8 March
Latest news and features
from Sri Chinmoy Centres around the world.
14 March
Dealing With Anger
The essential message of Sri Chinmoy is for each human being to cherish their own inner peace. For the world to make progress it is important to focus on good, divine qualities. When emotions like anger come we should firmly resist letting them take hold.
See: Dealing With anger
The difference between peace and anger is vast, especially for a spiritual seeker.
Sri Chinmoy says:
Excerpt from Somebody Has To Listen by Sri Chinmoy.Anger says:
"I can destroy
The whole world."
Peace says:
"Not when I work
Inside you."
10 March
Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees
When the flowers sing
I feel a new dawn in my heart.
42,010
The children of happiness
Will create a new world.
42,007
Inspiration
Without speech
Is most powerful
42,015
Alas,
The mind never takes advice
From the heart!
42,018
No enthusiasm,
No success or progress-
Either in our outer life
Or in our inner life.
By: Sri Chinmoy
From: Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees
photo by: Richard, Sri Chinmoy Centre
7 March
Sri Chinmoy Triathlon Festival 2007
This year's Sri Chinmoy Triathlon Festival has just wrapped up in
Canberra, Australia. But this is not really a race report. It's just
some words about the experience of helping to make it happen. We
started setting up for the event last Wednesday, in the idyllic
environment of Yarralumla Bay. The green lawn slopes gently down to
the strip of golden sand that borders Lake Burley Griffin. Big leafy
trees provide shade and respite from the often merciless summer sun.
Small picturesque islands can be seen from the shore. Swans and
various waterfowl glide placidly across the surface of the lake.
Sometimes you can recognise a swan family you saw a few months back,
when a little troop of fuzzy grey cygnets trailed behind their elegant
parents. This time the young are bigger, two-thirds adult size, but
still covered in grey down, yet to sprout the sleek black feathers
that signify maturity.
This year the traditional long-course event was replaced with a longer
one, featuring a 3.2km swim, 120km ride, and 30km run. The weather in
the week leading up to the event was strange and unpredictable. The
almost constant fine weather was broken by thunderstorms. Then on
Tuesday Canberra experienced its most ferocious hailstorm in decades.
The next morning saw drifts of hail piled up in the city, more than a
foot deep in some places, like snow. Very, very odd conditions to be
found at the tail end of a typically hot summer down under. But all
this ice and water had the beneficial effect of topping up our lake,
which had been quite low of late.
So after the dramatic leadup, we were blessed with clear blue skies
when the first race started on Friday. The childrens' Joyathon races
are a fun way to start the Festival, with many youngsters lining up
for their first triathlon. Most of the bikes are too small to fit on
the bicycle racks, so they are parked underneath, using the kickstand...
to be continued!
By: Rathin Boulton, originally posted on Sri Chinmoy Inspiration Group
Results from Sri Chinmoy Triathlon at Sri Chinmoy Races
See also Sri Chinmoy sport section at Sri Chinmoy Bio
4 March
Sri Chinmoy Lifting Elephants
Recently Sri Chinmoy lifted some baby elephants whilst visiting an elephant sanctuary in Thailand.
- Sri Chinmoy lifting baby elephants article by Vidagdha Bennett
- Share of Strength by Sumangali
Photo by Projjwal.
4 March
Nearer than the Nearest
When you feel that you are
Farther than the Farthest
From your Lord Beloved Supreme,
Who Knows
Perhaps that is the time
When he is nearer than the nearest!
#42,366
By: Sri Chinmoy
From: Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees part 43
27 February
Quote: Human Love
"Ordinary human love with its fears, accusations, misunderstandings, jealousies and quarrels is a fire clouding its own brightness by a pall of smoke. The same human love, arising from the meeting of two souls, is a pure and radiant flame. Instead of smoke, it emits the rays of self-surrender, sacrifice, selflessness, joy and fulfilment."
By: Sri Chinmoy
From: Eternity's Breath: Aphorisms and Essays
26 February
Spinning Through Time
Ashrita Furman recently set a Guiness Record for spinning a top - fastest mile. Ashrita was on vacation in Antalya Turkey with his spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy.
