April 2, 1972

(Sujata's vision the night of April 1)

One Thousand Years

(original English)

We enter the courtyard of a building, Satprem and I. We see sad

faced people. Head bent, solemn and silent. The Mother is dead.

Everybody thinks that The Mother is dead.

A few are scattered here and there, individuals or groups of three

 or four. But most go out from a side door to our left. Another door

 is to the left at the top of a stairway which mounts from the court

yard below and ends in a sort of bridge or passage. I see one or two

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 persons going out from this bridge-door. Turning to the right, this

passage leads straight to the Mother's room.

We enter Mother's chamber. The Mother is lying on a bed. She is

 dressed in white satin or silk (the couch also). Four or five people

 are inside, disconsolate. Slowly they wander out. One or two Pass

 to the adjoining chamber. Finally only Satprem and I remain. He is

 near the Mother's bed The Mother sits up and starts talking to

 Satprem. She is explaining to him about the transformation of the

 body. She talks for a long time.

I am standing a little away and behind.

Suddenly Sri Aurobindo beckons me from the adjoining chamber

 which is His. He too is lying on a cot. I draw near Him. He puts two

 fingers (index and middle) on my right palm, and says, "You have

 to carry faith and aspiration during one thousand years."

Satprem and I come out from the Mother's chamber and take

 the passage leading to the left (exit) door to announce to the

 world that THE MOTHER IS ALIVE.

My dream ends before we have crossed the threshold.

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