Power of Bandhan

I used to put bandhans on things but I didn’t really actually believe with my heart. I found that hard to believe that doing this could actually affect anything. We went to a puja in London and Mother was talking about bandhans and she said, you know, when you put a bandhan on something it’s like you’re actually telephoning to me when you do this. And I really thought about it and I was really trying to imbibe what she was saying. That night we were staying at John and Ridley’s flat in London and we were going on to Sussex the next day to see Chris’ father and we had just Lakshmi then and she was very small and in the morning we had to catch a train to go down to Sussex. When we came to get ready to go, we couldn’t find one of Lakshmi’s shoes. It was in November so it was cold and she was a very tiny little thing. It was a very modern flat so it wasn’t like there were lots of nooks and crannies, it as very clear and not cluttered. We just searched high and low, we could not find the shoe, the little red shoe we couldn’t find it anywhere. Time was going on and we had to leave to get the train and suddenly I was sitting in the middle, imagine I was in the middle of that carpet there, I thought bandhan, put a bandhan on. I started to put the bandhan on and the shoe dropped into my lap. Someone was standing next to me, Jeanette’s husband and he saw it too and he said, where did that come from. I said, it just fell through the attic, it just appeared. I always after that, it had a very profound effect on me because I really, really believed in bandhans after that and I’ve always used them and I always find them very effective whereas if I hadn’t had that experience I don’t know.