Contact with The Mother

SAVED IN A MOTOR ACCIDENT

A few years ago I was working in a plantation. One day I went to another town for work. Although the work was almost finished on the same day and I could very well have avoided personally going there on the next, yet I felt impelled to motor my way through the 30-mile rough road for that small work left unfinished.

As soon as I passed over a bridge on the way, my jeep toppled over it, from a height of about is feet, but leaving me, strangely enough, on the bridge itself. I got only a slight injury, the jeep down the bridge was completely smashed.

A boy who accompanied me in the automobile went down with the jeep but miraculously enough he had only a small cut from the broken front glass and received no other injury.

This incident was the crowning one in a whole series that had occurred during those days to sabotage my determination to go permanently to the Ashram. Yet the Mother’s Protection and Grace were with me at each critical moment of the play of the hostile forces.

After a couple of days I received the joyous news from the Mother that she had allowed me to join the Ashram permanently. And it is interesting to note that her decision was taken on the very day of the accident! Her divine Action had met by a definitive master-stroke the final all-out attack on one destined to devote his energies to her service.