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Receptivity

Receptivity — the power to receive the
Divine Force and to feel its presence
and the presence of the Mother in
it and allow it to work, guiding one’s
sight and will and action.
CWSA 29:266 Sri Aurobindo

My love is always with you; if then you
do not feel it, it is because you are not
capable of receiving it. It is your re-
ceptivity that is lacking and should be
increased; for this you must open your- Flower: Receptivity
self, and one opens oneself only if one (Spiritual significance of the
gives oneself. Surely you are trying more flower given by the Mother)
Botanical name:
or less consciously to draw the forces Gladiolus Xhortulanus
and the divine love towards you. The method is bad. Give yourself
without calculating and without expecting anything in return, and
then you will become capable of receiving.

Q: Mother, on what does receptivity depend?
It depends first of all upon sincerity — on whether one really wants
to receive — and then... yes, I believe the principal factors are sin-
cerity and humility. There is nothing that closes you up more than
vanity. When you are self-satisfied, you have that kind of vanity
of not wanting to admit that you lack something, that you make
mistakes, that you are incomplete, that you are imperfect, that
you are... There is something in the nature, you know, which
grows stiff in this way, which does not want to admit — it is this
which prevents you from receiving. You have, however, only to
try it out and get the experience. If, by an effort of will you man-

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