Huta remembers - The Mother gave talks to me after our work or after our meditations. She named her conversations with me: 'Mother You said so'.
The Mother : Contact
This book records conversations which the Mother had with Huta from 1955 to 1973. Huta recorded the talks from memory and sent them the next day to the Mother for corrections. In these revealing talks, the Mother teaches Huta how to live the true inner life and constantly encourages her to overcome her problems and difficulties, to reject the influence of the adverse forces, and to open herself completely to the Divine. In addition, the Mother talks to her about the Future Painting. Also included are a few letters written by the Mother.
THEME/S
The Mother gave talks to me after our work or after our meditations. She named her conversations with me:
Mother You said so.
These talks of hers are indeed so revealing—so full of truths—enveloping all by her Light and Love.
From 1955 to 1958 the Mother gave her talks to me in her room at the Play-ground.
Later on the talks were held in her interview cum music room in the main Ashram Building; afterwards in her living room.
When I left the Mother, I used to sit on the staircase leading to Sri Aurobindo’s room, and note down all that the Mother had said to me. Then I went to my apartment in “Huta House” (named by the Mother), typed out my record of the conversations and sent them to the Mother. She returned the corrected manuscripts the same day or later.
Here, in this book I have included a few letters written by the Mother in this regard. Also these are some talks concerning the Future Painting.
All these talks cover the period—1955 to 1973.1 have retained a few of the Mother’s corrections in her own hand.
Here I may mention that the Messages used appropriately on the back-cover of all my books were written by the Mother in my spiritual diaries given by her and my birthday cards.
I am happy to share with all these splendid gifts from the Mother.
We all are grateful to Her for pouring Her Grace and Love on us in Sri Aurobindo’s Light.
You should never listen to people. And if you do, then you should hear through one ear and let it out through the other.
If something wrong happens, at once repeat my name—"Ma" "Ma"... Indeed it is like a meditation. Whenever you repeat the name of the Divine, you must always feel that the Divine is in your heart—there you can feel sweetness and peace. No doubt, sometimes you do not feel the Divine's Presence and peace, it is because your consciousness is entangled in the mind full of illusions. But you must understand that the hostile forces are false and the divine Forces are true. You must also develop your consciousness towards the divine Light.
Nevertheless, you should eat nicely—not for your sake but for the sake of the Lord and His work. You should keep your body fit. Relax before you go to sleep and call me. In such an atmosphere go to sleep. Then my Forces will work and will organise the whole being.
You must never think that this thing is impossible and difficult for you to put into practice and never say that you cannot do anything. Instead of that you must say, "The Lord makes everything easier for me." In fact, you must try your best in order to achieve your goal. Keep absolute faith and strong will. If you remain idly without making any effort and say, "Ah! I want everything," well, then it is quite impossible for you to attain your goal.
Whenever you feel my Presence, peace and joy, you must always believe in these things because they are true. As you gradually feel the Divine's Presence, you will get new strength, new consciousness—everything.
Once for all the adverse forces are bound to submit to the divine Forces and the Divine's Victory is certain.
All these mischiefs are of the hostile forces. When these forces come, you must not lose your balance and must not say, "Oh! now I cannot do anything." But, on the contrary, you must have a strong will and faith. Otherwise these bad forces will surely build a huge wall between the Divine Mother and yourself.
The Divine has given you legs for walking — not to stick to one place. You must make some effort — you must call me and I am always there to help you.
Whenever I feel like giving something to a person — no doubt, there are so many things before me — I never think what should I give. Simply I ask the material things, "Who wants to go?" And at once I get the reply, "I!" And I pick up the very thing and give to the person.
There is nothing new in human nature. Sometimes it re-mains in the light and sometimes in the darkness. But truly I want something new in the life of the human being.
Human nature is divided. So sometimes people believe in the adverse forces and sometimes in the divine Forces. When they are trapped by the hostile forces they begin to think: ‘This thing is good and that one is bad, this person is good and that person is bad.' And so on... They live in likings and disliking’s with various types of mortal desires and ego in them. In fact, they themselves create all lower and false things in their consciousness, no wonder they become miserable. As a matter of fact, it is nothing but putting a dense curtain between the Divine and their souls. So how can they realise anything new in their lives? But, if there is no harrier between the Divine and themselves, naturally the adverse forces do not like it, and constantly they try to drive them far away from the Divine and His Grace. This is the nature of the devil and it is his business to do such nasty things with all his skill! He always tries to take possession of the life of human beings. But at that moment people must remember the Divine and reject the false suggestions.
The best way to get rid of all adverse forces and their suggestions, is to repeat constantly the Divine's name while eating, sleeping and in whatever you do: "I want the Divine and nothing else." When you fall sick, or something wrong happens you should pray to the Divine to remove all obstacles which arc on the way to prevent you from reaching the goal. If the call is sincere enough, at once all obstacles will disappear. If you form a habit to pray constantly, the prayers be-come sincere because the Divine is always in the depth of everybody's heart and always He hears all sincere prayers and sees everything. But if you go over to the devil's side, then the Divine keeps silent and does nothing. Nevertheless, He watches everything and every moment. So you must not go to the devil's side—instead of that, constant prayer and remembrance of the Divine are advisable.
When the whole being turns to the Divine's Light and influence and leaves everything to Him without reserve, that is called the true surrender and sincerity.
You should pray intensely to the Lord: "O Lord, kindly work in my legs, in my hands—in my whole consciousness; if I walk, walk me, if I eat, eat in me—whatever I do, be always with me..." Thus you are constantly protected by the Lord and His Grace.
The heart is the best place for concentration. Go deep within your heart and, while concentrating on the Lord, you must think: "The Lord is controlling the whole universe, he is Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, for Him is my love...
The Lord has created all creatures and everything out of Himself by His own Will and Power. Here, one can unite with the Divine in the physical body. There is always some purpose behind His Play. So there must not be any self-will and you must not think of giving up this life.
I want everyone to be happy. If you unite consciously with the Divine, you will be happy, because without the Divine life is useless. There is no existence without Him. The Lord is everything.
The Mother explains to me about the Creator of the world:
The Creator of the world sits with a big pot in front of Him.
Human beings, after they have their round of life, come back to the Creator. They are put into the pot and the Creator kneads their substance into new forms and flings them upon the Earth.
More and more human beings come back into the pot. Like this the process goes on and on endlessly.
Child, this is human life. Indeed, there are very few who really know the Divine Life.
I know all the mischief of the devil. Your true self never does wrong things. Your true self is constantly protected and surrounded by the Divine's Force and Grace.
Indeed, I am trying and working ceaselessly to make you free from the hostile forces. But from the very birth certain habits of the nature have been formed—it is not easy to change them soon. I know also what is needed and what is not needed. And what I am doing always is to help everyone equally.
These days (February to April 1956) are profitable and good for everyone to be all right and to progress. So you must understand the right thing, and leave everything aside and make a true resolution; then, of course, you can he free from all opposition and become happy.
What I am telling you is true.
If you reject the adverse forces, you will become healthy. I do not really want to make the devil fat. If you do not listen to him, you will surely progress rapidly or little by little one step forward to the realisation—to your goal.
If you listen to the devil, surely he will spread his power over your being. When his suggestions pass through the heart and brain, you become miserable and upset.
I can read the thoughts of everybody. Some are thinking that I do not love them, I do not care for them and so on. By all these wrong thoughts, they are kicking the Divine out of their hearts. And the devil becomes happy and sucks their blood and their energy and makes them thinner and more miserable; no wonder people become weak and pale.
If you really want to be completely all right, you must do one thing: When wrong suggestions and thoughts are ready to enter your consciousness, at once kick them out and call me soon. For I always hear the call—I have had thousands of experiences when people are surrounded by adverse forces and when they call me sincerely, I at once go to their aid.
When the devil finds the chance, suddenly he enters and steals all the energies of your vital being by pumping them out. It is obviously your own fault; otherwise it would never have happened. Why should you ask the devil, "What did you say?" On the contrary you must say strongly, "No, I do not want to listen to anything you say—go away." Then of course, everything will disappear and you will feel happy. You must know also that the Mother has put strength and will in each and every one. And these are powerful enough and able to fight against all opposite forces—whatever they may be. Thus you can avoid all false suggestions. Then naturally you feel at ease. Otherwise, due to all wrong suggestions and things, you can never realise anything wonderful and new in your life. On the contrary, by accepting the falsehood, you build a huge wall between the Divine and yourself. So, you must never listen to the devil who can say, "The Mother cannot do anything, why are you here," etc., etc. But surely it is not true.
I cannot understand why people are so much attached to one way or another of living. When they want to do Yoga, they must not give much importance to this matter. It is quite true that everyone has a different taste and his own way. So, according to that I am doing everything for everyone as much as possible.
When you sleep, in sleep itself there is a growth in the cells of the brain, not while you think actively.
If you read the spiritual books and sleep, at that time I start working upon the cells of the brain and after some time you can understand the books which you have read before, nicely and clearly by yourself.
Suppose there is a house, and in that house there are sweetness, light and peace. But they are surrounded by falsehood. Now, if you step out of the house and close the door behind, you will find yourself unprotected in the midst of bad vibrations which will enter your heart and upset everything. There are various kinds of vibrations of the lower forces.
To save yourself from the adverse forces, you should do only this: at once you must step back and re-enter your house—the heart. So none can touch and harass your true self. After entering the house, you must keep quiet and call the Divine. Then you will surely have an experience of the Divine's Love and Sweetness. You will feel that the Lord has now taken you into His arms. Thus you will have the happiest moments of your life. This is one of the ways. If you follow it, you will not have to bother about the lower forces. Here there is no need of concentration, which takes time. But this is a nice experiment—it is not the work of the brain, it is not an intellectual thing. If you go within your heart, you can get everything, because everything is there. You will not feel lonely; you will feel always the Divine's Presence.
If there are not useless and lower things in yourself, you can feel the Divine's Light and Presence. Of course, it takes time to get the Truth. But first of all comes peace, then light and finally the strength. Only in peace you can realise everything.
Indeed I am going to everyone at night in my subtle body, whether they are conscious or not I put my Force on them and the work is done. Surely there is an effect. But if they are conscious of my Presence and Force, naturally they find more joy.
If people have no need of the Divine, then of course I have no connection with them—they do whatever they like. But those who seek the Divine must not have any self-will against the Divine's Will. Also there must not be any lower elements—ill-will and bad nature—in them. They should give themselves fully to the Divine alone.
You can be free from all difficulties, when you make a total surrender to the Divine. I know, many people remember their past life and keep their old habits, and they become miserable. But, on the contrary, they have to leave all these thoughts and feelings to the Divine. What he wishes, let that be clone. What He wants them to be, let them be. Also, whatever things come from the Divine, either pleasant things or unpleasant things, people must understand that there is some purpose behind His Will and His work. So they must accept them fully and must not revolt against the Divine. If this is done, they can surely progress.
If they want peace and divine happiness, they must surrender completely to the Truth. Indeed, this is not an easy task, but it is quite possible. And my help is always there for it. But there must not be any contradiction in their minds—that they want the Divine and at the same time other things as well. If they want to keep one leg here and the other there—in two different boats—it is impossible to reach the goal. Then naturally, their life becomes painful. Also, there must not be any attachment to other things or to their families.
There are always two ways—one goes to the Truth and the other goes to the Falsehood, mortal pleasure which cannot lead anywhere. The best way is to make a complete surrender. If various types of forces come, you must enter into your heart and ask yourself, "Are they good or bad" And the heart will reply either "Yes" or "No" Then only you can go forward. You have to put a strong will on the wrong forces and drive them away from your mind. In case you cannot do this, you can always call the Divine and at once the Divine will remove all lower forces.
It is understood that, if they feel happy in their hearts, they do not mind whatever happens, either bad or good, but, when wrong things come out, from their own nature, then it is obvious that they feel everything upside down although in fact all these things are hidden in their own nature.
