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\nSection Three
\n<\/font><\/b>
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\nThe Mother and the Practice <\/font><\/b> <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nof the Integral Yoga<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n
\nAspiration and Surrender
\n<\/font><\/b>
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nto the Mother <\/font><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nYoga, Sadhana, Dhyana <\/a> <\/b>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nYoga is union with the Divine, sadhana is what you do in order to unite with the Divine. You have to get away from the ordinary human consciousness and get into touch with the divine Consciousness.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nFor that call always on the Mother, open yourself to her, aspire and pray for her Force to work in you so as to make
\nyou fit  \u2014reject desire, restlessness, disturbances of the mind and vital. Dhyana means to make the mind and vital quiet and
\nconcentrate in aspiration for the Mother’s Peace, the Mother’s Presence, her Light, Force and Ananda.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n10 October 1933 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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

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\nNowadays I feel utterly disturbed and upset. Wherever there is disturbance or confusion I take my consciousness away
\nfrom it. I have a kind of faith, but there is nothing regular or systematic in it. My mind has wandered very much trying
\nto find the true way of doing sadhana. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIt is only by constantly aspiring to the Mother’s light and force
\nthat you can make true and steady progress. It is only by the constant repetition and persistence of the Mother’s light and
\nforce that the habit of disturbance and lack of organisation can diminish and finally disappear. Only so can the lower being be
\nprepared and the decisive descent of the Truth and Light be finally made possible.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n23 August 1931 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nThe Mother’s Peace is above you 
\n\u2014by aspiration and quiet self-opening it descends. When it takes hold of the
\nvital and the body,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nthen equanimity becomes easy and in the end automatic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n28 August 1933
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\n\tO Mother, come down in me. So many times I have promised
\nto offer myself to you, and every time the promise has been broken, leaving me suspended in the air. But if I am reminded
\nof my unfitness, what shall I do? I can’t do anything. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe fitness comes with the aspiration.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n15 March 1934 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nPlease give your Grace to this unfortunate lady, whose letter I enclose. Be kind enough to instruct me what I should write to
\n her. She prays for your upadeś<\/font>a <\/i>and blessings.
\n <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nBut it is not by upadeśa <\/i>that this sadhana is given or carried on.
\nIt is only those who are capable by aspiration and meditation on the Mother to open and receive her action and working within
\nthat can succeed in this Yoga.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n21 June 1937
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\n\tLet the power of the Mother work in you, but be careful to
\navoid any mixture or substitution, in its place, of either a magnified ego \u2014working or a force of Ignorance presenting itself as
\nTruth. Aspire especially for the elimination of all obscurity and unconsciousness in the nature.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n
\nAspiration and the Psychic <\/a> <\/b>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nNowadays I often get psychic feelings and gratitude. Then
\nthe aspiration comes to concentrate above, as I was doing some days back. But from time to time I get the feeling that I
\nshould not change the form of my meditation and aspiration so frequently. Should I stick to one form of practice or should
\nthe form of practice be allowed to change naturally according to the Light that descends?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nTo
\nbe in contact with the Mother’s Light and Force is the one important thing
\n(fundamental) to which you must aspire. For<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nthis the psychic feeling is the indispensable condition; for it is through the psychic that this contact becomes easy and natural.
\nIt gives the psychic basis. Once the basis is there firmly established the rest can be done according to need and it will be much
\nbetter done, because then there will be the safety from hostile attack and the right guidance.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n12 November 1930 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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

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\nI saw a fire in my heart and my offering falling into it like bits of paper. I heard someone say: “Offer everything into the fire!”
