Guru is compassion incarnate

Guru is compassion incarnate, and I have some experience. I had the opportunity to really physically feel this compassion. Once he was coming to Paris to give a concert and there was also a Jharna-Kala exhibition in the Louvre.

At UNESCO he wanted to meet some officials. I worked for that with another girl who was very involved in public relations. She asked me to make the invitations for the different ambassadors of UNESCO and I agreed to work with her. Finally, there was this meeting with the ambassadors. I was sitting beside one of them. I was speaking French and I tried to introduce Guru to him because he didn't really understand who Guru was. I was trying to introduce Guru to him in the best way.

After the ceremony, Guru called for me in another hall. I was worried because I didn't know why he was calling me. I went down to the hall, and he was sitting in an armchair. I waited there standing for perhaps five or 10 minutes. I was a little bit afraid and said to myself, “Perhaps he wants to scold me.” Finally, he called me. He was thanking me because I was in charge of buying him some special paper, very thick paper for drawing and also some pencils. He was thanking me for that and out of the blue he just took a drawing from a box, an amazing bird drawing he had done. He gave it to me. I was so surprised! That showed how much compassion Guru has.

Compassion descends
Always unconditionally,
Compassion descends.

Sri Chinmoy 1

• 1. Four Hundred Blue-Green-White-Red Soul-Birds, part 1, 1986