Mother You said so ...

1 July 1956

Many things people do not know. But they must under-stand and know something, and practise that. Whatever bad attacks come, they should at once take shelter in the Divine's arms. Of course, people should imagine like this—"Now we are in the Mother's arms, so nothing can touch our true selves."

People do not really know that my body is not as they see it but it is huge and wide with so many aspects. Always I am taking everyone into my arms. This cannot be seen with the physical eyes, but surely people can feel in their hearts. Nevertheless, this can be seen with the subtle eyes when they are opened.

There is always a tug of war in people's beings—some of them want small pleasures and mortal things, while some want the Divine alone.

If people listen to lower things and respond to them, then naturally they are caught in small matters. By all these petty things, they fall into a dark pit. But they must pull out their true beings from the dark pit by constant effort and prayers.

There is a veil between the soul and the true consciousness. So people remain in misery, and miss the true joy, peace and happiness.

If people give support to lower things, surely they remain in ignorance and in darkness. Lower beings do not like to change themselves. They do not want people to take the Divine's Joy, and always they harass them. So they can take neither the Divine's Joy nor any other. But, of course, they can get rid of Falsehood by constant prayer and sincere aspiration.

Here there was a good French lady, her soul brought her here but after some time she got tired of this life and place and wanted to go back. So she went. But then she felt terribly miserable and remembered this place. She still writes to me and wants to come again but I have refused because, if she came back, the same thing would start once more. Indeed, it takes time to efface the lower nature