Sri Chinmoy offered to humanity what humanity needs the most

Rudolf Moge was a member of Parliament representing the Slovenian city of Maribor, and a dear friend of Sri Chinmoy.

Maribor will always remember Sri Chinmoy with gratitude, as he was the only one who turned religion in the direction of bringing peace and progress to humanity at large. You could say that he is a modern Buddha, a modern Christ, a modern Muhammad.

The biggest message in his book Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy, which I call the Bible for this Millennium, is that if you want to get to the basic insights, to the truth or, as some say, to enlightenment, then you have several paths that lead to that goal. And there’s nothing wrong with going this way, that way, or any other way. The only thing that matters is our aspiration and the direction towards the goal.

I believe this idea from his book Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy is one of the fundamentals, because it gives humanity something that no philosopher has been able to offer so far. Religions do try to get closer here and there with some communiqués or mutual agreements or with some common ceremony or mass. But so far nobody has openly said what Sri Chinmoy said, which is that many paths lead to the ultimate truth. This is what makes him great.

He is great not only because of that, but also because he offered to humanity what humanity needs the most. And that is opening the inner doors to aspiration, aspiration for peace, aspiration to make the Earth a peaceful planet where men and animals and plants can co-exist in peace and harmony.

It is not necessary to always be right, but it is necessary that we learn how to listen to and communicate with each other with compassion if we want to live in a better world, different from the world of the past, which was riddled with wars , quarrels, envy and so on.

He was a man who tried to bring to humanity all these things, not by force, but by planting those seeds into the human soul. He would gather a lot of his students around him to help with his mission. You (Tyagavan) were also one of them and you helped with this mission in Slovenia. And your mission has borne thousands of fruits.

Some of them are, for example, Slovenia becoming a Peace-Blossom, Maribor becoming a Peace-Blossom, the theater in Maribor becoming a Peace-Blossom. And the list of such Peace-Blossoms, which you helped to establish in honor of Sri Chinmoy in Slovenia, goes on and on.

Another thing that shows how extraordinary he truly was is the events in the spring of 2004, when Slovenia was accepted into the EU, and Sri Chinmoy personally attended the main celebration in May of 2004. The celebration took place  at the Slovenian National Theater in Maribor. The title of the celebration was Opera Europissima, and was attended by opera champions from all EU Member States. And who opened this celebration? The first one to take the stage was Sri Chinmoy.

He greeted everybody and wished  peace and progress to all the people in the newly accepted states. After that, he offered a small concert. I must say, that even long after this event, people would come up to me in the street and ask me about it, because of the whole celebration, the part when Sri Chinmoy was playing his instruments, was the one part they remembered even weeks after.

This means that he touched people so deeply with his meditation and music that they really believed what he spoke of was real. And indeed, since then our country has been blessed with a relatively peaceful and fruitful period.

Q: Do you still remember the day Sri Chinmoy left this world, when you called me that morning and you were slightly confused?

People may not believe that when one leaves the material world, sometimes one says goodbye to people who were near and dear. This has happened to me twice in my life. The first time was when my mother died. Even today I can still see her, I can still hear her as she was leaving and saying goodbye to me before she left. And the second time it happened was when Sri Chinmoy died. This was at the time when we (members of  Slovenian parliament) sent a request to the Nobel Committee to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Sri Chinmoy. And in the evening before they would decide on the winners, I had a vivid dream in which Sri Chinmoy came to me, touched me and then slowly, slowly walked away in a beam of light. This confused me so much that I called you the very next day and told you about my dream. But as it later turned out, it wasn’t just a dream, it was real.

I have met Sri Chinmoy a couple of times in my life. And every time he made a great impression on me. An impression of a great spiritual being, who was not only spiritual in his words, but also lived this spirituality and brought it to humanity at large through his actions. I believe that before he left this world, he wanted to say goodbye to people who appreciated, respected and loved him.