Chapter 57The Mother’s Lights · Lights and the Mother

Whatever work you do, take it as the Mother’s and offer it to the Mother.

14 November 1933

* After finishing any activity, even eating and drinking, I make an offering of it to the Mother, saying, “I offer this work done by me to Thee.” But now a sense is growing in me that all works are done by the Mother’s Power of Nature through the individual nature. Accordingly, can I substitute the wording in this way, “All the work that is done by the (or my) individual All that is done in me by Nature, I offer wholeheartedly for transformation to Thee, O Mother.

5 March 1934

* I have read in many places that we should refer all our actions to the Mother. But I don’t know how to refer them and get her answer as to whether the actions should be done or not.

There is no question of getting an answer. It is simply to offer the actions to the Mother and call her Force to guide or do what is necessary.

13 January 1936 Is it always necessary for our work to be prompted or initiated by the Mother in an outward way? Could one not feel so intensely that a thing has to be done that it is almost an inner prompting?

It would be dangerous to take every “inner prompting” as if it were a prompting or initiation of action from the Mother. What seems an inner prompting may come from anywhere, any Force good or bad seeking to fulfil itself. One may have ego about the work even if the work itself comes from the Mother. The ego of the instrument is one of the things against which there must be special care in the Yoga.