Texas (TX). The 28th state to join the Union in 1845
Texas factoids: The capital of Texas is Austin; its largest city (by pop.) is Houston. Known as the ‘’Lone Star State”, today’s population is approximately 30 million (averaging around 120 people per square mile). Texas’s state tree is the ‘Pecan’; its state flower is the ‘Texas Bluebonnet’; its state bird the ‘Northern Mockingbird’. Texas’s State Motto is:”Friendship”.
Activities of Sri Chinmoy in Texas (see page for activities in each of the 50 states)
1974
- March 7, 1974. Sri Chinmoy delivers a 9am morning lecture entitled “Friendship” in Room 104, Student Center at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.
1991
- July 31, 1991. The Starr-Camargo Bridge linking the USA with Mexico across the Rio Grande, from Rio Grande City in Texas to Camargo, Tamaulipas,
Oct. 1992. On the “Peace Track”, Sri Chinmoy runs 100-meters with Sudhahota Carl Lewis. is inaugurated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Bridge during the 1991 ‘Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run’.
1992
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- During this visit to Texas, Sri Chinmoy enjoys time with Olympian Carl Lewis (whose spiritual name, given by Sri Chinmoy in 1983, is Sudhahota), Lewis’ teammates and fellow-Olympians (Leroy Burrell, Floyd Heard, and Mike Marsh), and mother Ambalika Evelyn Lawler.
- Lewis is instrumental in the dedicating the track at the Robertson Stadium at the University of Houston the “Sri Chinmoy Peace Track”
1997
- May 7, 1997. Mutual admiration at functions in Houston, TX:
- Sri Chinmoy presents the “U Thant Peace Award” to Olympian Sudhahota Carl Lewis.
- Sudhahota gives awards in nine different areas to those individuals who had most powerfully influenced his life. He selects Sri Chinmoy to receive the award for being most influential in his spiritual life.
1998
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Sri Chinmoy receives a “Peace Educator Award” plaque June 25, 1998. Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘My Peace-Education-Life’ at the University of Texas (UT at Austin) in Austin, TX.
- Sri Chinmoy is presented with the Peace Educator Award by the Department of Sociology and the Ad Hoc Committee on Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
- This same day, Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 16th of 48 concerts in his “New Millennium Concert series — at the University of Texas at Austin
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- At the concert, Sri Chinmoy gives tribute to to Olympian Carl Lewis (whose spiritual name, given by Sri Chinmoy, is Sudhahota)
1987-current, the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run often visits Texas 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 ‘Texas‘ 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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