{"id":754,"date":"2010-04-14T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T20:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=754"},"modified":"2010-04-14T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T20:30:55","slug":"46th-anniversary-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s 46th Anniversary in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 13th, 1964,\u00c2\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-755\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/bw-early-days.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-755  \" style=\"margin-left: 9px; margin-right: 9px;\" title=\"bw-early days\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/bw-early-days.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/bw-early-days.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/bw-early-days-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 85vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s in Jamaica, Queens, New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During his time in the West, Sri Chinmoy was prolific in many areas showing how ancient spirituality could be combined with a modern dynamism.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Chinmoy founded many new initiatives from\u00c2\u00a0 long distance running events, to a global harmony run. More aspects of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.org\/service\"> Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s service in the West<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The fulness of life<br \/>\nLies in dreaming and manifesting<br \/>\nThe impossible dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoylibrary.com\/books\/0010\">Arise!  Awake! Thoughts Of A Yogi<\/a> by Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 13th, 1964,\u00c2\u00a0 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=754\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s 46th Anniversary in the West&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}