Maine (ME). The 23rd state to join the Union in 1820
Maine factoids: The capital of Maine is Augusta; its largest city is Portland. Today’s population in Maine is approximately 1.4 million (averaging around 45 people per square mile). Maine’s state tree is the ‘Eastern White Pine’; its state flower is the ‘White Pine Cone and Tassel’; its state bird the ‘Black-capped chickadee’; its state fruit/berry is the ‘Blueberry’ and a well-known treat is the Whoopie Pie. Maine’s State Motto is: “Dirigo” (I lead).
Activities of Sri Chinmoy in Maine (see page for activities in each of the other states)
- April 24, 1970. Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled “Intuition” at the University of Maine in Orono, ME.
- January 25, 1974. Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled “Power” at the Luther Bonney Hall, University of Maine (UMP, now USM) in Portland, ME.
- This lecture was part of a fifty-state lecture tour for the year 1974, Sri Chinmoy lectured in eleven states in the month of January, and delivered two –in 2 states — on January 25, 1974.
- Sri Chinmoy offered answers to the following questions at this lecture:
- Q: Is there a possibility of complete fulfilment in this world?
- Q: Sometimes I feel that I am competing with others and trying to realise God ahead of them. Could you say something about this?
- Q: How can we stop thoughts from bothering us during meditation?
- Q: If we killed off all our desires and lived all the time in the inner world, it seems to me there would be no progress in the world and everything would stagnate.
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Sri Chinmoy attends the ceremony in South Berwick proclaming itself as a “Sri Chinmoy Peace Town”. July 1991 
A “Peace Bridge” plaque at a bridge between Kittery, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. July 1991. - July 8, 1991. South Berwick, Maine is declared by Proclamation by its Town Manager and Town Councilman a “Sri Chinmoy Peace Town”.
- Sri Chinmoy composes a song for the event: “Maine’s fondness-child, South Berwick town! The winner of the world’s first Peace-Crown. You re your life’s zenith oneness-height, God-Glory’s ocean-sky-delight.”
1987-current, the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run often visits Mississippi 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 ‘Maine‘ 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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