From
the point of view of individual development and
for those who are still at the beginning of the
path, to know how to remain silent before what
one does not understand is one of the things which
would help most in the progress—to know how
to remain silent, not only externally, without
uttering a word, but also to know how to be silent
within, so that the mind does not assert its ignorance
with its usual presumptuousness, does not try
to understand with an instrument that is incapable
of understanding, that it may know its own weakness
and open simply, quietly, waiting until the time
has come for it to receive the light, because
only the Light, the true Light, can give it understanding.
It is not all that it has learnt nor all that
it has observed nor all its so-called experience
of life, it is something else which is completely
beyond it. And until this something else—which
is the expression of the Grace—manifests
within it, if, very quietly, very modestly the
mind remains silent and does not try to understand
and, above all, to judge, things would go much
faster.
The
noise made by all the words, all the ideas in
your head is so deafening that it prevents you
from hearing the truth when it wants to manifest.
To
learn to be quiet and silent… When you have
a problem to solve, instead of turning over in
your head all the possibilities, all the consequences,
all the possible things one should or should not
do, if you remain quiet with an aspiration for
goodwill, if possible a need for goodwill, the
solution comes very quickly. And as you are silent
you are able to hear it.
When
you are caught in a difficulty, try this method:
instead of becoming agitated, turning over all
the ideas and actively seeking solutions, of worrying,
fretting, running here and there inside your head—I
don't mean externally, for externally you probably
have enough common sense not to do that! but inside,
in your head—remain quiet. And according
to your nature, with ardour or peace, with intensity
or widening or with all these together, implore
the Light and wait for it to come.
In
this way the path would be considerably shortened.
-
The Mother
