... requests for admission to Auroville; (v) disposal of requests for Pranam. A group of nine visitors got permission, but Mother said, "Oh, nine !" * * * 10.3.72 "Mother, the police has not been able to find out about the fire. I have no hope now that they will be able to do so." "No." "So we will let the matter be closed in a few days." Mother nodded. ... and admission requests were disposed of. * * * 11.3.72 Mother gave Rs 50/25, the offering of the School children for the Matrimandir. * * * 12.3.72 "Mother, the people in Auroville want to know what she has said about the fire accident. I have prepared a note." When I came to the words, There was no harmony', Mother said, "Not only harmony, there is... money from France. The Bank is willing to give money for it. It is an industrial unit and repayment can be made out of its earnings. Mother approved. * * * I mentioned to Mother the receipt of the typed copy of her conversation with Satprem on 30.3.72 for circulation in Auroville. She wanted me to read it out. Some portions were deleted. * * * Near Aspiration ...
... is a greater art of life, 71 proclaimed Sri Aurobindo. The attitude of the ascetic who says "I seek nothing" and that of the worldly man who says "I want this thing" are the same , remarks Mother. The one may be as attached to his renunciation as the other is to his possession. Actually, as long as we need to renounce anything at all, we are not ready; we are still submerged in dualities. Yet... just know that That exists, whereupon all the suffering in the world will seem redeemed. At the extreme summit of the overmind, there only remain great waves of multi-hued light , says the Mother, the play of spiritual forces, which later translate – sometimes much later – into new ideas, social changes, or earthly events, after crossing one by one all the layers of consciousness and suffering... and then because each fall has compelled him to free the truth below instead of escaping alone to empty summits. Ultimately, he will understand that his particular burden was the very burden of our Mother the Earth, also striving toward her share of light. The Princes of Darkness are already saved! They are at work, the scrupulous exactors of an all-inclusive Truth, rather than a truth that excludes ...
... February 1966 Mother, The political and economic situation in India is becoming more and more ridiculous. Please save India from the Indians and make us worthy of your grace. The Divine's Grace is wonderful and almighty. And the ways of working of the Lord are full of a delightful sense of humour... Love and blessings. 6 March 1966 Mother, The Labour Inspector is... Ashram, the disciple has served in many positions. The main ones, mentioned here because they are referred to in the correspondence, are: the preparation of fruit juices for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother; the allotment of work to new Ashramites; the distribution of fuel and foodstuffs to Ashramites; the management (in conjunction with others in some cases) of the Fruit Room, Dining Room, Bakery and Laundry;... only one thing to do: face squarely the necessity of the change in some part of your nature and—with my help— change. With my love and blessings. 10 June 1952 (The disciple sent to the Mother the letter of a worker who complained that he lacked the strength to do his work and could not feel her Grace. The Mother replied:) Page 206 Here, for each work given, the full strength ...
... Mother, no one can imagine how much the Swadeshi prisoners were tortured in the Andamans. The Mother: The Andamans — that is where your father was sent? Mona: Yes, Mother. The Mother: I have heard a little about it. Well, I would like to see this man. What is his name? Mona: Biren Sen, Mother. The Mother: All right. There is no hurry. Let him come on his birthday…. These revolutionaries are... Oh, yes, it’s him, yes, yes, I recognize him, his eyes… yes, it’s him… I see him everyday. What’s his name? Mona: Tarini Prasanna Majumdar, Mother. The Mother: Tarini Prasanna Majumdar. When did he pass away? Mona: On the 15th June 1918, Mother. The Mother: On the 15th June 1918! His being came back after so many years. He spent really a long time up there, enjoying himself and then he came... It has left, it is there in the higher regions. Actually, his psychic being is a little diffused. Mona: What does that mean, Mother? The Mother: It means that his psychic was not fully individualised. It was still a little hazy. Mona: I don’t understand, Mother. The Mother: I mean that his psychic was not developed enough to choose its own destiny. His psychic could not leave the body, come ...
... is always with you to help you in your progress and your work. The Mother The Worker -Work in the Ashram Yoga Yoga is communion with God for knowledge, for love or for work. Sri Aurobindo The object of the Ashram This Ashram... possibility of absorbing consciousness and progress which is not found elsewhere. And if you don't prepare yourselves to receive this, well, you will lose the chance that's given to you! The Mother The opportunity It is the moment when great things are done. One must not miss the opportunity. The Mother Dedicating the work Be faithful to your ideal and dedicate your work to the... help is with you My help is always with you to help you in your progress and your work. The difficulties you cannot overcome today will be overcome tomorrow or later on. The Mother The cradle of the new world I know that from the external point of View we are below many of the present achievements in this world, but our aim is not a perfection in accordance with the human ...
... what do you understand then?… Is it not life? It is more than life. Yes, yes, you are right, it is more than life, there is everything, it is the whole universe is described there. Yes, Mother. The march of the whole universe is described so well, the meaning, the development and all that — till its apotheosis. Mother, I wish that my aspiration reaches you. My child, how do you know... That is all. I do not know and I do not take the trouble to find out all this. I cannot reply. I do not know, my child. Let us just pray. August 6, 1967 * * * ( When I went to the Mother the next week, I asked Her about the prayer She had written ) Mother, I wanted to ask You about the prayer You gave me last time: “Seigneur Supr ê me, Nous T’implorons: Manifeste-Toi!”... there is nothing that is fixed in this universe. It is but now that science has found that everything is in movement, even the inert objects, all that exists is a huge game of forces. Yes, Mother, the atoms and the molecules are always in movement. There is nothing that is permanent or fixed, it is only the play of various forces; the atoms are in movement and it is this which constitutes the ...
... Mother: It is your father’s birthday today, isn’t it? Mona: Yes, Mother. The Mother: Bonne Fête (Happy birthday)! How old is he today? Mona: He is eighty, Mother. The Mother: Eighty! Oh, quite a respectable age! But what is the matter, he seems to be a little tired. When did he come here? Mona: Before ten, Mother…. The Mother: There! ( The Mother gives a bouquet of flowers to my father... were traitors because we did not completely accept Sri Aurobindo’s Mother India as a living Entity, a living God; so in order to establish the truth, He has brought down now the living Mother, the Divine Mother. ( The Mother laughs ) The Mother: It is very sweet. I understand, I know, it is quite clear now. Mona: Mother, while observing Nature he feels that all the leaves and flowers, all the plants... is alone and a little dreamy, he can hear the pulsations and trepidations of Mother Earth groaning in agony, trembling in pain at the pitiful condition of Mother India. And this he cannot bear Mother. The Mother: But this is what Sri Aurobindo saw and worshipped as the Motherland a living entity, a divine being who is resplendent and fulfils all our needs. Mona: Mother, when he does the marching ...
... house in which she lived had one more storey erected for her own use. At the time when I came, most of the houses were rented and very few bought. All of them were known by the names given by the Mother. The inmates lived distributed in them. Three meals were served; in the morning, one big bowl of ‘phoscao’ — it tasted like ‘cocoa’ but more savoury, some pieces of toast and one banana. The Dining... while we followed this car in a small Fiat. We visited many places far away. Pavitra seemed to know where to go, where to stop, which direction to take. A great experience it was to be with the Mother, the atmosphere changing everywhere as it were by itself. When the car stopped, the Mother got down first, then the others. As she walked on, we followed her. It seemed all the paths and byways were... into gold. Now I shall relate two strange dreams of mine. They were so clear and distinct that I took them to be more than dreams. Whatever significance they had for me, I communicated it to the Mother. The first dream: “I saw from inside a room the sea coming near the house and then beginning to swell into huge mountains. If these terrifying surges broke, I felt the entire town, at least myself ...
... decreed. After the many cycles of the human presence and evolution on Earth, the time had come for the arrival of this new species without humankind even being aware of it. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the Avatar, the Two-in-One, had come to make this possible. Therefore, they had to take the past of the evolution upon and into them, and they had to work in order to make the earthly embodiment of the... the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Rue de la Marine in Pondicherry, was something completely different from and more than that old, frail, stooped body by which all were mesmerized. She was the Universal Mother, ‘the divine Mahashakti, original Power, supreme Nature, holding in herself infinite existence and creating the wonders of the cosmos,’ 3 as Sri Aurobindo wrote. Of herself, she said: ‘The central... second point we should keep in mind: the body of the Mother was something quite different from what was ‘naturally’ visible. In their interpretations of the sadhana and the passing away of the Mother, the commentators always keep their eyes fixed on her external figure, on her visible ‘human-like’ presence, and it is mainly that external figure they call ‘the Mother’. If they express themselves d ...
... of materials, etc. in Calcutta or the exact nature of the repairs [hat are necessary—without which knowledge no alternative estimate is feasible. I seem somehow to have forgotten to give the Mother the envelope containing the corrected typescripts this morning, I send it now. The Yogic sleep is good only when it is Yogic enough to contain something, to be an inner consciousness or an experience... a few indications, so she preferred Anilkumar's. But a Painter cannot be judged by his sketches—only by his finished work. What extraordinary interpretations are put on casual remarks of the Mother! The poem is beautiful—there is certainly no apotheosis of Page 269 [pain?] in it, though that with a little symbol and mystery could easily be made "esoteric." Herewith the corrected... 287 change. Ego is a very curious thing and in nothing more than in its way of hiding itself and pretending it is not the ego. It can always hide even behind an aspiration to serve the Mother. The only way of getting rid of it is to chase it out of all its veils and corners. You are right also in thinking that this is really the most important part of your Yoga. The Rajayogis are right ...
... y.” with my blessings December 30, 1950 How can one be frank? By telling you all that one does? Yes, but on condition that one speaks very sincerely. May 15,1951 * Mother, The day I went to Cuddalore, I felt miserable. Why? For those who live in the Ashram, the outside world always seems to be dark and without life. Here, in the Ashram, one lives in a constant ... is fortunate, or it is luck, it simply means that what has happened is the effect of the Divine Grace. This is beyond all the reasons which the human mind can conceive. March 5, 1951 * Mother, The other day You said that the history which we study is not correct; then why don’t You write the correct history? And why should we study what is not true, if our aim is to realise the Truth? ... cannot arrive at the absolute truth. In the history which is taught in schools, the broad lines are relatively correct. It is in the details that inexactitudes creep in. March 2, 1951 * Mother, The dreams that we see, are they always true?… No. Or are they the things to come?… No. Or are they meaningless things?… Not that either. It could be one or another of these things ...
... do not succeed at once, and surely you will receive a certitude in one form or another. The precision grows with the persistence. 3.2.1969 When Your Presence becomes concrete, O Divine Mother, the existence becomes quite different! This must become a constant fact because the presence is constant. 5.2.1969 Doesn't irritation come from the ego, even when it is justified by... Why do you get unquiet over it? Is the Grace not there to remedy all the delays? The only thing called for is sincerity . . . and it is there. 15.2.1969 With Your Remembrance, Mother, the aspiration becomes more straight and calm. This is very good. I am here to help and make the task easier. My blessings are always with you, consciously. 17.2.1969 Page 74... coming for Auroville? Certainly the attitude of most of them is not favourable to the richness of Auroville and does not create an attractive atmosphere for money. 5.3.1969 Now, Mother, the desire to do something good and new in Your service is replaced by an aspiration to be Your true servitor. Page 77 I feel you closer and closer, more and more open to the Influence ...
... helping you in your sadhana, the Essays on the Gita will, I hope, give you a thorough grounding in the basic principles of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. On my birth-day, 3rd December, I went to the Mother. The thrill of joy and the tidal waves of love I felt in Her presence I can't describe. She told me that She had purposely put a few "victory" and a few "protection" flowers in the bouquet She gave me... Regarding your questions, the Gita doesn't give the core of the integral Yoga. First of all, the central, dynamic principle of our Yoga is an integral, unreserved and co-operative surrender to the Mother, the Supreme Divine Shakti. There is no mention of the Mother in the Gita. It is the cardinal principle of Tantra, which dominated and directed Sri Ramkrishna's life, and was ultimately accepted by Sri... But it is supramental integral transformation and divine manifestation in Matter which are the dual aim of our sadhana, and it is impossible of achievement except by the Grace of the Divine Mother, the supreme Consciousness—Force, Chit-tapas, of Sachchidananda. The Gita is a monumental synthesis of the various principles and aims of the Yogas current at that stage of human evolution. Mankind ...
... conversations here in this section, which deals with general questions about education. The first two conversations were recorded by me in my notebooks and then seen by the Mother. The third text (January 28) is a note written by the Mother. The final long conversation on January 29th was tape-recorded; some of my remarks have been abridged, but the Mother’s comments are complete. 26 January 1972 Tara... organisation. They have buses to go to the sportsground, while the others have to go on foot and they don’t have enough grounds and Captains and so on. Isn’t there a solution to this? The Mother: The solution is not to take any more children. But I don’t know — there is pressure from both sides. There are the parents who insist that we take their children. Naturally, if we could tell everybody... give a limit that you think is right we can try to compromise. Pranab : I won’t go for a compromise. Tara : Pranab says he will not compromise. The Mother: Who? Tara : Pranab, Mother. The Mother: He is right. Pranab : If I compromise, Mother, it will disturb my programme. The Mother: Yes. Pranab : What is best is that they do not take any more new people and slowly ...
... me, but I who carry the yoga. December 4, 1973 Pranab makes a speech at the Ashram Playground. Nirod introduces the speech: “Pranab has protected the Mother... he is identified with the Mother ...” The general inoculation. “I was fully prepared from the beginning,” says Pranab. He concludes: “It makes no difference to me.” (Mother s departure). December 13, 1973 I have started reading... it was the whole Earth beating in this discovery of its tomorrow, without even really knowing how to name its objects. It is not over, you have not entered the forest yet, the great Forest of Mother, the extraordinary Newness that looks like a cataclysm for our whole habit of understanding, seeing and feeling — such was my dreadful anguish in front of this nameless nothingness that I had to name... New World. The New World is not a new Church. It is even rather unorthodox and ragged. One day, Andre Brincourt of the Figaro asked me: “What is an Ashram without a guru?” (that is, without Mother). The answer was simple and immediate: “It’s a Church.” Now, what does the ragged one who left for the forest of Guyana with the Gold Digger, or the shaved and numbered one off to Buchenwald in his ...
... the evening: With my far-reaching Rays I illumine the universe Yet do not forget the drop of dew For Love within my Heart I nurse. How true these lines of the poet are for the Mother! The Mother showered Her infinite Love on all, young and old. In these pages my endeavour will be to recreate for you some of those moments. Personal references will keep coming in but that is inevitable... while going to the Mother. One day I blurted it out to the Mother: “You know, Mother, I strongly feel like coming to see you but I also feel a strange kind of fear and excitement. Why is that, Mother?” The Mother was probably not expecting such a question. She gently put Her hands on my shoulders and looked at me with Her love-filled, steady eyes. A heavenly love and tenderness flowed from them.... had he finished saying this that he began drawling again: “Mother’s mother, her mother, then her mother, again her mother,” then pointing his finger at the sky said: “There sits our real Mother. The Divine Mother is our real Mother.” Listening to my brother, I was a little disheartened. “Then how can we meet out real parents?” I enquired. My brother, that young boy, spoke like a wise old ...
... room in order to take the salute at the March Past. Evening had almost fallen. All of us (Minnie-di, Milli-di, Gauri, Violet and I) were standing as usual next to the map of India, waiting for the Mother. The Mother arrived and looked at us gravely for a while. We stiffened with fear. “What had we done, now?” we wondered. The Mother declared in a firm, grave voice: “Never think, not even by mistake... She uttered. I felt extremely ashamed. Holding onto Her Feet I said in a choked voice: “Mother, forgive me. I could not bear this pain, that’s why I said these things. Please forgive me, Mother.” The Mother held me in Her arms and remained in a meditative state for a long time. I’m sure you have guessed that after this I came out of this miserable condition. * The year had hardly ended... “What’s wrong with me? Why are you both looking so worried?” They replied that on hearing me cry they had rushed here. “We saw you lying in a drowse and repeating ‘I won’t go, Mother. I won’t go, Mother.’ ” The whole bed was covered with blood and pus. Both Bibha and Maya prepared warm compresses all through the night. Somehow I had not realised anything at all. My body was extremely weak. They fed me ...
... very close behind. After some time I called out to Her. The Mother turned around: “What do you want?” “Mother, in the class you said ‘Gnostic’ and then became silent. What was on Your mind, Mother?” The Mother looked quite surprised. “Ah! so you caught that moment.” “Please tell me, Mother, what You wanted to say.” A mischievous smile lit up the Mother’s face. “If I tell you something... hands up in front of me asked: “What is the difference between these two hands?” I just sat speechless and a little embarrassed. That this was a samskara was for us hard to understand. To the Mother the left or the right hand were both the same. How difficult it is to free ourselves from our old samskaras . The most important thing is the attitude with which we receive something from Her. If we... the group would feel at that moment a descent of tremendous power. Even today during the March Past the boys and girls of the different groups and even the spectators feel the same power of the Mother. The Mother came and always stood in front of the map of India to take the salute during the March Past. Those who have a subtle sight are still blessed with that vision of the Mother. * One could ...
... these things—it is better for me to go away from here etc." These are the old suggestions, not the attitude of your inner being which was to Page 435 give yourself and leave all to the Mother. The attitude of your inner being must also extend to your attitude to these outer things—knowing that whatever imperfections there are have to be worked out from within by each one, just as your own... these things. What is proper or necessary for the work is the thing she has to consider. 3 October 1936 Your whole upset is founded on imaginations. X has not made any "lying" report to the Mother; the Mother did not show any displeasure to you for two days or any days. Your vital thought she must be like yourself and make a huge fuss about the perfectly insignificant trifle out of which you have... people do independent work by themselves; where many have to work together, it cannot always be done—regularity and discipline are there the first rule. I do not understand your remark about the Mother. The whole work of Aroumé, of the Granary, of the Building Department, etc. was arranged by the Mother not only in general plan and object but in detail. It was only after she had seen everything in working ...
... the Great Mother say in words which echo the Vedic scriptures: It is I who am the offspring of what gave birth to me [what gave birth to her being the One]; And it is I who am the Mother [the Great Mother, the one original transcendent Shakti]; It is I who am the wife [Shakti to Ishwara, in human metaphorical language]; It is I who am the virgin [for ever the untouchable Origin of all]... distortion to see Sri Aurobindo only as the inexhaustible source of Love and Peace, which he was and is for anyone turning towards him, and not as the great warrior who had to fight, together with the Mother, the decisive battles for the new world. Of these battles the three 20th century wars – the First and Second World War and the so-called Cold War (actually one war in three parts) – were partial exte... female Avatar, and a foreign, French female to boot? In the letters of which his booklet The Mother is composed, Sri Aurobindo describes the Mother’s three essential aspects: the transcendent Mother, the universal cosmic Mother, and the human Mother in the yoga. A disciple asked him: “Do you not refer to the Mother (our Mother) in your book The Mother ?” Sri Aurobindo answered with one word: “Yes ...
... properly understood, agree with those of the Vedantic scriptures: It is I who am the offspring of what gave birth to me [what gave birth to her being the One]; And it is I who am the Mother [the Great Mother, the one original transcendent Shakti]; It is I who am the wife [Shakti to Ishwara, in human metaphorical language]; It is I who am the virgin [for ever the untouchable Origin of all];... author Joanna Klink (1990), with spontaneous reminiscences by small children about the time before they entered their mother’s womb and during their stay in it. They remember their choice of the mother, the moment they entered her womb, and the surrounding circumstances before and during the pregnancy. What is striking here is that everything these children said agrees completely with what the Mother... Paul Davies and John Gribbin: The Matter Myth , pp. 8 and 229. × See Georges Van Vrekhem: The Mother – The Story of Her Life , chapter 14. × Sri Aurobindo: On Himself , p. 459. ...
... Reflections on Savitri 1: Guidance from the Mother on Savitri In February 1967 an exhibition of Huta's paintings of Savitri was held at the Ashram. After seeing it I wrote to the Mother: "The Savitri exhibition is full of images of Savitri, the ascent of the being, the descent of divinity and the divine play, from which radiates a light, as beautiful as powerful, similar to that which... What the white gods had missed: they too are safe; A Mother's eyes are on them and her arms Stretched out in love desire her rebel sons. 3 What had the white gods missed? The Mother: The conversion of the Asuras. Looking at the push being given to me by the Mother towards transformation and at my banality and mediocrity, I am reminded of this line of Savitri: All... 3 Ibid., p. 613. 6 Ibid.,p.28. 4 Ibid.,p.3. 7 Ibid., p. 82. 5 Ibid., pp. 30-31. Page 45 What does "the triple cord of mind" mean? The Mother: The cords stand for the limitations of the mind, and there are three of them because there is a physical mind, a vital mind and a mental mind. The days were travellers on a destined road, ...
... surrender to the Divine as the key to the meaning and fulfilment of human life on earth. According to the Mother, the aim of life is integral, and it consists of knowing the supreme Divine Reality and working for its full manifestation in physical life. Page 300 The Mother The Ascent to Truth A Drama of Life in a Prologue, Seven Stages and an Epilogue PERSONS OF THE... The Aim of Life The Mother The Ascent to Truth Introduction The Mother was born in Paris on February 21, 1878, in a very materialistic, upper middle class family. She completed a thorough education of music, painting and higher mathematics. A student of the French painter Gustave Moreau, she befriended the great Impressionist artists of the... this house and enjoy our love without a care for anything else. Still arm in arm, they leave the path and go towards the house. Page 310 The Ascent to Truth, by The Mother The mother ------------------------------------------------ SIXTH STAGE- -------------------------------------------- The end of the path has become extremely narrow and stops abruptly ...
... became therefore necessary to put brakes on the pace of the change. The morning pranam and meditation, the individual interviews with the Mother, the spate of correspondence with the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, the conversations with the Mother, the Soup ceremony, the whole tight schedule put a terrible strain on the Mother and, perhaps in a different way, some strain on the sadhaks as well... o'clock at night in a tray that was kept near the top of the staircase in the meditation hall. Champaklal would take the tray to Sri Aurobindo's room, where Sri Aurobindo read and discussed with the Mother the replies to be given. Before morning the replies would be ready. The Mother would put the letters in artistically decorated envelopes and write on them the names of the respective sadhaks. Generally... of us. That was our picnic. 15 Sahana Devi also remembers those quite long evening drives, the walks and the relaxed sittings enjoying the scenery around: "How pleasant it was with the Mother!" The Mother used to carry sweets with her and give one to each of the company. At times there were questions as well, and answers by the Mother, and a brief meditation. VIII What came ...
... Pondicherry in 1941, Tapati and I came with him. Our photos had been sent to the Mother on Nolini-da’s instructions. During that time anybody wishing to come to the Ashram had to send a photo to the Mother. The Mother used to look at the picture and then give Her permission for the person to come. And so both of us were greatly worried for several days about whether we would pass this test. But then finally... urging him to come to Calcutta. Dada was in a very critical condition. Every day a telegram would arrive informing us of his state. I would go and give it to Nolini-da for him to read it out to the Mother. The Mother would listen and remain silent. I just could not figure out what exactly was going on. The Mother forbade father to go to Calcutta. All the relatives and close friends were extremely upset... Darshan days and on 5th December. It is in front of this chair that on 5th December we all gather and meditate between 10 and 10.30 in the morning. We entered the room and sat down in front of the Mother. The Mother looked at us and said: “You will go back to your father’s body and sit around it. Meditate for an hour.” Then She turned to me and said: “Don’t cry. Meditate for one full hour. Don’t ...
... the vision of the Mother, the knowledge of the Mother, the perpetual contemplation, adoration and service of the Mother. 18 There would be no "problem" of Indian unity to solve if only Indians could learn to realise themselves, not in the stifling burrow or groove of a section or segment of the community or the country, but in the infinite bounty of the Mother, the total strength of the... childhood, he had known all along that there would be danger, and the possibility of arrest and imprisonment and other tribulations. "I am nothing, what I have done is nothing"; but the son of the Mother - the Mother in him - was everything! Leadership was a form of service, and there was unending scope for service. The college was really a school for training in such national service. The college community ...
... ritual worship] related to the worship of the Supreme Mother, the Shakti in India. Just holding it I experienced waves of ananda or bliss emanating from it. I wondered how a geometrical figure could give such a spiritual experience. Exactly then an unpublished conversation was given to me in which the Mother speaks of the fifth aspect of the Mother, the Mother of Ananda which she wrote is also the Mother... to return, but I had not received it. It had been lost. Grace in action! Would you describe that birthday darshan with the Mother? Frankly, I could not really connect physically with the Mother. The connection was always inward, and I communicated indirectly through her secretaries. I feel the Mother did not feel it was necessary for me to have so much of an external relationship with her. She... experience. Tantra is basically a fusion of the three aspects of Joy (ananda or love). Knowledge and Power, i.e. the power and joy of effectuating knowledge in the creation, which is the Divine Mother. The aspect of knowledge has always been important to me — the thirst to arrive at an understanding of what everything is aiming at. The one thing that was always very clear from the beginning was that ...
... and more complex and precise form in the manifestation. But the reality of that form is one, it is bound to the One. And all the units are linked together and reproduce the One. 6 The Mother * The true self and the psychic are the same thing? No. The true self is what is also called the truth of the being. It is the divine element which is your individual reality. It is the... origin of the psychic formation, it is an emanation from the divine Consciousness; whereas the true self is not a terrestrial formation. It precedes the terrestrial formation. 7 — The Mother * The psychic being is formed by the inner Truth and organised around it. 8 — The Mother Does the psychic being identify itself with the inner Truth? It organises itself around... who had a genuine contact with their psychic being without knowing at all what it was, because there was nothing in them that corresponded to the knowledge of this contact. 9 — The Mother * The other day I said that most of the time people do not have their psychic being within them. I would like to explain this in greater detail.... You must remember that the inner beings are ...
... followed between the two! I quickly hid behind one of the columns of the Meditation Hall and began watching the battle. There was no way of escape me and I was terrified. When I went to see the Mother the following morning, She asked me: “What did you dream last night?” The Mother used to ask me this question every morning and listen most attentively to my dream. I too enjoyed recounting it... after coming to the Ashram that I discovered that every flower had an inner meaning. The Mother had named flowers according to this inner meaning. The shiuli flower was called Aspiration by the Mother, the lily was called Divine’s Grace . What is astonishing is that these flowers bloom during Durga-puja in autumn! The first line of The Mother comes to mind: There are two powers that alone can... a lot of images of gods and goddesses in the Mother’s room. The biggest number is that of Ganesha. The Mother used to talk with them. The statues of Ganesha and Narayana are together next to the Mother. The Mother said that in every image of a god or a goddess there is their Presence and one can experience it. The Mother had images of gods and goddesses in metal, ivory, wood. And in each of these images ...
... consulted the Maharishi, the latter remarked that it must be Daiva Sankalpam (Divine Will). Accordingly Nayana arrived in Pondicherry on 14 August 1928, and had darshan of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother the next day. Although he was not enthusiastic at first, the Darshan itself proved a marvellous experience to Nayana, and coming out he exclaimed " O divya murtulu!", an untranslatable phrase of... into my spiritual Consciousness and stuck to it to the end." 6 In his second interview with the Mother on 19 August, which lasted over forty-five minutes, Ganapati Muni recognised in the Mother the goddess Sakambari, an exalted manifestation of the Supreme Shakti and himself as Ganapati who "was at her service to be utilised as her instrument for Divine Work". While Nayana was expatiating... as others that are external makes no difference to its character. 15 The urgency, the persuasive tone of sweet reasonableness, the transparent love and concern of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the striking description of the whole character of the Yoga as a battle and a struggle to be sustained till the final victory, the infectious friendliness and good humour and open-heartedness, all ...
... "Remember and Offer. " The Mother The Preparation Constant aspiration In the beginning of the Yoga you are apt to forget the Divine very often. But by constant aspiration you increase your remembrance... and joy. Then very soon a stage will come when, if you do not feel the presence of the Divine at every moment and whatever you are doing, you feel at once lonely and sad and miserable. The Mother The psychic self-control The psychic selfcontrol that is desirable in these surroundings and in the midst of discussion would mean among other things: 1. Not to allow the impulse... Mother Doing things carefully Whatever you do, do it always carefully. The Mother Doing something well It is better to do well than to do quickly. . The Mother Page 58 The Divine's work If people could stop speaking of the work as their work it would put an end to a lot of trouble. Here, all work is the Divine's. The Mother Planning ...
... Sweet Mother, The old servant X wants a job for her young son (who is less than eight years old, I think). Can he be employed to clear the rubble at Ganapati House? It is impossible to put a child of under eight to work. It would be criminal. 9 June 1933 We want to be faithful workers for the Great Victory. 26 June 1933 Page 29 Sweet Mother, The carpenter... Yesterday I told You, "All have gone." In fact I saw that the carpenter was going, not gone, and I calculated that by the time I came out and closed the door, he should be gone. So I replied, "Yes, Mother, the last man has gone." And lo, there he is, arranging the polishing stones! If I had drawn back for only a second before hastening to reply, I would have given a more precise reply. I feel a little... and regular worker, isn't he? I hope this new marriage will not make him irregular. Should we give him the money? If you think it is necessary, I shall not say No. 6 July 1933 Sweet Mother, The measuring tape: mere common sense shows that the tape is not indispensable. But there is a dissatisfaction somewhere in my being. I can't pinpoint this recalcitrant spot. Is it my mind? Isn't ...
... Sweet Mother, I am very irregular in my studies; I don't know what to do. Shake off your "tamas" a little—otherwise you will become a blockhead! 27 December 1963 Sweet Mother, The ardour of making an effort is waning. I feel contented. But time passes so quickly that one feels one has not made the most out of what is given to us. That proves that life is too easy here... live, but it is not indispensable that he should have opinions, and still less that he should air them. It is ignorance that has opinions. Knowledge knows . 26 May 1965 Sweet Mother, The descent of the Supermind, which You announced on the 29th of February 1956, is still only "something one hears about" for most people here. When shall we feel and see this supreme and radical... whole nature can only come about after a long and slow preparation, and men will perceive it only when their consciousness has become enlightened. 2 June 1965 Page 320 Sweet Mother, The resolutions I make lose their intensity and ardour after a time. How can I keep this enthusiasm and increase it more and more? BY WANTING TO. 9 June 1965 Sweet Mother, You have ...
... perhaps my last trip. Before leaving, I felt a desire to see the Mother. The Mother had not yet come out of her seclusion nor had Sri Aurobindo retired. I said to Sri Aurobindo 'I would like to see Her before I go'. - Her with a capital H, in place of the Mother, for we had not yet started using that epithet. Sri Aurobindo informed the Mother. The room now used by Champaklal was the Mother's room in ... to have at last arrived at the threshold which I have so long sought. "Grant, O Lord, that I may be pure enough, impersonal 28. Prayers and Meditations— The Mother. Page 380 The Mother in Japan, 1918 enough, animated enough with Thy divine love, to be able to cross it definitively. "O to belong to Thee, without any darkness or restriction... Mother and craved her blessings. So you see how much progress this cat had made on the path of Yoga. Two of these kittens of Bushy were well-known by their names and became great favourites with the Mother: the older one was Big Boy and the younger Kiki. It is said about one of them -I forget which, perhaps it was Kiki - that he used to join in the collective meditation and meditated like any of us. He ...
... Angiras legend, but in the next verse Vamadeva uses a still more mystic language. "They conceived in mind the first name of the fostering cows, they found the thrice seven supreme (seats) of the Mother; the Page 204 females of the herd knew that and they followed after it; the ruddy one was manifested by the victorious attainment (or, the splendour) of the cow of Light," te manvata prathamaṁ... the unobstructed vast. It is therefore the infinite being of the Deva to which we arrive on the plane of the Truth, and it contains Page 206 the thrice seven supreme seats of Aditi the Mother, the three supreme births of Agni within the Infinite, anante antaḥ (IV.1.7). The Ignorance on the other hand is identified with the crooked or uneven levels 4 which shut in mortals and it is therefore... two arms (Heaven and Earth, bhurijoḥ ); seeking to possess the Truth they have worked their way to it (or won control of it)," ṛtaṁ yemuḥ sudhya āśuṣāṇāḥ . "Now as the seven seers of Dawn the Mother, the supreme disposers (of the sacrifice), may we beget for ourselves the gods; may we become the Angirases, sons of Heaven, breaking open the wealth-filled hill, shining in purity." We have here very ...
... All depends on the attitude with which you do the work. The Mother The Attitude The right attitude He ( Sri Aurobindo ) has explained this before. The right attitude is the attitude of trust, the attitude of obedience, the attitude of consecration... Divine and above all to expect only from the Divine strength, peace and satisfaction. The Divine is all-merciful and gives us all that we need to lead us as quickly as possible to the goal. The Mother The spirit in which one does It is not what you do but the spirit in which you do it that is important for the integral Yoga. The Mother Any work Any work can be done as a field for... the people near me, are a mirror held up to me by the Divine Consciousness to show me the progress I must make. Everything that shocks me in others means a work I have to do in myself." The Mother The true spirit Work done in the true spirit is meditation. The Mother Page 52 ...
... The Mother, the Divine and the Lower Nature The Mother with Letters on the Mother The One and the Supreme Mother The Shankara knowledge is, as your Guru pointed out, only one side of the Truth; it is the knowledge of the Supreme as realised by the spiritual Mind through the static silence of the pure Existence. It was because he went by this side only... knowledge by beginning with the experience of dissolution in the One, but on condition that you do not stop there, taking it as the highest Truth, but proceed to realise the same One as the supreme Mother, the Page 57 Consciousness Force of the Eternal. If on the other hand you approach through the supreme Mother, she will give you the liberation in the silent One also as well as the realisation ...
... symbol of the Universal Mother according to Sri Aurobindo’s teachings,’ 23 the Mother wrote. ‘It will be the “Pavilion of the Mother” – but not this [the Mother points to herself]: the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. I say “Mother” because Sri Aurobindo used that word, otherwise I would have put something else. I would have put “creative principle,” or “principle of realization... Mother is a material substance – otherwise the earthly evolution would have no meaning – though it is composed of a substance more refined than the gross matter known to us. The gross matter of our Mother the Earth is still in the process of transformation. This process is now in an advanced stage thanks to the avataric yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. When gross matter will have become sufficiently ...
... living around and in them, they would work on humanity as a whole. ‘The Earth is a symbolical representation of the universe, and the group is a symbolical representation of the Earth.’ 3 (the Mother) The group now had a name, ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram’, but this was ‘a conventional name’ according to Sri Aurobindo. For the word ‘ashram’ evokes a kind of exotic monastery where Indian monks or ascetics... the Earth. ‘Everybody represents at the same time a possibility and a special difficulty which has to be resolved. I have even said, I think, that everybody here is an impossibility.’ 10 (the Mother) The transformation of all this was only achievable, as we have seen, by eradicating the impossibility, the falsehood, at its roots in the subconscient and inconscient, or to transform it into Truth.... implacable, strong and extremely intelligent forces, mostly fought in the dingy basement of our own personality. ‘Our yoga is not for cowards; if you have no courage, better leave it.’ 35 (the Mother) The Growth of the Ashram There is nothing that is impossible to her who is the conscious Power and universal Goddess all-creative from eternity and armed with the Spirit’s omnipotence. All knowledge ...
... haphazardly comes back in all sorts of animal bodies and even in plants, but most often in the last species of animal the dying person has set eyes on before his death. According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother the growth of the soul, in its various evolutionary stages, is the development of a spiritual consciousness at all times directed, meaningful and irreversible. And so Sri Aurobindo wrote: ‘We have to... development. The soul always remains essentially what it is in all eternity, but it has taken up the adventure of evolution, plunging into the Night of its opposite. By the intervention of the Great Mother the way back to the Light has become possible; this is an evolutionary process in which the soul is the active agent and in which it plays the central role. In the Night arose Matter, in Matter arose... after life, but now in a materially manifested form. This growing Godhead in man, as it were the growing body of the essential ‘spark-soul’, was called ‘the psychic being’ by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The psychic being is ‘the true evolving individual in our nature.’ These three aspects of the soul are the three forms of the one, very concrete reality which is the truth and foundation of our life ...
... warlords, the traditional Japan of shoguns and samurai, the India of maharajas, sultans and nizams: the whole colourful but burned-out East of the traditions. When an Indian at the time asked the Mother the question: ‘How is India likely to get freedom?’ she put him straight: ‘Listen! The British did not conquer India. You yourselves handed over the country to the British’ — a truth applicable to p... stored the world map and the picture of the earth globe, and since recently the magnificent photos taken from space capsules and satellites of that slightly misty blue ball: the material body of our Mother the Earth. Things have not always been like that, however. During the whole of humankind’s history as known to us there were many worlds in the world, totally distinct from each other, materially as... social structures, culture and all human behaviour were still impregnated by the sense of their extraterrestrial origin. (Here it should be pointed out that, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the history of humankind, as commonly accepted and taught at present, constitutes only a fraction of the long and winding path of pilgrimage it has been in actuality, ‘for not one hundred-thousandth ...
... 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 origin’, is a supposed rift, probably first thought of in Chaldea, between God on the one hand and Creation on the other. ‘There is no separation between that what you call God and that... of the Godhead itself in its evolving creation to make the insertion of a new gradation possible. To this end the Godhead incarnates on Earth as an Avatar. According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother the existing human species, at present, has reached its ceiling, after a long-lasting development of which only the most recent phase is known to us, the period in time which we call historical. The... personal being.) The Supreme had decided that Joy and Freedom would form the foundation of his manifestation, the two qualities without which a divine expression of Ananda is impossible — and the Mother, the great Creatrix, of course executed his decision. After the formation of the fundamental divine Joy and Freedom, the Mother created four Beings. Because from these Four there had to evolve everything ...
... is in direct 1 Italicised in the original. 2 The Mother, "The Supreme Poise", in Bulletin, Vol. XI No. 3, pp. 79-81. 3 Essays on the Gita, p. 517. 4 Ibid., p. 514. 5 Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, pp. 32-33. 6 In this connection we may recall the following words of The Mother: "The reality of the universe is what one calls God and God is essentially... separative ego consciousness, our devouring capacity is itself hemmed in and stunted and our power of assimilation all but reduced to nought. Now the more we can grow into fit food for the Mother, the more bur assimilating capacity is bound to increase until at the end we may dare exclaim with Ramprasad the famous saint of Bengal: "This time I shall devour Thee utterly, Mother Kali: ...
