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...wouldn't expect a spiritual leader to be able to power-lift 7,000 lbs. with one arm, but charismatic Indian philosopher Sri Chinmoy believed that extreme physical fitness was key to achieving enlightenment and world harmony. A guru with disciples around the globe, he drew attention to his mission by holding "ultramarathon" events that spanned up to 3,100 miles and by lifting trucks, airplanes and people, including Nobel laureates Muhammad Ali and Nelson Mandela...
...eyebrows were raised by an unusual private meeting MIKHAIL GORBACHEV scheduled during the London economic summit. The Soviet leader took time out from importuning Western leaders for economic help to greet his friend SRI CHINMOY, the New Age Indian guru. As French President Francois Mitterrand watched from the side, Gorbachev accepted a book of praise from the spiritual leader, who is based in Queens, N.Y. Gorbachev, who has been known to sprinkle speeches with terminology about his vision for a "new civilization" that obeys "new laws and logic," first met the guru last year on a state visit to Canada...
...order." As he said in California: "All mankind is entering a new age, and world trends are beginning to obey new laws and logic." More strikingly, he held a private meeting in Canada earlier in the week with one of the leading gurus of the new age movement, Sri Chinmoy, who read him a "spiritual song" and gave him a volume of admiring letters...
...death from the Criminal Courts building in Manhattan. According to The Harvard Crimson, friends described Neumann as "cheerful, outgoing and laid back," although he had been depressed for a few days before leaving for New York. He often traveled to New York to engage in meditation sessions with Sri Chinmoy, of whom Leonard Bernstein had written: "What power is in this man's music. My spirit is very, very deeply impressed." A security guard at Adams House, Robert McLaughlin, who himself became despondent when John Neuman took his life, has told me again and again how giving and caring John...
Neumann often traveled to New York for meditation sessions with Sri Chinmoy, the leader of a loosely organized Indian meditation group, friends said...