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Controlled power

   

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. (Malvaceae)

Shoeblackplant

Medium-sized semi-double grey lavender with deeper shading on the outer petals a stigmas.

"Dream"

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Controlled power

This is why I tell people (not that I expect them to do it, at least not now, but it's good they know) that it's NOT a matter of fate, NOT something that completely escapes our control, NOT some sort of "Law of Nature" over which we have no power - it is not so. We are truly the masters of everything which has been brought together to create our transitory individuality; we have been given the power of control, if only we knew how to use it.

It's a discipline, a tremendous tapasya.

But it's good to know in order to avoid this feeling of being crushed when things are still completely outside your control, this sense of fatality people have - they're born, they live, they die: Nature is crushing and we are the playthings of something much bigger, much stronger than us - that is the Falsehood.

In any case, for myself, in my yoga, only after I KNEW that I AM the Master of everything (provided I know how to BE this Master and LET myself be this Master - provided, that is, that the outer stupidity accepts to stay in its place), did I know that one could be the Master of Nature.

The Mother

The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 1. - 1951-1960

First learn to know yourself perfectly and then to control yourself perfectly. You will be able to do it by aspiring at every moment. It is never too early to begin, never too late to continue.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother

You may be sure that becoming conscious of the Divine Presence in oneself considerably changes one's whole way of being and gives an exceptional control over all activities, mental, vital and physical.

And this control is infinitely more powerful and luminous than anything one can obtain through external means.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 16. - More answers from the Mother

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