“UN Heart Home..”. Painting Completes World Tour 1978 Jan

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In January of 1978 the painting by Sri Chinmoy entitled “United Nations: Heart-Home of the World-Body” returned to New York after a “good-will tour” around the world. The 6′ x 8′ work, dedicated to the United Nations ‘ efforts towards world peace, was painted the afternoon of 3 May 1977 and unveiled that evening at a special reception for the UN community at the Jharna-Kala Gallery in Manhattan.

 

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  • Two weeks later, on 17 May, the painting was displayed at United Nations Headquarters in New York before being sent on a world tour, which began with
  •  showings at United Nations Headquarters in Geneva starting on 22 May and at Volkshaus in Zurich starting on 29 May.

The painting was displayed,

  • beginning 14 June, at McLellan Galleries in Glasgow, Scotland first exhibited during a meditation for World Peace. It was exhibited on
  • 22 July at the Ipswich Town Hall in Suffolk, England, on 25 July in London and
  • on 28 July in Surrey, England.

It then traveled to Australia where it was on display in in exhibitions in

  • Perth, beginning 29 August,
  • Melbourne, beginning 3 October,
  • Canberra City, beginning 21 October,
  • Brisbane, 25-26 November, and
  • Adelaide, beginning the end of November through December, before returning to New York in January.

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Let us become simple. Let us become sincere. Let us become pure.

If we can become simple, sincere and pure, then not only will the dreams that we treasure for our own countries soon be fulfilled,

but also all the dreams that the Almighty has for His own Manifestation will be manifested in and through us.[*1]

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Reference Note:

[*1]  excerpt from talk “Simplicity, Sincerity And Purity“, by Sri Chinmoy 19 November 1974,  United Nations Development Programme—Alcoa Building.

  Appears in Union-Vision, Agni Press, 1975.

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