... earlier age she was at the same time Mona Lisa, Margaret de Valois and some other aristocratic lady whose name I forget for the moment. Of course we are here speaking of different partial emanations of the Mother, embodying one aspect or another aspect, and not the full central being which found embodiment only in our time... Page 241 My reply evoked an enthusiastic response dated ...
... faster to its divine goal by a new creation. There is however a whole hierarchy of Kalis, from those in the lower vital up to Mahakali, the Great Kali, who is one of the four aspects or direct emanations of the Mother. The lower Kalis are as depicted in the Indian iconography: naked, black, with bulging eyes, the tongue hanging out, a garland of skulls around the neck, terrible weapons (powers) in their ...
... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Presence The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Knowledge and Her Emanations In the case of X, I was under the impression that Mother could at once know of such things. Some even say that she knows everything—all that is material or spiritual. Good Lord! you don't expect her mind... tell me how far Mother and you know about our physical, material affairs. In this case it was a general hint with no special reference to khichari. 16 July 1935 What you say about emanations is very interesting. The Mother then has about 150 emanations; adding 150 of yours, we find that we are each protected by one god and one goddess. I am not aware of any emanations of mine. As for... for the Mother's, they are not there for protection, but to support the personal relation or contact with the sadhaka and to act so far as he will allow them to act. 16 July 1935 Kindly tell us a little more about emanations. How do they support the personal relation or contact the Mother has with us? I thought that all personal relations were with the Mother direct, not through a deputy! It ...
... as an emanation can proceed on its way as an independent divine being with its own play in the world. All the Gods can put forth such emanations from their being, identical with them in essence of consciousness and power though not commensurate. In a certain sense the Universe itself can be said to be an emanation from the Supreme. In the consciousness of the Sadhak an emanation of the Mother will ... Mahashakti and in close union and harmony with each other . Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram: A Note on the Terminology of The Mother Here once again Sri Aurobindo explains about the Emanations: An Emanation of the Mother is something of her consciousness and power put forth from her which, so long as it is in play, is held in close connection with her and, when its... Ashram: A Note on the Terminology of The Mother Sri Aurobindo has also revealed about Mahashakti and Her Emanations: In a sense the four Powers of the Mother may be called, because of their origin, her Emanations, just as the Gods may be called Emanations of the Divine, but they have a more permanent and fixed character; they are at once the Mother, the Mahashakti, and she can always either ...
... origin. It is also the light of Mahakali above the mind. The golden light is also often seen emanating from the Mother like the white Light. 17 September 1933 The line of golden light is a line of the light of the higher Divine Truth encircling the Akash of the heart and the diamond mass is the Mother's light pressing into that Akash. It is therefore a sign of these powers working on the psych... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Lights The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Golden Light of Mahakali Today at Pranam I saw a light like a golden thread coming from the Mother to me, but it vanished in a short time. Once I saw this light very clearly when she was standing on the Page 267 terrace, just before coming ...
... as an emanation can proceed on its way as an independent divine being with its own play in the world. All the Gods can put forth such emanations from their being, identical with them in essence of consciousness and power though not commensurate. In a certain sense the universe itself can be said to be an emanation from the Supreme. In the consciousness of the sadhaka an emanation of the Mother will... as you suggest,—on the contrary it is a manifestation acting in the worlds of the divine manifestation. Page 452 (4) Emanations Emanations correspond to your description of the Matrikas of whom you speak in your letter. An emanation of the Mother is something of her consciousness and power put forth from her, which so long as it is in play is held in close connection with her and... with which he is familiar. In a sense the four Powers of the Mother may be called, because of their origin, her Emanations, just as the Gods may be called Emanations of the Divine, but they have a more permanent and fixed character; they are at once independent beings allowed their play by the Adyā Shakti and yet portions of the Mother, the Mahashakti, and she can always either manifest through them ...
