The Mother

The Right Way of Meeting the Mother

The right attitude to approach the Mother when she sees one is to keep the being perfectly quiet and open to receive, without any activity of the mind or desire in the vital, with only the surrender and the psychic readiness to accept whatever is given.

23-2-1932

When one comes to the Mother, one must not come with these things in the mind―but in quietude and light solely to receive from her what one can assimilate.

10-4-1934

The Mother does not usually speak with those who come for an interview before starting. If she had to speak, she would not give an interview at all to most, for she would have no time. Moreover it is not by speech or instruction or answering questions that Mother works on the consciousness of the Sadhaks, it is by a silent influence to which they have to learn to open themselves.

As for your readiness for the Ashram life, it should be evident to yourself from your reactions especially about your family that you are not ready―you would have been pulled away by these feelings and it would have been a serious fall for you. To be told the truth about themselves and get the guidance unasked―that is a grace which Sadhaks accept with gladness―to weep and feel hurt is a reaction of the vital which must be got over. Psychic weeping, a weeping from the soul deep within, tears of the soul's yearning, of sorrow for the resistance of Nature, of joy or love or Bhakti does not cause a fall, it can help and open up the inner soul from its veils; but this weeping has no strain or

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suffering in it, it is something very deep and quiet and brings a sense of purification and release. That is not so with the weeping which comes from the vital and is born of hurt or abhimāna or disappointment or shakes or disturbs the nature.

16-3-1937

Q: I intend to sweep out the lower forces before meeting the Mother tomorrow. Failing it I do not like to show my face to her.

A: That is the suggestion of the lower forces. They want to create an excuse for your remaining aloof like that.

Q: It seems I have learnt a lot about myself during yesterday, my birthday, on which Mother had given me an interview. It may be perhaps a kind of experienced knowledge aided by Her Force. I no more feel myself so weak, helpless or a slave to my defects and imperfections. Rather there is a growing surety that I shall be able to get rid of my whole lower nature.

A: It is what we call growing conscious―a perception of which the base is the psychic though it may take place in the mind or vital or physical. No doubt the Force that woke it up came from the Mother.

9-9-1937

Why should you decide beforehand that your birthday is spoiled? You have only to throw off all these undesirable ideas and feelings which proceed from a still imperfectly purified part of the external being and take the right attitude which you should always have when you come to the Mother. There should be no

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idea of what others have or have not―your relation is between the Mother and yourself and has nothing to do with others. Nothing should exist for you but yourself and the Divine―yourself receiving her Force flowing into you.

To secure that better, do not spend your time at your disposal in speech―especially if anything of the depression remains with you, it will waste the time in discussing things which cannot help the true consciousness to predominate. Concentrate, open yourself and let the Mother bring you back to the psychic condition by what she will pour into you in meditation and silence.

16-5-1933