\nBut when obscurities and resistance arise, I feel a hesitation to offer them to the Mother. The thought comes: offer the best
\nthings to the Mother, not ugly things. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe fire is the purifying psychic fire. Offering to the psychic fire
\nis not contrary to the worship of the Mother. To purify all in the psychic fire rather than throw the obscurities and resistance on
\nthe Mother is obviously the right way.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n9 June 1936
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nAspiration, Rejection, Surrender
\n<\/a>
\n<\/b>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nWhat you say of sadhana is true. Sadhana is necessary and the
\nDivine Force cannot do things in the void but must lead each one according to his nature to the point at which he can feel
\nthe Mother working within and doing all for him. Till then the sadhak’s aspiration, self
\n\t\u2014consecration, assent and support to the
\nMother’s workings, his rejection of all that comes in the way is very necessary 
\n\t\u2014indispensable.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n25 September 1936 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nIt is quite true that aspiration, rejection and the remembrance of the Mother and surrender to her and union with her consciousness are the main means of the sadhana. It is also true that to seek the supramental for oneself by one’s own means is
\na folly; that I have said from the beginning and emphasised it recently more and
\nmore. It is true also that to make the union with the Divine the cardinal aim
\nand all the rest subsidiary<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nand a consequence of it, not to seek progress, experiences, etc. for their own sake or for the sake of the ego is the proper
\nattitude for the sadhak. It is true finally that meditation, vision and almost all else in the Yoga can be misused if the sadhak is
\nself \u2014centred, egoistic and obscure. But that does not mean that meditation, vision etc. are of no use and should be avoided in
\nthe sadhana. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe theory that once you remember the Mother always,
\neverything you do flows from the Divine and therefore it does not matter what you do is rather a dangerous one. It may end by
\ngiving sanction instead of rejection to many things that ought to go out of the nature.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nAs for living a free outer life it cannot be said that that is good for everybody at every stage any more than living a retired
\nlife is good for everybody or at every stage. The disadvantage of a free jolly outward social life without restrictions is that one
\nbecomes entirely or mostly externalised and that all sorts of vital interchanges are part of it which can hamper the inner growth
\nor the total self \u2014consecration to the Divine. The disadvantage of too complete a retirement is that it makes the person one
\n\u2014sided
\nand shut up in himself, subjective, without the stabilising contact with earth and consequently with the danger of morbidity
\nand self \u2014delusion. A middle path with the rule of living more and more within, standing back from outward things but not
\nthrowing them aside, looking at them with a new consciousness, a new view and acting on them from this inner consciousness
\nis the best way. But there is need for some at some stages to minimise outward contacts without abolishing them during part
\nof the process of this shifting of the consciousness. No absolute rule can be laid down in this matter.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n14 October 1936 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nI always thought that in other Yogas seekers first had to undergo a rigorous disciplined period of 12 years of Brahmacharya, and only when the Guru certified their physical, vital, mental immunity were they allowed to enter into its
\npractical course.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nNever heard of this 12 years affair or of any certificate. Perhaps in European occultism there are noviciates, stages, ordeals,
\ngrades etc. In India the Guru gives a mantra as soon as he accepts a disciple and tells him to go ahead with it. We have no mantra
\nexcept the Mother’s name. But usually we give work, tell them to aspire, reject, open to the Mother. I don’t know whether
\nyou call that the practical course. Anyhow people have got into difficulties here even without any practical course, most while
\ndoing their “twelve years” and in some cases we have had to push them into active sadhana as the only way to control the
\nlower forces and get them out of it. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nHere the merry lot fancy they can do all manner of things.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWhat things? I find only a small minority doing anything at all except gossiping, discussing, quarrelling, complaining etc. etc. A
\ncertain number do the aspiration, rejection, Motherward turn  \u2014but nothing more. They have enough difficulty with that even.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nEven when strenuous measures are adopted for practising the nearest approximation to real Yoga, ought not there to be a
\nquestion of a triple fitness first? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nHow are they to develop it without any sadhana? Just by sitting
\nstill? No one has it to start with.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n20 October 1936
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\n\tThe effort demanded of the sadhak is that of aspiration, rejection
\nand surrender. If these three are done the rest is to come of itself by the Grace of the Mother and the working of her force in you.
\nBut of the three the most important is surrender of which the first necessary form is trust and confidence and patience in difficulty.
