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.