Kailas Jhaveri worked at
the United Nations’ headquarters in New York
in the department of Information from 1954-1956. She was a dreamer and believed
that the aim of the United Nations is to work for human unity, to help nations
be free of colonial rule and to become self-governing. Its objective, she also
believed, is to help developing countries through their many international
specialized agencies such as UNESCO, FAO, UNICEF, etc. Charmed by meeting people
of different nationalities, she changed her course of study from psychology –
she already had a degree in philosophy – to international organisation. In one
of these classes Kailas met Dr. Adiseshiah, who had been invited to give a talk
on UNESCO and international organisation. This marked the beginning of a
life-long friendship. In 1964 she left New York,
where she lived and worked for over ten years, to become an ashramite, while
playing a pivotal role in expounding the ideal of Auroville to UNESCO, with the
Mother’s blessings.
This is the introduction, noted down from Kailas’s words,
to one of the papers that I wrote to introduce, in Auroville, Kailas’ work for
the Mother. The speech she delivered in March stirred something very deep. The
Mother was there. The extract below, from Kailas’ autobiography, is one among
countless examples of her incredible dedication, faith, surrender to the
Mother:
“I was put in charge of the UNESCO Section of Sri
Aurobindo Society, but practically, I had no office, no table, no chair,
no almirah, no typewriter, no secretary and no money. I learned to use any means
available. For instance, I carried out my correspondence, using the
Society’s typewriter after the office hours, sometimes working till after
midnight and filing my papers at home in my Ashram almirahs. Sometimes, I gave
my papers for typing to Doreen, Navajata’s excellent secretary. She was
faultless and superb in her execution” wrote Kailas. “It seemed that I was given
responsibilities, but sometimes I had to find my own means to carry them
out. Even to go to Bombay, Madras, Delhi, or to Paris for the
UNESCO conference, I had to find the finances or the transport needed. And
the Divine provided me with whatever was needed from unexpected sources.”
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