... asks me an unnecessary question? Just answer evasively with a word or two, without attaching any importance to it. 4 July 1934 How can I prepare my body to bear Your force, Sweet Mother? The power to bear is found in calm and quietness. 5 July 1934 X told me that it is very good to read Sri Aurobindo's messages on doubt. "It is not at all necessary to read Page 50 ... makes you feel melancholy and dissatisfied, it would be better not to go there. You have only to observe and see how it affects you, then decide accordingly. 13 December 1934 May I know, Mother, the conditions for the Supermind to descend in me? When I heard that the Supermind would descend in a relatively short time, I felt extremely happy. It is better not to speak of these things. All... July 1935 So what must I do to make these lower parts participate in the divine life? You must educate them as one educates a child. 16 July 1935 I will do Your work, Sweet Mother, the work for which I am with You. When it is done I shall merge into You. I believe that is Your will. For the moment my will goes only as far as this: to do the work that is to be done upon earth ...
... impressions of broken progress—come from the vital, which rebels Page 113 because its desires and preferences are not satisfied. All that has no true reality. 2 April 1933 O Mother, The disturbance still has not disappeared. I am in a worse state than before. There is something wrong in my mind. Also, I feel bad everywhere. Tell me what I should do. Think of something else... doing your work with conscientiousness, honesty and perseverance, you will feel my presence closer and closer to you. With my blessings. 29 June 1946 Page 141 My sweet Mother, The more I look into myself, the more discouraged I am, and I don't know whether there is any chance of my making any progress. It seems that all the obscurities and falsehoods are rising up on every... have understood the need for this, everything will become easier—and you will at last be able to acquire the peace you need so much. I am always with you in this effort and aspiration. Mother, The vital has become very, very bad. Today especially it is very rebellious. You did not reply to my last letter. Do you mean that it isn't necessary to make the vital peaceful? I did not ...
... of what happened. At once she came with me to the dispensary. She said something and Pink Nose stood on its hind legs and putting its front paws on the top-rim of the basket looked up at the Mother. The Mother again spoke to it. Its little nostrils quivered. After the Mother had gone we had to get it chloroformed for the operation by Dr. Rajangam: its intestines, which were hanging out, had to... specimen of a cross between a bull-terrier and a fox-terrier. When, after years of a happy and even "bossy" life, it fell ill and its condition seemed to go from bad to worse, Sehra informed the Mother. The Mother went into a short meditation and then said: "I don't feel it can recover." Soon after, Épave sank into a coma. Our sadhak-friend Barin Ganguli, a great lover of animals and an expert veterinary... saw a faint form approach with outstretched arms and make the motion of taking up Épave. That very mome Épave gave a gasp and died. The next morning Sehra reported the night's experience to the Mother. The Mother said: "Yes, I came to take your dog's soul." Although within my actual knowledge the Mother had only to do with cats and dogs and the Ashram's bulls and once a small donkey bought ...
... 1936 had been printed I made a new reading of two words from Sri Aurobindo's manuscript. The letter as it stood in print read: "Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother... The narrative is supposed to have taken place in far past times when the whole thing had to be opened, so as to 'hew the ways of Immortality'." Now, instead of "The narrative" I deciphered "This in... Page 275 the wrong reading intact and resort to an erratum elsewhere was hardly a harmonious and felicitous solution either. I thought of submitting the whole matter to the Mother the next morning when I would be seeing her. On finishing my pranam I told the Mother: "A special problem has come up in a certain letter of Sri Aurobindo's to me on Savitri." The Mother replied... of intellectual pride in my ambience, for on more than one occasion the Mother appeared to counteract the importance I seemed to attach to my own mind. To give one instance. The Press sent to the Mother the proof of the contents of the Savitri- volume. When I came as usual to meet her, she showed me the pages and said: "Nolini and I have gone through everything. It's all right. There is no need for ...
... painting a higher world and consciousness. Truly the Divine Grace is over you to lead you to an exceptional realisation. Along with it my love and blessings never leave you. The Mother The Mother has given this significance to the Carnation: Collaboration, ever ready to help and knowing how to do it. After that the Mother started sending me for painting numerous objects... expression I gathered that now I would always be submerged in this wonderful consciousness from where I would never come out. Ah, it is true so far! The date 6 is auspicious—according to the Mother the number 6 signifies "New Creation". She was absolutely indrawn in sheer silence. After her deep meditation she looked at me unblinking. Then there was the sudden flicker of a smile in her eyes... about it—this is quite all right—and I like your understanding of Savitri, which is also all right. So everything is all right and you can be sure of my friendship. LOVE The Mother * The Savitri paintings, and other visionary paintings of that time, were done in the midst of hideous difficulties and sufferings. Many a time the Mother was taken suddenly ill: she ran a temperature ...
... know what it means. Yes, Mother. Page 15 'The Gaze of the Divine Consciousness' My child, I did not call you yesterday as I would be seeing you today. You understand? Yes, Mother. I am seeing you now, that is why I did not call you. It is all right, Mother. Give me your notebook. Today it is this, Mother, the prayers. (I give the calendar... varies constantly. For you it may be one thing, while for another it may be completely different, although being the same photo. That is how it is. But why do you want to know this? Because, Mother, the other day when I brought the photos I sent for A's son, I wanted to know what exactly is there in Your photos. My child, me, I am there in the photos. Exactly what you see here now: the whole ...
... understands Sri Aurobindo's writings best." (99) N ow let me tell you about some amusing and interesting interviews of Mother. The year was 1947, the country had just become independent. Some well-known bigwig came to visit Mother. The interview was to take place in Pavitra-da's room, in the afternoon. While Mother was waiting in this room, I waited for Mother in the adjoining... properly, so let things go on as they have." One day, soon after, Mother said: "I am in great need of money, I have nothing in hand, may I take some money from your white bag?" I said: "Mother, the money is yours, you're free to spend it as you please. Why are you asking me?" Mother took the money that was in the bag and said: "From this you'll get the assurance that I'm not leaving ...
... perfect calm of Thy Eternity, and through an identification with our divine Mother, the All-Realiser, Thou has permitted me to participate in her sovereign power to be conscious and active…. * Two incidents occurred, late in July or early August, substantiating Sri Aurobindo’s assurance in The Mother : "The more complete your faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and... among those allowed to cook a few dishes for Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo was very fond of Amma’s lemon rice preparation. Amma’s mother sometimes sent a basket of fruits for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The Mother always sent down some to them, and told Amma what to reply when her mother asked about her offering. Once, Mother forgot to send them any. It was only when she asked her if she had liked ...
... understand what it is. All is written there ( in the notebook ) . I have given a suggestion … a hint of what it is. I have written here just what it is…. December 3, 1967 ( When I saw the Mother the next time, She explained : ) Really speaking, Sri Aurobindo and myself are the same, the same consciousness. Here below, there is a division, this is only to bring in an equilibrium in the creation... have done almost the same work. The work was and is the same, because the source of his inspiration and mine is the same: the Supreme. February 23, 1951 (From another letter of the Mother) The work consists in helping humanity as a whole to prepare itself for the new creation, that is to say, the supramental race. May 19, 1968 “WITHOUT HIM, I EXIST NOT…” Bonjour... One should know how to read with the true attitude, then one finds what one is seeking for, you understand? Yes, Mother. It is true, you will find in this book what you are looking for. Mother, the last sentence in this book is interesting and touching. Without Him, You do not exist, and without You, He cannot manifest. You know, it is perfectly true. I do not know exactly how I have put ...
... laws. ¹ Horses = vital energy; cows=light-energy; either kind = mixture of the two, e.g., mental energy; goat = aja = (lit.) unborn; the primal or pristine energy, that of Mother. ² The Supreme Consciousness sacrificed Himself, descended into Matter and became the Inconscient. Page 142 Thus indeed they reached the heavens in their mightiness... mighty Strength, the living Sap, the Delight streaming in the hearts of things, the treasure-house Qf all that we gain and hold, all Fulfilment lie at her feet. We bow down to her. She is the Mother, the nectar agleam in Sri Aurobindo's eyes: she upholds the very frame of all existences, she is Mira, the luminous, the dispeller of inner darkness, she maintains this wide and entire earth. ... truth of Tantra which can only be attained by the Grace of the Guru. This has been expounded by Yogishananda Nath Nilakantha Sharma Joshi, the disciple of Sri Amba Nanda Nath, as commanded by the Mother, the incarnate Divine Force, for the delight of the sadhakas who are freed from all evil by a single ray from the glance cast by the Grace of Sri Aurobindo, the great seer. Bliss for all! ...
... The Awakening of India 1905…. It was the time when the resplendent sun of India’s destiny seemed to have been eclipsed by the dark demon of imperialism, a time when the smile of the beloved Mother, the presiding Spirit of India, seemed to disappear for ever. Despair and dejection, fear and inertia, subjugation and slavery marked the character of the multitudes who were her children. Again and again... who were called and heard Her not She may well be wroth in the day of Her coming; but to those who help her advent even a little, how radiant with beauty and kindness will be the face of their Mother. * The Mother asks for no schemes, no plans, no methods, She herself will provide the schemes, the plans, the methods better than any we can devise. She asks for our hearts, our lives, nothing less,... that is struggling to be born amidst the chaos of a world in dissolution, and of the future India, the greater India of the rebirth that is to rejuvenate the mighty outworn body of the ancient Mother. * The young men of Bengal who had rushed forward in the frenzy of the moment, in the inspiration of the new gospel they had received, rushed forward rejoicing in the newfound strength and expecting ...
... Mother's is a Yoga of revolutionary change defying the known limits and daring the Unknown and confidently pressing towards the supramental world of the Next Future. III Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - the incarnate Lord and the divine Shakti - were nevertheless, when seen from our human end, willing actors in the terrestrial drama, generally veiling their divinity but at the same time also permitting... creation's mystery I will enact the drama of thy soul, Inscribe the long romance of Thee and Me. 18 IX For her children, for the tens of thousands who had found in her their true Mother, the child-mother relationship was - and is - the solvent of all problems and perplexities. She was with her children "on all levels, in all planes"; and irrespective of the dividing distance, the tie... light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. 26 The work begun by Sri Aurobindo had now been brought to the point of fruition by the Mother. "The greatest thing that can ever be," she said on 20 October 1957, "the most marvellous thing since the beginning of creation, the miracle has happened.... A new world, yes, a completely new world ...
... and power of the Divine Mother. The Mother's power and not Page 295 any human endeavour and tapasya can alone rend the lid and tear the covering and shape the vessel and bring down into this world of obscurity and falsehood and death and suffering Truth and Light and Life divine and the immortal's Ananda. 8 The visioning of the Divine Mother - the interpretation of her role... other Powers leans on her for its completeness; for she assures the material foundation, elaborates the stuff of detail and erects and rivets the armour of the structure. 6 This was the Mother the sadhaks knew and admired most unreservedly: the Mother with her uncanny eye for detail, the Mother with her unwearying vigilance, the Mother with her unending patience, the Mother with her genius ...
... it and there will be no need for concerning yourself about progress, Establish equanimity and don't feel insulted, for who can insult the Divine?" January 28, 1936 Interview with the Mother. The main advice she gave me was to use my tongue carefully, that is. not to be indiscreet. She finds my progress satisfactory - is not in favour of my practising Hatha Yoga which I was seriously ... Divine, transformation of the nature .... 25.6.1938: Saw the Mother for 35 minutes. "Something enveloping, surrounding... is exact - the result of the descending light .... " said the Mother. The meditation was given to remove "the vital deficiencies and give a deeper opening". Amma is in a "blissful rest". (today her anniversary). 8 *Sastriar's mother who was seriously ill... body and cared for him through his childhood and boyhood years, and he loves the Mother Divine to whom he has made ātmasamarpana, śaranāgati, and at the appointed time his mother joins the Mother, the river mingles with the Sea. Here, then, is a moving and inspiring recordation of the music of the true Guru-Shishya relationship, and so indeed were many of the sadhana case-histories in the Ashram ...
... While going into the interview room, the Mother would sometimes answer a question if it was not too long. So, as soon as the Mother approached this room, I asked, "Can I ask you a little question, Mother?" The Mother nodded. "How can one increase one's receptivity?" I asked. The Mother - Why, aren't you receptive? I - No, I don't have much receptivity. ... piteous and very, very sorrowful. I - Mother, what do you mean by sincere aspiration? The Mother - You don't know what aspiration is? I - The meaning is not very clear to me, Mother. The Mother - If you TRULY want to do yoga, if you TRULY want the Divine, then one day you SHALL realise Him. Sincere aspiration means that when you say something, you do exactly that. But if outwardly... strength and manage to listen to that quiet, gentle voice, only then do I succeed in realizing my goal. I can fulfil my objective without a hitch. Does this force have a double aspect, Mother? The Mother - That is your psychic being. That quiet, gentle voice is the voice of your inner being. It has no expectations, no desires. It is very tranquil. You can hardly hear its voice. But ...
... numerous. On 24 November 1965, a darshan day, Sri Aurobindo had been present from morning till night, and he had shown the Mother the state of humanity and its future evolution (which will be described in the next chapter). “… And then there were the few”, said the Mother, “the rare individuals who were ready for the necessary effort to prepare the transformation and to draw the new forces, to try to... became an imperious necessity. And so, once you have started like that, it is settled, you have to go on like that to the end.” 25 “How come that we have met?” an English lady once asked the Mother. The Mother answered: “We have all been together in former lives, otherwise we would not have been able to meet in this life. All of us belong to the same family, and we have worked together through the... would be unattainable without the four supramental aids, totally new in the history of spirituality. The presence of the Supermind . Thanks to the avataric sadhana of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother the supramental Consciousness was established in the earth-atmosphere on 29 February 1956. This date marks the exact end of the old world order and the beginning of the new. “This is becoming more and ...
... took place on 28 February 1968 some ten kilometers to the north of Pondicherry. The representatives had come from 124 nations and 23 Indian states. The voice from the loudspeakers was that of the Mother. The formula was the charter of a new city being founded there by her at that very moment: Auroville, the City of Dawn — the new Utopia. ‘We still see her [the Mother], half standing half sitting on... to be the first realisation of human unity based on the teaching of Sri Aurobindo 91 . ’ 12 She declared: ‘The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo’s vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things it is a collective ideal that calls... read this book up to here knows how any kind of sectarian mentality is incompatible with the vision (in this context it even feels incorrect to use the word ‘teaching’) of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The rich and voluminous literature they have left was intended as a communication of their own experience 92 and for the expansion of the understanding and the knowledge of the reader; they have always ...
... enormous mass of foolish prejudices which put material and spiritual life irreconcilably against each other … One must be able to take up all, to combine all, to synthesize all. 1 — The Mother The quality of the atmosphere had changed, the Mother said. ‘The development has been much accelerated. The stages of the march forward follow each other much faster … Things are changing quickly... film, Rani Rasmani, about the rich widow of that name and Ramakrishna Paramhamsa. In 1847, this lady had the Kali temple built where Ramakrishna passed his later years in adoration of Kali, the Mother. The temple is still a much visited place of pilgrimage. The Mother saw all films at the Playground together with the young and the adult Ashramites. ‘Then I have really understood — for it was not... forward into the unknown. What will happen, will happen! And that is that.’ 6 On regarde là où on veut aller . 7 (One keeps one’s sight on the aim one wants to attain.) — The Mother The victory is assured, she said. The years 1957 and 1958 were years of assurances, with many emphatic affirmations. There is no doubt that the Mother in those months has physically realized the o ...
... you could see that kind of dance, the dance of the vibrations which is there around you all the time …’ 16 This occult material reality discovered by science became a living reality to the Mother. The composition of a living cell was occultly shown to her in order to illustrate what was going on in her body. 17 She found that the cells ‘have a composition and an interior structure which ... founding and fast execution of the Sun City of Akhetaton, some three and a half millennia ago, by the pharaoh Akhenaton under the impulse of his mother, Queen Tiy, who was an incarnation of the Mother. The Mother is reported to have said that, although the Earth was not ready for the supramental transformation at the time, the creation of a city dedicated to the Sun and called ‘Horizon of the Sun’... towards his superior realization.’ 62 In 1969, shortly after the founding of Auroville, the Mother stated: ‘The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo’s vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is a collective ideal that calls ...
... (biography) 10: The Laboratory My children, you belong to a future that is being built, and it is here that it is being built. 1 – The Mother The Foundations Everything was in place for the decisive phase of the effort to bring the Supramental down into Matter, to transform Matter, to divinize the world. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother... according to the conditions of the game. He may change them, but he has to change them first, not proceed, while maintaining the conditions to act, by a series of miracles.’ 8 Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the Two-in-One, had come to change the conditions of the game. Therefore they had to take the conditions upon themselves, into themselves. This is what all Avatars have had to do, be they Rama, Krishna... … Heaps of letters, at times up to a hundred, received his attention every night.’ 73 ‘Champaklal would take the tray to Sri Aurobindo’s room, where Sri Aurobindo read and discussed with the Mother the replies to be given … Generally, it was Sri Aurobindo who wrote the replies, though occasionally the Mother might add a comment of her own or her blessings … In the morning it was Nolini’s responsibility ...
... that Mendeleyev’s table of the elements would not remain the table of the law? ‘It is indeed possible that at present things are happening which one is not in the habit of experiencing,’ said the Mother. ‘The only fact of which I am sure is … that the quality, the quantity and the nature of the possible universal combinations is suddenly going to change so considerably that it will probably be baffling... Science has now arrived at a point where mass is energy, which means vibration (a particle is no longer a thing or object, but a vibratory ‘event’); but it is clear that in the experience of the Mother the vibrations were something very dissimilar from supposedly neutral, purely quantitative configurations, mathematically represented as graphic alternations along a given axis. To her vibrations were... their capacity and receptivity, every one being a partial manifestation of the Universal Consciousness.”’ 62 ‘Mother is Getting Old’ I am the only one who is young. 63 — The Mother The battle in her body between the new and the old world was leaving its traces. After all, she was now ninety years old, more than ninety. She was a living contradiction: on the one hand the Great ...
... 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 as separate beings or draw them together as her own various Personalities and hold them in herself, sometimes drawn back, sometimes at... 105 Overmind plane) above the Gods". 19 The Gods, as has been already said, are in origin and essence permanent Emanations of the Divine put forth from the Supreme by the Transcendent Mother, the Adyā Shakti; in their cosmic action they are Powers and Personalities of the Divine each with his independent cosmic standing, function and work in the universe. They are not impersonal entities... the Mother's action in Avataras like Rama and Krishna? The Mother's Vibhutis would normally be feminine personalities most of whom would be dominated by one of the four personalities of the Mother. The others you mention would be personalities and powers of the Ishwara, but in them also, as in all, the Mother's force would act. I do not quite catch the question about the transformation of the Vibhutis ...
... and told Gauri so as soon as the exercise ended: “Let us bow down before the Mother. Whatever it be, you have touched the Mother with your feet.” And we both prostrated ourselves before the Mother. The Mother was very pleased and caressed our heads affectionately as if She were caressing two puppies. We used to play all kinds of games with the Mother in this way. One day the Mother was sitting... some time she left the room. Then the Mother told us with a laugh: “She doesn’t know much French actually. She was just trying to show off.” We all laughed. Trying to show off before the Mother! * The marching went on for a few days. Then some new work came up before the Mother. Things happened successively after a few days’ interval. Now physical activities started in a regular way at the... assisted Doutsie in this work. Isn’t it unbelievable! So one day this lady proudly declared in the Playground: “I can run very fast. I’m sure nobody can beat me!” Pranab was standing next to the Mother. The Mother whispered to him: “Get some of your girls and prepare for a race.” So Pranab at once called out some of the girls and told them: “Get ready for a race with Doutsie.” As far ...
... the Legend of the New World. Page 56 There, I embrace you very tenderly. Please excuse my disjointed sentences, what must be caught is the momentum , the marvellous movement of Mother the great Ballerina, who goes through the false appearances of our intellectual prison. And with your film, you will help the New World to be . With you very tenderly Satprem P.S.: You... battlefield No. 1 (United States = No. 2). So we are likely to have to start again the impossible race we experienced at Macmillan in Madras, when we were clandestinely printing the three volumes of Mother . The ashramite octopus is still present, with ramifications in every corner (especially at the printers and booksellers). My first impulse (in the past and even recently) was to have our "Mother's... anything except crushing circumstances. I have the impression that Kennedy 30 is more open and would be more accessible, but what are his chances? And it is far. If only I could make him touch Mother, the Force.... You see, all this is full of suspension marks. I look on and on — and probably the Divine does what is needed very well, but all the same, we are here to help him a little. I would ...
... every day. She did not eat the bananas — but took them and gave them as alms. This was reported to the Mother. The Mother had, often enough, said that each one should take only what he/she needs. So the Mother instructed Ravindraji to stop giving her breakfast. She pleaded with the Mother. The Mother sent her to Ravindraji telling her to plead with him, as it was his domain of work. Be that as it... many. On his way out Prashanto would distribute them to the urchins — just outside the D.R. This happened not long after the “lady’s” incident. So, Ravindraji dutifully reported the matter to the Mother. The Mother told Ravindraji, much to his astonishment, not to admonish him. “Simply tell him not to distribute just outside the D.R. He should go a distance away and do it.” She then added, “You just ...
... general suggestion seems to be that by a patient waiting with the consciousness turned upward, one can connect even the subconscient vital to the Supermind whose embodiments are Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The dish and the cover over the dish might indicate the veil over the earth nature and mind, which must be first removed. The colour of this cover is black to start with, which means that there are... are forces of obscurity and darkness at work which are the first obstacle. It is significant that the cover over the dish can be opened only with the help of the Grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The covers change after being removed successively into covers of different colours in the order: yellow (activity of the mind plane), pink (psychic love), blue (higher-mind at work, spiritual consciousness... golden lotus as a clear indication of how Champaklal's psychic being could come to be fully open and receive something from the Supramental. After this, with the Grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the ascent begins and ends in pale blue light, which is Sri Aurobindo's light. It was soothing and some movements took place in all the centres of his body, signifying the beginning of the action of ...
... actually her names cannot be exhausted. Seen seated on the lap of Shiva-Kameshwara, the Supreme has taken the form of a woman out of compassion. Hence she is called Lalita-Ambika: the beautiful Mother. The Lalita Sahasranama opens with the word Sri Mata and concludes with Ambika to underline this compassionate motherhood of the Supreme. Ambika is a word that connotes the mother coming to the child... Mother stops the epic action for a moment. The passage itself takes us to Sri Lalita Sahasranama. This important scripture for Sri Vidya Upasana (Tantra) begins with the words Sri Mata: the Divine Mother. The opening in the prayer "At the head she stands of birth and toil and fate" draws us straight to a passage in the Sahasranama: Vimarśarupini Vidya Vijadadhijgatprasuh; Sarvavyaadhiprasamani... heart. It is the anxious call of the lost child searching for its mother in a crowded bazaar, interiorised as the prayer of Aswapati. This is the ultimate point of any Yoga, the calling out to the Mother, the Mediatrix, the puruṣakāra bhūtā, the one who holds our hand in darkness and light, speaks to us of what is good for us, and sustains us in such a way that we grow into the divine as a child ...
... the unexpected events the future has in store, for “this is the time of the unexpected.” “Now we will see”, said the Mother. The supramental being . To start and lay the foundations of the supramental transformation of the Earth was the mission of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The expectation of a new species beyond man is entirely logical if one accepts the following premises: a) that all is the... more or less good apprentices, more or less advanced on the way.” Where are they, then, these apprentice-overmen and apprentice-overwomen? For those related to the Work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the first place to look for them is in themselves. Overman or overwoman may be in embryo there. As wrote Nolini Kanta Gupta, one of the close collaborators of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: “Although ...
... then all had sought their salvation in a Hereafter; Sri Aurobindo and the Mother wanted the salvation of mankind here, on the Earth, in the cells, in Matter. ‘ Le salut est physique ,’ said the Mother, ‘the salvation is physical.’ If this is not true, then this creation of a distressing absurdity as it presents itself to us now can only be the work of a deranged Spirit. If the Divine is what he is... farce without a divine intention of Love and Supreme Joy being hidden in it or present behind it. The burning question as to the suffering of the ages ran like lava through the sadhana of the Mother. The promise given to humankind since its origin was being redeemed in her, in Mothersriaurobindo. If the Manifestation has a purpose, if Matter has a reason, then the salvation cannot but be physical... who had found an occupation in one of the groups or associations in the periphery of the Ashram. And around those moved, like free electrons around the nucleus, the ones who felt attracted to the Mother, the Ashram or Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga for some reason or other, visitors from every corner of India and from the whole world, and in some cases profiteers and preying vultures. Most of this population wrote ...
... heart, but she hopes also to come here soon." Next, I gave Shirin's "lots of love". Finally, as if to crown my messages, I mentioned my sister Minnie and the deep warmth of her feeling for the Mother. The Mother picked out packets of blessings — "How many shall I give you?" "Five." She gave them to me. In the evening I went to the French-translation class at the Playground. I sat there... time, I felt I was face to face with an unknown future, a story whose details were hidden from me — a fascinating adventure which I had just to watch without fear. Inwardly I surrendered to the Mother the whole matter of Sehra's coming. The next day, at the staircase, the Mother said: " I have prepared my reply to Sehra. Most probably I'll give it to you in the evening." There was music... been no accidental gesture. And there was another occurrence which showed how profoundly meaningful it had been. Sehra, after a few months of stay in the Ashram, opened very beautifully to the Mother. The Mother even said that Sehra's soul had taken its lodging in the Mother's being. She pointed to the middle of her own chest and declared with a smile that Sehra's soul was dwelling there quite ...
... had been printed I made to new reading of two words from Sri Aurobindo's manuscript. The letter as it stood in print read: "Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother... The narrative is supposed to have taken place in far past times when the whole thing had to be opened, so as to 'hew the ways of Immortality'." Now, instead of "The narrative" I deciphered "This... with its disgust, but to leave the wrong reading intact and resort to an erratum elsewhere was hardly a harmonious and felicitous solution either. I thought of submitting the whole matter to the Mother the next morning when I would be seeing her. On finishing my pranam I told the Mother: "A special problem has come up in a certain letter of Sri Aurobindo's Page 180 to... intellectual pride in my ambience, for on more than one occasion the Mother appeared to counteract the importance I seemed to attach to my own mind. To give one instance. The Press sent to the Mother the proof of the contents of the Savitri- volume. When I came as usual to meet her, she showed me the pages and said: "Nolini and I have gone through everything. It's all right. There is no need ...
... things. Wisdom, Strength, Harmony, Perfection are their several attributes and it is these powers that they bring with them into the world..." Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on The Mother: The Mother - VI Sri Aurobindo has also stated: The four Powers of the Mother are four of her outstanding Personalities, portions and embodiments of her divinity through whom she acts on... more seizable because more defined and limited temperament and action of the goddess forms in whom she consents to be manifest to her creatures . Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on The Mother: The Mother - VI Further Sri Aurobindo clarified in Vol. 25, p. 63: These four Powers are the Mother's cosmic Godheads, permanent in the world-play; they stand among the greater cosmic Godheads... 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 manifest through them as separate beings or draw them together as her own various Personalities and hold them in herself, sometimes kept back, sometimes at play ...
... The Mother, the Divine and the Lower Nature The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother, the Jivatman and the Soul In the Chandi it is said that the Devi is in everyone in the form of consciousness. This is the Bhagavat Chetana in all beings. In the true state, in the psychic and the Jivatman, it is united, a divine portion. In the fallen state,... it is the ego. Is this correct? Page 60 I don't understand exactly. Chitshakti or Bhagavat Chetana is the Mother—the Jivatman is a portion of it, the psychic or soul a spark of it. Ego is a perverted reflection of the psychic or the Jivatman. If that is what you mean, it is correct. Sometimes I feel as if I am a portion of the Mother come down into the manifestation for her work ...
... 171 itself unhappy without any reason. I hope, indeed, that you will soon become conscious of my presence always near you, and that it will give you peace and joy. My most beloved Mother, the idea of separation opens between You and me like a frightening abyss. I am not satisfied; from where does this dissatisfaction come? It is always the vital being which protests and complains... from its blind and violent whirlwind, one finds very quickly that all desires and all attractions vanish; only the ardent aspiration for the Divine remains. Page 174 My beloved Mother, the whole day I thought of nothing else except that red rose which signifies "Human passions changed into love for the Divine". I want to know precisely what the human passions are. By "passion"... and no limit can be set to the power of the Divine. One must find the inner peace and keep it constantly. In the force this peace brings, all these little miseries will disappear. Mother, the inherent tendency of the material body is to dissolve, and the mind helps it; how will You be able to stop the natural propensity of my body to disintegration? It must become aware of the immortality ...
... 393 (Satprem:) No, Mother, but Pranab is here. Oh, he's here! Call him. 4 (Pranab, in a dreadful tone:) Yes, Mother? I have.... I can't speak. (Pranab:) Don't speak Mother! [The attendant laughs.] I have asked Satprem to explain to you what is happening—why I must make a change.... (Pranab:) Mother, I am not interested, Mother. No? I am not interested—whatever... there to stand up to the last—whatever happens, happens. ( Mother tries to speak, Pranab cuts her short ) ...I am neither reasoning nor doing anything. And I don't want to listen also, Mother. [The attendant laughs.] I understand fully. And let me go on with my own light—own conviction, own faith, own strength, own will. [Pranab raises his head as if he were talking to a crowd] And I don't... heard, "Will THEY believe you?" But Mother did say "he" = Pranab. × The white lotus of the divine Mother (the pink lotus is Sri Aurobindo's flower). × The next time, after the intervention of Mother's attendant ...
... commit because, in spite of everything, there is a psychic being behind that curbs them—but the Chinese don't have one. And they are VERY intelligent. ( Mother goes within a long time ) Mother, the problem is to find out how one can counteract all that, because in 1950 already, Sri Aurobindo had told the Americans: if you yield in Korea, you will be led to yield every position point after point... after point they have yielded: Kashmir and Tibet and all that—we are encircled by the Chinese. And we are still yielding [in Bangladesh]. So how to thwart all that? ( silence ) For example, Mother, the Americans are quietly giving aid to Pakistan again because they say, their reasoning is: if we don't give aid, then we leave the whole territory of Pakistan to the Chinese. That's sheer... [madness]... Quite possibly that situation of being pursued was not from this life alone—whence the imprint—and must have characterized other past meetings with Mother. × "The affair of Korea... is the first move in the Communist plan of campaign to dominate and take possession first of these northern parts and then of ...
... irrational. Of all kinds of fear the most subtle and the most clinging is that of death. 1 Letters on Yoga, p. 1234. 2 Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 334. 3 The Mother, "The Fear of Death and the Four Methods of Conquering It", in Bulletin of Physical Education, Vol. VI, No. 1, p. 65. Page 342 This has roots deep in the subconscient and it is... thinking unaccompanied by my body. It looked upon the body as something apart from itself, much as we look on a dress ... the body will rend like a garment, but I — I am." 3 1 2 The Mother, "The Fear of Death and the Four Methods of Conquering It", in Bulletin of Physical Education, Vol. VI, No. 1, p. 65. 3 See H. Carrington and J. R. Meader, Death, pp. 170-72. Page... the resolution to conquer it." 2 In order to obviate a possible chance of misunderstanding let us 1 Bulletin of Physical Education, Vol. X. No. 3, p. 70. 2 The Mother,"The Fear of Death and the Four methods of Conquering It." Page 348 forthwith state that the attainment of physical immortality as envisaged by the Yoga of Integral Transformation ...
... questions?" (Sanchayita, "After Death", adapted.) The questions become still more insistent and full of interest in the case of the sadhakas of the Integral Yoga when they come to know that the Mother, the great occultist and Mahayogi of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, has clearly pronounced about what has happened to some of the sadhakas and sadhikas of the Ashram after their physical demise. To satisfy... old devotee, entered his son's consciousness after breathing his last, and thus reached the Mother's chamber when the young man went to her to report about his father's demise. At the sight of the Mother the vital being of the 'dead' father left the son's body, took the form of a smiling babe and ran and jumped into the welcoming arms of the Mother. (7)'H' was an early Ashramite, a great scholar... father in utter distress. The gentleman was on the verge of losing his mental balance. Finally he decided to take recourse to the planchette-techniqe to invoke the departed "souls" of Abhay and his mother. The father claimed to have brought to him his wife and son many a time and acquired through them much interesting information regarding the other worlds and their affairs. After some time the gentleman ...
... get a house constructed near Atelier and allot it to all my brothers and my mother. But that didn't happen. The circumstances changed. In any case I came to live in this house with my mother. The Mother came to see the arrangements one day. She saw that a radio had been removed from a particular place and a cupboard that was given was made of very cheap, bad wood. The Mother asked those... work and the other is the outer work And must try and establish harmony between the two. You are doing both the jobs well. And you look fine. "The more you are able to keep contact with the Mother the better you will feel and you will live in a happy state." 'You are absolutely right, Dada. But still there are moments from time to time when everything is in a turmoil.' "Turmoil ... more you can stay in the Mother's protection single mindedly, the more She will set everything right." 'But, there are times when I am confused.' " That too will be cleared by the Mother. "The Mother will show you the way. And what needs to be done She herself will do for you. The more you advance Page 57 inwardly in the Mother's consciousness the more strength you ...
... Moments Eternal The Four Aspects of the Mother The Mother used to tell us so many things on Her own… She was once walking in the Playground as the March Past was to begin in some time. She came and stood under the Neem-tree leaning against the wall in silence for a while. Then rather unexpectedly She began: “I have come this time in all my aspects... the image of the goddess and on the mountain. This puja cannot be done without this offering of genda or palash . We would fill our hands with these flowers and offer them at the feet of the Mother. The priest went on reciting the verses in a solemn voice filled with devotion. We would repeat the verses after him trying to keep in tune and go on offering flowers to the deity. And in due time the... not tolerate any defect or imperfection. Here I am reminded of an amusing incident. Our press had just started printing books then. A few copies of these newly printed books were first sent to the Mother. The Mother’s eye fell straight on the page where a word had been misspelt: in place of a ‘t’ there was an ‘f ’. Oh Lord, how upset She was! We had to open all the books and replace the ‘f ’ with a ‘t’ ...
... from behind the scenes as in the Baroda period or from occult planes as in his later years, Sri Aurobindo was always a power, a guiding and activising spirit, for he was verily the true son of the Mother, the sword-arm of Bhavani Bharati, the creator-spirit of the unfolding New Age. Period-divisions of a human life - especially a life so rich, so many-sided, so incommensurable as Sri Aurobindo's - can... classic in India's political literature. V "A temple is to be erected and consecrated to Bhavani, the Mother, among the hills." Thus begins the unique document. 35 Bhavani* is the Mother, the Infinite Energy that "looms up in the vision of man in various aspects and infinite forms. Each aspect creates and marks an age". Love, Knowledge, Power, Strength characterise different ages as the... nothing but to revive the Brahma within us, and that is a spiritual process - no effort of the body or the intellect can compass it. The three things needful are, firstly, a temple for the Mother, the white Bhavani, the Mother of strength, a temple "in a high and pure air steeped in calm and energy"; secondly, a Math with a new Order of Karma Yogis attached to the temple, "a nucleus of men in ...
... Divine - now putting forth this or that one out of her different powers, and sometimes veiling all of them with her sweet motherly smile and solicitude II Of the games fashioned by the Mother, the most colourfully spiritual was the Flower Game. From the very beginning, flowers - in their variety no less than in their opulence - gave a distinct character to the Ashram. Commenting on the place... ākāśā, the ethereal element itself, - that is, all that is most abstract, pure and perfect. It is, above everything else, the all-powerful creative mantra. 5 The offering of flowers to the Mother, the receiving of a flower or flowers from her, could mean much, could prove a decisive turning point in one's, spiritual life, for these flowers from the Mother were verily the Divine's symbolic emanations... transformation." 10 Some resourceful linking-up of the key-words (the names of the flowers) was always possible, and the disciples had a go at the exercise and submitted their entries to the Mother. The one identical with - or closest to - the sentence the Mother had in mind won the prize. "It so happened," says Sethna, "that everyone of us had on at least one occasion the correct sentence implanted ...
... 7 December, however, she could' not come on account of indisposition, and on the 9th she was taken ill and had to be confined to her bed. In the earlier years, Datta and Chinmayi used to give the Mother the needed personal services. Later Vasudha took their place. When the Mother took ill on 9 December, it was thus Vasudha who was sent for, and she remained with her attending to all her needs. There... solemnly believe that what is unique in our Centre of Education is not so much its academic structure, although there too it is developing certain special features, but the presence of the Divine Mother, the vibrant atmosphere, which, at one stage or the other, awakens the individual here, Page 677 without any outward compulsion whatsoever, to the necessity of an inner discipline, an inner... of the philosophy of Life Divine. Victory to the Divine Mother, founder of Sri Aurobindo Ashram and its Director, the vehicle of Sri Aurobindo's grace. Next day, on 1 March, he offered to the Mother the first volume of his Marathi translation of The Life Divine. 15 * Bapat was a member of Sri Aurobindo's revolutionary group. He escaped arrest in the Alipur Bomb Case. Later he "acquitted ...
... into their proper places without creating the confusion which not unoften bewilder the beginners on the path. According to Sri Aurobindo,—and he is here at one with the Gita—it is the supreme Mother, the parā prakṛti, who has become all these numberless Jivâtmâ, these multiple centres of the one transcendent and universal Consciousness— par ā prakṛtirjīvabh ū t ā . Each Jiva or Jivâtmâ is an... God's desire. * * * I have appended this long and luminous extract and dwelt on the escapist tendency of the soul both in this and the previous essay, because, next to surrender to the Mother, the nature and quality of the aspiration is the most important factor determining the direction and culminating perfection of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. The initial aspiration of our being,... unwearied insistence on service, on the perfect fulfilment of the divine Will and the manifestation of the supernal glory of the Divine upon earth, except in the Prayers and Meditations of the Mother ? THE PSYCHIC POISE The essential psychic poise is one of perfect peace and equality. The psychic does not so much seek after the Divine as see and feel and enjoy Him. Its aspiration is ...
