Sri Chinmoy:
The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

THREE PEACE CONCERTS HELD IN AUSTRALIA

CANBERRA, Australia -At the encouragement of Prime Minister Paul Keating, Sri Chinmoy offered three peace concerts in Australia – all dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Members of the Peace Meditation at the United Nations group in NY had also travel with Sri Chinmoy to be present for the events in Australia and New Zealand between June 26th and Jul 01..

Keating had encouraged the Master to come, writing him: ‘Your activities in inspiring a vision of peace are recognized around the world as is your special contribution to the U.N. “It would be a privilege to have one of your peace con- certs performed in Australia.” It was a sentiment echoed by MP Garrie Gibson who, in a speech before Parliament, called the spiritual teacher “one of the world’s most remarkable peace-lovers and peace- servers.” Sri Chinmoy’s first concert was held in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra on June 26, the exact date the United Nations Charter had been signed in San Francisco 50 years earlier. Two other peace concerts were held in Melbourne the evening of June 28 at the Victorian Arts Centre. At the close of the first concert, the General Manager of the Arts Centre, Sue Nattrass, came on stage and presented the Master with a plaque declaring the Arts Centre a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom. Sri Chinmoy said: “They call me an artist. I pray to my Lord Beloved Supreme every day to teach me only one art: the art of self-giving, which has neither a beginning nor an end.” A letter from acting Premier Andrew Refshange of New South Wales dedicating the state of New South Wales as a Sri Chinmoy Peace State was also read out at the Melbourne concert

AUCKLAND MAYOR OPENS PEACE CONCERT

AUCKLAND, New Zealand – Mayor Les Mills opened Sri Chinmoy’s Auckland peace concert at Aotea Centre on June 30. Speaking to a crowd of 2,500, he hailed the spiritual teacher as a man who has dedicated his life “to moving the people of the world from darkness into light.” Sri Chinmoy, he said, “is here to help us understand our unique worth and to inspire us to respect and understand that worth in others.” The Auckland concert, like most of Sri Chinmoy’s other peace concerts this year, was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger meets with Sri Chinmoy on June 30 in Auckland.

above adapted from report in Anahata Nada Volume 25, April – Jul 1995