May 5
May 5
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at the Friends' Meeting House in Toronto, Canada.
May 5
Meditation and the UN
by Sri Chinmoy
A conscious self-dedicated oneness with mankind for mankind can alone make the aspirant feel that he is not only with God, in God and for God, but of God.
Published in The Garland of Nation-Souls
May 5
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 210 lbs. using only his right arm in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
May 5
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.
May 5
Sri Chinmoy meditates at a function held in honour of members of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at the Jharna-Kala Gallery in New York.
May 5
Sri Chinmoy offers a private concert for C. Subramaniam, President of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and Governor of Maharashtra; and S. Ramakrishnan, Executive Secretary, at the Jharna-Kala Gallery in New York.
12,000th Bengali song
Bangla Gan/Bengali Songs
Lyrics:
Bangla gan bangla gan bangla gan
Bengali songs, Bengali songs
Bengali songs!
Baro hajar gan likhechhi baro hajar
Bijoy madal bajai ami kripar rajar
I have composed
Twelve thousand songs;
I strike the Victory-Drum
Of my Compassion-King.
Note:
Sri Chinmoy dedicates this song to UNESCO, at a concert he offers at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on May 27th, 2005.
Published in Miscellaneous Songs 2005
May 4
Sri Chinmoy offers prasad at his small, Soul-Bird-decorated home near the course of the 6-day and 10-day races at Wards Island Park, New York. The female multiple world-record ultrarunner Dipali Cunnngham takes prasad.
May 4
My Heart Is a God-Made Flute-Melody
Lyrics:
My heart is a God-made
Flute-melody.
The Heart-Flute Plays Only Angel-Notes
Lyrics:
The heart-flute plays only
Angel-notes.
The Music of a Drum
Lyrics:
There was a time when my life was
The music of a drum.
Now my life has become
The melody of a flute.
When My Mind Salutes God
Lyrics:
When my mind salutes God,
He immediately plays
His Rhapsody-Flute.
O My Life-Flute
Lyrics:
O my life-flute, dream.
O my heart-flute, sing.
O my soul-flute, smile.
Published in Enthusiasm, Part 6.
May 4
Sri Chinmoy meets with two world-class tennis stars, Ramesh Krishnan of India and Nduka Odizor of Nigeria, at his tennis court at Aspiration-Ground in New York. Sri Chinmoy and Nduka Odizor play one set together.
Letter to Pope John Paul II
from Sri Chinmoy
4 May 1994
Your Holiness:
The pain that you are enduring from your unfortunate accident has affected me very deeply. Your unspeakable suffering I feel in the inmost depths of my loving and adoring oneness-heart. When the Father is in pain, all the children cry so pitifully. Our hearts are inconsolable.
Holy Father, with heartfelt tears I am praying to our Absolute Lord Supreme for your speedy recovery. Until your body is fully healed, our lives shall remain covered with sorrows.
Published in Pope John Paul II: God’s Heart-Prize Winner
Sri Chinmoy pays tribute to the race directors of the Sri Chinmoy Ten-Day Race by having a photograph taken with them. Standing, from left to right, are Sandhani Fitch, Bipin Larkin, Rupantar La Russo and Sahishnu Szczesiul at Wards Island Park in New York.