It is a little difficult to keep your consciousness steady and in order. If you look at the Truth and reject the Falsehood, then it helps to keep the consciousness steady. Though there are so many parts of the being, when some of them come in front of the Divine's Light, you feel happy and express your love and devotion to the Divine. So this means that these parts of the being have come under the psychic's influence. But of course, they are not altogether in the same state and they are changing and move in a cycle.
Very often the hostile forces come and try to catch hold of your consciousness by putting false suggestions into it, then at once you have to pull all of them into the Divine's Light to examine whether they are true or false. If they are false, reject the Falsehood; accept the truth by constant aspiration, remembrance of the Divine and call for the Divine's help. Surely, if you do this to reject hostile forces, they will never come back again. And you will realise the Truth.
Once the consciousness falls down, you have to start all over again. So naturally you cannot reach your goal soon, and remain again and again in the same limits and miseries.
You must surrender... Of course, you have to give the full price to the Divine and collaborate fully in His work. Without collaboration, the Divine's work cannot be done. Your nature holds to its old habits and desires and resists the new things. This is an obstacle to the Divine's work. There must not be any room for these things. If you collaborate fully in the Divine's work, you will progress rapidly.
If people go from here and start living an ordinary life, indeed then they are nowhere and their lives become ugly. I do not really want them to do so.
Bonjour
To my dear little child
To my very sweet Huta
I am sending back your note on what I told you yesterday—it is quite good and correct—you remembered very well.
With my love, force and help, and my blessings always with you.
The Mother
Human beings and their nature are the same everywhere. But I am not looking at their faults and defects, I am looking at possibilities. I know each of them is full of ignorance. Truly, it takes time to improve and make them perfect. Justice, truth, peace, harmony, order —these cannot come in a day. Nevertheless, everyone has to transform himself and that is why all these defects and falsehood of nature come out and show themselves for the Divine Consciousness to act upon them. If everyone were perfect, why should have I come upon this earth? I would have remained in my Heaven.
Do you know the story? Once some people were throwing stones at a woman, whom they called a sinner. Christ happened to go there. He asked the people what right they had to throw stones at the woman. Further, he said, "Whoever among you is perfect, let him pick up a stone and throw it at the woman." Nobody dared to do so.
Here the Divine Consciousness and Strength are working. Everything has been given to people and if they do not make the most of these things, I do not know what to do or say. Here all are not Yogis. Nevertheless, the Divine's Grace is spread everywhere and in everything; that is why everyone can remain over here, otherwise not a single person could stay.
Storms always come, but at that time people must keep quiet by taking shelter in the Divine's Arms and let the storms pass away.
Once there was a baby cat. It was in its mother's mouth. Suddenly it jumped from the mouth and went to play with a scorpion. Its mother was against its playing with the bad creature but it did not listen. Now by, it’s very nature, the scorpion stung the baby cat. The kitten screamed and wept. At once it ran to its mother and told her all about the scorpion. The mother asked, "Then why did you jump out of my mouth?"
The hostile forces are like the scorpion. They are very had indeed. If you do not look at them or listen to them, the evil forces can be destroyed. People should constantly refuse when the adverse forces put false suggestions before them. Otherwise these forces would destroy everything.
There are so many beings, and in each being there are so many other beings also. They come up at every moment and take so many different forms and harass the true being. The devil always spreads his influence in human lives.
I know how the hostile forces enter people's brains—it is from anger, dislike and innumerable desires and useless matters. First of all, anger catches the legs and gradually it goes up to the navel and then to the heart and finally to the brain. The people get terribly hurt. Once anger enters the brain. It is difficult to control oneself. So we should prevent it from coming in. Then it is easier and overcome it.
In the ordinary world, people remain mostly satisfied with small pleasures—but, indeed, some parts of their being aspire for higher things. Here, there is nothing except the Divine. So, naturally, the lower vital and the lower mind and other parts of the being begin to make an uproar and they revolt against the true being and upset people's hearts. There may also be at times interference from other people. But one could not mind whether they are kind to one or not. Also, none have a right to interfere with others' affairs—it is not their business. On the contrary, they should remember their goal and the Divine. And whatever comes from Him, they should accept it and surrender themselves to the Divine ac-cording to the Divine's Will.
This comes by constant practise. Everyone has to change himself sooner or later. I am constantly working in people; whether they are conscious or not, they feel or not, the Grace is always there.
If people submit to the hostile forces, then what is the use? When these bad forces come and start their mischief, people should ignore them and build the wall of a clear 'NO' in front of them. And they should repeat, "The Divine's Victory is certain."
Everyone must turn to the Divine Light and surrender to the Truth only. I know the end, and the Victory is certain.
Already I have given everyone all my strength that they need. Now they have to use it and reject all lower things from their nature and I am always with them to help them.
You must be more clever to outplay the tricks of the hostile forces and their suggestions. You can do everything tactfully against them. Also, you must remain firm in your aspiration for the Goal.
Everyone has difficulties but truly there is a joy in getting out of them. If you have this joy, you can know the real thing, not otherwise.
When people do not make any resolution, and do not take one definite decision, the difficulties will often come and always such people will suffer. But they do not know that the Divine has taken the decision for everyone. I organise everything in them but they revolt against the Divine's work and they are not ready to collaborate. So they should not complain or say anything.
People feel tired of all outer things and circumstances, but as a matter of fact all difficulties are in their own nature and that is why they feel so. Brooding over small matters and thinking constantly only about their own interest, instead of trying to reach their goal, they waste their time.
If they keep a wavering mind between two sides, then of course there is no end to difficulties, and difficulties are sure to come over and over again. But if they turn their consciousness entirely to the Divine, then there will be no more difficulties and sufferings.
Sooner or later the adverse forces must give up their sway and accept the Truth. Take, for example, a plant growing between two stones. If you cut off the top of the plant above the stones, it will grow again and again. But, if you push aside the stones and then root it out, there will be an end. The same applies to our nature and its wrong habits. The rooting out of these habits may give some pain for the time being, but afterwards they will be gone for good.
If people leave everything to the Divine, and make a complete surrender and rely only on the Divine, the Divine will soon lead them to their goal. In fact, the Divine is doing Yoga for those who are ready to do everything according to the Divine's Will.
Those who put an end to their lives do not act rightly. That which should be done in this body is not done. This place—this earth is the only place where you can always remain conscious of the Divine. And it is in the body that you have to attain union with the Divine. Otherwise, after death all the parts of the being scatter and in no way can they unite. Also, for many births there is no solution and, before it comes, a million difficulties arise—even more than in this present life. Once you are united with the Divine in this body, then you are free from all bondage and whenever you want to withdraw yourself from the physical life, you are free to do so.
To do Yoga is to reject all adverse elements and remember the Divine constantly.
Total surrender is to give up all liking and disliking. Though this does not happen in a day, you must practise and gradually you will get it.
There is no question about being fit or unfit for that, be-cause everyone has to find the Divine sooner or later.
Those who are here are really fortunate. There are millions of people who lead an ordinary life and are born and die, without knowing anything about the Divine Life. Also, they have no idea of this place. There are only a few hundreds who know the Truth.
There are different kinds of nature in human beings, which are moving one after another in a cycle. But always people have to put them into the Divine Light—even if they cannot see the Light. It is certain that one day all of a sudden the Light will reveal Itself and surprise people and they will say Oh! what is this? Indeed, the Divine is working constantly for this. Whether people feel or not, the Divine's Work is going on...
In this matter, there is no need of any University degrees or sharpness of intellect—what is to be done will he done automatically by the Grace, and people will see the Light with wonder.
They must eat, sleep, read and do their work—but, of course, they should also pray and remember the Divine constantly by keeping their aspiration and faith intact and reject all false suggestions.
Many things people do not know. But they must under-stand and know something, and practise that. Whatever bad attacks come, they should at once take shelter in the Divine's arms. Of course, people should imagine like this—"Now we are in the Mother's arms, so nothing can touch our true selves."
People do not really know that my body is not as they see it but it is huge and wide with so many aspects. Always I am taking everyone into my arms. This cannot be seen with the physical eyes, but surely people can feel in their hearts. Nevertheless, this can be seen with the subtle eyes when they are opened.
There is always a tug of war in people's beings—some of them want small pleasures and mortal things, while some want the Divine alone.
If people listen to lower things and respond to them, then naturally they are caught in small matters. By all these petty things, they fall into a dark pit. But they must pull out their true beings from the dark pit by constant effort and prayers.
There is a veil between the soul and the true consciousness. So people remain in misery, and miss the true joy, peace and happiness.
If people give support to lower things, surely they remain in ignorance and in darkness. Lower beings do not like to change themselves. They do not want people to take the Divine's Joy, and always they harass them. So they can take neither the Divine's Joy nor any other. But, of course, they can get rid of Falsehood by constant prayer and sincere aspiration.
Here there was a good French lady, her soul brought her here but after some time she got tired of this life and place and wanted to go back. So she went. But then she felt terribly miserable and remembered this place. She still writes to me and wants to come again but I have refused because, if she came back, the same thing would start once more. Indeed, it takes time to efface the lower nature
You must not be afraid of anything. This is the first lesson of transformation. So everyone has to conquer fear.
When you fear, at once you must take refuge in the Divine and consider that in everything there is the Divine. All things will seem simply charming and wonderful because, truly, everything is the Divine. There isn't anything to fear.
Once Ramakrishna was meditating beneath a huge tree. A big cobra came there and bit him on his wrist. Ramakrishna woke up and rubbed his wrist and asked the cobra, "O Mother Kali, why did you bite me?" Immediately Ramakrishna was cured.
You must never fear anything.
Even the greatest God is my child—Krishna is my child also—they all are like children before me. Of course, I have two ears, one nose and a human form but my Spirit and Force are everywhere. My Consciousness is wider than the Universe. I go in my subtle body in various ways to people in all kinds of places, I fondle and embrace people and what they feel of my Presence and contact is perfectly right.
They must concentrate in their hearts and find me there, for I am always there.
People think that they are so miserable but they must know that there are millions of people more miserable than themselves. They have no food, no clothes, they have nothing, and still they carry on their lives.
Indeed, sometimes the misery comes because there are two opposite things in the same person—one part likes this and another likes that and they are fighting each other as sometimes husband and wife do. If a person wants to get rid of this contradiction, then there must be a divorce. Afterwards there is no more struggle.
To my sweet Huta
I am sending you two diaries that you can use as note books.
With my love, and blessings, always.
You must not think much about the future in advance. The Supreme Wisdom is to think about things only when they happen, not otherwise.
If people think a lot and pile up a huge mountain of difficulties in front of them, then they suffer terribly and say, "Alas! what will happen now?"
People should not think about their past and future. They should think only of the present time and act accordingly. Then surely they will realise the Truth. Nobody knows the future except the Divine.
To be generous is to be benevolent towards everyone—not only materially but also in the heart and in the mind. It means always to have good feelings towards all. Even in the mind there must never be any bad thoughts about anybody or anything.
To have a generous heart is to be always joyful and happy in the happiness and joy of others and to remain in harmony with all and to approach them with kindness. This attitude helps much to widen the consciousness and to open the heart and the mind to the Divine's influence and thus you get joy and happiness from everything.
_The Mother reassured me with these appealing words on a card of printed flowers—Snap-dragon (Antirrhinum majus):_
Here is the power of expression to help you in your writing. Yes, bring to the playground what is ready—it is better to see it little by little.
With my love and blessings always in the Grace.
To my dear little child,
Indeed, yesterday I was quite pleased with the way you remembered what I had told you and I will be glad to correct what you are writing—consequently it will be better to put it in a general way as you propose to do.
It is good that you have a good and correct memory—it can be made quite useful.
With my love and blessings, in the Grace always with you.
To my sweet Huta,
I am sending back your notebook corrected. It was good this time and expressed fairly correctly what I have said.
My love and blessings, with the constant Grace present are always with you.
