10 January 2009 Dear Arindam, It was very kind of you and Mousumi to come to the OM Choir last evening and I was very happy to have you with us. There was a very special experience on my visit to Chennai this past Tuesday during a conference of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin to which we were invited. When all the awards were being given out and many speakers gave presentations that lasted nearly three hours before the dinner, I sat at a table about 50 feet from the large windows that opened on to an enclosed garden. To my delight I saw a pure white oleander in magnificent bloom. It was filled with flowers and truly touched my heart but I c

Correspondence – Aravinda Basu – April 8, 2000 P.O. Box 2826 Cleveland, GA 30528 U.S. A. April 8, 2000 Aravinda Basu Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry 605002 India Dear Aravinda, We returned to Georgia on March 21st. "As Mary Helen had a lingering cold we decided to wait until it was over before she had her blood test." Yesterday the oncologist called with the results of the test and said that he was quite concerned because the chemical antigen marker for cancer, CA 125, denoting the cancer's activity, had gone from just over 100 to 407 from the time of the last test in December, just before we left for the ashram. "After her series of c