Udar -- The Mother of Pondicherry

Udar

(An inmate of the Ashram) narrates his conversation with the Mother:

One day I asked the Mother, “I have been doing the yoga for many years but I am not absolutely certain how to do the yoga of Sri Aurobindo. I read all the books and try to do the yoga but I am not certain how far I have progressed.” I asked the Mother to help me.

“You are doing it all wrong,” She said. I became utterly nonplussed.

“But what shall I do?” I asked.

She replied, “I will do the yoga for you.” I was thrilled!

“What do I have to do?” I then asked.

“Give yourself over to me and I will do it for you,” She said.

I asked, “How do I surrender?” She asked me, “Do you sincerely want to?” I answered, “yes, certainly Mother.”

Then the Mother asked, “When you get up in the morning what is the first thing you do?”

I said, “I brush my teeth.” She asked, “How do you brush your teeth?”

I wondered, “How?! Like everybody else does.”

She said, “Then you are doing it unconsciously. Instead, think of me while you are doing it. Think that I am doing it.

“Or when you are wishing your face, think that I am doing it with you, or when you are eating that I am eating with you, that I am enjoying your food with you.”

She added, “When you go to sleep that is the time when you should be very conscious of me. Let me put you to sleep and then the whole night you will have a conscious sleep. When you awake and begin your day you will then begin it in a more conscious way.”

(Source: Udar, One of Mother’s Children, p.141 – Taken from The India Magazine, November 2010)