Sri Chinmoy:
The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

On 9 March 1978 Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations hosted a dinner in honour of International Women ‘s Day for women working in world affairs. The dinner was held in the Church Center for the United Nations.

At the end of the evening’s programme, which included music on the Indian esraj by Sri Chinmoy and vocal and instrumental performances by Meditation Group members, several guests spoke informally about the significance of International Women’s Day.

Following are excerpts from their impromptu remarks.

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Mr. Donald Keys, President, Planetary Citizens:

There are, I sometimes reflect, perhaps three United Nations.

• There is the United Nations of the delegations.
• There is the United Nations of the international Civil Service, the Secretariat.

And thinking of International Women’ s Day, I wish to say that women have not fared very well in all this time in the United Nations.

• Then there is another United Nations, and that’s the United Nations that belongs to all of us.

Here this problem doesn’t exist. It’s the United Nations which is the goal of humanity. It’s the United Nations which is the future of humanity. It’s the  United Nations which represents the synthesis and the Point Omega of human evolution on this very small planet: the United Nations of immanent human oneness. That is the United Nations to which we all belong and the reason, after all, that we are here.

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Sra. Emil ia Castro de Barish, Minister Plenipotentiary of Costa Rica :

I sometimes have great faith in the U.N.

Sometimes I feel disappointed that we cannot accomplish so many things that would be good for humanity because there is not the political will.

We keep hoping and praying that things can be better in the world. And we have to keep trying to work for peace and for the betterment of mankind.

Thank you.

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Sister Janet Richardson, Attache, the Holy See Mission:

When Archbishop Caseroli was here for the World Peace Day Programme, he had a taped dialogue with Mr. Robert Muller.

That dialogue we are going to publish, but I can give you a little advance on it.

In that dialogue the Archbishop said that if the United Nations didn’t already exist, we would have to bring it into existence.

And then he said as long as the United Nations remains the way it was intended,

it would always have the Roman Catholic Church for an ally,

because they have at least one thing in common: they are both “catholic*“.

So I leave you his message .

(*Note: catholic: universal, including a wide variety of things ; all-embracing):

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Ms . Patricia Murray, The National Council of Black Women and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers:

What I feel today on International Women’s Day is that the United Nations remains kind of a dream deferred, a dream not yet realised, a dream still composed of characters who are primarily male.

I think that the United Nations will not become a dream realised until each of us begins to realise the God within ourselves.

The United Nations can only be as enlightened as we are

 It is important that the emphasis be on the enlightenment of each individual, for only then will the United Nations become that dream realised.

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Ms. Yvette Ripplinger, UNITAR:

Recently I saw a motion picture in which they depicted slave ships with everybody rowing in the galley

             and working very hard to make the vessel go.

And I realised that the victory in those times depended on how fast the slaves on the ship could pull the oars.

Of course, the United Nation s is not a galley ship or a slave ship. 

But it is a ship which has a lot of oars to pull as fast as possible in order to win the victory.

Since it is Women’s Day, I think women have to realise that if they really want to play their proper role,

                  they have to sit side by side with men and pull the oars just as quickly,

                     so we can finally reach the goal and the victory, which is peace.

 

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see also 2 March 1981 -Sri Chinmoy talk on “Women’s Liberation And Oneness-Satisfaction”

EXCERPT:  “The satisfaction that one gets by serving, equaling or surpassing others will not last. Only oneness-satisfaction will forever last. In the heart’s oneness, there is no superiority or inferiority; there is not even equality. There is only oneness-joy. Here it is not a competition-game but a oneness-game.”…

“…real liberation does not lie in equaling or surpassing others, but in becoming one with them. Liberation is satisfaction, and satisfaction is found only in oneness.”

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