Chapter 69The Mother’s Help in Difficulties · Difficulties and the Mother’s Grace

Equality, rejection, calling in of the Mother’s force.

1 August 1933

* When difficulties arise, remain quiet within and call down the Mother’s Force to remove them.

26 August 1933

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In my sadhana I have received only what I prayed for. I have yearned greatly for what has come to me. The Divine’s reasonless Mercy is not so important to me as Tapasya, the capacity to open to Him and hold Him. This is my belief.

It was by your personal efforts without guidance that you got into difficulties and into a heated condition in which you could not meditate etc. I asked you to drop the effort and remain quiet and you did so. My intention was that by your remaining quiet, it would be possible for the Mother’s Force to work in you and establish a better starting-point and a course of initial experiences. It was what was beginning to come; but if your mind again becomes active and tries to arrange the sadhana for itself, then disturbances are likely to come. The Divine Guidance works best when the psychic is open and in front (yours was beginning to open), but it can also work even when the sadhak is either not conscious of it or else knows it only by its results.

8 September 1933

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Is there no way for me to follow your path happily? I will not be able to do anything for the Mother in this life, so I simply try to stay away from the defects of previous lives. Why can’t I understand anything? Why can’t the Mother pull me towards her? What is it I feel hurt about and worry about? Can you explain it to me?

All this is of no utility — complainings, questionings etc. of this kind should be put aside. You have to go on quietly, without depression or trouble, receiving the Mother’s forces, allowing them to work, rejecting all that stands in their way, but not