Read short article about Ashrita's exploits:
"Spinning through Time" by Vidagdha Bennett
23 February
Poems on Difficulties
When troubles
Attack you,
Just smile them away.
39,162
Adversity
Is a disguised
Opportunity.
39,156
Desires and worries
are extremely difficult
To separate.
39,073
Depression
Has its antidote:
God's Smile.
39,040
Poems by Sri Chinmoy. From 77,000 Service Trees volume 40
23 February
Sri Chinmoy weightlifting
Sri Chinmoy is currently 74 years old but he still continues to practise his weightlifting. Sri Chinmoy sees weightlifting as an opportunity to inspire others, especially older people, to keep trying and never give up. Sri Chinmoy believes in a philosophy of self transcendence. Self transcendence is the attempt to go beyond previous limits both physically, mentally and spiritually.
Sri Chinmoy lifting
18 February
Function with Sri Chinmoy
Morris Klein shares some thoughts and observations from a meditation function with Sri Chinmoy in New York.
"Sri Chinmoy commented that he felt that we can expand our heart by first feeling like we belong to our parents, and our village, then our town, province, country and then the world. He said that "When we use our love there is no distance."
18 February
Eternity's Breath
"When I love a man, I live within his ever-blossoming heart.
When I hate a man, he lives within my ever-torturing vital.
Love has a power of its own. It can be used to see and feel both the lowest and the highest.
The noblest love of man constitutes his purest vision of God.
Love is always expensive, whether heavenly or earthly.
Like death, man’s love is capable of levelling all ranks"
When I hate a man, he lives within my ever-torturing vital.
Love has a power of its own. It can be used to see and feel both the lowest and the highest.
The noblest love of man constitutes his purest vision of God.
Love is always expensive, whether heavenly or earthly.
Like death, man’s love is capable of levelling all ranks"
These short aphorisms of Sri Chinmoy were composed in 1963, one year before he travelled to America. Between 1965 and 1968 the aphorisms were published as a series in AUM magazine In 1972 they were published under 1 volume "Eternity's Breath"
The book also includes short essays such as "An experience of the author at age 14"
13 February
Poems on Sound and Silence
Sound teaches me
How to accept the challenge
Of the ruthless world.
- 34,341
Silence teaches me
How to love the world
And become the world.
These short aphorisms by Sri Chinmoy are from a recent version of his Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees vol 35.
Sri Chinmoy is more than half way towards his goal of writing a series of 77,000 spiritual aphorisms.
More on: Poems of Sri Chinmoy
13 February
Sri Chinmoy on Music and Oneness
This interview is from a press interview in Stockholm, where Sri Chinmoy was giving one of his concerts of meditative music. During this interview Sri Chinmoy suggests how music can be a way to unite people in a spirit of oneness.
“I am a truth seeker and God lover and I know there are many many countless people who are in the same boat. So when I give concerts it is like a family gathering.”
During his meditative concerts Sri Chinmoy plays on a variety of instruments. Sri Chinmoy says that by sharing his meditative music he gets inspiration from others who come to listen and are moved by his music.
“I am playing and if people are receptive, if people are feeling something, that very feeling is a source of inspiration to me. It is give and take. I am giving through music or through my silence and people who are receptive who are feeling something in the depths of their heart also were giving me in return.”
Watch video at Sri Chinmoy TV
12 February
New Biography of Sri Chinmoy
A New biography about Sri Chinmoy has been written. This includes a look at Sri Chinmoy's early life in India. Sri Chinmoy spent 20 years in the Sri Aurobinod Ashram in Pondicherry, before coming to the West in 1964. Sri Chinmoy has lived a very active life, showing that meditation can bring to the fore a range of inner and outer capacities.
For more information on life of Sri Chinmoy
view: Biography of Sri Chinmoy
12 February
Welcome to Sri Chinmoy News
Recently a compilation of Sri Chinmoy's aphorisms entitled "Sri Chinmoy's Heart-Garden" was republished it includes a variety of short poems grouped into different themes.
An overriding theme of Sri Chinmoy's philosophy is the importance of harmony.
If you develop harmony with all,
Then yours will be a heart
Totally free from sorrow.
Then yours will be a heart
Totally free from sorrow.
- Sri Chinmoy
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