O Kurt Waldheim, O U.N.’s lighting-speed!
Your mind-heart’s concern-flames constantly feed
This world of fearful cry and tearful sigh,
To see a peaceful earth and blessingful sky.
Your life of duty-tree and beauty-flower
Awakens the sleeping world and its oneness-power.
Published in Blue Waves of the Ocean-Source
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Ulaanbaatar Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
From Lester Kurtz,
University of Texas at Austin20 May 1998
Dear Sri Chinmoy:
On behalf of the Sociology Department and the Ad Hoc Committee on Peace and Conflict Studies, I am delighted to invite you to the University of Texas at Austin on 25 June 1998. We are looking forward to your sharing with us your vision of world peace and will present you with a “Peace Educator” award at that time to recognise your contributions.
Eliza Esquivel-Amin will be working with the Distinguished Speakers Committee to make arrangements for your visit and will be contacting you with further details. In the meantime, I assure you that many of the students, faculty and staff of the University of Texas are looking forward to meeting you when you visit our campus.
Most sincerely,
Lester Kurtz
Professor of Sociology and Asian Studiescc: Ronald Angel, Chair
Department of Sociology
Published in Blessingful Invitations from the University-World
Sri Chinmoy lifts university professors at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sri Chinmoy blesses two of the 15 Mongolian children — Anku and his sister Amina — he just lifted at Hotel Mongolia in the Gachuurt Area, Mongolia.
Sri Chinmoy holds a print of one of his artworks at a display for the Jharna-Kala Card Co. at the annual National Stationery Show, held at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan, New York.
SPORT & SOCIETY
Sri Chinmoy Awarded a Prize For His Campaign for World Peace
Sports, peace among people and the ‘psychophysical’ health of the individual can be joined together well. Sri Chinmoy, who has resided in New York for more than 30 years, is the witness. At the end of March, on the invitation of Francesco Rutelli (Mayor of Rome), Umberto Silvestri (President of the Rome Marathon), and Allan Steinfeld (Director of the New York City Marathon), he participated, on the occasion of the Rome Marathon, which traverses the historic centre of the ‘City of the Caesars’, in a ceremony dedicated precisely to peace.
Sri Chinmoy received the ‘Fred Lebow Award’ in recognition of his constant efforts for world peace and his constant activities for the benefit of the inner and outer health of millions of people. The award, bears the name of the founder of the New York City Marathon [Fred Lebow] and was given to him by Rutelli himself.
Last year, Pope John Paul II received, at the Vatican, Sri Chinmoy and thousands of people who were participating in the ‘Peace Run’. The Pope was given a torch, and the Holy Father, using the torch to make the sign of the Cross in the air, solemnly blessed the athletes, who were carrying "through the streets of the world" a message eminently Christian.
The ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace Run’, the longest relay run in history, was founded by Sri Chinmoy in 1987. Today the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team sponsors more than 500 athletic competitions annually in about 50 countries, all inspired by the ancient Roman principle of “a sound mind in a sound body.”
In the photo — Sri Chinmoy receives the ‘Fred Lebow Award’, on the occasion of the Rome Marathon. From left to right: Mico Licastro, NYC Marathon Director Allan Steinfeld, Sri Chinmoy, and Rome Marathon President Umberto Silvestri. Pulak Viscardi photo.
Published in the Italian-language daily newspaper America Oggi (AmericaToday) in Westwood, New Jersey on Sunday, May 19, 1996
Sri Chinmoy lifts guitarist and singer Richie Havens (left); and santoor master Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (right) at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 17 white horses at Hotel Mongolia in the Gachuurt Area, Mongolia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and his first public organ performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
given by Sri Chinmoy
at Riverdale Dance Theater, Bronx, New York
the 6th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda
Today’s Peace Concert I am devotedly offering to Swami Vivekananda, the world-teacher, who advised the world to live in the heart-discovered oneness-religion and not in the mind-invented division-religions.
Published in Vivekananda: Divinity's Soul-Rainbow and Humanity’s Heart-Blossom
Video by kedarvideo
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Mazda Palace in Turin, Italy.
given by Sri Chinmoy
at Public School 86 in Queens, New York
the 5th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda
Today's Peace Concert I am offering to Swami Vivekananda, who became the streaming tears of the poor and the bleeding heart of the weak.
Published in Vivekananda: Divinity’s Soul-Rainbow and Humanity’s Heart-Blossom
Sri Chinmoy offers an afternoon Peace Concert and an evening Peace Concert at the Teatro Della Luna in Milan, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy in Milan 2005 by Kedar on Vimeo
Video by kedarvideo
Sri Chinmoy first plays the organ, which he calls The Summit-Song of Self-Transcendence, in Fraumunster Church, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, the forth of 39 Peace Concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda’s 39 years on earth, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York.
Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert dedication:
Today's Peace Concert I am prayerfully dedicating to Swami Vivekananda, whose heart was humanity's ceaseless suffering and whose soul is Immortality’s Summit-Delight.
Published in Vivekananda: Divinity's Soul-Rainbow and Humanity’s Heart-Blossom
