Yashodevi Samar from Ukraine talks about how she first made a connection to Sri Chinmoy’s Path at the age of seven. For Yashodevi, hearing music composed by Sri Chinmoy gave her tremendous joy, and this encouraged her to follow his spiritual path. Yashodevi also explains how the spiritual life can be lived through activities such as music, running and dynamic service to the world. Read more »

Mahatapa Palit from New York, US gives an insight into the spiritual path of Sri Chinmoy. She describes how her journey developed from practising meditation on her own in India to following the teachings of her spiritual teacher, Sri Chinmoy. Mahatapa explains a few aspects of the spiritual path, such as the role of the spiritual teacher, how everything is connected, the role of grace and how the practice of gratitude can strengthen our spiritual practice. Read more »

In the autumn of 1974, shortly after a group of his Australian students had visited New York for the first time, Sri Chinmoy composed a short message. This short video shows Sri Chinmoy reciting his unique message and also entering into a high state of meditation. Read more »

In 2001, Sri Chinmoy took part in a special week of peace activities in Oslo, Norway. During an exhibition of his artwork, Sri Chinmoy read out a selection of his poems. These poems express many emotions of a spiritual seeker – from the sense of struggle and despair sometimes felt on the spiritual journey, to the joy and fulfilment of union with the Beloved. Read more »

Florbela talks about her lifelong journey which brought her to practise meditation and then learn about Sri Chinmoy’s Path. Initially unimpressed by the first talk, she later found the meditation on Sri Chinmoy’s Transcendental Picture to be very powerful – giving a sense she had found the right path for herself. Read more »

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 »

Sri Chinmoy offers suggestions on the basics of meditation, such as correct sitting posture, eye position, how to breathe and purify the breath. Sri Chinmoy also explains two different ways of silencing the mind. This video will be very useful for any beginner to meditation. Read more »

This video of Sri Chinmoy in meditation was taken in August 1991 during the Birthday Celebrations in New York. In the background Sri Chinmoy’s students are performing his Bengali songs. The last song on the film is ‘Jiban debata’ a special song on forgiveness.

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Videoaufnahme einer Meditation von Sri Chinmoy im New Yorker Meditationszentrum im April 1992. Während der Meditation singen und spielen Sri Chinmoys Schüler Arrangements seiner Musik. Oft kombinierte Sri Chinmoy Meditation mit Musik, da er spürte, dass meditative Musik das innere Herz des Suchenden zum Vorschein bringen kann.

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In these 1995 clips of Sri Chinmoy meditating, you can see his eyes flicker back and forth quite rapidly. As Sri Chinmoy explains in answering the question below, this flickering is a result of his soul moving between different high planes of conscousness. Read more »

When Sri Chinmoy visited South Africa in 1996 he also visited a ceremony in a Ramakrishna Temple and had a most powerful meditation there. This clip shows you the meditation in its full length.

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