I did my job

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A bad fall, a broken ankle, a cast on my leg, a sudden sharp pain in my chest . . . events cascading with increasing speed left me unable to breathe, as each time I tried to take a breath my chest muscles snapped back from the pain.

I was staying with my parents in my family’s home while recuperating from my fall. Now here it was, 5:30 a.m., and I was in agony from the pain in my chest. I knew enough from nursing school to suspect the worst: a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot in my lungs. Unable to take more than the shallowest of breaths, I could not call for help. So I had to use my cell phone to wake my father in the next room.

The look on his face when he entered my room confirmed my worst fears⎯a blood clot had formed in the leg under the cast and had now entered my lungs. My father the surgeon quickly called 911, then in his best professor-of-medicine style, explained that I was at immediate risk of a stroke (if the clot traveled to my brain) or a heart attack (if it went to my heart). Thanks, Dad!

While Dad went to greet the ambulance, I called Ashrita in New York, who fortunately answered despite the early hour. I later learned that he had immediately called our restaurant Annam Brahma, as the workers there would have had the quickest access to Guru at that time.

I ended up spending a week in the hospital on life-saving drugs⎯but I know it was really Guru who saved my life. A few hours later I would have been on the train back to Boston, and if the clot had showed up then, I would have been unable to call for help, explain my predicament, or ask Amtrak to arrange for an ambulance at the next station. Plus, the stops between Delaware and Boston can be almost an hour apart⎯I might not have survived until I got to a hospital.

A few weeks later, arriving in New York for August Celebrations, I ran into Dipali, who looked like she was seeing a ghost, she was so startled to see me alive. She told me the “inside story”: Guru had told the restaurant staff at Annam Brahma that my soul was leaving the body and he had to bring it back.

“I did my job,” Guru told them.

Cross-posted from stories.srichinmoycentre.org

I would like to become one of your problems

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Mokshagun with Sri Chinmoy, 1985

Clarence Clemons was a founding member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, one of the most popular rock bands of all time. He was incredibly gentle and sweet, even though he was big, physically, very big. They called him the Big Man.

Clarence was introduced to meditation and to Sri Chinmoy by Grammy award-winning producer Narada Michael Walden, at a time in his life when, by his own accounts, Clarence was just drifting with no clear purpose.

Here’s how he described his first meditation experience:  “I looked at myself in the mirror and couldn’t believe what I saw. I was so clear. I was like brand-new, even my eyes were like diamonds. I started to laugh and couldn’t stop because I felt so good. I had found something. I had found peace, and that makes me a really different person.”

That day, Mokshagun wrote a note to be given to Guru. The note said, “Guru, I know you have many problems, but I would like to become one of your problems.” That note was actually Mokshagun asking to become a disciple.

Sri Chinmoy gladly accepted him as a student and embraced him as part of his spiritual family. He gave the “Big Man” the spiritual name Mokshagun, which means “Lord’s All-illuminating Liberation-Fire.” in Sri Chinmoy's native Bengali language.

In his book, Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales, Mokshagun said that the name gave him his sense of purpose. Sri Chinmoy told him he was on earth to bring joy and light to the world and to destroy ignorance.

Sri Chinmoy and Mokshagun hold the torch at the opening ceremony of the very first Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, 1987

After Mokshagun became a disciple, before each concert, he would meditate on Guru. He always kept a picture of Sri Chinmoy on his saxophone stand onstage and in ‘The Temple of Soul’, his private sanctuary that he took on the road with him. Once, the band had a concert near New York at a big stadium, and Mokshagun invited two of us to the concert. We went backstage before the concert, and Mokshagun had a big shrine in his dressing room. and we meditated with him. There were, I think, a hundred thousand people at this concert; it was quite amazing to see a musician like that who is so famous be so devoted to Guru.

Sri Chinmoy and Mokshagun in Aspiration-Ground, New York, 2004

Mokshagun had a remarkable inner experience with Sri Chinmoy while going under anesthesia for knee surgery in 2008, after Sri Chinmoy passed away. Mokshagun reported, “Guru appeared to me and said, ‘Let’s go for a walk.’ We walked together and spoke of many things.” This visitation gave him great comfort.

Devotion

Devotion:
What is it?
Devotion is the combination
Of Love’s intensity
And Surrender’s divinity.
A man of devotion
Is God’s conscious and constant pride
In His Reality-sky
And Infinity-sea.

Sri Chinmoy 1

Cross-posted from stories.srichinmoycentre.org

ТЭНГЭР БУРХАДЫН БҮЖИГ

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ХҮҮХДИЙН СЭТГЭЛ, ХҮҮХДИЙН МӨРӨӨДӨЛ

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Гайхал төрүүлж, урмыг бадраах нь зүүдний мөн чанар хэдий ч түүнийг учир нь үл тайлагдах хуурмаг сонин учралууд ямагт дагалдах нь маргашгүй үнэн билээ. Зүүд хэмээгч нь зөнтэй үзэгдлээрээ бидэнд дотоод цэцэн билэг, мэргэн ухааныг хайрлах чадалтай. Түүнчлэн ирээдүйг тольдон үзүүлж, биднийг гамшиг зовлонгоос авран гэтэлгэх агаад хүнд бэрхшээлийг даван гарах арга ухааныг харамгүй өгч, дотоод сэтгэлийн гайхамшигт сайхан туршлагыг эзэмшүүлдэг. Эрхэм дотно хүнээ зүүдэндээ үзсэний ачаар сэтгэл маань тайтгарах нь ч бий. Тэгээд ч тэр бид ямагт баяр баясгалан, амар амгалангаар бялхсан зүүдэндээ умбан байхыг хүсдэг. Айдас төрүүлж, сэтгэл сэртхийлгэсэн хар дарсан зүүд амгалан нойрыг минь хулжаагаад зогсохгүй сэрүүн байхад ч сэтгэлд хөндүүр хар бараан дүрээрээ биднийг шаналган зовоодог. Тийм аймшигт зүүднээс тэмцэж ядан сэрээд бид ийм зүүд хаанаас ирээ юм бол гэж хачирхаж бид гайхдаг. Энэхүү номондоо Шри Чинмой гайхлыг төрүүлсэн янз бүрийн зүүднүүдийг хэрхэн тайлбал зохихыг, нийтлэг тохиолдох зүүдийг хэрхэн ойлгохыг мөн зарим зүүдээ хэрхэн хянахыг өгүүлжээ.

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