Sri Chinmoy

It was actually 1965 that it got started.

It was invented by Sri Chinmoy, a spiritual leader and meditation teacher.

And it was conceived at a Thanksgiving dinner at the United Nations Meditation Room, according to NationalToday.com. At the dinner, Sheree suggested the idea of a global holiday of gratitude.

And each person at the dinner pledged to hold an event in their home.

in their home country every year on that holiday and they all spent the rest of the evening discussing how they might spread the word about this new holiday.

In 1966, many holidays observed the first World Gratitude Day And the day has been celebrated annually ever since.

In 1977, the Spiritual League, a group of Sri followers, Sri Chinmoy's followers, who ran the meditation room at his New York headquarters, requested that a resolution be passed recognizing the day.

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My co-host Vajin and myself are meditation teachers.

We have over 25 years of experience, and we've been following the teachings of our spiritual master Sri Chinmoy.

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And basically the feeling for me was anything that stopped the flow or restricted the flow or interfered with the flow of divinity through your body, that was an impurity.

So it could be all manner of different qualities, but if they were not in alignment with divinity, then they were considered an impurity.

And actually, I've got a little section that Sri Chinmoy wrote talking about it.

And he said, purity is the light of our soul expressing its divinity through the body, the vital, and the mind.

But our heart and our soul and just our general happiness really suffers.

Yeah, and there's a famous aphorism by Sri Chinmoy, but often quoted where he said, simplicity is an advanced course, which speaks to what you just said.

It's an advanced course.

It's something for more evolved beings, it seems, to learn.

My watch has run out, you know, my battery and my watch has run out.

So I can no longer go for a hike in the mountains.

But I've got a couple of aphorisms that I'd like to read here from Sri Chinmoy because he was someone who I think really saw and understood the value of simplicity.

And it's great because all of his aphorisms or poems he wrote about simplicity were also incredibly simple.

And they might also feel that it's okay for this mother and father to treat them a certain way, to admonish them, to make them lose privileges, just similar to a family system.

There was a cult leader years ago, Sri Chinmoy, who actually... led a lot of his meetings in some rooms that you could rent out in the UN building, because I think it gave him this sense, an aura of, you know, that somehow he was right.

But he called his followers boys and girls, even if they were older

than

Mm

... with Sri Chinmoy, and that kept me from self-destruction because, you know, here, here's the thing before we move on.

Yeah.

There, there is such a thing as self-deception and self-discovery.