Meditation After Politics
After addressing the United Nations on world peace October 3, Foreign Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao ducked out of the General Assembly for a few minutes to find some real peace at a meditation session being held a few floors away by spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy.
“I feel transformed,” the Foreign Minister told Sri Chinmoy. “The difference between this and what is going on just a few floors away is so real that I feel overwhelmed.”
He said he “had not realized that somewhere tucked away in this very large building of the U.N. there is a small corner where real peace dwells.
Clasping the spiritual leader’s hand Rao called him the UN’s “cultural and spiritual ambassador.”
Sri Chinmoy, who has been conducting meditations at the UN for delegates and staff for more than a decade, presented Rao with a trophy.
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Foreign Minister Rao with Sri Chinmoy: A peaceful break from international affairs.
Published in News India, Page 4, October 17, 1980