Colorado (CO). The 38th state to join the Union in 1876
Colorado factoids: The capital of Colorado is Denver — which is also its largest city. Today’s population in Colorado is approximately 6 million (averaging around 58 people per square mile). Colorado’s state tree is the ‘Colorado Blue Spruce’; its state flower is the ‘Rocky Mountain Columbine’; and its state bird the ‘Lark Bunting’. Colorado’s State Motto is: “Nil sine numine” (Nothing without providence).
Activities of Sri Chinmoy in Colorado (see page for activities in other states)
- 23 April 1974 (multiple lectures in multiple states on this day as part of a whirlwind 50-state University Lecture Tour). Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled “Philosophy, Religion and Spirituality” in the Physics Building, at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado. He had two other lectures this same day in
- Five Q&As from that event was published in Fifty Freedom-Boats to One Golden Shore, Part 4
1987-current, the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run passes through Colorado bi-annually on its cross-country trek and engages with its welcoming citizens (see example of photos of a previous visit)
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Listen to the melody Sri Chinmoy set for name ‘Colorado’
(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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