Contact with The Mother

PROTECTION AT A DISTANCE

I was staying in a suburb of Bombay before I joined the Ashram. The house that I lived in was on the slope of a hillock, and there were many snakes of the most poisonous varieties in the garden adjoining my bedroom. My bedroom formed part of a big verandah and the partition that was built to make this room had an open space of about four inches running all along at the bottom. If rodents or snakes wanted to enter they could do so very easily.

I lived in that room for eight full years but no snake ever entered the room.

The very day I gave up the house to come and settle in Pondicherry our landlord who wanted the house for his own use placed his own bed in exactly the same place where my bed used to be. The very first night when his wife entered the room, she found a poisonous snake (Russell’s viper, to be exact) twined round the post of her husband’s mosquito-curtain-frame. I learnt about this nearly a year and a half after I had come here. Only then did I realise how the Mother’s protection worked around me and works even hundreds of miles away on all those who come within the aura of her Grace.