On Thoughts and Aphorisms
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.
Pensées et Aphorismes : traduction et commentaires
- JNANA (Knowledge): First period of commentaries (1958)
- JNANA (Knowledge): Second period of commentaries (1960-1961)
- JNANA (Knowledge): Third Period of commentaries (1962-1966)
- JNANA (Knowledge): Fourth Period of commentaries (1969-1970)
- KARMA (Works): Fourth Period of commentaries (1969-1970)
- BHAKTI (Devotion): Fourth Period of commentaries (1969-1970)
- Note on the Text
Aphorism - 474, 475
474—Calvin, who justified eternal Hell, knew not God but made one terrible mask of Him His eternal reality. If there were an unending Hell, it could only be a seat of unending rapture; for God is Ananda and than the eternity of His bliss there is no other eternity.
475—Dante, when he said that God's perfect love created eternal Hell, wrote perhaps wiselier than he knew; for from stray glimpses I have sometimes thought there is a Hell where our souls suffer aeons of intolerable ecstasy and wallow as if for ever in the utter embrace of Rudra, the sweet and terrible.
Page 343
The divine splendours are too marvellous for human littleness, which finds it hard to bear them, and an eternity of delight may well be intolerable for a human being.
