Blue waves of the ocean-source

President Jimmy Carter

```

Carter, Carter, you are your vision’s start.

You are your beauty’s mind and duty’s heart.

Your power-light has smashed the ignorance-dart.

In you, the country’s promise-soul,

With you, its great perfection-goal.

Your surprise-gift: your oneness-role.

Your golden boat is sailing at lightning-speed;

The smiles and tears of the world your heart shall feed.

In you, at last fulfilled your nation’s need. ```

Muhammad Ali

```

Muhammad Ali, Champion Ali,

Greater than the greatest, really!

Sleepless you cry for Allah’s Grace,

Deathless you fight for the Muslim race.

Muhammad Ali, Champion Ali!

Your moon-pure heart and justice-light

Shall smash the frown of ignorance-night.

Ali, you are Eternity’s pride.

Your victory’s smile is the pole-star guide.

```

Dag Hammarskjold

```

Dag Hammarskjold, purity-gold,

Divinity’s reality bold.

Your peerless vision, cosmic run

Ceaselessly cried for perfection-sun.

In you, the U.N. glory’s height

Of silence-light and delight.

```

Trygve Lie

```

Lie, Trygve Lie!

O U.N.-Boat’s first Pilot high,

Dauntless you fought for your ideal-sky.

Lie, Trygve Lie!

O Oslo, Norway’s peace mission-son,

The world salutes your spirit’s run.

```

Lakhan Mehrotra, Consul General

```

Lakhan Mehrotra, Consul General,

A heart of soulful light,

A soul of fruitful height,

A life of self-giving signal.

India’s satisfaction-pride,

America’s oneness-choice,

The world’s sure welcome-voice,

Eternity’s perfection-ride.

```

Compassion-Ocean: Mother Lillian

```

Compassion-Ocean, Mother Lillian,

To you I bow, a seeker Indian.

Your wonder Peace Corps-service-light

Consoled, nurtured Bharata’s tearful night.

Your cheerful, ready and constant selfless role

Desires to stop the world’s unending dole.

Mother, greatness your name, goodness your heart.

Your vision pilots our journey’s oneness-start.

[Dedicated to Lillian Carter, mother of President Jimmy Carter] ```

Dear Sir

```

Dear Sir, you were our Master’s mentor pure.

You helped him, saved him and taught him sure.

In you, he sees a climbing solar height;

With you, his heart treasures his oneness-light.

Yours is the life of bounty, lofty and free;

You are the soulful seed and fruitful tree.

[Dedicated to Lakhan Mehrotra] ```

Kennedy and the World

```

Kennedy’s hope was the world.

Its hope was Kennedy.

Kennedy’s life was the world.

Its promise was Kennedy.

Together they breathe through Eternity. ```

One Two Three Bullets Free

```

One

Two

Three

Bullets free.

One

Two

Three

Kennedy:

Eternally,

Mystically,

A sky-kissing Tree,

A fathomless Sea.

```

Robert Muller

```

Muller, Muller, our brother-friend!

In you we see a cosmic trend

Of gnostic height and vastness-light

And the U.N. Soul of oneness-might.

```

Mayor Edward Koch

```

A simple life, a oneness-heart,

A soaring soul, a glowing goal:

O Pilot brave, your selfless role

Is now silencing the dart

That tortured the New York City.

You are its perfection-cry.

Millions shall treasure your vision high,

Its wonder-progress-beauty.

[Dedicated to Edward ‘Ed’ Koch, who served three terms

as mayor of New York City from 1978–1989. Sri Chinmoy

composed this tribute on 15 August 1978 and the song

was performed during his meeting with the mayor at City

Hall on 16 August 1978.] ```

Ambassador Xenon Rossides

```

Ambassador Rossides,

O heart of sympathy-seas,

Your oneness-soul in closeness-role

Has freed our peace-cry from sleepless dole.

To you the U.N. Meditation Group

A soulful, tearful gratitude-troop.

```

Doctor Janis Klavins

```

Doctor Klavins, Doctor Klavins, Doctor!

A life of wisdom-flooded mentor.

Your medicine-lore, your music-core

Are singing, dancing near the shore.

```

Ambassador Jorge Illueca

```

Ambassador Illueca!

Professor, editor Illueca!

Barrister, mentor Illueca!

Congressman, chairman, President prominent,

Server, Brother Illueca!

A great illumination-mind

In you we find, in you we find.

A good perfection-heart

Has smashed darkness-dart.

A supreme oneness-life

Beyond ignorance-knife,

A God-satisfaction-soul.

