AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER
Ask Alok da

Connecting the dots began when Their words gave meaning and touch to my life. When adverse forces rushed in and urged me to escape the cosmos, Sri Arvind and Sri MA anchored me with the truth that Her work is to be done right here on Earth. I learned that true understanding does not lie in the mindโ€™s synthesis, but in quietude and inner union. First Union with the Divine, then Work. ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

Yes, I understand. What I have understood as the essence and crux of this yoga is opening and surrender to The Mother. The whole secret and safety lies in this central secret of the Integral Yoga, as Sri Aurobindo put it. Here are few passages that reveal to us the core of the Integral Yoga.

‘By remaining psychically open to the Mother, all that is necessary for work or sadhana develops progressively, that is one of the chief secrets, the central secret of the sadhana.’

(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/opening-to-the-mother-and-the-integral-yoga#p22)

‘All can be done by the Divine, the heart and nature purified, the inner consciousness awakened, the veils removed, if one gives oneself to the Divine with trust and confidenceโ€”and even if one cannot do so fully at once, yet the more one does so, the more the inner help and guidance comes and the contact and the experience of the Divine grows within. If the questioning mind becomes less active and humility and the will to surrender grow in you, this ought to be perfectly possible. No other strength and tapasya are then needed, but this alone.’

(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p12)

Affectionately,

Alok da

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