Sri Chinmoy:
The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

On 28 July 1978 Indian Consul-General in Chicago Pran Nevile attended a concert held by Sri Chinmoy and members of the Meditation Group at Northwestern University in Chicago. During the concert Sri Chinmoy made a brief presentation to the Consul-General. Their remarks follow.

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Sri Chinmoy: My students and I are very grateful to you for your kind presence. This afternoon also I had th e opportunity to discover, when you came and visited our Centre, the heart of simplicity, majesty and purity of Mother India in a striking manner. My heart of gratitude I wish to offer most soulfully.

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Mr. Pran Nevile, Consul-General of India in Chicago: Thank you very much. It has been a unique experience for me to be near such a great soul, who is carrying the message of my country to people far away from my homeland, who is an enlightened soul and who is doing so much for mankind. My heart is really feeling something which I can’t express- some blissful moments for me. It is a unique experience for me to be in your nearness.

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The following message was offered spontaneously by the Consul General of India in San Francisco, Mr.L.L. Mehrotra, during a concert given by Sri Chinmoy and members of the Meditation Group at California state University on 27 September 1978.

Mr. L.L. Mehrotra, Consul-General of India in San Francisco: Reverend Sri Chinmoy, his devoted disciples and my brothers and sisters of America, I feel very humble at this moment. Whereas all my life and career it has been my ambition to mingle with the dust, Sri Chinmoy is trying to seek a place for me in the skies. I would therefore be one of the most ungrateful persons on the earth if I did not interrupt this programme if only to express my gratitude. My heart is ve ry heavy with that sentiment.

I have known Sri Chinmoy as Chinmoy Ghose now for several years, and “Ghose” means resonance. Sri Chinmoy the resonant will always reverberate in our hearts with his eternal message.

He brings to you a spiritual tradition which sprang and flourished in the mountain-vastness of  the Himalayas several thousands of years ago and which is ca rried across the seven seas by Everest streams and rivers. Sri Chinmoy is part and parcel of that eternal Stream. Sri Chinmoy belongs to that stream of thought and sentiment which has shown us the Light for ages. He recited a verse from the Upanishads a little while ago: Tamaso ma  jyotir gamaya , “Lead me from darkness to
Light” ; Mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya, “Lead me from death to Immortality. ” May I say that while we mortals pray for that Immortality, Sri Chinmoy is part of that Immortality.

I consider those blessed who sit in his presence and who seek his presence, and I know that even after I and you and everyone is gone, his voice and his message will be with us, for that is the Message Supreme to which I bow.

Thank you very much.

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Sri Chinmoy with L.L. Mehrotra , Consul-General of India in San Francisco , who was formerly Sri Chinmoy’s boss at the Indian Consulate in New York during the mid-1960’s.

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