Manifestation of the Divine

About These Monthly Prayers

(From a conversation of the Mother with Mona)

Don’t think that I am giving you these prayers just because you asked me to.

Not at all . . . There is a purpose behind all that I do.

This is the path to be followed. I am preparing a path for you, and you will see that these prayers follow an ascending progression.

I have already warned you that it will be more and more difficult, even very difficult to follow. One must be very enduring, very strong — for gradually, as we go forward, it will be-come very difficult to bear.

Don’t presume that it will be a path of roses on which one can walk easily, smiling and watching casually all that is happening. No. I warn you once again that it will be a very difficult path, full of detours, full of blunders and adverse consequences, full of unexpected things and very difficult to bear — even physically. It has to be followed with certitude, and all unnecessary burdens have to be rejected.

One must be very alert, conscious at each moment, in order to avoid catastrophes, dangerous blows that could be very severe. Don’t think that it is a path of roses and spiritual delight. On the contrary, it is a very difficult path, it is like a sharp sword as it is said. There are not many who have the courage to face all these difficulties, not many; very, very few can overcome all that.

But Mother, it will become a path of roses, will it not?

Ah, that is afterwards, when one has realised many things, when it is He who guides you. At that time, yes. Not before.

Why, it can be so even now, with Your help.

Yes, but only if one has an intense faith, a burning faith, an unwavering faith, a faith that is not dependent on external things and events, a faith that changes everything because it knows the law; and because it has found the inner contact, it does not allow any doubt, any hesitation to penetrate the being. It is firm and it conquers everything. Yes, with this faith, the path becomes luminous and joyful; faith helps always, and there are no more difficulties. The difficulties are transformed into touchstones. Then it is another thing altogether, this faith that renders the forward march ever glorious and joyful. It is as if the difficulties disappear and a Hand leads you, removing in advance the obstacles and difficulties. Then it is no longer painful. And he who has this faith walks in the beatific splendour of the Divine.

18 June 1967