May - June 2008

Sri Chinmoy

The late Sri Chinmoy was a world-renowned Indian philosopher, teacher, musican, artist, poet and humanitarian, based in Queens, NY.

This remarkable man was also an endurance athlete, as a marathon runner and long distance cyclist.

One of his two-wheeled feats was cycling 230 miles in 1978, in a 24-hr race at Central Park.

Sri Chinmoy was active in sports throughout his life, not just for joy & physical fitness, but also as a whole vehicle of self-transcendence.

He also wrote “My Cycling Experiences,” put out by AUM, of his cycling. experiences, from childhood reminiscences in Chittagong, India to the Pepsi 24-hour races in the 1970s.

On the significance of cycling. Sri Chinmoy wrote:

“While we are cycling, we are reminding ourselves of evolution, of how the world is evolving in cycles. When we think of our planet, we think of a wheel turning: our life also is revolving like a wheel. So cycling reminds us of the process of evolution and of how everything goes in cycles.

Photo & Article Adapted from the Sri Chinmoy Centre Cycling webpage: www.srichinmoycentre.org/ cycling Related website: www.srichinmoy.org