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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 4, 15th January 2021

fulfilled and content and happy and joyous in to the pain involved, or else we take it in
a state of desiring, wanting, expecting others the right attitude of that of a learner, toiling
to fulfil their love. It also shows us how the through, and learning through all the failures,
desiring vital and other vibrations, like the struggles, and follies, shamelessly moving
vibration of desire, mixes itself in love and forward. There comes the importance of taking
complicates things. consciously all life as yoga. If I consciously
take all the life experiences as a way to unite
The Mother talks about this in the Agenda: myself with the summits of consciousness,
shedding veils of ignorance in the process, it
“But then, the remarkable thing is that the is impossible that at any step I would like to
Vibration (what we could call the quality stop and say, I give up. Such is the mystery of
of the vibration that comes from the Lord) this adventurous path towards purification. It
is constructive: it constructs, it is peaceful seems like suffering will not cease if I do not
and luminous; while that other vibration, of unite myself with higher and higher summits
desire and such like, complicates, destroys of consciousness. Such is the love the Divine
and confuses, it twists things — confuses and has for us, that it will not stop the process
distorts them, twists them. And it takes away of purification, making us the best possible
the light: it makes for a dullness, which can be versions of ourselves in the process of toil.
intensified with violent movements to the point
of very dark shadows. But even where there Let us continue to be on this path of purification,
is no passion, where passion doesn’t interfere, and keep going further on this journey of
that’s how it is. You see, the physical reality union with our highest self, using every
has become nothing but a field of vibrations experience that comes on the way, as nothing
mingling together and, unfortunately, clashing but a raw material for progress. All the
together too, in conflict with one another. And innumerable experiences are very much
the clash, the conflict, is the climax of that kind required, as Mother says in her Prayers and
of turmoil, of disorder and confusion created Meditations (November 28, 1912):
by certain vibrations, which are ultimately “…..That is why it seems to me that the work
vibrations of ignorance (they come because must be long and slow even for the best and
people don’t know, they are vibrations of that striking conversions cannot be integral.
ignorance), and are too small, too narrow, too They change the orientation of the being, they
limited — too short. The problem isn’t seen put it definitively on the straight path; but truly
from a psychological standpoint at all: it’s
nothing but vibrations… (2).”

I feel that it is our human journey, to begin from
the base of human love, full of this mixture
of wants, demands, desires, expectations,
and then to suffer through them enough to
get all of the mixture burnt, so that only
pure Love remains. It is up to us, at which
level we feel like stopping or give up owing

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