United with the Universal Consciousness

The following excerpts by Sri Chinmoy have been selected by Jogyata and Sahayak from Sri Chinmoy's book Death and Reincarnation, the Sri Chinmoy's Inspiration Group and the Sri Chinmoy Library.

When I am united with the Universal Consciousness,
I am in everybody.

When a Master leaves the body and sees that his disciples are
crying bitterly over their loss, the Master feels sorry
because the disciples do not recognise him fully as a
spiritual Master. A spiritual person, one who has realised
God, lives on all planes; his consciousness pervades all the
worlds. So if his disciples cry bitterly for him, feeling
that they will see him no more, then they are putting their
Master in the same category as an ordinary person . . . The
Master knows that he will appear before the disciples who
are sincerely praying to him or who are meditating and
aspiring sincerely. He knows that he will be all the time
guiding, shaping and moulding them. He knows that he will be
able to enter into them, and they will be able to enter into
him.

Yes, for a while the disciples can feel sad that they have
lost their Master, that they will not see him in the
physical frame. But that sadness must not last because the
soul’s joy, the soul’s intense love and all-pervading
concern have to enter into the disciples who have sincerely
accepted the Master as the sole pilot of their lives.

When he leaves the body, he is totally free. From the other
shore the spiritual Master works through the soul’s light or
willpower . . . so from the higher worlds the Master can
easily connect with the disciple’s aspiring soul, and the
disciple can respond to the Master’s light. It is in this
way that the Master can and does and must help the disciple.

Brooding and despondency are the worst foes to kill life in
all its divine inspiration. No more brooding, no more
despondency. Your life shall become the beauty of a rose,
the song of the dawn, the dance of the twilight.

I cherish your hearts. I cherish and treasure each disciple's
heart, for that is the only thing that I shall eternally
need from each of you. To all the members of the center I
wish to say that your hearts are invaluable. It is your
hearts that have compelled me to give you what I have and
what I am. What I have is eternity's concern, and what I am
is sweetest love.

I love you all infinitely, infinitely, infinitely more than
you love yourselves. You doubt yourselves, belittle
yourselves and you hate yourselves, but I do not do that. I
would never dare to hate you or belittle you, not to speak
of hurting you, striking you or killing you. I know who you
are. You are God's chosen instruments. In you not only do I
see God the Supreme, but there have been quite a few
occasions when I have seen some of you as God Himself. I
want to see everybody as God himself.

So dearest ones, your hearts are not at my feet. Your hearts
are inside the very depths of my ever-increasing gratitude.
I shall always be carrying you inside the very depths of my
heart. And when you go somewhere, you will not go alone, you
will go with my heart's blessingful pride and gratitude.

When I am gone away to another world, most of you will still
be here on earth. At this time, remember your highest
meditation. Experiences you can forget about, they are just
juicy stories. But the meditations I have been offering you
should remember forever. Quite often these meditations are
feeding your souls unreservedly if your souls are aspiring.
The souls that are truly aspiring are greedily devouring the
immortal gifts that I bring down from above. When the Master
is no longer on the physical plane, then the disciple has to
remain in contact with the Master through his most sincere
and intense meditation.

If I died today, all the disciples who have accepted me as
their Master genuinely and devotedly, (these do not include
my followers, admirers and friends, but only my true
disciples) would be served by me and would be taken care by
me. I am bound. I am the conscious slave of all my
disciples. I am at their beck and call no matter where I go.
Wherever I go after I leave the earth plane, I shall be
inside my disciples. This is always the case if the Guru is
a fully realised soul.

If the Master is a realised soul he can easily maintain an
inner contact with his disciples. And he has to do it
because he made a solemn and soulful promise to the aspirant
that he will take him to God. Even though the Master has
gone back to Heaven and the disciple is still on earth, the
Master still has to fulfil his promise.

In New York, I have six or seven followers who had been
asked by their own Guru to come to me. When they first saw
me, they saw in me their own Master who had left the body
three years earlier. The truly selfless Gurus let others
carry on for them. But if the original Guru was realised and
if he made a promise to you, no matter where he abides after
leaving the earth, he has to be within you and with you to
help you, even if you stay on earth for another forty or
fifty years. In this case it is just like having two rooms.
Here is one room, life, and there is another room death.
Ordinary people cannot open the door between these two
rooms. But the realised Guru has free access to both rooms.
So when he opens the life-door he sees you, and when he goes
back to his own room, he still has free access to the
life-door. So once the realised Guru has made a promise, he
is bound to keep it. He will not leave you until he has
given you full realisation and has brought you to God.

But if 'you' is directed towards me, then I wish to say
there is no hope, no possibility and no necessity for me to
come back to earth. Whatever work is to be done after my
death, I will be able to do from Heaven in and through my
disciples.

At the end of this lifetime, when I pass through the tunnel
of death, I will shed the five sthulas or sheaths and pass
through the physical world, the vital world, mental world,
and psychic world and then to the region of the soul's
consciousness, where I will take rest in my own highest
consciousness for as long as the Supreme needs.

When I die, I know how much inner wealth will never have a
chance to manifest through me...

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