Television Interview
at Davao International Airport
Interviewer: What do you hope will be accomplished by the dedication of this Peace Airport?
Sri Chinmoy: Every day we are trying to have happiness in our lives. This happiness we can get only from peace. If I love you and you love me, then inside our love is peace. If we have peace, then we have everything.
Every day so many people are coming and going through this international Airport. From now on, if they feel a sense of oneness, then they will be happy and peaceful. This is a new idea, a new hope, a new dream and a new promise.
Interviewer: What is your message to the people of Davao City?
Sri Chinmoy: My prayerful message to the people of Davao is very simple: together we have to walk, together we have to dream, together we have to feel the necessity of oneness. Each individual in this beautiful place I regard as my own, very own. So to each individual I am offering my love, my affection and my oneness, as I am offering to the General Manager of the International Airport my affection, love and gratitude. He has done us a great favour by allowing us to be associated with this International Airport. For that, to the Manager and Engineer here, I am offering my deepest gratitude.
My message to the people of Davao is the same: my heart of love, my heart of joy and my heart of gratitude I am offering to each individual for the establishment of a world family, which will be flooded with peace, love and joy. This is my message of oneness that I am offering to each person in Davao City.
Interviewer: Thank you very much, Sri Chinmoy. I would like to express my deep gratitude to you for giving us the opportunity to talk with you.
Sri Chinmoy: I am very grateful to you, for you have given me the opportunity to be of service to so many of your countrymen. Thousands and thousands of people will have the opportunity to see that my heart of oneness is sincere and that I have come to serve all the people of Davao through my prayers and meditations.
Published in Peace-Blossoms on the Philippine Life-Tree