The Sri Chinmoy Library

Sri Chinmoy gave lectures at universities around the world, including Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge, highlighting the central truths of yoga, religion and spirituality for the modern seeker. The book My Ivy League Leaves includes lectures in Harvard, Yale and Stanford.

Over the years, Sri Chinmoy answered numerous questions on the spiritual life, offering practical guidance through simple, direct and powerful replies. These questions have been compiled into volumes such as Sri Chinmoy answers and Flame-Waves.

Sri Chinmoy was a prolific poet, with well over 130,000 poems, prayers and aphorisms to his name. Many of the famous early poems that Sri Chinmoy wrote in his teenage years and early twenties are contained in My Flute

Much of Sri Chinmoy's poetic output can be found in three epic collections:

• Ten Thousand Flower-Flames: written 1979 to 1983.
• Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants: written 1983 to 1998.
• Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees: 50,000 poems written between 1998 and 2007.

Sri Chinmoy loved to tell stories. Among Sri Chinmoy's story collections are retellings of traditional Indian stories (such as the India and her miracle-feast series) as well as newer stories taken both from Indian village life and from the West, where he made his home for 43 years.

Sri Chinmoy wrote plays about the lives of the great Avatars, including the Buddha, the Christ, Sri Chaitanya and Sri Ramakrishna, revealing the quintessence of their lives and teachings. These plays underscore the essential unity of different spiritual traditions around the world.

Sri Chinmoy wrote many books of tributes to people he deeply admired. These books include poems, songs and talks about the lofty achievements and illumining personalities of these great individuals, such as President Mikhail Gorbachev, President Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa.

While Sri Chinmoy did not write an autobiography, he related many vignettes about his childhood and youth that have been published in his books. In his later years, he shared anecdotes from his daily life in the West that were published in books such as The world-experience-tree-climber (from his world travels) and Run and become (from his athletic training).