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making the physical parts closely follow the pace of the inner transformation is hardly
possible, unless the body has already been prepared in the past for the processes of Yoga.

In the ordinary life of man a progressive dislocation is the rule. The mental and the vital
beings of man follow as best they can the movement of the universal forces, and the stream
of the world’s inner transformation and evolution carries them a certain way; but the
body bound to the law of the most material nature, moves very slowly. After some years,
seventy or eighty, a hundred or two hundred, — and that is perhaps the maximum, — the
dislocation is so serious that the outer being falls to pieces. The divergence between the
demand and the answer, the increasing inability and irresponsiveness of the body, brings
about the phenomenon of death. By Yoga the inner transformation that is in slow constant
process in the creation is rendered more intense and rapid, but the pace of the outer
transformation remains almost the same as in ordinary life. As a result, the disharmony
between the inner and the outer being in one who is doing Yoga tends to be all the greater,
unless precautions are taken and a protection secured that will help the body to follow the
inner march as closely as possible. Even then it is the very nature of the body to hold you
back. It is for this reason that to many we are obliged to say, “Do not pull, do not hurry; you
must give your body time to follow.”

— The Mother 1

1 Talk of 16th June, 1929.

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