... March March Mother’s Agenda 1971 March 5, 1971 ( Extract from Sujata's notebook, after a visit to Mother. ) A warm, golden light emanates from Mother's eyes. It enters me. ...
... anything but their wormhood and asshood even throughout the ages? When K says that he feels the Mother's physical touch, with whom does he have the contact—the Mother or the emanation? With the Mother—the emanation helping—which is its business. By the way, are these brackets about emanations absolutely unbreakable or can they be withdrawn in favour of a few, e.g. J, D, and put back again... malign forces, in our sleep!... I am not aware of any emanations of mine. As for the Mother's, they are not there for protection, but to support the personal relation or contact with the sadhaka, and to act so far as he will allow them to act. If, for instance, you sidle up to X of the beaming face in your sleep, what can the Emanation do but shake its head and say "Well, perhaps when he has finished... is meant by "Discipline" in Yogic parlance? Anyway please tell us how far Mother and you know about our physical, material affairs. In this case it was a general hint with a special reference to khichuri. July 16, 1935 What you say about "Emanations" is very interesting. Mother has then about 150 emanations and, adding 150 of yours, we are each, protected by one god and one goddess ...
... Mother is referring to a special puja or Tantric ritual ( kumari puja ) during which the officiant brings down certain forces—an emanation of the Mother—into a very young girl. This was on October 20, 1958. × These last few days, Mother has been "in a bad state." ... reaction ( Mother seems very amused ). ( silence ) But you know, this little S.U. (I've never said this; I forget when it was—years ago, she was big as a boot), when your famous Sannyasin 3 came here, he wanted to do a worship to the Mother, 4 and he did one thing... which isn't regarded as very charitable (that individual had a certain capacity): he put into this child an emanation of a higher... higher spirit (which he thought was an emanation of the Mother), he carried out the ceremony, and afterwards (it was infinitely too powerful for the child), he came to me and told me, "I'll send her to you for you to take out the emanation, we can't keep that!" So he sent me the child. And I saw that he had put something into her (which was fine, by the way; it wasn't at all a bad thing, it ...
... on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Presence The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Emanations I saw the Mother in an experience. Is it an emanation of hers that I saw or is it her whole body and whole consciousness? An emanation. How can her physical body be seen in a dream experience? 7 July 1933 The Mother when she... she works in the supra-physical levels goes out in a different emanation to each sadhak. 11 December 1933 During the afternoon sleep I often come in contact with the Mother. Is it the Mother who sends her emanation? Yes. Or rather something of her is always with you. 14 December 1933 ...
... That means the light of the divine consciousness (the Mother's Consciousness, white light) in the vital. Blue is the higher mind, gold the divine Truth. So it is the vital with the light of the higher mind and the divine Truth in it emanating the Mother's light. ... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Lights The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's White Light Last night I got contact with the Light and prayed for its descent. But it got lost as soon as my mind began to get into a white peaceful Mother's consciousness. That was quite right. The contact with the Light must create... the Truth. (5) There cannot be any real incompatibility between the Mother's consciousness and contact with the Light above. 2 June 1932 What is the colour of the light around the Mother? The Mother's special colour is white, but all the other colours are hers also. 7 June 1933 In the evening when the Mother came out, I saw a huge white light following behind her. At first I thought ...
... otherwise there would have been only one single thing all the time. What does "Vibhuti" mean? Page 273 It means the incarnation of an emanation. An emanation of the Mother incarnates in a being and this being becomes a Vibhuti. Sweet Mother, here I do not understand this: "But something of her ways can be seen and felt through her embodiments and the more seizable because more defined... an idol is made, you see, and the priest brings down a form—when the ceremony takes place in a regular manner, he puts himself in an inner state of invocation and tries to bring down a form or an emanation of the godhead into the idol in order to give it a power—if the priest is truly a man with a power of invocation, he can succeed. But usually—there are exceptions to everything—but usually these people... again one's formations. But, you see, in a smaller measure and less perfectly one is making formations all the time. When, for instance, one thinks of somebody quite powerfully, there is a small emanation of mental substance which, instantaneously, goes to this person, you understand, a vibration of your thought which goes and touches his; and if he is receptive, he sees you. He sees you and tells ...
