Learning with the Mother
The Mother : Contact On Education
Recollections of the Mother’s work from 1950 to 1954 with the youngest children, the genesis of her French classes, the beginning of the physical education ...
- Learning with the Mother
- Preface
- Part I
- THE EARLY YEARS (1944—1950)
- HOW I BECAME A CAPTAIN
- INTRODUCTION TO DISCIPLINE
- GROUP UNIFORMS
- MAINTENANCE OF ATTENDANCE REGISTER & DISCIPLINE BADGES
- TABLE OF MERITS & DEMERITS
- Table of Merits
- Absence on any day without reason
- USEFUL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INSTRUCTORS
- Useful suggestions for the instructors of Physical Education
- MEANING OF GROUP CONCENTRATION
- MOTHER’S ADVICE
- THE CODE OF SPORTSMANSHIP
- WHAT A CHILD SHOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER
- PRAYER OF THE STUDENTS
- Part II
- INTRODUCTION
- THE FIRST FEW LESSONS
- DICTATIONS
- THE DICTATIONS
- RECITATIONS AND POEMS
- THE RECITATIONS
- POEMS
- STORIES
- FOR THE CHILDREN BY THE CHILDREN
- WORDS OF THE MOTHER
- WORDS OF THE MOTHER—SERIES IV
- WORDS OF THE MOTHER—III SERIES
- EXTRA MATTERS DURING CLASS
- TO THE CHILDREN OF THE ASHRAM
- ROMAN NUMBERS
- TO CHANGE
- THE HUMAN BODY
- WHAT DO YOU DO WITH PLEASURE AND WHY?
- MY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION WITH THE MOTHER
- A LITTLE EXERCISE ON AGE
- WIZARD OF OZ
- RASPBERRY AND STRAWBERRY
- THE ANIMALS
- THE TWELVE CENTRES OF CONCENTATION
- PALM READING
- A LESSON IN EQUANIMITY AND SELF—CONTROL
- PRAYER FOR THE RAIN
- PRAYER FOR THE SUN
MEANING OF GROUP CONCENTRATION
Many years later, I asked the Mother:
Sweet Mother,
We have a minute of concentration before and after group every day. What should we try to do during this concentration?
The Mother said,
“Before, make an offering to the Divine of what you are going to do, so that it may be done in a spirit of consecration.
Afterwards, ask the Divine to increase the will for progress in us, so that we may become instruments that are more and more capable of serving Him.
You may also, before starting offer yourselves to the Divine in silence.
And at the end, give thanks to the Divine in silence. I mean a movement of the heart without any words in the head.”
