Visions-Experiences-Interview

A Vision

At 2 a.m. on Wednesday 17-10-1979 I was sitting and meditating in my room as usual. I had a vision in which I suddenly heard the continuous sound of our Divine Mother's car-horn. In a hurry I went down to the ground floor and reached the front door. The car was standing in front of my house.

Pavitra very respectfully opened the door of the car. The Mother got out and smiled. Closely following her was Chinmayi. From the front portion of the car (i.e., from the driver's side) Amrita got out. I was standing in front of the Mother with folded hands and my heart was full of gratitude. The Mother addressed me in French, saying, "Is Urmila inside? I want to see her." I respectfully replied, "Mother, she is inside, but the staircase leading to her room is very narrow and the way to it very dirty. If the Mother approves I will go up to her room and bring her here in a minute."

Amrita told the Mother that my suggestion might be accepted. But the Mother said, "No, no, today is her birthday. I want to see her in her own room." So saying she entered the house and started climbing the staircase. We climbed after her in the following order: Chinmayi, Pavitra, Amrita and myself.

The Mother stood in front of my room and, looking at me, asked, "Are you staying in this room?"

I replied, "Yes, Mother," and at the same time I rushed into my room and came out with a few dried tulsi leaves that were there and devotedly offered them at the sacred feet of the Mother and made Pranam. The Mother blessed me by putting her hands on my head. A feeling of great joy spread through my body like an electric current.

I felt I had obtained the fruit, the total result of all my spiritual yearning through all my previous lives. I was truly fortunate.

My mind became calm like a sea without waves. Tears of joy poured from my eyes.

A face full of compassion, eyes shedding grace, as if all divine beauty had burst out as a divine smile on her lips, the Mother once agam put her hands on my head and blessed me, and gave two huge lotuses, one red and the other white. In a graceful voice sweeter than nectar she addressed this unworthy being and enquired whether I was comfortably lodged in that small room. "Mother, all my wants are fulfilled by Thy Grace, I am very happy and contented here." On that, Amrita said, "He is one who is always overflowing with joy, Mother."

All present, including the Mother, laughed so loudly that it seemed as if the whole building shook to its foundations. I was astonished and delighted to see my few dry tulsi leavs offered at the sacred feet of the Mother change mto fresh green leaves with golden hues and beautiful forms.

The clothes that the Mother, Chinmayi, Pavitra and Amnta were wearing, the car in which they had come, their footwear - all were golden. All the people were young, full of health and beauty as I had seen them 25 years earlier. The supreme divine delight was playing in their visages. Their clothes were of golden silk. The Mother had golden anklets of exquisite craftsmanship.

The Mother said, "Let us go to the second floor", and went up the very narrow staircase to Urmila's room. We followed her.

(Urmila is a young sadhika from Orissa. She had stayed at Shantiniketan for many years and studied there. It is only three years since she came to the Ashram and has been working at Ganpatram's. One month ago she came to live in the same building as I.)

Urmila received the Mother with great love and joy and devotion and offered two very big roses at her feet and did Pranam. On touching the divme feet, the two roses, one white and the other red, were suddenly transformed into marvellous and extremely beautiful flowers of a golden hue.

The Mother blessed Urmila by putting her hands on her head and gave her two very big lotuses, one white and the other red. They were emitting golden light.

In Urmila's room there was now a new, fine, rare and extremely pleasant scent which had not been there at any time before.

Peace and silence pervaded the whole atmosphere. Like the singing of a bee in a garden the transcendent 'OM' sound was contmuously ringing. There was the Mother's immortal nectar like the piano-music that she used to play at midnight on every New Year's Day for blessing the world.

The consciousness was raised to the infinite transcendental plane and was steeped in Ananda and Divine Consciousness. At that time a marvellous sound woke me up from meditation. It was 3 a.m.

After this vision I find and feel the Mother's concrete physical presence inside the Ashram building.

One day mn the Ashram meditation hall, in front of the Mother's sacred bed (the bed on which her pure and holy physical sheath had been kept for some days after she had assumed the inner golden body), I was meditating. With open eyes and not in an inner vision, I saw the Mother sitting on the bed with a glowing divine golden body which looked most concretely physical beyond a shadow of doubt.

Source: Mother India, June 1980, Page 358