Welcome address

In the inner world, an irresistible music you are. In the outer world, a magnetic musician you are. No hyperbole, your music elevates not only our consciousness high, very high, very, very high; but also intensifies our aspiration deep, very deep, very, very deep. Something more, to our greatest delight, we see divinity streaming from your God-dreaming eyes, lightning-speed fingers and towering confidence-hands and arms.

When a God-seeker listens to your music, he in no time is blessed with a rare capacity to invoke joy, to breathe in joy, to radiate joy and, finally, to become joy unfathomable.

The joy of the heart and the peace of life are inseparable. Ravi Shankar the divine musician and God the Supreme Musician sleeplessly communicate through the language of love. This love is at once the Beauty of God's universal Peace and the Fragrance of God's transcendental Bliss.

Ravi-da, Ravi Shankar, to be in your blessingful and music-flooded presence is to reclaim our own vast cheerful and blissful heart-kingdom.

We are all God's sweet children of music in His Heart-Garden. Alas, we have buried this infallible truth in stark oblivion. But you, Ravi Shankar, musician nonpareil, are the reassuring whisper that echoes and re-echoes in our hearts with God's Message supreme: 'We are all God's sweet children of music.'

Here we are perpetuating the memory of U Thant, the third Pilot Supreme of the United Nations Boat, whose very life was to spread the message of brotherhood, harmony and peace throughout the length and breadth of the world. While offering you the U Thant Peace Award, our Meditation Group at the United Nations and I are swimming in the ocean of infinity's Peace and Bliss.

From:Sri Chinmoy,The Canvas of Time, Madal Bal, Czech Republic, 2019
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