Through his meditations at the UN and his artistic and poetic expressions of peace, Sri Chinmoy brought together members of the international community in dedication to the goal of a global oneness-family. On 13 November 2019 members of the Peace Meditation Group...
For over 37 years, Sri Chinmoy graced the halls of the United Nations, and his prolific outpouring of essays, poems, artwork and songs dedicated to the UN inspired the fourth UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to call Sri Chinmoy “the heart of the United...
In honour of the International Day of Yoga, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as 21 June each year, these messages are presented by Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, in conjunction with the Sri Chinmoy Centre, an NGO affiliated with UN/DPI....
During a meeting of the Peace Meditation Group on 8 January 1976, Sri Chinmoy offered these illumining insights into using imagination to help raise our consciousness or improve our meditation, as excerpted from My Meditation-Service at the United Nations for 25...
This selection of answers to “meditation related” questions provides practical guidance on meditation and concentration techniques. These answers also appear in a 2020 publication which highlights 50 answers covering many more topics. The excerpts were...
Through talks and answers to questions offered at the United Nations, the members of the Peace Meditation Group as well as the wider UN community received valuable inspiration and guidance from Sri Chinmoy. Below are some excerpts from talks given over the years...
The Garland of Nation-Souls1 Highlighted Excerpts: The nation that soulfully cries for inner development and devotedly cries for outer growth can alone be in the vanguard of the teeming nations. A nation falls when it deliberately and vehemently resists the idea of...
At meetings of the Peace Meditation Group at the UN, Sri Chinmoy was often requested to define concentration, meditation and contemplation, and tell how they differ from each other. Below is his answer to one such question, as excerpted from Earth’s Cry Meets...
Excerpt: ‘Supremely significant are the words of the Secretary General, U Thant: “I can think of no worthier task for a man or a woman to be engaged in than that of creating the tools for international co-operation and working for the betterment of his fellow human...