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About the Sri Chinmoy Centre
At the heart of everything the Sri Chinmoy Centre does is a single aim – to help people find a pathway to a happier life, and work towards a world where inner peace is the common currency of each and every individual.
Our teacher, Sri Chinmoy, has shown us over the past forty years that each and every field of human betterment - art, poetry, music, athletics - can all play a vital role in pursuit of this goal. And so in the same vein, the Sri Chinmoy Centre offers a diverse variety of spiritual, cultural, musical, athletic and humanitarian events and activities in towns and cities around the world.
The philosophy of the Sri Chinmoy Centre is simple yet unique - to improve the world around us we must first improve ourselves. Rather than political, economic or scientific solutions to the world's problems, the Centre works from the premise that it is within the individual that the solution to all our problems exists. Only when each person has a measure of peace, light and joy, can we have a world where outer harmony and brotherhood are predominant.
The cornerstone of the Sri Chinmoy Centre's activities is meditation, for it can be said that meditation is the very beginning and end of spirituality itself. Meditation transforms the experience of spirituality from a theoretical knowledge to a living immersion, bringing to the fore the peace, joy, light and love that is locked away deep inside all of us. The Sri Chinmoy Centre offers free lessons in meditation around all four corners of the globe, and provides a peaceful haven where its members meet to practice.
Fundamental to all the endeavours of the Sri Chinmoy Centre is a belief in our divine potential, the spiritual heritage of all humanity as commonly described by the great religions. We are not merely human beings having a spiritual experience; rather we are spiritual beings having a human experience. The twin goals of inner peace and outer harmony the Sri Chinmoy Centre works for are but a natural extension of this our shared divine origin. In seeking inner peace we seek to uncover our true, divine nature; in our work to build global harmony and friendship we bring something of the inner peace we gain through meditation to the entire world. We aim to show that, far from the traditional 'yogi in a cave' stereotype often associated with meditation paths, inner contemplation and outer action can and indeed must go together. As Sri Chinmoy eloquently puts it: "We try to synthesize and harmonise the outer life and the inner life. The outer life is like a beautiful flower and the inner life is its fragrance. If there is no fragrance, then we cannot appreciate the flower. Again, if there is no flower, how can there be any fragrance? So the inner life and the outer life must go together."
Events organised by the Sri Chinmoy Centre:
Free Meditation classes
Through our public meditation classes, a spiritual approach to life is made freely available to seekers of truth and inner peace all over the world. At Sri Chinmoy’s own personal request, all meditation classes and public concerts are given without charge, in the conviction that the inner fulfilment meditation can bring is the unequivocal birthright of every individual. Find out more...
Athletic events
Sri Chinmoy has long been a great believer in the power of sport to bring people together, and to provide a channel through which athletes can find the very best within themselves. The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, the sporting organisation founded by Sri Chinmoy in 1977, organises fun-runs, marathons, ultra distance races and triathlons in over 20 countries around the world. Read more...
Concerts of meditative music
Music is an indispensable part of the life of the Sri Chinmoy Centre, and we frequently organise concerts of soulful music for the general public in many locations around the world, read more...
Initiatives for a better world
All around the world, volunteers from the Sri Chinmoy Centre coordinate the following initiatives as part of their contribution towards a more harmonious and equitable world:
World Harmony Run
The World Harmony Run is a grassroots initiative in which runners carry a burning torch through over 70 countries and pass it from hand to hand in a gesture of friendship and global solidarity. Read more...
The Oneness-Heart Tears and Smiles humanitarian initiative.
The Oneness-Heart Tears and Smiles initiative offers humanitarian aid services in 24 countries, and is entirely staffed by volunteer members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre. As the name suggests, the organisation's activities are guided by the principle of oneness between the volunteers and the people they are serving, and overcoming the problem of superiority and inferiority between donor and recipient that might otherwise exist. Read more...
