The living statues
There are two statues outside our meeting room in the Royal Garden Village Hotel that are not like regular statues at all. They actually have a living presence. They are very beautiful and soulful, and are sincerely aspiring.I have blessed these two statues very nicely, and Nayana has put two garlands around them.
Already they have human souls. They are absolutely like living beings! They should have a human incarnation.
— 23 December 1988
Sri Chinmoy, The world-experience-tree-climber, part 7, Agni Press, 1994