Song Universal – Talk for UN Community Nov 26 1968 – HIGHLIGHTS - Historical Repository for Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

Song Universal – Talk for UN Community Nov 26 1968 – HIGHLIGHTS

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50^th Anniversary of Sri Chinmoy’s First Talk

to the UN Community: “The Song Universal”

The following excerpts are offered to mark the 50^th anniversary of Sri Chinmoy’s first talk to members of the UN community, “The Song Universal,” given on 26 November 1968 at the Church Center for the United Nations.

Excerpts from Sri Chinmoy’s first talk for UN Community

(Full talk at song-universal-talk-for-un-community-1968-nov-26 )

The Song Universal is freedom. Freedom from what? Freedom from limitations, freedom from imperfections and freedom from ignorance. Man is in stark bondage. Nevertheless, man has the power deep within to cut asunder the teeming ties that have bound him and forced him to launch into the sea of uncertainty.

Four thousand years ago the Vedic seers voiced forth:

Give freedom for our bodies.
Give freedom for our dwelling.
Give freedom for our life.

This soulful prayer of the Vedic seers of yore will echo and re-echo through Eternity in humanity’s aspiring heart.

Freedom does not mean being away from home. Freedom means accepting and feeling the entire world as one’s real home, as one’s very own.…

Our inner realisation and outer action must run abreast. Outer achievements should be the conscious and spontaneous revelation of the inner divinity.

Love, harmony, peace and oneness. These are man’s divine ideals. On the strength of his inner mounting flame, aspiration, man can easily, unerringly and spontaneously manifest these ideals of his in his human life, in every sphere of his life.

It is quite natural and proper that we should discover our God in and through our own religion. When we go deep within, we come to realise that there is only one religion, and that religion is man’s inmost cry for God-Realisation. In the hoary past, Asoka, the great Emperor of India, sent missionaries to the corners of the globe with a profound message: “The basis of all religions is the same, wherever they are. Try to help them all you can, teach them all you can, but do not try to injure them.”

Let each religion play the role of a flower. Let us make a garland of these divine flowers and offer them at the Feet of God. God will be pleased. We shall be fulfilled.

Sri Chinmoy, The Garland of Nation-Souls. Agni Press: New York, 1972.

[for published talk also visit https://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/gns-4]