A spiritual Master and teacher of meditation, Sri Chinmoy is renowned as a writer, poet, composer, painter and athlete – a modern Renaissance Man who blended intense spiritual practice with a dynamic outer life.
An avid and successful sprinter, decathlete and soccer player in his youth in India, Sri Chinmoy took up long-distance running and tennis after moving to America. When injuries curtailed his running career he moved into weightlifting, in which he established phenomenal records.
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Spirituality in Action
For Sri Chinmoy, life is a creative expression and flowering of the soul. The physical and the spiritual are one, like the obverse and reverse of the same coin; so physical fitness and sports are the perfect complement to spiritual discipline.
Sri Chinmoy and his disciples established the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team to promote physical fitness and self-transcendence as a means to integral welbeing and personal fulfillment.
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