Master Tells Stories

 


Becoming
Liberated by Getting a Glimpse of the Master


Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Malaysia, February 24, 1992 (Originally in English)
Videotape # 216

If the Master wants to do it, it'll be done, not the way we think of in this world but in the spirit. It's in the invisible way that the Master takes care of people. That's why the Indian people respect the guru, the Master very much. They just love to see, to get just one glimpse of the Master.

I know of one Indian Master Who passed away in the 1940s and Who traveled by train when He was alive. And one day a man was just on the right side of his train in the fields doing farming. And the Master just looked out the window of his train car at that moment. And the man happened to look up at the same time just like that, for one second and then the train passed by. And three days later the man died, and he saw the Master appear to him and take him up before he died. And he told everyone around, "I saw Master such and such appear. He has come now and He said he's going to take me up."

And it happened that one of the Master's disciples was beside the man and when he heard the description he said, "Is He the one in this photo?" And the man said, "Yes." Just one look and he got liberated.

In the Buddhist tradition, we also have many such stories. For example, when he was alive the Earth Store Bodhisattva promised that anyone who even heard his name he would take care of. So, the ways of Bodhisattvas or Saints are limitless. It's impossible for us to judge or understand or even realize them.