... the ideal of the Life Divine, and imbibe something of the Light and Force Page 382 emanating from the Mother. It seemed as if the flood-gates of a dynamic spirituality had been flung wide open to the whole world without any distinction of creed and colour. It seemed that the Mother's will and aspiration breathed by her Prayer of January 9, 1914 when she knew nothing of Sri Aurobindo... came and settled—all drawn by some irresistible, mysterious magnetism. Even little children, once they came and felt a touch of the Mother's love, refused to go back with their parents and were happy to live and grow under the Mother's outspread wings. The Mother dislikes advertisement and propaganda, particularly in the cause of spiritual institutions. She says that, if her work is the work of... In the Mother's Light THE MOTHER'S WORK* WHEN Sri Aurobindo left his body in the year 1950, most of his disciples and devotees, living in the world outside, made anxious enquiries as to what would now be the fate of the Ashram and the great work of the supramental transformation which he had laboured for during the forty long years of his strenuous seclusion ...
... Aurobindo, catch a glimpse of the ideal of the Life Divine and imbibe something of the Light and Force emanating from the Mother. It seemed as if the flood-gates of a dynamic spirituality had been flung wide open to the whole world without any distinction of creed and colour. It seemed that the Mother's will and aspiration breathed by her Prayer of January 9, 1914, when she knew nothing of Sri Aurobindo... came and settled—all drawn by some irresistible, mysterious magnetism. Even little children, once they came and felt a touch of the Mother's love, refused to go back with their parents and were happy to live and grow under the Mother's outspread wings. The Mother dislikes advertisement and propaganda, particularly in the cause of spiritual institutions. She says that, if her work is the work of... consciousness and the Mother's were one; and now they realised that truth more and more, in a sense more living, quickening and intimate. A meditative silence reigned in the Ashram for twelve days after the passing of the beloved Master. Then the normal activities began, but with a striking difference. One felt a pervading Presence in the Ashram atmosphere and the Mother's Force as more sovereignly ...
... ) What if we meditated a little. Sit as you normally do and ... forget that I'm here! (After the meditation) I'm going to tell you what I saw—it's very interesting. First, emanating from here ( Mother indicates the chest ), a florescence of every color like a peacock's tail spread wide; but it was made of Page 446 light, and it was very, very delicate, very fine, like this... 1960 1960 Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 October 22, 1960 ( Pavitra shows Mother a photograph of the house in which She lived in Paris, rue du Val de Grâce ) Well, well! The house on Val de Grâce! It looks inhabited, the windows have curtains in them. I lived there—a small house, really very small, with a bedroom upstairs... this swarming.' And then—I don't know why—you objected, and this objection was red, like a tongue of fire lashing out from the white, like this ( Mother draws an arabesque ). So I said, 'No, don't worry, it doesn't matter, I won't disturb a thing 2 !' ( Mother laughs mischievously ) All this took place in a realm which is constantly active, everywhere; it is like a permanent mental transcription ...
... of the exhortation: "Behave as if the Mother was looking at you, for indeed, she is always present," Sri Aurobindo wrote on 16 July 1935: "It is the Page 282 emanation of the Mother that is with each sadhak all the time." Then, three days later, in response to a request for further elucidation: The Emanation is not a deputy, but the Mother herself. She is not bound to her body... body, but can put herself out (emanate) in any way she likes. What emanates, suits itself to the nature of the personal relation she has with the sadhak which is different with each, but that does not prevent it from being herself. Its presence with the sadhak is not dependent on his consciousness of it. 7 IV The sadhaks, then, took to a form of work, not for egoistic or material gain... the answer," was the Mother's utterance. ... 15.6.1928: Received before soup from the Mother's hands, Book and Photos with signature. Mother serious at soup time. Good experience. ... 17.10.1928: Night soup: the Mother was half-smiling and kept the floral garland on her lap .... Page 288 28.12.1928: Night at Soup: our eyes opened - joy - the Mother was looking at us . ...
