The Mother
with Letters on the Mother
This volume consists of two separate but related works: 'The Mother', a collection of short prose pieces on the Mother, and 'Letters on the Mother', a selection of letters by Sri Aurobindo in which he referred to the Mother in her transcendent, universal and individual aspects. In addition, the volume contains Sri Aurobindo's translations of selections from the Mother's 'Prières et Méditations' as well as his translation of 'Radha's Prayer'.
Reading of 'The Mother'
Reading of 'The Mother'
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CWSA
- The Mother with Letters on the Mother
- Vol. 32
- 2012 Edition
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SABCL
- The Mother
- Vol. 25
- 1972 Edition
Individual, Universal, Transcendent
I am or was under the impression that Mother is the Cosmic and Supracosmic Mahashakti.
I don't quite understand the question. I have explained in The Mother that there are three aspects, transcendent, universal and individual, of the Mother.
As I see it, there are two Shaktis in the world: the Cosmic Shakti and the individual Shakti—our Mother. I believe it is difficult to remain in direct connection with the Cosmic Shakti, while the individual Shakti is always here before us. I would like to know more about these Shaktis.
There is one divine Force which acts in the universe and in the individual and is also beyond the individual and the universe. The Mother stands for all three, but she is working here in the body to bring down something not yet expressed in this material world so as to transform life here—it is so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti working here for that purpose. She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine Force.
