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\nSADHANA  THROUGH  WORK  FOR  THE  MOTHER
\n<\/font><\/b> <\/P>
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WORK  FOR  THE  MOTHER  AND  SADHANA
\n<\/b> <\/P>
\n

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\n

Work for the Mother done with the right concentration on her is
\nas much a Sadhana as meditation and inner experiences.<\/P>
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Those who do work for the Mother in all sincerity are prepared
\nby the work itself for the right consciousness even if they do not sit down for
\nmeditation or follow any particular practice of Yoga.  It is not necessary to
\ntell you how to meditate;  whatever is needful will come of itself, if in your
\nwork and at all times you are sincere and keep yourself open to the
\nMother. <\/P>
\n

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\n

NECESSITY OF WORK IN INTEGRAL YOGA
\n<\/b> <\/P>
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\n

To go entirely inside in order to have experiences and to
\nneglect the work, the external consciousness, is to be unbalanced, one-sided in
\nthe Sadhana ―<\/font> for our Yoga is integral;  so also to throw oneself outward and
\nlive in the external being alone is to be unbalanced, one-sided in the Sadhana.  One must have the same consciousness in inner experience and outward action and
\nmake both full of the Mother.<\/P>
\n

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It is not well to spend the whole time or the greater part of
\nthe time in meditation unless one is very strong in mind ―<\/font> for one gets into the
\nhabit of living in an inner world entirely and losing touch with external
\nrealities ―<\/font> this brings in a one-sided inharmonious movement and may lead to
\ndisturbance of balance.  To do both meditation and work and dedicate both to the
\nMother is the best thing.<\/P>
\n

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It is not our experience that by
\nmeditation alone it is possible to change the nature, nor has retirement from
\noutward activity and work much profited those who have tried it;  in many cases
\nit has been harmful.  A certain amount of concentration, an inner aspiration in
\nthe heart and an opening of the consciousness to the Mother’s presence there and
\nto the descent from above are needed.  But without action, without work the
\nnature does not really change;  it is there and by contact with men that there is
\nthe test of the change in the nature.  As for the work one does, there is no
\nhigher or lower work;  all work is the same provided it is offered to the Mother
\nand done for her and in her power.<\/P><\/p>\n

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This happens when the work is always associated with the
\nMother’s thought, done as an offering to her, with the call to do it through
\nyou.  All ideas of ego, all association of egoistic feelings with the work must
\ndisappear. One begins to feel the Mother’s force doing the work;  the psychic
\ngrows through a certain inner attitude behind the work and the ādhāra<\/i> becomes
\nopen both to the psychic intuitions and influences from within and to the
\ndescent from above.  Then the result of meditation can come through the work
\nitself. <\/P>
\n

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\n

Q:<\/b>  X says that he cannot feel your presence during work as he
\ncan during meditation.  He does not understand how work can help him. <\/i> <\/P>
\n

A:<\/b>  He has to learn to consecrate his work and feel the Mother’s
\npower working through it.  A purely sedentary subjective realisation is only a
\nhalf realisation.<\/P>
\n

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The Mother does not think that it is good to give up all work
\nand only read and meditate.  Work is part of the Yoga and it <\/P>
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gives the best
\nopportunity for calling down the Presence, the Light and the Power into the
\nvital and its activities;  it increases also the field and the opportunity of
\nsurrender.<\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

It is not enough to remember that the work is the Mother’s ―<\/font> and the
\nresults also.  You must learn to feel the Mother’s forces behind you and to open
\nto the inspiration and the guidance.  Always to remember by an effort of the
\nmind is too difficult;  but if you get into the consciousness in which you feel
\nalways the Mother’s force in you or supporting you, that is the true thing.<\/P>
\n

 <\/P><\/p>\n

The
\nMother does not usually give specific advice such as you ask for in regard to
\nthe Insurance Company.  You must learn to get the true inspiration in the mind’s
\nsilence.<\/P><\/p>\n

