Entries from February 2010 ↓

Last Thursday, 25 February 2010, Dublin played host to the opening ceremony for the European leg of the World Harmony Run, the world’s largest torch relay for international friendship. At an event held at Dublin City Hall, the World Harmony Run  was launched in conjunction with Dublin European Capital of Sport 2010, and the Lord Mayor of Dublin.

At the Start of the Run

The European harmony run will carry the Harmony torch on a 24,000KM journey – visiting 49 countries before finishing in Moscow in September.

The European run will meet up with an Asian World Harmony run beginning in Japan, travelling through, Korea, China, Monglia and East Russia before the two runs meet in Moscow.

During the ceremony Irish running legend Catherina McKiernan received a Torch Bearer Award from the World Harmony Run for her services to the athletic community. The ceremony also featured readings from poet John F. Deane, founder of the Poetry Ireland Review and music from flautist Martin Doyle. The runners then embarked on a circuit of the city cheered on by the people of Dublin before setting off on their journey.

Since its founding by Sri Chinmoy in 1987, the World Harmony Run has passed through over 120 countries. Every year, over one million people participate in the Run, passing along the torch from hand to hand and adding their hopes for a better world.

What does peace do? Peace blossoms.
What else? Peace spreads.
What else? Peace illumines.
What else? Peace fulfils.

- Sri Chinmoy (1)

More at World Harmony Run

In 2009, the World Harmony Run ran around the entire coast of Ireland in a 2 week, 1500 km journey.

World harmony leader Sri Chinmoy’s lifetime of service to bettering the world was recognized last week in Caguas, Puerto Rico when a 2 metre high statue was dedicated in the Botanical and Cultural Garden of Caguas. The life-sized statue sculpted by British artist Kaivalya Torpy depicts Sri Chinmoy in a dhoti with hands raised in prayer and  joins other statues previously dedicated around the world in places such as Bali, Norway and Mexico.

The Mayor of Caguas, William Miranda Marin, received the World Harmony Run Torch and was presented with the Torchbearer Award by Run organizers. During the ceremony, Mayor Marin stated, “Sri Chinmoy will live for eternity…It is a privilege for us to have this beautiful statue of Sri Chinmoy in these gardens. We are subscribers to the same philosophy that Sri Chinmoy promoted during more than 40 years of his service to humanity.”

An international choir performed songs composed by Sri Chinmoy in honour of Puerto Rico and a procession of representatives displayed the many nations represented within the group of Sri Chinmoy’s students in attendance.

Those present from the Sri Chinmoy Centres International found it significant and appropriate that a statue be dedicated in the place where his worldwide mission began. Sri Chinmoy founded his first centre for meditation in Puerto Rico in 1966 – they now cover the globe.

The statue is located in a corner of the botanical garden ringed with trees and near a small brook.  It will serve as a grove for reflection and cultural activities for the garden’s many visitors.

The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team sponsors 2 mile races around the world.

You can view some of the upcoming 2 mile races around the world at Sri Chinmoy Races

More races will be added soon.

“Try to be a runner, and try all the time to surpass and go beyond all that is bothering you and standing in your way. Be a real runner so that ignorance, limitation and imperfection will all drop far behind you in the race.”

“It is better to meditate in the heart than in the mind. The mind is like Times Square on New Year’s Eve; the heart is like a lonely cave in the Himalayas. If you meditate in the mind, you will be able to meditate for perhaps five minutes; and out of that five minutes, for one minute you may meditate powerfully. After that you will feel your whole head getting tense. First you get joy and satisfaction; then you may feel a barren desert. But if you meditate in the heart, you acquire the capacity to identify yourself with the joy and satisfaction that you get, and then it becomes permanently yours.”

- Sri Chinmoy, Wings of Joy

The Heart Lotus – Meditation Silence exercise at Sri Chinmoy TV

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.

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

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

Related

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

This weeks featured gallery is from the Macedonia Sri Chinmoy Centre.

Macedonia

A wonderful view of a Macedonian church.

Macedonia Sri Chinmoy Centre Gallery

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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

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.

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