... be that I was a footling of a painter tutored by the great Leonardo who, we are convinced, was an emanation of Sri Aurobindo's. I may have handed him brushes when he was doing the portrait of Mona Lisa whom we take to be an emanation of the Mother in that period. At least once I confronted the Mother with the question of Mona Lisa. Just as she had asked me to hold up my hand I held up her hand on one... incident proper, that this friend of mine had a remarkable faith in the Mother—especially in the Mother within his own being. You know that there are two Page 50 Mothers who are ultimately one — the Mother inside us and the Mother outside. Of course, the aim in general of the Mother outside — the Mother who is in a body as our Guru — is to make us aware of herself within our... the smith to force the lock open. He firmly replied: "I can't do anything without a chit from the Mother, our Guru." (laughter) Now the Mother was in the Soup Hall and could not be approached. We tried to explain to the smith that it would be quite all right to proceed without consulting the Mother. But he was adamant. "My God!" I said to myself. "What have I done — by discrediting the inner guide ...
... of the Ashram, in their different ways and in different degrees, were involved in the sadhana which really meant opening one's consciousness and filling it with the vibrations of the Truth emanating from the Mother. While the sadhaks pursued their yoga through right aspiration, rejection of all that was false, and the willing surrender of their whole beings (their thoughts, actions and the fruits of... The Auroville project that was initiated by the Mother in 1965 took certain decisive steps during 1966. Roger Anger, the principal architect, arrived on 7 March with plans and photographs, and started working with his team of associates, duly taking note of the Mother's vision, the proposed terrain, and the local circumstances. The Mother continued to advise, guide and inspire Navajata and Sri... of agony and perplexity, where could her children go except rush to the Mother? Thus, on 11 May, Surendra Nath Jauhar, who was doing her work at the Delhi Branch of Sri Aurobindo Ashram and managing the Mother's School there, poured out his sufferings and problems before her. Having taken a measure of his difficulties, the Mother said: The whole world is in a condition of strife, conflict, between ...
... Being beyond the darkness." February 21, like August 15, marks the emanation of this Being from across the darkness into our world so that something of the sun-colour may come into our dull heads and our dim hearts. Next to these dates the most important is March 29 which brought together the two supernal emanations. The Mother's diary next day recorded her recognition of the Saviour Grace that... universality. But surely all the power she can exercise now on the universal scale was always there? There was always the Universal Mother as well as the Transcendent Mother in addition to the Individual Mother as manifested in a physical body. The embodied individual Mother's working put no bar to the working of her Page 281 other aspects. They were not impeded in any way. Her embodiment... Mark the word "soul". The Mother has said that when she sends her blessings they are meant for the soul. Not that no material benefits can come, but we cannot count on them. What we can be sure of is that through anything taking place the Mother's blessings will manage the soul's benefit, the soul's increase in light, its growing more and more a true child of the Mother. From the stream of ...
... as an emanation can proceed on its way as an independent divine being with its own play in the world. All the Gods can put forth such emanations from their being, identical with them in essence of consciousness and power though not commensurate. In a certain sense the universe itself can be said to be an emanation from the Supreme. In the consciousness of the sadhaka an emanation of the Mother will... as you suggest,—on the contrary it is a manifestation acting in the worlds of the divine manifestation. Page 104 (4) Emanations Emanations correspond to your description of the Matrikas of whom you speak in your letter. An emanation of the Mother is something of her consciousness and power put forth from her, which so long as it is in play is held in close connection with her and... with which he is familiar. In a sense the four Powers of the Mother may be called, because of their origin, her Emanations, just as the Gods may be called Emanations of the Divine, but they have a more permanent and fixed character; they are at once independent beings allowed their play by the Adyā Shakti and yet portions of the Mother, the Mahashakti, and she can always either manifest through them ...
