Question: Guru, I also saw the Christ, full of Love, Light and Compassion. I also received a message from Him. Is this all true or is it an illusion? Was my ego interfering? After the experience I wrote a poem.

Sri Chinmoy: Yes. It was true. He came to fill you with His Love and Light. He didn’t just vanish because of your ego. He left because His mission was completed. If He had stayed longer, your mind would have started saying: “Those are not His eyes, those are not His ears. That is not the colour of His hair.”

This experience took place because you focused your devotion to the Christ you have in your room, and perhaps the artist who painted it never saw the Christ. This I have said as a joke, but it is very serious.