Sri Chinmoy:
The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

As part of a series of programmes highlighting the national music of individual countries or regions, on 25 January Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations was pleased to offer a concert coinciding with the National Day of India.

Guest speakers were Mr. C. V. Narasimhan , United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Inter-Agency Affairs and Coordination , and Mr. Salman Haidar, Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations . Excerpts from their remarks follow.

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Mr. C. V. Narasimhan , Under-Secretary -General for Inter-Agency Affairs and Coordination:

(speaking on Indian culture) In the Southern Indian classical system, music is used mainly as a means of achieving communion with the Lord.

When the music reaches a supreme moment, when you are on the same wavelength, so to speak, with the Lord, then you are in absolute communion with Him . . . . All these great composers and poets had one thing in common: the complete surrender of the individual ego to the Lord. And unless you have that kind of surrender, you cannot produce that kind of music.

It is all very well for you to just shut yourself up and say you are going to write a composition. But you can not be inspired unless you are absolutely in a spirit of surrender to the Lord, in a spirit of Bhukti. And this is what these great people have done. . . .

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Mr. Salman Haidar, Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations: Tomorrow is the twenty-eighth anniversary of our Republic Day. Those, like myself, who have come to consciousness during this period of independence and development at home, recognise it as a time of renaissance and effervescence in diverse fields ….

One cannot have lived through this period in India without feeling a sense of economic, social and cultural advance, of new patterns and new horizons opening for all of us who have been growing up with independent India.

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Guests join with Meditation Group members in the singing of India ‘s national anthem.

 

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