Have you encountered any saint or sage in your life? What impression he has created in you? do you follow him?

In India there is no dearth of saints and sages(some times pseudo). But in general we all rever saints and spiritual people. We read the books on them. we try to follow one or two good things propagated by them. In west, what is the norm? Have you come across any such one? what is your considered opinion about them. Do you follow any of their preachings or doctrines?

Have you encountered any saint or sage in your life? What impression he has created in you? do you follow him?
Yes, I did!

I feel offended when Saints and Sages are looked down upon as traitors. This was true about a century ago, when people were ignorant and never had enough sources to to the right information. But why are they frowned upon even today?

Whom I consider to be a Saint, is himself an IIT'an. He is my father's dear friend. He is a great worshipper of Swami Vivekananda. Ardent lover of Swami's teachings and philosophy, he from his busy life used to find time to read religious texts and teachings. He has sworn his life to service to ashram.

It was one new year's eve when I called him up to wish him "Happy New Year". He said that he didn't believe that any point of time could be happy or unhappy. He doesn't even feel the need to mark the importance of day, month or year being passed. He believes that time is a relative term.

Humble Samaritian that he is, did visit us next day to wish all of us hapiness and prosperity. I found this an excellent opportunity to ask him 'How was Time a relative term?'

He explained that time can only exist as a difference. There is no object that we can point to and say that "Look there goes Time! It only exists as difference. Time about an hour ago and time now. Time about a month ago and now. No sense of organ to percieve where does time travel. How does Time look like? Hence its infinite and one cannot exactly say as to how much time is Time! Its not bound anywhere. So is space. It also exists as difference! There's nothing that you could point to and say that this is space! Hence its infinite!"

I asked "But can I not define objects? Aren't they indicative of space?"

He explained, "Yes, objects can be defined because they have boundaries. There are edges and corners that define their shape and size and volume. When any object is devoid of any boundaries or edges or form or shape or size or volume its NO OBJECT AT ALL! ITS SPACE! SPACE THAT'S INFINITE AND SEAMLESS!

"Any object(living/non-living) that has shape and size or form is bound to perish and be ONE with GOD that's INFINITE. God that's infinite, seamless and ever-existing!"

I still don't have clear understanding of what its like to perish and be ONE with GOD.

But I do understand that its very important for a person to have some Saint or Sage to not only guide us through Science but also through our life. What they teach couldn't be any different from understanding elements, processes and phenomenon occuring in Nature.

If wise men could think,

"How do we fly like birds?", "How can I bring light in darkness?", "How can I fly back into Time?", then why cant we think,

"How do I get rid of fear of Death?", "How can a person be alive and predict what happens after death?" "How can we be self-enlightened?What kind of expereinces or what kind of thought processes will lead me to enlightenment?"
Reply:I wish I could. I would listen to the person, read about him, but no, I dont follow anybody.
Reply:There are TV evangelists, etc. who get a big following but most are not truly Divinely inspired. America has a real lack of spiritual leaders. I met a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks once who impressed me as being truly saints. I just enjoyed being in their presence for the time I was. Now I am back on my own again. I still believe Buddhism is the way for me...
Reply:yes n he changed my life. I follow him-atleast my heart does but i m so wretched that i fail to follow the path that he shows.