There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and difficult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.
Your work is your sadhana, and it is by doing your work in a spirit of consecration that you can make most progress. I think it would be better not to tire yourself too much by reading or drawing.
It is due to attacks. As the material is not yet conquered, the Mother’s body has to bear the attacks which come daily and to which the sadhaks freely open the doors.
Not necessarily, though it may be so with some. With others it may be only that they miss some vital force they were drawing out of the Mother. If the sadhana goes on whether you see the Mother or not, that would rather show that the psychic connection is permanently there and active always ....
Yes. In the full development, even this is not necessary — for it ceases to be necessary to remember the Divine, since one is always conscious of Her.
But that is made an excuse for not doing any active sadhana at all — hence a general tamas and inertia in the Ashram, people taking things easily as if they had only to wait and chat and eat and read and sleep and whatever was necessary would descend of itself some day or other.
He was not progressing at all. He was full of pseudo-occult delusions and “sufferings”. So he is going with our approval to see if he cannot shake them off by a change of atmosphere.
I shall have first to be sure that you will make the right use of them. I prefer that you should get higher discrimination and knowledge first.
No. It is all right.
If the development of a higher consciousness did not bring things that were not before heard of by the mind, it would not be good for much...
It must be the pressure of the Force present there which you feel at that moment because of some shifting of the consciousness at the moment of preparing to go.
It is very stupid of these parts to be tired of Peace. Would restlessness be better? Without Peace either Force cannot descend or it would be a mixed or Asuric force.