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\nOpening, Sincerity
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\nand the Mother’s Grace <\/font><\/b>
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\nThe Meaning of Opening
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/b> <\/p>\n

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\nWhat is real opening? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIt is the receptivity to the Mother’s presence and her forces.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWhat is the right and perfect rule of opening? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nAspiration, quietude, widening of oneself to receive, rejection of
\nall that tries to shut you to the Divine. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nHow shall I know that I am opening to the Mother and not
\nto other forces? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nYou have to be vigilant and see that there is no movement of
\ndisturbance, desire, ego. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWhat are the signs of a real opening to the Mother?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThat shows itself at once 
\n\u2014when you feel the divine peace, equality, wideness, light, Ananda, Knowledge, strength, when
\nyou are aware of the Mother’s nearness or presence or the working of her Force, etc., etc. If any of these things are felt,
\nit is the opening  \u2014the more are felt, the more complete the opening.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWhat is the way to open all the knots of the being? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nBy aspiration, by consent of the being to the workings of the
\nDivine Force, by the descent and working of that Force.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tWhat does "opening" mean? Is it "not to keep anything secret from the
\n\tMother"?
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\nThat is the first step towards opening.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tHow does one “open”?
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\nBy faith and surrender in a quiet mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tTo be open is simply to be so turned to the Mother that her
\nForce can work in you without anything refusing or obstructing her action. If the mind is shut up in its own ideas and refuses
\nto allow her to bring in the Light and the Truth, if the vital clings to its desires and does not admit the true initiative and
\nimpulsions that the Mother’s power brings, if the physical is shut up in its desire, habits and inertia and does not allow the Light
\nand Force to enter in it and work, then one is not open. It is not possible to be entirely open all at once in all the movements, but
\nthere must be a central opening in each part and a dominant aspiration or will in each part (not in the mind alone) to admit
\nonly the Mother’s workings, the rest will then be progressively done.
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\nTo remain open to the Mother is to remain always quiet and happy and confident, not restless, not grieving or desponding,
\nto let her force work in you, guide you, give you knowledge, give you peace and Ananda. If you cannot keep yourself open,
\nthen aspire constantly but quietly that you may be open.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nOpening to the Mother and the Integral Yoga
\n<\/a>
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\nI cannot understand whether I am doing Yoga. Can it be said that I am doing your Purna Yoga?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nEveryone who is turned to the Mother is doing my Yoga. It is a great mistake to suppose that one can “do” the Purna Yoga 
\n\u2014i.e. carry out and fulfil all the sides of the Yoga by one’s own effort. No
\nhuman being can do that. What one has to do is to put<\/span><\/p>\n

