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Words of the Mother - I Vol. 13 of CWM 385 pages 2004 Edition
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The Mother's brief statements on Sri Aurobindo, Herself, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville, India and and nations other than India.

Words of the Mother - I

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This volume consists primarily of brief written statements by the Mother about Sri Aurobindo, Herself, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville, India, and nations other than India. Written over a period of nearly sixty years (1914-1973), the statements have been compiled from her public messages, private notes, and correspondence with disciples. The majority (about sixty per cent) were written in English; the rest were written in French and appear here in translation. The volume also contains a number of conversations, most of them in the part on Auroville. All but one were spoken in French and appear here in translation.

Collected Works of The Mother (CWM) Words of the Mother - I Vol. 13 385 pages 2004 Edition
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Eternal Presence

You spoke of Sri Aurobindo's birth as "eternal" in the history of the universe. What exactly was meant by "eternal"?

The sentence can be understood in four different ways on four ascending planes of consciousness:

1) Physically, the consequence of the birth will be of eternal importance to the world.

2) Mentally, it is a birth that will be eternally remembered in the universal history.

3) Psychically, a birth that recurs for ever from age to age upon earth.

4) Spiritually, the birth of the Eternal upon earth.


Since the beginning of earth history, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great earthly transformations, under one form or another, one name or another.

It is said that Sri Aurobindo in a past life took an active part in the French Revolution. Is it true?

You can say that all through history Sri Aurobindo played an active part. Especially in the most important movements of history he was there—and playing the most important, the leading part. But he was not always visible.

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Sri Aurobindo is constantly among us and reveals himself to those who are ready to see and hear him.

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Sri Aurobindo, immense and very concrete (in the subtle physical), was sitting over the whole compound during the meditation.


Last night, we (you and I and some others) were together for quite a long time in the permanent dwelling-place of Sri Aurobindo which exists in the subtle physical (what Sri Aurobindo called the true physical).


Sri Aurobindo is in the subtle physical, you can meet him when you sleep, if you know how to go there.


(During sleep a sadhak had a vision of Sri Aurobindo in his subtle physical body living in the subtle physical world. He sent a report of his vision to Mother, who replied:)

Sri Aurobindo shows himself according to the need of each one and in the subtle physical the things are not as fixed as they are here.

Attach more importance to the feeling produced by the vision than to details of what you have seen.

The whole day, from very early in the morning, Sri Aurobindo has been ever so present, so alive; at times I found it difficult to be quiet, I was just bubbling over inside me.

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It was not quite correct to be so today, was it Mother? But Sri Aurobindo was so near and so alive.

On the contrary, it is quite correct, he has never been so alive as now!


Sri Aurobindo is constantly in the subtle physical, very active there. I see him almost daily, and last night I spent many hours with him.

If you become conscious in the subtle physical you will surely meet him, it is what he called the true physical—it has nothing to do with the psychic.


The help of Sri Aurobindo is constant: it is for us to know how to receive it.


Sri Aurobindo is always with us, enlightening, guiding, protecting. We must answer to his grace by a perfect faithfulness.

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