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LOOKING UP TO THE TEACHER
Your question in 'the old monastery' before bathing, "are there any insects in the shower, Ajit?' You gave me the chance to live and work on a new level, and friendship with your family.
Your inspiration during four trips through India, and your careful unobtrusive guidance and protection of all was unmistakable".
Your attracting the company of like minded 'aspirants' for the benefit of all. Your gifts may not be repayable. Yet we have to share what we have learned and gained trusting our own experience.
Remembering our 'divinity' we find reason to live. You have changed my life. Your life is the definition of love.
And here is what the Czech philosopher-painter Jaromir Skrivanek wrote in December 1992 about the impact of Gurudev Chitrabhanu's visit to Prague (Chechoslovakia) in:
"Many thanks for your visiting my house, your lectures
and your blessing presence in Prague, not only from me and Marie, but from all my friends who met you. Your arrival in Prague was like a real miracle from fairy tales bringing them new impulses for their spiritual endeavours and new hopes and inspiration for their next living. Of course it was a miracle also for me".
He continues: “I must reveal Marie's thanks and
gratefulness for your meditative advice to imagine her soul over her head when she will climb in high altitudes to avoid eventual health problems. She really made it and the results were perfect. She has seen her soul dancing over the peaks of the mountains. This
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