I absolutely refuse to accept your plea of inability or admit any ground for outcry and despair. You have got to root out this self-discouraging attitude from your vital and to succeed.
At the Feet of The Mother
Dilip Kumar Roy
No doubt, (Jung and the psychologists) are very remarkable men in their own field, but this new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet.
It was a great refreshment to read the letters of Krishnaprem — one feels there a stream from the direct sources of Truth that one does not meet so often as one could desire.
It is the darkest nights that prepare the greatest dawns — and it is so because it is into the deep inconscience of material life that we have to bring, not an intermediate glimmer, but the full glory of the divine Light.
Violet is the radiance of Krishna’s protection — that is why it brought to you a sense of peace. The Mother says that she always saw it when she was in communion with Krishna and now too constantly sees it enveloping the Ashram.
It is queer that the European mind, capable enough in other directions should sink to so much puerility when it begins to deal with religion and spiritual experience.
It is very insincere for anyone to claim prematurely to have possession of the supermind or even a taste of it. Such claim is usually accompanied by an outburst of superegoism, some blunder of perception or wrong condition or wrong movement.
Text in English
If persistence of difficulties is a proof of unfitness, then there is nobody in this Ashram who is fit for the Yoga
Divinisation itself does not mean the destruction of the human elements; it means taking them up, showing them the way to their own perfection, raising them by purification and perfection to their full power and Ananda.
Rules are necessary but they are not absolute; one of the chief tendencies of genius is to break old rules and make departures which create new ones.
Your translation is admirable. I like it very much and fully appreciate the beauty of the phrase you have discovered to translate mine.
The true question for us could not be to love or not love the Mother ... but in what spirit to make the physical approach to her so as to avoid the mistakes of the past and get the most spiritual benefit from her contact.
What I want of you is not to love the Mother from a distance, but to become accustomed to feel her presence, her help, the working of her forces even when she is not physically present ... because it would give a great push to your Yoga.
You must really get rid of this idea that you are imagining things like the silence and wideness; an experience is not untrue because it is vague. If it is vague at first, it will deepen and intensify afterwards....
It is no part of the Yoga to suppress taste, rasa, altogether.... What is to be got rid of is vital desire and attachment, the greed of food...
Yoga means union with the Divine, but it also means awaking first to your inner self and then to your higher self, — a movement inward and a movement upward.
Never mind the lower vital, it is not so dreadful as you think, if one can take hold of it by both ends and keep it in its place. It is the same as with the other instruments, body, mind, higher vital, even the overmind powers, — they are good as instruments, but bad as masters.
Congratulations on the sparkles and the dreams. ... I think I have told you that the sparkles usually indicate an opening of the doors of the inner consciousness.