New Hampshire (NH). The 9th state to join the Union in 1788

New Hampshire factoids: The capital of New Hampshire is Concord; its largest city (by pop.) is Manchester. Today’s population in New Hampshire is approximately 1.4 million (averaging around 155 people per square mile). New Hampshire’s state tree is the ‘White Birch’; its state flower is the ‘Purple Lilac’; its state bird the ‘Purple Finch’; and its state fruit is the ‘Pumpkin’. New Hampshire’s State Motto is: “Live Free or Die”.

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

  • April 3, 1970. Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled “The Inner Life” at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.
  • January 11, 1974. Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled “The World Within and the World Without” at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.
    • On the drive from New York to this New Hampshire lecture, Sri Chinmoy tells several stories, the first five in a series which is later published in a book entitled “The Master Surrenders“. (Note: In Hindu tradition —and in this specific instance— “master” is the term used for the ‘Guru’, a spiritual guide to a spiritual aspirant. Sri Chinmoy quite frequently used this term for God or the Supreme). 
  • September 24, 1977. The New Hampshire and Boston members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team (SCMT) holds a 5-Mile Race, with the proceeds raised by the event contributed to UNICEF, in Hampton, NH.
  • Running the Sri Chinmoy Inspiration Marathon in New Hampshire, Feb. 1981

    February 1, 1981. Sri Chinmoy runs the Inspiration Marathon in a time of 5:22:11 in Hampton, NH.

  • March 9, 1981. Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled “Concentration-Art” at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. It is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in room 13 Carpenter Hall.
    • While visiting, he returns to run a few miles along the course of the Inspiration Marathon in New Hampshire. This is just one month after completing the Inspiration Marathon (NH) — and just one day after completing the Bidwell Classic Marathon in California (in 4:30:21).
  • February 6, 1983. Sri Chinmoy runs his second Inspiration Marathon in Hampton, NH in a time of 5:56:59. This was his 21st of 22 marathons in less than 4 years.
    • In Run and Become, Part 13, the entry for Feb. 5, 1983, Sri Chinmoy says : “Many, many years ago, before my disciples were even born, I gave up praying and started meditating. Once you enter meditation, you don’t get joy from praying any more. But now I shall have to start praying again. I have to pray to God for speed and stamina and also not to get cramps in tomorrow’s marathon.“

1987-current, the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run often visits New Hampshire on its cross-country trek and engages with its welcoming citizens (see example photos of past visits).

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Listen to the melody Sri Chinmoy set for name ‘New Hampshire‘ 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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