Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the University of Auckland, in Auckland, New Zealand.
August 15th, 1945
Words and music by Sri Chinmoy
The original Bengali poem was written by Chinmoy in Pondicherry, India, on August 14th, 1945 — the day before Sri Aurobindo’s Birth Day. Chinmoy was then thirteen years old.
The poem becomes a song in New York on July 8th, 1995 — fifty years later. It is the longest song of all Sri Chinmoy’s musical compositions.
Sri Chinmoy began translating this Bengali song into English on June 9th, 1996. He completed the translation on August 4th so that it might be released on August 15th.
The complete score is published in Sri Aurobindo: Divinity’s Seer-Light
Listen to Sri Chinmoy speaking about the poem and the song...