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Discipline is Indispensable in Life

Sweet Mother, Could you write something on discipline for us?

Discipline is indispensable to physical life. The proper function-
ing of the organs is based on a discipline. It is precisely when an
organ or a part of the body does not obey the general discipline
of the body that one falls ill.
Discipline is indispensable to progress. It is only when one
imposes a rigorous and enlightened discipline on oneself that
one can be free from the discipline of others.
The supreme discipline is integral surrender to the Divine
and to allow nothing else either in one’s feelings or in one’s
activities. Nothing should ever be omitted from this surrender
— that is the supreme and most rigorous discipline.
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Communal life must necessarily have a discipline so that the
weaker are not bullied by the stronger; and this discipline must
be respected by all those who want to live in that community.
But for the community to be happy, this discipline should
be set by the most broad-minded person or persons, if possible
the person or persons who are conscious of the Divine Pres-
ence and are surrendered to it.
For the world to be happy, power should only be in the
hands of those who are conscious of the Divine Will. But for
the time being that is impossible because the number of those
who are truly conscious of the Divine Will is very small, and
because they necessarily have no ambition.
In fact, when the time comes for this realisation, it will take
place quite naturally.
The duty of each one is to prepare himself for it as com-
pletely as he can. CWM 12: 381-82

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