The Mother

Psychic and Vital Love

Love and devotion depend on the opening of the psychic and for that the desires must go. The vital love offered by many to the Mother instead of the psychic love brings more disturbance than anything else because it is coupled with desire.

8-9-1936

There is no harm in the vital love provided it is purified of all insincerity (as, for example, self-importance etc.) and from all demand. To feel joy in seeing the Mother is all right, but to demand it as a right, to be upset or in revolt or abhimāna when it is not given, to be jealous of others who get it―all that is demand and creates an impurity which spoils both the joy and the love.

13-9-1934

As for the eagerness to see the Mother, it depends on the nature of the feeling. If there is no demand or claim in it, no dissatisfaction when it is not fulfilled, but only the feeling of the will to see her whenever possible and the joy of seeing her, then it is all right. Of course no trace of anger or jealousy must be there. The vital has also to participate in the Sadhana, so the mere fact

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that there is a vital element does not make the thing wrong, provided it is a vital element of the right kind.

6-12-1931

If you have no abhimāna against the Mother, that also is surely very desirable. Abhimāna, disturbance, etc. may be signs of life but of a vital, not of the inner life. They must quiet down and give room for the inner life. At first the result may be a neutral quiet, but one has often to pass through that to arrive at a more positive new consciousness.

2-1-1937

It will not do to indulge this restless vital movement. It is not by that that you can have the union with the Mother. You should aspire calmly―eat, sleep, do your work. Peace is the one thing you have to ask for now―it is only on the basis of peace and calm that the true progress and realisation can come. There must be no vital excitement in your seeking or your aspiration towards the Mother.

20-10-1933