Nov 12th, 2009 by max
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (left), Sir C.P. Srivastava (middle) and Anna Chicos (right).
The following is an except from an email send to me by a good friend and Sahaja Yogini Anna Chicos. Anna was recently added to this site (see the recent post below):
I spent much of the second day of Navaratri contemplating how art could be used as a weapon to open the heart. I remembered a poem I had written months before when I had arrived in England and thought I would make a card and write it down to offer to Shri Mataji in the evening. I was not expecting to read it to Her but when I entered the room She seemed to be staring straight at me and just drew me to Her. I went to Her feet and said “Shri Mataji I have written a poem. May I read it to you?” and Sir CP said “Yes , you may.” He took the card from my hands and held it in front of Her, She looked deeply at me with Her shining black diamond like eyes as I recited the following;
England
The Holy Virgin still sleeps
Somewhere She groans and sighs
with the distant memory
of Her ancient gloryOh you artists of Albion
you are the ones charged with awakening Her
So She shall be again as
She once was
red golden
all light
all loveand then Sir CP said softly and with firm conviction, almost like a promise,
“And it shall be so”
and before anyone says ‘but I’m not an artist’, remember these words of William Blake,
“An artist is not a special kind of man, but rather man is a special kind of artist”
