Sri Chinmoy:
The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

On 12 November 1978 Sri Chinmoy and members of the Meditation Group were invited by Mr. G.V. Subba Rao , head of the new energy programme of the United Nations Department of International Economic and Social Affairs, to hold a meditation and concert of devotional music at the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing, New York.

The overwhelming beauty of the authentic Hindu temple combined with the haunting subtlety of the Indian esraj played by Sri Chinmoy and devotional Bengali songs sung by the Meditation Group choir, created a very sublime atmosphere.

The below  excerpts are from  Meditation Group’s 1978 Devoted Report to the S-G.

See also: A representation of a small Brochure from the day’s events

Following is an excerpt from introductory remarks delivered by Dr. A. Algapptm, Secretary and life Trustee of the Hindu Temple Society of North America.

“It is a great privilege and honour to receive Sri Chinmoy and all the young friends who have come with him. We all know that this is an external temple which meets the eye. But what is
important is the internal temple. The chakras must be opened and the jiva must go and have communion with the Universal Spirit. This is what Sri Chinmoy has achieved, and this is what we are struggling to do. Of course, when a person becomes perfect, he wants to shed the benign radiance on others.

While India has many holy people who have been able to do this, we in New York are blessed with one person who has been silently and steadfastly doing this, and this is Sri Chinmoy. Not only by his teachings but also by his example, he has been able to inspire so many people and put them on the right path. So we give him not only a double and triple welcome, but a welcome for every day.”

Mr. K. Subba Rao, M.D. , Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hindu Temple Society of North America, thanked Sri Chinmoy after the concert:

“It is our sincere wish and desire that we have the real good fortune to have you again . It was very inspiring.”

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Meditation is self-perfection.

If we have the message of perfection deep within,

we cannot neglect anything within or without.[*1]

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Event also reported in Meditation at UN – Vo 06, No 11; 27 Nov 1978, Bulletin 

Reference Note:

[*1]  Excerpt from talk “Does Meditation Encourage Us To Escape From Reality?“, by Sri Chinmoy in UN Conference Room 14, on June 7, 1974. Talk appears  in, The Tears Of Nation-Hearts, Agni Press, 1974.

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