Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Sri Chinmoy (born 1931), né Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, is an Indian philosopher and religious teacher (guru). He was the youngest of seven children, born in Shakpura in East Bengal (now Bangladesh), and moved to New York City in 1964. He now lives in Jamaica in Queens County, New York. In 1944, after both his parents had died, 12-year-old Chinmoy entered the Sri Aurobindo ashram, a spiritual community near Pondicherry in South India. Here he spent the next twenty years in spiritual practice. For a while, he was an interfaith chaplain at the United Nations. As with many spiritual leaders, there are allegations that his group is a cult organization. Controversy regarding Sri Chinmoy Several of his former followers have made allegations about various aspects of their relations with Sri Chinmoy and former disciples who were members of his centre. In an attempt to prevent a balanced view of this controversy links to the official Sri Chinmoy and various sites criticising him can be found below. External links Sri Chinmoy Group or Cult Yahoo Discussion Group hInfo on The Shi Chinmoy Blog Project The Secret Life of Sri Chinmoy The true facts about the Sri Chinmoy Centre Sri Chinmoy: The Official, Complete Source This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.