The  Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run (currently known as the World Harmony Run) was founded in 1987 by Sri Chinmoy, with the aim of spreading peace, harmony and understanding throughout the world. In the past 25 years, the Harmony Run has visited over 100 nations and touched the lives of thousands of people.

This set of recordings is arranged and produced by  Premik Russell Tabs. Premik is an accomplished composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist. This recording offers a joyful musical interpretation of Sri Chinmoy’s songs and message of peace.

Poetry of Sri Chinmoy – Peace

What does peace do? Peace blossoms.
What else? Peace spreads.
What else? Peace illumines.
What else? Peace fulfils.

- Sri Chinmoy

Man invents war. Man discovers peace.
He invents war from without.
He discovers peace from within.
War man throws. Peace man sows.
The smile of war is the flood of human blood.
The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

- Sri Chinmoy

Quotes of Sri Chinmoy on Peace

Artist: Premik   (www.premik.com)
Name: A New World Of Peace
Composer: Sri Chinmoy
Release year: 1987
Duration: 0:47:40
Acknowledgements: Premik
Tracks uploaded and published: Ashish Zubaty | Tejvan Pettinger
Format: Advanced Audio Coding

Dear listeners,

It is a great joy to bring you this soulful offering by Infinity’s Sky, “Dream of the Heaven”. It is a special collection of arrangements of Sri Chinmoy’s songs.

This wonderful group of musicians and singers are able to express a a deep inner longing for the Divine, along with an ever-present beauty and height. The vocal and instrumental recordings are flawless; the sonority is impeccable.

The soulfulness in this CD is of a high order; it is very easy to meditate while listening to this music. At the same time, it is so pleasant, that even for relaxation it can be an invaluable tool. The artistic level is quite high; there is enough variation of musical ideas to make each arrangement unique.

Putting all these elements together, we can only marvel at the amount of work and concentration that it takes to be at this high level of artistic interpretation.

We wish Infinity’s Sky the greatest success, and offer our gratitude to them for offering the light in Sri Chinmoy’s songs to aspiring humanity.

-Kamalakanta Nieves

Dear listeners, it is with great joy and pride that we offer you a a selection of performances by the Gandharva Loka Orchestra.

The Gandharva Loka Orchestra is an international group of musicians and singers from more than 30 countries. This brilliant group is composed of students of Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007), the renowned spiritual teacher whose efforts at spreading peace, harmony and love through prayer and meditation, music, art, literature and selfless service to humanity earned him the accolades of luminaries such as Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev, among others.

In the field of music, Sri Chinmoy composed more than 20,000 devotional songs. The Gandharva Loka Orchestra performs choral and instrumental arrangements of Sri Chinmoy’s songs. Since Sri Chinmoy’s passing in 2007, the Gandharva Loka Orchestra has been performing around the world, sharing through music the inner peace, light and beauty of Sri Chinmoy’s music.

The “Songs of the Soul” concerts have been offered around the world since 2007, in an effort to honor Si Chinmoy’s musical legacy, and the Gandharva Loka Orchestra has been featured in them, often to standing ovations.

We hope that you enjoy this selection of performances by the Gandharva Loka Orchestra.

- Kamalakanta Nieves

During the four decades from his arrival in New York in 1964, Sri Chinmoy composed over 13,000 Bengali songs (in addition to several thousand English songs). Sri Chinmoy was a prolific composer, being able to tap  an inner source of spontaneity and creativity. His songs often reflect the yearnings and aspirations of spiritual seekers. The songs on this album have  great simplicity, yet Sri Chinmoy adds a great subtlety and richness to this soulful performance.

See also: Perfection-Dedication Part 1

Some of the song translations:
Chahina Jiban Chahina Maran (1980)
I do not want life.
I do not want death.
I want to have only Your Feet
That destroy all my fear.
I want to have a crying heart.
May Your Will always be fulfilled.

Anute Renute Sakala Tanute Biraje Amar (1975)
In atom and in pollen and in human frames
my life abides.
All beauty am I, immutable am I.
I drink my ambrosia all alone.

Ami Jabo Hridaya Pure (1982)

I shall enter into my heart’s citadel-city.
I am a worshipper of the Fire God;
I am a lover of the Fire God.
I have blossomed today
Into the melody of fiery flames.
The bondage of possession-greed,
The iron control of dark attachment,
The torture of penury,
The pangs of my shattered dreams
Have at last disappeared in a twinkling
into the farthest, remote unknown.
On my finite lap the Infinite is swinging.
The ever-intoxicating and ever-energising
Flute of Sri Krishna
Is the very origin of my life’s journey.
The Destruction-Dance of the great Lord Shiva
Ushers in a new creation
Encircling fast my earth-bound life.

