... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother (1) 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... Tapas – of ascetic energy, a bare clear concentrated flame-wave of consciousness, of thought-force. In the Prayers and Meditations the fundamental unit of expression seems to be a packet of gracious light – one seems to touch the very hem of Mahalakshmi. The voice in the Prayers and Meditations is Krishna's flute calling the souls imprisoned in their worldly household to come out into the wide green... identified herself with each person in her being and consciousness, she is one with all, all are merged in her. Her voice utters the cry of the human collectivity. Mother's Prayers and Meditations are the prayers and meditations of man. Thus again: . . il m' a semblé que j' adoptais tous les habitants de ce bateau, que je les enveloppais tous dans un égal amour, et qu' ainsi en chacun d' ...
... interesting subject, but as it does not lie within the scope of our present object, we shall just touch upon it and pass on to the Mother's experiences of the divine union as transcribed in the "Prayers and Meditations". And in order to obviate a possible misunderstanding, we shall make it perfectly clear at the very outset that the union the Mother aspired for and realised, is not the traditional union ... dynamism. But great as these states are and equally glorious to the undiscriminating eye of mental intelligence, they are far from what the Mother has experienced and expressed in so many of her "Prayers and Meditations." We shall now proceed to see what the Mother means by the Divine and the divine union. By the Divine she means—and that is Page 137 exactly the view of Sri Aurobindo, as... culture.¹ Let us now try to follow in the footsteps of the Mother as she proceeds from one realization of union to another till the integral union is attained. Almost in the beginning of her "Prayers and Meditations" the Mother declares that she has realized divine union : "I said yesterday to that Englishman who is seeking for Thee with so sincere a desire that I had definitively found Thee, that the ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10 Section Five XIX Prayers and Meditations of the Mother (I) 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... to some Thou givest out Thy secret. Page 81 consciousness, of thought-force. In the Prayers and Meditations the fundamental unit of expression seems to be a packet of gracious light—one seems to touch the very hem of Mahalakshmi. The voice in the Prayers and Meditations is Krishna's flute calling the souls imprisoned in their worldly household to come out into the wide green... identified herself with each person in her being and consciousness, she is one with all, all are merged in her. Her voice utters the cry of the human collectivity. Mother's Prayers and Meditations are the prayers and meditations of man. Thus again: 1 "...il m'a semblé que j'adoptais tous les habitants de ce bateau, que je les enveloppais tous dans un égal amour, et qu'ainsi en chacun d'eux ...
... started in the Mother’s room. The Mother used to read from Prayers and Meditations there after ten. A large sofa was kept for the Mother near the cupboard one passes as one turns to go to Her second-floor room. The Mother would sit on this sofa and read out the prayers. We had been dreaming about hearing the Mother read the Prayers and Meditations to us. We kept telling one another: “Ah, if only the... thought in my head. “Would you like to study Prayers and Meditations ?” I went wild with this unexpected joy! On entering the room I saw that Tapati and Chitra were happily seated next to Pranab. Their eyes seemed to say: “Just see, how our prayer has been answered!” So we were four to start with. And that is how the Prayers and Meditations class started. On Tapati’s birthday the Mother... longer dense darkness to human eyes. With this massive discovery I started feeling a profound thrill of beatitude race through my mind and body. The Mother used to read to us from Her Prayers and Meditations in the Darshan room usually after half past twelve. Wise, experienced sadhaks also joined us young immature girls and boys. Dada (Pranab) sat facing the Mother. Behind the Mother’s chair sat ...
... × Prayers and Meditations , 29 January 1914 . × Prayers and Meditations , 19 June 1914 . × Prayers and Meditations , 15 June 1914 . ... × Extract from the Mother's Prayers and Meditations , 18 June 1913 . × Prayers and Meditations , 11 January 1914 . × ... is composed of extracts from several prayers of the Mother in Prayers and Meditations ,: paragraph one, 29 November 1913 ; two, 7 January 1914 ; four, 8 March 1914 ; five, 7 April 1914 and 18 April 1914 . × Prayers and Meditations ,: first phrases, 16 August 1913 ; last phrase, 17 August 1913 ...
... that she had not known about this before or that many elements of the new effort were not already present and even partially worked out in earlier years, some as early as in the years the Prayers and Meditations were written. This is an Integral Yoga, a global effort from the very beginning, ‘a war on all fronts’ to recall Sri Aurobindo’s simile; every gain made a further progress possible and therefore... divine Creatrix of the worlds. What could be seen of her with physical eyes – and many saw nothing more – was only an outer shell. Once, when a question was put to Sri Aurobindo concerning the Prayers and Meditations, he wrote: ‘It is the Mother in the lower nature addressing the Mother in the higher nature, the Mother herself carrying on the Sadhana of the earth-consciousness for the transformation praying... the Divine, the Lord, her higher Self, was permanent throughout her life. It was the basis of everything she did, of her great yogic acts and of the apparent trifles of everyday life. Her Prayers and Meditations were already pervaded by surrender as by an exalting perfume. It was also the very instrument of her yoga. It was, she said, the only means, the only remedy, the only solution. The principle ...
... power, consider the events with serenity. ”³ In the first and third quotations, the Mother speaks of ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, March r, 1914. ² Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, March 17, 1914. ³” Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, March 23, 1914. Page 376 "the highest manifestation" and "the highest and purest light," which... The divine Manifestation in the Divine Life has been the constant preoccupation of the Mother also all through her life, the single aim of all her spiritual strivings. As we read her Prayers and Meditations, we find it to be the recurring refrain of all her heart's songs mounting towards the Divine. Not content with the bliss of an absorbed union with the Supreme in the immobile depths of her... integrated means of the fulfilment of His Will. This colossal work of revealing the divine glory and dispensing the divine Grace in a life of ceaseless activity, she has undertaken, as the Prayers and Meditations proclaims from page to page, in response to the express Will of the Divine, so that the fruits of her labours may be reproduced in humanity and there may be a perfect Manifestation of Spirit ...
... × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, CWM1 p. 1 (Sri Aurobindo’s Translation). × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations , CWM 1 p. 120. × ... Eternal Transcendent forbids it.’ 41 On 2 November 1912 Mirra wrote the first entry in her spiritual diary, ‘written during years of intensive yogic discipline,’ and afterwards called Prayers and Meditations. ‘Although my whole being is in theory consecrated to Thee, O Sublime Master, who art the life, the light and the love in all things, I still find it hard to carry out this consecration in... See Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, book VII, canto V, CWSA 33 p. 34. × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, CWM 1 p. 16. × The Mother, Words of Long Ago, CWM 2 p. 145. ...
... nts high enough to attain to the Resurrection. Nothing remains of the past but a potent love which gives me the pure heart of a child and the lightness and freedom of thought of a god.’ (Prayers and Meditations) Towards the end of the war there was a severe pandemic of ‘Spanish flu’ which killed more than twenty million people, more than had died in the war itself. 94 The pandemic raged also... their travel documents and left for Pondicherry. × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, CWM 1 p. 388. × Id., p. 336. ... × Id., p. 319. × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, CWM 1 p. 398. × Id., p. 399. ...
... ______________________________ ¹ Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 2, pp. 368-9. ² A few selections from this 'journal' have been published under the title Prayers and Meditations. Much later, speaking of this journal, Mother said: Prayers and Meditations came to me, you know—it was dictated each time. I would write at the end of my concentration, and it didn't pass through the mind, it just came— and... with.... I learned later that it was an entity from the past who had come back into me through the aspiration arising from the music.² ______________________________ ¹ The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, 22/2/1914, p. 81. ² Mother’s-Agenda, Vol. 2, pp. 195-6. Page 26 At the age of eighteen, I remember having such an intense need in me to KNOW.... Because I was having... worlds. Without knowing Sri Aurobindo or his teaching, she had already come to the same aspiration and vision that she was to find soon in Sri Aurobindo. Let us note here some of her Prayers and Meditations which may provide to us a few glimpses into the depth, width and height of her experience before she met Sri Aurobindo. November 2, 1912 Although my whole being is in theory consecrated ...
