Miracle of Love by Ram Dass

Author:Ram Dass
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 1979-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

In Allahabad, Maharajji caught me in what we in the West call “a little white lie.” We were gathered around him, and in the group was an important official of the state supreme court. For the first time in all the years I had been with Maharajji, I heard him telling the official what an important person I was in the United States, that I was a professor and wrote books. All of that seemed so irrelevant when I was around him, and it sounded strange to hear him plugging my Western social-power virtues. When he stopped, the supreme court official said to me, “I am honored to meet you. Perhaps you would like to visit the supreme court.”

The dual fact that I came from a family of lawyers and that I was in India in order to immerse myself in the spirit, made the entire prospect of such a visit unappealing to me. And yet, he was an important person and I couldn’t just say what I had been thinking. So I said, rather ambiguously, “That would be very nice.”

At that, the official said, “Would tomorrow at 10:00 A.M. be convenient?”

I was trapped, and I could think of only one way of escape. I said, “We’ll have to ask my guru. It’s up to him.”

So the official asked Maharajji, and he answered, “If Ram Dass says it would be nice, he should go.” And then he looked at me in a way that could only be interpreted as, “Got you again.”

The story of the next day’s events shows that even simple people like me do learn. I visited the court with this gentleman, and in the course of the visit we stopped in the chambers of the law review, where the lawyers all hang out. It was at the time of Nixon’s dramatic approaches to China. When all these lawyers saw an American with this important official they surrounded me and questioned me about Nixon’s China policy, which was of considerable concern to India. I gave as erudite an answer as my reading of the situation would allow. That evening when I was once again at darshan with Maharajji, another dignified-looking gentleman, who turned out to be the leading lawyer in the city, took me aside and asked if I would be willing to address the Rotary Club and the Bar Association. I got a sinking feeling that if I didn’t watch my step I would be on the creamed vegetable circuit of India. And remembering the entrapment of the day before, I said, “I’d prefer not to speak before either of these groups, but of course I will do whatever Maharajji says.”

So the lawyer pleaded his case before Maharajji, and Maharajji seemed delighted at the invitations. He kept repeating them to all who would listen as if to imply that such invitations were a major coup, a great breakthrough, and very important. I began to feel betrayed by Maharajji. Then Maharajji turned to me and asked, “What are

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