“The next thing you have to do is to tend this aspiration, to keep it always alert and awake and living.” [Questions and Answers 1929, 7 April]
Instead of telling yourself once in a while, “Oh, yes! I am thinking of finding the Divine”, just when there is something unpleasant, when you are a little disgusted because you feel tired—indeed, there are very many flimsy reasons—all of a sudden you remember that there is such a thing as yoga, something like the Divine to know who can get you out of this flatness of life.
“And for that what is required is concentration concentration—concentration upon the Divine with a view to an integral and absolute consecration to its Will and Purpose.”
[Questions and Answers 1929, 7 April]
This is the second step. That is to say, you begin wanting to find and know the Divine and live it. You must feel at the same time that the thing is so precious, so important that your entire life is not sufficient for acquiring it. Then, the first movement is a self-giving; you tell yourself, “I do not want any longer to belong to myself, for the sake of my little personal satisfaction, I wish to belong to this marvellous thing which one must find, must know, must live and for which I aspire.”
[The Mother: CWM 4]
