Home »
The cat who wanted to reincarnate as a cow

The cat who wanted to reincarnate as a cow

This is one of the stories in our Story-Gems project, a collection of our experiences with our Guru, Sri Chinmoy. Project homepage »

Video Content

Playing this video will load cookies from Vimeo. Please accept cookies to view this content.

I’m going to tell a cute story about Sarama, who taught my first meditation classes and who I helped in her manifestation projects.

Sarama had a cat called Inky. She told me that when she came home one night and opened the door, Inky was sitting on the floor waiting for her. As soon as Sarama came in, Inky died. The cat had waited for Sarama to come home and then died.

Guru found out about it, and told Sarama that he had contacted Inky’s soul. He said that he would give the cat a human incarnation in its next incarnation. But Inky’s soul said it had seen a picture of a cow, and wanted to come back as a cow.

Man’s human glory begins when his animal story ends.
His divine glory begins when his human story ends.
His supreme Glory has neither birth nor death.

Sri Chinmoy 1

Cross-posted from rupantar.srichinmoycentre.org

Priyadarshan's home

'Guru was like this ball of energy'
I was what you call a classic unconscious seeker
The cat who wanted to reincarnate as a cow

Story-Gems: Inner communication

More stories from Sri Chinmoy's students.

Seeing the God inside my son

Utsahi St-Armand Ottawa, Canada

The day I saw my Guru for the first time

Natabara Rollosson New York, United States

The day when everything began

Bhagavantee Paul Salzburg, Austria

Failures are the pillars of success

Anugata Bach New York, United States

An early spiritual experience

Ashrita Furman New York, United States

Running and Me

Garga Chamberlain Bristol, United Kingdom

The Ever-Transcending Goal

Preetidutta Thorpe Auckland, New Zealand

The Peace Run visits Oxford

Tejvan Pettinger Oxford, United Kingdom

Why run 3100 miles?

Smarana Puntigam Vienna, Austria

My wife's soul comes to visit

Jogyata Dallas Auckland, New Zealand

How I learned from Sri Chinmoy

Pradhan Balter Chicago, United States

10-Day Race: Staring into the Infinite

Patanga Cordeiro São Paulo, Brazil

Connecting the dots

Lunthita Duthely Hialeah, United States

Suggested videos

interviews with Sri Chinmoy's students

What meditation gave me that I was missing

Purnahuti Wagner Guatemala City, Guatemala

Spirituality - the most fascinating subject on earth

Laila Faerman New York, United States

A childhood meeting with Sri Chinmoy

Devashishu Torpy London, United Kingdom

Where the finite connects to the Infinite

Jogyata Dallas Auckland, New Zealand

What is it like on the Peace Run?

Nikolaus Drekonja San Diego, United States

My favourite part of Sri Chinmoy's path

Muslim Badami Auckland, New Zealand

Meditation: you make progress just by doing it

Jogyata Dallas Auckland, New Zealand

Europe

Americas

Oceania