... revelation". The Mother's comment on the very first line lightningly projects the sublime spiritual perspectives of the poem. The first emanations from the Supreme Mother - Consciousness, Bliss, Truth, Life - lose contact with their Origin, get immersed in Darkness, and in consequence dwindle into Unconsciousness, Suffering, Falsehood, Death. To redeem these four perverted and lost emanations, the Supreme... Supreme Mother sends out a new series of emanations, the Gods. The exordium thus describes in the cosmic context the interval between the 'first and the second series of Divine emanations, - "the hour before the Gods awake". From the Divine Summits, the descent to the Nadir of Inconscience: but in the Earth - albeit apparently an abandoned mass of inconscience - the Divine is actually veiled... celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory. Still this is not a mere allegory, the characters are not personified qualities, but incarnations or Page 664 emanations of living and conscious Forces with whom we can enter into concrete touch and they take human bodies in order to help man and show him the way from his mortal state to a divine consciousness and ...
... rebuilding in Matter of the stair, or the supercosmic column, or the tower of worlds, up to the point where the manifestation will become the fully conscious incarnation of its Maker. Mother Nature, an emanation of the Great Mother, takes an endless time for the work, at least when measured against our brief human lifespan, and she seems to revel in the modelling of a wonderful variety of creatures, having... spiritual revolution rehabilitating matter and the creation. 1 — The Mother Aurobindo Ghose and Mirra Alfassa, whom henceforth we will only call Sri Aurobindo 91 and the Mother, had from very different backgrounds arrived at the same experiences and the same vision. ‘There is no difference between the Mother’s path and mine; we have and have always had the same path, the path that leads... but fundamental. The Mother said it still more categorically: ‘There is only That. Only That exists. That, what? — Only That exists!’ And That is the one ‘all containing, everywhere present point without dimensions.’ The concept of the absolute one Reality which is all, though confirmed by Western mystics too, is not generally current in the West. The reason, called by the Mother ‘the error at the ...
... was eaten by light, his spirit devoured. 2 Thus Death came to his death—not to death in reality but to a new incarnation. Death returned to his original divine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother. A secret splendour rose revealed to sight Where once the vast embodied Void had stood. Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face. 3 In that domain... cosmic fulfilment, a global human realisation. The godhead in Savitri is now fully awake, established in its plenitude—the Divinity incarnate in the human frame. All the godheads, all the goddess-emanations now entered into her and moulded the totality of her mighty stature. Here begins then the second stage of her mission,—her work and achievement, the conquest of Death. Only the Divine human... seals are firm upon man's soul, And weary is the ancient Mother's heart.. Linger not long with thy transmuting hand Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time.. Let a great word be spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate." 2 This great cry of the human soul moved the Divine Mother and she granted at last its prayer. She answered by bestowing ...
... body was eaten by light, his spirit devoured. ² Thus Death came to his death – not to death in reality but to a new incarnation. Death returned to his original divine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother. A secret splendour rose revealed to sight Where once the vast embodied Void had stood. Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face.³ In that domain of pure transcendent... cosmic fulfilment, a global human realisation. The godhead in Savitri is now fully awake, established in its plenitude – the Divinity incarnate in the human frame. All the godheads, all the goddess-emanations now entered into her and moulded the totality of her mighty stature. Here begins then the second stage of her mission,– her work and achievement, the conquest of Death. Only the Divine human... still the seals are firm upon man's soul, And weary is the ancient Mother's heart. Linger not long with thy transmuting hand Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time. . Let a great word be spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate."² This great cry of the human soul moved the Divine Mother and she granted at last its prayer. She answered by bestowing of her ...
