Organizing our whole being

As ours is an integral yoga, Mother speaks about the need to organize the whole of our being around the deeper psychic centre. And although one may have a certain level of sincerity in following the spiritual path, still a complete organization of the being is needed if one wants to progress farther.

“You may be moved, pushed into action and used as unconscious instruments by the divine Force, if you have minimum of goodwill and sincerity. But to become a conscious instrument, capable of identification and conscious, willed movements, you must have this inner organization; otherwise you will always be running into a chaos somewhere, a confusion somewhere or an obscurity, an unconsciousness somewhere. And naturally your action, even though guided exclusively by the Divine, will not have the perfection of expression it has when one has acquired a conscious organization around this divine Centre.”

Hence, it isn’t enough to have in one part of our being an experience of or contact with our psychic. Mother instructs to achieve more than this.

“It is usually the first contact with the psychic being which brings this experience, but it is only partial, only that part of the consciousness — or of the activity in any part of the being — that part of the consciousness which is united with the psychic has the experience. And so, at the moment of that experience, the position of that part of the consciousness, in relation to the other parts and to the world, is completely reversed, it is different. And that is never undone. And if you have the will or take care or are able to put into contact with this part all the problems of your life and all the activities of your being, all the elements of your consciousness, then they begin to be organized in such a way that your being becomes one unity — a single multiplicity, a multiple unity — complex, but organized and centralized around a fixed point, so well that the central will or central consciousness or central truth has the power to govern all the parts, for they are all in order, organized around this central Presence.

“It seems to me impossible to escape from this necessity if one wants to be and is to be a conscious instrument of the divine Force.”

And although there is quite the effort needed to achieve this level of organization of our being, yet it doesn’t require special circumstances to work on it.

“It is an assiduous task, which may be done at any time and under any circumstances, for you carry within yourself all the elements of the problem. You don’t need anything from outside, no outer aid to do this work.”

And along with the fact of being able to do it anywhere, this work is one that requires great patience and to not get discouraged.

“But it requires great perseverance, a sort of tenacity, for very often it happens that there are bad “creases” in the being, habits — which come from all sorts of causes, which may come from atavistic malformation or also from education or from the environment you have lived in or from many other causes. And these bad creases you try to smooth out, but they wrinkle up again. And then you must begin the work over again, often, many, many, many a time, without getting discouraged, before the final result is obtained. But nothing and nobody can prevent you from doing it, nor any circumstance. For you carry within yourself the problem and the solution.”

And then for us when we get bored and don’t know what to do with our time, Mother suggests this work of organizing our being in place of the boredom.

“…to tell the truth, the most common malady humanity suffers from is boredom. Most of the stupidities men commit come from an attempt to escape boredom. Well, I say for certain that no outer means are any good, and that boredom pursues you and will pursue you no matter what you try to escape from it; but that this way, that is, beginning this work of organizing your being and all its movements and all its elements around the central Consciousness and Presence, this is the surest and most complete cure, and the most comforting, for all possible boredom. It gives life a tremendous interest. And an extraordinary diversity. You no longer have the time to get bored.

“Only, one must persevere.”

- Paul Sawh (Canada)

All extracts are from Collected Works of The Mother, vol.8, Conversation dated 6 June 1956 - https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/6-june-1956