LIFE Voices 35: Prachar Stegemann – A deeper Sense of Peace

In this episode of LIFE Voices, Prachar Stegeman from Canberra, Australia shares his thoughts on spirituality, music and meditation. Prachar is a meditation student of Sri Chinmoy and helps to organise a range of sporting events in Australia and the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run. The episode is entitled ‘A Deeper Sense of Peace’ and Prachar explains how he became interested in meditation to help his work as a concert pianist. Prachar also talks about how studying meditation under Sri Chinmoy opened up a whole range of new possibilities from singing to sport. Length: 18:34 min. Produced by Kedar Misani, kedarvideo Switzerland.

Akiane – 15 year old multi-talent brings people to God

Akiane Kramarik from Idaho (USA) began her deep connection with God age 4. She started to paint amazing artworks – realistic and dream-like – and she brought her atheistic parents to God. Now Akiane is 15 and not only created dozens of amazing artworks, but she also composes music and poetry. On her Blog she recently explained the above painting called “Search for Truth”: “It is a painting about humanity’s search for the origin, destiny, and meaning of life. It is a story of how we look for the truth and how we treat others as they also try to discover it. With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth. The astronaut here represents many of us searching for truth in a controlling way. Although we are still searching, we are convinced that we have already discovered the truth and that everyone should believe it only our way. And believe it at any cost. Just like this man, we stand on a strange little planet trying to posses it. Like a giant we trample on the flowers reaching for light that represent meek and gentle souls ruled by the ignorant, the cunning, the powerful, the prideful, or the aggressive. Sadly, most of the tiny planet is already trampled.

Through his stiff and cumbersome space suit the astronaut is not able to touch and smell the blossoms and is able to view them only through his shatter-proof mask. He presumes the air here is toxic and void of life. So he fears to remove his suit and get contaminated. Yet despite his great knowledge he has not figured out that if flowers bloom, then he too would be able to breathe safely. Even though he dwarfs the planet of flowers, he himself gets dwarfed by a grand space of galaxies and mysteries, which I portrayed through many reality designs including two sets of DNA where divine and human lives interact continuously. I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine!”

Akiane will be the live guest on “2012 and beyond” this Friday, February 19th at 9 pm CET, 8 pm GMT, 3 pm EST, 12:00 noon PST. Don’t miss it. Here is the link of the channel: www.livestream.com/2012truth. More informations, videos and artwork on Akiane’s website.

Sri Chinmoy: 170 instrumemts in one concert

On September 11, 2005, Maestro Sri Chinmoy chose the village of Interlaken in the Swiss Alps to offer a concert performing on a record number of 170 musical instruments from around the world. This is an excerpt with a sample of 8 different flutes. It is now available on www.srichinmoy.tv

Bannya performs songs in Bengali by Sri Chinmoy

Renowned Indian vocalist Rezwana Choudhury “Bannya” from Bangladesh performs spiritual Bengali songs by spiritual teacher and composer Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) in a concert commemorating the music of Sri Chinmoy, called “Songs of the Soul”. The concert took place on August 28th 2009 in the NYU Skirball Center in New York. Bannya was part of a whole evening program celebrating the music of Sri Chinmoy. Upcoming events of “Songs of the Soul” concerts you can find here: songsofthesoul.com.