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Namah Healing in the Heart of the Mother

occur in a subtle chain of events that, on looking a more spiritual book at night. It could be
back, will seem completely ordained by the speaking gratitude and appreciation aloud at
Divine. But what is important is the aim we the dinner-table. It could be stepping outside
maintain. “A clarified consciousness with of a noisy, stressful environment to look up at
strength to reject all inconscience and receive the sky. It could be dedicating time each day
all that comes from the Light, this should be to reading the words of Sri Aurobindo and
the aim before you,” writes Sri Aurobindo the Mother. Behind all these small actions,
in a message to a sadhak (1). If we keep this faith in God’s goodness is stirred, and also
aim before us, we will surely arrive inside that faith in the truth of the Eternal within
the Light. us — our Psychic Being.

Faith and Vigilance Beyond this effort towards faith, we must
remain vigilant to what makes us lose our
The Divine Mother is with us every step of strength and derails our getting well. This
the way of our journey here. It is Her role and often occurs as a spiritual attack from outside
mission to accompany us in this unwieldy of ourselves; in a hidden sense, it is most
yet brilliant epic from the Inconscience back likely from what Sri Aurobindo termed
into the Light. But, opening to this truth, a vital being that preys on the emotional
remembering this, so as not to return to turmoil of humans. We often invite spiritual
unhelpful egotistical habits of relating and attack, through well-worn mental habits of
reacting to our circumstances — ‘Why me?’ negative thinking, negative speaking, gossip,
‘That person brought me to this state and so complaining. These attacks can manifest as
here I will stay’ — requires faith ‘and vigilance. temptation to overdo it with food or alcohol,
Victimhood is all too intoxicating in a world as an argument, as depression. If we carry
that seems to want us to stay powerless. these two tools in our pocket, faith and
vigilance, we will open ourselves so much
First, the effort to keep our ssraddha, or faith more easily to what the Divine Mother has
a
in God alive, that the victory of the Divine to give to us for our healing.
Mother will unfold itself in our very lives
despite the appearances of hardship and
pain. This faith then makes it much easier
to sense the Divine Mother in Her workings.
Each individual must find the ways in which
to keep this faith alive and to abide by
what the Mother calls ‘the psychic mirror’,
or the screen against which you measure
your actions, to see if they truly align with
your psychic being. It could be being more
present with your children, looking into their
eyes as they speak. It could be noticing the
flowers on your walk. It could be switching
the page-turner from a murder mystery to

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