The Mother

Learning to Live Within

You have to learn to live in yourself with the Mother, in contact with her consciousness, and meet others only with your exterior surface.

If it is like that, it is probably because you are living outside, allowing yourself to be disturbed by outward contacts. One cannot find happiness of a lasting character unless one lives within. Work, action must be offered to the Mother, done for her sake only, without any thought for yourself, your own ideas, preferences, feelings, likes, dislikes. If one's eyes are fixed on these latter things, then at every step one gets some friction either in the mind or vital or if these are comparatively quiet on the body and nerves. Peace and joy can only become stable if one lives within with the Mother.

2-1-1937

That is all right. But what I wrote was not put down as a rule for you alone. It is one which everyone ought to follow, X and everybody else. For it is only when work and action are done in that way, without insistence on one's personal ideas and personal feelings but only for the Divine's sake without thought of self that work becomes fully a Sadhana and the internal and the external nature can arrive at a harmony. It makes it more possible for the inner being to take up and enlighten the outer action and grow conscious of the Mother's force behind it guiding it in its works.

3-1-1937

To fix times is not possible or desirable―you must yourself organise your day in such a manner as to make the best use of it and let the Mother know how you do it.

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The most important thing is to be turned inwardly towards the Mother and to Her alone, to avoid too many outward contacts is necessary only to help in this―but it is not necessary nor desirable to avoid all contact with people. What is necessary is to meet these contacts with the right mind and consciousness, not throwing yourself out―treating them as things of the surface, not getting attached to them or absorbed by them in any way.

Yes, of course, it was an inner concentrated condition in which you could come in contact with the Mother. The flowers indicate always an opening (usually psychic) in some part of the consciousness.

28-10-1933