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.
Surrender: the decision to hand over the responsibility of your life to the Divine. This is done either through the mind or the emotion or the life-impulse or through all of them together.
To surrender to the Divine is to renounce your narrow limits and let yourself be invaded by It and made a centre for Its play.
If you are truly surrendered to the Divine, in the right manner and totally, then at every moment you will be what you ought to be, you will do what you ought to do, you will know what you ought to know.
But for that you should have transcended all the limitations of the ego.
True surrender enlarges you; it increases your capacity; it gives you a greater measure in quality and in quantity, which you could not have had yourself.
Detailed surrender: a surrender which does not forget anything.
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Detailed surrender means the surrender of all the details of life, even the smallest and the most insignificant in appearance. And this means to remember the Divine in all circumstances; whatever we think, feel or do, we must do it for Him as a way of coming close to Him, to be more and more what He wants us to be, capable of manifesting His will in perfect sincerity and purity, to be the instruments of His Love.
If man surrenders totally to the Divine, he identifies himself with the Divine.
13 May 1954
Perfect surrender: the indispensable condition for identification.
In the integrality and absoluteness of bhakti and surrender, we find the essential condition of perfect peace leading to uninterrupted bliss.
2 December 1954
The path is long, but self-surrender makes it short; the way is difficult, but perfect trust makes it easy.
Surrender to the Divine is the best emotional protection.
The true repose is that of a perfect surrender to the Divine.
What is the secret of success in sadhana?
Surrender.
13 October 1965
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