Though it does happen. It happened this morning. Some people had left their daughter here; she has been here for the last four or five years, and all the while they didn't bother about her at all. She was in Ml's dormitory - M. has been a real mother to her, she looked after her dresses and everything, her parents did nothing (I think they were sending their hundred rupees regularly, that was all, they didn't have a thought for their daughter). This little girl's home was here. Then her parents came for the Darshan, they found their daughter not warm enough, not loving enough, that she far too much loved being here - conclusion: they're taking her away. I found that ... so shameful! Shameful, so stupidly selfish. I tried to intervene in several ways. They had taken the little thing with them - she cried day and night, nonstop. Won't eat, cries all the time. And she says, "I want to go back, I want to go back.... I want to stay here, I don't want to go away." "Ah, so that's how you are! Very well, we're taking you away." What cruelty! One of the ugliest things you can imagine. Yesterday I tried once again (they're leaving today, I believe), I had something conveyed to them, the answer was, "The father finds his daughter has forgotten him and no longer loves him, so he doesn't want to leave her here and will take her away." I replied, "Does he think by bullying her he can force her to love him?" The fool just won't understand, nothing sinks in. I didn't see the gentleman. But then, they had brought a four-year-old with them. Today was his birthday. They sent me some money for the child and asked for a card of blessings. I refused to give the card and threw the money back at them - quite bluntly. I said, "Tell these people that they are selfish and stupid, and I want nothing from them." And I banged on the table.... Oh, oh! ... Everyone was petrified. (Mother laughs) The doctor was there, and Nolini, Champaklal, Amrita.... Something in me was laughing a lot! Oh, they thought I was in a terrible fit: "They'll see what will happen to them! ..." And you know, those vibrations are familiar to me - they're terrifying, mon petit. Not human. When it comes, it's fearsome, people are in a cold sweat. And I watch it all like a spectator! Fairly often, it's Sri Aurobindo. But this time it was entirely impersonal. It was something that WILL NO LONGER tolerate in the world a certain kind of selfish stupidity - to trample this child's finer feelings just because she isn't stupidly attached to her family (who didn't even give her a single thought all the time she was here, she didn't exist for them). If you want your children to love you, you should at least love them a little, care for them a little, no? It's elementary, you don't have to be very bright to understand that - but they won't understand: "It is a child's DUTY to love his parents"!! And if you don't fulfill your duty, you're put in jail. All right. But those people will live to regret it. The little girl struggled as if she were drowning, you know. She went everywhere - took refuge at the School, took refuge in Pavitra's room, begged G. in tears to intervene. M. was absolutely desperate. Everybody is trying to dissuade them, everybody is scandalized - it's their "right"! Brandishing their right, they grab the girl and squeeze her: "You'll love us, or else!" And they think they will succeed! Unfortunately, it is always the best who suffer. Some were taken away like that, and they fell so gravely ill that once they recovered sufficiently, the doctors said to send them back here. It has happened at least a dozen times. Those who have an inner life feel at home here. Well .. page 60-61 , Mother's Agenda , volume 4 , 23rd Feb 1963