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Sri Chinmoy (born 1931), originally Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, is an Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher (guru).

He was a youngest of sevener tikes, born around Shakpura in East Bengal (now Bangladesh), and affected to New York City in 1964. Awhile he was an interfaith charlie chaplin at a United Nations. He nowadays sleep in Jamaica in Queens County, New York.

Within 1944, after each his parents got died, 12-month-old Chinmoy entered a Sri Aurobindo ashram, a spiritual community touching Pondicherry in South India. On text he spent a next twenty years within spiritual practice.

His teachings promote celibacy, meditation, abstinence & fitness; these are park for his followers to dog marathons, ultramarathons,or compete within triathalons. Of these distinctive feature of his have practice is that he lifts population: followers, celebrities & figure.

Poetry
A Soul-Bird

O globe-ignorance,
Although
Your family use shackled the feet,
We are loose.

Although
Your family use at times chained the mitts,
We are loose.

Although
That you develop enslaved the person,
We are loose.

We are loose because We are non of the person.
We are loose because We are non a person.
We are loose because We are a soul-bird
That flies within Infinity-Sky.
We are a soul-baby that dreams
On the Lap of the immortal King Supreme.

Bibliography
Larson, Bob ''Larson's Book of Globe Religions & Guide Spirituality'' (2004), Tyndale Home Publishers, Inc., ISBN 084236417X

Sri Chinmoy
Life and teachings of the spiritual teacher. Includes his literary, musical and artistic works.

Radio Sri Chinmoy
An Internet radio with 7 channels and more than 50 hours of soulful music by the guru. Includes flute, esraj, cello, voice, synthesizer and pipe organ.

Sri Chinmoy Poetry
Excerpts from several volumes by the spiritual poet, with an introduction by Alan Spence. Includes both English poems and translations from Bengali songs.

Sri Chinmoy TV
Video clips of the spiritual master and his many activities. Includes concert footage, interviews, silent meditation, running and painting.

Sri Chinmoy Library
Online source for more than a thousand of the guru's books. Includes talks, poems, stories, plays, questions and answers, and humor. Searchable database.

Sri Chinmoy Races
Race events sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, from Masters track and field competitions to the world's longest certified race of 3100 miles.

Sri Chinmoy Art
Paintings and drawings by the artist. Pieces from his Jharna-Kala collection. Insights into his philosophy of art as meditation, and meditation as art.

Sri Chinmoy Music
The guru writes about music as the universal language of God. Includes "God the Supreme Musician," "The Mantra Aum," and "Becoming An Instrument."

U.N. Pays Tribute To JFK Jr.
USA Today article on a celebration organized by Sri Chinmoy honoring the late son of President Kennedy.

Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team
An article by Kevin Tiller discussing the guru's philosophy of self-transcendence as it applies to ultrarunning.






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