Editor's note to cover photo

Sri Chinmoy enjoys a warm reunion with Lakhan L. Mehrotra, who had been his boss at the Indian Consulate in New York when the Master first came to America. When this photo was taken in 1978, Mehrotra was India’s Consul-General in San Francisco. At one of Sri Chinmoy’s concerts which Mehrotra had recently attended, he offered the following spontaneous message: “… Sri Chinmoy belongs to that stream of thought and sentiment which has shown us the Light for ages… I consider those blessed who sit in his presence and who seek his presence and I know that even after I and you and everyone is gone, his voice and his message will be with us, for that is the Message Supreme to which I bow.”