In the pre-war days, village weddings were prepared for over several months as paddy had to be ground into rice at home by human hands, appalam was home-made. All the articles of food were to be procured locally, some grown on one's own fields. It was a labour of prolonged agony. Normally families live together in work as well as Spirit. On an occasion like wedding, all the relatives come to one's help. Though the work remains formidable, several hands share it, lightening it for the individual.

One may feel "I am not Draupadi and Lord Krishna is not going to answer my call." Before giving several examples from the lives of ordinary people, the theme needs to be explained and illustrated. One successfully reaches God's ear - Psychic -- when in his work he moves away from Sakthi, Viryam and Deiva Prakriti and acts from Shraddha, Faith, is the theme. Sakthi means energy, work done by energy, the energy of the physical body. To take interest in a work, to pour into it the temperamental energy is Viryam. To do so relying on God's energy is to resort to Deiva Prakriti.

Tapas, dhyana, Japa, etc. are some of the methods of invoking the Spirit. This is the Spirit of the Tapasvi, Muni, Rishi, Yogi. It is powerful away from life. The Spirit I am talking about is the Spirit in Life, called Psychic by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. This is the Spirit that acts in life directly, giving us great results. For the same reason it is more difficult to evoke, in the sense, it demands a greater purity of Truth. There is Truth by itself and Truth in Life, just as there is capacity by itself and capacity expressed in acts.

Karma is inescapable is our tradition. A rich man who had lost the sight in both eyes early in life visited a famous holy man in the hope of gaining his sight.  The devotees who waited for the holy man's darshan were many and they had to wait patiently for their turn. This man's turn came. Suddenly it occurred to him that he might have to offer his diamond ring to this holy man. He removed it from his finger and safe-deposited it elsewhere. The holy man from whom the devotee tried to hide his action could read his thoughts.

Man's confidence in his capacities is implicit. He would not desert them until they are proved fruitless. In business there is a point of No-Return. Woe unto him who does not wake up until he crosses it. Life has such landmarks in every sector we know of. While playing a match one knows what point he cannot lose. One who came to such a point in an international tourney, stopped for a few minutes, concentrated and then served the ball. He won the point and every succeeding point, thus winning the match which his country had not won up to that stage. 

Jealousy leads people to do black magic on their rivals. The victim ordinarily seeks a remedy through another person who is a better adept. Those who take to Spirit are free from this affliction; but when people are perverse, the religious institutions become seats of this malady. The greater the religious power, the greater is the power of evil. In the West, on such occasions, people resort to medical remedy. Some give way, others do not.

Flowers occupy an important place in our worship. Being subtle and tender, they are receptive of the spiritual force. The Divine Mother has given spiritual names to 800 flowers and described their spiritual qualities in detail.

In the 1950's a spirited brahmachari took to austere religious life, eking out his living by the quasi-spiritual endowment of water divining. It gave him one meal a day and two sets of clothes to his respectability.  He was universally respected but he longed for commensurate comforts in life without deserting the codes of his life. The concept of Spiritual Prosperity or Prosperous Spirituality attracted him.

Bob Macfarlane of New York earned the reputation of being Rishyasringar, as his visits to Pondicherry use to bring with them the heaviest rainfall. To him, it was a source of annoyance.  On one of his visits, the rains were so heavy, that many houses in the colony had to be evacuated.

In an American university of several thousand boys and girls, there was a handsome rich engineering student who was a favourite of many beautiful girls. But his mind was set on another girl who excelled many other beauties in her looks. Scores of candidates were after her. This engineering student was one of them. The girl did not find it easy to make up her mind, as many of her lovers were above the ordinary in their personal endowments. Many times this boy ventured to make his mind clear to her. She was not averse to any one of those endless suitors, but found it difficult to decide.