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Q:<\/b>  Will those who live in peace and Samata but do no work for
\nthe Mother or do little work get transformation ? <\/i> <\/P>
\n

A:<\/b>  No, they do not get transformed at all.<\/P>
\n

7-5-1933 <\/font><\/b> <\/P>
\n

TWO  STAGES  OF  UNION  WITH  THE  MOTHER’S  FORCE
\n<\/b> <\/P>
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\n

The feeling that all one does is from the Divine, that all
\naction is the Mother’s is a necessary step in experience, but one cannot remain
\nin it ―<\/font> one has to go farther.  Those can remain in it who do not want to change
\nthe nature, but only to have the experience of the Truth behind it.  Your action
\nis according to universal Nature and in that again it is according to your
\nindividual nature, and all Nature is a force put out by the Divine Mother for
\nthe action of the universe.  But as things are it is an action of the Ignorance
\nand the ego;  while what we want is an action of the divine Truth unveiled and undeformed by the Ignorance and the ego. <\/P>
\n

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\n

So when you feel that your actions are all done by the force 
\n(Shakti)  of the Mother, that is the true experience.  But the will of the Mother
\nis that all you do should be done not by her force in Nature as now, but her own
\ndirect force in the Truth of her nature, the higher divine Nature.  So also it
\nwas correct, what you thought afterwards, that unless there is this change, the
\nI experience that all you do is done by her will cannot be altogether true.  So it will not be permanent till then.  For if it were permanent now, it might
\nkeep you in the lower action as it does many and prevent or retard the change.  What you need as a permanent experience now is that of the Mother’s Force
\nworking in you in all things to change this ignorant consciousness and nature
\ninto her divine consciousness and nature.<\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n

It is the same with the truth about
\nthe instrument.  It is true that each thing is an instrument of the cosmic
\nShakti, therefore of the Mother.  But the aim of the Sadhana is to become a conscious and perfect instrument instead of one that is unconscious and therefore
\nimperfect.  One can be a conscious and perfect instrument only when one is no
\nlonger acting in obedience to the ignorant push of the lower nature but in
\nsurrender to the Mother and aware of her higher Force acting within oneself.  So here too your intuition was perfectly true.<\/P>
\n

 <\/P>
\n

But all this cannot be done in a
\nday.  So you are once more right in not being anxious or uneasy.  One must be
\nvigilant, but not anxious and uneasy.  The Mother’s Force will act and bring the
\nresult in its own time, provided one offers all to her and aspires and is
\nvigilant, calling and remembering her at all times, rejecting quietly all that
\nstands in the way of the action of her transforming Force.<\/P>
\n

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\n

Your second view of
\nthis was more from the right angle vision than the first.  To say,  “it is not I
\nwho have to act, so I need not mind",  is to say too much ―<\/font> one has to act in so
\nfar as one has to aspire, offer oneself, assent to the Mother’s working,
\nreject all else, more and more surrender.  All else will be done in time, there
\nis no need for anxiety or depression or impatience. <\/P>
\n

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At first one must put one’s will in union with the Mother’s will knowing that it is an instrument only and that it is the Mother’s will behind that alone can give the result.  Afterwards when one becomes conscious
\nfully of the Mother’s force working within, then the personal will is replaced
\nby the divine.<\/P>
\n

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There should be not only a general attitude, but each work
\nshould be offered to the Mother so as to keep the attitude a living one all the
\ntime.  There should be at the time of work no meditation, for that would withdraw
\nthe attention from the work, but there should be the constant memory of the One
\nto whom you offer it.  This is only a first process;  for when you can have
\nconstantly the feeling of a calm being within concentrated in the sense of the
\nDivine Presence while the surface mind does the work, or when you can begin to
\nfeel always that it is the Mother’s force that is doing the work and you are
\nonly a channel or an instrument, then in place of memory there will have begun
\nthe automatic constant realisation of Yoga, divine union, in works. <\/P>
\n

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Everybody is in the Mother, but one must become conscious of
\nthat, not of the work only.<\/P>
\n

