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\n


\nMOTHER’S  HELP  IN  DIFFICULTIES<\/FONT><\/B>
\n<\/font>
\n

 


\n\t\t


\nASSURANCE 
\nOF  VICTORY<\/FONT><\/b>
\n

 

Be sure that the Mother will always be
\nwith you to carry you upon the path.  Difficulties come and difficulties
\ngo, but, she being with you, the victory is sure.<\/FONT>
\n

18-7-1936<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nThe path you have now taken \u2014 to cleave
\nto the Mother through all circumstances and let nothing shake you from that will
\nbring the true solution of difficulties for you.  For it seems the psychic
\nbeing has started its work in you.<\/FONT>
\n

24-12-1935<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nRemain firm and turned in the one
\ndirection \u2014 towards the Mother.<\/FONT>
\n


\n

 


\n\t\tTHE DESCENT
\nAND THE DIFFICULTIES<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t

 


\n\t\tQ:<\/B>  Is it
\ntrue that the nearer the descent of the Supermind the greater will be the
\ndifficulties of those in whom it is to come down first ?<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  It is true, unless they
\nare so surrendered to the Mother, so psychic, so plastic, free from ego that the
\ndifficulties are spared to them.<\/FONT>
\n


\n

 


\nFAITH  IN  THE MOTHER’S  WORKING<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t

 

One has to cleave firmly to the faith in
\nthe Mother’s working<\/FONT>
\n

 <\/p>\n


\nPage – 325<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

behind all appearances and you will find
\nthat that will carry you through.<\/FONT>
\n

31-8-1935<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nIt is the true attitude to leave all to
\nthe Mother and trust entirely in her and let her lead you on the path to the
\ngoal.<\/FONT>
\n

2-3-1936<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t

 <\/P>
\n


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n

It ‘is not by his own strength or good
\nqualities that anyone can attain the divine change;  there are only two
\nthings that matter, the Mothers force at work and the Sadhak’s will to open to
\nit and trust in her working.  Keep your will and your trust and care
\nnothing for the rest \u2014 they are only difficulties that all meet in their
\nSadhana.<\/FONT>
\n

13-5-1936<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t

 <\/P>
\n


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n

Nothing is impossible if the nature of
\nthe psychic being is awake and leading you with the Mother’s consciousness and
\nforce behind it and working in <\/B>you.<\/FONT>
\n

19-10-1935<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t

 <\/P>
\n


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n

If one remains in full confidence in the
\nMother and psychically open, then the Mother’s force will do all and one has
\nonly to give consent and keep oneself open and aspire.<\/FONT>
\n

12-11-1935<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nAll faults and errors are redeemed by
\nrepentance.  Confidence <\/B>in <\/B>the Mother, self-giving to the
\nMother, these if you increase them will bring the change in the nature.<\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\t\t


\n\t\t*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 326<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Whether the progress is rapid or slow,
\nthe attitude should always be an entire faith and reliance on the Mother; 
\njust as you do not think that the progress was the result of your own effort or
\nmerit but of your taking the right attitude of reliance and the Mother’s Force
\nworking, so you should not think that any slowness or difficulty was due to your
\nown demerit but only seek to keep this attitude of reliance and let the Mother’s
\nForce work \u2014 slowly or rapidly does not matter.<\/FONT>
\n

14-11-1935<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t


\n\t\t*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n

No.  It is perhaps how some part of
\nthe vital or physical consciousness figured it.  But the path is not a
\ndesert nor are you alone, since the Mother is with you.<\/FONT>
\n

2-11-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n


\n


\n\t\tTHE 
\nMOTHER’S  POSITIVE  ATTITUDE<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t

 

Mother never thinks of future
\ndifficulties, falls or dangers.  Her concentration is always on love and
\nlight, not on difficulties and downfalls.<\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>


\n\t\tIt is the higher reality that Mother
\nbrings into the world \u2014 without it all else is ignorant and false.<\/FONT>
\n


\n\t\t 

3-8-1934<\/B><\/FONT>
\n


\n


\n\t\tTHE 
\nONE  THING  TO  DO  ALWAYS <\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t

 

Once one has entered the path of Yoga,
\nthere is only one thing to do, to fix oneself in the resolution to go to the end
\nwhatever happens, whatever difficulties arise.  None really gets the
\nfulfilment in Yoga by his own capacity \u2014 it is by the greater Force that stands
\nover you that it will come \u2014 and it is the call, persistent<\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 327<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

through all vicissitudes, to that Force,
\nby which the fulfilment will come.  Even when you cannot aspire actively,
\nkeep yourself turned to the Mother for the help to come \u2014 that is the one thing
\nto do always.<\/FONT>
\n

3-1-1934<\/B><\/FONT>
\n


\n


\n\t\tTRUST 
\nIN  THE  MOTHER’S  FORCE  IN  DIFFICULTY<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t

 

What is needed is perseverance \u2014 to go on
\nwithout discouragement, recognising that the process of the nature and the
\naction of the Mother’s force is working through the difficulty even and will do
\nall that is needed.  Our incapacity does not matter \u2014 there is no human
\nbeing who is not in his parts of nature incapable \u2014 but the Divine Force is also
\nthere.  If one puts one’s trust in that, incapacity will be changed into
\ncapacity.  Difficulty and struggle themselves then become a means towards
\nthe achievement.<\/FONT>
\n

27-5-1936<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nDo not brood over your
\ndifficulties.  Leave them to the Mother and let her Force work them out of
\nyou.<\/FONT>
\n

22-3-1935<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nNever allow this idea  “I am not
\nable”,  “I am not doing enough”  to come and vex you;  it is a tamasic
\nsuggestion and brings depression and depression opens the way to the attacks of
\nthe wrong forces.  Your position should be,  “Let me do what I can; 
\nthe Mother’s force is there, the Divine is there to see that in due time, all
\nwill be done”.<\/FONT>
\n

4-11-1935<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t


\n\t\t*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n

Not to be disturbed, to remain quiet and
\nconfident is the right attitude, but it is necessary also to receive the help of
\nthe Mother<\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 328<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

and not to stand back for any reason from
\nher solicitude.  One ought not to indulge ideas of incapacity, inability to
\nrespond, dwelling too much on defects and failures and allowing the mind to be
\nin pain and shame on their account;  for these ideas and feelings become in
\nthe end weakening things.  If there are difficulties, stumblings or
\nfailures, one has to look at them quietly and call in tranquilly and
\npersistently the Divine help for their removal, but not to allow oneself to be
\nupset or pained or discouraged.  Yoga is not an easy path and the total
\nchange of the nature cannot be done in a day.<\/FONT>
\n

