CONDOLENCES, JOHN

My condolences, John. May Sri Ramakrishna lead her unto His blissful abode and may He keep you in His care! We gratefully remember how you had helped us in our collection of funds for the Mobile Medical Van Project of Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Muzaffarpur with your gracious contributions from afar America. The project has come to a successful completion and awaits its formal operational commencement. No good work ever goes in vain. Your wife was luminous and continues to abide in her luminosity. Bodies come and bodies go but the personality behind whose embodiment they are, that essential one never wanes with the dispersal of the elements that go to compose its earthly raiment. At a time of personal loss of this order when the mind full of old associations is rent apart, when memories awake from the depth of yesteryears and rush on to the shore of consciousness, at such an hour of even-tide when the boat doth set sail for a distant repose, the soul clears to reveal a life eternal and the sorrow of separation is redeemed in a sublime understanding of the true nature of things. My friend, may such a light dawn on you at this hour of reckoning and earthly association transcend territory unto the purified plane where all is one and integrated in the Lord! The dual tug of life leaves not a moment for reflection save when the sudden truth of transience strikes hard and one is left to ponder the deeper reality which holds and never fractures like the ephemeral dreams of life. So, my friend, grieve not when you know for certain that the wheel of life ever moves unto its final station where life itself is transcended and the Self revealed to have been its eternal status. Your wife is the imperishable Self, the radiant, blissful source of life. How can she ever cease to be when time itself springs from her being? She is where she was and will ever be, right in the core of your consciousness which is universal consciousness too. Existence she is, how may she ever non-existent be? Your love and your light will bestrew blossoms in her way towards the source of her being and blissful she will fill up with the fragrance of eternal life. My commiserations and my wishes for you and all the bereft ones she leaves behind as she proceeds along the radial line of her unfolding consciousness. May Sri Ramakrishna preserve you all at this moment of inconsolable grief is my earnest prayer unto Him!