Chapter 45Mental Knowledge and the Working of the Mother’s · The Mother’s Force and the Body

About my weaknesses you have mentioned the “inertia and fundamental resistance in the consciousness”. How can I become free of them?

There is only one rule for all these things — to watch oneself closely so as to detect these things always when they show themselves, to reject them always and persistently when seen, to aspire always for their removal, to call always the Force of the Mother to help to remove them. But the most entirely effective thing is if you can feel the Force of the Mother working in you and support its action always.

29 June 1933

* You have written: “But the most entirely effective thing is if you can feel the Force of the Mother working in you and support its action always.” What is the meaning of “support its action always”?

To support its action means that one must recognise the Mother’s rant forces and give assent to the one and refuse the others. It is again a general rule — its application each sadhaka has to see for himself.

1 July 1933

* more and more conscious of one’s own being and nature and what is below in it. It is not a question of mental judgment, — that is of little use in these matters, — but of the consciousness feeling and seeing. Supermind is not organised in the lower planes as the others are. It is only a veiled influence. Otherwise the supramental realisation would be easy.

22 May 1934

* As to the Force, you said, “It creates its own activities in the mind or elsewhere.” In that case does the mind or any other part on which the Force acts express only what the Force has created?

That is the ideal condition when the Force is the true Force only — but there is too much mixture in the nature for that to be possible at this stage of sadhana.

3 August 1934

* You say: “That is the ideal condition when the Force is the true Force only.” Does this mean that what my consciousness feels as the Force is not the real Force of the Mother?

I have said that it gets mixed with the action of the present mind, vital and body. That is inevitable since it has to work upon them. It is only after the transformation that it can be fully the Mother’s beginning, not taking any account of the present nature, then there would be no sadhana, only a miraculous substitution of the Divine for the human without any reason or process.

4 August 1934 During the evening meditation my mind tries to become conscious of the thoughts which the Mother brings down. Is this the right activity?

It is not altogether the way — if the mind is active it is more difficult to become aware of what the Mother is bringing. It is not thoughts she brings, but the higher light, force etc.

22 March 1933

* With reference to the Mother you once said, “Ask for the consciousness of her force.” Does it mean that I should aspire to know her consciousness and her force?

Yes — not know with the mind only, but to feel them and see them with the inner experience.

18 June 1933

* My mind fails to make out the present state of the being. It does not understand what the Mother’s Force is doing.

Plenty of people progress rapidly without understanding what the Force is doing — they simply observe and describe and say “I leave all to the Mother.” Eventually the knowledge and understanding come.

17 July 1933 When can it be said that the material being is ready for the Divine?

If the material consciousness is open, feels the Mother’s Force working in it and responds, then it is ready.

11 June 1933

* I feel the Mother’s light, peace, beauty, joy and love descending from above into each strand of my hair. The whole body, calm and still, becomes absorbed in deep peace.

It can be there in all the atoms of the body since all is secretly conscious.

5 October 1933

* One thing I wish to say about the condition of my body: Do not arrange any medication for me. Medicines are insignificant compared to the Mother’s Force and Compassion. Everything will come all right through her Love and Force — this is my strong faith.

For the Mother’s Force to work fully in the body, the body itself and not only the mind must have faith and be open.

9 October 1933

* I pray that the Mother’s Force may help my body. Kindly let me keep her Light and by that Light mould me through Peace and Love.