Seventy flowers at Raisa Maximovna's Long Home on the President's Birthday

On March 2nd, I went back to the cemetery. It was the morning of President Gorbachev's 70th birthday. This time I brought with me a huge arrangement of seventy flowers. Very carefully I placed the arrangement at the foot of Raisa Maximovna's Long Home. On the card that was attached to the arrangement, I had written, “To the Queen Heart of the world from Sri Chinmoy's heart and the hearts of his disciples." I wrote this message in my own handwriting, and there was also a translation in Russian.

Ten minutes later, when we were leaving the cemetery, we saw a number of security guards arriving because President Gorbachev was coming. We were about twenty cars behind the President's car. He stayed for ten minutes or so.