Read Debou's correspondence with The Mother - from 1948 to 1968. In the early years The Mother wrote several prayers for him.
The Mother : correspondence
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Born on 7 January 1930, Debkumar Bhattacharya joined the Ashram on 15 August 1943 at the age of thirteen. Debou, as he was called, was one of the first students in a small school started by the Mother in December of that year. In 1949 he became a teacher of French in the school. Later, he studied homeopathy and around 1967 became a practising homeopathic doctor. For decades he treated members of the Ashram in this capacity. Debou lived in the Ashram for sixty-nine years, passing away on 29 July 2013.
Debou’s correspondence with the Mother covers the period from 1948 to 1968. In the early years she wrote several prayers for him and later wrote letters to help him understand and overcome his problems. The correspondence is largely in French and appears here in translation.
My dear mother,
If there were something like a mirror that could make me see whomever I called, I would be able to speak to you all the time.
It is very hard, isn’t it, Mother, to gain a friend as dear as the Divine? I have no one. That is why I recognise you as my supreme mother. I would like to be guided by you. I depend entirely on you and I count on your guidance in the minutest actions of my life. Without that, I am lost.
The mirror of your heart is the best you can find, because truly
I am established there in your heart, always.
23 May 1948
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