Within your ken, your Goal. ```

Eleanor Roosevelt

```

Eleanor, Eleanor, Eleanor, Eleanor!

U.S. mother pure,

The world’s sister sure.

O heart of compassion-lore,

O soul of protection-shore!

Champion fighter for human rights,

Illumination of poverty-nights. ```

Emily Dickinson

```

Emily, Emily, Emily,

A tall, self-giving tree,

Sleepless, two songs you sang;

In the skies your triumph rang.

A human, mortal death;

A deathless, Supreme Breath.

```

Immanuel Kant

```

Immanuel Kant, Immanuel Kant!

Your vision-priori ignorance-hunt.

```

Albert Einstein

```

Einstein, your Theory of Relativity,

The supreme boon to humanity.

```

Muhammad Ali

```

Greater than the greatest,

Swifter than the swiftest,

Ali, Ali, Champion!

Owner of a new vision.

Supreme boxer’s jabbing thunders

Sport with art-beauty’s wonders. ```

Nelson Rockefeller

```

Nelson Rockefeller!

A true Emperor.

Indeed, a robust health;

Indeed, a giant wealth.

Prosperity-days, adversity-nights:

In you they loved their constant fights.

A power-heart, a concern-life

Stood against poverty-knife.

New York body, New York soul

Treasure your oneness-role.

```

Albert Einstein, Scientist-Sage!

```

Albert Einstein, scientist-sage!

The wonder supreme of a vision-blaze.

A power-tower in a tiny frame.

Energy and mass enjoy their game

Of oneness-fulness, perfection-height.

Einstein, all-where your sleepless light.

In your greatest revolution-role

The world’s fastest evolution-goal.

```

Leonard Bernstein

```

Leonard Bernstein, Leonard!

Eternity’s singing bird!

Beauty-truth, truth-beauty,

Nectar-oneness your divinity —

Perfection-cry, perfection-soul,

Perfection-smile, perfecton-Goal.

Composer-prince, conductor-king,

World-server-emperor in the cosmos ring.

```

Bill Rodgers

```

Bill Rodgers, Bill Rodgers, Bill!

O runner world’s Himalayan thrill.

Bill Rodgers, Bill Rodgers, Bill!

O king of the road,

O hero of the race,

Sun-joy treasures

Your heart, your face. ```

Bharater Rabi

```

Bharater rabi jagater kabi

Banger hiya chand

Sundar tumi bhitare bahire

Sundar tumi srishti gabhire

Bishwa sabhai tomar asan

Prema onkar nad

[Dedicated to Rabindranath Tagore] ```

Brother Elliot, Ambassador Richardson!

```

Brother Elliot, Ambassador Richardson!

Yours is the heart of beauty’s golden dawn.

No compromise with falsehood dire;

Yours is the life charged with Truth’s Glory-fire.

Simplicity-child, compassion-soul, justice-king:

Perfection-melody’s bells in your vision-mission ring.

```

Don Ritchie

```

Don Ritchie, fastest ultra soul-delight!

Your silence-heart, your volcano-vision-eyes,

Your lightning-speed, your soundless-skies

Pierce the veil of stark ignorance-night.

Speed is your life, endurance your excellence-height.

Champion runner, champion teacher, champion leader-force!

In you the runner’s world finds its perfection-source.

Victory within and victory without, your progress-light.

```

Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon

```

Brother Rafael, a lion-heart,

A giant soul.

To free his Puerto Rico from bondage-chains,

His is the role.

A vastness-mind, a oneness-life,

A promise-sun;

Within, without, his is the heart of

Confidence-run.

```

The New York Road Runners Club

```

I am a member of the New York Road

Runners Club; indeed!

Promise, courage, newness, closeness,

Oneness-perfection I feed.

Quality my progress-choice,

Quantity my success-voice.

Himalayan pride, Atlantic light

With me every day run.

President Lebow, the world’s temple-body

Salutes your wisdom-sun.

```

Pir Vilayat Khan

```

He saumitra he premik vir

Pir Vilayat Pir

Animesh hiya muchhaite chaha

Dharar ashru nir

Bhitare bahire abhinava hasi

Rupantarer Krishner banshi

Dyulok garima bhulok mahima

Sanatan gati sthir

```

Pope John Paul II

```

Father John Paul, Salvation-King!

Your galaxy of glories we sing.

Soulful delight, your inner game.

Fruitful courage, your outer name.

Sleepless you awaken the sleeping lives,

In you our Lord’s God-Vision thrives.

O Himalayan Pole, O pole-star bright,

You tell the world: “No bondage-night.”

```

Lord Louis Mountbatten

```

Mountbatten,

O high and deep Mountbatten, Mount!

Heaven’s Courage, earth’s compassion-fount.

O good Viceroy of Indian nation vast,

Your justice-wisdom-light ever shall last.

British hero, British pride and delight.

Success-progress loved your journey’s victory-fight. ```

Compassion-Height

```

Father, we love your eyes

Of glowing light.

