Month: January 2008

  • 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 […]

  • Ministry of Silly Walks Video

    A few weeks back we had a gathering in London, where a few friends took part in some humorous skits. Premamrita was marvellous as Tommy Cooper. My contribution was to take part in Monty Python’s silly walks. “That’s it is it? It’s not particularly silly is it?” “You see Mr Puddy there’s a very real […]

  • Life Voices – and the Art of Kyudo

    Life Voices offers a range of interviews with people of inspiration and distinction. In recent episode there is an interview with Mamie Mayanaki about Kyudo an ancient Martial Art form. There seems to be some shared ideas with the concept of meditation. The idea of being fully concentrated and fully aware. It reminds me of […]

  • 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 […]

  • Top of the BLogs

    Unmesh shares some beautiful photos from his archive. Here’s hoping 2008 is a better year than 2007 – article at self improvement blog Some New Year’s resolutions from Priyadarshan’s blog which might help it occur – on the sunlit path with Sri Chinmoy. Good Cop – Bad Cop – when The New Year comes. Recent […]