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Q:<\/b>  Is it true that one should feel that it is the Divine
\nPresence which moves one and does everything for one ?  Would it be possible to
\nfeel it without a union with the Divine Mother ? <\/i> <\/P>
\n

A:<\/b>  No – that is itself a union with her ―<\/font> to feel the Divine
\nPresence above or in you and moving you.<\/P>
\n

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Q:<\/i><\/b> 
\nToday I felt as if someone else than myself was carrying out my actions. 
\nOf course I was there, but in the background.  Was it not the Mother’s
\nForce trying to take me into itself integrally ?<\/i><\/p>\n

A:<\/b>  It is too much to say that.  What you say amounts only
\nto some glimpse of the cosmic Force behind all the actions.<\/p>\n

2-6-1934<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Q:<\/i><\/b> 
\nHow can the will be made one with the Mother’s Will ?<\/i><\/p>\n

A:<\/b>  The will can be made one with the Mother’s by establishing a
\nconstant contact of the consciousness with hers.<\/p>\n

24-6-1933<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Q:<\/i><\/b>  <\/span>What
\nis meant by  "establishing a constant contact of the
\nconsciousness"  with the Modher which you say is necessary for union
\nwith her Will ?  Does it mean mental contact or psychic ?<\/i><\/p>\n

A:<\/b>  It means the whole \u2014 with the psychic as the base.<\/p>\n

25-6-1933<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Q:<\/i><\/b> 
\nMy psychological analysis indicates that it is no always possible for us,
\nSadhaks, to let the Mother work in us spontaneously.  For often something
\nin us keeps of and closes the doors against her.  I think the best course
\nwould be to develop our will – power, so that something might be always there to
\nhelp us reopen the doors.  I mean here the will not of the vital or mental
\nkind but the true will-power.  Would you kindly enlighten me as to how to
\ndevelop it ?<\/i><\/p>\n

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\n
\n<\/div>\n

A:<\/b>  The only way to do it is  (1) <\/b> to become
\naware of a conscious Force behind that uses the mind etc. (2) <\/b> to
\nlearn by practice to direct that Force towards its object.  I don’t suppose
\nyou will find it easy to do either of these things at once \u2014 one must first
\nlearn to live more deeply in the inner consciousness than you have done
\nhitherto.<\/p>\n

16-7-1934<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nCONDITIONS 
\nFOR  FOLLOWING  THE  MOTHER’S  WILL<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The conditions for following the Mother’s Will are to turn to her for Light
\nand Truth and Strength, and aspire that no other force shall influence or lead
\nyou, to make no demands or conditions in the vital, to keep a quiet mind ready
\nto receive the Truth, but not insisting on its own ideas and formations, \u2014
\nfinally, to keep the psychic awake and in front, so that you may be in a
\nconstant contact and know truly what her will is;  for the mind and vital
\ncan mistake other impulsions and suggestions for the Divine Will, but the
\npsychic once awakened makes no mistake.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A perfect perfection is only possible after supramentalisation;  but a
\nrelative good working is possible on the lower planes, if one is in contact with
\nthe Divine and careful, vigilant and conscious in mind and vital and body. 
\nThat is a condition, besides, which is preparatory and almost indispensable for
\nthe supreme liberation.<\/p>\n

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THE 
\nBASIS  OF  DIVINE  LIFE<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

To be entirely sincere means to desire the divine Truth only, to surrender
\nyourself more and more to the Divine Mother, to reject all personal demand and
\ndesire other than this one aspiration, to offer every action in life to the
\nDivine and do it as the work given without bringing in the ego.  This is
\nthe basis of the divine life.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

One cannot become altogether this at once, but if one aspires at all times
\nand calls in always the aid of the Divine Shakti with<\/p>\n

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a true heart and straightforward will, one grows more and more into this
\nconsciousness.<\/p>\n

