My Savitri work with the Mother

31 January 1961

I felt constantly that it was too tough a job to be perfect. Time was running out. I wrote to the Mother in this regard. She answered on 31st January 1961:

Huta, My dear little child,

First of all, it is never too late.

From the point of view of spiritual realisation, the time has no concrete reality; all depends on the sincerity and intensity of the aspiration, on the steadiness of the effort. Some can do in a few weeks and even days, what takes years for others. Moreover, as the mind and the vital, the chief factors of progress, are not submitted to the same rules of decay as the material body, the age factor loses all its importance when we speak of spiritual and intellectual growth; there is no time limit nor age limit for the mental progress which can go on steadily for hundreds of years.

Secondly, failure is not the sign of incapacity—far from that.

Repeated failures come always to those who have something exceptional to do; it is only those who are satisfied with a commonplace and ordinary realisation who succeed easily in what they attempt to do.

The natures of a special value have always to face many ordeals.

And thirdly, when I say to take refuge in the Divine's love, I do not mean that it is all sufficient in itself. Not so, personal effort and favourable circumstances are also necessary for the promptness of the advance. But those who can take refuge in the Divine's love, find there a support, a protection and a joy that gives them strength to face all the ordeals and surmount all the difficulties.

I am always ready to help you according to my possibilities, and I need not tell you my love—you know it.

If I had not gone through difficult times, I would have never grasped the true meaning, the true purpose of life. I am extremely lucky that the Mother guided me directly and put me on the path which leads to the Supreme Truth and the Supreme Love. My whole being aspires for nothing but everlasting union with the Divine. Sri Aurobindo's promising words are really encouraging:

In the end a union, a closeness, a contact, companionship in the soul with the Divine, and yet more wonderful oneness in living.