When I went to see a Minister in connection with my licence for the purchase of machinery from a foreign country, he said that I could get it only if I agreed to pay the amount of purchase to the sellers three years hence and not forth-with; otherwise, he added, he was not interested to help me in any way.

Although I had not enquired of the representative of the sellers in the city whether he would agree to such terms or not, reserving my doubts I accepted the Minister’s offer on the spot in the hope of persuading him. When I went to him he did not accept these terms. It seemed I had vainly spent nearly Rs. 50,000, visiting foreign countries in a look-out for machinery and neglecting for that reason my regular business in India.

For three days I was in a dejected yet a most prayerful mood, remembering and oiling the Mother all the time. Finding no way out I thought of leaving the city to return to mine to attend to my regular business. Before this I went to bid good-bye to a clerk in the Ministry, from where I had been trying to arrange for the licence. He had been kind enough to help me in various ways.

When I met him he offered his congratulations on the grant of licence to me. “Why this joke?” I asked. “What is the use of getting a licence on terms which are not acceptable to the sellers?”

“No, the licence has been granted on immediate cash-payment basis. We have received a special order from the Secretary granting you the licence. So there you are!”

How it all came about, how the whole situation got changed, I did not know, but I could not attribute it to anything except the Grace of the Mother, and for that I am grateful to her.

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