Consolation from 'Krishna's Conch'

After my father was cremated, we came back home and everybody was crying and crying. Who would console whom? But in three hours a Bengali newspaper called Panchajanya, or 'Krishna's Conch' came out with an article all about my father. As soon as I read about how nice and great my father was, I stopped crying. Even then, for weeks I would look at his picture early in the morning and cry.  I would appreciate, admire and adore him, saying, 'Oh, I am his son.'

[Source: "Consolation from Krishna's Conch" in Sri Chinmoy,  My Father Shashi Kumar Ghosh, Agni Press, Jamaica, NY, 1992, p.34.  An earlier version was published in Sri Chinmoy, Awakening, Citadel Books, 1988, p. 30.]