Page 30 - All India Magazine Jun-2025

Aspiration and worship
Sweet Mother, does the worship offered to the goddess
Durga and to Kali have any spiritual value?

That depends on who offers the worship.
It is not that which is of importance for the spiritual value. For
the integrality and the complete truth of the Yoga it is impor-
tant not to limit one's aspiration to one form or another. But
from the spiritual point of view, whatever the object of wor-
ship, if the movement is perfectly sincere, if the self-giving is
integral and absolute, the spiritual result can be the same; for,
whatever object you take, through it — sometimes in spite of
it, despite it — you always reach the supreme Reality, in the
measure and proportion of the sincerity of your consecration.
That is why it is always said that, no matter what aspect
of the Divine you adore or even what guide you choose, if you
are perfect in your self-giving and absolutely sincere, you are
sure to attain the spiritual goal.
But the result is no longer the same when you want to
realise the integral yoga. Then you must not limit yourself in
any way, even in the path of your consecration.... Only, these
are two very different things.
Spiritual realisation — as it was formerly understood, as it
is still commonly understood — is union with the Supreme in
some way or other, either within you or through some form
or other; it is the fusion of your being with the Supreme, with
the Absolute, almost the disappearance of your individual-
ity in this fusion. And that depends absolutely on the sincer-
ity and the integrality of your self-giving, rather than on the
choice you make of that to which you want to give yourself.
For... the very sincerity of your aspiration will make you cross
all limitations and find the Supreme, for you carry Him within
yourself.

30 All India Magazine, June 2025