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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/nyregion/13chinmoy.html?em&ex=1192420800&en=12597bbc1a6f10bc&ei=5087%0A
Sri Chinmoy, the genial Indian-born spiritual leader who used strenuous exercise and art to spread his message of world harmony and inner peace, died Thursday at his home in Jamaica, Queens, where he ran a meditation center. He was 76.
The cause was a heart attack, said representatives of his organization, the Sri Chinmoy Center.
Mr. Chinmoy spread his philosophy through his own way of life, exercising and creating art and music. He drew attention by power-lifting pickup trucks and public figures like Muhammad Ali and Sting. He said he had drawn 16 million “peace birds.”
He slept only 90 minutes a day, he said, and when he was not traveling to perform in concerts and spread his message, spent the rest of the time meditating, playing music, exercising and making art.
His followers said he had written 1,500 books, 115,000 poems and 20,000 songs, created 200,000 paintings and had given almost 800 peace concerts.
Drawing upon Hindu principles, Mr. Chinmoy advocated a spiritual path to God through prayer and meditation. He emphasized "love, devotion and surrender" and recommended that his disciples nurture their spirituality by taking on seemingly impossible physical challenges.
“His life was all about challenging yourself and being the best you can be,” said Carl Lewis, the Olympic sprinter, a friend of Mr. Chinmoy’s. “He told his disciples to go out and meet a challenge you don’t think you can do.”
“He’s the reason I plan on running the New York marathon when I’m 50,” Mr. Lewis said in a telephone interview yesterday.
In the 1970’s, Mr. Chinmoy was a guru to several prominent musicians, including the guitarist John McLaughlin, who for a time ran the Mahavishnu Orchestra, a name given it by Mr. Chinmoy, as well as the bandleader Carlos Santana, the singer Roberta Flack and the saxophonist Clarence Clemons.
Mr. Chinmoy gathered with his disciples at a private clay tennis court off 164th Street that doubled as a verdant meditation site known as Aspiration Ground. He built a worldwide network of meditation centers and had more than 7,000 disciples.
Yesterday at the compound, Mr. Chinmoy’s followers — dressed in their traditional white attire — lined up at an altar where he lay in an open coffin. Memorial services are planned throughout the weekend.
Sri Chinmoy Kumar Ghose was born a Hindu in 1931 in what is now Bangladesh. From the age of 12, he lived in an ashram. He said he idolized the track star Jesse Owens.
Mr. Chinmoy immigrated to New York in 1964 to work as a clerk at the Indian Consulate. He opened a meditation center in Queens with a philosophy of celibacy, vegetarianism and meditation and attracted hundreds of followers, many settling near his two-story home on 149th Street.
To achieve spiritual enlightenment, he advocated extreme physical activity, including weight lifting, distance running and swimming.
Disciples put his philosophy of self-transcendence into practice by undertaking challenges like swimming the English Channel or running ultra-marathons, including an annual 3,100-mile race run every year over a two-month period in Queens.
After a knee injury ended his own running, in his 60s, Mr. Chinmoy began lifting weights and within several years could shoulder-press more than 7,000 pounds on a special lifting apparatus. He publicly lifted heavy objects including airplanes, schoolhouses and pickup trucks, to help increase awareness of the need for humanitarian aid.
He also lifted more than 8,000 people since 1988, including world peace figures like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. He hoisted the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Eddie Murphy, Susan Sarandon, Yoko Ono and Richard Gere. Mr. Chinmoy lifted 20 Nobel laureates and a team of sumo wrestlers. He lifted Sid Caesar and a (reformed) headhunter from Borneo, and picked up Representative Gary L. Ackerman, a Democrat, and Representative Benjamin Gilman, a Republican at the same time.
“I thought it was some magician’s trick, but it wasn’t,” Mr. Ackerman said yesterday. “He was running extreme marathons before people even knew what extreme sports were. When you were around him, you had the sudden realization you were in the presence of somebody very, very holy and very devout.”
Yesterday, hundreds of his disciples gathered at the tennis court. Many, like Mr. Lewis, had flown in from places around the world. There were condolence letters faxed from world figures, including former Vice President Al Gore and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who met and corresponded with Mr. Chinmoy frequently.
Mr. Gorbachev wrote that Mr. Chinmoy’s passing was “a loss for the whole world” and that “in our hearts, he will forever remain a man who dedicated his whole life to peace.”
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Dude are you up to the copy and paste again?
