Hawaii (HI). The 50th state to join the Union in 1959

Hawaii factoids: The capital of Hawaii is Honolulu (on Oahu) — which is also it largest city. Known as the “Aloha State”, today’s total population is approximately 1.45 million (averaging around 227 people per square mile). There are 8 populated ‘main’ islands (the ‘Big Island: Hawaii, as well as Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, and Kahoolawe) as well as 129 small unpopulated islands. Hawaii’s state tree is the ‘Kukui tree’, candlenut tree; its state flower is the ‘Pua aloalo’, aka native yellow hibiscus; and its state bird the ‘Nēnē’, aka Hawaiian goose. Hawaii’s State Motto is: “Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono” (The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness). 

Activities of Sri Chinmoy in Hawaii (see page for activities in other states)

  • 28 October 1974. Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Yoga and Spirituality’, at the University of Honolulu, in Honolulu, HI.

1979-1980

  • Dec. 21, 1979. Among several songs composed for the state of Hawaii is this one:

Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii!
O eastern sun, O western sky!
Quality-heart, quantity-mind:
Truth-seekers, life-lovers,
In you find.

— Sri Chinmoy (see sheet music here)

1990

1993

  • December 16, 1993. Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI.
  • December 17, 1993. Sri Chinmoy offers a second Peace Concert this trip at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI
    • A display of Sri Chinmoy’s drawings (‘Soul-Birds’) was displayed at the Outrigger East Hotel, Honolulu, HI.
  • December 18, 1993. The SCMT hold a “Sri Chinmoy Masters Track Meet” (events for those 50-years and older) held at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, HI. Sri Chinmoy runs the 100-meter in a time of 15.59 seconds (an elite sprinter in his youth, he returned to the sport in his 50s, with a best time in an official race —Eastern Regional Championships, in N.Y.— of 14.59).

    Sen. Hiram Fong, Peace-tree and standing lift. Dec. 22, 1990

1995

  • January 22, 1995. Sri Chinmoy offers  the 2nd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the Maui Lu Hotel in Kihei, Maui, HI.

1998

  • December 7, 1998. On this day, a solemn anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts:
  • December 9-14 1998. At various functions in the Thomas Jefferson Hall at the University of Hawaii. Sri Chinmoy met with and answered questions by staff, seekers and his students. These are twenty (20) Q&As are divided into 3 sections and published in “Sri Chinmoy Answers, Part 9“

2001

Seated version of the Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart. Dec, 2, 2001 in Hawaii
  • As part of his “Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart” programme, Sri Chinmoy performed many lifts in Hawaii or including citizens from Hawaii. These include:
    • July 10, 2001. Sri Chinmoy lifts five members of the US Congress, including Neil Abercrombie, Congressman from Hawaii. This lifting programme takes place in the Rayburn Gold Room on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.
    • During a ‘Christmas Trip’ with his students to Kauai, HI., Sri Chinmoy lifted
      • 16 people, including 4 members of the Hindu Heritage Endowment (November 26, 2001)
      • 21 people (November 28, 2001)
      • 23 people (including Titus Kinimaka, alone then again with family, World Class Big Wave Surfer, December 2, 2001)
      • 8 people (including Rekha Sharma, India’s first woman to climb India’s highest peak, December 4, 2001)
      • 53 students and teachers at the Na Kamalei School in Kauai, HI (December 5, 2001).
  • December 4, 2001. Sri Chinmoy offers spiritual meanings for the words submitted by his disciples in Kauai, Hawaii, USA. They are subsequently published in his book, The Heart-Tears of a God-Seeker.

1987-current, the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run passes visits Hawaii frequently on its cross-country trek and engages with its welcoming citizens (see example of photos of its previous visit)

 

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

(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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