The Mother

The Mother's Use of the Mahakali Method

All these things depend on the person, the condition, the circumstances. The Mother uses the method you speak of, the Mahakali method,

(1) with those in whom there is a great eagerness and a fundamental sincerity somewhere even in the vital,

(2) with those whom she meets intimately and who, she knows, will not resent or misunderstand her severity or take it for a withdrawal of kindness or grace, but will regard it as a true grace and a help to their Sadhana.

There are others who cannot bear this method―if it was continued they would run a thousand miles away in misunderstanding and revolt and despair. What the Mother wants is for people to have their full chance for their souls, be the method short and swift or long and tortuous. Each she must treat according to his nature.

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If you are afraid of the Mother's scoldings, how will you progress? Those who want to progress quickly, welcome even the blows of Mahakali, because that pushes them more rapidly on the way.

Q: Is it possible to have that relation with the Mother in which she would feel free to correct me and tell me, without any kind of consideration for my feelings, what I must do and must not do?

A: Certainly, when the Divine Consciousness is fully realised, there will be no difference between the Mother's will and the Sadhak's.

For a relation to exist in which Mother can do as you say, the Sadhak must not be afraid of the Mahakali aspect and ask only for sweetness. He must be able to take the blows of Mahakali as a blessing. He must also believe in her vision and judgment and word, otherwise when she says or does something unpleasant to his ego that ego will go sulking, justifying itself, calling her names etc. as is the habit with so many in the Ashram when she does not do what they like. There are very few here who can take this attitude even imperfectly, but it is with them that the Mother has this relation. With others who have a different nature, she cannot but behave differently―for she has to act with each according to his nature.