Greeting

SRI CHINMOY: (presenting one of his records to Don Pablo): You are the Mt. Everest in your musical ability and I am the anthill in music. The anthill is offering its musical ability to the Mt. Everest.

MRS. CASALS: This is played on what instrument?

SRI CHINMOY: The harmonium. It is like a miniature piano.

MRS. CASALS (to Don Pablo in Catalan): These are his compositions. He has dedicated one of them to the Divine Mother.

DON PABLO: You had a wonderful mother, I am sure. I, too, had a wonderful, wonderful mother.

SRI CHINMOY (noticing a portrait of a young woman): That is a picture of your mother?

DON PABLO: Yes, my Ma is everything to me, everything. We were poor, but from my childhood she had such a wonderful power to give me everything. My mother knew everything.

SRI CHINMOY: How old was she when they took this picture?

DON PABLO: Oh, she was young. She was thirty or thirty- two .

SRI CHINMOY: And in this other picture?

DON PABLO: She was nearly seventy. She lived to be seventy-four. I feel my mother always with me, on every occasion. I feel her with me all the time.

SRI CHINMOY: I am so happy. The mother helps the child to manifest his inner divinity, his inner realisation. She receives for Mother-Earth and she manifests what her child has within. You are representing Heaven, Heaven-consciousness, through your music. Mother-Earth's consciousness holds the Light of Heaven and then it helps the Light to manifest here on earth.