The Mother

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The true aim of life is to find the Divine's Presence deep inside

oneself and to surrender to It so that It takes the lead of the life,

all the feelings and all the actions of the body. This gives a true

and luminous aim to existence.

 

Physical culture is the best way of developing the consciousness of the body,

and the more the body is conscious, the more it is capable of receiving the

divine forces that are at work to transform it and give birth to the new race.

 

The Victory

 

....the first victory is to create an individuality. And then later, the second

victory is to give this individuality to the Divine. And the third victory is

that the Divine changes your individuality into a divine being.

 

There are three stages: the first is to become an individual; the second is to

consecrate the individual, that he may surrender entirely to the Divine and be

identified with Him; and the third is that the Divine takes possession of this

individual and changes him into a being in His own image, that is, he too

becomes divine.

 

Generally, all the yogas stopped at the second. When one had succeeded in

surrendering the individual and giving him without reserve to the Divine to be

identified with Him, one considered that his work was finished, that all was

accomplished.

 

But WE begin there, and we say, " No, this s only a beginning. We want this

Divine with whom we are identified to enter our individuality and make it into a

divine personality acting in a divine world. " And this is what we call

transformation. But the other precedes it, must precede it. If that is not done,

there is no possibility of doing the third. One can't go from the first to the

third; one must pass through the second.