Chinmoy Ghose taught meditation in the West after moving to New York City in 1964
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New Guinness Record of most candles on a birthday cake has been set
Guru Chinmoy Ghose's cake at his New York centre had 72,585 candles
Fire extinguishers were used to put out candles to keep the cake edible
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, better known as Sri Chinmoy, taught meditation in the West after moving to New York City in 1964.
Taking place at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in New York, a team of 100 people worked together to make the cake, individually place each candle and then light them with 60 blowtorches.
The candles remained burning for about 40 seconds, ensuring that the previous record went up in flames.
The sponge cake was filled with vanilla mousse and was 80.5-feet-long and two-foot-wide
The wax was then scraped off and the party tucked into the enormous cake.
There were too many candles to blow out, so they were put out with carbon dioxide fire extinguishers
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