The Spirit of Auroville

On 31.10.84 Mrs. Gandhi was assassinated brutally.

The death of Mrs. Gandhi shocked me terribly. I felt my heart heavy. I could not weep. My whole being became numb.

I saw her last journey on the TV. Tears were frozen in my eyes.

I will never forget her. My concern is and will always be what the Mother did in her and through her for the good of the country.

As a matter of fact, nobody can ever fathom the Divine's plan—His ways and His actions.

What has happened to Mrs. Gandhi is a part of what happens always to great souls who come upon earth to lead mankind. They are treated with sheer unkindness and incomprehension.

Sri Aurobindo has written in Savitri:

Death’s grip can break our bodies not our souls. ||106.163||

Sri Aurobindo has also written in Savitri, Bk. 6, p. 458:

Fate is a balance drawn in Destiny’s book. ||112.26||
Man can accept his fate, he can refuse. ||112.27||
Even if the One maintains the unseen decree
He writes thy refusal in thy credit page:
For doom is not a close, a mystic seal. ||112.28||
Arisen from the tragic crash of life,
Arisen from the body’s torture and death,
The spirit rises mightier by defeat;
Its godlike wings grow wider with each fall. ||112.29||
Its splendid failures sum to victory. ||112.30||

We see how things change in the world. But one thing never changes or diminishes: The Supreme Truth and Love.