The Mother

Recognition of the Mother's Divinity

There are people who start at once, others take time.

X recognised the Mother as divine at first sight and has been happy ever afterwards; others who rank among Mother's devotees took years to discover or admit it, but they arrived all the same. There are people who had nothing but difficulties and revolts for the first five, six, seven or more years of the Sadhana, yet the psychic ended by awaking. The time taken is a secondary matter: the one thing needful is―soon or late, easily or with difficulty, to get there.

Q: Many times I find that old Sanskaras come up and disturb my faith in the Mother and her divinity. How is it possible to prevent it?

A: It is only if you see the divinity of the Mother that there can be a settled conviction―that is a question of the inner consciousness and vision.

5-6-1937

Q: How to convince the mind that Mother is divine and that her workings are not human?

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A: It is by opening up the psychic and letting it rule the mind and vital that this can be done―because the psychic knows and can see what the mind cannot.

Q: It seems that part of my external being which was not accepting the Mother is now recognising her divinity. But why do I forget it when I physically come before her?

A: It is the physical mind in its most external action that sees physical things as only physical.

15-8-1937

This struggle in you [between bhakti for Sri Krishna and the sense of the divinity of the Mother] is quite unnecessary; for the two things are one and go perfectly together. It is he who has brought you to the Mother and it is by adoration of her that you will realise him. He is here in the Ashram and it is his work that is being done here.

1933

Q: Even a good devotee and a brilliant student like X finds it difficult to accept the Mother. I cannot understand why he cannot see the simple truth about her.

A: If he finds it difficult to accept Mother, how is he a good devotee? A devotee to whom? A brilliant student is another matter; one can be a brilliant student and yet quite incompetent in spiritual matters. If one is a devotee of Vishnu or some other Godhead, then it is different―one may see only one's object of worship and so not be able to accept anything else.

14-11-1934

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Q: Some people seem to be quite misled in understanding the Mother's status with regard to the higher planes. When they are in these planes or receive something from them, they begin to think that they have reached a great height, and that the higher planes have nothing to do with the Mother. Especially about the Supermind they have such queer notions―that it is something greater than the Mother.

A: If they have a greater experience or consciousness than the Mother, they should not stay here but go and save the world with it.

Q: Is the attitude that I am the Brahman not necessary in the Integral Yoga?

A: It is not enough to transform the whole nature. Otherwise there would be no need of the Mother's being here. It could be done by simply thinking of oneself as the Brahman. There would be no need of the Mother's presence or the Mother's force.

27-12-1935