Oklahoma (OK). The 46th state to join the Union in 1907
Oklahoma factoids: The capital of Oklahoma is Oklahoma City (OKC) — which is also its largest city. Today’s population in Oklahoma is approximately 3.9 million (averaging around 55 people per square mile). Oklahoma’s state tree is the ‘Redbud’; its state flower is the ‘Oklahoma rose’; its state bird the ‘Scissor-tailed Flycatcher’; its state fruit is the ‘Strawberry’ — while it’s state vegetable the ‘Watermelon’. Oklahoma’s State Motto is: “Labor Omnia Vincit”(Work Conquers All Things).
Activities of Sri Chinmoy in Oklahoma (see page for activities in each of the 50 states)
1974
- March 6, 1974. Sri Chinmoy delivers a 4pm afternoon lecture entitled “Renunciation” in the Westby Student Center/Great Hall at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, OK.
- After the lecture, Sri Chinmoy answered the following questions:
1987-current, the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run often visits Oklahoma 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 ‘Oklahoma‘ 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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