Question: How can the disciples best relate to you?

Sri Chinmoy: I always say that I am their eternal Father, eternal Mother and eternal Friend. Like this we have to feel: eternal Father, eternal Mother plus eternal Friend. In eternal Friendship both the spiritual Father and spiritual Mother can exist.

From:Sri Chinmoy,A twentieth-century seeker, Agni Press, 1977
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