... into something ludicrous); I am referring to the principle of divine Love. But it has been changed: it will be the "Pavilion of the Mother"; but not this (Motherpoints to herself): the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. (I say "Mother" because Sri Aurobindo used the word, otherwise I would have put something else - I would have put "creative principle" or "realizing principle" ...
... enters by a certain door, but as soon as he has gone right in, he realises that it is a single oneness, it is only the path leading to it or the particular approach which is different. Sweet Mother, "the Jivatman ... the moment it presides over the dynamics of the manifestation, knows itself as one centre of the multiple Divine, not as the Parameshwara." That's exactly what I have just said... lose the memory of their experience. But when one has formed the habit, perhaps the memory is a little dimmed, hasn't the intensity and exactness, but it remains. Is that all? Nothing else? Mother, the other day you said that when one thinks of someone or something, one part of this thought goes there at once. Yes. For example, I think of someone who is in Calcutta, then if my thought goes ...
... Meeting the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother Right Attitude during Interviews with the Mother The right attitude in approaching the Mother when she sees one, is to keep the being perfectly quiet and open to receive, without any activity of the mind or desire in the vital, with only the surrender and the psychic readiness to accept whatever... my meditation with the Mother? Last time I could not properly receive the Mother's Force or become conscious of her working. To be conscious of the Force or working in a meditation with the Mother, the consciousness must be still and passive to her. If one is accustomed to be active and make one's own formations, Page 512 that stands in the way and must be suspended during the meditation ...
... pressure of the Yoga here. Nor is there at present room in the Asram. Also, she is mistaken in thinking that she has something to get directly from me other than what she has got or can get from the Mother. The only thing she can do now is to prepare herself, going on with what she has received and trying to assimilate it and bring it to her surface consciousness; Page 569 especially, she has... not and to go is likely only to increase the difficulty and imperil the final result—it cannot help you. It is here that the struggle however acute has, because of the immediate presence of the Mother, the best chance and certitude of a solution and successful ending. 5 March 1937 No one in fact is kept here when his will or decision is to go—although the principle of the spiritual life is against ...
... almost always. How can the idea of not coming to Pranam be accepted, as some have done? Various motives are played upon—pride, the desire not to be like others, not to be dependent on the Mother, the wish to protect some wrong movement from the Mother's control, the idea of doing the sadhana in one's own way free from the pressure of the Truth etc. 30 May 1933 I felt a disinclination to... suffering when they come to the Mother or write to her. There is a sort of idea (which was long current in the Asram) and there is still a feeling in the vital that the more you do that with the Mother the more you will get out of her. Of course it is absurdly untrue—the truth is the opposite; the more one is cheerfully open to her and lives in the light and gladness, the more one is likely to receive ...
... it into something grotesque; I am speaking of the principle of Divine Love. But that has changed: it will be "The Pavilion of the Mother", but not this (Mother points to herself) —the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. I say "Mother" because Sri Aurobindo used that word, otherwise I would have put something else, I would have put "creative principle" or "principle of realisation" ...
... divine Will and it's the divine Work. The Mother Belonging totally to the Divine That is why, rather than to serve, it is better to belong totally, absolutely to the Divine. The Mother The aim To exist only for the Divine. To exist only through the Divine. To exist only in the service of the Divine. To exist only... by becoming the Divine.... Page 92 To serve To give oneself, to serve. What is its spontaneous, immediate, inevitable movement? To serve. To serve in a joyous, complete, total self-giving. The Mother The Divine Worker I face earth's happenings with an equal soul; In all are heard Thy steps: Thy unseen feet Tread Destiny's pathways in my front. Life's whole Tremendous theorem ...
... "the ideal of the overmind creation". The original translations of all the contents of Part 1 were revised for publication in 1978 in Words of Long Ago , Volume 2 of the Collected Works of the Mother. The same contents were brought out in the original French in 1983 in Paroles d’autrefois , the French counterpart of Volume 2 of the Collected Works. Part 2. The essays in this part were written... restored to its original position in the series, was first published in 1939 in Quelques paroles, quelques prières and in English translation as the Foreword to the 1940 edition of Words of the Mother. The question at the beginning of this essay, taken from the Mother’s handwritten manuscript, was published for the first time in the 1978 edition of Words of Long Ago . The original translations of ...
... only one solution, to find your psychic being... The Mother The Solution Method, order, and care With method, order, and care there is no difficulty that cannot be solved. The Mother Gita's solution To live inwardly... Pausing Yes, it is very good to learn the habit of pausing a few seconds before acting in order to ask oneself whether the action is truly helpful from the standpoint of spiritual life. The Mother The best help To want unwaveringly the welfare of another both in Page 79 the head and the heart, is the best help one can give. Sri Aurobindo Lack of control ...
... always answer you. So, one last attempt: Has anyone here a question to ask me? (Silence) Wonderful! (Mother laughs) Well, that's all then. 14 November 1956 Mother, the problem [of controlling one's temper] comes up in our class. Oh! oh! you get into a temper with your students? (Laughter) To control and discipline them, what should one ... we want to realise, is a state of luminous understanding in which the needs of each one and of the overall harmony are taken into Page-244 account. X: Yes, Mother. The future will have no need of violence, for it will be ruled by the divine Consciousness in which everything harmonises with and completes everything else. Is that enough? X: Yes. I ...
... 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 as separate beings or draw them together as her own various Personalities and hold them in herself, sometimes drawn back, sometimes at... 453 Overmind plane) above the Gods". 2 The Gods, as has been already said, are in origin and essence permanent Emanations of the Divine put forth from the Supreme by the Transcendent Mother, the Adyā Shakti; in their cosmic action they are Powers and Personalities of the Divine each with his independent cosmic standing, function and work in the universe. They are not impersonal entities ...
... The Mother, the Divine and the Lower Nature The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Consciousness and Force of the Divine Please explain to me what is meant by the Divine Mother. The Divine Mother is the Consciousness and Force of the Divine—which is the Mother of all things. 24 June 1933 You have written in The Mother that the Mother is ...
... The Mother, the Divine and the Lower Nature The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother and the Lower Prakriti The higher Prakriti is the true nature of the Divine, so it can show Light and Ananda to people who are trying to reach the highest Truth; it is a help to sadhaks. But the lower Prakriti is impure and blind and can only show a limited Truth... to the Divine Mother and to her alone that the Divine will do all actions through you. 27 May 1933 How can I know that the Mother is working in me? I believe that everything is done by the Mother, the good things and the bad, but X believes that very few things are done according to her will. How can I know what is divine and what is undivine? Why should the Mother do bad things in you? It ...
... action and motive or just demand of Nature. When the individual soul is entirely at one in its being and knowledge with the Lord and directly in touch with the original Shakti, the transcendent Mother, the supreme Will can then arise in us too in the high divine manner as a thing that must be and is achieved by the spontaneous action of Nature. There is then no desire, no responsibility, no reaction;... longer through a half-perception and a diminished or distorted effectuation by the stumbling, ignorant and all-deforming energy of lower nature in us but by the all-wise transcendent and universal Mother. The Lord has veiled himself and his absolute wisdom and eternal consciousness in ignorant Nature-Force and suffers her to drive the individual being, with its complicity, as the ego; this lower action ...
... January Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 January 12, 1972 Do you happen to remember where I wrote the twelve attributes of the Mother (the symbol with twelve petals)? There's one, four, and twelve. Yes, I think it was for Auroville. For Auroville? But I said it years ago.... Page 27 I saw it recently. The twelve? ( Sujata goes out... any details. ( Mother extends a note in English ) The Mother's Symbol The central circle represents the Divine Consciousness. The four petals represent the four powers of the Mother. The twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother manifested for Her Work. January 24, 1958 The Mother ( silence ) Recently, between your last visit and this one (two or three ...
... terrestrial life we have to go. You, Tagore, William Blake one and all are of this supra-terrestrial outlook, no matter how much you may value sparrows and 'the eye of the peacock" and "our humble mother the dust" in the Creation which according to you and Blake was found good and was never sought to be made better by a God whose substance is ever different from it and can therefore be never truly incarnated... The flawless Above is never literally and totally a flawless Below. Will this imbalance be always there and will the souls who want "one entire and perfect chrysolite" have always to leave "our mother the dust" for some Nirvana, Goloka, Heaven? "Alas, yes" is the answer. Have you read Tagore's poem on the Cranes? After he has caught sight of them in their migratory flight he sees in all things cranes ...
... deep soul and reaches the authentic Divine Reality. This worship is Roman Catholicism's secret link with the work of Sri Aurobindo in whose Yoga the inner and outer self-surrender to the Divine Mother, the Parameshwara's Para-shakti, the Purushottama's Para-prakriti is the central "sunlit" path to the Supermind and the most dynamic channel for the descent of the all-transforming Supramental Light and... self-contradictory. Page 272 Whatever the "Resurrection" of Jesus may be, it is certainly not what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had in view. When Satprem once put to the Mother the notion of the body which has been claimed to be Jesus' resurrected one, she said: "But that body went to heaven!" - meaning that it could not be a supramental body which has to be heavenly on ...
... "Nothing has changed. Call for inspiration and help as you have always done. You will get everything from Sri Aurobindo as before." This was simultaneously the Grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the crowning touch to all that they had done in those three weeks from November 24 onwards for a poor aspirant whose dependence on them was abject. ٭ I went back to Bombay with... upholstery of the berth. I kept gazing for some time. Not believing my eyes, I shut them and opened them again. It made no difference to the vision. There still stood the transparent form of the Mother, the face softly shining. After looking for a quarter minute I once more shut my eyes. When I reopened them the form was gone. On reaching Bombay I wrote to the Mother about this mysterious ...
... ess, great service and high endurance for the country are its fruit. And the sap which keeps it alive is the realisation of the Motherhood of God in the country, the vision of the Mother, the knowledge of the Mother, the perpetual contemplation, adoration and service of the Mother. Other love than this is foreign to the motives of political action. Between nation and nation there is justice ...
... listening to the music, you could also feel the pure and simple joy of the music for its own sake, and that when you are near me, you also feel the simple and sincere joy of a child near to its mother. The nature is complex, and always the true and the false, the good and the bad are mixed together. It is very useful to see one's faults and weaknesses clearly, but one should not see only them, for... many hours I work because if I write "I worked for ten hours", You write to me, "It is amazing"! You are a courageous and energetic child. Tender love. 19 December 1933 My dear Mother, The "iris" flowers are very beautiful. Mother, what do they signify? "Aristocracy of beauty". It is a noble flower which stands upright on its stalk. Its form has been stylised in the fleur-de-lis ...
... caught sight of the concealed pipe. Vaun was embarrassed but the Mother laughed heartily and he and Janet joined in the laughter. Later they remarked: "It isn't possible to hide anything from the Mother." The Mother had once told me: "When a person wants to conceal something from me, the thought of the thing to be hidden keeps hovering all about him and I immediately catch it." Shantimayi and... Ashram and she got in touch with Ford. Ford replied that, as he believed in reincarnation, he would be interested to meet somebody who could throw light on his past births. Miss Wilson spoke with the Mother. The Mother said she could certainly throw some light. It appears that Ford was eager to pay a visit to the Ashram. Unhappily, adverse circumstances delayed his coming. A little later he died. So the ...
... cosmic Beings called ‘Gods’. ‘They are the various facets of Something that exists in itself. Those beings are endowed with different aspects according to the countries and civilisations,’ said the Mother. The cosmic forces are evidently the same in the whole cosmos, but in the conceptual world of the humans they are called Demeter, Mars, the archangel Gabriel, Anubis or Krishna. The Spirit’s truths... all the religions,’ 5 said the Mother. Man has tried to represent its dimensions symbolically in his temples and cathedrals. According to the order of things as seen by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the Overmind, however high above the world of our experience, is ‘nothing but the highest gradation of the lower hemisphere’; this gradation is separated from the higher hemisphere of divine Unity by ...
... × If human beings came in the presence of the Supermind “each of them would disappear”, said the Mother. The reason is that the Supermind is an absolute Truth-Consciousness whose substance of supramental Light would cause the falsehood, present to a high degree in all human beings, to disappear in the... Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , p. 266. × See Chapter 8 in Georges Van Vrekhem’s The Mother: The Story of Her Life. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , p. 271 ff. ...
... 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 eight hands... civilizations like Atlantis have, in humanity’s past, disappeared in the water or under the sand? All indications are that in recent times we owe the continuation of our world to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the only Power that was able to counteract the human and material instruments of the destructive designs of the Asura. The miracle is not for tomorrow: it is happening NOW . Those who have eyes ...
... reality much larger and complex than strict rationalism and materialism can grasp. The world is growing receptive of these verities. Their synthesis is the integral vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the “perennial philosophy” worded for the present times. The knowledge of this revelation should not result in another systematization or be calcified in the dogmas of a new religion; it should provide... × Id. , pp. 103-104. × In The Mother - The Story of Her Life , Georges Van Vrekhem has the following footnote on p. 466: “It would indeed be easy to concoct a sectarian or totalitarian creed or cult from the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and ...
... direst. Our moment in time is also supposed to be the end of the Iron Age, the dawn of the Age of Aquarius, the momentous change predicted by Edgar Cayce, and, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the time of upheaval inevitable in the transition to a new stage of the terrestrial evolution. The bewildering circumstances caused by this transition are clearly expressed in the extreme phenomena which... what is it that is happening and makes us look for an explanation of an Earth changing into one habitat for a unified humanity? Is the Earth Special? According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the Earth is a very special body in the universe. Speaking to the Ashram students in 1953, the Mother made this quite clear: “In the immensity of the astronomical skies, earth is a thing absolutely without ...
... its intensity. As the bud blossoms unfolding its petals all around, so the inner consciousness blossomed and expanded in that profound silence. In lonely silence again, I realised the Divine Mother, the Consciousness of all consciousnesses, manifesting Herself as a luminous young child-Bala. I became one with Her in consciousness. My uvula curved upwards' and tasted the oozing Amrita (Nectar)... Brahmarandhra (Aperture of Brahman) opened itself. The last vestige of the ego was dissolved. A flood of Light entered in from above. I became absorbed in Bliss, the most precious gift of the Mother. The infinite pure Consciousness and the Self were realised. The bond of birth and death has been broken and with that the dualities of pleasure and pain, sorrow and happiness were cancelled. The ...
... 14: The Mother’s Reincarnations Since the beginning of the earth, wherever and whenever there was the possibility of manifesting a ray of consciousness, I was there. 1 – The Mother ‘The Divine also comes down into the cycle of rebirths, makes the great holocaust, endures shame and obloquy, torture and crucifixion, the burden of human nature, sex and passion and sorrow and suffering... commoner, in an ordinary family, free at last to do as I want.” 52 We, now, have an idea how it looked like, that ordinary family, host to an exceptional child. We have seen that child grow into the Mother, the female part of the Two-in-One together with Sri Aurobindo, on earth once more to accomplish the humanly impossible: to transform the human species into a divine species. And we have seen how the ...
... transformed.” Etc. Prophets have spoken about this in all the traditions.’ The child: ‘You have said, “They are fulfilled.”’ – The Mother: ‘Yes, and?’ – The child: ‘Where is the new race?’ – The Mother: ‘The new race? Wait let’s say some thousands of years and you will see it! When the mind has descended upon Earth, between the time the mind manifested in the Earth-atmosphere and the first human being... 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 degree of independence, a status which Mother Nature seemed to take advantage of and to be thoroughly enjoying. 96 In her fancy ...
... quietly, without raising my voice, but with a certain emphasis.’ 2 That was how Mirra Alfassa told the incident to the children of the Ashram many years later, when everybody called her the Mother. The extreme German right wing was under the command of General von Kluck, the very model of the Prussian military man. So thoroughly convinced was he of a debacle in the enemy ranks, that he deemed... concrete and factual representation that he acquires his true evolutionary meaning and function. ‘He who would save the world must be one with the world.’ 15 According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the human being is not the highest being on Earth, the lord of creation, ‘the masterpiece of masterpieces’. Not so very long ago, an assertion of this kind might have led to the pyre, but in this century ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 19 November 1934 My dear Mother, The last two days, when I was on the footpath of Aroumé, I got a rising of temperature in my body and a bad head; this morning it was worse and I was pushing and pushing it out. Today I cleaned M's bottle with sweets and was bringing it to You... did not stop there. Some hostile force wanted to send me away from the Ashram, it wanted me to tell You: "Mother, I want to retire; make me free from Aroumé and the Aroumé workers." My dear Mother, the hostile forces are taking a little pleasure in troubling me, but I accept no defeat, I do not become weak; I am up and up and on and on, forward with full strength, zeal and confidence in myself ...
... themselves an almost insuperable obstacle to their own transformation.’ Ishwari, Kali, Lakshmi and Saraswati’s presence and action among humans is age-old. When, then, had this new Personality of the Mother, the Ananda, come down? The question was put by someone present and she replied: ‘I don’t know the dates. I don’t remember dates. All I know is that it happened before Sri Aurobindo left the body, that... aware of anything? You continued to live your life as usual, didn’t you? …’ Then Pavitra said: ‘I think it was in 1946, Mother, for you told us so many things at that time.’ – ‘Correct,’ said the Mother. ‘[The Ananda] came down because there was a possibility, because things had come to a certain stage and the time had come when she could descend. In fact, she descended because I thought it was possible ...
... spiritual fact: witness the ‘procession’ of avatars from the Fish to Kalki, each one initiating a higher level of evolution. That Matter, Life and Consciousness are the gradations of evolution of our mother, the Earth, is clear to all eyes that see. It is less clear that Matter itself has evolved from the Inconscient into which our evolutionary universe was plunged at its very origin. And not understood... presence in our midst is a token of Thy active collaboration.’ And then follow four lines which will reverberate through the rest of her earthly life, the ‘Thou’ here representing the incarnated Great Mother: The Lord has willed and Thou dost execute: A new light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. 36 In Savitri , the ...
... 1963 My Savitri work with the Mother 01 November 1963 On 1st November 1963 I offered to the Mother the book Charanvandana , which I wrote in Gujarati. Later I translated it into English and published it under the title of Salutations. Day and night I think again and again of Savitri —the Mother who is my everything. If I write the description of... her work, for she was attending to numerous things. Here I must explain why Book Two, Canto 8, The World of Falsehood , the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness was rejected by the Divine Mother. The Divine Mother said: I have already fought with the Mother of Evil, and now I do not wish at all to give forms to the Falsehood in painting and then put the pictures in front of humanity, so that ...
... guianensis . According to the Mother it signifies: " Prosperity—stays constantly only with those who offer it to the Divine " She smiled and asked: Is it for Auroville? I said, "Yes, Mother." The Mother gave me a card and said: Child, when I was looking for some papers for Birthdays, Sri Aurobindo was there. He gave me this card and said, "This is for Huta." I opened the card... is behind each of them . Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Gods They are in origin and essence permanent emanations of the Divine put forth from the Supreme by the Transcendent Mother, the Adya Shakti; in their cosmic action they are powers and personalities of the Divine, each with his independent cosmic standing, function and work in the Universe. They are not impersonal entities ...
... turned it into something grotesque; I am speaking of the principle of Divine Love. But that has changed: it will be "The Pavilion of the Mother"―but not this ( Mother points to herself )―the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. I say "Mother" because Sri Aurobindo used that word, otherwise I would have put something else, I would have put "creative principle" or "principle of realisation" ...
... Blessings. 6 July 1938 Page 262 I do not see much necessity of your learning sitar—but if it amuses you, you can continue. With my blessings. 28 March 1940 Mother, The house I have taken for my people belonged to a patient with tuberculosis. I came to know this only after I had already paid for the house. But then we got the whole house washed and burnt sulphur... frankly what I see. In any case, it might be wiser to have the glasses sprayed lightly, so that if it is found too dark, the spray can be removed. Blessings. 7 August 1963 Beloved Mother: The new tenants in X House have locked all the downstairs doors so that I am now unable to use the toilet facilities. Since there are none for my room, what shall I do? From the beginning I had ...
... The central circle represents the Divine Consciousness. The four petals represent the four powers of the Mother. The twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother manifested for Her work. Page 63 The central circle represents the Supreme Mother, the Mahashakti. The four central petals are the four aspects of the Mother—and the twelve petals, Her twelve attributes ...
... le influence on my life. Secondly, I thank you for the help you gave my dear P.L. Page 200 He has come back transformed, purified, illuminated. Lastly, may I ask you to hand over to Mother the enclosed letter...." What does he say? "Mother, it is without the least reservation that I give you this name of Mother, to you who have given life back to my favorite son.... His stay at... your numerous sons, daughters and disciples—of the spiritual treasures accumulated each day by your fidelity to the mission entrusted to you. With my deep and intense gratitude, may you accept, Mother, the token of my respectful and filial piety." Do you have this man's photo?... No? And P.L., what does he say? It doesn't tire you? Shall I read it to you?... He answers my last letter ...
... s you speak of is absolutely out of place. And the calmer you are, the sooner will they be filled either by the subliminal that is our own natural background or by the suprabminal that is the Mother, the Power by whose help we hope to succeed all round in what Srinivasa Iyengar would term "beyonding ourselves". Within a short time the answer arrives. An extra aid would be to keep repeating the... earlier I consulted him about in case of difficulty or uncertainty. Yet several matters elsewhere were missed. Page 291 Take these lines from Aswapati's speech to the Divine Mother: The splendid youth of Time has passed and failed; Heavy and long are the years our labour counts And still the seals are firm upon man's soul And weary is the ancient Mother's heart ...
... I feel to be standing in front of me. The second movement is to lift the trouble far above my head to some transcendent region of light and love. Of course, along with the trouble, I offer to the Mother the person who is suffering or has the problem. In both cases the offering is sustained for a time and is repeated a number of times during the day. And both the movements are made not only with a keen... struck out beyond the accustomed human boundaries, before a superior mode of living is experienced. The luminous pillar from above is the descent of the transforming power of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The lit-up ball-shaped structure is the earth-consciousness in a state of response to that power. The light coming out of both the structures is described by you as "bluish-white, whitish-blue". It is ...
... been doing this kind of work from her very childhood." No wonder that at the end of the letter to Basu Sri Aurobindo added: "One of the two great steps in this yoga is to take refuge in the Mother" — the other great step being, as Sri Aurobindo afterwards clarified to Nirodbaran: "Aspiration of the sadhak for the divine life."³ But perhaps the most sweeping as well as startling compliment to... of the February Message, she asserts in connection with a passage in Sri Aurobindo's book. The Supramental manifestion: ¹ ¹ Questions and Answers 1957-58 (Collected Works of the Mother —The Centenary Edition, 1977), p. 191. Page 11 "I think — I know — that it is now certain that we shall realise what he expects of us. It has become no longer a hope but a certainty ...
... Food — Not only Guru but True Mother — Grace towards Youngsters — Freedom and Discipline All of us have aspired for the grace of being allowed physical nearness to the Mother. The possibility to be in her presence hour after hour has seemed the greatest luck. Naturally I once exclaimed to her: "Oh Mother, I wish I could live with you!" Immediately she answered: "Do you... human relationships which have to be looked upon as the expression of the multiplicity inherent in the one world-creative Divine Father-Mother of a myriad manifestation. Indeed, under the Mother the Ashram life, by combining liberty with light never constituted a field of laissez-aller, each member permitted to live entirely as he liked. Outwardly, kindness, courtesy, consideration, the ...
... Our Light and Delight SUPPLEMENT The Birth-Centenary of the Mother The Mother's Birth Centenary, which fell on February 21, 1978, was celebrated in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry by nearly 9000 people from all over the world. But what marked the occasion unforgettably was not only the enthusiastic concourse of her disciples and... Eternal Feminine Leads onward forever. Page 214 February 21 A Look Behind and Ahead On one 21st of February in the last 1950's I repeated to the Mother the usual English formula for a birthday: "Many happy returns." Immediately, half-jocular, half-serious, she exclaimed: "What! You want me to return again and to the earth still further? Haven't ...
... of all that can be known. 7 He was a vast that soon became a Sun. 8 All these things are depicted in detail in the Cantos of Book II. Now for Book III, The Book of the Divine Mother: The Traveller won the full victory of his ascent as a typical representative of humanity and discovered and possessed all the planes of consciousness and powers, but this too was an individual... changes that would happen on the earth after this Descent were also communicated. 5. The Fulfilment The Epilogue is the return to earth and the joining with the father and the mother. The blind king Dyumatsena, the father of Satyavan, had in the meantime got back his eyesight and his lost kingdom with the boons from Yama. An indication of what the transformed Earth shall ...
... made a straight interpretation of their aim unrealistic. But, before doing so, let us further underline the situation in which we are placed by our argument. We cannot deny Sri Aurobindo and the Mother the full possibility to do what they set out to accomplish. In Sri Aurobindo's letters we have even a few open clues to the unfailing character of the power brought by the Supramental Avatar. A question... approached by the proximity. It has yet to be fully realised. And the extra-densified new body has the power to realise it in full. To obtain that power for this body was the final victory won by the Mother. The new body's extra density provides the Mother with the possibility of materialising that body and making it visible and tangible, a supreme Presence in our midst to bring about our evolutionary completion ...
... given individual names like Indra, termed the sons of Aditī, the "undivided" Mother, the Goddess of Infinity? This question brings up a most momentous point. As Sri Aurobindo remarks, the Dasyus (or Dānavas) are born from Ditī (or Danu) in contrast to the gods who are born from Aditī. 16 Ditī is the Mother, the Goddess, of division and finitude. Thus the Dasyus belong, on the opposite side ...
... The Mother - Past-Present-Future The Mother The Mother* SOME GENERAL TRUTHS AND PERSONAL FACTS The One whom we call the Supreme is the utter Unmanifest. The creative Conscious Force of the Supreme is the Divine Mother in Her transcendent poise, Aditi, holding the Truths that have to be manifested out of the absolute Mystery. Through... manifested, converting all the painful terms of the Ignorance into the terms of Knowledge and Bliss. Twelve years after the descent of the Overmind into the physical being of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother the greater aim seemed on the point of achievement. The Mother remarked in 1954 that even as far back as 1938 she used to see the Supermind appearing in Sri Aurobindo's body but what could not be done ...
... light, nothing more. Those who live in their emotions had a better chance to feel things than those who live in their minds. What should I do to acquire a sense of the Supermind? THE MOTHER: The Supermind will work itself out— by the decision of the Supreme. Sri Aurobindo was instrumental in bringing it. The working of the Supermind in my body has gone on since the 5th December, 1950. It... speak the first word. In half an hour I formulated the whole experience and wrote it down. May 22,1956 THE MOTHER: Things are now all changed for me—radically changed. How, Mother? THE MOTHER: Previously everything worked under the pressure of the Mind of Light. Sri Aurobindo secured this working when he left his body. Now it is the Supermind that directly guides and governs ...
... Gracious Mother has revealed to me, (2) Why this used to happen, why this used to happen, The Mother showered Her Grace, the Mother showered Her Grace, showered Her Grace, The Mother, the Mother, the Mother showered Her Grace. Now I feel boundless joy, joy, joy within Flowing out, to everyone, it is flowing out to everyone, Flowing out to everyone, flowing out to everyone, (3) ...
... declaration of a true slave of God, reflects her total surrender to the Divine. In a note with twelve points, she summarises her ideas about what she wants to bring down into the material world. For the Mother, the important thing was Sri Aurobindo's work and her conscious support went out to all that helps that work. Part II Notes, Prayers and Reflections of the Mother Personal Notes, Prayers... might be a failure also, if such is the Will of the Lord. And the Will is for the progress, I mean the inner progress. So whatever will happen will be for the best. 21 January 1960 The Mother The Mother with Champaklal and Kamala Part IV, "Correspondence with Early Disciples", contains letters by Sri Aurobindo written to Barindra Kumar Ghose and other early disciples. They give ...
... only mean continuation of life in other planes of existence or else travel of the soul in other planes of existence and rebirth or series of rebirth. In the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the individual soul, by the process of integral yoga, can be experienced as the eternal portion of the Supreme Spirit, and just as the immortality of the Supreme Spirit is an object of yogic realisation... Mother is an open book, which demands further tasks of research. This book has presented important landmarks of the experiences and experiments of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother; the aim has been to present only a few glimpses, which might invite the reader to go back to the original records. Considering .that humanity is passing today through an evolutionary crisis, and considering ...
... Earth and the other gods; or, Page 63 as it is otherwise put, man begets or creates or forms the divine birth in his own being. As Rik 15 says: 'Now as the seven seers of Dawn, the Mother, the supreme disposers [of sacrifice, which in psychological terms means self-consecration, the discipline by which the separative sense of egoism is destroyed], may we beget for ourselves the gods; may... levels and the crooked that shut in mortals; and, O God, for a bliss fruitful in offspring, lavish on us Diti and protect Aditi. Rig Veda IV.2.11 Now as the seven seers of Dawn, the Mother, the supreme disposers (of the sacrifice), may we beget for ourselves the gods; may we become the Angirasas, sons of Heaven, breaking open the wealth-filled hill, shining in purity. Rig Veda IV ...
... an integral transformation and an integral knowledge." 36 The discovery of the psychic being, its experience and its development is a decisive stage in the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The psychic entity is not an evolute of the Inconscient, although it has descended into the evolutionary process as a spark of the Divine and accompanies the evolution of our being and, with increasing... however long, tedious or difficult may be the process. The methods of Jnana yoga, Karma yoga and Bhakti yoga are indeed, useful aids to this difficult passage, but, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, "the strongest, most central Page 48 way is to found all such or other methods on self-offering and surrender of ourselves and of our parts of nature to the Divine Being, the Ishwara." 42 ...
... a rightly conceived and properly practised meditation opens wide all the now-closed doors of our veiled reaches of consciousness. But Sri Aurobindo calls it only "the first necessity" and the Mother "the first movement". To quote verses from Savitri "To free the self is but one radiant pace; Here to fulfil himself was God's desire." Book HI, Canto 2, p. 312) If we... placing themselves at the tips of so many different radii emanating from the centre of the circle, which is "The Mother" in the illustration given above. Fourth Stage: Here too "The Mother", the originating centre of the series continues to remain the centre and the 'meditating' sadhaka' s thoughts continue to turn round her but the circle of divevergence has become very much smaller ...
... she saw as her Father and Mother. About this Sri Aurobindo wrote, "It is not imagination, it is true. Page iii These are the true feelings and this is your true relation with the Mother." The fifth part is on Kamalaben's dreams which she had been seeing since 1932. She used to write of them in letters to Sri Aurobindo, asking their meaning. Sri Aurobindo's interpretations of these... guidance and appreciation to a budding artist; this will be seen in the sixth part where the correspondence is given. Kamalaben did a number of flower studies which were seen by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother; the Mother wrote the significance of each flower. One of these paintings is included in this book. I present this book with a deep sense of gratitude to Champaklal, the inspirer of this book, and ...
... in works. One must learn to do all one's actions, big or small, important or apparently trivial, not for the sake of the ego and its desires but as a loving and dedicated service to the Divine Mother. The sadhaka's constant mantra should be: ' Yat karomi jaganmātas tadeva tava pūjanam' — 'Whatever I do, Mother, is done in the spirit of Thy worship.' (5)Next comes the sadhana of the domination... the fields of his existence inner as well as outer. Much of the effectivity of the action of the Grace will depend on the sincerity of this rejection. Here are some admonitory words of the Mother: 'The Grace is equally for all. But each one receives it according to his sincerity." "Wherever there is sincerity and goodwill, the Divine's help also is there." "Everyone is given ...
... vital of the sadhaka are sufficiently quietened and purified. Now, this way to the psychic awakening is long and difficult and the programme of sadhana is quite arduous. In the words of the Mother, the path is "strewn with snares and problems to be solved, which demand an unfailing determination. It is like the explorer's trek through virgin forest in quest of an unknown land, of some great discovery... in himself the proper psychological attitude which will inspire him to engage in the sadhana of psychic discovery. It is worth, in this connection, meditating on the following words of the Mother: "... the vast majority of men are like prisoners with all the doors and windows closed, so they suffocate, which is quite natural. But they have with them the key that opens the doors and windows ...
... looked at him with a smile full of love and compassion. The scene reminded me of some Renaissance painting of the Madonna and the child. We wondered who this lucky fellow was, how he came to the Mother. The Pranam- scene was repeated for two or three days, I believe. He paraded himself as an officer in the Indian Air Force and naturally became very popular with our youngsters. Some days after he left... and did pranām to me, his soul jumped out weeping and prayed to be saved. That is why I was kind to him." This story called "Weeping Soul" has appeared in Madhav Pandit’s book, Sidelights on the Mother. The next story of a minor deception went in this way. It took place a few years after the first incident. A youngster of about 20 saw me and proposed to stay in the Ashram. He said that he hailed from ...
... Mère. Was everything all right on the 2nd? Yes, Mother; everything was all right. Was everyone happy? Yes, Mother. How did you march? Well? Your knee stood the test? [2] Yes, Mother, the knee is all right; but I did not march. What? You did not do the March Past? No, Mother, I was there to give the orders. Give the orders? What orders? In front of the microphone, Mother... the whistle to signal the start of the items. Oh, you were giving the orders to conduct. And what did the other captains do? Did they help to organise? Yes, Mother. What did they do? Mother, the central theme, it was A who introduced it. That I know well. Then, Mother, basing on this theme or idea, the captains of the different groups collaborating among themselves, taught the movements ...
... trip. Before leaving, I felt a desire to see the Mother. The Mother had not yet come out of her seclusion and Sri Aurobindo had not yet retired behind the scenes. I said to him, "I would like to see Her before I go."—Her with a capital H, in place of the Mother, for we had not yet started using that name. Sri Aurobindo informed the Mother. The room now used by Champaklal was the Mother's room ...
... Japanese, even their advent in this country seemed imminent, then many thought that the only safe place was at the feet of the Mother at Pondicherry. Therefore their solicitations reached the Mother. The Mother said that it was not possible for her to refuse them. So the doors of the achalāyatan were opened and you came in! But all this is external. It was like this from the outside— but there... cannot be judged merely by years. It is seen that old age has come in youth, that youth is retained in old age,—such instances are not rare. Certainly you will remember the picture drawn by the Mother—the picture of the supramental boat. There the Mother could not find the well-known old people—all there were tender or young, the old could come there only by becoming young. But one should remember ...
... Evolution and the Earthly Destiny Prayers and Meditations of the Mother THE Prayers and Meditations -of the Mother. It is Life Divine in song, it is Life Divine set to music—made sweet and lovely, near and dear to us—a thing of beauty and a joy for ever. To some the ideal has appeared aloof and afar, cold and forbidding. The ascent is difficult... Toute la terre est dans nos bras comme un enfant malade qu''il faut guerir et pour lequel on a, a cause meme de sa faiblesse, une tendresse toute speciale. 1 The triple status of the Mother, the individual, the collective and the transcendental (or, in other words, the personal, the universal and the supra-personal) has been condensed and epitomised in the magical note describing her first ...
... lives to come. All our lives are centred round Her Person, even as all life in the Ashram is woven round Her Personality. Every leaf, every brick in the Ashram vibrates with only one note, Mother, Mother! The entire Ashram is so much permeated with the Presence of the Mother that some years ago, a visitor - a Dutchman of some consequence, if i remember right - asked the Mother if this was not a di... !" Indeed, a divine lordship under whose hegemony we die to live. If to us it is the Home of God into whose portals we are grateful to be admitted, what is the Ashram to Her? To the Mother, the Ashram is Her own extended Body in which She receives all who seek the Light of Truth, nourishes their growth with Her own life-blood and builds up a reservoir of a Truth-Consciousness which shall ...
... through aeons of ignorance are now smoothed out, and with the freshness of a morning life my being is dowered whole and entire. Behold! I am a new-born babe in the lap of the Immaculate Mother - the glory of her love pulsates in every cell and fibre, a whole futurity of her vision is incarnated in this frail earthly vessel. A mighty secret is being wrought upon in the far depths... - Innocence of a little heart, delicate and fine and strong in trust. White - colour of the diamond, miracle of the black-souled ore transfigured - The immaculate consciousness of the Mother, the Mother yet of a sin-bred earth! White-colour of the snow piled on wind-swept peaks grim and bare - Naked and frigid austerity that juts sheer into the inviolate worlds beyond! White-colour ...
... I believe. There were not many at that time who knew French very well. And the Mother talked so fast that I wonder how many could follow her. Here is one difference between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The Mother being by her very nature Shakti, the Divine Energy; could not be slow and leisurely in manner, action or speech like the Purusha, though as I have shown, she could be extraordinarily patient... away, leaving her flowers in a dish for the Mother. Just then, the Mother came. The girls were very much struck by this coincidence. What a test, they thought! As soon as one girl approached the Mother, the Mother asked, "Who has left this dish of flowers here? Oh, is it X? You really surprise me! You can't wait even a little while for me, you get so impatient? Do you know how the gods and goddesses ...
... nor the Mother of Sri Ramakrishna garlanded with human heads. No, she was our delightful Mother in flesh and blood. She said, frowning at me - "Why not?" I understood. Yes, thou art indeed that Mother. The ten directions are thy arms, O many-weaponed destroyer of Evil who ridest on the mighty Lion. On thy right hast thou Lakshmi, the fair and fortunate, on thy left Saraswati, mother of Art and Science... was overturned. Her child was thrown out of the cradle. It became practically impossible for her to remain there. Everyone decided it would be best if she left the village for a while to visit her mother. The moment she went away, all the trouble ceased, everything became quiet again, only to start once more the day she returned! It was as if something was forcing her to leave her house. "The elders ...
... a period of years as an article of faith among the sadhaks. There is, after all, but one Consciousness - the Divine Consciousness. And two such divine collaborators like Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - the collaboration began in 1914, entered a new active phase in 1920, and a still closer creative phase in 1926 - could operate effectively only if their consciousness-force were intimately grounded... to the annual sports and cultural programmes, for they gave synoptic unity to the past year's aspirations and projected the new year's; and among the items on 1 December 1948 were 'Hymns to the Mother', 'The Sleeping Beauty' and 'Rose of God', and on 1 December 1949, the Mother's play Vers I'Avenir, recitations from Savitri and from Prayers and Meditations. In the enrollment of pupils and the ...