I am sending back your book corrected—it is good
To my sweet Huta.
I could not finish correcting your book. I shall give it this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
With my love and blessings in the constant Presence of the Grace.
I am sending back your book—it is getting better and better daily.
My love and blessings along with the constant Presence of the Grace are always with you.
Suppose a glass is full of water, and if you shake the glass, surely the water will spill and after some time nothing will remain inside the glass. But if the glass is still, the water will never be spilt. Similarly, you lose your strength and everything when you are not quiet and steady. You should not let the mind and the brain jump like a monkey—you must not think too much and strain your brain, otherwise you are likely to fall into trouble and be caught by various sicknesses.
I am not thinking and using my memory, whatever comes from above to the heart, I am doing exactly according to that and automatically the thing goes on wonderfully. Nothing to remember and no bother about anything.
If the head is completely blank, still and peaceful, and, if people open themselves to the Divine's Light, they can receive the Divine's Light and afterwards there is no brain's work, no headache, no thinking mind; whatever comes from above is true and will happen without any struggle; also it can happen at every moment. Thus automatically the Light works on the brain and things become easier.
To my dear child
I am sending you the book of yesterday corrected. It is good.
With my love and blessings.
If you see a dream, and, if your consciousness is linked with the Higher Consciousness, you can see the whole dream in perfect order. It is then not called a dream but an experience.
When you see the dream with a wandering mind, then the dream is not in order and you see something chaotic.
One part of the being goes to some plane and sees things. There are many people who try to remember these types of experiences but they cannot remember.
People give the name 'dream' to everything because one gets it while sleeping but, as a matter of fact, it is not a dream but a concrete experience.
Your consciousness sometimes is connected with the higher Consciousness and that is why you get wonderful experiences in your dreams and it is truly good to have such experiences.
I have just finished your book—It is very good. I am sending it back.
With love.
You pick up some defects because your exterior being is so weak—you have no courage, no faith, and you tremble. All these are in human beings.
You have to overcome all difficulties and obstacles. Indeed, in your true being there is a heroic strength, courage and full faith and so many other good virtues. You have to manifest your true self on the earth. It is your mission on the earth.
There are of course, many defects, oppositions and impurities in human nature. But you have to fight against all these lower things and come out victorious from all ordeals. All difficulties will then become like thin shadows.
I am sending you back your book; it is good.
My love and blessings and the constant Presence of the Grace never leave you.
If you feel your heart so tight and suffocated, you must do this: Try to open it to the Divine so that the Divine can put His Force and His Presence into it. Then, of course, you do not feel lonely and unhappy.
As a flower opens to the sun, so must your heart open to the Divine. Physically one cannot open the heart but one can imagine like this—by taking the example of flowers.
I am sending back your book corrected; it is interesting.
My love and blessings, along with the Presence of the Grace, are constantly with you.
Even if there is too much noise, you can go within your true self and take rest over there. You must learn how to enter your true self. You should throw out all thoughts and isolate yourself from outer things and create the Divine atmosphere around yourself. Then naturally, you are safe from noise and disturbance.
I am taking rest by entering into my Self—no matter what noise is going on. An occultist my teacher Max Théon told me that one can meditate even on the battlefield where there is bombardment and shells fall.
Here, no doubt, I am putting my Force around everyone. So everyone can remain protected and it is easy to meditate nicely and they are always safe.
Yes, it needs practice. Once, twice, ten times you must try and learn how to enter into your true self. After a while you can become an expert.
I am sending back your book with in appreciation of the effort to emerge from the darkness and my certitude of a good success.
There is danger in this world. They are killing people, bombarding and sinking boats. For two days I have been busy settling things. I want victory of the Divine in the world—I want peace and harmony in this world.
Between today and tomorrow, this night, is Kali's day. I asked Kali to let the world open to the Supramental Light and be transformed by this Light without violence, pain, and destruction.
I want the Truth's Victory on this earth.
WE SHALL WIN THE VICTORY
So long as certain parts of our being give response to the adverse forces, these forces are likely to come again and again and drag the whole being away from its goal. Then naturally life becomes useless and miserable.
To find the Divine is the true goal. It is useless to sit like a stone which would take millions of years to become what people are now. To find the Divine is not at all an easy task.
The Divine has come here to liberate and to lead human beings to their supreme goal.
I take rest only for two hours, then I get out of my body and go to everyone and everywhere.
You must form a habit to loosen your body like a piece of cloth and must not think of anything: then you can sleep very easily.
I have asked many people to meditate if they do not get sleep. But they should not think constantly about sleep.
Some beings do not want the Divine so always they revolt against the Divine. They see the chance and enter by some small incident or happening. But the heart—soul is illumined, there is light consciousness and constantly it aspires for the Divine. While lower beings are full of obscurity and imperfections they rise from below and cover the true being, as clouds cover the sun but the sun is always there. So it happens like that that one feels sorry and has all sorts of troubles. But it cannot be removed or stopped at once because that nature is universal nature, all around.
Of course, they have no power or right against the true being, when it is completely united with the Divine and gets rid of all lower things.
Sri Aurobindo says:
“Only were safe who kept God in their hearts”
One should think only of the present moment. If one makes plans for the future, and thinks of the future, it is absolutely useless. One thinks by one's knowledge about the present but one knows nothing about the future. Even a man of genius cannot know anything about the future, whatever plans he may make.
Yes, there are so many difficult things but human beings can do everything. Even animals can do but they have no thinking mind.
Now, one must try to realise all difficult things. Nothing can be done without persistent and continuous effort. There is interest in fighting with difficulties but not with easy things. This Earth is a field of effort. One must make a constant effort to reach one's goal. Grace and help are there for every-one, but one must use them in the right way. People can do nothing —it is Grace and help that are doing everything, but people should not listen to any false external suggestions coming from the devil.
One has one's own individual self and one must go further with the right attitude and with the true consciousness. Think only of the present moment and proceed to your goal.
In work itself, one can become conscious and concentrate and meditate also. During work one must constantly remember the Divine and want only the Divine.
I am sending back your book in which I have written at the end the summary of what I told—you the central and essential teaching.
My love and blessings and the presence of the Divine Grace are constantly with you.
To lead the Divine Life does not depend on any exterior activity or circumstances, whatever you do from the highest work to the most ordinary, you can lead the Divine Life if you are in the true consciousness and the right attitude.
Consciousness and force are there—they need the proper instrument to act through it. If the instrument is not excellent then they cannot express themselves properly.
As for example: one great musician, if he has a bad piano, he cannot play nicely because of the bad notes and in spite of his talent the sound is not sweetly the same thing is true of painting.
Old paintings of the past are all right and very interesting historically. But you must try to do the painting of the future in the new Light.
There is a reason for using white backgrounds. It is an attempt to express the Divine Light without shadow in future painting.
But all these things will come in their own time.
The Mother explained to me about paintings:
I enter into their consciousness and find out their meanings—the truth and beauty behind each painting.
Some paintings are indeed very nice to look at. They have pretty and gorgeous colours, but where there are no living vibrations, vividness and deep harmony, then obviously the paintings are lifeless and without value. But when there are combinations of the two—outer charm and the inner vision—then they are real and can be considered as true art.
One must do something new in one's painting. Not to take others ideas or advice. Also, one should copy neither modern paintings nor old paintings, the art of the past, but something new in a new style.
First of all you should stop reading novels and should read the books of Sri Aurobindo. Try to read a sentence or two and concentrate on them and then go to sleep. You will surely get a reply from the reading and will feel that you are in the Divine's arms and then you will get nice and peaceful sleep at night.
If people have impurities in them it is bad enough; but if they hide them, it is worse. If people know their defects and confess them frankly, it is a great progress.
People should put everything in the Divine's Light and act according to It.
Old habits come over and over again. But by practice they can be avoided and gradually they can be stopped. People become miserable because they are dissatisfied and often they open the doors of their hearts to welcome the adverse forces. Then, naturally, they can get nothing except sufferings. Sri Aurobindo says that in people there are some beings which are very much attached to sufferings. So it is understood that people themselves are the cause of all these things. The Divine is not responsible.
I want you to do something new. You must try to do the Future Painting in the New Light.
There is a reason why I always ask you to paint mostly on a white background. It is an attempt to express the Divine Light without shadow in the Future Painting. But everything will come in its own way.
In the Future Painting, you must not copy blindly the outer appearance without the inner vision. Never let people's ideas obsess your mind and their advice too regarding the Future Painting. Do not try to adopt the technique either of modern art or of old classical art. But always try to express the true inner vision of your soul and its deep impression behind everything to bring out the Eternal Truth and to express the glory of the Higher Worlds.
I went to the Mother, and told her: what some people were saying about my drawings and paintings. It was silly of me to depend on their judgment. I was extremely disappointed and wished to give up painting altogether.
She heard me quietly and then gave me a good scolding:
Why do you listen to people? Everyone has his or her own ideas and different points of view and opinions. No one can see the real thing by a true and total sight. The Divine alone can see, know and can do everything. Child, better rely on the Divine alone, who is the best judge and knows better than people do.
Didn't I tell you before that I want you to paint according to my ideas and will?
My girl, you are lucky that you are doing nice paintings. You are a gifted person. The capacity for art is in your blood and it must come out.
Why do you want to lose what has been given to you by the Divine?
Here you must remember that the growth of conscious-ness is indispensable for your painting, because what you learn from books or from professors is of no use until you get into the higher true artistic consciousness.
Also, once the hands become full of consciousness, light and skill, then surely you will draw and paint accurately. Have faith and patience, everything will come in time.
Then she tilted my chin gently and looked deeply into my eyes. After giving me various flowers and a kiss on my forehead she bade me adieu.
Truth is behind everything, for, the Divine dwells in flowers, trees, animals, birds, rivers as well as in human beings—in fact, in every creation of Nature.
You must have the psychic touch to see and feel the vibrations, the sensations and the essence of the truth in everything and that Truth is to be expressed in the Future Painting.
To paint perfectly well is not an easy thing. It certainly takes time. But by the growth of consciousness you can have inspirations, intense vision, delicacy of colors, harmony. The subtlety of true beauty. Then you can surely express wonderful things in painting, otherwise painting will be a lifeless confusion.
The growth of consciousness is essential for doing marvellous paintings.
I told the Mother,
Without seeing the Divine Light how can I paint it?
She smiled and said,
It will come.
Also one must feel by one's soul the vibrations, the sensations and the essence of the things of the creation.
To do perfect painting, it takes time.
By the growth of the consciousness one can feel harmony and when the harmony comes out then it can be expressed nicely.
One must have intense vision, delicacy of colors and harmony in the composition.
Once, if hands become full of consciousness and light, they can do exact things by accurate strokes.
Growth of consciousness is needed for the painting, because whatever one learns from books or from teachers is of no use, until one grows in the true consciousness.
Of course, one should not paint from other pictures. It is not at all good. But directly from Nature, one should copy so that one can get exact beauty of the real thing or of the object.
It certainly takes time to establish the Higher Consciousness. Everything must be done by the Higher Consciousness. But, of course, this cannot be achieved in a minute, it takes years and years.
If you try on your own to attain the Supreme Truth, then it is impossible for you to realize the Divine. It will take eternal time. Nevertheless, here there isn't anything impossible, because the Divine Grace is present; the Grace helps wonderfully. It does not bargain.
You cannot do anything alone. You must put yourself into the hands of the Divine Grace. When you feel lonely, miserable and upset, at once you should call the Divine grace and pray sincerely to the Grace to help and to do everything for you, because it is the Divine Grace which can do everything.
If you put everything into the hands of the Divine Grace, and worry less, you will be all right much quicker.
People cannot stop the earth from turning round the sun. So they must not worry and bother about what is going on in the Universe.
There are millions of people who have no idea about the higher life, because their souls are not awakened; so they go on enjoying their ordinary lives. Naturally they have many difficulties and miseries also.
