(These remembrances are independent not only in .the sense that both record individual impressions that arose spontaneously on the two occasions mentioned but also in the sense that neither author saw the writing of the other before putting down his own vision.)
1
SEHRA — LAST VIEW (25.4.1980)
by Ravindra Khanna
I entered the room a little trepidant — expecting to see a face with all the mental agonies and physical afflictions engraved on it. But a most marvellous sight met my gaze. Such beauty of a blissful calm enveloped it that its ripples could be felt all over the room. She was no longer the Sehra I had been seeing over the years — as if all the ravages of long physical agonies had been effaced and given place to the radiance of a spiritual love and compassion for all. All through my stay in the room I could not take my eyes off this spiritual beauty suffusing a human body and it was impossible to believe that it was a corpse with all life extinct from it.
Surely her soul chose this blessed hour to depart obeying some gesture from Above. Even to recall her face in imagination opens up new heights for the soul. I could visualise what Sri Aurobindo had meant when he wrote:
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Calm faces of the gods on backgrounds vast...
There was no trace of any dissatisfaction or disgust with life but only a benign and compassionate goodwill for all from one who had left the unquiet lands far away.
12.5.1980
2
FREEDOM — 24.4.1980
by Amal Kiran
With the Far-away's call
Quickening your heart-beat
You freed yourself from all
Earth's bitter-sweet.
Terrible at times the means
By which the soul
Drops out of mortal space
To its inmost goal.
A moment your whole life hung
'Twixt heaven and abyss;
Then the Great Mother caught you
In Her arms of bliss.
No shadow fell from the past.
A smiling future's light
Flowered through your face to answer
Our clamorous questioning sight.
26.4.1980
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