Mother's Chronicles - Book Four

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On Board the Kaga Maru

Mirra had now procured all her travel documents. A man helped her much in obtaining those papers, and Mirra never forgot it. So the gentleman's sister in Pondicherry basked lifelong in the sunshine of Mother's kindness. Talk of the divine quality of gratitude? Well, Mother certainly had it.

On 6 March 1914, Mirra and Paul Richard were in Geneva. Why did they go there? Mother speaks of 'suffering' and of 'grief.' "Certainly this sentimental and physical attachment which produces a wrench when the bodies separate, is childish from a certain point of view, when we contemplate the impermanence of outer forms and the reality of Thy essential Oneness. ... I, assured of Thy victory and certain of Thy triumph, have confided to Thee their grief so that Thou mayest by illumining heal it.

"O Lord, grant that all this beauty of affection and tenderness may be transformed into a glorious knowledge.

"Grant that the best may come out of everything, and Thy happy Peace may reign over the earth."

Always, always her prayer was for the Earth.

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Then they must have taken the train for Marseilles.

"7 March 1914. On board the Kaga Maru. Thou wast with us yesterday as the most marvellous Protection; Thou hast permitted Thy law to triumph even in the outermost manifestation. Violence was answered by calm, brutality by the power of gentleness; and. where there could have taken place an irreparable misfortune, Thy power was glorified. O Lord! with what fervent gratitude I saluted Thy presence. It was for me a sure sign that we would have the force to act, to think, to live in Thy name and for Thee; not only in intention and will, but effectively, in an integral realisation.

"This morning my prayer rises to Thee, always with the same aspiration: to live Thy love, to radiate Thy love, with such potency and effectiveness that all may feel fortified, regenerated and illumined by our contact ..."

"8 March 1914. In front of this calm sunrise which turned all within me into silence and peace, at the moment when I grew conscious of Thee and Thou alone wast living in me, O Lord, it seemed to me that I adopted all the inhabitants of this ship, and enveloped them in an equal love, so that in each one of them something of Thy consciousness would awake. Not often had I felt so strongly Thy divine power, and Thy invincible light, and once again total was my confidence and unmixed my joyful surrender. ..."

"9 March 1914. Those who live for Thee and in Thee may change their physical surroundings, their habits, climate, 'milieu,' but everywhere they find the same atmosphere; they carry that atmosphere in themselves, in their thought constantly

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fixed on Thee. Everywhere they feel at home, for everywhere they are in Thy house. No longer do they marvel at the novelty, unexpectedness, picturesque ness of things and countries; for them, it is Thy Presence that is manifest in all and Thy unchangeable splendour, which never leaves them, is apparent in the least grain of sand....

"O Lord, my sweet Master, all this I constantly experience on this boat which seems to me a marvellous abode of peace, a temple sailing in Thy honour over the waves of the sub-conscient passivity which we have to conquer and awaken to the consciousness of Thy divine Presence.

"Blessed was the day when I came to know Thee, O ineffable Eternity.

"Blessed among all days be that day when the earth at last awakened shall know Thee and shall live only for Thee."

"10 March 1914. In the silence of the night Thy Peace reigned over all things, in the silence of my heart Thy Peace was so powerful that no trouble of any kind could resist it. I then thought of all those who were watching over the ship to safeguard and protect our route, and in gratitude, I willed Thy Peace should be born and live in their hearts. ... I next thought of all those whom we know, of all those whom we do not know, of all the life that is working itself out, of all that has changed its form, and all that is not yet in form, and for all that, and also for all of which I cannot think, for all that is present in my memory, and for all that I forget, in a deep contemplation and mute adoration, I implored Thy Peace."

"14 March 1914. In the unchanging solitude of the

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desert there is something of Thy majestic presence, and I understand why one of the best means of finding Thee has always been to retire into these immense plains of sand.

"But for one who knows Thee, Thou art everywhere, in everything, and no one thing appears to be more favourable than another for manifesting Thee; for all things that exist — and many others that are not yet —are necessary to express Thee."

"17 March 1914." Mirra alludes to a 'physical indisposition.' Then goes on to note, "I have noticed that if we enter into an activity which requires a great physical endurance, what fatigues the most is the anticipation of all the difficulties to which we shall be exposed. It is much wiser at every moment to look only at the difficulty of the present minute; this makes the effort easier because it is always proportionate to the amount of strength and the resistance we can command. The body is a marvellous instrument, it is our mind that does not know how to use it, and, instead of encouraging its suppleness, its plasticity, puts into it a certain fixity arising from preconceived ideas and unfavourable suggestions.

"But the supreme science, O Lord, is to be one with Thee ... to be Thou. . . ."

With the passing of each day she was becoming more adept at giving up any preconceived ideas she may have entertained. And she gave in advance her "joyful and serene adhesion to the circumstances" that were to translate the Lord's law of Love, and manifest His Will.

Came Sunday, March 22. She saw the people attending

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the Sunday prayer on the ship. "They have made an effort to reach towards Thee," she wrote in her diary. However, her intellect, shining like the purest diamond, could see beyond or behind. "... But because of their ignorance it was probably not towards Thee that their prayers rose, and their false conceptions have barred the way to their aspiration." Then her own prayer rose from her heart. "O Lord, divine Master of love, enlighten their consciousnesses and their hearts. . . . May the supreme serenity of Thy sublime Presence awake in them."

As that 'sublime Presence' increased in amplitude in her, so did a happy confidence. And Mirra was "running with nimble steps towards the only goal worth attaining."

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