Which town?

A few fans were positioned near the bed and dishes of camphor placed on the floor.

All were invited to silently pass.

*

Her instructions were known = to watch over the body, not to disturb it.

For Him, 23 years earlier, She had had the authority – His body had been kept in His room for four days and four nights, without any intervention or artifice, and only then Had She given the order to inter it in the newly built vault of the Samadhi, under the tree of Service in the middle of the courtyard – this Samadhi on which, every day, thousands still come to pray and meditate. And yet in just a few hours time, the circle of Her closest disciples and trustees of the ashram had come to agree on an irreversible decision = they would not attempt to keep Her body sheltered, protected and surrounded with receptive silence as She had several times to several of her people resolutely specified and asked for, so that a certain work could take place which could not otherwise be possible. Perhaps they deemed that the outside and public or official pressures would be untenable and that the risks of a general confusion and a profusion of rumors would be too great – and that priority must be given to harmony and peace and the reassurance that all was unfolding according to Her Will. NKG., the eldest and most respected among the disciples, formulated the message that would be distributed at once: “Sweet Mother, Your body belonged to the old creation, because You wanted to be one with Your children. You wanted this body to support the new body You were building and it served You as You asked. You will

140