Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II

Correspondence with Champaben

Respected Father and the Mother,

My Pranam at thy lotus feet.

I wanted to do the sadhana. Please show me the way how to open my psychic. I don't know, what to do, but sometimes I felt Peace and Ananda. Is it a true feeling?

If Peace and Ananda are felt, they cannot be false. Visions and suggestions and ideas may be true or untrue, but Peace and Ananda can always be accepted as fact.

Sri Aurobindo

Punamchand remembers Thee always and sometimes cries a lot. He concentrates on Thee and sees Thee in his visions. Please, guide him in his sadhana.

Bless us and shower thy grace always.

8 December 1935

Thy child,

Champa

A few days back I was meditating in the evening. Everything became calm. Something fell down on my head upto the neck. I was surprised;

what happened? Again I was meditating. I felt that from head to feet my body parted in two portions. On the right side I felt peace and heaviness. Why I felt two portions of my body? Please explain it.

The two sides of the body are supposed to represent two different sides of the being, the side of consciousness and knowledge and the side of force and action. The feeling you had at meditation may have been the sense of the removal of some veil of obscurity covering the mind — the head from the crown to the throat being the seat of the thinking mind.

Opening means only to be able to receive the Mother's force. Whether one is open or not is shown by two things. If one is conscious of the force working in one, then one is open. But even if one is not conscious, yet if results of the working happen, then that also means that in the inner being some opening has been made. Aspiration, sincerity and the quietude of the mind are the three best conditions for opening.

27 December 1935

Sri Aurobindo

At the Lotus feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother,

Is it possible to give me two books? One is "Conversations with the Mother" and the "Mother's Prayers in French". Please, write inside something if Thy will is there.

When I sit in the meditation, I feel sometimes that my whole body from inside became vacant and foggy. That time I don't feel the body consciousness except from neck to head I feel that. Explain it to me.

You are probably becoming aware of a suitable consciousness wider than the physical and when one is in this consciousness the body seems non- existent. The thought being still active, you are aware at that time of head only.

Whether I sit in meditation or not, I felt deep peace behind and around my head and I like to enter into it. How nice if it would descend into me! Is it imagination or truth?

You are probably feeling the peace of the higher consciousness with a tendency to enter into it. Afterwards this usually descends into the head and body, but as yet there is not this movement.

/ couldn 't stop my currents of useless thoughts, even in the sleep also.

I am tired of it. Why does it come? From where? Please, show me the

way to stop it.

I pray to give me faith, devotion, Peace and Ananda. Shower thy Grace on me and Punamchand. He sends his pranam at Thy lotus feet.

Pranam from Champaben

All thoughts really come from outside, but one is not conscious of their coming. You have become conscious of this movement. There are different ways of getting rid of them; One is to reject them one by one before they come in; another is to look at them with detachment till they fade away.

27 December 1935

Sri Aurobindo

RENE

14 April 1930

With the love of Rene's Mummy who expects him to have a strong and unshakeable will from today.

The Mother

A pencil-sketch of Rene's head drawn by the Mother. "One year old" means one year in the Ashram.