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Part of the choir who performed music at the exhibition.

Two lions guard the entrance to the museum.

Food as colourful as the art

More photos of Gallery at Sri Chinmoy Centre

Cascading Organ-Delight - an article by Prachar Stegemann on the organ playing of Sri Chinmoy

... Sri Chinmoy: Yes, I find spirituality in the organ, more than I find it in any other instrument. Here I see that the organ is not only the King of all the musical instruments but it is also the Queen of all the instruments. It has a very subtle, delicate touch at the same time....

Sri Chinmoy playing tennis

Sri Chinmoy's Peerless Tennis Achievement Part 2 by Dr Vidagdha Bennett

"...At 7:30 p.m. people began arriving for meditation. Instead, they found themselves witness to a remarkable display of energy and skill. In the final moments of play, Sri Chinmoy employed his whole repertoire of dipping and angled shots, spins and lobs, to defeat the opposing team. The scores stood at 50-35 games in his favour. Smiling, he said: “Almost nearing 100 games – so one can become tired!"

• www.srichinmoy-reflections

Anna Purna

Annapūrṇā is a Sanskrit name which literally means "full of food" (feminine form), but is normally translated as Goddess of the Harvests. In Hinduism, Annapurna is a goddess of fertility and agriculture and an avatar of Durga.

More Canadian enterprises at Sri Chinmoy Centre

"When we play soulful music, we elevate our consciousness most rapidly. Soulful music is a form of aspiration, a form of meditation."

- Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from Sri Chinmoy Speaks, Part 5 by Sri Chinmoy.

Bristol Cathedral

After the concert - Sadanand (from Dublin Ireland), Devashishu, Upasana.

Ananda at Radio Sri Chinmoy

- Sri Chinmoy, Extract from Smile, Love And Claim - Everest Aspiration Part 1

You can also hear Sri Chinmoy read  extracts from his book at Radio Sri Chinmoy - Everest Aspiration

Photo by Pranlobha, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries.

The first Guatemalan concert was performed in Panajachel overlooking beautiful Lake Atitlan. The second concert took place in Guatemala city.

The last concert was an outdoor performance in front Hermita de Santa Cruz in the ancient colonial town of Antigua. Much of the town was destroyed in earthquakes in 1773, leaving many impressive ruined structures behind. Around the building there is an outdoor amphitheater which seated 600 people for the concert.

More from songsofthesoul.com:

• Photos from Panajachel concert
• Photos from Antigua concert

"With so many remarkable achievements over the past decade we decided to let the fans dictate the best of the best," explained Craig Glenday, Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief. "After thousands of votes the Top Records of the Decade does not disappoint."

Ashrita, an anything but disappointing 54 year old health-food store manager, and possibly a better advertisement for good health than the products he sells, set his first record in 1979 by performing the most star jumps—an astounding 27,000—and has since gained the monikers Mr Versatility and Mr Guinness Records by hopping, skipping and juggling his way to records on all seven continents, and in disciplines as diverse as the most pogostick jumps in one minute (238), the fastest mile somersaulting (19 min 11 sec), and standing on a swiss ball for the longest time (3 hrs 38 min).

As one of the top record breakers of the 2000s, Ashrita joins an illustrious field including Usain Bolt, whose 2008 9.69 second 100m was voted the top sports record, and Barack Obama, who made history and the record books as the first African-American U.S. President.

The 2010 launch began with lighting the torch from the molten lava of an active Volcano in Guatemala. The team in Guatemala includes runners from around the world including countries such as Ukraine, Switzerland, China, Brazil, Canada, El Salvador, Iceland and Mongolia as well as Guatemala.

To follow the 2010 run in different parts of the world visit World Harmony Run for all latest updates.

Songs About Jesus Christ

Sri Chinmoy composed many Songs about Jesus Christ, and put to music some of his immortal utterances.

• Mountain Silence at Radio Sri Chinmoy

About Dhaka Songs of the Soul

Review at Daily Star

Shindhu on Tour in Scandanavia

They have produced a range of music recordings that can be heard at Radio Sri Chinmoy.

See: Shindhu at Radio Sri Chinmoy

"In the case of Zatopek, higher reality and higher divinity descended on him precisely because he had confidence in his own capacities and also an implicit faith in the vision and satisfaction of the higher worlds. On the strength of his unparalleled confidence in himself and confidence in God, he not only conquered the runners' world but also illumined the consciousness of the runners' world."

- Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from: Confidence is Good - Emil Zatopek: Earth's Tearing Cry And Heaven's Beaming Smile by Sri Chinmoy.

Photo by Kedar Misani Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

• The Impermanence of Things - Rathin
• The Ox Pictures - by Jogyata
• Matzalan Impressions by Sharani
• Spiritual Experiences by Tejvan
• Pole Star Promise Light - Wednesday Evening Function by Arpan

For more great postings browse through Sri Chinmoy Inspiration

The statue is right on the coast of the Pacific Ocean ringed by palm trees in a location adjacent to a coastal plaza featuring other statues and lookouts over the ocean. Eventually its environs will be landscaped with benches and will include additional information about the late spiritual leader’s contributions in various fields.

Other statues by the same sculptor, British artist Kaivalya Torpy, are located in Norway, Bali and the Czech Republic. The statue unveiled in Mazatlan is the first in the Americas and the first ever of the spiritual leader holding a torch -- the symbol of the World Harmony Run.

The Mayor of Mazatlan Jorge Abel Lopez Sanchez was in attendance to unveil the statue and he was presented with the World Harmony Run Torch Bearer Award during the ceremony. Students of Sri Chinmoy representing various countries also were in attendance. The Mazatlan Fire Department Band and Gymnastics Team performed a stirring drum and trumpet performance and ascended heavenward with gravity defying human pyramid formations. The World Harmony Run torch was held aloft from atop one such human pyramid.

Activities continued the following day with visits by the World Harmony Run to three elementary schools culminating in the school children running the torch to the foot of the statue where they were greeted by the Secretary of the Mayor.

A World Harmony Run ceremony including school children also visited a large Mazatlan shopping mall where Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artwork was on exhibit inside the mall.

The local daily newspaper Noroeste featured an article about the statue dedication in the November 28th edition of the paper and a second article about the World Harmony Run festivities also appeared on the sports page in the same day’s paper.

Read more at WorldHarmonyRun.org.

"Be  Home Before Dark"

A beautiful woman is nature's beauty.

A cheerful child is nature's beauty.

A soulful flower is nature's beauty.

A thoughtful man is nature's beauty.

But

A trance-bound silence

Is nature's Beauty Supreme.

Inside the Interior of the Fragrance of the Heart II

Another view of Fragrance of the Heart II

Guests enjoying coffee and the Jharna Kala art of Sri Chinmoy

Making the cappucino

Outside Fragrance of the Heart

Fragrance of the Heart II

Fragrance of the Heart Coffee Shop, Oslo

"When four persons do the same thing together they inspire one another. It is like a tug-of-war. When you are meditating with your group, there are four or five persons meditating together against only one person: ignorance, whereas when you meditate at home, you are one individual and ignorance is another individual. "

- Sri Chinmoy (Sri Chinmoy Library)

In this post, Devashishu Torpy explains he grew up learning to meditate and now now teaches meditation classes in his home city of London (London Meditation) and also other places he visits.

I give meditation classes on the authority of my teacher, Sri Chinmoy. I am a seeker, and as part of my spiritual discipline I have been given the opportunity to share my experiences and my limited knowledge with other seekers. That ‘sharing’ plays a vital role in my own journey of self discovery.

- Giving Meditation classes by Devashishu

Held November 14 at Auckland’s Trusts Stadium, the first time the impossibility challenging festival has been staged in New Zealand, the event saw two World Records set by Swiss strongman and weightlifter Albert Walter, who first tore a 1440 page phone book in two and then snapped a 30cm long carpenter’s nail, with nothing more than bare hands and steely determination employed.

New Zealander Alistair Galpin, one of the top World Record breakers of the past decade, set nine new records on the day, including the most lit candles in the mouth, and the fastest time to shell a boiled egg. To celebrate, Galpin broke the record for the most high-fives in a minute.

Other impossible feats made possible included the fastest car tyre change by four employees of tire company Frank Allen Tyres, the world’s longest balloon chain, the largest dot to dot drawing, and the fastest mile pushing a person in a shopping trolley.

The 16th staging of the event, Impossibility-Challenger was founded in 1982 by accomplished weightlifter and peace-visionary Sri Chinmoy, upon the ideals of self-transcendence and challenging limits, and was staged by the Sri Chinmoy Centre, a prolific non-profit organisation also responsible for the World Harmony Run—the world’s largest participant torch relay—and The Oneness-Heart Tears and Smiles humanitarian aid programme.

Related

• Impossibility-Challenger website