The Sun and The Rainbow

Communication with Objects around Us

AN EXPERIENCE AND THE MOTHER'S REMARKS

Sehra's Letter

Dearest Mother,

I am very sorry to trouble you but a certain experience needs to be told so that I may have your guidance.

It has been going on for several months and now it is more intense. All objects around me — including bottles and soaps and even stones and walls — are like living beings. You know that I was always in contact with the life of trees, but this is something new. To make you see how far it has gone I will tell you my experience of last night.

I woke up suddenly from sleep as if somebody had been calling me. I sat puzzled for a while and then thought of going to the bathroom. The moment I entered it, all objects started speaking to me. The mug said, "You haven't put me in my right place near the pail." And the water in the pail said, "You didn't wash your face with me but with tap-water," There were also other things I had not done as usual — things which I purposely do every day to satisfy the demand of the objects.

So I understood that these objects had woken me up. I felt as if they were beginning to possess me. I don't mind making them happy, but I shouldn't get cracked. What is happening and what should I do?

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The Mother's Remarks

There is nothing to be alarmed about I consider this sensitiveness as natural. It is simply that you are becoming more conscious, and there is not much difficulty in telling these things, before you retire, to keep quiet during the night in order not to disturb your sleep.

With love and blessings.

Sehra's Interview: 1.10.1963

As soon as 1 went to Mother, she asked, "Are you still in cantact with them?"

"With whom?" I questioned, a little surprised.

"With the objects around you."

"Yes, Mother, but I must tell you that after I wrote to you I felt rather guilty. At night they seemed to say, 'So you have told Mother about us.:"

"There is nothing to feel guilty about. And, as I wrote to you, you must keep in contact with them, because you will then begin to see many things. But you must have some contral over the objects. To them you are like a God and they will obey and do what you want. You must be calm and firm with them and not allow them to grip you in any way.

"You know how, when I used to give flowers, the flowers spoke to me, sometimes asking to be picked up. Even when I was in France, objects used to speak. I had a vegetable and flower garden. Often the vegetables would call me from afar when I was in my own room. They would say, 'Pick us up, we are ready.' And I would go and see and find they were right... It is good to open yourself. You will learn a lot."

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