When the soul awakes, everything comes between and contradicts and revolts against the soul. Those who are en-joying themselves do not know how to get out from Falsehood. While, over here, in the Ashram, people are lucky that they can get constant and direct help from the Divine. Sooner or later they will come out from their difficulties and miseries, because the Divine always hears the sincere call and He helps them. They must be having many experiences of the Divine's response.
They have to aspire from within. They must not put them-selves in difficulties because of dissatisfaction and small matters. Mostly wrong suggestions come from outside but people must not listen to them.
Whether to meditate or not, whether to attend the classes or not, whether to study or not—it doesn't make any difference in this Yoga. What people should do is only to go within and aspire sincerely to want the Divine and love the Divine only that is all.
The wrong movements of the lower mind and the lower vital make the body tired and sick. So many troubles and sufferings are created by the lower vital and the lower mind. Otherwise, the body is truly obedient.
The whole being must be governed by the soul—there must be only one ruler, who must be a wise ruler. There is no need of three rulers like soul, mind and vital.
You must laugh away all difficulties.
Parents do not know how to rear their children, how to understand them and how to lead them towards an ideal life.
People always create their own environments. No matter what difficulties come from their creations, they should re-main detached. They can withdraw themselves and look within and try to remain quiet as much as they can.
The world will continue to go on as it has been going on for ages. People cannot change the world—before changing the world they must be perfect themselves, and then expect the world to be transformed.
When you have chosen to do Yoga, you have to go through. Also, you have to collaborate with the Divine and open fully to the Divine Light.
Make the inner journey—within—this is better than to make an outer journey.
The soul is a steady pure flame of aspiration. It cannot impose itself on parts of the being which constantly revolt against the true being. Nevertheless, all these parts must submit to the soul; then alone the soul can rule over them.
The Divine is Self-illumined, Sweet, Compassionate and full of Love. The world must submit to the Divine.
Those who take refuge in the Divine, the Divine Himself leads them in His own way. People who do not surrender but revolt, the Divine Grace, Love and Light are there still around them and on them.
People cannot do anything alone. They must put themselves into the hands of the Divine Grace. When people feel lonely, miserable and upset, at once they should call the Divine Grace and pray sincerely to the Grace to help and to do everything for them, because it is the Divine Grace which can do everything.
You cannot learn painting merely by words, from books or from teachers. You should develop the inner consciousness and vision and then you can express the splendour of inner beauties.
You must bring something new from within and with the help of the true consciousness execute the new things. Nevertheless, it needs constant practice, patience and persistence.
For example, take an object. In different ways and styles, by giving different strokes, you can express it.
Here there is no value in an object as such; the important thing is how you paint it.
The Mother was about to enter into a trance. I asked her: "Mother, how to check vagrant thoughts and concentrate on the Divine?"
Her eyes widened. Then a gentle smile outlined her lips when she said:
Indeed, the mind is just like a squirrel which is turning round and round in a cage that also is revolving. But you should gather all thoughts to a point at the centre of the forehead and then bring them down to the heart, go deep within by turning fully inward, as if you were going into a well which is not very broad. You have to go down step by step. First of all, of course, you will move on the surface and then go deep inside and there you can find the real thing and see every-thing with your inner eyes.
There is also another way. It is like this: Imagine that there is an inner chamber, into which you can step back—the chamber has an outer door through which you must pass.
You must pull all your thoughts inside yourself like tortoises, whenever wrong suggestions come and attack you.
You should awaken your inner sense and have a psychic touch. Then, no doubt, you can find the Truth; otherwise it is understood that you have not yet started the inner journey to find the Divine. Nevertheless, this needs a lot of practice—it cannot come in a day. It takes years and years.
It is human beings who make life complicated.
That which is within is very strong, luminous and full of beauty. The outer being is full of defects and has many chinks. The inner being must come out to accomplish the work of perfection in the whole nature. The seeds of the Truth are there deep inside. When the beauty of the Truth comes out from within, it brings divine Happiness and divine Joy to life. In the outer being also there are seeds of good things. So the outer being must collaborate with the inner.
For instance, a man is truthful within himself—that is, sincere to the Divine and a liar outside—that is, to the ordinary world. The Truth must come out and cover the whole being—for this he must aspire and pray constantly to the Divine. For prayer and aspiration, there is no exact or special method, no way of superficial knowledge. It comes spontaneously from within and takes possession of the outer being: then naturally everything becomes easy and wonderful.
The soul is the temple of the Divine.
When people want to put an end to their lives, they do not act rightly. Because, when they die, their lives and consciousness do not stop. Of course, the body dies. But the material vital and the lower mind and their emotions, sensations, desires—all lower things remain as they are. The body is truly the protection against all bad things because the psychic is there within it. In death people become more conscious of subtle and lower things.
For example, when people have nightmares, they see and feel all these horrible things. When the nightmares are dreadful and people cannot bear to see any more, at once they awake and re-enter the physical body and nothing happens to them. While, if they give up their bodies, they can never get any protection. And they suffer terribly because in the worlds of the material vital and the lower mind, there are endless indefinable sufferings and miseries and people cannot escape from these worlds and their movements. There they cannot get any protection.
People are terribly afraid of death and still they think of giving up their lives. But it is not wise. They are under the impression that after death they will escape from difficulties and find peace, but it is not true. In fact, when death comes, people should always remain in the consciousness of their souls; if in such an atmosphere they leave their bodies, then naturally their souls take wonderful rest in the Supreme Peace.
Of course, by meditation, concentration, devotion, aspiration, worship, love for the Divine and faith in the Divine, people become aware of their souls and after death they remain in that consciousness and their souls escape from all horrors.
When the psychic being decides to take birth, it is only to get various experiences and become perfect and finally take rest in the Divine Peace. But this Peace comes only when people surrender to the Divine. Nevertheless, the suggestions of the adverse forces will come constantly because the devil wants food—that is why he likes to do mischief and then he swallows people's vital being—not only this but in that world of horrors there are even worse things—nasty, dirty, ugly and violent. While here—in this world—people have difficulties and miseries and their bodies suffer but it is far better than the horrors of the ugly worlds.
People can do whatever they like when they have their physical bodies but of course there is one condition: they must surrender themselves to the Divine and let Him do everything according to His own Will.
When people revolt, react and think with their ignorant mind and vital to put an end to their lives, it is nothing but the most unwise and silly thing they can do. Naturally, they revolt against Nature and the Supreme Law.
Everyone has a will but it does not mean that they should use it in a wrong way; on the contrary, they should use it in the right way and whatever comes from the Divine they should accept joyously.
They must not think of death, but, if it comes, they must not fear it either. If they are conscious of their souls and re-main in the soul's consciousness, they do not feel anything when death comes. But when they are restless, violent, and not conscious of their souls, they always become miserable after death.
The body is perfect protection against ugly things but, if people try to commit suicide, they cannot get any protection and there is no end to their miseries—and no chance to get out of these miseries. For example, if people peel out the skin of their bodies, how would they feel? Exactly, in the same way, they would feel when they are out of their bodies,
People must not go against the Divine's Will and Work.
Gradually our dreams become exact. There is not a single person who does not have dreams. The morning's dreams are more conscious.
When a person is conscious and enters into 'Sat-Chit-Ananda', immediately he gets rest, and an hour or two of sleep would be enough. But, when a person is not conscious, he gets rest after many hours.
Sri Aurobindo explains that once peace is established in the heart and quietness spreads all over the being, a person feels easy; also he feels a sweetness and warmth in his heart.
Meditation is one of the processes for this.
Bhakti Yoga—is that you offer yourself to the Divine, you love and worship the Divine.
Karma Yoga—is that you should feel that you are doing the Divine's work and the Divine is doing work through you. Whatever you do, you should offer each and everything to the Divine by constant remembrance of the Divine. Of course, your brain goes working but your true self will remember the Divine. Call for help and every moment offer the work to the Divine.
Jnana Yoga—Yoga of knowledge. You seek for the Truth and feel that the Divine is the Truth and the rest is Falsehood. You have to practise this, and feel: "I am neither this nor that nor anything else in nature." Then remember only the Divine and your true self—and when the true self also unites with the Divine, you can say: "I am THAT."
These three Yogas lead to the Integral Yoga—the very essence of the Yogas. You can choose any of them to start with. The best is to try to do the three together and your whole being can be transformed.
I was still brooding over her explanations about Yogas. Meanwhile, the Mother ran a gentle hand over my forehead and said jokingly:
For your headache, you must either eat fish or do meditation.
I gaped and said:
"Eh! Mother, I would rather do meditation than eat fish! Not that I know very well how to meditate.
A flash of amusement crossed the Mother's face and laughter rang out sweetly. I suddenly found myself better.
She patted my hands and said:
Sit in an easy-chair, remain absolutely quiet, relax and open yourself—that is to say, imagine that you are opening your head to the Divine's Light, Grace and Force and let them work in you. You should do this every clay for about fifteen minutes, perhaps twice or three times a day. Naturally, then you will feel that the blood is going up and down freely in the head. Thus you will never get a headache. Not only that; but by this practice you can have true understanding. You should put yourself entirely in the hands of the Grace and call the Divine while relaxing.
Referring to my problems, the Mother remarked.
Child, if one's life is too easy and simple, then there is no charm in it.
People must know how to observe thoughts, how to prevent wrong thoughts and how to master their minds. Afterwards, if they want to bring silence into their will, into their mind, they can do so; finally, they will be on the heights.
In Buddhism there is one thing, that people should never waste time on their own interests. They should always think of their progress and realisation.
If people think constantly about their small selves throughout their lives, their next birth will be more difficult and painful for getting out of their ego and their defects.
In this present life itself they must try to transform themselves and develop their consciousness to reach the Supreme Goal.
It is better to keep silence—there is a great beauty in silence.
If people put everything into the hands of the Divine Grace, and worry less, they will be all right much quicker.
People should open themselves sincerely to the Divine and pray to the Divine to let them be free from falsehood.
But, of course, their aspiration must be sincere, so that the Divine Forces can work freely and wonderfully in their being.
In Buddha's teaching it is said that death must come to everyone. But Buddha knew that death can be conquered. Only, the world at that time was not ready to understand this truth.
Sri Aurobindo has said that death can indeed be conquered and the body made immortal. But, of course, it cannot be done in everyone.
While dying people should always remember the Divine and aspire for the Truth. Thus very easily and peacefully they can pass and start the new journey towards the Truth.
People should never think of themselves: on the contrary, they should fix their thoughts on the Divine, and all their difficulties will go. They must put themselves into the Divine's arms, for His arms are always ready to hold His children. All troubles will go if people take refuge in the Divine.
One must put a strong will that one ought to do this or that. One must have a strong will to cure and get rid of all Falsehood. As a matter of fact, each one is the creator of his own miseries and happiness.
She plunged into a trance for a few seconds. Upon opening her eyes she smiled and said:
One must have a strong will in order to achieve something. For example, whenever I wished to do something, I usually consulted my grandmother, who lived near Paris in the countryside. Sometime in 1904 I expressed my wish to her to go to Algeria to learn occultism. First of all she refused strongly, because she thought that young women must not go to foreign countries without an escort, and as for occultism she was baffled. But I was determined to go. Then suddenly I took her hands into mine and started reading her palms. I told her all about her past, present and future. She was amazed. I also convinced her of certain things regarding occultism which impressed her immensely. Then not only did she permit me to go but gave me a bagful of money.
She laughed tenderly and added:
So, my child, in each and every thing a strong will is needed.
In the evening when I went to The Mother, She said:
‘When you are outwardly weak, that is to say, when your vital is weak, you always like thunder, fight and furious things. On the contrary, if you have a strong vital, you like sweetness and tenderness. Now to keep the balance, these opposite movements are quite necessary. It certainly takes time to be absolutely perfect'.
‘You see, sometimes the same nature has opposite movements. For example, there was a king 1 in France, who was very cruel and unkind to others, while he loved his white kitten very dearly—more than himself. He never hesitated to kill people and shed their blood, but if something happened to his kitten, he started shedding tears.'
