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\nMeditation <\/span>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

When you sit in
\nmeditation you must be as candid and simple as a child, not interfering by your
\nexternal mind, expecting nothing, insisting on nothing. Once this condition is
\nthere, all the rest depends upon the aspiration deep within you. And if you
\ncall upon Divinity, then too you will have the answer. <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u00a0<\/span><\/i>26 January 1935<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Each meditation ought to
\nbe a new revelation, for in each meditation something new happens. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even if you are not
\napparently successful in your meditation, it is better to persist and to be
\nmore obstinate than the opposition of your lower nature. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Mother, <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I would like to know from you if it is good for me to devote more
\ntime to meditation than I am doing at present. I spend about two hours, morning
\nand evening together. I am as yet not quite successful in meditation. My
\nphysical mind disturbs me a lot. I pray to you that it may become quiet and my
\npsychic being may come out. It is so painful to find the mind working like a
\nmad machine and the heart sleeping like a stone. Mother, let me feel your
\npresence within my heart always. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The increase of time
\ngiven to meditation is not very useful unless the urge for meditation comes
\nspontaneously from inside <\/span><\/p>\n

and not from any arbitrary decision of the
\nmind.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage
\n<\/span>
\n―<\/span> 53<\/span><\/p>\n

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My help, love and
\nblessings are always with you. <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u00a0<\/span><\/i>17 October 1939<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

To keep constantly a
\nconcentrated and in-gathered attitude is more important than having fixed hours
\nof meditation. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When you give us a subject for meditation, what should we do about
\nit? Keep thinking of it? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Keep your thought focused upon it in a
\nconcentrated way. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And when no subject is given, is it enough to concentrate on your
\nPresence in the heart-centre? Should we avoid a formulated prayer? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Yes, concentration on the Presence is
\nenough. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(Examples of subjects for meditation)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

New birth. Birth to a new consciousness.
\nThe psychic consciousness. <\/p>\n

5 July 1957<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n

How to awaken in the
\nbody the aspiration for the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

26 July
\n 1957<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n

Turning one’s gaze
\ninward. Looking within oneself. <\/span><\/p>\n

August 1957<\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n

The ill-effects of
\nuncontrolled speech. <\/span><\/p>\n

9 August
\n 1957<\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n

\nPage
\n<\/span>
\n―<\/span> 54<\/span><\/p>\n

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