... above two passages bear eloquent testimony to the identification of the Mother's being with the Earth, but this identification by itself cannot deliver the Earth from darkness ¹ Prayers and Meditations Of the Mother, May 31,1914. ² ibid., May 25, 1914. Page 57 and suffering and make her the field of divine revelation, unless there is an equally complete identification... the Mother's being with the being and consciousness of the Supreme and a sovereign working of His Will through the Mother upon the Earth. Of the latter there is no dearth of evidence in the Prayers and Meditations. We cite here only one or two of those that bear directly and definitely upon the Earth and her destiny: " Mother Divine, Thou art with us, every day Thou givest me the assurance, and... Earth and tenderly press it to the generous heart, and slowly a kiss of supreme benediction settles on this atom in conflict: the kiss of the Mother that consoles and heals.” ² ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, October 14, 1914. ² ibid., August 11, 1914. Page 58 But even this double identification, which is the secret of the Mother's mission on earth and her ...
... beyond the universe and unite him with the eternal Unmanifest. He is thus created to bridge the yawning gulf between Matter and Spirit and be the great reconciler and unifier of ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, August 29, 1914. Page 66 what appears as eternal opposites in creation. His birth here is not a chance caprice of Nature or a vain error. If he has come down... to her, the Work of all works, the Goal of all goals. "My sole aspiration is to know Thee better and serve Thee ¹ Sri Aurobindo : Savitri, Book III, Canto II. ² Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, Page 69 better every day.”¹ Knowledge, Power, Love, Union—all are harnessed to bring about the manifestation which is the purpose of God in creation. ... purity, to be identified with it, can be useful only if we subsequently utilize this knowledge for hastening the earthly transfiguration, far accomplishing Thy sublime work.”³ ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. ² ibid., March 13, 1913. ³ ibid., June 15, 1913, Page 70 What fire-flakes of words to kindle the consciousness of man into the right perception ...
... diary on the 19th November, 1912, "to that Englishman who is seeking for Thee with so sincere a desire, that I had definitively found Thee, that the Union was constant." 26 26. Prayers and Meditations — The Mother. Page 378 Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry, 1914 On the 28th March, the day before she arrived, she had written in her dairy, "Since our... "It matters not if there are hundreds of beings plunged in the densest ignorance. He whom we saw yesterday is on earth: His presence is enough to prove that a day will come 27. Prayers and Meditations — The Mother. Page 379 when darkness shall be transformed into light, when Thy reign shall be, indeed, established upon earth. "O Lord, Divine Builder of this marvel... immense gratitude rises from my heart, I seem 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 ...
... terms of material facts. Those who have read the Mother's "Prayers and Meditations" know how, practically through the whole book of over 350 Prayers, the recurring theme is the same: the transformation of Matter, the transmutation of the physical being of man. But this is not a theme that originated with the "Prayers and Meditations," but had its birth in the Mother's consciousness very early... offering of each movement of one's nature—physical, vital, psychic, mental and spiritual—to the Divine and to none and nothing but the Divine. All actions of life are accepted 1 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother —August 17, 1913 Page 33 and turned towards the Divine except those which are tainted with desire or clearly detrimental to spiritual growth. This wholesale... supple and ripe for the illumination which contemplation gives to them." 1 If one gives up the daily activity, one gives up the very process by which, and by which alone, the 1 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother—Nov. 28, 1912 Page 34 elements and energies of one's being can be purified and transformed. But, it must be carefully noted, the work of the transformation ...
... 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... Tapas—of ascetic energy, a bare clear concentrated flame-wave of consciousness, of thought-force. In the Prayers and Meditations the fundamental unit of expression seems to be a packet of gracious light—one seems to touch the very hem of Mahalakshmi. The voice in the Prayers and Meditations is Krishna's flute calling the souls imprisoned in their worldly household to come out into the wide green... identified herself with each person in her being and consciousness, she is one with all, all are merged in her. Her voice utters the cry of the human collectivity. Mother's Prayers and Meditations are the prayers and meditations of man. Thus again: - .. il m'a semble que j'adoptais tous les habitants de ce bateau, que je les enveloppais tous dans un egal amour, et qu'ainsi en chacun d'eux quelque ...
... whose favour and menace are equally utilised by the soul for its evolution. Sometimes congenial circumstances minister to our spiritual growth and sometimes they prove a positive ¹ Prayers and Meditations, of the Mother, August 2, 19I3. These words spoken by the Divine have a special significance and special bearing on the life and experiences of the Mother. Here we are concerned only with... imperil my spiritual progress. It is only our ignorance of the diverse determinisms of the different planes of consciousness and different orders of realities that makes ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, January 31, 1914. Page 301 us rush into any action that appeals to our surface being. An indiscriminate undertaking of the actions preferred by the mind usually... which will facilitate the identification of our consciousness with the eternal Consciousness, and carefully avoid all that can be an obstacle to this identification. ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, February 15, 1914. Page 302 It is then that the rules of conduct having at their base a perfect personal disinterestedness should assume all their value ...
... sequence of its details is flawlessly perfect, it corresponds exactly to that of the spiritual experiences on the path of Sri Aurobindo's integral Yoga, as promulgated years afterwards. ¹Prayers and Meditations of the Mother — February 22, 1914. Page 2 The first movement in the Mother's experience is one of ascent. "I came out of my body and rose straight up above the house, then above... penetrating all hearts, murmuring to every ear Thy divine message of hope and peace.” This experience is the prophetic dawn of the Mother's life whose blazing noontide is revealed in the Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Here it is only a foreshadowing, but what a marvellously precise foreshadowing ! We now propose to proceed very humbly to understand—it is foolhardy to presume to interpret... feelings, even the most sublime, beyond the most magnificent aspiration and the purest élans, beyond Love, Knowledge and the Unity of the Being, I would enter into a constant ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother— March 31,1917. Page 5 communion with Thee, O Lord. Free from all trammels, I shall be Thyself; it will be Thou seeing the world through this body; it will be ...
... 1980 and 1990 under the shortened title Prières et Méditations . An English translation of the entire text, entitled Prayers and Meditations of the Mother , was first published in 1948. A second edition, newly translated and with the shortened title Prayers and Meditations , was brought out in 1979 as Volume 1 of the Collected Works of the Mother. New impressions of that edition were issued in... Prayers and Meditations Note on the Text The 313 prayers comprising this volume were selected by the Mother from her spiritual diaries. These diaries were destroyed after the selection was published. The original French text, entitled Prières et Méditations de la Mère , was first brought out in 1932. A second edition, which included one new prayer and an introductory... 1999. The present, third edition has the same text as the second. In 1941 English translations of sixty-one prayers (about one-fifth of the complete text) were published under the title Prayers and Meditations of the Mother . Six of those prayers were translated by Sri Aurobindo in their entirety, three others in part. For the rest, he revised the translations made by disciples. Further revisions ...
... of material facts. Those who have read the Mother's Prayers and Meditations know how, practically through the whole book of over 350 Prayers, the recurring theme is the same : the transformation of Matter, the transmutation of the physical being of man. But this is not a theme that originated with the Prayers and Meditations, but had its birth in the Mother's consciousness very early in... How trivial are these things, a thin smoke dissolved by a simple breath, vanishing like mirage before a single thought turned towards Thee (the Divine).”¹ And yet it is not a ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, August 17, 1913. Page 357 neglect of the body that the Mother teaches, for she knows that "the body is a marvellous instrument” and that "there is... no... own salvation." Therefore, not by renouncing the material life and its activities—a renunciation which the Mother calls "a struggle useless and pernicious"—but by recognising in ¹Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, November 28, 1912. ².ibid Page 359 each atom of Matter "the Will of God who inhabits it" and identifying oneself with it, that "the promised day, the ...
... discover in them the same essential elements that constitute the ideal and the realisation of Sri Aurobindo, so far as the divine union is concerned. In the very first Prayer of the "Prayers and Meditations", the Mother gives us a glimpse of the central aspiration of her being and the height of vision and experience to which she has already attained. "I aspire for the day when I can no... dynamic union with the Supreme through service...."This body whose will is to become Thy docile instrument and Thy faithful servant." 2 "...This substance which, being Thy- 1 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother —Dec. 2,1912 2 ibid., Nov. 3, 1912 Page 17 self, desires to be Thy willing servant." 1 This service, as the Mother understands it, is not a mere Karmayoga... another name for an unobstructed divine self-expression. 2 Attuned to the same key, ring Sri Aurobindo's words: "Preserving and perfecting the physical, fulfilling the 1 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother —Nov. 19, 1912 2 For further details on the subject, refer to my book, "In the Mother's Light" in 2 Page 18 mental, it is Nature's aim and it should ...
... × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, CWM 1 pp. 243-44. × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, CWM 1 p. 244. × ... It is remarkable how this period of frantic activity was also a period of the most intensive spiritual practice, both for Sri Aurobindo and for Mirra. The Record of Yoga and the Prayers and Meditations bear witness to this. There is no entry in Mirra’s diary dated 15 August 1914, Sri Aurobindo’s birthday and the day the first issue of the Arya appeared. There is, however, an entry on the... the Divine. (We have seen that he himself practised this surrender from the moment he engaged on the path of his spiritual discovery with V.B. Lele in Baroda, and whoever reads the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations will find it on practically every page.) A total surrender by a spiritual aspirant is not without danger, for he will, because of his inner choice and commitment, at once become the target ...
... (above the head), the connection is constant.¹ It would be rewarding to go through her journal Prayers and Meditations to get an intimate idea of what she felt and experienced during those days of her early meetings with Sri Aurobindo. We may cite here a few of these prayers and meditations: March 30, 1914 In the presence of those who are integrally Thy servitors, those who have... The Mother meets Sri Aurobindo On March 7, 1914, Mother was aboard the Kaga Maru sailing for Pondicherry. 'He whom we saw yesterday is on earth.' Thus Mother wrote in her Prayers and Meditations of her meeting with Sri Aurobindo on 29th March 1914. 'Exactly my vision'—she narrated much later on. He whom she was seeing in her vision since 1904 corresponded exactly with Sri Aurobindo... or understand, if I consent to be completely like an ignorant and candid child, some new possibility will open before me. I know _________________________________ ¹The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, p. 113. ² Ibid., p. 114. Page 52 that I must now definitively give myself up and be like an absolutely blank page on which Thy thought, Thy will, O Lord, can be inscribed ...
... Spirit acts on spirit to temper and transform - these are the alphabet of the daily prayers and meditations. They are a diary, a record, of Mirra's pleadings, strivings, fleeting visions, partial realisations, renewed visions, fresh realisations; and, as we follow the golden sequence of the Prayers and Meditations, we too cannot help partaking something of the widening and heightening, something... is capable", an opinion shared by many who are entitled to speak with authority about French writing. In 1941 English translations of 61 of the prayers were published under the title Prayers and Meditations. There are manuscripts in Sri Aurobindo's hand of several of them. For the rest, there are manuscripts written by a disciple and extensively revised by So Aurobindo. A fuller edition was... for all time. III The last of the weekly 'essays', now included in Words of Long Ago, was read to the Idea group on 2 July 1912. Mirra seems to have begun writing down her prayers and meditations not long afterwards, at first not quite clear in her mind as to the exact purpose of the daily exercise. But by 2 November 1912, she was able to see things clearly: It has taken me several ...
... aspiration for service which has found such an exquisite and inspiring expression in many of the Mother's Prayers and Meditations. "May every morning our thought rise with fervour towards Thee, asking Thee what is the best we can do to manifest and serve Thee. ”² ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, March 12, 1914. ² ibid., January 31, 1914. Page 110 "O Love divine... of chameleon tendencies, no sting of desires or pang of frustration, but all nature, harmonized and integrated, quickened and illumined, ecstatically responding to the touch of ¹Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, June 30, 1914. Page 107 divine Love and impeccably moved by the divine Force. The Will of the eternal Doer functions through the co-operating will of the apparent... be constantly in search of Thee in everything, to will to manifest Thee better in every circumstance; in this attitude is to be found supreme Peace, perfect serenity, ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, January 11, 1915. Page 109 true contentment. In it life blooms, widens, spreads out so magnificently, in such majestic surges that no storm can any more ...
... serenity." 3 In the first and third quotations, the Mother speaks of "the highest manifestation" and "the highest and purest 1 Prayers and Meditations —March I, 2 Prayers and Meditations March —17, 1914 3 Prayers and Meditations March —23, 1914 Page 58 light," which evidently means what Sri Aurobindo calls the supramental manifestation or the supramental... The divine Manifestation in the Divine Life has been the constant preoccupation of the Mother also all through her life, the single aim of all her spiritual strivings. As we read her "Prayers and Meditations", we find it to be the recurring refrain of all her heart's songs mounting towards the Divine. Not content with the bliss of an absorbed union with the Supreme in the immobile depths of... integrated means of the fulfillment of His Will. 1 This colossal work of revealing the divine glory and dispensing the divine Grace in a life of ceaseless activity, she has undertaken, as the "Prayers and Meditations" proclaims from page to page, in response to the 1 For fuller details refer to my book, "In the Mother's Light" in 2 Page 54 express Will of the Divine, so that ...
... displayed by the Ashram created an overwhelming presence of beauty and joy and peace: the beauty and bliss of the Divine Mother’s Grace! [“Flowers bring with them the smile of the Divine” — from Prayers and Meditations .] Many were the stories Jyotin-da, another sadhak, would tell. This is one that had baffled him when he tried to fathom the Mother’s ways with her children. He told me of a flower I had... and she kept these paintings in Pavitra’s room until they were later moved to The Studio. How did you feel when you went to the Mother on your birthday? The following quotation from Prayers and Meditations would best describe what we felt when the Mother gave flowers for our birthday, the most special day, individually speaking, of the year. We saw her several times on that day and each time... ardent prayer, the chant of the birds becomes a canticle, the waves of the sea billow with love, the smile of the children tells of the infinite and the souls of men appear in their eyes.” [ Prayers and Meditations , March 31, 1917.] * * * Richard and Kailas continue to offer their lives in service to the Mother. They are well known and loved in the United States and have visited many centers giving ...
... anymore (and neither was Sri Aurobindo’s). We have already seen how refined and sensitive it had become after her occult schooling in Tlemcen and the sequence of experiences described in her Prayers and Meditations. ‘Behind the physical body [of the Mother] there are many forms and powers and personalities of the Mother,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo; and: ‘She has many personalities and the body is plastic enough... physical crisis the Mother went through in 1931. From 18 October to 24 November she had to withdraw and all her activities were suspended. On the latter date she wrote the last but one of her Prayers and Meditations, which she noted down rarely at that time. ‘O my Lord, my sweet Master, for the accomplishment of Thy work I have sunk down into the unfathomable depths of Matter,’ it went. ‘I have touched... Amal Kiran and Nirodbaran, op. cit., p. 68. × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations , CWM 1 p. 416. × Sri Aurobindo, op. cit., p. 315. ...
... words, nothing. We knew it was THAT. But between these two meetings he participated in a whole series of experiences, experiences of gradually growing awareness. This is partly noted in Prayers and Meditations (I have cut out all the personal segments). But there was one experience I didn't speak of there (that is, I didn't describe it, I put only the conclusion)—the experience where I say 'Since... Rue François Martin. × Mother is probably alluding to this passage in Prayers and Meditations ( September 3, 1919 ): 'Since the man refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and care, I invoke the God to take it.' ... See conversation of November 5, 1961 . × Perhaps Mother is alluding to this passage from Prayers and Meditations ( October 10, 1918 ): 'My Father smiled at me and gathered me into his powerful arms....' ...
... × These are the first and last lines of the Mother's prayer of 23 October 1937 in prayers and Meditations. × Prayers and Meditations , 23 October 1937 . × The... A happy cat sketched by the Mother to cheer up her unhappy disciple Page 330 × Prayers and Meditations , 23 October 1937 × The disciple. ...
... × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations , 24 August 1914 . × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations , 17 May 1914 . × ... reserve to the future, and if this giving is constantly renewed, the past will fall away by itself and no longer encumber you. 14 June 1967 One morning as I was reading Your book Prayers and Meditations, I wished to know which movement comes first, "to live in Thee" or "to live for Thee". Before the mind could set to work to find the answer, the reply that Page 364 came to me ...
... God-seekers ? What has created the divine beauty of her form, imparted the divine rhythm to her movements and the divine fire to her will ? Those who know her or have only read her Prayers and Meditations will at once reply in a chorus : Love is the truth and essence of the Mother's life and love the nuclear force of her personality. In the Chandi (a portion of the Markendya Purana), ... I may be only Thy divine Love, and that in every- thing this Love may awake powerful and victorious. "Let me be like an immense mantle of love enveloping the whole ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, March 31, 1917, Page 330 earth, penetrating all hearts, murmuring to every ear Thy divine message of hope and peace.” The Mother's aspiration was fulfilled... herself the burning brazier of Love, so that the atmosphere of the earth may be purified with its flames and our animal humanity transfigured into the glory of a divine humanity. ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother Page 334 ...