Note:
The Mother's talk reminded me of another cruel king: Nero. He had the city of Rome set on fire and watched the conflagration from his terrace. Wanting to show how sad he was, he asked an attendant to bring him a phial. He shed a few tears in it and gave it back to the servant. Then he went into his chambers, fetched a harp, came back on the terrace and played on his instrument claiming to draw an inspiration from the leaping flames.
Nero had no redeeming qualities. He loved nothing but himself
The world has forgotten the Divine. No wonder it remains in sorrow and misery. The world must turn to the Truth and never forget the Truth.
The Grace is there to help. The world must aspire and pray to the Divine.
It is not the question of a single thing or an individual thing. It is a question of the whole world. The world must not remain in Falsehood. It must awake and realise the Truth.
Tuesday 5.11.57 once more a card came from the Mother displaying Durga with her eighteen hands; holding various kinds of symbolic objects. With a trident in one of her right hands she is piercing the chest of a demon who is sitting on a buffalo and holding a short broad sword
The lion is digging its nails into his chest.
The legend goes that the buffalo opposing Durga tried to kill her. But, when Durga cut off its head, the real being who had taken the form of the buffalo emerged. The being was an Asura and was called Mahisasura.
To Durga's left is another demon whose dagger-holding hand the Goddess is thrusting back with another of her hands.
The whole picture was full of significance and strength.
The Mother had written on the card:
Durga
She will fight until there are no more anti-divine forces upon earth.
In the evening the Mother asked me whether I liked the picture of Durga. I answered that I did and that it was very impressive. She smiled and entered into a profound trance. She awoke and said solemnly:
People should have the sincere and persistent will to conquer all obstacles.
You see, every year Mother Durga fights the devil and dominates him. But unhappily he rises over and over again because people give a response to him.
Otherwise, if the devil had no place in this world, he would be no more here to harass human beings. People must have a strong will to conquer the evil forces and overthrow the devil's plot. Then there will be peace.
It was exceedingly hard to swallow this truth, because of the harsh reality of the concrete psychological struggle within me-changing emotions and rambling thoughts jostling against each other in my being. The divine splendour of Bliss, Joy and Peace were nowhere to be found and felt.
On the 8th, a Tuesday, the rain was pelting down and rivers of water were gushing along the sides of the lanes.
The rain abated a little in the evening. I went to the Mother. I found her room full of warmth and soothing vibrations which were accentuated by the fragrance of the flowers.
The Mother and I meditated for quite some time. During the meditation I observed that she had opened her shining eyes again and again. Her happy smile brightened her face. Now she closed her eyes and plunged into a deep contemplation.
She awoke and dreamily wrote something on a piece of paper. A cheerful and contented smile hovered on her lips when she said:
You are a lucky girl to be here: You know, Mother Nature came to me just now to give her full consent to collaborate with spirituality.
Instantly the whole picture of the Mother's gestures during her meditation came into the frame of my mind, and I understood why she felt happy.
Then she showed me her writing and said:
This will be the Message of the New Year. Child, do not tell anybody.
I assured her that I would not breathe a word to anyone. The Message was:
O Nature, material Mother, Thou hast said that thou wilt collaborate, and there is no limit to the splendour of this collaboration
Then the Mother gave me a short explanation. After it, she clasped my hands and looked deeply into my eyes. Then she embraced me tenderly. After receiving flowers I made my way to Golconde.
The next morning the Mother sent me a huge card illustrating Shiva and Shakti. She had written on it:
This can be taken as one aspect of the collaboration be-tween the Spiritual Power and the Material Nature.
I sent her the report of what she had said the previous evening. It ran:
Nature is always going on Her own ways. Spiritual things also are going on their own ways. Nature and Spirituality do not go together. There is no collaboration so far between them but always hostility towards each other.
When the New Year begins there will be an endless collaboration between them. There will be plenitude, joy, glory and magnificence. There will be the promise of the New World—of the Supramental World. Because Mother Nature—the Material Mother—has said that She would collaborate. So everyone should love Her.
She wrote tinder my report:
Yes, it is the essence of what I told you yesterday
With any blessings,
What can be in the utmost depth of our hearts except the Divine? If we expect Him to be always present, he is always present in our hearts. If we expect the Divine to be all merciful and compassionate, He is always there to make things easy and smooth. But if we doubt His mercy and compassion, then there is no mercy and no compassion.
If we trust the Divine, he is always with us to guide us and protect us. Such is He in His relation with us. If we are convinced that there is the Divine within us, surely He is there constantly present.
Let us meditate on the physical body which will be transformed, penetrated by the Supramental Light, Harmony, Love and Truth.
If a person has bad intentions, he constantly throws his ugly thoughts on other people. Nevertheless, each and every thing comes back to him and finally he suffers terribly.
Restful sleep and a sweet smile are like a ray of the Sun which melts all obstacles. A sweet smile melts every bad intention as the Sun melts butter.
In the evening the Mother saw me in her room at the Playground.
After a brief concentration, she said:
When Yogis and Saints are disturbed, they at once meditate and regain peace. But there is also a special Grace: then you have concrete peace and nothing can affect you.
The mind and the vital give constant trouble and distress when you are under the impulse of falsehood. When you have inner strength, when there is no more ego, then Power and Light can come and fill your whole being. After that you can remain absolutely in peace and in calm.
Sometimes tears fill your eyes when you have the intensity of Truth in you.
The Mother said:
The Psychic is untouched. It is the vital who creates trouble. It likes to shed tears and be upset.
You know, when I was in Japan, I saved a woman from a devil who then burnt in a fire. I felt as if I were a murderess. The woman was all right for a week or so. Then another devil took possession of her consciousness. Like this there are countless devils who emerge one by one to fulfil their missions.
I have eliminated the devils from many people—but unhappily the situation remained the same because they respond to the devils.
From one of the persons I abolished the devil. But he complained that he became powerless! But, in fact it was the hostile forces which made him powerless. It was not me. On the contrary I cleansed his consciousness.
You must be obstinate; you see the Supreme Himself is very obstinate. He takes away all darkness, obscurity and inertia from human beings and makes them perfect. This process goes on in an endless cycle. He does not change the human being all of a sudden. Everything has its own time.
Failure always comes in human life and this means that the one who fails is one step forward to his goal. Not a single person can escape from misery, difficulties and failure.
A few people seem highly educated and intellectual, praised by many others for their remarkable work or success. But after all those wise (?) people are nothing but full of ignorance, and in the end they fail to achieve the higher thing.
A person gets married, he has children and everything else but he is not happy at all. At the end he falls into the chasm of death and again he comes into this world—this goes on and on, and on... until he finds the Truth.
This world is the only place where man can progress and lessen the burden of his past life and present life, and then he gets ready for the next more prosperous birth to find something higher and more beautiful. It is only here in this world that you are given opportunity to progress towards the Eternal. I have seen many other worlds, which are dull, grey and full of darkness, where people are bored, and they are groping to find happiness.
I know the beginning of the world and its end, up to Eternity. Your failure is that of your past birth and not of your present birth. The failure is nothing but a step forward to your success. You will have to dig each step carefully and concretely to set your feet firmly and proceed further to the Eternal. But you must be obstinate.
The Highest cannot be realised until one becomes perfect—It takes year after year, century after century—However, you must be obstinate like the Supreme. Be more and more obstinate in front of your own defects.
This life is not so simple and straight—It is like the waves of the ocean.
Do not care about what people say because they are ignorant—their judgement leads you nowhere.
Remain in the vastness of Supreme Love, Light and Peace...
This is the law of the Supreme.
The feelings of your heart are better than flowers.
Behind all troubles, behind all difficulties, there is Divine Grace. When you are on the point of falling down and actually fall, the Grace appears.
It starts with Love and it ends with Love, but in between there is a terrible mess.
After all this, one thing lasts and that is Love...
Years ago I discussed the Yoga with Pavitra 2 in one of the gardens.
I was talking about refinement in material life and its sensations and movements.
When we were walking on a certain road, there didn't seem any sign of flowers. While coming back to the same place after a long walk, we saw there a bush full of white flowers like Radha's Consciousness. The flowers mean refinement—artistic and any other.
?. ?. 1961
The Mother saw me in the Meditation Hall upstairs. She looked at me and lapsed into a deep trance for a few minutes. On waking she took my hands into hers and said serenely.
Child, you see I had realised or rather reached the occult worlds. I had learnt occultism within a few weeks' time.
When I came to Pondicherry, I did not mention to Sri Aurobindo what I had seen in my visions. Sri Aurobindo expressed exactly what I had seen, in His epic Savitri.
There are two ways; the occult knowledge is rather easier than the spiritual knowledge.
I learnt real spiritual things when I came here. But, of course, there was everything within myself, though not physically.
The Yoga of transformation is very difficult—it takes so many years. To learn occultism one needs a Guru and Guide, while the spiritual life can be transferred to anybody who really deserves it.
We have twelve bodies. I used to go out of them all, one after another to the subtle worlds and gradually come back into them. I became aware of all the details of my bodies, when finally I come back to the physical.
When I saw the beauty and wonders of the Higher Worlds, I thought of expressing them in painting by various colours: blues, golds, pinks and whites with certain vibrations—all in harmony—forming the New World.
Attacks can be stopped but difficulties are still there. Good things come and stop immediately. Bad things also will stop one day.
"When?"
SILENCE.
There are many planets which are moving around. When a soul takes birth, it passes through certain planets at that time, and it feels their effect. There are, of course, vital, mental and physical beings to deal with. There are innumerable things but actually nothing is separate. The whole universe is wrapped in One—everything is One.
Some astrologers calculate times and dates and say things about one's life according to their calculations and intuitions. But they also fail in their prophecies. I met many astrologers in France, in India, in Japan and in Algeria but none could tell anything exactly.
I will tell you a true story. A man was told by an astrologer that he would definitely die on a certain day. So he wound up all his business and cleared up everything. The day arrived and he slept in order to wait for his death to come. Next morning, when he awoke, he saw all the things as they were before. Then he told himself, 'Goodness me! after death also I find the same things around me. Strange!'
Another true story is quite the opposite. A man was told by an astrologer that his son would die of drowning. So the father would not allow his son to go near the sea or any place where there was water. His son was not allowed to look even at pictures of the sea. Years passed by and the son became a young man, he got married, he had his own house, but still he had never happened to go near the sea. Once he went to a party, there he ate fish; suddenly a bone of the fish stuck in his throat and he died. So somehow he died of the sea.
Astrologers are not always perfectly right. Astrology is believed in mostly by ordinary people who do not have much intellectual development.
Even if astrologers are right, everything can be changed in the spiritual life. Whoever has taken the path of Yoga can change the surroundings and conditions. The horoscope is not binding on the spiritual life.
The horoscope is for the ordinary world — for worldly people. When you have taken the path of Yoga, the horoscope changes because the Law of the Lord is more powerful than the earthly laws. So when the pressure of the Law comes, the laws of the earth have no value: they become powerless and disappear.
Upon earth, each human being has his own way of seeing and feeling things and no two of these ways arc the same. So everybody disagrees with the others in one way or another and no real harmony can be established. This is why the world is such a painful chaos.
The Lord alone with His total Vision can create a harmony, by putting each being and each thing in its right place if the world surrenders to Him unreservedly. For, it is only by uniting with Him that we can realise a harmony in our existence and thus get protected from the surrounding disharmony.
This is the only remedy.
It was the 4th of October 1963, when I went to the Mother, I showed Her the message given by Her.
"What have you given to the Lord or done for Him that you ask the Mother to do something for you?
She does only the Lord's work."
I wondered. What does the Lord want when He has everything? What can be done for him who is capable of doing everything?