\nThere is no rule that trust and confidence can only remain if aspiration is there. On the contrary, when even aspiration is not
\nthere because of the pressure of inertia, trust and confidence and patience can remain. If trust and patience fail when aspiration is
\nquiescent, that would mean that the sadhak is relying solely on his own effort 
\n\t\u2014it would mean, "Oh, my aspiration has failed,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nso there is no hope for me. My aspiration fails, so what can Mother do?” On the contrary, the sadhak should feel, “Never
\nmind, my aspiration will come back again. Meanwhile I know that the Mother is with me even when I do not feel her; she
\nwill carry me even through the darkest period.” That is the fully right attitude you must have. To those who have it depression
\ncan do nothing; even if it comes it has to return baffled. That is not tamasic surrender. Tamasic surrender is when one says,
\n“I won’t do anything; let Mother do everything. Aspiration, rejection, surrender even are not necessary. Let her do all that
\nin me.” There is a great difference between the two attitudes. One is that of the shirker who won’t do anything, the other is
\nthat of the sadhak who does his best, but when he is reduced to quiescence for a time and things are adverse, keeps always his
\ntrust in the Mother’s force and presence behind all and by that trust baffles the opposition force and calls back the activity of
\nthe sadhana.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n26 October 1936
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\n\tHow long will it take for all the parts of my being to turn to
\nand surrender to the Mother? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIt depends on yourself 
\n\t\u2014if there is a strong aspiration and quiet
\npersistence, it can be done soon.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n
\nSurrender to the Mother
\n<\/a>
\n<\/b>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThere is not much spiritual meaning in keeping open to the Mother if you withhold your surrender. Self
\n\u2014giving or surrender
\nis demanded of those who practise this Yoga, because without such a progressive
\nsurrender of the being it is quite impossible to get anywhere near the goal. To
\nkeep open means to call in her Force to work in you, and if you do not surrender
\nto it, it amounts to not allowing the Force to work in you at all or else only
\non condition that it will work in the way you want and not in its own way which
\nis the way of the Divine Truth. A suggestion of this kind is usually made by
\nsome adverse Power or by some<\/span><\/p>\n

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\negoistic element of mind or vital which wants the Grace or the Force, but only in order to use it for its own purpose, and is not
\nwilling to live for the Divine Purpose,  \u2014it is willing to take from the Divine all it can get, but not to give itself to the Divine. The
\nsoul, the true being, on the contrary, turns towards the Divine and is not only willing but eager and happy to surrender.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIn this Yoga one is supposed to go beyond every mental idealistic culture. Ideas and ideals belong to the mind and are
\nhalf \u2014truths only; the mind too is, more often than not, satisfied with merely having an ideal, with the pleasure of idealising,
\nwhile life remains always the same, untransformed or changed only a little and mostly in appearance. The spiritual seeker does
\nnot turn aside from the pursuit of realisation to mere idealising; not to idealise, but to realise the Divine Truth is always his
\naim, either beyond or in life also  \u2014and in the latter case it is necessary to transform mind and life which cannot be done
\nwithout surrender to the action of the Divine Force, the Mother. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nTo seek after the Impersonal is the way of those who want
\nto withdraw from life, but usually they try by their own effort, and not by an opening of themselves to a superior Power or by
\nthe way of surrender; for the Impersonal is not something that guides or helps, but something to be attained and it leaves each
\nman to attain it according to the way and capacity of his nature. On the other hand by an opening and surrender to the Mother
\none can realise the Impersonal and every other aspect of Truth also.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe surrender must necessarily be progressive. No one can make the complete surrender from the beginning, so it is quite
\nnatural that when one looks into oneself, one should find its absence. That is no reason why the principle of surrender should
\nnot be accepted and carried out steadily from stage to stage, from field to field, applying it successively to all the parts of the
\nnature. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nIt
\nis necessary if you want to progress in your sadhana that you should make the
\nsubmission and surrender of which you speak <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nsincere, real and complete. This cannot be as long as you mix up your desires with your spiritual aspiration. It cannot be as long
\nas you cherish vital attachment to family, child or anything or anybody else. If you are to do this Yoga, you must have only one