... sinks down into the subconscient, not as precise though submerged memories but as obscure yet obstinate impressions of experience, ¹ The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo. ² Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 366 and these can come up at any time as dreams, as mechanical repetitions of past thought, feelings, action, etc., as complexes exploding into action... passivity "which we have to conquer and awaken to the consciousness of Thy divine ¹ Bases of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo. ² The Life Divine, Vol. II, Chap. XXVI. ³ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 367 Presence, ”¹ and calls this conquest "the work to be accomplished, the mission to be fulfilled upon the earth. ” Sri Aurobindo and the Mother... Aurobindo has been progressing, and its consummation will be the manifestation of God in life, the Life Divine. If we lose sight of this fundamental perception, we shall find ourselves ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. ² ibid. Page 368 lost in the many-sided vastness of the aim and the incalculable swing and sweep of the process of the Integral Yoga propounded by them ...
... accepted, in the beginning as a means of purification and preparation, and later as a medium of ethico-spiritual self-expression. Through it one pours out into the; * Based on Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, Page 280 world something of the moral purity, freedom, power, love and compassion which grow in the being as a result of accumulating spiritual realizations... The implications of the Mother's teaching in this Prayer favour our initial postulate of the twofold nature of Yogic action. The dual formula corresponds, we can say with more ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, March 23, 1914. Page 290 or less precision, to the double movement of the integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo—the movement of ascent and the movement of descent.... disparities into the conquering harmony of the progressive Union. A simultaneous utilization of all the elements in perfect concordance is possible only when the whole human ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, December 2, 1912, Page 294 consciousness rests in the supreme Consciousness and the whole human nature is possessed and moved by it. We have seen what is ...
... transformation of nature, and the 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... and marvellous light, forms the centre and reality of the atoms of Matter I find Thee; thus without going out of Thy Presence I can disappear in Thy supreme consciousness or see ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, Dec. 5, 1912. Page 179 Thee in the radiant particles of my being. And for the moment that is the plenitude of Thy life and Thy illumination. " I see ... is not any mentally conceived work, altruistic or humanitarian, done in a spirit of disinterestedness; it is becoming a flexible and iridescent instrument for the perfect self- ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 180 expression of the Divine. In her Prayer of the 27th July, 1914, the Mother prays to the Divine:— "Let me lie down at Thy feet, merge into Thy ...
... times a day. Some time during this period, the Mother asked Parul to come twice a week during the captain’s training course and sit next to me. She told us both to bring our copies of Prayers and Meditations . Alternately Parul and I would read a prayer in French and the Mother would give long explanations for the benefit of the ladies around Her. Parul and I did not listen to Her at all. We would... lesson with the captains’ group . With a feeling of exultation and triumph I ran off, little realising the golden opportunity I had let slip by. From that day the Mother stopped the classes on Prayers and Meditations . Some time later however, early in June 1951, the Mother took up these classes again. At first there were only the six of us: Chum, Jhumur, Bubu, Gauri, Parul and me who went together daily... She announced that She was going to hold special classes at the playground for us on Wednesdays. On 6 th June, She gave each of us an individually numbered copy of the second edition of Prayers and Meditations in French and began our classes in the Guest House verandah of the children’s courtyard. Besides the six of us, the Mother asked my sister, Chitra, to join. So there were seven of us. From ...
... reserved a room for Appa inside the Ashram premises and made him one of the twenty-four sadhaks she met in the Stores in Library House. In one of the last meetings there, she cut out some prayers and meditations from her diaries and gave them to the participants; to Appa she gave her meditation of 28 th December 1928: There is a Power that no ruler can command; there is a Happiness that no... Madhuridi, she came up with this story: "One day, I asked Nolini-da, ‘You people know Life Divine, Synthesis, Savitri, etc. and so do this Yoga so well, but we understand only some things in Prayers and Meditations . How then can we do this yoga?’ You know what he said? ‘Actually, you people will realise the Divine before us intellectuals, because your faith and surrender are spontaneous, while we spend... Not because she no longer cared, her long established "peace of perfect faith" automatically left it to the Mother’s care. * Amma and I had purchased a copy of Mother’s Prayers and Meditations on 16 January 1992. I read out from it when we were alone in the evening, not regularly of course. She could still recite the prayer of 15 February 1914 — known as Mother’s favourite — ...
... Transformation The Mother has made this transformation—transformation of human nature as an inevitable condition of divine manifestation—the whole work and mission of her life. The Prayers and Meditations of the Mother is a living record of how she, after having attained a "constant and definitive" union with the Divine, had to forgo its rapt ecstasy, often for long spans of Page 121 ... or less native and abiding. A full and revealing emergence of "the perfect Existence, Knowledge and Beatitude,'' on all the levels of the individual being—each being comprises ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, May 27, 1914. Page 122 in itself all the levels or planes of consciousness—depend for its perfection, on the transformation of the obscure physic levels which... myself with this body, O divine Master, and I cry to Thee : 'Do not spare me, act with Thy sovereign omnipotence; into me Thou hast put the will for a total transfiguration.”³ ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, January 22, 1916. ² ibid., January 23, 1916. ³ ibid., July 10, 1914. Page 123 The prayer addressed to the Divine, as one can very well see, is of ...
... discover in them the same essential elements that constitute the ideal and the realisation of Sri Aurobindo, so far as the divine union is concerned. In the very first Prayer of the Prayers and Meditations, the Mother gives us a glimpse of the central aspiration of her being and the height of vision and experience to which she has already attained. "I aspire/or the day when I can no longer... spiritual career has consistently taken—it is the dual line of individual and collective aspiration and conquest. It must have been a basic realisation other consciousness, ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, November 2, 1912. ² Ibid. Page 344 early in her life, that existence is one and indivisible, and that our individual perfection and fulfilment must include... le aspiration—for a dynamic union with the Supreme through service... "This body whose will is to become Thy docile instrument and Thy faithful servant.”² "...This substance ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, December 2, 1912. ² ibid., November 3, 1912. Page 346” which, being Thyself, desires to be Thy willing servant.”¹ This service, as the Mother understands ...
... her foreknowledge by certain remarkable visions and mystical experiences, she had been pursuing her spiritual Page 336 life and steadily rising to her destined stature. Her Prayers and Meditations, in which she has transcribed some of her experiences, bear surprising testimony to the essential identity which had existed between her ideal and that of Sri Aurobindo's even before she met... realising and transforming Force, to raise man from mind to supermind and convert his life of division and discord into the creative unity and blissful harmony of the Life Divine. The Prayers and Meditations of the Mother begins from November 2, 1912 and ends on October 23, 1937. Out of a total of over 350 there are only six Prayers from 1919 to 1937, the rest all ranging from 1912 to 1918... complementaries, but a providential reunion of identities, separated for a time for the exigencies of the evolutionary terrestrial existence. It is true that there are certain Prayers in the Prayers and Meditations, particularly those written immediately after the Mother's meeting with Sri Aurobindo, in which she speaks of all her inner constructions having vanished like a vain dream and herself left ...
... spiritual progress and divine manifestation. We shall now try to understand what the Mother means by integral surrender. Its key-note is struck in the very first Prayer of her book, The Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, and it rises in pitch and power as the Prayers advance. In the Prayer of Aug. 15, 1913, the Mother says to the Divine, ¹ Words of the Mother, pp. 32-33. Page... thought. Thy will, O Lord, will be able to inscribe themselves freely, secure against any deformation. "An immense gratitude rises from my heart; I seem to have at ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, January 13, 1914. Page 47 last arrived at the threshold which I have so long sought. "Grant, O Lord, that I may be pure enough, impersonal enough... thrown backward, as I read a few pages of this book, definitively convinced me of this death, and lighten of a great weight, I present myself before Thee, O my divine Master, ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, April 7, 1914. Page 48 with all the simplicity, all the nudity of a child...And still the only thing I perceive is that calm and pure immensity....Lord ...
