Growing up with the Mother

Topics for Meditation

On my birthday in 1957, when I went to the Mother in the morning for Pranam, She gave me a special topic for the evening meditation at the Playground. During the next few weeks, She continued to give topics for meditation. I do not remember how long this went on, but I have with me, in the Mother’s handwriting, four of the topics She gave. Reproduced below are all these topics for meditation.

The new birth—the birth to a new consciousness, the psychic consciousness.

5 July 1957

How to awaken in the body the aspiration towards the Divine.

Turning one’s gaze within. Looking within oneself.

2 August 1957

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The damaging effects of unrestrained speech.

9 August 1957