... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Calling the Mother in Difficulty Why this bad feeling? I am feeling all bad today. When in difficulties always remain as quiet within as possible and call the Mother. Surely the Mother's force is there to transform you and it will prevail. You must progress to a point at... suit in its turn. 8 May 1933 In a dream I saw a dull painting with an expanse of water in the background, and in the centre a temple with trees in front. As I was looking at it, I went on calling the Mother and the painting began changing—the waters actually began to move and white light was falling on them here and there until the Page 309 whole picture was sparkling like silver. Then... come into the obscurity in me? Yes, it is a symbol,—the expanse of water means the ordinary outward consciousness which is obscure and dull, the temple is the psychic centre behind it. By calling the Mother her white light comes upon the dark consciousness and begins to change the darkness into lustre. 27 May 1933 For about a month I have the feeling that devotion, love and aspiration for ...
... remembering the Mother. After a while I saw that my subtle mind, vital and body had risen up high into a beautiful world, profound and peaceful. Then I saw many saints, sages and Gods tirelessly calling the Mother in their meditations. The joy of that world was truly deep. What a beautiful world! Then I saw the Mother slowly descend into their midst; she had ten arms and a bright white complexion. Suddenly... that my outer mind, life and body were moving inside the Mother's circle. In this condition I looked at my body and saw that my gross body had a beautiful golden colour. All this time I kept calling the Mother quietly. Is all this true? You seem to have ascended into a plane of the Higher Spiritualised Mind with a descent into it of Maheshwari bringing the power of the Divine Truth. The result ...
... even then call the Mother. If you can’t do it any other way, do as you do now, silently in your mind - in such a way that nobody will understand or know. Then you will get the result of your calling the Mother. SRI AUROBINDO Page 184 Our blessings to Esha, our love and protection with her always. SRI AUROBINDO 17.5.1935 Esha, Always remember me as I will always remember... of the Divine Mother, be tranquil, calm and full of force. There is no special procedure. To take the name of the Mother, to remember her within, to pray to her, all this may be described as calling the Mother. As it comes from within you, you have to call her accordingly. You can do also this - shutting your eyes you can imagine that the Mother is in front of you or you can sketch a picture of her ...
... happened in you. For it is this wideness that comes when the consciousness opens to the Divine. Into this wideness the Divine's peace, love, light and joy can pour and fix themselves there. Go on calling the Mother and opening yourself to her. All the rest will come. By a widening of all the parts of the being, a sense of largeness and liberation of the mind, vital and physical, an opening to the ...
... Helpers on the Way The Mother with Letters on the Mother Calling the Mother and Sri Aurobindo While aspiring towards the Mother and repeating her name, your name comes in as well. Strange! Page 105 You must always aspire towards the Mother, because hers is the force which can alone give you the true realisation of the Divine. If your mind ...
... was present in the Playground when this happened. She rushed to the boy and sat next to him. She pressed the spot like Mahishamardini. The whole Playground stood still in a hush. We were all calling the Mother. Everyday after Her game of tennis the Mother would go to see this boy in his house. She would sit there and talk to him. In a few months the boy became all right. I had never imagined that this ...
... working happen, then that also means that in the inner being some opening has been made. Aspiration, sincerity and the quietude of the mind are the three best conditions for opening. These [ calling the Mother, praying to her ] are acts of the mind, openness is a state of consciousness which keeps it turned to the Mother, free from other movements, expecting and able to receive what may come from ...
... you—that is the best way of passing through these regions. These are dreams sent from the vital world. There are three things she must develop with regard to them: (1) to get the habit of calling the Mother at once in the dream itself; (2) not to fear—if one does not fear, these other world forces become helpless; (3) to put no belief in the reality of such formations and regard them only ...
... While meditating today I received the Mother's peace and light and joy. Then for a short time I went deep inside and suddenly saw a tiger standing in front of me. Seeing the tiger, I kept calling the Mother and went near it. Then the tiger vanished and in its place stood a very beautiful boy and girl. A blue light came out from the boy's body and a white light from the girl's. They told me, "Let ...
... each other. What Vishwajit did was rashly cycle between the two buses through the narrow pas sage. Had the two buses started off he would certainly have been crushed between them. So I began calling the Mother and asking for Her protection. The buses did not move. And Vishwajit managed to get through that narrow passage. I felt relieved. The two buses started just a second later. Had it happened ...
... a bin. He avoided looking at us. Amazing! The night was well advanced and he signalled to us to go to sleep. I switched off the lights and began rubbing father’s back with my hand. And I kept calling the Mother.… Silent tears welled up uncontrollably. Suddenly father exclaimed in a loud voice: “You should be quiet in a sick man’s room. Don’t spoil the atmosphere.” And I had not even cried audibly ...
... desperately 'Ma... Ma. . .Ma. . .Ma. . .' I was calling Her out with the same intensity that a dying man calls out to God with. . .Ma. . .Ma. . .Ma. . .Ma! I do not recollect how long I kept calling the Mother like that with closed eyes. When I returned to a somewhat normal state I realized that the bhairavi had begun retreating. Her eyes no longer had that fiery dreadful look. Her right hand Was shaking ...
