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The young Naren loved and admired God-lovers and wanted to become one himself.

To many God-lovers and even God-preachers he went with one solitary question: “Have you seen God?”

Alas, the answer was always in the negative, which broke Vivekananda’s God-hungry heart.

However, sincerity and precious advice he did receive from Maharshi Devendranath, Tagore’s father.

When the same question was asked of him, Devendranath said to young Naren: “I have not seen God.

Pray and meditate soulfully.

God you will definitely realise in this lifetime. My boy, you already possess the eyes of a yogi.”

From:Sri Chinmoy,Vivekananda: an ancient silence-heart and a modern dynamism-life, Agni Press, 1993
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