 


\n\t\t 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\n\t\tAll this is of no utility \u2014
\ncomplainings,
\nquestionings, etc. of this kind should be put aside.  You have to go on
\nquietly, without depression or trouble, receiving the Mother’s forces, allowing
\nthem to work, rejecting all that stands in their way but not troubled by
\ndifficulty or defects in yourself or by any delay or slowness in the
\nworking.<\/FONT>
\n

25-10-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nDo not admit these suggestions of despair
\nor impatience.  Give time for the Mother’s force to act.<\/FONT>
\n

12-6-1937<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t

 <\/P>
\n


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n

This kind of grief and despondency are
\nthe worst obstacles one can raise up in the Sadhana \u2014 they ought not to be
\nindulged in.  What one cannot do oneself one can get done by calling the
\nMother’s force.  To receive that and let it work in you is the true means
\nof success in the Sadhana.<\/FONT>
\n

 


\n\t\t 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\n\t\tWhatever difficulties still remain, be
\nsure that they will be surmounted.  There is no need for the outer being to
\nbe nervous \u2014<\/FONT>
\n


\n\t\t <\/p>\n


\nPage – 329<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

the Mother’s Force and the devotion
\nwithin you will be sufficient to overcome all that stands in the
\nway.<\/FONT>  
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>


\n\t\tThere is no reason to be
\ndiscouraged.  Three years is not too much for the preparation of the nature
\nand it is usually through fluctuations that it gradually grows nearer to the
\npoint where a continuous progress becomes possible.  One has to cleave
\nfirmly to the faith in the Mother’s working behind all appearances and you will
\nfind that that will carry you through.<\/FONT>
\n

31-8-1935<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nYou should not yield to sorrow or despair
\n\u2014 there is no reason why you should.  The Mother’s grace has not been
\nwithdrawn from you for a moment.  Do not allow the attacks of others to shake you
\nlike this \u2014 you know well the motives from which they act \u2014 and for the rest
\nthey are not going to pursue any farther the course which a fit of passion
\ndictated to them.  The protection will be with you and you need not fear or
\nsorrow any longer.  Put your trust in the Divine and shake off all this
\nlike a nightmare that has passed.  Believe that our love and grace are with
\nyou.<\/FONT>
\n

 


\n\t\t 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\n\t\tThere has always been too much reliance
\non the action of your own mind and will \u2014 that is why you cannot progress. 
\nIf you could once get the habit of silent reliance on the power of the Mother \u2014
\nnot merely calling it in to support your own effort \u2014 the obstacle would
\ndiminish and eventually disappear.<\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>


\n\t\tThe more one is open to the Mother’s
\naction, the more easily difficulties get solved and the right thing is
\ndone.<\/FONT>
\n

21-9-1934<\/B><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\t\t


\n\t\t*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 330<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

It was by your personal efforts without
\nguidance that you got into difficulties and into a heated condition in which you
\ncould not meditate etc.  I asked you to drop the effort and remain quiet
\nand you did so.  My intention was that by your remaining quiet, it would be
\npossible for the Mother’s Force to work in you and establish a better
\nstarting-point and a course of initial experiences.  It was what was
\nbeginning to come;  but if your mind again becomes active and tries to
\narrange the Sadhana for itself, then disturbances are likely to come.  The
\nDivine Guidance works best when the psychic is open and in front  (yours
\nwas beginning to open),  but it can also work even when the Sadhak is
\neither not conscious of it, or else knows it only by its results.<\/FONT>
\n


\n


\n

 


\n\t\tDIFFICULTIES  AND  THE  MOTHER’S  GRACE<\/B><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\t\t

 

Q:<\/FONT><\/I><\/B>  Can it be
\nbelieved that the Mother’s Grace is acting even when the difficulties do not
\ndisappear ?<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  In that case everybody
\nmight say,  “All my difficulties must disappear at once, I must attain to
\nperfection immediately and without difficulties, otherwise it proves that the
\nMother’s Grace is not with me”.<\/FONT>
\n

20-7-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t


\n\t\t*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n

You must throw all that away.  Such
\ndepressions can make you shut to what Mother is giving you.  There is
\nabsolutely no good reason for such an attitude.  The existence of
\ndifficulties is a known thing in the Yoga.  That is no reason for
\nquestioning the final victory or the effectuality of the Divine Grace.<\/FONT>
\n

4-2-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n


\n

 


\n
\n\t\tPSYCHIC  DEVELOPMENT  AND  THE  MOTHER’S
\nGRACE<\/FONT><\/B>

 

Q:<\/FONT><\/B>  What is the Law
\nof the working of the Mother’s Grace ?<\/FONT> <\/I>
\n

 <\/p>\n


\nPage – 331<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

A:<\/B>  The more one develops the
\npsychic, the more is it possible for the Grace to act.<\/FONT>
\n

13-8-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nWhat has to be gained is the constant
\nprominence of that part which is always aware of the Mother \u2014 it is of course
\nthe psychic \u2014 for that though it can be covered over for the time being cannot
\nbe misled by the contrary suggestions.  Once it is awake, it always
\nre-emerges from obscuration \u2014 that is the guarantee of the final arrival at the
\ngoal, but if it can be maintained in front or even consciously felt behind in
\nall conditions, then the stages of the way also become comparatively safe and
\ncan be passed with greater ease and security.<\/FONT>
\n

6-2-1937<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nIt is when there is no attachment to
\noutward things for their own sake and all is only for the Mother and the life
\nthrough the inner psychic being is centred in her that the best condition is
\ncreated for the spiritual realisation.<\/FONT>
\n

11-11-1935<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t


\n\t\t*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n

Never mind about the purity of the
\nbody.  The love of the Mother purifies both heart and body \u2014 if the soul’s
\naspiration is there, the body also is pure.  What happened in the past does not
\nin the least matter.<\/FONT>
\n

 


\n


\n\t\tTHE 
\nMOTHER’S  CONSTANT  HELP<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t

 

The Mother’s help is always there but you
\nare not conscious of it except when the psychic is active and the consciousness
\nnot clouded.  The coming of suggestions is not a proof that the help is not
\nthere.  Suggestions come to all, even to the greatest Sadhaks or to the
\nAvatars \u2014 as they came to Buddha or Christ.  Obstacles are there \u2014 they are
\npart of Nature and they have to be overcome.<\/FONT>
\n

