The start of this years Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence Race
A lot of meeting old friends
Pranjal remembers the way here
Yolanda is Back
Suprabha there for the start
William with some friends from Sanday
A word with Bahula
sopan preparing shoes
Getting ready
william and Alan
The board is empty
Smarana
Rupantar
Nisanga
Kobi
Medur
Kobi
Kaneenika
Atandra brought Alakananda in spirit
Alakananda
Flower
Runners introductions
Start
Yolanda
Getting help from Shamus
Flower
William
Drinking water early
Getting help from alan
Flower
Ananda-Lahari
In camp
Water table
lots of visitors
Andy
Musicians
Click to Play
Vasu
Vasu and Alexei
vasu
Installing webcam
Ushika
coming through camp
Flower
Trishul
Surasa
shoe repair
surasa
Flower
Father’s day marathon
Sopan
CNN Camera man
Coming through camp
Smarana
coming through camp
Performing a play
Shamus
Sahishnu updates the board
Kobi
Getting help
Early laps
Flower
Kaneenika
Kaneenika and Surasa
Flower
Matt Green has been walking every street in New York for the past 6 years
He has walked over 8 thousand miles
Sahishnu’s Sunday wrap up
Click to Play
Parvati
Sri Chinmoy: Our philosophy is very simple. We love God, and we would like to serve God. There are many, many ways to please God. Right now we cannot please God in each and every way. But when we pray and meditate, we feel that there shall come a time when we shall be able to please God in each and every way. Why do we have this feeling? Simply because He will give us the capacity. So right now we are praying to God for the capacity to please Him in His own Way.
When we take the next step, then we tell God, “We would like to please You cheerfully, eagerly plus unconditionally.” If He wants me at this moment to converse with Him, I will do it happily, gladly and proudly. The next moment if He asks me to play tennis, I will gladly play tennis. Then, the following moment, if He asks me to do something else, that I will also do, happily and proudly. Ultimately we would like to do everything for God unconditionally. We shall not set any condition: “God, if You give me this, then I shall do that for You.” That is not our philosophy. We tell God, “We shall give You happily and self-givingly what You want from us. To please You in Your own Way we came into the world.” This is our philosophy.
We also have something else in our philosophy, and that is self-transcendence. We shall not be fully satisfied with our past or present achievements. We must go forward, we must go upward and we must go inward.
Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy answers, part 12, Agni Press, 1999
Thanks again Uptal for your amazing blog.
Utpal I loved what you said at the end of your day 1 video. May fresh inspiration flow through you with your daily offerings here for us too! Thank you so much for showing what so many of us can’t be physically there for. So uplifting… gratitude! And go runners!!! You are the true super – heroes in this era!
Dear Utpal,
A new epizode of this world changing race – thank you for taking up the challenge again! Looking forward to each and every day of your reports! I hope it is going to be a most wonderful journey for your and each and everyone who joins in :o).
Thank you Utpal ! Very nice inspiring video!! Good job!! All the best !!
This is my very favourite time of the year and the day — reading Utpal’s blog. In a world of ‘bad news’ — this is like a balm to the mind. Thank you, brave ones, for taking up the self-transendence banner once again! Wonderful interview with Sahishnu, the king of statistics and knowledge.
This is how I connect with the 3100 mile race, through these video updates.
Thanks so much Utpal for your efforts, and the runners, helpers and organisers.
I look forward to each post with such excitement and happiness.
Good stuff!
Gratitude to all.
Thanks Utpal so, so much.
I am looking forward for your reports and interviews!
Gratitude to all the participants of 3100 Self Transcendence miles
On again!! YES YES YES
A great start
Thank you, Utpal, for this service, which helps so many to connect with the 3100 mile race.
Great start, Utpal and all! Like one runner said — it is different everytime, and we can already feel that. No dry Sahara, a living, breathing display of Self-transcendence. Thank you to all the brave ones. We’re in league with those marathon monks of historic fame.
So happy we are all back together!