My Last Meeting with Sri Aurobindo in His home in the Subtle Physical

9.9.99

Though Sri Aurobindo has spoken to me and as guided me through the years of Mary Helen's cancer and departure, sent me poetry and came twice into Arabinda Basu's home where I felt His presence and the calm that filled the room in 2013, this is the last memory I have of being before Him.

I fell asleep once again and in a dream more real than life itself, I met Sri Aurobindo. He was in his chair, looking so beautiful, tall and slim. His body was not the one we see in the Cartier-Bresson photographs but much younger, though without the signs of the suffering he had to endure for us when, in his great compassion, he took a human body.

I knelt before Him but there were no words spoken. I clearly remember as if it was yesterday, His stillness and love and compassion flowing into me. I will never forget the next moment because he allowed me to massage his feet. There is nothing more to say.

Note: Ten years later, in 2009, I related this experience to Arabinda Basu. He said that it meant that I had surrendered to Sri Aurobindo and now I must work to make the surrender more complete.