Contact with The Mother

"THE DIVINE, THE ONLY BOSS"

Once a newcomer was brought to me to see my department. He had come to stay in the Ashram permanently. The sadhak who brought the newcomer to me, told me while departing, that he would again come the next day with the newcomer.

The newcomer had devoted the best part of his life to my line of work before coming over to Pondicherry and was well-experienced.

I had doubts in my mind as to why he was being brought to me. “What is this movement?” I thought. “Why was I told that he would come again? Is he being brought here as the future head of my department?” The truth is that I have always felt repugnance to the idea of being a boss or of being bossed since I left my job in Calcutta and came over to Pondicherry permanently.

Before sleep that day, I prayed to the Mother in some such words: “I leave the matter to you. Whatever you decide will be welcome. But I do not want anybody to come between myself and the Divine.”

I did not have a very comfortable sleep that night. When I got up in the morning, I was delivered a letter from the Mother which read thus:

“I am sending X to visit your..., because...is his chief interest in life.

“He will be very willingly a co-worker, if you welcome him as such. As for being a boss, he has never thought of such an absurd thing and he knows quite well that there is no boss but the Divine.

“So, I am sure you will welcome him as your brother and as a child of mine.”

On reading this letter, all my doubts were gone and when the person came to me, I received him with an open heart as a comrade in common service to the Divine.