Champaklal Speaks

Her Grace

The Mother asked me to lie down near Sri Aurobindo's chair in the 'long passage' while she was taking her lunch in her room. (Sri Aurobindo's chair is still in the same place. Mother called the room outside Sri Aurobindo's room the 'long passage'; sometimes Sri Aurobindo also walked there—lucky passage!)

After Mother finished her lunch, she would come out and pass her apron three or four times over me as I lay on the floor, from one end of my body to the other. And when she would finally spread the apron over me, I would get up and she would give a big smile. Thereafter I would go into her room and take her spoons and forks to my room in Library House to wash.

Even as early as the year 1923, she used to tell me: “Your time will come and you will get everything. You will be folly conscious.” I still hear these words.

I now understand that what I took to be a 'game of the apron' was a ceremony of mantric passes; it was not merely a game to please me. It was her supreme Grace.

And now every prediction that she made regarding me I experience one by one. What boundless Grace!