Earlier today, Sri Chinmoy continued his recent run of amazing weightlifting feats, this time lifting an assortment of aircraft. The lifts included four light aircraft which were placed overhead on a modified calf-raise machine and lifted, two stunt planes which were placed on a platform and lifted also using a calf raise technique, and a [...]
Archive | July, 2007
Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings
In 1991, during a visit to the island of Malta, Sri Chinmoy began a new phase in his artistic career, by drawing the first of what he called ‘Dream-Freedom Peace birds’. The birds are often popularly known as ‘soul-birds’ by virtue of the fact that they represent the boundless flight of the human soul. “For [...]
Inspiration-Letters: premium writing from Sri Chinmoy’s students
The Sri Chinmoy Centre has more than its fair share of good writers, and there are many wonderful articles put there by members describing their own inner experiences and reflections on life. One special section of the website is Inspiration-Letters, a periodical ezine edited by New Yorker Mahiruha Klein featuring articles from our very best [...]
An early poem by Sri Chinmoy
Her Face O earth! but once behold her Face, Then all for you is sun-vast Grace. Your brave despair, your hopeless cry, Your prison of mortality Her gaze of Power will break the maim Into a thousand fragments of Her Name. Sri Chinmoy first began writing poetry in earnest during his adolescence. First he began [...]
A weekend of weightlifting: Sri Chinmoy lifts the world’s tallest horse, and then the strongest men in the world
At the beginning of June Sri Chinmoy lifted the world’s smallest horse, Thumbelina, weighing just 57 pounds. On Saturday, the last day in June, the 75-year old fitness champion and harmony leader went to the other end of the scale, lifting 2540 lb Radar, who is the Guinness world record books as the tallest horse [...]
