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On True Education
SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA
rtists are generally consi- in lifting that stone. So, with
Adered to be slightly crazy. what little effort I could, we
They are considered so because both started lifting it. Luckily,
their vision is something more many others who were stand-
than what you and I see, and ing around came and helped us.
therefore we cannot generally We lifted laboriously that piece
appreciate them until they of stone and moved slowly with
produce what they are thinking it into his studio. And in his
or what they are visualizing. studio, he placed it in a particu-
I had a friend who was a lar place, turned the stone
great artist. One day I saw him around in several directions and
standing on the roadside, finally fixed it in a certain way.
looking at a stone, which was And thereafter he just looked at
shapeless. I went up and asked us, as though we were not
him, “What are you doing?” It needed over there. We all left,
was one of the greatest mistakes and for two, three or even four
I made, because he immediately days, I did not meet him, for he
invited me to give him a hand did not come out of his room.
The fifth day, when I went there
Excerpts from Pujya Gurudev’s address just to see what was happening,
at the inauguration of the new campus of
Tapovanam Chinmaya Vidyalaya at I found him covered with dust,
Taylors Road, Chennai, on August 12, and the whole studio full of
1990.
Krishna is, perhaps, the only
IN LOVING MEMORY OF incarnation (avatar) that was never
DR. SAPNA GIDWANI known to have wept – ever laughing,
ever enthusiastic, thirsty to live,
Apple Valley, CA, U.S.A.
hungry to experience.
Swami Chinmayananda
Tapovan Prasad 8 September 2018