Cultural Offerings
Last updated: 21 March 2008
Musical Compositions
- Composed over 21,000 songs:
13,625 in Bengali; 7.300 in English; 180 in Sanskrit; 33 in French
- Composed 2,700 songs in one year, 1995, to reach a total of 13,000
| 28 November 1976 |
Composed 300 songs in one session |
| 8
July 1995 |
Set music to “August 15, 1945”, his epic Bengali poem written at
the age of thirteen and dedicated to the Birthday of Sri Aurobindo |
| 16 August 2002 |
Set music to “The Ideal of Forgiveness”, Sri Aurobindo’s epic
story that Sri Chinmoy rendered into poetry in 1945 (also Sri Chinmoy’s
longest song) |
Concerts
- Performed 777 concerts worldwide
- Gave 8 concerts with audiences of over 10,000 people
| 23 September 2000 |
Largest concert: audience of 19,000, Montreal, Canada |
| 14 May 1986 |
Performed 400 songs in a single performance |
| 25 November 1995 |
Jamaica, New York. Performed longest concert on 150 instruments in 14 hours in honour of the United Nations 50th
Anniversary |
| 16 August 2001 |
Performed on 70 pianos in one concert, Queens, NY |
| 13 August 1991 |
Longest continuous improvisational performance on piano: 69 minutes |
Literature
- Published over 1,573 books, including poetry, essays, stories, plays and aphorisms.
- 388 published lectures, 3,951 published stories and 116,776 published poems
and aphorisms to date
- 63 plays: 11 full-length plays and 52 short plays (one-act)
| 7 August 1996 |
24-hour poetry record: 1,301 poems in 22 hours and 45 minutes (one poem every 63 seconds).
Printed in a 13-part series Two God-Amusement-Rivals |
Lectures
- Gave over 300 university lectures, including at world
universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambrige, Oxford,
Sorbonne and Tokyo Universities
Jharna-Kala Fountain-Art
- Completed over 150,000 paintings
- Completed over 16 million "Dream-Freedom-Soul-Birds" soul-bird drawings
| 29 December 1991 |
Began drawing soul-birds entitled "Dream-Freedom-Soul-Birds" |
| 16 Nov 1975 |
Completed 16,031 paintings in 24 hours |
| 29 Apr 1976 |
Painted ‘Larger than the Largest’ – 12’ x 27’ in under 2 hours |
| 30 Apr 1977 |
Painted ‘C.K.G. Transcends’ – 13’ x 70’ in 2 hours 29 minutes |
| 10 Sep 1977 |
Painted ‘Journey’s Battle-Victory’ – 13’ x 25’ in 47 minutes |