Verily it maketh me smile
To hear of a fish in water athirst!"
{FN36-10} Panchanon established, in a seventeen-acre garden
at Deogarh in Bihar, a temple containing a stone statue of Lahiri
Mahasaya. Another statue of the great master has been set by
disciples in the little parlor of his Benares home.
{FN36-11} I CORINTHIANS 15:54-55.
CHAPTER: 37
I GO TO AMERICA
"America! Surely these people are Americans!" This was my thought
as a panoramic vision of Western faces passed before my inward
view.
Immersed in meditation, I was sitting behind some dusty boxes in
the storeroom of the Ranchi school. A private spot was difficult
to find during those busy years with the youngsters!
The vision continued; a vast multitude, {FN37-1} gazing at me
intently, swept actorlike across the stage of consciousness.
The storeroom door opened; as usual, one of the young lads had
discovered my hiding place.
"Come here, Bimal," I cried gaily. "I have news for you: the Lord
is calling me to America!"
"To America?" The boy echoed my words in a tone that implied I had
said "to the moon."
"Yes! I am going forth to discover America, like Columbus. He
thought he had found India; surely there is a karmic link between
those two lands!"
Bimal scampered away; soon the whole school was informed by the
two-legged newspaper. {FN37-2} I summoned the bewildered faculty
and gave the school into its charge.
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