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'Shortly after my arrival at the Ashram in 1927 I found that the food was very simple. I thought that salt and a little pepper were the only things used with the vegetables and rice. I tried my best to eat well but did not succeed, so I decided to speak to the Mother about it. And one day when I had finished manicuring her nails I said to her: “Mother dear, will you permit me to send for some pickles from my father, and eat them with my food? I find the Ashram food tasteless, and cannot eat it properly.” “Pickles?” said the Mother, and added, “Wait a minute.” She got up from the sofa and went to the adjoining room and returned with a small jar and said: “Take this, somebody has sent it for Sri Aurobindo, but he does not wish to take it. You may find it useful.”

'I took the jar, thanked her, made my pranam and went home. I placed it on my table and told myself that I would open it later and eat the pickle. But the desire to eat it completely left me, and however much I tried I could not bring myself to open the jar. So after a few days I took it back to the Mother and told her: “Mother dear, I am sorry, but I felt no inclination to eat this pickle, nor any other, so I am returning it to you.”

'The Mother smiled in her charming way, embraced and kissed me, and took the jar back, and gave me her hand for manicuring.

'Thus was a strong desire removed from my consciousness and I felt very free and happy. Even today I cannot bring myself to eat any pickle nor even any spicy food.'

Quoted from Lalita's reminiscences entitled "With My Sweet Mother" included in "At the Feet of the Mother : Reminiscences by Her Children, Volume One" (ISBN : 978-81-996505-9-6) published by Overman Foundation Trust, Kolkata.

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"How They Came to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Volume 5" (ISBN : 978-81-960391-0-3) authored by Shyam Kumari (member, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) and published by Overman Foundation Trust, Kolkata.

Priced at Rs. 500, this book includes true stories of thirty seven aspirants (like K. Amrita, Amal Kiran alias K.D. Sethna, Esha Mukherjee, Udar Pinto, Surendranath Jauhar, Parichand Kothari, Maggi, etc.) and their spiritual adventures. These stories chronicle the events from their first spiritual awakening and lead up to the moment of their coming to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. In some of the stories, the author has included later events of the aspirants’ lives specially those which are connected with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Through each of these stories the love and consciousness of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother run like golden notes.

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With warm regards,
Overman Foundation Trust, Kolkata.