For this month we have chosen a question
based on a common situation which we all face. There are times when
persons very close to us, relatives, friends, others, may be ill
or in some danger or difficulty. We would like to help them but
we do not know how to do it, specially when they are far away from
us.
This is the Mother's very practical and revealing answer. It shows
us a way which we can all follow.
"We are not going to speak [today]
of occult processes at all; although, to tell the truth, everything
that happens in the invisible world is occult, by definition.
But still, practically, there are two processes which do not exclude
but complete each other, but which may be used separately according
to one's preference.
The Power Of Thought
It is obvious that thought forms
a part of one of the methods, quite an important part. I have
already told you several times that if one thinks clearly and
powerfully, one makes a mental formation, and that every mental
formation is an entity independent of its fashioner, having its
own life and tending to realise itself in the mental world - I
don't mean that you see your formation with your physical eyes,
but it exists in the mental world, it has its own particular independent
existence. If you have made a formation with a definite aim, its
whole life will tend to the realisation of this aim. Therefore,
if you want to help someone at a distance, you have only to formulate
very clearly, very precisely and strongly the kind of help you
want to give and the result you wish to obtain. That will have
its effect. I cannot say that it will be all-powerful, for the
mental world is full of innumerable formations of this kind and
naturally they clash and contradict one another; hence the strongest
and the most persistent will have the best of it.
Emotion and Will
Now, what is it that gives strength
and persistence to mental formations? - It is emotion and will.
If you know how to add to your mental formation an emotion, affection,
tenderness, love, and an intensity of will, a dynamism, it will
have a much greater chance of success. That is the first method.
It is within the scope of all those who know how to think, and
even more of those who know how to love. But as I said, the power
is limited and there is great competition in that world.
Trust in the Divine Grace
Therefore, even if one has no knowledge
at all but has trust in the divine Grace, if one has the faith
that there is something in the world like the divine Grace, and
that this something can answer a prayer, an aspiration, an invocation,
then after making one's mental formation, if one offers it to
the Grace and puts one's trust in it, asks it to intervene and
has the faith that it will intervene, then indeed one has a chance
of success.
Try, and you will surely see the
result."
- The Mother
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