France challenged our fate!⁵⁸

France gave us some excellent experiences. France challenged our fate! There the former UN Secretary-General, Javier Perez de Cuellar, said that I am the heart of the United Nations. At the pyramid of the Louvre, the world-famous museum, we had our art exhibit, and this year also we shall have an art exhibit.

I received the Nehru Award from UNESCO in Paris. We had a concert in the Eiffel Tower — that we cannot forget. It was noise versus Sri Chinmoy! And we had a concert for 13,000 people, a concert at the Sorbonne and a concert at a circus!

I spoke at the Alliance Francaise. It is very famous.

Once when I was visiting France, it was ten o’clock at night and I wanted to go and eat with some disciples. A lady taxi driver appeared — I could not believe it! I was hesitating. How could it be? At that time I had not seen a lady driving a taxi, so I did not think it was a real taxi. A disciple said, “No, no, it is all right.” It was my first experience with a lady taxi driver!