Sri Chinmoy's inscription in the visitors' register
Yesterday’s punishment-cell becomes today humanity’s Enlightenment-Shrine.
Beloved President Mandela, to you my aspiration-heart and my dedication-life bow and bow.
— C.K. Ghose Sri Chinmoy, Student of Peace.
After leaving the cell, Sri Chinmoy offered his deepest gratitude to Commander Jones:
I am so grateful to you for allowing me to visit this shrine. This is humanity’s aspiring shrine. To some, this place symbolises brutal torture from some ignorance-lords.
To me, it is the living presence of humanity’s hope and humanity’s promise, embodied in the aspiration-heights of Africa’s beloved leader, Nelson Mandela.
Sri Chinmoy, Nelson Mandela: the Pinnacle-Pillar of Mother Earth, Agni Press, 1998