In July 2011 twelve singers from around the world visited Iceland to perform Sri Chinmoy’s songs at a variety of churches throughout the country. The 12 male singers sang Sri Chinmoy’s songs acapella to audiences across Iceland. These performances capture the simplicity, soulfulness and purity of Sri Chinmoy’s music. In the video, the performers [...]
Sri Chinmoy’s 80th Birthday
August 27th, 2011 was the 80th anniversary of Sri Chinmoy’s birthday. 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. Using 80,000 carnations, the team created a 2.15 mile garland of flowers around a lake in [...]
Epic Feats of Self Transcendence
The 2011 edition of the Self-Transcendence 3100 race recently finished, with the ten runners completing a total of 29,517 miles. There were eight runners who finished the 3100 mile race in the allotted time frame of 54 days. The total mileage of the 10 runners (29,517) is equivalent to running around the world + another [...]
New Sri Chinmoy TV
Sri Chinmoy TV, which has an extensive collection of videos about Sri Chinmoy and Sri Chinmoy Centre, has been redesigned. 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 [...]
World Harmony Run – John O’Groats to Lands End
In the UK, the World Harmony Run is travelling the entire length of the country from John O’Groats in Scotland, to Lands End in the tip of Cornwall in South England. Members of the World Harmony Run team running through the Lake District. Members of the World Harmony run team in Edinburgh The [...]
Tribute To Pranavanta
Pranavanta John Montefiore, a student of Sri Chinmoy, was an exceptional artist who developed a strong reputation for his innovative and marathon artworks. Pranavanta became a meditation student of Sri Chinmoy in 1985. Studying under the tutelage of Sri Chinmoy (who himself was an artist) gave Pranavanta artwork a renewed spiritual energy. A tribute to his life [...]
3100 Mile Race 2011
The 15th Annual Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race begins today, June 12th in Jamaica, Queens, NY. Ten runners will attempt, what the NY Times describes as the “The Mount Everest of ultramarathons” Runners will need to complete 5649 laps of a .5488 of a mile course (883 meters) in the timespan of 52 days. The course [...]
Human Chain of Peace and Harmony
In Budapest, 10,000 children participated in a human chain of peace and harmony around the Hungarian Parliament; the unique ceremony was part of the global World Harmony Run. School children came from up to 300Km away to take part in this special event at Hungary’s Parliament. The event was co-ordinated by organisers of the World [...]
Self Transcendence
Sri Chinmoy taught a philosophy of self-transcendence – the effort and determination to go beyond our limitations and discover our own inner and outer capacities. What gives life its value, If not its inner cry For self-transcendence? – Sri Chinmoy 1 Through his various prolific activities in fields such as sport, weightlifting, music and writing, [...]
Peace Prize for Desmond Tutu
Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu was recently presented with the first Sri Chinmoy Peace Prize for his dedication to fostering the ideals of peace in the hearts and lives of millions worldwide. Sri Chinmoy met with Desmond Tutu on numerous occasions. In 2004, Sri Chinmoy offered Archbishop Desmond Tutu the ‘Lifting up the World [...]
The Silent Mind
Sri Chinmoy gives several practical ways to keep the mind silent during meditation. What can we do about thoughts on a practical level? Let us take thoughts as individuals and take the mind as a room that we live in and own. We have to bolt the door to our mind-room from the inside and [...]
