Chapter 70The Mother’s Help in Difficulties · Turning to the Mother for Help

troubled by difficulty or defects in yourself or by any delay or slowness in the working.

25 October 1933

* This kind of grief and despondency are the worst obstacles one can raise up in the sadhana — they ought not to be indulged in. What one cannot do oneself one can get done by calling the Mother’s force. To receive that and let it work in you is the true means of success in the sadhana.

* Do not brood over your difficulties. Leave them to the Mother and let her Force work them out of you.

22 March 1935

* In such conditions try to remain as quiet as possible within and, if you cannot call the Mother, think of her and expect the help of the Force.

These attacks are always on the outer part of the consciousness covering up the inner being. One should always try to detach (separate) the inner being and look at the attack as a movement of the surface.

13 June 1935

* We will send you help, so that you may get rid of the obstruction.

Never allow this idea “I am not able” or “I am not doing enough” to come and vex you; it is a tamasic suggestion and brings depression and depression opens the way to the attacks of the wrong forces. Your position should be, “Let me do what I can; the Mother’s Force is there, the Divine is there to see that in due time all will be done.”

4 November 1935

* There has been no letter from you for three nights. Whatever difficulty has come across, keep your faith and reliance on the Mother and lay open whatever opposes from outside or within