The Master insisted that when we read his books, that we mark the passages we like, so that we can return to them again and again. He even said we can write notes in the margins, and take his books as life-long projects for study. He said that marking the sections we like most, and writing our own thoughts, would really help us. I have, in fact, taken to journaling in my Guru’s books- I write down in the margins my inner experiences, sometimes I include last night’s dreams, or inspiring things that happened to me that day.
Yesterday I was reading Sri Chinmoy Answers Part One, Book Five, published by Ganapati Press. And I found a note, a journal entry, I had made on the bottom of page 162:
“‘Your Guru really believed in you!’ A Filipina woman said this to me to me today when I told her the meaning of my name.”
-14 December 2021
AUM
I spent a couple hours reading Book Five yesterday, and I don’t remember that woman, or what I wrote, but when I read that, I burst into tears, bitter tears, but also tears of gratitude that that woman could have told me something so soulful and meaningful when I told her the significance of my name.
Please keep a diary, and please read Guru’s books. You can even write your experiences in Guru’s books so that you can find double the wealth in them.
Thanks. Maybe a post on the meaning of your name!