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.
Mother, for several days I have been sun-bathing regularly. The cough is slowly going away. Now there is a little coughing but it does not bother me any more. Would it be good to continue the sun-bathing?
Yes, you should do it every day; it gives strength and maintains one's energy.
You must avoid coughing as much as you can. Coughing can be controlled by the will, and you should always try to achieve this control, because coughing is unnecessarily tiring.
Mother, this cough is making me suffer a lot. It is becoming difficult to control it. It gets less when I write to You, but it comes back again after a few days. Mother, what is the cause of it?
Probably some bad suggestions which you must learn to drive away.
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(After a slight bout of fever:)
Mother, I feel as if the heat in my body comes from the fire of purification. Is this true?
The fire of purification ought to purify without causing fever, and it is quite possible to be purified without falling ill.
28 March 1935
An old and very weak man has an enlarged prostate. The doctors advise operation. He wants your guidance.
Most probably the end is approaching. All depends on his nature and will. If he prefers to go away quietly without struggle, let him be quiet and pull on as long as he can. If he likes to fight let him be operated upon and see what happens. My blessings in any case are with him.
I was rather depressed on hearing of X's death after an operation. He was one of your workers with an exceptional ability. How is it that he passed away although under your influence and guidance?
The operation was quite successful, done by a very skilful surgeon, but X's heart was weak beyond expectation and he died of heart failure five days after the operation. It has been a sad event and a big loss for the work. But for some time he suffered much and felt tired of it. He had several times expressed the wish to change his body for a better one. It is surely this wish that is responsible for what happened.
22 November 1945
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It is difficult to say exactly which of the two possibilities would be more helpful to recover your health. But in a general way a change is more helpful for the body at the beginning than in the long run, as the thing most detrimental to the body's welfare is the lack of interest in life and surroundings. Anything new can wake up this interest for the time being—but the effect is never very lasting.
21 February 1946
These contradictory impressions are quite natural.
The material consciousness naturally rejoices when circumstances combine to satisfy what it considers to be its need; in any case, they will help it to recover its balance and confidence in life.
The soul witnesses yet another victory of Matter over spirit (for every illness that resists the inner cure is for the spirit a defeat, which may only be short-lived but which is nonetheless a defeat). The soul can neither be troubled nor unhappy, for it has faith in its own eternity and is aware of it; but it may sometimes feel a certain melancholy.
19 June 1960
Please tell Mother that I feel all the time as if life and energy were flowing away from me out of my hands and feet and I cannot stop it.
Why does he complain? The energy must be spent to be renewed. The human body is not a closed jar that gets emptied by spending. The human body is a channel that receives only when it spends.
Let him eat well, sleep well, avoid wrong thinking and spend normally. He will soon be all right.
20 April 1968
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It is only by correcting your way of living that you can hope to secure good health.
It is because of all your quarrels, shouting, restlessness, nervousness, agitation, discords and disputes, that X is unwell. I said from the beginning that she needed rest and quietness. It was especially indispensable, but she has been surrounded by the opposite atmosphere—no wonder if she is ill. She weeps and trembles because her nerves are overtaxed and they are overtaxed because all of you have no mastery over yourselves and no control over your speech.
Cooking for her is quite nice, but it is not sufficient; you must let her have enough peace and quietness to be able to eat.
When I am sympathetic with a sick person my body begins to feel the symptoms of his disease.
The best way is to call for the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmony, to replace the vibrations of disorder and confusion.
It is not very difficult to get rid of headache and giddiness. However bad your condition may be, call the light from above. Try to feel that the light is entering into you from the crown of your head bringing with it calm and peace. If you do it seriously, your headache and giddiness will disappear in no time.1
Tumours always indicate some difficulty in the nature; certain cells decide to be independent of the discipline of the body. They do not remain in harmony with the other parts and begin to grow out of all proportion. Generally this is the result of a very
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strong greed in the nature. It may be greed for material things or for power or any other subtle object.
By performing an operation you may remove the tumour, but if the inner nature remains unchanged, it will come up in some other part and all the trouble that the patient has to undergo for the operation and its after-effects will be in vain.2
The cells of the body get the habit of increasing without cause. This is cancer. If you change the consciousness in the cells and get rid of their habit, cancer can be cured.3
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