... This was the day when Satyavan must die. Everywhere it is the same Savitri: Vyasa's, Sri Aurobindo's, the Mother's. Huta's - the wonder-wife Savitri, the incarnate Divine Mother, the visibly living Mother, the Mother infallibly evoked in line and colour and symbolic suggestion. And in the illustrations to Cantos 3,4 and 5, Aswapathy too appears again and again, the word-power of the poet ...
... celebration by the then 24 inmates of the Ash- ram. The day became another Darshan Day. Sri Aurobindo went into complete seclusion leaving entire charge of the Ashram to Mother. The Ashram, as such, began to take shape under Mother's guidance. 1928 February 16 : Sri Aurobindo made an exception in the case of Poet Tagore and broke out of his... November Darshan, due, as Sri Aurobindo himself dis-closed, to an attack of hostile forces which had been conspiring to attack Mother's body. While Sri Aurobindo concentrated exclusively on protecting Mother the attack came on him. The work of Mother and Sri Aurobindo has been to bring down and establish on earth a light of heaven. This work of theirs upset the forces of Darkness that dominate earth and ...
... consciousness, the Overmind, which would prepare the ground for the ultimate descent of the Supermind. Sri Aurobindo now completely withdrew into seclusion, leaving the management of the ashram to the Mother. The 'evening talks' and visitors' interviews ceased. The disciples, however, were able to see Sri Aurobindo on certain days in the year—15 August, 24 November, 21 February and 24 April—and receive his... community grew month by month, and although variety seemed to be the key-note—variety in colour, creed, community, language, race and occupation—the emotional attachment to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the feeling of 'belonging' to them, the sense of dedication to their cause, made the sadhaks a true community, a family, an ashram and not just a random collection of all sorts of individuals. And ...
... attentive listeners in a quiet room in remote Pondicherry. The Socratic dialogues in ancient Greece had a like seminal quality, but there the accent was on enlightened reason, whereas with the Mother the inspiration was spiritual. Again, at Pondicherry, it was a select but representative group comprising Indian, British, American and French, men as well as women, and divers backgrounds and aptitudes... victory of the Divine and its manifestation upon earth." 13 First, then, about the motivation for doing Yoga. Not for any kind of self-interest nor even for service to humanity; for the Mother, the only valid aim is the Divine. Seeking and finding and serving the Divine, one may incidentally benefit humanity, or promote social service, but that is not the basic aim of the Yoga; the aim is ...
... Sri Aurobindo himself, about a year after his acquittal, retired to Pondicherry in April 1910. After 1926, under much better auspices and under the spiritual and general direction of the Mother, the earlier Bhavani Mandir - Deva Sangha idea began to take a viable shape as Sri Aurobindo Ashram. In Sanat K. Banerji's words: The Ashram in Pondicherry is that temple of the living Bhawani... light and force from the Mother, and they should be guided by her in their sadhana. Even on the 24th evening, some recollected, Sri Aurobindo had blessed the disciples as it were through the Mother - the Mother being the intermediary, the interceder, the paraclete. There were intermittent grumblings all the same. One line of argument was that, ranted that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were ...
... published in 1964 as Some Answers from the Mother. The very first entry nearly clinches the issue. Sadhak: I hope and believe Your work does not depend upon human beings. Mother: No, it does not depend at all upon human beings. What has to be done will be done despite all possible resistances. 15 Hasn't Sri Aurobindo said in The Mother "The supramental is a thing decreed and inevitable ...
... even on matters political and medical. This privilege, however, was not taken advantage of by all the sadhaks, many of whom were mainly engaged in Karmayoga, doing works as an offering to the Mother. The Mother was always easily accessible, except during her illness of October 1931. Nevertheless, to meet in some measure the understandable desire of the sadhaks to see Sri Aurobindo and offer pranam... the north-facing balcony adjoining Pavitra's room in the Ashram main building. It was then that she is said to have declared that she would not have her breakfast until she had a darshan of the Mother. The Mother agreed to come to that balcony, so as to be seen by Mridu from her window across the street. * The usual time of the Mother's coming was 6 to 6.15 a.m. and soon some sadhaks and visitors ...
... indefinite, compounded of the mind's ignorant thoughts and the heart's selfish emotions; but as it grows, it develops into selfless love with a steady will flaming in its centre. It turns to the supreme Mother, the divine mahāśakti , who sums up for the sâdhaka of the Integral Yoga all the aspects of the Divine to which the aspiring human consciousness may feel a natural attraction. "From the beginning even... the Ādyaśakti, as constituting His Consciousness-Force, and representing at once His still, unthinkable transcendence and His infinite, creative dynamism. The Divine appears to him as the Divine Mother, the supreme Purusa as the supreme Nature or parā prakrti. He understands more and more as he advances on the path why Sri Râmakrishna remained from the very beginning of his spiritual life to ...
... and action as illusion; or if, like Heraclitus and Bergson, it perceives ¹"It is not in the mental consciousness that things can be harmonised and synthesised". The Mother Page 212 the exclusive reality of the universal flux, it considers the status and immutability of Reality as myth and moonshine. If Brahman is Nirguna or devoid of all qualities and attributes... and that is why the evolutionary progress of his consciousness ¹ The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo by Nolini Kanta Gupta—Part VI. Page 215 has been arrested. According to the Mother "the intellect that believes too much in its own importance and wants satisfaction for its own sake, is an obstacle to the higher realisation... People do not regard an all-engrossing satisfaction ...
... ces must we forget that our 'I’ has no reality outside Thee” These revolutionary ideas give a remarkable definiteness and precision to the ideal of the Yogic action as set forth by the Mother. The human personality has not to be abolished in the Impersonal, but carefully preserved, organised, reinforced and harmoniously developed; only it has to be purified of all taint and perversion of... all illusions...” And in the Prayer of the 17th October, 1914, she communicates to us the promise of the Divine Mother with whom she is identified :— Page 324 "O Divine Mother, the obstacles will he surmounted and the enemy appeased. Thou wilt reign over all the earth with Thy sovereign love, and the consciousness of men will be full of the light of Thy serenity. This is ...
... In the Mother's Light The Mother The Aspiration and the Work "When I was a child—about the age of thirteen and for about a year—every night as soon as I was in bed, it seemed to me that ,I came out of my body and rose straight up above the house, then above the town, very high. I saw myself then clad in a magnificent golden robe, longer than myself;... to thee on the earth.” ¹ "One day thou wilt be my head, but for the moment turn thy look towards the earth.” ² Such has been the invariable and insistent command of the Divine to the Mother. The earth, the tortured, convulsed, agonized earth, has to be redeemed, illumined and rendered "the home of the Wonderful." Darkness and death, sorrow and suffering have to be blotted out from her ...
... composed. It was also during this time that man learnt consciously to worship and bow before God or the Supreme Purusha. Man learnt spontaneously to offer his obeisance to the Lord and the Divine Mother. The touching of the elders’ feet in our country is part of this same mystery. When we bow to somebody, we are bowing to the One who abides in him. Of course, we don’t always do this consciously. The... day how humanity should offer itself at the feet of the Divine. The Mother told Nirod-da a lot of things about the pranam. Nirod-da and two other teachers from our School often went to see the Mother. The ‘Free Progress’ system had just been initiated in the School. The teachers were facing all kinds of problems and difficulties and the Mother would try to explain each problem to them and give Her ...
... SRI AUROBINDO My dear child, my love and blessings are and will be with you throughout the year. Let them help you to make one more progress on the way towards the divine goal. THE MOTHER (The original messages are missing.) 11.2.43 My blessings for your birthday. May this year be a step forward in consciousness and towards union with the Divine. SRI AUROBINDO For... Let all thoughts, all feelings, all actions, all hopes be turned towards the Divine and concentrated on Him. He is our only help and our only safety. With love and blessings, THE MOTHER (The original message is missing.) 11.2.63 Bonne Fête! To Kamala, my dear child, With my love and blessings for the realisation other highest aspirations. In the Peace ...
... “You really should not have encouraged that snake like that. You should have killed it straight away.” The Mother was taken aback and said: “No, that can’t be. How can I kill? I am the Mother.” The way the Mother said “I am the Mother”, I could not say anything more. I just sat there speechless. “I am the Mother” kept echoing in the universe. Isn’t it amazing how from a little incident I... shorts and torn shirts. Their hair was unwashed and dishevelled. God knows how long they hadn’t applied oil to it. Mota-kaka accompanied this group of children to the Mother. I was standing near the Mother. The Mother lovingly gave to each one of the boys a toffee. Suddenly Mota-kaka exclaimed: “Mother, I think Priti is feeling a little disgusted seeing these poorly-dressed children.” The Mother threw ...
... had not exploded into myriad particles of stars just to forge this one more time? For the mystery of the Shakti recurs in every being as it does in every universe, as in Sri Aurobindo, as in Mother— the Hour of the World begins with our little hour. One loses it or one wins it. Each one must discover the mystery of the Shakti and conquer her Secret. The world groans under the onslaught of her Fire;... had not exploded into myriad particles of stars just to forge this one more time? For the mystery of the Shakti recurs in every being as it does in every universe, as in Sri Aurobindo, as in Mother— the Hour of the World begins with our little hour. One loses it or one wins it. Each one must discover the mystery of the Shakti and conquer her Secret. The world groans under the onslaught of her Fire; ...
... me from my studies. When I look at these little children today, I remember my own childhood dream " Page 145 When I went to see the Mother, I told Her all this. "Mother, the classrooms of the Music section are ready. I have started taking my classes there. But there is a problem. I teach French in the morning at the school, then in the afternoon I work at the Publication... started calling out to the Mother, save me, Mother, save me, please. Had I lost my head? Such a thing had never happened to me before. I had never heard such melodies and tunes before. Please save me, Mother! The melodies did not cease to flood my head. Help, Mother, help! The Mother had swept me away in a flood of melodies and I was quite lost. There were no lyrics, it was only sweet notes. What a marvellous ...
... She would need to actually see the real flowers before writing the caption explaining the significance. Each day, I would spend all my mornings in the gardens collecting flowers to take to the Mother. The Ashram gardeners were a great support and started growing rare flowers so that the Mother could write about them. In their enthusiasm they even produced many new flowers for which they got seeds... on to Richard Pearson and Richard Eggenberger who were working on the botanical and common names of the flowers for the book. Any question that we had during this work would also be taken to the Mother the next day for clarification from Her. The result of this was the book Flowers and their Messages . While working on this book, I also asked the Mother many questions on flowers. Not all the questions ...
... , however, even the most learned, are subject to error, as Mr. Avalon has had to recognise in his translation of the verse which declares that all women without exception are forms of the Great Mother. The commentator would have us believe that the phrase striyaḥ samastāḥ sakalā jagatsu means all women who possess the sixty-four arts and are devoted to their husbands, are modest, etc. The translator... For if there is a Consciousness in the universe and transcending it which answers to the yearning of all these creatures and perhaps Itself yearns towards them with the love of the Father, the Mother, the Friend, the Lover, and a love surpassing all these, then it is idle to suppose that It would assume or create for its own pleasure and glory the forms of the universe, but would disdain as an offence ...
... say that to the Mother's simple-sounding New-Year's Message of 1964 — "Are you ready?" — only one sadhak could answer "Yes" but in a sense never expected Page 151 by the Mother. The sadhak was Narayana Reddy. Occasionally the call was all too evidently towards an achievement unheard-of. Thus we were adjured in 1968: "Remain young." When an old sadhak was told this... dynamic. At one of the sessions in the Prosperity Room before the evening's Soup Distribution — sessions which included about two dozen sadhaks sitting in a semi-circle in front of the Mother — the Mother said in effect: "No matter how liberated one may be by withdrawing from the play of one's nature, the ego will persist in the play unless one gives oneself in utter love to a Being other ...
... Books, with an epilogue, but while even the epilogue got written - at least as a general first draft - and the Book of Beginnings, the Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, the Book of the Divine Mother, the Book of Birth and Quest, the Book of Life, the Book of Love, the Book of Fate and several other Books are available for enthusiasts of spiritual poetry, the one single Book which does not exist in... it cannot be done in others." Yes, Sri Aurobindo, in his published pronouncements, appears to have envisaged the need and therefore the prospect of himself constituting together with the Mother the starting-point of supramental humanity. But in the same pronouncements he leaves also a small margin for a different denouement . A letter of 1934 speaks in general about the ways of a vessel of ...
... down and, in response to my gesture to her with folded hands, made a similar gesture. Her walk was a walk of supreme victory. My heart was near to bursting and the lips kept saying "Mother, Mother, Mother!" The same words were in everybody's mouth. This Darshan was the most moving experience in my whole life. Then the dream ended. I knew that the Mother had achieved something stupendous and that ... surface eyes. These surface eyes may be compared to the cataract-obscured eye, which I had before the operation. The cataract-free eye, in the very first dream after the operation, saw the true Mother, the verity behind appearances. 6 Dream of 17-11-1973 There were several dreams of the Mother between September 29 and November 17 but their impression was not strong and they have now ...
... Doctors were consulted and Udar and Mona entered into correspondence with the Mother regarding the matter. When the baby was about two months old Udar wrote asking if he could bring her to the Mother. The Mother replied,” I do not find it prudent, still, to bring the child into the Ashram atmosphere. It is better to wait one year more.” This practice actually became a rule in the Ashram. Babies and... Dans la Lumiere et la Joie.” (With my blessings for the development, flowering and cultivation of beauty in all its domains. With Light and Joy.) In teaching us the four aspects of the Divine Mother, the Mother said, “There is another aspect… love!” She said this emanation had already been born on earth. She did not give a name but left it to us to find out. Of course we all thought it was her. Her ...
... Mother 2.2.1968 Bonne Fête To Champaklal with love and blessings The Mother Champaklal, I am happy to say that you are my true child and becoming more and more so. The Mother (The Mother told me: “I come to you. You will read it carefully. It is concrete, my experience.” She repeated it.—Champaklal) 2.2.1969 Bonne Fête! Champaklal, Let the full Light be with... The Mother A new decade from 70 to 80 2.2.1970 To Champaklal, En avant! Toujours en avant! 3 With love and blessings The Mother × The report of 1939 is missing from the papers. [M. P. Pandit's note] × ...
... have to only take refuge in the Mother alone. We have to do this much only, do this much only, (2) Just to take refuge in the Mother alone. (2) Mother—the Compassionate, the Blissful, the Compassionate, the Blissful, Mother—the Compassionate, the Blissful, the Compassionate, the Blissful, Sing songs, sing songs, sing songs, Day and night sing the Mother's songs alone. (3) ...
... A Time 1984-03-21 A time will come— The Compassionate Mother, the Gracious Mother alone will bring it— (2) Such a time will come When ours or others' mistakes will not be taken as mistakes at all. (2) They will be stepping-stones for our growth, The Compassionate Mother, the Gracious Mother with Her abundant Grace, Abundant Grace, (3) Is ...
... creation would remain forever a world of falsehood, ignorance, suffering and death. Who was responsible for the “accident”? The creative Power of the Supreme Being, in other words the Universal Mother, the female Principle of all existence. Therefore she turned towards the Supreme Being for the permission to put forth a second wave of creation following on the first one, and she created the gods, as... new, higher consciousness of truth and harmony, this asuric Power fought with all its might to conserve the status quo of its dominion over the earth. It was, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the initiator of the twentieth century wars, and prompted not only Hitler but all those who through falsehood and violence acted against the progressive movement of the world and the unification of humanity ...
... would integrate towards oneness in spite of all innate resistances caused by its evolutionary formation. This was the terrain of the battle to be fought out in the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The Word of Creation In the later months of 1926, Sri Aurobindo spoke several times to the evening circle of disciples about the gods, their world, and the way in which human beings potentially... Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga , p. 1306. × Cf. Georges Van Vrekhem: Beyond Man and The Mother - The Story of Her Life . ...
... like Sri Aurobindo could meet with an accident. With hindsight, we can reconstruct the circumstances as follows. Every darshan was a dangerous affair for Sri Aurobindo and still more for the Mother. The Mother once said that a Titan had been born together with her whose only aim was to counteract everything she did, and if possible to eliminate her. In his correspondence with Nirodbaran, Sri Aurobindo... afterwards in a constant action upon the world forces. He had no reason to be dissatisfied with the results or to feel the necessity of any other kind of action.’ 43 The same evidently goes for the Mother. The Second World War was not the outcome of politics, economic systems, or national or racial relations gone wrong, although all this played a role in it. It was fundamentally, as we have seen above ...
... manifestation. ‘He calls himself the Lord of the Nations. It is he who initiates all wars … We talk to each other. Over and above all that we are in contact with each other … After all, I am his mother!’ the Mother told smilingly. ‘He once told me: “I know that you will destroy me, but before being destroyed I will cause as much damage as possible, be sure of that.”’ 6 Being one of the first... Indeed, as Brissaud wrote: ‘Those who discard this truth will never understand a thing about the Nazi phenomenon.’ Neither will those who remain ignorant of the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The Asura, Lord of Falsehood, has definitively refused to be converted and sworn that he, before his own destruction of the Earth, would inflict the greatest possible damage. The Mother once said that ...
... Overman The transition from man to supramental being is accomplished through the overman. There may be a few overmen – there are – who will actually make that transition. 1 – The Mother The transitional beings are always in an unstable equilibrium. 2 – The Mother We have now returned to the point where we started in the previous chapter: May 1958, when the Mother reminisced... and evil start Ghostlike pursues all that we dream and do. 5 All that had to be pervaded by the transforming Light, according to the Will of the Supreme. “ Ce que Tu veux” , said the Mother, the palms of both her hands turned upwards in a gesture of complete submission: “What You will”. “It is day and night, without interruption: ‘What You will, Lord, what You will …’ ” – “The only solution ...
... 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 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... viewpoint of the Divine, but to the beings incarnated on the Earth, including the humans, that play is in dire earnest, even when having been promised a more enjoyable future. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the centre of the accelerated evolution on Earth, were also the focus of the resistance and attacks of hostile forces of every breed. As early as 1924 Sri Aurobindo had already told some disciples in ...
... head. She said to me: “You are That because you have that. Only That has that.” It was far from anything I might have imagined, happily!’ 6 Twelve is the number of Mahashakti, the Universal Mother. The twelve pearls are her crown. There is the One that exists beyond time, in all eternity. It has no beginning and no end, it IS. And in the bliss of its being, it wants to see itself externalized... said no, very simply but irrevocably. Now we have a somewhat better idea of the power by which an intervention of this kind was made possible. Without the world knowing, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the Two who were One, had found themselves and each other. The earth shook with the fury of the war; maybe it was her way of reacting to the incarnated promise of a new era. ...
... of the cosmic consciousness when he saw Lord Krishna in all the people and objects of Alipore jail. Mirra must have had the same consciousness at least since her identification with the Great Mother. The entries in her diary of that period are exceptionally direct and affirmative, although, as we will see, she had to fight a daily battle with no quarter given. Time after time she is reminded of... was ‘a perpetual battle with the adverse forces’ – not a battle on the human scale, but a battle of superhuman, divine and antidivine forces. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar writes in his biography of the Mother: ‘The four years Mirra spent in Japan were an oasis in time, and a singular Tea Room of reserve, contemplation and preparation for the future.’ 34 Nothing could be farther from the truth. In Japan ...
... said M.P. Pandit. 5 And Nirodbaran writes: ‘After Sri Aurobindo’s passing, it was feared in some quarters that the Ashram would collapse, at least decline.’ 6 In Memorable Contacts with the Mother, the same author writes: ‘There were some old sadhaks who left the Ashram after Sri Aurobindo’s passing.’ And: ‘The most important matter after Sri Aurobindo’s departure concerned the Mother’s connection... Hall. He was received by the Secretary and others at the gate. He regarded the boys with intent eyes as he passed to pay homage to the Samadhi [i.e. Sri Aurobindo’s tomb]. As he was going up to the Mother, the youngest child at the end of the guard offered him a bouquet of roses and greeted him with “Jai Hind.” Then he was alone with the Mother upstairs for about twenty minutes.’ 69 In the evening ...
... emphasis had been watered down by a misguided sense of economical elegance. Later, when the second volume of the first edition of Savitri was under preparation, a sadhak had stressed to the Mother the danger of sending the proofs to me. The Mother seems even to have passed an order against sending them. But Prithwisingh and Nirod made urgent representations to her, saying that it would be a... the same time very ashamed indeed to have jumped to a condemnation. I made a resolve never to judge anybody without proper inquiry and also oriented my mind to expect the unexpected of the Mother. The field where perhaps the unexpected is most to be expected is that of the Divine's Grace. Grace is understood to occur without rhyme or reason for the thinking mind; else it would be not Grace ...
... conscious being and this opposite might erupt at any moment under the pressure of circumstances. If one was not sufficiently on guard, the upsurge could bring about a "fall". According to the Mother, the mistake in my psychology was its excessive simplification: I looked at one side with exaggerated emphasis and ignored the rest. To counteract the sadness and discouragement which I felt, the Mother... them deliberately misreporting to the Mother. Nor could I imagine them not understanding the true posture of things. So we spent an uncomfortable night. The next day when Sehra met the Mother, the Mother referred to my letter and said: "I understand everything now. But what could I do when I got that report from more than one reliable source? It meant not only deceit on your side but also ...
... Upanishads and the Gita is indeed precious and forms an antechamber to the Aurobindonian revelation, but the popular cults and the temples in which they are perpetuated were never encouraged by the Mother. The same holds for the churches of the Western religions. Most followers of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy do not quite realise the line he and the Mother draw between the old Hindu scriptures and the popular... vision of heaven and earth. But in the practice of our Yoga they are never presented as objects of worship. Specific worship of them is definitely ruled out for a follower of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The Mother has also said in connection with February 29,1956, marking the manifestation of the supramental Light, Consciousness and Force in the subtle-physical layer of the earth that the age-old reign ...
... of the treasured silence of those depths. (31.5.1992) Page 66 Your cries for help have been reaching me for quite a time. I am offering you into the hands of our Divine Mother. The answer I get is: "Patient endurance." You have to stop being frantic. The fear-complex has come before and it has gone. Now too it will be on its way out. You must be certain of this. In the meantime... help, but for that you don't have to flee altogether from the hospital. You have only to get up later in the morning and go to bed earlier at night. You have quoted some Mantras of the Mother. The first is: "Let each suffering pave the way to transformation." But surely suffering by itself is no way to either transformation or anything else except perhaps inner toughness. AH depends on how ...
... in which the psychic being is offering itself wholly and asking for no boon of greatness or good fortune and is ready for all privation from the worldly viewpoint provided it could have from the Mother the sure sign of her recognition of it and the supreme gift of her all-enrapturing all-enriching love: Take all my shining hours from me, But hang upon my quiet soul's Pale brow your... course, rebirth is not the only result possible When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. We devotees of Sri Aurobindo would go to the subtle-physical plane where, according to the Mother, the Master after he had passed away would remain until his work was done. The Mother used the words "earth's atmosphere" for the subtle-physical plane. You may remember that she employed the same words ...
... "my mother the sea"? But take now Chadwick's: Out of an infinite ocean Time arose; By his shore with a thunderous motion That Splendour flows. Page 156 Cast on the beach; Hold it and hark to the singing, — Eternity speech. Flotsam and jetsam of Onehood Unbaffled and free, Spurring Time to remember his sonhood, His mother — the Sea. ...
... the new race be found—men are crusted over. So, if we wish to belong to the new race, the new creation, we must in all simplicity and sincerity follow the path of Sri Aurobindo shown to us by the Mother: the manifestation of the new race is not a freak, there is a method in it, and if we submit to it we too, in all probability, shall be there among those fortunate children— "The sun-eyed children... have a partial change. Provided this change is present, "the total conquest, matter's transformation," is quite within the reach of the individual who is an Avatar of the Supermind. That the Mother, the Incarnate Divine, should be slowed down in her personal supramentalisation by her human followers is perfectly understandable. After all, to transform them was her central purpose and to accomplish ...
... Mother had a close connection with Egypt. For she had been an Egyptian in several past births. One of them was as a sublime queen, Hatshepsut. Here is a statement by Medhananda (name given by the Mother), the gentleman from Germany who was in charge of the Sri Aurobindo Library. It appeared in Mother India , June 1958, p. 40: Standing in front of a portrait of Queen Hatshepsut, the Mother told... very beautiful passage written by the Mother: This immobile Consciousness is the "Mother of Dreams", you may say that it is the creative consciousness, the origin of the Universe, the Universal Mother; the Creative Power—the sphinx of eternity who keeps vigil on the confines of the world like an enigma to be solved. This enigma is the problem of our life, the very raison d'être of the Universe. The ...
... powers or beings or forces and often lights that come down from the higher consciousness. The violet light is that of the Divine Compassion ( karuṇā —Grace)—the white light is the light of the Mother (the Divine Consciousness) in which all others are contained and from which they can be manifested. Page 123 Purple is the colour of vital power. "Red" depends on the character of the colour... mine—the golden red is the touch of the Truth in the physical. Whitish Blue Light The pale whitish blue light is "Sri Aurobindo's light"—it is the blue light modified by the white light of the Mother. The snake form is a symbol of Energy and the white blue light may be that of the Mother's consciousness in the higher mind, or if it is not two separate colours but whitish blue then it is Sri A ...
... accept—ask for nothing, rely on her entirely, live for her will and not for their desires. Then they begin to be empty of their old selves and old movements, fill with the presence of the Mother, the will of the Mother, the workings of the Mother—that becomes all their life. 27 July 1936 Once in an interview the Mother told me, "Why do you make any difference between me and work?" I am not sure if ...
... I wanted to say? Like this I lost connection with the true attitude and felt all wrong and in confusion. It is again your own misunderstanding that you have erected between yourself and the Mother. The picture-flower which she sent to you in return for your peacock is the pomegranate-flower, the flower of Divine Love and I do not know what better answer you could have expected. Yet merely because... asking only for love and surrender and union with the Divine, and even in that the asking is not a vital demand but an aspiration. 28 November 1933 Why does one feel so happy after seeing the Mother? The whole day is filled only with her. Is it because the nature of vital love is to feel happy and satisfied when it gets something? There is no harm in the vital love provided it is purified from ...
... Aurobindo's translations of selections from the Mother's Prayers and Meditations as well as his translation of "Radha's Prayer". The Mother , the Letters and the translations are published in three separate parts. PART ONE: THE MOTHER The Mother was first published as a booklet in 1928. It consists of six chapters, all of which were written in 1927. Each chapter has a separate ...
... about the Mother's action in Avatars like Rama and Krishna? The Mother's Vibhutis would normally be feminine personalities most of whom would be dominated by one of the four personalities of the Mother. The others you mention would be personalities and powers of the Ishwara, but in them also as in all the Mother's force would act. I do not quite catch the question about the transformation of the Vibhutis... can it be taken that it is the personalities of the Mother who, behind the veil, prepare the conditions for the descent of the Avatar or Vibhuti? If you mean the divine Personalities of the Mother—the answer is yes. It may even be said that each Vibhuti draws his energies from the Four, from one of them predominantly in most cases, as Napoleon from Mahakali, Rama from Mahalakshmi, Augustus Caesar ...
... Note on the Text Questions and Answers 1929. This collection of fifteen conversations of 1929 was first published in 1931 for private circulation under the title Conversations of the Mother . The conversations were first made available to the public in 1940 as the main part of the book Words of the Mother . This book was reprinted in 1943, 1946 and 1949. The 1929 conversations appeared... journal Advent from November 1960 to February 1965. This translation was revised when the work was published in 1977 as part of Questions and Answers , Volume 3 of the Collected Works of the Mother. The present volume contains the same text. In 1989 the text and commentaries were first published independently as a book in English; a second impression of the book was issued in 1995. Appendix ...
... is coloured, the light will be coloured in one way or another when it reaches you. While if the glass is absolutely pure and transparent, the light will come through pure and transparent. Mother, the Gita speaks of the true essence of sacrifice, and Sri Aurobindo says, "Its method is not self-mortification, but a greater life; not self-mutilation, but a transformation of our natural human parts... another. Sweet Mother, what is the experience of the being who has given himself completely to the Divine? But... do it, my child, then you will know! It is not the same for everybody. Mother, "the intention ... and the spirit that is behind the intention," 2 what does that mean, isn't it the same thing? What? The intention... Yes, I know. . ..and the spirit that is behind ...
... other than itself and its felicity, it became suffering. And that is how the world, which was to have been so beautiful, became so ugly. Now, that consciousness (if you like to call it the Divine Mother, the Supreme Consciousness), when she saw this she was very disturbed, you may be sure, she said to herself: "This has really not succeeded." So she turned back to the Divine, to God, the Supreme, and... had plunged headlong into matter; and they had created all this disorder and the gods had to put straight all this confusion. That is where the gods came from. They are the second emanations. Mother, the first four who changed, was it by chance or was it deliberately? No. What is chance? Page 372 It is said also—that is the continuation of the story or rather its beginning—that the ...
... Page 2 Work is yoga I make no difference between work and yoga. Work itself is yoga if it is done in a spirit of dedication and surrender. The Mother The body's best prayer Let us work as we pray, for indeed work is the body's best prayer to the Divine. The Mother Praying with the body To... Mother Progress through work One can progress through meditation, but through work provided it is done in the right spirit one can progress ten times more. The Mother The surest means Disinterested work done for the Divine: the surest means of progressing. The Mother Becoming more plastic But through work the nature becomes less ...
... and help to make them stronger. Persevere and you will conquer. The Mother The Difficulties Smallness Generally, people are altogether blind to the ugliness of their own actions. They do wrong through ignorance, through unconsciousness,... you. It is a justification of your own ill-will. The Mother Resistance The resistance with which we meet in the accomplishment of our work is proportionate to its importance. The Mother The difficulties are for the strong, and help to make them stronger. Persevere and you will conquer. The Mother Fear, work, courage Fear is slavery, work is liberty, courage ...
... Auroville. So it would be the educational side of the Ashram which would go to Auroville -there are many of them. But... give me some names, who can go and work with his hands? But, Sweet Mother, the only possibility is that you should SPEAK, and then tomorrow I will go and spend two hours in Auroville filling "baskets " [shallow pans for carrying earth]. (Mother laughs) My child... argument! So it's better to put "Truth". May 13, 1970 AM XI-201-202 [The architect] has asked me to say what we mean by religion... (Mother hands a letter) "Sweet Mother, the notion of religion is most often linked to the search for God. Should religion be understood in this context only? As a matter of fact, are there not Page 199 nowadays other ...
... me for the last three weeks, I felt that all these things have actually been there for a long time and that now Your Grace has brought them to my notice so that the next step may be taken. Mother, the night has already been very long for me. But it matters little, so long as I can continue to hold myself at Your feet. Page 377 According to my experience, one should not try to destroy... body keeps its automatic perception of the outer world; but this perception is more complete than the ordinary one, as if it revealed something of its content. 29 December 1968 Therefore, Mother, the transformation of the body is necessary even to live in the Integral Knowledge! Certainly. Page 392 In Sri Aurobindo's yoga, the transformation of the body is indispensable so far ...
... into something ludicrous); I am referring to the principle of divine Love. But it has been changed: it will be the "Pavilion of the Mother"; but not this ( Mother points to herself ): the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. (I say "Mother" because Sri Aurobindo used the word, otherwise I would have put something else—I would have put "creative principle" or "realizing principle" or ...
... arms a sort of path going towards her, rising upward, then coming down again through her towards the people. The whole path looks much like the silhouette of a single Being. ) And here [in Mother], the fact of the physical presence allows the forces to be directed more precisely. I see how the Force from above acts ( gesture of a descending pressure or mass ), and people get the contact through... people a work. I see what comes, that sort of atmosphere (it's much more than an atmosphere: it's a Presence, you know, constant, He is constantly there), but then, in the consciousness here [in Mother], the action is growing more precise: it's growing more precise on an individual level, depending on the case, the need, the occasion. It's a sort of almost automatic work. I can imagine it helps people ...
... much older original text that Mother had given to Satprem. The original text is included afterwards. ) "The task of giving a concrete shape to Sri Aurobindo's vision has been entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society, expressing and embodying the new consciousness, is the work undertaken by her. In the nature of things, it is a collective ideal calling for... (First version) The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo's vision has been given to the Mother. (Second version) The task of completing Sri Aurobindo's vision has been given to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is an ideal because the state ...
... has called 'Asiatic vague immensities'. Blake writes of the 'minute particulars' and of these there are virtually none in Sri Aurobindo's poem. One longs for a blade of grass, for Tagore's 'patient mother the dust' or for his 'morning sparrow.' In this sense Sri Aurobindo is not a poet, he does not think in images and symbols, his characters are as vague and abstract as his discourse. In the Vedic Hymns... is a language of image and symbol... Blake writes of the 'minute particulars' and of these there are virtually none in Sri Aurobindo's poem. One longs for a blade of grass, for Tagore's 'patient mother the dust' or for his 'morning sparrow'," Do you mean to say that there are no earthly pictures in Savitri? Here are a few: Often in twilight mid returning troops Of cattle thickening with ...
... from Ramakrishna is summed up in the famous cry of Bankim's song, Bande Mataram – "I bow to you, O Mother." The movement is basically religious, it is towards the Divine – the country is viewed as a Goddess who is not only its collective soul but also a face and form of the World-Mother, the creatrix of the universe. When the innate turn of the nation is mystical, even the patriotic fervour ...
... Books, with an epilogue, but while even the epilogue got written - at least as a general first draft -and the Book of Beginnings, the Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, the Book of the Divine Mother, the Book of Birth and Quest, the Book of Life, the Book of Love, the Book of Fate and several other Books are available for enthusiasts of spiritual poetry, the one single Book which does not exist in... it cannot be done in others." Yes, Sri Aurobindo, in his published pronouncements, appears to have envisaged the need and therefore the prospect of himself constituting together with the Mother the starting-point of supramental humanity. But in the same pronouncements he leaves also a small margin for a different dénouement. A letter of 1934 speaks in general about the ways of a vessel of ...
... 22 March 1949 Gracious Mother, The man who has opened a Sri Aurobindo Centre in his native place in U.P., is in great difficulty these days. There has been a riot among two parties of Zamindars. Somehow he has been involved in the criminal case bearing on the riot. He writes: “By the Grace of God and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the report of the police and the medical man ...
... upon Earth, p. 52) "Do you think I get all this energy from my frugal meals? Of course not, one can draw infinite energy from the universe when needed!" 1 (The Mother) The body is the vehicle, vāhana, of the Spirit; it is the indispensable means and instrument for the latter's self-manifestation in this world of evolutionary becoming. But this Becoming is... this general rule Both psychologically and physiologically life represents a ceaseless dynamis, a movement with a forward and upward orientation. Psychologically, in the inimitable words of The Mother: "The moment you cease to advance, you fall back. From the moment you are satisfied and aspire no longer, you begin to die. Life is movement, life is effort; it is marching forward, scaling the mountain ...
... unnoticed. We ignored Her very often in our blind impertinence. When we were in front of Her, the window of our soul open Even for some seconds we could perceive in Her The Divine Mother, the wordless magnificence, the Eternal in a body For ever so close, so intimate, mother, friend, confidante, Master, professor, infallible guide, adorable sister. Day and night She was... This honey is for whoever looks for the Divine. Knock at the door, taste some drops of the honey, Then depart enlightened, cured, Singing the glory of the Divine Mother, the Mother of the whole Universe. Come, you children of immortality, the honey waits for you. Come, take your part, be happy, luminous As the blue full moon playing with the waves ...
... this time. One day wishing to give me something, the Mother asked me, "Do you like bananas?" I answered promptly, "I don't dislike them, Mother." The Mother and Sri Aurobindo smiled but she refrained from giving them to me. That was my first joke with the Mother! The morning meal however was stopped very soon, since it was too early for his appetite. Here I must mention a minor but interesting episode ...
... on Yoga, Centenary Library, Vol. 22, pp. 265-307. Page 262 can come only when there is the supramental fulfilment. (h) In the Yogic psychology of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the word 'superconscient' is used to include the planes beyond our pre-sent level of awareness, namely, those of the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind, Supermind, and the other heights... and a perfect faith in all our members to call and support that assumption, shakti, virya, daivi prakriti, sraddha. ² The third element of perfection is, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the evolution of the mental into the supramental gnostic being. For it is the supramental gnosis which, once effectively called into action, will progressively take up all the terms of intelligence, ...
... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother 2 The Mother The Mother (Mirra Alfassa) was born in Paris on the 21st February, 1878. Her mother was Egyptian and her father was Turkish—both of them were perfect materialists. As a result, although she had inner experiences, including that of the divine Presence, right from her childhood, she was in her external life... evolution would be the divinisation of everything objectified. Theon had written all kinds of things—not philosophy but stories, fantastic stories to explain this view. Theon was the first to give to the Mother the idea 'that the earth is symbolic, representative—symbolic of concentrated universal action allowing divine forces to incarnate and work concretely.'² Theon had received his initiation in India ...
... gold with two rows of petals (4 inside and 12 outside) exactly in the centre of a square field of silvery blue. This blue is the blue of the Spirit, and the gold is the colour of the Supreme Mother. The red of the cover surrounding the flag signifies an illumined physical consciousness. The flag was originally intended to be only the flag of the J.S.A.S.A.; but later, on the day when India's... and the secret wonder that is to be revealed below are both compassed in the symbolism. Here, then, is a flag charged with India's spiritual mission, the mission of rendering victorious the Divine Mother, the infinite Self and Shakti. In this symbolism is the promise both of India's own unity and of a world-union; for, the genuine indefeasible oneness can come only of a sense in all men of the one God ...
... Sadhana in the span of roughly three hundred and fifty pages. The author can assure that all that is noted down in this book is authoritatively based on the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The whole matter has been treated subjectwise and each chapter has been made self-contained without any necessary dependence on other chapters of the book. Thus, any sadhaka-reader facing any problem... this book are like twenty-six garlands offered with love and devotion at the Feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. All the flowers have been culled from the celestial gardens of the Master and the Mother: the author's modest role has been that of a conscientious weaver of the garlands only. Sri Aurobindo Ashram J. K M. Pondicherry 24.04.02 ...
