South Asia: India – Sacred Peace Table

Mira Nakashima polishing the Sacred Peace Table with Miriam Belov in background

Mira Nakashima played the flute during the ceremony.

Candle light and Sunlight on the Sacred Peace Table.

Flowers of “Supramental Consciousness”.

This was a beautiful and creative event in Auroville.  People from the community were joined by diplomats from Delhi and participants from the United States. In fact the audience overflowed from the Hall of Peace into the surrounding gardens.

Mira Nakashima shared her understanding of her father’s dedication to the Peace Table project which the Nakashima Foundation has realized with the placement of one table for Asia in Auroville.

Julian Lines, a Nakashima Foundation for Peace board member and on the International Advisory Council at Auroville, was instrumental in organizing the event.  Meenakshi is a long time Aurovilian.  Mira Nakashima-Yarnall was also celebrating her birthday

Left to right: Gauri Pinto, Mira Nakashima-Yarnall, Miriam Belov, board member. Gauri, a close friend of Mira’s, is the daughter of Udar and Mona Pinto, early ashramites. Udar was a collaborator with George Nakashima on building Golconde which is often considered the 1st modern building in India, and Mona oversaw managing the guesthouse for many years and maintained it impeccably.

Left to right: Miriam Belov, Nakashima Foundation for Peace board member, Ambassador Chinmaya Gharekhan –president of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Carel Thieme – an Aurovilian who initiated the project of the Sacred Peace Table in 1996, Mira Nakashima-Yarnall, Aster Patel – an early ashramite & Aurovilian on the Auroville Foundation and Rita Gharekhan.

Left to right: Jon Yarnall, Mira Nakashima-Yarnall, Soomi and Ru Amagasu.  Traveling together from the USA were Mira and her brother Kevin Nakashima with several family members including Mira’s husband Jon, her son Ru and his wife Soomi whose young son Toshi lit the candle to begin the event. Miriam Carpenter, artist and designer at the Nakashima Studios also attended. The banner behind the group shows The Mother’s signature, which is visually “the Bird of Peace descending upon earth”.