Thomas Jefferson’s Vision
On 28 January 2004, at a function held at the Bali Beach Hotel, Sri Chinmoy offered the following comments and answered a question about the vision of Thomas Jefferson.America is my dreamland. It will always remain my dreamland – America, as such, the country, the soul, the heart, but not necessarily the mind. America will forever remain my dreamland. I had the highest hope, and still I maintain the highest hope, all in the inner world. The outer world is frustration. The inner world is the highest hope. When I came to America, a new country, I came with such high hopes, and I shall still maintain my love for America, admiration for America, adoration for America. At that time I hoped for many divine things to be manifested in the outer world. They have not yet been manifested, but the vision that we have in the inner world, that I shall never give up, never.
One man, Thomas Jefferson, showed the light not only to the country, but to the whole world. His vision touched the very length and breadth of the world. It started manifesting here, there, everywhere. Jefferson’s vision, for about 200 years, blossomed in many countries, not only in America. We sow the seeds here; somehow the same seeds go to some other places, far, very far. They enter into Mother Earth and germinate. There are quite a few countries that may be unaware that this vision came from Jefferson.
