Sri Chinmoy meets with Sardar Dhillon, India’s High Commissioner to Canada, at the United Nations in New York. The photo of this meeting was chosen by Sri Chinmoy to be on the cover of his book ‘Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 53.’
COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO
LA FORTALEZA
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
Administrative
Bulletin No: 4729
A PROCLAMATION
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH
OF PUERTO RICO
Proclamation by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
TO PROCLAIM MASTER SRI CHINMOY, AS PEACE AMBASSADOR IN PUERTO RICO
WHEREAS:
Sri Chinmoy is the central figure behind a profoundly spiritual and creative movement throughout the world and whose realisation has been manifested in and through his unending
services to humamity;
WHEREAS:
Through his worldwide series of Peace Concerts and lectures, Sri Chinmoy is constantly awakening the divine qualities and true peace-loving self of humanity;
WHEREAS:
As director of the United Nations Meditation Group, since 1990, and director of the Peace Medication at the United States Congress for the past two years, Sri Chinmoy has displayed his outstanding capacity in guiding and inspiring those in the highest ranks of world power to strive for Peace and Universal brotherhood;
WHEREAS:
His continuous work for world peace has been recognised and praised by the General Secretaries of the United Nations: U Thant, Kurt Waldheim, and Perez de Cuellar, as well as by the Panama government upon granting him its highest honour, the “Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa” and by Pope Paul VI;
WHEREAS:
For the past 10 years Puerto Rico has benefited from the valuable contributions of Sri Chinmoy as a spiritual leader, a humanist, and master track and field promoter through his meditation centre on the Island;
WHEREAS:
Sri Chinmoy, who has rendered such unparalleled selfless service to uplift the consciousness of humanity at large, is deserving of our highest recognition, respect and gratitude:
NOW THEREFORE:
I, RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON, Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with deepest pride and satisfaction proclaim MASTER SRI CHINMOY AS PEACE AMBASSADOR IN PUERTO RICO and deserving of all the courtesies and privileges befitting such designation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF:
I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to be affixed at the Capital City of San Juan, this 4th day of August, A.D. nineteen hundred and eighty-six.
Signed:
RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON
Promulgated according to law this the 4th day of August 1986.
Countersigned:
HECTOR LUIS ACEVEDO
Secretary of State
Sri Chinmoy holds the Peace Torch with Russian Cosmonaut Gennadi Strekalov at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people, including several members of the family of the late Jesse Owens, legendary Olympic gold medallist — Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin, two of Jesse Owens’ daughters, and his grandson, Stuart Rankin, Jr.