And here is the Mother's reply:
The Lord does not demand anything except Surrender. Your wish, your want, your will, your thoughts and feelings, you must offer to Him without reserve. And let His Will, Thoughts, Feelings, Wish and Wants become yours. In fact, let His vibrations become your vibrations. Then there is no question of such miseries and troubles. You get the Lord and you get everything. But it can only be done, when you surrender totally to Him and to Him only. Not otherwise. Well, I do not say that the complete surrender is very easy. To give up everything is indeed difficult.
Nevertheless, give everything—your sorrows, pains, difficulties and sufferings to the Lord and tell Him, "These are Yours, take care of them, this is Your responsibility and not mine." Try this and you will find the difference. Surrender everything to Him and say, "Thee Thee, only Thee, O Lord."
The soul who is the delegate of the Divine, represents the Divine. It tries to gather the whole being's substance together and to offer it to the Divine for transformation. The soul is a portion of the Divine. And the sufferings of the soul are always in proportion to its strength. These sufferings and pains are not only for the soul but for the whole world because nothing is separate—the whole world is one single thing. When beings suffer, the world suffers, the soul suffers and the Divine suffers too. But the Lord doesn't want anybody to suffer. He wants everyone to be happy. It is the human beings who make things difficult.
This Mother (pointing out to Herself) has physical body with only two hands, two eyes and so on... But Her Consciousness is Vast. She sends answers at once without opening people's letters. But unhappily, most of the people are not aware and cannot receive Her answers, Her Force and Her Consciousness. Otherwise, the work would be easier for the Mother. However, Her work is to lead everyone to his Goal."
And when I questioned, "This rough, ugly and wretched world—will it become a perfect golden divine World?"
The Mother's answer was: It is bound to be because it cannot be otherwise.
Further She said,
This world is a condensation of energy. What we human beings see, animals, trees, plants etc., etc., are merely a condensation of energy and nothing else. Recently scientists have tried to find out all about the material world and have come to the conclusion that everything is made of elementary particles (electrons, protons) that are nothing but condensed energy. But, of course, energy is really conscious energy; behind everything there is only the One—the great Conscious Power, the Supreme who holds everything in Him and wills to carry everyone to his Goal and to manifest Himself in all. Thus the world ought to become only Him who is everything.
On the 14th, when I went to the Mother, in a pensive mood, She said to me with all Her Force, "One must prepare for the Hour of God. Don't you know what Sri Aurobindo had said in The Hour of God?'
(And here I believe, perhaps She meant this):
Sri Aurobindo's words:—
Man's greatness is not in what he is, but in what he makes possible. His glory is that he is the closed place and secret workshop of a living labour in which supermanhood is being made ready by a divine Craftsman. But he is admitted too to a yet greater greatness and it is this that, allowed to be unlike the lower creation, he is partly an artisan of this divine change; his conscious assent, his consecrated will and participation are needed that into his body may descend the glory that will replace him. His aspiration is earth's call to the supramental creator.
"If earth calls and the Supreme answers, the hour can be even now for that immense and glorious transformation.
(The Hour of God)
She resumed what She was talking about......
And that is why whoever aspires for the Truth, We—(She and the Lord) simply pull the threads together and bring them here to prepare for the Hour of God. This is the right time. And if you can't realise the Truth in this very birth, after-wards it may take hundreds of lives.
And then who knows whether Sri Aurobindo and the Mother will be here to help directly, then there would be only a Force.
Human beings are lucky because they have a Mind. So they can think, observe, express themselves, while animals, trees and plants have no thinking Mind and they cannot express themselves or anything and they are not capable to do something higher without Mind and its conception.
Didn't you see what Sri Aurobindo had written in Savitri?
"And in the belly of the sparse rolling mass A mind looks out from a small casual globe And wonders what itself and all things are." ||46.30||
The Mind is a great thing that human beings have, and with it human beings can consider what he should done and what shouldn't be done.
When attacks come, simply call the Lord. But you must remember that you must call Him at the right moment; just in time and not after.
The Lord wants earth to be beautiful, peaceful and happy.
You must remember that the Supreme Mother has innumerable aspects and She holds the whole Universe in Her arms. She wants each and everything to be transformed and to attain their Goal. Her Consciousness is Greater and Vaster than the Universe. And Myself is one of the physical aspects of the Mother. This physical body is limited but my Consciousness is limitless. I always spread my Consciousness and with It, I answer many calls. But very few receive my answers.—Most people are not conscious and receptive, otherwise my work would be more easy. But who collaborates and receives? If the human beings had collaborated with the Divine in Her work—right from the very beginning, then, the Truth that has taken, millions of years to realise would have been realised within a few years. And there wouldn't have been so much struggle or difficulties. All depends on sincere collaboration and receptivity.
But of course, there will be an end to all miseries and difficulties. OM.
When we breathe air, when we eat, we always breathe falsehood and eat falsehood into ourselves, because the world is full of falsehood—insincere, dishonest and ugly. That is why we must change this physical. (Pointing to the flesh on her arm). But the Lord is behind each and every thing and He is necessarily victorious.
This world is full of pitiable miseries. But of all beings those are the most to be pitied who are so small and so weak that they cannot avoid being nasty.
I prayed to the Mother to make me understand this Message. The Mother said,
When I was one with the Supreme—the Pity came to me because there are innumerable beings upon this earth, who do not understand anything; even, they know nothing about the Divine. They are full of ignorance and mischief—they are very small and cannot resist being nasty. They do not know what they are doing and why they are doing it. They are what they are.
But I want these small beings to be transformed completely in order to become divine beings. I want perfection for everyone...
This experience I summed up in my Message. First I wrote in French—Just after the experience, on 17th September 1963. Then the next day I wrote the Message in English.
The Truth comes straight from above and, according to the Truth, I always act and cast the Vision of the Truth on human beings, in order to make everything harmonious but unhappily, whenever the Truth touches human beings, It becomes crooked and messy. Nevertheless, once the Vision of the Truth has touched human beings and their consciousness, sooner or later the Truth is bound to become straight—and whatever I have decided will be done rightly upon this earth.
The Mother's talk calls to my mind a message by Her which is appropriate:
To have a glimpse of the Truth, one must take at least one step back in one's consciousness, enter a little more deeply into one's being and try to perceive the play of forces behind the appearance, and the Divine Presence behind the play of forces.
Here I would like to quote Sri Aurobindo:
To look into ourselves and see and enter into ourselves and live within is the first necessity for the transformation of our nature and for the divine life.
I went to the Mother this morning. She explained to me what truth, lies and falsehood are. She had never explained them to me before.
There is a vast difference between falsehood and a lie. When people tell a lie, it is words that come from their mouth and they are contrary to the actual fact or deny it. For instance, if you have gone somewhere and deny to have gone or if you have done something and refuse to admit the fact—it is a lie. But lies have no strength. Lies arc always the sign of a great weakness and, if they arc habitual, of a great crookedness.
Falsehood is something very serious. The world, as it is, is in a state of falsehood—it denies the Eternal Truth. There are three chief categories of Falsehood:
1) People who aspire for the Truth but are not sincere enough in their aspiration to discriminate between the Truth and the Falsehood, they fall always into trouble and misery and get out from the path leading to Truth.
2) This category is dangerous. People who can very well discriminate between Truth and Falsehood, who know that Truth is better but have no strength to resist the temptation and fall constantly into falsehood.
3) The last one is the most dangerous of all. People who are aware of the Truth but refuse to recognise the Truth and choose deliberately the falsehood. They have a kind of hate for the Truth and reject it violently. These, on the list of the Eternal can be marked "Missing Souls"— as it is written in Savitri:
So might one fall on the Eternal's road Forfeiting the spirit's lonely chance in Time And no news of him reach the waiting gods, Marked "missing" in the register of souls... ||57.22||
(Book Two, P. 239)
Happily there are very few like that—who deny the Truth and choose the Falsehood.
There are, of course, a number of people who have good will, good purpose, good aspiration and the rest; but in spite of all that they still live in falsehood because they have not the strength to fight for the Truth. And if you let yourself go without reacting with a constant vigilance you are bound to live in Falsehood because this world is a world of Falsehood.
When souls come upon earth by accepting the sorrows, miseries and troubles of the world—it is because they want to conquer Falsehood, and help in the Victory of the Truth. I call them heroic souls.
For those who leave aside their mental, vital and physical and live only in the Bliss, there is no struggle and pain, because their beings are untouched, undisturbed and they remain as they are. But the souls who came upon earth to fight face to face with Falsehood, are the truly heroic souls, and the Supreme Love is there with them. They set a concrete example for the world.
Another important thing to be remembered is that one must have an unshaken faith in the Lord. The Flame of faith must be kept burning and it must grow and spread its light widely to replace the falsehood, because it is the Light of Truth.
Why should you get disturbed? You must leave everything to the Lord. It is He who knows—not only knows but sees and looks after everything, arranges everything. It is His responsibility and not the responsibility of human beings. The more they get disturbed and upset by Falsehood, the more it will come under various forms and take a quick chance to enter their consciousness, hearts and brains and make them miserable. Here the body and the true consciousness are not separated, so naturally the body too suffers from Falsehood.
You must try constantly to ignore the Falsehood by remembering the Lord's Love only. Whatever thing may happen to you, do not get upset—just pray to the Lord.
Kali knows no anger when She dominates the adverse force—the devil.
Adverse forces are much amused when you listen to them and they take great joy in breaking up faith in the Divine. At that time do not think, do not write and do not speak anything—just keep quiet.
You must endure and let the storm pass. Thus you will be cured of falsehood in this very birth.
Go within yourself, never look outward—because the Presence of the Lord and His Sweetness and Love are right in the depths of the heart.
The Mother said (pointing to the garland of the tiny flowers called—_'Patience' which I had offered to He_r): "We need patience. This body (pointing to Her body) also needs patience."
I asked, "How long?"
She said nothing to it. Over and over again She went into trance and finally she spoke:
Don't look exteriorly. Always look within yourself and there you will find Love, Peace, Light and Strength.
Even the Truth cannot manifest without Love. It is only through Love that the Truth manifests. Love is a fire burning in the depths of the heart. Only Love can save You. And the world will open to Love only.
I always pray to the Lord, "O Supreme Lord, manifest Thy Love..."
The Grace is always there. If you go within and find the Love there, then there is no 'I', no ‘you', no 'Lord', no 'anybody' but the Love and that Love gives strength and patience.
Love is eternal and never fails you. The outer world is full of confusions.
Go on living within, where dwells the LOVE......
Q. Mother, why can't I see wonderful dreams in my sleep?
A: Do you think I see pleasant dreams? All the time during the night I see the desires of beings, their imaginations, impurities and things like that.
I organise their beings rightly. I spend my whole night like that.
Q. Do I trouble you at night?
A. No, you don't trouble me at night—in sleep, but when you get disturbed and upset, I know immediately and then I put the thing right.
Always keep quiet, peaceful and leave everything to the Lord alone for he knows much more than we do. He always does the best for human beings. He knows how to do it. We must only let Him do according to His own Will. And simply pray, "O Lord, do it, do it, do it..."
Even if you try to do it, it cannot help. We must let the Lord do everything in His own way.
The Lord does not believe in miracles, neither does he like them. Because miracles are momentary. The Lord's Work is everlasting. But, of course, it takes time; only, we have to keep patience and remain quiet with all our endurance.
The world must change.
Q. I cannot wait for the world
A. Let the Lord decide everything. For He knows and does everything rightly.
Love, and that very love in you will help me.
I know and I can tell you with certainty that the Victory of the Truth will surely come...
On 30th May 1964, I went to the Mother. She told me many things regarding the spiritual life.
She said:
There is not a single man in this world without miseries. If you have detached yourself from the outer world then obviously you are happy. Otherwise, if you go on thinking of yourself, your feelings, your thoughts and so on, your mind starts working in a hundred ways and you are miserable and unhappy. Even those who think themselves happy, the next moment they think they are unhappy and most miserable. The world is like that.
Concentrate on the Lord alone, pray to Him, for He always hears prayers and helps. But it all depends on perfect sincerity and receptivity. There is no other way than this.
