Proclamation

City Of Berkeley
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR

WARREN WIDENER
MAYOR

PROCLAMATION

SRI CHINMOY DAY

WHEREAS, Sri Chinmoy heads an international spiritual organization with centers in some 60 cities around the world and presently serves as Director of the United Nations Meditation Group conducting meditation for U.N. delegates and staff and delivers the monthly Dag Hammarskjold Lecture Series; and

WHEREAS, Sri Chinmoy has met with a number of world figures in his efforts to introduce the practice of meditation as an inner approach to world peace — including the late Pope Paul VI (who awarded him the Papal Medallion), Presidents Eldjarn of Iceland and Childers of Ireland, Prime Minister Desai of India and numerous U.S. senators and congressmen, as well as a variety of state and local officials; and

WHEREAS, these particular involvements are typical of his unselfish attitude and his concern about the welfare of others; and

WHEREAS, Sri Chinmoy has expressed his inner realizations not only through his literature and music, but through his paintings and thus will soon celebrate the anniversary of the completion of his one hundred thousandth painting.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that I, Warren Widener, Mayor of the City of Berkeley, do hereby proclaim Wednesday, September 27, 1978 as

SRI CHINMOY DAY

in Berkeley to commemorate the occasion of Sri Chinmoy's lecture and concert presentation at the University of California this date.

Warren Widener
Mayor

City of Berkeley
September 27, 1978