Pope Francis blesses the Peace Torch
Pope Francis blessed and held aloft the Peace Torch from the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Run during his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square on 12 Oct, 2016.
It is the second time Pope Francis has blessed the Torch and offered his good wishes to all those who participate in the international Peace Run.
Salil Wilson, director of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run also gave the Pope a painting by Sri Chinmoy (founder of the Run) and a volume of selected drawings and messages of peace and love from children on six continents. The Pope expressed his gratitude for the gifts.
See more at Peace Run.org - Pope Francis blesses the Peace Torch.
Finale of European Peace Run
The meeting with Pope Francis was auspicious given the European Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run had recently finished its 2016 leg in Rome, the Eternal City, just a few days prior.
“Lasting peace must begin within the depths of the individual, and from there spread in ever-widening circles as a dynamic force for world change.”
– Sri Chinmoy
Many local Italian schoolchildren joined the event which sought to promote the ideals of peace and international friendship.
RelatedAdriano's account of swimming the English Channel
In a recent book, Adriano Passini from Brazil explains the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of successfully swimming the English Channel at his first attempt.
For Adriano Passini the English Channel was a life-long dream, though one that seemed out of reach. After studying meditation with Sri Chinmoy, he gained a new belief and confidence that it would be possible.
In this book, he shares the joys and hardships of his two-year-journey of preparation and finally completion.
Short extracts from book
"I feel that one of the greatest challenges for a person is to control their own mind. One main aspect of the spiritual life is to bring the mind and the senses under control in order to reach the ultimate goal: complete oneness with our “Inner Pilot,” the soul or God. This is not something that we will be able to achieve within a few weeks, months or years. It may take many incarnations of spiritual discipline to achieve this goal."
"In long competitions, concentration and mental control are essential, and I believe that is why Sri Chinmoy encourages the practice of endurance sports. It is not only a question of having a healthy body, but also of developing our inner capacities through sport."
"I have been learning more about this each day with my spiritual teacher. Through meditation it is becoming a reality, and I believe every day I am taking another step towards this inner goal. With each race I do, I am more convinced that this philosophy of self-transcendence in sports is helping us to learn to control and go beyond the mind. So we can tell our mind: “Look what I am capable of!”
"Occasionally, my mind was still invaded by some negative thoughts, but as soon as I became aware of them, I let them burst like balloons. I did not dwell on them. I prayed, meditated and sang in silence all the time. I had memorized a series of aphorisms to recite during the crossing, but I forgot most of them. So I sang the same five mantric songs over and over again. To relieve my mental tension, sometimes I remembered some jokes or some funny incidents that had happened in my life. I thought of people mimicking others and other funny moments. I did everything I could to entertain myself a little and eventually I even laughed. All of those things made my crossing more pleasant."
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"Up to the fourth hour, my mind had been a little agitated at times, but when the barrier of four hours was broken, things got better. My mind had adapted to the situation and started to calm down. It seemed as though the swimming became more defined, and I was better able to maintain a peaceful meditative state for longer periods of time. The time had come to appreciate the English Channel crossing even more. During the rest of the crossing, I tried to keep just a few thoughts in my mind. One of them was: “I will not give up. I will not give up. I came here to cross the English Channel and I will not leave it except on the French coast!”
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"The mental control I needed during the second half of the crossing was extreme. I believe that, were it not for the meditation that I had been practicing for eight years, I would not have been able to achieve it, at least not on my first attempt. It is startling to remember how vulnerable I felt at times during the swim. Being in the middle of the English Channel with the waves of the sea, unable to see anything around me, not knowing where I was, felt frightening. When I read Sri Chinmoy’s line about the English Channel frightening the human body and puzzling the human mind, I did not quite comprehend what he meant, but now I really started to understand."
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- Adriano's new book at Sri Chinmoy Races
Joy-Day Games!
Peace Runs across the world
Recently, the US section of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run finished in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza just outside the United Nations headquarters in New York. But, whilst the US section has finished for this year, other Peace Runs continue - in Australasia, Europe, and other locations around the world.
Runners from across the world, join in the final leg of the run through New York.
