Chapter 66The Mother in Visions, Dreams and Experiences · Visions, Voices and Progress in Sadhana

sorrow and yearning — for the psychic sorrow itself is usually sweet and not painful.

2 August 1936

* Nowadays I get an inspiration to see all in the Mother and the Mother in all — to see the Vishwarupa in her as Yashoda saw it in Sri Krishna. Will I ever be able to have this vision?

To see all in the Mother and the Mother in all is a necessary experience in the Yoga. There is no reason why it should not happen.

29 April 1937

* Kindly let me know the significance of my frequently coming to the Mother on the vital plane. I suppose the meeting was sometimes on the supraphysical plane. Did my vital come to This kind of vital coming to the Mother all the sadhaks have in their sleep and dreams, if they are a little conscious there. Even those who are not sadhaks or others who do not know her come, but they are not aware of it. The vital plane is a supraphysical plane — the vital moves about in its own plane and is not limited by the physical mind or its consciousness or experience.

13 July 1937

* Kindly enlighten me as to what is the object and what the result of my coming to the Mother on the vital plane during sleep or dream.

It may be for any object or without any specific object — there is no rule in such matters.

14 July 1937

* This morning I saw within me a flash of golden light and felt the vivid presence of the Mother. I felt myself to be within her. I felt all to be within me and this “me” was something wider than I as a man.

To have that is very important — to get into something wider than the I as a man — into one’s own cosmic Self and universal consciousness — in the Mother.

In the morning at Pranam while putting my head in the Mother’s lap, I heard some voice. I felt it to be the Mother’s. Did she really speak or was it an illusion?

It may have been that the Mother conveyed something to you. At this moment she does not remember.

27 April 1933

* When is one said to be ready to hear the Mother’s voice from within?

When one has equality, discrimination and sufficient Yogic experience — otherwise any voice may be mistaken for the Mother’s.

Can one rely solely upon the voice from within from the beginning?

If it is the Mother’s voice; but you have to be sure of that.

7 July 1933

* Is it true that when one tries to do something which is contrary to the Divine’s Will, the Mother tells him inwardly not to do it?

It is the discriminating mind or the psychic that tells.

Is it true that to hear the Mother’s voice inwardly and to recognise it as hers is not difficult?

No, to hear and recognise the Mother’s voice within is not so easy.