 <\/p>\n


\nPage – 332<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

What has to be attained is
\nnot to accept the suggestions, not to admit them as the truth or as one’s own
\nthoughts, to see them for what they are and keep oneself separate. 
\nObstacles have to be looked at as something wrong in the machinery of human
\nnature which has to be changed \u2014 they should not be regarded as sins or wrong
\ndoings which make one despair of oneself and of the Sadhana.<\/FONT>

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>


\n\t\tQ:<\/FONT><\/I><\/B>  Today
\nwhile engaged in work I felt a peaceful energy and something like ice touching
\nmy head.  Then the knowledge came to me with a strong feeling and vision
\nthat though the Mother is not physically near us, she is always present near and
\naround us and is constantly removing all kinds of difficulties with the touch of
\nher affectionate hand.  Was this a vision or realisation ?  Through what
\nconsciousness did it come to me ?<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  It is a realisation
\nattended with vision and feeling.  It is<\/FONT> psychic and the mental together that produced it.<\/FONT>
\n

11-6-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n
\nSTRAIGHTFORWARDNESS  AND  THE  MOTHER’S 
\nHELP<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t

 

Those who are not straightforward cannot
\nprofit by the Mother’s help, for they themselves turn it away.  Unless they
\nchange, they cannot hope for the descent of the supramental Light and Truth into
\nthe lower vital and physical nature;  they remain stuck in their own
\nself-created mud and cannot progress.<\/FONT>
\n

November, 1928<\/B><\/FONT>
\n


\n\t\t 


\n\t\tCHANGE  OF  THE  VITAL  WITH  THE 
\nMOTHER’S  HELP<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t

 

The Mother’s help is always there for
\nthose who are willing to receive it.  But you must be conscious of your
\nvital nature, and<\/FONT>
\n

 <\/p>\n


\nPage – 333<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

the vital nature must consent to change. 
\nIt is no use merely observing that it is unwilling and that, when thwarted, it
\ncreates depression in you.  Always the vital nature is not at first willing and
\nalways when it is thwarted or asked to change, it creates this depression by its
\nrevolt or refusal of consent.  You have to insist till it recognises the truth
\nand is willing to be transformed and to accept the Mother’s help and
\ngrace.  If the mind is sincere and the psychic aspiration complete and
\ntrue, the vital can always be made to change.<\/FONT>
\n

15-7-1932<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nIt is this idea that you are helpless
\nbecause the vital consents to the wrong movement that comes in the way. 
\nYou have to put your inner will and the Mother’s light on the vital so that it
\nshall change, not leave it to do what it likes.  If one is to be 
\n“helpless”  and moved by any part of the instrumental being, how is change
\npossible ?  The Mother’s force or the psychic can act, but on condition
\nthat the assent of the being is there.  If the vital is left to do what
\nit likes, it will always go after its old habits;  it has to be made to
\nfeel that it must change.<\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>


\n\t\tWhat is still restless in the vital has
\nto quiet down for the peace of mind to be even and constant.  It has to be
\ncontrolled, but only control will not be enough.  The Mother’s Power has to
\nbe called always.<\/FONT>
\n

10-4-1934<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t


\n\t\t 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\n\t\tPut the Mother’s notice henceforth at the
\ndoor of your vital being,  “No falsehood hereafter shall ever enter
\nhere”,  and station a sentry there to see that it is put into
\nexecution.<\/FONT>
\n

18-5-1933<\/B><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\t\t


\n\t\t*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 334<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

The Mother cannot tell you to go because
\nthere is no true cause why you should go and it would be very bad for you to do
\nso as well as bad for the work and everything else.  The reasons for your
\nnot giving up the work are just the same as before and not in the least changed
\nby anything that has happened.  Jealousy is no doubt a great defect of the
\nnature, but many here have it;<\/FONT>  almost everyone has some serious defect in his nature which stands in his
\nway and gives trouble.  But it is not a remedy for this to give up work and
\nSadhana and abandon the Mother.  You have to go on working and doing the
\nSadhana with the Mother’s aid behind you until this and all other obstacles are
\ngot rid of.   We have told you already that these things cannot be got
\nrid of in a day, but if you persevere and rely on the Mother they will yet
\ndisappear.  Do not allow an adverse Force to mislead you;<\/FONT> 
\nreject all depression and go straight
\nforward till you reach the goal.<\/FONT>
\n

17-7-1935<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nWe are very glad to hear that you are
\nbetter and that X has helped you out of the crisis.  Surely this jealousy
\nmust go and no trace of it remain.  Do not doubt that the Mother’s love is
\nand will be always with you.  Trust in her grace and all this will go out
\nof you and leave you the true child of the Mother which in your mind and heart
\nyou always are.<\/FONT>
\n

18-7-1935<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nMother has no wish to abandon you and it
\nhas never been her will that you should go away from her.  You must put
\nyourself in harmony with her will and then all will go right.  Her love
\nwill guide you and her protection will be effective.<\/FONT>
\n

 

Rest until you are well.  Do not be
\nin a hurry to go to work before you have recovered your strength.<\/FONT>
\n

19-7-1935<\/B><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 335<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n


\n\t\tCALLING  THE  MOTHER  IN  DIFFICULTY<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t

 

When difficulties arise, remain quiet
\nwithin and call down the Mother’s force to remove them.<\/FONT>
\n

26-8-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nTo call to the Mother always is the main
\nthing and with that to aspire and assent to the Light when it comes, to reject
\nand detach oneself from desire and any dark movement.  But if one cannot do
\nthese other things successfully, then call and still call.<\/FONT>
\n

 

The Mother’s force is there with you even
\nwhen you do not feel it;  remain quiet and persevere.<\/FONT>
\n

15-9-1934<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nYou should not allow yourself to get
\nupset by these small things.  If when the movements you complain of come,
\nyou remain quiet and open to the Mother and call her, after a time you will find
\na change beginning to come in you.  Meditation is not enough;<\/FONT> 
\nthink of the Mother and offer your work and
\naction to her, that will help you better.<\/FONT>
\n

7-4-1932<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nThere is only one way if you can not
\nexert your will \u2014 it is to call the Force;  even the call only with the
\nmind or the mental word is better than being extremely passive and submitted to
\nthe attack, \u2014 for although it may not succeed instantaneously, the mental call
\neven ends by bringing the Force and opening up the consciousness again. 
\nFor everything depends upon that.  In the externalised consciousness
\nobscurity and suffering can always be there;  the more the internalised
\nconsciousness reigns, the more these things are pushed back and out, and with
\nthe full internalised consciousness they cannot remain \u2014 if they come, it is as
\noutside touches unable to lodge themselves in the being.<\/FONT>
\n

