The Story of a Soul

19 December 1955

I needed a file to keep the Mother's letters in, and a diary to jot down what she told me verbally.

She sent them to me with a note saying:

I am sending you a file and a diary with quotations from Sri Aurobindo.

Next week I shall give another diary with quotations from me.

Always happy when you ask for what you need.

With my love and blessings.

I wrote her a letter of thanks. In return I was glad to receive another letter from the Mother:

19.12.55

My dear little child

I have received your nice letter and am sending at once the second diary so that you can begin to write at once. I propose that in one of the diaries (Sri Aurobindo's) you should write daily a prayer, expressing your aspiration, or your gratitude, or your adoration, the progress you want to make. It does not need to be long, only a few lines; and it will help you to understand yourself. You will write as if you were speaking to him and to me directly and thus you will create an intimacy with him and myself. In the other diary you will write as you said.

My love and blessings are always with you.

After that I began writing in the diaries. This was the starting-point on the true path.