21.11.2014, Good Morning , My dear Friends, The Mother Words of the Mother II GRATITUDE • It is you who open all the closed doors and let the Grace which saves penetrate deeply. Gratitude • A loving recognition of the Grace received from the Divine. A humble recognition of all that the Divine has done and is doing for you. • The spontaneous feeling of obligation to the Divine, which makes you do your best to become less unworthy of what the Divine is doing for you. • Detailed gratitude: the gratitude that awakens in us all the details of the Divine Grace. • Integral gratitude: the whole being offers itself to the Lord in absolute trust. • Mental gratitude: the gratefulness of the mind for what makes it progress. • The best way to express one’s gratitude to the Divine is to feel simply happy. 23 April 1954 • There is no better way to show one’s gratefulness to the Divine than to be quietly happy. • To accept gladly what I give is never selfish. There is no better cure for egoism than a happy gratefulness. • Always joyfully accept what is given you by the Divine. • A self-willed man cannot be grateful—because when he gets what he wants he gives all the credit for it to his own will, and when he gets what he does not want he resents it badly and throws all the blame on whomever he considers responsible, God, man or Nature. • It is very difficult to keep up your gratitude; for a time it comes very strongly and again it goes back. The Divine can go on tolerating everything in spite of your ingratitude because He knows fully the how and why and wherefore of everything. He knows why you are doing a certain thing. He knows the full working and that is why He can tolerate it.§ • The nobility of a being is measured by its capacity of gratitude. The Mother Words of the Mother -II Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, page:154&155
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