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

PART TWO THE PATH OF YOGA The Path The mountain path leads always in two directions, upward and downward ― all depends on what we put behind us. Life is a perpetual choice between truth and falsehood, light and darkness, progress and regression, the ascent towards the heights or a fall into the abyss. It is for each one to choose freely. 29 February 1952 * In each one's life a moment comes when he has to choose between the Path and the muddle. You cannot put one foot here and one foot there. If you try to, you will be torn to pieces. A heart that does not choose is a heart that will die. You take up the spiritual path only wh

Difficulties in Work This morning I felt tired after five minutes' work. It was only polishing furniture! All manual work is tiring the first few times one does it. But gradually the body gets used to it and becomes strong. However, when you feel really tired, you must stop and rest.  11 February 1933 * With consecration the work can be done much more easily and happily. But nobody must be asked a greater effort than what he can do.  27 February 1935 * The best way to work without getting tired is to offer the work you do (whatever work it is) to the Divine and to find in the Divine the support you need − for the Divine's Force is inexhaustib

The Mind MIND: ONLY AN INSTRUMENT Mind: its true worth depends on its surrender to the Divine. Purified mind: mind ready to surrender to the Divine. Mental surrender: this happens when the mind has understood that it is only an instrument. Conversion of the mind: the mind has liberated itself from its arrogance and knows it is only an instrument. Clear mind: the first step on the road to conversion. Birth of true mental sincerity: with its birth the mind will understand that it is only a means and not an end in itself. The mind must learn to express only what is dictated by the Divine. Page − 361 Power of mental expression has no v

Marriage and Children To unite your physical lives, your material interests, to become partners in order to face together the difficulties and successes, the defeats and victories of life − that is the very foundation of marriage, but you already know that it is not enough. To be united in your sensations, to have the same aesthetic tastes and enjoyments, to be moved in common by the same things, one through the other and one for the other − that is good, that is necessary, but it is not enough. To be one in your deeper feelings, to keep a mutual affection and tenderness that never vary in spite of all the blows of life and can withstand every weariness and irri

PART SEVEN PARTS OF THE BEING The Soul (the Psychic) The soul is that which comes out of the Divine without ever leaving Him and goes back to Him without ever ceasing from manifestation. The soul is the Divine made individual without ceasing to be divine. In the soul the individual and the Divine are eternally one. Thus to find one’s soul is to be united with the Divine. It can therefore be said that the role of the soul is to make of man a true being. Theories differ according to schools and sects, and each one puts forth excellent reasons to support what it asserts. There is certainly truth in whatever one affirms and any case is not only possibl