Sri Ramakrishna’s Magic Touch

 

I am telling you a most significant story. Four or five years ago, at the 47-mile race in honour of my birthday, the pain in my knee was unbearably excruciating. I went to the race only to bless the runners and the helpers. I passed by the counters and then I walked another ten or fifteen metres. I was in such agony. I came to the place where I used to play tennis against the wall.

I was meditating on the Supreme. My knee pain became so severe that I could not take even one step forward. All of a sudden I saw Sri Ramakrishna. He came up and sympathised with me and touched my knee. With his touch, my pain completely disappeared. I was in the seventh Heaven of delight. How could the pain be completely gone? I started walking with such joy, the way I did many years ago.

I told Sri Ramakrishna, “I have had this knee problem for some time.”

He said, “Why do you have to suffer? I am happy only when you do not have pain. Now you have transcended the pain.”

Another two hundred metres I walked with such delight. Savyasachi’s car was waiting for me outside the track. I was about to enter into the car when, alas, the same pain returned. I said, “How little time you were gone from my life!”

For those three or five minutes, I felt my Ashram life once more. My knees became so powerful! I cannot describe the happiness I got.

—Sri Chinmoy
New York

Published in Only Gratitude-Tears

 

Here and Now

Prayers by Sri Chinmoy
at the Peace Concert in the Molson Centre in Montreal, Canada

 

89.

HERE and NOW
I need only one thing:
God’s Absolute Will.

 

90.

HERE and NOW
I must come to realise
That my unconditional God-surrender
Succeeds
When everything else fails.

 

91.

HERE and NOW
I want my gratitude-heart
To prayerfully devour
God’s Compassion-Eye,
God’s Forgiveness-Heart
And His All.

 

92.

HERE and NOW
I clearly see that
God may play hide-and-seek
With my love and devotion,
But never
With my complete surrender.

 

93.

HERE and NOW
My sole promise to God
Is to fulfil
God’s each and every Dream

 

94.

HERE and NOW
My heart must develop
A keen interest in everything
That is of God,
And my life must develop
A keen interest in everything
That is for God.

 

95.

HERE and NOW
I must increase, and ever increase,
The beauty
Of my God-sincerity-mind
And the fragrance
Of my God-purity-heart.

 

96.

HERE and NOW
I have come to realise that
Surrender means a hungry heart
For the nectar-dust of God’s Feet.

 

97.

HERE and NOW
I have discovered
My sleepless and breathless
Love-devotion-surrender:
The only way to cure
All God’s headaches.

 

98.

HERE and NOW  
My supreme discovery:  
When my heart is all soulfulness,  
God is God's Fulness-Embrace. 

 

99.

HERE and NOW
I must command my mind
To unlearn
All its doubt-suspicion-
Jungle-stories.

 

100.

HERE and NOW
I say to my Lord Supreme:
I can establish
My sleepless and breathless
God-oneness.
My Lord Supreme says to me:
“You have already done it,
My child.”

 

101.

HERE and NOW
I have come to learn that
My God-readiness,
God-willingness
And God-eagerness
Are God’s immediate neighbours.

 

102.

HERE and NOW,
By virtue of my prayer-life
And my meditation-heart,
I shall get the best view
Of my Lord’s Feet.

 

103.

HERE and NOW
God tells me to remember
Only one thing:
He is never too busy for me
Or for anybody on earth.

 

104.

HERE and NOW
No, not even an iota
Of God-disobedience
Has any place
In my spiritual life.

 

105.

HERE and NOW
God tells me that
The heart-gardens
Of the God-seekers
Are His most favourite places
To vacation.

 

106.

HERE and NOW
I clearly see that God’s
Compassion-Forgiveness-Days
Have Eternity’s Life.

 

107.

HERE and NOW
I have come to realise that
God-manifestation
Is not a one-mile run,
But Eternity’s ever-increasing miles.

 

108.

HERE and NOW
If I make my heart
An ever-transcending flame
For God-realisation,
Then God alone will wipe the tears
Of my long, very long,
Unaspiring years.

 

109.

HERE and NOW
I must become
A sleepless God-adoration-mind,
God-devotion-heart
And God-dedication-life.

 

110.

HERE and NOW
I have discovered
That my life is in between
My weeping heart
And
God’s forgiving Heart.

 

111.

HERE and NOW
I have warned the desire-worlds
To stop running
After me.

 

112.

HERE and NOW
I have made a solemn promise
To myself,
That although it is
An endlessly long voyage
From my puny self
To God’s boundless Self,
I shall, without fail, complete it.

 

113.

HERE and NOW
I am all determination
To bravely tear asunder
The iron curtain
Of ignorance-night.

 

114.

HERE and NOW
God tells me that
He loves my aspiration-cries
And devotion-throbs
Infinitely more
Than I can ever imagine.

 

115.

HERE and NOW
I have taken a solemn oath
That I shall not jump into
The God-disobedience-
Calamity-whirlpool,
Never!

 

116.

HERE and NOW
I am being cradled
By God’s unconditional Grace
And His omnipotent Will.

 

117.

HERE and NOW
I want to become
The ever-blossoming beauty
Of a silence-sea-heart.

 

118.

HERE and NOW
I promise to become
A ceaseless
God-victory
Messenger-boy.

 

119.

HERE and NOW
God wants me to strike
My life’s transformation-gong
And play
My heart’s nectar-flute.

 

120.

HERE and NOW
My latest discovery:
When I do not soulfully pray
And do not self-givingly meditate,
I helplessly find myself
In a crowded, noisy
And utterly godless mind-subway.

 

121.

HERE and NOW
My new discovery:
Sweet is my Lord’s Eye,
Sweeter is my Lord’s Heart,
Sweetest is the dust
Of my Lord’s Feet.

 

122.

Every day
God blesses me
With His own Motto:
“HERE and NOW.”

Published in Here and Now