... how it happens. Be completely sincere in your consecration to the Divine and it will never more happen. Blessings The Mother) After these words from the Mother, I began calling the Mother inwardly in a concentrated manner so as to develop sincerity. I began calling out to Her to grant me strength. Page 182 Progressively, the feeling grew in me that ...
... will become clear directly by seeing.” I become more eager to see her—I keep calling Mother, Mother, Mother.... At that moment, everything within me becomes peaceful and I get abundant joy calling “Mother.” I just wish that from now onwards, the Mother would keep me for ever and always in the same peaceful state, and my calling her stop on its own. “Then, I do not see anything except white, golden... luminous, golden, blue-coloured lotus is seen. In the centre of the lotus, the Mother is seated in her luminous, golden, white body. From the Mother's body as well as from the lotus, rays of light in various colours keep spreading all around. Both the blessed hands of the Mother are stretching out and moving all round. The Mother is also seen in the same manner in all the directions; blessing everyone with... Visions of Champaklal Visions of Champaklal The Mother in the Golden Lotus (A Vision at Paris) 1985 The Mother's loving, sweet voice is heard, but she is not seen. I look around eagerly, but still she can't be seen. I become impatient to see her. The Mother says, “Champaklal, first you listen to me quietly. Initially, when you started working with ...
... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Calling the Mother's Force I tried to meditate, but I simply had to give it up as the mind would not cooperate. When you cannot meditate, remain quiet and call in the Mother's Peace or Force. 8 April 1933 Suppose I am in a fix and call down... down the Mother's force which is above me. Now, how am I to know whether or not it has descended? By the feeling of it or the result. And suppose it has descended, and I am doing my lessons—can I then order it to guard me from outer influences and simultaneously keep me in complete touch with the Mother? Page 215 You can't order anything to the Mother's force; the Mother's force is... becomes an offering? What should I do so that I can always be with the Mother? What you should do is to have confidence and try to remain always confident and cheerful. If you feel depressed call for the Mother's Force to remove the depression. If you fall ill, call the Mother's Force to cure you. When you work call the Mother's Force to support you and do the work through you. Page 217 ...
... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Difficulties and the Mother's Force What is the means of dealing day by day with difficulties? Page 296 Equality, rejection, calling in of the Mother's force. 1 August 1933 When difficulties arise, remain quiet within... do oneself one can get done by calling the Mother's force. To receive that and let it work in you is the true means of success in the sadhana. 1934 Do not brood over your difficulties. Leave them to the Mother and let her Force work them out of you. 22 March 1935 In such conditions try to remain as quiet as possible within and, if you cannot call the Mother, think of her and expect the help... "Let me do what I can; the Mother's Force is there, the Divine is there to see that in due time all will be done." 4 November 1935 There has been no letter from you for three nights. Whatever difficulty has come across, keep your faith and reliance on the Mother and lay open whatever opposes from outside or within Page 298 to the working of the Mother's Force. 25 March 1936 ...
... been intensely calling Mother, she must have felt something at that age. In Mother's childhood's visions she saw myself whom she knew as "Krishna"—she did not see Ramakrishna. It was not necessary that he should have a vision of her coming down as he was not thinking of the future nor consciously preparing for it. I don't think he had the idea of any incarnation of the Mother. 11 July 1935... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother: Some Events in Her Life The Mother with Letters on the Mother Early Visions and Experiences When Ramakrishna was doing sadhana, Mother was on earth physically for the first eight years of her childhood, from 1878 Page 35 to 1886. Did he know that Mother had come down? He must have had... 1935 The Mother is not a disciple of Sri Aurobindo. 1 She has had the same realisation and experience as myself. The Mother's sadhana started when she was very young. When she was twelve or thirteen, every evening many teachers came to her and taught her various spiritual disciplines. Among them was a dark Asiatic figure. When we first met, she immediately recognised me as the dark Asiatic figure ...
... meditation, about an hour after I rise. Is this not rather late for "getting back the thread of the progress"? You neen not meditate at once—but for a few minutes take a concentrated attitude calling the Mother's presence for the day. April 15, 1933 Last night I was trying to concentrate in bed, with the eyes closed. I suddenly woke up and the first thought was that I had been able to c... dreams? April 6, 1933 It is very difficult to say what kind of dreams they are. They are incomplete, incoherent and indistinct. But I remember one: some chickens were going about with their mother, and some crows appeared, suddenly one of them caught hold of a chicken and flew away. How on earth could such a dream take place and what significance could it have? Naturally, these dreams have... can best meet the difficulty. I tried to meditate but I had to simply give it up, and sleep came in and with it what confused dreams! When you cannot meditate, remain quiet and call in the Mother's Peace or Force. April 8, 1933 About that "legal action", I do not know exactly what they intend. I suppose they would like very much to have a personal warrant issued and so get me back ...
