The Mother's brief statements on various aspects of spiritual life including some conversations.
Part One consists primarily of brief written statements by the Mother on various aspects of spiritual life. Written between the early 1930s 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. There are also 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. These reports are identified by the symbol § placed at the end. Part Two consists of thirty-two conversations not included elsewhere in the Collected Works. The first six conversations are the earliest recorded conversations of the 1950s' period. About three-fourths of these conversations were spoken in French and appear here in English translation.
(Someone with rheumatism wrote:)
Am I destined to be an invalid? I have given the best part of my life to the Divine. Is this to be my fate? Is there no way out?
Have faith. There is no disease which cannot be cured by the Divine Grace.
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Do not think you are invalid for ever, because the Grace of the Lord is infinite.
I am enclosing a portrait of two birds with keen eyesight to encourage you to have faith that your eyes will be cured.
I shall see what can be done.
28 January 1932
What to do about illness?
Be passively confident: let me do it and it is done.
When one is caught in an illness, how should one pray to the Mother?
Cure me, O Mother!
Her mental disease was congenital, that is to say, caused by her physical constitution, and it would have happened to her wherever she would have been and whatever life she would have lived. In fact, I made her last here one and a half years more than she would have lasted elsewhere.
These congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of the body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana; otherwise it is only a so-called "miraculous cure" that can take place and that kind of "miracle" can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine and an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. This was not the case, she was full of fears, desires and demands and terribly concentrated on her exterior being and
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what she called its needs. This is just the opposite of a sincere consecration.
25 March 1935
My dear child,
Let your receptivity increase this year, to the extent of giving you the power to fully utilise the force that is at work for restoring perfect good health in you.
With my love and blessings.
2 February 1948
X has written again. Two letters to you from his friend Miss Y (who met you on her last visit here some months back) have gone unnoticed—to all appearances at least. She has asked for a blessing-packet for some trouble of hers. She got none. But in her second letter she reported good news.
How "unnoticed"? She got cured! Man of little faith!
31 May 1967
Before sleeping I told you, "This won't do. If this boil remains, I will have to remain in bed during the darshan week. I am not sure that this is possible." In the morning the boil had moved about three inches away, giving me full freedom of movement, and in a day or two it burst and now it is dried up. I wonder whether actually the boil could move in this way.
Anything may happen. It is only our "logical" minds which put limitations. I must congratulate your body for its receptivity.
February 1970
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With your blessings my disease gets partially cured but does not go.
This gives the exact measure of your body's receptivity. Concentrate the force on the diseased parts and they will improve.
About others I inform you in silence and it works, but about my own illness I have to inform you physically—why?
It depends on the physical reception of each one, and that receptivity depends on the more or less dominating mind.
It is a question of receptivity. I am doing the best that can be done for him, but he goes on thinking that he is ill. All the time he is busy with that idea and he has made a strong formation of illness around him. He is unable to receive my help because of this formation. Let him discard the idea of illness and more than half the trouble will be over and it will be easy to cure him.1
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