Sri Chinmoy (born 1931), né Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, is an Indian philosopher and religious teacher (guru). He was the youngest of seven children, born in Shakpura in East Bengal (now Bangladesh), and moved to New York City in 1964. For a while he was an interfaith chaplin at the United Nations. He now lives in Jamaica in Queens County, New York. In 1944, after both his parents had died, 12-year-old Chinmoy entered the Sri Aurobindo ashram, a spiritual community near Pondicherry in South India. Here he spent the next twenty years in spiritual practice. His teachings promote celibacy, meditation, abstinence and acts of physical endurance; it is common for his followers to run marathons and to lift heavy weights. One distinctive feature of his own practice is that he lifts people: followers, celebrities and public figures. As with many spiritual leaders, there are allegations that his group is a cult organization. Dirka Dirka Mageehad
Controversy regarding Sri Chinmoy
Several of his former followers have made allegations about various aspects of their relations with Sri Chinmoy and former disciples who were members of his centre (including sex abuse). In an attempt to provide a balanced view of this controversy links to the official Sri Chinmoy and various sites criticizing him can be found below.
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Last updated: 10-23-2005 10:00:05