... enough. Whatever name is called the Power that answers is the Mother. Each name indicates a certain aspect of the Divine and is limited by that aspect; the Mother's Power is universal. Naturally, whatever name one concentrates on [ while awake ] will repeat itself [ in sleep ], if any does. But the calling of Mother in sleep is not necessarily a repetition—it is the inner being that often... of the consciousness to the Mother from within that is the true initiation and that can only come by aspiration and rejection of restlessness in the mind and vital. We do not usually give any mantra. Those who repeat something in meditation call on the Mother. As a rule the only mantra used in this sadhana is that of the Mother or of my name and the Mother. The concentration in the heart... the heart is to open the centre there (heart-lotus), to feel the presence of the Divine Mother in the heart and to become aware of one's soul or psychic being which is a portion of the Divine. The object of the concentration in the head is to rise to the Divine Consciousness and bring down the Light of the Mother or her Force or Ananda into all the centres. This movement of ascent and descent is implied ...
... him again at lunchtime, I asked him, "When you indicated to me it was over, what did you feel?" He told me, "I felt ( Mother laughs ) the Force was going, so I thought it was over..." Well, his answer showed me the exact difference.... He should hew felt. "Mother is calling me, Mother is telling me it's over," but he felt the Force was going. Then, as he saw I was talking to him, he took the opportunity... October October Mother’s Agenda 1964 October 21, 1964 On the 18th, I had an interesting experience. It was the doctor's birthday and I gave him a meditation, and after the meditation, he asked me to write for him what I had seen during the meditation. I had no intention of doing so, but an hour later, that is, at lunch time... To be clear, I should... explained a little the consciousness I have of the Lord, I said, "You shouldn't think I am the Lord..." (in my thought, it was: "I am not the Lord as YOU imagine Him"), "because if I were the Lord ( Mother smiles, amused ), you would have visions and you would be cured." This took place around 11:30. In the afternoon, usually I take my bath and stretch out a little, a good while, over there. I said ...
... down into the lower vital unless you can go there with the Mother's Force and Light supporting you. If you are pushed or fall into the lower vital confusion, then to remain quiet (not discussing or consenting to whirl round in the lower vital chaos), to reject the vital suggestions and experiences and open yourself calling down the Mother's Force to change this part of the being. Instead of that... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Force and the Forces of the Lower Nature There is in me a revolt of the vital against the Light resulting in much vital confusion. I hope that one day all my desires and ambition will go away and I will depend completely on the Mother. In the meantime... meantime, as these things too come from the Mother, there is nothing to do but wait. What things? The vital confusion and desires? It is entirely false to say that these things come from the Mother. They come from the lower Nature and its darkness and ignorance. The Mother's Force is not the lower Nature, it is the Power of the Divine Page 223 Truth and Light working upon the lower ...
... If I feel loneliness or anything not so spiritually healthy, I call out for the Mother and she responds at the level of my head (self) or heart (soul). Good. But what is this calling business? The Mother's presence must be established in me in such a way that calling would not be necessary. This is probably what she is trying to bring about. ... our ego which makes us think that on the higher spiritual planes there would be no need of aspiration. Even our sweet Mother prays day and night — we can feel it distinctly when she plays on the organ! Yes — All that is very true. It is a prayer or invocation that Mother makes in the music. It is true that I ought to be aware of my inner movements. Bui in the present... everything and ask for nothing." Letting it slip would mean a fall into an abyss. Yes, that is the way. The solution of the present difficulty that I seek from the Mother is not a fulfilment of my egoistic desires, but a strong pressure on my vital to give up its stupidities and surrender itself to her. If you keep to that, the whole difficulty will fade ...
... When I came here that name-mantra of childhood blended with the names of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. When I showed the Mother a photograph of Sri Ram Thakur, She looked at it for a long time and then remarked: “He is with me always.” The Mother Herself used to tell us: “Keep calling ‘Mother’. You will see all obstacles vanish.” Such is the divine power in a name. * Minnie-di, Smriti... this dance. The Mother kept showing Sahana-di how to express this kind of self-offering in a dance movement. It was actually for this dance that the Mother had written Radha’s Prayer . My God! All this happened so long ago. In this context let me tell you something that happened in my life. I had settled down here for good. One day very hesitatingly I asked the Mother: “Mother, how does one... this chant of the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s names. With fervour my life now overspills! That day the deeper significance of this line entered our hearts with such simplicity as we sat around the Mother and watched this change come over Her. This same fervour of self-offering began to rise within us too. I suddenly remembered how Sahana-di had told me about the Mother teaching her Radha’s ...
... medical aid for 45 minutes! In my awful condition I only kept calling to Mother and you. Of course I am again up and doing, and I can't take this set-back very seriously, though I have semi-collapses now and then and the medicos say I need regular attention and should not exert myself. Mother and you get me out of all Page 30 ... What is meant by the light of the Mother's consciousness and is it the same as that of yours? Does she lead us to the same goal as you? "The Mother's consciousness is the Divine Consciousness and the Light that comes from it is the Light of the Divine Truth. "One who receives and accepts and lives in the Mother's Light will begin to see the truth on... accept the divine Truth and its Light and Force of the Mother. "That is why I am always telling you to keep yourself in contact with the Mother and Her Light and Force, because it is only so that you can come out of the confusion and obscurity and receive the Truth that comes from above. "When we speak of the Mother's Light or my Light in a special sense, we are speaking ...