You must nestle in Him, do not look here and there; shut your eyes, mouth and ears. Think only of the Lord and His Love. In a drop of His Love dwells the eternity of the Truth. Everything will vanish but the Lord is always there in Eternity. So cling only to Him.
Do not let your mind and thoughts wander and grasp the outward things. Otherwise, your consciousness will scatter and you will be unhappy. The Lord waits and watches the movement. You must always have only one aim and that is the Lord, His Love and His work.
If people and things do not lead you to the Lord, then you must not have any connection with them. Do not care for them. Only listen to the Lord. If bad things come to you, put the Lord in between and you are saved.
I know that it is much more difficult to act than to say. But it is practical, my child. Once you withdraw yourself from the outward atmosphere and surroundings, you will gradually succeed.
This body also can be transformed. One day it will be. But it takes time. First of all, the consciousness must be completely merged in the Lord.
The body is silly because it feels all kinds of things and then it falls ill, but one day the body also will get used to everything.
Lastly, the Lord and the world will become one.
Here several people arc gossiping and tell many lies—even they use my name and tell many things. Do not believe what they say because they do not tell the truth.
They imagine many things, they make stories and spread things all around without any basis.
I tell you: Never listen to these people—even if they tell you 'The Mother says this or that...' Just keep quiet and answer, ‘I am not interested in the talk...'
There are only a handful of people who are really honest, sincere and have goodwill. The rest, well, they make a mess of themselves by gossiping and they remain as they are!
As a matter of fact, I do not really care what people say, think or imagine. I am untouched by falsehood. I ask you not to listen to them."
I asked the Mother, "How then can these people be transformed when they are as they are?"
The Mother said.
This is the question—everything depends on them—it is up to them. People think they know much more than the Lord does. But Sri Aurobindo wrote in one of His books:
"The Power that governs the world is at least as wise as you and it is not absolutely necessary that you should be consulted or indulged in its management, God is seeing to it."
Keep your mind absolutely blank and receive the Divine's Force. Cling to the Divine alone and not to the past. The Divine is Truth, the Divine is Love, the Divine is Happiness...
The life of a human being is complicated. A soul takes birth on the earth in order to purify itself. It is surrounded by various things: habits, nature and so on... The whole being is defective and scattered.
In fact, good or bad things come from parents. People should never push back their defects and hide them. All these habits and defects—whenever they arise, people must at once catch hold of the very source of them and offer everything to the Lord and pray, 'O Lord, take all defects away. We do not need them—everything is Yours—see to it……
The aim of a soul is to organize consciously the whole being in order to make the whole being pure and finally to unite the soul and the being with the Divine. This is the transformation of the whole being.
This must be the aim; otherwise it is useless if the soul alone escapes from the being and leaves it as it is in a scattered condition.
Yes, then finally—the soul is free to choose extinction or manifestation. But, even then, it is the Lord alone who decides and does the best for each and every soul.
When you have nothing to do, just go into trance—repeat any 'Mantra' like "Om" or "Lord" or "Mother" and go within your heart, and there take shelter in the Heart of the Lord, for His Heart is so soft, so sweet, so nice...
Whenever you get upset and you can think of nothing except what has upset you, just go within and call the Lord. Of course, you may not succeed soon. But gradually you will.
The Lord cannot be seen with the physical eyes. You must first feel the Lord—as if you were in His Heart. Naturally, to feel this will take time. People cannot achieve this state even after so many years...
Never forget that the Lord is the beginning and the Lord is the end. This world has forgotten the Lord—people are stupid, forgetting the Lord—and that is why all miseries and troubles are constantly with them.
I cannot do anything without the Lord's Will and Decision.
His Flash of Light above and the human aspiration below—and I am in between to unite human beings to the Lord—my work is to put human beings into the Lord's Hands.
Constantly I pray to the Lord to make the world conscious of Him alone.
Durga always chases the devils who are in thousands. She does not kill them because they cannot be killed.
When Durga fights them they run here and there to find a hiding place. Whenever human beings keep the doors of their consciousness open, the devils without losing a moment enter and start their mischief. I tell you: Never keep the door open because it is dangerous to welcome these nasty forces.
You must remember that human beings and the world are One. The whole One can be transformed but it takes time. Nevertheless, the individual can progress and can be freed if you do not listen and let the adverse forces into your consciousness.
If you shut the door of your being to Falsehood and cling only to the Truth, you are free and happy.
The Lord is stronger than these forces...
People should mind their own business. Why should they go about and give advice? Tell them when they start giving you advice, "The Mother is there to give me advice; mind your own business."
People must see their faults by themselves and correct themselves. It is they who can check their own selves, they cannot correct anybody's faults.
When you correct yourself with full observation you will feel happy and peaceful. Also you will feel my Presence which is guiding you from within yourself. The right thing is to find your own way inwardly to the Truth without taking anybody's advice. I am helping you constantly towards your Goal....
Always aspire for the best. And the Lord will do the best. Always aspire for Harmony, Beauty, Love and Truth and He will surely give them because He is Omnipotent…… He is everything and in everything.
My child, the Lord knows and does much better than we do. He knows each and all fully well.
He can change people’s hearts—even the atmosphere—because He is capable of doing everything.
I know that the Lord will do the best and everything will be more than all right. You will see!
The struggle is not yet over because as the truth has come, there will be a fight between truth and falsehood but this is the last fight.
The Earth's Consciousness and Force refuse to yield to the Truth."
I asked the Mother, "Shall I be free if I overcome these forces of Falsehood or shall I have to struggle with the rest of humanity?"
The mother replied without hesitation.
Yes, you have to struggle.
Even Buddha, who achieved Nirvana, had still to struggle and suffer with humanity.
But, Mother, I am not Buddha
The Mother said,
All of us are the Divine and our right is to become the Divine—we all come from the ONE and we shall go to the ONE—in the Peace of Beatitude.
You must not think with the mind because it leads you nowhere. Have faith in the Divine.
Life has its ups and clowns but one clay everyone will reach their goal...
A shuddering unease enveloped me when she told me: "Yes, you have to struggle..." Because I thought that there would never be an end of my struggle if I could not escape from the Falsehood.
The Mother went into a deep trance for a few minutes and after that She spoke,
Yes, the individual can escape.
I was happy!
And, indeed, gradually it came true in my case 1 have never ceased to pray to the Supreme for the whole world.
When the room is filthy, do not remain in it. Come out of it and shut the door behind.
This is the world of Falsehood. If I would have minded it I would have never stayed in it even for moment.
But there is only one way to escape. Try to remain in your soul, where you will get peace, comfort and happiness.
Never try to understand anything, never listen to ordinary worldly people because they tell you sheer lies and that will never lead you anywhere.
Your soul is a part of me, we know each other very well. And you too know how to avoid the adverse forces, also you have enough knowledge to reach your goal...
Small beings in people have no forms but if the beings get a chance they at once take forms and start their mischief by putting wrong suggestions and falsehoods into peoples' minds.
People must remain in the Aura of the Truth and cling to the Lord alone with full faith. Even though they have no power—nothing—if they have faith in the Lord and love for the Lord, then everything is all right...
The Supreme Power has the Supreme Humility. The Supreme does not boast, though He is All-Powerful.
I went to the Mother on 16.9.65. War between India and Pakistan was going on. The Mother said to me:
India and Pakistan must become one. Have you read the message I sent to Mr. Shastri?
I said: No, Mother. Then the Mother got up from her high-backed chair—went into her living room to bring the message. Afterwards she asked me to read the Message:
It is for the sake and triumph of Truth that India is fighting and must fight until India and Pakistan have once more become one because that is the Truth of their being.
I asked the Mother what did the Lord say about this war? The Mother replied:
But this is the message of the Lord. He wants that only you see, first I wrote "Shall" then I rubbed it off, because only the Prime Minister can write that word, and I am not the Prime Minister.
I said: But, Mother, you are much more than that! The Mother said:
Yes, in another way so I did not write "shall"
I questioned: Mother, if Security Council orders them for cease-fire—then... She said firmly:
No, still India must fight. Otherwise they will have to start all over again.
When I sent the message to Shastri, he was grateful for the message—and I am sure it will work.
Give up your personal plan and will, then you can say, ‘Let the Lord's Will be done.' Cut the connection with outward circumstances and people, and withdraw inwardly, remaining in the light of the Truth.
Nobody knows the Lord's Will. Also, nobody knows what will happen tomorrow except the Lord.
I asked the Mother, "You told me to have faith in the Lord or to follow the rule of Tapasya'; what should I do?"
She replied:
Do both. "Tapasya" means whenever you feel that you are insincere try to be sincere in all circumstances. Whenever people say anything or ask for something or other, just remain quiet and withdrawn for a while, and then tell them, know nothing, I cannot do anything, ask the Mother.'
The people whom the Lord chooses for a special purpose and realisation, must undergo severe difficulties and sufferings; and in this situation you must be sincere—that is called "Tapasya". The others, who have nothing to do with the Divine and the Truth, lead an easy life. So leave everything to the Lord for His final judgement.
Then I told the Mother that I knew my defects and the weakness of my outer being; also I prayed to Her that there should not be any conflict between the Mother and myself I requested her to let me understand Her and let my soul lead the whole being……
She smiled and nodded. Then She said,
You must always remain in the Light of your soul and try more and more to be conscious and to go within yourself. Then surely the outer being and outer circumstances will not affect you.
I asked the Mother about silence, meditation and con-centration.
She said,
Imagine on your forehead that a completely white sheet is turned upward, and stop thinking. Aspire and the Lord will tell you from above if He has to say something. But the Lord is still above. You must have the contact of the Divine Consciousness first. Then you have perfect silence.
Another method is that you must not think of any person or anything. Pull all thinking threads, gather them together and concentrate in your heart—go deep within—and I am sure, if you continue for a month or two, you will find some-thing new. And if you want to have the proof, you have to mark one thing. When you meditate and you are not aware of anybody's presence or disturbance or voices then you will know that you have achieved something. If you fall asleep it does not matter, do not worry. In your sleep also you will benefit by the Divine Consciousness. When I asked Her about the sensitive body, She said,
When the body feels the vibrations, that means it is not ‘Tamasic', otherwise the body never feels the vibrations.
If your body gets disturbed and damaged by anything ad-verse, then you must try to concentrate and remain in silence. No doubt, the Divine Consciousness repairs the damage in the body.
I came across the Mother's writing about the New Comet which was seen by the Mother in her Vision. I painted the comet accordingly.
The Mother saw the painting and threw more light on the subject:
You see, some time back in the middle of the night I went into the Space—beyond the earth—there I saw a being. We did not talk. We just communicated.
The Being had in his hand a substance which was luminous, yet there was not the flash of light. The substance was something like plastic, orange-red in colour.
The Being had arms and legs like human beings but he was not human. He had a fair and golden body, yet the light was not shown. He had long and red hair.
He was spreading the substance from one end of the earth to the other in a curve. I remained with the being for long time. He showed me how to spread it. I did not know how big the being was because I was equally big. From the equator I could see the earth.
The substance and the atmosphere brought great relief, happiness and joy to me, such as I had never felt before upon the earth. That is why I was interested in the being. Then I knew that this substance could change matter.
The being himself was plastic—so supple. He was bending in a curve while spreading the substance upon the earth of which I could see only the top when I was in space.
Your painting is correct but the body was quite different. I see many Beings but this particular Being interested me. I have told you about Him in detail which I did not tell any-body. You understand what I mean...
The Mother gave me the flower called Supramental Sun, and said,
This is the traditional flower of Krishna.
I said to Her, Mother, we must grow this flower in the area of the Mother's Shrine in Auroville, for Krishna will come there.
She smiled sweetly and said,
When I used to walk meditatively to and fro near Sri Aurobindo's room, Krishna too used to walk with me up and down. I saw Him. Human beings cannot see.
