Sri Chinmoy:
The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

On 14 April 1978, Sri Chinmoy: the Peace Meditation at the United Nations commemorated eight years of dedicated service to the United Nations community.

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Reference Note:

• The text ARTICLE below was printed in the April 1978 Bulletin “Meditation at the United Nations” pp 06-09.
• A SUMMARY of the event was in the 1978 Devoted Report to the Secretary-General

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The event included a celebration of music and readings, held in the beautiful Chapel of the Church Center of the United Nations.

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Below are expressions of the Group’s gratitude for Sri Chinmoy’s tireless dedication to the Meditation Group and the United Nations since the Group’s founding in 1970, and Sri Chinmoy’s reply.

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Presentation by Kwandwo Ofosu-Benefo, Senior Officer, ESA:

Beloved Sri Chinmoy, in making this presentation on behalf of the Meditation Group at the United Nations, I would like to say a few words.

We have been deeply blessed by your coming into our midst to lead us on the path of peace, oneness and love. Of course, there have been many difficulties and trials, but with the strength and courage supplied by the Supreme Pilot Himself, we hope to be able to achieve much with your guidance and leadership.

At this time we would like to pledge our support to you and the Meditation Group at the U.N., and pray that the Supreme Pilot will bring you long life , Sir, and good health, so that you may be able to continue to render good services to the Meditation Group, to the United Nations community at large and to all those who are waiting to receive your message of peace, love and oneness. Thank you.

 

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Mr. Donald Keys, Registrar, Planetary Citizens:

A great son of the East who came to the West in the fulness of his light made it possible for us to see  more clearly, to love more purely, to understand more deeply and act more truly.

He has completed a thirteen-year cycle [Sri Chinmoy came to the West in 1964], performing the eternal role of a great Son, a redeemer, a transmuter and a transformer of ignorance and darkness, that mankind may set its foot on the path of return, that those who follow may find their way and that the world body will be served and enlightened.

We do not know what a second cycle of thirteen years may contain. We do know that it cannot be less than what we have received; only more fruitful, more perfect, more complete. All we can do is to offer our hands to perform in the warmth, the love and the light which we so remarkably are privileged to receive .

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Sri Chinmoy:

Dear brothers and sisters, while walking along Eternity’s Road, I shall love and serve you. Just because you have given me the opportunity to love you and serve you, I shall constantly and eternally offer you my life of concern here on earth and my soul of oneness in Heaven.

We are all of the One, our Beloved Supreme. We came into the world to fulfil one soulful promise which we made to Him before we entered into this world arena .

This promise was to please Him in His own way through our aspiration-heart and dedication-life.

We shall without fail fulfil our solemn promise, for we know that our Inner Pilot, our fate-maker , will never allow us to remain unfulfilled.

As we said, Him to please in His own way we came into the world.

Even so, our Beloved Supreme is always ready to please the real in us, the soul, which is inseparably one with Him.

The soul is a blue bird which flies in the firmament of Consciousness, Light and Bliss, eternally singing only one song – the song of our Beloved Supreme’s constant Victory here on earth and there in Heaven.

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Reference Note:

• The text ARTICLE below was printed in the April 1978 Bulletin “Meditation at the United Nations” pp 06-09.
• A SUMMARY of the event was in the 1978 Devoted Report to the Secretary-General