The Mother's brief written statements on various aspects of spiritual life including some spoken comments.
This volume consists primarily of brief written statements by the Mother on various aspects of spiritual life. Written between the late 1920s and the early 1970s, the statements have been compiled from her public messages, private notes, and correspondence with disciples. About two-thirds of them were written in English; the rest were written in French and appear here in English translation. The volume also contains a small number of spoken comments, most of them in English. Some are tape-recorded messages; others are reports by disciples that were later approved by the Mother for publication.
The Divine's Grace is wonderful and almighty.
And the ways of working of the Lord are full of a delightful sense of humour...
Be always ready to receive the Divine, for He may visit you at any moment.
And if sometimes He makes you wait at the appointed meeting-place, that is certainly no reason for you yourself to be late.
23 September 1956
It is quite evident that for some reason or other―or may be for no reason at all―the Supreme has changed His mind about it.
25 January 1958
The Supreme must have changed His decision in order to try your faith and see if it depended on such an external thing.
9 February 1958
Surely the Divine, like everybody else, has a right to change His mind.
1958
If we want to have conversations with God (of course within us), is it possible? If yes, on what condition?
God does not indulge in conversation.
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Does God ever become angry with us? If yes, when?
When you believe He is angry.
If we shed tears for God, does He ever shed a tear for us?
Surely He has deep compassion for you, but His eyes are not of the kind that shed tears.
21 September 1964
It may be that the Divine does not see things in the same way as humans do.
A sudden show may be very useful for Sadhana.
22 August 1966
According to the law of man the guilty ought to be punished. But there is a law more imperative than the human law. It is the Divine law, the law of compassion and mercy.
It is because of this law that the world is able to endure and progress towards Truth and Love.
November 1966
Mother,
Does the Divine punish injustice? Is it possible at all for Him to punish anybody?
The Divine does not see things as men do and has no need to punish or reward. Each and every action carries in itself its fruit and its consequences.
According to the nature of the action, it brings you near to the Divine or takes you away from Him, and that is the supreme consequence.
25 July 1970
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Human beings are capable of withdrawing from the Divine―and they often do it; but for the Divine to withdraw from human beings, that is an impossibility.
If the supreme Consciousness got angry over the defects of men, humanity would long since have ceased to be.
7 June 1972
Why was not man created good from the beginning?
It is not God who made man wicked.
It is man who makes himself wicked by separating himself from God.
The Divine may very well lean down towards you, but to understand Him rightly you must come up to Him.
To understand the Divine we must have no more preferences.
To understand the Divine one must become the Divine.
24 May 1972
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