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Whatever faults are there in the sadhaks must be removed
by the Light from above — a sattwic rule can only change na-
tures predisposed to a sattwic rule.
CWSA 35: 601

Henceforth a stay here can only be profitable (1) for those
who are ready for an intensive sadhana turning their back on all
attachments belonging to the ordinary human life, (2) for those
who, though not ready, yet recognise fully the aim and open
themselves so as to prepare for it, (3) those who, even if not
capable as yet of an inner intensive sadhana, can yet dedicate
themselves entirely in the way of service.
CWSA 35: 601

What are the Asram precincts? Every house in which the
sadhaks of the Asram live is in the Asram precincts. People have
a queer way of talking of the houses in this compound as the
Asram—it has no meaning. Or do they think the Mother's influ-
ence or mine is shut up in a compound?
CWSA 35: 630-31

The way things are worked out
What seems to me of more importance is to try to explain
how things are worked out here. Indeed very few are the people
who understand it and still fewer those who realise it.
There has never been, at any time, a mental plan, a fixed
programme or an organisation decided beforehand. The whole
thing has taken birth, grown and developed as a living be-
ing by a movement of consciousness (Chit-tapas) constantly
maintained, increased and fortified. As the Conscious Force de-
scends in matter and radiates, it seeks for fit instruments to
express and manifest it. It goes without saying that the more
the instrument is open, receptive and plastic, the better are the

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