... was eaten by light, his spirit devoured. 19 Thus Death came to his death, — not to death in reality but to a new incarnation. Death returned to his original divine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother. A secret splendour rose revealed to sight Where once the vast embodied Void had stood. Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face. 20 In that domain of pure... cosmic fulfilment, a global human realisation. The godhead in Savitri is now fully awake, established in its plenitude — the Divinity incarnate in the human frame. All the godheads, all the goddess-emanations now entered into her and moulded the totality of her mighty stature. Here begins then the second stage of her mission, — her work and achievement, the conquest of Death. Only the Divine... seals are firm upon man's soul, And weary is the ancient Mother's heart... Linger not long with thy transmuting hand Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time... Let a great word be spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate." This great cry of the human soul moved the Divine Mother and she granted at last its prayer. She answered by bestowing ...
... incarnation. Death returned to his original 1 Bk. X: Canto 4: p. 745. 2 Bk. X: Canto 4: p. 747. 3 Bk. X: Canto 4: p. 749. Page 105 divine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother. "A secret splendour rose revealed to sight Where once the vast embodied Void had stood. Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face." 1 In that domain of pure transcendent... cosmic fulfilment, a global human realisation. The godhead in Savitri is now fully awake, established in its plenitude—the Divinity incarnate in the human frame. All the godheads, all the goddess-emanations now entered into her and moulded the totality of her mighty stature. Here begins then the second stage of her mission,— her work and achievement, the conquest of Death. Only the Divine human... And weary is the ancient Mother's heart.... 1 Bk. III: Canto 4: pp.380; 386. Page 99 Linger not long with thy transmuting hand Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time... Let a great word be spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate." 1 This great cry of the human soul moved the Divine Mother and she granted at last its prayer ...
... eaten by light, his spirit devoured. 17 Thus Death came to his death - not to death in reality but to a new incarnation. Death returned to his original divine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother. A secret splendour rose revealed to sight Where once the vast embodied Void had stood. Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face. 18 In that... cosmic fulfilment, a global human realisation. The godhead in Savitri is now fully awake, established in its plenitude - the Divinity incarnate in the human frame. All the godheads, all the goddess-emanations now entered into her and moulded the totality of her mighty stature. Here begins then the second stage of her mission, - her work and achievement, the conquest of Death. Only the Divine... seals are firm upon man's soul And weary is the ancient Mother's heart.... Linger not long with thy transmuting hand Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time... Let a great word be spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate. 9 This great cry of the human soul moved the Divine Mother and she granted at last its prayer. She answered by bestowing ...
... had perceived or gone through. ‘It is an experience, something that has happened.’ On what experience could this mysterious message have been based? Mother Nature is one of the emanations of the Great Mother herself, more precisely the emanation which is in charge of the Earth, of the material evolution of the Earth, and of the beings born from her womb. Which means that she is fairly familiar to... across the sands of Time. 16 — Savitri It is comical, in a sense, that the Mother fell foul with Mother Nature, which meant that she had a quarrel with a part of her own self! We have already seen that emanations lead independent lives. (This is the reason, for instance, that whole ‘cascades’ — emanations in stepwise gradations — of two of the four great Asuras are still active, while the... the one Asura has converted himself and the other has been dissolved into his Origin.) Mother Nature, though being an emanation of the Creatrix, has her own character and will. What vexed the embodied Mother, she who was the incarnated Shakti with always that strong ‘pressure for change’ and progress, was the fact that Nature executed her task much too slowly and in a roundabout way. ‘She throws ...
... Then I see how things are, their development in time, the actual result.’ 31 What is an emanation of the Mother? Sri Aurobindo explained: ‘The Emanation is not a deputy, but the Mother herself. She is not bound to her body, but can put herself out (emanate) in any way she likes. What emanates suits itself to the nature of the personal relation she has with the Sadhak which is different with... 34 Not only was she permanently present with them by means of an emanation of her, not only did she know everything that was going on in them by identification: she carried their inner personality literally within her and did their sadhana, which was new and difficult for them. We find this confirmed by Sri Aurobindo: ‘The Mother by the very nature of her work had to identify herself with the Sadhaks... to whom I have said “yes,” there is more than a tie, there is an emanation of me. This emanation warns me whenever it is necessary and tells me what is happening. Indeed I receive intimations constantly, but all are not recorded in my active memory, I would be flooded; the physical consciousness acts like a filter. Things are recorded in a subtle plane, they are there in a latent state, something ...
