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Subhas Chandra’s brother, Sarat Chandra, met with Eamon de Valera in Calcutta in 1947. They also met in Dublin the following year.

Sri Chinmoy was supremely fortunate to meet with President de Valera in Dublin in 1973. Following a deeply personal conversation during which the truth-seeker and God-lover President asked Sri Chinmoy many profound spiritual questions, Presiden de Valera said to Sri Chinmoy, “Thank you for blessing me in the evening of my life.”