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TRUE 
\nCONSCIOUSNESS  OF  KARMAYOGA<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He should carry on his work and do all things else in the right
\nconsciousness, offering all he does to the Mother and keeping in inner touch
\nwith her.  All work done in that spirit and with that consciousness becomes
\nKarmayoga and can be regarded as part of his Sadhana.<\/p>\n

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What you received and kept in the work is indeed the true basic consciousness
\nof Karmayoga \u2014 the calm consciousness from above supporting and the strength
\nfrom above doing the work, with that the Bhakti which feels it to be the
\nMother’s Consciousness present and working.  You know now by experience
\nwhat is the secret of Karmayoga.<\/p>\n

15-9-1936<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

RIGHT 
\nATTITUDE  IN  WORK<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Not only in your inward concentration, but in your outwards acts and
\nmovements you must take the right attitude.  If you do that and put
\neverything under the Mother’s guidance, you will find that difficulties begin to
\ndiminish or are much more easily got over and things become steadily smoother.<\/p>\n

In your work and acts you must do the same as in your concentration. 
\nOpen to the Mother, put them under her guidance, call in the peace, the
\nsupporting Power, the protection and, in order that they may work, reject all
\nwrong influences that might come in their way by creating wrong, careless or
\nunconscious movements.<\/p>\n

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Follow this principle and your whole being will become one under one rule, in
\nthe peace and sheltering Power and Light.<\/p>\n

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The Truth for you is to feel the Divine in you, open to the Mother and work
\nfor the Divine till you are aware of her in all your activities.  There
\nmust be the consciousness of the divine presence in your heart and the divine
\nguidance in your acts.  This the psychic being can easily, swiftly, deeply
\nfeel if it is fully awake;  once the psychic has felt it, it can spread to
\nthe mental and vital also.<\/p>\n

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Demands should not be made;  what you receive freely from the Mother
\nhelps you;  what you demand or try to impose on her is bound to be empty of
\nher force.<\/p>\n

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The Mother deals with each person differently according to his true need 
\n(not what he himself fancies to be his need)  and his progress in the
\nSadhana and his nature.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For you the most effective way to get the strength you need should be to do
\nthe work consciously and scrupulously, allowing nothing to interfere with its
\nexact discharge.  If you did that, opening yourself at the same time to the
\nMother in your work, you would receive more constantly the grace and would come
\nto feel her power doing the work through you;  you would thus be able to
\nlive constantly with the sense of her presence. If, on the contrary, you
\nallow your fancies or desires to interfere with your work or are careless and
\nnegligent, you interrupt the flow of her grace and give room for sorrow and
\nuneasiness and other foreign forces to enter into you.  Yoga through work
\nis the easiest and most effective way to enter into the stream of this Sadhana.<\/p>\n

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Even the most purely physical and mechanical work cannot be properly done if
\none accepts incapacity, inertia and passivity.  The remedy is not to
\nconfine yourself to mechanical work, but to reject and throw off incapacity,
\npassivity and inertia and open yourself to the Mother’s force.  If vanity,
\nambition and self-conceit stand in your way, cast them from you.  You will
\nnot get<\/p>\n

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rid of these things by merely waiting for them to disappear.  If you
\nmerely wait for things to happen, there is no reason why they should happen at
\nall.  If it is incapacity and weakness that oppose, still, as one opens
\noneself truly and more and more to the Mother’s force, the strength and capacity
\nnecessary for the work will be given and will grow in the ādhāra.<\/i><\/p>\n

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The advantage of being in the true consciousness is that you have the right
\nawareness and its will being in harmony with the Mother’s will, you can call in
\nthe Mother’s Force to make the change.  Those who live in the mind and the
\nvital are not so well able to do this;  they are obliged to use mostly
\ntheir personal effort and as the awareness and will and force of the mind and
\nvital are divided and imperfect, the work done is imperfect and not definitive. 
\nIt is only in the Supermind that Awareness, Will, Force are always one movement
\nand automatically effective.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tQ:<\/i><\/b> 
\nI am always in touch with the Mother during work.  Not only do I remember
\nher but the contact with her remains during work.  Her Force constantly
\nflows into the Adhara and the work is done automatically, but swiftly,
\nperfectly, unhesitatingly \u2014 without personal anxieties and responsibilities; instead, there is confidence, sureness, strength, calmness.  I feel that if
\nI can do work in this attitude, it will be perfect, flawless, the work of the
\nMother’s child, not of an egoistic man.  Kindly let me know if I am
\ncorrect.<\/i><\/p>\n

