The Sun and The Rainbow

An Experience Recollected

A REPORT BY AMAL KIRAN

It was in 1963. Sehra was ill. I informed the Mother. Having acted as usual with her spiritual force she expected a result. But somehow the attack of asthma continued. Then a strange incident took place. I wrote to the Mother about it.

On the night of January 13, racked by a terrible asthmatic spasm, Sehra was sitting on her bed with her legs hanging to the floor. She felt her feet were getting cold; so she wanted to put on her sandals. When she bent towards them she became aware of something at once very soothing and very energising. To her great surprise she faced the Mother's bare feet putting on her own sandals as if getting ready to go out. Immediately Sehra touched those feet and exclaimed: "Oh the Mother is here!" Soon afterwards, she lay down in bed and went to sleep. When she woke up, she was completely cured.

The Mother confirmed later that Sehra had not indulged her imagination. The Mother's feet had been really there — rather something of her that took the form of her feet in order to become perceptible to Sehra.

I have learnt on reliable authority that when the Mother recounted this whole incident to a French disciple she gave it as an example of what could happen by way of an automatic response on her part and introduced it with the words: "Quelqu'un qui m'aime vraiment, c'est Sehra, la femme d'Amal..." ("Someone who loves me truly, it is Sehra, the wife of Amal...")

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