Thursday, March 10th, 2011, 7:30-8:30 pm
P.S. 20 Anna Silver Auditorium (map)
166 Essex St. (near Houston St.)
Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York
Admission FREE, however reservations are required.
Please call (212) 380-8153 to reserve your seats.
"The Ever-New Vision and The Ever-Ancient Reality" – Sri Chinmoy’s poetry of illumination – selected works spanning over four decades, discussed and performed with musical accompaniment by Bhikshuni Weisbrot.
Sri Chinmoy wrote thousands of poems in his lifetime, both in his native Bengali and English. His poetry-journey spanned over half a century 
and encompassed themes of philosophy, prayer, religion, spirituality, nature's beauty, his love of the English language and the exploration of word-making as well as his abiding love, concern and hope for the world. This presentation of his poems and music offers a glimpse of the unique work of this seer-poet, whose works envision the present, past and future all at once.
In the Universal Heart all hearts are one,
Inseparable, I know.
Yet knowing this, I hurt the hearts of others
Day and night.
We are all the slaves of fate;
It dances on our foreheads.
In peace sublime is the extinction-sleep of fate;
I know this secret.
O Jewel of my eye, pour into my heart
Your golden Silence.
-Excerpt from Lotus-Groves (1973), by Sri Chinmoy
More of the Poetry of Sri Chinmoy
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Bhikshuni Weisbrot is President of the United Nations SRC Society of Writers and works for the HIV/AIDS Group of the United Nations Development Programme. She won the Bright Hill Press 2007 Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in various journals and have been translated into numerous languages. She has studied meditation with Sri Chinmoy since 1980. |
The Poetry of Illumination is part of an evening program that also features Thomas Jefferson: Light and Liberty. Both presentations are part of the Festival of Meditation and Spirituality taking place in New York City in the month of March, sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Centre.
