Contact with The Mother

"THE NIGHT-WATCHER OF SOULS"

The anteroom, beside the Mother’s present Drawing Room in the Playground, was under renovation and I was supervising the work.

There was to be built a bathroom for her behind this ante-room. The old room was there, only it was to be reconstructed to suit new purposes. The old foundations had been dug up and the mud-walls were exposed. After the day’s work, the labourers left.

At night, at about twelve or one o’clock, there was heavy rain. I suddenly got up at night and thought of the half-finished work in the Playground exposed to danger in that heavy rain. I feared that the mud-walls might give way as a result of the water seeping into the foundations and there was every possibility of the roof falling down.

At that hour, I could not but pray to the Mother. As soon as I called Mother”, to my wonder she appeared before me. Her countenance was so vivid that she was beyond a shadow of doubt present to my wide open eyes. I told her, “It is raining heavily and the bathroom wall is exposed to the danger of falling down. The roof also might collapse. Now it is your responsibility. I am helpless.”

The Mother listened and withdrew. I felt myself relieved of a heavy burden. My worry washed away and with a happy feeling I went to sleep. After a short while I found to my wonderment that the rain had completely stopped though it had threatened to be a heavy shower.

Next morning, I went to the Playground and saw that everything was all right. So I continued my daily work.

Before the daily blessings, our Engineer went to the Mother as usual. When he was with the Mother, she asked him, “Did last night’s rain do any damage to the construction work in the Playground?”

As he did not know anything about my previous night’s worry or my consequent experience, and was unaware of any possible damage by the heavy downpour, he was at a loss to give any precise answer. He simply told the Mother that he would enquire.

On coming to the site of the work, he told me the whole story. As he was relating it, I started to recall the previous night’s happening. I told him how the Mother had appeared and what I had told her.

He used to go to the Mother once again at about I o’clock. He related to her my experience and asked her whether it was all true.

The Mother said, “Yes”.