8,500 COME TO COLOGNE FOR GURU’S PEACE CONCERT
COLOGNE, Germany – An overflow crowd of 8,500 came to Cologne’s giant Sports Hall March 24 to hear the first in a series of peace concerts Sri Chinmoy is offering around the world this year. Some were unable to enter for lack of space.
Coming from all over Germany as well as neighbouring countries, the audience listened in near pindrop silence as the Master played and sang a selection of his own compositions.
The concert was entitled “Peace: God’s Beauty in His Oneness-Home.”
At the end of the three-hour event, the Master told the audience: “Beloved Germany, breathlessly I am bowing to your soul. Soulfully I am loving your heart. Devotedly I am admiring your life. To me, stupendous is your soul, generous is your heart and precious is your life.”
He said that since Germany has offered to the world the universal music, “music is, therefore, your universal birthright. An unconditional oneness-heart is also your birthright.”
For Sri Chinmoy, the Cologne concert was the beginning of a long journey, with 19 more peace concerts to come. It was also a fitting tribute to an even longer journey that began 20 years ago when he first came to the West.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 10-11, December 1983-March 1984