... assimilation alternate. Fluctuations of this kind cannot but come and when they come, one has to remain very quiet and detach oneself from the surface condition and wait for it to pass while calling the Mother's Force. A neutral condition of this kind serves a certain purpose in the economy of the purification and change—it brings up things that have to be transformed or rejected, lifts up some part... and the psychic is constantly in front. Everyone has periods when the consciousness is covered up. One has to go on in spite of that, and if you persist in aspiration and keep turned to the Mother, then these periods will diminish and the consciousness more and more open to her. At such periods instead of allowing these things to hold you, you should separate yourself from them and regard... changed or not sufficiently changed in the vital, especially the lower vital, some inertia or obscurity rising up from the physical parts of nature. When it comes, remain quiet, open yourself to the Mother and call back the true condition, and aspire for a clear and undisturbed discrimination showing you from within yourself the cause or the thing that needs to be set right. Yes, the ordinary ...
... way so as to get discouraged. One has to see them as the play of nature, mental nature, vital nature, physical nature, common to all human beings—to see them so and remain calm and detached, calling in the Mother's force and light for transformation of this defective play into the true nature—not getting impatient if it is not done at once, but going on steadily and giving time for the change. The full... will stick. For all these things, the way is detachment, to stand back; separate yourself from the desire, observe it, refuse sanction and put a quiet and persistent will for it to cease, calling on the Mother's force at the same time to dissolve and eliminate the greed, desire, attachment, obscurity and inertia. If sincerely, persistently and rightly done, it will succeed in the end, even though it... them is the first step towards freedom. If you cannot do anything else, you must at least remain detached—there is always a part of the being that can remain detached and go on persisting, calling down the Force from above. When vital difficulties assail a sadhak, he has not to identify his consciousness with them, but to stand back and remaining quiet in the observing part of his being ...
... under my pillow. I had to be in bed for fifteen days. After the operation I felt pain all over my body and I was wondering how to pass fifteen days in bed. So I kept Mother's Blessing packet under my pillow and started calling Mother for help with all the intensity of my heart. The next morning when I woke up I was surprised to feel that all my pain had disappeared and that my body was filled with... blessings. After my pranam Mother looked at me and told me to drive very carefully. I was wondering why She said so. I was driving at 65 miles per hour, when suddenly I saw a lady calling her daughter to come to her. And the child without looking to the traffic rushed to her mother. I applied my brake with all my strength and was able to stop the car before crushing her. I touched only her... firmly and asked me the reason of my absence from the tennis court while She was playing. I told Her that as for months She was not calling me to play with Her, I thought She was not interested to play with me any more and so I was absent these days during Her play. Mother looked into my eyes for a long time and told me "You see, I do not play tennis only for the sake of exercise. I play because with ...
... written. It is by opening yourself and calling down the Mother's force into you that you can get back the aspiration and get rid of the fatigue — whatever the cause of the fatigue may be. Mother, Today I felt that you are displeased with me. No, Mother was not displeased with you. Why should she be? Page 28 Mother, Today you were looking at me intently... elsewhere. Mother, Since 11.30 a.m. today, I feel like crying. Although I am trying to remain calm, I cannot. Mother, I wish to have peace with Thy Grace. Mother, Mother, keep Thy child at Thy feet. But what is the reason? Page 27 You should throw it off and remain quiet and open for the 21st. 20.2.33 Sri Aurobindo Mother, You have... it happened so. Mother, I was worshipping Radha and Lord Krishna from my childhood and called them my Mother and Father. When I came here and had your Darshan I felt that I had a real Darshan of Radha and Lord Krishna. Afterwards I realized that Lord Krishna had brought me here and taken me under his protection. I call you both my Mother and Father and I truly feel it. Mother, is it a fact or ...
... come. I - I am calling, Mother. You come, come, come. The Mother fixed Her regard on me for quite some time. Total silence reigned between us. I bowed down to Her and came away. 1 st December arrived. That day, I just kept calling Mahakali and thought of nothing else. I kept praying to Her. I arrived at the Theater at the designated time to get ready... dance my part to satisfaction. Finally, I decided to go and see the Mother on 29 th November and tell Her about it. I - Mother, I am unable to dance the part of Mahakali. Page 160 Mother - Why, what's happened? I - Mother, how can I dance Mahakali before You? Mother - Make the effort, it will come. I - There's a thought... Asuras in front of the real Mahakali? My dance is very powerful, Mother, but how can I dance in front of You? How can I act as Mahakali, when the real Divine Mother is present before me? Tell me, Mother, what I should do. The Mother sat for a long time in silence, eyes closed. Then, She spoke: Mother - Try and gather all the force within you. Now channelize this ...
... will are established in the sleep itself which will do what is necessary. You need not meditate at once [ after waking in the morning ]—but for a few minutes take a concentrated attitude calling the Mother's presence for the day. Page 451 Hearing Music after Waking The expression [ of sweet melodious music ] was of the psychic plane—and the music was of that domain. Very often coming... passage through other worlds (planes or states of conscious existence). It is these ten minutes that restore the energies of the being, and without it sleep is not refreshing. According to the Mother's experience and knowledge one passes from waking through a succession of states of sleep consciousness which are in fact an entry and passage into so many worlds and arrives at a pure Sachchidananda... . The body needs sufficient rest in order to be able to bear the pressure of sadhana. You can pray or will before sleeping to be conscious in sleep, and you can get your waking mind full of the Mother. That is the best way. But you must not expect to be able to succeed all at once. First, the sleep-mind must become conscious of what it is doing in sleep; only afterwards can you determine what it ...