... realised by love and by nothing else—love which is, in Dante's words, The increate perpetual thirst that draws Towards the realms of God's own form...¹ In some of the Prayers and Meditations of the Mother this psychic love finds an exquisitely sweet and melting expression : "Like a flame that burns in silence, like a perfume that rises straight upward without wavering, my... Thee more intensely than ever; let me be Thy living love in the world and nothing but that! May all egoism, all limitations, all obscurity disappear; ¹Paradiso, Canto I. ² Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, Dec. 7, 1912. Page 31 may my consciousness be identified with Thy Consciousness, so that Thou alone mayst be the will acting through this fragile and transient... once the source and the realisation of all knowledge; may the thought be clarified., classified, enlightened, transformed by Thy Love; may all the forces of my life, solely ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, May 9, 1914. Page 32 penetrated and moulded by Thy Love, become irresistible purity and constant energy, power and rectitude...and may this body, becoming ...
... 10 × The Mother: Prayers and Meditations , p. 124. × The Mother: Prayers and Meditations , p. 93. × Sujata... Sujata Nahar: The Mother’s Chronicles V, p. 580. × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations , p. 124. × Ibid. × ... × Ibid., p. 127. × The Mother: Prayers and Meditations , p. 190 (emphasis in the text). × The Mother: Words of Long Ago, p. 47. ...
... THE MOTHER’S PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS ( One day, while talking about Savitri, the Mother said: ) … Like Savitri, the Prayers and Meditations has the same intensity of vibration and rhythm, the same origin, the same intuition, in fact, the same revelation with the power to transform. All that I have spoken about Savitri applies also for Prayers and Meditations ; only His [ Sri Aurobindo’s... the Supreme. The same substance in two identical approaches, in two different forms. In fact, the same vision — the Truth to be realised…. * * * Mother, You have written in Prayers and Meditations: “This book comprises extracts from a diary written during years of intensive yogic discipline. It may serve as a spiritual guide to three principal categories of seekers: those who ...
... he feel waves of joy washing over him all of next day? You see, though science may believe that man is merely a being of flesh and blood, it really is not so. For example, if you read the Prayers and Meditations of the Mother you will come across her description of an experience she had when she was your age. For nearly a year every night as soon as she had gone to bed it seemed to her that she went... being is removed and the whole ocean of knowledge comes pouring down. Beside it, mere book-learning resembles a tiny pool on the beach. Have you not read what the Mother has written in her Prayers and Meditations where she says, 'There is a Power' - I don't remember the text exactly." "Yes, we have read it." Sri Aurobindo cast a glance at Champaklal who picked the book from the shelf and put it... make your hair stand on end!" "Then, could we say that it is poetry alone that can express the mantra?" "Why so? Prose too can do it, though less often." "When we read the Mother's Prayers and Meditations, we have this kind of experience. Your book The Mother is also extraordinary." "Yes, they generate a special force, not merely through their thought-substance, but also through the sound ...
... III), 1970* *Except the two collections marked by asterisks, the above have now been included in the Collected Works of the Mother — Centenary Edition: Volume 1 — Prayers and Meditations. Prayers and meditations selected by the Mother from her diaries of 1912 to 1919, and five prayers of a later date. Volume 2 — Words of Long Ago. Writings before 1920: Early essays. Transcripts... Physical; Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient; Difficulties of the Path; Opposition of the Hostile Forces. Volume 25 — The Mother, WITH LETTERS ON THE MOTHER AND PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS (translations from Prières et Meditations de la Mere). Volume 26 — On Himself, COMPILED FROM NOTES AND LETTERS: Part One: Sri Aurobindo on Himself: Life Before Pondicherry; Beginnings... apart. Of unique significance in themselves, they also throw direct light on Sri Aurobindo's life, philosophy, poetry and Yoga. The more important of them are the following: 1. Prayers and Meditations 2. Words of the Mother 3. On Education 4. The Four Austerities and the Four liberations 5. The Mother on Sri Aurobindo 6. About Savitri ...
... The movement is the symbol of progressive evolution of the creation. 1.3.1967 "The Dawn that never ends" 1 : what spiritual state does this marvelous dawn represent? 1 Prayers and Meditations (24 August 1914). Page 5 Perpetual renewal. 6.3.1967 This is how I understand the Purusha: The Lord is the Supreme Purusha, the Purushottama. The Atman... must conquer my ego. But when I think of conquering my ego, I see that I must be closer to You. How can I solve this problem ? The Grace is there to solve it. 1.5.1967 1 Prayers and Meditations (17 May 1914). Page 9 How can I become Your good child? By being yourself, quite simply, very simply. . . . When I am able to offer You money or some object it... The quickest way is to unite more and more with your psychic being, because your psychic being is near to me very intimately. 20.6.1967 One morning as I was reading Your book Prayers and Meditations I wished to know which movement comes first, "to live in Thee" or "to live for Thee". Page 13 Before the mind could set to work to find the answer, the reply that came to me ...
... childhood and confirmed in her foreknowledge by certain remarkable visions and mystical experiences, she had been pursuing her spiritual life and steadily rising to her destined stature. Her "Prayers and Meditations", in which she has transcribed some of her experiences, bear surprising Page 3 testimony to the essential identity which had existed between her ideal and that of Sri Aurobindo... to raise man Page 5 from mind to supermind and convert his life of division and discord into the creative unity and blissful harmony of the Life Divine. The "Prayers and Meditations of the Mother" begins from November 2, 1912 and ends on October 23, 1937. Out of a total of over 350 there are only six Prayers from 1919 to 1937, the rest all ranging from 1912 to 1918.... es, but a providential reunion of identities, separated for a time for the exigencies of the evolutionary terrestrial existence. It is true that there are certain Prayers in the "Prayers and Meditations", particularly those written immediately after the Mother's meeting with Sri Aurobindo, in which she speaks of all her inner constructions having vanished like a vain dream and herself left ...
... trance. A complete invulnerability, a perfect and permanent immunity of the whole consciousness to the forces of disturbance or unrest, is a conquest hardly yet achieved by man. In the Prayers and Meditations the Mother speaks of this integral peace. Her conception of it is not only deeper and fuller, but immeasurably more comprehensive than that most spiritual teachers. It overwhelms us by... "We must not desire to see Thee, for that is still a mental agitation which obscures Thy eternal Presence.” An astounding this—not to desire to see the Divine ! But is not ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother—December 5, 1912. Page 21 desire a movement of ignorance, however laudable and salutary it may be in the conditions of that ignorance ? It has, no doubt, its... will this chaos dissolve ? In this dilemma, the soul of man, unknown to his outer consciousness, appeals to God, its sole refuge. It is this appeal that rings in many of the Mother's "Prayers and Meditations" with the haunting pathos of psychic sadness. Her Prayer of the 29th Nov. 1913 runs : "Why all this noise, all this movement, this vain and hollow agitation; why this whirlwind sweeping ...
... I had become immersed in the ocean and was drowning. I was eleven years old when Sri Aurobindo left his body. The Mother said, “Now I must teach you something about sadhana. Have you read Prayers and Meditations” She gave each of us a copy signed by her and she said, “Every Wednesday after March Past, gymnastics, concentration and distribution of sweets and prasad, I will teach a class.” Thus on Wednesday... our Centre of Education and to observe the Ashram. Pavitra suggested that we put on a performance with music in the theatre in English and in French. He choose a long prayer from Mother’s Prayers and Meditations for me to recite (March 31, 1917) with Srimoy (another member of the Pitoev family of actors). Srimoy had such a very dramatic delivery that I did not particularly like and she insisted that ...
... definite intuition of the "sublime mandate," of the "New Manifestation" which shall be an 19 The Sun and the Rainbow, p. 123. 20 Words of Long Ago, CWM, Vol. 2, p. 28. 21 Prayers and Meditations, CWM, Vol. 1, p. 380. 22 An Aiyar Brahmin from Chennai, Doraiswami was Sri Aurobindo's devotee. He maintained that he would perform the thread-ceremony of his son Mithran only if he... manifested Thyself, Thou who awaitest the propitious hour and hast sent us upon earth to prepare Thy ways, all the elements of this being cry to Thee, "May Thy will be done" and give 23 Prayers and Meditations, CWM, Vol. 1, p. 249 (25 September 1914.) 24 Ibid., p. 54. themselves to Thee in a supreme, unconquerable urge... The coming together of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo ...
... seemed to be asking for was a spiritual path leading to self-discovery and God-realization. It is such a path that I found in Sri Aurobindo's yoga. Most probably, the reason why the Mother's Prayers and Meditations made a special appeal to me was that the book speaks of the Divine as not only an impersonal Reality—as conceived in Theosophy— but also as the Lord of the universe and Master of one's being... these two messages in four mantric words: "now", "is", "yes", "allow". Page 31 × Prayers and Meditations, comprising extracts from a diary written by the Mother during years of intensive yogic discipline. × ...
