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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Communing with the universal forces
02/26/2018
The Divine Mother’s grace
02/28/2018
Published by Sri Aurobindo on 02/27/2018
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  • friction in the mind
  • Happiness
  • live within
  • living outside
  • peace and joy
  • vital

If it is like that, it is probably because you are living outside, allowing yourself to be disturbed by outward contacts. One cannot find happiness of a lasting character unless one lives within. Work, action must be offered to the Mother, done for her sake only, without any thought for yourself, your own ideas, preferences, feelings, likes and dislikes. If one’s eyes are fixed on these latter things, then at every step one gets some friction either in the mind or vital or, if these are comparatively quiet, in the body and nerves. Peace and joy can only become stable if one lives within with the Mother.

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