'It was like I was seeing who Guru really was: this extraordinary, beautiful being inside a physical body'

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I was asleep in New York when the phone rang, and I was invited to go up to Guru's house. That was about 1:00 in the morning. I went to his house, and there were about six boys and maybe six girls there in the room.

Sri Chinmoy meditates in his house

Guru didn't say very much, but he asked us to walk around the room as a walking meditation past him and round the back in a circle. We walked around him about seven or eight times very, very slowly.

When I walked past Guru, I began to see this extraordinary being that I had never really seen before. It was like I was seeing who Guru really was, this extraordinary, beautiful being inside a physical body. Guru looked like some very ancient, very majestic and quite incomprehensible spiritual force. I realised that I was really getting a glimpse of man in God or God in man, that there was this very powerful being inside the finite body that was Guru. I realised that Guru would always be beyond my comprehension, that my mind could not fathom how vast Guru really was.

Cross-posted from jogyata.srichinmoycentre.org

'It was like I was seeing who Guru really was: this extraordinary, beautiful being inside a physical body'
'You two have been friends for many hundreds of years'
A Few Reflections
A Mountain Meditation
A Swimming Pool Meditation
A Walking Meditation
A disciple re-incarnates
All Credit to God
Being Single
China – Three Impressions
Christmas Trip Notes
Conscious Living
Dream Songs
Extraordinary Worlds
How Sri Chinmoy changed our idea of 'wasted time'
How to Make the Fastest Progress
Inner Worlds – Outer Worlds
Lamb Lifting
Looking Back
Meditation: Touching The Infinite
My wife's soul comes to visit
Notes From A Diary - August 2004
Notes From A Diary – April 2004
Scattering stardust from the Heavens
Some Reflections On Running
Soul Birds Take Flight
Soul Flight
Soul-Birds take flight
Surprising Rewards
Tales of Enlightenment
The Colouring Book
The Nature of the Supreme
The Role of the Guru
The first time that I really understood that I had a soul
The most beautiful and fulfilling of all possible experiences
Three times our discipleship saved us
“Where there is heart, always there is a way.”

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