Chapter 18Aspiration · The Necessity of Aspiration

It depends on the stage which one has reached. Personal aspiration is necessary until there is the condition in which all comes automatically and only a certain knowledge and assent is necessary for the development.

* Even if there is no rising up, the aspiration connects you with the higher consciousness and helps or prepares to bring down something from it.

* It [the higher consciousness] may not come exactly according to the aspiration, but the aspiration is not ineffective. It keeps the consciousness open, prevents an inert state of acquiescence in all that comes and exercises a sort of pull on the sources of the higher consciousness.

* It is in the intervals that it should be there.

* Why do you write “If I get” [aspiration] — one can always aspire. It is your mistake to think that everything must come of itself and nothing is within your own power to do. This kind of belief in the necessity of passivity to all movements should be thrown aside. Will, aspiration, surrender are things that you must do yourself — although even in doing them you must call in the Divine Power to help your will, aspiration and surrender and make them effective.

* Why “getting” aspiration? Aspiration is an act of the will and one can always aspire.

* Activity in aspiration, tapasya, rejection of the wrong forces, passivity to the true working, the working of the Mother’s force are the right things in sadhana.

* One has to aspire to the Divine and surrender and leave it to the Divine to do what is true and right with the Adhar once it is perfected.