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How To Become Absolutely Sincere

Becoming integrally sincere
Yoga is the way to become sincere in all parts of the being.
CWM 13: 268

If earnestly you say to the Divine, ‘I want only Thee’, the Divine will
arrange the circumstances in such a way that you are compelled
to be sincere.
CWM 14: 66

Q: How can one hasten the day when the whole being will be able to
say, ‘I am Yours — Yours alone’?

There are two actions which in practice merge into one.
(1) Never forget the goal that one wants to attain.
(2) Never allow any part of the being or any of its movements
to contradict one’s aspiration.
This also makes it necessary to become conscious of one’s
nights, because the activities of the night often contradict the
aspiration of the day and undo its work.
Vigilance, sincerity, continuity of effort, and the Grace will do
the rest.
CWM 16: 378

Telling the Mother everything
Note that if one has done something bad, if one has done
something one knows very well should not be done; for instance,
if one tells oneself, ‘Mother knows about it, I don’t need to tell
her’, then one takes that in. One carefully shuts a door upon it and
then keeps it in one’s heart, or elsewhere. While if one doesn’t
think of all that... one feels uneasy, something turns there inside,
it is not pleasant... ‘Well, I am going to tell Mother about it.’ When
you set out you have to make a great effort, eh? There’s a lump in

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