December 18
Sri Chinmoy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
December 18
Mexico
Sri Chinmoy dedicates the song to José López Portillo, President of Mexico, at their meeting on 22 December 1981.
Lyrics:
Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
Softness, boldness your beauty’s core.
Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico
Wisdom-freedom, your oneness-lore.
Your past, present, future: all angel-glow!
Your vision-eye, a sleepless river-flow.
Published in My Aspiration-Heart’s Country-Life-Salutations
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert attended by the mother and sister of Paul Ricardo Alfonsin, President of Argentina, at the United Nations Information Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
December 18
Sri Chinmoy participates in the 100-metre event at the Sri Chinmoy Masters Track Meet, held at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
December 18
Sri Chinmoy lifts 56 people, including schoolchildren and their teachers, at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, New Zealand.
The Red Cross
by Sri Chinmoy
After a Peace Concert at the Botanical Garden in Xiamen, China, Sri Chinmoy presented a delegation from the Red Cross with a large supply of blankets, school supplies and toys from his humanitarian organisation, The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles. He then made these comments:
I am extremely, extremely grateful to the Red Cross. The Red Cross has the most sympathetic heart in this world. The Red Cross is crying to save the bleeding heart of humanity. I am so grateful and so proud that I am able to be closely associated with the Red Cross.
The Red Cross is all over the world and it has only one purpose: to be one with the suffering humanity. Wherever there is suffering, the Red Cross is there to be of service to the suffering humanity. For that I am very, very grateful to you, the devoted representatives of the Red Cross and very, very proud of the Red Cross.
Published in I Thank You
December 17
Sri Chinmoy holds a public meditation at Public School 86 in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
December 17
Ei Jibaner Mahanander Halo Aji Puta
Lyrics:
Ei jibaner mahanander halo aji puta bhor
Aloker sathe mitali karechhi nahi ar ama ghor
Asha sindhur parapare heri turiya dhamer tari
Hriday gabhire arun charane bandini sharbari
Translation:
Today the hallowed hour of Highest Delight
has dawned in this life.
Today I have made friends with
the Light of the Supreme.
Darkness no more, darkness nowhere.
Beyond the river of hope I see the
Boat of the Transcendental Realm.
The night of aeons is captured
And its surrender is made in the deepest
depths of my heart,
At the feet of my inner sun.
Published in Garden of Love-Light, part 2
Note:
Sri Chinmoy wrote the words to this song while on a boat at Dal Lake in Kashmir, near the date of 15 December 1972. A few days later (17 December) when he returns to his family’s house at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, he sings this song for the first time for his two sisters, Lily and Arpita.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert with the guest of honour General Khin Nyunt, Head of Myanmar’s Government and Secretary-1 of State Peace and Development Council, at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and organ recital at Wellington Town Hall in Wellington, New Zealand.
December 17
Sri Chinmoy meets with Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City, and presents him with 300 of his published books for the New York Public Library City Hall in New York.
March 13
One of the 100 large ‘finger paintings’ Sri Chinmoy completes in 12 hours, 45 minutes in Jamaica, New York.
December 16
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mahavishnu John McLaughlin after the New Year’s meditation and concert at McMillin Theater, Columbia University in New York.
In the early-to-mid 1970s, the Mahavishnu Orchestra gained worldwide notoriety as the leading ‘fusion music’ group with best selling albums — Between Nothingness & Eternity, Apocalypse, Birds of Fire, Visions of the Emerald Beyond and others — all titles inspired by Sri Chinmoy’s poetry.
December 16
Sri Chinmoy receives the Matsunaga Institute For Peace Award from the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
To the UN Secretary-General
An excerpt from a letter by Sri Chinmoy congratulating the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan just prior to the commencement of his first term of office.
Your esteemed Excellency,
…The world community has recognised in your humble yet great capacity the vision-voice that the United Nations wants and needs to usher it into a new era of hope and fulfilment… Our thoughts and prayers are with you and for you as you embark upon your oneness-journey for world peace….
Sri Chinmoy
Published in Kofi Annan: Cynosure-Eyes