Sri Chinmoy Photography

The Fragrance of the Heart Cafe II

The second Fragrance of the Heart café is located in the oldest shopping centre in Norway, the Glasmagasinet. Glasmagasinet is located next to the main Dome of Oslo; Oslo Domkirke. It is a parallell street to the main street Karl Johans gate. Its 5 minutes walk from Central Station and 10 minutes walk from Fragrance [...]

The Fragrance of the Heart Cafe I

Our Peace Café; The Fragrance of the Heart I was opened October 10th, 2003. Sri Chinmoy visited The Fragrance of the Heart April/May 2007 prior to his Peace Concert at the Nobel Peace Center. Our first Fragrance of the Heart is located at City Hall Plaza in Oslo; Fr. Nansens plass 2. The Fragrance of [...]

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 [...]

Sri Chinmoy in Oslo

Sri Chinmoy visited Oslo, Norway six times. His first trip was in March 1988 and his last in May 2007. Sri Chinmoy held concerts in Konserthuset, Gamle Logen two times, Oslo Spektrum and The Nobel Peace Center. Sri Chinmoy was an official guest to the city of Oslo in 2001. When visiting Oslo in 2001 [...]

Cats

This is Kiddy. He was born on the island of Nessodden on our national day May 17th, 2004. When I got the kiddy he was very, very small. I had to feed the cat like a baby. He became very well fed and only after a few months he was climbing the biggest trees on [...]

About Sri Chinmoy

Sri Chinmoy is a spiritual teacher who dedicated his life in the service of humanity. In his 43 years in the West, he endeavoured to inspire and serve mankind with his soulful offerings - his prayers and meditations, literary, musical, artistic works and sports. Photography by Husiar Johnsen.