Remembering the Source
On 2 May 2004 at a function held at Public School 86, Sri Chinmoy answered the following questions, including about his recent trip to Slovenia. During his visit, at a ceremony on 1 May 2004, mayors from three cities in Slovenia, Austria and Hungary dedicated a plaque to world harmony at a spot in the countryside where the nations’ three borders intersect. Sri Chinmoy’s visit auspiciously coincided with Slovenia and Hungary joining the European Union, along with eight other countries. Austria had already joined in 1995.Question: It was interesting that at the same time as your visit, Slovenia and Hungary were among the ten new countries joining the European Union.
Sri Chinmoy: My visit coincided so well. The Minister said it was a great moment for them that I went at that time when they joined the European Union. As I said in my song, “One in three, three for one, Supreme Lord’s Victory won.”
I told my disciples never to forget the source. When I refer to Yugoslavia, this includes all my disciples from former Yugoslav republics. You maintain your independence, but I cannot forget the source.
My source is a little village, tinier than the tiniest. Even Briarwood is larger. Now I am in America. When I achieve something, immediately I think of what my source was, and I offer my tearful gratitude to my source, a tiny village. I was a little boy from a tiny, little village, such an obscure village. From there God has thrown me into the wide world to be of service to Him. What God’s Grace can do! Here is the proof in your Guru’s life – from where to where?
1. Sri Chinmoy’s song “Slovenia, Hungary, Austria,” composed 1 May 2004, is printed in Chandelier, Part 4. New York: Agni Press, 2004.↩