... in my heart which age cannot quench and I do not look backward to muse on past irrecoverable joys but gaze forward to a future of more and more bliss of self- giving to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother." "... the body itself has not kept pace in every feature. I indeed don't feel less fit in general at 85 than at 25... but the lower body has suffered, though without affecting in the least my day-to-day... I feel to be standing in front of me. The second movement is to lift the trouble far above my head to some transcendent region of light and love. Of course, along with the trouble, I offer to the Mother the person who is suffering or has the problem. In both cases the offering is sustained for a time and is repeated a number of times during the day. And both the movements are made not only with a keen ...
... the meeting. At the first gathering Mirra read out her paper. The subject was: What is the aim to be achieved, the work to be done, the means of achievement? Here is the answer given by the Mother: ‘The general aim to be achieved is the advent of a progressive universal harmony. 'In regard to the earth, the means of achieving this aim is the realisation of human unity by the awakening in all... Japan and I shall merely mention that they were a perfect preparation for the great work ahead of her on her return to India. Incidentally, when Rabindranath Tagore visited Japan in 1919 he met the Mother. The poet was so impressed by her personality that he requested her to come to Shantiniketan and take charge of the institution. The Mother could not accept the offer as she knew that although her field ...
... if you have felt anything or if it has made any difference to you. No answer?" The Mother asked each one in turn and each told his or her reaction. Then K asked, "Was there a special descent, Mother?" The Mother: There is no descent... it is again a wrong idea. It is something that i§ always there, but which you don’t feel. There is no descent.... Do you know what is the fourth dimension? K:... falsehood, in a jumble, in disorder, in obscurity. The mind! mind! Page 157 Otherwise to be aware of your own consciousness, you have to mentalise it. It is horrible, horrible! T: Mother, the new life is not a continuation of the old, is it? It is a gushing out from within. Mother: Yes, yes! T: There is no common point between.... Mother: There is, but you are not conscious of ...
... The Supreme MOTHER – THE SUPREME Mother – The Supreme Bonjour! Bonjour, Douce Mère. Is everything all right? Yes, Mother. You had told me on my birthday about the Supreme…. But, Mother, for me You are the Supreme. My child, that is saying the same thing in one way and in another…. What, you do not understand? No, Mother. Look here, in fact it ...
... action of the different parts of the our being, though the perfect harmony can come only when there is the supramental fulfilment. VIII In the Yogic psychology of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the word 'superconscient' is used to include the planes beyond our present level of awareness, namely, those of the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind, Supermind, and the other heights... and a perfect faith in all our members to call and support that assumption, shakti, vīrya, daivi prakriti, śraddhā. ²² The third element of perfection is, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the evolution of the mental into the supramental gnostic being. For it is the supramental gnosis which, once effectively called into action, will progressively take up all the terms of intelligence, ...
... last trip. Before leaving, I felt a desire to see the Mother. The Mother had not yet come out of her seclusion and Sri Aurobindo had not yet retired behind the scenes. I said to him, "I would like to see Her before I go."- Her with a capital H , in place of the Mother, for we had not yet started using that name. Sri Aurobindo informed the Mother. The room now used by Champaklal was the Mother's room in ...
... in my eyes to make Arabindo an ideal guru for mankind 80 was his return to active life." VI "...the supreme service of Bankim to his nation was that he gave us the vision of our Mother. The bare intellectual idea of the Motherland is not in itself a great driving force; the mere recognition of the desirability of freedom is not an inspiring motive. ...It is not till the Mother- land... the light he throws upon the concept of the word idea, the clarification he gives of the meaning of "association", the exalted spiritual sense he attaches to the Motherland worshipped as the Mother, the interpretation he gives of the triple gospel of the French Revolution - Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity - and explains how it is being progressively Page 316 realised in mankind ...
... endowments from his mother's line." 10 When Sarojini was staying at Bankipore for her education, Sri Aurobindo used to help her with money from time to time. He also sent money to his mother. The following letter written by him to his sister from Baroda not only reveals his tender love for her and his lively humour, but his eager longing to get away from the cramping atmosphere of Baroda... We give below a few extracts from the pamphlet, Bhavani Mandir: "A Temple is to be erected and consecrated to Bhavani, the Mother, among the hills. To all the children of the Mother the call is sent forth to help in the sacred work. "Who is Bhavani? "In the unending revolutions of the world, as the wheel of the Eternal turns mightily in its courses, the Infinite Energy ...
... Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother". The Mother, P. 47-48. Or, take from another context: "She guards the austere approach to the Alone. At the beginning of each far-spread plane Pervading with her power die cosmic... not exist....Each of „ the worlds is nothing but one play of the Mahāśakti of that system of worlds or universe, who is there as the cosmic Soul and Personality of the transcendent Mother....The one original transcendent śakti, the Mother, stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal consciousness the Supreme Divine''. Mother (P. 38). The spiritual truth conveying the ...
... admit Light, the inertia of the long-established habits of Nature oppose the double movement of liberation and transformation, and in spite of the divine pledge and the prophetic experiences of the Mother, the work seems well-nigh impossible. "O my sweet Master, why hast Thou asked me to leave my blessed place in Thy heart and return to the earth to attempt a realisation which everything seems to... passage. A superhuman beauty has appeared on the earth. "Something more marvellous- than the most marvellous bliss has made felt the impress of its Presence.”¹ According to the Mother, the Earth is the epitome of the universe. All the cosmic principles, powers, and potentialities are concentrated here, those of light as well as those of darkness and evil, and a long-drawn, eventful ...
... kills them? Sri Aurobindo : Well, what happens? Disciple : He will be liable to sin of course. I don't mean we don't kill at all, for instance, we are breathing microbes. Mother : The doctors don't kill? Disciple : Yes Mother . But I mean their killing is not intentional. Disciple : It is said that the Jains hire people to feed bugs! Disciple : No. That... kill in self-defense. I don't mean that you must hunt out the snakes and kill them. But when you see that they are endangering your or other lives, then you have every right to kill them. Mother : The plants have also life. So, you mean to say Page 119 that mosquito is more precious then rose? You don't know perhaps how the plants feel. Disciple : There are people who ...
... Page 66 BHAWANI MANDIR OM NAMAS CHANDIKAYAI A temple is to be erected and consecrated to Bhawani, the Mother, among the hills. To all the children of the Mother the call is sent forth to help in the sacred work. Who Is Bhawani ? Who is Bhawani, the Mother, and why should we erect a temple to her? Bhawani Is the Infinite Energy. In the... a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an inner sight in you has regarded the World-Mother."¹ The following poem was written about the same experience. THE STONE GODDESS In a town of gods, housed in a little shrine, From sculptured limbs the Godhead looked at me, – ...
... he looked at me and gave a sweet smile. And on the top of the red lotus Mother wrote: The Avatar Sri Aurobindo Page 4 Aditi The Divine Mother The avatar Sri aurobindo And below the white lotus: To Champaklal With blessings to my dear child 2.2.40 MOTHER Mother asked me not to show the lotuses... With love and blessings. The illness has come like a test and gone like a purification carrying away all that was standing in the way of the joy of an integral consecration. THE MOTHER (The Mother orally said, "I come to you. You will read it care- fully. It is concrete, my experience." She repeated it.) Page 68 Page 69 2.2.1968 Bonne ...
... Dual Being: Brahman and Brahmashakti, Ishwara and Ishwari, Purusha and Prakriti, the two standing on two poles of the earth’s axis, as it were. Having separated and moved far apart in time, the Mother, the Eternal Shakti entered the depths of Inconscience. She became the most gross inconscient Matter. And Brahman on the other side became the contrary of his Shakti, Nothingness. The Two became opposites... Inconscience. Now it is no more in the subtle world. It is down into this material world that Brahman and Brahmashakti have descended. The difficult work that the Supreme Purusha and Brahmashakti, the Mother, the Eternal Shakti began from the beginning of this creation in the subtle world is coming to a close. That is what the Mother’s reassuring words seemed to indicate. Our lower nature will be transformed ...
... Others look upon their country as an inert piece of matter — a few meadows and fields, forests and hills and rivers — I look upon my country as the Mother. I adore Her. I worship Her as the Mother. The year was 1893. After his education in England, Sri Aurobindo returned to India to dedicate his life to the service of his motherland. He vowed that the country had to be freed from the shackles... got these petals fixed on the map. Here is the significance of the Mother’s symbol: The central circle represents the Divine Consciousness. The four petals represent the four powers of the Mother. The twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother manifested for her work. * It is the symbolic design of the white Lotus of Supreme Consciousness, with the Mahashakti (the form of the ...
... Nolini-da told us: “You have all known the Mother as ‘Mother’ so very effortlessly. However we were not as fortunate. We had to overcome a lot of resistance in order to accept the Mother as ‘Mother’.” The gods can’t stand our impudence. After all they too are the Mother’s children. They punish our human arrogance. Let me recount to you one incident here. It happened long ago. At that time the local... Pondicherry was quite hostile to the Ashram. One of the Ashram boys was walking by the sea. All of a sudden he noticed at a distance that a group of locals was desecrating a photograph of the Mother. The Ashram boy ran and jumped down from the pier putting his life at risk. He managed to snatch away the Mother’s picture from that whole group of people. The Mother was told about this incident and ...
... Priti, mati is actually Ma-ti.” (The land is the Mother.) The way he uttered Ma-ti opened the gates of such tremendous love and respect for the Motherland! He told Mona one day: “We did not completely accept Sri Aurobindo’s Mother India as a living Entity, a living God, so in order to establish the truth, He has brought down now the living Mother, the Divine Mother.” When Mona recounted this to the ...
... courtyard when it was all covered with flowers. The Mother did not like trees and plants to be cut down or leaves, flowers and fruits plucked without reason. Trees would go and complain to the Mother. The famous Banyan tree in the centre of Auroville came one day to the Mother to express its grief. So the Mother sent a sadhak to Auroville to find out what was wrong with this tree. When the sadhak... block at one time. Everyone came in a line and took from the Mother’s hands his or her monthly requirements. The first of every month (known as ‘Prosperity’ day) was a particularly busy day for the Mother. The Mother’s day began with a rush of activity in the morning. As soon as we were informed that the Mother had returned to the Ashram people would rush through different streets as if in a race to see ...
... all be busy with embroidery. So little time and so much to offer to the Mother! The Mother looked at all these offerings with a lot of interest. Smriti used to offer a lot of hand-painted handkerchiefs to the Mother on each birthday. On one birthday Smriti did not have enough time to prepare them. When she went to the Mother the Mother asked her: “Haven’t you made anything for me?” Smriti was ...
... modest corporeal form had become the direct and immediate vesture, without any intermediary, of the supreme and eternal Witness. ¹ 26 November 1915 LETTER OF SRI AUROBINDO TO THE MOTHER The experience you have described is Vedic in the real sense, though not one which would easily be recognised by the modem systems of Yoga which call themselves Yogic. It is the union of the "Earth"... the words he later used of Savitri, "The world unknowing, for the world she stood", are so very apposite in his own case. It was therefore natural that when, by the grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the disciples also felt the nearness of the descent, their hearts should be full of expectant and concentrated enthusiasm. From the beginning of November 1926 the pressure of the Higher Power began ...
... the duties of a Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee ceased for several years. After November 1973 several changes occurred in the organisations connected with Sri Aurobindo and Mother. The organisation Sri Aurobindo's Action was under renewed attack from Page 62 those who were sore over it from Mother's time but were subdued by her physical presence. The organisation... work. One point which has been commonly made out against him is his refusal to allow the people of Auroville inside the Ashram Playground. From time to time I was under pressure to represent to Mother the plea of the people of Auroville against this decision of his, but I did not feel like doing so, and this displeased several of them. Of course, I was aware of Mother's approval of this decision, ...
... None stopped me on the way and my heart's wish was fulfilled. Besides having her darshan, I could do pranam too. I observed an interesting thing. The Ashramite ahead of me was reporting to Mother the condition of a sick colleague. After hearing him Mother asked, "But is he not feeling less weak?" The Ashramite said that he was in fact feeling less weak and it had remained to be mentioned. ... him from Sri Aurobindo Memorial Fund Society. Dyuman was very happy to get it. "I was just in need of this amount for the Orissa work". For me it was an experience to hear Dyumanbhai speak of Mother. The simple devotee in him came out in front. In respect of Mother's administrative directions, those who found them inconvenient or not to their liking, usually tried to find excuses to bypass them ...
... anything wrong or disrespectful”. In fact, বূড়ী is very often a term of endearment in our social milieu. Nolini-da reported it to Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo in his return explained to the Mother the whole storm in a tea cup. The Mother replied, “It is of no consequence. Sudhir is my true bhakta”. It is significant too that quite a number of people came to the Ashram from Khulna through him... allowance. Besides, when the Mother has taken responsibility for me, where is the need for a dole from the Government of India?” One rarely sees such a lack of greed combined with complete trust in the Mother. The Mother once told me that when an Avatar descends on earth, He brings with him several followers to do His work. I can firmly state that Sudhir-da was one of those followers. On the eve of his birth ...
... world. Here is a portion of the Mother’s talk on Suniti Devi with her son Mona. Mona: Mother, here is the photo of my mother that you wanted to see. The Mother: Ah! show it to me. She is your mother… ( The Mother concentrates on the photo ). She is very pretty and endowed with a deep intelligence. Her psychic was illumined — that is quite evident. Ah, let me see. ( The Mother goes into trance ) But... she was very open to Me that she had these experiences. It is I who guided her. She was a very sweet woman. Mona: Yes, Mother, it is true. The Mother: Do you remember her? Mona: Very well, Mother. The Mother: But you were very young. Mona: Still, I remember her quite well. Once when she was ill, she called me to her side and talked to me asking me not to repeat it to anyone. “Your place is ...
... style of painting that can reflect the new world - what the earth is waiting for, its imminent arrival." I asked, "Mother, how can one know about this new world.? We mow absolutely nothing,sweet Mother!"The Mother replied ,"You must remember it all the time, you have to dream about it, you have to feel that you want only this and nothing else.," Taking a few flowers in Her hand, She continued, "Give... Her right hand, 'Can you see, his soul is talking! Marvellous! Tell Arup that this is an admirable attempt!" 5. Once, Arup was going through a low phase. He did a painting and sent it to the Mother. The Mother's comment: "Try to find your psychic being. In that endeavour, you will find help." 6. This is about another painting - piercing a totally black sky, like lightning, a golden light was ...
... "Shobha, go and look at yourself Page 161 in the mirror." But in Shobha's mind and heart, there was but one prayer repeating itself: "Mahakali! Compassionate Mahakali! Come down, O Mother!" The clock struck eight. The gong sounded for the curtains to be drawn. The dance started with the strains of Sunil-da's music. I was to enter the stage a little later. I sat totally concentrated in... condition, at once called Vishwanath-da. In the meantime, Millie-di kept holding me. She asked Amiyo-da to quickly inform the Mother about it. Both of them holding me from either side took me to the Mother. The Mother was sitting in Her resting-room on the left side of the stage. They made me enter the Mother's room and closed the door behind me. She was seated in an easy-chair. Pranab-da was standing next ...
... and other dignitaries expressed their appreciation of the programme. The Pondicherry government had offered 1100 rupees for this programme. I handed over this money to Nolini-da to offer to the Mother. The Mother returned one portion of this money to me. Page 199 In honour of Sri Aurobindo's centenary, numerous programmes were held throughout India. Several directors of radio stations... whatever the Mother decided. Navajata- Page 201 ji could take the letter as he met the Mother daily. Both agreed with my suggestion and decided to send a letter to the Mother the following day. After they left Red House I became somewhat nervous. My mind was burdened with all sorts of thoughts and ideas. What would happen if the Mother did agree to his proposal ...
... gold, with concentric circles of 4 and 12 petals respectively, and centred in a square background of silvery blue: This blue is the blue of the spirit and the gold is the colour of the Supreme Mother. The red of the cover surrounding the flag signifies the illumined physical consciousness. 1 The Bulletin was the Mother's own paper, and over a period of twenty-five years she helped to make it... inevitability of the Supramental Manifestation on the earth. On 7 July 1949,. the Mother had told Sri Aurobindo: "I am writing the practical side of your writings." 7 But of course, with the Mother, the boundary that divided the practical from the profound was very thin indeed. Even as she wouldn't see the spiritual and the material as mutually exclusive, so too theory and practice were, for her ...
... II For the hundreds of sadhaks in the Ashram, for the children in the University Centre, for the tens of thousands of disciples scattered in all the continents, the Mother was another 'mother', the Mother of the deeper self within or the psychic being, and the Ashram was the real 'home'. Faith, aspiration and the cumulative testimony of numerous experiences built up a personality of the Mother... Will. This is the Mother's charter of charters, the true Magna Carta. VI It was during 1955 that Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, paid two visits to the Ashram and met the Mother. The first visit was on 16 January, not long after the integration of Pondicherry with India on 1 November 1954. At 11 a.m. when he arrived at the Ashram gate, he was given a guard of honour by members ...
... INDEX Abdul Baha 40ff, 50 A.B. Patel 573, 686 Agastya, Rishi 133 Aiyar, V.V.S. 85, 132 Alfassa, Mathilde 3-4, 833 Alfassa, Matteo 132, 833 Alfassa, Maurice 3, 833 Alfassa, Mirra see MOTHER, THE Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna) 86-7, 244, 253, 261, 264-5, 287, 290, 296-7, 319, 321, 325, 327-9, 341, 354, 358, 372, 387, 402,488,495, 504, 549-50, 573, 590, 604, 618, 686, 691 Ambalal Purani 136... of sleeping 779 Pavitra's passing 780 the four categories of human beings 798 imperative need for agreement 801 what she expects of her children 805 true freedom 816 4. Works of the Mother The Path of Later On 11-2 The Sapphire Story 31 A Leader 32ff Words of Long Ago 32ff, 55-60, 505, 519 Virtues 35, 650 On Thought 36-8, 312 On Dreams 38-40, 519 To Know How to Suffer 40-2 ...
... stream. And that silvery stream would flow out of her fingers as she sat at the organ. How I loved it! Page 96 10 Musical Waves "Music, Mother." The Second World War was more than a year behind us. My twenty-first birthday was approaching. Mother gently asked me, "What would you like, child, for your birthday?" "Music, Mother," I said... in Paris have such beautiful music. Oh, what beautiful music! I had one of my first experiences in a temple. It was at a marriage, and the music was marvellous (I was up in the galleries with my mother). The music (Saint-Saëns, I was later told) was organ music —the second best organ in Paris, sublime! The music was playing, and I was up there, rapt (I was fourteen then). There were some leaded-glass ...
... daughter, yet the poet's affirmation "A world's desire compelled her mortal birth" becomes quite intelligible and clear when we realise the symbolic character of Aswapathy. He carries to the Divine Mother the intense aspiration of the earth and as its representative prays to Her to come down on earth. Page 125 CANTO I The first Canto is found to be a very difficult by many genuine... was a "blank" prescience. That is to say, it was not an exact foreseeing of the future but a sort of feeling that a change would come. 8. The image of the Mother is very beautiful. This Mother- the universal Mother was before now the "heedless mother". But the newly born stir, the vague aspiration "clutched the heedless mother" and the maternal love vaguely awoke in her apparently unconscious ...
... time that we are attentive and concentrated, we become aware of a wonderful transformation in all things. 13.12.1968 Without being able to feel constantly Your presence, O Divine Mother, the life is no longer joyous. But also, something protects it from being sad. It is so because the Presence is constant, be it felt or not, and its protection is constant and effective, even... the body keeps its automatic perception of the outer world, but this perception is more complete than the ordinary one, as if it revealed something of its content. Page 65 Therefore, Mother, the transformation of the body is necessary even to live in the Integral Knowledge! Certainly. In Sri Aurobindo's yoga, the transformation of the body is indispensable so far as it can ...
... light every morning so that the light be always around it, penetrating it each time that there is a possibility of it being received. 11.2.1970 The more I can go near You, O Divine Mother, the more the life becomes a true life. This body itself is in the midst of the struggle to realise the true life. 13.2.1970 I can feel that the golden light has become very ... Nothing must be upset. 8.4.1970 I can feel that it is in silence that I should aspire for silence. This is very good, this is a good beginning. 10.4.1970 Mother, the mind is making so much noise again, hut I am not discouraged. It is to give you the occasion to control and purify its activity because this also is indispensable. 12.4.1970 ...
... progress.... But in many respects what impressed me most were the educational institutions maintained by the Ashram and the ancient spirit of strength and joy that pervades them. The Mother, the embodiment of grace, light and tenderness, ordered an exhibition of games and physical exercises by the boys and girls of the Ashram School. I said to myself, 'If all the schools were like this... action should be shifted further and further away from oneself, accomplishing wider and richer integration all the time: "love not yourself, love Bengal, love India; serve not yourself, serve the Mother, the Mother and her three hundred million children; love India, serve her - liberate her, Mother India, Mother Bharati, Mother Durga, from the clutches of the foreign Rakshasa, help her to live once ...
... मीरा शरणम् । मीरा मम शरणम्॥ vande devīṁ jananīm, vande mātaraṁ suradhunīm. vande mīrāṁ patitapāvanīm, śaraṇaṁ śaraṇaṁ mīrā śaraṇam, mīrā mama śaraṇam. Salutation to Mother, the goddess. Salutation to Mother, the Ganges. Salutation to Mira, the deliverer of sinners. Mira is my refuge. ...
... we give here a few extracts from Bhawani Mandir. OM Namas Chandikayai A temple is to be erected and consecrated to Bhawani, the Mother, among the hills. To all the children of the Mother the call is sent forth to help in the sacred work. Who is Bhawani? Who is Bhawani, the Mother, and why should we erect a temple to her ? Bhawani is the Infinite Energy In the... called and heard Her not She may well be wroth in the day of Her coming; but to those who help Her advent even a little, how radiant with beauty and kindness will be the face of their Mother. * * * The cover of the Bhawani Mandir, it seems, had a drawing of a falchion on it. It came to official notice only in August 1905. 1 Although there was nothing on the pamphlet to show who the ...
... forget me", is instinct, when moved, with "a passion of sisterliness" and at other times, bright & limpid in its fair kindness & confidence. To her son she comes "with her whole rapt gaze Grown mother, the veiled bosom heaving towards him And wet with sacred milk." & her farewell to the Hermitess sets a model for the expression of genuine & tender friendship. Urvasie is doubtless not so noble & strong ...
... which is leading the nation to resurgence and independence, he is the inspirer and political guru. The third and supreme service of Bankim to his nation was that he gave us the vision of our Mother. The bare intellectual idea of the Motherland is not in itself a great driving force; the mere recognition of the desirability of freedom is not an inspiring motive. There are few Indians at present, ...
... Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1927-1947) Collected Poems O ye Powers O ye Powers of the Supreme and of the Mother, the Divine, I have come to you initiate, a bearer of the sign. For I carry the Name in me that nothing can efface. I have breathed in an illimitable spiritual Space And my soul through the unfathomable stillnesses has ...
... Mother of the universe; the substance of the infinite Idea, vijñāna , the Mahad Brahman, is the womb into which he casts the seed of his self-conception. As the Over-Soul he casts the seed; as the Mother, the Nature-Soul, the Energy filled with his conscious power, he receives it into this infinite substance of being made pregnant with his illimitable, yet self-limiting Idea. He receives into this Vast ...
... beneficent in upholding and protection is or else formulates itself as the Mother of the worlds, Luxmi or Durga. Or beneficent even in the mask of destruction, it is Chandi or it is Kali, the dark Mother. The One Godhead manifests himself in the form of his qualities in various names and godheads. The God of divine love of the Vaishnava, the God of divine power of the Shakta appear as two different godheads; ...
... principle of all occult knowledge that there are these two elements overstanding each seeker of the Truth. The Mother once said that she never upheld the hostile forces, nor was she their Mother. The hostile forces are upheld not by the Mother but by something in the sadhaks themselves which opens the doors to them by concentrated egoism, mental arrogance, vital revolt and many other things ...
... hopeful to get back your touch again. However strong the attack may be and even if it overcomes for the time being, still it will rapidly pass away if you have formed the habit of opening to the Mother. The peace will come back, if you remain quiet and keep yourself open to it and to the Force. Once something of the Truth has shown itself within you, it will always, even if for a time heavily clouded ...
... characteristic force as the white is of the Mother, but we are not limited to that, the other forces and therefore the other lights are also ours. 24 November 1933 Today I saw emerging from the Mother the whitish blue light of Sri Aurobindo. Why did I see it so? Is it because both are the same? All the lights are put out by the Mother from herself. 6 March 1934 Today at Pranam while feeling ...
... sense of tiredness, depression, sadness, but all the same I stick to you. I am quiet sometimes, but still feel sad. What should I do? Remain firm and turned in the one direction—towards the Mother. The sense of sadness and depression does not want to go—it comes and goes as it likes. Tell me what to do. When the habit of these moods (depression or revolt) has been formed, they cannot be got ...
... in 1931 as Conversations with the Mother. They now form the first part of Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2003 ), volume 3 of the Collected Works of the Mother. The page numbers given after quoted passages in this subsection refer to the 2003 edition.—Ed. The Mother asks: "What do you want the Yoga for? To get power?" [ p. 1 ] Does "power" here mean the ...
... she wears here. 15 July 1933 Two days back I saw in a dream that I was lying in a bed in a room and the Mother entered with a big rosy coloured horse. Seeing the horse I told the Mother: "Mother, the horse is mad; he will bite me." The Mother told me: "No, the horse is not mad; he will not bite you." What is the meaning of this dream? Rose is the colour of psychic love—the horse is dynamic ...
... statement Page 594 from herself about approaching people for money. You must make X understand that this is not done and cannot be done. If he feels moved to do this as work for the Mother, the knowledge that it is needed should be enough. It is not a question of a public appeal for funds, but of getting friends and sympathisers to help. You will see from the Mother's letter the spirit ...
... give rise to many requests for a special darshan or interview from others. It is therefore better that the Maharani should not maintain her request. But if on her way back she wishes to visit the Mother, the Mother will be glad to see her. 31 January 1938 Page 532 There seems to be some misunderstanding about Mr. C. R. Reddy's visit to the Ashram. He was sent to Pondicherry by the Chancellor ...
... Lord, Thy plenitude is realised. O divine Master, Thou hast granted to me the infinitude of divine contemplation, the perfect calm of Thy Eternity, and through an identification with our divine Mother, the All-Realiser, Thou hast permitted me to participate in her sovereign power to be conscious and active... In the omnipotent bliss of Thy infinitude, I bow to Thee! Page 259 ...
... your environment, because it is considered good form to have it and therefore saves you from as many clashes, frictions, criticisms as possible. Or because this was the opinion of your father or mother, the opinion which moulded your childhood. Or else because this opinion is the normal outcome of the education, religious or otherwise, you received in your youth. This thought is not your own thought ...
... be several versions of the Ramayana. And still more versions of the Mahabharata—that indeed is amazing! (Nolini) Of the Ramayana also. Then texts have been added later. Did it exist, Mother, the Mahabharata? I suppose something did exist. In all these things, there is "something" that's true and then what has been made of it. These are two very different things. But in all religions ...
... everyone the same thing. One must first begin with the work on himself. When one has done the work on himself, one can do it on others; but the first thing to do is to do it on oneself. Sweet Mother, the Divine has come down to this world of darkness and ignorance... And so, what? How does He feel?... What? What does He feel? You have never been in a place which is quite dark, where you ...
... Prakriti is the negative side of the development; one frees himself from his allegiance to Prakriti, but one must take a step further and have the positive side of being surrendered to the Divine Mother. The last sentence: "...in the Truth-Creation the law is that of a constant unfolding without any Pralaya." What is this constant unfolding? Page 204 The Truth-Creation... it is the last ...
... quite... that it was understood, quite natural! So, I never spoke to you about it. Why, I would be interested in knowing... ( To a child ) Have you thought of this, you there? I told you, Sweet Mother, the other day! That's right, but you can repeat it. ( To another child ) And you? Have you thought about it? Or do you take it like that... because papa and mamma are here, so I am here? ( Laughter ...
... read "The Scientist", Pavitra gets ready to read the questions. ) So, will you read them, Pavitra? You can't see well? We can switch on the light again. (Pavitra) No, no, it is all right, Mother. The scientist speaks of two postulates with which he has undertaken the research of the secrets of Nature and which would have dwindled gradually. "For me", he says, "ignorance was the primary ...
... you the door to a higher life... But we shall come to this next time... no, not next time, after two lessons. Here we are, my children. No other questions? Nobody has anything to say? Sweet Mother, the politician in the world today who is on the level of the one in the drama, one who is trying to do his best, isn't he guided by the Divine? Will he find the means of... He has not said that he ...
... object is transformation, and the transformation can only be done by a force infinitely greater than your own, it can only be done by being truly like a child in the hands of the Divine Mother. The difficulties that shake you would be of no importance, if this central obstacle were removed. They come from the weakness of the external being which was always intense and eager, but built in ...
... Ashram Political Career (1906-1910) Mother India When you wrote that you looked upon India not as an inert, dead mass of matter, but as the very Mother, the living Mother, I believe that you saw that Truth. My dear sir, I am not a materialist. If I had seen India as only a geographical area with a number of more or less interesting or uninteresting ...
... work? How is the inner energy related to the outer energy? The first stage is when one works with the outer energy, but there is an inner consciousness supporting it which relies wholly on the Mother. The second is when there is an inner consciousness and force which uses the outer instruments—the outer energy Page 245 being quiescent or else a part only of the inner—while this inner ...
... damage I have done by my disobedience in work. I must go about my work consciously, performing it as a service to the Mother. I must work with full concentration and feel a connection with the Mother. The difficulty this time must have come from this very act of distrust and disobedience. For distrust and disobedience are like falsehood (they are themselves a falsity, based on false ideas and impulses) ...
... get some pleasure. And when I mix with too many people, then also I feel some inner uneasiness. What should I do? Observe carefully the people with whom you have an uneasy feeling and tell the Mother. The uneasiness and the pleasure can go together, because they are two different movements in different parts of you. Mother is not asking you for mental judgment about people, but simply with whom you ...
... inner contact until you could get the constant inner nearness or presence, for when one has that then the vital becomes quiet and there is no longer the vital pressure and clamour for seeing the Mother; the psychic being rules and is content to leave all to the Mother, claiming nothing but what she permits, asking nothing that is not freely given by her will. Unfortunately the vital claim has risen ...
... suggestion coming towards him and I gave him my kindest smile and blessing", and yet afterwards we get a letter affirming just the contrary, "You did not smile etc." And you are all ready to give the Mother the lie, because you felt, you saw and your senses cannot be deceived! As if a mind disturbed does not twist the sense observation also! as if it were not a common fact of psychology that one constantly ...
... hear and ran even faster. I had also to run after him. He went straight up the staircase and reached the Mother. I was astonished that instead of coming to me he ran back that distance to reach the Mother. The Mother held him and asked, “Mon Petit, what happened?” He was hardly three and so he could not converse with the Mother either in English or in French. He just fell down again on the floor before ...
... it has come for. So, if we cultivate the body by a clear-sighted and rational method, at the same time we are helping the growth of the soul, its progress and enlightenment. 82 — The Mother * The soul individualises itself and progressively transforms itself into a psychic being. What are the best conditions for its rapid growth? It would be more correct to say ...
... grow the plant... We must find a handful of earth for it to grow..." 31.5.1969 (silence) * The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo's vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is a collective ideal that calls ...
... Sri Aurobindo's work is a unique earth-transformation. The Mother The Sublime Work Unique Sri Aurobindo's work is a unique earth-transformation. The Mother Successful Future Do you know what the flower which we have called ...
... altogether wonderful, inaccessible and almost incomprehensible; but if you look from another point of view, you may say that it is the creative Consciousness, the Origin of the universe, the universal Mother, the creative Power, and so on. When we play badly we find that we have no energy, but if we play well, with great enthusiasm, we find that energy comes. Why? This is perfectly true. To enter ...
... in so many words "Above Page 352 all, don't fly into a temper", but that is no use at all. It is the eternal "Do what I say, not what I do." But that has no effect. ( Silence ) Mother, the problem comes up in our class. Oh! oh! you get into a temper with your students? ( Laughter ) To control and discipline them, what should one do if one has no self-control? Then one can't ...
... plane that the thing must be seen. But from the point of view of the material realisation it is undeniable that fifty is more than three, for all those who know mathematics! ( Silence ) Mother, the message you have given this year, will you explain it a little? 1 The message I have given this year, what's your objection to it? Does it imply that there will be great victories this ...
... want to leave it and they carry it on their shoulders, and so this hampers the advance and you are indefinitely delayed. Once you have passed the stage, let it drop, let it go! Go farther. Mother, the present religio-political movement for the revival of Buddhism... What? Oh! I don't take part in politics. It is altogether useless. People use things just for political ends, but that is not ...
... entirely about the yoga of works, of action, that is to say, the finding of union with the Divine in action and work, and in the consecration of one's work to the Divine. That's all. Sweet Mother, "the consecration of works is a needed element in that change. Otherwise, although they may find God in other-life, they will not be able to fulfil the Divine in life." The Synthesis of Yoga, p ...
... ion. But the other precedes it, must precede it. If that is not done, there is no possibility of doing the third. One can't go from the first to the third; one must pass through the second. Mother, the third depends entirely on the Divine, whether He wills to take possession or not. In fact everything depends entirely on the Divine. It is only the consciousness you have of it which is different ...
... × In the French text of Thoughts and Aphorisms read by the Mother. × The translation the Mother had before her was based on a text which read "tentacles of Nature" instead of "sentinels of Nature". ...
... understood. For the psychic it is the same thing. When the psychic is in front one knows it, and there is no possibility of any doubt. Consequently one no longer asks the question. 97 — The Mother * [The signs of the psychic's coming forward:] A central love, bhakti, surrender, giving everything, a sight within that sees always clearly what is spiritually right or wrong and automatically ...
... man for fear of losing their job. There may be some dignity in being rough with your superiors, but with those who depend on you, the true dignity is to be very courteous. The Mother The way one is treated I am sure that servants behave according to the way they are treated. The Mother Proper supervision If you are sure that the servants are robbing, it proves that ...
... concentrated here. Here is the concentration, here is the work. Maybe it is also... the whole solar system, I do not know. ( Silence ) But one cannot get out of it all alone. Yes!... Sweet Mother, the other day you said something. You said, "It is time to take one's stand." You said, "The body, on its side, has taken its stand," but till now you did not dare push others to do the same, and you ...
... There are periods in the history of the world when the unseen Power that guides its destinies seems to be filled with a consuming passion for change and a strong impatience of the old. The Great Mother, the Adya Shakti, has resolved to take the nations into Her hand and shape them anew. These are periods of rapid destruction and energetic creation, filled with the sound of cannon and the trampling of ...
... which is leading the nation to resurgence and independence, he is the inspirer and political guru . The third and supreme service of Bankim to his nation was that he gave us the vision of our Mother. The new intellectual idea of the motherland is not in itself a great driving force; the mere recognition of the desirability of freedom is not an inspiring motive. There are few Indians at present, whether ...
... of demands and desires. There is no room in it for ābdār of any kind. It is only for those who surrender to the Divine and obey implicitly the directions given to them by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The True Vaishnava Attitude Your whole-hearted acceptance of the Vaishnava idea and bhakti becomes rather bewildering when it is coupled with an insistence that love cannot be given to the Divine ...
... centres and other Tantrik knowledge are there behind the process of transformation to which so much importance is given by me—also the truth that nothing can be done except through the force of the Mother. The ascension and descent of the Force in this Yoga accomplishes itself in its own way without any necessary reproduction of the details laid down in the books [ on Tantra ]. Many become conscious ...
... work. That is how the consciousness must work when it lives in the Divine. One part of the Force in it works and offers the work to the Mother, another part lives in the experience of the Mother, the third hears what the others say and answers without losing the inner consciousness. No—it is only if it [ turning inwards during work ] is an inner absorption that it would come in the way ...
... I tell you plainly once again that all your so-called experiences are worth nothing, mere vital ignorance and confusion. The only experience you need is the experience of the presence of the Mother, the Mother's light, the Mother's force, and the change they bring in you. You have to throw away all other influences and open yourself only to the Mother's influence. You have to think and talk ...
... these altogether sufficient; there is a deeper factor. There must be a sort of religion of country, a constant even if not always explicit recognition not only of the sacredness of the physical mother, the land, but also, in however obscure a way, of the nation as a collective soul which it is the first duty and need of every man to keep alive, to defend from suppression or mortal attaint or, if suppressed ...
... daughter of Himavan”,—that he is able to learn the thing which he seeks. The Stri, Page 36 the Aja or unborn Female Energy, is the executive Divinity of the universe, the womb, the mother, the bride, the mould & instrument of all joy & being. The Veda also speaks of the gnah, the Women,—feminine powers without whom the masculine are not effective for work & formation; for when the gods ...
... difficult to deal with than the pure mental—but it comes with practice. The Physical and the Vital It is a great progress if you can now do that [ patiently go on trying, turned always to the Mother ]. The chief difficulty in the way of living in the light as well as the peace and force is the confused and turbid restlessness of man's vital nature. If that is quieted, the major difficulty is gone ...
... physical mind. The best is not to force concentration, but to remain quiet and call and let things work themselves out through the force of the Mother. Page 478 × The correspondent wrote that she felt electrical vibrations in the backbone at a point in the chest parallel to the bottom of the sternum.—Ed. ...
... impossible without that strength of will. People less strong than Buddha may have to develop it by endeavour. Those who cannot do that have to find their strength in their reliance on the Divine Mother. The Need of Will There must be a fixed will for the spiritual life—that alone can overcome all obstacles. To be conscious is the first step towards overcoming [ lower movements ]—but for ...
... Light is not knowledge but the illumination that comes from above and liberates the being from obscurity and darkness. But this Light also assumes different forms such as the white light of the Mother, the pale blue light of Sri Aurobindo, the golden light of Truth, the psychic light (pink and rose) etc. The light, colours, flowers are always seen when there is a working of the forces within ...
... Divine Consciousness acting through a divinised physical-vital and vital-material force. The lion is the attribute of the Goddess Durga, the conquering and protecting aspect of the Universal Mother. The Death's Head is the symbol of the Asura (the adversary of the gods) vanquished and killed by the Divine Power. Ganesh It is according to the need or else the condition of the consciousness ...
... the higher vital, the psychic or the mental dream-experiences is not there. But still there are in the first dream three points de repère , the railway-journey, the meeting with the father and mother, the communion, and these all are suggestive symbols. The railway-journey is always in vital dreams a symbol of a journey or progress of the inner being; here it is in the vital consciousness that some ...
