Table of Contents
- Messages of peace
- Message to the people of Hiroshima
- Message of peace to the people of Nagoya
- Message for Japan
- Peace: God's dream-reality's oneness-boat, fulness-shore
Part II — Brothers in peace: Tokuma Utsunomiya and Sri Chinmoy
- Mr. Utsunomiya: I have heard a lot about you.
- Mr. Utsunomiya: (Referring to a booklet he helped publish): Have you seen this?
- Mr. Utsunomiya: It should be treated not just as an experience of the Japanese but as an experience in the history of all mankind.
- Mr. Utsunomiya: Over a one-hundred-year period Japan quickly and incessantly adopted Western civilisation and technology. And then, at one time or another over the years, Japan won minor wars. These victories led the Japanese leadership to sheer arrogance, and then they entered into a major war with the U.S. and the Western allies.
- Mr. Utsunomiya: Both superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, have a combined destructive force capable of destroying the whole earth probably ten or twenty times. And yet they continue to build and add to this enormous power. Some people, particularly President Reagan, insist that all this power is necessary to deter the other side from attacking the rest of the world — the theory of deterrence. Some Japanese leaders also agree with the American contention. But this is a self-defeating logic, in my thinking.
- Mr. Utsunomiya: Yes, I fully appreciate what you have just said. Speaking about the theory of deterrence again, I doubt very much that what those people are calling the nuclear deterrent is functioning in any way. Rather, it's the certain degree of rationality, morality, intelligence and good conscience of those in leadership in their respective countries that is keeping war at bay. These qualities may be limited, but they are really keeping the world from nuclear destruction. As a politician, my basic policy, my most important political pronouncement, is that we should reduce the useless arms and, if possible, get rid of them entirely. That is my basic stance in my political life.
- Mr. Utsunomiya: I am certainly impressed with what you have said, and this has to be repeated. The trust you have spoken of now and the beliefs which I have referred to in some way should be widely disseminated among the people. One of the worst possible effects of a nuclear war would be the destruction not only of the men who started it but also of all other living animals, plants and beings.
- Mr. Utsunomiya: One effect of nuclear war we experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that far more children and women and civilians were killed than soldiers. Most of the military leaders survived. This is not a war in the classical tradition. Classically, war was fought by uniformed people, military experts, professionals. But in a nuclear war, such as we experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, far more innocent people were killed. This fact should be remembered by all.
- Mr. Utsunomiya: This is the English version of the pamphlet.
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Part III — One in heart and soul: Akishige Matsumoto and Sri Chinmoy
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- Sri Chinmoy: My Indian life is bowing to you, an illumination-soul of Japan, for your supreme blessings.
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- Certificate of friendship to Master Sri Chinmoy
- Akishige Matsumoto
Part IV — Marathoners meet: Toshihiko Seko and Sri Chinmoy
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- Mr. Kobayashi: One of Mr. Nakamura's students just won the relay on the 15th of December.
- Seko: I am sure that Mr. Nakamura, my Sensei's soul, is blessing us from Heaven. I feel that his blessings are raining down. It is a fact that he is no longer here on earth and now is the time for me to look into the future. I would like to remember and follow what my Sensei has taught me and become an even greater person than he was. I do not know if I can, but with this hope I would like to live the rest of my life.
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- Sri Chinmoy: Mr. Seko is now the boss. He is the captain. What was your best timing for the marathon? Was it in Boston?
- Sri Chinmoy: Now some of my students have some questions they would like to ask you. This one is the editor of a running magazine in Australia.
- Sri Chinmoy: Is Lopes' world record an inspiration for you to do better, or is it something frightening or challenging?
- Sri Chinmoy: Among the marathon runners, whom do you like best? Seko: Lopes.
- Seko: Is Rodgers still running?
- Pahar Meltzer: What is the most significant thing that you think you have learned from Nakamura?
- Seko: Mr. Nakamura has taught me to be a genius of aspiration — someone who makes the effort, someone who tries to go beyond and beyond.
- (To Mr. Kobayashi) You have a spice factory? Do you export or import?
- Sri Chinmoy: Do you sell them back to the Southeast Asian countries at the same price as you sell them to America and Europe?
- Seko: The President of Tiger was a good friend of Mr. Nakamura, so Tiger supplied the runners with shoes.
- Mr. Kobayashi: We just heard that next year the Chicago and New York marathons will take place on the same day — the first Sunday in November.
- Seko: Unfortunately, at the present time the Japanese runners wouldn't receive the prize money. They have not come to that level.
- Sri Chinmoy: Five or six years ago I read an article in which you said that you were not running as many miles as Bill Rodgers and that it was not necessary to run so many miles. You said what mattered was how hard and how sincerely you ran, how much concentration you ran with and not how many miles you ran.
- Mr. Kobayashi: It is very difficult to compare the level that he is on to that of other runners. But in the case of your student, Seko is suggesting that in order for him to make a big jump to a higher level, he has to run more, to double his distance.
- Seko: If one feels that 40K is a very long run, an extraordinary distance, then one cannot be called a marathon runner. A marathon runner shouldn't fear distance.
- Sri Chinmoy: Very good. When you come to New York, please inform us. We would like to invite you to come to visit us.
Part V — NHK-TV Interviews Sri Chinmoy
- Interviewer: What is the purpose of your visit to Hiroshima?
- Interviewer: This is a very simple and basic question, but I would like to ask what meditation is and how one can reach the state of meditation.
