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overcome them definitely and altogether.
CWSA 35: 597

Q: What is the truest and surest means to recognise the Mother’s
Force when it acts and to distinguish it from other egoistic or igno-
rant forces?

One has only to be perfectly sincere, not to justify one’s own de-
sires and faults by the mind’s reasonings, to look impartially and
quietly at oneself and one’s movements and to call on the Moth-
er’s Light — then gradually one will begin to discern everything in
that light. Even if it cannot be done perfectly at once, the judg-
ment and feeling will get clearer and surer and a right conscious-
ness of these things will be established.
CWSA 32: 225

As for the desires, the proper way is to have a sincere aspiration
and call on the Mother’s force to work in you. When the Mother’s
light and force are working in you they will show you all that has
to be changed in you and will change it provided you give your
sincere and full consent.
CWSA 32: 393

To perceive one’s own weaknesses is one result of sincerity.
CWSA 29: 53 Sri Aurobindo

To want what the Divine wants
Q: Your love for me is my true refuge and sole strength. What I of-
fer you, my Mother, is a turbid mixture of which I am ashamed but
which you alone can purify.

My very dear child,
Whatever is the nature of the offering, when it is made with

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