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How did she catch me?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had been travelling around Japan, Sri Lanka and India for a year. I was intending to travel to Calcutta quite quickly to return to Canada, because I had a boyfriend there and I was in love and tired of travelling.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came to Pondicherry, just to stay for two or three nights. On the first day I walked into the Auroville office. There was lady there whom I had met in Japan before, and she said \u201cYou have to meet the Mother.\u201d I had heard of the Mother, but I didn\u2019t have a clue about her so I said \u201cWell, why not? If meeting the Mother is the thing to do, then okay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was arranged that I meet the Mother, that was in June 1968. I went up to the Mother\u2019s room on Sunday morning. I am not sure if the experience was dramatic at that moment. It was more that it had a slow effect on me afterwards. She was\u2026 what I remember was the smile, and she even laughed and asked if I spoke French because someone told her that I was from Canada. After it was over I remember being so tired, my God, it was like I had run a marathon, it was incredible. I was staying at Society Guest House, I went there and slept the whole day\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that my desire to leave India and get back to Canada evaporated. I didn\u2019t notice it at the time. It is just that I saw that, month after month, I was still in Pondicherry with no plans to leave. After helping out to build a house in Auroville I asked the Mother if I could stay in Auroville and she approved. So that was how it happened, that was in September 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I met the Mother another time on my birthday that year, but on my next birthday she was sick, so I couldn\u2019t meet her. I saw her also when I got the name for the first house I built in Auroville. She gave me the name Joy for that house.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an excerpt from the book \u2018Turning Points\u2019 by Auroville Press.
To read more about Janet\u2019s journey, have a look at the book here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Janet in her house circa 1979<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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