Long years ago, Champaklal preserved very carefully Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's hair and their nails when they were trimmed. He preserved them carefully in small boxes with the date marked on them. Later, after 1950 when Sri Aurobindo was no more in the physical body slowly the centres from all over the country and even the world started requesting the Mother for these 'relics'. The relics were installed at the Bangavani centre in Nabadwip, West ¦ Bengal, on 21st February 1959. There is an account of it by one of the devotees present. They were nails and hair taken from Sri Aurobindo on August 25th, 1950. The Mother herself sewed up the Relics into a brocade bag with a brocade thread, then put it into a small gold box, the symbol of Supermind; then put the gold box into a silver box, the symbol of Over- mind; the silver box into a sandal wood box, the symbol of Higher Mind; the sandal wood box into a rose wood box, the symbol of Material Mind; hen Mother tied it up with a silk handkerchief used by Sri Aurobindo during his last Darshan. Then Mother covered it up with a piece of red silk cloth, put it into a plastic bag, made it airtight. Then she put the whole thing into a stone casket made for the purpose and Udar cemented it up. "Sri Aurobindo sharanam mama" chanted Champaklal. Mother presented each of us with a card with Sri Aurobindo sharanam mama [Sri Aurobindo is my refuge] printed on it and with blessings written by her own hand. We were twelve of her Selection for the ceremony. The five boxes for the Relics gold, silver, Sandlewood, teak,rosewood

The Relics boxes - gold,silver,Sandalwood,teak,rosewoob Later Udar himself took the relics to many places, including the Aravind Eye Hospitals. - Lilou -

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