Sri Chinmoy TV, which has an extensive collection of videos about Sri Chinmoy and Sri Chinmoy Centre, has been redesigned.
Videos can now be easily embedded in blogs and web pages.
The above video is an excerpt from Sri Chinmoy’s meditation at the World Parliament of Religions on July 7th,
2004.
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In the UK, the World Harmony Run is travelling the entire length of the country from John O’Groats in Scotland, to Lands End in the tip of Cornwall in South England.
Members of the World Harmony Run team running through the Lake District.
Members of the World Harmony run team in Edinburgh
The World Harmony Run was founded by Sri Chinmoy to promote the ideal of peace, harmony and friendship.
Harmony shall echo
And re-echo
Throughout the length
And breadth of the world
When each human being
Values the beauty
And divinity
Of self-offering.
– Sri Chinmoy 1
On route, the World Harmony Run team visited the largest Tibetan monastery in Europe.
Pranavanta John Montefiore, a student of Sri Chinmoy, was an exceptional artist who developed a strong reputation for his innovative and marathon artworks.
Pranavanta became a meditation student of Sri Chinmoy in 1985. Studying under the tutelage of Sri Chinmoy (who himself was an artist) gave Pranavanta artwork a renewed spiritual energy. A tribute to his life was recently published in the Sydney Morning Herald.
…Montefiore was an aficionado, someone who could wax lyrical on many aspects of the world: not just the beauty that he strived to portray in his artwork but also the sweet sounds of music, the aroma of a flower, even the joy of a terrible pun. Montefiore’s altarpiece in Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle.
When people say ”Words can’t express it”, they obviously never accompanied their words with the enthusiasm of Montefiore. His marathon artworks were best accompanied by his own commentary, as he guided you through the story he was telling with his work. Every dot of paint, its position and shape, had profound significance…
Read more at  Sydney Morning Herald
The 15th Annual Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race begins today, June 12th in Jamaica, Queens, NY.
Ten runners will attempt, what the NY Times describes as the “The Mount Everest of ultramarathons” Runners will need to complete 5649 laps of a .5488 of a mile course (883 meters) in the timespan of 52 days. The course also includes a small hill. Runners will need to average 60 miles a day to complete in time. The current record for the 3100 mile race is Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk of Germany who finished the course in 2006 in a time of 41 days 8 hours, averaging 75 miles per day.
The race was founded by Sri Chinmoy, a Spiritual Teacher keen to promote the benefits of sport and individual self-transcendence.
“Self-transcendence gives us joy in boundless measure. When we transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We do not compete with the rest of the world, but at every moment we compete with ourselves.â€
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photo top: Utpal
In Budapest, 10,000 children participated in a human chain of peace and harmony around the Hungarian Parliament; the unique ceremony was part of the global World Harmony Run.
School children came from up to 300Km away to take part in this special event at Hungary’s Parliament. The event was co-ordinated by organisers of the World Harmony Run – founded by Sri Chinmoy to promote peace and understanding around the world.
Sri Chinmoy taught a philosophy of self-transcendence – the effort and determination to go beyond our limitations and discover our own inner and outer capacities.
What gives life its value,
If not its inner cry
For self-transcendence?
– Sri Chinmoy 1
Through his various prolific activities in fields such as sport, weightlifting, music and writing, Sri Chinmoy is an exampel of how a life of prayer and meditation can increase our inner and outer capacities.
If we believe in our own
Self-transcendence-task
Then there can be
No unreachable goal.
Sri Chinmoy, 2
Self-transcendence-joy
Unmistakably knows
No equal.
– Sri Chinmoy, 3
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Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu was recently presented with the first Sri Chinmoy Peace Prize for his dedication to fostering the ideals of peace in the hearts and lives of millions worldwide.
Sri Chinmoy met with Desmond Tutu on numerous occasions.
