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their house and petted as almost their child. It was Pongal time
and this child came to our house with one hand holding a new
‘@±Yôi U|’ (blade fastened to a piece of wood for slicing
vegetables), and the other hand dragging a long stout sugar
cane. I hastened to cut the sugar cane for the child and
accidentally got a cut between my thumb and left forefinger. I
quietly asked the child to go back to his house and ran to the
hospital and got my wound treated. It is this gentleman’s son
that was here sometime back, called Karpurasundaram, who is
now doing puja in ‘Sundara Mandiram’ at Tiruchuzhi.”
Af After Af er ernoon ernoon
noon
Ganapati Sastri brought a letter received by him from
Grant Duff, who was here some years ago and is a great
devotee of Bhagavan. In that letter Grant Duff says he is in
California with the permission of the U.S.A. Government,
that the country is pleasant, that he is nearing eighty, that he
is anxious to make the best use of the very little time he may
yet have in the world and that he hopes by Bhagavan’s grace
to visit the Asramam again, travelling by air.
Bhagavan drew my attention to Colombo Ramachandra’s
speech delivered at Colombo on the occasion of the Golden
Jubilee of Vivekananda’s speech at the Chicago Conference and
printed in the Ramakrishna Vijayam of the Tamil month Aippasi.
In it, Ramachandra says, “Vivekananda on his return from
America said in his speeches that South India was going to take
a leading part in the spiritual regeneration of the world, that in
the 20th century there was going to rise in South India a flood of
atmic power which would inundate not only the whole of India
but the entire world. That force is what is now being generated
and radiated by Aurobindo and Bhagavan in South India.”
Bhagavan was reading an English translation of a French
letter received from one Zikovsky and family, of
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