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SECTION TEN
THE MOTHER’S HELP IN DIFFICULTIES
Page-86 Assurance of Victory
Be sure that the Mother will always be with you to carry you upon the path. Difficulties come and difficulties go, but, she being with you, the victory is sure.
18-7-1936
The Mother and the Path
No. It is perhaps how some part of the vital or physical consciousness figured it. But the path is not a desert nor are you alone, since the Mother is with you.
2-11-1933
Action of the Mother’s Grace
Q: Can it be believed that the Mother’s Grace is acting even when the difficulties do not disappear?
A: In that case everybody might say, "All my difficulties must disappear at once, I must attain to perfection immediately and without difficulties, otherwise it proves that the Mother’s Grace is not with me."
20-7-1933
Psychic Development and Mother’s Grace
Q: What is the Law of the working of the Mother’s Grace?
A: The more one develops the psychic, the more is it possible for the Grace to act.
13-8-1933
Calling the Mother’s Force in Difficulty
(1)
When difficulties arise, remain quiet within and call down the Mother’s force to remove them.
Page-87 26-8-1933
(2)
There is only one way if you cannot exert your will – it is to call the Force; even the call only with the mind or the mental word is better than being extremely passive and submitted to the attack, – for although it may not succeed instantaneously, the mental call even ends by bringing the Force and opening up the consciousness again. For everything depends upon that. In the externalized consciousness obscurity and suffering can always be there; the more the internalized consciousness reigns, the more these things are pushed back and out, and will the full internalized consciousness they cannot remain – if they come, it is as outside touches unable to lodge themselves in the being.
21-8-1933
(3)
It is an obsession from the subconscient physical bringing back the habitual thoughts "I can’t call rightly – I have no real aspiration etc." the depression, the memory etc. are from the same source. It is no use indulging in these ideas. If you cannot call the Mother in what you think the right way, call her in any way – if you can’t call her, think of her with the will to be rid of these things. Don’t worry yourself with the idea whether you have true aspiration or not – the psychic being wants and that is sufficient. The rest is for the Divine Grace on which one must steadfastly rely – one’s own merit, virtue or capacity is not the thing that brings the realisation. I shall send the force to rid you of this obsession in any case, but if you can abandon these habitual ideas, it will make the disappearance of the attack easier.
4-1-1937
(4)
Never allow this idea "I am not able", "I am not doing enough" to come and vex you; it is a tamasic suggestion and brings depression and depression opens the way to the attacks of the wrong forces. Your position should be, "Let me do what I can; the Mother’s force is there, the Divine is there to see that in due time all will be done."
4-11-1935
(5)
Page-88 Not to be disturbed, to remain quiet and confident is the right attitude, but it is necessary also to receive the help of the Mother and not to stand back for any reason from her solicitude. One ought not to indulge ideas of incapacity, inability to respond, dwelling too much on defects and failures and allowing the mind to be in pain and shame on their account; for these ideas and feelings become in the end weakening things. If there are difficulties, stumbling or failures, one has to look at them quietly and call in tranquility and persistently the Divine help for their removal, but not to allow oneself to be upset or pained or discouraged. Yoga is not an easy path and the total change of the nature cannot be done in a day.
Openness to the Mother in Attacks
However strong the attack may be, and even if it overcomes you for the time being, still it will rapidly pass away if you have formed the habit of opening to the Mother. The peace will come back if you remain quiet and keep yourself open to it and to the Force. Once something of the Truth has shown itself within you, it will always, even if for a time heavily clouded over with wrong movements, shine out again like the sun in heaven. Therefore persevere with confidence and never lose courage.
14-3-1932
Trust in the Mother’s Force
What is needed is perseverance – to go on without discouragement, recognizing that the process of the nature and the action of the Mother’s force is working through the difficulty even and will do all that is needed. Our incapacity does not matter – there is no human being who is not in his parts of nature incapable – but the Divine Force is also there. If one puts one’s trust in that, incapacity will be changed into capacity. Difficulty and struggle themselves then becomes a means towards the achievement.
27-5-1936
The One Thing To Do Always
Once one has entered the path of Yoga, there is only one thing to do, to fix oneself in the resolution to go to the end whatever happens, whatever difficulties arise. None
Page-89 really gets the fulfillment in Yoga by his own capacity – it is by the greater Force that stands over you that it will come – and it is the call, persistent through all vicissitudes, to that Force, by which the fulfillment will come. Even when you cannot aspire actively, keep yourself turned to the Mother for the help to come – that is the one thing to do always.
3-1-1934
The Main Thing
To call to the Mother always is the main thing and with that to aspire and assent to the Light when it comes, to reject and detach oneself from desire and any dark movement. But if one cannot do these other things successfully, then call and still call. The Mother’s force is there with you even when you do not feel it; remain quiet and persevere.
15-9-1934
The Mother’s Constant Help
The Mother’s help is always there but you are not conscious of it except when the psychic is active and the consciousness not clouded. The coming of suggestions is not a proof that the help is not there. Suggestions come to all, even to the greatest sadhaks or to the Avatars – as they came to Buddha or Christ. Obstacles are there – they are part of Nature and they have to be overcome. What has to be attained is not to accept the suggestions, not to admit them as the truth or as one’s own thoughts, to see them for what they are and keep oneself separate. Obstacles have to be looked at as something wrong in the machinery of human nature which has to be changed – they should not be regarded as sins or wrong doings which make one despair of oneself and of the sadhana.
