Sri Chinmoy observes a display produced by his students for the Fourth of July at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York. It features a garlanded painting of Thomas Jefferson and, on the scoreboard, the inspiring words he penned for the Declaration of Independence in 1776. (Thomas Jefferson went on to become the Third President of the USA.)
The opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson:
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Read more...