Love-Power’s Historic Achievement
On 14 November 2004 Sri Chinmoy offered the following comments about the weightlifting demonstration held the previous evening, when he performed a number of weightlifting feats for invited guests in an auditorium at York College in Queens, New York.Outwardly last night’s weightlifting demonstration went very smoothly; inwardly this is undoubtedly an historic achievement. Many Gurus believe in occult power and spiritual power. Perhaps I too have occult power and spiritual power – God knows. Spiritual power, occult power, are all in existence, but you can say your love of God, your love of your Guru, does not need occult power, spiritual power. And God the Supreme, the Absolute Supreme, is extremely, extremely proud of you, that you do not care for occult power, spiritual power. You care only for your love-power, and that love-power you offered to me yesterday.
Each time I was doing something, only I was thinking how much my children love me, how much my children love me – how much self-sacrifice, how much unconditional love they show me. Your love and my gratitude went together. Otherwise, for me to accomplish anything is simply impossible. It is all your love that enabled me to do this. For me, it is nothing short of impossibility if you use the mind. Out of four hours, three and a half hours we lifted. Heavy lifting! How promptly, how accurately, how smoothly everything went. This exhibition of heavy lifting is something very, very rare in the world history.
The Master of Ceremonies, Mahasamrat Bill Pearl, is so kind, so affectionate to me. Every time he comes to visit in New York, I see his closeness and oneness with me. There is no limit to our progress. This is our philosophy, and Mahasamrat proves it. Every time he comes, he goes one step forward. Two years ago, we lifted 100,000 pounds in one day. This year we did over 200,000. This is what your love-power can do! It is your love-power, and nothing else – no other power.
14 November 2004 Sri Chinmoy’s Home
