Largo of the Holešovice Quarter Míla Tomášová Soon after the second world war I moved to Prague, to the quarter of Holešovice. At that time I was very busy with my work and study, putting in many hours per day, but I did all this work for God with the constant thought of Him. In the permanent awareness of Him I was surrounded by His holy presence and Grace. Nonetheless, I used each and every moment of relaxation for even deeper concentration and contemplation, with mind pointed to Him, for unification with Him. When I was completely relaxed and turned within, my little self started to dissolve and with full and clear awareness I became one with the allencompassing and all-pervading divine Self, creating an filling the whole universe. What remained of my human self was only a tiny spark, the last tiny bubble on the infinite ocean of the great Self, which was on the verge of dissolving in quiet surrender into the monolithic water of the divine consciousness. Then this dying-out spark, this dissolving bubble, heard a hushed marvelous tune of Dvorak’s “Largo“ from his New World Symphony, which I loved so much. To its first notes I used to add the words of my declaration of love to God, invoking His holy presence: “Great God, God boundless“. This inner most prayer expressing the elevation of a soul longing for God, this holiest Mantra, with which I used to joyfully call God so often and with which I would get even closer to Him, came to me in the most intimate moment when my soul was becoming one with God. This prayer started to infiltrate the awareness of the dying-out spark of my human self and this dying-out and surrendering self was immediately brought to life by listening to it. The tiny spark of my human self started to praise God with this holiest mantra as it had done numerous times before. The sound intensified in volume, till it became tremendous, ravishing. It filled the universe and engulfed the subtlety and stillness of the rebirthing of the human self into the divine Self, becoming one with it. So my human self prevailed again in this game of duality. At least it became a worshipper of the great Self; if only it could spare itself like this. The noble “Largo“, so elevating and ennobling before, the holiest mantra of mine inserted Spirituality Studies 2 (1) Spring 2016 77
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