{"id":2210,"date":"2013-07-18T04:22:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2013-07-18T04:28:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:28:39","slug":"happy-95th-birthday-madiba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"Happy 95th Birthday, Madiba!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is President Nelson Mandela&#8217;s 95th birthday, and the Sri Chinmoy Centre would like to add its best wishes to the millions of birthday greetings from all around the world. Sri Chinmoy was a great admirer-friend of President Mandela, and the two had several warm and significant meetings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2211\" alt=\"nelson_mandela\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelson_mandela.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelson_mandela.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelson_mandela-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 85vw, 370px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sri Chinmoy wrote a book called <em>Nelson Mandela: The Pinnacle-Pillar of Mother Earth<\/em> in his honour &#8211; below are some of the poems from the book:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He tells poorer than the poorest human beings<br \/>\nIn every possible way:<br \/>\n&#8216;Let us dream together.<br \/>\nThe Golden Dawn<br \/>\nWill soon burst forth!&#8217;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153President Mandela&#8217;s very name<br \/>\nBuilds a hope-cathedral<br \/>\nIn the heart of despair-flooded humanity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Sri Chinmoy &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I cannot express in words my joy! What you are doing is in the interest of the entire humanity and the world<\/em>.&#8221; &#8211; Nelson Mandela to Sri Chinmoy, meeting in South Africa, 1996<\/p>\n<p>The above photo shows Sri Chinmoy and Nelson Mandela and his wife, Mama Graca holding the torch of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, which Sri Chinmoy founded in 1987. While holding the torch President Mandela said: &#8220;We are with you in upholding peace, which brings solace to many people throughout the world. It doesn&#8217;t matter what language they speak. I think peace is one of the things that is going to save the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on his birthday, President Mandela&#8217;s health is reported to be steadily improving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is President Nelson Mandela&#8217;s 95th birthday, and the Sri Chinmoy Centre would like to add its best wishes to the millions of birthday greetings from all around the world. Sri Chinmoy was a great admirer-friend of President Mandela, and the two had several warm and significant meetings. Sri Chinmoy wrote a book called Nelson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy 95th Birthday, Madiba!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}