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The Mother's Assurance

If you say to the Divine with conviction, “I want only You”,
the Divine will arrange all the circumstances in such a way as to
compel you to be sincere. Something in the being... “I want only
You.”... the aspiration... and then one wants a hundred odd things
all the time, isn’t that so? At times something comes, just... usu-
ally to disturb everything — it stands in the way and prevents you
from realising your aspiration. Well, the Divine will come without
showing Himself, without your seeing Him, without your having
any inkling of it, and He will arrange all the circumstances in such
a way that everything that prevents you from belonging solely to
the Divine will be removed from your path, inevitably. Then when
all is removed, you begin to howl and complain; but later, if you
are sincere and look at yourself straight in the eye... you have said
to the Lord, you have said, “I want only You.” He will remain close
to you, all the rest will go away. This is indeed a higher Grace. Only,
you must say this with conviction. I don’t even mean that you
must say it integrally, because if one says it integrally, the work
is done. What is necessary is that one part of the being, indeed
the central will, says it with conviction: “I want only You.” Even
once, and it suffices: all that takes more or less long, sometimes
it stretches over years, but one reaches the goal. ... The more the
imperfections, the longer it takes; the more the attachments one
has, the longer it takes.
BUT THE GOAL IS SURE!
CWM 6: 176-77 The Mother

We must be prepared to leave behind on the path not only that
which we stigmatise as evil, but that which seems to us to be
good, yet is not the one good.
CWSA 23: 333-34 Sri Aurobindo

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