Tavishi Matthews from Australia, ran all four months in the US relay leg. The teams of runners on the Peace Run are usually comprised of individuals from all other the world, who come in their own free time to be part of this unique event.
Sri Chinmoy (in the background of the picture) founded the run in 1987, he hoped it would prove a dynamic vehicle for bringing people together from different nationalities and cultures.
At the launch of the Peace Run in 1987 with Sri Chinmoy (holding torch), Narada Michael Walden and Clarence Clemmons.
Whilst the US run has finished for 2016, the Peace Run continues in other parts of the world.
In the Ukraine, the European Peace Run continues its journey across the continent, aiming to finish in Milan Italy later this year.
A lone runner in Australia takes the Peace Torch across a straight flat round during their Peace Run.
In Iceland a local Peace Run involves school children from Reykjavík, who on this day run under a giant rainbow.
“This world has everything
Save and except one thing,
Peace,
And this peace has to blossom
From within.”
– Sri Chinmoy [source]
RelatedMother Teresa - a Mother of Compassion and Sister of Affection
Sri Chinmoy often recalled Mother Teresa's qualities of affection and compassion; for example, during their meeting in 1994 when he presented her with the prestigious U Thant Peace Award on behalf of the Peace Meditation at the United Nations.
“We were sitting at a very small table. My hands were folded over my heart,” recounts Sri Chinmoy. “After a few seconds, Mother reached out and pulled my left hand towards her. Then she started pressing my fingers, one by one, from the tip of the finger to the wrist. When she finished with my left hand, she took my right hand from my heart and did the same thing. One moment Mother was acting like a mother, the next moment like an elder sister and the third like a younger sister. It was like a brother and sister having a family gathering. No other world figure has shown me this kind of affection!”
During that meeting, Mother Teresa held the Peace Torch from the international Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, the world's largest peace torch relay and offered a most beautiful talk on serving God in the poor.
She presented her favourite prayer; her prayer-card she charmingly called her “business card.” It reads:
Mother lovingly exclaimed to Sri Chinmoy, “I am so pleased with all the good work you are doing for world peace and for people in so many countries. May we continue to work together and to share together all for the glory of God and for the good of man.” “You are the Mother of Compassion,” he replied, deeply moved. “You are the Sister of Affection. You have conquered the hearts of all the poor and needy people you have served. You have not only conquered them, but you have conquered India. Not only India, but the entire world. The entire world has boundless gratitude to you. You have elevated the consciousness of the entire world.” Mother Teresa was to meet with Sri Chinmoy on three more occasions—each time at Mother’s Missionaries of Charity House in the Bronx, New York. Their final meeting took place on June 17th, 1997—during her last visit to America. Sri Chinmoy had planned to write a book for Mother’s upcoming birthday in August, but felt compelled from within to complete the book quickly—just in time for what turned out to be their last meeting. The soul-stirring book is entitled Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower Heart; Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul.“The fruit of silence is prayer.
The fruit of prayer is faith.
The fruit of faith is love.
The fruit of love is service.
The fruit of service is peace.”
Mother Teresa exclaimed, “What a wonderful book! This is a most beautiful book! You have my blessings.” She signed one of the copies and gave it to Sri Chinmoy.
Following are a few of the many poems about Mother Teresa in the book:
“My sisters and brothers of the world,
Are we so blind that we cannot see God’s own Autograph
On Mother Teresa’s forehead?”
“Mother,
To be in your blessingful presence
Is to breathe in
A breath of living compassion.”
Mother Teresa closed the meeting with her soulful request: “Pray for us that we continue to do God’s Work, and I will pray for you that you grow in great love for God and spread that love everywhere you go. Thank you very much.” After this final interview, Sri Chinmoy said: “In Mother Teresa I see so much of Mother Mary. Other women saints have prayed and have been very spiritual, but their works have been limited to a particular town or city or village. Here, in her case, the whole world she has covered. Is there any place she has not gone!” On the morning of her departure from America, June 27th, 1997, Mother called Sri Chinmoy and offered him her most loving and most affectionate blessings. She fervently requested him to pray for her and repeated her sweet demand for him to accompany her to China where she was eager to open a Missionaries of Charity House. That afternoon, just prior to her departure, she wrote a deeply moving letter to Sri Chinmoy: “Thank you for all you are to God, for the beautiful work you have done for the glory of God and the good of souls. I keep you in my prayer and I count on your continual support through your prayers and sacrifices that we may do God’s work with great love for His greater glory.”“Mother Teresa tells the whole world That a heart of love
Is infinitely stronger
Than we can ever imagine.”
