Contact with The Mother

TO GRACE THROUGH ILLNESS

For some time I had not been keeping in good health. Most of the time I felt indisposed and there was a general disability to perform my daily work well.

Although I had been devoted to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother I had not yet visited the Ashram. During the last Durga Puja days, I felt a strong urge to visit the Ashram, but as all my earned leave had been exhausted, it became very difficult for me to arrange leave from my office. My indisposition became for me a fit cause for applying for leave on medical grounds and I considered it to be a divine boon that through it I got a chance to fulfil my aspiration to visit the Ashram.

So I approached the local doctor. He wanted to make a thorough examination. When he took my blood pressure he found it high. And, without my particularly mentioning to him about my proposed visit to Pondicherry, he advised me complete rest for at least two months and gave me a certificate to that effect. He also prescribed certain medicines which could help me to improve my health.

Thus I submitted my leave application along with the medical certificate to my superiors. My leave was sanctioned.

A few days later when I came to the next main railway junction on my way to Pondicherry, I consulted one of my relatives, who is Chief Medical Officer of the Tramways Company of the city, and found to my utter surprise that my blood pressure was normal. On his advice, I stopped taking medicine so far as it related to blood pressure. As for my general weakness and indisposition, I now feel improved in health immensely without much use of medicine.

I consider the whole turn of this incident as a mysterious Grace of the Mother who has helped me in fulfilling my urge and turning to the Divine.