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(http://www.srichinmoycentre.org/news/news_images/sri_chinmoy_270lb_wristcurl_right.jpg)
Sri Chinmoy Wrist Curls A Gigantic 270lb Dumbbell!page created by admin — last modified 2007-03-01 12:38 AM
74-year-old fitness champion and international harmony leader Sri Chinmoy wrist curled a mammoth 270-pound dumbbell (122.7 kg)—by far the heaviest known wrist curl ever performed!
The super-fit lifting champion successfully curled the frighteningly huge dumbbell not once, but 30 times in each hand—a feat of strength which has utterly astounded fitness experts! He is in Malaysia for a 3-month visit to foster world friendship and harmony with 450 of his students from more than 50 countries.
Commenting on his unprecedented achievement, the small-boned, muscular senior citizen stated, "I am 74 years young. I am dedicating this lift to all the men and women who are of my age, most lovingly and most affectionately."
Explaining how he has achieved what most people consider impossible at any age, Sri Chinmoy states, "When we pray and meditate, when we live in the heart, there is no such thing as impossibility."
Most striking is that Sri Chinmoy curled the 2-foot long (61 cm) by 10" round (25 cm) dumbbell—which weighs a full 100 lbs (45.5 kg) over his own bodyweight—using only his tiny wrist muscles and with multiple repetitions in rapid succession! The dumbbell is so heavy and so big that two very strong young men can barely lift it into position using all their muscles! In fact, one of them who is 6'4" tall (1.93m) weights exactly 270 lbs. What is more, Sri Chinmoy dramatically succeeded on his first day of practising with heavy dumbbells in more than two months and went far beyond his own previous best record of 256 lbs.
Five-time Mr. Universe and 'Best Built Man of the Century' Bill Pearl exclaimed: "In my more than 60 years in the fitness and bodybuilding field, I have never heard of anyone in the world able to curl this huge amount of weight! This is a miracle!"
Jim Smith is the Registrar of the British Amateur Weight Lifters Association. He had this to say: "No other man or woman in the world would even attempt such a weight, let alone even curl this much weight—ever! What Sri Chinmoy is doing will never be exceeded in history—never!"
Wayne DeMilia, International Federation of Body Builders Chairman and former Head Judge has commented, "Out of all the weightlifters and champion bodybuilders I have seen, and I have seen many, Sri Chinmoy is the only one I have ever seen wrist curl a dumbbell weighing 200lb or more!"
Sri Chinmoy was born in Bengal, India, and has been living in New York since 1964. He has devoted his life to the pursuit of a dream: a world where harmony and oneness reign supreme. Towards that end, for over forty years he has been a dynamic proponent of cross-cultural understanding through the arts, athletics and humanitarian service. Since coming to America in 1964, Sri Chinmoy has established a wide range of cultural, humanitarian and spiritual programmes in many countries, involving countless citizens from all walks of life
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adonis is going for the Ghandi look these days
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Very interesting indeed. 270? My wrist would fall off.
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How does one lift 7000lbs?
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How does one lift 7000lbs?
one doesnt.
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one doesnt.
thats true......
How DID he lift 7000lbs?
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He got busted for that bullshit lift and a lot of others. He's as genuine as deadlifting 220 for 112.
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thats true......
How DID he lift 7000lbs?
its the usual yoga bullshit. either he did a static hold of somekind...but not with 7000lbs. or its a total lie
i read so many articles about bullshitters like this indian guy.
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sri chinmoy and pat robertson were the best of pals
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thats true......
How DID he lift 7000lbs?
Underwater with cheating motion and some Cell-tech
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How does one lift 7000lbs?
Gravity suit?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/nyregion/13chinmoy.html?em&ex=1192420800&en=12597bbc1a6f10bc&ei=5087%0A
Sri Chinmoy, the genial Indian-born spiritual leader who used strenuous exercise and art to spread his message of world harmony and inner peace, died Thursday at his home in Jamaica, Queens, where he ran a meditation center. He was 76.
The cause was a heart attack, said representatives of his organization, the Sri Chinmoy Center.
Mr. Chinmoy spread his philosophy through his own way of life, exercising and creating art and music. He drew attention by power-lifting pickup trucks and public figures like Muhammad Ali and Sting. He said he had drawn 16 million “peace birds.”
He slept only 90 minutes a day, he said, and when he was not traveling to perform in concerts and spread his message, spent the rest of the time meditating, playing music, exercising and making art.
