The Mother recounts, 11 May 1958 Something quite curious took place during a recent meditation. I no longer recall when exactly, but it was at a time when there were many visitors, for the courtyard was full. After perhaps no more than a few minutes, I suddenly heard a distinct voice, coming from my right, say 'OM,' like that. And then a second time, 'OM.' What an impact it had upon me! I felt an emotion here (gesture towards the heart) as I have not felt for years and years and years. And all, all, all was filled with light, with force—it was absolutely marvellous. It was an invocation, and during the whole meditation the Presence was resplendent. I said to myself, 'Who could have done that?' I was not sure if only I had heard it, so I asked. The reply was, 'But it was the ship leaving!' [the ship leaving the Pondicherry port]... But for me, it was SOMEONE because I felt someone there and I thought, Oh! If someone, in the ardour of his soul, said that ... It was the ship that said OM! And then I wondered, 'If we were to repeat the mantra we heard the other day' (Om Namo Bhagavateh ...) during the half-hour meditation, what would happen?' What would happen? And these things act upon my body. It is strange, but it coagulates something: all the cellular life becomes one solid, compact mass, in a tremendous concentration—with a single vibration. Instead of all the usual vibrations of the body, there is now only one single vibration. It becomes as hard as a diamond, a single massive concentration, as if all the cells of the body had... I became stiff from it. When the forest scene [in the movie Dhruva] was over, I was so stiff that I was like that (gesture): one single mass. [This was during the film Dhruva in which the mantra (Om Namo Bhagavatehwas chanted for a long time. The film was shown at the Ashram Playground on 29 April 1958.]