\ndesire and aspiration, to receive the spiritual Truth and manifest it in all your thoughts, feelings, actions and nature. You must
\nnot hunger after any relations with anyone. The relations of the sadhaka with others must be created for him from within, when
\nhe has the true consciousness and lives in the Light. They will be determined within him by the power and will of the Divine
\nMother according to the supramental Truth for the divine life and the divine work; they must not be determined by his mind
\nand his vital desires. This is the thing you have to remember. Your psychic being is capable of giving itself to the Mother and
\nliving and growing in the Truth; but your lower vital being has been full of attachments and sanskaras and an impure movement
\nof desire and your external physical mind was not able to shake off its ignorant ideas and habits and open to the Truth. That
\nwas the reason why you were unable to progress, because you were keeping up an element and movements which could not be
\nallowed to remain; for they were the exact opposite of what has to be established in a divine life. The Mother can only free you
\nfrom these things, if you really want it, not only in your psychic being, but in your physical mind and all your vital nature. The
\nsign will be that you no longer cherish or insist on your personal notions, attachments or desires, and that whatever the distance
\nor wherever you may be, you will feel yourself open and the power and presence of the Mother with you and working in you
\nand will be contented, quiet, confident, wanting nothing else, awaiting always the Mother’s will.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n6 January 1928 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nHowever hard the fight, the only thing is to fight it out now and here to the end.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe trouble is that you have never fully faced and conquered the real obstacle.
\nThere is in a very fundamental part of your nature a strong formation of ego
\n\u2014individuality which has<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nmixed in your spiritual aspiration a clinging element of pride and spiritual ambition. This formation has never consented to
\nbe broken up in order to give place to something more true and divine. Therefore, when the Mother has put her force upon you
\nor when you yourself have pulled the force upon you, this in you has always prevented it from doing its work in its own way. It has
\nbegun itself building according to the ideas of the mind or some demand of the ego, trying to make its own creation in its “own
\nway”, by its own strength, its own sadhana, its own tapasya. There has never been here any real surrender, any giving up of
\nyourself freely and simply into the hands of the Divine Mother. And yet that is the only way to succeed in the supramental Yoga.
\nTo be a Yogi, a Sannyasi, a Tapaswi is not the object here. The object is transformation, and the transformation can only be
\ndone by a force infinitely greater than your own; it can only be done by being truly like a child in the hands of the Divine
\nMother.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n7 June 1928
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\n\tA lady has written a letter to me. She has been attracted to
\nfollow this path. She seems to be in affliction and so she wants peace. Shall I reply to her?
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nYou can write to her briefly 
\n\u2014telling her that the life of sansar is in its nature a field of unrest  \u2014to go through it in the right
\nway one has to offer one’s life and actions to the Divine and pray for the peace of the Divine within. When the mind becomes
\nquiet, one can feel the Divine Mother supporting the life and put everything into her hands 
\n\u2014these are the first things to do, if
\nshe wants to have peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

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\n\tIn these moods the thoughts that assail you are so much out of focus! The
\n\tessence of surrender is not to ask the Mother before doing anything 
\n\t\u2014but to accept whole \u2014heartedly the influence and the guidance, when the joy
\n\tand peace come down to accept them without question or cavil and let them
\n\tgrow, when the<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nForce is felt at work to let it work without opposition, when the Knowledge is given to receive and follow it, when the Will
\nis revealed to make oneself its instrument. It is also, no doubt, to accept the guidance and control of the Guru who is at least
\nsupposed to know better than oneself what is or is not the Truth and the way to the Truth. All that is nothing very terrible, it
\nis simple common sense. As to the particular kind of control you speak of, it is not imposed on anybody; it is only a few
\nin the Asram who at all follow any such rule. X <\/i>whom you mention would not have dreamed a year or two ago of asking
\nthe Mother before doing anything; if he does so now, it is not because the Mother told him to do so or “imposed” it on him,
\nbut because he felt the need for it for his sadhana. The Mother never imposed any rule on
\nY<\/i>; he made his own rule of life of
\nhis own accord according to his own perception of the best way for him to concentrate and took the sanction of the Mother.
