Eight performances from Sri Chinmoy’s August Birthday Celebrations, including Blue Flower, Ashu Dhara, Infinity’s Sky and Pavaka and Friends. The tracks were recorded live at Aspiration Ground, New York. This is part 1 of selected performances.
August 2025 Celebrations- Selected Performances, Part 1
Last modified September 22, 2025
Sri Chinmoy was born on August 27, 1931 in Bengal (now part of Bangladesh), India. Every August, his disciples meet in New York to celebrate his Birthday. It is a two-week event that features group meditations, musical performances by groups from many countries, Sporting events, including a 26-mile marathon and a 47-mile run, a sports day and sports games. All in all, a very cheerful gathering, combining peace and dynamism, joy and cheerfulness, all in a great spiritual atmosphere and camaraderie.
Question: What is the best way to become one with soulful music?
Sri Chinmoy: The best way to become one with soulful music is to breathe in and breathe out with the firm inner conviction that while you are breathing in, the breath is immediately entering directly into your soul, and with the breath the universal Consciousness, divine Reality, divine Truth is also entering. When you breathe out, try to feel that you are breathing out the veils that are around your soul. Feel that they are lifted and discarded. If you can consciously imagine and feel this, it is the best way to become one with soulful music. What do we mean by soulful music? If you say it is the music that embodies the soul, then I wish to say that it is incorrect. You have to feel that soulful music is the Light that wants to express itself in a divine way. Even as darkness wants to manifest its authority on earth, Light also wants to manifest its Reality and Divinity in a specific way. Light is the soul of everything. Light is the soul of music, Light is the soul of love and Light is the soul of all art. When Light manifests itself in a divine way in the form of music, it is the music of the soul.
Sri Chinmoy, God the Supreme Musician, Sri Chinmoy Lighthouse, New York, 1970
We hope these selections of soulful music will inspire you in your spiritual journey.
Artist: Sri Chinmoy Disciples
Name: Paree’s Group, August 2025 Celebrations, Selected Performances
Location: Aspiration Ground, New York,
Release year: 2025
Duration: 1 hour, 23 minutes
Acknowledgements: Sri Chinmoy
Tracks uploaded and published: Kamalakanta Nieves and Tejvan Pettinger
Format: Advanced Audio Coding
