The Mother : Contact
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Deep within my being's folds Dust piles up as Time unrolls, You 've come 'n cleared it all, behold! With your sweeping sparks of liquid gold!
At the altar of my heart, I know Your Love will ever upward grow, Like lodestar it will ever glow, Like pure spotless blazing snow.
Upon this earth, this longing heart Has kept me going from very start, O Mother! I yearn in every part To enthrone You in my deepest heart. I started walking towards the house, since I had to go for the Group activities. I changed into my sports uniform and left. On returning home, I took the box with the salwar-kameez I had stitched for Her, along with some flowers, and headed for the Playground. The Mother used to normally see us on our birthdays in the morning. I don't quite remember why, but the Mother had asked me that year to see Her after the groundnut distribution at the conclusion of the Marching in the evening. After the day had passed in recollected tranquility, the time had come for my meeting the Mother. I approached the Mother after She had finished distributing groundnuts to everyone, holding a bouquet of flowers and the box containing the salwar-kameez. "Bonne Fête, mon enfant" (my child)! the Mother greeted me. She opened the box and looked at the salwar-kameez, "It is very beautiful!" She handed the box to Amiyo-da who was standing next to Her. Then, I offered to the Mother, first the
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Receptivity flower followed by the roses and many other flowers. Then, I prostrated myself at Her feet. She bent down and placed Her hand on my head to bless me. As soon as She had removed Her hand from my head, I stood up. From among the flowers I had offered Her, She chose Receptivity, Sincerity, Transformation and Promise of Realisation and gave them to me one after another. Then, She took two fat books and a bagful of toffees from Amiyo-da, and gave them to me. All that She had given me was spilling over in my hands! Then, placing both Her hands under mine, She looked into my eyes with deep concentration. Our eyes seemed to be interlocked! At that moment everything just vanished - the Playground, myself, the people around, the earth, there was just nothing in front of me - only the Mother and Her two eyes! "My dear child, aurevoir!" she said and went into Her room in the Play-ground. I came back home. I quickly had a shower and got ready because Nolini-da and Amrita-da were to come home for dinner. Nolini-da's son, Ranju-da and a very close friend of our family, Rajen-da, also came with them. They all arrived on time. Nolini-da gifted me some of his books along with a sheet of paper, and blessed me. Two lines of a poem were written on the sheet: Hear, O hear, the divine voice intense, The Mother's Light shall Death's darkness end.
What a matchless treasure was this blessing from Nolini-da ! We all sat down and talked about so many different things that we did not feel the time pass. It was a great experience and a good fortune to have the company of both Nolini-da and Amrita-da together, They finished dinner and went back to the Ashram. Now, my eyes went directly on the two books the Mother had given me. I was really curious to see the books She had chosen for me: Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on The Mother. As I opened the first page I was taken aback! This is What I found written on the page:
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I remembered Champaklal-ji. I went at once to see him. He was busy working on the first-floor. I asked him, "Champaklal-
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In the end I decided that come what may, I would ask this question to the Mother one day. If She were to scold me, I would take the scolding. I was just not able to control myself. Finally one day, finding the right opportunity, I asked the Mother, "Mother, why did you give me this name?" I felt
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