Metal is nothing but inconscience, and to bring down light into matter is a most difficult task. For light to enter into inconscience is a supreme achievement for humanity, because it is inconscience which always fights against light.
Published in My weightlifting tears and smiles, part 2
by Sri Chinmoy
About a month ago, I tried so hard to move the 400-pound weight, even on the same level. I could not move it at all.
I was telling the Supreme, "You always cut jokes with me. Now I am cutting jokes with You."
Now I have made such fast progress from 300 to 400. It is all due to confidence and also the fact that my muscle power has increased — which means my receptivity to God's Compassion and God's Grace has increased.
Exactly one month ago, on Agraha's birthday, I lifted double my body weight, 320. Today I have done 80 pounds more — 400. But I don't think I have gained 80 pounds!
Published in My Weightlifting Tears and Smiles, part 1
Video by kedarvideo
Sri Chinmoy concludes his German concert tour (September 14th-21st) with a Peace Concert at the Sporthalle in Hamburg, Germany. The nine concerts attracted a total audience of over 9000.
Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça Machel hold the Peace-Torch with Sri Chinmoy during their meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Towers in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers Ravi Shankar the U Thant Peace Award. He also lifts the legendary sitar player, his wife Sukanya and his daughter Anoushka, at Del Mar Hilton Hotel in Del Mar, California. Read more...
NEW YORK — James P. Grant, executive director of UNICEF, received the U Thant Peace Award Sept. 20 at an interfaith prayer breakfast at UNICEF House.
The award, presented by Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, cited Grant’s lifetime of exceptional world service, calling him an “inspirational example” of “compassion, concern and tireless energy in service to the world family.”
When Sri Chinmoy, leader of the Meditation Group, made the presentation, Grant said it was a privilege to receive the award “from such treasured hands and from such a treasured group.”
The prayer breakfast, organized by The Peace Meditation at the U.N., included brief prayers and remarks by members of six religions. Sri Chinmoy opened the event with a silent meditation.
The breakfast is held annually in conjunction with an early morning “Peace Walk” through the streets of Manhattan by U.N. delegates and staff carrying their national flags. The Peace Walk is one of more than 70 similar events held worldwide, coordinated by the Meditation Croup, to commemorate the opening of the U.N. General Assembly.
James P. Grant, executive director of UNICEF greets Sri Chinmoy at the prayer breakfast at UNICEF House Sept. 20.
Published in Anahata Nada, VOLUME 24, AUGUST – MID-NOVEMBER 1994
Sri Chinmoy meets with world-famous sitar player Ravi Shankar for the first time at the home of Mahavishnu John McLaughlin ‘Mahanir’ in Jamaica, Queens, New York. The two discuss music and spirituality in their native Bengali.
Video by kedarvideo
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Internationales Congress Centrum in Berlin to an audience of almost 5000 people. It is Sri Chinmoy’s seventh of nine concerts in his eight-day German Peace Concert tour.
