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Aspiration, Calling and Pulling

Calling and pulling
My dear Ma, Kindly let me know whether there is any differ-
ence between calling and pulling the Mother’s force.

There is certainly a great difference between calling and
pulling — you can and must always call for help and the rest—
the answer will be proportionate to your capacity of reception
and assimilation. Pulling is a selfish movement that may bring
down forces quite disproportionate with your capacities and
thus harmful.

But without calling Mother, how can one carry on his sad-
hana? Can I aspire and draw?

To aspire and to call for help are quite indispensable.
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Aspiration in the physical
Aspiration in the physical for the Divine's Love implies that
the physical asks for nothing else save that it should feel how
the Divine loves it. It realises that all its usual satisfactions are
utterly insufficient. But there cannot be a compromise: if the
physical wants the Divine's Love it must want that alone and
not say, "I shall have the Divine's Love and at the same time
keep my other attachments, needs and enjoyments...."
The fundamental seat of aspiration from which it radi-
ates or manifests in one part of the being or another is the
psychic centre. When I speak of aspiration in the physical I
mean that the very consciousness in you which hankers after
material comfort and well-being should of itself, without being
compelled by the higher parts of your nature, ask exclusively
for the Divine's Love. Usually you have to show it the Light by

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