Chapter 36Self-giving

It is in a sincere consecration to the Divine that we can find relief from our too human sufferings.

* The quiet mind one gets through meditation is indeed of short duration, for as soon as you come out from meditation you come out at the same time from the quietness of mind. The true lasting quietness in the vital and the physical as well as in the mind comes from a complete consecration to the Divine; for when you can no more call anything, not even yourself, yours, when everything, including your body, sensations, feel-ings and thoughts, belongs to the Divine, the Divine takes the entire responsibility of all and you have nothing more to worry about.

* A sincere consecration of all you are and all you do is for the sadhana much more effective than meditation.

* True love and consecration lead much quicker to the Divine than an arduous Tapasya.

26 April 1937

* * Self-giving: by this the whole being gets progressively unified round the central psychic being.

Give yourself up — it is the best way of finding yourself.

* Give yourself, all that you are and what you do, to the Divine, and you will have peace.

* Give yourself entirely to the Divine and you will see the end of all your troubles.

* It is a sincere self-giving that saves one from all difficulties and dangers.

* Never say, “I have nothing to give to the Divine.” There is always something to give, for always you can give yourself in a better and more complete way.

* To the Divine you are worth no more than what you have given Him.

* To give to the Divine what one has in excess is not an offering.

One should give at least something out of what one needs.

* If you remember what you have given to the Divine, He will have no need of remembering it Himself; and if you ever mention the gift or speak of it to anybody, it is not to the Divine that you have made the offering but to the demon of your vanity.

* Entire self-giving: fully open, clear and pure.

* Do not confuse the psychic realisation with the spiritual realisa-tion, because the psychic realisation will leave you within time and space, within the manifested universe.

Whereas the effect of the spiritual realisation will be to project you outside all creation, outside time and space.

There is no joy more perfect than to give oneself totally to that which is greater than oneself. God, Supreme Origin, Divine Presence, Absolute Truth — it doesn’t matter what name we give Him or what aspect we most easily approach Him through — to forget oneself totally in an integral consecration is the surest path towards Realisation.

13 January 1952

* How beautiful, grand, simple and calm everything becomes when our thoughts turn to the Divine and we give ourselves to the Divine!

11 May 1954

* We must know how to give our life and also our death, our happiness and also our suffering.

28 December 1954

* Three typical modes of total self-giving to the Divine:

(1) To prostrate oneself at His feet, giving up all pride in perfect humility.

(2) To unfold one’s being before Him, open one’s whole body from head to foot, as one opens a book, exposing one’s centres so as to make all their movements visible in a complete sincerity that allows nothing to remain hidden.

(3) To nestle in His arms, to merge in Him in a loving and absolute trust.

These movements may be accompanied by three formulas or any one of them according to the case:

(1) Let Thy Will be done and not mine. (2) As Thou willest, as Thou willest. (3) I am Thine for eternity. Generally, when these movements are done in the true way, they are followed by a perfect identification, a dissolution of the ego, giving rise to a sublime felicity.

* Three Steps towards the Supreme Identification.

Give all you have, this is the beginning. Give all you do, this is the way. Give all you are, this is the fulfilment.

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I have read and heard that one should “give oneself” to the Divine. I don’t understand how one should “give oneself”.

With your thought, give your thoughts.

With your heart, give your feelings. With your body, give your work.

21 March 1965

* Above all words, above all thoughts in the luminous silence of an aspiring faith give yourself totally, unreservedly, absolutely to the Supreme Lord of all existences and He will do of you what He wants you to be.

With love and blessings.

5 March 1966

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