Puerto Rican Governors and Senators

Once I was invited by Governor Colón, while he was the Governor. He sent his limousine to bring me to his place. I went upstairs to put on my Indian garment. Who came at that moment? A former Governor, my very good friend Luis Ferré. One of my disciples said to him, “We have no time, no time! My Guru has gone upstairs to change. He has been invited to visit Governor Colón!” This was the message the former Governor got!

When I came down, Governor Ferré said, “Your disciple says that you have no time. I understand fully.” I was so embarrassed! I said, “No, no, please! Please come and sit down.” He would not sit. Then I said, “Tomorrow at two o’clock or three o’clock can you come?” He said, “I will come.” Then he started to leave. I said, “No, no, no, please do not leave yet!”

Another time I was visiting the Puerto Rican Senate, and someone put his arm around my shoulder. I had never seen him before. I said to myself, “Such affection he is showing me!” That gentleman said, “You do not know me. I am the Speaker of the Senate. I know much about you.”

I said, “You know much about me?”

He said, “My wife is your disciple.” I had given her the Indian name Arati. She was a professor who taught English at the university. She and her husband were not on good terms. She used to tell me so many bad things against her husband! She never told me that her husband was the Speaker of the Senate. She said that her husband employed someone to use black magic to torture her. She would go home and see snakes on her bed, or she would see tigers and other kinds of animals. Then she would cry and scream. The husband did not see anything, but she saw it. When she told me all these things, I said, “He is very bad, very, very bad!”

I helped her to get rid of those black-magic forces. Then she told her well-educated husband that I was dead against him and that I was saying nasty things about him. She said to him, “Sri Chinmoy, my Guru, says you are a very bad person!”

But he had heard other things about me. Such love, affection and admiration he was showing me!

In the Senate, I was supposed to be introduced by a lady Senator who was a great singer. It was Senator Fernandez. She was coming up to introduce me. Suddenly a young lady came up. I had never seen her before. She was the daughter of Governor Ferré. She said to the lady Senator, “I know much more than you do about Sri Chinmoy. My father has told me. My father was Governor!” It was the other lady who had invited me, and she was supposed to introduce me. But the young lady came up because I knew her father well, and she introduced me. They were from opposite parties! An opposition party member came up and introduced me, and the lady who had invited me could not do anything.