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Read: 'Discovering Global Harmony' - Ashrita's recent record attempts - including longest time standing on a rolling globe barefoot - over 40 minutes

"....Back to the record attempt. The time flew by. When Steve called out, “40 minutes”, I suddenly remembered that there were only 4 minutes of tape left. Vinaya made a frantic search for another video camera and tape but, amidst all the hubbub, I lost my concentration and fell off the ball with only a few seconds left on the tape. It didn’t matter. I was elated and so grateful to have been blessed with such a powerful experience of self-transcendence...." - from Ashrita's blog

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

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

Image by Pavol. The Race is held at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York. It is an impressive backdrop for this epic even of self-transcendence.

The scoreboard - image by Utpal

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• 6 Day Race Home page
• 10 Day Race Home Page
• Reports from 6 and 10 Day Race by Utpal at Perfection Journey
• Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team Blog of Race

Results for Race

• Six Day Men
• Six Day Women
• Ten Day Men
• Ten Day Women

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

Guests from the United Nations and international community at the start of the World Harmony Run.

Further pictures and reading at World Harmony Run site.

About World Harmony Run

The Run was founded by Sri Chinmoy in 1987 and seeks to promote international friendship and peace.

"Right now fear, doubt, anxiety, tension and disharmony are reigning supreme. But there shall come a time when this world of ours will be flooded with peace. Who is going to bring about that radical change?"

- Sri Chinmoy (1)

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(1) Heart's Salutations to Australia

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

• 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.
• Talks and workshops on art and consciousness
• Music and Mantra Concert.

Read More at Sri Chinmoy Centre

Read More: Spain World Harmony Run

(1) Seventy-Seven Thousand Service Trees no. 48,445

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Excerpt from Text

BUDDHA: O Ananda, most loving child, if we move from one place to another with the idea of finding a better place for manifesting the Truth, we shall never be successful. Truth has to be manifested here where we are, and not elsewhere. Once the Truth is established here, in the twinkling of an eye the Truth will be founded everywhere. Either here or nowhere the Truth must be established. Again and again I must tell you, Ananda, the Truth has to be seen, felt and realised within, and then manifested here on earth, wherever we are, and nowhere else.

Excerpt from Siddhartha Becomes the Buddha

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The Blue Bird Cafe. One of the Enterprises run by members of the Auckland Sri Chinmoy Centre. The Blue Bird offers a variety of delicious vegetarian food.

The Auckland Sri Chinmoy Centre frequently give meditation classes. They have their own website for further information - Auckland Meditation

More pictures of Auckland Sri Chinmoy Centre

Set in the idyllic surrounds of Lake Jindabyne in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, the race is organised by the Australian Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team. It combines water and land-based sports over 12 legs, ranging in difficulty from mild to strenuous. Participants can either form a team for the different stages or aim for a solo effort for all legs.

Sri Chinmoy Multi-Sport Classic, Jindabyne at Sri Chinmoy Races The Sri Chinmoy Multi-Sport Classic in Jindabyne is one of many different athletic events organised by the global Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team. You can see other events that have been organised at the global site - Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team

Latest Edition of Meditation Silence - Produced by Kedar Misani at Sri Chinmoy TV.

The World Harmony Run team with Scottish school children and the snow capped mountains in the background.

When my mind breathes in peace even for a fleeting minute,
my heart starts dancing with the flying wings of the wind."

- Sri Chinmoy, founder of World Harmony Run

Keep Reading at: World Harmony Run GB

At the top of the Volcano where the Harmony Run started

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.

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.

"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