... and not deny the Light when it comes, and there is needed the sanction of the Supreme from above. The power that mediates between the sanction and the call is the presence and power of the Divine Mother. The Mother's power and not any human endeavour and tapasya can alone rend the lid and tear the covering and shape the vessel and bring down into this world of obscurity and falsehood and death and suffering ...
... the Mother had to stand back, otherwise to build it at all would be impossible. 7 December 1931 If it is the same part of the vital that was on the right side and has now turned against the Mother, the explanation is very obvious. It gave its adhesion formerly because it thought that by its adhesion it could make her satisfy its desires; finding its desires not indulged, it turns against her. That ...
... Three Aspects of the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Universal Mother and the Individual Mother The universal and individual Mother are the same—these are two aspects of the Supreme Mother—but the differentiation is for the multiple action and play. So also one feels the self as one's own self in an individual way but also that there is ...
... secret thoughts. There should be no secrecy between the mother and the child. But apart from this, is there any other utility of confessions? There is the utility of the physical approach to the Mother—the approach of the embodied mind and vital to her embodied Power. In her universal action the Mother acts according to the law of things—in her embodied physical action is the opportunity of a constant ...
... come to exist?" He said he did not know, but that Sri Aurobindo and Mother would know and can tell me. Therefore please reply so that I can know everything clearly. The first mother is the "Mother"—the eternal Mother; she always exists, she has no beginning or end. 4 March 1933 Page 54 ...
... The Mother, the Divine and the Lower Nature The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Self, the Divine and the Mother My heart is aspiring for the Self, the Atman. I feel this Atman as the Lord of my being. I have to do all that I do for its sake, in order to make it the absolute master of myself. It is the Divine who is the Master—the Self is inactive ...
... The Mother, the Divine and the Lower Nature The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother and Self-Realisation What is remarkable today is that the consciousness is turning more and more towards oneness with the Mother's Self in the silent peace. I write "Self" simply out of my perception, so I would like to be a little clear about it. You are ...
... must ask you to return to your better self and your true consciousness and throw off these moods of vital passion which are unworthy of your soul. You have repeatedly written of your love for the Mother, the Ananda which you received from her and the number of spiritual experiences. Remember that and remember that that is your true way and your true being and nothing else matters. Get back your poise ...
... tiger is some force that appears hostile. If you face it with the Mother's name, the hostile force disappears and in its place come two Powers (the children) from myself (the blue light) and the Mother (the white light). It is probably an image of the vital under the influence of the psychic. At first it is inhabited by the tiger (anger, passion, desire etc.)—but as soon as the psychic influence masters ...
... logical. IshwaraShakti, Purusha-Prakriti are only the two sides of the one Divine (Brahman). 1933 Page 126 It is a very common experience—that of the identity between myself and the Mother (the perception that we are one) expressed in the fusing of the two images. 4 November 1935 ...
... wormhood and asshood even throughout the ages? When X says that he feels the Mother's physical touch or approach, with whom does he have the contact—the Mother or the emanation? With the Mother, the emanation helping—which is its business. 19 July 1935 ...
... heart and my offering falling into it like bits of paper. I heard someone say: "Offer everything into the fire!" But when obscurities and resistance arise, I feel a hesitation to offer them to the Mother. The thought comes: offer the best things to the Mother, not ugly things. The fire is the purifying psychic fire. Offering to the psychic fire is not contrary to the worship of the Mother. To purify ...
... Mother's Grace alone can do it. My outer mind needs some rays of hope. It is to be assumed that you are capable of the change since you are here in the presence and under the protection of the Mother. The pressure and help of the Mother's Force is always there. Your rapidity of progress depends upon your keeping yourself open to it and rejecting calmly, quietly and steadily all suggestions and invasions ...
... comest with thy multitude. Page 402 उदीरय पितरा जार आ भगमियक्षति हर्यतो हृत्त इष्यति । विवक्ति वह्निः स्वपस्यते मखस्तविष्यते असुरो वेपते मती ॥६॥ 6) Upward lift the Father and Mother; the lover aspires to his enjoyment, rejoicing he obeys the urgings from his heart: a bearer of the word he speaks and jocund longs for the good work, the Mighty One puts forth his strength and is illumined ...
... There is no meaning in the words "the child of the father & also of the begetter". I suggest that पिता च जनिता च is an ancient pre-Vedic phrase preserved in Vedic Sanscrit with the force of father & mother. The termination तृ with a feminine force is still preserved in very ancient words like माता, दुहिता but it was afterwards replaced by the later feminine form त्री, which obviously grew up by analogy ...
... every centre of his consciousness, in every vibration of his life-force, in every cell of his body. In all the workings of his force of Nature he would be aware of the workings of the supreme World-Mother, the Supernature; he would see his natural being as the becoming and manifestation of the power of the World-Mother. In this consciousness he would live and act in an entire transcendent freedom, a complete ...
... × Perhaps that was the "girl" Mother was carrying? But we do wonder whether they had not drugged Mother. The problem will recur. ...
... difficult. The Consciousness is VERY active, but in silence. As soon as I speak.... ( Mother goes into contemplation until the end ) What time is it? It's eleven o'clock, Mother. Page 23 The atmosphere is very peaceful, very clear. ...
... Many of them, many want to go to Auroville. So that would mean the Ashram's education going to Auroville—there are many of them. But... give me names: who can go and work with his hands? But, Mother, the only possibility is for you to SAY; and then, tomorrow I'll go and spend two hours in Auroville picking up baskets [of rubble]! ( Mother laughs ) Mon petit, you're one of the youngest!... Can ...
... tell you exactly. Well, I know that. What I'm hoping is that for August 15, '72, Pakistan will disintegrate. Oh, that would be nice!... It's quite soon. Do you have anything? No, Mother.... The trouble is that the people in power in India have not yet acknowledged in their consciousness that India is ONE; they have not yet acknowledged the nonexistence of Pakistan, that's the trouble ...
... of her decline we evoked the Godward instinct, we would never lift her up. She whose sons in myriads had communed for ages with the Eternal must be herself a Goddess, an aspect of the Divine Mother, the world-creatrix. Wrapped in the atmosphere of the Supreme Being must she be visioned and worshipped. That was the core of the Aurobindonian nationalism. Out of it sprang the mighty movements ...
... converting all the painful terms of the Ignorance into the terms of Knowledge and Bliss. Twelve years after the descent of the Overmind into the physical being of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother the greater aim seemed on the point of achievement. The Mother remarked in 1954 that even as far back as 1938 she used to see the Supermind appearing in Sri Aurobindo's body but what could not ...
... anti-Ashramism by it. I who knew his warm and sincere heart wrote him a clarifying letter and he began to see differently. Apart from this there is the question: "What picture does it present of the Mother?" The Mother, complimentary or critical, spoke from a divine consciousness — and her personal comments were never meant to be carved in "monumental alabaster" for all time. They were made for a purpose ...
... has not felt the huge presence and the words are vacant of its intimate force. India the puissant and beloved Mother does not flame out of the poem. There is not even an apostrophe to her as the Mother. The one Page 23 sentence which brings in the term runs in Tagore's own translation: "Thy mother-arms were round her and thine eyes gazed upon her troubled face in sleepless love.. ...
... scepticism put by her recent intercourse with Europe upon so many of her intelligentsia, and quickens to her own profundities and sees as the Soul of her soul the supreme Godhead, the Divine World-Mother, the more apt will she be to use her acutely felt youthfulness today for genuine growth in greatness and for carrying to a still more glorious height than in the past the wonder of her perpetually young ...
... something great if I don't throw all caution to the winds?" Strictly speaking, what Sri Aurobindo, taking up the terminology used by the sadhak, called "a general descent" has been named by the Mother "the Supramental Manifestation" when the event at which she had hinted occurred at last — after nearly 18 years' delay — on February 29, 1956. Elucidating it indirectly on March 29 of the same year the ...
... with a cancelled word and no punctuation) is found on the first page of a notebook used by Sri Aurobindo in or around 1927 mainly for essays and an incomplete draft of the last chapter of The Mother . The first two words of the penultimate sentence have been used as the title. Mantrāḥ . Sri Aurobindo wrote the first three of these four mantras around 1927 and the last in 1933. They are reproduced ...
... after his visit ( Mother laughs ironically ). Page 401 ( That evening, then, Satprem saw A.R., and after a difficult discussion during which Satprem tried to open A.R.'s eyes, he sent Mother the following letter to give her an account of what had taken place. Satprem was in front of irrefutable Monism—which does not see what is right under its nose. ) October 25, 1969 Sweet Mother ...
... Everybody, including A., always sees things from the wrong end, you know, as if WE had to gain something—well, it's not so! It's THEM. It's THEIR chance.... Yes, of course! I fully agree, Mother! The chance isn't ours! It's a grace given to them. Yes. In fifty years the whole world, all the receptive section of humanity (I am not saying intellectual, I am saying receptive), all the ...
... threat of expulsion (which in itself I would not mind, but they should not triumph!). This threat is in fact meant to upset me and force me to change my attitude. I feel the need to go back and see Mother—the sooner the better. But practically I cannot do it; furthermore, I am being watched; I am afraid that if they find out I am going to Pondicherry, they will try to set the Bishop against the Ashram ...
... of protection, and while he wore it—it was wonderful; then he lost it, and almost met with a catastrophe.... Especially amethysts: the power of protection. ( Then in the same Talk, a child asks Mother the difference between what she calls "the Divine" and what people call "God." Mother puts off the question until later. ) Did I reply? No, you didn't. Oh, good! You didn't say the difference ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1969 December 6, 1969 ( Satprem reads out to Mother the conversation on the supramental Consciousness, which he proposes to publish in the next Bulletin. ) I know many people who will read it with... but it's not enough. Not enough, how do you mean? Page 464 I mean there are lots of people who won't understand a word ...
... of conflict, which shouldn't exist. It never existed—never—between Sri Aurobindo and me, but I could see it didn't exist because he had adopted the attitude of complete surrender to the eternal Mother (the stage, in the creation, of complete surrender). I would see it, and it embarrassed me! It embarrassed me, I thought, "But why does he think he has to do that ( laughing ), as if I couldn't understand ...
... apparently tiny experiences, but in such large numbers that they become sizable. 1 × When Satprem later read to Mother the text of this conversation, she remarked, "Scientists will deny it, they will say I am talking nonsense; but that's because I don't use their language, it's just a question of vocabulary." ...
... remaining in her room, which was ... well, a bit more than a room—it was a kind of apartment which, above all, had the characteristic of being very central. But she was constantly arguing with her mother. The mother wanted to keep things 'just as they were,' with their usual rhythm, which precisely meant the habit of tearing down one thing to rebuild another, then again tearing down that to build still ...
... (Quoted in the Revue Militaire d'Information , December 1959.) What does Mother think of this? Fraternally, Signed : Satprem ( Pavitra's reply ) 16.4.60 Satprem, I read Mother the extract from the Revue des Deux Mondes . This was her comment: Page 363 'It is quite possible that this is their original intention, I am aware of it. But they are wrong if they think ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 April 20, 1956 ( Letter to Mother from Satprem ) Pondicherry, April 20, 1956 Sweet Mother, The difficulties of the past weeks have taught me that as soon as one strays from the true consciousness, in however trifling a way, anything may happen, any excess, any aberration, any imbalance—and I have felt very dangerous things ...
... You also walked much more, and you stayed for a long time. Where were you? As usual, Mother, in my house, downstairs. Ah, there; yes, I went that side [with inner eyes]. Yes, Mother! The body is more conscious—the consciousness is penetrating. But.... I have a strong feeling (I mean the body), the body has a strong feeling that if I can last until one hundred it will become ...
... offers a flower to Mother, "Supramental Light in the Subconscient." Mother keeps it by her side ) Do you want to ask something? I think Sujata has something to ask you. Good. (Sujata:) Mother, the other day you told me that for those who have sincerely given themselves to the Divine, for such persons what has to be done is done. Yes, yes. And you went on to say, "If such a person asks ...
... Any concentration on the body itself causes a kind of strange discomfort, a discomfort which stops only when it is conscious of the Force—of the Force working ( same gesture of descent through Mother ), the Force working, when "That" comes and flows through it. Then the... I can't say "the old method" is gone, it's not at all that, it's... something. ( Smiling ) There's a phrase that comes to me ...
... One must be patient, mon petit. ( Satprem hands Mother a garland of "Aspiration" ) Oh, how nice it smells! What day is today? Saturday. What date is next Wednesday? The 6th, Mother. The 6th, there will be a lot of people probably.... And the 9th there's also a meditation. So we'll have to postpone it for the week after. What date will that be? Page 320 December ...
... moment of the history of the earth. It is interesting because the action is very powerful, but I can't call it pleasant. But I have told you that already; I wrote it. 3 (Kireet:) Yes, Mother. The Mother has given the message. (Dalai Lama:) As for myself, I have no desire to continue in power in the Government. For I feel that the Government involves so much of conflicts of parties, and ...
... distribute the roses and I am searching for my flower from a tray near me. Many kinds of flowers are there. After distributing the roses, you come to me saying, "Which flower have you chosen?" I say, "Mother: the one I want is not there." So you say, "All right. Then I will give you the one you want." Already you have something in one hand which you are keeping closed. From the tray you also pick up a ...
... from these people. The corpses don't allow her to save them. They on the contrary throw on her their evil desires and feelings. So your prayer cannot be answered quickly.'" When Sehra met the Mother the next day, she told her how utterly sick she was feeling. (She actually took over a fortnight to recover.) The Mother said: "You have seen correctly. I am now working in the subconscient. It is a ...
... undertaken by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother cannot truly be given; they can only be glimpsed from the records they have left. Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Letters on Yoga, The Mother, The Surpamental Manifestation and Other Writings , and The Mother's own account of the supramental action on the earth, recorded by Satprem (born 1924) and published in 13 volumes as L'Agenda de Mere ...
... (Correspondence with Amrita) Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother 5 March 1932 Mother, The landlord informs me that only the bare land with its small dilapidated building will be given for rent — not the rest. He will come again to see me a little before six this evening. This does not sound promising. Such a restricted occupancy of the land ...
... (Correspondence with Amrita) Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother 15 June 1932 Mother, The pushwallah has vacated the premise of the Josué House. He wants the promised amount of three rupees paid to him now. Just now it is from the man to whom you give the Rs 3 that you must take a receipt. You will arrange with the proprietor afterwards. ...
... (Correspondence with Amrita) Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother 24 May 1932 Mother, The milkmen are not coming. It is 5 a.m. What am I expected to do? If the milkmen don’t come we will have no milk today. We refuse to yield to their fancies and fetch milk from their house. 24 May 1932 ...
... (Correspondence with Amrita) Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother 13 February 1933 Mother, The Doctor is asking me for five rupees to disinfect the Budi House. I have given him three for the present. Shall I give him the rest? Yes. 13 February 1933 ...
... hot milk. Mother, will you sanction at all the sale of milk from the D.R.? Not the sale but the giving. You will have to keep the account and receive the money. 4 June 1933 Mother, The parcel was unregistered and I put the signature in the postman’s book on behalf of Kantilal. ...
... with me and hold my wrist, feel the pulse. We start for the Ashram. If you feel any deterioration (in the pulse) we turn around and back to bed. But, if no change, then we both have the Darshan of Mother.” The doctor gave in to this simple, strange solution to the impasse. He probably thought it an easy way out — he was in for a surprise. The car was brought and off they went, a strange duo — a smiling ...
... not a Swami, I am just an ordinary person whom Mother has sent to speak on Sri Aurobindo.” When I later returned to the Ashram the Mother said, “They called you Swami-ji there?” I replied, “Yes, Mother.” The Mother said, “I knew everything that happened to you in America. I was with you all the time and I am glad you did not accept the title of Swami-ji. If for any reason you should ever fall into that ...
... took the shortest one. We got on to the beach beyond Parc-à-charbon and reached the ruins on the far bank of the river. We looked at the diggings. Someone suggested we take a brick and give to the Mother. The brick was about 28 cm x 40 cm or 45 cm x 7 or 8 cm. Birenda agreed with our plan. The brick was placed on one of our heads and we started back homewards. We had not taken into account the risen sun ...
... us their perfect instruments. In more concrete terms we may say that our entire self and nature have to flow towards the Avatar of that Godhead — Sri Aurobindo — and the incarnation of that Mother — the radiant personality who has been Sri Aurobindo's co-worker. "Co-worker" — the word is apposite in a special sense, for it points to the importance of work in the Integral Yoga. It is ...
... she recognised in him the master of her occult life. We Page 118 may observe here that Sri Aurobindo, during his political life in British India, had raised the cry of "The Divine Mother", the World -Creatrix whose frontal aspect was to him the Soul of India, the presiding Goddess of this country's career through time, this country whose most characteristic trait has been its seeking ...
... pierce all space, Nothing the sweep of the universe can give Eludes; but now from a stainless height I search Earth's distances of lost divinity. Here is the Abroad, the All-Mother, the World's Edge. To the low rush, the blind grasp there is no return. 27,5.1954 The Mother went through the poem most attentively and seemed to accept it as a very important ...
... beach; Hold it and hark to the singing, — Eternity speech. Flotsam and jetsam of Onehood Unbaffled and free, Spurring Time to remember his sonhood, His mother — the Sea. It really requires exceptional spiritual daring to call Time a shell on the beach of the sea; but it is a shell also of an exceptional quality that in its singing is the song ...
... copies." (29 December 1950) A revelation came on 4 April 1954 to the gifted poet about that extremely significant event, the realisation of the Mind of Light in the Mother: Page 295 The core of a deathless sun is now the brain And each grey cell bursts to omniscient gold. When the Mother read this poem she said: 'The first two lines are sheer ...
... that pierce all space, Nothing the sweep of the universe can give Eludes; but now from a stainless height I search Earth's distances of lost divinity. Here is the Abroad, the All-Mother, the World's Edge. To the low rush, the blind grasp there is no return. 27.5.54 Page 578 ...
... illumined outlet - all through the ages the Page 145 human heart has found its fulfilment in a Krishna, a Buddha, a Christ or in the worship of the supreme Creatrix, the Virgin Mother, the Goddess Kwannon. Face and figure are not strangers in the realm of Spirit - the Divine is heard, seen, touched, and if any Yoga is to be fruitful it must yearn with sense as well as soul, the whole ...
... unchanged even in the fast-changing society of today and show “The way” in which these disciplines if practised with the requisite earnestness can lead to the vision of God. In the words of the Mother, “The generosity of your absolute self-giving will bring to you the revelation of the Divine's Love.” The simple secret is that one must have the faith of a child, boundless and absolute, in the Divine ...
... which Champaklal naturally identifies correctly and he gets drawn to it because he has already established that all-important contact—the contact with the Divine Consciousness (Sri Aurobindo and the Mother). The obstacles are broken and “the door opens automatically.” The “Yajna” of self-purification is to be performed if one is to enter the realm of higher consciousness. Sri Aurobindo chanting vedic ...
... by her. The Agenda is one of the great documents about the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. What Sri Aurobindo had seen and partially worked out is here being worked out further by the Mother. The Agenda is the sequel to The Synthesis of Yoga and The Supramental Manifestation ; it is the development of what was outlined in Sri Aurobindo’s writings and in the Entretiens. This document ...
... moment does exactly the action that is required for the destiny of himself and of the Whole. He is a dwarf, a worm, a speck of dust on the sleeve of the universe, and he is the child of the Great Mother, the princely child of the Queen with the crown of twelve pearls. It is true, ‘man as he is cannot be the last term of the evolution: he is too imperfect an expression of the Spirit’. 3 (Sri Aurobindo) ...
... (‘Supermind’ and ‘supramental’ are technical terms denoting a reality far surpassing our consciousness. Sri Aurobindo has often defined them in his writings.) In the view of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the Earth is an evolutionary field in which the mental being we call human must be succeeded by a supramental being, just as man has been preceded by a whole series of inframental beings. Man is a t ...
... June 3, 1943 Night before last I sang to a few three songs. The first song was my own ekelar pathe bajao tomar banshi [you are playing your flute on my lonely path], the second on Mother, the third on Krishna: Chandidasa’s famous band-hu ki ar baliba ami, marane jibane janame janame, prananath hoyo tumi. 4 J felt a very deep sorrow as I sang it (with tears flowing). It ...
... to the bottom.” 64 This is explicit. A spiritual effort of this kind cannot bear fruit unless every part of the human being is fully open to the divine influence and direction. It is the Great Mother, the Divine Creatrix, who is the origin fons et origo, of the whole manifestation – who is the whole manifestation, including this very special Earth. The evolution of the Earth is the Yoga of the ...
... Thoughts and Aphorisms (Sri Aurobindo, revised ed. 1977) TSA Talks With Sri Aurobindo (recorded by Nirodbaran) 12 Years Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo (Nirodbaran 1972) WM Words of the Mother (the Mother) ...
... Unity, p. 315. 948 A.B. Purani: Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p. 378. 949 Peter Heehs: Sri Aurobindo – A Brief Biography, p. 15. 950 Id., p. 14. 951 Georges Van Vrekhem: The Mother – The Story of Her Life, p. 26. 952 Id., p. 27. 953 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 652. 954 The Mother: Questions and Answers 1954, p. 38. 955 Sri Aurobindo, op. cit., p. 876. ...
... Philosophical Dictionary von Schnurbein, Stefanie (ed.) and Justus Ulbricht: Völkische Religion und Krisen der Moderne Vrekhem, Georges Van: Beyond Man Vrekhem, Georges Van: The Mother – The Story of Her Life Wegener, Franz: Das Atlantidische Weltbild Weinreich, Max: Hitler’s Professors Weiss, John: Ideology of Death – Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany Wilhelm ...
... The Touch of Grace in the Practice of Naturopathic Eye Clinic Health is the expression of Harmony, If Harmony is disturbed, ill health is expressed The Mother The eye clinic was started on 4-10-1947 (Vijayadashami) under the name of "Arogyamandir" with the blessings of the Divine Mother. It was started in an aristocratic area where people had tried excessive ...
... My Pilgrimage to the Spirit The Dedication Pilgrimage The Grace is sure to be victorious one day. The Mother The third Gujarati edition of Preservation of Health and Sight was published with the introduction of Kakasaheb Kalelkar in July 1972 by Gandhiji's Navajivan Trust. I received presentation copies from the publisher and when I turned ...
... such on a spiritual basis. That meant carrying on all the normal activities of life, even industrial and commercial, out of a larger spiritual attitude. This was among all the undertakings of the Mother, the most painstaking, most detailed and stretched over the longest period of time. This work slowly extended much beyond the Ashram, covering spiritual seekers all over the world who sought to grow under ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 10 March 1935 My dear Mother, The Aroumé servants are obedient and willing workers, never absent without informing me previously. Even when they are ill, they come and take leave. I think it is the result of my kind and gentle behaviour with them. Yes, I am sure that servants ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 4 September 1935 My dear Mother, The Ashram had a dish from M on Monday, an extra dish on Wednesday, soup on Thursday and a fine dish of cabbage on Friday. My beloved Mother, for all this may a sense of gratitude arise in us—this is my prayer. It seems that this night, between ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 31 October 1935 My dear Mother, The cold in my head is bad now; I took green "pastilles" from P and I may ask him for a few drops of oil in the nose. But this is the last time I am thinking of taking medicine. The next time the body should take up the true attitude and depend only ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 9 December 1935 My dear Mother, The D. R. lady workers have become such a nuisance: they have begun to spoil the D. R. in many ways. Any number of ladies are now eating 6 to 8 slices of bread. And when they cannot eat them, they take them home, asking for more and more. Then ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 18 June 1936 My dear Mother, The coming year is a year of a great promise—a promise for victory. In solemn faith and courage, peace and quietness I enter the year. Victory to Thee, my dear Mother. Indeed, let this year that begins bring for you a perfect peace and an unshakeable ...
... 1977:176 7. "As the bud blossoms unfolding its petals all around, so the inner consciousness blossomed and expanded in that profound silence. In lonely silence again, I realised the Divine Mother, the Consciousness of all consciousness." Gangadhar in Mother India, Mar 1977:176 8. "When in your heart and thought you will make no difference between Sri Aurobindo and me, when to think of ...
... (Correspondence with Gautam Chawalla) Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother 10 January 1963 Sweet Mother, the two gardeners at the Industrial Garden do not wish to work there from this Saturday, because they are not satisfied with Rs. 1.00 a day. They say that the work is more and the pay is less. Secondly, many workers in the Paper Factory ...
... over one's body! I was convinced that a definite Force was taking Page 213 liberties with me — albeit in an almost impertinent if not lunatic way! Next morning, after relating to Mother the whole gamut of my curious experiences, I asked her why she had so oddly wanted to cause me this kind of meaningless pain when she could well have given me peace and joy and so many other things worth ...
... Prime Minister, he could be, and promptly was, excommunicated by his relations. Nothing daunted, the rebel wrote a scathing satire on Hindu orthodoxy and practically burned his boats by marrying my mother, the eldest daughter of a widow who had married a second time! Having now little more to lose and even less to fear, he went on squibbing our Hindu religiosity and formalism in his comic songs and satirical ...
... not be the important document that it is. Roy, the Krishna-haunted soul caught in the fretful surface mind, is burning in his heart of hearts to see in Sri Aurobindo the complete Avatar and in the Mother the Avatar's creative spiritual counterpart: short of that seeing, his life lacks real fruition. Sri Aurobindo, the wholly integrated embodiment of a luminous consciousness beyond the mere intellect ...
... Flute's outline Swaying in the air ... but no face, lips or fingers ... And I heard it calling ... to me ... from afar! ( His voice falters as tears course down his cheeks' ) Forgive, O mother, the ... pitiful ignorance Of one whose ... eyes of flesh can only see This world as made of dust and din and gloom And not as His holy playground where His Love Through Beauty manifesting leads to ...
... divine help all will go right at an opportune time. This means what? What do you want? another room? some more furniture? I will see what I can do to satisfy you. Blessings Gracious Mother. The desire to do translation work is deep-rooted in me. And how can I continue this work of translation when I aspire after the elimination of desire or preference for it? Is it good for me to discontinue ...
... (Correspondence with Jayantilal) Jayantilal's Correspondence with The Mother 18 March 1965 Mother, The world being what it is, we have to work under the existing conditions. Why not use the available conditions, gather strength and then endeavour to manifest the Divine Will in its purity? But the very fact of living upon earth means that we "are ...
... memory of our dream-experiences even when we come back to the waking awareness? In our quest for the answers to this triple query, to whom else would we turn than to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the supreme masters of the fourfold worlds of our being, jāgrat, svapna, suṣupti and tūriya? So we make no apology for quoting in extenso from their luminous writings in an attempt to offer some ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 11 January 1935 My dear Mother, The condition of milk: we are not sure of receiving the required amount of milk in the morning, yet people come forward to take 2 or 3, even 4 cups of milk in the morning. This makes the D. R. workers nervous and anxious about the noon-time d ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 1 January 1935 My dear Mother, The old plantain vendor has vacated the market and a new man has opened a shop now. This morning the old vendor sent the plantains directly to us and he wants to continue this way. But when I went to the market I saw the new merchant. He will bring ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 13 September 1935 My dear Mother, The D. R. workers often have second or third works at different places. They have their main job, and in their free hours they do other things. It should not be otherwise, but it would be better to have a few full-time workers rather than many part-time ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 3 March 1934 Dear Mother, The fever is over. I am quite all right. Tonight I will drink the decoction again and I am sure I will get up 100 percent cured. My Mother, You are with me and our relation is now more close, more compact and more loving. Certainly our relation is bound ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 10 February 1934 Mother, The cartman could not get a coolie to help him transport the kerosene. Not minding the load, he dragged the cart to Aroumé. While going up the slope at the gate, he was thrown back with the cart. I was there just in time to help. He gave me back the two ...
... quite happy—happier and more firm and quiet than ever before. There is one thing that has given me quietness and kept me at rest: Your confidence, Your Love, and my faith in Your Love. Dear Mother, the entire thing is ending and I have full hope that there will be better understanding and a little more peace. So long as all these women are living in the vital consciousness—as they do—they are ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 29 July 1934 My dear Mother, The entire adhar must be perfectly strong—quiet, at rest, in peace, unmoved, undisturbed, steady, perfectly balanced—before the Divine Realisation takes place. Yes , all this is quite correct and it is indeed this deeper Peace that must establish ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 18 July 1934 Mother, The ants trouble me too much; they cover up the butter in my room. I have no jar or bottle, so I keep the butter in the butter-tin itself. For the butter you have only to take a deep dish filled with water, you set an empty tin in the middle and place your ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 23 August 1934 Mother, The beauty of the seasonal vegetables: [the disciple lists the ingredients of two pumpkin dishes]. The things are fresh and good and cheap. It is all right provided there will not be pumpkin at each meal. 23 August 1934 ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 13 July 1935 My dear Mother, The physical work done in our courtyard these last few weeks has given me a very nice training. But I saw people looking at us with contempt when we were soiled and working; it has given me a better understanding of where they stand. I wish we would ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 31 January 1936 My dear Mother, The work of preparing luchis did not trouble me. What troubled me most was to see people who hardly ate anything else, finish all the luchis or, in order to take them home, took slices of bread. That night we decided never to give so much to eat at ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 3 July 1936 My dear Mother, The cause of the outburst between M and L was nothing of importance. If we do not rise above personal feelings and stand for the work, how is the work to be done! It is the control over oneself that is the first thing needed, and especially the control ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 22 June 1934 Dear Mother, The work at the Dining Room is being done and it will always be done; the cupboards, floor and cloths there are cleaner than at any other place. But something else must be done now: we must rise above falsehood and our false nature. Yes, this is the ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 27 May 1935 My dear Mother, The most important thing for me to do is to remain quietly happy, consecrated and concentrated on You, and to do what has to be done very sincerely and devotionally, not worrying about the future, but quietly aspiring very humbly before You . Yes, ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 9 October 1935 My dear Mother, The other day when I wrote to You about saving expenses if there is war in Europe, I meant this: Milk: one cup instead of three. Not three plantains but one. No washerman at all—we can wash our own clothes. No servants. No pocket money—people ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 30 December 1936 My dear Mother, The year ends and a new year begins. May the new year bring to us God-realisation. Yes, the Light must illumine the consciousnesses and the shadows of Ignorance must be dissolved in all. Love and blessings to my dear child 30 December ...
... I went to the Mother on 24th December. After our work She told me: The place for the Mother's Shrine is chosen. It is really a very nice place . I said: Mother, the Truth must win. She responded with a smile: If there is anything certain, then it is the Truth, and that must win and it shall win . I said, Mother, first the Truth must have its place ...
... group yellow passing through green towards blue, 3 blue passing through violet towards red. If white is not convenient, the centre may be gold. Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on The Mother: The Mother's Symbol Sri Aurobindo's letter also indicated the meaning of the colours: Red — Physical Orange — Supramental in the physical Yellow — Thinking Mind Green — Life Blue ...
... the higher forces. Sri Aurobindo says: The White Light is a manifestation of pure divine force descending from one of the truth planes leading to the Supramental. Sri Aurorindo on the Mother 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 ...
... was my physical birthday—1St September 1964. I went to the Mother. That day we commenced painting Book Four— The Book of Birth and Quest . The Mother did six sketches. The next day I sent to the Mother the final sketches which I had done on canvas boards. She wrote: The sketches are all right and will make very nice pictures if you invoke the inspiration. But to invoke the inspiration was no ...
... 1964 My Savitri work with the Mother 18 December 1964 On 18th December I showed the Mother the paintings of Book Five, Cantos 1 and 2. She remarked when she saw the painting of Satyavan: Child, here you have shown the waist-line of Satyavan looking like that of a man of 50—thick and round. You must paint the waist-line with slender hips, and give Satyavan ...
... 21 February 1955 The Mother's birthday arrived. Everyone was eager to greet her. I wore a white sari with a red border that had been given to me by the Mother the Sunday before—she used to distribute saris to sadhikas and napkins to sadhaks before every Darshan to mark the occasion. This was the first time I had worn such a coarse cotton sari—I was used to ...
... Volume One (1954-1955) The Story of a Soul 01 June 1955 On June 1st I wrote to the Mother: The Divine Forces are slow to appear, while the anti-divine forces are prompt to rush into my consciousness and upset everything. Why is that? She answered: Because your call is not sincere enough and your confidence in the Divine's Grace is not sufficient ...
... promising good start has been made. 11) The Ashram life and its promotion has been the basic work all along and there are thousands today who rejoice over the inspiring contact they have had from the Mother. The educational work was taken in hand in 1943 and Auroville was inaugurated in 1968. 12) All the three undertakings being basically spiritual, are essentially most uphill tasks, which have had constantly ...
... about your effort for the lotus urn. I sent 200 Francs to Nata—as I did not know how to forward it to you. Nata should give them to you "for the Lotus". I asked many questions to Pourna about the Mother, the Yoga, mental silence, etc... I hope she did not mind too much. This is to learn, in the end, that questions are not to carry any more—not even what Mother will want me to do. You know my heart is ...
... latter was in a golden glory, carmine, while in its sleep this other Being was diamond White, emanating opalescent rays. That, in fact, is the original of all the Avatars. According to the Mother: The Avatar—the Supreme manifested on Earth in a body. Sri Aurobindo states: The Avatar is necessary when a special work is to be done and in crises of the evolution. The Avatar is a special ...
... the development of the consciousness. Each of the Mother's letters and talks revealed numberless unknown things in a new light. I enjoyed this work thoroughly. On 31st October 1969 I showed the Mother the many notebooks containing the first rough handwritten draft of The Story, which I had completed. She asked me to read something from them. I wondered how to select a passage there were more than ...
... on earth and in you and in all who are called and chosen and the conditions needed for its creation and its Victory over all opposing forces. Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on The Mother: The Mother - III ...
... were as if living, laughing, moving, appreciating. Later the new painting was placed on the Mother's chair in the Mother's room upstairs in the Ashram main building. This was the Victory of the Mother! The entire work was done in an inexpressible serenity. It was an extraordinary experience for me. I was touching oil colours and brushes after sixteen years. I was not certain whether my hand would ...
... exhibition. For almost one and a half years the painting remained where it had been put. Then, unhappily, it was removed on 28.6.68 by an American, William Netter. When I took the painting to the Mother the same day, she was extremely sad and asked me to keep it with the paintings of Savitri in Golconde. ...
... with its original charter. According to the statement of objects and reasons of the bill, the cultural township of Auroville was founded in February 1968 on the basis of a charter announced by the Mother. The formation and growth of Auroville was welcomed by the Government of India as a "concrete effort at creating international understanding". However, soon after the Mother died in 1973, "unhappy de ...
... covering the window. I threw aside the quilt and rose from my bed, exhausted. My spirit sank still lower—but with a great effort I set my feeling aside, approached the table and started writing to the Mother. The memory of the Mother enshrined in my heart was more intense than ever. I knew that when everything in my life failed me I should bear in my mind that the Mother loved me and that love would save ...
... abroad I experienced many outer struggles, difficulties, troubles and setbacks. Nonetheless, all the experiences, good or bad, made me strong, steady and confident. A few days later I showed the Mother the flowers and the bead-bag I had made in London. She regarded them with enthusiasm. She was amused to see the tools used for the flowers. Some flowers had become askew; she straightened them. I told ...
... mother has written the same. I do appreciate and understand her feeling. I assure you that I am happy here. The Mother's love and Grace are always with me. The more you all will recognise the Mother the more will you experience her love and Grace. I request all of you to believe in the Mother. Our faith in the Divine must be unshakable. Yes, the Divine tests our sincerity. Whatever we ...
... It was covered with small pieces of marble split with a hammer and arranged in rows. Between the rows were seven strips of black granite. On a rectangular metal plate was an inscription from the Mother: the date, 28.2.1968, her blessings and signature. This plate was fixed on the urn. But later, unfortunately, twice or three times the plate was damaged, and then it disappeared. The present urn was ...
... concerted for a supreme order and even the simplest and commonest things are made wonderful by her intuition of unity and the breath of her spirit . Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on The Mother: The Mother - VI The atmosphere was packed with the Mother's Presence, Force and Peace. I shall never forget the day, and the kindness and collaboration of the people at Auroville. It was really ...
... 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 . This talk was seen and corrected by the Mother. The Mother's talk calls to my mind her message: 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 ...
... 1958 My Savitri work with the Mother November 1958 I worked a little in the Mother's Private Stores. But that was not enough. I showed the Mother the paintings I had done in Africa, which I felt were not up to much. Nevertheless, the Mother liked two of them. I could not set my mind to any precise work. Days flashed by. At the end of November 1958 Laljibhai ...
... 1965 My Savitri work with the Mother 27 February 1965 On 27th February 1965 I sent to the Mother the last sketches for Book Six for her approval. She remarked: Dear little child of mine, The sketches are really excellent. Love I told the Mother about my psychological struggle and stress when I went to her. She advised: Child, when ...
... 1965 My Savitri work with the Mother 16 June 1965 I sent the sketches to the Mother the next day. She wrote: 16.6.65 3 o'clock Dear little child of mine I have just seen the sketches which [are] all right. I like very much the expression of Savitri’s head. But I suggest that the mother of Darkness should have her head bent in shame ...
... you two copies of the symbol. On one symbol I have explained the meaning, My love and blessings. Here is the correct design of the symbol. The central circle represents the Supreme Mother, the Mahashakti. The four central petals are the four aspects of the Mother—and the twelve petals, Her twelve attributes. It was still raining. The dance-drama "The Story of India's Spiritual Destiny" ...
... × Tapasya : yogic discipline. × For Sri Aurobindo and Mother, the "vital" represents the regions or centers of consciousness below the mind, between the throat and the sex center, i.e. the whole region of emotions, feelings, passions, etc., which constitute the ...
... Certitude.' It's what one might call a superlative good-taste in the realm of spiritual experience: something with greater content than it expresses. ( Following the letter Satprem had written to Mother the previous day regarding the book on Sri Aurobindo: ) I had a clear vision of the two kinds of opposites in nature (not only in nature but in life) which almost everyone carries within himself: ...
