Reunion with Mr. Mehrotra

In 1977 our San Francisco Centre had an art gallery with my paintings. The disciples went to the Indian Consulate there to inform them about the gallery. Mr. Mehrotra was then Consul General in San Francisco. He came to visit the gallery. To my disciples' wide surprise, when they began to speak to him about me, he said, "I know Ghose. He used to work with me. I would very much like to see him."

Then I went to San Francisco only to meet with him. Mr. Mehrotra invited me and about 25 of my disciples to come to his place and eat one evening. Then we invited him and his wife to come to our restaurant, Dipti Nivas. They came and were seated opposite me. Before we ate, right in front of them, I did a painting for them.

They have a daughter, Aparna. Now she has a beautiful little son, but when I worked at the Indian Consulate she was only three years old. Her father and their servant used to bring her to the Consulate from time to time, but she only cried and cried.

Source: "Our Reunion in San Franscisco" in Sri Chinmoy, My Consulate Years, Agni Press, Jamaica, NY, 1996, p. 14.]