Amb. A. Nazareth’s International Day of Non Violence Lecture at UN, NY Oct 2nd,2012

Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri

Permanent Representative of India to the UN

cordially invites

Ms. Nilima Silver

for an event to

commemorate the “International Day of Non-Violence”

on Tuesday, 2nd October 2012 at 1100 hrs

at the ECOSOC Chamber, NLB, United Nations

H.E. Mr. S.M. Krishna, External Affairs Minister of India will preside.

H.E. Mr. Vuk Jeremic, President of the General Assembly has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest.

Ambassador P A Nazareth,

author of the widely acclaimed “Gandhi’s Outstanding Leadership “

will deliver the keynote address on

” Gandhi : The Non Violent Revolutionary”

GANDHI ; THE NON VIOLENT REVOLUTIONARY

(Excerpt from :Text of Ambassador (Retd) Alan Nazareth’s International Day of Non Violence Lecture at the United Nation, New York on October 2^nd ,2012)

“An enlightened effort to initiate this “new manner of thinking” at the United Nations was made by the farsighted and deeply spiritual former UN Secretary General U Thant in 1970 by inviting Sri Chinmoy, the Indian spiritual master,

(Sri Chinmoy and U Thant)

to conduct regular meditation sessions at the UN, for diplomats, delegates and staff members representing their countries/working at it. Said meditation sessions and related activities such as lectures, seminars, plays, art exhibitions and sports have continued unbroken since then even though Sri Chinmoy passed away in October 2007. ……

. A biennial World Harmony Run instituted by him in 1987, now traverses 70,000 kilometers in 100 countries in all continents and has internationally renowned athletes and Olympic Gold medalists like Olivier Bernhard, Carl Lewis, Katrina Webb, Paul Tergat, Tatyana Lebedeva and Tegla Loroupe participating in them. After one such run Carl Lewis declared “When I carried the flaming torch, I felt so much oneness with all the people of the world.”

“The tragedy of the contemporary world is that there is too much religion, particularly of the fundamentalist kind, and too little of the spirituality it so greatly needs.

“Spirituality that is deeply rooted in Truth, Justice, Love and Universal Brotherhood could contribute substantially in changing the untruth, injustice, religious and racial hatred plagued international scenario and in due course bring about the global spiritual renaissance which the revered U Thant firmly believed was an essential requisite for a real and enduring world peace.

“Sri Chinmoy’s memorable quote about this is ‘ World Peace can be achieved when, in each person, the power of love replaces the love of power’. Those who doubt this and prefer to rely on bombs, missiles, drones and such other lethal weapons to achieve peace would do well to recall the prophetic words of Jesus Christ ‘He who raises the sword will perish by the sword.’ (More: full text of draft lecture)

Ambassador Nazareth meeting with friends from the meditation Group and after his very well received lecture.

Spirituality that is deeply rooted in Truth, Justice, Love and Universal Brotherhood could contribute substantially in changing the untruth, injustice, religious and racial hatred plagued international scenario and in due course bring about the global spiritual renaissance which the revered U Thant firmly believed was an essential requisite for a real and enduring world peace.

Sri Chinmoy’s memorable quote about this is “ World Peace can be achieved when, in each person, the power of love replaces the love of power” Those who doubt this and prefer to rely on bombs, missiles, drones and such other lethal weapons to achieve peace would do well to recall the prophetic words of Jesus Christ “He who raises the sword will perish by the sword.”

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