Presentation of the U Thant Peace Award to Ambassador P.A. Nazareth

On 9 October 2007, Sri Chinmoy met with Ambassador Pascal Alan Nazareth of India at Aspiration-Ground meditation garden. Ambassador Nazareth is a noted lecturer on Mahatma Gandhi and author of Gandhi’s Outstanding Leadership. In 1966, Sri Chinmoy had worked with then Consul Nazareth at the Indian Consulate in New York for several months, just before Sri Chinmoy left the Consulate to devote himself to spiritual teaching full time, and the two continued their friendship over the years.

P.A. Nazareth has served the Indian Government in many countries. In March 1987, he and his wife, Isabel, were special guests at a programme dedicated to India held at the United Nations in New York, sponsored by Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations. Sri Chinmoy met with him again in Cairo in 1989 when P.A. Nazareth was serving as Ambassador of India to Egypt, and P.A. Nazareth visited Sri Chinmoy in Queens on several occasions.

Following are excerpts from the presentation by Sri Chinmoy of the U Thant Peace Award to Ambassador Nazareth. Also below are selections from Ambassador Nazareth’s keynote address for the UN International Day of Non-Violence on 2 October 2012 at UN Headquarters in New York, where he graciously highlighted Sri Chinmoy’s work for peace._

From:Sri Chinmoy,Concern: A Reality of the Heart, Agni Press, 2025
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