Lord Buddha’s Affection
On 10 March 2007, Sri Chinmoy spoke about inner experiences with Lord Buddha, including some that occurred on the Christmas and New Year retreat in Thailand.In Thailand, for five days Lord Buddha was coming to me. First, he started with utmost affection, love and appreciation. Then he showed a different aspect. Since I am so much younger, he offered me advice, asking why I am so interested in meeting certain people. He said, “Why, why? You have touched the Feet of God, the highest Absolute. Why do you have to touch the feet of man? You do not know who you are? You do not know who he is?” He loves me, admires me, appreciates me, but then he also offered me advice. I appreciated his children, his disciples, and he appreciated my children. When I saw the monks, I appreciated them, saying, “Your children are so good.” And then he said about my disciples, “No, they are far better.”
The first day when I was lifting the monks outside, I saw Lord Buddha 20 or 30 metres above the ground level. He came like that and went. And then when I entered into Savyasachi’s car, I was meditating. In my deep meditation Lord Buddha came to me and told me, “You have touched the Feet of the Absolute. Why do you have to touch the feet of an ordinary man? Why, why? You do not know who you are?”
Believe me, I talk to spiritual Masters face to face. Such affection, love and admiration Lord Buddha has for me. Once at the Kamakura Buddha in Japan, I saw him going to and fro. What an experience! Then at Borobudur, from the highest stupa he came down during my concert, playing the drum, my victory-drum. He said, “No other spiritual Master has appreciated other spiritual Masters. In your case you honour all your predecessors. You appreciate them. You worship them. But we did not do that kind of thing.” Lord Buddha and Mahavira, of the same era, stayed in two villages, let us say. They called them kingdoms, but they were not like a real city. I have read in a book that they were not more than five or six miles apart. But they did not care to meet. Ramana Maharshi and Sri Aurobindo also were not even 65 miles apart. They never went to see each other.
A very, very close connection I have with Lord Buddha. Swami Vivekananda said, “Lord Buddha was the most perfect man on earth.” I was told once that there was only one picture in Sri Aurobindo’s room, and that was of Lord Buddha. Although I meditated every morning in Sri Aurobindo’s room for two years, I did not see that picture, but I was told it was in another part of his room.
10 March 2007, Aspiration-Ground, New York
