Sri Chinmoy gives his first public violin recital, during which he plays his most sacred song, ‘The Invocation to the Supreme’, in Jamaica, New York.
Peace Concert
by Sri Chinmoy dedicated to the United Nations
at Aspiration-Ground, Jamaica, New York
The United Nations is both God the Creator’s world-harmony-home and His world-transformation-promise inside the Heart of God the creation.
Published in My prayerful salutations to the United Nations
Sri Chinmoy whistles bhajans at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
‘The Ideal of Forgiveness’
by Sri Chinmoy
at Aspiration-Ground, Jamaica, New York
It is a very special day for me. Today I have completed my longest song, which is 186 lines. Kshamar Adarsha (‘The Ideal of Forgiveness’) was a Bengali story written by Sri Aurobindo. I rendered it into Bengali verse. At the age of 13 I did it and Sri Aurobindo was very pleased. He said that I had capacity as a poet and I must continue. My version came out in a Bengali magazine. The name of the magazine was Sarathi (‘Charioteer’).
That was in 1945 or 1946 and now, in 2002, I got the inspiration to set the words to music.
Published in I Wanted to be a Seeker of the Infinite