... world, of which it had to accept the problems and try to find their solutions. It was symbolically situated in the middle of the town. Mirra was now “the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram” after Sri Aurobindo had started calling her the “Mother”. Sri Aurobindo stopped seeing people and continued his great spiritual work unseen and unknown. The only glimpses we have of it from those years are passages... days of his life. The Mother was always present with the disciples and built up an exemplary community which was a world in miniature. During the Second World War she would even set up a system of education for the children of the refugee families connected with the Ashram and who fled before an invasion by the Japanese. About Golconde, a guest house constructed under the Mother’s direction in a street... God 14. Sri Aurobindo’s Vision Hitler and his God A Lady from Paris Mirra Alfassa was born in Paris on 21 February 1878. Her father was Turkish and her mother Egyptian; they had settled in the French capital a few months before her birth. At that time Paris, refashioned by Baron Haussmann, was the cultural capital of the world. It was where the haute couture ...
... the psychic when it comes forward. * Mother had once told me that one can realise the Divine in the vital plane and remain there only and think 'this is it' and not move, progress any more. And then one becomes a Guru! Page 206 Sri Aurobindo once told me, 'Keep on calling on the Mother. That would build around you a zone of peace.' ... quests and the peaks Page 202 that have been climbed. Following Mother's words that the time to rest is not now, Amal continues unceasingly this great adventure that is the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. All these three experiences have probably been published in Mother India. 17 August 1991, about 5 p.m. Suddenly a great quiet took... the Mother on the first floor Balcony, as if she was almost within physical reach, to see Her intimate face looking at one person then another, covering all, step by step. Even reciting these lines and reliving that Balcony Darshan makes me emotional and the voice gets strained, choked as I just found the other day reciting these tines to someone. * Refuge in the Mother and ...
... Last night I dreamed that I had gone to a distant relative's house. There I met a friend of mine looking hideous because his nose had been eaten up by a disease. I thought of curing him by calling down the Mother's Force. Then I actually felt the Force coming down; when I put my hand on him, lo, he was cured! Miracle and concrete Force in dream? A feat on the vital plane. If you begin to be conscious... physical action breaks a law without which the Asram cannot stand and the work cannot be done. It is not a personal matter, but a blow aimed at the very soul of the Mother's work. Outside sadhaks indulge and get a child, e.g. Y and others. Mother disapproves and the man who does it has no longer the same grace as before, but he is not in the Asram and his lapse hurts only himself and his wife. The... putting Anjali with Y? I can't judge your work, but it is permissible to state the circumstances... Inconveniences, sufferings, etc. do not matter if Mother thinks it is needed for Y's good... I have not yet had time to place Jatin's letter before the Mother and decide on an answer. I shall do so as soon as possible and let him know the result. Please let me know for future guidance if I should at ...
... These must be crossed at the dead of the night. Be alert, O travellers!) After accepting the flower-blessings from the Mother I came down. Everyone on the staircase was laughing. After this incident my fear of dogs was considerably reduced. I would still start calling out the Mother’s name every time I saw a dog from afar. I became frightened of fear itself. And so in this way accepting the challenge... the Mother loved very much. In fact it was the Mother who had named him Goldy. It was indeed a most beautiful dog. His body was covered with shiny golden fur and that was probably why the Mother had named him so. Lakshmibai used to take a lot of care of her dog. Everyday Goldy would go straight to the Mother without bothering about anybody and lift his front paws and hug the Mother. The Mother showered... terrace one after another, moved by the wind: clusters of flowers swaying gently and eyeing the Mother in that silence-wrapped form—as if greeting Her with “ Bonjour, Douce Mère !” (Good Morning, Sweet Mother!) Sitting there at the Mother’s Feet my eyes would fill with that solitary form of the Mother absorbed in meditation and my heart spilled over with pure bliss. A marvellous thrill coursed through ...
... development takes place, then all will become more clear and coherent. This development will take place if, without getting disturbed, you quietly aspire and go on calling the Mother's Force to do what is needed. Your call will always reach the Mother. If you remain quiet and confident, you will in time become aware of the answer. The more the mind becomes quiet, the clearer will it become to you and you... consciousness can be equally and for some more easily got in the waking meditation through the Mother's presence and the descent from above. The inward movement, however, is probably unavoidable and he should try to understand and, not shrinking or afraid, to go to it with the same confidence and faith in the Mother as he has in the waking meditation. His dreams are of course experiences on the inner (vital)... course the Mother's face you saw in your vision, but probably in one of her supraphysical, not her physical form and face—that is also indicated by the great light that came from the form and rendered it invisible. I am glad to hear of the development you speak of in your dealing with others. It is a power proper to the Yoga consciousness that is developing in you, because the Mother's force is ...
