Interview for People Magazine

//Following is the greater part of an interview given to Jed Horne of //People// weekly magazine by Sri Chinmoy on 20 July 1975 at the Old Mill Farm in Harrison, New York.//

Question: Could you tell me about your childhood?

Sri Chinmoy: I grew up in an ashram. At the age of twelve I was about to be totally conscious of what I was in a previous incarnation; and when I was thirteen years old I became fully conscious of my first achievement, what we call self-discovery.