His followers said he had written 1,500 books, 115,000 poems and 20,000 songs, created 200,000 paintings and had given almost 800 peace concerts.
Drawing upon Hindu principles, Mr. Chinmoy advocated a spiritual path to God through prayer and meditation. He emphasized "love, devotion and surrender" and recommended that his disciples nurture their spirituality by taking on seemingly impossible physical challenges.
“His life was all about challenging yourself and being the best you can be,” said Carl Lewis, the Olympic sprinter, a friend of Mr. Chinmoy’s. “He told his disciples to go out and meet a challenge you don’t think you can do.”
“He’s the reason I plan on running the New York marathon when I’m 50,” Mr. Lewis said in a telephone interview yesterday.
In the 1970’s, Mr. Chinmoy was a guru to several prominent musicians, including the guitarist John McLaughlin, who for a time ran the Mahavishnu Orchestra, a name given it by Mr. Chinmoy, as well as the bandleader Carlos Santana, the singer Roberta Flack and the saxophonist Clarence Clemons.
Mr. Chinmoy gathered with his disciples at a private clay tennis court off 164th Street that doubled as a verdant meditation site known as Aspiration Ground. He built a worldwide network of meditation centers and had more than 7,000 disciples.
Yesterday at the compound, Mr. Chinmoy’s followers — dressed in their traditional white attire — lined up at an altar where he lay in an open coffin. Memorial services are planned throughout the weekend.
Sri Chinmoy Kumar Ghose was born a Hindu in 1931 in what is now Bangladesh. From the age of 12, he lived in an ashram. He said he idolized the track star Jesse Owens.
Mr. Chinmoy immigrated to New York in 1964 to work as a clerk at the Indian Consulate. He opened a meditation center in Queens with a philosophy of celibacy, vegetarianism and meditation and attracted hundreds of followers, many settling near his two-story home on 149th Street.
To achieve spiritual enlightenment, he advocated extreme physical activity, including weight lifting, distance running and swimming.
Disciples put his philosophy of self-transcendence into practice by undertaking challenges like swimming the English Channel or running ultra-marathons, including an annual 3,100-mile race run every year over a two-month period in Queens.
After a knee injury ended his own running, in his 60s, Mr. Chinmoy began lifting weights and within several years could shoulder-press more than 7,000 pounds on a special lifting apparatus. He publicly lifted heavy objects including airplanes, schoolhouses and pickup trucks, to help increase awareness of the need for humanitarian aid.
He also lifted more than 8,000 people since 1988, including world peace figures like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. He hoisted the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Eddie Murphy, Susan Sarandon, Yoko Ono and Richard Gere. Mr. Chinmoy lifted 20 Nobel laureates and a team of sumo wrestlers. He lifted Sid Caesar and a (reformed) headhunter from Borneo, and picked up Representative Gary L. Ackerman, a Democrat, and Representative Benjamin Gilman, a Republican at the same time.
“I thought it was some magician’s trick, but it wasn’t,” Mr. Ackerman said yesterday. “He was running extreme marathons before people even knew what extreme sports were. When you were around him, you had the sudden realization you were in the presence of somebody very, very holy and very devout.”
Yesterday, hundreds of his disciples gathered at the tennis court. Many, like Mr. Lewis, had flown in from places around the world. There were condolence letters faxed from world figures, including former Vice President Al Gore and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who met and corresponded with Mr. Chinmoy frequently.
Mr. Gorbachev wrote that Mr. Chinmoy’s passing was “a loss for the whole world” and that “in our hearts, he will forever remain a man who dedicated his whole life to peace.”
I thought religion was for lost people Adonis?
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always thought artie from pete and pete was "the strongest man .... in the world" ... but i could be wrong
(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/2/2c/Petes_and_artie.jpg)
(http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/546/3artie_and_pete.jpg)
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He is some cult guru. Isn't Bill Pearl a member of his cult? If Sri said to drink the Kool-aid DeMilia and Pearl would do it.
All bullshit.
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You're a faithful follower :)
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76 isn't very old for a guy who could supposedly do all that.
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You're a faithful follower :)
onlyme!
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adonis is going for the Ghandi look these days
LMAO
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only 76?
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Gravity suit?
It must have been an anti-gravity suit.
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He only slept 90 min per day and lived to be 76? Incredible.
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200,000 paintings + 115,000 poems + 20,000 songs + 1500 books???
plus the peace concerts and workouts???
