Anniversary of 1968 talk at UN : 26 Nov 1976

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The Eighth Anniversary of the first Talk that Sri Chinmoy gave to the United Nations Community was remembered at this Friday Meditation on 26 Nov 1976.

The lecture “The Song Universal” appeared in the book Garland of Nation souls.

Sri Chinmoy lead the Friday meditation and gave a reading from of the 1968 talk a “Song Universal”

Excerpt:

The Song Universal is freedom. Freedom from what? Freedom from limitations, freedom from imperfections and freedom from ignorance. Man is in stark bondage. Nevertheless, man has the power deep within to cut asunder the teeming ties that have bound him and forced him to launch into the sea of uncertainty.

Four thousand years ago the Vedic seers voiced forth:

Give freedom for our bodies.

Give freedom for our dwelling.

Give freedom for our life.

This soulful prayer of the Vedic seers of yore will echo and re-echo through eternity in humanity’s aspiring heart.

Freedom does not mean being away from home. Freedom means accepting and feeling the entire world as one’s real home, as one’s very own.

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Our inner realisation and outer action must run abreast. Outer achievements should be the conscious and spontaneous revelation of the inner divinity.

Love, harmony, peace and oneness. These are man’s divine ideals. On the strength of his inner mounting flame, aspiration, man can easily, unerringly and spontaneously manifest these ideals of his in his human life, in every sphere of his life.

It is quite natural and proper that we should discover our God in and through our own religion. When we go deep within we come to realise that there is only one religion, and that religion is man’s inmost cry for God-Realisation. In the hoary past, Asoka, the great Emperor of India, sent missionaries to the corners of the globe with a profound message: “The basis of all religions is the same, wherever they are. Try to help them all you can, teach them all you can, but do not try to injure them.”

Let each religion play the role of a flower. Let us make a garland of these divine flowers and offer them at the Feet of God. God will be pleased. We shall be fulfilled.

See complete 1968 talk :

https://www.srichinmoypeacemeditationatun.org/1968/11/26/the-song-universal-at-church-center-for-the-un/

Introduction to Garland of Nation Souls

introduction-garland-of-nation-souls/

In November, Sri Chinmoy asked members of the Meditation Group to submit spiritual questions for him to answer during the Group’s regular meetings. These are questions answered on 16 and 26 November 1976. https://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/fw-259

Question: How can we see through God’s Eyes?

Sri Chinmoy: We can see through God’s Eyes only when we feel our conscious, constant and all-loving oneness with our Inner Pilot, the Lord Supreme. First of all, if we live in the mind or in the vital, we have to establish a free access to the inmost recesses of our heart. But if we already live in the heart, then we have to feel the Presence of the One who lives in the inmost recesses of our heart, our Lord Supreme. When we feel His Presence, at that time we have to go one step farther and feel our inseparable and eternal oneness with Him. Once we feel our inseparable, eternal oneness with Him, then no matter what we do, we will feel that He is doing it in us, with us and through us and we are doing it in Him, with Him and through Him. -26 November 1976

After the meeting members and guests received a symbolic offering: