Darshan and Meditation with the Mother, 1961

I stood as one whose feet were set in stone

So potent was the brilliance of Her smile

And in the moment knew that She alone

Would heal the ancient ills of earth, the vile

That festers in her womb of sanctity.

She bade me enter, I knelt before Her feet

And then a force of love enveloped me

And suddenly my seeking was complete

For I had found the One my heart had sought

Through many a life and death within the soul,

And though a thousand battles must be fought

Before the way was cleared to view the goal,

She whom the ages praise prepared my way

And cleaved the darkness that companioned me,

Redrawing in life's rash unconscious play

The map and course of my Spirit's destiny.

The numbness in this current plunge to birth,

The new-found wonder and the will to be,

And laughter on the marvel-fields of earth,

Lull us to a drowse of lethargy.

But they have come, the avatars of love

The golden dreams of earth to realise

Uncovering the hidden treasure-trove

In matter's core, our lives apotheosise.