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THE ONENESS OF THE EASTERN HEART AND THE WESTERN MIND Part III THE ONENESS OF THE EASTERN HEART AND THE WESTERN MIND Part III Sri Chinmoy This is the 1,480th book that Sri Chinmoy has written since he came to the West in 1964. His first book was published in 1970. Copyright © 2004 Sri Chinmoy All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without express written permission from the Publisher. Agni Press 84-47 Parsons Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11432 27 August 2004 CONTENTS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA L ECTURES 1976 – 1999 SPIRITUAL POWER, OCCULT POWER AND WILL-POWER / 3 George Washington University, 21 January 1976 HEAVEN-VISION AND EARTH-REALITY / 6 George Washington University, 28 January 1976 CONSCIOUSNESS AND IMMORTALITY / 9 George Washington University, 4 February 1976 TWO GOD-INSTRUMENTS / 13 George Washington University, 4 February 1976 TRANSCENDENCE AND PERFECTION / 17 George Washington University, 11 February 1976 SELF-DISCOVERY AND WORLD-MASTERY / 20 George Washington University, 11 February 1976 THE WORLD WITHIN AND THE WORLD WITHOUT / 23 George Washington University, 11 February 1976 LOVE HUMAN, LOVE DIVINE, LOVE SUPREME / 26 State University of New York at Purchase, 18 February 1976 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE SPIRITUAL? / 29 Columbia University, 25 February 1976 PSYCHIC POWER AND WILL-POWER / 31 New York University, 8 October 1976 MEDITATION / 36 State University of New York at Stony Brook, 16 February 1977 MY LORD SUPREME / 38 Pace College, 4 May 1977 A SEEKER’S RESOLUTION, REVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION / 39 State University of New York at Buffalo, 14 May 1977 A SEEKER / 41 Fredonia State College, 15 May 1977 ONENESS-REALITY AND PERFECTION-DIVINITY / 43 Buffalo State College, 15 May 1977 NO MORE THE DESIRE-LIFE / 47 Cape Cod Community College, 18 June 1977 I PRAY, I MEDITATE / 48 Monmouth College, 1 July 1977 SMILE, LOVE AND CLAIM / 49 Caldwell College, 7 July 1977 ASPIRATION / 51 Manhattanville College, 8 July 1977 SPIRITUALITY / 53 Columbia University, 11 July 1977 I NEED MORE / 55 Kean College, 16 July 1977 SOMETHING IS MISSING / 56 American University, 17 July 1977 CHOICE / 57 Guilford College, 28 January 1978 I PRAY / 58 Columbia University, 10 February 1978 WE PRAY AND WE MEDITATE / 61 State University of New York at Albany, 4 March 1978 THE DESIRING MAN, THE ASPIRING MAN AND THE SELF-GIVING MAN / 62 Union College and University, 4 March 1978 LIBERATION / 64 State University of New York at Oneonta, 5 March 1978 WE CONCENTRATE, WE MEDITATE / 65 Pace University, 7 March 1978 WE SHALL WAIT / 67 State University College at Buffalo, 11 March 1978 WE SHALL NOT WAIT / 68 State University of New York at Buffalo, 11 March 1978 PROGRESS / 69 Hunter College, 17 March 1978 GRATITUDE-HEART / 70 State University of New York at Plattsburgh, 18 March 1978 CHOICE / 71 State University of New York at Potsdam, 19 March 1978 THE SEEKER’S DUTY / 72 St. Lawrence University, 19 March 1978 LET US TRY TO EMPTY THE MIND / 73 State University of New York at Stony Brook, 20 March 1978 LORD, MY LORD / 74 State University of New York at Farmingdale, 21 March 1978 SILENCE / 75 Fordham University, 28 March 1978 I WATCH, I PRAY / 