Question: What daily discipline helps us realize the Divine?

Mother Meera: Remember the Divine in everything you do. If you have time, meditate. Offer everything to the Divine -- everything good or bad, pure or impure. This is the best and quickest way.

Question: Why do you have no rules for your devotees?

Mother Meera: What use is it in telling people anything? Often they disagree and rebel. People must be strong in themselves. I say nothing but my Light changes people inwardly and helps them discover what they really want and need. The important thing is to pray and receive the Light. That in itself will change you.

When the heart opens to God, the rules follow. All people have their own rules for their own stage of understanding. What is necessary is to follow me inside. Then you will know what to do and how to act at all times.

Question: What can I do to help your work?

Mother Meera: Realize yourself.

Question: How can people help your work?

Mother Meera: They can help by receiving the Light and letting it change them. They should be peaceful and harmonious. To be harmonious means to be whole; to love others and so enjoy your life; to know yourself and your difficulties and to work with them so you become free and able to help others; to respect the dignity of others. Humility brings harmony. A humble person is integrated with reality and is happy, because humility brings happiness.

Question: What is the best way to communicate with you?

Mother Meera: The soul connection is best; it is best to feel it inside -- but you can also write.

Questions

Mother Meera: Concerning sadhana, you must do japa when you want to receive my Light and help when I am not physically with you. Only through japa do you have constant inner contact with me. If you want to make any progress in the sadhana , you must practice japa. This is the easy way to remember the Divine. I do not expect anything from any human beings, but when they are sincere and serious in their sadhana, it gives me happiness.

Question: Is formal meditation important?

Mother Meera: Yes, to meditate a half an hour or an hour is good. But if one becomes fanatical, wants to leave one's job, live alone and meditate twenty-four hours a day, that is not good.

Question: What kind of meditation should we do?

Mother Meera: Close your eyes and sit in silence and do japa on any divine name.

Question: What is japa? Why is it so important?

Mother Meera: Japa is the repetition of the name of that in which we believe. Japa is essential. Japa is not simple words - each divine name is full of divine vibrations. These surround us and protect us and penetrate both our bodies and our whole inner being. Remembrance of the divine name gives immediate peace and happiness and turns us from the worldly to the Divine. There is no special and limited time for japa. It is very good to do japa all day. If this is not possible then remember whenever it is possible. We can practice japa during all activities. It is easier to remember when we do physical work without mental work. This japa helps us to purify our consciousness and make our sadhana easy.

Question: How should we say japa?

Mother Meera: Simply. Just say it. In doing japa, one should not strain or try to achieve something specific. One should try to be sincere and to have love of God. The power immediately follows, whether you are aware of it or not.

Question: Would you explain the power of the name?

Mother Meera: Each syllable of a divine name - such as Krishna or Jesus - has vibrations which change the atmosphere. Any object that we think about repeatedly generates its own vibration. Even though mantras are strong and powerful, we may not feel the effects immediately but results will come. One can feel the differences in the vibrations of words. Using the word, one can make things change.

Question: Is it necessary to wait for a guru to give a mantra or may one find a mantra on one's own?

Mother Meera: Whichever mantra comes to you easily and spontaneously is the one you should do. It should give a strong feeling and be like music flowing from the heart.

Question: I don't have a fixed japa. At different times different forms of the Divine - such as Shiva or Krishna - come into my mind, and I sing the appropriate mantra. Is doing this all right?

Mother Meera: Yes, whatever appeals at the moment is all right. One doesn't have to have a fixed mantra.

Question: When I repeat your name is it necessary to say the mantra as given in The Mother, or can I just repeat Mother Meera or simply Meera?

Mother Meera: Either is sufficient.

Question: In meditation on a form of the Divine, is it enough to just have the feeling of the Divine, or must one say the mantra as well?

Mother Meera: It is enough to have the feeling. But it is good to mentally repeat the name of the Divine as well, because doing this trains the mind and heart.

Question: What is the best technique of meditation?

Mother Meera: There are so many techniques. Generally they confuse people. Quite often they increase people's spiritual pride instead of destroying it. The proud man is far from God. You have to be very careful. The best way is to remember the Divine in everything and to offer everything to the Divine.