Who is the luckiest of all?

Dear all Atmaj,

Nervous, Nervous, Nervous...This usually happens before i have to speak somewhere. Not necessarily at Sri Sarada Math or Ramakrishna Mission or any other place for that matter. Suppose someone tells me to narrate some stories of Swamiji to primary school children even then i feel i must prepare and go. I will find some book and keep reading His stories unless n until i start visualising every detail of it and then feel little confident to face the children.

This time the nervousness is of different kind. I am not able to understand my feeling - whether i feel empty because am finishing the 6 volumes or am i feeling full that am going to complete them. I will miss that constant tension after completing one volume, Oh, i have to start reading the next!

Let me share something today. Everytime i finished some volume i needed to read something light - it could be anything....first i finished the entire Harry Potter series, then read Eragon series - Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr and now have to finish the 4th book in this series. Then me & mother read entire Sydney Sheldon, Jefferey Archer etc in Marathi. Enjoyed the translation equally like original because could discuss with my mother. But 4 years ago i read the 'Kite Runner' and then couldn't read any other book except Swamiji for almost an year. Have not dared yet to read 'The Thousand splendid Suns' by the same author - Khaled Hosseini.

This time do not know what i take up to read. Will let you know.

Wondering as the volumes are coming to end - Who was the luckiest of all in America to be in His Inner Circle? The Hale sisters, specially Mary whom He called the Mettelsome Arab, Christina Greenstidel, Sarah E. Waldo, Mrs. Bagley or Mrs. Blodgett, Mrs. Hansbrough or Mrs. Aspinall or Mr. Thomas & Mrs. Edith Allan? He told Edith Allan to call Him as Babaji, what lucky she was to be told so...! Today was re-reading that at Camp Taylor once He took food from Mrs. Hansbrough plate and ate...kept reading it again n again but couldn't wipe the picture of Swamiji bending to take a morsel from her plate. Lucky, Lucky, Lucky!!!

And we are the most luckiest to get to read this in this Lifetime...