India day picnic

Once a year the people of Darien, Connecticut, used to invite Indians to come and spend the day. They wanted to establish friendship with Indians. In 1965 I went there. Everyone had a host and my hosts were so nice. For me it was the happiest day. In the evening, everyone met together for a function and I was asked many, many questions on India and Indian religion.

Sudha (Miss Carmen Maria Suro, the first president of the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico) had given me a tape recorder, and I recorded the evening’s conversation. It came out well and I listened to the tape four or five times. Then God alone knows what I did; everything was erased. Can you imagine? Nowadays we are still having problems with tape recorders, but on that occasion I was definitely the culprit.

I told Alo my sad story. She used to preserve everything, so she preserved that tape recorder. Otherwise, if Alo had not been there, I might have smashed it because I was so disgusted with it.