Summary of Chapter 5 of The Mother Book

Stage 1: Becoming a Divine Worker

To be a True Doer of Divine Works

1. Your First Aim: To be free from all desires and self regarding ego

2. Your Life: Must be an offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme

3. Your Only object in action: To serve, to receive, to fulfill, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her Works

How far will you grow in the Divine Consciousness?
1. Till there is no difference between your will and her.
2. Till there is no motive except her impulsion in you.
3. Till there is no action that is not her conscious action in you and through you.

How to completely dynamically identify with Her?

1. First you have to regard yourself as a soul and body created for Her service
2. You have to do all for Her sake.
3. You must do all work for Her alone even if you have the feeling of separate worker in you
4. Must destroy completely from nature:
*a*: all stress of egoistic choice
*b*: all hankering after personal profit
*c*: all stipulation of self- regarding desire

5. Must have no demand for fruit and no seeking for reward.

6. Only fruit for you: Pleasure of the Divine Mother and fulfillment of Her work

7. Your Only reward: A constant progression in Divine consciousness, calm, and strength and bliss.

8. Your sufficient recompense (compensation): The Joy of service and the Joy of inner growth through works.

Stage 2

Becoming a Divine Instrument from a Divine Worker

1. By the force of your devotion, your contact with the Divine Mother becomes intimate 24x7.

2. To have Her present guidance, Her direct command and impulse, to get a sure indication of the thing to be done and the way to do it - - - You have only to concentrate and to put everything into Her hands.

3. Then you realise that the Divine Shakti only
-> initiates your work,
-> carries out your work,
-> inspires you, and
-> guides you.
-> originates all your movements

4. Then you also realise that:
-> All your powers are hers
-> All your mind, life and body, are
—-> Conscious and Joyful instruments of Her action.
 —-> Means for Her play
 —-> Moulds for Her manifestation in the physical universe

5. Then you realise that
-> There can be no more happy condition than this union and dependence
-> This step carries you back beyond the border line from the life of stress and suffering in the ignorance into the -> truth of your spiritual being, into its deep peace and it’s intense Ananda.

During this Transformation Phase of Worker becoming an Instrument

1. Keep yourself free from all taints of the perversion of the ego.
2. Must not allow any demand or insistence to creep in to stain the purity or self-giving and the sacrifice.

3. Must have no attachments to the work or the result
4. Must not lay down any conditions.

5. Must have no claim to possess the Power that should possess you.
6. Must have no pride of the instrument.

7. Must have no vanity or arrogance.
8. Must not allow your mind, body and vital parts to suffer to distort for their own personal use and separate satisfaction of greatness of the forces that are acting through you.

9. Your faith, sincerity, purity of aspiration should be absolute and pervasive of all the planes and layers of the being.
10. Every disturbing element and distorting influence must progressively fall away from your nature.

Stage 3

After Your Identification with the Divine Mother is Complete

1. You will feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, instrument, servant, or worker.
2. You will feel yourself to be truly a child and eternal portion of the Divine Mother 's Consciousness and Force.

3. She will be in you Always and you in Her.

4 All your thought and seeing and action, your very breathing or moving come from her and are hers. - >
This should be your constant, simple and natural experience 24x7

5. You will know, see and feel that
-> you are a person and power formed by her out of herself.
-> you are put out from her for the play and yet always safe in her
-> you are being of her being
-> you are consciousness of her consciousness
-> you are force of her force
-> you are Ananda of her Ananda.

6. When this condition is entire and her supramental energies freely move you, you will be perfect in Divine works,

7. Your knowledge, will, action will become sure, simple, luminous, spontaneous, flawless, an outflow from the Supreme, a Divine Movement of the Eternal.

Note: The Mother, a compilation of different articles on the Divine Mother by Sri Aurobindo. A must read book by any spiritual Aspirants of Earth.