Prayer of Grateful Remembrance
June 19, 2000
Now, having lived over 60 years, I look back on a lifetime of experiences and realize that the highest peaks of life and love have been the result of the Grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
Conscious on occasion, yet most often unaware, I see now in retrospect even with my limited inner understanding, how They have guided and protected this soul, not only during the nearly 40 years that I have known Their boundless love and incomparable grace, but I see glimpses of Their guidance even from childhood.
Was not the preparation and inculcation of the love of flowers a particular blessing from Mother, even at the age of five?
Did She not foster in me the music that would become the anthem of my soul?
When I prostrated myself before the Virgin as a young boy, was it not Thee to whom I offered my life?
Has the poetry of forty years not descend through Thy Grace, O Lord?
Sweet Mother, You wrote to me: “Go on boldly, following your way with joy and confidence, taking great care of one thing only - never to forget the Divine?”
Mother, let me in my heart, my mind and my body truly live the words “Thy Will, O Lord”. I bow before Thee and Lord Sri Aurobindo in humility and in reverence.
Narad