... seemed dull and colourless and without any real life beside this activity of the night which was the true life for me.’ 4 Thus wrote Mirra in her spiritual diary Prières et Méditations (Prayers and Meditations). There are many stories about her, such as how, as a demonstration for her friends, she jumped from one corner to another of a twelve meter wide drawing-room, only once touching the floor... Her. Of course, I knew before that I was the Mother, but the complete identification took place only in 1914.’ 14 — ‘The great World-Mother now in her arose.’ 15 ( Savitri) — In her Prayers and Meditations we read on 13 September 1914: ‘With fervour I hail Thee, O divine Mother, and in deep affection identify myself with Thee. United with our divine Mother I turn, O Lord, to Thee, and bow to ...
... Mother and Paul Richard . These letters presumably were addressed both to Mirra and Paul. The one dated 31 December 1915 deals with an experience of the Mother's which is recorded in her Prayers and Meditations under the date 26 November 1915. Draft of a Letter. 1920s . The circumstances referred to in this letter suggest that it was written during the early 1920s, when Sri Aurobindo was... been brought out separately in 1951 in a volume entitled Letters of Sri Aurobindo on the Mother , were included in volume 25, The Mother with Letters on the Mother and Translations of Prayers and Meditations . Both On Himself and The Mother with Letters on the Mother were reprinted several times after 1972. Most of Sri Aurobindo's letters to Motilal Roy, along with the letter to ...
... , the 'Glory to You' came to me, but it's part of the prayer I had written in Prayers and Meditations : 'Glory to You, O Lord, all-triumphant Supreme' etc. (it's a long prayer). It came back suddenly, and as it came back spontaneously, I kept it. Moreover, when Sri Aurobindo read this prayer in Prayers and Meditations , he told me it was very strong. So I added this phrase as a kind of tail to my ...
... childhood),25-27 1904 (Meeting Theon), 29-30 1910 (Reversal of Consciousness), 50 1910-20 (Mental studies), 40, 47-8 1911 (Beginning of the Journal 'Prayers and Meditations'), 40 1912 (Endless exercises, including Pranayama), 50 1914 (First Meeting with Sri Aurobindo), 49-50 Page 284 67, 68, 69, 73, 74, 75, 81... 14-5, 17, 23, 39, 49 1908 (Alipore Jail experiences), 2, 11-3 Prakriti, 73 1909 (Uttarpara speech), 11 Prayanama, 7-8, 50, 70 1910 (To Chandernagore), 13-4 Prayers and Meditations, 40, 42-5, 49, 51-6 1910 (To Pondicherry), 14 Page 285 1910 (Touched the Supermind), 14 Subtle sight, 8 1910-14 (Programme of Sapta Chatushthaya) ...
... 6 August 1967 Mother, May I take it that Thy response will be awakened in me and that your last utterances to me were a definite promise, such as we read in Thy Prayers and Meditations : “Our Divine Mother is with us and has promised us identification with the supreme and total consciousness.”? 32 This promise is still valid. Mother, do I receive what you are... You are progressing well and receiving more and more. With love and blessings 6 August 1967 × Prayers and Meditations , CWM vol. 1, p. 254 ...
... come holding your tearful soul as a complete self-offering, you do not know what tremendous response you call forth, the blessing divine you bring down in and around you. * The Mother: Prayers and Meditations, 12 July 1918 Page 282 "I prepared the Feast"¹ It was a banquet I prepared for men. Instead of a life of misery and suffering, of obscurity and ignorance I brought to... the imperfection man is made of; then only will he put on the divine nature as his own body and substance. The Cross symbolises all the suffering and difficulty, the ¹The Mother: Prayers and Meditations, 3 September 1919 Page 283 renunciation and self-denudation that the ascent to the Goal involves. The Calvary of the Christian legend means Ascension and Resurrection is ...
... being enchained and retarded by the totality of the universe, which in its immensity and complexity can- w achieve so prompt an ascent.”¹ A clear light in the intelligence ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 195 is a great asset in spiritual life. A wide sweep of perception, a penetrating discernment, a calm and balanced judgment and a constant uplook are the... essential and indispensable function of the mind in the hierarchy of the instrumental nature of man ? The mind is "an instrument of formation, organisation and action. And. it ¹Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 197 is in these functions that it attains its full value and real utility.”¹ "It is not an instrument of knowledge—it is incapable of finding knowledge—but ...
... but it is also the most glorious endeavour pregnant with the possibilities of a divine perfection of man upon earth. The conquest of the Subconscient and the Inconscient will ¹Prayers and Meditations of the Mother; February 9, 1914, Page 182 mean the conquest of material life and nature, and the conversion of human nature into divine nature. The Mother says that the... psychotherapist—of the subconscient working. But it must be remembered—psycho-analysis ignores this truth—that though the Inconscient is the origin of our evolutionary birth and the ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, March. 13, 1914. : Page 183 Subconscient the nursery where our animal-human traits and proclivities are developed. Heaven is our eternal father and ...
... and Heaven", "Kamadeva", "Life", "One Day—The Little More".The first four and the last of these poems were written in the late 1930's. SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5 70 . PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS OF THE MOTHER Sri Aurobindo Library, Madras, 1941 Selections from the Mother's Prieres et Meditations, translated by Sri Aurobindo. SABCL: The Mother, Vol. 25 ... of the Subconscient and the Inconscient; Difficulties of the Path; Opposition of the Hostile Forces. Volume 25 The Mother: WITH LETTERS ON THE MOTHER AND PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS (translations from Prieres et Meditations de la Mere). Volume 26 On Himself, COMPILED FROM NOTES AND LETTERS: Part One: Sri Aurobindo on Himself: Life ...
... on the same page. 101. ibid., pp.159-60. This experience is also referred to in the first chapter as well as the previous chapter, 'Overhead Poetry and Savitri. 102. Prayers and Meditations of the Mother (Tr. from the original French) pp. 88-9. She has also stated elsewhere: "As soon as I saw Sri Aurobindo, I recognised him as the well-known being whom I used to call Krishna... Jung, p. 99. 141. ibid.,?. 93. 142. See Stoudt, Sunrise to Eternity, p. 230. 143. Quoted in Johnson's The Imprisoned Splendour, pp. 403-4. 144. Prayers and Meditations, pp. 61-2. 145. ibid.,p.69, 146. Collected Poems and Plays, Vol. I, pp. 138-9. Page 483 ...
... notwithstanding the enforced inactivity of the body, the compensating resilience of her nature only redoubled her occult intervention near and far. In 1947 she gave some talks apropos of her Prayers and Meditations. According to A. B. Purani's notes of these talks, the Mother said, explaining her prayer of 19 April 1915: The prayer refers to an experience I had when I was not physically well... fleeting moments, even Sri Aurobindo couldn't as yet firmly predict the exact configuration of the immediate future. VI For over three months after 31 July, there is no entry in the Prayers and Meditations. It seems likely, however, there were some belonging to this period among those destroyed later, after the selection had been made by Sri Aurobindo with a view to publication. Before the ...
... Divine for her disciples and the disciples themselves. On the evening of 4 March, Sethna attended the Playground, and with her permission went to her class. She read the last pages of her Prayers and Meditations (in the original French), and commented a little on what she had read. He thought "it was an exquisitely deep half-hour". Another evening he saw with his own eyes an example of the Mother's... that consecration and surrender are to be made. 20 No doubt, in the earlier part of her life, she had her own sessions of meditation, the best fruits of which are garnered in her Prayers and Meditations. But now all her life had become an extended meditation under the surface of her dynamic sacerdocy. But with many people, only too often is the meditative pose no more than an expression ...
... 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 The Supreme Discovery 42-3 Page 914 Prayers and Meditations 63ff, 126,136,142,195-7,299,301, 344ff, 370,383,479, 548-9, 555, 701 Radha's Prayer 93, 535 Talk to the Women of Japan 178ff Women and the War 178fn, 438 Conversations 297ff... 443ff, 459 action of their spiritual Force 136-7, 230-1, 243-5, 249-50, 282, 356-7, 367-8, 589 'Leaders of the Way' 373, 380, 420 atmosphere 374 Sri Aurobindo on the Mother: in her Prayers and Meditations 65 her self-surrender 86 her Vedic experience 145 her role in his Yoga 201, 237, 240ff, 247, 282, 288, 295, 380, 460 guidance through her 230, 243-4, 248, 253, 292, 355-6, 590 ...
