Champaklal Speaks

Jyotin and Flowers

You remember the old Bakery house just opposite the Ashram main building? A small flour-mill was also there. Now the building has become part of the School. Jyotin¹ used to live there. When this house had to be vacated for the School, it was arranged that Jyotin would move to Delafon house. But it was reported to Mother that he refused to go there. Mother was clearly unhappy at this reaction. I told Mother that there must have been some misunderstanding and I was sure that Jyotin would never go against her wish. I promised to see him and report.

Accordingly, I went and ascertained the facts from him and reported to Mother that actually Jyotin was ready to go wherever she asked him to. She was very pleased. When Jyotin came to Mother, she received him sweetly and said: “Champaklal was pleading for you very much.” She then looked at both of us and gave a very affectionate smile.

All that is now an old story. Recently [early 1970s] he came with a significant smile on his face and gave me one small rose. I asked him what was special about that day. He simply smiled. When I still could not understand, he said: “Mother used to give you this flower.”

Then I remembered how Mother used to give these flowers. Every day she would collect-all the small pink roses (Tender love) from among the flowers she had received that day and keep them for the next morning. Then in the morning, she would place these small roses in one dish, arrange them in two lots, one for me an the other for Kamala and after my pranam she would give me my lot. After me Kamala would receive hers. This went on for a long time. Then this particular flower was stopped and Mother started giving Champa (Psychological perfection). This continued for sometime. Then she started with roses, special ones tinted at the tips of the petals. Once she wrote this comment on the significance of one these roses: The inside is calm but the action is often passionate.

Then the giving of these roses too stopped and Mother began to give me all the Humility and Champa flowers that she had received during the day.