Such a thrill I got in my heart

Bipin (left) is one of the race directors of the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race. Here he is pictured with 8-time finisher Vasu Duzhiy from Russia. When I was 17, I heard music by...
25 November 2021
Such a thrill I got in my heart

Dumbstruck with silence and beauty

My longings make me poor and weak,
  They hear not my secret Will.
Ever they hate my quest supreme,
  Away they take my thrill. A day shall come, I know it well,
  When...
24 November 2021
Dumbstruck with silence and beauty

An Eastern Yogi who was here to teach me

I was listening to a piano concert by a French composer, a concert for orchestra and piano. There is a high point in this concert where the orchestra dies down and leaves only the pianist playing...
17 November 2021
An Eastern Yogi who was here to teach me

How sports and fitness became part of our spiritual life

This is the very beginning of when Guru started to incorporate sports and fitness into our Path. As you know, Guru came to the West in 1964, and the very first Centre he opened was in Puerto Rico in...
17 November 2021
How sports and fitness became part of our spiritual life

Messages of hope from Portugal

Since the onset of the pandemic, the Sri Chinmoy Centres throughout the world have sought simple, humble ways to make the situation more tolerable. For example, at the beginning of the pandemic, we...
5 November 2021
Messages of hope from Portugal

Tears of Joy

Driving to Eugene, Oregon, on a crisp sunny fall Saturday, I was suffused with an inexplicable happy anticipation. It felt like such a gift of a special day. Only ten days earlier, I’d been...
29 October 2021
Tears of Joy

A Migraine Miracle

As a teenager and college student, I occasionally got extremely bad migraine headaches. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason to their occurrence. They could last anywhere from several hours to a...
29 October 2021
A Migraine Miracle

The most beautiful place

Until two days before my father’s passing, I held out the hope that he would recover from his illness. And so I kept his accounting business afloat for the last two months. One evening, about...
29 October 2021
The most beautiful place

Why I Started Long-Distance Running

Jamaica High School track, where many of our events were held I was in my early 40s and new to Sri Chinmoy’s path. It was Father’s Day weekend in New York. I was out jogging and came across our...
29 October 2021
Why I Started Long-Distance Running

A divine fragrance

The night before I was informed that I had been accepted as Guru’s disciple, I had a very significant dream. However, I did not remember it upon waking. The next evening I went to the Centre, where...
29 October 2021
A divine fragrance

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