... my bio-logical mother told me one day: "When you were very young and were drowning you had called out 'Ma' aloud, it was not me that you were calling. The 'Ma' you were calling was Mother, it was this Mother who saved you and now you've found refuge in her." (74) A nd so I learnt to swim. And since then how much I have swum! In the Ganga, in the Padma. We swam for miles even... evenings, after a lot of calling and cajoling his mother managed to bring him back into the house. The mother had a nasal voice. She used to call through her nose: "O Kukré, where are you? Come down from the tree." One day Kukré's father died. His body was kept in the open yard. His mother was crying. Kukré suddenly came in from God knows where, calling out aloud to everyone: "Come... to say something to her. I took him to Mother. Our bandmaster said something to Mother in French, but his French was such that Mother could not understand a word of it. Then I told Mother in English what he wanted to tell her. Mother then gave her reply in French, speaking very slowly. Page 112 The bandmaster kept looking at Mother, as he too had not understood her French ...
... progress is pushing out and it is not easy to get rid of this recurrence altogether. The one thing when they come is not to get distressed or upset, to realise what it is and to remain very quiet calling for the Mother's Force to push it away. In this way the habit Page 665 of these recurrences diminishes, the strength and intensity also, and on the other side one is able to recall the true co... put in their place the spiritual men of the past and the present or relate the different ideals, stages etc. thrown up in the spiritual evolution of the human being. I reply to your letter as Mother is still too much occupied to write. What was in her view at the time was what is called in the psychology of Indian Yoga a "sattwic" perfection, perfection in the form of the qualities and actions... as a principle would be dangerous; the "apparent" imperfections are those which might appear so to an outward view only. A "righteous" anger might easily be part of that selfrighteousness which the Mother had in view, and to be identified with the movement of anger righteous or otherwise is spiritually undesirable. But a movement of the kind meant may seem to an outward view identical with the movements ...
... is not peculiar to you, but comes to all sadhaks—it does not imply an unfitness for the sadhana or justify hopelessness. But you must train yourself to overcome this reaction of depression, calling in the Mother's force to aid you. All who cleave to the path steadfastly can be sure of their spiritual destiny. If anyone fails to reach it, it can only be for one of two reasons, either because they leave... why, even if one falls or fails, the other should torment himself for that, lose his faith and abandon his way. X 's struggle, whatever its nature or limits, is her own and concerns herself and the Mother. It is not yours and ought not to touch or concern you at all; if you allow it to touch and shake you because she happens to be your sister, you bring in an unnecessary difficulty to add to your own ...
... girls.) All of us who stood near the Mother were taken aback. Gauri, Milli-di, Minnie-di, Violette, Vasudha and I had never taken part in any games. We looked at the Mother in utter helplessness. By calling out the Mother’s group, it was as if the Mother Herself was being challenged. Who was Udar challenging? He just did not think of this at that time. The Mother looked at us and said: “Go ahead... ahead, all of you!” Repeating the Mother’s name we moved forward. I felt so extremely embarrassed in the middle of the ground in front of all those people! We hadn’t the slightest idea how to pull the rope! Not even how to stand! On the other hand the ‘E’ group girls were greatly experienced! I kept calling out to the Mother. Then as soon as Udar signalled, we began pulling the rope. I don’t know what... this mischievous aspect of the Mother. After the marching the Mother would get into the small room and sit on a raised seat. We sat on the floor around Her. Gauri would then give the Mother something to eat. The Mother distributed some of it as prasad to us. That same American lady suddenly turned up in the room! She began talking to the Mother in French. The Mother glanced at us with a fleeting ...
... outstretched hands: 'Come away, come away. A little more, just a little bit more. Then you will be able to come away to me.' Madan-da would look like someone hypnotised then. But he kept calling the Mother's name even then. And that is how the departed soul's spell on Madan-da was dissolved. On hearing this Gopal said: 'Dada, in my home-town, a person known to me decided to end his life by... just after kicking the ball. He never got up again. He died of heart failure. After cremating him one of his friends lost his balance I little bit. He kept telling himself: 'Sadhu is calling me. Sadhu is calling me.' This boy died the next day. He was very good at cricket. Someone asked: 'Dada, when death is sudden or caused by an accident, does the soul that leaves call out for the loved... happened? You wanted to hang yourself? Come on, then. It is totally painless. Just come. Look, this is how you should do it.' And even while he was saying all this, this ghost-like black man continued calling her again and again. Finally after a few days this dark figure stopped coming at the window. My aunt too stopped cooking in the kitchen alone.' Page 135 These are all mental formations ...
... sudden I saw that a huge, camel-like creature was crushing me with its body. Its body was covered with soft thorns. It was trying to crush me with those thorns. It was quite painful. I started calling Mother. Mother answered: "There, everything is all right." Saying this she brought me back into the body. She then explained to me that I had seen a vital being. But it can do us no harm because we can get... Then suddenly one day I saw a little notice at the Ashram Gate: Pranab to see Nolini. I went to see him. He lovingly asked me to sit and offered me a tinful of Crisps. And then he began calling me every Friday and Saturday and would warmly offer me plenty of sweets. And in this way, enveloped by his affection and love, I have had the chance to hear and understand a lot of Page 245... He came laughing to Mother to show her his new dress. Then without interrupting his laughter he told Mother: "Someone told me that I was looking like a son-in-law. The famous Bengali 'jamai-babu'." At this, both Mother and Pavitra-da laughed even more. Sometimes Mother used to try and make Pavitra-da Page 240 Mother on a visit to Biren's ...