... too "personal"), Mother mentioned this as one of the main reasons for encouraging his tantric discipline. He even set out for the Himalayas, like a knight of yore, with the idea of bringing back to Mother the secrets of transformation; and Mother indicated to him the spot where one of her former bodies lay in a Himalayan cave, petrified by a mineral spring. But the secret of the new species can manifestly ...
... from time to time and acts all right, but the effect of it does not last because those who answer to the adverse force do not truly want to be cured—they are not sincere. 1 July 1935 Mother, the attacks are innumerable, and yesterday I felt very weak. If you thought less about the attacks, there would not be so many. 7 October 1935 Constantly thinking of the hostile forces ...
... beginning of this year. If instead of resisting, people were collaborating, it would be quicker. But stupidity and ignorance are very obstinate! 29 November 1969 Page 106 Mother, "The world is preparing for a big change, will you help?" 1 What is this great change of which you speak? And how are we to be of help to it? This great change is the appearance upon earth of ...
... can, in certain circumstances, consciously receive the psychic influence which always produces an illumination in the being and has more or less lasting effects. 16 July 1960 Sweet Mother, The soul individualises itself and progressively transforms itself into a psychic being. What are the best conditions for its rapid growth? It would be more correct to say that the soul puts on ...
... in English translation in the Sri Aurobindo Circle of 1955. The full correspondence first came out in 1964 — in French as Quelques réponses de la Mère , and in English as Some Answers from the Mother . The same material is presented here. This series is not arranged in chronological order, as the others are, but is broadly divided into thirteen sections according to subject; this is the form in which ...
... sketches from nature would be useful, especially from the point of view of the proportion of legs and arms and the harmony of form. 25 January 1934 ( About a design for a crown for the Mother ) The design is very pretty indeed and will surely make a very successful crown. 7 September 1934 This idea of fresco seems to be a very good one and the wall of A's room on B's terrace quite ...
... × The yearly ritual worship in honor of Durga, the universal Mother. × The rakshas are demons of the lower vital plane. × ...
... will tell you which ones I have chosen and in what order I will put them. Satprem, my child, I am truly with you and I love you. Signed : Mother Page 269 × The Bulletin of Physical Education , which appeared quarterly. ...
... routine? How should I act with family members, relatives and friends? Detachment. 12) What should I read at present? Sri Aurobindo's books. November 1928 How to open to the Mother? The following are the means: (1) To remember You constantly or from time to time― Good. (2) By taking Your name through Japa― Helpful. (3) With the help of meditation― More difficult ...
... will understand and, in his wisdom, will see the best thing to do. And what he decides will be done. My love is unalterably with you. Signed : Mother × The disciple's tantric guru. ...
... and certain aspects are still unmanifest. So if he has represented the Mother by Kali in particular, I believe it's in relation to all those gods. Page 73 Because, as he wrote in The Mother , the aspects to be manifested depend upon the time, the need, the thing to be done. And he always said that unless one understands and profoundly feels the aspect of Kali, one can never really participate ...
... NOT the same thing!' And besides, it's NEVER the same for you as it is for your neighbor! × For Sri Aurobindo and Mother, the 'vital' represents the regions of consciousness or the centers of consciousness below the mind between the throat and the sex center, i.e. the whole region of emotions, feelings, passions, etc., ...
... needed to have it right away, so I shouldn't keep them waiting. So Nolini started reading out the brochure. And as he was reading ... (they included all that Sri Aurobindo said on the "universal Mother," the Mother's "Aspects" and all that, the whole old story—generally it leaves me quite indifferent), but while he was reading, when he gave all the quotations and sentences, there was a kind of sensation ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1968 March 23, 1968 ( Satprem read Mother the end of the Playground Talk of June 3, 1953 , about Karma: "In all religions, when people said that [the consequences of Karma were strict] and gave such absolute rules, as for me, I think it was to take the place of Nature and pull people's strings.... So then they panic, they get terrified ...
... that it's concentrated here. The concentration is here, the work is here. But it may be... the whole solar system, I don't know. ( silence ) But one can't get out all alone. Of course!... Mother, the other day you said something. You said, "The time has come to take one's stand." You said, "The body has taken its stand," but you didn't dare urge others to do it, and you added, "Now the time has ...
... 'thirties when a few of us used to sit in a semicircle in front of the Mother in the old "Prosperity" Room before the Soup Distribution downstairs. The question came up: "Who sends appeals to the Mother the most in day-today life?" She picked out two sadhaks. One was Dorai-swamy, the devoted advocate from Madras who visited the Ashram every week-end and was part of the group in the "Prosperity" Room ...
... getting her attendants to pick up baby Moses who had been left in a basket on the bank of the Nile was Hatshepsut before she became queen - Hatshepsut who was believed to be a past incarnation of the Mother. The only certainty announced about myself by both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was that I had been an ancient Athenian. It is curious that I never inquired who the fellow had been. If, as reported, Sri ...
... or without appointment. I have watched Ganapati Muni getting inspiration in Sanskrit. Purani jotted down the translation Ganapati made of several passages of Sri Aurobindo's little book, The Mother. The ghaza! you have translated is pretty: it has some charming poignancies typical of the Persian temperament at its inwardly sensitive. What is wanting is the sheer plunge to the innermost for ...
... which would have no personal reaction, no twinge of resentment, no impulse of retaliation, no shadow of frustration. But whatever degree of equanimity I may have caught from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the person who went out of the Ashram's precincts and lived in Bombay for years was exposed in the sensational part of him to life's "glamours" as much as any dweller on the Left Bank of the Seine. Yet ...
... of the many-sided Truth, a shade of difference from God in order to feel the rapture of adoration and love. Shankara who was a supreme Monist was yet an impassioned singer of hymns to the Divine Mother. The Gita presents us with Brahman-Nirvana as well as with the creative Ishwara and even this Ishwara's human incarnation so that a prominent part of its message is happily summed up in the Savitri-]ine: ...
... I feel deeply moved, nor can I be happier than when I am associated with lines from Savitri . In my whole life in the Ashram I have made only two impassioned dramatic statements to the Mother. The first was a little ridiculous. It Page 107 couched the very first declaration I made to her. I said with a sort of sweeping gesture: "I have seen everything of life. Now I want only ...
... deliberately hadn't understood. So, naturally, they're furious. But it may be better not to insist outwardly by publishing this. 1 It will come in its own time. ( As Satprem reads back to Mother the last conversation, she stops him at the following passage: "It was a splendor! As if all of a sudden the physical world had become a solar world, splendid and radiant, and so light, so harmonious ...
... must have their field of activity too, otherwise the progress wouldn't be general. But anyway, it's nothing really transcendent, it's just interesting. ( Soon afterwards, Satprem proposes to Mother the publication of a few brief extracts from the previous and very interesting conversation on illnesses in "Notes on the Way," a new series started in the Ashram's Bulletin on Satprem's insistence. ...
... × That will be eight years later, when Satprem will write his "trilogy" on Mother. × The first form of The Sannyasin , which was to be a sort of Greek tragedy, with chorus. ...
... × Certain troubles had indeed recurred, which Satprem had not even mentioned to Mother. × The physical mind. ...
... de Valois were your incarnations, but weren't they contemporaries!?... Yes, but I told you—four at once! 7 Four at once. And, in general, they were the different states of being of the Mother—the four aspects. Generally one aspect in each embodiment (when there were four). Or else this or that aspect might have been less present in one embodiment and more present in another. Sometimes there ...
... "I would like to see the Chief Minister in private, without anyone else." He saw him and told him an experience he had had and had witnessed here [at Pondicherry]. And he said, "Why don't you ask Mother?" The other answered quite spontaneously, "It would be better if you asked for us!" Then he sent his telegram. The same evening it started raining. He wrote, saying, "This first rain has been like divine ...
... the end of 1938 to December 5, 1950 when Sri Aurobindo departed from his body there was no occasion in the midst of his constant attendants to read Savitri Page 330 to the Mother. The period in question is almost certainly the years when he copied, chiselling as he went on, from his manuscript the passages he sent to me every morning in large envelopes. Before enclosing them, ...
... declared her stone dead. I took her back home. News was sent to a friend of the family, a Swiss sadhika named Padma. Early next morning she and I went up to see the Mother. I told the Mother the whole story and conveyed the message of my friend's mamma that she wanted her daughter's body to be taken care of by the Ashram and carried by the Ashram people in a coffin to the family's vault ...
... memories of Krishna and the Gopis. Your presence can go well with either, for there is in you something delicately soft as well as something bravely strong - the former spontaneously yields to the Mother, the latter is what you are when the Mother has accepted you. Both these aspects of you I see in your dealings with your illness. You leave everything to the Mother and at the same time stand up to the ...
... 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." The complexities of Avatarhood to which this reply directs us are suggested by the mention of Ramakrishna. In connection with "the Hindu procession of the ten Avatars", Sri Aurobindo marks the ...
... merge. From their personal oneness as well as the oneness of their work so repeatedly expressed, we should find it easy to equate with the Victory proper to Sri Aurobindo and to the Mother the Victory denoted by Krishna's descent into matter on 24 November. To see Krishna as no more than the Overmind Divinity is but to affirm a half-truth. Sri Aurobindo has called him also the ...
... Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo Note on the Mother The Mother was born Mirra Alfassa on February 21, 1878, in Paris. A student at the Academie Julian, she became an accomplished artist. Gifted from an early age with a capacity for spiritual and occult experience, she went to Tlemcen, Algeria, in 1906 and 1907 to study occultism with the adept Max Theon and ...
... This longing clutches the sombre Vast, the gloomy Vast around. Here the poet gives the simile of the mother and the child. The mother is not very attentive to the child; and to remind the mother, the child places its finger on her cheek, calling attention to its need. The mother of the universe is heedless, not attentive, and needs to be reminded of the endless need in things. The ...
... sunlight was a great god's golden smile. All Nature was at beauty's festival. 14 The dramatic style of Sri Aurobindo centres around situations like Aswapati's colloquy with the Divine Mother, the debate of Savitri and Death and the loving exchange of words between Savitri and Satyavan. It also extends to characters like the triple soul-forces and their mouthpieces. The speeches are, no ...
... of the references to his writings are with resped to the SABCL volumes. The three letters reproduced here (pages 1-43) are from SABCL, Vol. 26, pp. 237-65 and Vol. 29, pp.802-16. THE MOTHER: The birth centenary edition of the Mother's work comprises 17 volumes entitled Collected Works of the Mother published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry. There are also 13 volumes of her ...
... , "The Golden Purusha", with a quotation in French and English from an old "Prayer and Meditation" of her own, dated September 25, 1914 and beginning "O divine adorable Mere"—"O divine adorable Mother". The English version ran: The Lord has willed and Thou dost execute: A new Light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 19 November 1937 Mother, The air-mail will be a little expensive: so if you like we’ll despatch the books by the ordinary post. What do you wish? Yes, ordinary post is quite sufficient and safer too. When I have drafted the letter for Lord Nuffield, I’ll send it ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 4 October 1964 Dearest Mother, The Trustees and the solicitor managing grandpa’s estate in Bombay want me to go there — as I am also a Trustee — and settle the matter of dissolving the Trusteeship and making all of us direct owners of our shares in the big building, of which ...
... 4 June 1965 Dearest Mother, May I publish these three pieces in the June Mother India ? The second piece has already been approved for publication by you. WORDS OF THE MOTHER The Lord is always victorious in His way — not in the human way — according to His will, not according to the will of men. The Lord is always present, only we do not realise it. When somebody ...
... original and his English translation. Below only the English is given. ) READING SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER A LETTER TO THE MOTHER How should one read the books of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother? The true method is to read a little at a time, with concentration, then keep the mind as silent as possible, without trying actively to understand, but turn upward in the silence and aspire to the ...
... 1969 when he joined Sri Aurobindo after completing his studies, to 1969 when he passed away after rendering dedicated service for half a century to the Master and the Mother The two texts reproduced here, Old Long Since and Visions and voices give us an intimate glimpse into the spiritual pilgrimage of this great soul. Old Long ...
... getting her attendants to pick up baby Moses who had been left in a basket on the bank of the Nile was Hatshepsut before she became queen—Hatshepsut who was believed to be a past incarnation of the Mother. The only certainty announced about myself by both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was that I had been an ancient Athenian. It is curious that I never inquired who the fellow had been. If, as reported, Sri ...
... their presence can, by whetting their understanding, sharpen their spiritual sight and adapt their inner eye to the worldwide transformation, unique not only in history but in the existence of our Mother the Earth. GEORGES VAN VREKHEM 40 Ibid., pp. 231-32. 41 Ibid., p. 794. See references 17 and 18 above ,also Perspectives of Savitri, Vol. I pp. 12-13. This short essay ...
... The Mother - Past-Present-Future Some Letters of the Mother* [THE QUESTIONS ARE QUOTED BEFORE THE REPLIES] (Pardon my writing to you without any specific reason; but I felt like telling you that you are extremely dear to me. In spite of my thousand and three imperfections, this one sense remains in me—that you are my Mother, that I am born from your ...
... of the Divine's Truth* AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MOTHER ON NOVEMBER 25,1962 SEHRA: The doctors say that when Amal's kidney stone will come out, there will be a great deal of pain. THE MOTHER: The doctors always say things like that. You then make a formation of fear and keep expecting the pain. And the pain comes even when it needn't. AMAL: I recently read the review of a book on hea ...
... effective except the last line which is in the inspired style—perhaps!" Two other judgments of Sri Aurobindo's in this field may be cited. They are again on excerpts from the poet of Mystic Mother. The first is from the poem Ne Plus Ultra, already quoted in the present collection at the end of Part I: Is the keen voice of tuneful ecstasy To be denied its winged omnipotence, ...
... surprised. Then pointing to the card, Kamala said: “Mother, somebody is standing in the corner there.” Mother: “Yes, it is a servant.” K: “Mother, outside also there is somebody standing.” Mother: “The servant is standing there and between him and the door his wife is standing.” Then Mother told me: “Have you noticed that all the doors in the front are kept closed? That is because this photograph ...
... Kamala’s Portrait 1951-04-12 Kamala's portrait done by Mother had faded. I took it to her and showed it saying: “Look Mother, what has happened!” Mother: “The drawing is very pretty.” She said it as if it had been done by somebody else! C: “Can you do something, Mother?” Mother: “Champaklal, but it is very difficult.” C: “Mother, nothing is difficult ...
... suffering when they come to the Mother or write to her. There is a sort of idea (which was long current in the Ashram) and there is still a feeling in the vital that the more you do that with the Mother the more you would get out of her. Of course it is absurdly untrue—the truth is the opposite; the more one is cheerfully open to her and lives in the light and gladness, the more one is likely to receive ...
... external means, the individual and collective sadhana. This has to be done especially in regard to the consecration of food, the collective meditation and the individual contact of the sadhak with the Mother. The existing forms were originally arranged in order to make possible a spiritual and psychic communion on the most physical and external planes, by which there would be an interchange of forces, a ...
... you to send photographs of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to anyone wanting them, irrespective of whether they were in a position to pay for the photographs or not? I came to you after hearing from Mother the nice things she said about your work, the spirit in which you do it and so on. And you readily agreed to carry out my wish. Madhav: “Ah, yes, I remember; I still send photographs free to those ...
... looked at Sri Aurobindo who also smiled. C: “Mother, there also you have started...” Sri Aurobindo looked at me with an expressive smile. Mother: “No, no.” Very emphatically. C: “But, Mother, the other day you saw someone even in the bathroom. It is only after seeing it that I have spoken. This was the only place left and that also is now gone.” Mother: “Yes, but it was only one person ...
... Lord, give me this Grace to never forget you. 17 December 1958 The Mother Lord, give me perfect sincerity, that sincerity which will lead me straight to Thee. August 1962 The Mother (The words of the music) Lord, give me the real happiness, that which depends only upon Thee. The Mother A grain of practice is worth a mountain of theories. Lord, on this anniversary day ...
... Part I — Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Difficulty 1949-09-12 Mother: “The difficulty is in yourself. Do not think that changing the circumstances will put an end to your difficulties.” ...
... asking you to send photographs of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to anyone wanting them, irrespective of whether they are in a position to pay for the photographs or not? I came to you on hearing from Mother the nice things she said of your work, the spirit in which you do it and so on. And you readily agreed to carry out my wish. MADHAV: Ah, yes, I remember; I still send photographs free to those who ...
... opening themselves to spiritual influences other than those of their Gurus. As you know, Sri Aurobindo has explained why it should be so. Once a well-known saint had come to our Ashram to see Mother. The saint had been invited to the room of a sadhak for a function. C: “Mother, I am going to attend this function.” Mother: “What, Champaklal! You also are going there? Champaklal, take care.” ...
... Part I — Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Special 1926-07-31 Mother: “The thing you have got here, most have not got.” ...
... his betrayal in the matter of Maya, without permission and without repentance that Mother had deprecated sympathy with him. You will yourself admit it was necessary if only out of loyalty to the Mother. The very basis of this Yoga is bhakti Page 192 and if one kills one's emotional being there can be no bhakti. So there can be no possibility of emotion being excluded from the Yoga. When ...
... of Dilip's arrival at Sri Aurobindo's ashram in 1928 up to the year1933; vol. 2 will cover 1934 to 1936, and vol. 3 1937 to 1951.Altogether, almost 1,000 letters from Sri Aurobindo and 70 from Mother. The editors are greatly indebted to Patrice Marot for his help in assembling the material; to Maryse Prat for her careful deciphering and typing of the entire correspondence; and to Mr. Pramod Kumar ...
... undertaken by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother cannot truly be given; they can only be glimpsed from the records they have left. Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Letters on Yoga, The Mother, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, and The Mother's own account of the supramental action on the earth, recorded by Satprem (born 1924) and published in 13 volumes as L 'Agenda de Mere, give ...
... triple world of Sachchidananda those highest steps or seats, which are also described as the seats of Agni (sadāmsi), or three highest steps, padāni, of Vishnu, or those supreme Names of the Mother, the Cow, Aditi. Turiyam svid, that fourth world, which was discovered by Ayasya by means of universalisation of consciousness by the knowledge of the seven-headed thought, may be regarded as ...
... Yoga, and therefore it is very important for the contemporary humanity to study the great science of Yoga, its history and how a new synthesis of Yoga has been developed by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The significance of the synthesis of Yoga that is in the Veda will itself become more and more manifest in the light of the new synthesis of the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. This book ...
... been other developments of the synthesis such as that of Kaviraj Gopinath whose synthesis of yoga has been called the Akhanda Yoga. The New Synthesis of Yoga: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother The supreme significance of yoga, of the history of synthesis of yoga, as also of the history of specialized systems of yoga comes out clearly in the new synthesis of yoga or Integral Yoga of Sri ...
... Oxford, 1986. Mati Lal, B. K., The Word and The World, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1990. Mohanty, J.N., Reason and Tradition in Indian Thought, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992. Mother, The, Mother's Agenda, (Vols. 13) Institut de Reserches Evolutives, Paris. Moloyaina. H., Theories of The Chakras, Theosophical Publishing PAGE–148 House, Wheaton, 1981. Mukhopadhyaya ...
... operating physically on the physical earth in the same way in which the human physical body is today operating on the physical earth. That, when it happens, will be, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the conclusive proof of the evolutionary birth of a new supramental species on the earth, and also of the synthesis of science and spirituality. We speak today of the momentous development of genetic ...
... ways synthetic or integral, there is yet something radically new to be discovered, something new to be experimented upon, and something new to be accomplished. According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the knowledge that was gained through the past systems of yoga consisted, at its highest, of the discovery and realization of a supramental consciousness and the knowledge of the Ultimate Reality as ...
... 50 In either case, the necessity of the death would have been overcome. Ultimate Reality and Phenomena of Death, Desire and Incapacity 51 According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the highest concept and experience of yoga has been that of the Ultimate Reality, which has come to be conveyed through the word 'Sachchidananda', the inexpressible complex oneness of Existence ...
... him king in the eyes of France. The great Duke of Burgundy, richer and more powerful than many monarchs, had allied himself to the invaders. In another devastating blow to Charles, his own mother, the German Isabeau, widow of the lunatic Charles VI had also given her support to the English, and had declared that her son had not a drop of the blood royal in his veins. Page 19 At this ...
... developed important trading centres in various parts of the Mediterranean, the most important being Carthage in North Africa. In the Aeneid, the Latin poet Virgil tells how Aeneas, guided by his mother, the great goddess Aphrodite, leaves Troy in flames, with his family and other Trojan refugees, and after many adventures, finds refuge in Carthage where he meets Dido, the great queen who founded it ...
... had beer set out for him. He turned to his companions and remarked. "So this, it seems, is what it is to be a king."! As he was about to sit down to supper, word was brought to him that the mother, the wife and the two unmarried daughters of Darius were among the prisoners, and that at the sight of the Persian king's bow and chariot they had beaten their breasts and cried out, since they supposed ...
... efficient member of it. You must deny yourself pleasures, if you wish to be open to the joy of living in integral beauty and harmony. ___________________________________________________ From The Mother, The Four Austerities and the Four Liberation Bulletin of Physical Education August 195 Page 438 ...
... pomegranate and, as this fruit was a symbol of marriage, their union became indissoluble. As a compromise Zeus decided that Persephone should live with her husband one-third of the year and pass with her mother the other two-thirds." Thus was explained why each year, when the cold season arrived, the earth took up an aspect of sadness and mourning. It was the moment when Persephone went to join her husband ...
... Mukherjee has presented this study quite thoroughly, speaking to us about facts, principles, governing ideals, psycho-spiritual scrutiny, and bringing everything to the light of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The section "The Task Ahead" is indeed very important. It offers a sincere invitation to the serious attention of all inmates of the Ashram, older ones, recent ones and even the would-be ones, and ...
... perplexed parents brought the nature of their acute problem to the notice of SAICE authorities and even prayed to the Mother for an appropriate solution. Then, of course with the tacit assent of the Mother, the Education Department of the Government of India was approached to help in some way the resolution of this practical problem. The Government of India sent three different Commissions to SAICE ...
... spiritual advancement? Yes, such is the experiential testimony given by the great Yogis of the past both in the East and in the West. Here are two statements, one each from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: "The forces that stand in the way of sadhana are the forces of the lower mind, vital and physical nature. Behind them are adverse powers of the mental, vital and subtle physical worlds." (Sri Aurobindo ...
... cross the mountain. How do you find the drawing today? It is really well done. Mother finds you are making good progress. 7.8.33 Sri Aurobindo Mother, The path in this painting which I have drawn, is it properly done? I could not draw the garden properly. Mother, what should I do to learn perspective? I am sending another painting with this. ...
... 12. On Education 13. Words of The Mother 14. Words of The Mother 15. Words of The Mother 16. Words of The Mother 17. Words of The Mother The above books include the translation into English of the following original Works of The Mother in French: Prières et Méditations, 1912 - 1919 Ire éd.1932 La Découverte ...
... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother Preface The more one studies Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, the more is one wonderstruck by the breathtaking sweep of their experimentation and their victorious achievements. It is impossible to present even a distant idea of the crucial significance of their realisations to the expanding horizons of knowledge and to the possibilities ...
... change of body that must precede the change of consciousness; the consciousness itself by its mutation will necessitate and operate whatever mutation is needed for the body." 2 The Mother, the life-long collaborator of Sri Aurobindo in their herculean task of preparing the world and mankind for the supramental phase of evolution, is quite specific on this point. She says: ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 23 October 1948 Gracious Mother, The postman delivering post to the Press is allowed freely to enter into each and every section. But there, apart from his work, he has free talks with workmen in Tamil. In these days of elections, he has been engaged in talks with ...
... Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 11 January 1947 Gracious Mother, Almost every night, before going to bed, I utter in my heart, “O Mother, the duty of keeping the Press in the night is offered to Thee. Thou doest it. Thou alone canst do it. Make me a worthy vehicle for it.” Is it right, or is there anything ignorant in it? It is ...
... (Correspondence with Jayantilal) Jayantilal's Correspondence with The Mother 19 February 1940 Mother The house I have taken up for my people belonged to a T.B. patient. I came to know this only after I had already paid for the house. But then we got the whole house washed and burnt sulphur in some rooms. In any case the thought that a T.B. patient ...
... brush I am keeping for you. I took it from the Stores this month. I took it to the workshop to use there, but M saw it and scolded me very much. “Why you took it? Take another ordinary brush, etc.” Mother, the nail brush we use often for stove work; grease and oil and black dirty things are on it. Our old one is spoilt. Two years ago M first showed us how to use it in U’s house. Now he is scolding us. ...
... Realisation". (Sri Aurobindo) Indeed, once on the path all the prayers of the sadhaka should well up as it were from this single source: 'the Goal of an integral dedication and openness to the Divine Mother'. The sadhaka should seek to keep alive at all moments in the background of his consciousness a profound conviction and a sure and unwavering feeling that except for the Divine, the Divine Truth and ...
... organisation, and, then, sabotage and subvert it from within as its accepted members. We have to be vigilant so that, with the arrival of such entrants not yet spiritually surrendered to the Mother, the Ashram does not degenerate into some sort of a huge boarding and lodging house where the inmates can legitimately expect the fulfilment of their desires and fancies in return for a modicum of service ...
... the Mother. In fact, The Practice of the Integral Yoga is a comprehensive treatise on the effective practice of the Yoga of Integral Transformation as propounded by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The book does abound in valuable hints, consisting in insights, approaches and perspectives which the author has found effective for his own sadhana spanning more than half a century. For, as will be ...
... a small representative world consisting , of specimens of each type of human consciousness and development. This collective formation was a sort of spontaneous development. In the words of the Mother: The decision was not at all a mental choice; it came spontaneously. The circumstances were such that there was no choice; in other words, the group formed very naturally and spontaneously as an imperative ...
... surprise and knocked him off and you up, before the said vital had time to turn round and cry, "Hélas! Hélas! Alas! হায় হায় 179 Ototototoi!" But I don't know what did the job. Poetry, letter or Mother? The letter itself gave me a sense of something pleasant. All together—Poetry first attempt, letter brought a good atmosphere (that was the sense of something pleasant), and both were the effect of ...
... the world. || 112.55 || Are these not his last message, his last injunction to us?... The emptiness slowly melted away and in its place shone his Right Hand, the dauntless boon-giver the Mother. The expected revision never took place, for, along with the close of these two cantos, came winter and there was a sudden increase in the symptoms, urination became more frequent; with it, discomfort ...
... Aurobindo's father had strictly asked that the boys be kept free from religious instructions. In 1884 Mr. Drewett decided to migrate to Australia, and left the three brothers in charge of his mother. The old lady also decided to leave Manchester and move to London where she took lodgings at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush. When Sri Aurobindo came to London he had just completed his twelfth ...
... so long as they are in the clutch of the vital. Besides the recommendation not to pull has been made for the last decade almost without result. Throwing Human Desires on the Mother The idea of unburdening desires, imperfections, impurities, illnesses on the Mother so that she may bear the results instead of the sadhaks is a curious one. I suppose it is a continuation of ...
... To Esha with our blessings. I am so sorry to hear that you have been ill. I hope you are quite well now. This is to send you strength and our love. We never forget you and your dear mother. THE MOTHER 29.5.1932 My dear little Esha, I am not at all angry. If I was not writing to you, it is because I was expecting you to come soon. With our blessings and love. THE MOTHER ...
... want that it should be disturbed. Now an amusing story, a tiny comedy of errors. At our Page 101 teachers’ meeting, a student was declared to have failed. She sent an appeal to the Mother. The Mother took her side and said that she could not fail since she knew her as a good student. The teachers always went by outer results. They should have had more insight, etc. Later on she met the ...
... going to melt away. Sri Aurobindo said, "Mirra cannot be allowed to stay there any longer. She must move into our place." That is how the Mother came into our midst and stayed on for good, as our Mother.' The Mother gradually took charge of the household arrangements, after moving into the 'Guest House' with Datta. The young inmates were at first somewhat nonplussed and uneasy at this sudden 'invasion' ...
... could Sri Aurobindo, who was once a mortal opponent of British rule in India, 'not merely a non-cooperator but an enemy of British Imperialism', support the cause of Britain? A disciple wrote to the Mother, 'The Congress is asking us not to contribute to the War Fund. What shall we do?' The answer given was: 'Sri Aurobindo has contributed for a Divine cause. If you help, you will help yourselves.' But the ...
... letters from Her. All of us thought he was a great favourite of the Mother and was perhaps making great strides in sadhana. One day Sri Aurobindo was going into the room where one waits to see the Mother. The doctor came to the Mother, and She came to the door, and all of a sudden he became violent and began shouting at Her. Then 49 This was when Sri Aurobindo was living in the Guest House in the ...
... will happen? I cried to the Mother: Mother, Mother, Mother, save, save! And there were some people watching anxiously, hoping that the catastrophe might be avoided, and I was simply praying to the Mother. The car went to the last gate of the Tennis Ground and dashed against a lamp post. We all ran to it - the driver's leg was caught under the jammed car door. We had great difficulty in extricating it ...
... T's X-ray taken, and André says that it may be T.B. He says that injection at present is not desirable. I wonder if she could be spared from the kitchen work, for she has become very weak. [ Mother :] The best seems to me that she should stop 'the kitchen work at least for a few weeks until she becomes stronger— André has prescribed Tricalcine (calcium), shall we buy it? [ Mother :] Certainly ...
... don’t attend regularly. We used to be very strict in that way before and it had some effect. Myself: I want to resume my study of French, particularly for speaking. Can I have some hints? Mother: The best is to speak... courageously at every opportunity. Myself: The patient’s diet is very poor. She feels very weak. I don’t know what to do. (This was a case of undernourishment. At this ...
... that idea! October 11, 1938 A cement barrel fell on Mohanlal's foot. It's swollen considerably, and there is a wound too. Purani says that fomentation will cure the swelling. [ Mother :] The wound will never close if it is fomented. Miss Wilson 232 is to come for treatment tomorrow. Should we postpone it as Dr. Becharlal is not well and neither am I? [ Mother :] Yes, it ...
... seaside, ft was meant to be a halting station for the newcomers or even a jumping-board for prospective sadhaks. I had brought a silk dhoti for Sri Aurobindo and a well-known Bengal perfume for the Mother. The choice was made instinctively, or unthinkingly, if you like. My niece was much amused to see my present for the Mother and said with a laugh, "Do you imagine that the Mother uses such ordinary perfumes ...
... and moral order. Here Rousseau wrote lines that had an admirable effect upon the young mothers of the rising generation: Would you restore all men to their primal duties? — begin with the mother; the results will surprise you. Every evil follows in the train of this first sin. ... The mother whose children are out of sight wins scanty esteem; there is no home life, the ties of nature are not ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 18 January 1960 Gracious Divine Mother, The realisation has come to me that silence has nothing to do with the absence of sound, but is something in itself, a positive quality almost living and vibrant, almost visible, part of the essential nature of things. Quite correct ...
... daily till 24th November with a prayer to give the victory over power, sex and wealth. (6) Try to keep constant wakefulness in talk, work and sleep (which I try to do but fail constantly). Mother, the gist of this whole prayer, according to my childish notion, is to break me open to Thy Force in order to serve Thee better. Praying for my prayer to be heard, I am Thy ignorant child. This is ...
... establish peace. Do you understand? Be like a flower. One must try to become like a flower — open, frank, equal, generous and gentle. Do you know what it means? Not exactly, Mother. The flower is open to all that is around it — Nature, light, the rays of the sun, the wind, etcetera. It exerts a spontaneous influence on all that is around it. It radiates a joy and a beauty ...
... on both political and economic lines. In order to establish spirituality as the chief motive force, we have to go beyond religion. The solution lies in the following words of The Mother: 'The conflict of religions arises because each one claims the exclusive truth and demands a complete adherence to it by the method of dogma, ritual, ceremony and prescribed acts. The solution would ...
... Thoughts and Glimpses ; The Superman ; The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth . The Mother: On Education ; Words of Long Ago ; Words of the Mother (containing Conversations with the Mother ); The Four Austerities . Bulletin of Physical Education . Mother, is there any possibility for me to realise the Divine in this life? All depends on the sincerity of the aspiration. If the ...
... view of the ideal—the rest depends upon the nature. As for the deity presiding over control of servants, godown work as well as over poetry or painting, it is always the same—the Shakti, the Mother. ... The day when I am able to keep the experiences, only then the Yogic consciousness will be founded in me!! But that day seems to be an ever-receding one, for it seems there are many sadhaks living ...
... Vaishnava poet and saint sang: Oh, I love black, For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna, Oh , how I love black. Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark Mother: the poem itself is very dark, that is to say, the meaning is dark, and the style, the phrasing is darker still. A literal translation is out of question. A very free rendering is only possible: ...
... behaviour. This will draw your friend to you as if pulled by a magnet and you will feel him within you, near you, and the hidden comrade will reveal himself. This hidden friend is the Presence of the Mother, the Mother is always with you, with every one of you as I have been saying always. I may say, each one of you carries three persons in him, you are a triple personality: first of all your outside ...
... The Tantric is a hero, he does not avoid or bypass the difficulty, he faces the vital urge but not in his own strength, his own individual capacity but invokes the Mother's help; he calls the Mother; the Divine Prakriti into himself so that she fights the battle for him; he simply lies quiet behind, perhaps like the Lord Shiva at her feet. The battle is fought by the Divine herself, the victory he ...
... is a nadir, there must be a corresponding zenith. In the Vedic image, if man is born of the Dark Mother, he is also a child of the White Mother (krishna and shveti). Or again, if earth is our mother, the Heaven is our father— dyaur me pita mata prithivi iyam. In other words, consciousness extends not in depth alone, but in height also —it is vertically extended, infinite both ways. Page 43 ...
... judge and decide what was really necessary and what was a luxury. We had to Page 35 be sincere. She was generosity itself. The life of each one was directly linked with the Mother. The relation between individuals was founded on the relations each one had with the Mother. It did not depend on one's liking or disliking, one's attraction or repulsion, but was necessitated by the ...
... secret mysteries towards the supreme revelation, the Divine incarnation in matter. The Gods are awake, in order to awaken the earth. A first ray is sent down and it touches as it were the sleeping Mother. The Divine Ray is just like a finger of a child touching her mother trying, as it were, to persuade her to open her eyes and look at her child. The first ray, however, comes not as a caress to the inert ...
... Vaishnava poet and saint sang: Oh, I love black, For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna, Oh, how I love black. Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark Mother: the poem itself is very dark, that is to say, the meaning is dark, and the style, the phrasing is darker still. A literal translation is out of question. A very free rendering is only possible: ...
... Mara, 200, 203-4, 206, 212, 233, 271 Matarishwan, 138 Maya, 24, 28, 45, 265, 268, 271 Mira, 149-50, 184-5 Mitra, 132, 138-9, 144 Mitra, Premendra, 171-2 Mother, The, 9, 13, 35, 37, 39, 48, 60-5, 67-72 85, 87-9, 92-100, 102-3, 105-12, 149-50, 155, 168, 184-6, 190-1, 193-5. – Prayers & Meditations, 110 (Prières et Méditations) ...
... which should not be looked Page 227 upon as an illusion but only as a form of the Eternal. Therefore Sri Ramakrishna was the worshipper of the Divine Power, the child of the Mother. The Mother herself is the Power of the Brahman. The dynamic Vedanta of Vivekananda, its application in life, is based on this foundation. Spirituality and life are not two separate things – spirituality ...
... spiritual perfection comes in effacing absolutely the ego-sense. In fact, the Mother-worshipper himself is not the sadhaka. He has sacrificed himself and his ‘I’-ness completely at the Feet of the Mother, the Primal Power, and so Prakrit Herself is the sadhaka in him. The followers of Vedanta want Page 216 to conquer Prakrti like a hero with the power of Purusa. The worshippers ...
... separated and individualised itself in different centres, even then it exists and acts in hiding in all the multiple varieties of forms, from 1 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother Page 103 the tiniest to the biggest. The same consciousness is alive in the atom, the stone, the plant, the animal, in the earth and the sun and the stars, in the universe as a whole. Each object ...
... there is a nadir, there must be a corresponding zenith. In the Vedic image, if man is born of the Dark Mother, he is also a child of the White Mother (krsna and sveti) , Or again, if Earth is our mother, the Heaven is our father— dyaur me pita mata prthivi iyam. In other words, consciousness extends not in depth alone, but in height also—it is vertically extended, infinite both ways. As there is a ...
... Manifestation and Other Writings. 1971. Vol. 17. The Hour of God and Other Writings. 1972. Vols. 18-19. The Life Divine. 1970. Vols. 22-23. Letters on Yoga. 1970. WORKS OF THE MOTHER The Mother's Collected Works (MCW). 17 vols. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press. Vol. 8. Questions and Answers 1956. 1977. Vol. 12. On Education. 1978. WORKS OF THE AUTHOR ...
... Parichand's Correspondence Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother 12 September 1938 Mother, The thirty rose plants in Red House present a most sickly appearance. Even those shifted there from Vigie House are worse than before. One reason for the sickliness of these plants may be their being too near the sea. The moist and saltish air constantly ...
... Parichand's Correspondence Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother 11 October 1947 Mother, The workman N served as a gardener for about 71/2 months, then left the work due to illness. His work was satisfactory, his conduct was fairly good, but his attendance was very irregular. Recovered from illness, he now seeks re-employment. We do not want ...
... Parichand's Correspondence Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother 19 May 1950 Mother, The palm trees along Your windows are very dirty. Syringing them from below does not clean them properly. Will You permit me to syringe them from the roofs? The gardeners will supply me with water by ladder and I will carry the cans up to the top. Morning-time ...
... Parichand's Correspondence Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother 6 April 1946 Mother, The Renuka House garden seems overcrowded and is kept untidy. One papaya tree is enough for the small place, but X is growing another. Then she has planted a branch of the tree "Psychological Perfection", and this will soon grow big. Finally, she is, I suppose ...
... Parichand's Correspondence Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother 1940 Mother, The constant push to activity after activity has now given place to a tendency to inaction. Exhaustion follows after a little work and the body sinks down forcefully. No zeal, no conquering will. How can I shake it off for good? Most probably it is only a period ...
... Parichand's Correspondence Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother c. 1946 Mother, The past failings and falterings of my nature, its insincerities and faithlessnesses, occasionally cut me to the quick. Should I pay any attention to them? It is better not to brood over these things. A simple detachment is the first step towards liberation ...