... conversations have also been collected and published. In the birth centenary edition of the Mother's Collected Works the following titles have come out to date: Vol.1 Prayers and Meditations: Prayers and meditations selected by the Mother from her diaries of 1912 to 1919, and five prayers of a later date. Vol.2 Words of Long Ago: Writings before 1920: Early essays. Transcripts of ...
... body] every night, and every night do the work to which I have alluded in passing in the Prayers and Meditations. When the whole house had become very quiet, every night at the same hour, I would go out of my body and have all kinds of experiences." Let us turn the pages of Mother's book, Prayers and Meditations —her journal, in reality —on the date of 22 February 1914. "When I was a child —around ...
... in her Prayers and Meditations. She has described there two successive identifications. Of course, she had known, long before, that she was the Mother: only the complete identification took place now, after her coming to India. This was but natural, since no other country has felt and known the universal aspect so intensely. Her diary which comprises the Prayers and Meditations had been... months of the Mother's stay in India, the mission of which she had been aware since childhood grew increasingly clear. She had hinted at this in the entry dated June 26, 1914, of her Prayers and Meditations: "O Lord, grant that we may rise above the ordinary forms of manifestation, so that Thou mayst find the instruments necessary for Thy new manifestation. "Do not let us lose ...
... began to be made. This means, among other things, that the writings of most of the first commentators or exegetes remained limited mainly to Sri Aurobindo’s works in the Arya , the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations , and personal correspondence. No doubt, this literature contained the foundations on which Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s avataric mission could be understood. Books like The Life Divine... But the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was an adventure into the unknown 7 which went through countless yogic crises, struggles and reversals many years after the Arya and the Prayers and Meditations had been written. For instance, Sri Aurobindo’s battle in the 1930s to bring the Supermind down on Earth remained known only to a small circle of disciples around Dilip Kumar Roy and Nirodbaran... Forward! Forward! “ Gloire à Toi, Seigneur, Triomphateur suprême ! …” Glory to Thee, o Lord, supreme Triumpher! (This was one of the Mother’s mantric formulas which we find already in her Prayers and Meditations .) The evocation of this episode, of the extended Yogic battle on the verge of life and death of which so much depended for humanity, including ourselves, may lead to reflections of the ...
... In the name of my Lord, for the sake of my Lord, with the will of my Lord, by the power of my Lord, stop immediately harassing us. ( About the Mother's prayer of 8 April 1914 [ Prayers and Meditations , CWM, Vol. 1, p. 121 .]) Recueillie —collecting from all sides and concentrating in a religious way. In this prayer, at first the thought is in full peace and the heart is collected and... in adoration, and the next time it is the head that is full of adoration and the heart is silent and full of peace. Page 220 ( About the Mother's prayer of 3 September 1919 [ Prayers and Meditations , CWM, Vol. 1, p. 377 .]) In this prayer it is the Universal Mother in the form of material, terrestrial Nature who is speaking. The meal is the world that she has brought out of the I... Him to take possession of this world that had been prepared for the divine realisation. With this key, the rest is self-explanatory. ( About the Mother's prayer of 23 October 1937 [ Prayers and Meditations , CWM, Vol. 1, p. 382 .]) In short I might say that " Réalisation Suprême " for the individual means identification with the Divine and for the collectivity upon earth the advent of the ...
... I know why I gave no explanations as I was speaking: because of the intensity of the experience. There is something like it in Prayers and Meditations . I remember an experience I had in Japan which is noted there.... ( Mother looks through 'Prayers and Meditations' and reads a passage dated November 25, 1917 : ) 2 Page 217 'Thou art the sure friend who never fails, the Power... × With the exception of the second asterisked passage, which was not included in his English version of selected Prayers and Meditations , the following translations are Sri Aurobindo's. × 'Homage' is used in the original text ...
... this in her Prayers and Meditations. She has described there two successive identifications. Of course, she had known, long before, that she was the Mother: only the complete identification took place now, after her coming to India. This was but natural, since no other country has felt and known the universal aspect so intensely. Her diary which comprises the Prayers and Meditations had been started... first few months of the Mother's stay in India, the mission of which she had been aware since childhood grew increasingly clear. She had hinted at this in the entry dated June 26,1914, of her Prayers and Meditations: Page 8 "O Lord, grant that we may rise above the ordinary forms of manifestation, so that Thou mayst find the instruments necessary for Thy new manifestation. "Let ...
... work' to restore India to her 'proper place in the world' by 'means of Yoga'; to remodel society - to make it 'fit to contain' a perfect humanity. - Nov 2 First entry in the published Prayers and Meditations'. '...I have now a constant and precise perception of the universal unity determining an absolute interdependence of all actions.' - Nov 7 Meets Sufi mystic and musician Hazrat Inayat... has a single soul and while we have to wait till we can speak of an India one and indivisible, our cry must be;: Let the soul of India live forever!' - Jul-Oct Holds classes based (on Prayers and Meditations. - Aug 15 Hoists her Spiritual! Flag of United India on the Ashram main building. Anti-Ashram elements attack, murder one inmate just outside the main building. 1949 Feb 21 ... resolves to establish an 'international university centre' as 'one of the best means of preparing the future humanity to receive the supramental light'. - Jun 6 Begins to speak about her Prayers and Meditations to seven youngsters. Gradually it grows into a regular Wednesday evening class for all in the Playground. 1952 Helps re-open official negotiations regarding the merger of French-Indian ...
... sequence, such is the three-in-one mystic relationship. The Mother shows her human side to the Divine in Prayers and Meditations, and her Divine side to us in Words of the Mother. Together, these two spiritual classics make a double testament of lasting significance. Like Prayers and Meditations, the Words too has been basic reading for the sadhaks of the Integral Yoga for the last several decades... revelatory, these intimate talks gently and irresistibly wind their meaning into our hearts and sensibilities - to rest there forever and inspire our action and behaviour. If the Mother's Prayers and Meditations is a guide to Jnana and Yoga, if it throws open the doors of the occult and the spiritual, if her periodic dialogues with the Divine give us tremors of mystic recognition and moments of ecstatic ...
... mentally constructed categories; but she was also - that is, representatively - humanity in miniature, a part of all she met, a sharer of all joy and agony. And so her Page 95 prayers and meditations too strike, now one note, now another; now they hymn the halleluiahs of fulfilment, now gently retail the corroding failures and unavailing spasms of ignorant groping humanity. This explains... effaced. Lo, the splendour of the new word arrives: "Here am I. " 30 The individual, the universal, the Transcendent - Mirra is now this, now that, and anon the other; these prayers and meditations too thus come to us, now from one plane, now from another; and, of course, even as Mirra is somehow triumphantly all three at the same time (the individual aspirant, the universal earth-mother... new-born Unknown One! This might be Mirra's greetings to the unravelling Supernatural Dawn. After her meeting with Sri Aurobindo on 29 March, there is often some ambiguity in the Prayers and Meditations whether, when she says "Master", "Lord", "Thou" or "Thee", she has the Divine in general in mind or Sri Aurobindo himself. Perhaps she didn't pause to make any academic differentiation ...
... in their past lives, and what they had come for again to the earth. And his predictions about them proved absolutely true. If we turn to the experiences of the Mother as transcribed in her Prayers and Meditations, we get graphic descriptions of the knowledge by identity. "As from a summit which has been attained, one discovers a vast horizon, so, O Lord, when one's consciousness is identified... unity of the Divine Existence and the multitudinous flux of the manifested world. The experience is born of identification, and it gives her a perfect knowledge of the transcendent ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother—May 15, 1914. Page 357 Infinitudes above and the universal forms and forces below Another example will give the most conclusive evidence of the knowledge that... e and manifold elements. This identification gives her a perfect knowledge of the inner and outer workings of the material world. But that is only a tiny part of the experience. ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother—-April 10, 1917. Page 358 Beyond the material world, she is identified with the Will that moves it, the Thought that acts in it, and the Force that realises itself ...