The Mother’s Help and the Vital’s Consent to Change
The Mother’s help is always there for those who are willing to receive it. But you must be conscious of your vital nature, and the vital nature must consent to change. It is no use merely observing that it is unwilling and that, when thwarted, it creates depression in you. Always the vital nature is not at first willing and always when it is thwarted or asked to change, it creates this depression by its revolt or refusal of consent. You have to insist till it recognizes the truth and is willing to be transformed and to accept the
Page-90 Mother’s help and grace. If the mind is sincere and the psychic aspiration complete and true, the vital can always be made to change.
15-7-1932
Straightforwardness and the Mother’s Help
Those who are not straightforward cannot profit by the Mother’s help, for they themselves turn it away. Unless they change, they cannot hope for the descent of the supramental Light and Truth into the lower vital and physical nature; they remain stuck in their own self-created mud and cannot progress.
November 1928
Testing by the Mother
The idea of tests also is not a healthy idea and ought not to be pushed too far. Tests are applied not by the Divine but b the forces of the lower planes – mental, vital, physical -and allowed by the Divine because that is part of the soul’s training and helps it to know itself, its powers and the limitations it has to outgrow. The Mother is not testing you at every moment, but rather helping you at every moment to rise beyond the necessity of tests and difficulties which belong to the inferior consciousness. To be always conscious of that help will be your best safeguard against all attack whether of adverse powers or of your own lower nature.
Writing to the Mother for Help
(1)
You did well to speak to B. and also to write to the Mother. Of course, Mother had observed B’s difficulties; it is correct that the difficulty is the lack of a certain free opening – otherwise all that could be removed quickly and the necessary change of nature (mind, ego, etc.) carried on by smooth gradation. To write as you do is helpful for opening oneself and for receiving the precise touch. B’s logic about the Mother’s knowing and therefore there being no need to write is applicable if there is a free or at least a sufficient flow of giving and reception between the Mother and the sadhak, but
Page-91 when a serious difficulty comes, this logic is not so applicable. Naturally, we shall do our best to help him in his struggle.
14-5-1936
(2)
One rule for you I can lay down, "Do not do, say or think anything which you would want to conceal from the Mother." And that answers the objections that rose within you from your vital, is it not? – against bringing "these petty things" to the Mother’s notice. Why should you think that the Mother would be bothered by these things or regard them as petty? If all the life is to be Yoga, what is there that can be called petty or of no importance? Even if the Mother does not answer, to have brought any matter of your action and self-development before her in the right spirit means to have put it under the ray of the Power that is working for the transformation – for immediately those rays begin to play and to act on the thing brought to her notice. Anything within that advises not to do it when the spirit in you moves you to do it, may very well be a device of the vital to avoid the ray of the Light and the working of the Force.
18-5-1932
The Mother’s Notice at the Vital’s Door
Put the Mother’s notice henceforth at the door of your vital being, "No falsehood hereafter shall ever enter here", and station a sentry there to see that it is put into execution.
18-5-1933
Change of the Vital with the Mother’s Light
It is this idea that you are helpless because the vital consents to the wrong movement that comes in the way. You have to put your inner will and the Mother’s light on the vital so that it shall change, not leave it to do what it likes. If one is to be "helpless" and moved by any part of the instrumental being, how is change possible? The Mother’s force or the psychic can act, but on condition that the assent of the being is there. If the vital is left to do what it likes, it will always go after its old habits; it has to be made to feel that it must change.
Page-92 Obstruction of the Physical Mind
It is the physical mind that feels too inert – but if some part of the being turns to the Mother, that is enough to bring the help.
25-1-1934
Working of the Mother’s Force for Physical Cure
The inherent strength of the body does not do things like that. It is the Mother’s force that does it, when one calls and opens oneself. Even people who never did Yoga and are conscious of nothing, get cured like that without knowing the reason or feeling the way in which it was done. The force comes from above or in descending it envelopes and comes from without inside or it comes out from inside after descending there. When you are conscious of the play of the forces, then you feel the working.
It (awakening) means the conscious action of the psychic from behind. When it comes to the front it invades the mind and vital and body and psychicises their movements. It comes best by aspiration and an unquestioning and entire turning and surrender to the Mother. But also it sometimes comes of itself when the Adhar is ready.
5-5-1933
Use of Spiritual Force for Maintaining Health
I have never had any hesitation in the use of a spiritual force for all legitimate purposes including the maintenance of health and physical life in myself and in others – that is indeed why the Mother gives flowers not only as a blessing but as a help in illness.
7-12-1949
Working of the Mother’s Force in Illness through External Means
It is a fact of my experience that when the resistance in the body is too strong and persistent, it can help to take some aid of physical means as an instrumentation for the Force to work more directly on the body itself; for the body then feels itself supported against the resistance from both sides, by means both physical as well as supraphysical. The Mother’s force can work through both together.
1-9-1936
Page-93 The Mother’s View of the Doctors
The Mother thinks doctors very usually make things worse instead of better by spoiling Nature’s resistance to illness by excessive and ill-directed use of their medicines. We have been able to work through R’s homoeopathy far better than through anything else – though it is likely that the Force working through homoeopaths who were not conscious instruments might not have succeeded better than with the allopaths.
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