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\noneself in the Mother’s hands and open oneself to her by service, by bhakti, by aspiration; then the Mother by her light and force
\nworks in him so that the sadhana is done. It is a mistake also to have the ambition to be a big Purna Yogi or a supramental
\nbeing and ask oneself how far have I got towards that. The right attitude is to be devoted and given to the Mother and to wish to
\nbe whatever she wants you to be. The rest is for the Mother to decide and do in you.
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\nI offer myself at your feet. Accept me as your child and show me the divine path. Give me directions and inform me what
\nwill be the attitude in my sadhana. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWrite to him1 that he can begin sadhana, if he feels truly the
\ncall. He need do nothing at first but sit in meditation for a short time every day and try to open himself to the Mother’s power,
\naspiring for the opening, for a true change of consciousness, for peace, purity and strength to go through the sadhana, for her
\nprotection against all difficulties and errors and for an always increasing devotion. Let him see first if he can thus successfully
\nopen himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tToday at soup time I remained concentrated. I felt all kinds of
\neccentric movements rise up, but they were not in contact with the Mother. Sometimes when I concentrate to get contact with
\nher force and touch, I feel that my head is becoming a solid block, compact, and that my mind has become a vacuum. But
\nI think this prevents the opening and permits attacks from above when the consciousness goes below.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nYou write always as if all opening must be to the confused mental and vital movements, thoughts, voices etc. That is not so. You
\ncan be open in all your being, but to the Mother alone, to the Divine alone and to nothing else.
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\n1 Written by Sri Aurobindo to his secretary, who replied to the enquirer. 
\n\u2014Ed.<\/i>  
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\nWhen the consciousness is filled with the Mother’s force, then there is the condition you speak of as felt in the head 
\n\u2014a
\nsolid block, compact, silent, free from all random thoughts and movements. But this can be felt not only in the head, but in all
\nthe body and also in all the consciousness above, around and below the body. When it is like that then all foreign intrusions are
\neither automatically excluded or if they come, easily observed and rejected as not one’s own and not the Divine’s. One feels
\nfull of the Divine, full of the Mother’s force and presence so that nothing else can enter and misuse the mind, the vital or the
\nbody.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tSita suffered without Rama, the Gopis without Krishna 
\n\u2014how they longed for God! This will not happen to us because you and the Mother are here with us. If this is the Truth, why
\ndo we still feel dissatisfied at times? How to establish the Truth in the mind and vital so that we have an end to the feelings of
\ndissatisfaction? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe Truth for you is to feel the Divine in you, open to the
\nMother and work for the Divine till you are aware of her in all your actions. The physical presence here is not enough; there
\nmust be this consciousness of the divine presence in your heart and the divine guidance in your acts. This the psychic being can
\neasily, swiftly, deeply feel if it is fully awake; once the psychic has felt it, it can spread to the mental and vital also.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nThe advantage of being in the psychic consciousness is that you have the right awareness and its will being in harmony with the
\nMother’s will, you can call in the Mother’s Force to make the change. Those who live in the mind and the vital are not so well
\nable to do this; they are obliged to use mostly their 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. It is only in the Supermind
\nthat Awareness, Will,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nForce are always one movement and automatically effective.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tYou have only to aspire, to keep yourself open to the Mother,
\nto reject all that is contrary to her will and to let her work in you  \u2014doing also all your work for her and in the faith that it
\nis through her force that you can do it. If you remain open in this way the knowledge and realisation will come to you in due
\ncourse.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tKeep yourself open to the Mother in the right attitude of surrender and you will receive from her gradually all that you need within you.
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\nI began work on this masonry project a month ago. At first I had only a general idea of the work. Then I got the necessary
\nenergy and interest. Now I think that the fourth aspect of the Mother  \u2014richness in detail, completeness, perfection 
\n\t\u2014is coming. I await further suggestions. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIt is very good. By remaining psychically open to the Mother,
\nall that is necessary for work or sadhana develops progressively, that is one of the chief secrets, the central secret of the sadhana.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nThere is no part of you that is not open, but you have to make the opening always wider and the reception more complete; but
\nthat too will be done progressively if you remember and call the Mother’s force at all times and remain confident, vigilant and
\ndevoted, as you have been and are.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tSri Aurobindo says in reply to your letter2 that you can meditate
\non the Mother in the heart and call on her  \u2014remember her and
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n2 <\/font> Written by Sri Aurobindo to his secretary, who replied to the enquirer. 
\n\t\u2014Ed.<\/font><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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\ndedicate or offer to her all your life and thoughts and actions. If you like you can make a japa of her name. You can call to her
\nto purify your being and change your nature. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nOr you can concentrate to call down from above you (where
\nit always is) first her calm and peace, then her power and light and her ananda. It is always there above the head 
\n\t\u2014but superconscient to the human mind  \u2014by aspiration and concentration it can become conscient to it and the adhar can open to it so that
\nit descends and enters into mind, life and body.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tIf a sadhak even after a long time cannot open himself fully
\nand constantly to the Mother owing to great obstacles in his nature, will he die in the middle and not be accepted by the
\nMother? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThere is no meaning in such a question. Those who follow the
\nYoga here are accepted by the Mother  \u2014for “accepted” means “admitted into the Yoga, accepted as disciples”. But the progress
\nin the Yoga and the siddhi in the Yoga depend on the degree to which there is the opening.
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\nKeep open to the Mother 
\n\u2014throw away the faults and defects of character you can change of yourself 
\n\u2014allow the Mother’s
\npower to work in you  \u2014then these difficulties can be made to disappear, the mind will open.
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\nA cloud surrounds me. Protect me and give me strength. Let me open completely to the Mother.
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\nTo be open to the Mother entirely<\/i>, you should be open both within and without. You should be perfectly frank and tell her
\neverything  \u2014do not shrink from showing to her candidly all that is within you. That will at once enable you to be completely
