By doing the work with sincerity and devotion as the Mother’s own work, I began to get experiences. By Her Grace my soul or psychic being opened after five years of Ashram-life. Since then the psychic being has been growing; I feel always the Mother’s presence in my heart. From time to time various kinds of spiritual experiences have come, one after another. In my 63rd year, I had a flood of spiritual experiences and visions soon after I sat in meditation in Sri Aurobindo’s Room on my birthday, sat along with fellow disciples and devotees whose birthday coincided with mine. Then in the next year, when I meditated in my own room on my sixty-fourth birthday (24 July 76) at 12 noon, the Grace of the Divine Mother descended and entered into the depth of my mid-forehead. She came in the form of a Luminous Young Child—Bala, in the same form as when she had been about seven years old—and opened the Chakra on the top of head, the Sahasrara, giving rise to wonderful visions and experiences.

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