Chapter 36Surrender to the Mother and the Working of · Assimilation of the Mother’s Force

vital parts (heart, navel, etc.) — though sometimes it is more enveloping before it enters the body.

24 March 1937 Is it so difficult to have faith and confidence in the Mother? Even with a little of that attitude, the descent was taking place in you.

* If you want to get back your faith and keep it, you must first quiet your mind and make it open and obedient to the Mother’s force. If you have an excited mind at the mercy of every influence and impulse, you will remain a field of conflicting and contrary forces and cannot progress. You will begin to listen to your own ignorance instead of the Mother’s knowledge and your faith will naturally disappear and you will get into a wrong condition and a wrong attitude.

March 1928

* Put your faith in the Divine Shakti, set your mind at rest and let

26 August 1933

* 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 August 1935

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I can try to call down the Mother’s Force, but faith and surrender would require a wonderful Yogic poise and power possible only in born Yogis, I think.

Not at all. A wonderful Yogic poise and power would usually bring self-reliance rather than faith and surrender. It is the simple people who do the latter most easily.

10 August 1936