The Mother's brief statements on Sri Aurobindo, Herself, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville, India and and nations other than India.
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.
What is the Divine?
The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo.
28 March 1932
How beautiful is the day when one can offer one's devotion to Sri Aurobindo.
You must feel that Sri Aurobindo is looking at you.
It is not a question of disobedience. I know nothing about your additions to the Life Sketch of the sources from which they were taken. My point of view is this, that anything written by a sadhak about Sri Aurobindo which brings him down to an ordinary level and admits the reader to a sort of gossiping familiarity with him is an unfaithfulness to Him and His work. Good intentions are not sufficient; it is necessary that this should be understood by everybody.
3 June 1939
Sri Aurobindo says that it is impossible for him to take up political action and enter the political field which would involve a sacrifice of his spiritual work.
His spiritual help is given to the country and individually to all those who aspire for it. He is ready to continue this help and even to increase it if it is necessary. But he is convinced that written messages alone are not sufficient to have a permanent effect or even a sufficiently wide effect.
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(Message for the Durga Puja of 1957)
To express our gratitude to Sri Aurobindo we can do nothing better than to be a living demonstration of his teaching.
30 September 1957
SRI AUROBINDO'S SYMBOL
The descending triangle represents Sat-Chit-Ananda.
The ascending triangle represents the aspiring answer from matter under the form of life, light and love.
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The junction of both—the central square—is the perfect manifestation having at its centre the Avatar of the Supreme—the lotus.
The water—inside the square—represents the multiplicity, the creation.
4 April 1958
His Grace is always with those who want to progress and realise the Truth of tomorrow.
10 January 1959
Somebody wants to visit Sri Aurobindo's room again and sit there to meditate for some time.
What are his qualifications and titles to such a great privilege?
Visiting again is all right. People can come to Sri Aurobindo's room. But to be allowed to sit and meditate there, one must have done much for Sri Aurobindo.
11 June 1960
Sweet Mother, You have said that to be allowed to sit in Sri Aurobindo's room and meditate there, "one must have done much for Him". What do you mean by that, Mother? What can one do for the Lord which will be this "much"?
To do something for the Lord is to give Him something of what one has, or of what one does, or of what one is. That is to say, to offer to Him one part of our goods or all of our possessions, to consecrate to Him one part of our work or all our activities, or to give ourselves to Him totally and without reserve so that He may take possession of our nature in order to transform and divinise it. But there are many people who, without giving
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anything, always want to take and to receive. These people are selfish and unworthy to meditate in Sri Aurobindo's room.
17 August 1960
A day will come, I hope, when we shall be able to tell freely and truly all that Sri Aurobindo's Presence has meant for the town of Pondicherry....
12 January 1961
Some time ago you advised me to "go beyond all human representations and approach the Supreme directly".
I used to turn to Sri Aurobindo. I would place my difficulties before him and pray to him; I nearly always had an answer. Now I no longer think of him, I no longer turn to him. I turn directly to the Lord, but my voice seems to be crying in the wilderness.
Am I right in cutting off this relationship with Sri Aurobindo?
There is no question and there can never be any question of cutting off the relationship with Sri Aurobindo. If you have the privilege of being conscious of his answer, keep it like a precious treasure, and make the best use of it. Through Sri Aurobindo you will come into contact with the Supreme and be quite sure of not going astray.
21 May 1970
How can I make Sri Aurobindo's influence living and dynamic in my daily activities?
Be perfectly sincere and He will answer your call.
July 1970
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How should we be on Sri Aurobindo's birthday?
Sincere and progressive.
(About a bronze bust of Sri Aurobindo by E. Frankel)
From the artistic point of view, it is certainly a masterpiece. It is also an inspired work, inspired by an inner contact with Sri Aurobindo or rather with one of his aspects, with one side of his being, the intellectual side, that of knowledge, the Seer.
(About a bronze bust of Sri Aurobindo by Erna R. King, in 1964)
The vast, calm, simplicity of his forehead, reflecting the perfect peace of total knowledge.
Remembrance of Sri Aurobindo: let us make an effort to realise the ideal of life that He has marked out for us.
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