Artist: Sri Chinmoy
Name: Perfection-Dedication 2
Release year: 1983
Duration: 0:29:00
Acknowledgements: Sri Chinmoy
Page Created: Ashish Zubaty / Tejvan Pettinger
Format: Advanced Audio Coding

During the four decades from his arrival in New York in 1964, Sri Chinmoy composed over 13,000 Bengali songs (in addition to several thousand English songs). Sri Chinmoy was a prolific composer, being able to tap  an inner source of spontaneity and creativity. His songs often reflect the yearnings and aspirations of spiritual seekers. The songs on this album have  great simplicity, yet Sri Chinmoy adds a great subtlety and richness to this soulful performance.

Some of the song translations:
Hiya Pakhi Egiye Chalo Dekhona Ar Piche (1974)
O bird of my heart,
Fly on, fly on.
Look not behind.
Whatever the world gives
Is meaningless, useless
And utterly false.

Hiya Pakhi at Sri Chinmoy Songs

Chitta Dolai Diye Dola (1982)
My heart-door is completely open.
O my sweet Lord Supreme,
Come and enjoy Your Ecstasy’s Dream
On my heart-swing.
Do come driving Your Light-flooded Chariot,
On the flower-decorated purity-road.
And the moment You come,
Do make me lose my division-self
And make me one with Your
Infinity’s Immortality-Self.

Chitta Dolai Diye Dola at Sri Chinmoy Songs

Ore Mor Kheya Ore Mor Neye (1974)
O my Boat, O my Boatman,
O message of Transcendental Delight,
Carry me. My heart is thirsty and hungry,
And it is fast asleep at the same time.
Carry my heart to the other shore.
The dance of death I see all around.
The thunder of destruction indomitable I hear.
O my Inner Pilot, You are mine.
You are the Ocean of Compassion infinite.
In You I lose myself,
My all in You I lose.

Artist: Sri Chinmoy
Name: Perfection-Dedication 1
Release year: 1983
Duration: 0:27:00
Acknowledgements: Sri Chinmoy
Page Created: Ashish Zubaty / Tejvan Pettinger
Format: Advanced Audio Coding

Dear listeners,

Sri Chinmoy‘s songs have always been a fount of inspiration and aspiration for me. From the moment I started studying meditation with him in 1978, singing his songs has been a cornerstone in my spiritual life. From his songs, I feel peace, light and delight. They express my joys and sorrows, my triumphs and defeats, the soaring heights of my soul, and the despair-filled depths of my human life.

How can this be? How can someone’s music express so much? In Sri Chinmoy’s case, he identifies, through his prayer and meditation, with the myriad experiences of the human condition. His songs embody every aspect of human consciousness in our journey towards the Divine. From the ecstasy of oneness with the Beloved, to the feeling of utter loneliness and emptiness, his songs are  a rainbow of human/divine experiences, viewed with the beauty of pure love.

There is a certain blessedness in Sri Chinmoy’s music. Sometimes, his saddest songs are the most beautiful! I feel that there is a reason for this: When you are walking on the path to self-perfection, even if you feel that you are in a barren desert, it is still a blessing. Being awakened to the inner journey, embarking on the long road to self-perfection, is a blessing in itself. Whether the seeker is experiencing joys or sorrows, triumphs or setbacks, it is all happening within the realm of his awakened existence. And this awakened existence is like a beautiful flower inside God’s Heart-Garden.

When I do musical arrangements of Sri Chinmoy’s music, I try to let my intuition guide me; to feel, rather than think, about what I want to do.  What is the feeling in my heart? Which spiritual quality inspires me today? Is it Compassion, or Grace, or sincerity? I search for songs that have these qualities, and try to listen to my inner voice as I do the music.

One thing that gives me great joy is to combine Sri Chinmoy’s melodies with each other. In this arrangement, I was looking for songs with the word “Compassion” in them. The second song in this arrangement, “Ami Tomai Bhalobasi”, is a very happy song that has to do with compassion:

Ami Tomai Bhalobasi

Sri Chinmoy’s translation:

“I love You for Your Compassion-Flood.
I worship You when the night is far advanced.
You are mine; I am Yours.
We barter our love-light.
In our heart-forest we long for each other.
I love You for Your Compassion-Flood.”

Supreme, I Sing Only for You    [song #82]
http://tinyurl.com/7ta8n5a

As I was arranging this song, the inspiration came to combine it with another song, “Magi Ami Magi”.

