The Mother

Psychic, Mental and Vital Devotion

Q: What is the difference between psychic devotion, mental devotion and vital devotion for the Mother?

A: The psychic is made up of love and self-giving without demand, the vital of the will to be possessed by the Mother and serve her, the mental of faith and unquestioning acceptance of all that the Mother is, says and does. These, however, are outside signs―it is in inner character quite recognisable but not to be put into words that they differ.

28-4-1933

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Q: Is there no place for mental and vital devotion in this Yoga?

A: Who says there is not? So long as it is real devotion, all bhakti has a place.

28-4-1933

It is the old vital with its ego which comes up again and again. It refuses to follow the higher being and be as the true Bhaktas are who ask nothing and are content with all that the Mother does or does not do, because whatever she does must be good since she is the Mother. You must impose the truth on this vital part.

6-5-1935

Q: How to get a pure and complete devotion?

A: Get quiet first―then from the quietude aspire and open yourself quietly and sincerely to the Mother.

15-11-1933

Q: Grant me one little bit of devotion, Mother, just a little bit of it. Otherwise I do not know what will happen to me, I do not indeed know how I can live here. And I do not want to leave the shelter of Thy Lotus-Feet.

A: Do not allow mental anxiety to harass you. Wait on the working of the Mother's force which will open the lotus of the heart. In the light from above devotion will blossom in you.

25-10-1936