Meditation Group Members at Vietnam Peace Events, 1992 Dec
Filed under asia-oceana | Tributes and Expressions of appreciationSome members of the Meditation Group at the UN joined with students and friends of Sri Chinmoy for Peace related events in the Vietnam during their visit there in December of 1992.
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MEKONG DELTA BECOMES PEACE SHRINE
Below is a report of events in the publication Ananahata Nada “the soundless sound” published by the Sri Chinmoy Center in NY.
The Mekong Delta, site of some of the fi ercest fighti ng in the Vi et Nam war, has become a shrine for peace. Vietnamese authorities named the 3,800-square-mile agricultural region a “Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom” Dec. 28 in honour of the international ambassador of peace who was visiting their nation. At the dedication ceremony, held in the city of Tanan, Long An Province, Sri Chinmoy praised former Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh as his nation’s liberator and highest dreamer. “When we live in the mind, we quarrel and fight. But when we live in the heart, we only love.” Sri Chinmoy said, “If we can live in our hearts, there will be peace within us and harmony in the world,” Peace, he continued, is an inner quality. “It is not something that we can see; it is only something that we can feel and grow into. It is like what an American general, in a different context, once said about your soldiers: th eir presence was always felt, but they were not to be found. Peace is like that too.” Saying that the nation that has suffered most is the right nation to offer joy to mankind, he called Viet Nam “the chosen country to offer joy and happiness to the world.” A few days earlier, Sri Chinmoy had spoken privately of Viet Nam’s tremendous spiritual receptivity. “People criti cise the politics of Viet Nam; they say that the Vietnamese are sti ll favouri ng Communism. I don’t know what Communism is, but I do know what God is. And I can say that God’s Light is defini tely working most powerfully and most successfully here in the soil of Viet Nam.”
PEACE CONCERTS GIVEN IN THAILAND AND VIET NAM
During his visits to Thailand and Viet Nam during the last three weeks of 1992, Sri Chinmoy offered peace concerts at the Pan Faa Branch of the Bangkok Bank Building Auditorium in Bangkok on Dec. 15 and at the French Cultural Exchange Institute in Ho Chi Minh City on Dec. 25. There was also a Peace Run ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thong Nhat Stadium on Dec. 27. Thirty local Vietnamese runners joined members of the Sri Chinmoy Peace Torch runners in two laps around the stadium just before the start of a major soccer match.
Top Photo. Local boy holds the Pece Torch.
Middle Photo: 3 UNICEF Staff from New York with local Mother and Child in front of UNICEF Sign.
Above Tunnel entrance:
Viet Nam’s top female sprinter, Mai Ling, met with Sri Chinmoy on Dec. 23 …
The following day he met privately with the Indian Consul General to Ho Chi Minh City, R. Dayakar, at the Rex Hotel…
The Metro-Cebu Theosophical Foundation and the Lapulapu Foundation conferred on Sri Chinmoy the title “Millennium Man of the Century” at a ceremony held Jan.5 ..
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