"I see no way, but His eyes see..."

In Boston everything around Him seemed bleak and uncertain. Anyone in His place would have lost courage but Swamiji was not the one to accept defeat. He wrote a letter to Alasinga Perumal which according to him was a moment’s weakness. But for me it has become very important letter now. I must have read this letter and all that part of the chapter for ‘n’ number of times. Swamiji writes,

“All those rosy ideas we had before starting have melted, and I have now to fight against impossibilities. A hundred times I had a mind to go out of the country and go back to India. But I am determined, and I have a call from Above; I see no way, but His eyes see. And I must stick to my guns, life or death”

As I was preparing for the lecture in Ramakrishna Math and read this letter again, I got goose bumps all over. You know, I have got a habit of getting stuck when I like something. This happens all the time when I read the Volumes of New Discoveries in the West. Then I read it again and again and yet again. As a madwoman I keep reading, and then start repeating as I eat, as I sleep and as I walk to my office. It is as though I get possessed by those words and Swamiji reveals Himself to me in a totally different form.

So folks, it so happened that I was reading this letter and I got stuck as usual..! I felt I have read something different, very powerful and re read it…and then I suddenly realised what had caught me.. “ I see no way, but His eyes see”. O God, I thought, so this is it..!! how come I didn’t notice it till now..!!

If we just start applying this mantra in our life with total faith in HIM who can see, things will surely change.

Folks, please think about these magical words, written by our Swamiji. These are not ordinary words I feel, there is so much conviction, so much power when He says it. Hence, whenever we are in a dilemma or uncertainty of what will happen or whatever is happening, we just have to believe in –“I see no way, but His eyes see”