Sumona

Along with Indra, one of Amiya's two sisters.

Sumona and Indra were both Baba lovers, and there is a story about Sumona and Baba.

Amiya tells it:

"What happened was, I told you about my brother in law the engineer, prominent, went to England for some training. He was a very good person except that he did not have much fascination or attraction toward the spiritual things. My sister was absolutely my sister, in the sense that we all liked everything together and shared them. When it came to sharing Baba, she wanted that I should be helping her. She talked to her husband, and he said that he was not interested, and if she wanted to go she could go with my help to Poona. So she waited for a year, or maybe more than a year, and she was so desperate she thought of ending her life. And she wrote a letter to Keshav Narayan Nigam to that effect. (She knew him because she was a recipient of Meher Pukar, of which he was the editor.) And she was in Calcutta. She was also as much a lover or more deeply loving Baba, but because of her husband she was a little tongue-tied. Now when I received these letters from Keshav Narayan Nigam, I thought maybe this was one of the sins of omission I have committed, by not thinking in terms of Darshan for my sister. One day it so happened that she was ironing the clothes, and she had been so much depressed that she forgot to switch off the iron, and the clothes caught fire, and then others rushed in, and they somehow put out the fire. That was in desperation.

"Well, I came to know it all. Then I went to Calcutta, and she was overjoyed. I brought her for the May Darshan, in Poona, 4^th, 5^th and 6^th of 1963.

"Now when we came out of the station and took a three-wheeler for the Darshan at Guruprasad when we were almost near the place, she started saying 'Is it not a big bungalow with a big compound and doesn't it have a garden on both sides, and statues and a fountain?' So I was surprised, and I asked her if she had seen a photograph of Guruprasad? She said, 'No, but this is what Baba showed me in my despair. One night I saw everything of this sort. Is it of that sort?' I said that she would find it out for herself. The moment we reached the gate and came out of the three-wheeler she shouted, 'But this is exactly the place Baba had shown me in that moment of despair in Calcutta. I saw it, and Baba showed me the place where I was to meet Him.' And she went inside, and she was so happy. And, that is the story. But for Keshav Narayan Nigam it would not have occurred to me to go all the way to Calcutta and to bring her."