Champaklal Speaks

Tender Care

In those days Mother used to give interviews in the mornings in the Darshan room. Sri Aurobindo would be alone in his room bur the doors would be closed. After the interviews were over. Mother went to his room and opened the doors. Only then would Sri Aurobindo come out.

Except on Darshan days, the sofa on which the Darshan photo is now kept was placed in the northeast corner of the room. Mother sat on it during these interviews. After everyone had finished, it was my turn. Mother had asked me to come last, on purpose.

She knew that throughout the day I was occupied with some work or the other and had hardly a few hours of sleep at night. So she told me to come to that room at this time and rest in her presence. When I went to her, she would ask me to lay my head in her lap and rest. And the wonder of it was that almost immediately I would fall asleep. Gently she would lift my head and place it on the Darshan couch on which she had been sitting. At times I would be aware, at times not. After that she would go to Sri Aurobindo's room, open the doors and return, stop where I was sleeping, caress me tenderly, and then go to her room.

In course of time, like all her programmes this too changed.