Author's preface1

I go to my Mother India for affection, compassion and illumination, and I do get these divine realities in boundless measure in the inner world. But, unfortunately, the outer experiences that I get in India are extremely painful. Alas, my life-boat plies between the confusion-shore and the deception-shore!


EVI 1. On 20 September 1995 Sri Chinmoy made a sudden trip to India to visit his sister, Lily, who was seriously ill. He stayed in Pondicherry for four days and returned to New York on 26 September. He narrated the stories in this book upon his return.