A:<\/b>  Yes, it is a very good progress and the first step towards
\nthe right use of the Power for action.<\/p>\n

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Q:<\/i><\/b> 
\nI have read both in  "The Synthesis of Yoga"  and<\/i><\/p>\n

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\n
\n<\/div>\n

the Mother’s  "Conversations" 
\nthat every act and movement, thought and word should be an offering.  Even
\nif this is a strictly mental effort without the heart’s devotion, as it may be
\nat first, it is sure to lead to devotion, provided the effort is sincere. 
\nThis discipline is quite possible in acts of a more or less mechanical nature
\nlike walking or eating, but where the work involves mental concentration, as in
\nreading or writing, it seems well-nigh impossible.  If the consciousness
\nhas to be busy with the remembrance, the attention will get divided and the work
\nwill not be properly done.<\/i><\/p>\n

A:<\/b>  It is because people live in the surface mind and are
\nidentified with it.  When one lives more inwardly, it is only the surface
\nconsciousness that is occupied and one stands behind it in another which is
\nsilent and self-offered.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tQ:<\/i><\/b> 
\nDoes this consciousness come only by aspiration or can one have it by following
\na mental discipline ?<\/i><\/p>\n

A:<\/b>  One starts by a mental effort.  Afterwards it is an
\ninner consciousness that is formed which need not be always thinking of the
\nMother.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tQ: <\/i><\/b>
\nThere are two ways of making an offering to the Mother:  one is to offer an
\nact at her feet as one might offer a flower;  the other is to withdraw
\none’s personality altogether and to feel as if she is doing all the actions
\nwhich one performs.  In the first way there is duality between the worker
\nand her;  but in the second there is a close intimacy and union. 
\nWhich of these two ways is better for the Sadhana ?<\/i><\/p>\n

A: <\/b> There is no need to ask which is the better as they are not
\nmutually exclusive.  It is the mind that regards them as opposites.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/div>\n

The psychic being can offer the act while the nature is passive to the Force 
\n(the ego being expunged or having withdrawn)  and feels the Mother’s Force
\ndoing the act and her Presence in it.<\/p>\n

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Q:<\/i><\/b> 
\nWhen one works, one aspires for the Mother’s Force to take up one’s activity in
\ndue course.  What should one aspire for when one is not working ?<\/i><\/p>\n

A:<\/b>  For the Mother’s power to work and bring down by the proper
\nstages the higher consciousness.  Also for the system to be more and more
\nfit \u2014 quiet, egoless, surrendered.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

NEED 
\nOF  MASTERY  IN  WORK.<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Mother does not disapprove of your writing a book \u2014 what she does not like
\nis your being so lost in it that you can do nothing else.  You must be
\nmaster of what you do and not possessed by it.  She quite agrees to your
\nfinishing and offering the book on your birthday if that can be done.  But
\nyou must not be carried away \u2014 you must keep your full contact with higher
\nthings.<\/p>\n

1-5-1934<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

CONDITIONS 
\nOF  PERFECT  SERVICE<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Efface the stamp of ego from the heart and let the love of the Mother take
\nits place.  Cast from the mind all insistence on your personal ideas and
\njudgments, then you will have the wisdom to understand her.  Let there be
\nno obsession of self-will, ego-drive in the action, love of personal authority,
\nattachment to personal preference, then the Mother’s force will be able to act
\nclearly in you and you will get the inexhaustible energy for which you ask and
\nyour service will be perfect.<\/p>\n

