Literary output

Sri Chinmoy has published over 1,600 books to date that include:

120,000 Published Poems

50,000 poems from “Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees”
27,000 poems from “Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants”
10,000 poems from “Ten Thousand Flower-Flames”
2,240 rhyming poems
1,301 poems written in 24 hours (August 7th-8th, 1996)

The finish of 10,000 Flower-Flames on July 3rd, 1983

63 Plays published in 16 books including

11 full length plays (7 on the lives of the Avatars)
52 one-act plays



Sri Chinmoy performing in his own play, “The Son”, on August 27th, 1974.

389 University Lectures

272 lectures at universities in the USA
117 at universities in other countries


Offering a lecture on Sri Aurobindo at King’s College, University of Cambridge, November 12th, 1997

3,950+ Published Stories

400 serious stories
482 biographical stories
364 autobiographical stories
398 light or entertaining stories
2,287 autobiographical anecdotes
54 children's stories
6 translations of other Bengali writers

675+ Published Jokes

 

 

 Publishers

Some of Sri Chinmoy’s early books were accepted by distinguished publishing houses such as Simon & Schuster, Rudolf Steiner and Herder & Herder. In recent years, Hazeldon, Health Communications, Blue Dove Press, Simon & Schuster and New Holland Publishers (Australia) have released major books by Sri Chinmoy. Sales of The Wings of Joy have soared to nearly 65,000.