The Mother

विश्पतिं यहमतिथिं नरः सदा यन्तारं धीनामुशिजं च वाघताम् ।
अध्वराणां चेतनं जातवेदसं प्रशंसन्ति नमसा जूतिभिवृधे ॥८॥

Rig Veda 3.3.8

Men ever with obeisance, with swift urgings, give expression for their growth, to the knower of all births, the mighty one, the lord of the peoples, the Guest, the driver of our thoughts, the aspirant in those who speak the word, the wakener to consciousness in the pilgrim-sacrifice. (8)

- Translations by Sri Aurobindo : , Hymns to the Mystic Fire (Vishwamitra Gathina)

Aids in Sadhana

Extracts from letters by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

Sincerity

Aids in Sadhana

 

Sincerity


To be entirely sincere means to desire the divine Truth only, to surrender yourself more and more to the Divine Mother, to reject all personal demand and desire other than this one aspiration, to offer every action in life to the Divine and do it as the work given without bringing in the ego. This is the basis of the divine life.

 

You have only to be perfectly sincere and aspire for purification and reject whatever is wrong in you. The Divine Force will then act and do the rest. That is the simple and true way.

 

The house of the Divine is not closed to any who knock sincerely at its gates, whatever their past stumbles and errors.

 

A greater power is sincerity; a greatest power of all is Grace.

 

The Divine gives the fruit not by the measure of the sadhana but by the measure of the soul’s sincerity and its aspiration. One should say: «I am ready to be not what I want but what the Divine wants me to be».

 

Open with sincerity. That means to open integrally and without reservation; not to give one part of you to the divine working and keep back the rest; not to make a partial offering and keep for yourself the other movements of your nature. All must be opened wide; it is insincerity to hold back any part of you or keep it shut to the Divine.

 

Open with faithfulness. That means to be open constantly and always; not to open one day and withdraw the next.

 

The Mother:

In order to be always near me really and effectively you must become more and more sincere, open and frank towards me.

 

Sincerity is the key of the divine doors.

 

As long as there is within the being the possibility of an inner conflict it means that there is still in him some insincerity.