The Mother's brief written statements on various aspects of spiritual life including some spoken comments.
This volume consists primarily of brief written statements by the Mother on various aspects of spiritual life. Written between the late 1920s and the early 1970s, the statements have been compiled from her public messages, private notes, and correspondence with disciples. About two-thirds of them were written in English; the rest were written in French and appear here in English translation. The volume also contains a small number of spoken comments, most of them in English. Some are tape-recorded messages; others are reports by disciples that were later approved by the Mother for publication.
It is rare that somebody can surrender entirely to the Divine's Will without having to face one or another of the difficulties.
How many efforts and struggles again to give ourselves, to surrender, once the individuality is constituted!
For if the struggle is not an actual one, that does not mean that it will not come one day in one form or another.
For always, at least once in our life, we are placed in some circumstance to test whether we are ready for an entire surrender to the Divine Will; whether we are, before all, human beings striving to attain and manifest the Godhead; ready to renounce everything in the world―what seems to us good as well as what seems bad―for that supreme conquest. In that ascent towards the heights, both virtues and duties―that is to say our mental prejudices and preferences―stand far more in our way than our exterior weaknesses and faults. An error can always be used as a spring-board, whilst a virtue is more often a limit, a barrier that must be surmounted.
I will add, quoting a passage of The Synthesis of Yoga, "All these are within us waiting to wall in the spirit with forms; but we must always go beyond, always renounce the lesser for the greater, the finite for the Infinite; we must be prepared to proceed from illumination to illumination, from experience to experience, from soul-state to soul-state, so as to reach the utmost transcendence of the Divine and its utmost universality."1
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The way in which most people surrender:
Let God manifest his will but let it be the same as mine.
15 April 1931
One thing you must know and decide:
It is if you want the True Divine as He is, or if you want a Divine in keeping with your own conception of what He ought to be.
And if you have decided to surrender sincerely and totally to the Divine and to be and do what He wants you to be and do according to His own will, or if you want the Divine to do what you want Him to do and to act according to your own will.
I have forwarded your prayer to the Supreme Lord. But if you want to live in Ananda, you must not try to impose your will on the Divine, but, on the contrary, you must be ready to accept all that comes to you from Him, with an equal peace; because He knows better than we what is good for our progress.
13 August 1960
The time is come to rely only on the Divine will and to let it work freely through you.
I repeat, the time has come at last not to rely any more on one's own petty will, to hand over the whole affair to the Divine's will and let it do its work through you, not only your mind and feelings but mainly through the body; and if you do it sincerely, all this body nonsense will disappear and you will be strong and fit for your work.
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When men will understand that the Divine knows better than they do what is the best for them, many of their difficulties will disappear.
1 April 1963
If the Lord wills for you a hardship, do not protest. Take it as a blessing and indeed it will become so.
The Lord is not an all-powerful automaton that human beings can move by the push-button of their will.
And yet most of those who surrender to God expect that from Him.
22 June 1963
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