Collecting precious memories with our Guru
One silver lining of these strange times is that many of us have had time to finally gather together all of our spiritual stories, from our time with Sri Chinmoy. We have been holding regular video and audio calls, which has given many of us the change to recollect and share precious memories of our spiritual Master. It is a very valuable storehouse of stories that will benefit seekers for generations to come.
We are starting to publish some of these stories as part of our Story-Gems project.
Books
This year, some of Sri Chinmoy's students also released books about their lives.
Projjwal and Aruna Pohland
Projjwal became a student of Sri Chinmoy in 1976 along with his daughter Aruna, who was then three months old. Projjwal was also an avid photographer and took many wonderful photos that bring the stories to life.
Nirmala and Kedar Misani
Nirmala from the Zurich Centre passed away in December last year; in tribute, her husband Kedar has published two books about her, one containing life-stories and one containing her artistic sketches, before then proceeding to write another book about his own stories with Sri Chinmoy.

Jvalita Sharipova
Jvalita is from Ufa, in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan. An artist, she has been organising exhibitions of Sri Chinmoy's mystical Jharna Kala art for 15 years.
Now she has completed her first book My Love - Jharna-Kala (in Russian), where she describes what Sri Chinmoy's paintings mean to her: "Jharna-Kala is a huge world of paintings, presented to the Earth by Sri Chinmoy ...This world contains not only the beauty of the works, but also the sea of Light, Delight, Peace, a call to the Perfection."
Stories
First-hand experiences of meditation and spirituality.
My Room
Preetidutta Thorpe Auckland, New Zealand
'It was like I was seeing who Guru really was: this extraordinary, beautiful being inside a physical body'
Jogyata Dallas Auckland, New Zealand
Meditation: Touching The Infinite
Jogyata Dallas Auckland, New Zealand
A vision at 3 a.m in the morning
Abarita Dänzer Zürich, Switzerland
The day when everything began
Bhagavantee Paul Salzburg, Austria
My first Guru
Adarini Inkei Geneva, Switzerland
My life with Sri Chinmoy
Namrata Moses New York, United States
10-Day Race: Staring into the Infinite
Patanga Cordeiro São Paulo, Brazil
Spiritual Friends
Preetidutta Thorpe Auckland, New Zealand
Praying for God’s Grace to Descend
Sweta Pradhan Kathmandu, Nepal
A love that was thick like butter
Mahatapa Palit New York, United States
The Peace Run visits Oxford
Tejvan Pettinger Oxford, United Kingdom
Running for Peace
Jogyata Dallas Auckland, New ZealandSuggested videos
interviews with Sri Chinmoy's students
No prior experience needed
Samalya Schafer Berlin, Germany
Growing up on Sri Chinmoy's path
Aruna Pohland Augsburg, Germany
Where the finite connects to the Infinite
Jogyata Dallas Auckland, New Zealand
2 things that surprised me about the spiritual life
Jayasalini Abramovskikh Moscow, Russia
My first impressions of Sri Chinmoy's philosophy
Lunthita Duthely Hialeah, United States