76 Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 30 March 1978 FAITH, LOVE, DEVOTION AND SURRENDER / 77 State University of New York at Oswego, 1 April 1978 APPRECIATION, ADMIRATION, ADORATION AND LOVE / 78 Cornell University, 1 April 1978 SUCCESS AND PROGRESS / 80 State University of New York at Cortland, 2 April 1978 OUR HUMAN LIFE AND OUR DIVINE LIFE / 82 Syracuse University, 2 April 1978 WHAT SHALL I MAKE OF MYSELF? / 83 State University of New York at Binghamton, 2 April 1978 GOD’S WORLD AND MAN’S WORLD / 85 State University of New York at Purchase, 3 April 1978 GOD’S WILL AND MY WILL / 86 Adelphi University, 4 April 1978 TIME CHANGES / 87 Hofstra University, 5 April 1978 I SHALL GO ON LOVING GOD / 89 New York University, 8 April 1978 WHO IS MY FRIEND ON EARTH? / 91 State University of New York at Old Westbury, 17 April 1978 THE SEEKER / 93 Long Island University, 18 April 1978 MY LIFE / 95 State University of New York at New Paltz, 20 April 1978 MY THREE FRIENDS: INSPIRATION, ASPIRATION AND REALISATION / 96 State University of New York at Brockport, 21 April 1978 WHY? / 98 State University of New York at Geneseo, 21 April 1978 TODAY IS A VERY GOOD AND SPECIAL DAY / 99 University of Rochester, 21 April 1978 DELAY NOT / 100 State University of New York at Fredonia, 22 April 1978 A SPECIAL BEAUTY / 102 Niagara University, 22 April 1978 DO I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES? / 103 Alfred University, 23 April 1978 THE SPIRITUAL LIFE / 105 St. Bonaventure University, 23 April 1978 A SEEKER’S CONVERSATION WITH HIS INNER PILOT / 108 St. John’s University, 28 April 1978 OUR PROGRESS-STORY / 110 Long Island University, 30 April 1978 SINCERITY, PURITY AND SECURITY / 111 University of California at Berkeley, 27 September 1978 WE ARE ONE / 113 San Francisco State University, 27 September 1978 THE PAST HAS FAST FADED BEHIND US / 115 University of California at Santa Cruz, 28 September 1978 I HAVE ONLY ONE NEED / 116 University of the Pacific, 29 September 1978 OUR DEPARTING FRIENDS, LASTING FRIENDS, EVERLASTING FRIENDS / 117 University of California at Davis, 29 September 1978 SELF-TRANSCENDENCE / 119 Bakersfield State University, 30 September 1978 DESIRE-LIFE AND ASPIRATION-LIFE / 121 San Bernardino State University, 1 October 1978 THE HEART, THE MIND, THE VITAL AND THE BODY / 123 San Diego State University, 1 October 1978 WHERE DO I LIVE? / 125 University of California at Irvine, 2 October 1978 MUSIC / 126 University of California at Los Angeles, 3 October 1978 OUR SOULFUL PRAYER AND OUR FRUITFUL MEDITATION / 127 University of Southern California, 3 October 1978 MY IGNORANCE / 129 University of California at Santa Barbara, 4 October 1978 RUN AND BECOME / 130 Stanford University, 5 October 1978 THE HUMAN IN ME, THE DIVINE IN ME AND THE SUPREME IN ME / 132 Columbia University, 11 October 1978 ASPIRATION / 133 Columbia University, 18 October 1978 THE INNER WORLD AND THE OUTER WORLD / 135 Columbia University, 25 October 1978 THE WHOLE MAN / 137 Lake Placid School of Art, 3 December 1978 THE MEANING OF DISCIPLESHIP TODAY / 140 Pacific School of Religion, 1 June 1979 PEACE / 145 University of Vermont, 19 January 1980 A SEEKER’S LIFE / 147 Harvard University, 17 February 1980 A TRUE SEEKER / 149 Columbia University, 20 February 1980 MY LORD SUPREME, YOU ACCEPT FROM ME / 151 Columbia University, 27 February 1980 A LIFE OF BLOSSOMING LOVE / 153 State University of New York at Stony Brook, 3 March 1980 EULOGY FOR JESSE OWENS / 154 Columbia University, 9 April 1980 WHAT IS ART? / 155 University of Washington, 8 May 1980 THE OUTER RUNNING AND THE INNER RUNNING / 158 University of Oregon, 17 October 1980 ART IS / 160 Oregon State University, 18 November 1980 TRANSCENDENCE / 161 Stanford University, 3 March 1981 PERFECTION / 163 University of California at Berkeley, 6 March 1981 CONCENTRATION-ART / 165 Dartmouth College, 9 March 1981 COMPASSION / 167 Brown University, 26 March 1981 THE VISION-DAWN / 169 Yale University, 27 March 1981 CONTEMPLATION / 171 Columbia University, 1 April 1981 LIBERATION / 175 Princeton University, 6 April 1981 MUSIC AND RELIGION / 178 Mount Holyoke College, 7 April 1981 TRUTH / 182 Harvard University, 20 April 1981 SOUND AND SILENCE / 185 Radcliffe College, 21 April 1981 CONTEMPLATION IN ACTION / 187 Wellesley College, 21 April 1981 MUSIC / 190 University of Pennsylvania, 25 April 1981 SATISFACTION / 193 Cornell University, 26 April 1981 CONTEMPLATION IN THE HINDU TRADITION / 196 Vassar College, 27 April 1981 TRUTH / 198 Yale University, 25 May 1982 O MY HEART / 200 Columbia University, 1 June 1982 A SEEKER’S EXPERIENCE-REALITIES / 201 University of California at Berkeley, 5 June 1982 O MY SEEKER-FRIENDS / 202 University of Maryland, 17 June 1982 RECEPTIVITY / 204 Harvard University, 10 July 1982 SURRENDER / 206 University of Delaware, 10 August 1982 A SEEKER’S HEART-SONGS / 208 Harvard University, 19 April 1983 PEACE: TOMORROW’S BLOSSOMING SMILE / 211 Cornell University, 24 January 1986 I CAN HAVE PEACE / 212 Columbia University, 25 January 1986 RECEIVING PEACE / 213 Princeton University, 31 January 1986 THE MESSAGE OF PEACE / 215 Brown University, 2 February 1986 FIRST BECOME PEACE-DREAMERS / 217 Harvard University, 7 March 1986 PEACE AND TRUTH / 219 New York University, 31 March 1986 A SEEKER’S PEACE / 221 Rutgers University, 3 April 1986 WHERE IS PEACE? / 223 Fairleigh Dickinson University, 8 April 1986 GOD’S MOST TREASURED GIFT / 225 University of Connecticut at Storrs, 19 April 1986 THE WAY TO ABIDING PEACE / 227 Wesleyan University, 19 April 1986 O SENIOR OLYMPICS, O SENIOR OLYMPIANS / 229 Washington University, 27 June 1987 WILLINGNESS / 230 Columbia University, 9 February 1989 SILENCE WITHIN, SOUND WITHOUT / 231 Harvard University, 17 February 1989 CONCENTRATION / 232 Yale University, 26 February 1989 MEDITATION / 234 Brown University, 5 March 1989 DESIRE VERSUS ASPIRATION / 235 Cornell University, 16 March 1989 OBEDIENCE / 237 Princeton University, 27 March 1989 HAPPINESS: MY DREAM-FULFILLED REALITY / 239 Johns Hopkins University, 13 May 1989 YOU HAVE AWAKENED ME / 241 Stanford University, 22 May 1989 I MUST AND I MUST / 242 University of Portland, 12 June 1989 WORLD PEACE FROM A HINDU PERSPECTIVE: A HINDU WORLD-PEACE-DREAMER / 243 College of St. Rose, 18 March 1996 POET AND POETRY / 246 University of Washington, 2 April 1998 INDIAN PHILOSOPHY: A GLIMPSE / 252 Florida International University, 26 May 1998 MY PEACE-EDUCATION-LIFE / 258 University of Texas at Austin, 25 June 1998 ACHIEVING WORLD PEACE FROM A SPIRITUAL POINT OF VIEW / 262 University of Hawaii, 7 December 1998 THE NEW MILLENNIUM AND WORLD PEACE / 265 St.