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Sri Chinmoy Rose

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:31:15 +0000

A beautiful yellow rose variety named after Sri Chinmoy. It was grown at a nursery in Scotland. Sri Chinmoy described it as a ‘Scottish Blossom Fragrance’

Sri Chinmoy Rose

The Sri Chinmoy Rose was inaugurated in 2004. The first bush was planted at the Hidden Gardens in Glasgow, on mid-summer, June 2004. The above photo is from a bush growing outside the Edinburgh Sri Chinmoy Centre on Cannondale Street.

Sri Chinmoy has stated:

“The significance of the rose in the inner world is most important. The rose, like other flowers, has fragrance and beauty, but it also has something special, unique. There are very few flowers in God’s creation that please God to the greatest extent. The rose is one of those, along with the lotus. Rose and lotus: these are the two mystical flowers. These are the two flowers in God’s Heart-Garden that please Him most.”

Excerpt from My Heart’s Salutation To Australia, Part 1 by Sri Chinmoy

America The Beautiful

Tejvan Pettinger — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:35:25 +0000

Sri Chinmoy moved to America from his native India in April 1964, during his time in the US, he wrote several books and articles about the spiritual qualities of America and those inspired souls who helped found and build up the nation.

“America’s special strength
Lies not in frightening the weak
And challenging the strong,
But in strengthening the weak
And illumining the strong.”

- Sri Chinmoy

In this new book – America the Beautiful, many of Sri Chinmoy’s writings on America and great Americans such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King and others, have been drawn together and published in this new book.

America The Beautiful website

25th Weightlifting Anniversary

Tejvan Pettinger — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:35:13 +0000

Sri Chinmoy took up weightlifting in 1985, aged 54, for the next 22 years, Sri Chinmoy achieved many significant lifts showing the power of self-transcendence even in the evening of his life.

Recently, an event was held to commemorate Sri Chinmoy’s 25th anniversary of his weightlifting. It was attended by many dignitaries and figures from the weightlifting world, such as Bill Pearl who often acted as Master of Ceremonies for Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting performances.

Inspiration Lifts – about weightlifting of Sri Chinmoy
3 Day Weightlifting
Weightlifting Anniversary at US Sri Chinmoy Centre
Superlative Soulfulness by Sharani Robbins

Statue of Sri Chinmoy Dedicated in Vaasa, Finland

sharani — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:23:40 +0000

A statue of Sri Chinmoy holding the World Harmony Run Torch was dedicated in Finland on Sunday June 13, 2010. The statue is located in a park on the outskirts of the city of Vaasa on the west coast of Finland overlooking the Bothnian Bay. Vaasa is a bilingual city with street signs in Finnish and Swedish and about 1/4 of the city’s residents speak Swedish rather than Finnish. The Vaasa Sri Chinmoy Centre has a long affiliation with this park as there is a Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile with a plaque located in the park and the Centre’s Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team also holds 2 mile races in the park.

Sculpted by British artist Kaivalya Torpy, the life-size statue of World Harmony Run founder Sri Chinmoy is the second in the world to be dedicated in which the visionary is depicted holding a World Harmony Run Torch. The first such statue is located in Mazatlan Mexico.

The statue in the park in a photo at 11 pm. At this time of year truly the land of the Midnight Sun.

Local park officials, politicians and members of the Vaasa and Helsinki Sri Chinmoy Centres joined together for the dedication. Sri Chinmoy Centre members from other countries such as Norway, Sweden, Russia, Italy, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, Austria and the United States were also present at the statue unveiling in the park.

World Harmony Runners representing Russia ran into the park with the Torch and a musical group from the Czech republic sang a song composed by Sri Chinmoy about the country of Finland.

The large nature attraction, called Sand Bay Park in English, contains tall trees and winding paths through the woods for hiking and biking. A beach pavilion is nearby and there are benches interspersed throughout the park providing views out over the water. The statue is located close to a Villa and gazebo available for rental for group functions and meetings. Participants gathered after the ceremony to share a meal and cake in the Villa nearby the statue.

Later that evening, a Songs of the Soul Concert was held in a concert hall in dowtown Vaasa with performances by Sangit Desh and Agnikana’s Group.

View more photos of the statue in Finland at Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries.

