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MASTER OFFERS NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE

NEW YORK — At the close of his annual New Year’s public meditation, held this past Dec. 15 at Columbia University, Sri Chinmoy delivered the following New Year's Message:

“The New Year is the year of man and earth’s self-giving choice, and also is the victory-year of God’s Soundless Voice.”

Published in Anahata Nada, December 1978, Volume 5, Number 11-12

MYANMAR DEDICATED AS PEACE-NATION

YANGON — The Union of Myanmar was officially dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossoms-Nation Dec. 15 by the Minister of Hotels and Tourism, Maj. Gen. Saw Lw-in.

Sri Chinmoy was guest of honor. 

Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 30, Mid-November 2000 – Late March 2001

MEETING HELD WITH NEPAL’S PRIME MINISTER

KATHMANDU — Visiting peace ambassador Sri Chinmoy paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Manmohan Adhikari of Nepal Dec. 13 at the government office building, Singha Darbar.

The Indian-born ambassador of peace, who had met with former Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai the previous day, was visiting Nepal as part of a good will tour of Southeast Asia.

“We want to make our land a land of peace where every group practices its religion in harmony with other religions and appreciates other religions,” Prime Minister Adhikari told Sri Chinmoy.

Said Sri Chinmoy: “We play different roles, but we know in the depths of our hearts that we are all members of the same world family and that there is only one truth and reality.”

During the meeting, Sri Chinmoy’s students sang a song their teacher had written about the Prime Minister, describing him as “Nepal’s sleepless progress-perfection-voice.”

Sri Chinmoy’s meeting with Krishna Prasad Bhattarai on the previous day also included a song performed by the Sri Chinmoy choir. In this song, Sri Chinmoy hailed the former Prime Minister, who is now President of the opposition Congress Party, as a “renunciation-hero” who is “inviting all to come and visit your compassion-flooded heart-garden.”

The former Prime Minister and the Master met again for a private dinner at Sri Chinmoy’s hotel on Dec. 16.

Caption:

Left: Nepal Prime Minister Manmohan Adhikari receives Peace Torch from Sri Chinmoy. Above: Former Nepali Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai with Sri Chinmoy.

Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 24, December 1994–Mach 1995

ONENESS-EARTH CELEBRATED

UNITED NATIONS — Ambassadors, religious leaders and U.N. officials joined Sri Chinmoy here December 14 in a programme celebrating the holiday spirit of human oneness.

Televised excerpts from the programme, called “Oneness-Earth,” were broadcast nationwide by CBS on Christmas Day. Sri Chinmoy concluded the event with these words: 

“The desire-man demands division-earth. The aspiration-man yearns for oneness-earth. Oneness-earth means God-Satisfaction in its universal dream-reality. Dream is the oneness of the earth-family; reality is the perfection ever-transcending of the earth-family.”

Other speakers included the Ambassador of Panama, a representative of the African National Congress, the Director of the International Year of the Child Secretariat, the U.N. Observer for Pope Paul and officials from the U.S. Mission and the United Nations. 

Published in Anahata Nada, Vol. 4, No. 12, January 4, 1978

RUNNING FOR UNICEF IN CONNECTICUT

NEW CANAAN, Conn. — Nearly 300 runners from the New York metropolitan area participated in the Sri Chinmoy Ten Mile Run Dec. 11 in honour of UNICEF’s 31st anniversary.

Winner of the race, Dr. Norb Sanders, said: “In over 20 years of running, I think this has been one of the most inspiring running experiences that I've ever had.”

Sri Chinmoy, who awarded him the UNICEF cup, also gave the doctor an extra prize — a watch — because of the cheerful and devoted consciousness he had while running.

This watch, the Master said, “symbolically tells that your time has pleased us, perhaps far beyond your own imagination.”

Published in Anahata Nada, Vol. 4, No. 12 January 4, 1978