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Article reproduced from the Book ONLY GOD the Biography of Yogi Ramsuratkumar by Regina Sara Riyan


In 1947 Yogi Ramsuratkumar (Mad Bihari) bought a train ticket to Pondicherry. As soon as he boarded the train he lost the train ticket and all the belongings as his state of mind totally lost its ability to function in normal world and the excitement of intended journey to see Aurobinda. So he was thrown out from the train in next station, Yogi Ramsuratkumar walked on the rail road track and came to a school, where he met the headmaster and asked for his help. The headmaster helped him by raising money from school children.
In 1947, Sir Aurobindo’s ashram was located in the same place that it stands today on a quiet street a few short blocks from the ocean. The ashram consisted of a graciously appointed building that housed offices and meeting rooms and served as the residence for aurobinda and his collaborator in the great work, Mirra. It is she whom Aurobinda had identified as the Mother , the embodiment of the universal Shakthi, and the guru to whom all his devotees and followers would surrender. Aurobindo had entrusted to her the complete spiritual and material charge of the ashram. Under her remarkable direction and through the power of presence, a tiny seedling planted in November 1926 had already, 1947, grown to a solid oak. During those days (between 1910 to 1950), Aurobinda spent the large part of his days in writing and contemplation. He was almost entirely inaccessible in these years.
	Aurobindo was seen only four times a year, and by invitation: on his own birthday, Aug 15 , as well as on February 21, April 24 and November 24. For a newly arrived and wandering seeker like Ramsuratkumar to have gained entrance to the November 24 dharshan would have required some special work on his part. Encountering the mother Mirra, however, would have been a different story. Around the block from the main entrance, at the back of the main ashram building, a second floor balcony overlooks the street.
This is where she would give darshan to anyone who happened to be here, Mr. Krishnamurthy, an elderly ashram resident, told me. Every day, and twice a day, the mother would appear on Second Balcony to silently bless the gathering of devotees, visitors or locals. No one was exempt from this sitting.	Buy this book Only God: A Biography Of Yogi Ramsuratkumar
Here, we guess, Ramsuratkumar, would have stood, along this clean street with its well-kept sidewalks. He would have looked up a see slight figure standing at the rail. Her eyes would have met his she would have sensed the loging of his heart. After all, she was the mother. She would know the needs of her children, and her attention would always have been drawn to those most in need of her assistance.
"Finally, the mother took a personal interest and asked who Yogijii was," Makarand Paranjape, a writer and admirer of both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as well as of Yogi Ramsuratkumar, reported in brief interview, "Then she blessed him very amply from her balcony". I think Yogiji said that he had a powerful spiritual experience in her presence, and he also felt she was blessing his decision to go on to Tiruvannamalai.
In the late 1970s, Yogi Ramsuratkumar told a close devotee that the Mother, Mirra, had given him a flower and that he got the "madness" on receiving it, but that this Divine madness did not last. "Mother had told him that his foundations needed to be strengthened or meeting with sri Aurobindo would be too powerful".
	Ram surat kumar would have experienced this living dharma during his brief stay near or in the ashram. These teachings undoubtedly impressed him, and fanned a spiritual fire that had long been smoldering. They would influence his own practice; infiltrate his words; and even characterize the approach that he would institute on his own ashram when it was founded almost fifty years later. In this first visit to Pondicherry, Ramsuratkumar would also have learned more about the man, auronbindo. Late in his life Yogiji declared
"When this beggar first came to Sri Aurobindo, he didn’t know him and didn’t know what he was about. This beggar couldn’t see him; but when he came to Sri Aurobindo’s ashram this beggar felt so much peace, then this beggar knew that Sri Aurbindo was this peace!" And in that understanding he would have recognized his father.