Contact with The Mother

GRACIOUS INSIGHT

Once I was to cover a distance of about 100 miles in a train. It was raining heavily.

There was only one person in the compartment where I got in. It was very cold and the wind blew on the face through the windows with such force that it almost froze us. We shut all the windows from the inside. During the journey I started concentrating on the Mother and feeling a little heaviness. When I got up, I saw that every bit of my luggage was gone.

When I reached my destination, without any belongings, a sadhak friend of mine at the Sri Aurobindo Circle in the city told me that I had no right to lose my things in such an oblivious manner and that I should have been more conscious of my belongings which should be considered the Mother’s, left in my custody, and that I was expected to look after them with all the care of a trust property.

When I next saw the Mother I reported to her what I had been told by the aforesaid sadhak. She, with a most gracious look, said, “At that time you were doing meditation on me and were deeply concentrated in me. There is no fault of yours if you lost those things in this manner.”