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A Few Simple Words of Advice from the Mother

... the path to that realisation is long and difficult, strewn with
snares and problems to be solved, which demand an unfailing de-
termination. ... A few simple words of advice may be useful to one
who has resolved to undertake it.
The first and perhaps the most important point is that the
mind is incapable of judging spiritual things. All those who have
written on this subject have said so; but very few are those who
have put it into practice. And yet, in order to proceed on the path,
it is absolutely indispensable to abstain from all mental opinion
and reaction.
Give up all personal seeking for comfort, satisfaction, enjoy-
ment or happiness. Be only a burning fire for progress, take what-
ever comes to you as an aid to your progress and immediately
make whatever progress is required.
Try to take pleasure in all you do, but never do anything for
the sake of pleasure.
Never get excited, nervous or agitated. Remain perfectly calm
in the face of all circumstances. And yet be always alert to discover
what progress you still have to make and lose no time in making it.
Never take physical happenings at their face value. They are
always a clumsy attempt to express something else, the true thing
which escapes our superficial understanding. Never complain of
the behaviour of anyone, unless you have the power to change
in his nature what makes him act in this way; and if you have the
power, change him instead of complaining.
Whatever you do, never forget the goal which you have set
before you. There is nothing great or small once you have set out
on this great discovery; all things are equally important and can
either hasten or delay its success. Thus before you eat, concen-
trate a few seconds in the aspiration that the food you are about

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