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To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech
and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all
things is the condition for being a flawless servant.

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Reading and study though they can be useful for preparing
the mind, are not themselves the best means of entering the
Yoga. It is self-dedication from within that is the means. It is
with the consciousness of the Mother that you must unite, a
sincere self consecration in the mind and heart and the Will is
the means for it. The work given by the Mother is always meant
as field for that self-consecration, it has to be done as an offer-
ing to her so that through the self-offering one may come to
feel her force acting and her presence.
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If one went to the Himalayas, the likelihood is that one would
make oneself fit for inactive meditation and quite unfit for life
and the Mother’s service — so in the next life the character
would be like that. This is simply the influence of old ideas that
have no application in this Yoga. It is here in the life near the
Mother, in the work itself that one must become fit to be a
perfect instrument of the Mother.
CWSA 29: 245-46

Of course the idea of bigness and smallness is quite foreign to
the spiritual truth. Spiritually there is nothing big or small. Such
ideas are like those of the literary people who think writing a
poem is a high work and making shoes or cooking the dinner is
a small and low one. But all is equal in the eyes of the Spirit —
and it is only the spirit within with which it is done that matters.
It is the same with a particular kind of work, there is nothing
big or small.
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