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\n

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\n

<\/p>\n

Even when one cannot call in actively the
\nMother’s Force one must keep the reliance that it will come.<\/FONT>
\n

26-8-1936<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nIt is the physical mind that feels too
\ninert \u2014 but if some part of the being turns to the Mother, that is enough to
\nbring the help.<\/FONT>
\n

25-1-1934<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nIt is an obsession from the subconscient
\nphysical bringing back the habitual thoughts,  “I can’t call rightly \u2014 I
\nhave no real aspiration, etc.”;  the depression, the memory, etc. are from
\nthe same source.  It is no use indulging in these ideas.  If you
\ncannot call the Mother in what you think the right way, call her in any way \u2014 if
\nyou can’t call her, think of her with the will to be rid of these things. 
\nDon’t worry yourself with the idea whether you have true aspiration or not \u2014
\nthe psychic being wants and that is sufficient.  The rest is for the Divine
\nGrace on which one must steadfastly rely \u2014 one’s own merit, virtue or capacity
\nis not the thing that brings the realisation.<\/FONT>
\n

 

I shall send the force to rid you of this
\nobsession in any case, but if you can abandon these habitual ideas, it will make
\nthe disappearance of the attack easier.<\/FONT>
\n

4-1-1937<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nIt is always best in these difficulties
\nto tell the Mother and call for her help.  It is probably something in his
\nvital that needs somebody to protect and care for \u2014 but you must accustom
\nyourself to the idea that it is not needed and the best thing is to give the
\nperson to the care of the Mother \u2014 offer the object of your affection to
\nher.<\/FONT>
\n

15-11-1937<\/B><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\nPage – 337<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n


\n\t\tPRAYER  TO  THE  MOTHER  FOR  INNER 
\nAND  OUTER  THINGS<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t

 


\n\t\tQ:<\/I><\/B> 
\nYou say, “when one is a Sadhak the prayer should be for the inner things
\nbelonging to the Sadhana and for outer things only so far as they are necessary
\nfor that and for the Divine work”.  This latter portion about prayer for
\nouter things is not clear to me.  Can you kindly   explain ?<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  All depends on whether
\nthe outer things are sought for one’s own convenience, pleasure, profit etc., or
\nas part of the spiritual life, necessary for the success of the work, the
\ndevelopment and fitness of the instruments etc.  It is a question mainly of
\ninner attitude.  If for instance you pray for money for  buying nice
\nfood to please the palate;  that is not a proper thing for a Sadhak; 
\nif you pray for money to give to the Mother and help her work, then it is
\nlegitimate.<\/FONT>
\n

 


\nQ:<\/I><\/B>  I
\nquote several types of prayers which I offer and shall be grateful to know which
\nof them are outer or inner, right or wrong, helpful or hindrance, or what
\namendment to them can make them pure:
\n\u2014<\/I><\/FONT>


\n 


\n\t\t1.<\/B>  In the
\nnight-time when I sit to read and an untimely attack of sleep comes, I pray to
\nthe Mother to be freed from the attack.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  If your reading is part
\nof the Sadhana, that is all right.<\/FONT>
\n


\nQ:  2.<\/B> 
\nWhen I go to sleep I pray to the Mother for her force to take over my Sadhana
\nduring the sleep, to make my sleep conscious, luminous, to protect me during the
\nsleep, to keep me conscious of the Mother.<\/FONT><\/I>
\n


\n3.<\/B>  When I
\nwake up any time in the sleep I pray to the Mother to be with me and protect
\nme.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  These two are part of the
\nSadhana.<\/FONT>
\n

 <\/p>\n


\nPage – 338<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n


\nQ:<\/I><\/B> 
\n4.<\/B>  While going out for and during walk I pray to give me force to
\ntake more exercise and to gain more strength and health and thank the Mother for
\nthe help.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  If strength and health
\nare requested as being necessary for the Sadhana and the development of the
\nperfection of the instrument it is all right.<\/FONT>
\n


\nQ:  5. 
\n<\/B>When I see any dog on the way while walking I at once pray to the Mother to
\nprotect from its attack and remove my fear.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:  <\/B>A call for protection is
\nalways permissible.  The removal of fear is part of the Sadhana.<\/FONT>
\n


\nQ: 
\n6.<\/I><\/B>  When I go for food I pray for the Mother’s force to help me
\nto offer every morsel to the Mother, to get everything easily digested, to make
\na growth of complete equality and detachment in my consciousness enabling me to
\ntake any food with equal Rasa of universal Ananda without any insistence or
\nseeking or greed or desire.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  This is again part of the
\nSadhana.<\/FONT>
\n


\nQ:  7.<\/B> 
\nWhen I go for work I pray for the Mother’s force to take over my work, help me
\nand make me do it well and carefully with love, devotion and pleasure, with the
\nremembrance of the Mother and feeling of being supported and helped by her
\nwithout ego or desire.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  This also.<\/FONT>
\n


\nQ:  8.<\/B> 
\nDuring the work also when there is a pause I pray for force, help and constant
\nremembrance.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n


\n <\/p>\n


\nPage – 339<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

A:<\/FONT><\/B>  This
\nalso.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n

Q:<\/FONT><\/I><\/B> 
\n9.<\/B>  When any bad or impure thought, seeing and sensation come in me I
\npray for its removal and purity.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  This also.<\/FONT>
\n

Q:<\/FONT><\/I><\/B> 
\n10.<\/B>  When I am reading I try to pray when possible to understand all
\nquickly, to grasp and absorb completely.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  If it is as Sadhana or
\nfor the development of the instrument, it is all right.<\/FONT>
\n

Q:<\/FONT><\/I><\/B> 
\n11.<\/B>  When I commit any mistake in the work I pray to be more conscious,
\nalert and unerring.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/I><\/B>  This also is part
\nof the Sadhana.<\/FONT>
\n

Q:<\/FONT><\/I><\/B> 
\n12<\/B>.  When I go to the post office to register a parcel of Prasad to my
\nfriend I pray to have the parcel accepted immediately and avoid any
\ndelay.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  That can be done, if
\navoidance of waste of time is considered as part of the right regulation of the
\nlife of Sadhana.<\/FONT>
\n


