The Mother

Receiving the Mother's Force at a Distance

As to what your other friend asks, it is quite possible for him to receive where he is without coming here if he has the adoration of the Mother in his heart and an intense call.

25-8-1935

Q: You said regarding my friend X that he was receiving the force of the Mother. I am a little puzzled because I cannot understand to which Mother you are referring. Is it our Mother or some other, called the Universal Mother by the people? I am puzzled because he does not invoke the Mother and still he gets the Mother's force!

A: "In contact with" the Divine Force which is the force of the Mother―that was what I wrote, I believe. Have you not put him, by the photograph and his letter, in connection with us? Has he not turned in this direction? Has he not met Y and been impressed by him―a third channel of contact? That is quite sufficient to help him to a contact if he has the faith and the Yogic stress in him.

1936

I don't know whether Mother is sending force in the accepted sense; I haven't asked her. In any case, anyone can receive the

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force who has faith and sincerity, whose psychic being has begun to wake and who opens himself,―whether he knows or not that he is receiving. If X even imagines that he is receiving, that may open the way to a real reception,―if he feels it, why question his feeling? He is certainly trying hard to change and that is the first necessity; if one tries it can always be done, in more or less time.

28-6-1943

It is quite possible for you to do Sadhana at home and in the midst of your work―many do so. What is necessary in the beginning is to remember the Mother as much as possible, to concentrate on her in the heart for a time every day, if possible thinking of her as the Divine Mother, to aspire to feel her there within you, offer her your works and pray that from within she may guide and sustain you. This is a preliminary stage which often takes long, but if one goes through it with sincerity and steadfastness, the mentality begins little by little to change and a new consciousness opens in the Sadhak which begins to be aware more and more of the Mother's presence within, of her working in the nature and in the life or of some other spiritual experience which opens the gate towards realisation.

Remember the Mother and, though physically far from her, try to feel her with you and act according to what your inner being tells you would be her Will. Then you will be best able to feel her presence and mine and carry our atmosphere around you as a protection and a zone of quietude and light accompanying you everywhere.

12-12-1936