Question: Do the Bicentennial celebrations add strength to the soul of America?
Sri Chinmoy: The Bicentennial celebrations without fail add strength to the soul of America, for a Bicentennial is not a mere celebration but a genuine invocation of the soul of America that liberated the body of America from a foreign yoke.
Sri Chinmoy, The Bicentennial Flames at the United Nations, Agni Press, 1976