The Mother's answers to questions on books by Sri Aurobindo: 'Bases of Yoga', 'Lights on Yoga' and 2 chapters of 'The Synthesis of Yoga'.
Ce volume comporte les réponses de la Mère aux questions des enfants de l’Ashram et des disciples, et ses commentaires sur trois œuvres de Sri Aurobindo : Les Bases du Yoga, Le Cycle humain et La Synthèse des Yogas ; et sur une de ses pièces de théâtre, Le Grand Secret.
This volume is made up of talks given by the Mother in 1955 to the members of her French class. Held on Wednesday evenings at the Ashram Playground, the class was composed of sadhaks of the Ashram and students of its school. The Mother usually began by reading out a passage from one of her works or a French translation of one of Sri Aurobindo’s writings. She then commented on the passage or invited questions. For most of the year she discussed two small books by Sri Aurobindo, 'Bases of Yoga' and 'Lights on Yoga', and two chapters of 'The Synthesis of Yoga'. She spoke only in French.
Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, "Surrender and Opening".
Here we are. Nothing to ask? Nobody has anything to say?
(Silence)
We can meditate for five minutes. Let us try collective meditation, shall we? It's going to be a little difficult. We can try.
You would like to try on what we have read?
Do not think, just concentrate like this: let what we have read enter into you, and try to experience it; try.
Don't try to think, to turn over ideas, have answers to questions, nothing of all that. Just remain like this (gesture), open.
It was about opening, right through. You should let what was read enter into you, and then, in this way, do its work inside you. You must remain as silent and quiet as possible.
We shall see what is going to happen.
(Meditation for more than five minutes)
Something to say? No? Good!
But it was not bad for a beginning. It is quite good.
Is that all? We don't go farther? Nobody has anything to say?
Then it's better to stop.
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