... produce lesser entities of themselves, emanations existing by themselves and able to act independently, but essentially remaining the being who put them forth. The big Four have brought forth cascades of lesser beings, so to speak, who are intensely active on the lower levels of creation. ‘There are only a few big ones and then countless emanations.’ (the Mother) The four great Asuras were les... les premiers émanés , the very first four emanated by the Divine out of Himself. The Gods, then, are les seconds émanés, emanated by the Divine at the request of the Great Mother after the fall of the first four. The Gods work for the fulfilment of the divine Plan in the evolutionary creation; the Asuras work obstinately and mercilessly for the obstruction or the abolition of the Plan. One can read... India, the hostile forces are broadly divided in three categories. At the top are the Asuras , (a word usually written with a capital letter by Sri Aurobindo) already known to us, and their nearest emanations still big enough also to be called ‘Asura’. They belong to the mental and the higher vital levels. All Asuras are radically against the work of the divine evolution and do everything possible ...
... Lord of Falsehood, and of whom Paul Richard was an emanation. The Mother would say that the ‘Lord of the Nations’ bluntly refused to collaborate in the transformation of the world, and that, on the contrary, he promised to fight the changes ahead to the very last and to cause as much havoc and destruction as possible. He was the direct cause, the Mother would say, of all the wars and massacres to which... The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953, CWM 5 pp. 182 ff. × See Mother’s Agenda, conversation of 20 Dec. 1961. × The Mother later gave names carrying their essential... Part Two: The Road Together The Mother (biography) 7: In Japan In the world of forms a flaw in Beauty is as great a deficiency as a flaw in Truth in the world of ideas. 1 – The Mother After a few moments spent in arranging familiar objects, Mirra wrote in her diary on 2 November 1915: ‘As a strong breeze passes over the sea and crowns ...
... Spirit. Aswapathy enters there and meets the Supreme Mother of the universe, the creatrix, or simply the Mother - we shall call her the Mother of the universe - and he prays to her: "We want to solve the Page 35 problem of man here and if you want man to succeed, kindly send down by your grace your own emanation here." So an emanation is asked for, from the potential universe, from the... So he appealed to the supreme Mother and asked for the boon that an emanation or a part of her, so to say, would be sent down to earth to help mankind overcome the limits of ignorance and death. That is the solution to the problem, and the story as we recounted it yesterday is that Savitri, the young princess in the legend who becomes the emanation of the supreme Mother sent down on earth, is here to... universe in which he is living. That is the third book where Aswapathy reaches this House of the Spirit, meets the Supreme Mother, carries to her the whole aspiration of mankind for the earth, and asks for a boon - an emanation to be sent down to the earth. The Supreme Mother grants the boon and Savitri is born. Savitri is not, therefore, only a princess born to a childless king but she is the ...
... mysterious message. The Mother, foreseeing the question, had already written down her answer. However, before we ourselves read her answer it must be said that the Mother had been having for many years a sort of ongoing quarrel with Mother Nature. This is rather surprising, for Mother Nature is of course an emanation of the Great Mother, the Mother’s essential Self. Yet all emanations have a considerable... The Mother, Words of the Mother III, CWM 15 p. 103. × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, CWM 1 p. 273. × The Mother, Words of the Mother III, CWM 15 p. 104. ... opportunity to rise above oneself. That’s what it is about.’ 5 At the time, the Mother said nothing about the inner battle, or battles, she must have been fighting with the hostile forces in those fourteen months. Only years later did the Mother mention in passing, in one of the conversations constituting Mother’s Agenda , that the beginning of February 1956 had been a terrible time, with all the ...