Magi Ami Magi

Sri Chinmoy’s student translation:

“I am begging for a new awakening,
A new aspiration, a new consciousness.
In my life and in my death, Oh Lord,
I shall please You
All throughout the world. ”

Song-Flowers, Part 1    [song #62]
http://tinyurl.com/6s3e9ma

Somehow, I feel they are related!

Six songs by Sri Chinmoy are included in this medley, and I have combined them in three pairs.

Another pair is the first and fourth songs, “E Jiban Khani” and “Keno Karo Dibanishi”:

E Jiban Khani

Sri Chinmoy’s translation:

“Many a time I have tried
To offer my life to You.
Alas, I have failed to do so;
Therefore, excruciating pangs
Are torturing my heart.
All in vain I try to please You,
To surrender my existence to You,
To You alone.”

Pole-Star Promise-Light, Part 2    [song #27]
http://tinyurl.com/7xzhe9f

Keno Karo Dibanishi

Sri Chinmoy’s student translation:

Why do You mock me day an night?
Do You want to be the slave of ignorance?”

Bahir Jagate, Part 2    [song #63]
http://tinyurl.com/6na5du5

And, finally, the last pair of songs both talk about the heart. They are “Bedana Diye” and
“Usha Bala Elo”:

Bedana Diye Jagao Mama

Sri Chinmoy’s translation:

“Through excruciating pangs,
You awaken my lotus-heart.”

Journey’s Ecstasy    [song #126]
http://tinyurl.com/7slwkzu

Usha Bala Elo

Sri Chinmoy’s Translation:

Slowly, very slowly,
The virgin dawn appears
In the very depths of my aspiration-heart.

Journey’s Goal, Part 10a    [song #2]
http://tinyurl.com/7ayszee

This medley also includes one song I composed, inspired by Sri Chinmoy’s songs. The lyrics to my original song are:

“Supreme, Supreme, Supreme, Supreme
My life for You only, My Lord.”
I hope you enjoy this music as much as I do. Sri Chinmoy’s songs embody the energy and consciousness of his meditation. He tried to share with humanity, through music, art, literature and other activities, what he received in his prayers and meditations.

Thank you for this opportunity of sharing Sri Chinmoy’s songs with you.

- Kamalakanta Nieves

This album includes some of the quotes of Buddha as “Be a Lamp unto Yourself” and “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, man cannot live without the spiritual life”.

Some of the songs were composed a few months after Sri Chinmoy’s visit to Japan, where he meditated in front of the great Buddha statue at Kamakura (December 20, 1982). Because he was so moved by his meditative experience there, he composed a song about the Buddha and asked his students to sing it in front of the statue.

 “The Buddha appeared on earth to dispel by the illumination of knowledge the ignorance that had enveloped the human mass, to release the human soul from the prison-cell of desire into the wideness of the silence and peace of Nirvana. “

- Sri Chinmoy, Mother India’s Lighthouse: India’s Spiritual Leaders, Agni Press, 1971.

“For centuries the light of the Buddha has shone as a beacon beckoning men from across the sea of darkness. Like lost children, millions of seekers have reached out to the light with their heart’s inmost cry, and the Buddha has shown them the Way. The world stood before the Buddha with it’s ignorance, and the Buddha, the Enlightened One, gave man Truth. The world offered its age old suffering to the Buddha’s heart and the Buddha, Lord of Compassion, showed man the Dharma.”     -

From the book Siddhartha Becomes The Buddha by Sri Chinmoy, Agni Press in 1973

Hiya Bhasha’s first album was entitled  “Language Of The Heart” (1988), the German female group Hiya Bhasha brings to listeners its third album named.

Artist: Hiya Bhasha
Name: Buddham Sharanam Gachhami 3
Composer: Sri Chinmoy
Release year: 1989
Duration: 0:44:00
Acknowledgements: Hiya Bhasha
Tracks uploaded: Ashish Zubaty
Format: Advanced Audio Coding

     “These simply must be put into Latin”  was the immediate and enthusiastic reaction of Ralph Lazzaro, Director of Language Studies at the Harvard Divinity School, upon receiving a book of poems by Sri Chinmoy. But why a Latin translation of poems written in English by a Bengali-born philosopher?  “The poems are beautiful in their simplicity and profound in their significance,” Mr. Lazzaro later elaborated. “Latin is a concise language, and it seems a natural medium in which to convey the directness of Sri Chinmoy’s poetry.”

