Contact with The Mother

SAVIOUR VISION

This happened during the last week of August 1957. My daughter, aged 22 years, was down with serious typhoid for over three weeks. She was running a high temperature and her condition was worsening from day to day. The place being a village, no proper medical aid was available. We were dying with anxiety for the safety of our beloved daughter. I was all along praying to the Mother for her recovery.

During those fateful nights, at the request of my daughter, I used to recite a few verses from Chapter II of the Gita and keep a small photo of the Mother by her bed. I used to talk to her about the Mother and the Ashram and to this she used to listen with great interest in spite of the bad state of her health. Then she used to be lulled to sleep for an hour or two.

One morning she called me suddenly. She was all joy and her eyes were beaming. She said that in the middle of the previous night she had seen in a dream Goddess Durga clad in spotless white and riding a fierce lion. Durga had distinctly resembled the Mother and had been enveloped in unearthly splendour. She added that in the small hours of the morning there had been another dream wherein the Mother had stood by her bed in her ordinary dress. Seeing the Mother, she continued, she had fallen on her knees and felt her loving touch on her head. She had heard the Mother saying, “Don’t worry, my child, I am here to look after you.” Her mind had been filled with ineffable joy and peace at these words. Strange to say, this second dream repeated itself till the end of the week. We had no doubt that she would be cured of her illness by the Mother’s Grace.

After these happenings, twice her sickness took a serious turn and we almost gave up hopes of her survival. But somehow, as if by a miracle, she began to show signs of improvement and regained her health gradually. She was confined to bed for over five months. Now she is all right and is very eager to see the Mother and the Ashram.