... 2 The Mother has often talked about her former incarnations, yet always in a confidential way, either to her audience in the Playground or in private conversations. 91 They are certainly part of the life we are trying to describe in this book, as they are part of the Great Life, the constant presence on earth of the Mahashakti in her many material emanations or embodiments. The Mother made it... in our mind. The Mother, like Sri Aurobindo, has said so often that everything is possible, and that it is typical of the human mind always to simplify and standardize. At the base of every human incarnation is the psychic being[^102], but this does not mean that the psychic being has to be involved in its entirety all the time. The Mother sometimes called her incarnations ‘emanations,’ i.e. embodiments... artist.” Champaklal: “Leonardo da Vinci?” Mother smiled sweetly and said: “Yes.” Then I pointed to the picture [of Mona Lisa] and said: “Mother, it seems this is yours?” Mother: “Yes.”’ 34 In his Reminiscences, Udar narrates that he wanted a Sanskrit name for his wife Mona and that the Mother said she would ask Sri Aurobindo. ‘The next day the Mother told me that Sri Aurobindo wanted Mona to ...
... physical body to the being in the physical body, to the Mother in the sadhana, to the Universal Mother in any of her aspects or emanations, to the very Supreme identified with ‘the Lord.’ × And the psychic being, but, strange to say, the Mother will become conscious of this important fact only later... deeply was he affected by his disillusionment that it undermined his health and was indirectly responsible for his death in May 1964. The Mother followed the evolution of the situation closely, not only because one of her emanations is Bharat Mata, Mother India, but also because her spiritual support was entreated from several sides. Private conversations demonstrate her constant attention to the... confused with the contagion the Mother spoke about before, which was the automatic reception by humanity and the earth of the transformative vibrations emanating from her. × At the time of writing this book and for the last four or five years, Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram have ...
... influence of any one law. In your case, there is accompanying each of you, a power of the Divine Mother, what one may call an emanation. Through it, the Mother remains in constant contact with you, and protects you from all danger and difficulty. That is why I have said: 'Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you; because she is, indeed, always present.' So you see, on the one hand, the Divine... smiling, "What, for instance? Today it is my turn to listen to stories." (Laughter) "We have heard that, in 1920, the closer the ship in which the Mother was travelling came to Pondicherry, the more Page 206 she sensed a great light emanating from the centre of the town and radiating in all directions, reaching her even across the waters. When she alighted here, the experience grew more... one day, as I was riding in a carriage through the streets of Baroda, the horse seemed suddenly to go wild, rearing and leaping and almost overturning the carriage! At that very moment I felt a Form emanate from me, luminous, vast, covering Page 150 the whole sky. The horse was instantly calmed and I was saved." "Yes, you read out to us the sonnet. It's called 'Godhead'. Did you write it ...
... it mean? You understand, she was not only a woman with a tremendous force: there was something of Mother, an emanation of Mother there. Yes, as Sujata says, it was an "attribute" of the supreme Mother that was there. And they killed her. They can kill her. What does it mean? They killed Mother, they killed Kennedy and they killed Ludmila. What does it mean for the Earth? Yes, I think I... particular: "Hardly a week goes by without a visitor to the association asking us if we know Guru X, Mother Y or Mother Z (so-called reincarnations of Mother or continuators of Sri Aurobindo's work), what we think of them and whether we acknowledge them as such." I read X's letter about "Mother-Meera." There will be other ones. Here is what I have to say: Everyone is free to believe what they... as their crass. "Mother's reincarnation"?... She is still healing the wounds men have inflicted on her. Perhaps She is a little fed up with the Pondicherrians, no? Is She going to shut herself up again in a yellow dungeon, under the supervision of some little Pranab? To be surrounded by worshippers who will not understand Mother No. 2 any more than Mother No. 1 or Mother No. 10,000 — one keeps ...
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