Meditation transcends all religions, borders: leaders on 1st World Meditation Day at UN

UNITED NATIONS: Meditation transcends all religions and borders and is also a powerful instrument of diplomacy in the current global landscape marked by escalating conflicts and deep-seated mistrust, top spiritual and UN leaders said on the first World Meditation Day commemorated here.

The Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations organised a special event ‘Meditation for Global Peace and Harmony’ to mark the first World Meditation Day at the global body’s headquarters on Friday.

“Today meditation is not a luxury, as it was thought, but it is a necessity,” spiritual leader Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said in his keynote address at the packed event attended by UN Ambassadors, officials, staff, civil society members as well as members of the Indian-American diaspora.