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Namah Editorial

This path is the broad and trackless ocean by of the book, The Mother, which may well be
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which you can travel widely to all parts of considered as the mulmantra of the Yoga.
the world and are admitted to the freedom
of the infinite. All that you need are the ship,
the steering-wheel, the compass, the motive-
power and a skilful captain. Your ship is the
Brahmavidya, faith is your steering-wheel, self-
surrender your compass, the motive-power
is she who makes, directs and destroys the
worlds at God’s command and God himself
is your captain. But he has his own way of
working and his own time for everything. “The supramental change is a thing decreed
Watch his way and wait for his time (1).” and inevitable in the evolution of the earth-
consciousness; for its upward ascent is not
Essentially then, one can gain from the ended and mind is not its last summit. But that
Master only to the extent one is open and the change may arrive, take form and endure,
receptive to His Influence. Here again, we there is needed the call from below with a will
see that there is no standard mathematical to recognise and not deny the Light when it
formula of progress, no fixed law that comes, and there is needed the sanction of the
determines the same end-result for everyone, Supreme from above. The power that mediates
just because the Master and the Path are the between the sanction and the call is the
same. The real formula of progress lies in presence and power of the Divine Mother. The
the faith and the will of man. As is our faith Mother’s power and not any human endeavour
so does the Divine receive, respond and and tapasya can alone rend the lid and tear the
reveal Himself to us. So too, if the will to covering and shape the vessel and bring down
go through to the end persists and one is into this world of obscurity and falsehood and
ready to persevere, regardless of challenges, death and suffering, Truth and Light and Life
difficulties and obstacles, then one can be Divine and the immortal’s Ananda (2).”
sure of arriving.
Finally, we come to the third important
And yet, there is that incalculable factor
of Grace that overrides everything. Even
when one does not recognise the presence of
Grace, it is still there working from behind
to help us move. In the integral Yoga, which
is at once the most difficult and the most
comprehensive Path, the mainstay of the
practice is an opening and surrender, an
entire reliance and dependence upon the
Divine Mother’s Grace. The quintessence of
Integral Yoga, the key to the Supramental
transformation is best described at the close

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