Category: sri chinmoy

  • Meditation – self effort and grace

    An interesting feature about meditation is that sometimes, when you make a lot of effort, it feels like nothing really happens. Yet, at other times, you make no seeming effort, but you can have a very good meditation. This is an experience I remember from Oslo in June 2001. I was late for a talk […]

  • Short video: Joining Sri Chinmoy’s path

    The video was taken in New York. It’s just a short bit about becoming a disciple of Sri Chinmoy back in 1999, when I was a student at Oxford University. I’ve written about it in more detail here: Becoming a disciple of Sri Chinmoy

  • Sri Chinmoy Cycling Team video

    This is a video filmed and produced by Adam Thornton back in March 2015. It was after an early season hilly time trial promoted by Hemel Hempstead CC. Sorry for eating muesli bar during interview. It is the cyclists panic, eat protein after hard race. I talk a little about racing, the Sri Chinmoy Cycling […]

  • Soul-birds by Sri Chinmoy

    Soul-birds by Sri Chinmoy

    From 1991 to 2007, Sri Chinmoy drew millions of soul-birds. He began drawing these unique creations whilst on a visit to Malta. Sri Chinmoy also termed them ‘Dream-Freedom Peace-Birds’ When signing his name, Sri Chinmoy often added these spontaneous bird drawings. In Oslo 2001, I bought a book from a Norwegian Bookshop. It was beautifully […]

  • Challenging Impossibility Review

    A few years ago, I attended Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting celebration of 2004. It was a remarkable night of lifting prowess, but as these things tend to do, it had mostly faded from my memory. Also as someone with no background in weightlifting, it was hard to find any reference point for judging the weightlifting of […]

  • Trailer for Challenging Impossibility

    Challenging Impossibility Trailer from Sanjay Rawal on Vimeo. This will be a great film to watch. I saw many of Sri Chinmoy’s lifting when in New York and other places. This helps to put into context by getting perspective from some of most experienced body builders and weightlifters. Challenging Impossibility Related Inspiration Lifts.org

  • Selected Flower Flames

    These Flower Flames are from a selection of 207 Poems that Sri Chinmoy made from his series 10,000 Flower Flames. Today I am Wise Yesterday I was clever. That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise. That is why I am changing myself. ~ One Thing To Learn Every day […]

  • The World’s Largest Pencil Finds a New Home

    This August a team of builders, under the direction of Ashrita Furman, built the world’s largest pencil. Measuring 76 feet, the pencil was built to maintain the exact proportions of a standard pencil. You can read about the pencil’s building here The Guiness Record Breaking pencil was built to honour Sri Chinmoy’s 76th birthday The […]

  • Leonard Bernstein and Ode to Joy

    Sri Chinmoy was a great admirer and friend of Leonard Bernstein – one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth Century. Fortunately Sri Chinmoy and Leonard Bernstein had the opportunity to meet on a number of occasion and could share their love of music Extract From: Second Meeting with Leonard Bernstein SRI CHINMOY: Our admiration […]

  • Poems – Never Give Up

    “I do not give up, I never give up, For there is nothing In this entire world that is irrevocably unchangeable.” – Sri Chinmoy “Just make tremendous progress And tremendous improvement In your own life Others will definitely be inspired By the result.” – Sri Chinmoy Photo from Lake Rydal, Lake District Related  Obituary of […]