\nopen and her also to help you fully.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nI am not getting much time to sit down for meditation, but the calmness is maintained throughout my work. What should I
\ndo when I can make no time for meditation? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nKeep yourself open, remember the Mother always 
\n\t\u2014call for her
\nhelp and guidance in your work. You must get into a condition in which not only the calmness remains always but the sadhana
\nis going on all the time in work and rest as well as in meditation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tI understand that once the Mother accepts us as disciples, we
\nshould simply go to her. One should not be miserable if one does not see her in the heart. One has only to remain with her
\nin the Asram. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nNo, it is not enough to be in the Asram 
\n\t\u2014one has to open to
\nthe Mother and put away the mud which one was playing with in the world.
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\nI could not decide whether to give up my present work or to change it. Then I thought I will leave the work in order to
\nmeditate. But I do not know what is good for me. You alone know everything.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIt is a mistake to exercise the mind about these things and try to arrange them with the ordinary mind. It is by confidence in
\nthe Mother that the opening needed will come when your consciousness is ready. There is no harm in arranging your present
\nwork so that there will be time and energy for some meditation, but it is not by meditation alone that what is needed will come.
\nIt is by faith and openness to the Mother.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tOpenness is not always complete from the first 
\n\t\u2014a part of the
\nbeing opens, other parts of the consciousness remain still closed or half open only 
\n\t\u2014one has to aspire till all is open. Even with
\nthe best and most powerful sadhak the full opening takes time;<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nnor is there anyone who has been able to abandon everything at once without any struggle. There is no reason to feel therefore
\nthat if you call, you will not be heard  \u2014the Mother knows the difficulties of human nature and will help you through. Persevere
\nalways, call always and then after each difficulty there will be a progress.
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\nWhat poise or mode should we keep for the supramental descent?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nAs for poise or mode 
\n\u2014that you need not trouble yourself about. An entire faith, opening, self \u2014giving to the Mother are the one
\ncondition necessary throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tIt seems to me that the best place for getting rid of wrong
\nmovements is the Asram, under the Mother’s grace, help, protection and physical nearness.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThat is only true if one can open oneself to the Mother. To be here and shut up to it and under another control does not help.
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\nThat is what must be done. Trust in the Mother and will only to be open to her always and as quietly confident as may be. The
\nwork to be done is too great for the outer mind to understand how it is to be done; it is only by growing light and experience
\nthat one day it begins to understand  \u2014it is also too great and difficult for it to do by itself, 
\n\u2014it can only help the Power that
\nis working by its readiness, aspiration, faith, quietude. But in no sadhak are these things constant 
\n\u2014the aspiration gets suspended, the faith wavers, the quietude is disturbed or shaken 
\n\u2014but still the Mother is there at work and one has only to persevere,  \u2014finally the perseverance will be justified by the result. To give up is the one thing one must never do.
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\nThat the mind is turning away more and more from outward things and the will to be turned wholly to the Mother is growing
\nis very good, for that is the first necessity. The condition of being so turned and wholly open can then more easily develop. The
\ntwo minutes’ flash of opening showed you how it will come; for it comes like that, by glimpses at first of brief duration,
\nbut afterwards it grows in hold and duration till it is ready for permanence. It is a new birth in the nature and so it can’t come
\nall at once, but once begun it grows till it is perfect. Of course the more quiet the consciousness can remain in a steady way,
\nthe more the condition is favourable for this to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tThe first thing one has to be careful not to do, is not to shut
\noneself in any way to the Mother. If one conceals what is happening in one from the Mother, something gets shut up. It is the
\nmistake X <\/i>has been making. Formerly she was quite open and unreserved and whenever there came a difficulty she got the full
\nhelp. The Mother has told her to be perfectly open and hide nothing; if she does that, she will soon recover.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe Mother can not only know everything but do everything if she decides to do so 
\n\u2014but if she did, where would be
\nthe sadhana? All would be only puppets moving in her hands. There are certain conditions which the sadhak must satisfy, and
\nthe Divine veils his power and knowledge so that the sadhak may have the occasion to love and will and think and act and
\ngrow into the true consciousness. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nAs for writing, the Mother has no time any longer, that is
\nwhy she leaves it to me. X <\/i>formerly used to tell the Mother to take full rest and not wear herself out etc. 
\n\t\u2014how is it now she
\nweeps because the Mother does not write? Her former attitude was the true one 
\n\t\u2014she was in the psychic consciousness and
\nalways with the Mother’s presence close to her. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nIn meditation you must call on the Mother and concentrate on  
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\nthe call in your heart till you feel an opening to her or some inner contact with her.
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\n\tI cannot meditate, for when I sit many thoughts come in.
\nWhich path must I take, then, to advance and make it easier for the Mother to work in me?
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIf you cannot meditate, pray. Offer all you do to the Mother and pray to her to take control of your actions and your nature.
\nLove and worship. What is needed is to get a full opening in which you will become conscious of the Mother. These things
\nwill bring the opening. Only, even if it takes time, you must not get depression, despair or revolt 
\n\u2014for these things get into the
\nway of the opening. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nThe whole thing is to keep yourself open to the Mother. The preparation of the nature for the decisive experiences always
\ntakes time and should be a continuous self \u2014opening without discouragement or impatience for immediate results.
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\n\tConfidence in the Mother followed by a full opening to her is
\nthe best way. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nO Mother, how long will you remain far from me? Am I not your child?
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\nThe Mother is never far from you. If you keep open, you will always feel her with you.
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\n\tMy sweet Mother, let me live in you.
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\nKeep open to the Mother’s peace and joy 
\n\u2014by living in it you will come to live in her.
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\nAm I right in believing that Mother will do everything for me?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nYes, but it must be done with your inner assent and you must
\ntake the right attitude and openness to the Mother. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

