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ment you must resolve that you will no longer listen to these
things, that you will listen only to the divine Consciousness and
will do no other work except the divine work without worrying
about personal results, free from all attachment, free from all
preference, free from all wish for success, power, satisfaction,
vanity, all this.... All this must disappear and you must see only
the divine Will incarnated in your will and making you act. Then,
in this way, you are cured.
CWM 6: 390-91

Ego of the observer
Q: Mother, when we make an effort, there’s something in us
which becomes very self-satisfied and boastful and content-
ed with this effort, and that spoils everything. Then how can
we get rid of this?

Ah, that’s what looks on at what it is doing! There is always
someone who observes when one is doing something. Now
sometimes, he becomes proud. Obviously, this takes away
much strength from the effort. I think it is that: it is the habit of
looking at oneself acting, looking at oneself living. It is neces-
sary to observe oneself but I think it is still more necessary to try
to be absolutely sincere and spontaneous, very spontaneous in
what one does: not always to go on observing oneself, looking
at what one is doing, judging oneself — sometimes severely. In
fact it is almost as bad as patting oneself with satisfaction, the
two are equally bad. One should be so sincere in his aspiration
that he doesn’t even know he is aspiring, that he becomes the
aspiration itself. When this indeed can be realised, one truly at-
tains to an extraordinary power.
One minute, one minute of this, and you can prepare years
of realisation. When one is no longer a self-regarding being, an
ego looking at itself acting, when one becomes the action it-

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