Our Guru was a Jain Sadhu. Three days after his death, he appeared to me in a dream and asked me to go to Pondicherry and accept in future Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as my Gurus. I did not then know that one required previous permission to go to the Ashram. I went to the Ashram, but as the Darshan Day did not fall within my stay, I had to return without having the blessing glimpse of Sri Aurobindo.

The next year I came for the Darshan and saw Sri Aurobindo. Since then I visit Pondicherry every year for a fixed number of days, whatever happens.

Now each time I was about to leave for the Ashram, circumstances conspired to put my faith to the test. But I had made up my mind that whatsoever came in my way, I would not desist from going to Pondicherry: surely Mother and Sri Aurobindo would help me.

Once when I was preparing to leave, an accident took place: a day before my departure my son fractured his wrist-bone. It was a serious case, but I left just the same, as planned. And everything went well in my absence.

Another time, one baby in the house got typhoid just the day when I was to leave. In Pondicherry I received the news that three days after my departure the baby had recovered completely.

Once again my son had a leg-fracture a day before my departure. I left as usual without flinching in my faith. My son recovered remarkably in my absence by the Grace of the Mother.

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