Surrender to the Divine Will  SURRENDER 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 surren

Those who are sincere I can help and turn easily towards the Divine. But where there is insincerity I can do very little. And as I have told you already, we have only to be patient and wait for things to become better. But surely I do not see why you should get disturbed and in what way your disturbance would help things to be better. You know by experience that there is only one way of getting out of confusion and obscurity; it is to remain very quiet and peaceful, firm in equanimity and to let the storm pass away. Rise above these petty quarrels and difficulties and wake up once more in the light and the power of my love which never leaves you. All unpleas

PART THREE ELEMENTS OF YOGA Sincerity Sincerity is the key of the divine doors. Be sincere. Sincerity is the gate to Divinity. Sincerity means to lift all the movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained. Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will.  21 February 1930 * To be sincere, all the parts of the being must be united in their aspiration for the Divine  ― not that one part wants and others refuse or revolt. To be sincere in the aspiration to want the Divine for the Divine's sake, not

Openness and Receptivity  OPENNESS Openness is the will to receive and to utilise for progress the force and influence; the constant aspiration to remain in touch with the Consciousness; the faith that the force and consciousness are always with you, around you, inside you and that you have only to let nothing stand in the way of your receiving them. Opening is a release of the consciousness by which it begins to admit into itself the workings of the Divine Light and Power. Open to the consciousness which is working on and in you and keep always as quiet and peaceful as you can. I pray that I may serve you consciously and sincerely, with

Aspiration             What is exactly meant by a sincere aspiration? An aspiration which is not mixed with any interested and egoistic calculation. 12January 1934 * It is to the sincerity of your aspiration that the Love answers spontaneously.  20 October 1934 * Let your aspiration leap forward, pure and straight, towards the supreme consciousness which is all joy and all beatitude. We must aspire with all our being for the manifestation to come soon and complete.                                                                                                                                                                      2 February 1935

SERIES ELEVEN Series Eleven To a sadhak of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. How can my effort to serve the Divine become more perfect? By wanting Him more and more in every part of your being – integrally. 11 October 1966 * In 1958 the Mother said, “If things go on advancing at this speed, it seems more than possible, almost evident, that what Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter is a prophetic announcement: The supramental consciousness will enter a phase of realising power in 1967.”¹ Have things advanced at the required speed? Yes. 2 January 1967 * May I try to make my nights conscious? I pra

SERIES FOURTEEN Series Fourteen To a sadhak of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram We are at a moment of transition in the history of the earth. It is merely a moment in eternal time, but this moment is long compared to human life. Matter is changing in order to prepare itself for the new manifestation, but the human body is not plastic enough and offers resistance; this is why the number of incomprehensible disorders and even diseases is increasing and becoming a problem for medical science. The remedy lies in union with the divine forces that are at work and a receptivity full of trust and peace which makes the task easier. 18 November 1971 *

SERIES TEN Series Ten To a young captain in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Department of Physical Education. He began writing to the Mother at the age of nineteen. Sweet Mother, On the night of Friday the 8th, I had a very peculiar dream. As I could not tell it to You at the Playground, I am going to tell You now. It was a very fine day very special. There was an important meeting at the Playground, so I was hurry- ing there. But near the Playground in front of Standard Stores, the road was covered with innumerable snakes. I was taken aback and r

SERIES NINE Series Nine To a young teacher in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Sweet Mother, With what attitude should I read Sri Aurobindo's books when they are difficult and when I don't under- stand? Savitri, The Life Divine, for example. Read a little at a time, read again and again until you have understood. Sri Aurobindo says: “Yoga is nothing but practical psy- chology.”¹ What does this sentence mean? The whole paragraph is not clear to me. Because you know nothing about psychology. Study psychology and you will understand what he means. Sri Aurobindo says: “

SERIES THIRTEEN Series Thirteen To a student in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education who began writing to the Mother at the age of sixteen. Sweet Mother, Should one give money to beggars or not? In a well-organized society, there should not be any beggars. But as long as there are, do as you feel. There are good reasons both for doing it and for not doing it. Blessings 8 July 1969 * There is no one for whom it is impossible to realise the Divine. Only, for some it will take many, many lives, whereas there are others who will do it in this very lifetime. It is a question of wi