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Aspiration, Rejection, Surrender

Sadhana is necessary
What you say of sadhana is true. Sadhana is necessary
and the Divine Force cannot do things in the void but must
lead each one according to his nature to the point at which
he can feel the Mother working within and doing all for him.
Till then the sadhak's aspiration, self-consecration, assent
and support to the Mother's workings, his rejection of all that
comes in the way is very necessary — indispensable.
CWSA 32: 137

Main means of Sadhana
It is quite true that aspiration, rejection and the remem-
brance of the Mother and surrender to her and union with her
consciousness are the main means of the sadhana. It is also
true that to seek the supramental for oneself by one's own
means is a folly; that I have said from the beginning and empha-
sised it recently more and more. It is true also that to make the
union with the Divine the cardinal aim and all the rest subsid-
iary and a consequence of it, not to seek progress, experiences,
etc. for their own sake or for the sake of the ego is the proper
attitude for the sadhak. It is true finally that meditation, vision
and almost all else in the Yoga can be misused if the sadhak is
self-centred, egoistic and obscure. But that does not mean that
meditation, vision etc. are of no use and should be avoided in
the sadhana.
The theory that once you remember the Mother always, ev-
erything you do flows from the Divine and therefore it does not
matter what you do is rather a dangerous one. It may end by
giving sanction instead of rejection to many things that ought
to go out of the nature.
As for living a free outer life it cannot be said that that is

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