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This is not an Asram of Sannyasis
This is not an Asram like others — the members are not
Sannyasis; it is not mok=a that is the sole aim of the Yoga here.
What is being done here is a preparation for a work — a work
which will be founded on Yogic consciousness and Yoga-Shakti,
and can have no other foundation. Meanwhile every member
here is expected to do some work in the Asram as part of his
spiritual preparation.
CWSA 29:232
The Ashram itself has been created with another object
than that ordinarily common to such institutions, not for the
renunciation of the world but as a centre and a field of practice
for the evolution of another kind and form of life which would
in the final end be moved by a higher spiritual consciousness
and embody a greater life of the spirit. There is no general rule
as to the stage at which one may leave the ordinary life and
enter here; in each case it depends on the personal need and
impulsion and the possibility or the advisability for one to take
the step, the decision resting with the Mother.
CWSA 35: 592-93

Help from a distance
If he cannot receive help from a distance how does he ex-
pect to carry on the Yoga here? This is a Yoga which does not
depend upon verbal instructions or anything outward but
on the power to open themselves and receive the force and
influence even in a complete silence. Those who do not re-
ceive it at a distance cannot receive it here also. Also without
establishing in oneself calm, sincerity, peace, patience and
perseverance this Yoga can not be done, for many difficul-
ties have to be faced and it takes years and years to overcome
them definitely and altogether. CWSA 35: 597

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