July 25, 2018 – Difficulties of Surrender – Part 2

A still identity their way to know,

Motionless is their action like a sleep.

Sri Aurobindo

Savitri, Book I, Canto IV, page 57

Difficulties of Surrender – Part 2

One thing you must know and decide:

It is if you want the True Divine as He is, or if you want a Divine in keeping with your own conception of what He ought to be.

And if you have decided to surrender sincerely and totally to the Divine and to be and do what He wants you to be and do according to His own will, or if you want the Divine to do what you want Him to do and to act according to your own will.

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I have forwarded your prayer to the Supreme Lord. But if you want to live in Ananda, you must not try to impose your will on the Divine, but, on the contrary, you must be ready to accept all that comes to you from Him, with an equal peace; because He knows better than we what is good for our progress.

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The time is come to rely only on the Divine will and to let it work freely through you.

I repeat, the time has come at last not to rely any more on one’s own petty will, to hand over the whole affair to the Divine’s will and let it do its work through you, not only your mind and feelings but mainly through the body; and if you do it sincerely, all this body nonsense will disappear and you will be strong and fit for your work.

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When men will understand that the Divine knows better than they do what is the best for them, many of their difficulties will disappear.

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If the Lord wills for you a hardship, do not protest. Take it as a blessing and indeed it will become so.

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The Lord is not an all-powerful automaton that human beings can move by the push-button of their will.

And yet most of those who surrender to God expect that from Him.

The Mother

Words of the Mother II, CWM vol. 14 pages 114 – 115