... Aurobindo. Once I took a number of photos of special movements and positions of Mother's hands (mudras). Let me tell you about this. One day Udar's sister, Millie, wrote to Mother: "Mother, the hands you've used to build a new world should be photographed. Please ask Pranab to take some photos." It was 1972, the year the Government of India issued a special stamp on Sri Aurobindo ...
... anything. One day Mridu-di caused an uproar in the Playground. There was standing in the Playground. The march-past was begin. And just then she started loudly discussing something with the Mother. The ground was full of people. The Mother was a little embarrassed and everybody was upset. The march-past could :not begin but Mridu-di went on blabbering. There was no way of stopping her. This ...
... that turned the gods into Asuras, that was how Lucifer became Satan. And that was how Paradise was lost. But the story of Paradise Regained is yet more marvellous. When the Divine Mother, Page 267 the creative infinite Consciousness found herself parcelled out and scattered (even like the body of Sati borne about by Shiva, in the well-known Indian legend) and lost in unconsciousness ...
... there is a nadir, there must be a corresponding zenith. In the Vedic image, if man is born of the Dark Mother, he is also a child of the White Mother (krsna and sveti). Or again, if Earth is our mother, the Heaven is our father – dyaur me pita mata p rthivi iyam. In other words, consciousness extends not in depth alone, but in height also – it is vertically extended, infinite both ways. As there ...
... away my cough and the impure things in the stomach. Mother, I know that I have less confidence and am less open; but Mother, in spite of that, cannot Thy Grace, Protection and Blessings act? Mother, the suffering is much. I want you to be cured and stronger than before. Do not listen to the opposing forces. Love and blessings 9 March 1969 ...
... Something to say? (This conversation took place on 12.6.66. During the course of the previous conversation Mother wanted to know on which day of the week 4.5.67 would fall. I give Mother the paper on which I had written: Thursday 4.5.67) Oh, it is a Thursday! 4.5.67 falls on a Thursday. Yes, Mother. It is very well. It falls on a good day. It is good. ...
... the aim which you have fixed. With this comes all the help, the Divine help or the Grace which pushes you and keeps pushing, or really speaking, which carries you like a child in a cradle to the Mother — the Mother of all. My child, this is the mystery, this the miracle, this the adventure towards the Unknown. What is going to happen? No one knows. What will be the consequences? No one can say. What ...
... should be, because it is the will of Sri Aurobindo that I execute. And there, nothing can stand against it. Au revoir. Au revoir, Douce Mère. The word “Knowledge” (I had asked the Mother the exact significance of the word “knowledge that Sri Aurobindo uses in his books. As my question was not properly worded She re-wrote the question in proper French, gave the French equivalent of ...
... her. She smiled. Then, as it was about 7:00 p.m. and she got up to go for the general meditation, she said to Rao, "Are you coming? I am going to the meditation." Rao jumped up and followed the Mother. The talk turned to local politics and afterwards Indian politics and Gandhi and non-violence and Hitlerism. SRI AUROBINDO: If Gandhi met Hitler, Hitler would probably say to him, "You follow your ...
... third Book, The Book of the Divine Mother, was also written probably for the first time, for he wrote to Amal in 1946: "...there is also a third sufficiently long Book, The Book of the Divine Mother." The next step in the development was his re-copying the entire three Books on big white sheets of paper, in two columns in fine handwriting. There is one date at the end of The Book of the Divine Mother: ...
... urinary symptoms were worsening and now a trace of albumin was detected. He was informed, but made no comment. Then acetone appeared, a grave signal. He heard it in silence and said, "Tell the Mother." The Mother too heard it quietly. It all seemed so terribly mysterious. I was perplexed by their seeming indifference as compared with their former concern. Something must have gone amiss, surely. The ...
... Blue Bird, 71 Mahalakshmi, 206, 228, 297 Maheshwari, 206 Marlowe, 399n Maruts, the, 279-80, 331-2 Mayavada,182 Milton, 371 Minerva, 328 Mitra, 189 Mohammed, 379 Mother, the, 29n., 205-6, 208, 224, 229, 231-6, 247, 249, 253-7, 260, 263, 269, 281-2, 293, 317, 333, 339, 341, 343, 360 – Prayers and Meditations, 224, 227-9, 231, 236, 247 NACHIKETAS, 340, 400 ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5 SWEET MOTHER The Mother, Human and Divine IN our human frailty we regard the Divine Mother as mother only, forgetting that she is also divine. We are apt to seize exclusively the last term of the great Name and ignore the other term which is equally important ...
... ONWARD You must tear off the bonds of the finite: Mother Infinity has sent you the call. How long would you remain a prisoner? She is waiting for you, the Mother. The endless path of Her Grace She has laid That welcomes you in your journey to Her . The Mother Light signals you the way Lifting Her finger, a beacon sun – Arise and onward ...
... firmer grip. The last turn taken, one's eyes grazed over the intervening forms and rested on the two figures seated together in unblenched majesty and aura serene: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother! The great moment had come... there was a flood of the Light of Truth... and the mere mind staggered, the mere human frame lurched forward mechanically, but the eyes were held irretrievably as if divinely ...
... 374 Mitter, Barrister P., 62ff, 282 Moonje, B. S, 263,266fh, 269,528-9, 530; 531,706,727 Morley, John, 205, 237, 240ff, 259-60, 295, 305, 364, 365, 368, 389 MOTHER, The (Mirra Alfassa), Sri Aurobindo's reading of her Yogachakra, 380, 395; birth, childhood, girlhood, 395; student of occultism, 395; on general aim to be attained, 396, 471, 770ff; spiritual diary, ...
... his distinguished pupils, K.M. Munshi, has recorded how Sri Aurobindo once pointed to a wall-map of India and called it Bharat Mata's, Mother India's, portrait. The geography was the body of the Mother: the people were the cells that made the living tissues: the languages and literatures were the Mother's memory and speech: the spirit of the nation's culture was Her living soul: and the nation's freedom ...
... home in the subtle physical - (the region closest to the earth physical) where all those who wish to see Him can go and see Him. 25 Page 712 Another question from Huta elicited from the Mother the disarming answer: You ask at what time I pray, in order to join in the prayer. But you see, I have not a time for prayer or meditation. This body lives constantly night and day, even when apparently ...
... knew but a bare smattering of French, the lady thought an explanation was needed; she said, "Mother doesn't mean you are jolly! She means your inside is beautiful." I nodded. And that made me love Mother the more. For, I told myself, anyone can see your physical beauty, but how many care to see your inner beauty?! But generally speaking, people's sense of beauty — what is termed as such —is ... ah ...
... want to offer You my being like a beautiful rose. But alas! as soon as I make the gesture I see many a thorn in it and I cannot accomplish the offering. The thorns have to be pulled out, O Mother, the thorns have to be pulled out. Perhaps the offering itself is the means for it. Page 12 Yes, gradually the thorns fall away. It is by the constant -renewal of the offering that ...
... if I agree to do the work, she would see me daily with my report and problems, and with her divine solicitude and humility, she added, "I will try to help you." I repeated, "Yes, Mother." Page 89 The very next morning she asked with expectant smile, "So, what did you do yesterday?" I reported to her, and for further steps suggested to wait for Navajata's return. Mother did not like ...
... were a happy family. I don't remember even one heated argument between Father and Mother! We did have our ears tweaked by Father, for none among his brood was goody-goody. So there we were. Father, mother, the five elder brothers, me and my young sister who had not yet learned to speak. Suprabha, our youngest sister, was born about a year later. My brothers —Dhir, Bir, Noren and Nirmal —joined the ...
... the Mother used to say: 'The Japanese are extremely sensitive to beauty but their consciousness is of a mental level. Page 124 Cherry blossoms painted by the Mother The main Ashram building in 1950 (as seen from the Ashram Post office terrace) Dada told us one day: A couple of sannyasis from the Ramakrishna Mission used to come to our Be ...
... keeping an eye on all those who went sea bathing. He would note down the names of those who came, the time they got into the sea, the time they got out, etc. and he regularly showed his notes to the Mother. The Mother would sign the daily sheet. He would also report to the Mother about the state of the sea, whether Page 4 Pranab and Vishwajit at work in the photographic darkroom ...
... stayed here motionless, in complete trust and blissful peace—motionless.... They tried, fought, operated: no movement, nothing moved. Then one day they declared him dead.... And he was here [near Mother] the whole while, immutable. Then suddenly I felt a kind of shudder; I looked—he was gone. I was busy and didn't note the time, but it was in the afternoon.... Later I was told that they had decided to ...
... × Ibid., op. cit., 8.15.1924 × For Sri Aurobindo and Mother, the “Vital” represents the range of consciousness and the centers of consciousness below the Mind, between the throat and the sex, that is, the whole domain of the emotions, feelings, passions, etc ...
... language is a constant snare. We say "the new Force," but what is "new"? It is as old as the world. It is we who are very young and become aware of a very old world! Years ago, as I was mentioning to Mother the work of an Italian scientist on the electric energy produced by the body's cells: It is ALL the same Force! she exclaimed The Power is mixed with different states: mental, vital, or even the purely ...
... power and an active force, potent and unresting, she is there with us always guiding and helping us. Not a passive or static relation, this, but a dynamic and creative one. The Mother is indeed the Mother, the Guru who gently leads us on, the guardian in whose protective embrace we are safe as a child in its mother's arms. Such being the nature of the intimate relation between the Mother and ourselves ...
... was gone, all those fine and great ideas vanished and there was only a vacant imperturbable waiting for what was beyond mind. 32 There is also the report by Nolini Kanta Gupta about the Mother: The first time Sri Aurobindo happened to describe her qualities, he said he had never seen anywhere a self-surrender so absolute and unreserved. He had added a comment that perhaps it was only ...
... blows can still be given by the adverse forces, it is necessary to make a change which can best be done by a change in the inner attitude of the Sadhaks .... 11 Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - the Mother even more than Sri Aurobindo - had to be at the centre of a struggle with adverse forces, and of a work of change and transformation of the old into a new consciousness. In so far as ...
... or the Divine, the Master, the Supreme Lord. Mirra is potentially the Divine, she aspires to be one with Him inseparably, - and, in later years, she was to be known and loved and adored as the Mother, the Mother Divine. Now, Page 64 in Prayers and Meditations, who is addressing whom? How are we to understand these communications from the Divine to the Divine? When this question was ...
... revelation or when the Mother's heart of compassion and love would throw open apocalyptic vistas of supramental Page 529 knowledge. The place, the time, the dramatis personae - the Mother, the children, the invisible presence of the Master - attained from time to time a sudden criticality of integral understanding, and the peace descended with its concomitants of grace and powers. It was ...
... writings and, particularly in his poems,—so that there is no room for any doubt as to what he regarded as his fife's work. To say that Sri Aurobindo represents the static aspect of the Divine and the Mother the dynamic, is again not true; for the pulsing heart of their teachings is the divine dynamism, which they have both been labouring to instil into the earth-life. To call Sri Aurobindo static is to ...
... writings and, particularly in his poems,—so that there is no room for any doubt as to what he regarded as his life's work. To say that Sri Aurobindo represents the static aspect of the Divine and the Mother the dynamic, is again not true; for the pulsing heart of their teachings is the divine dynamism, which they have both been labouring to instill into the earth-life. To call Sri Aurobindo static is to ...
... al Centre of Education. Rishabhchand was the guide and inspiration on the Path of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga for many younger aspirants. He left his body on 25th April 1970. In the words of The Mother—The Lord appeared Himself to take the soul of Rishabhchand. 'His body left, and he saw Him.' Page 20 ...
... 120 But, at this stage, there is the possibility of two dangers, which have to be carefully guarded against, 1 ) When the sâdhaka has learnt to be passive in the hands of the divine Mother, the forces of darkness, which may still be lurking in some neglected nooks of his nature or around him in the environment, may try to take advantage of this passivity and manoeuvre him into a deflection ...
... perfect attunement to the supreme Divine Will. The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo promises to realise this aim in individual and collective humanity. Its method is an integral surrender to the Mother, the Consciousness- Force of the Divine, and the crown of its achievement the manifestation of God in a transfigured humanity. But because if proceeds in the inscrutable steps of the divine ...
... making to be conscious? Sometimes we try, and soon we forget. Ah! you don’t want to react against this unconsciousness! But, Mother ... No, there is no excuse. (Silence) Mother, the only way is to stop football—if football is responsible. If You want, You may stop football, and we’ll see whether accidents still occur or not. You may stop football. Ah! my little one, how ...
... every cell by the Mother, our universal Mother. Let me give you some instances of this total openness and trust. Whatever the little ones do is extraordinary, isn’t it? You have a fever? Go and tell Mother. The Mother looks at the little boy for a few seconds. A smile dawns on the boy’s face. As soon as he wakes up from sleep, his fever has disappeared! What? Did I ever have fever? I am reminded here ...
... author, he gives the word of 'fate',—declaring that Satyavan must die after one year. In spite of his warning Savitri persists in her choice, affirms her will and challenges Fate. The heart of her mother, the queen, being human, is pierced by the hardness of Fate, and its inscrutability. The whole of Book VII is taken up by the one year of Savitri's life in the hermitage of Satyavan. In this book, we ...
... at 1.26 a.m. on 5 December 1950 Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body. Arrangements were made for the burial, but on the evening of the sixth the following message was issued by the Mother: "The funeral of Sri Aurobindo has not taken place today. His body is charged with such a concentration of supramental light that there is no sign of decomposition and the body will ¹ A line ...
... the most vivid memories of one's entire life—but while going back through the web, something is altered and distorted: there remains only a translation in the cage. We say, "It's a dream." But for Mother, the dream state seemed to be gone—She could no longer have "dreams": She could only see what was really there. And there was no longer any translation: it was direct and immediate, a "tactile vision ...
... listening. And that’s something drawing near, as it were, and then getting veiled. Actually that new functioning had manifested itself for quite some time, but each time it was a discovery for Mother.... The body suffers; sometimes it suffers with a very a strange kind of suffering! A very strange kind of suffering: my body groans, literally groans as if it were suffering terribly, and at the same ...
... throw off a certain British yoke. We do not know whether She could have been a great painter, but She certainly could have been a great musician—assuming She cared for greatness—for there is Mother the musician, whose extraordinary “improvisations" are an endless source of surprises. It would take ten books to just start speaking of Mother, and still more would remain for generations of exegetes ...
... therefore something that is going to happen?” It looks like that.... Because I was fully conscious that this [the body] needed... it takes time, that’s the problem. The disciples never left Mother the time! And She added: Instantaneous things are miraculous and don’t have the power of duration: they don’t correspond to the STATE—the vibratory state of something lasting. So then, this intimation ...
... 150-year-old Narayan 'shila' (stone). This might give you some idea of the Mitra household. Quite naturally, these regular pujas to Narayan rendered the atmosphere of the house very special. My mother, the late Ashalata Mitra, who ran the household, was a very devout woman. She had met several religious masters, she had even taken initiation but she hadn't found in any of the gurus the deity of her ...
... that kiss on my forehead, that first exchange of looks, that experience will remain to me most significant. Perhaps on that day, at that very instant, I had received my initiation from the Mother. The next morning all three of us returned to Nolini-da. Before we could say anything, he said, "So, finally you had the darshan. The Mother was waiting for you. Ma asked Nolini-da, "How did this ...
... Part - II At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo 08 June 1933 MYSELF: Mother, the last two days I wake up at night with a kind of twisting pain in my chest. The feeling at that time is like this: “What has happened? Why has it so happened?” Everything appears strange. In my waking consciousness, there is no such perception of pain. It comes in sleep ...
... then filled with silent sobs and I burst out as soon as he had finished. Utterly broken I cried, “Nolinida, please tell Mother I won’t go.” It was as if I was just waiting for this touch of the Mother. The cloud dispersed at once. What a relief! Nolinida said before departing, “Give me whatever money you have with you.” I understood his fear. After this event, there was no repetition of this thought ...
... giving individual darshan. These letters give you a glimpse of how closely the Mother was connected with the working of the school. My letter written to the Mother on 6.12.1959 Sweet Mother, The following students from my class would like to go on a walking excursion to the Red Hills on December 8. They will leave after Your Balcony-darshan, and return by 11.30 am. Here is a list of the ...
... and express myself in French. And so could the boys and girls of my French class to some extent. Somewhere in the middle of the year, my students suggested doing a play in French in front of the Mother. The Mother was informed and She agreed. I told Her that I would dramatise the story called 'Self-control' from Her book Belles Histories (Tales of All Times) and the students would perform it. I asked ...
... but this time I felt She was asking the question in a somewhat different way. I, therefore, understood this question from the divine Mother in a much deeper way. I really felt it was the divine Mother, the Mother of the world, asking me what I wanted on my birthday. Why should I then ask for something very ordinary, very material like a book or toffees? So I told Her, "Mother, make me one of the noblest ...
... and She wrote at the end of my letter: (I suppose that now that I am informed of these important facts your EGO is satisfied. Blessings. The Mother) The 1 st December programme came to an end. I still had not been able to overcome my sense of ego, but kept quiet about it. I prayed to the Mother to help me change my nature. My birthday ...
... royal princess of that kingdom. I am wearing a lovely pale blue Banarasi silk sari with golden zari-work on it. I am a young princess and am conscious of my beauty. I am bedecked with jewelry. My mother, the royal queen, is also dressed in a maroon-coloured Banarasi silk sari and wears a lot of rich jewels on her. Mother, this queen is actually the mother of our Ramanathan who resides in the Ashram. ...
... I - When, Mother? This proposal of hers sent such a wave of joyous thrill through me that the question flashed forth quite spontaneously. I had never expected such a thing from the Mother. The Mother - (after a moment's thought) Nolini will let you know the date. A few days later I got to know from Nolini-da that the Mother would see my ...
... close to my body. I have been wearing that rose in a locket on a gold necklace so far, but now I find doing sports activities with that necklace quite uncomfortable. What should I do? (I showed the Mother the necklace around my neck.) The Mother - Now you can remove it. ( The Mother looks at me very seriously ) Now you are totally within my protection. There is no need any longer to wear this ...
... done by Mother in her own hand. Page 38 I used to go then at about 3.30 p.m. and it went on like that smoothly. Once there was an unusually large number of people waiting to go to Mother. The person who was already in was taking a very long time and Champaklal had come out a few times for something and seen me. When he came out next time, the earlier person still continuing to be inside ...
... the precious help rendered by the director and chief technician of AIR. She was pleased and sent both of them Her blessings. And so, thanks to the sincere efforts and goodwill of a disciple of the Mother (the chief technician), Loving Homage was recorded at the AIR studio after working hours. That night. we returned home only at 1.30 after completing the work. Page 192 ...
... of stay at the Ashram, said to Mother, "When I look at you, I do not want to leave; when I look at the people here, I do not want to stay". An Ashramite felt unhappy when he was not given by Mother the book The Mother' whereas a friend of his received it. Mother first said, "This book is for sadhakas", and then added with a smile, "You are my child". When a disciple found that Dr. S. Radhakrishnan ...
... from Motakaka quite some time before the actual Puja. I told him that I would first inform the Mother. My collaboration would depend on Her. Accordingly then, I informed the Mother. The Mother obviously gave Her consent and that was the time when She told me that I was to always provide assistance to the JIPMER doctors, whenever they asked for it. After informing Motakaka, I began ...
... why the Mother is so careful not to give any ground for hostile representations and that is why she wants no connection of this kind between the people in the Asram and suspects there. MYSELF: Mother, the songs I am singing for gramophone recording are not turning out at all well. My throat is also bad. Besides, those who have come for recording believe that the old songs I used to sing before in ...
... valiantly risen to the occasion. The boys had, in fact, been the very soul of the Swadeshi movement. Nay more: they had even taught their parents "the loyal or stingy father and the foppish mother" the meaning of patriotism, and with their "divine enthusiasm, indomitable courage and energy of wonderful sacrifice", they had added a bright chapter to recent Indian history. In this they had ...
... 'linked sweetness' and interior multiple-rhymes, Sri Aurobindo's Muse rides triumphantly on the crest of a complicated rhythm and achieves a memorable articulation in eloquent praise of the Mother - "the home-of-all, the womb-of-all", in Hopkins's suggestive phrase - who in myriad ways manifests Herself to terrestrial men and women. What visions are these that visit us as we are lapped in grey ...
... ignorance... .May our entire life become a ceaseless worship of the Mother, al! our acts a continuous service of the Mother, full of love, full of energy. 21 Durga, Bhavani, Bharati - the Mother, the Mother Divine - was the ensouled image of India, and unless she inhabited again the hearts of her three hundred million * In the course of a conversation on 28 February 1940, Sri Aurobindo ...
... one as distinguished from other nations .... there is a deeper factor.. a sort of religion of country, a constant even if not always explicit recognition not only of the sacredness of the physical mother, the land, but also, in however obscure a way, of the nation as a collective soul which it is the first duty and need of every man to keep alive, to defend from suppression or mortal attaint or, if suppressed ...
... along the river banks, and the loving care of our relatives." One of the spots they were certain to visit was the village of Rohini, five kilometres away, where lived their eldest aunt, Auro-dada's mother. The bungalow with so many big, shading trees was an ideal place for a day-long picnic. "We would sit around our dear Boromama, listen to stories, and make fun. Auro-dada was very fond of Boromama." Auro-dada ...
... a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an inner sight in you has regarded the World-Mother." The 'sacred river' is the Narmada. It is one of the biggest rivers of India. Starting from the Amarkantak hills and after a long westward flow, it meets the Bay of Cambay. The Narmada is said to have ...
... One who is present in the Vindhyas, to the dweller of the divine abodes of the Vindhyas, to the Yogini and to her who is the power of Yoga. I am forever surrendered to Mira, Durga, the ruling Mother, the goddess beloved of the Supreme, to her who carries us across the ocean of bounded worldly existence. O thou the beautiful, the lotus in the garden of lotuses, thou art the mate of the Universal ...
... had to get ready the text for the Ashram's Bulletin, a bilingual quarterly. 1.Sandalwood paste. 2.Pomegranate. Page 146 This work consisted in selecting with Mother the English texts of Sri Aurobindo's and then translating them into French; add to it choosing and reading out to Mother her own various texts, and as most of the time these were taken from her talks ...
... come through her — she does not usually play any precisely composed music whether European or Indian — the latter in fact she has never learnt." Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on The Mother: The Mother's Music Sunil Bhattacharya joined the Ashram in 1942. He was proficient in music and particularly in playing the sitar. He composed music for the annual cultural programmes of the Ashram ...
... regular authority is very essential to carry out the work of the Ashram at Delhi, and open a bank account and sign various letters and documents concerning the affairs there. Without this, Mother, the position is always difficult and ambiguous. Indirect ways have to be adopted to carry out the work. Sometimes, I am put in an awkward position and a lot of harassment is caused. Mother, I pray ...
... yet he knew God only as the Master of man ; I doubt he had any conception of God as man's 'infinite Lover' as said Sri Aurobindo. "Theon had no idea of the path of bhakti, none whatsoever," said Mother. "The idea of surrender to the Divine was absolutely alien to him. Yet Page 102 he did have the idea of the Divine Presence, here in the heart centre, of the immanent Divine, and of union ...
... With my tenderness. April, 1967 My first close up photograph of the Mother autographed by Her As my interest in photography continued to grow, I wrote to the Mother: Sweet Mother, The last three albums we made were enthusiastically received by people. Now we have a new idea which we would like to execute for Your next birthday. We wish to make an album with photographs ...
... If we all brought here an ardent aspiration for more knowledge and greater wisdom, we would create an atmosphere of contemplation that would be highly favourable to our perfection. The Mother The Mother distributing groundnuts in the children’s courtyard ...
... English. When we started writing the stories, I took some ideas from these books. I wrote four stories in French, while the other friends wrote one each. These were extensively corrected by The Mother. The Mother then read out these stories in the Friday classes. When I gave my fifth story to The Mother, She corrected a part of it only and it remained in Her room for a long time as She did not get ...
... Bhawani Mandir OM Namas Chandikayai. A temple is to be erected and consecrated to Bhawani, the mother, among the hills. To all the children of the mother, the call is sent forth to help in the sacred work. WHO IS BHAWANI? Who is Bhawani, the mother, and why should we erect a temple to Her? BHAWANI IS THE INFINITE ENERGY. In the unending ...
... efface themselves in the larger national self in order that the God in humanity may grow. Therefore it is that Nationalism is the dharma of the age, and God reveals himself to us in our common Mother. The first attempts to form a nationality were the Greek city, the Semitic or Mongolian monarchy, the Celtic clan, the Aryan kula or jati . It was the mixture of all these ideas which went to the formation ...
... to the ordinary religions. The individual religious man can do without them, collective religion cannot. These are the sacred days in the religion of Nationalism, the worship of God the Mother. Page 175 The 16th October is the idea of unity, the worship of the Mother one and indivisible. The 7th of August is the idea of separateness, the worship of the Mother free, strong and glorious. Both ...
... t which has become too deeply rooted to be altered and in all these we discover a manifestation of God in national life which is living, sacred and adorable. It is this which we speak of as the Mother. The millions are born and die; we who are here today, will not be here tomorrow, but the Mother has been living for thousands of years and will live for yet more thousands when we have passed away. ...
... or the results of winning, things won, wealth, etc. I take it here to mean by a sort of double association the victory & arrival of the herd driven by the Fathers to the thrice seven seats of the Mother, the seats of Sachchidananda. 17) Ne sh at tamo dudhitam rochata dyaur, ud devyá ushaso bhánur arta; Á Súryo bṛihatas tishṭhad ajrá n , ṛiju marteshu vṛijiná cha pa sh yan. Vanished darkness ...
... ty, of death by immortal life. God is not only the Destroyer, but the Friend of creatures; not only the cosmic Trinity, but the Transcendent; the terrible Kali is also the loving and beneficent Mother; the lord of Kurukshetra is the divine comrade and charioteer, the attracter of beings, incarnate Krishna. And whithersoever he is driving through all the strife and clash and confusion, to whatever goal ...
... godheads within man and a formation in him of the universality of the divine nature. For the gods are the guardians and increasers of the Truth, the powers of the Immortal, the sons of the infinite Mother; the way to immortality is the upward way of the gods, the way of the Truth, a journey, an ascent by which there is a growth into the Page 202 law of the Truth, ṛtasya panthāḥ . Man arrives ...
... sustained by the sense of a supporting and helping presence, an eternal greatness and calm or love or Delight behind; the very goddess of destruction is at the same time the compassionate and loving Mother; the austere Maheshwara, Rudra, is also Shiva, the auspicious, Ashutosha, the refuge of men. The Indian thinking and religious mind looks with calm, without shrinking or repulsion, with an understanding ...
... Upanishads and was developed later on by Vaishnavism and Shaktism in a greater intensity of vision, man's possible joy of the Divine in the world-existence, the universal Ananda, the play of the Mother, the sweetness and beauty of God's Lila. 2 The divine Teacher accedes to the request of the disciple, but with an initial reminder that a full reply is not possible. For God is infinite and his ...
... the All-Person of whom all beings are personalities, the Power from whom are all powers, the Self, the Spirit in all, by his being the Father of all that is, in his Consciousness-Force the Divine Mother, the Friend of all creatures, the All-blissful and All-beautiful of whom beauty and joy are the revelation, the All-Beloved and All-Lover. In a certain sense, so seen and understood, this becomes the ...
... Sri Aurobindo himself and the sweeping conclusions drawn on the strength of them: "Many people are of the opinion that for the Supramental Yoga we require exclusively Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The devotion of these people is commendable, but we must see what Sri Aurobindo has said on his Integral Yoga. Otherwise there is every possibility of sectarianism being developed. "Sri Aurobindo ...
... agree with are the sharply divided alternatives you pose: the Mother or one's own ego. No doubt, they can fall apart, but they need not. As long as there is no constant feeling of unity with the Mother, the ego is bound to be at play — but certainly not at unchecked and absolute play. Here I may mention that even when one is settled in the Ashram the feeling of unity with the Mother is not always present: ...
... that extraordinary experiences were not the master-clue to the spiritual status of a disciple: the master-clue was the capacity of self-giving, the flow of the being towards the Master and the Mother, the inner generosity forgetful of one's own importance and interests. Either prompted by the sight of the pen of else independently, I remember writing to Sri Aurobindo for specifications — ...
... Our Light and Delight 15 Some Famous People Admired by the Mother The mother never hesitated to admire quite openly whoever impressed her as of extraordinary merit. Right from my early years in the Ashram — from 16 December 1927 onwards — I heard her speak enthusiastically of Ysayë. To her he was the greatest violinist possible. I had ...
... physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. The physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light."—Note received from the Mother.) The core of a deathless sun is now the brain And each grey cell bursts of omniscient gold. Thought leaps—and an inmost light speaks out from things; Will, a new miracled Matter's dense ...
... physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. The physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light." — Note received from the Mother) The core of a deathless sun is now the brain And each grey cell bursts to omniscient gold. Thought leaps — and an inmost light speaks out from things; Will, a new miracled Matter's ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 17 January 1938 Mother, The Ideal of Human Unity is out of print — perhaps luckily, since it was printed in a very shabby way in Madras. If you like, I’ll send to Lord Nuffield Ideal and Progress, The National Value of Art, Superman, Evolution , and whatever else I can ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 15 March 1966 Dearest Mother, The “Words of the Mother” you have permitted me to use for the March Mother India are: Ça ne fait rien! Les difficulties sont là pour le plaisir de les surmonter. Va de l’avant, garde confiance et tout ira bien. Is the following ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 10 May 1967 Dearest Mother, The following is going round the Ashram as emanating from you. If it is authentic, may I publish it in Mother India ? “4th May 1967 (4-5-67): the Supramental will start working on earth, but the working may start even a little earlier. ...
... the Mother's Room, inadvertently knocked his head against the cupboard and got a bump on his forehead. On seeing this bump on the forehead of Amrita who was unloading the things in front of the Mother, the Mother affectionately asked him what was the matter, referring to the bump. "Making me conscious. Mother," was the humorous answer of our Amrita while continuing the work without caring for the pain ...
... acute pain in the lower abdomen. The army doctor diagnosed it as appendicitis and said an immediate operation was necessary. Manibhai would not be rushed. He said, “No, I have to first inform the Mother.” The doctor was nonplussed — he tried to persuade the patient to consent. The patient would not budge. The doctor let him be. Manibhai then sent a telegram to the Mother. A reply “blessings” was wired ...
... titled Mahabirbhab — The Great Manifestation. Much of what I have written and all that I have quoted are from this interesting book. Yogananda more than once asked Sri Aurobindo: “Is she, our Mother, the same Great Universal Mother of Bharat Brahmachari’s vision?” At first Sri Aurobindo, though he replied to more than a hundred letters in a single night, did not reply to this question — or later ...
... centre of your being. It is the intensity of this consciousness that makes you weep with emotion; they are tears of the psychic which dissolve obstacles and difficulties of the being. The Mother The Mother used to play on her organ on New Years at 0.00 hours. That was long, long ago. She continued playing until the late 50s, though not at 0.00 hours. In 1959 she asked Sunil-da to orchestrate ...
... and finally in 1923 Champaklal came to Pondicherry to offer himself in the service of the Divine. He dedicated himself to the practice of Integral Yoga under the guidance of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The Integral Yoga as developed by Sri Aurobindo aims to enhance the experience of God-Consciousness in men, matter and nature.. He served both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother for over five decades in ...
... (Correspondence with Amrita) Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother 15 January 1932 Mother, The work certificate in question is for Mounousami of the Boulangerie. I will send the certificate to you tonight for signature. I am sending herewith a rough draft for correction and approval. ( On the rough draft prepared by Amrita, the Mother crossed ...
... (Correspondence with Amrita) Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother 6 February 1932 Mother, The duty on things like typewriters is 30 percent. It is difficult to say that the one in our hands costs less than say Rs. 150. The Customs Office has a price list of things, so the duty is not likely to be less than Rs. 40 to 45. This amount is recoverable ...
... (Correspondence with Amrita) Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother 19 March 1932 Mother, The cobbler Couppouswamy is back again in Pondicherry. He wishes to work for the Ashram on a monthly salary. Are there other things you wish to know from him? Apart from asking what wages he wants, you can tell him that, in case we take him, he will have ...
... (Correspondence with Amrita) Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother 11 January 1933 Mother, The two musician friends of Radhananda who came for the last Darshan of 24th November are editors of a monthly review in Tamil at Srivaikuntham. At their request I gave them some of my manuscripts — those that had already been published five or six years ...
... your verdict... As for identifying the Queen of Sheba, it is not necessary for my purpose. AH I can whisper in your ear is that Nolini once said that Sri Aurobindo had been Solomon and the Mother the Queen of Sheba. Nolini has also confirmed that the Mother had also been Queen Hatshepsut. So Velikovsky is perfectly right in visioning the two of them - Sheba and Hatshepsut -as being the same person ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 8 September 1963 Dearest Mother, The following “Words” of yours will go very well as an accompaniment to those on modern art which I am using for the September issue of Mother India . Do you approve of their publication? ( Amal sent both the French original and his ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 20 April 1968 ( Amal sent to the Mother the entreaty of a friend: ) Please tell Mother that I feel all the time as if life and energy were flowing away from me out of my hands and feet and I cannot stop it. Why does he complain? The energy must be spent to be renewed. The ...
... parties' in 1949 has become a 'chaos' of hoodlums in 2004. And with this the 'life-line' and sense of India's 'destiny' are being obliterated with surgical precision. • 'India as the living Mother', the 'nation as a single being', with 'a presiding genius which animates us' - all this has been and is being given short shrift by the managers of the country. In recent years some sincere attempts ...
... "Nothing has changed. Call for inspiration and help as you have always done. You will get everything from Sri Aurobindo as before." This was simultaneously the Grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the crowning touch to all that they had done in those three weeks from November 24 onwards for a poor aspirant whose dependence on them was abject. * I went back to Bombay with the prayer ...
... wouldn’t return. It seems she had no other clothes except what was on her and it was a great shock to her to be turned away like that in the night. Was it really done according to your order, Mother? The report is false — she has not been turned out of her rooms — and it seems to me that you have rather too readily accepted this suggestion. As she had moved away things without any previous notice ...
... Sun” or anything connected with the Supramental or Sachchidananda. The Mother would arrange these flowers herself. After some time, I too started, when given permission, to send flowers for the Mother. The last flowers the Mother sent to me were a garland of “Devotion”. I used to press all the flowers sent to us. We would send flowers covered with a beautiful cloth. In the Indian tradition, when flowers ...
... school was established by Maggi Lidchi-Grassi and her late husband, Nata Grassi, who had also founded Auroshikha incense factory. Udavi, in Tamil language, means “Help” and the name was given by the Mother. The Auroshikha factory was, at that time, on the grounds of the school but has since moved to Pondicherry. By 1978 I was fully involved as a teacher at Udavi. In 1983-84 Maggi went to America for ...
... you believe them, it does not mean that your vision is false, but that the interpretation of your vision is false, that you do not have the necessary discernment to perceive the deception. The Mother The visions he has between the eyebrows are not imaginations—they could be so only if he thought them first and his thoughts took shape but as they came independent of his thoughts, they are not visual ...
... earlier, Kamalaben used to draw my attention repeatedly to my carelessness. I had told her that it would be better if she refrained from doing so. I felt that Kamalaben had conveyed this to the Mother. The Mother came very close to me, held both my hands and kept looking at me with the feeling of oneness and love. She asked me, “What is this, Champaklal?” She did what she used to do whenever there ...
... loving offering to our Divine Mother from his dedicated family. For me to go to his garden would have been a joy even on any other day, to see brother Narad with his plants as if he were near the Mother. The plants speak to him, of course the plants speak to others also, but everyone does not hear. When he is near the plants, his face beams. It is a happy sight to see him and the plants together. His ...
... steps to reach the top. While climbing one would often feel that only a few steps remained, but that was not to be as there was no end to the steps. This building belonged to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The desire to go higher and higher became more intense but the steps were almost endless. I finally decided not to think about the remaining steps. Is it not joyous to climb them? In the meanwhile ...
... that one can go without moving physically (indicated by the earth itself moving) into higher and more beautiful regions. In this new world, all arrangements are perfectly done by the Father and the Mother, the “two who are one.” Having once reached the higher domains of consciousness, one lives less in the physical consciousness as indicated by the absence of physical necessities like food, etc., and most ...
... significant. This feminine force, or the force of the World-Mother, is directly empowered by the Supreme. The initiated reader of Sri Aurobindo's literature instantly remembers the word in The Mother : "The Grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of the Supreme." 4 That is why Gokak sees in Savitri a doctrine which incarnates as imagination. 5 This is not wholly true, because there are moments ...
... exigencies of space, I would give long excerpts from the Book of Fate where Sri Aurobindo brings out forcefully this dramatic situation: Savitri is resolved to stake everything for her ideal; her mother, the queen, is afraid of disaster, fear making her pessimistic in the extreme; Narada admonishes the queen and, siding with Savitri, counsels her parents to let her marry Satyavan and, lastly, winds ...
... soul, of heaven and hell, here and now. That is very much in the spirit of Sri Aurobindo and the Vedic Rishis who sang of the marriage of heaven and earth: "Heaven is my Father and this Earth my Mother." The highest must come down and inhabit the lowest; the lowest must give up its own norms and lift itself into the substance and form of the highest. It is such divinisation of man and nature that ...
... Bonne Fête! To Champaklal, Forward! always forward! Higher! always higher! Truer! always truer! Blessings The Mother [Beneath a symbolic painting done by Tehmi 1 and offered to the Mother. The Mother gave it to Champaklal on 2.2.1964] The goal is eternal and infinite... The Mother 2.2.1964 To Champaklal, specially prepared for his birthday by Gautam With love, ...
... Edition-II Symbols -The Mother’s Symbols The central circle represents the Divine consciousness. The four petals represent the four power of the mother. The twelve petals represents the twelve power of the mother manifested for Her work. The Mother Centre and 4 power white. The 12, all of different colours in three groups (1) top group red ...
... Sadhaks of the Ashram ''The following instructions were circulated in the Ashram during the first few years of its existence. The first short notice is by Sri Aurobindo, the last is by the Mother. The other two longer notices seem to have been formulated by Nolini Kanta Gupta, the Secretary of the Ashram, following the oral or written indications of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Some of he rules ...
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