'Your mother arranged all this from the soul's world'

We had a very special event at Cambridge University because Guru's Master, Sri Aurobindo, had been to Cambridge, studied at Cambridge. Again, this was a very difficult, challenging thing to start to approach professors to invite them to be lifted. At first it was very difficult but then it just took off; there were so many professors who absolutely adored Guru and wanted to meet him and be lifted by him.

We had a bust of Sri Aurobindo next to the lifting equipment. This was in one of the gardens of the vice provost of the King's College. It was just a glorious day. The sun was shining. It was nice and warm. It was just such a big success and Guru was very happy.

Then Guru asked which room in the college Sri Aurobindo had studied at. My brother, Devashishu, got permission to look into the archives and find out in which room of the college campus Sri Aurobindo studied.

We found the room and Guru wanted to visit it. There are pictures of Guru standing outside the entrance. Then Guru went inside and looked around. The professor who now works there invited Guru to sit down. But Guru said, "I cannot sit down. This is a sacred place. This is where my Master studied. How can I sit down?" We felt that this was really a very sacred, special moment for Guru.

Guru was so happy. Afterward he came out and saw us. He said, "You think you did this? You think you arranged this?" In his joking sweet way, Guru said, "You think you arranged this?"

He looked at me and said, "It was not you." He looked at my father, Kaivalya, and said, "It was not you." He looked at Devashishu and said, "It was not you."

He said, "It was your mother, Bhavani. She arranged all this from the soul’s world."

Aurobindo
— a Cambridge-education-zenith-mind.  
Sri Aurobindo — a world-illumination-Soul  
And the earth-transformation-Harbinger.

Sri Chinmoy 1

• 1. Aurobindo versus Sri Aurobindo Agni Press, 2000