Message of the Day - How can one have the guidance from the Divine, according to one’s need?

Q: Sweet Mother, if one needs something, like a mother’s affection or some help, how can one feel it in the Divine, according to one’s need?   If, for example, one wants to know something or one needs guidance, or something else, how can one have it from the Divine, according to one’s need? The Mother's Answer : By asking the Divine for it. If you do not ask Him, how can you have it? If you turn to the Divine and have full trust and ask Him, you will get what you need—not necessarily what you imagine you need; but the true thing you need, you will get. But you must ask Him for it. You must make the experiment sincerely; you must not endeavour to get it by all sorts of external means and then expect the Divine to give it to you, without even having asked Him.     Indeed, when you want somebody to give you something, you ask him for it, don’t you? And why do you expect the Divine to give it to you without your having asked Him for it? In the ordinary consciousness the movement is just the opposite.  You assume something, saying, “I need this, I need this relationship, I need this affection, I need this knowledge, etc. Well, the Divine ought to give it to me, otherwise He is not the Divine.” That is to say, you reverse the problem completely.  First of all, you say, “I need.” Do you know whether you truly need it or whether it is only an impression you have or a desire or quite an ignorant movement? First point: you know nothing about it.  Second point: it is precisely your own will you want to impose upon the Divine, telling Him, “I need this.” And then you don’t even ask Him for it: “Give it to me.” You say, “I need it. Therefore,since I need it, it must come to me,quite naturally, spontaneously; it’s the Divine’s job to give me all that I need.”

                       

Message of the Day - Without Him nothing exists

Quotes from Words of the Mother When I say, “If you are sincere, you are sure of victory”, I mean true sincerity: to be constantly the true flame that burns like an offering.  That intense joy of existing only by the Divine and for the Divine and feeling that without Him nothing exists, that life has no longer any meaning, nothing has any purpose, nothing has any value, nothing has any interest, unless it is this call, this aspiration, this opening to the supreme Truth, to all that we call the Divine (because you must use some word or other), the only reason for the existence of the universe. Remove that and everything disappears.

                       

Message of the Day - Quotes from Words of the Mother

Quotes from Words of the Mother If you want peace upon earth, first establish peace in your heart. If you want union in the world, first unify the different parts of your own being. If you abolish in yourself the things that are wrong in the world, the world will no longer be wrong. We are definitely not living at a time when men have been left to their own means. The Divine has sent down His consciousness to enlighten them. All who are able to do so, should profit by this. Truth will conquer in spite of the turmoil. Even within the confusion, there is the seed of the Divine order. Unity does not come from any exterior disposition, but by becoming conscious of the eternal Oneness.

                       

Message of the Day - Integral Yoga

From Question and Answers: Sri Mother Says: " An integral yoga is one which comprises all the parts of the being and all the activities of the being.  But the activities of one being are not as powerful as the activities of another;and the integrality of one being is not as total as the integrality of another. You don’t understand?  If all your being, as it is, participates in the yoga, it becomes for you an integral yoga. But your participation may be very poor and mediocre compared with that of someone else, and the number of elements of consciousness which you contain may be very small compared with the elements of consciousness contained in another person. And yet your yoga is integral for you, that is, it is done in all the parts and all the activities of your being.

                       

Message of the Day - The Divine is indeed what you expect of Him.

From Words of the Mother: " In reality, the Divine gives to each individual exactly what he expects of Him." If you believe that the Divine is far away and cruel, He will be far away and cruel, because it will be necessary for your ultimate good that you feel the wrath of God; He will be Kali for the worshippers of Kali and Beatitude for the Bhakta. And He will be the All-knowledge of the seeker of Knowledge, the transcendent Impersonal of the illusionist; He will be atheist with the atheist and the love of the lover. He will be brotherly and close, a friend always faithful, always ready to succour, for those who feel Him as the inner guide of each movement, at every moment. And if you believe that He can wipe away everything, He will wipe away all your faults, all your errors, tirelessly, and at every moment you can feel His infinite Grace. The Divine is indeed what you expect of Him in your deepest aspiration.

                       
- From Thoughts and Aphorisms by Sri Aurobindo