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\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMother, how can one always receive Ananda from you? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nBy thinking less and less of oneself and more and more of the
\nDivine. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nMother, how can I open myself to you?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nBy quieting the mind and vital, by concentrating more on the Mother and by calling for her Force to enter and work in the
\nbeing. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nMother, why is one harmed when one enters into relation with
\nsomeone? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIt is because one receives mental and vital influences from others
\nand some of these are harmful. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nLord, when will all my undesirable activities be abolished and
\nonly daivic activities remain? That is to say, when will I behave only as the Mother wants?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWhen the psychic being comes in the front. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nMother, how can one develop the buddhi?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe ordinary way is to read and study or to observe and try to understand all things; the sadhak’s way is to open his mind to
\nthe light from above.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nLoyalty and Fidelity
\n<\/a>
\n<\/b>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nIf an adverse Force comes, one has not to accept and welcome its suggestions,
\nbut to turn to the Mother and refuse to turn away 
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nPage <\/font>\u2013 160<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\nfrom her. Whether one can open or not, one has to be loyal and faithful. Loyalty and fidelity are not qualities for which one
\nhas to do Yoga; they are very simple things which any man or woman who aspires to the Truth ought to be able to accomplish.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n21 April 1937 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n
\nThe Psychic and Opening
\n<\/a>
\n<\/b>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nWhen I opened myself to the Mother in meditation, I saw her approaching me with an infant in her arms. As she came near,
\nthe golden Purusha frowned at her and she drew back behind you. I have seen this vision several times. What am I to do?
\nYou fill my whole being but, despite opening myself to the Mother, she is not allowed to approach me.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nThe infant in the Mother’s arms is the symbol of the psychic being. The soul in direct touch with the divine Truth is hidden in
\nman by the mind, the vital being and the physical nature (manas,<\/i>
\nprāṇa, anna <\/i>of the Taittiriya Upanishad); one may practise Yoga and get illuminations in the mind and the reason, power and
\nall kinds of experiences in the vital, even physical siddhis, but if the true soul
\n\u2014power behind and the psychic nature do not come
\ninto the front, nothing genuine has been done. In this Yoga, the psychic being is that which opens the rest of the nature to the true
\nsupramental light and finally to the supreme Ananda. If the soul is awakened, if there is a new birth out of the mere mental, vital
\nand physical into the psychic consciousness, then the Yoga can be done; otherwise (by the mere power of the mind or any other
\npart) it is impossible. It is this new birth, this awakening of the psychic consciousness, that the Mother is offering in the vision.
\nIf the golden Purusha refuses it, it must be because he is bound by some kind of
\nattachment, probably to mere "knowledge". In that case, he is not very
\nconsistent; for it was he who demanded surrender to the Mother and now he
\nrejects the very heart and meaning of the surrender. Probably this repeated
\nexperience is an indication of the principal difficulty in the sadhana. If there
\nis refusal of the psychic new birth, a refusal to become the child new born from
\nthe Mother, owing to attachment to intellectual<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nPage <\/font>\u2013 161<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n