“Mother Teresa:
Calcutta’s Soaring Bird
India’s Sailing Moon
The World’s Weeping Sky
Earth’s Tearing Loss
Heaven’s Dancing Gain
The Christ’s Blossoming Promise
The Mother Mary’s Harvesting Pride.”
- Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 1 at Sri Chinmoy Library
Centro de Meditación Sri Chinmoy de Puerto Rico celebra su 50 Aniversario
El pasado 22 de julio, el Centro de Meditación Sri Chinmoy de Puerto Rico celebró su 50 Aniversario con la apertura de una exhibición del arte de Sri Chinmoy, llamado "Jharna-Kala" (Fuente de Arte) en la Casa Bailey Ashford en el Condado en San Juan.
Exactamente 50 años antes, el 22 de julio de 1966, fué fundado el Centro de Meditación Sri Chinmoy, cuyo nombre original fué el Aum Centre.
Este centro fué el primero de muchos- luego siguieron centros en Nueva York, en la isla de Jamaica y luego en Europa.
Dichos centros promueven el crecimiento espiritual del ser humano a través de la práctica de la meditación, la música, el deporte, el arte y el servicio desinteresado a la humanidad.
Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) fué un Maestro Espiritual quien dedicó su vida a servir a la divinidad en la humanidad.
Su instrucción espiritual fué siempre libre de costo, pues el sintió que lo que se recibe de Dios debe ser ofrecido gratuitamente.
A la tierna edad de 11 años, Sri Chinmoy ingresó en una comunidad espiritual (o Ashram), el Ashram de Sri Aurobindo en Pondicherry, India. En dicha comunidad practicaban un tipo de yoga integral, con una base en la meditación y la oración, pero con desarollo intelectual, deportivo y artístico incluído como parte de la práctica espiritual. La música, la poesía, el teatro y la literatura iban de mano en mano con la práctica individual y colectiva de la meditación.
En ese ambiente tan fertil, Sri Chinmoy floreció y se destacó en la rama deportiva y literaria. Fué campeón de los 100 metros por 10 años consecutivos, y campeón del décalo por dos años. Participaba destacadamente en competencias de futbol (soccer) y volleyball.
Al mismo tiempo desarrollaba sus actividades literarias, siendo un ávido poeta y también traduciendo obras del bengalí (su idioma natal) al inglés.
El 13 de abril de 1964 llega Sri Chinmoy a América, inspirado por Dios a comnpartir
con los aspirantes de Occidente los frutos de su vida de oración y meditación.
En el 1966 un grupo de aspirantes puertorriqueños invitaron al Maestro Sri Chinmoy
a venir a Puerto Rico para meditar con ellos. Les gustó tanto la meditación con el Maestro, que decidieron formar el primer Centro de Meditación Sri Chinmoy en el mundo.
El Maestro Sri Chinmoy en meditación profunda y elevada.
El Maestro Sri Chinmoy habla acerca de la diferencia entre la mente y el corazón.
Hoy en día hay más de 60 Centos de Meditación Sri Chinmoy en el mundo, ofreciendo
clases gratuitas de meditación, conciertos gratuitos de música meditativa, eventos de fondismo y la Carrera por la Paz.
Discípulos en concierto "Songs of the Soul"
Niños en Puerto Rico sostienen
la Antorcha de la Paz
Sri Chinmoy medita al inaugurar la Carrera por la Paz
Video acerca de la Carrera por la Paz
El Presidente de Portugal inaugura la sección europea de la Carrera por la Paz 2020
Carrera por la Paz Sri Chinmoy- Hogar de Unidad- Culmina en Agosto 23 en Nueva York
El pasado 23 de agosto concluyó la Carrera Por La Paz Sri Chinmoy-Hogar de Unidad- de 2016 en el Dag Hammarskold Plaza en Nueva York.
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