Editor's note to cover photo

Ambassador David L. Hepburn of the Bahamas joins Sri Chinmoy and the Meditation Group at the United Nations on 21 November 1979 for meditation and the performance of the motto of the Bahamas set to music by Sri Chinmoy. On the occasion of a previous visit on 11 September 1979, Ambassador Hepburn made the following comments: “As we are all aware of the dedication and devotion to peace, justice and the preservation of human dignity by Sri Chinmoy and the Meditation Group, it would be superfluous for me to elaborate further. However, I cannot resist the temptation to quote a sentence from the motto of the group because it captures more adequately than any words I may use the real essence of devotion and selflessness: ‘When man listens to God, his imperfections are turned into perfections, his ignorance into knowledge, his searching mind into revealing light and his uncertain reality into all-fulfilling Divinity.’”