... was no wall severing the soul and mind, No mystic fence guarding from the claims of life. In its deep lotus home her being sat As if on concentration's marble seat, Calling the mighty Mother of the worlds To make this earthly tenement her house. As in a flash from a supernal light, A living image of the original Power, A face, a form came down into her... Arrived from the other side of boundlessness An eye of deity pierced through the dumb deeps... Intervening in a mindless universe, Its message crept through the reluctant hush Calling the adventure of consciousness and joy And, conquering Nature's disillusioned breast, Compelled renewed consent to see and feel. _________ 1Book II, 1034-37. 2Book III,... age, The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn, The great creators with wide brows of calm, The massive barrier-breakers of the world ________________ 1 Mostly published in Mother India, June-September 1957. [Here are included only the passages related to Savitri.] Page 98 And wrestlers with destiny in her lists of will, The labourers in the quarries ...
... dose! And it is a very strong dose. In my awful condition, I only kept calling to the Mother and you. Of course I am again up and doing, and can't take this setback very seriously, though I have a semi-collapse now and then, and the medicos say I need regular attention and should not exert myself. The Mother and you get me out of all scrapes. I suppose you know that. That... ago, one day, the Mother accosted me here. (There are some flowers, you know, which She has named 'Prayer'.) So there were some 'Prayer' flowers with Her. We used to go to the Mother for pranam and She used to give us flowers; she always had a few flowers in Her hands. She said that day, "You don't pray, I suppose." Then I said, "Mother, very rarely. Very rarely, I pray, Mother." Then she took a... only for spiritual things." I laughed, and thought to myself, "Mother, have I left all material things behind in order to ask them again from you?" Page 44 But that is Her way. Sri Aurobindo said everyone will arrive at the Divine. Amal Kiran once asked the Mother if he would realise God in this life. The Mother replied that he would, unless he did something idiotic and cut ...
... going on cheerfully and bravely in full confidence and reliance, trusting in the grace, serenely and vigilantly, anchoring yourself on your psychic being, calling down more and more of the love and Ananda, turning more and more exclusively to the Mother. That is the true way—and there is no other. There is no reason to be so much cut down or despair of your progress. Evidently you have had a surging... external habits have to be changed, but you can do it quietly without allowing their presence to throw you into despondency and despair. It is best done by detaching yourself from them and calling in the Mother's Force to act there and spread the deeper realisation into the outward parts. Your reasoning about violently getting rid of the body in order to get a better one hereafter is entirely wrong... preoccupied too much with the difficulties of the nature. It is always better to dwell on the good side of things in yourself—I do not mean in an egoistic way, but with faith and cheerful confidence, calling down the positive experience of which the nature is already capable so that a constant positive growth can help in the rejection of all that has to be rejected. But in fact one gets often projected ...
... once in action does the harmonising etc. The second way is to act with your mental will on these things, not allowing yourself to drift and not getting upset by difficulties and checks, calling on the Mother's Force to assist and finally use your will. There are others, but I stop here. I want urgently that part of the Divine which will help me keep my poise, calm, peace against any assault from... and discomfort. Thinking of trying enema on alternate days. Yes. Mother thinks it very necessary. August 30, 1936 Yes, X told me that Mother had sent him, but when I went to apply medicine, he said—ask Mother! Nonsense! It is implied. Mother doesn't send him to the Dispensary for a promenade or to dance. It seems J's irregularity of periods has been caused by excessive mental... delay. Very unbusinesslike and slipshod. Writing to Madras means that Mother will have to pay far inferior stuff while she can get free the best quality from Punamchand's father whose speciality it is. X has inflammation inside the ear, I wanted to apply medicine, but he requires permission. You can. It was Mother who sent him to you for treatment. S still complains of slight pain and ...
... the query: 'When Ramakrishna was doing Sadhana, Mother was on earth physically for the first eight years of her childhood, from 1878 to 1886. Did he not know that Mother had come down? He must have had some vision at least of her coming, but we do not read anywhere definitely about it. And when Ramakrishna must have been intensely calling Mother, she must have felt something at that age." The... the one entitled: The Mother — Some General Truths and Particular Facts. It was based on notes taken a few years earlier by a young sadhak after an interview with the Mother and it also incorporated a few talks of mine with her as well as a number of philosophical reflections relevant to some of the occasions and topics recorded. When it was published and the Mother glanced at it, she spoke... and the Mother were on the earth from the beginning what was the need for Avatars coming down here one after another?" The response¹ was absolutely definitive: "We were not on earth as Avatars." The conclusion seems inevitable that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were Avatars only in their present lives and that none of the other Avatars could be said to be they. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother came ...
... poison for human beings.... In my awful condition I kept calling to the Mother and you. Of course, I am again up and doing, and I can't take this setback very seriously, through I have semi-collapses now and then and the medicos say I Page 313 need regular attention and should not exert myself. Mother and you get me out of all scrapes; the sweet grace of you... the same caressing way, and at end lightly kissed the child on the forehead. The little patient, I am positive, went away as good as cured. The Mother once told me that she used to cure her son Andre, when a boy, of all his illness without ever calling a doctor." So far about Amal Kiran in his "Light and Laughter". Amal Kiran's Ordeals Amal had gone to Bombay... well. When Mother India was started in Bombay with Amal as its editor, he used to send his editorials for Sri Aurobindo's perusal and sanction. I used to read them to Page 306 Sri Aurobindo. The Mother found one editorial too strong and brought it to his notice. But he approved of it. He considered Mother India his paper, as did the Mother consider the ...
