This weeks featured gallery is by Menaka Ait-Ouyahia from her recent visit to Guatemala.
Trekking towards the top of Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala for start of World Harmony Run 2010
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Last Thursday, 25 February 2010, Dublin played host to the opening ceremony for the European leg of the World Harmony Run, the world’s largest torch relay for international friendship. At an event held at Dublin City Hall, the World Harmony Run was launched in conjunction with Dublin European Capital of Sport 2010, and the Lord Mayor of Dublin.
The European harmony run will carry the Harmony torch on a 24,000KM journey – visiting 49 countries before finishing in Moscow in September.
The European run will meet up with an Asian World Harmony run beginning in Japan, travelling through, Korea, China, Monglia and East Russia before the two runs meet in Moscow.
During the ceremony Irish running legend Catherina McKiernan received a Torch Bearer Award from the World Harmony Run for her services to the athletic community. The ceremony also featured readings from poet John F. Deane, founder of the Poetry Ireland Review and music from flautist Martin Doyle. The runners then embarked on a circuit of the city cheered on by the people of Dublin before setting off on their journey.
Since its founding by Sri Chinmoy in 1987, the World Harmony Run has passed through over 120 countries. Every year, over one million people participate in the Run, passing along the torch from hand to hand and adding their hopes for a better world.
What does peace do? Peace blossoms.
What else? Peace spreads.
What else? Peace illumines.
What else? Peace fulfils.
– Sri Chinmoy (1)
More at World Harmony Run
In 2009, the World Harmony Run ran around the entire coast of Ireland in a 2 week, 1500 km journey.
The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team sponsors 2 mile races around the world.
You can view some of the upcoming 2 mile races around the world at Sri Chinmoy Races
More races will be added soon.
“Try to be a runner, and try all the time to surpass and go beyond all that is bothering you and standing in your way. Be a real runner so that ignorance, limitation and imperfection will all drop far behind you in the race.”
“It is better to meditate in the heart than in the mind. The mind is like Times Square on New Year’s Eve; the heart is like a lonely cave in the Himalayas. If you meditate in the mind, you will be able to meditate for perhaps five minutes; and out of that five minutes, for one minute you may meditate powerfully. After that you will feel your whole head getting tense. First you get joy and satisfaction; then you may feel a barren desert. But if you meditate in the heart, you acquire the capacity to identify yourself with the joy and satisfaction that you get, and then it becomes permanently yours.”
– Sri Chinmoy, Wings of Joy
The Heart Lotus – Meditation Silence exercise at Sri Chinmoy TV
After coming to the West in 1964, Sri Chinmoy, travelled tirelessly around the world visiting many countries and establishing Sri Chinmoy Centres in over 60 countries. Sri Chinmoy Centres have been established in cities from Siberia to South Africa and North America to New Zealand.
Photo by Palyati, Alaska
The Sri Chinmoy Centre is a truly global organisation reflecting Sri Chinmoy’s inspiration to promote a global world family.
“A oneness-world either in the near or in the distant future is not only possible and practicable, but inevitable. A oneness-world expedites God’s Hour, and it is only in God’s Hour that humanity’s agelong hunger drinks in Divinity’s Nectar-Delight.”
– Sri Chinmoy from U Thant – Divinity’s Smile, Humanity’s Cry
New Zealand Sri Chinmoy Centre at Mount Cook in the south island of New Zealand. More pics
You can see a list of countries at Sri Chinmoy Centre
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This weeks featured gallery is from the Macedonia Sri Chinmoy Centre.
A wonderful view of a Macedonian church.
Kailash explains how is group learnt 7,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s songs and performed them over a period of a few years.
Kailash explains some of his techniques for learning new songs and how his group are able to learn so many new songs. Sri Chinmoy composed over 20,000 spiritual songs – a prolific output of devotional songs.
You can also hear Kailash’s group from a recording in April 2005 at: Radio Sri Chinmoy
Photo: Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
Recently, the World Harmony Run visited school and runners in different parts of Colombia
Gagane from Iceland introduces the World Harmony Run to Escuelas Profesionales Salesianas school in Colombia.
Each of the 600 members of the school gained a chance to hold the harmony torch and offer their good wishes for world peace.
Earlier in the month, the Harmony Run team met up with world record holder and inspiration Lazaro Matinez Cruz. Lazaro set a world record by travelling by wheel chair from Buenos Aires to Paipa – a distance of over 6000 km which took him over the Andes mountain. From: Paipa 22 January
More info at World Harmony Run site
This week’s featured gallery is a Jharna Kala exhibition in Moscow, Russia during 2009.
The exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s art was held in the Museum of Russian Contemporary History.
A view of the gallery
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Sri Chinmoy reflections is a site with a range of essays and articles on the different aspect of Sri Chinmoy’s life.
The website is maintained by Animesh Harrington, who has been a student of Sri Chinmoy since the 1970s.
Recent articles on the site include:
Cascading Organ-Delight – an article by Prachar Stegemann on the organ playing of Sri Chinmoy
… Sri Chinmoy: Yes, I find spirituality in the organ, more than I find it in any other instrument. Here I see that the organ is not only the King of all the musical instruments but it is also the Queen of all the instruments. It has a very subtle, delicate touch at the same time….
Sri Chinmoy’s Peerless Tennis Achievement Part 2 by Dr Vidagdha Bennett
“…At 7:30 p.m. people began arriving for meditation. Instead, they found themselves witness to a remarkable display of energy and skill. In the final moments of play, Sri Chinmoy employed his whole repertoire of dipping and angled shots, spins and lobs, to defeat the opposing team. The scores stood at 50-35 games in his favour. Smiling, he said: “Almost nearing 100 games – so one can become tired!”
Annapurna was opened in 1974, by Shivaram & Devavira two students of Sri Chinmoy from Toronto.
It is now the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Ontario. It is renowned for its peaceful and welcoming atmosphere and its excellent range of healthy gastronomic delights.
AnnapÅ«rá¹‡Ä is a Sanskrit name which literally means “full of food” (feminine form), but is normally translated as Goddess of the Harvests. In Hinduism, Annapurna is a goddess of fertility and agriculture and an avatar of Durga.
More Canadian enterprises at Sri Chinmoy Centre