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CHAPTER XI<br />

MO’ CHIN-UPS<br />

(SRI CHINMOY)<br />

Sri Chinmoy is a fully realized spiritual Master dedicated to<br />

inspiring and serving those seeking a deeper meaning in life<br />

(Chinmoy, 1985).<br />

Sect members believe that Chinmoy is an “avatar” (Eisenstadt,<br />

1993).<br />

A NATIVE OF BANGLADESH, Chinmoy Kumar Ghose arrived in <strong>the</strong><br />

United States in 1964, having previously lived for two decades at<br />

<strong>the</strong> Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India. Three years later, he started<br />

his own Aum meditation center in Queens, New York.<br />

Once described by <strong>the</strong> Wall Street Journal as “<strong>the</strong> stunt man<br />

of <strong>the</strong> spiritual world,” Chinmoy has earned that appellation many<br />

times over, via numerous demonstrated “feats of strength.”<br />

The Supreme doesn’t want you to be satisfied with fifty meters.<br />

He wants you to run fifty-one meters, fifty-two meters,<br />

fifty-four meters.... O<strong>the</strong>rwise, if you always aim at <strong>the</strong> same<br />

goal, it becomes monotonous (Chinmoy, in [Jackson, 1996]).<br />

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