\nQ: 
\n13.<\/B>  When I sit down for meditation I pray for Mother’s force to take
\nover my meditation and make it deep, steady, concentrated and free from all
\nattacks of troubling thoughts, vital restlessness, etc.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  This is part of the
\nSadhana.<\/FONT>
\n


\nQ:<\/I><\/B> 
\n14.<\/b>  In depression, difficulty, wrong suggestions,<\/I><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 340<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n


\ndoubt, inertia, on any
\noccasion or happening I pray to the Mother to hold courage, keep faith, face
\nthem and overcome them.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  This also.<\/FONT>
\n

Q<\/FONT><\/B>:  15.  At all
\nother times as far as I can I pray to the<\/FONT><\/I>
\nMother to fill me with her peace,
\npower, light etc., or offer any other kind of required prayer, and thank her for
\nsupporting, strengthening and sustaining me.<\/FONT><\/I> <\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  This also.<\/FONT>
\n


\n


\n\t\t 


\n\t\tREMOVAL  OF  RECURRING  DIFFICULTIES<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t

 

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nQ:<\/FONT><\/I><\/B>  What is
\nthe right way of meeting one’s recurring difficulties ?<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  Equality, rejection, calling on the Mother’s
\nforce.<\/FONT>
\n

1-8-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nWhat stands in the way is the recurring
\ncircle of the old mixture.  To break out of that is very necessary to
\narrive at an inner Yogic calm and peace not disturbed by these things.  If
\nthat is established, it will be possible to feel in it the Mother’s Presence, to
\nopen to her guidance, to get, not by occasional glimpses but in a steady opening
\nand flowering, the psychic perception and the descent of the spiritual Light and
\nAnanda.  For that help will be with you.<\/FONT>
\n

7-3-1937<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nPlenty of people have this
\ncondition  (it is human nature)  and<\/FONT>
\n

 <\/p>\n

Page – 341<\/p>\n

\n

there is naturally a way of coming out of
\nit \u2014 having full faith in the Mother to quiet the inner mind  (even if the
\nouter continues to be troublesome)  and call in it the Mother’s Peace and
\nForce, which is always there above you, into the<\/FONT>   <\/B><\/I><\/FONT>ā<\/FONT><\/I>dhāra.<\/I>  Once that is there, consciously, to keep yourself
\nopen to it and let it go on working with a full adhesion, with a constant
\nsupport of your consent, with a conscious rejection of all that is not that,
\ntill all the inner being is tranquillised and filled with the Mother’s Force,
\nPeace, Joy, Presence \u2014 then the outer nature will be obliged to follow suit in
\nits turn.<\/FONT>
\n

8-5-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n


\n

 


\n
\n\t\tRECOVERY  FROM  BAD  CONDITIONS<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t

 

These bad conditions are a lapse 
\n(often due to a very slight cause)  from the inner poise to the outer
\nconsciousness.  When they happen do not get affected, but remain quiet,
\ncall the Mother and get back inward.<\/FONT>
\n

24-1-1936<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nAn occasional sinking of the
\nconsciousness happens to everybody.  The causes are various, some touch
\nfrom outside, something not yet changed or not sufficiently changed in the
\nvital, especially the lower vital, some inertia or obscurity rising up from the
\nphysical parts of nature.  When it comes, remain quiet, open yourself to
\nthe Mother and call back the true conditions and aspire for a clear and
\nundisturbed discrimination showing you from within yourself the cause of the
\nthing that needs to be set right.<\/FONT>
\n

 

4-3-1932<\/B><\/FONT>
\n


\n


\n\t\tTHE 
\nMOTHER’S  HELP  IN  ATTACKS<\/FONT><\/B>
\n

 

It is the forces of the Ignorance that
\nbegin to lay siege and then<\/FONT>
\n

 <\/p>\n

Page – 342<\/p>\n

\n

make a mass attack.  Every time such
\nan attack can be defeated and cast out, there is a clearance in the
\nādhāra,<\/I> a new field gained for the Mother in the mind, vital or
\nphysical or the adjacent parts of the being.  That the place in the vital
\noccupied by the Mother is increasing is shown by the fact that you are now
\noffering a strong resistance to these sieges that used formerly to overpower you
\naltogether.<\/FONT>
\n

 

To be able to call the Mother’s presence
\nor force at such times is the best way to meet the difficulty.<\/FONT>
\n

 

It is with the Mother who is always with
\nyou and in you that you converse.  The only thing is to hear aright, so
\nthat no other voice can come in between.<\/FONT>
\n

7-12-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nHowever strong the attack may
\nbe, and even if it overcomes you for the time being, still it will rapidly pass
\naway if you have formed the habit of opening to the Mother.  The peace will
\ncome back if you remain quiet and keep yourself open to it and to the
\nForce.  Once something of the Truth has shown  itself within you, it
\nwill always, even if for a time heavily clouded over with wrong movements, shine
\nout again like the sun in heaven.  Therefore persevere with confidence
\nand never lose courage.<\/FONT>
\n

14-3-1932<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t


\n\t\t*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nQ:<\/I><\/B> 
\nWhat is the best means for the Sadhaks to avoid suffering due to the action of
\nthe hostile forces ?<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  Faith in the Mother and
\ncomplete surrender.<\/FONT>
\n

17-6-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n


\n 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nQ:<\/I><\/B> 
\nWhen the Sadhaks overlook some weakness of their nature in the process of
\ntransformation, is it not possible that it will be shown to them by the Divine
\nMother rather than through a painful wound at the weak point dealt by the
\nhostile forces ?<\/I><\/FONT>
\n


\n <\/p>\n

Page – 343<\/p>\n

\n

A:<\/B>  If they are sufficiently open to the Divine
\nit can be done \u2014 but<\/FONT> most Sadhaks
\nhave too much egoism and lack of faith and obscurity and self-will and vital
\ndesires, \u2014 it is that that shuts them to the Mother and calls in the action of
\nthe hostile forces.<\/FONT>
\n

17-6-1933<\/FONT><\/B>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nThe play of the mental and vital defects
\nin the human nature<\/FONT> which belongs to
\nthe Ignorance is allowed \u2014 as also the attacks and suggestions of the Asuric
\nforces \u2014 so long as there is anything in the nature which responds to these
\nthings.  If they rise in you in the presence of the Mother, it is because
\nthen a strong pressure is put on them so that they have either to go out or to
\nput up a fight for existence.  The remedy is to open to the Mother only and
\nto reject entirely and at all times all other forces, and to reject them most
\nwhen they become most active.  Faith, sincerity, perseverance will do the
\nrest.<\/FONT>
\n

