Question: What does the soul of America feel about the different nations eventually making decisions rather than the individual will of America?
Sri Chinmoy: The soul of America can play the role of the mother and feel that all the other nations are her children. The children mix together, play together, sing together, dance together. Then, when it is time to achieve something, if all the members meet together and jointly do something, it is like children coming to a conclusion on the strength of their genuine effort. So, America’s children play in her heart’s garden and come to a conclusion together. Naturally, the soul of America will be highly pleased, for she feels that it is a harmonious family. Together they achieve, together they accomplish, together they fulfil.
Sri Chinmoy, The Bicentennial Flames at the United Nations, Agni Press, 1976