First Printing Press (Puerto Rico 1968)
Early in his mission, Sri Chinmoy visited the island of Puerto Rico and found there many spiritual seekers eager for his guidance. The Puerto Rican Centre was established on 22 July 1966, a week after he arrived. The warm embrace and dynamism of the Puerto Rican disciples greatly touched and inspired him. Later Sri Chinmoy would write a song with the following words: "O my Puerto Rico! Your kindness-life I fail to measure. Your onenss-heart I truly treasure. O my Puerto Rico! Long before others cared, You and your heart dared to love me and feed me with your soul's ecstacy." Below is a talk he gave to the Puerto Rican disciples in 1968 in which he shares his enthusiasm for a new manifestation: printing of his spiritual writings for distribution in Puerto Rico.
All of you have heard about the great success of our new Printing Machine. The Printing Machine in that room, our Offset Machine, as you see, is lifeless right now. But who is offering dynamic life to that Machine and who is the real instrument of the Divine, of the Supreme, in bringing about the success of this Offset Machine? It is Pedro Dacosta, our Engineer. I bless you, Dacosta, from the very depth of my heart and soul, and I also wish all my dearest disciples to help Dacosta in running this Machine.
All of you can help mentally, while some can help physically.
There are various ways to help or, you could say, to cooperate with Dacosta in running the Machine. The Machine is the Machine of the Supreme. This Machine will run with the inner help of each disciple here, and I wish each disciple to feel the necessity, the responsibility, of working on the Machine regularly to bring about its success.
This Offset Machine is our first adventure, our first divine adventure, to spread the message of the Supreme here in Puerto Rico. I am extremely proud that we have been able to buy this Offset Machine in this AUM Centre. We shall print my writings here in Puerto Rico instead of having them printed commercially in Brooklyn, New York.
This AUM Centre will give you my soul's message and, at the same time, the soul's message of each disciple here. It will also give us the message of humanity and even the message of the Heart of the Supreme.
