An adage from the ageless store of Indian wisdom tells us that in life we finish our apprenticeship at 50 years and then become adults. We only take up our life's work and real mission when we attain 80. And we leave the earth finally with the rounded and satisfied fullness of 100 years, "reveling in the rapture,' as Sri Aurobindo would translate a Vedic phrase. Always early, adept, and never unpunctual, our dear RLK took up the real charge of his life's work decades before reaching his eightieth birthday. Thriving treasures now invite us to celebrate the rare richness he manifests upon earth.