The Mother

Trust in the Mother's Force in Difficulty

What is needed is perseverance―to go on without discouragement, recognising that the process of the nature and the action of the Mother's force is working through the difficulty even and will do all that is needed. Our incapacity does not matter―there is no human being who is not in his parts of nature incapable―but the Divine Force is also there. If one puts one's trust in that, incapacity will be changed into capacity. Difficulty and struggle themselves then become a means towards the achievement.

27-5-1936

Do not brood over your difficulties. Leave them to the Mother and let her Force work them out of you.

22-3-1935

Never allow this idea "I am not able", "I am not doing enough" to come and vex you; it is a tamasic suggestion and brings depression and depression opens the way to the attacks of the wrong forces. Your position should be, "Let me do what I can; the Mother's force is there, the Divine is there to see that in due time, all will be done."

4-11-1935

Not to be disturbed, to remain quiet and confident is the right attitude, but it is necessary also to receive the help of the Mother

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and not to stand back for any reason from her solicitude. One ought not to indulge ideas of incapacity, inability to respond, dwelling too much on defects and failures and allowing the mind to be in pain and shame on their account; for these ideas and feelings become in the end weakening things. If there are difficulties, stumblings or failures, one has to look at them quietly and call in tranquilly and persistently the Divine help for their removal, but not to allow oneself to be upset or pained or discouraged. Yoga is not an easy path and the total change of the nature cannot be done in a day.

All this is of no utility―complainings, questionings, etc. of this kind should be put aside. You have to go on quietly, without depression or trouble, receiving the Mother's forces, allowing them to work, rejecting all that stands in their way but not troubled by difficulty or defects in yourself or by any delay or slowness in the working.

25-10-1933

Do not admit these suggestions of despair or impatience. Give time for the Mother's force to act.

12-6-1937

This kind of grief and despondency are the worst obstacles one can raise up in the Sadhana―they ought not to be indulged in. What one cannot do oneself one can get done by calling the Mother's force. To receive that and let it work in you is the true means of success in the Sadhana.

Whatever difficulties still remain, be sure that they will be surmounted. There is no need for the outer being to be nervous―

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the Mother's Force and the devotion within you will be sufficient to overcome all that stands in the way.

There is no reason to be discouraged. Three years is not too much for the preparation of the nature and it is usually through fluctuations that it gradually grows nearer to the point where a continuous progress becomes possible. One has to cleave firmly to the faith in the Mother's working behind all appearances and you will find that that will carry you through.

31-8-1935

You should not yield to sorrow or despair―there is no reason why you should. The Mother's grace has not been withdrawn from you for a moment. Do not allow the attacks of others to shake you like this―you know well the motives from which they act―and for the rest they are not going to pursue any farther the course which a fit of passion dictated to them. The protection will be with you and you need not fear or sorrow any longer. Put your trust in the Divine and shake off all this like a nightmare that has passed. Believe that our love and grace are with you.

There has always been too much reliance on the action of your own mind and will―that is why you cannot progress. If you could once get the habit of silent reliance on the power of the Mother―not merely calling it in to support your own effort―the obstacle would diminish and eventually disappear.

The more one is open to the Mother's action, the more easily difficulties get solved and the right thing is done.

21-9-1934

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It was by your personal efforts without guidance that you got into difficulties and into a heated condition in which you could not meditate etc. I asked you to drop the effort and remain quiet and you did so. My intention was that by your remaining quiet, it would be possible for the Mother's Force to work in you and establish a better starting-point and a course of initial experiences. It was what was beginning to come; but if your mind again becomes active and tries to arrange the Sadhana for itself, then disturbances are likely to come. The Divine Guidance works best when the psychic is open and in front (yours was beginning to open), but it can also work even when the Sadhak is either not conscious of it, or else knows it only by its results.