The morning concert
When I play on the esraj early in the morning, how nicely the animals look at me!The birds will join me in their own way. Around three-thirty or a quarter to four it starts. Upstairs one bird is saying, “Happy Birthday! Thank you!” Downstairs another bird is saying, “Hi! Hi! Hi!” Like that it goes on.
3 April 1981
Sri Chinmoy, Friendship with the animal kingdom, Agni Press, 2010