27-11-1940<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Yes, that is the most important thing \u2014 to get over ego, anger, personal
\ndislikes, self-regarding sensitiveness, etc.  Work is not only for work’s
\nsake, but as a field of Sadhana, for getting rid of the lower personality and
\nits reactions and acquiring a full surrender to the Divine.  As for the
\nwork itself, it must be done according to the organisation arranged or
\nsanctioned by the Mother.  You must always remember that it is her work and
\nnot personally yours.<\/p>\n

23-3-1935<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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I can only repeat what I have already written whenever these circumstances
\nand feelings come to you.  To leave your work is not a solution \u2014 it is
\nthrough work that one can detect and progressively get rid of the feelings and
\nmovements that are contrary to the Yogic ideal \u2014 those of the ego.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Work should be done for the Mother and not for oneself, \u2014 that is how one
\nencourages the growth of the psychic being and overcomes the ego.  The test
\nis to do the work given by the Mother without abhimāna<\/i> or insistence
\nor personal choice or prestige, \u2014 not getting hurt by anything that touches
\nthe pride, amour-propre<\/i> or personal preference.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It is a high and great ideal that is put before the Sadhak through work and
\nit is not possible to realise it suddenly, but to grow steadily into it is
\nspossible, if one keeps the aim always before one \u2014 to be a selfless and
\nperfectly tempered instrument for the work of the Divine Mother.<\/p>\n

28-9-1935<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

THE 
\nIMPERSONAL  WORKER<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

To be impersonal generally is not to be ego-centric, not to regard things
\nfrom the point of view of how they affect oneself, but to see what things are in
\nthemselves, to judge impartially, to do what is demanded by the purpose of
\nthings or by the will of the Master of things, not by one’s own personal point
\nof view or egoistic interest or ego-formed idea or feeling.  In work it is
\nto<\/p>\n

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do what is best for the work, without regard to one’s own prestige or
\nconvenience, not to regard the work as one’s own but as the Mother’s, to do it
\naccording to rule, discipline, impersonal arrangement, even if conditions are
\nnot favourable to do the best according to the conditions, etc., etc.  The
\nimpersonal worker puts his best capacity, zeal, industry into the work, but not
\nhis personal ambitions, vanity, passions.  He has always something in view
\nthat is greater than his little personality and his devotion or obedience to
\nthat dictates his conduct.<\/p>\n

29-6-1935<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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It would be dangerous to take every  "inner prompting" 
\nas if it were a prompting or initiation of action from the Mother.  What
\nseems an inner prompting may come from anywhere, any force good or bad seeking
\nto fulfil itself.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

One may have ego about the work even if the work itself comes from the
\nMother.  The ego of the instrument is one of the things against which there
\nmust be special care in the Yoga.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When one is doing the work, usually the urge of the force hat works and the
\npreoccupation of doing it and getting it done or the pleasure of doing it are
\nsufficient and the mind does not think of anything else.  Afterwards the
\nsense of  "I did it"  comes up.  With some, however,
\nthe ego is active during the work itself.<\/p>\n

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Q:<\/i><\/b> 
\nIf I work for the Mother alone, the interference of the ego would mean that it
\ncomes from outside. For I can’t do work only for the Mother along with my
\nego.<\/i><\/p>\n

A:<\/b>  Of course it is a way.  But one has still to be careful
\nabout the ego.  Even people who sincerely think that they are doing only
\nthe Mother’s will are yet actuated by ego without knowing it.<\/p>\n

4-4-1936<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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PROFIT 
\nFROM  DIFFICULTIES  IN  WORK<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am glad of your resolution.  The greater the difficulties that rise in
\nthe work the more one can profit by them in deepening the equality, if one takes
\nit in the right spirit.  You must also keep yourself open to receive the
\nhelp towards that, for the help will always be coming from the Mother for the
\nchange of the nature.<\/p>\n

29-9-1935<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Do not allow yourself to be grieved or discouraged.  Human beings have
\nunfortunately the habit of being unkind to each other.  But if you do your
\nwork in all sincerity, the Mother will be satisfied and all the rest will come
\nafterwards.<\/p>\n

