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Opening to the Mother in Work

Demands should not be made. What you receive freely from the
Mother helps you; what you demand or try to impose on her is
bound to be empty of her force.
The Mother deals with each person differently according to
his true need (not what he himself fancies to be his need) and his
progress in the sadhana and his nature.
For you the most effective way to get the strength you need
would be to do the work conscientiously and scrupulously, allow-
ing nothing to interfere with its exact discharge. If you did that,
opening yourself at the same time to the Mother in your work, you
would receive more constantly the grace and would come to feel
her power doing the work through you; you would thus be able to
live constantly with the sense of her presence. If on the contrary
you allow your fancies or desires to interfere with your work or
are careless and negligent, you interrupt the flow of her grace and
give room for sorrow and uneasiness and other foreign forces to
enter into you. Yoga through work is the easiest and most effec-
tive way to enter into the stream of this sadhana.
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Even the most purely physical and mechanical work cannot be
properly done if one accepts incapacity, inertia and passivity. The
remedy is not to confine yourself to mechanical work, but to
reject and throw off incapacity, passivity and inertia and open
yourself to the Mother's force. If vanity, ambition and self-con-
ceit stand in your way, cast them from you. You will not get rid
of these things by merely waiting for them to disappear. If you
merely wait for things to happen, there is no reason why they
should happen at all. If it is incapacity and weakness that op-
pose, still, as one opens oneself truly and more and more to the
Mother's force, the strength and capacity necessary for the work

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