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

Dream of January 18, 2001 (Shared with Arabinda Basu) 4:54 a.m. Awaking from a dream in which I am trying to reach a destination at a beach town. I stop at a stand and have some bread and a cheese sandwich a man makes for me. Then his wife meets me and we talk. As I am leaving she tells me her name, Barbara, but I feel it is Rijuta. Prior to this I have been with Mother. This is the firs time I can recall clearly meeting Mother in man years. She was all tenderness and She held me and I felt Her love wash over me. I know at that moment that I was truly with Mother. Then while still holding me close She put her hand on my head and

Jan. 6, 2000 My reply is at the end. Dear Amal, Last night as I looked at Sri Aurobindo and Mother I felt a voice within say: "The time is now, the moment has come." I concentrated on Their photos aspiring for a true and vast surrender that would carry all the ;disparate parts of the being and place them, along with my soul at Sri Aurobindo's feet. I prayed too for the annihilation of the ego,for the lasting descent of the peace and calm and for an ever-increasing love and d