A collection of short prose pieces on the Mother and her four great Aspects - Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati, along with 'Letters on the Mother'.
Integral Yoga
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'.
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Yesterday when the Mother came down in the evening to give Darshan, I saw her face shining with crimson light like the sun when it rises in the morning. What is the meaning of crimson light?
Crimson light indicates the manifestation of love in the material atmosphere.
5 July 1933
When I write to the Mother I often see flashes of light which are tiny, round and of different colours—white, gold, green, blue and yellow. What are they?
When you write, you put yourself probably in contact with the Mother's forces—these lights of different colours are the play of her forces.
14 October 1933
Looking at the Mother on the terrace in the evening, I saw a dark blue light around her like the colour of the flower named "Radha's consciousness". Is the light around her of different colours? For I have also seen white light around her many times, and sometimes a pretty pale blue light.
There are various lights around the Mother indicating the forces that come from her. White is her own characteristic light, the pale blue is mine,—the golden, dark blue and others correspond to various other forces.
26 October 1933
We normally see your force working in us as a pale blue light and the Mother's force working as a white light. But today
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I saw a red-coloured force working in me, red like a lotus flower. Was this your force too?
It must have been a special force working. The blue light is the characteristic force as the white is of the Mother, but we are not limited to that, the other forces and therefore the other lights are also ours.
24 November 1933
Today I saw emerging from the Mother the whitish blue light of Sri Aurobindo. Why did I see it so? Is it because both are the same?
All the lights are put out by the Mother from herself.
6 March 1934
Today at Pranam while feeling the Mother's Powers pouring into me, I saw the sacred word মা [Mā] inscribed in dark blue light in the corner of my breast below the right shoulder. Does it have any significance?
It means the impression of the Name with its power in some part of the being—(vital mental).
9 April 1934
The lights are the Mother's Powers—many in number. The white light is her own characteristic power, that of the Divine Consciousness in its essence.
15 July 1934
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