Let assume he rolled out the womb and started painting, composing, writing etc..
The guy was only on the planet for ~ 28,000 days
That's 7 paintings a day starting from birth
wtf???
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One of the biggest scammers that ever lived and now he is dead at 76 of a heart attack. Pretty ordinary guy really other than the fact he was a liar.
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One of the biggest scammers that ever lived and now he is dead at 76 of a heart attack. Pretty ordinary guy really other than the fact he was a liar.
I would have never guessed.
;D
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One of the biggest scammers that ever lived and now he is dead at 76 of a heart attack. Pretty ordinary guy really other than the fact he was a liar.
What does this say about Bill Pearl, DeMilia, etc when they endorse this shit?
Sri was a spiritual leader, lol
http://www.srichinmoy.org/
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What does this say about Bill Pearl, DeMilia, etc when they endorse this shit?
Sri was a spiritual leader, lol
http://www.srichinmoy.org/
Guess you would have to ask them. I still think he was a kook.
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Hi quality foldable chair.
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One of the biggest scammers that ever lived and now he is dead at 76 of a heart attack. Pretty ordinary guy really other than the fact he was a liar.
Well said.
The only people he fooled were the gullible...like the tool who idiolized him and started this worthless thread.
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I am with disgusted and bilderras on this one : a lifetime of bullshit prolly for a free ride. I put lallane in the same category because he's 90 and still tries to sell something.
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imagine what he was benching
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200,000 paintings + 115,000 poems + 20,000 songs + 1500 books???
plus the peace concerts and workouts???
Let assume he rolled out the womb and started painting, composing, writing etc..
The guy was only on the planet for ~ 28,000 days
That's 7 paintings a day starting from birth
wtf???
BCHitis
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Don't forget the MILLIONS of drawings of his "freedom birds" lol
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Don't forget the MILLIONS of drawings of his "freedom birds" lol
i think he is the kind of guy that wipes his ass and calls the soiled toilet paper art.
and every burp was poetry.
and every fart was a song.
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Hate to speak ill of the dead ,but what a duchebag ::)
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Well said.
The only people he fooled were the gullible...like the tool who idiolized him and started this worthless thread.
You are an idiot. Sri and your Jesus are of the same ilk.
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You are an idiot. Sri and your Jesus are of the same ilk.
Are you saying they were both Saints or are you mocking them? Serious question
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One of the biggest scammers that ever lived and now he is dead at 76 of a heart attack. Pretty ordinary guy really other than the fact he was a liar.
How true. He claimed to have lifted over 7000 pounds with one arm- take a look:
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You are an idiot. Sri and your Jesus are of the same ilk.
Jesus pees all over this fool.
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I don't know if you would call him a guru, but I've read all of his books and his wisdom has so inspired me that I live by his basic teachings wheather it be by medical, health and nutrition related issues, yoga, meditation, laws of karma, sprituality, how to treat your fellow human beings, laws of success, you name it. There is nothing I don't believe Sri Chimony has not covered in his books with solid wisdom that I haven't found useful in my daily life.
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If he really did do all that, the question is, why wasn't he posting in Getbig where other equally gifted and amazing people post ???
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There is nothing I don't believe Sri Chimony has not covered in his books with solid wisdom that I haven't found useful in my daily life.
Covered, as in covered with bullshit. Chinmoy is a fraud and a liar and I believe nobody should waste their time on his "teachings".
CD
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Covered, as in covered with bullshit. Chinmoy is a fraud and a liar and I believe nobody should waste their time on his "teachings".
CD
You might try to imagine surrounding yourself in white light sphere this may help reduce some of those feelings, I find it helps me.
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You might try to imagine surrounding yourself in white light sphere this may help reduce some of those feelings, I find it helps me.
Hi, thanks for the advise, but I'm afraid it didn't help. I hope you seek out a professionally trained medical doctor if you should ever get ill. Don't rely on Chinmoy's "medical" teachings. I'm sorry if I offended you.
CD
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No comment on this clown.
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Hi, thanks for the advise, but I'm afraid it didn't help. I hope you seek out a professionally trained medical doctor if you should ever get ill. Don't rely on Chinmoy's "medical" teachings. I'm sorry if I offended you.
CD
No apologies needed dude :D
Where I am going with this is you are a little like a radio receiver, your channels may be tuned to lower vibrations rather than higher ones. We all need to work on positive perspective on life as hard as that can be at times.