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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05.

Ghose, Chinmoy
(g s g sh) (KEY) , 1931, Indian mystic and poet. Orphaned at the age of 12, he went to
live at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in S India, where he stayed for the next 20 years,
practicing spiritual disciplines. In 1964 he went to the United States, where he lectured
and established meditation centers. In 1970 he was appointed director of the United
Nations Meditation Group. His numerous writings describe his Yoga of love, devotion,
and surrender as a swift and safe path to union with God or the Supreme. He stresses the
development of the spiritual heart as a human faculty higher than mind and emphasizes
the necessity for manifesting God in ones daily life rather than withdrawing from the
world.

See his Yoga and the Spiritual Life (1970), Meditations: Food for the Soul (1971), and
Songs of the Soul (1971).

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2001-05 Columbia University Press.

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