SRI CHINMOY: THE PEACE MEDITATION AT THE UNITED NATIONS

INTERFAITH PRAYER BREAKFAST

FOR THE OPENING OF THE 53RD SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

10 September 1998

Programme

Musical Invocation:                      Premik Russell Tubbs

Master of Ceremonies:                  Dr. Kusumita P. Pedersen

Silent Meditation                          All present

Song for Peace:                                 The Singers of The Peace Meditation

Welcome:                                          H. E. M. Pierre Lelong Permanent Representative

of Haiti to the United Nations

The Leaders of Prayer:

BUDDHISM

The Venerable Ashin Indaka

Chief Monk

America-Burma Buddhist Association

CHRISTIANITY

The Reverend Dr. Johncy !tty

Associate for Human Rights T

he Anglican Communion Office at the United Nations

ISLAM

Imam Feisal Abdul-Rauf

Masjid ai-Farah, New York

JAINISM

Bawa P. N. Jain

Director of International and United Nations Affairs

The Interfaith Center of New York

JUDAISM

Rabbi Lia Bass

Temple Israel, White Plains

AFRICAN TRADITIONAL

Mme Nana Boakyewa Yiadom I

Envoy Overseas of the Chief of Chiefs of the Akwapea (Eastern Ghana)

and Ohima (Queen Mother) in the Women’s Councils

President, Pan-African Human Rights Organization

Closing Musical Invocation

Breakfast will be served.

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Spirituality is not merely tolerance. It is not even acceptance. It is the feeling of a universal oneness. In our spiritual llfe, we look upon the Divine not only in terms of our own God, but in terms of everybody else’s God . Our spiritual life firmly and securely establishes the basis of unity in diversity. Spirituality is not hospitality to the other’s faith in God. It is the absolute recognition of the other’s faith in God as one’s own.

– Sri Chinmoy

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