\nknowledge or mental ideas or to some vital desire, then there will be a failure in the sadhana. Only if it is accepted, can his
\ncoming and doing sadhana here be fruitful.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n26 November 1929
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n 
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tKeep yourself open to the Mother’s Force, but do not trust all
\nforces. As you go on, if you keep straight, you will come to a time when the psychic becomes more predominantly active
\nand the Light from above prevails more purely and strongly so that the chance of mental constructions and vital formations
\nmixing with the true experience diminishes. As I have told you, these are not and cannot be the supramental Forces; it is a work
\nof preparation which is only making things ready for a future Yoga \u2014siddhi.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n18 September 1932 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhat is the conscious way to bring the psychic to the front? Does awakening of the psychic being mean its coming to the
\nfront? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nNo. Awakening is a different thing, it means the conscious action
\nof the psychic from behind. When it comes to the front it invades the mind and vital and body and psychicises their movements.
\nIt comes best by aspiration and an unquestioning and entire turning and surrender to the Mother. But also it sometimes
\ncomes of itself when the Adhar is ready.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n5 May 1933
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

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\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n 
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tIs our inner being already open to the Mother or does it open
\nin the course of the sadhana? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe inner being does not open except by sadhana or by some
\npsychic touch on the life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n30 November 1933
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n 
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I think of the Mother’s compassion, I start weeping
\nwith gratefulness. Never before in my life have I felt so much  <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
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\n

\naffection. If my mind is a bit quiet, will I be able to feel her help?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nYes, it is by quieting the mind that you will become able to call the Mother and open to her. The soothing effect was a touch
\nfrom the psychic  \u2014one of the touches that prepare the opening of the psychic with its gift of inner peace, love and joy.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n17 September 1934 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nToday again after pranam there were some vital dissatisfactions. But they have a great effect on the heart which has now
\nbegun to open to the Mother. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nGet rid of these dissatisfactions, they prevent the permanent
\npsychic opening.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n29 September 1934
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n 
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tThe heart is beginning to open to the Mother, but it is still
\neasily touched by lower vital suggestions. That is probably why the vital is not always happy with the way the Mother
\ndeals with me at pranam. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWhat the psychic always feels is “What the Mother does is for
\nthe best”, and it accepts all with gladness. It is the vital part of the heart that is easily touched by the suggestions.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n29 September 1934 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI am not sure whether a direct psychic opening could have been done in my case without any difficulty.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe direct opening of the psychic centre is easy only when the ego
\n\u2014centricity is greatly diminished and also if there is a strong
\nbhakti for the Mother. A spiritual humility and sense of submission and dependence is necessary.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n16
\nJuly 1936 <\/span> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
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\n

\n

\nSincerity
\n<\/a>
\n<\/b>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nThis child of the Mother is so unworthy. Only she knows when
\nthe child will be fit to have a place in her lap. There is only one thing needed to make anyone fit for the
\nMother’s grace  \u2014it is a perfect sincerity and a truthful openness to the Mother in all the being.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n2 February 1934 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI see many defects in my nature  \u2014for instance my tendency to get angry and to argue. I request the Mother to change all
\nthis, for it is in her hands to transform me. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIt depends not only on the will of the Mother but on the sincerity
\nof the sadhak. I do not see that you have any sincere will to do Yoga or to change.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n13 July 1934 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nX <\/span> <\/i>once said to the Mother that if the sincerity was perfect there would be transformation in a day; to this the Mother
\nreplied “Yes”. I do not understand how that could be possible  \u2014a long process of conversion of consciousness compressed
\ninto one day’s work. Perhaps the Mother said yes to emphasise the importance of sincerity.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nBy sincerity Mother meant being open to no influence but the Divine’s only. Now, if the whole being were sincere in that sense
\neven to every cell of the body, what could prevent the most rapid transformation? People cannot be like that, however much the
\nenlightened part of them may want to, because of the nature of the Ignorance out of which the ordinary Prakriti has been built 
\n\u2014hence the necessity of a long and laborious working.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n26 July 1934
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n 
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tWhy do people often say that this Yoga is a very arduous one, full of
\n\tdifficulties and obstacles? One who is sincere and open exclusively to the
\n\tDivine Mother would not believe this. It is<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nPage <\/font>\u2013 164<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\ndifficult only for those who refuse to take her as their all.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nOf course; but most do not find it easy to take the Mother as
\ntheir all.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n22 March 1935
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n 
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tWe are told the Mother can act best if a sadhak is sincere. But
\nwhat is meant by this? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWhat is meant by sincere sadhana? In the Mother’s definition
\nof sincere, it means “opening only to the Divine Forces”, i.e. rejecting all the others even if they come.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n21 April 1936 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n
\nThe Mother’s Grace<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nDo calm and equality come down from above by the Mother’s Grace?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWhen they descend, it is by the soul’s aspiration and the Mother’s grace.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n 
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tThe Mother’s grace is there always; open yourself to it in
\nquietude and confidence. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI don’t feel Mother’s grace as before. Sometimes I get the suggestion that I am not fit for her service and for Yoga.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWhat is all this nonsense? The grace of the Mother does not withdraw; open yourself and you will feel it.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n1 May 1929 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe presence whose fading he regrets can only be felt if the inner being
\ncontinues to be consecrated and the outer nature is put into harmony or at least
\nkept under the touch of the inner spirit. But if he does things which his inner
\nbeing does not approve, this condition will be inevitably tarnished and, each
\ntime, the possibility of his feeling the presence will diminish. He<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
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\n

