Question: Could you tell me about your childhood?

Sri Chinmoy: I grew up in an ashram. At the age of twelve I was about to be totally conscious of what I was in a previous incarnation; and when I was thirteen years old I became fully conscious of my first achievement, what we call self-discovery.

From:Sri Chinmoy,AUM — Vol. 2, No. 9, 27 September 1975, Vishma Press, New York, 1975
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