Sri Chinmoy: By this time I am sure you know who Irina Malikova is. Irina is my dearer than the dearest Sister-Friend. You know that President Gorbachev and Sri Chinmoy have established a very solid friendship, and who is responsible? One individual is responsible. Her name is Irina. She came and saw me, and gave a very nice report to her then boss, President Gorbachev. Then she came here a few times at my invitation, and she spoke very highly of me. She is the one who is fully responsible for this strong, inspiring, encouraging and illumining friendship between President Gorbachev and me. I shall remain eternally, eternally grateful to Irina. She is a true member of our small family or big family, whatever you want to call it. Her help in so many ways I can only feel. I will not be able to explain it. I will not be able to express it correctly, although I have written many books. She and I have established a deeper than the deepest inner connection, and her soul is extremely, extremely devoted to my soul.
A couple of times, my soul – and of course, the Grace of the Supreme – were solely responsible for her to remain on earth. My prayers, my meditations, my five cents’ worth of occult power or spiritual power – all I applied to keep her in the land of the living. Needless to say, it is the absolute, unconditional Grace of our Lord Beloved Supreme that keeps Irina on this earth planet.
I am so happy, so delighted and so excited that today she is with us. As I said before, what she has done for me can only be felt by my heart of gratitude and can never be expressed in words or in writing.
Her mother and her husband are very, very close to me, and her son, Dimitri, is the dearest, sweetest child of my heart. You can see how fast he is progressing, in both his inner life and his outer life. His present progress is striking, and I am all pride, divine pride, in him. Irina Malikova is not a mere name, human name, earthly name to me. It is a God-blossoming reality inside my heart, inside my life, that is growing and glowing, glowing and growing inside my earth-existence. And my earth-existence is all gratitude, gratitude, gratitude and gratitude to her, my dearest Irina. My gratitude to you, my dearest Irina, is ever-blossoming. I offer you my ever-blossoming gratitude and gratitude-heart.From:Sri Chinmoy,Only One Reality Sri Chinmoy, Agni Press, 2025
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