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from them. In turn, I would share with them my love for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and their Ashram. If any of them expressed a wish to learn Dilip Kumar Roy's or Sahana-di's songs, I would try and help them with it. But progressively, I came face to face with a little problem. It was, honestly, quite a minor problem but whenever I was confronted by it, it would bother me. The problem was about hospitality, about civility. Those who are residents of the Ashram are familiar with the life here and they do not even think about this need of hospitality towards others. But then each time I would work with them for an hour or so at home in order to learn something from them, offering them a cup of tea and some snacks was a very spontaneous, natural desire. It would appear to me as a thing of basic civility. In the beginning, I would simply avoid it, but then some incidents that took place forced me to write to the Mother about it. I also wrote to Her stating that if She saw anything wrong with this feeling I had of wanting to be a little hospitable, She should tell me frankly. If She felt this to be a legitimate need, then could She make some arrangement for it? The Mother did not answer back or even mention anything in this regard. Simply, from that time, She started giving me some money every month for such expenses.
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