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Statue of Sri Chinmoy in Vaasa, Finland

June 13th 2010 we visited Vaasa for the inauguration of Sri Chinmoy´s Statue. What a warm, cosy, beautiful, heartfelt and unique city Vaasa is. We stayed at an old military complex in which was turned into a hostel. Niharika Nuuja was the host and the one that made the initiative for the Sri Chinmoy´s Statue [...]

Isak

Katrine and Stian´s son, Isak was born 27th October 2009, the one-year anniversary for Sri Chinmoy´s Statue at the Port of Aker Brygge in Oslo. His mother Katrine and his father Stian are very, very good parents. I enjoyed visiting them, they live in a very beautiful apartment with a lot of light and very [...]

Statue of Sri Chinmoy in Puerto Rico

The Statue of Sri Chinmoy was inaugurated in the Botanical and Cultural Garden (Jardín Botánico y Cultural) of Caguas, Puerto Rico, February 14th 2010. Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: “Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico” — literally Associated Free State of Puerto Rico), is a self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, [...]

Visiting photographer Shobhini

Visiting photographer Shobhini Tuhkanen from Estonia is displaying her images of Oslo. Shobhini is working at The Fragrance of the Heart café in Oslo. Many of the pictures are taken from her trip to and from work. She resides outside Oslo in the idyllic island of Nesodden.

Statue of Sri Chinmoy in Mazatlan, Mexico

A first for the Americas, the city of Mazatlan inaugurated “The Sri Chinmoy Peace Monument” in the heart of their beautiful tourist centre at a peace park overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The park was specially created as a permanent home for the bronze 2-metre statue of world harmony leader Sri Chinmoy holding the Peace Torch [...]

Statue of Sri Chinmoy in Bali, Indonesia

February 9th, 2009, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. The Agung Rai Museum of Art (ARMA) dedicated a statue of Sri Chinmoy on the musem grounds. The ceremony was led by the head of Balinese Hindus, Ida Pedanda Gede Detut Sebali Tianyar Arimbawa, and hosted by Mr. Agung Rai, founder of ARMA. Sri Chinmoy had visited the museum [...]

Statue of Sri Chinmoy in Prague, Czech Republic

The statue became part of Museum Kampa, exhibiting The Central European Modern Art Collection, which is located on the bank of river Vltava next to Charles  Bridge. It was presented to the Museum as a gift at the occasion of Mrs. Meda Mladek (the owner of all artworks and the Head of the Museum) 90 [...]

Joy Days around the world

Once a month my friends gathers together for joy days. Joy is something I really treasure, thats why I travel a long way to meet my friends once a month for yoy days. Joy days can happen in Uppsala, in Oslo or in Heidelberg or somewhere else.

Sri Chinmoy and world luminaries

Over the past fourty years, Sri Chinmoy has had dialogues on world peace and spiritual values with leaders and luminaries from diverse fields of endeavor, including heads of state and ambassadors from many countries, United Nations leaders, spiritual figures from all faiths, university leaders, creative and performing artists and athletes. These leaders have also participated in Sri Chinmoy’s global peace initiatives, such as [...]

Images of Sri Chinmoy

Sri Chinmoy is a man of peace. He called himself a student of peace or a peace-dreamer. He dedicated his whole life in the service of peace throughout the length and breath of the world. His peace activities can be traced to all corners of the globe; including Antartica. I have had the unique opportunity [...]

Christmas Trips around the world

Christmas trips as you may have understood by now happens during Christmas time; it may be a few months before Christmas and it can be a few months after Christmas. But some part of the year you have to work in order to save for the next Christmas trip. These trips can take you to [...]

Snowboarding

If you live in Norway you have to go skiing or snowboarding, otherwise you will curse the long, cold and snowy winters. So its better to accept the cold, long snowy winters by doing skiing or snowboarding. Personally I never liked skiing, neither cross-country skiing nor downhill. It was an Australian named Salil who introduced [...]

Friends

I have had the great opportunity to travel around the world with my good friends for a number of years. Memories of those travels have left lasting footprints on my heart. I have come across a lot of good people with talents that I did not even know existed, it has been a true eye-opening [...]

Family life

I was born in northern Norway where the sun shines twenty-four hours a day in the summer and its dark twenty-four hours a day from December 10th until January 23rd. When the sun finally returned at the end of January we had what we called the Sun Day. The whole school marched together to the [...]

Christmas trip to Punta Cana

Punta Cana is part of the newly Punta Cana-Bavaro-Veron-Macao municipal district in La Altagracia, the easternmost province of the Dominican Republic. The area is best known for its beaches, which face both the Caribbean and Atlantic Seas, and it has been a popular tourist destination since the 70s. We stayed at the all inclusive Barcelo [...]

Special events Interfaith Harmony

Since 1970, Sri Chinmoy has offered twice-weekly silent interfaith meditations at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, for diplomats, UNleaders and staff. On October 19th, 1975, he led the first international interfaith conference at the UN in a minute of silence. This was the first time he met with Mother Teresa, who later became [...]

Statue of Sri Chinmoy in Oslo, Norway

Many people get statues while still walking the earth; for example in Oslo we have statues of the famous runner Grete Waitz, of our great actress Wenche Foss and the living violin legend Arve Tellefsen. When Sri Chinmoy was walking the earth some people wanted to set up a statue of Sri Chinmoy. Sri Chinmoy´s [...]