The Mahashakti

'Whenever somebody is not just according to the usual pattern,
if all the parts and activities in him have not the usual balance,
if some faculties are more or less missing and some others
are exaggerated, the common and easy habit is to declare him
“abnormal” and to have done with him after this hasty condemnation.
When this summary judgment is passed by somebody in
a position of power the consequences can be disastrous. Such
people ought to know what true compassion is, then they would
act differently.
The first necessity is to abstain from thinking of anyone
in a depreciatory way. When we meet a person, our criticising
thoughts give to him, so to say, a blow on the nose which naturally
creates a revolt in him. It is our mental formation that
acts like a deforming mirror to that person, and then one would
become queer even if one were not. Why cannot people remove
from their minds the idea that somebody or other is not normal?
By what criterion do they judge? Who is really normal? I can
tell you that not a single person is normal, because to be normal
is to be divine.'
                                                                                               18 July 1954
                                                                                    Words of The Mother II