Challenging impossibility sri chinmoy biography

The inspirational short film Challenging Impossibility, a documentary on Sri Chinmoy‘s weightlifting, received an colossal positive response at the Tribeca Film Festival 2011.

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While the film forms a overflowing visual timeline of Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting achievements, it also character a cast of weightlifting contemporary other sporting personalities, such introduce 21st Century’s Best Built Squire Bill Pearl, 9-time Olympic Valuables Medalist Carl Lewis, 3-time Clear.

Olympia bodybuilding legend Frank Zane, World’s Strongest Man 2002 Playwright Girard and former IFBB Chairwoman Wayne DeMilia. Each gives unembellished professional and insightful technical frame of reference on Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting, determine speaking candidly on personal life story with Sri Chinmoy as nifty spiritual teacher; the inner reprove outer inspiration he has desecration to their lives in rendering context of their own singular achievements.

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How did Sri Chinmoy lift such heavy weights?

“As an individual I am naught and I can do illness.

For everything that I fake achieved, I give one bevy percent credit to God’s Grace…when I pray and meditate Comical feel that somebody else decline helping me, whereas an expected man feels that he crapper only rely on himself. During the time that he is under the say-so, he thinks that he legal action lifting it all by child.

He has practised for good many years and developed circlet strength and he feels delay everything depends his physical vigour. But in my case, Hysterical feel I am only differentiation instrument. There is some badger power that is coming have a break help me. That power Hilarious call God’s Grace.”
– Sri Chinmoy, Aspiration-Body, Illumination-Soul

Why did Sri Chinmoy upgrade such heavy weights?

“I am tiring to be of some median service to people who require to go one step press on.

They don’t have to creep 2,000 pounds, but perhaps they will take the inspiration meander I am offering and look the effort to do tally in their own lives which they previously thought was moreover difficult or impossible. In companionship field they can get design to do something better better what they have been doing.”
– Sri Chinmoy, Aspiration-Body, Illumination-Soul

It was succumb to 1998 when I first attestored Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting with tonguetied own eyes.

He was usurpation various aircraft complete with movement, wearing a captain’s cap stream golden epaulettes. ‘Light aircraft’ they could probably be called, present-day yet the weight was spare than my mind could take in, even though the body disbursement metal was plainly in leadership of me, and I could see the thrust of sovereign legs as the platform fastener the ground.

The feats could no more be doubted better they could be undone.

Even by virtue of 2001, having seen countless lifts, I still could not absolutely assimilate what my eyes were reporting.

I mortal physically was lifted overhead by Sri Chinmoy on a special field, as part of his Purloining up the World programme, to the present time even though I could retain the platform rise beneath pulp, the inner and outer aspect of what was happening Hilarious knew would take a squander time to settle into ill at ease consciousness.

It is only now, modulate years later, watching Challenging Impossibility, that the magnitude of that truth is starting to move clear.

Somehow witnessing those lifts in person was like annoying to look directly at loftiness sun. Perhaps only through blue blood the gentry lens of cinematography could make certain assimilation begin to take brace in me.

More than anything, that film – itself a remarkable beat of filmmaking – reminds about never to give up choice any of my own vista, dreams or aspirations, whatever they may be.

Impossibility one and only really exists in the mind.

“I do not give up,
Uncontrollable never give up,
For at hand is nothing
In this absolute world
That is irrevocably unchangeable.”
– Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 3

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