Chapter 12The Mother as Guru and Guide · The Mahakali Method

in the mind. How can I make my vital being understand that One way is to have entire faith in the Mother — the other is to believe that she is wiser than yourself and must have rea-sons for everything she does which are better than your mind’s judgments.

And how can this understanding be firmly established in my mind, so that it does not yield to any temptation?

It should be established — that is all. So long as the vital or mental think themselves wiser than the Mother and able to judge her how do you expect these stupidities to disappear?

22 March 1934

* others concerned those whom you meet for work, not a personal relation such as you had with X. and she is not bound to apply the same rule to everybody. The Guru deals with each disciple in a different way and does not keep one law for all. You were allowed to mix with X for a long time like Y with Z and A with B — in all cases it has been bad for those who do not give up the special relation, preventing them from being successful in the Yoga for which they came. each know that it is better for them not to mix in a specially intimate way and she waits for them to realise it. When one or other of the two or both realises or begins to realise that it is better to break the special connection, then Mother intervenes. If you went back to X, all possibility of Yoga for you would cease. Even your going to the Dispensary has disturbed the progress you were making and brought back the old habits of thought and reactions.

Your one hope of doing anything in sadhana is really and truly and definitely to turn to the Mother alone and follow her