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Record Breaker Keeps setting New Records

Ashrita Furman of Queens, New York continues to set more Guinness World records as he enters the Record books for holding 100 simultaneous Guinness World records. Since his first successful record back in 1979, Ashrita has broken 237 official Guiness World Records.

Recent records include, most M&Ms (40) eaten in one minute with chopsticks, record for poem translated into the most languages (111) and fastest skipping mile.

Ashrita credits his record breaking capacity to studying meditation under the tutelage of his spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy.

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New Sri Chinmoy Songs Site

A new version of the Sri Chinmoy Songs site has been developed. – www.srichinmoysongs.com

Sri Chinmoy composed over 20,000 songs during his lifetime. The website will be an online collection of the music scores, translations and audio recordings of the songs.

Sri Chinmoy’s songs reflect different aspects of the spiritual life and are devotional in nature. Sri Chinmoy also translated over 2,400 of his Bengali songs into devotional poetry. – Garden of Love – Light

The new site has been developed by Aparajita Fishman, who worked hard on creating the new website with its large database of songs and audio recordings.

Dublin Joy Weekend

Members of the British, French and Irish Sri Chinmoy Centres met up in an old stately house on the outskirts of Dublin for a weekend of meditation, fun and music.

Four way tug of war with referee trying to get out of way

Activities included a two mile race, advertised by our Irish hosts as ‘fast and downhill’. Well actually the first mile was fast and downhill, but the second mile led to a few slower times than usual….

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3100 Mile Race Nears Finish

Despite, heavy rain during this summer, seven runners have already completed the epic 3100 Mile Race Self Transcendence Race. The race was won for the sixth time by flying Finn, Asprihanal Aalto in a time of 43 days+16:28:06

Asprihanal on finishing race - photo by Jowan

More on Finishers of race

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Icelandic World Harmony Run

Recently, the World Harmony Run visited Iceland for a short run around the island. The World Harmony Run began on July 1st and finished on the 16th July in ReykjavÃk the capital of Iceland. The run passed through the great natural beauty of the island meeting many local people along the way.

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World Service Plants

World Service Plants is an international program encouraging the protection and improvement of the environment by restoring degraded ecosystems by planting native or indigenous tree species. The photo below is taken in France where members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre took part in a programme of planting trees.

Nature does not know
How to divide.
Nature only knows
How to unite
And multiply.

Excerpt from The Beginning And The Arriving by Sri Chinmoy (founder of World Service Plants)

World Service Plants at Sri Chinmoy Centre

Images from the Race

The Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race is an epic feat of running and self transcendence around a small 0.5488 mile loop in Queens New York. These are a few photos taken from this years edition of the race.

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New Centre Site

Recently, the Sri Chinmoy Centre website, www.srichinmoycentre.org received a new interface and design. The site is based on a content management system called Drupal and offers various new features.

The new site has been developed by various members of Vasudeva Server such as Nirbhasa, Manavasu, Petr Simicek and Tejvan.

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British French Harmony

Recently, a team of international runners ran from London to Paris as part of the global World Harmony run. The runners set off from Greenwich, London and ran down to Dover through Canterbury and the fields of Kent. After crossing the channel on the ferry. The run continued from Calais to Paris.

The World Harmony Run Team visited many schools along the way.

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Impossibility Challenger

The Impossibility Challenger World Record games are an opportunity for participants to engage in a variety of record attempts and challenges. The event is organised by the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Munich, Germany. The Impossibility Challenger offers individuals the opportunity for self-transcendence in numerous ways.