Champaklal Speaks

Champaklal’s Birthday

1949-02-02

Mother came to Sri Aurobindo's room in at 7 a.m. She told him: “Today is Champaklal's birthday. I am keeping his notebook (for birthday messages) here on the table.”

Every year both of them used to write a message for me in it; first Sri Aurobindo wrote and then under it the Mother.¹

Sri Aurobindo looked at me with a broad smile. But I took the notebook from the table and placed it in Mother's hand saying: “Mother, it is quite enough if you write.”

In spite of his failing eyesight Sri Aurobindo himself had never said it was difficult for him to write and Mother too gave him my notebook just for my sake. Both looked at me and gave very broad smiles.