Sri Chinmoy had a longstanding connection with the Harvard Divinity School, beginning with a lecture on Vedanta in 1969 on the anniversary of a similar lecture in 1896 by Swami Vivekananda, who first offered the spiritual wisdom of the East to audiences in the New World. Sri Chinmoy returned to give a series of seven lectures at the Divinity School in 1975, and in 1978 he gave a complete collection of his first 300 published works to its library. He returned many times to give a lectures or concerts at Harvard, for he says that the university symbolizes the achievements of “the Western mind and the Eastern heart.”

Several of the Latin poems in the book Simplicitas cordis were set to traditional Gregorian chant by a priest from a monastery which specializes in the study and performance of Gregorian chant.

1.

Offering worship to You,
I am so happy My Lord.
I am also happy
Because this happiness of mine
Nobody can steal.

Adorare Te devote
Me laetificat, Domine.
Gaudeo gaudium meum
Nemo a me tollet.

- Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 5, Agni Press, 1979.

2.

God the Truth
My mind admires.
God the Love
My heart needs.

Deus Prima Veritas
Menti meae admirandus.
Deus Summa Caritas
Cordi meo anhelandus.

- Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 20, Agni Press, 1981.

3.

O Lord, where is the Truth?
“Where your Beloved is?”
Who is my Beloved, Who?
“In whom your life is peace.”

Domine, ubi est Veritas?
“Ubi tuus Dilectus.”
Quis est meus Dilectus, quis?
“In quo est vita tua pax.”
- Sri Chinmoy, My Flute, Agni Press, 1972.

4.

My first discovery:
God cares for me.
My last discovery:
I need God.

Invento mea prima:
Deus curator mei.
Inventio mea ultima:
Indigeo Die.
- Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 20, Agni Press, 1981.

5.

God the Teacher
Instructs me in the morning.
God the Father
Blesses me in the evening.

Deus Preaceptor
Docet me mane.
Deus Pater
Benedicit me vespere.

- Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 41, Agni Press, 1982.

6.

To own peace
Is to own a living God.
To own a living God
Is to become another God.

Possidere pacem
Possidere est Deum vivum.
Possidere Deum vivum
Fieri est alter Deus.

- Sri Chinmoy, Transcendence-Perfection, Agni Press, 1975.

From Simplicitas Cordis: poetry of Sri Chinmoy, Agni Press 1983 – New York, ISBN 0-88497-659-9

Artist: Sri Chinmoy Centre
Name: Simplicitas Cordis
Composer: Sri Chinmoy,
Release year: 2010
Duration: 0:06:20
Acknowledgements: Sri Chinmoy Centre
Tracks uploaded: Ashish Zubaty
Format: Advanced Audio Coding

This album includes various performances from 17 of Sri Chinmoy’s favourite instruments; in total it offers around two hours of music from an original double tape recording. At the initial concert in the First Unitarian Church of Providence, an aide to the Mayor presented Sri Chinmoy with the key to the city.

List of Concerts:

May 2, 1992
First Unitarian Church,
Providence, Rhode Island

May 3, 1992
First Church in Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts (Boston area)

May 9, 1992
Sprague Hall, Yale University
New Heaven, Connecticut

May 15, 1992
Center for Adult Education
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland (Washington, DC area)

May 16, 1992
Cathedral Church of the Saviour
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

May 22, 1992
Martin Luther King, Jr. High School
New York, New York

June 20, 1992
The Egg Auditorium, Empire Center
Albany, New York

Most of the songs and recordings during the Peace Concerts are composed by Sri Chinmoy.
The exceptions include: In this recording Sri Chinmoy exceptionally performed Bengali songs

• Kharabayu Bol Bege, (by Rabindranath Tagore)
• Tomari Hok Jai (by Sri Biren Palit)
• America the Beautiful (by Katrine Lee Bates),
• One Hand, One Heart (music from West Side Story by Stephan Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein),
• Ave Maria in Latin (by Walter Scott and Franz Schubert)
• and melody of Moscow Nights (by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi) on synthesizer.

Artist: Sri Chinmoy
Name: Peace: Divinity’s Dream on Earth
Release year: 1992
Duration: 1:50:00
Acknowledgements: Sri Chinmoy
Format: Advanced Audio Coding

The group, Blue Flower, is composed of  eight female members  from Serbia, Slovenia and Macedonia. They have performed and recorded English and Bengali songs composed by Sri Chinmoy since 1998. They have offered concerts in many different European counties.

We are grateful for being able to offer this album to the public.

Artist: Blue Flower
Name: Blossoming
Composer: Sri Chinmoy
Release year: 2007
Duration: 0:48:00
Acknowledgements: Blue Flower
Format: Advanced Audio Coding