The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' spoken or written in French.
Ce volume comporte les commentaires de la Mère sur les Pensées et Aphorismes de Sri Aurobindo, et le texte de ces Aphorismes.
The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' were given over the twelve-year period from 1958 to 1970. All the Mother's commentaries were spoken or written in French. She also translated Sri Aurobindo's text into French.
212—Poets make much of death and external afflictions; but the only tragedies are the soul's failures and the only epic man's triumphant ascent towards godhead.
Usually man is not afflicted with the only thing truly tragic, the failure to find one's soul and to live according to its law.1
In truth, the only thing that is truly tragic is not to become conscious of one's soul, the psychic being, and not to be entirely guided by it in one's life.
To die before having found one's soul and lived according to its law, that is the true failure.
And the true epic, the true glory is to find the Divine in oneself and to live according to His law.
3 December 1969
Home
The Mother
Books
Share your feedback. Help us improve. Or ask a question.