Sri Chinmoy meets with the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Stoyan Ganev, on Oct. 5 in the U.N. leader’s office. Here the U.N. President holds the Peace Torch.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 21, August-November 1992
VIENNA — Six Members of the Austrian Parliament presented Sri Chinmoy with the “Austria — Heart of Europe Award” on Oct. 4 at a ceremony at the banquet hall of the Vienna Borse.
“Because of your initiatives there is less suffering and more peace in our world,” said Mrs. Herta Wimmer, MP when presenting the Award.
After the presentation, a group of children gave Sri Chinmoy a huge cake resembling a topographical map of Austria, and the spiritual teacher made the first ceremonial cut.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 36, August 2004-Mid-November 2004
Sri Chinmoy's four-day trip to Europe began Oct. 3 with a visit to the Impossibility-Challenger Games in Zurich, where the Master lifted a number of world-class athletes.
The following day he gave an organ concert and appeared on German National Television in Munich, lifting TV host Guenter Jauch. He lifted additional dignitaries the next day.
The tour ended with a peace concert in the Alambra Theatre in Athens on Oct. 6.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 17, August-November 1988
The renowned Bengali novelist and journalist Mani Sankar Mukherji spent several days in New York in late September and early October meeting and talking with Sri Chinmoy.
During his final visit to Aspiration-Ground on Oct. 2, the author called his visit a pilgrimage, saying “I never realized that in this city of New York there is so much love, so much affection, so much bhakti.”
He called Sri Chinmoy a spiritual treasure that he and the Master’s students share, saying he was taking half the treasure home with him and leaving the other half in New York.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 33, August – Mid-November 2002
Sri Chinmoy on the porch at home in New York, looking at some of his recent Jharna-Kala paintings.
