My experience of Satprem

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And so it was only on the 11 th of November that I could embark for Delhi and Pondicherry, where I arrived in the evening of the 13 th . I laid my travel bag outside the door to Nata and Maggi’s house and directly went to the Samadhi, where the first smile I met was Fabienne’s.

I was back.

From the courtyard of the Samadhi one could hear Mother’s voice, almost a moan, refusing to ingest the food which Pranab held up to her. Later that evening, when Nata directed me to another house near the Promenade Chabrol, I found a few known people and watched as a group of volunteers prepared to leave in a bus to Auroville and join the concreting work of the tops of the four pillars and of the first circular slab of the Matrimandir. I slept on the roof terrace, guarded by a peacock.

The next day it was my turn to join at Matrimandir.

When I went back to the Ashram on the 14 th evening, Nata related to me how, for the single act of welcoming me, his lunch meals at the “Tout c’qu’il faut” canteen headed by Pourna had been cancelled…! And Maggi then said, with intensity, that she had never seen such opposition and that, if I managed to stay, she would be at my feet… meaning thus that she felt only a miracle would do… or a truly superior help, to surmount or cross the obstacle. I think that, on my side, apart from being sorry at causing so much trouble for Nata, I was no longer worried – there was rather the sense of having found my way again and to be again where I always yearned to be, in Her milieu… and come what may!

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