\nYou yourself were told by the Mother that you had no need to do what Z <\/i>was trying to do in this respect at that time of her
\nown motion  \u2014that for each it was only when he felt the need that he should do it. I do not see therefore why you should fear
\nso much for your liberty  \u2014when in the whole Asram of 120 people there are hardly half a dozen who follow any such rule
\nof strict external surrender. And I cannot understand what you mean by the reproach that we have made some people stiff and
\nspeechless. Who are they? X<\/i>, Y<\/i>, A<\/i>? As far as I know, they are quite indefatigable and eloquent or fluent talkers. I am guiltless
\nof the crime you charge against me. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nAnother thing let me correct. It is not at all correct to say
\nthat we  \u2014in this instance the Mother, never warned B <\/i>and C <\/i>of their deterioration 
\n\t\u2014they were warned and plainly warned and
\nalso of the influences from outside the Asram to which they were succumbing. The
\nMother had even foreseen from the beginning that this might happen and put them
\non their guard in due time. If they fell, it was because they preferred to
\nfollow their lower nature and side with the lower forces. The Divine can lead,
\nhe does not drive. There is an internal freedom permitted to every mental being
\ncalled man to assent or not to assent to the Divine
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nleading 
\n\u2014how else can any real spiritual evolution be done? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIf there is so serious an obstacle to your going forward,
\nit consists only of two things, your vital depressions and your mental doubts which make you challenge even the experiences
\nyou have and belittle any progress you make. Never have we told you to be stiff and gloomy and speechless 
\n\t\u2014on the contrary we
\nhave pressed upon the other side. Other obstacles or difficulties there are, but they could be overcome if these two things were
\nout of the way or rejected and inoperative. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIf I constantly encourage you, it is not because I see you
\ndeteriorating and want to hide it  \u2014I see nothing of the kind,  \u2014but because I have faith in your capacities and see the nobler
\nD<\/i>
\nbehind all outward weakness. I would not speak what I know to be false  \u2014that much credit you can give me.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nP. S. What put this into your head that you are regarded as an untouchable and a bad influence? If every man who had
\ndifficulties were so regarded, the whole Asram would be an asylum of untouchables.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nSometimes my mental, vital and physical beings work together in harmony. At other times one being dominates the others,
\nand there is disorder. How can this disorder be removed? <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThe best way is to live in the psychic being, for that is always
\nsurrendered to the Mother and can lead the others in the right way. For control one has to centralise somewhere 
\n\t\u2014some do it
\nin the mind or above the mind, others do it in the heart and through the heart in the psychic centre.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nNow that you are here, try to enter into the higher ways of the sadhana. Withdraw from the vital and its demands and desires,
\nmake the inner heart and the psychic being your centre and seek union with the Mother’s consciousness through self
\n\u2014giving and
\nsurrender.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nYou have to make your vital single
\n\u2014pointed towards the Mother, peaceful, without demands and desires, aspiring only for surrender and to be one with the Mother’s consciousness and filled with her.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n24 September 1933 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nI can only say 
\n\u2014it is your vital you have to change. Make it perfectly straight and clear and pure. Make it free from all selfishness, blindness, insincerity, anger, abhiman, self
\n\u2014indulgence, vital desire  \u2014and give it as a pure offering to the Mother.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n28 September 1933 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nThe body as well as all else came from the Mother and has to be surrendered to her as an instrument. That is all that is needed.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n15 November 1933 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nSurrender means to look to the Divine Mother only 
\n\u2014to reject all desires and do only her will, not to insist on one’s own ideas
\nand preferences, but to ask for her Truth only, to obey and follow her guidance, to open oneself and become aware of her
\nForce and its workings and to allow those workings to change the nature into the divine nature.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nAt present my subnature is still resisting and it is difficult to bring it under permanent control. But why does this difficulty
\nhold on when my lower vital has already put itself in the Mother’s hands?
