Amal dhabal pal tuleche — talk⁵

After his talk and concert at Cornell University, Sri Chinmoy told of an experience he had had that night while the Bengali singers were singing his song _Amal Dhabal Pal Tuleche. His description of the experience, and a few questions that were asked about it, appear below. The musical notation of this song appears at the end of this issue. I have told you that _Amal Dhabal Pal Tuleche is one of my favourite songs. But today something most special has happened. As soon as you started singing the song, immediately I saw literally hundreds and hundreds of tiny boats with my third eye. These boats were so beautiful, and the boatmen were also very tiny and extremely beautiful. Their boats were all of different colours, but the boatmen, the little children, were all wearing only one colour — green — exactly the colour that Srinvantu wears. The boats were green, red, yellow, purple and all kinds of colours. The sails were also of different colours. All the children were so eager to have me in their boat. They wanted to take me to the Golden Shore. The problem was that I felt that if I entered into one boat, the others would feel sad that I am not entering into their boats. So I only looked around with sadness.

Then I concentrated for a second, and God blessed me, my concentration-power. Immediately all the hundreds of boats became only one. They all became one boat which covered the width of the river. There was no place on the river to sail, because the river was totally covered by one vast boat. As soon as I entered into that boat, I saw all the green boatmen, little children, all around me. I told them, "Just because my daughters sang ‘Amal dhabal pal’ I got the inspiration to see you, so let me bring the souls of these singers.” So immediately with my occult power, occult vision, I took away your souls. In terms of heavenly time it was not even one fraction of a second, but in terms of earthly time it was more than two and a half minutes. So all of you singers were inside the boat, and around us were hundreds and hundreds of most beautiful children. With my infinite Compassion I put you with those divine children. Then I blessed you people, and after blessing you I told your souls to return. They returned with a little bit of sadness, but you knew perfectly well that I would definitely come back. So there was not much sorrow.

I stayed with the little boatmen for a few heavenly seconds. In earthly time it would be at least twelve minutes that I was waiting with them. When I finally decided to leave the boat, they all started running after me. Then the Golden Purusha who is the Supreme, the Highest, absolutely the Highest, appeared before them and said to them, “You are doing the right thing. Only those who run after him will get Me as the Absolute Supreme.” This was His message. And those hundreds of children all entered into my heart. They all entered into my heart and came back with me to the earth plane. “Only those who run after Him …” that was the Supreme’s message, “… will get Me as the Absolute Supreme.” So they all entered into my heart, inner heart, spiritual heart. They are all here. Those were emanations of my highest Reality, the Absolute Supreme, those hundreds and hundreds of children.

This boat that I always talk about — the Golden Boat — today you would have seen hundreds and hundreds of boats if you had been in a little higher consciousness. You would have seen, felt and become one, absolutely one, with those divine children. If you people meditate tonight most soulfully, you will be able to see the boats and the children. They are all inside my heart. After tomorrow they will live in my universal heart, the proper place. But right now they are inside my human heart, those hundreds of children. I am telling you the full experience. They are all little, little children, like J, but I have to tell you frankly, they are all masculine. They are all boys, little boys, not girls. They are all boys, most luminous little boys. They brought their beautiful boats, and they were all wearing green, but their boats were of different colours. And all the sails were so beautiful, too. I was so thrilled.

Question: What is the significance of this experience?

Sri Chinmoy: This is the journey that I always talk about, the golden journey. I am the boatman, but there are inside me so many little, little boats. These beautiful children, extremely beautiful, are bringing their boats to carry me to the Golden Shore. The whole significance is the journey, inner journey, spiritual journey, the journey of the soul.

Question: Did the sails match the boats?

Sri Chinmoy: The body of the boat could be one colour and the sail could be another colour. But the boatmen were all green.

Question: What colour was the big boat, when they all became one?

Sri Chinmoy: Golden; at that time it became golden. All the different colours disappeared when it became one. At that time it became one boat and only gold. Everything was gold, everything. At that time there was no blue, no white. Everything was gold; but the children all maintained their green colour.

Question: What connection did it have with our singing?

Sri Chinmoy: Nothing; only out of compassion I took you people. I got tremendous joy from this experience, so out of compassion I took your souls to see the boat. There is no direct connection. As soon as you said “Amal” it started. It was not that you people wanted me to have the vision or the experience or anything, far from it. Only I got a most intense thrill, and I wanted to see what was actually happening in the inner world, so I opened my third eye and saw that this was what was happening in the inner world. Previously I have said that I got joy from that song, but today I got the utmost, utmost joy. When you uttered "Amal” it was from the inner joy that I got the inspiration to open my third eye.

Question: Did it happen because of the song?

Sri Chinmoy: Because of the essence of the song, not because you people sang soulfully. You sang soulfully, but it was not after hearing the song that I got this experience, but absolutely when you started. As soon as you people started “Amal” I opened up my third eye and this experience started.

Question: Were they happy that you wrote this song?

Sri Chinmoy: It is understood. They were very, very happy.

Question: They existed before you wrote the song?

Sri Chinmoy: Those beings? They existed long before, long before. In earthly time they are only children, but in terms of their purity and maturity they are ancient. They are children in terms of their consciousness. It is like fairies, although they are not fairies at all. But they stay in a childlike consciousness. Sometimes people see me in a childlike consciousness, but my childlike consciousness is infinitely more mature than theirs. But they are divinely mature. They are not like earthly children, ordinary children, who are so immature. They maintain their highest beauty, highest purity, highest divinity, constant oneness with the Supreme. In size they don’t grow big, but they are not like our circus midgets. Far from it! They are not like that. They are short, thin, beautiful and most luminous.

Question: When something like that happens, is there a right time for it to happen? When we sang the first time tonight, we were supposed to sing that song, but I forgot and I sang another song instead. So when we came out the second time, we started with that song. It was a mistake on my part. I was wondering, if we had sung it earlier, would this have happened?

Sri Chinmoy: If you had sung it earlier, perhaps I would have got the same experience. If something is destined, you understand, a matter of two minutes or three minutes will not interfere. It will definitely take place if it is supposed to take place. If it is destined, even if you change the method, it will still happen. It is not because you changed the timing that it came. It is something that was destined, let us say. In your case it was your forgetfulness. Your forgetfulness changed the order. But the actual experience that was going to happen was not changed. If you were not forgetful, if you had sung the song earlier, this would still have taken place. Your forgetfulness did not stop it, because it was already destined. If you had been in a higher consciousness, let us say, if you had been in your highest, then you would not have forgotten. But again your forgetfulness on the earth plane is not so serious that it will change God’s Will. This experience did not depend on the exact moment that you sang the song. Just because you did not sing it at the moment you first intended to, it is not such a crime. No, no, no.