'It was like I was seeing who Guru really was: this extraordinary, beautiful being inside a physical body'
This is one of the stories in our Story-Gems project, a collection of our experiences with our Guru, Sri Chinmoy. Project homepage »
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.
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
Related stories
Sri Chinmoy's students describe their inner and outer experiences.
Learning to love songs ever more
Patanga Cordeiro São Paulo, Brazil
So much longing, for something
Pushpa rani Piner Ottawa, Canada
Celebrating birthdays at Guru's house
Devashishu Torpy London, United Kingdom
'I could find out myself, but it was so much easier asking your soul'
Mridanga Spencer Ipswich, United Kingdom
Sri Chinmoy meets St. Peter
Paramita Jarvis Kingston, Canada
I just knew from the moment I saw him
Ashrita Furman New York, United States
The day I saw my Guru for the first time
Natabara Rollosson New York, United States
I was what you call a classic unconscious seeker
Rupantar LaRusso New York, United States
The day when everything began
Bhagavantee Paul Salzburg, Austria
A Quest for Happiness
Abhinabha Tangerman Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Ever-Transcending Goal
Preetidutta Thorpe Auckland, New Zealand
How I learned from Sri Chinmoy
Pradhan Balter Chicago, United StatesSuggested videos
interviews with Sri Chinmoy's students
Things I have learnt from the spiritual life
Sanjay Rawal New York, United States
When I met Sri Chinmoy for the first time
Baridhi Yonchev Sofia, Bulgaria
A childhood meeting with Sri Chinmoy
Devashishu Torpy London, United Kingdom
My typical day
Pranlobha Kalagian Seattle, United States
Starting a spiritual café
Toshala Elliott Auckland, New Zealand
Running a Six-Day Race
Ratuja Zub Minsk, Belarus
My well-scheduled day
Jayasalini Abramovskikh Moscow, Russia
Except where explicitly stated otherwise, the contents of this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. read more »
SriChinmoyCentre.org is a Vasudeva Server project.