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You need not mind X’s quick temper.  Remind yourself always it is
\nMother’s work you are doing and if you do it as well as you can remembering her,
\nthe Mother’s Grace will be with you.  That is the right spirit for the
\nworker, and if you do it in that spirit, a calm consecration will come.<\/p>\n

1-3-1933<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

ACTION 
\nFROM  INNER  COMMUNION  WITH  THE  MOTHER<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You must gather yourself within more firmly.  If you disperse yourself
\nconstantly, go out of the inner circle, you will constantly move about in the
\npettinesses of the ordinary outer nature and under the influences to which it is
\nopen.  Learn to live within, to act always from within, from a constant
\ncommunion with the Mother.  It may be difficult at first to do it always
\nand completely, but it can be done if one sticks to it \u2014 and it is at that
\nprice, by learning to do that, that one can have the Siddhi in the Yoga.<\/p>\n

5-6-1934<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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When things become confused outside, you must fix on your mind at once the
\nrule of not judging by appearances \u2014 refer all to the Mother’s Light within
\nwith the confidence that all will be clear.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Mother says that if at any time you feel too much strain of work, you
\nmust tell her at once so that she may see what to do.<\/p>\n

16-9-1933<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nOPENNESS 
\nTO  THE  MOTHER’S  FORCE  IN  WORK   AND 
\nNEED  OF  REST<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In the ordinary condition of the body if you oblige the body to do too much
\nwork, it can do with the support of vital force.  But as soon as the work
\nis done, the vital force withdraws and then the body feels fatigue.  If
\nthis is done too much and for too long a time, there may be a breakdown of
\nhealth and strength under the overstrain. Rest is then needed for
\nrecovery.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If, however, the mind and the vital get the habit of opening to the Mother’s
\nForce, they are then supported by the Force and may even be fully filled with it
\n\u2014 the Force does the work and the body feels no strain or fatigue before or
\nafter.  But even then, unless the body itself is open and can absorb and
\nkeep the Force, sufficient rest in between the work is absolutely necessary. 
\nOtherwise, although the body may go on for a very long time, yet in the end
\nthere can be a danger of a collapse.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The body can be sustained for a long time when there is the full influence
\nand there is a single-minded faith and call in the mind and the vital;  but
\nif the mind or the vital is disturbed by other influences or opens itself to
\nforces which are not the Mother’s then there will be a mixed condition and there
\nwill be sometimes strength, sometimes fatigue, exhaustion or illness or a
\nmixture of the two at the same time.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Finally, if not only the mind and the vital, but the body also is open and
\ncan absorb the Force, it can do extraordinary things in the way of work without
\nbreaking down.  Still even then rest is necessary.  That is why we
\ninsist on those who have the impulse of work keeping a proper balance between
\nrest and labour.<\/p>\n

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A complete freedom from fatigue is possible, but that comes only when there
\nis a complete transformation of the law of the body by the full descent of a
\nsupramental Force into the earth-nature.<\/p>\n

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This is the thing that used to happen daily to the physical workers in the
\nAshram.  Working with immense energy and enthusiasm, with a passion for the
\nwork they might after a time feel tired, then they would call the Mother and a
\nsense of rest came into them and with or after it a flood of energy so that
\ntwice the amount of work could be done without the least fatigue or reaction. 
\nIn many there was a spontaneous call of the vital for the Force, so that they
\nfelt the flood of energy as soon as they began the work and it continued so long
\nas the work had to be done.<\/p>\n

26-3-1936<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nVITAL 
\nENERGY  IN  WORK<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Don’t be afraid of vital energy in work.  Vital energy is an invaluable
\ngift of God without which nothing can be done \u2014 as the Mother has always
\ninsisted from the beginning;  it is given that His work may be done. 
\nI am very glad that it has come back, the cheerfulness and optimism with it. 
\nThat is as it should be.<\/p>\n

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