When Mother writes in her prayers: “The tide🌊 of materialistic thoughts is always on the watch, waiting for the least weakness, and if we relax but one moment from our vigilance, if we are even slightly negligent, it rushes in and invades us from all sides, submerging under its heavy flood the result sometimes of numberless efforts.” What is the materialism she is referring to? General everyday external preoccupation with material things, or the scientific Materialism that can creep in sometimes and upset our beliefs in Divine by convincing us that only the external is real?

When the Divine Mother willed to create, She brought out different aspects from the One Divine and distributed Her Knowledge and Power to each one of them for specific functions. These are the several overtake us, making us dull and unresponsive to higher things. These appearances can inject the poison of doubt with a reversal of values wherein one begins to think that whatever one is witnessing through the senses is alone true and all the beautiful inner things are mere imaginations with no substantial reality. An excessive preoccupation with the material aspect of our existence is the result of this erroneous value attributed to things.

Affectionately,

Alok Da