Royal Farewell

Sri Chinmoy said good-bye to Prince Dipokusumo and Princess Febri and the Royal Family, who were leaving the Christmas and New Year’s trip, and made the following comments:

Every day I shall pray for you. Every day I shall pray for your whole family. I belong to your family, you belong to my family. This is my big family that you have joined. You are all true brothers and sisters. I am like your spiritual father. Every day I shall think of you and meditate on you.

And this is giving tremendous, tremendous joy to my beloved brother-friend, your father King Sinoehoen. But he does not want me to call him my brother-friend. He wants to remain only a child in my heart and my soul, where he gets the utmost affection, love and sweetness. That gives him the utmost joy.

Do you believe in reincarnation? Your mother left this earth when you were six years old, so usually human beings remain in Heaven six years or eight years or nine years. But when they are spiritually mature, they remain in Heaven fifty years, one hun-dred years, two hundred years, like that. It depends on one’s spirituality. If they practice spirituality, prayer and meditation, they remain longer. Heaven is always joy, joy. But people who are not very spiritual, their limit is between six and nine years. If they are very spiritual, then twenty, thirty, fifty, one hundred years. And some spiritual Masters will stay four hundred years, five hundred years. Some do not take birth again. They suffered so much here, and now they do not have to come back. They stay there in Heaven.

I am one of those. I am not going to come back anymore. God has promised me that I do not have to take incarnation anymore. This is my very last human incarnation. I will not be coming to earth anymore. God has given me the permission. I have come as a spiritual Master many times. This is not the first time. This is my last and highest. From Heaven only I shall help my dear ones.

You belong to my family, and I belong to your family. And our sincere love, sincere feeling of oneness, will prevail. Always you love us, we love you. You think of us, we think of you. Again, if you forget to think of me, I will never forget to think of you.

Once I love someone, I have taken responsibility. I have taken full responsibility for your spiritual life. Once I take full responsibility for your spiritual life, I will never forget. Children can forget their parents, but parents do not forget their children. I am your spiritual father, you are my spiritual children, so I will never forget you, the way physical parents always think of their children. Even if you forget, I shall never, never forget. That is my promise to your soul, not to your mind, not to your body. When I make a promise to the soul, it is absolutely sincere. To your souls I made this promise. Even if you forget Sri Chinmoy, I will never forget, never forget you.

It is not a coincidence that you happened to join our Christmas and New Year’s annual trip. This is King Sinoehoen’s express wish for his family to be here. He wanted his family to be part and parcel of our family, so they belong to us, we belong to them.

8 February 2006 Malaysia