Divinisation itself does not mean the destruction of the human elements; it means taking them up, showing them the way to their own perfection, raising them by purification and perfection to their full power and Ananda.
At the Feet of The Mother
Dilip Kumar Roy
Rules are necessary but they are not absolute; one of the chief tendencies of genius is to break old rules and make departures which create new ones.
Your translation is admirable. I like it very much and fully appreciate the beauty of the phrase you have discovered to translate mine.
The true question for us could not be to love or not love the Mother ... but in what spirit to make the physical approach to her so as to avoid the mistakes of the past and get the most spiritual benefit from her contact.
What I want of you is not to love the Mother from a distance, but to become accustomed to feel her presence, her help, the working of her forces even when she is not physically present ... because it would give a great push to your Yoga.
You must really get rid of this idea that you are imagining things like the silence and wideness; an experience is not untrue because it is vague. If it is vague at first, it will deepen and intensify afterwards....
It is no part of the Yoga to suppress taste, rasa, altogether.... What is to be got rid of is vital desire and attachment, the greed of food...
Yoga means union with the Divine, but it also means awaking first to your inner self and then to your higher self, — a movement inward and a movement upward.
Never mind the lower vital, it is not so dreadful as you think, if one can take hold of it by both ends and keep it in its place. It is the same as with the other instruments, body, mind, higher vital, even the overmind powers, — they are good as instruments, but bad as masters.