Sri Chinmoy Centre – News and Features

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

Related

• Ashrita sets record for poem translated into most languages – During last April with help from Sri Chinmoy Centre members,

Kailash explains how is group learnt 7,000 of Sri Chinmoy’s songs and performed them over a period of a few years.

Kailash at Radio Sri Chinmoy

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

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!”

• www.srichinmoy-reflections