To
walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and
disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always
together — the Grace of the Divine Mother and on
your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity
and surrender. Let your faith be pure, candid and perfect.
An egoistic faith in the mental and vital being tainted
by ambition, pride, vanity, mental arrogance, vital
self-will, personal demand, desire for the petty satisfactions
of the lower nature is a low and smoke-obscured flame
that cannot burn upwards to heaven. Regard your life
as given you only for the divine work and to help in
the divine manifestation. Desire nothing but the purity,
force, light, wideness, calm, Ananda of the divine consciousness
and its insistence to transform and perfect your mind,
life and body. Ask for nothing but the divine, spiritual
and supramental Truth, its realisation on earth and
in you and in all who are called and chosen and the
conditions needed for its creation and its victory over
all opposing forces.
Let your sincerity
and surrender be genuine and entire. When you give yourself,
give completely, without demand, without condition,
without reservation so that all in you shall belong
to the Divine Mother and nothing be left to the ego
or given to any other power.
The more complete
your faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace
and protection be with you. And when the grace and protection
of the Divine Mother are with you, what is there that
can touch you or whom need you fear? A little of it
even will carry you through all difficulties, obstacles
and dangers; surrounded by its full presence you can
go securely on your way because it is hers, careless
of all menace, unaffected by any hostility however powerful,
whether from this world or from worlds invisible. Its
touch can turn difficulties into opportunities, failure
into success and weakness into unfaltering strength.
For the grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of
the Supreme and now or tomorrow its effect is sure,
a thing decreed, inevitable and irresistible.
-
Sri Aurobindo
