The Mother

Pulling at the Mother's Forces

When one is open and too eager and tries to pull down the force, experience, etc., instead of letting it descend quietly, that is called pulling. Many people pull at the Mother's forces―trying to take more than they can easily assimilate and disturbing the working.

April, 1935

Q: What is meant by pulling? When we want something from the Mother with a vital desire, is it pulling? What is its effect on us?

A: Yes; that is one kind of pulling―its effect is to blind and confuse the consciousness. But there is also a pulling for right things which is not bad in itself, and most people use―e.g. for Light, Force, Ananda. But it brings more reactions than a quiet opening to the Divine.

1-6-1933

No, to make people ill in order to improve or perfect them is not Mother's method. But sometimes things like headache come

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because the brain either tried too much or does not want to receive or makes difficulties. But the Yogic headaches are of a special kind and after the brain has found out the way to receive or respond they don't come at all.

20-6-1935

Q: Is the heat, felt in the body, of the fever or of the Mother's Force which has exerted a tremendous pressure on my Adhara?

A: That has still to be seen. It is most probably the Tapas heat; the question is whether it is turned partially in the body into fever.

7-6-1936