(The night of the 5th, a violent cyclone struck Pondicherry. At

Nandanam, in the middle of the devastated garden, a white hi

biscus bloomed. Satprem places the flower on Mother's knees.)

A "Grace" flower bloomed in the thick of the cyclone, Mother.

(silence)

(One can hear the axes hacking away at the broken branches of

the great yellow flame tree called "Service," which

spreads its foliage above Sri Aurobindo's tomb.)