(from "The Goddess and the Guru"):
“After I finished the temple in 1994 and it began attracting more and more people, the Goddess started moving more and more away from me,” Guruji said. The situation became undeniably clear when the radiant Hladini—his longtime confidante, advisor and model for the Khadgamala Devis and myriad other construction details at Devipuram—appeared for what would be her final visit.
“Don’t expect to see me in my human form anymore,” she told him. “From now on you will see me in everyone you meet. You will see my beauty everywhere.”
Rather than experiencing any sense of joy at this development, Guruji felt little short of abandoned. “It evoked a great sadness in me,” he said, “because it meant I would not be able to converse with her as I used to. It meant I would not be able to see her as frequently as I liked.”
Observing his downcast reaction, Hladini explained, “For all this time you’ve been experiencing me as different from you, separate from you. Well, you should know that I am not separate from you, and you need not ask me questions anymore—ask yourself the question and then answer it yourself. When you ask the question, you’re you. When you answer it, you’re me. There is no distinction. I will see the world through your eyes, and appreciate that whatever you are seeing is also me, and also you. I will be like a mirror, mirroring you to you. We won’t be different anymore. I will come as a thought, indistinguishable from your own thoughts, for we are one.”
“And that,” Guruji said, “was the final instruction given to me by her.”
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