... The subtle, divine world withdrew from her. She sat "in the deep lotus home" in her own natural being— "on concentration's marble seat", "calling the mighty Mother of the worlds" to descend into her, "to make this earthly tenement her house". The divine Mother descended into her heart and there was "a mighty movement" when the higher Power touched her heart-centre. "A naming serpent rose released... by identity. She passed from room to room of the soul and felt one with everything. "She knew herself Beloved of the Supreme: "Mother was she of Beauty and Delight, The Word in Brahma's vast creating clasp, "The Master and the Mother of all lives "And Krishna and Radha for ever entwined in bliss". Page 322 There she arrived in the last chamber where... "in a pale lustrous robe". She was sitting on a rugged soil with "sharp and wounding stones" beneath her feet. She was "divine pity", a "spirit touched by the grief of all that lives". She was the Mother of seven sorrows. Her eyes were "dim with" the ancient stain of tears. "She had" beauty of sadness on her face. She spoke to Savitri:— "O Savitri, I am thy secret soul". "To share the suffering ...
... Incarnation, not the Divine, but somebody else who claimed to be the Divine—i.e. he was a god who somehow thought he was God. Somehow I can't accept that people following other paths of sadhana are calling Mother and Sri Aurobindo and getting their help and Force. In that case wouldn't all of them, except the worshippers of the Impersonal, be their disciples? The Divine is neither personal nor impersonal... What a wonderful thing it will be, by Jove! That was what he was calling for and he believed he got the answer. So if that vision were to come true, it would be marvellous. Somehow I feel that America would be the first to accept your message and through it your work will be spread all over the West. True? Possibly. Mother has always expected something special from America. You will find... as receiving the Mother's Force. [Sri Aurobindo underlined "Mother's Force".] " In contact with " the Divine Force which is the force of the Mother—that was what I wrote, I believe. But which Mother? Ours or some universal Mother as people say? Perhaps an ignorant and foolish question, but Can't help it. How many Mothers are there? Who is this some universal Mother? How many of these ...
... sat As if on concentration’s marble seat, Calling the mighty Mother of the worlds To make this earthly tenement her house. || 127.4 || As in a flash from a supernal light, A living image of the original Power, A face, a form came down into her heart And made of it its temple and pure abode. || 127.5 || 37 ..A portion of the mighty Mother came Into her as into its own human part.. ||... the result of a calling rather than of a personal decision. It is a pursuit for the mature souls, ‘the pioneer few’ who have incarnated once more to help their human brothers and sisters by dedicating this earthly incarnation to the shaping of a world where suffering, hatred, darkness and death will have no dominion any more. Indeed, the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is the supreme... course, I knew before this that I was the Mother, but the complete identification took place only in 1914,’ 33 said the Mother many years later. Who is the Universal Mother? A few pages before we have seen that when the One wanted to objectify Itself in order to have a ‘concrete’ knowledge of Itself, It activated Its Consciousness-Power. The Mother is the Consciousness-Power of the Divine, which ...
... There was no wall severing the soul and mind, No mystic fence guarding from the claims of life. In its deep lotus home her being sat As if on concentration's marble seat, Calling the mighty Mother of the worlds To make this earthly tenement her house. As in a flash from a supernal light, A living image of the original Power, A face, a form came down into her heart... Arrived from the other side of boundlessness An eye of deity pierced through the dumb deeps... Intervening in a mindless universe, Its message crept through the reluctant hush Calling the adventure of consciousness and joy And, conquering Nature's disillusioned breast, Compelled renewed consent to see and feel. A thought was sown in the unsounded Void, A sense... none has trod: A step, and all is sky and God. Page 365 One Day was among the lines of poetry the Mother read out on the last day of 1954 when she gave the Message for 1955, the year which was said to be a crucial one bristling with difficulties. The Mother went on to say: "Now, as we have talked of difficulties, I wish to read two things, not two poems but some lines, one whole ...
... when you thought you were going east. The Mother said nothing of the kind. You were not going in the wrong direction; there was nothing wrong in praying or in calling on the Mother or concentrating within, there is nothing wrong in meditating with ardour—provided it is a confident and happy ardour. You were going towards the east all right, but what the Mother said amounted to this that you were going... phrase about "calling the Divine names" very lightly and with no conscious intention in it; it was not meant in the least to convey displeasure or a reproach to you. It was used simply to point the description of a concep tion of the Divine, too external and summary, which seems to us to be an obstacle rather than a help to realisation. We saw that you had misunderstood what the Mother said and had... version of your Thomsonian letter to Nirod so that we may ponder over and grow wiser at leisure. I really need some polite version thereof. Also did you note Saratchandra's high praise (on back of Dola) calling me a "great writer?" You are bound to note it—please. I did not notice Saratchandra's praise—as I only looked at the first and second pages and not at the back. I shall see now. I read Cromnur ...
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