(New York, October 30) – More than 700 UN leaders, ambassadors and luminaries from many walks of life and faiths gathered inside the United Nations Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the life and work of Sri Chinmoy, the world harmony leader, spiritual teacher and humanitarian who died at age 76 on October 11th in New York [...]
Archive | October, 2007
Celebration of the Life of Sri Chinmoy at the United Nations
(United Nations, New York) Leaders from six different religions offer the opening silence at the Celebration of the Life of Sri Chinmoy. (For more details: see photo caption at bottom) Contact: +1 347 968 9417 Celebration of the Life of Sri Chinmoy at the United Nations New York – More than 700 UN leaders, ambassadors [...]
Sri Chinmoy on the Mind and Heart
Sri Chinmoy wrote many poems and articles about the role of the mind and heart. “Two instruments: mind and heart. The mind is division: world-division and self-division. World-division is nothing short of world-poverty. Self-division is the beginning of self-destruction. The heart is acceptance: acceptance of the inner life and acceptance of the outer life. The [...]
Poetic Tributes
My Lord, How I wish To be with You In Heaven! Do you enjoy Your Heavenly Rest? ~ View: “My Lord” By: Doris at Sri Chinmoy Inspiration Group “Please forgive me, Father. I have no aspiration, no Love-Devotion-Surrender today.” “Aspiration? Love-Devotion-Surrender? Who cares for these things? Give me whatever you have.” “I’m sorry Master, but [...]
Photographic memories of our teacher
Some photo albums have appeared on the Sri Chinmoy Centre site remembering aspects of Sri Chinmoy’s life in different ways: This picture is taken from a lovely photo album called ‘Beautiful Sri Chinmoy’ by Jowan Gauthier which is exactly that – beautiful pictures taken of Sri Chinmoy from his trip to St. Petersburg and his [...]
Selected Comments IV
(The following tribute comes from Ted Corbitt, who is known as the ‘father of modern ultrarunning’ having raced in and helped organise races for almost 50 years. He is still active at the age of 87, competing in a 24-hour race as recently as 2003) Sri Chinmoy: Salutations and goodbye, for now. Sri Chinmoy was [...]
Two poignant recent poems by Sri Chinmoy
Two recent prayer-poems written by Sri Chinmoy have recently come to light on the Sri Chinmoy Inspiration Group which seem especially poignant now given the Master’s passing. Every Saturday morning whenever he was in New York, Sri Chinmoy would arrive at the 2 mile race held by his students to give out the prizes, which [...]
Salutations to My Guru
Bhagavan Sri Chinmoy: Avatar of the era; Yogi of the highest magnitude; Sovereign of the Eternal Now. I bow to You in deep reverence. Bhagavan Sri Chinmoy: God of Gods. Thou who art not the body, But the manifestation, of a divine power on Earth. Oh God-man of the ever-transcending beyond. I bow to You [...]
Tributes – Poems
A collection of tributes and poems related to the mahasamadhi of Sri Chinmoy
Gratitude – a recording by Sri Chinmoy
A very beautiful recording of Sri Chinmoy singing the word ‘gratitude’ over and over again, spontaneously putting music to the words as he sang, was played during Sri Chinmoy’s memorial ceremony, and again when his body was finally laid to rest. The recording took place on 13 April 1986, 22 years to the day Sri [...]
Sri Chinmoy Obituaries
Sri Chinmoy – Peace activist and spiritual teacher, who advocated running. Obituary at Scotsman “…Sri Chinmoy, the Indian spiritual guru who had been nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and seconded by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, devoted his life to bringing different faiths together, and promoting the concept of [...]
