Chapter 21Aspiration, Calling and Pulling

Psychic aspiration: constant, regular, organised, gentle and patient at the same time, resists all opposition, overcomes all difficulties.

* Spiritual aspiration rises like an arrow caring for neither obsta-cles nor laggards.

* Let the sun of aspiration dissolve the clouds of egoism.

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(Message for a seminar organised by the Maharastra Sri Aurobindo Centenary Celebration Committee)

Be sincere in your aspiration for progress.

Love and blessings.

* To aspire and to call for help are quite indispensable.

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Mother, what is the difference between an ardent aspiration and a pulling down of force?

It is the vital that pulls down and the psychic that aspires.

20 February 1973

* There is certainly a great difference between calling and pulling — you can and must always call for help and the rest — the answer will be proportionate to your capacity of reception and assimilation. Pulling is a selfish movement that may bring down forces quite disproportionate to your capacities and thus are harmful.