Over 700 videos on meditation and spirituality.

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February 18, 2024

Early film footage of Sri Chinmoy

A selection of early film footage from the 1980s, recorded on the Super-8mm format. This rare archive footage features Sri Chinmoy in meditation, performing in concerts, and taking part in sporting activities.

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January 27, 2024

Sri Chinmoy: Samadhi

A rare historical 16mm film from the 1970s shows Sri Chinmoy in meditation at his home in Queens, NY. Read more »

January 22, 2024

Kailash on self-transcendence

In this video, Kailash talks about what he understands by the concept of self-transcendence; he explains how self-transcendence is the process of going deeper in meditation and understanding more about our real nature. Kailash also explains how sport can help us to practise a form of self-transcendence that can be then used in other areas of life. Read more »

January 17, 2024

Ashrita Furman – A spiritual journey

Ashrita Furman has over 130 Guinness World records to his name, far more than any other person on earth. Here in this special 30 minute interview, he talks in detail about his spiritual journey, how he started meditation and how his journey of self-discovery transformed him from a self-described ‘shy, skinny kid’ who was completely non sports-oriented into a Guinness Record breaker who uses the power of meditation to go beyond the mind and achieve things that previously seemed almost impossible. Read more »

December 31, 2023

Interview: “Love of God is exactly what I was looking for in life”

Hemabha Jang talks about the inner search which led her to become a student of Sri Chinmoy. Growing up in South Korea, Hemabha was interested in spirituality from a very young age. Coming originally from a Christian background, she explored many different roads to greater happiness and deeper meaning in life. Read more »

November 15, 2023

Sri Chinmoy on the Goal of Life

This is an extract from a tv interview with Sri Chinmoy from 1976. Featuring on the Pat Collins tv show, Sri Chinmoy explains his essential philosophy of dedicated service and how everyone has the capacity to ultimately attain to the Highest Consciousness.

November 4, 2023

TV Interview with Sri Chinmoy from 1977

A historic video of Sri Chinmoy being interviewed by WOR-TV’s ‘Straight Talk’ in New York, US. During the TV show, Sri Chinmoy played the esraj and answered questions on spiritual topics. Sri Chinmoy spoke about how to attain God-realisation through prayer and meditation, and his path of love, devotion and surrender. Read more »

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June 19, 2017

Sri Chinmoy in silent meditation – 27-8-1991

A video from Sri Chinmoy’s birthday on August 27, 1991, showing him in silent meditation. Sri Chinmoy felt the real teaching of a spiritual Master occurred through silence and bringing to the fore the presence of peace and light, which can be felt by receptive seekers.

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October 28, 2019

First instructions for beginners in meditation – Sri Chinmoy

During an interview at the Holistic Health Association of the Princeton area, New Jersey, Sri Chinmoy is asked to share what he considers the preliminary stages and attitude for people who are starting to meditate.

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September 6, 2017

A meditation close-up

This video captures a close up meditation of Sri Chinmoy during a poetry reading in Stockholm in 1990. Sri Chinmoy recited poems in Bengali and English and then meditated as the Swedish translations were read out. Read more »

March 27, 2019

Meditation in New York – April 1992

A video recording of a meditation by Sri Chinmoy at the New York Meditation Center in April 1992. During the meditation, some of Sri Chinmoy’s students are singing and performing arrangements of his music. Often Sri Chinmoy would combine meditation with music as he felt meditative music could bring to the fore the inner heart of the seeker. Read more »

April 20, 2022

Meditation exercises: Love, Peace and Light

These meditation exercises are taken from the writings of meditation Master Sri Chinmoy. In this exercise, Sri Chinmoy writes how we can focus our meditation on a divine quality that we wish to invoke. Read more »

March 30, 2020

Meditation & Singing on Aspiration-Ground

This video is from Sri Chinmoy’s Birthday Celebrations in August 1992. It shows Sri Chinmoy in meditation, and singing his own Bengali songs. The meditation takes place at “Aspiration-Ground”, a former tennis-court that he also used as a function place for himself and his students. Read more »

Sport and self-transcendence.

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May 22, 2015

Course record set in 12 Hour Walk

Every year, Sri Chinmoy’s students hold a 12 hour walking race on April 12th, the eve of the anniversary of Sri Chinmoy’s arrival in America. This year over 150 people participated, and the race yielded a new competition record, set by Abhinabha Tangerman from Amsterdam. Read more »

March 20, 2016

Suprabha – 3100 Mile Race stories

Suprabha Beckjord completed the 3100 Mile Self Transcendence race a record 13 consecutive years – between 1997 and 2009. In this short interview, Suprabha shares some stories of how she got into running and how Sri Chinmoy encouraged her to enter the 3100 Mile Race. Read more »

October 23, 2015

Self Transcendence 24 hour Race in Ottawa

The Self Transcendence 24 hour race in Ottawa is the longest running 24 hour race in the world, taking place since 1983. The race is also unique in that it is held entirely indoors, around a 400m track. Utpal Marshall interviews some of the participants to find out what makes them do this kind of race.

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July 25, 2015

New world record set in 3100 Mile Race

On 24 July 2015, Ashprihanal Aalto set a new record for the world’s longest race, the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile race. The flying Finn completed the epic journey in under 41 days, almost a day faster than the previous record set in 2006. In doing so, he averaged over 76 miles (123.5 km) a day. Read more »

June 19, 2018

At the start of the 3100 Mile Race

In this video, Utpal Marshall captures the atmosphere at the start of the 2018 Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race. The short video gives an insight into the hopes, aspirations and feelings of those runners who are taking to the start line in this epic quest of self-transcendence. The runners will aim to complete the 3100 miles in a time of fewer than 52 days – which requires a daily average of 60 miles. Read more »

July 11, 2018

Prachar on enthusiasm

In this video, Prachar Stegemann relates a short story about competing in a one mile race. Prachar narrates how he started the race with great speed and enthusiasm. Despite fading towards the end of the race, he later received warm appreciation from his spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy, for starting the race with such great enthusiasm.

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Peace Concerts.

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August 16, 2017

Sri Chinmoy’s first Peace Concert – Cologne, 1984

On 24 March 1984, Sri Chinmoy offered his first major Peace Concert in the Kölner Sporthalle in Cologne, Germany. 8000 seekers attended and it was the start of a worldwide series of Peace Concerts.  This is an original VHS recording and the video quality is not perfect, but it gives a small impression of these Peace Concerts. Read more »

Documentaries

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    Challenging Impossibility

    Award-winning story of Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting  Read more »

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    Spirit of a Runner

    One runner’s journey through the longest foot race in the world. Read more »

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    Ocean Monk

    Seeking enlightenment through meditation and surfing. Read more »

Podcasts on Sri Chinmoy TV

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    LIFE Voices

    Interviews with inspiring voices from around the world Read more »

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    Meditation-Silence

    Silent meditation and spiritual writings by Sri Chinmoy. Read more »

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    Moments of Silence

    Meditative scenery from Hawai’i, Switzerland, Bali and more »