CWTVKS Volume 2

3) Difficulties

Depression

Depression may seem to come from many causes. But really when the being is disposed to get depressed, any thought, feeling, event, person or thing can serve the purpose of a cause. Depression is chill and dark opposed to the fire and enthusiasm that radiate from the light of the soul. To give up the habit of getting depressed for any reason or no reason is an achievement that one must aspire for. If one aspires for it he is bound to succeed in it. The extent of depression is the measure of one being a ‘closed box’ for the time being. So, whatever your weakness be, you must be on your guard to keep a buoyant spirit that is the certain cure for the habit of depression.

18 March 1938

Hostile Attacks

Your letter is frank in what it says regarding ‘sincerity’ which you say you lack. But the very fact that there is something in you very conscious of this fact shows that you are not utterly ‘insincere’ i.e. that there is some very sincere part in you which recognises the error and weakness to which some part in you—mind you, not the whole being in you—succumbs. Also such attacks, whatever they be are not constant, they come and go. The rest of the time is at your disposal to make proper use of

Now you can understand wherein lies the remedy. That is to say, rely on your soul which is not attacked, cultivate the habit of remembering the Mother, the Guru, the Divine and refer to the same every act and serious thought or feeling. In the beginning you may have a vague feeling of the soul, or the presence, or the help. Gradually as your memory becomes constant the attacks lose their vigour and frequency by the presence of the force and help which you can feel, or at least infer from the result...

Of course at the moment of the attack you cannot think of the Mother etc. for if there is the remembrance, the attack itself would not take place. But these things will go as your sincerity gets strong in calling for help.

2 September 1952

There are generally two ways of tackling an attack of this kind.

One is that the Master sends some force to the person attacked to help him or her to repel the attack. The other is, He takes upon himself the whole work and concentrates and repels the attack.

The choice of the way is made by reference to the character of the attack and the condition of the attacked, but always to the highest good of the soul which is identical with the Divine purpose...

The faith that A. has is enough. Just remind her daily, that is enough. Your faith is more important; when you are calm and call on the Mother and wait to see observing what goes on within you from above you, the whole movement in and about you cannot fall flat upon the atmosphere—at any rate in your house. That is a very good condition for the Mother's help to be easily effective.

27 March 1935

Grief, anger, fear—any one or any combination of them dries up the springs of the nerve-force and a certain fit results. The suppression of sex-instincts in the fair sex creates physically a favourable ground; menses at irregular periods or menstrual disorders in general, are accompanying conditions in such cases. But even when all the causes combine and are present, hysteria never appears if two conditions are satisfied. The one is outer and the other is inner, of course. If there is sufficient presence of mind, that gives the balance and keeps the nerves intact, one avoids the attack. If the nervous being is weak and the outer conditions in the atmosphere are not all that is desirable, then easily a favourable ground is created. In the case of one having a hysteric tendency, the atmosphere is more important than the inner condition of the helpless being, for the cure has to come from outside....

Whenever a wrong influence is thrown into the general atmosphere and you are open to it and breathe it without knowing what it is, you become helpless. That is why I always insist upon consciousness. If any one in the atmosphere has something of this, and is calm and not agitated, these dark forces are automatically dispelled. You simply go near...and keep to the Quiet and watch yourself for a couple of minutes and then slowly approach the patient and call...by name, very very slowly near the ear, you can see the result instantaneously.

14 April 1932

All the same, it is to teach courage to the faithful soul in its unteachable parts, to put to test the strength and faith in us that such disturbing forces try their hands. Every event in daily life has a meaning to the watchful soul; and he alone chooses a Higher life who is already chosen for it.

25 April 1932

To condole is not to console. To say is not to do. It is giving stone for the starving. Therefore there must be something substantial and positive to fill the whole being, so that melancholy might be ejected automatically from the system. To be a great mother is not merely to be good and sweet, but also to be heroic and powerful when moments require.

13 April 1932

With certitude I put in writing without much lecturing upon it, as I know that you are familiar with the spirit of that idea. It is an impulsion lit with a surrounding pale blue glow that is responsible for this expression:

“Stick to the post, like a soldier, cling to the Feet like a devotee, or seize hold of something known to you or within you or behind you—be it an idea, a Word, a feeling, or a centre, any centre you sense or feel within the body or above it or the whole body as the centre and a vessel."

The surrounding and watching Presence ceases to be passive after a time, then the Deity directs. Till the Event, constancy on the human side is a needed instrumentation for your Guardian God.

16 December 1946

Remember

“Remember us” is the Mantra for you. It means that you are expected to refer inwardly to Them every problem or plan of thought, feeling and action in order that you may get the right guidance in the hour of need. What more do you need?

Silence is your stronghold, it is only from there you can be victorious over these forces which are trying your strength to prove your sincerity and capacity to be on the side of the Right, the Good, the True which to you is the Mother's Name and Feet...

The Mother said “Remember us” always. I add ‘solve your difficulties by refering inwardly to Her and praying for right guidance.'

13 July 1937

Remember the Presence is always there; whatever clouds that may come or seem to come are bound to pass, lost to sight.

19 November 1937

You say that you ‘are not in the carriage’ and could ‘not keep quiet’. You seem to miss, for the moment, another sentence of the Mother: once you accept the Divine and the Divine has said ‘Yes’, the rest is only a question of the ripe hour.

It seems to me that the difficulty is not that one is not in the carriage, but that he forgets, does not know, or ignores that he is already in the carriage. As for ‘not keeping quiet’, attempts and activities are not incompatible with the quietude of our conception—you know this.

21 June 1937

Contacts

It is not at all a question of right or wrong, good or bad in the conventional and moral sense of the term. The question that has to be decided is whether a particular condition in which you find yourself can be kept under your control. That is to say you must know if you can control the effects of a particular company on your body and mind. You must learn to know and recognise the value of a particular influence and accept it if it is a strengthening influence, and of course reject it mercilessly if it is a weakening influence. If the rejection necessitates a change in the course of your outward conduct, it has to be effected, but mildly, gradually, therefore imperceptibly but with a firm will within aided by the strength that comes from Prayer.

24 March 1936

Resistance in the body

Drawbacks every one has and no one can say that he or she has no drawbacks. But when it is said that there is a ‘strong resistance in the body’, I understand it to mean that the material body, because of its density and dullness and its very materiality, exercises its inherent right to resist the entrance into it of the Force of Light which will make it impossible for the body to contract illness.

Personal drawbacks and merits and general habits may help or hinder the work of the Yoga-Force, but resistance in the body is not brought about by the personal drawbacks of any one, as that is a universal characteristic of physical nature.

12 September 1936