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Progressive friendship with the Divine

As we progress and purify ourselves of our egoism, our friendship with the Divine becomes more and more clear and conscious

Canna indica L. (Cannaceae)

Indian shot

Small to medium-sized bright reddish orange flower with slender petals slightly wider than those of Friendship with the Divine, and yellow streaks on two petals. Leaves are edged and veined with purple.

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Friendship with the Divine

And finally, the best friend one can have - isn't he the Divine, to whom one can say everything, reveal everything? For there indeed is the source of all compassion, of all power to efface every error when it is not repeated, - to open the road to true realisation; it is he who can understand all, heal all, and always help on the path, help you not to fail, not to falter, not to fall, but to walk straight to the goal. He is the true friend, the friend of good and bad days, the one who can understand, can heal, and who is always there when you need him. When you call him sincerely, he is always there to guide and uphold you - and to love you in the true way.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 9. - Questions And Answers (1957)

The friendly relationship you can have with the Divine - you understand each other, you don't fear each other, you're good friends!

The Mother

The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 2. - 1961

If mankind could but see though in a glimpse of fleeting experience what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all & never rest till they had gained these treasures. But the way is narrow, the doors are hard to force, and fear, distrust & scepticism are there, sentinels of Nature, to forbid the turning away of our feet from her ordinary pastures.

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 17. - The Hour of God

Give up all personal seeking for comfort, satisfaction, enjoyment or happiness. Be only a burning fire for progress, take whatever comes to you as an aid to your progress and immediately make whatever progress is required.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 12. - On Education

Above all, it is the will for progress and self-purification which lights the fire. The will for progress. Those who have a strong will, when they turn it towards spiritual progress and purification, automatically light the fire within themselves.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 8. - Questions And Answers (1956)

Always ready to change everything, except ONE thing: to aspire. That thirst.

I quite understand: some people don't like the idea of a "Divine" because it immediately gets mixed up with all the European or Western conceptions (which are dreadful), and so it makes their lives a little bit more complicated - but we don't need that! The "something" we need, the Perfection we need, the Light we need, the Love we need, the Truth we need, the supreme Perfection we need - and that's all. The formulas ... the fewer the formulas, the better. A need, a need, a need ... that THE Thing alone can satisfy, nothing else, no half measure. That alone. And then, move on! Move on! Your path will be your path, it doesn't matter; any path, any path whatever.

The Mother

The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 5. - 1964