A. Oneness-Earth – SUMMARY Universal Unity for 1977 Holiday season Programme

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The evening of 14 December 1977 the Meditation Group celebrated the universal brotherhood and unity which are evoked in this season of holidays around the world with a programme entitled “Oneness-Earth . The programme , which was filmed by CBS-TV for broadcasting on Christmas Day, included statements by Ambassadors and U.N. Officials and the performance of a song written by Sri Chinmoy especially for the occasion.

On display was the painting entitled “United Nations: the Heart-Home of the World-Body, ” by Sri Chinmoy. It is dedicated to United Nations efforts for peace and had been recently exhibited around the world as an ambassador of good will and world-oneness.

Following are brief excerpts from each of the speeches:

Related Reference Note:

  • A. This Summary was included in Print format as part of 1977 Devoted Report to the Secretary General (page 49 and 50) See images below…

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Mr. Jeff Kamen, U.N. Correspondent, WPIX-TV News: Ladies and gentlemen, good evening and welcome. The Meditation Group at the UN is honoured by the presence of diplomats whose lives are dedicated to the service of mankind. Despite differences of culture, language and faith, they are in fact united in the vision of the inseparability of the human family, of the need to share our fragile planet in love and peace.

This holiday season gathering at the headquarters of the world organisation is tangible proof that there are people of conscience and compassion who clearly understand that whoever leads in the heart is a true leader.

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Mr. Thami Mhlambiso, Representative of the A frican National Congress: Friends, I am happy to join with you this evening when the holiday season is approaching, the festive season when friends and loved ones will be joined…. Let us resolve to bring an end to apartheid and to fight the enemies of freedom and justice. Let us remember also all our brothers and sisters who are homeless today, for it must be our task and duty to see that they also have a place in the sun, so that oneness on earth will flourish.

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H. E. Dr. Jorge Illueca, Permanent Representative of Panama: On this occasion we do well to meditate on the main purpose of the United Nations, which is to be a centre for harmonising the actions of nations in the peaceful attainment of international cooperation and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race , sex, language or religion. . . . In their quest for peace, brotherhood and harmony, the peoples of the world share common beliefs, hopes and dreams, and they should come closer one to the other at a time when this “Oneness-Earth” is plunging toward the twenty-first century.

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Dr. John Grun Director of the International Year of the Child Secretariat: If there is one issue on which the world is in agreement, it is surely the child. Men and women everywhere agree with the Declaration of the Rights of the Child when it says that the world owes the child the best it has to give. That world, of course, is us, all of us . . . .Just as we can best serve our neighbour by loving him as ourselves, so we can best serve ourselves and the world by thinking of and loving others. Loving a child, truly, with an open heart and’ an open intellect is as beneficial to us as it is to the child.

There is no future for us-morally, emotionally, physically -except in the child, in the world’s children, our children.

That is the spirit which the International Year of the Child seeks to kindle, a spirit from which down-to-earth practical and realistic action for the benefit of children cannot fail but flow in abundance.

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H. E. Mr. Allard Lowenstein , Alternate Representative of the United States: I hope that in this programme commemorating the holidays and the international sense of renewal, there will also come to people the realisation that much more is necessary than the repetition of the Declaration of Human Rights or the Charter or past expressions of hope or brotherhood. . .. I think that if people simply remember, in this season, how much they have to learn from one another, how much they have to give to one another, and how much they lose by despoiling one another, per haps the spirit represented by the President’s new leadership in human rights and by Andy Young’s remarkable efforts around the world to find common denominators for human beings to work together will grow and flourish.

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Dr. Robert Muller, Deputy Under-Secretary-General: Never before has there been such an opportunity for the fulfilment, for the flowering of human life into an unbelievable consciousness, if we work together at it, not only with our minds, with our hands and intelligence , but also wi th our hearts and with our souls. We must learn to understand again our place in the universe. We must learn to believe again in the magic of creation, in the miracle which planet earth is and which each human life is. This is the great story which is beginning to emerge in the United Nations. I on ly wish that the public, instead of seeing merely failures ‘and inefficiencies, would try to look at the magnificent human story, the only possible human story, that is beginning to be written in this house. This is my wish on this Christmas.

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Monsignor G. Cheii, Permanent Observer of the Holy See: The beautiful traditions of Christmas and occasions like this, when we can get together to share our thoughts and feelings at this season, are an inspiration to us to renew our love for our Creator and all of creation. We know that if all would have love for each other and for the universe which has been given to us, then all the problems of the world would be resolved. For, “we probe deeply to the very root of all the trmendous problems which we at the United Nations attempt to alleviate- racism, disarmament, hunger, underdevelopment, economic injustice ecological imbalances, etc.-we would find that there at the beginning of the problem is a lack 0love. We are dismayed to find that egotism, selfishness, pride and ill-will are operative in place 0f love and its manifestations in generosity, reconciliation, humility and hope.

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Sri Chinmoy, Leader of the Meditation Group at the UN:

The desire-man demands division-earth. The aspiration-man yearns for Oneness-Earth.

Oneness-Earth means God-Satisfaction in its universal Dream-Reality.

Dream is the oneness of the earth-family;

Reality is the perfection ever-transcending of the earth-family.

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ONENESS – EARTH Music Score

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Related Reference Note:

  • A. This Summary was included in Print format as part of 1977 Devoted Report to the Secretary General (page 49 and 50) See images below…

SEE ALSO:

summary also appeared in Anahata Nada 04 January 1978:

ONENESS-EARTH CELEBRATED UNITED NATIONS-

Ambassadors, religious leaders and U.N. officials joined Sri Chinmoy here December 14 in a programme celebrating the holiday spirit of human oneness.

Televised excerpts from the programme, called “Oneness-Earth,” were broadcast nationwide by CBS on Christmas Day.

Sri Chinmoy concluded the event with these words:

“The desire-man demands division- earth.

The aspiration-man yearns for oneness-earth.

Oneness-earth means God-Satisfaction in its universal dream-reality.

Dream is the oneness of the earth-family;

              reality is the perfection ever-transcending of the earth-family.”

Other speakers included:

  • the Ambassador of Panama,
  • a representative of the African National Congress,
  • the Director of the International Year of the Child Secretariat,
  • the U.N. Observer for Pope Paul and
  • officials from the U.S. Mission and
  • the United Nations.