Diary Entry
by Sri Chinmoy
while in residence at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India
22 May
“Ida Patterson from America has written a letter to me [Nolini-da]. In her letter, she says some very nice things about you. I shall show the letter to the Mother first and then let you read it.”
Two hours later, while I was working in his room, he came up to me and said: “I showed Ida's letter to the Mother. She is very happy that Ida has seen such nice things in you.* She asked me if I had already shown you the letter. I said no. Then She asked me to show it to you. Here it is.”
* In December 1965, Ida Patterson arranged for Sri Chinmoy to give a series of lectures at her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sri Chinmoy referred to her as a spiritual sister and gave her the spiritual name ‘Sukhukee’.
Published in A Service-Flame and a Service-Sun
You Have Awakened Me
A short talk at the Peace Concert
at Stanford University Stanford, California
My Lord Supreme, my Beloved Supreme, You wanted to awaken my sleeping heart with Your Satisfaction-Heart. But alas, I did not allow You to succeed. Therefore, You badly failed.
My Lord Supreme, my Beloved Supreme, You wanted to awaken my sleeping heart with Your Compassion-Eye. But alas, I did not allow You to succeed. Therefore, You badly failed.
My Lord Supreme, my Beloved Supreme, You even wanted to awaken my sleeping heart with Your Justice-Light. But alas, I did not allow You to succeed. Therefore, You badly failed.
Finally, my Lord Supreme, You awakened me with Your utter frustration, utter exasperation and utter disgust, plus Your Thunder-Blows and Thunder-Kicks. Now I am awakened, fully awakened. But alas, why did I prevent You from awakening me in Your own Way according to Your choice Vision?
My child, you and I do not belong to the past. We do not even belong to the future. We only belong to the Eternal Now."
Published in My Heart’s Peace-Offering