After the singers performed a song by Sri Chinmoy dedicated to U Thant, Ravi Shankar and his wife and daughter came on stage to receive the U Thant Peace Award from Sri Chinmoy.

Ravi Shankar (after receiving the Award): Sri Chinmoy, my brother, I am so overwhelmed and emotionally I feel choked with the love that you have shown towards me and by this great honour that you have given me. I feel so grateful and proud, more so after I saw the giants and some of the greatest people that have received this before me, that have been given this wonderful Peace Award by you. As I said, I don't feel like saying much. I am very grateful, and I'm full of love and gratitude. Thank you again, Sri Chinmoy.

Sri Chinmoy then honoured Ravi Shankar by lifting him overhead with one arm as part of his Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart programme. As Sri Chinmoy was presenting him with the medallion_, Ravi Shankar commented: It is I who should honour you in this way. This award I should give you. You deserve it. _Ravi Shankar's parting words at the end of the function: You are all so wonderful — beautiful singing! Thank you, thank you. You are so lucky to have him as your guide in life. And what wonderful work is being done! Please keep it up. We are all so tired of all the violence and all the negative things, all the discord that is happening. Amidst that, people like him and those who love him and follow him, are doing wonderful work. Keep it up! Thank you.

The following day, at Ravi Shankar's invitation, Sri Chinmoy and his students, along with Sudhahota Carl Lewis, visited Paramahansa Yogananda's Self-Realization Retreat and Hermitage in Encinitas. At the conclusion of their visit, this memorable exchange took place: