None can reach heaven who has not
passed through hell.
(Savitri, p. 277)
But still, Mother, doesn’t the soul chosen by the Divine go
through hell in a different way than others?
The quotation means that in order to reach the divine regions one
must, while on earth, pass through the vital, which in some of its parts is a
veritable hell. But those who have surrendered to the Divine and been adopted
by Him are surrounded by the divine protection and for them the passage is not
difficult.
[CWM, Vol. 16, p. 388, 29 November 1968]
His failure is not failure whom God
leads.
(Savitri, p. 339)
Because it is part of the play?
It is the human mind that has the conception of success and failure.
It is the human mind that wants one thing and does not want another. In the
divine plan each thing has its place and its importance. So it is not success
that matters. What matters is to be a docile and if possible a conscious instrument of the
Divine Will.
To be and to do what the Divine wants, this is the truly important
thing.
[CWM, Vol. 16, p. 389, 3 December 1968]
The one original transcendent Shakti,
the Mother stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal consciousness
the Supreme Divine.
(The
Mother,
Vol. 25, p. 20)
Similarly, can one say that the Supreme Divine carries the Mother
in his eternal consciousness?
Beyond all question.
They are ONE in essence and manifestation.
[CWM, Vol. 16, p. 389, 5 December 1968]
All things shall change in God’s
transfiguring hour.
(Savitri, p. 341)
Can man delay or hasten the coming of this hour?
Neither the one nor the other in their apparent contradiction created
by the separative consciousness, but something else that our words cannot
express.
In the present state of human consciousness, it is good for it to
think that aspiration and human effort can hasten the advent of the divine
transformation, because effort and aspiration are needed for the transformation
to take place.
[CWM, Vol. 16, p. 391, 21 December 1968]
The Upanishad says: “When That is known, all is known.” All is
known in its essential truth or also in detail?
In its essential truth, but one usually keeps the perception of
the illusory appearance at the same time.
[CWM, Vol. 16, p. 391, 21 December 1968]