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Yesterday Ila’s soul left the body. Since then, she and I have had quite a few conversations.
Needless to say, Ila’s humorous aspect we have enjoyed immensely over the years. Outwardly she was an iron rod. Inwardly she was as soft as marshmallow. Her softness-heart was most remarkable, and her outer strictness was also most remarkable.
Let me say something about her humorous aspect. Ila’s soul was here for a long time. Only a minute ago she left. While you were singing the song Jibaner bhar_ <html><a href="#fn22" id="fnref22">22</a></html> so soulfully, she said to me, “My Guru, if this kind of appreciation and adulation your children are going to offer me, then I am ready to take birth every morning and die every evening!” This is Ila! So many things I can tell about her. If I do so, it will be a huge book, with hundreds of pages. My soul, my heart and my life shall forever treasure her, for among those who think, feel and know who I truly am, perhaps she stands foremost. She continuously felt my inner heights, and for that I shall remain eternally, eternally grateful to her. <html>
<hr /> <p id="fn21"> HCE 20. 2 April 2005, Aspiration-Ground, Jamaica, New York.<a href="#fnref21">↩</a></p> <p id="fn22"> HCE 20,3. <em>Jibaner bhar</em> is the song Sri Chinmoy composed for his disciples to sing at the time of an individual’s earth-departure<a href="#fnref22">↩</a></p>
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