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candid and perfect. An egoistic faith in the mental and vital being
tainted by ambition, pride, vanity, mental arrogance, vital self-will,
personal demand, desire for the petty satisfactions of the lower
nature is a low and smoke-obscured flame that cannot burn up-
wards to heaven. Regard your life as given you only for the divine
work and to help in the divine manifestation. Desire nothing but
the purity, force, light, wideness, calm, Ananda of the divine con-
sciousness and its insistence to transform and perfect your mind,
life and body. Ask for nothing but the divine, spiritual and supra-
mental Truth, its realisation on earth and in you and in all who are
called and chosen and the conditions needed for its creation and
its victory over all opposing forces.
Let your sincerity and surrender be genuine and entire. When
you give yourself, give completely, without demand, without con-
dition, without reservation so that all in you shall belong to the
Divine Mother and nothing be left to the ego or given to any other
power.
The more complete your faith, sincerity and surrender, the
more will grace and protection be with you. And when the grace
and protection of the Divine Mother are with you, what is there
that can touch you or whom need you fear? A little of it even will
carry you through all difficulties, obstacles and dangers; surround-
ed by its full presence you can go securely on your way because
it is hers, careless of all menace, unaffected by any hostility how-
ever powerful, whether from this world or from worlds invisible.
Its touch can turn difficulties into opportunities, failure into suc-
cess and weakness into unfaltering strength. For the grace of the
Divine Mother is the sanction of the Supreme and now or tomor-
row its effect is sure, a thing decreed, inevitable and irresistible.
CWSA 32: 8-9 Sri Aurobindo

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