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• Gunthita talks about her experience in a 12 hour walk and singing with her music group Mountain Silence. Gunthita on Life Voices
• Mandu Trummer a great musician from Linz discusses his outlook on life. Mandu on Life Voices

Life Voices is produced by Kedar Misani from Zurich Switzerland. A new episode is published on the 13th of every month. Life Voices at Sri Chinmoy TV

- Sri Chinmoy speaking on gratitude from A Seekers Mind

Poems on Gratitude at Sri Chinmoy Poetry

To put it in perspective this single lollipop would be the equivalent of 165,070 regular-sized lollipops!

Ashrita at work - Photo by Jowan Gauther

Created in his Queens, New York neighborhood, the giant lollipop was hoisted into the air briefly on Sri Chinmoy's birth anniversary, August 27th, 2009.  Onlookers included some of the 1,500 visitors from 50 countries gathered in New York to observe Sri Chinmoy's birth anniversary. The lollipop's colourful happy birthday message to Sri Chinmoy together with a reproduction of one of Sri Chinmoy's soul bird drawings came into view as the lollipop lifted into the air.

In honour of Sri Chinmoy's birthday, Ashrita dedicated the record to the late philosopher, poet and athlete who inspired him and humanity with his weightlifting world records and the World Harmony Run. "We know Sri Chinmoy for his compassion, kindness and sweetness and for that reason we are celebrating his birthday by making the largest lollipop," commented Ashrita.

Airborne - Photo by Sharani Robins

Ashrita has set Guinness World Records on Sri Chinmoy's birthday on several occasions. In 2005 and 2008, he set a record for the most lit candles on a cake. In 2007, he dedicated the world's largest pencil to Sri Chinmoy. 2006 saw the creation of the largest popcorn sculpture and in 2004 he set a record for the largest flower bouquet.

Roberta Flack

Madan Shankar Mishra

Shambhu Vineberg and Viddyut Ballmer

Sahadeva's group

Members of Orchestra

Mountain Silence

Comments on Concert

"An amazing concert, a meditative experience full of warmth and grace. All performances were spectacular, and I especially appreciated seeing Roberta Flack who's performance I'd been trying to track down for years. Thank you for this gift."

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• More Photos of Concert

Karteek completed his first successful channel swim in 1997. Since that year, despite the many challenges of channel swimming, he has been repeatedly drawn back to try another channel crossing. He joins an elite group of people who have managed more than one crossing. In total, only around 1,000 people have successfully swum the English Channel - compared to around 4,000 people who have climbed Mount Everest.

Interviewed by the Scotsman, Karteek said his practice of yoga and meditation, under the tutelage of his teacher Sri Chinmoy, helped give the inner strength necessary for such a difficult endeavour.

"...I keep going back to hone my meditation skills as our Sri Chinmoy teacher encourages us to undertake these tasks to promote self-discipline. Like most brands of yoga, the aim is to silence the restless mind and purge it of negative thoughts. After about six hours in the water, you're cold, wet and miserable, but it starts to become quite exhilarating..."

• Channel Swimming Page at Sri Chinmoy Races
• Article at Edinburg Evening News

Suprabha is the only female athlete to complete the race and the only runner to complete all 13 editions. Her total distance in the last 13 races is a staggering 40,302.226 miles/ 64,622.160 km. Which is close to running twice around the world. When not running the 3100 mile race, Suprabha owns a small gift shop in Washington D.C.

• 3100 Mile Race Results

Sri Chinmoy's Path of Meditation

Sri Chinmoy's path of meditation shares many similarities with other types of meditation. In particular Sri Chinmoy teaches the benefit of meditating in the spiritual heart. Sri Chinmoy feels if people could leave the mind and enter into the heart, then it is much easier to quell the restless thoughts which usually disturb our mind.

"You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else."

- Sri Chinmoy [The Mind and the Heart ]

• New York Meditation website

Recent records include, most M&Ms (40) eaten in one minute with chopsticks, record for poem translated into the most languages (111) and fastest skipping mile.

Ashrita credits his record breaking capacity to studying meditation under the tutelage of his spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy.

Record Breaker - article in Daily Telegraph

A Day in the Life - article at New York Times

Sri Chinmoy Songs

The new site has been developed by Aparajita Fishman, who worked hard on creating the new website with its large database of songs and audio recordings.

The Irish are well known for organising some great games and this weekend was no exception. They included "dragon's tale"

a memory game, a four-way tug-of-war and the fill-a-jugfull- of-water-from-the-fountain relay using a cup  with a hole in it!

Lowering helium stick

Lowering a helium stick is much harder than it looks....

• More on Finishers of race

• Latest Race Results
• Article on First Swiss to Finish

World Harmony Run in Iceland

In Reykjavík, the run was greeted by local MPs and dignitaries such as Steingrímur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (1983-1987 and again 1988-1991). Steingrímur Hermannsson had met with Sri Chinmoy on a few occasions and maintains a warm friendship and support for the World Harmony Run.

For full report and more details see Iceland World Harmony Run

And multiply.

Excerpt from The Beginning And The Arriving by Sri Chinmoy (founder of World Service Plants)

• World Service Plants at Sri Chinmoy Centre

Rain. Photo by Alakananda

It's not always sunny. The early part of the race was marked by heavy downpours making the race more difficult for the runners.

A unique running course: Photo by Prabhakar

The 3100 Mile race is being run around a small loop (less than one mile) in Queens New York. The course is all on concrete, but some runners and helpers have brightened the course with flowers.

Suprabha (on right) : Photo by Jowan

Suprabha is the only female in this race and the only runner to complete all 12 editions of the race, since the 3100 mile race started in 1997. Video of Suprabha's experience in the race.

Helpers who prepare food for the runners: Photo by Utpal

. The leading runners are now on their last leg (with less than 1,000 miles left!)

• You can follow the race at: 3100 Mile Race
• Perfection Journey - 3100 Mile
• Race Gallery

They recently spent time in Prague where the Vasudeva Server Team worked on various projects such as the new Centre site. Other websites related to Sri Chinmoy will be having new designs and features shortly.

The local school at Crevecoeu, France

Running Through the French Countryside

If you can create harmony
In your own life,
This harmony will enter
Into the vast world.

- Sri Chinmoy (founder of World Harmony Run)

  Milan  Roskopf juggling with three  chainsaws  - Don't Try this at Home...

Chasing record for Skipping on Stilts

If we believe
In our own
Self-transcendence-task
Then there can be
No unreachable goal.

- Sri Chinmoy

• Quotes on Self Transcendence

• Impossibility Challenger at Sri Chinmoy Races

• Daily Results
• 3100 Mile Race - Daily Blog at 3100 Mile Race
• Daily Video Blog by Utpal from Perfection Journey.
• 3100 Mile Race at Multidays
• The Day Before.
• The Beginning of the Great Journey Start

Photo by Jowan from 3100 Mile Sri Chinmoy Center Galleries