Iowa (IA). The 29th state to join the Union in 1846
Iowa factoids: The capital of Iowa is Des Moines — which is also its largest city. Today’s population in Iowa is approximately 3.2 million (averaging around 57 people per square mile). Iowa’s state tree is the ‘Oak’; its state flower is the ‘Wild Rose’; and its state bird the ‘American Goldfinch’. Iowa’s State Motto is: “Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain”.
Activities of Sri Chinmoy in Iowa (see page for activities in each of the other states)
March 5, 1974 (multiple lectures in multiple states on this day). Sri Chinmoy delivers a 2pm afternoon lecture entitled “The Spiritual Life” at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, IA
1987-current, follow the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run as it visits Iowa this year on its cross-country trek
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Listen to the melody Sri Chinmoy set for name ‘Iowa‘ as part of the 50 Oneness-State-Songs:
(read more about these on the 50 Oneness-State-Songs page)
Fifty oneness-state-songs,
Our Lord’s Compassion-Gongs.
Within, without, a seeker’s sleepless cry
To reveal America’s perfection-sky.
—Sri Chinmoy
(see https://www.srichinmoysongs.com/fifty-oneness-state-songs)
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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