Sri Chinmoy:
The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

The Meditation Group gave several concerts during the month of October 1977 at the United Nations and in the New York area.

• On 11 October, the Group hosted a concert-reception for the Indians in the U.N. community, entertaining guests with music played on the Indian esraj by Sri Chinmoy, original and traditional Bengali songs sung by the Meditation Group choir and instrumental performances. After everyone stood for the singing of the Indian National Anthem, the Group served a feast of Indian delicacies, generously provided by Mr. and Mrs . Puran Sharma.

 

At the beginning of the programme, Sri Chinmoy addressed the audience.

 

Sri Chinmoy: Welcome my Indian sisters and brothers . We, the members of the Meditation Group at the UN, wish to offer you our souls’ oneness-love. Here we pray and meditate. That means we are in the world of aspiration. Needless to say, our Bharat Mata always beckons the length and bread th of the world. She inspires the seekers; she elevates the consciousness of those who sincerely thirst for a higher life, a life of illumination and perfection.

 

We are now invoking the soul of our dear Mother India to grant us even an iota of peace, light and bliss, which today we wish to share with the United Nations, the heart-home of the world body.  Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.

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• On 15 October 1977 musicians from the Group were invited by Mrs. Aye Aye Myint-U, daughter of former Secretary-General U Thant, to perform at a Festival of Lights dinner in Riverdale, NewYork .

 

•  A few days later, on 18 October, Dr. and Mrs. My int-U, in turn, attended a concert by Sri Chinmoy and the Meditation Group at Carnegie Recital Hall.

 

Dr. and Mrs. Myint-U receive prasad, a blessing gift, from Sri Chinmoy.

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A great nation is that nation which offers inspiration to other nations.
A greater nation is that nation which offers concern to other nations.
The greatest nation is that nation which offers heart’s love, spontaneous love, to other nations. [*1]

With inspiration we begin our universal family.
With concern we strengthen our universal family.
With love we feed and fulfill our universal family. [*1]

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The soul-love of the United Nations teaches us three most important things: patience, expansion and oneness.

Patience is not peace. But patience eventually show s us the way to peace, world peace.
Expansion is not an act of self-aggrandisement. But expansion can easily be a life-offering and love-building reality.
Oneness does not indicate a lack of opportunity for revealing and manifesting individual uniqueness. Oneness is like the essence and fragrance of a lotus. It does not prevent each petal of the lotus from revealing and manifesting its own uniqueness. [*2]

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[*1]  excerpt from talk “Each Nation In Its Place Is Great“, by Sri Chinmoy in UN Conference Room 9, May 3, 1973 Talk appears  in, The Tears Of Nation-Hearts,Agni Press, 1974.

[*2] excerpt from talk “The Soul-Love Of The United Nations“, by Sri Chinmoy in Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium on February 1, 1973. Talk appears  in, The Tears Of Nation-Hearts, Agni Press, 1974.

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