Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Fragment ID: 19346

Suppose I am in a fix and call down the Mother’s force which is above me. Now, how am I to know whether or not it has descended?

By the feeling of it or the result.

And suppose it has descended, and I am doing my lessons – can I then order it to guard me from outer influences and simultaneously keep me in complete touch with the Mother?

You can’t order anything to the Mother’s force; the Mother’s force is the manifestation of the Mother herself.

I cannot understand how this force can deal with action.

You think the Mother’s force has nothing to do with action or that it is too feeble to act? Or what? What is a force meant for but to act?

26 June 1933