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nYes, but it is not enough that the lower vital should put itself into the Mother’s hands. The whole physical and subconscient
\nand everything else must do likewise.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nPut all before the Mother in your heart so that her Light may work on it for the best.
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\nIf I cannot concentrate or meditate, I simply imagine myself lying eternally in the Mother’s lap and going out when she
\nsends me out. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThis is the best possible kind of concentration.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n12 August 1935 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nIt is the true attitude so to leave all to the Mother and trust entirely in her and let her lead you on the path to the goal.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nYou have asked me, “How do you surrender to the psychic if you are not conscious of its action?” I do it in the same way
\nthat I surrender to the Force above. I simply imagine that there is the Force above or that there is a psychic being in the heart
\ncentre. Imagining so, I surrender myself to it.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nIt is then a sankalpa <\/i>of surrender. But the surrender must be to the Mother 
\n\u2014not even to the Force, but to the Mother herself.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nBut I do not know whether surrender to the psychic is necessary at present. My being is not yet capable of surrendering to
\nthe Force and to the psychic simultaneously. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThere is no need of all this complication. If the psychic manifests,
\nit will not ask you to surrender to it, but to surrender to the Mother.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n4 October 1936 <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nI had said that the human vital does not like to be controlled or dominated by another and I said that that also was a reason
\nwhy sadhaks found it difficult to surrender to the Mother. For the vital wants
\nto affirm its own ideas, impulses, desires, preferences<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nand to do what it likes, it does not want to feel another force than that of its own nature leading or driving it; but surrender to
\nthe Mother means that it must give up all these personal things and allow her Force to guide and drive it in the ways of a higher
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nTruth which are not its own ways: so it resists, does not want to be dominated by the Truth Light and the Mother’s Force, insists
\non its own independence and refuses to surrender. These ideas of breakdown and personal frustration are again
\nwrong suggestions and the dissatisfaction with yourself is as harmful almost as dissatisfaction with the Mother would be. It
\nprevents the confidence and courage necessary for following the path of the sadhana. You must dismiss these suggestions from
\nyou.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

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\n\tFrequently when I put a strong suggestion or pressure upon
\nyou, your inner being becomes conscious of it and something of it comes to your surface perceptions; but also, usually, your
\nexternal mind, which is always busy and active trying to take a hand in everything, gives it a wrong turn or twist.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nWhat I wanted you to do was (1) to surrender wholly to the Mother, sincerely, simply and without any reserves of the ego,
\n(2) to become conscious of the habitual defects of your external being and reject them, (3) to open these obscure parts to the
\nlight and change their movement. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nThis was the twist 
\n\t\u2014the mental turn of giving up all reserve  \u2014interpreted not as a complete surrender to the Divine Shakti, but as giving yourself up to anything that came, which might
\nvery well be a wrong movement of the lower vital Nature or even a hostile force.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nI have repeatedly said that this kind of passivity is not the meaning of surrender. You cannot surrender at the same time
\nto the Divine Shakti and to the movements of the lower cosmic Nature. To allow everything as her movement is to contradict
\nthe very sense and object of this Yoga. To surrender to the Mother means that you stop giving yourself to these other forces.
\nTherefore discrimination (by the psychic feeling and the seeing  <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nconscious mind, more even than by the thinking part) and rejection are necessary accompaniments and helps to consecration
\nand surrender. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nNaturally, with this wrong turn, the first result was that certain things in you
\nto which the mind had refused free outward play but of which you had not been
\nsufficiently conscious or else not able to reject from your nature got their
\nchance and manifested in a very extravagant manner.   <\/span> <\/p>\n

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