16-11-1932<\/FONT><\/B>
\n


\n


\n\t\t 


\n\t\tTESTING  BY  THE  MOTHER<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t

 

The idea of tests also is not a healthy
\nidea and ought not to be pushed too far.  Tests are applied not by the
\nDivine but by the forces of the lower planes \u2014 mental, vital, physical \u2014 and
\nallowed by the Divine because that is part of the soul’s training and helps it
\nto know itself, its powers and the limitations it has to outgrow.  The
\nMother is not testing you at every moment, but rather helping you at every
\nmoment to rise beyond the necessity of tests and difficulties which belong to
\nthe inferior consciousness.  To be always conscious of that help will be
\nyour best safeguard against all attacks whether of adverse powers or of your own
\nlower nature.<\/FONT>
\n

 

     
\n
\n\t\tTHE 
\nMOTHER’S  OCCULT  ACTION  FOR  ANSWERING<\/FONT>  <\/FONT>CALLS  FOR  HELP<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t

 

As to the experience, certainly X’s call
\nfor help did reach the<\/FONT>
\n

 <\/p>\n

Page – 344<\/p>\n

\n

Mother, even though all the details she
\nrelates in her letter might not have
\nbeen present to the Mother’s physical mind.  Always calls of this kind are
\ncoming to the Mother, sometimes a hundred close upon each other and always the
\nanswer is given.  The occasions are of all kinds, but whatever the need
\nthat occasions the call, the Force is there to answer it.  That is the
\nprinciple of this action on the occult plane.  It is not of the same kind
\nas an ordinary human action and does not need a written or oral communication on
\nthe one who calls; <\/B> an interchange of psychic communication is quite
\nsufficient to set the Force at work.  At the same time it is not an
\nimpersonal Force and the suggestion of a divine energy that is there ready to
\nanswer and satisfy anybody who calls it is not at all relevant here.  It is
\nsomething personal to the Mother and if she had not this power and this kind of
\naction she would not be able to do her work;  but this is quite different
\nfrom the outside practical working on the material plane where the methods must,
\nnecessarily, be different, although the occult working and the material working
\ncan and do join and the occult power give to the material working its utmost
\nefficacy. As for the one who is helped not feeling the force at work, his
\nknowing might help very substantially the effective working, but it need not be
\nindispensable;  the effect can be there even if he does not know how the
\nthing is done.  For instance, in your work in Calcutta and elsewhere my
\nhelp has always been with you and I don’t think it can be said that it was
\nineffective;  but it was of the same occult nature and could have had the
\nsame effect even if you had not been conscious in some way that my help was with
\nyou. <\/FONT>
\n

24-3-1949<\/B><\/FONT>
\n


\n 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nQ:<\/I><\/B> 
\nIt was 1 a.m. at night when my brother in excruciating pain called me and asked
\nif Sri Aurobindo could heal him.  I took out some Prasad flowers that were
\nwith me and touched the affected part with them.  And lo !   the
\npain vanished and he began to recover.  I want to know if you were aware of
\nthis and heard my prayer.<\/I><\/FONT>
\n


\n <\/p>\n

Page – 345<\/p>\n

\n

A:<\/B>  What happens in such cases is that when
\nsomeone is accepted, the Mother sends out something of herself to him and this
\nis with him wherever he goes and is always in connection with her bring
\nhere.  So when he does anything like what you did in this case with faith
\nand bhakti<\/I>, it reaches, through that emanation of  herself which is
\nwith him, the Mother’s consciousness inner or outer and the Force goes in return
\nfor the result.<\/FONT>
\n


\n

 


\n\t\t                 WRONG 
\nIDEAS  ABOUT  THE  MOTHER’S  LISTENING  TO 
\nCALLS<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t

 

Q:<\/I><\/B>  When X
\ncomplained to me about her difficulty I told her that it could be removed by
\ncalling the Mother’s help.   But she argued that there was no hope for
\nthe calls of a newcomer like herself to be heard by the Mother.  There were
\nso many calls from the older and advanced Sadhaks that fresh calls from a
\nbeginner like herself would be but calls in the wilderness and would go unheard
\nin that clamour.  I replied that if the Mother does not come in answer to
\nour calls she must have her reasons;  and there can be no doubt that when
\nshe comes she will come to stay.  In the meantime we should have faith and
\nequanimity and prepare the necessary conditions.  Possibly she has more
\nimportant work to do than to act to our bidding, and why should we insist that
\nshe should leave that work and attend to us ?  The Mother has never been
\nknown to fail in answering when a real call is sent to her straight from the
\nheart, for the very force in the call presupposes her presence.  When I
\ntold this to X, I felt a strong pressure and vibrations from the centre of my
\nforehead downwards between the eyebrows.  What is the reason of this ?<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

 

A:<\/B>  X’s reasonings are not very sound; 
\nyours are better if not altogether flawless.  The Mother is not limited by
\nthe physical mind, so even if she has  “more important”  work to do, that
\nwould not in the least stand in the way of her listening to a call<\/FONT>
\n

 <\/p>\n

Page – 346<\/p>\n

\n

from the wilderness or anywhere
\nelse.  Also spiritual things do not go by seniority;  so why should
\nthe clamour of  “older cases”  keep her ?  She can be and is with
\nall who need her.  So your  “Mother does not come ?  will not
\ncome ?”  is not quite to the point, but the rest of your answer is. 
\nMother is there even now and working in you, it is only your inner vision and
\nfeeling that are not opened so that you cannot see or feel her. <\/FONT>
\n

 

What came down to the centre of the
\nforehead was the answer, let us say the touch of the Mother’s presence \u2014 her
\nconsciousness, her force working on you to open the centre of the inner mind,
\ninner will, the inner vision and when that opens one begins to see and know what
\nis to the physical eye invisible and to the surface mind unknowable. <\/FONT>
\n

11-10-1935<\/FONT><\/B>

 


\n
\n\t\tUNFAILING  HELP  AND  PROTECTION<\/FONT><\/B>
\n\t\t

 

The experience you had of the power of
\nthe Name and the protection is that of everyone who has used it with the same
\nfaith and reliance.  To those who call from the heart for the protection,
\nit cannot fail.  Do not allow any outward circumstance to shake the faith
\nin you;  for nothing gives greater strength than this faith to go through
\nand arrive at the goal.  Knowledge and Tapasya, whatever their force, have
\na less sustaining power \u2014 faith is the strongest staff for the journey.<\/FONT>
\n

