Interfaith Prayer Breakfast, 2000 Sep 26 – Honouring Millennium UN General Assembly

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SRI CHINMOY: THE PEACE MEDITATION AT THE UNITED NATIONS

INTERFAITH PRAYER BREAKFAST

COMMEMORATING

THE UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM GENERAL ASSEMBLY

26 September 2000

Programme

Musical Invocation: Premik Russell Tubbs

Master of Ceremonies: Dr. Kusumita P. Pedersen

Silent Meditation: All present

Song for Peace: The Singers of The Peace Meditation

Welcome: H. E. Mr. Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations

The Leaders in Prayer:

BUDDHISM

The Venerable Ashin Sayadaw Indaka,

Chief Monk America-Burma Buddhist Association

CHRISTIANITY

Dr. Carol Zinn, S. S. J.

Education Program Director, Global Education Associates

Main UN Representative, Congregations of St. Joseph

HINDUISM

Manoranjan Chakravorty

President Sreemadbhagbad Gita Sangha

ISLAM

AI-Haj Moulana Mirza Abu Jafar Beg

Imam Jamaica Muslim Center

JUDAISM

Rabbi Ezra M. Finkelstein

Rabbi Emeritus Midway Jewish Center

Closing Musical Invocation

Breakfast will be served.

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Spirituality is not merely tolerance. It is not even acceptance. It is the feeling of a universal oneness. In our spirih.lallife, we look upon the Divine not only in terms of our own God, but in terms of everybody else’s God. Our spiritual life firmly and securely establishes the basis of unity in diversity. Spirituality is not hospitality to the other’s faith in God. It is the absolute recognition of the other’s faith in God as one’s own.

– Sri Chinmoy