Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run Day
On 5 May 1991, Sudhahota joined in the celebration of “Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run Day,” proclaimed by Houston Mayor Kathryn Whitmire. A welcome ceremony for the relay runners was held at the Jeppesen Field House at the University of Houston, where Sudhahota works out every day. Sudhahota acted as Master of Ceremonies, introducing City Councilman Jim Greenwood, who read the proclamation from the Mayor, and Jack Berger, Director of The Houston Sports Foundation and member of the Olympic Committee. Following are excerpts from Sudhahota’s introduction:
“The Peace Run is being organised by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, an international running organisation that holds over 500 races each year, including ultra-distance events in several countries. The team seeks to promote world peace and harmony through athletics.”
Published in Carl Lewis: the champion inner runner, part 2
State of North Carolina
JAMES B. HUNT JR.
GOVERNMENT
SRI CHINMOY PEACE STATE
1993
BY THE GOVERNOR OF TIIE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
The State of North Carolina has always held dear its motto, “To be rather than to seem.” Fittingly, becoming part of the international Peace-Blossom program is a gesture to uphold its significant commitment to the historical ideals to peace and progress for all.
The International Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossoms are a family of over 500 significant locations which represent the ideal that peace — in the positive sense of goodwill and harmony — is something that can take root in our communities and in our world only when we take the time to cultivate it within ourselves first.
With that same spirit, the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, a non-profit global relay for peace, is passing through North Carolina this month on its 4-month journey through all 50 states and the Peace Torch has proudly been relayed by our citizens and youth. Sri Chinmoy has been recognized as an ambassador of peace by many heads of state, and is the inspiration behind the Peace-Blossoms, the Peace Run and many other projects which foster a spirit of oneness and international friendship.
The State of North Carolina is enormously rich in places which stir the heart with beauty and peace, and is also enriched by a warm and engaging people always receptive to promoting a deeper awareness for the need of peace.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES B. HUNT JR., Governor of the State of North Carolina do hereby proclaim our State as a “Sri Chinmoy Peace State,” and commend this observance to our citizens, as we join over 500 locations around the globe that are striving to increase harmony for all.
[Signed]
JAMES B. HUNT JR.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this fifth day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and sixteenth.