 

The protection is there over you and the
\nwatchful love of the Mother.  Rely upon it and let your being open more and
\nmore to it \u2014 then it will repel attacks and always uphold you.<\/FONT>
\n

8-10-1936<\/B><\/FONT>
\n


\n

 


\n
\n\t\tCONDITIONS  FOR  THE  WORKING  OF  THE 
\nMOTHER’S  PROTECTION<\/FONT><\/B>
\n

 

The Mother has made an arrangement with a
\nview to all the occult forces and the best possible conditions for the
\nprotection of the Sadhaks from certain forces of death, disease, etc.  It
\ncannot<\/FONT>
\n

 <\/p>\n

Page – 347<\/p>\n

\n

work perfectly because the Sadhaks
\nthemselves have not the right attitude towards food and kindred vital physical
\nthings.  But still there is a protection.  If, however, the Sadhaks go
\noutside her formation, it must be on their own responsibility …. But this
\narrangement is for the Ashram and not for those who are outside.<\/FONT>
\n

14-7-1933<\/FONT><\/B>
\n


\n 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nQ:<\/B>  Is it
\nnot true that the Sadhaks observe the rules laid down by the Mother because they
\nfeel that by not observing them and disobeying her one goes out of her
\nprotection ?<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  It is precisely that \u2014 one immediately goes
\nout of the protection.<\/FONT>
\n

8-6-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t


\n\t\t*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nQ:<\/I><\/B>  All would like to allow the Mother’s protection
\nto remain with them;  but perhaps certain conditions have <\/B>to
\n<\/B>be fulfilled ?<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  There are very few who allow it.  There
\nis a general protection around all, but most go out of it by their attitude,
\nthoughts or actions or open the way to other forces.<\/FONT>
\n

24-8-1933<\/FONT><\/B>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n


\nIt is not because the Mother has
\nwithdrawn her protection \u2014 she has not done that.  It is more likely that
\nit  [the difficulty]  came because you have been going too much out of
\nyour inner being and externalising yourself.  It is better to draw back
\nwithin again and recover the inner calm and peace.<\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\t\t


\n\t\t*<\/font><\/P>
\n

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\n


\nQ:<\/FONT><\/B><\/I>  If
\npeople constantly have the Mothers protection
\naround them, I don’t think they will ever have depression and doubt or anything hostile to the Divine.<\/I><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  Those things may try to come but they will not
\nbe able to enter or stay.<\/FONT>
\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P>


\n\t\tQ:<\/B>  If a boy
\ncomes here at an early age, will he be free from the difficulties that usually
\ngo with sex ?<\/I><\/FONT>
\n

A:<\/B>  It is not automatically
\ntrue \u2014 it is only possible \u2014 but on condition he gets fully into the influence
\nof the Mother, is not too open to the atmosphere of other Sadhaks who have it,
\ndoes not get upset at the initial age and also does not upset himself by reading
\nerotic literature etc.  There is no one who has been able to do all that
\nyet.<\/FONT>
\n

8-11-1933<\/B><\/FONT>
\n


\n


\n\t\tACCIDENTS  AND  THE  MOTHER’S 
\nPROTECTION<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t

 


\n\t\tQ:<\/FONT><\/B><\/I>  X had a car accident this
\nmorning.  Could Mother not see the possibility of this accident beforehand
\nand prevent it ?  Or was it because X had in some manner gone out of the
\nzone of her protection ?<\/I><\/FONT> <\/FONT>
\n


\n\t\t 

A:  <\/B>It was not possible to
\nprevent the accident.  When the danger comes a call to the Mother is the
\nfirst thing to be done, that makes the general protection at once
\neffective.  X was in too externalised a state to do that and he did the
\nvery opposite thing to what should have been done \u2014 trying to get away in front
\nof the car instead of behind it.  But the true cause was something more
\ninternal \u2014 one of those choices made by the inner being 
\n(not necessarily known to the conscious mind)  which bring these things
\nas a response.<\/FONT>
\n

27-1-1936<\/B><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\t\t


\n\t\t*<\/font><\/P>
\n

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\n

\nTHE 
\nMOTHER  PROTECTION  ON  THE  VITAL  PLANE<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It was s a dream of the
\nvital plane where all kinds of danger occur until  you get courage to face
\nthem.  If there is no fire or if there is the protection of the Mother 
\n(which become manifest by remembering or calling her)  then these dangers
\ncome to nothing.  It is the fear of mad men that brought the thing in the
\nvital;  such things as the fear have to be thrown out of the nature.<\/font><\/p>\n

8-9-1933<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

\nWhat happened in your experience was
\nthat the vital being got free from the body through its desire to unite with the
\nMother  (you met the Mother on the borders between the vital and physical) 
\nand lived with its own life independent of the body.  It entered into the
\nvital world and, not being sheltered any longer in the body, felt helpless at
\nfirst, till it called the Mother.  The appearance of X there might possibly
\nhave been some part of the vital of X himself, but was more probably a vital
\nbeing in his shape, perhaps the very vital being who has been troubling him. 
\nWhen you go into the vital world, you meet many such things, \u2014 the one
\nsufficient protection is to call the Mother.<\/font><\/p>\n

7-9-1933<\/b><\/font>
\n <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nREJECTION 
\nOF  DIFFICULTIES  BY  INWARD  SURRENDER<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

To come physically to the Mother for
\ngetting rid of a disturbance is unnecessary und useless<\/font>;  it is
\ninwardly that you must take refuge in her
\nand throw away the wrong movement, as you have seen on this occasion.  To
\ncome physically would only create a habit of getting wrong and coming to her to
\nget right and it would also lead to the wrong movement of throwing the
\ndifficulty on her instead of inwardly giving it up, rendering its surrender. 
\nBut it is a general surrender that is needed which could prevent these useless
\ndisturbances over trifling matters, egoisms, insistences on one’s own point of
\nview, anger because one does not<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

have one’s own <\/b>way or a due
\nrecognition of one’s independence or importance.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

\n\t\tIt is the inner oneness that saves, not
\nthe outer nearness.<\/font><\/p>\n