\n

\nmust have a strong will to purification and an aspiration that does not flag and cease, if the Mother’s grace is to be there and
\neffective.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n6 May 1930
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n 
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tTo practise Yoga implies the will to overcome all attachments
\nand turn to the Divine alone. The principal thing in the Yoga is to trust in the Divine Grace at every step, to direct the thought
\ncontinually to the Divine and to offer oneself till the being opens and the Mother’s force can be felt working in the Adhara.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n26 July 1932 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhen a sadhak feels the Mother’s Grace coming down in him, is it by the consent of the Purusha in him?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWhat do you mean “by the consent”? The Mother’s Grace comes down by the Mother’s will. The Purusha can accept or reject the
\nGrace.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n22 April 1933
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n 
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tIs there any law of the working of the Mother’s Grace?
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe more one develops the psychic, the more is it possible for the Grace to act.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n13 August 1933 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIs the Mother’s Grace always general? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nBoth general and special.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n8 February 1934 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHow to receive what the Mother gives generally? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nYou have only to keep yourself open and whatever you need and
\ncan receive at the moment will come.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n10 February 1934
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

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\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
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\n

\nSome like me have exceptionally great imperfections and defects. We have no claim for any Yoga, much less for the Integral
\nYoga. Sheerly out of her care and grace, the Mother has managed to keep us here; but the only return we have given is to
\ntire her out. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIt is so 
\n\t\u2014if the sadhaks had been different in their reaction to the
\nMother’s grace, the work in the physical would have been much easier and less perilously subject to hostile attacks; perhaps it
\nwould have been done by now.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n12 July 1936
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nOpening and Presence
\n<\/a>
\n<\/b>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nMake yourself quiet and open 
\n\t\u2014have complete confidence and
\nyou will feel the Mother’s presence with you.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n9 October 1933
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n 
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tIt is by the constant remembrance that the being is prepared
\nfor the full opening. By the opening of the heart the Mother’s presence begins to be felt and by the opening to her Power above
\nthe Force of the higher consciousness comes down into the body and works there to change the whole nature.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n7 August 1934 <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Mother says, “Keep yourself always open to me” and “I am always with you and around you.” How am I to feel her
\npresence always? Also, what does “conscious” mean and how does one become conscious?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe Divine Mother is everywhere and at all times she is with you. If one opens and becomes conscious, then one can feel her
\npresence. It is because the nature is ignorant, full of itself and its desires that one cannot feel the presence. If one turns from
\nself and desires and lives inwardly and outwardly for the Divine, then one begins to feel the divine Presence.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n 
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tThe condition you describe is a very good one and it is evident from it that
\n\tyou opened sincerely to the Mother when you met<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nPage <\/font>\u2013 167<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n

\nher. Keep that sincere opening always and eventually a state of peace and joy and the sense of the Mother’s presence will become
\npermanent. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMy dear Mother, peace in my vital, peace in my heart, peace everywhere.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nLet the vital and the heart open always to the Mother’s presence 
\n\u2014the true source of peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
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