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Namah Vol. 32, Issue 1, 24th April 2024

to a hidden yearning for divine unification.
Here, the Mother replies to a remark from a Try working with the breath and calling the
young practitioner: Mother’s name at the same time. Become truly
conscious of the breath. See where it comes
“There are moments when one feels a kind of from and observe its quality. Experience the
emptiness within; one is dejected and lonely — it breath rising and falling. Feel the gaps and
is because one wants to be loved.” dive into them. The Presence is also there.
Don’t try to change it; just breathe. Be present
“Or better, it is because one is awaking to the with it. Allow the breath to ground you and
need of knowing one’s soul and uniting with keep you in the ‘now’. If your attention lapses,
the Divine (4).” patiently go back and start again.

Loneliness is always a factor of misplaced Simultaneously, we invoke the Grace of the
identification. It is only when the identity Divine Mother. With every in-breath we can
shifts to the Divine that the illusion recedes. connect with Her by inwardly invoking her
Only by aligning and refining it, will the name. With every out-breath too, we follow
sense of well-being be restored. We need to the same procedure. The practice accumulates
climb the rungs of the ladder to shift from over a period of time and develops its own
our very human love to love solely for the unique and singular rhythm. With continuity,
sake of loving. Try Drop the need to be loved the name will start to automatically repeat
and become the personification of love itself. itself. Embrace and allow it to become an
Work on making your love more disinterested: intrinsic part of your consciousness. Sincere
practice will ensure a continuous flow of
“You feel lonely because you feel the need to be aspiration. But you have to see it to the
loved. Learn to love without demand, to love very end! This simple approach provides
just for the joy of loving (the most wonderful a common thread to keep her Presence
joy in the world!) and you will never again feel always alive. We can be with Her always.
lonely. (5).” Once truly conscious of Her, we realise that
She alone is all we truly need. As our love
Most of all, realise that you are not abandoned: deepens, human substitutes lose significance.
“Never forget that you are not alone. The Divine Whatever practice we adopt, never lose this
is with you helping and guiding you. He is the aspiration. Embrace your loneliness, open to
companion who never fails, the friend whose her Love and watch it gradually transform
love comforts and strengthens. The more you into rapture!
feel lonely, the more you are ready to perceive
His luminous Presence. Have faith and He will References
do everything for you (6).”
1. The Mother. Mother’s Agenda, Volume 7. Paris:
Sincere aspiration is required to rectify the Institut de Recherches Évolutives ; 1991 [English
imbalance. Only in this state, can one build transl.], p. 62.
a practice and fill this aching void. Practice
becomes the extension of our aspiration. 2. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,

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