Sri Chinmoy celebrates fifth anniversary at U.N.⁵

Sri Chinmoy: Today we are celebrating the fifth anniversary of the United Nations Meditation Group. I wish to start by offering a few songs to the body and soul of the United Nations. This is my dedicated offering. I do hope that the Meditation Group singers will learn these songs.

[Sri Chinmoy read the translations and sang four songs. The Bengali titles and the English translations follow.]

Je besechhe bhalo

He who has loved this world
Has only received excruciating pangs.
The world has thrown on him all ugliness, filth, dirt, impurity.
Yet the hero marches along,
Carrying the burden of the entire world.
At the end of his teeming struggles
He will go and stand at the Feet of the Lord Supreme.

Sundara hate

You are beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful,
Beauty unparalleled in the garden of Paradise.
Day and night may Thy Image abide in the very depth of my heart.
Without You my eyes have no vision;
Everything is an illusion, everything is barren.
All around me, within and without,
The melody of tenebrous pangs I hear.
My world is filled with excruciating pangs.
O Lord, O my beautiful Lord,
O my Lord of Beauty,
In this lifetime, even for a fleeting second.
May I be blessed with the boon to see Thy Face.

Nayane nayane

In secrecy supreme I see You.
You live in my eyes, in my sleep, in my dreams, in my sweet wakefulness.
In the stupendous mirth of life,
In the abysmal lap of death,
You I behold.
Your love-play is my world.

Nayan nehare bishwa bhuvan

The eye sees the entire world
But it sees not its own life;
Therefore, keeping the two eyes closed
The Yogi meditates on You,
O Lord Supreme.
The ear hears only
The messages and the clamour of the outer world.
It hears not the messages
Of the highest Heaven;
Therefore, the true seeker of wisdom
Always tries to keep his ears
Under his perfect control.