Chapter 71The Mother’s Help in Difficulties · Personal Effort and the Mother’s Help

to the working of the Mother’s Force.

25 March 1936

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Many times I feel hatred towards my own self because I neither have the ability nor the skill in me to do anything. I start doing some work and then leave it undone. I have no perseverance. What is the reason for this?

These come from a certain restlessness in the vital. Most people put a control of the will on these things and try to get rid of them in that way. But they disappear fully only when the inner being is awakened and a new Force (the Mother’s) begins fully to work on the nature.

9 April 1937

* Do not admit these suggestions of despair or impatience. Give time for the Mother’s force to act.

12 June 1937

* Whatever difficulties still remain, be sure that they will be surmounted. There is no need for the outer being to be nervous — to overcome all that stands in the way.

You must throw all that away. Such depression can only make you shut to what Mother is giving you. There is absolutely no good reason for such an attitude. The existence of difficulties is a known thing in the Yoga. That is no reason for questioning the final victory or the effectivity of the Divine Grace.

4 February 1933

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Can it be believed that the Mother’s Grace is acting even when the difficulties do not disappear?

In that case everybody might say that all my difficulties must disappear at once, I must attain to perfection immediately and without difficulties, otherwise it proves that the Mother’s Grace is not with me.

20 July 1933

* You should not yield to sorrow or despair — there is no reason from you for a moment. Do not allow the attacks of others to shake you like this — you know well the motives from which they act — and for the rest they are not going to pursue any farther the course which a fit of passion dictated to them. The protection will be with you and you need not fear or sorrow any longer. Put your trust in the Divine and shake off all this like a nightmare that has passed. Believe that our love and grace are with you.

It is the physical mind that feels too inert — but if some part of the being turns to the Mother, that is enough to bring the help.

25 January 1934

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I feel a sense of tiredness, depression, sadness, but all the same I stick to you. I am quiet sometimes, but still feel sad. What should I do?

Remain firm and turned in the one direction — towards the Mother.

The sense of sadness and depression does not want to go — it comes and goes as it likes. Tell me what to do.

When the habit of these moods (depression or revolt) has been formed, they cannot be got rid of at once. There are three ways of doing it — (1) to strengthen your own will, so that nothing can come or stay as it likes but only as you like; (2) to think of something else, plunge the mind in some healthy activity; (3) to turn to the Mother and call in her force. One can do any