The Mother

External Organisation and Inner Harmony

Mistakes come from people bringing their ego, their personal feeling (likes and dislikes), their sense of prestige or their convenience, pride, sense of possession, etc. into the work. The right way is to feel that the work is the Mother's―not only yours, but the work of others―and to carry it out in such a spirit that there shall be general harmony. Harmony cannot be brought about by external organisation only, though a more and more perfect external organisation is necessary; inner harmony there

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must be or else there will always be clash and disorder.

Q: You have written "Harmony cannot be brought about by external organisation only...inner harmony there must be or else there will always be clash and disorder." What is that inner harmony?

A: Union in the Mother.

21-4-1933

The Mother's victory is essentially a victory of each Sadhak over himself. It can only be then that any external form of work can come to a harmonious perfection.

12-11-1937

The remedy for these things is to think more and more of the Mother and less and less of the relations of others with yourself apart from the Mother. As X is trying, so you should try to meet others in the Mother, in your consciousness of unity with the Mother and not in a separate personal relation. Then these difficulties disappear and harmony can be established―for then it is not necessary to try and please others―but both or all meet in their love for the Mother and their work for her.