Sri Chinmoy's talk to the Puerto Rican Centre⁴

Sri Chinmoy: I also would like to say a few words about Sudha. It is extremely difficult and, at the same time, extremely easy to tell all of you present here how close Sudha is to our hearts, Alo's and mine. We always refer to her as our physical daughter and mother. We always feel that we are on her strong shoulders. We are very heavy, but she does not mind.

When the question of concern comes, geographical boundaries immediately vanish. Her illness compelled us to fly immediately to this Centre. This is our concern for her. This is our soul's concern and heart's concern.

With the greatest joy and pride, we see her with us here today. We have prayed that she would not fall sick so often and that she should not become a victim to illness so often. If she does, I will be sad and miserable. I will be cross with her.

Alo Devi: Devaji, this is the first time she has been seriously sick.

Sri Chinmoy: Yet a very serious illness threatened her. When Alo heard her voice on the phone, Alo could not recognise Sudha's voice and thought it was someone else's voice.

I wish all of you to see in Sudha what Alo and I see in her: affection, love, sacrifice, total dedication to us both, and to the Supreme. I wish you all to be one with her, as she is one (or has to be one) with each of you. In all her sacrifices, love, devoted service to the Centre, to her spiritual parents and to the Supreme, I wish her to be one with all of you. Together we must grow.

All our disciples, the moment they have accepted the spiritual life, this path, have to go beyond, beyond, beyond the human, so-called necessities of personal, emotional desires or needs. They have to enter into the field of aspiration, the field of oneness.

I will get the deepest joy, and I can be the happiest man on earth, if the disciples have the capacity to make both of us the happiest beings on earth. If the disciples have this capacity, a sea of gratitude-tears will overflow from my heart.

My disciples here in Puerto Rico are truly strong. If they want to, they can make me the happiest man on earth. Again, if they want to, they can make me the worst possible street-beggar on earth. It is up to them to make me what they want. I will always remain faithful to the disciples, dedicated to them, no matter what they do with my life and Alo's life. But if they want to get real joy, real satisfaction, real achievement and real fulfilment, then I say they should please the Supreme in me. This way, they will also please the Supreme in themselves and in all their spiritual brothers and sisters. Then the Supreme will say that this Puerto Rican family of His is matchless and not only has His deepest Pride, but also will remain unparalleled and unique in the history of the inner world, as well as in the history of the outer world.