Contact with The Mother

FROM LINGERING PAIN TO LIBERATING PEACE

My father was seriously ill. His sickness was so painful and at so advanced a stage that he as well as we thought it would be better if he left his body soon.

We wrote about it to the Mother and her blessings worked in such a way that we who were in the service of our father round-the-clock could not even know the time of his death—it was so silent and peaceful. What happened is this. After finishing our lunch, we sat at the bedside of our father who was in a coma, and started singing adoration of the Divine Mother and Sri Aurobindo. The whole atmosphere seemed as if a serene peace were manifested all around. As we completed our song, we saw that our father had expired during our singing. Nobody wept or cried. Later on, all functions, from the cremation to the shraddha, were performed peacefully. We could all the time feel that the Divine Mother was with us in each of our functions, and we could very well believe that she was taking care of the soul of the deceased.