The Mother had made a resolve, even as a young girl of 15 to buy nothing for Herself. She received whatever Nature brought for Her and later, whatever devotees offered. She never asked anything for Herself but gladly accepted and wore the dresses and whatever else devotees gave out of love and joy. She only gave to the world and all creatures including humans, pure unalloyed love and Sweetness and joy, shadowless Light of Truth that scatters all darkness, and of course Her tireless Grace. That is why She is The Mother.
In fact, She discouraged all Her children to think about oneself. She advised them to be instead occupied with the Work, to turn their minds and the heart towards the Divine and, above all, to forget oneself and instead remember the great Aim before us, the Divine.
She lived all that She taught. That is what Her so very special and Divine. Here is a passage from one of Her conversations before coming to Pondicherry which gives us a little glimpse into Her ‘attitude’ towards life and things.
‘This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination—what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things….
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.’
(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwm/02/the-supreme-discovery#p22)
Affectionately,
Alok da
