Offering Good and Bad Thoughts

I always say that when a child is besmeared with sand, dirt and filth, he can hide from his mother. Then the kind-hearted mother may go and fetch the child. Again, if the same child goes running to the mother for cleansing, then the mother gets so happy. At first the mother says, “Oh, you are so dirty.” Then the mother is so happy the child did the right thing and came to the mother. The mother immediately washes him, and he becomes so pure.

Once somebody went to the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and said, “The whole day I have been flying in the sky of pure, pure, pure thoughts. When I came to you, all evil thoughts entered into me. How can it be?”

The Mother said, “You fool, this is the time to give me your wrong thoughts.”

When wrong thoughts come, never hide. They try at that time to separate you from me. Wrong thoughts mean separation. This is the golden opportunity for you to come to me. When a wrong thought comes, do not run away. If good thoughts come, then at that time also you have to offer them. Good thoughts you give; bad thoughts also. Good and bad, it is all in the mental world.

If a bad thought comes, do not hide. If you do not enter into the water, the water is not going to come to you. If you are wise, then you jump into the water. And until you enter into the water, you suffer. For a few minutes you enjoy bad thoughts. Then afterwards you want to get rid of them, but you do not go to the right person, to the water, to the one who can cure you. If you have a disease, you go to the doctor. You do not say, “Oh, the doctor will say that I have got cancer, that I have got all kinds of diseases.” If you hide from the doctor because he will say that you have cancer, then you will die of cancer.

But if you go to the doctor, the doctor will try to at least keep you for a few years more on earth. Like that, if you allow bad thoughts to increase and increase and increase, yours will become a terminal case. Then afterwards you will leave the path. You will say, “I have stayed on the path for 40 years, and I still have to struggle with bad thoughts. That means I have made no progress, and the Master has no compassion. He is useless, useless. If he had an iota of compassion for me, then how is it that he is not curing me of this?”

That would be a wonderful way of misjudging the Master, whereas the Master is ready, always ready, to fight for you, to fight for you against the hostile forces. Always have wisdom, wisdom, wisdom.