Q: Even now when the Ashram has become a pilgrimage centre, is everybody BROUGHT here? Is it not a fashion for some?
A: M.P. Pandit: It is not a pilgrimage centre, it is a spiritual centre. A pilgrimage centre is a place where people go out of a sense of religious duty, either because at some time or other they have taken a vow to visit that place when someone was ill or in distress, or it is ordained in the scriptures that one should visit a number of these places, and so on. But a spiritual centre is different. A pilgrimage centre need not be spiritual. It can be infested by all kinds of elements. A spiritual centre is one where a spiritual manifestation has taken place and that spiritual consciousness stays alive or is kept alive by those living in that place.
Q: One sees many buses coming and the people get out, go the rounds, and then go away.
A: M.P. Pandit: But we can always be sure that there are one or two in that group who reap spiritual benefits from their visit here. So many times we have received letters from people saying that they had no intention of coming here, but their bus conductor had brought them here and they had a particular kind of experience. And afterwards they come and stay here. Something captured them and they had to come.
Q: This may happen to anyone at any stage of evolution?
A: M.P. Pandit: It will help the person at any stage of his evolution. There may be some difficulty and that knot will be loosened.
(‘Sat- Sang with M.P. Pandit’, Volume 2, Dipti Publications, Sri Aurobindo Ashram)
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