Composed 300 songs in one session, 28 November 1976
Composed 2,700 songs in one year,1995, to reach a total of 13,000
Set music to “August 15, 1945”, his epic Bengali poem written at the age of thirteen and dedicated to the Birthday of Sri Aurobindo, 8 July 1995
Set music to “The Ideal of Forgiveness”, Sri Aurobindo’s epic story that Sri Chinmoy rendered into poetry in 1945 (also Sri Chinmoy’s longest song — 16 August 2002)
Concerts
Performed nearly 700 concerts
Largest concert: 23 September 2000, audience of 19,000, Montreal, Canada
Gave 8 concerts with audiences of over 10,000 people
Performed 400 songs in a single performance, 14 May 1986
Performed longest concert on 150 instruments in 14 hours, 25 November, 1995, Jamaica, NY in honour of the United Nations 50th Anniversary
Performed on 70 pianos in one concert, Queens, NY, 16 August 2001
Longest continuous improvisational performance on piano: 69 minutes, 13 August 1991
Literature
Written over 1,450 works, including poetry, essays, lectures, stories, plays and aphorisms, with a total of 100,000 poems and aphorisms to date
24-hour poetry record: 1,301 poems in 22 hours and 45 minutes, 7 August 1996 (one poem every 63 seconds).
Printed in a 13-part series Two God-Amusement-Rivals
Lectures
Given over 300 university lectures, including at world universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambrige, Oxford, Sorbonne and Tokyo Universities
Jharna-Kala Fountain-Art
13 Apr 2004 Has drawn over 14,000,000 soul-birds since 29 December 1991
03 Oct 1975 Completed 100,000 paintings in 101/2 months
16 Nov 1975 Completed 16,031 paintings in 24 hours
29 Apr 1976 Painted ‘Larger than the Largest’ – 12’ x 27’ in under 2 hours
30 Apr 1977 Painted ‘C.K.G. Transcends’ – 13’ x 70’ in 2 hours 29 minutes
10 Sep 1977 Painted ‘Journey’s Battle-Victory’ – 13’ x 25’ in 47 minutes
