My God-Hunger-Cry - by Sri Chinmoy

My God-Hunger-Cry - June 20, 2006 My Lord, I do not know, Alas, what to say. "My child, saying is not needed. Just pray and pray." - Sri Chinmoy.
My God-Hunger-Cry - by Sri Chinmoy

In October of 2005, Sri Chinmoy began a series of prayer-poems entitled My God-Hunger-Cry. We are delighted to feature them here and hope they bring you joy and inspiration.

My God-Hunger-Cry - by Sri Chinmoy

My God-Hunger-Cry - June 19, 2006 Truth I speak; I please and fulfil God. Truth I speak; The world comes to me With an iron rod. - Sri Chinmoy.
My God-Hunger-Cry - by Sri Chinmoy

In October of 2005, Sri Chinmoy began a series of prayer-poems entitled My God-Hunger-Cry. We are delighted to feature them here and hope they bring you joy and inspiration.

Art

Video: Sri Chinmoy drew over 16 million birds using many different mediums and surfaces - here he draws on fabric.

Sri Chinmoy calls his artwork Jharna-Kala, which is Bengali for "fountain-art." The name reflects the spontaneous fountain of creativity he experiences through meditation, expressed and revealed through an extraordinary output of paintings in a wide array of media and forms.

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Sri Chinmoy painted and drew rapidly and spontaneously in a meditative way. His mystical, often abstract works of art, varying from miniatures to murals, include a multiplicity of styles and techniques.

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.Sri Chinmoy began his artistic journey in November 1974 in Ottawa, Canada. In his lifetime he created over 140,000 paintings. They have exhibited in galleries and prominent locations around the world, such as UN building in New York and the parliament buildings of the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Ukraine.

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In December 1991, Sri Chinmoy began drawing birds, representing the soul's freedom. Since then he has drawn millions of an ongoing series entitled "Dream-Freedom Peace-Birds", or soul-birds as they are often called. From 1991 to 2007, Sri Chinmoy drew millions of these soul-birds, sometimes as individual drawings, sometimes in groups ranging from a few birds together to thousands of birds on a single page.

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"Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity."

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Resources on Sri Chinmoy's Art

 

Writings of Sri Chinmoy

With his soulful writings, Sri Chinmoy is trying to inspire mankind.

srichinmoySri Chinmoy employs many forms of the written and spoken word, including poetry, essays, lectures, aphorisms, questions and answers, stories and plays. This variety of forms is matched by his range of subjects, from humorous tales of village life and plays on the lives of spiritual figures, to lectures on the philosophy of yoga and poetry of mystic rapture.

Poetry has always been Sri Chinmoy's first choice, as a natural medium for expressing mystical experience. His poems express a broad range of spiritual emotion, from the doubts and fears of the wavering pilgrim to the blissful realisations of the illumined master. Sri Chinmoy's poetry includes several volumes of traditional poetry mainly dealing with experiences along the spiritual path. In recent years he has concentrated on short mantric like aphorisms which serve as a guide and encouragement for seekers. To view the poetry of Sri Chinmoy.

Spiritual Talks

(Video: A 1999 lecture titled 'The New Millenium'. Source: Sri Chinmoy TV)

Sri Chinmoy has lectured on spiritual topics at hundreds of universities around the world, including Oxford, Cambridge, the Sorbonne, Harvard and Yale. These talks have been published in a collection of volumes entitled 'Eastern Light for the Western Mind'.

Through his writings and lectures, Sri Chinmoy shares in simple, clear language insights on the nature of the spiritual life and the aspirant's relationship with God. He has answered thousands of questions on spirituality from seekers travelling along the road of personal illumination and transformation.

 

Writings of Sri Chinmoy

To date, over 1,600 books written by Sri Chinmoy have been published. Such was the volume of his output, that new books continue to be published after his passing. His published works:

  • 112,000+ Published Poems to date
    • 45,000 poems from “Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees”
    • 27,000 poems from “Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants”
    • 10,000 poems from “Ten Thousand Flower-Flames”
    • 2,240 rhyming poems
    • 1,301 poems written in 24 hours (August 7th-8th, 1996) 
  • 63 Plays published in 16 books including
    • 11 full length plays
    • 52 one-act plays
  • 389 University Lectures
  • 3,800+ Published Stories
  • 675+ Published Jokes
Publishers

Some of Sri Chinmoy’s early books were accepted by distinguished publishing houses such as Simon & Schuster, Rudolf Steiner and Herder & Herder. In recent years, Hazeldon, Health Communications, Blue Dove Press, Simon & Schuster and New Holland Publishers (Australia) have released major books by Sri Chinmoy. Sales of The Wings of Joy have soared to nearly 65,000.

 

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My God-Hunger-Cry - by Sri Chinmoy

My God-Hunger-Cry - June 18, 2006 When the heart Is all sweetness, The life becomes God-fulness. - Sri Chinmoy.
My God-Hunger-Cry - by Sri Chinmoy

In October of 2005, Sri Chinmoy began a series of prayer-poems entitled My God-Hunger-Cry. We are delighted to feature them here and hope they bring you joy and inspiration.

My God-Hunger-Cry - by Sri Chinmoy

My God-Hunger-Cry - June 17, 2006 How can you ever Declare God's Victory? You live always In your mind-factory. - Sri Chinmoy.
My God-Hunger-Cry - by Sri Chinmoy

In October of 2005, Sri Chinmoy began a series of prayer-poems entitled My God-Hunger-Cry. We are delighted to feature them here and hope they bring you joy and inspiration.

3100 Mile Self Transcendence Race Begins today

Today is the opening day of the Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, the longest certified road race in the world. For the best part of the next two months, 13 runners will be pacing around a half mile loop in Jamaica, New York for eighteen hours a day, aiming to push their capacities to the very limit in one of the toughest endurance tests imaginable. This is the eleventh holding of this epic race. Last year, Madhupran Schwerk from Germany shattered the race record, completing the distance in the astonishing time of 41 days and 8 hours. Madhupran is not competing this year, but three-time winner Ashprihanal Aalto from Finland will be looking to transcend last-year's time of 43 days and 15 hours.

The race features three new competitors this year looking to try their hand at this most challenging of distances; Vlastimil Dvoracek and Petr Spacil (fresh - if that word can be applied - from his victory in the Self-Transcendence Ten-Day Race in April) from the Czech Republic, and Grahak Cunningham from Perth in Australia. Suprabha Beckjord, the sole female entrant in the race, is also the only person to complete all ten previous editions.

This race is organised by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, who have been putting on events for the sporting community around the world for the past 30 years. Many of their events, such as the 3100 Mile and Six and Ten Day Races in New York, the Triple-Triathlon in Australia or the 24 hour lake swim in Zurich, really offer a challenge to those who participate and an oportunity to extend their true potential.

You can watch a video of the 2007 race start on Sri Chinmoy TV...

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