17-11-1933<\/b><\/font>
\n <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t
\n\t\tWRITING 
\nTO  THE  MOTHER  FOR  HELP<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You did well to speak to X and also to
\nwrite to the Mother.  <\/b>Of <\/b>course.  Mother had observed
\nX’s difficulties;  it is correct that the difficulty is the lack of a
\ncertain free opening \u2014 otherwise all that could be removed quickly and the
\nnecessary change of nature  (mind, ego, etc.)  carried on by smooth
\ngradation.  <\/b>To <\/b>write as you do is helpful for opening oneself
\nand for receiving the precise touch.  X’s logic about the Mother’s knowing
\nand therefore there being no need to write is applicable if there is a free or
\nat least a sufficient flow of giving and reception between the Mother and the
\nSadhak, but when a serious difficulty comes, this logic is not so applicable. 
\nNaturally, we shall do our best to help him in his struggle.<\/font><\/p>\n

14-5-1936<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\tLAYING 
\nALL  MOVEMENTS  BARE  BEFORE  THE  MOTHER<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

One rule for you I can lay
\ndown,  "Do not do, say or think anything which you would want to
\nconceal from the Mother".  And that answers the objections that rose
\nwithin you \u2014 from your vital, is it not ? \u2014 against bringing 
\n"these petty things"  to the Mother’s notice.  Why should
\nyou think that the Mother would be bothered by these things or regard them as
\npetty ?  If all<\/i> the life is to be Yoga, what is there that can be
\ncalled petty or of no importance ?  Even if the Mother does not answer, to
\nhave brought any matter of your action and self-development before her in the
\nright spirit means to have put it under her protection,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

in the light of the Truth, under
\nthe rays of the Power that is working for the transformation \u2014 for immediately
\nthose rays begin to play and to act on the thing brought to her notice. 
\nAnything within that advises not to do it when the spirit in you moves you<\/font>
\nto do it, may very well be a device of the vital to
\navoid the ray of the Light and the working of the Force.  It may also be
\nobserved that if you open yourself to the Mother by putting the movements of any
\npart of you under her observation, that of itself create a relation, a personal
\ncloseness with her other then that which her general silent or not directly<\/font>
\n<\/font>invited action maintains with all
\nthe Sadhaks.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

All this, of course, if you feel ready
\nfor this openness, if the spirit moves you to lay what is in you bare before
\nher.  For it is then it is fruitful \u2014 when it comes from within and is
\nspontaneous and true.<\/font><\/p>\n

18-5-1932<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

\nQ:<\/i><\/b><\/font> 
\n<\/b>Today a thought
\nhas come to me:  "Why are you forcing yourself so much with regard to
\nthe control of the vital being ?  Better not bother about opening your
\nthoughts and desires to the Mother;  rather leave Her to work on you". <\/font><\/i><\/p>\n

A:<\/b> 
\nIf you want the Mother to work through you, you must lay before her your
\nthoughts and desires and reject them.<\/font><\/p>\n

3-9-1933<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

\nQ:<\/b>  On
\nreading my yesterday’s letter to the Mother I feel today as if She was not much
\npleased with my laying before Her the wrong thoughts I had about X and Y.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

A:<\/b> 
\nYour writing these things does not give any displeasure to Mother.  It is
\nbetter to write if you have them, than to be silent about it.<\/font><\/p>\n

9-6-1933<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Page – 352<\/p>\n

\n


\nWORKING 
\nOF  THE  MOHER’S  FORCE  FOR  PHYSICAL  CURE<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The inherent strength of the body does
\nnot do things like that.  It is the Mother’s force that does it, when one
\ncalls and opens oneself.  Even people who never did Yoga and are conscious
\nof nothing, get cured like that without knowing the reason or feeling the way in
\nwhich it was done.  The force comes from above or in descending it
\nenvelopes and comes from without inside or it comes out from inside after
\ndescending there.  When you are conscious of the play of the forces, then
\nyou feel the working.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It  (awakening)  means the
\nconscious action of the psychic from behind.  When it comes to the front it
\ninvades the mind and vital and body and psychicises their movements.  It
\ncomes best by aspiration and an unquestioning and entire turning and surrender
\nto the Mother.  But also it sometimes comes of itself when the ādhāra<\/i>
\nis ready.<\/font><\/p>\n

5-5-1933<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

\nQ:<\/i><\/b> 
\nWhen I got up from sleep I found that a cold had already entered.  My
\nconsciousness brought down the Mother’s Force and the cold disappeared. 
\nThe same process was tried for other troubles too.  I want to know if the
\nmethod adopted for the Force was quite the right one.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

A:<\/b>  It is quite the right
\nway.  It is very good that you are learning to use the Force.<\/font><\/p>\n

27-8-1934<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

\nIt is a fact of my experience that when
\nthe resistance in the body is too strong and persistent, it can help to take
\nsome aid of physical means as an instrumentation for the Force to work more
\ndirectly on the body itself;  for the body then feels itself supported
\nagainst the resistance from both sides, by means both physical as well as<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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\n

supraphysical.  The Mother’s force can work truth both
\ntogether.<\/p>\n

1-9-1936<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

\nQ:<\/font><\/i><\/b> 
\n<\/b>Since more than a fortnight every time I receive the Mother’s touch at
\nPranam time I feel a sense of strong nourishment accompanied by joy and
\nstrength, as if a new substance is being poured down even in my physical body.
\n<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

A:<\/b> 
\nAs you suffer from ill-health, Mother presses the nourishment of the divine
\nstrength and health into your physical being, renewing its substance with that.<\/font><\/p>\n

4-11-1934<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 
\n
\nTHE 
\nMOTHER’S  ACTION  IN  CURING  ILLNESS<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\tQ:<\/b>  On
\nwhat basis did the Mother’s action proceed in the case recently submitted to her
\n?<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

A:<\/b> 
\nMother acted on her inner perception about the whole affair; she does not
\nact only on the outer facts but on what she feels or sees lying behind them.<\/font><\/p>\n

 29-8-1935<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n 


\n*<\/font><\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

\nQ:<\/i><\/b> 
\nX’s letter to me about her hip-joint pain was sent to the Mother by me not on
\nthe same day but on the next.  Yet it seems from X’s latest that her pain
\ndisappeared soon after that letter had reached me. Was there an automatic
\neffect of the letter, even before the Mother was told of the letter’s contents ?<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

A:  <\/b>Y
\nspoke to the Mother about <\/b>X’s pain on the same day \u2014<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Page – 354<\/p>\n

\n

so it is not necessary to suppose an
\nautomatic effect of the letter itself.  But such un automatic effect does
\noften take place either immediately after writing or when the letter enters the
\nMother’s atmosphere.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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