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...
Sri Chinmoy delivered the following tribute to U Thant on 12 December 1974, as part of his continuing Dag Hammarskjöld monthly lecture series at the United Nations, held in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at UN Headquarters in New York. The Chosen Instrument...
U Thant, the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, was chosen to head the world body in November of 1961 after Secretary-Genera1 Dag Hammarskjold was killed in an air crash in September of the same year. U Thant retired at the end of his second...
In 1970, Secretary-General U Thant invited Sri Chinmoy to conduct twice-weekly peace meditations for UN delegates and staff at UN Headquarters in New York. Since then, Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, as the Group is known, has continued its...
