States-Tennessee

Tennessee (TN). The 16th state to join the Union in 1796

Tennessee factoids: The capital of Tennessee is Nashville — which is also its largest city. Known as the “Volunteer State”, today’s population is approximately 7.3 million (averaging around 171 people per square mile). Tennessee’s state tree is the ‘Tulip Poplar’; it has two state flowers, which are the ‘Purple Passionflower’ and the ‘Iris’; as well as two state birds, which are the ‘Mockingbird’ and the ‘Bobwhite Quail’; and its state fruit is the ‘Tomato’ Tennessee’s State Motto is: “Agriculture and Commerce”.

Activities of Sri Chinmoy in Tennessee (see page for activities in the each of the 50 states)

• February 21, 1974. Sri Chinmoy delivers a 1:30pm afternoon lecture entitled “Self-Transcendence” in the Student Center at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN.
  • The Q&A following that lecture:
    • Q: What has been your experience of God?
    • Q: What is the relation between aspiration and prayer and meditation?
    • Q: Are you right now in your highest plane of consciousness?

2006

• July 28, 2006, Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Sri Ganesha Temple in Nashville, TN

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Listen to the melody Sri Chinmoy set for name ‘Tennessee’

(read more about these on the 50-state songs page)

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Among the many songs Sri Chinmoy composed on America, his adopted country, this one is perhaps the most powerful:

America, America, America!
Great you are, good you are,
Brave you are, kind you are.
O my America, America.
Your Heaven-freedom is earth’s aspiration-choice.
With you, in you, is God-Hour’s Victory-Voice.

—Sri Chinmoy
(see https://www.srichinmoysongs.com/america-great-you-are-good-you-are)

The song “America! Great You Are, Good You Are” recording, below, as performed by the Sri Chinmoy Choir:

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