The Mother · Sri Aurobindo

Accidents and the Mother's Protection

Q: X had a car accident this morning. Could Mother not see the possibility of this accident beforehand and prevent it? Or was it because X had in some manner gone out of the zone of her protection?

A: It was not possible to prevent the accident. When the danger comes a call to the Mother is the first thing to be done, that makes the general protection at once effective. X was in too externalised a state to do that and he did the very opposite thing to what should have been done―trying to get away in front of the car instead of behind it. But the true cause was something more internal―one of those choices made by the inner being (not necessarily known to the conscious mind) which bring these things as a response.

27-1-1936