Contact with The Mother

SHE ARRANGED ALL FOR ME

I intended to visit the Ashram in December last but I had to give up the idea as no arrangement for money could be made.

Then my children wrote from the Ashram that I must visit Pondicherry on the Mother’s birthday. But no solution to my problem of money was visible. So I thought that this time too I would not be able to go. Yet I had a silent faith that if the Mother wanted me to be there, she would do something about my monetary requirements.

For some time, in the light of revised pay-scales, the official decision on my scale of pay had been pending. Though I was entitled to the new scale of pay, there was some technical hitch which delayed the decision in my case for a pretty long time.

A few days before the Mother’s birthday, our office treasurer sent to me, for signature, a bill for quite a good sum of money due to me as arrears. But, strangely enough, these arrears were neither according to the new pay-scales, nor were they according to the old ones. For, the money was less if calculated according to the former and more if calculated according to the latter. But the amount was just sufficient to cover the expenses for my return ticket to and from Pondicherry and other necessary expenditure during, the journey and my stay in the Ashram.

Surprised as I was I thought of referring the matter to the treasurer and inquiring how he had come to calculate my arrears in the way he had done. But a thought came to me that the amount had come to me by the Mother’s Grace and that I should not reject it or try to tamper with the aid given me for something for which I had intensely aspired and longed, because, in any case, the necessary adjustments could very well be done later, on my raising the issue after returning from Pondicherry.

I took the money in all sincerity and transparency of faith, for I concluded from the timely help that the Mother had signalled me to go to the Ashram.