Father, we love your heart

Of Compassion-Height.

Your soul champions love-cry

For peace on earth.

You bless our weakling hearts

With confidence-birth.

In you is quenched the breathless

Thirst of world-hours.

In you the U.N.’s high

Perfection-tree flowers.

``` [Dedicated to Pope Paul VI]

Ron Clarke

```

Ron Clarke, Ron Clarke, Ron Clarke, Ron Clarke!

O runner-world’s pinnacle-spark,

Australia’s pure treasure-light,

The world salutes your champion-height.

In distance-speed a stupendous soul.

With seventeen crowns, yours is the goal.

```

U Thant

```

U Thant, U Thant,

We love your silence-soul,

We loved your compassion-heart.

Your world-harmony role

Challenged ignorance-dart.

U.N. Pilot supreme,

You treasured perfection-dream. ```

O Kurt Waldheim

```

O Kurt Waldheim, O U.N.’s lighting-speed!

Your mind-heart’s concern-flames constantly feed

This world of fearful cry and tearful sigh,

To see a peaceful earth and blessingful sky.

Your life of duty-tree and beauty-flower

Awakens the sleeping world and its oneness-power.

```

O Pablo Casals

```

O Pablo Casals, O Pablo,

Your wonder cello-flames

Eternally shall love and hallow

Our diving and climbing human frames.

Charmingly short in earth’s body-height,

Supremely long in Heaven’s soul-length,

O child of tomorrow’s dawn, no night

You saw in your beauty’s world of strength.

```

Pranam Pradhan Mantri Desai

```

Pranam pradhan mantri Desai

Bharata basir paraner bhai

Satya pujari shanti adhar

Bharata tarir he karnadhar

Pranam pradhan mantri Desai

Bharata basir paraner bhai

Chaliche bharat druta ati druta

Purna haibe manoratha puta

Shuna taba joy chira nirbhoi

Tyagi bhaskar anandamoy

```

O Great Pilot Mayor Beame

```

O great Pilot Mayor Beame,

You own your New York’s progress-dream.

Yours is the inner victory-height;

In you the bliss of oneness-light.

```

Ambassador Andrew Young

```

O bright Ambassador Andrew,

Divinely bold, supremely true!

O heart of soulful choice,

O mind of forceful voice!

Your frankness-oneness and clarion call

Shall reach far and near, big and small.

```

O Martin Luther King

```

O Martin Luther King,

Soul-love of oneness-ring!

Your heart-cry: God the Dream.

Your soul-smile: Beauty Supreme.

Your selfless life’s pure door

Transformed the weak and the poor.

One man, one face, one race

From our Lord’s Fulness-Grace.

Earth, Heaven together dance,

King, King, in your victory-trance.

```

Pele

```

Pele, Pele, O Prince of soccer game,

You live in the vanguard of eternal fame.

You are your thunder-kicks and wonder-scores;

With you, for you, your Cosmos-vision soars.

```

Norman Rockwell

```

Norman Rockwell, Norman Rockwell, Norman Rockwell!

Your good America’s simplicity-life,

Your kind America’s happiness-heart

Forever in your fondness-memory shall dwell.

O illustrator supreme,

O Reality’s revealed dream,

America’s height, America’s depth,

America’s breadth, America’s length

Salute your splendid Americana-oneness-strength. ```

President Valery Giscard d'Estaing

```

President-Sun, President-Sky, President Valery!

O champion soldat of Tomorrow’s Noon,

A vision-friend of Kennedy.

O wisdom-tower, O oneness-power,

Compassion-protection-soul,

France-duty, Paris-beauty, world-wonder —

In you they touch their Goal.

```

Bach

```

Bach, Bach, Bach, Bach!

O heart-piercing, soul-stirring melody,

You quenched the unquenched thirst of Eternity. ```

Beethoven

```

Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven!

God’s own Music-flowers

In your heart’s Eden. ```

Thakurer Pran

```

Thakurer pran thakurer dhan

Thakurer jaya gan

Vivekananda trilokananda

Shoirjyer tuphan

Jagale Bharate jagale manabe

Phutale bishwa rup

Vir sannyasi dharar hiyai

Atmahutir dhup

[Dedicated to Swami Vivekananda] ```

Scientist Einstein

```

Scientist Einstein, Scientist Einstein, Scientist!

Your vision-boon our age-old hunger-feast.

O brave thinker-mind,

O hallowed seeker-heart,

You are the pioneer

Of a great progress-start.

O good God-lover,

O true truth-server,

O pure earth-awakener,

O sure Heaven-bringer!

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Blue waves of the ocean-source, 1979
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