In 2004, Sri Chinmoy offered Archbishop Desmond Tutu the ‘Lifting up the World with a Oneness-Heart Award‘ During a private in meeting in Capetown, 1995, Sri Chinmoy said of Desmond Tutu.
Father Tutu, you perfectly embody both contemplation and action, and thus you serve as a radiant example for God-lovers and peace-seekers everywhere in today’s world. In your compelling words: “The most important, the most cardinal fact about our life is the spiritual-that encounter with God in prayer, in worship, in meditation.” Far from providing an escape, religion for you sounds a clarion call to the service of truth. 1
After receiving the Sri Chinmoy Peace Award, Desmond Tutu expressed his gratitude saying:
“Thank you so much for this very special award which I shall treasure. Please pray for us. I wish to say that world has got very many ugly things—war and poverty and disease. But it also has beautiful things…. Sri Chinmoy was one of God’s very best fellow workers, working for harmony and peace, and we thank God for his tireless service.We pray for God’s Blessings on all who follow his teachings to plant the seeds of peace and harmony throughout the world.”
Desmond Tutu also held aloft the World Harmony Run torch which is committed to the ideals of spreading peace and harmony throughout the world.
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Sri Chinmoy gives several practical ways to keep the mind silent during meditation.
What can we do about thoughts on a practical level? Let us take thoughts as individuals and take the mind as a room that we live in and own. We have to bolt the door to our mind-room from the inside and not allow anybody whatsoever to enter. We will not only keep out our enemies, which are bad thoughts, but also our friends, the good thoughts. We are determined to enjoy only silence, complete silence.
– Sri Chinmoy 1
Another technique Sri Chinmoy encourages is to use the power of the heart rather than the mind.
How will you make the mind calm and quiet? The mind has its own power, and right now this power is stronger than your present eagerness and determination to meditate. But if you can get help from your heart, then gradually you will be able to control your mind. The heart, in turn, gets constant assistance from the soul, which is all light and all power.
– Sri Chinmoy – 2
Continue reading “The Silent Mind”
The film Challenging Impossibility gives a unique insight into how Sri Chinmoy used weightlifting to inspire other people, and also the link between outer strength and inner peace.
The film is playing at the Tribeca film festival and has gained significant interest for its inspirational message. In a A Monument to Strength as a Path to Enlightenment, the New York Times reflects on how body builders and weightlifters were drawn to the unusual combination of a Spiritual Teacher and person who lifted heavy weights.
“…Those three — and other bodybuilders like Bill Pearl and Mike Katz — would attend the guru’s lifting exhibitions and were intrigued and inspired by a man of normal size and physique lifting such heavy weight later in life…”
– A Monument to Strength, New York Times
The film is directed by Sanjay Rawal and Natabara Rollosson, you can view a short interview at Cinema Blend on the inspiration behind the film.
Sri Chinmoy saw a strong connection between outer strength and the inner peace gained from prayer and meditation.
The Feats of Strength, Pop up Museum, on 18 Jay Street is displaying a small selection of Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting apparatus. See: Pop Up Gallery at Challenging Impossibility.
Photo top: Calf lift – 2,300lbs from 2004 Weightlifting Anniversary.
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The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team are currently promoting the 16th edition of the 6 and 10 day ultra day event in Flushing Meadows, New York.
photo by Prabhakar. more photos at Sri Chinmoy Races
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Sri Chinmoy was a prolific composer and performed on a variety of instruments.
” When somebody is singing or playing music, it is very easy for us to identify with it because we are on the same level. But music can be found everywhere. Music is oneness with God’s Infinity, Eternity and Immortality. Music is a universal language. We do not need any other language.” 1
– Sri Chinmoy
To Sri Chinmoy, music has the capacity to awaken the soul and elevate the aspiring consciousness.
“Music is psychic enlightenment. Music is the supreme fulfilment of the aspiring human soul.” 2
– Sri Chinmoy
A small selection of some of Sri Chinmoy’s recordings can be found at:
