1977 International Marathon Runners reception at UN – SUMMARY

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Thirty-five members of the Meditation Group at the UN, including eight women, ran with nearly 5,000 other runners in the New York City Marathon on 23 October 1977.

On the evening preceding the race, the U.N. Association of the United States and the New York Road Runners Club hosted a reception for the international marathon runners in the Delegates’ Dining Room at the United Nations. Below are highlights.


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Sri Chinmoy opened the programme by offering a prayer for the marathon: “O Lord Supreme, may each marathon runner run along Your Eternity’s Road and receive from You Your Infinity’s Love-Light and Your Immortality ‘s Oneness-Delight.”

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The Meditation Group Choir performed “Marathon,” a song which Sri Chinmoy had composed for the occasion, and which will also be performed at next year’s 26-mile race.

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Mr. Robert Ratner. President of UNA-USA, and Fred Lebow, President of NYRRC, addressed the gathering. Runners from seventeen countries received the U.N. Peace Medal from their respective A mbassadors or Representatives to the United Nations. Sri Chinmoy later offered a special acknowledgment to Miki German of Japan, one of the top-rank ing women distance runners in the world, who captured first place among the 300 women in the marathon on the following day.

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Sri Chinmoy presents a trophy to world-class runner Miki German of Japan.
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If each individual in each nation can consciously and devotedly feel that he  does not belong to a little family called “I and mine” but to a larger family called “We and ours,” then the message of the United Nations, the message of love, of brotherhood, of peace, of soulful sharing, can easily be received, embraced and executed by the entire world . [*1]

The Meditation Group Choir sing Sri Chinmoy’s “Marathon” song for Ambassadors and world-class runners.

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The greatness of each nation lies in its deep love
for other nations and in its self-giving to other
nations .[*2]

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The more we see the divine qualities in others,
the sooner we will establish world peace. .[*3]

Notes:

[*1]  excerpt from talk “The United Nations Can Teach Us How To Share“, by Sri Chinmoy in Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium on June 6, 1974. Talk appears  in, The Tears Of Nation-Hearts, Agni Press, 1974.

[*2] excerpt from talk “No Nation Is Unwanted“, by Sri Chinmoy in Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium on April 5, 1973. Talk appears  in, The Tears Of Nation-Hearts, Agni Press, 1974.

[*3]  excerpt from talk “The United Nations And World Union”, by Sri Chinmoy in Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium on 18 October 1974. Talk appears  in,Union-Vision, Agni Press, 1975.

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