October 1

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Sri Chinmoy presents Mother Teresa with the ‘U Thant Peace Award’ at her Missionaries of Charity House adjoining San Gregorio Church in Rome. The two spiritual leaders also hold the Peace Torch together.

Meeting with Mother Teresa

by Sri Chinmoy

“We were sitting at a very small table. My hands were folded over my heart. After a few seconds, Mother reached out and pulled my left hand towards her. Then she started pressing my fingers, one by one, from the tip of the finger to the wrist.

“When she finished with my left hand, she took my right hand from my heart and did the same thing…

“One moment Mother was acting like a mother, the next moment like an elder sister and the third like a younger sister. It was like a brother and sister having a family gathering. No other world figure has shown me this kind of affection!”

Published I Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 2

Reminiscences of the Meeting

Mother Teresa receives Sri Chinmoy at her Missionaries of Charity House, adjoining the Church of San Gregorio in Rome, Italy. Mother Teresa and Sri Chinmoy speak privately inside first. Mother Teresa showers her infinite love and affection on Sri Chinmoy, and he offers her his boundless love, admiration and gratitude.

Then Sri Chinmoy presents Mother Teresa with the prestigious U Thant Peace Award on behalf of the Peace Meditation at the United Nations. Sri Chinmoy has led twice-weekly meditations at the UN in New York for diplomats and staff since 1970 at the invitation of Secretary-General U Thant.

Mother Teresa enthusiastically holds the Peace Torch from the international Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run. She gives a most beautiful talk on serving God in the poor and offers her favourite prayer to Sri Chinmoy and each of the singers from the Sri Chinmoy Centres. Her prayer card she charmingly calls her “business card.”

Published in Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 2,

Letter from Mother Teresa

to Sri Chinmoy, in Rome

1 October 1994

“I am so pleased with all the good work you are doing for world peace and for people in so many countries. May we continue to work together and to share together all for the glory of God and for the good of man.”

Published in Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 2