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.
The universe is a finite whole, but its content is infinite; the changes which occur in this infinity result from the action of Essence on substance, from the penetration, the permeation of quantity by quality, which brings about a constant and progressive organisation and reorganisation of the content of the universe.
24 March 1932
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At every minute the universe is created in its totality and in each of its parts.
No two combinations, no two movements in the universe are similar; nothing is reproduced exactly. There are analogies, there are similarities, there are families, families of movements that can be called families of vibrations, but there are no two things that are identical, neither in time nor in space. Nothing is repeated, otherwise there would be no manifestation, no becoming; there would be only one creation, one single thing.
The manifestation is just this diversity. It is the One that unfolds itself in the Many—endlessly.
On the physical plane the Divine expresses himself through beauty, on the mental plane through knowledge, on the vital plane through power and on the psychic plane through love.
When we rise high enough, we discover that these four aspects unite with each other in a single consciousness, full of love, luminous, powerful, beautiful, containing all, pervading all.
It is only to satisfy the universal play that this consciousness divides itself into several lines or aspects of manifestation.
This world is a chaos in which darkness and light, falsehood and truth, death and life, ugliness and beauty, hate and love are so closely intertwined that it is almost impossible to distinguish one from the other, still more impossible to disentangle them and put an end to an embrace which has the horror of a pitiless struggle, all the more keen because veiled, especially in human consciousness where the conflict changes into an anguish for knowledge, for power, for conquest,—a combat obscure and painful, all the more atrocious because it seems to be without issue, but capable of a solution on a level above the sensations
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and feelings and ideas, beyond the domain of the mind—in the Divine Consciousness.
29 March 1934
The manifestation will overcome all difficulties, for manifestation means the overcoming of all difficulties.
One Divine Consciousness is here working through all these beings, preparing its way through all these manifestations. At this day it is here at work upon earth more powerfully than it has ever been before.
29 January 1935
I would say: may the world become aware that the Divine is manifesting.
8 April 1935
O, to see no longer the appearances which change incessantly; to contemplate only the Divine's immutable oneness in everything and everywhere!
29 September 1954
If one looks at outer forms no longer in themselves, for themselves, in their appearance alone, but as the expression of a deeper and more abiding reality, then all of them—as well as all circumstances and events—become symbolic of the Force that is behind and that uses them for its self-expression.
For a certain state of consciousness, there is not a single circumstance, not a form, an action or a movement that is not expressive of a deeper or higher, more abiding, more essential and truer reality.
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Behind the appearances there is a subtle reality much closer to Truth; it is that one we are trying to show you.
Upon this world of illusion, this sombre nightmare, the Divine has bestowed His sublime Reality, and each atom of matter contains something of His Eternity.
14 November 1954
Is it not, for the Divine, a supreme sacrifice to renounce the beatitude of His unity in order to create the painful multiplicity of the world?
Poor Divine! Of what an amount of horrors He is accused.
If these accusations were true, what a monster He would be, He who in truth is all-compassion.
It is wrong to say that the world, as it is, is made according to the Divine's Will. If it were so,
(a) All the wickedness of the world would be the Divine's wickedness.
(b) There would be no need to change either oneself or the world.
All things considered, looking at the world as it is and as it seems it must be irremediably, the human intellect has decreed that this world must be a mistake on the part of God and that the manifestation or creation is surely the result of desire, desire to manifest oneself, desire to know oneself, desire to enjoy oneself. Therefore the only thing to do is to put an end to this mistake
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as soon as possible by refusing to cling to desire and its deadly consequences.
But the Supreme Lord answers that the comedy has not yet been completely played out, and He adds, "Wait for the last act; no doubt you will change your mind."
23 July 1958
When the physical world will manifest the divine splendour, all will be marvellous.
The whole creation speaks of the Divine to him who knows how to hear within his heart.
8 December 1965
There is no other consciousness than the Supreme Consciousness.
There is no other will than the Supreme Will.
There is no other life than the Supreme Life.
There is no other personality than the Supreme Personality, the One and the All.
17 September 1967
There is nothing in this world which is not submitted to a direct action beyond Nature—but most of the men are unaware of it.
18 September 1967
Divine presence: it hides from ignorant eyes its ever-present magnificence.
You speak of delight, but in the material world there is no such thing as delight. Yet, remove the delight and the whole world will collapse.
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