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Q. There are persons for whom everything seems easy, there are others who are often plunged into the worst difficulties, who fall into the greatest obscurity. Why this difference ?
Do not trouble yourselves with what others do, I cannot repeat it to you too often.
Do not trouble yourselves with what others do, I cannot repeat it to you too often.
Do not judge, do not criticise, do not compare. That is not your look out. You have been put upon earth in a physical body for a definite purpose which is to make of this body as perfect an instrument as possible, as conscious of the Divine as possible.
You have been given a certain amount of substance or matter in all the domains, mental, vital and physical, adapted to what the Divine expects of you, and all the circumstances of your life are equally adapted to what the Divine expects of you.
So do not say : "My life is terrible ! I have the most terrible life in the world !" for each one has the life which suits him for his total development, each one has the experiences that suit him for his total development
and each one has the difficulties that suit him for his total realisation.
If you observe yourself closely you will indeed see that you carry in yourself the contrary of the virtue that you have to realise, I take virtue in its largest and highest sense.
If you observe yourself closely you will indeed see that you carry in yourself the contrary of the virtue that you have to realise, I take virtue in its largest and highest sense.
You have a special purpose, a special mission, a special realisation which is your own, and you carry in you all the obstacles necessary for making that realisation perfect.
Always you will find that within you darkness and light go together : you have a capacity, you have also the negation of that capacity.
But if you come across a deep thick shadow, be sure that somewhere in you there is a great light. It is up to you to make use of the one for realising the other.
Do not say : "I am like that and I cannot be otherwise !" For it is not true. You are like that, precisely because you have to become the contrary. All the difficulties are there exactly in order that you might learn to transform them into the truth that they hide.
In the same way one can say that if the world were not essentially the opposite of what it has become, there would be no hope.
Because the pit is so dark, so deep, the inconscience so total that if it was not a sign of the possibility of a full consciousness, the thing should be given up.
Shankara said—and others with him—that the world is not worth living in, that you must look upon it as an illusion and leave it as soon as possible, for you can do nothing with it.
I tell you on the contrary, that it is because the world is very bad, very obscure, very ugly, very unconscious, full of misery and pain that there exists in it the possibility of becoming the supreme Beauty, the supreme Light, the supreme Consciousness and the supreme Delight.
When there is this sensation of being imprisoned in something too narrow, what is to be done ?
Not to be violent, above all. Violence will only exhaust you without any result.
Not to be violent, above all. Violence will only exhaust you without any result.
If you are conscious of the flame within, gather all your power of aspiration, concentrate it intensely in a call on this flame. Throw into it whatever you can so that it may blaze more and more and yet remaining as quiet as you can.
If you are restless, if you flutter, if you become nervous, you will arrive nowhere. Be perfectly at peace, be trustful, the answer will come.
And when you are in this state, all your force and aspiration concentrated into the flame within; then slowly exert a pressure on what is the outer crust, without violence, but with insistence and as long as you can without getting agitated, irritated or excited.
If you do that, you are sure to succeed. Not the very first time, it is certain, but begin as often and as long as it will be necessary until the day when all on a sudden you come out into an ocean of Light.
THE MOTHER
THE MOTHER
