We know
Mahalakshmi popularly as the goddess of wealth. But she is not just the power
of wealth, she also represents material organisation because the two are deeply
connected. Wealth cannot appear where material organisation is lacking. Wealth
cannot appear where the flow of matter, the flow of energies and the flow of
thoughts is wasted or is in chaos. It is the same power presiding over both
aspects. And it was interesting to observe that the Mother always insisted on
proper utilisation of material resources. When the Ashram was first
established, there was not much money available. And she made sure every little
bit was used, even waste paper was collected and recycled. During the war when
there was a serious shortage of goods, even the tiny pieces of soap were
collected and put together to make new cakes of soap. Such was the detailed
effort to prevent waste.
Much later, in the
fifties, she noted that Mother Nature has agreed to cooperate with her in the
Work. And since then, as you know, the wealth and resources available in the
Ashram have been increasing. But when this decision to cooperate was first
made, the Mother wanted to test how far that cooperation could go in material
circumstances. She took as one of the experiments the work which was being done
by one of the disciples to establish a sugar factory on the outskirts of
Pondicherry. The Mother took special pains to see how far Nature’s cooperation
would go in that effort.
Before the
factory was started Mother herself saw the plans. There was a need to dig for
water. She looked at the layout for a while and then marking one spot said,
“Dig here”. That spot has a perennial flow of water gushing out to this day,
something quite unusual for that region.
The machinery
was installed and all the time she was receiving detailed reports. At some
stage when the machines were started they were seen to undergo frequent
breakdowns for no apparent reason. The Mother was asked about it and she said
that the sugar cane which was being crushed to make the juice was putting out
an energy of resentment which was accumulating and causing the breakdown of the
equipment. She described that she had then created an occult formation there so
that the same energies would be diverted towards the maintenance of the
factory. Since then the breakdowns stopped and to this day it is one of the
most prosperous sugar factories in that region. Such was the detail to which
she tested the cooperation that Nature extended to her.
(The Mother: Some Insights, Sraddhalu Ranade, Service
Letter, February 1996)
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