I said, Naturally, they cannot see. You are the Divine so you can see Krishna.
She pointed out Her body and said,
This is a human body. But it can prove to human beings that there can be a transformation even of the human body. It must be done and it will be done.
This She said with all Her Force...
I said, "All the Gods, even the Supreme Lord will come to the Mother's Shrine in Auroville..."
The Mother held up my chin and looked straight into my eyes and smiled sweetly, nodding Her head...
My work is to put human beings into the Arms of the Lord.
It will be really interesting when the transformation of the body is a success!
Oh! but it will come only when I remain all alone and concentrate with the work of transformation, then surely it will come quicker.
My child, endure! And nestle in the Heart of the Lord like a new-born baby—simple, having faith in Him. Finally, there will be an immense Beatitude...
First of all it is necessary to have the Subconscient cleaned. That is why you are going there. It is no use going into the higher worlds straight away, leaving the Subconscient un-purified. The progress has to be step by step, with the lower parts made clean first.
I asked the Mother whether the Gods and Goddesses of the Overmind could help human beings...
Gods and Goddesses of the Overmind haven't yet surrendered to the Supreme Lord because they have their own great Power and they live in the Higher Consciousness.
When Sri Aurobindo was in his body, I used to give blessings on the Puja days. They used to come.... Also when I was going downstairs and giving meditations all these Gods and Goddesses used to assemble over there. But they are indeed independent; you see, for example, one of Kali's many aspects comes to me and tells me when human beings do wrong things. And I keep Her quiet. Also one of the aspects of Durga came to me last year on one of the Puja days. She was simply magnificent. I asked Her to surrender to the Supreme Lord. She said, 'This is exactly I wanted You to tell me. I am ready!' She was really wonderful.
In 1960, on the night previous to the First Anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation, Krishna came to me and told me, 'It is I who will distribute tomorrow's message.' So the next day when I went down, He sat on my lap and started giving blessings to people. It was really so amusing, seeing Him do so.... So, you see, these Gods are independent with their own Powers and are free to do as they like.
When I was staying in another house (not here) I was very much attached to Shiva. I asked Him to manifest on earth. He said, "No, I will not do so. I shall come only when the Supramental Race will be on this earth." So I had nothing to say. He is free.
Ever since I took birth on this earth, these Gods and Goddesses have been constantly with me.
In the old days, when I was taking a walk on the verandah, Krishna used to walk with me.
I know that these Gods and Goddesses will help human beings in the New Creation, the New World of the Supermind...
It was a pleasant morning. I went to the Mother on 25.2.66. With a big smile she gave me a card and said,
Child when I was looking for some papers, Sri Aurobindo was there. He gave me this card and said: "This is for Huta".
I could not wait to read the card which conveyed the words of Sri Aurobindo:
Fix not the time and the way in which thy ideal shall be fulfilled. Work and leave time and way to God all knowing.
The Mother told me, "My child, when I have completed 100 years, I shall go and stay in the Mother's Shrine in Auroville. I shall be young at that time." 3
I asked the Mother, Well, when You become young, by that time I shall be old.
But I shall make you young! When I become young, I can make people young also. This you do not know? ......
You must sleep peacefully—try to make your mind completely blank. Also when you feel tired, sit for half an hour quietly, think nothing and call the Lord.
Take proper rest—only in rest and peace you can work nicely. When you are restless, then naturally the inspiration vanishes before it enters your consciousness. So, whatever you do, do it well in rest, in peace—gradually you will not feel tired.
Do not exert yourself when you are tired. You must relax in an easy-chair and call the Lord and pray, "O Lord, come, make my brain peaceful, make my heart peaceful—make my whole body peaceful..."
And you will see, not only will you feel peace but you will be cured.
(Friday)
On 28.3.66 1 went to the Mother. She corrected some of her talks and then exclaimed:
Oh! have I told you so many things?
On 23.9.1966 I went to the Mother in the morning as arranged by her.
After our Savitri work, she inquired about my health. I told her exactly what I felt about the adverse being.
Then the Mother looked at me for a moment or two, and explained to me all about the vampires:
You see, some vital beings which arc full of desires suck energy from others’ vital beings. It takes one second for them to do so.
These types of beings do not hesitate to suck the energy from the Divine also!
Actually, such people do not really know what they are up to.
So it is better to call me, and my Light will envelop you like a cocoon. Thus you are protected. Do this before you go to sleep and you will be safe.
Let your heart and mind be at peace. The Lord knows and it is the Lord's wish.
You must let Him do whatever He thinks best. Keep quiet and peaceful. When people are not quiet and peaceful and when they make a mess with their minds then the Lord's work is spoilt. So do not think. Let the Lord do His work. They must not forget the Divine.
_The Mother saw me on 10.11.66 in her music cum interview room where we used to work on Savitri._
I just happened to express my feeling to the Mother regarding the Future Art:
Mother, often you are telling me about the Future painting. If we have union of the world-artists, the past art could be diverted into the Future Art.
She went into a trance for a few moments and explained to me with a smile:
You see, the artists will do exactly what they like, because I have an experience that they never listen, and they perform their art according to their own ideas. They do not care for anything. They care only for the praise and nothing else.
If they realise the Truth of the Lord, then they are welcome and we can say:
Come, everything is ready for you. They should come to us to realise the Truth. The Lord is seeing to everything—It is His business. We must keep quiet and do not move—if he wants us to move, he will do so. Keep quiet, happy and leave everything to the Lord.
You are meant for His Love and Presence. You will be happy with them. Worldly things will never make you happy.
Keep quiet and call the Lord's Presence, Love and Sweetness. You will be happy and you will not bother about anything.
Let Him do everything for you.
Planets are for ordinary people. But those who have psychic power, planets have no influence.
The Mother advised:
You must not concentrate on yourself. When you are among people, put the Lord between you and the people. Thus your whole being will be protected. You will be in His protection like a cocoon and nothing can penetrate your being.
I asked the Mother: How am I to silence my mind? The Mother smiled and said:
Look up with your eyes closed and hear—as if you are hearing the music and you will see—you will hear.
In connection with certain rich people, the Mother said:
They are pennyless. If they do not give or use their money for a good purpose, I call them pennyless.
_I went to the Mother in the morning. After our work on Savitri, she looked at me for a few seconds and said:_
Child, inspiration is always standing above your forehead. When it comes to you, ideas are formed. If you wish to do anything, you must offer all your wishes to the Lord with sincerity and tell Him:
"O Lord, these are my ideas and wishes—so do the best and make them possible"
Your ideas and wishes are partial—in small scale, but when you offer them to the Lord, they become wide and impartial.
All these things can be done in hours—in days—in months or in years' time. Nothing is impossible for the Lord who will do the best—not only the best but the very best.
You must be quiet—very quiet. Eventually everything becomes a miracle. You see, everything is like a curve. At first everything seems impossible but in the end these very things are done miraculously wonderfully by the Lord.
You are blessed, guided, protected.
Be quiet and peaceful. Do not let your mind come in between. If the mind comes in between and gives suggestions, you simply say:
"I do not understand."
To organize the whole being is a most difficult thing—one being wants this, the other wants that—but the aspiration is there, coming out like a flame covering the whole being.
Child, give your pain and suffering to the Lord—give Him with sincerity and He will take all your pain and sufferings.
I am with you.
When you get agitated and lose your faith in the Divine, you will have to start all over again.
When you are quiet—when your faith is erect like a sword, then you have no need to start all over again. You must always say:
"O Lord, I give everything to you—Let your will be done."
Child, you must have strength to do so.
The Mother told me:
Human conception is small while the Lord's conception is vast.
You must leave everything to the Lord, because He knows best, and the very best will be clone for your soul. This is the promise of the Lord to you.
Try to concentrate on your goal.
On 15.2.681 went to the Mother in the afternoon; while giving me white roses, she said with a smile:
Child, these are beautiful. Nature gives herself—specially the roses. These are the symbol of Integral Love for the Divine.
_After our Savitri work, the Mother, while pointing to a big bouquet, which she had kept ready for me, said:_
Child, these flowers are full of love—symbol of the pure aspiration.
Human beings and their minds are distorted. They must go around beautiful gardens and see plants and flowers.
The Mother assured me:
Child, dreams and realisation will be more luminous and true.
We must head towards the luminous future leaving behind all the darkness.
The Lord will do and arrange everything. Only you must offer yourself (gesture with two hands) and you will see after some time you will get "Ananda" and you will receive the answer from Him.
You see, the Lord even uses the weakest points, and what is not useful, he simply throws away. He knows better than we do.
The Lord is always present there (pointing at my heart) with His love, sweetness and strength. But you must be aware of them. Indeed, we are so stupid that we are not conscious of His presence. We must try to see and feel.
When I told the Mother about my decision, she said.
Oh! No, I tell you the secret, do not decide anything before hand, because it cannot work. But you must ask the Lord whether to do this or that and after some time you will know exactly what to do.
You will feel that the Lord is enveloping you and you will be as if in a cocoon.
I asked the Mother:
What is Conscious union with the Divine?
She answered on 1.11.1968
The Divine is always in you. You must become conscious of His Presence, contact Him and unite with Him.
Do not listen to all that people say. Do not care. Everything will drop off by itself.
When you are really disgusted with outer circumstances, draw your energy within—go deep into your heart. That will help you in uniting with the Divine.
You know, from the beginning of this New Year, the new Consciousness has come down upon earth, which tells everything—what to do and what not to do to people who are conscious and want to change.
This Consciousness is gradually and gently organizing everything. When you are withdrawn quietly and silently and listen to it, it will tell you what you should do and what you should not do.
It does not do anything violently and forcibly but gently and slowly. This Consciousness does not work only in the mind and the vital but in the body also. It takes great care of the body and everything else.
I am putting It around you. You will see and feel. It will tell you everything.
This Consciousness is always smiling. It never gets angry—It never scolds—but It is very gentle and very sweet. You will see!
Your prayer is sincere and true. Sincere and true prayers are always answered.
I went to the Mother. She gave me a flower—Plumeria. According to the Mother it means Psychological Perfection—There is not one Psychological perfection but five—sincerity, faith, devotion, aspiration and surrender.
She explained:
You see, this is the Divine psychological perfection.
Child, in spite of all circumstances, keep a broad smile on your face. I give it to you.
And the Mother smiled. She added:
You must be happy inwardly—not just outwardly. The important thing is that you must keep quiet inwardly by remaining happy in your heart.
If you want to make me happy, be happy.
I read out my letter dated 19.3.1971 to the Mother. She said to me as follows:
Everything is all right inside, it is only the surface being which feels this.
Then after a pause she resumed:
Go within, plunge inside and there you will get the contact of your psychic being.
After that she leaned from her chair, caressed my head and hand with all her compassion and love.
I know it is the Mother who will set everything right. Only 1 have to collaborate with her by obeying her.
Huta
Child, keep absolutely quiet—if you remain quiet, you will have your psychic touch.
I said to the Mother: "I want to reach my goal."
She advised:
Close your eyes and you pray:
"O Seigneur, mon Bien Aimé 4
Child, you repeat this and the calm and quietness will come. Even if you repeat mechanically—doesn't matter.
"If I am certain of anything in this world, I am certain of only one thing: The Victory of the Truth.
These were the Mother's last words to me…
The Mother has revealed the mysteries of spiritual and occult truths in her numerous books. She founded the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondicherry as a new activity of the Asharam. She also created Auroville, the City of Dawn, a few miles away from Pondicherry as an experiment from Pondicherry, as an experiment in establishing human unity.
The Mother left her body on November 17, 1973. Her work continues.
In these lines of Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem Savitri He had the Mother in mind.
Her look, her smile awoke celestial sense Even in earth-stuff, and their intense delight Poured a supernal beauty on men’s lives. ||3.34|| A wide self-giving was her native act; A magnanimity as of sea or sky Enveloped with its greatness all that came And gave a sense as of a greatened world. ||3.35||
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