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Sri Chinmoy was a prolific composer of songs. He often performed his own compositions at his 777 Peace Concerts which he offered around the world during his lifetime.

A variety of groups performed arrangements of songs composed by Sri Chinmoy

The concerts played to packed venues in the different cities. More photos and details can be found at: Songs of the Soul

“Everybody on earth is a musician and a singer. A singer does not have to carry a note perfectly. Music is the language of God. God’s language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.”

- Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy Answers, Part 27, Agni Press, 2000.

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Some Comments from Concerts

“Very professional performance. I admire your art of playing the instruments. My feelings are very positive, full of harmony.”

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“It is difficult to express it in words. Peace, harmony. I touched my own inner self.”

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“Wonderful, thrilling, full of beauty, hope and love.”

Warsaw Concert

New York Councilman and Park Director complete the world's longest garland in honour of Sri Chinmoy's 80th birthday. (photo Prashphutita)

To mark the occasion, Ashrita Furman and 170 members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team created a new Guinness World Record for the world’s largest garland of flowers.

NY-Councilman and Park Director complete the world's longest garland (photo-Jowan-Gauthier)

Using 80,000 carnations, the team created a 2.15 mile garland of flowers around a lake in Flushing Meadows, New York.

Ashrita Furman spoke of the event:

“My friends and I have a tradition to express our gratitude to Sri Chinmoy as he inspires us to discover inner peace, joy and strength through meditation. On the occasion of Sri Chinmoy’s 80^th birthday anniversary we wanted to do something special. The huge garland expresses the deep gratitude we feel. There was an great feeling of oneness and harmony because people from 35 countries were connected by the garland in a circle symbolising planet earth.”

Volunteer helps make the garland

80,000 carnations were flown in from Columbia to Miami airport and then transported in a refrigerated lorry to New York. The 170 volunteers worked from 6.30am to 13.00 to complete the record garland.

Part of the 2.15 mile Garland

Sanjaya Spettigue and Ashrita Furman measure the garland

Video by Parimal
Related

• Ashrita Furman’s records
• Sri Chinmoy.org

Videos can now be easily embedded in blogs and web pages.

The above video is an excerpt from Sri Chinmoy’s meditation at the World Parliament of Religions on July 7th,
2004.

See more videos at: Sri Chinmoy TV

Members of the World Harmony Run team running through the Lake District.

Members of the World Harmony run team in Edinburgh

The World Harmony Run was founded by Sri Chinmoy to promote the ideal of peace, harmony and friendship.

Harmony shall echo
And re-echo
Throughout the length
And breadth of the world
When each human being
Values the beauty
And divinity
Of self-offering.

- Sri Chinmoy [1. Sri Chinmoy, My God-Commitments, Agni Press, 1992.]

On route, the World Harmony Run team visited the largest Tibetan monastery in Europe.

• Recent World Harmony Run posts
• View: World Harmony Run GB

The film is  playing at the Tribeca film festival and has gained significant interest for its inspirational message. In a A Monument to Strength as a Path to Enlightenment, the New York Times reflects on how body builders and weightlifters were drawn to the unusual combination of a Spiritual Teacher and person who lifted heavy weights.

“…Those three — and other bodybuilders like Bill Pearl and Mike Katz — would attend the guru’s lifting exhibitions and were intrigued and inspired by a man of normal size and physique lifting such heavy weight later in life…”

- A Monument to Strength, New York Times

The film is directed by Sanjay Rawal and Natabara Rollosson, you can view a short interview at Cinema Blend on the inspiration behind the film.

Sri Chinmoy saw a strong connection between outer strength and the inner peace gained from prayer and meditation.

The Feats of Strength, Pop up Museum, on 18 Jay Street is displaying a small selection of Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting apparatus. See: Pop Up Gallery at Challenging Impossibility.

Photo top: Calf lift – 2,300lbs from 2004 Weightlifting Anniversary.

Related

• Challenging Impossibility
• Spiritual Guru’s Strength on Display at NY1 – short video introducing the Weightlifting display

Related Articles

• Inspiration – Lifts
• Spirit over Matter at Write Spirit

” When somebody is singing or playing music, it is very easy for us to identify with it because we are on the same level. But music can be found everywhere. Music is oneness with God’s Infinity, Eternity and Immortality. Music is a universal language. We do not need any other language.” ¹

- Sri Chinmoy

To Sri Chinmoy, music has the capacity to awaken the soul and elevate the aspiring consciousness.

“Music is psychic enlightenment. Music is the supreme fulfilment of the aspiring human soul.” ²

- Sri Chinmoy

A small selection of some of Sri Chinmoy’s recordings can be found at:

• Sri Chinmoy Music

Sri Chinmoy in Perth

World-Peace-Dreamer – Sri Chinmoy

The statue included a plaque mentioning Sri Chinmoy dedicated his life to world peace.

“…This work of art stands as a universal symbol of humanity’s hope that one day the dream of world peace shall inundate the entire world….”

Poem on Peace by Sri Chinmoy

O dreamers of peace, come.
Let us walk together.
O lovers of peace, come,
Let us run together.
O servers of peace, come.
Let us grow together.

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Even the tiniest of hopes
Can show me the way
To arrive at my goal.

- Sri Chinmoy ¹

• Sri Chinmoy quotes

Related

• When the power of love replaces the love of power
• Aphorisms at Sri Chinmoy Poetry
• Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees

photo and artwork – Pavirata Taylor

Sri Chinmoy running

During the 1970s and 1980s, Sri Chinmoy ran 22 marathons. His first marathon was on 3 March 1979 in a time of 4:31:34. His fastest marathon time was 3.55.07 in the Toledo marathon ¹

Speaking on the spiritual significance of marathons, Sri Chinmoy writes:

“The marathon is a long journey. Of course, there is also the ultramarathon, but the marathon is unique and it will always remain unparalleled among long-distance runs. Just as the marathon is a long journey on the outer plane, so is spirituality a long, longer, longest journey on the inner plane. Your own spiritual run is birthless and deathless; it is endless.”

- Sri Chinmoy ²

A prolonged knee injury later forced Sri Chinmoy to give up running; instead he took up weightlifting.

The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team continue to promote marathons and other running races world-wide.

Related

• Love of Running – video by Utpal Marshall

• Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team