Plaque for Statue of Sri Chinmoy in Finland

12 / 24 Hour Self Transcendence Race Basel

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:42:23 +0000

Members of the Swiss Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team organised a 12 hour and 24 hour race in Basel, which attracted 122 runners from 13 countries.

To view short video of event see: 24 Hour Race at Sri Chinmoy TV

In the 24 hour race Ludger Robert Boewer won with distance of 238 k.
Among the women Heike Christ finished 1st Place with 208 k.

The fastest 12 hour runners were Thomas Herget (134 k) and Dorothea Pfeffer (115 k), also from Germany.

12 – 24 Hour Race – Results at Sri Chinmoy Races

Inner Peace

Tejvan Pettinger — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:00:49 +0000

Question: How can we find lasting peace?

Sri Chinmoy: My first poem in English runs thus: “A sea of peace and joy and light/Beyond my reach I know.” (1) Almost every aspirant feels at the dawn of his spiritual life that peace is beyond his reach. The mind is always bothering us. The mind is constantly taking us from one place to another, from one object to another in the inner world and in the outer world. But a day comes when we feel in our inner life that there can be nothing worth achieving but peace.

It is peace that operates in the inner world and the outer world in the life of an aspirant. Eventually a day comes when he cannot separate himself from peace. Now he is crying for peace. He does not have peace here, there or anywhere. But as the mounting flame of aspiration within him gets the opportunity to reach the highest, the inner peace starts functioning most intensely and most powerfully in him. Then one day he notices that he abides in the sea of peace; he can never be separated from peace. His existence, inner and outer, is flooded with peace. For that experience, what we need is aspiration. Aspiration is the key.

Excerpt from Perfection And Transcendence by Sri Chinmoy

(1) The Golden Flute by Sri Chinmoy

Related

Talk on Inner Peace by Sri Chinmoy
Article – Seven Steps to Inner Peace at Sri Chinmoy Inspiration

Songs of the Soul Concert NY

Tejvan Pettinger — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:31:48 +0000

On April 14th, 2010, a near capacity audience enjoyed an evening of soulful music dedicated to the music of Sri Chinmoy at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in Manhattan, NYC.

The international Gandharva Loka orchestra offer a rousing finale to the concert

Paree’s International singing group open the concert with a soulful peace song composed by Sri Chinmoy.

Sudhahota Carl Lewis offers some inspirational words about the importance of spread peace and goodwill through music.

A full house enjoy the concert.

View more photos and comments from event at Songs of the Soul site

Sri Chinmoy’s 46th Anniversary in the West

Tejvan Pettinger — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:30:37 +0000

On April 13th, 1964, Sri Chinmoy, aged 32, arrived in New York from India. Sri Chinmoy came to the West to be of service to aspiring seekers interested in meditation and the spiritual life. During his life in the West, Sri Chinmoy travelled extensively offering concerts, lectures and founded Sri Chinmoy meditation centres in countries around the world.

Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s in Jamaica, Queens, New York.

During his time in the West, Sri Chinmoy was prolific in many areas showing how ancient spirituality could be combined with a modern dynamism.

Sri Chinmoy founded many new initiatives from long distance running events, to a global harmony run. More aspects of Sri Chinmoy’s service in the West

The fulness of life
Lies in dreaming and manifesting
The impossible dreams.

- Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from Arise! Awake! Thoughts Of A Yogi by Sri Chinmoy

Meditation Festival in NYC

Tejvan Pettinger — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:42:28 +0000

Recently, the New York Sri Chinmoy Centre offered a week long programme of events as part of a meditation and spirituality festival.

Events in the week long programme included:

The Power Within: Spirit of a Runner - A talk by the only woman (Suprabha Beckjord) ever to finish the 3,100 mile race & “Guinness Record Breaker of the Decade” Ashrita Furman.
Siddhartha Becomes the Buddha: A play about Lord Buddha’s journey to enlightenment.
A three day Meditation Workshop with Aditya Nowotny
Talks and workshops on art and consciousness
Music and Mantra Concert.

World Harmony Run Spain

Tejvan Pettinger — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:29:46 +0000

Recently, the World Harmony Run passed through Spain as part of the European year long relay run.

World harmony
Carries the message
Of world peace

- Sri Chinmoy (1)

The run has visited the beautiful Spanish countryside and has also visited many local schoolchildren and others who have come to support the ideals of the run.