Pennsylvania (PA). The 2nd state to join the Union in 1787

Pennsylvania factoids: The capital of Pennsylvania is Harrisburg; its largest city is Philadelphia. Today’s population in Pennsylvania is approximately 13.07 million (averaging around 291 people per square mile). Pennsylvania’s state tree is the ‘Eastern Hemlock’; its state flower is the ‘Mountain Laurel’; and its state bird the ‘Ruffed Grouse’. Pennsylvania’s State Motto is:”Virtue, Liberty and Independence”.

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

1970

  • March 4, 1970 (multiple lectures on this day). Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled “Sincerity, Purity and Surety” at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.
  • March 4, 1970 (multiple lectures on this day). Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled “Self-Control” at Susquehanna University in Selingsgrove, PA.
  • March 18, 1970. Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled “The Inner Light” at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in Philadelphia, PA.

1972

1974

  • January 22, 1974. Sri Chinmoy delivers an 8pm lecture entitled “The Heart’ in David Rittenhouse Auditorium, at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in Philadelphia, PA.

1975

  • May 3, 1975. Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Quintessence of Patriotism’, at the Naval Air Station in Willow Grove, PA.

Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia.
O sweet city of brotherly love.
O God-perfection below, above.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia.
Your world-attention Liberty Bell
Proclaimed the death of our bondage-hell.
O freedom-lovers’ utopia!
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia.

 

—Sri Chinmoy (I Need My Country: Beauty’s Soul” Agni Press, New York, 1975 )

1976

January 4, 1977 Letter from Mayor of the City of Philadelphia

1977

  • January 17, 1977. Sri Chinmoy presents his 300 published books to Philadelphia’s Mayor Frank L. Rizzo for the Free Library of Philadelphia, in Philadelphia, PA.
  • December 6, 1977. Sri Chinmoy offers a concert featuring the Esraj at the Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, PA.

1981

  • April 25, 1981. Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture entitled “Music” at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in Philadelphia, PA.

1989

  • November 14, 1989. Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Philadelphia Civic Center in Philadelphia, PA.

1992

  • May 16, 1992. Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Cathedral Church of the Saviour in Philadelphia, PA. Listen to the CD…

1996

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert on May 30, 1997 (photo: Pulak)

1997

2000

  • October 7, 2000. Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert featuring an organ performance at the Old Pine Street Church in Philadelphia, PA. 
    • At the concert, Sri Chinmoy recites 10 poems on the theme ‘Here and Now’, later published in a book of the same name.

2003

2006

  • Kimmel Center Concert in Philadelphia. (photo: Pulak)

    June 22, 2006. Sri Chinmoy offers two Peace Concerts, one in the afternoon and the second in the evening at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, PA.

2007

1987-current, the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run passes through Pennsylvania semi-annually 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 ‘Pennsylvania’

(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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