From Alaska to Mt Cook

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.

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Alaska

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

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Meditating at the Base of Mount Cook

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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Kailash’s Singing Group

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

World Harmony Run in Colombia

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.

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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

Featured Gallery – Jharna Kala Exhibition Moscow

This week’s featured gallery is a Jharna Kala exhibition in Moscow, Russia during 2009.

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Selection of Paintings from exhibition

The exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s art was held in the Museum of Russian Contemporary History.

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A view of the gallery

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Sri Chinmoy Reflections

Sri Chinmoy reflections is a site with a range of essays and articles on the different aspect of Sri Chinmoy’s life.

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Sri Chinmoy

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….

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Sri Chinmoy playing tennis

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!”

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Annapurna Restaurant

Annapurna was opened in 1974, by Shivaram & Devavira two students of Sri Chinmoy from Toronto.

annapurnaIt 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.

Anna Purna

AnnapÅ«rṇā 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

Concert Bristol Cathedral

Ananda, a  group performing the music of Sri Chinmoy recently offered a concert at Bristol Cathedral.

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Ananda Concert

The concert was held in the Charterhouse an ancient part of Bristol Cathedral. Over 100 people attended the concert of soulful music, performed by Ananda.

“When we play soulful music, we elevate our consciousness most rapidly. Soulful music is a form of aspiration, a form of meditation.”

– Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from Sri Chinmoy Speaks, Part 5 by Sri Chinmoy.

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Bristol Cathedral

After the concert – Sadanand (from Dublin Ireland), Devashishu, Upasana.

Ananda at Radio Sri Chinmoy

Everest Aspiration

Everest Aspiration is a collection of talks given by Sri Chinmoy on the Spiritual life.

“Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile. We must smile in order to unburden the world’s suffering-burden. We must smile in order to diminish its untold pangs.”

– Sri Chinmoy, Extract from Smile, Love And Claim – Everest Aspiration Part 1

You can also hear Sri Chinmoy read  extracts from his book at Radio Sri Chinmoy – Everest Aspiration

Photo by Pranlobha, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries.

Songs of the Soul – Guatemalan Tour

The Songs of the Soul concert tour began 2010 with three enthusiastically received concerts in Guatemala.

Songs of the Soul began in 2008 as a way to celebrate and introduce people to Sri Chinmoy’s musical legacy. The concerts feature Sri Chinmoy’s music played in different styles by many different groups, from instrumental duets to huge 100-member orchestras. In 2009, 19 such concerts were performed across 3 continents.

The first Guatemalan concert was performed in Panajachel overlooking beautiful Lake Atitlan. The second concert took place in Guatemala city.

The last concert was an outdoor performance in front Hermita de Santa Cruz in the ancient colonial town of Antigua. Much of the town was destroyed in earthquakes in 1773, leaving many impressive ruined structures behind. Around the building there is an outdoor amphitheater which seated 600 people for the concert.

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