VII — Prayers and tributes
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The Lord Buddha granted U Thant an illumined mind, a oneness-heart, a liberated soul. He also learned from the compassionate Buddha that war is insanity, war stupidity, war is futility; that a warless world is a soulful and fruitful world.
Sri Chinmoy, U Thant: Divinity's Smile, Humanity's Cry, Agni Press, 1977