Sri Chinmoy

Sri Chinmoy is a spiritual Teacher who taught meditation and also the benefits of leading a dynamic outer life. As well as being a poet, athlete and author Sri Chinmoy was a prolific composer of spiritual music – he composed over 21,000 songs in both English and his native Bengali. Sri Chinmoy also performed on several instruments – recording many albums of meditative music and also performing his own compositions in public concerts

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“To me, music is not something that we see. Music is not even something that we feel. Music is something that we must grow into.”

– Sri Chinmoy [1]

During his time in the West, Sri Chinmoy offered 777 Peace Concerts in different parts of the world. Sri Chinmoy taught that music can be a complement to meditation.

Sri Chinmoy
“Music is psychic enlightenment. Music is the supreme fulfilment of the aspiring human soul.”
Sri Chinmoy

Recently uploaded recordings by Sri Chinmoy

In any of the fields into which he entered – poetry, art, athletics – Sri Chinmoy’s output was prolific, and his audio output of music and talks was no exception. This site contains some of the many recordings that have been released over the years.

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January 21, 2024

My Surrender-Life-Joy

This recording includes a concert by Sri Chinmoy given by the seaside, near the city of Davao, Philippines, on the island of Mindanao, on 12 January 1993. It includes 36 songs recently composed by Sri Chinmoy and sung unaccompanied.

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January 6, 2024

One Thousand Lotus Petals, Part 3

In 1999 Sri Chinmoy began selecting and recording one thousand of his favourite songs from the many thousands he had composed. Part 3 of “One Thousand Lotus Petals” brings the total in this series to 230 songs. He made this recording in his home on August 12th, 2007, accompanying himself on an electric keyboard. View all tracks »

December 6, 2023

Ancient Hearts for Modern Minds

This is a recording of Sri Chinmoy singing his own Bengali songs accompanied with the harmonium from 1986. Sri Chinmoy precedes the singing, by reciting the English translation of the song. Read more »

July 14, 2023

Kshmar Adarsha

This beautiful and soulful recording of Kshmar Adarsha by Sri Chinmoy is based on the immortal story Kshmar adarsha “The Ideal of Forgiveness” by Sri Aurobindo. In 1945, aged 13, Sri Chinmoy rendered this story into 200 lines of Bengali poetry and later into 107 lines of English iambic pentameter verse. On 10 August 2002, Sri Chinmoy set his original poem to music, creating his longest song, which on this recording lasts for 30 minutes.

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Playlists of Sri Chinmoy’s music

Here are just a few of Sri Chinmoy’s recordings, taken from around the site. You can make your own playlists by clicking on the settings icon () next to music that you like – find out more here ».

Sri Chinmoy singing

 

Talks by Sri Chinmoy

Instrumental recordings

Classic Albums

During his time in the West, Sri Chinmoy recorded innumerable albums (including vinyl, cassette, and later CD). However, a few albums really stand out as being classics. We will add these classic albums in due course.

  1. Existence-Consciousness-Bliss – esraj, harmonium and vocals.
  2. My Europe-Aspiration-Blossoms – organ performances in Europe
  3. Concert de Paix, Paris, 1984 – one of the earliest Peace Concerts with flute, esraj, cello, harmonium and vocal.

Songs, aphorisms and talks on Peace

by Sri Chinmoy

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