BRO. BHAKTANANDA on THERESE NEUMANN
1935, July 17 -Master Visited Catholic Stigmatist Therese Neumann in Germany.
BRO. BHAKTANANDA: There’s a wonderful illustration, a wonderful example in the life of THERESE NEUMANN that Master writes about in the Autobiography of a Yogi. At the age of twenty she was in an accident, her body was paralyzed from the neck down. She lost her sight and she was lying in bed all the time. Did she bemoan her fate that she was not like other girls, wearing beautiful dresses, going to parties and dances, having boyfriends? Certainly not. She placed her mind on God, and her heart on God.
She prayed to God, she prayed to Christ, she prayed to SAINT THERESE [OF LISIEUX], day after day. She was in ecstasy in a short time For five years she was in this state. Then God healed her body, and her sight returned. And so she prayed constantly. This we have to realize. And this is a great example, practicing the presence of God, utilizing our time properly, in the highest way, the best way possible. Suppose she cried about her misfotune, supposed she pitied herself, and felt hopeless and frustrated. What would she have? She’d still have a paralyzed body and blindness to the end of her life. But she was wise. She spent her time praying to God, Christ and St. Therese. And that is what we have to learn from people like that. That is how they become saints. And Therese Neumann was a saint, lived for about forty years more and inspired many people to seek God.
Bro. Bhaktananda, from The Personal Approach to God, DVD/rental, excerpt
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