... engage all his energies, purifying, illumining, and transfiguring them, and fulfilling them in the unveiled plenitude of the Spirit. Having prepared the background, let us now turn to the Prayers and Meditations of the Mother for the light it sheds on the ideal and truth of manifestation. In the Prayer of June 13, 1914, the Mother gives the whole philosophy, principle, and a synopsis of the... The darkest hour in the annals of the human race is pregnant with the brightest possibilities of its redemption.The highest Force, "unknown to the earth up till now," is at ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, November 15, 1914. ² ibid., May 26, 1914. ³ ibid., November 15, 1914, Page 134 work upon the rebellious stuff of Matter, and under the highest Light... incomparable splendour of thy victorious sovereignty. "The Force is there. Rejoice, you who wait and hope: The new manifestation is sure, the new manifestation is near. ”³ ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, June 16, 1914. ² ibid., September 24, 1914. ³ ibid., July 6, 1914. Page 135 ...
... what thou wert created to be, thou shalt be."² "Fight that thou mayst conquer and triumph; struggle to surmount all that has been up to this day, to make the new Light emerge, ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. ² ibid. Page 97 the new example, which the world needs. Fight stubbornly against all obstacles, outer or inner. This is the pearl without price which is proposed... with them, it is this thou wilt carry into their midst."² This is the work which the Divine Mother has to do upon earth in Her individual poise, a work of inconceivable . ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. ² ibid. Page 98 labour and toil, carried on from day to day in the teeth of the direst opposition from the forces of darkness, and AC indifference or cold... of Her to whom the Divine has said, "Art thou not myself crystallised for my work?"¹ "The Divine has to put on humanity in order that the human being may rise to the Divine."² ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. ² Letters on the Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Page 100 ...
... e zone between precise perception and the total darkness of the ignorance; it is probable that the majority of beings, even of human 1 The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo 2 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother Page 44 beings, live constantly in this subconscience; few emerge from it." It is interesting to compare with these words what Sri Aurobindo says on the... speaks elsewhere of the subconscient passivity "which we have to conquer and awaken to the 1 Bases of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo 2 The Life Divine, Vol. II, Chap. XXVI Prayers and Meditations of the Mother Page 46 consciousness of Thy divine Presence," 1 and calls this conquest "the work to be accomplished, the mission to be fulfilled upon the earth." Sri... can be cited along with that of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. And yet it is the most momentous humanitarian work ever undertaken; for, without a complete transmutation of the 1 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother 2 Ibid. Page 47 basic stuff of human nature, it would be idle to dream of a happy and harmonious human life on earth. Man can be redeemed and ...
... × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations ( Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2003 ), p. 223. × The "book" referred to here is apparently the Mother's Prayers and Meditations. See footnote 2 on page 654 .—Ed. ...
... not between surrender, self-giving and consecration? But I have read this somewhere. Mother, Parul says she had asked this question. (Another child) It was in "Prayers and Meditations." Oh, it was in Prayers and Meditations? Yes, Sweet Mother. And so, what did I tell you? Ah, it's going to be interesting! ( Laughter ) What did I tell you? ( Long silence ) Pavitra: We could ...
... compassion is translated in the psychic consciousness by a sorrow that is not egoistic, a sorrow that is the expression of the identification through sympathy with universal sorrow. In the Prayers and Meditations I have said this (in one of the later ones), I have described at length an experience in which way I say, "I wept... the sweetest tears of my life", 2 because it was not over myself that... kind—but psychic tears need not be sorrowful, there are also tears of emotion and joy." × Prayers and Meditations , 12 July 1918 . ...
... Note on the Text This volume contains all the writings of the Mother from the period before 1920, the year she settled in Pondicherry, with the exception of Prayers and Meditations . The book is divided into seven parts, according to the nature and date of the material. Most of the pieces were written originally in French and appear here in English translation. The texts... in 1978 as Part 3 of Words of Long Ago . The original French texts were first brought out in 1983 as Part 3 of Paroles d’autrefois . Part 4. The writings in this part, similar to Prayers and Meditations , were not published in the Mother’s lifetime. Several of the pieces are dated between 1914 and 1916; the remainder seem clearly to belong to the period before 1920. These writings first appeared ...
... English translation of Prayers and Meditations is out of print and they wanted to reprint it. I said no: "If you want, you can reprint what Sri Aurobindo HIMSELF translated (there's not much, just a thin volume). That, yes, because Sri Aurobindo translated it." But even at that, it's not the same thing as my text—it's Sri Aurobindo's, not mine. Prayers and Meditations came to me, you know—it ...
... Sri Aurobindo: The Upanishads , p. 334. × The Mother: Prayers and Meditations , p. 20. × Sri Aurobindo: On Himself, p. 29. ... × Ibid., p. 167. × The Mother: Prayers and Meditations , p. 273 ...
... nature in contrast with the Eternal through the perfection of form, through harmony and a sense of the Ideal which uplifts and leads towards something higher. The Mother wrote in her Prayers and Meditations on January 29, 1917: In the world of forms a violation of Beauty is as great a fault as a violation of Truth in the world of ideas. For Beauty is the worship Nature offers to the supreme... expression exacts as much impersonality and renunciation of egoism as that of Truth or Bliss. Pure Beauty is universal and one must be universal to see and recognise it .... The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: January 29, 1917 The twelve attributes corresponding to the twelve gardens round the Matrimandi were named by the Mother as follows: Existence, Consciousness, Bliss, Light, Life ...
... for that purpose and I forbid you to ask money for it from any disciple or member of the Ashram, especially X. 4 November 1949 COMMENTS ON "PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS" ( The following letters regarding the Mother's "Prayers and Meditations" are arranged according to the dates of the prayers concerned. ) "How many times a day, still, I act without my action being consecrated to Thee." ...
... yesterday or the day before. I wasn't well, anyway things weren't pleasant, and all of a sudden, here was all this mind saying a prayer. A prayer... you know how I used to say prayers before, in Prayers and Meditations : it was the Mind saying prayers; it would have experiences and say prayers; well, here we are, now it's the experience of all the cells: an intense aspiration, and suddenly all this starts... consciously (and with a great power in the sensation, it seems), maybe things are going to change. Everything that was mental... I remember very clearly the state I was in when I wrote those Prayers and Meditations , especially when I wrote them here (all those I wrote here in 1914): it seems to me cold and dry... yes, dry, lifeless. It's luminous, it's lovely, pleasant, but it's cold, lifeless. Whereas ...
... this Flame, the Flame of transformation, is something else. Oh, I Page 311 remember now that Sri Aurobindo reminded me of something I had written in Japan (which is printed in Prayers and Meditations ), and I had never understood what I had written. I always tried to understand and asked myself, "What the devil did I mean? I have no idea." It had come like that and I had written it directly... great deal to be done and that must be done patiently and without haste." Sri Aurobindo × Prayers and Meditations , March 27, 1917 : "...You see it in your own heart, this triumphant hearth; you alone can bear it without its being destructive. If others touched it, they would be consumed. Do not therefore ...
... English and French 1 can go side by side—but the French should be revised by someone who knows ____________________ 1. The French original and English translation of Mother's Prayers and Meditations , some of which Dilip translated into Bengali and published in his book Anami. Page 291 how the language is printed—otherwise the divisions of words/ etc. will be all... there may be in the difficulties, whether our own or in the Sadhaks or in Nature. About the correspondence, I would be indeed a brainless ____________________ 1. One of Mother's Prayers and Meditations . Page 297 fool if I made it the central aim of my life to [?] an absurd mountain of letters and leave all higher aims aside! If I have given importance to the correspondence ...
... only pure but purifying, this feeling made of quiet intensity and aspiration and surrender: it is unmixed, free from any demand or need of reward or return; it is so impersonal 1 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, July 12, 1918 Page 99 that the aspiration is, so to say, even independent of the object for which it exists. At a supreme crisis of the soul when... do with my Feast? I cannot let it go waste, throw it to the winds. So I offered it to my Lord and laid it at his feet. He accepted it. He alone can enjoy it and honour it. 1 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother —September 3, 1919 Page 100 The Feast is that of Transformation, the Divine Life on earth. Man is not capable of it naturally, cannot attain it by his own ...
... permission. She read the note before Sri Aurobindo and said smiling, "He wants to show his knowledge of French!" However, the class began, if I remember rightly, with the reading of the Prayers and Meditations and questions were asked in relation to the text. Only questions on spiritual matters were allowed, but when they gradually grew fewer in number, it was made an open class, I believe. There... and bath and some rest at night, the wheel went round and round with hardly a stop. Even in the midst of such whirling activity she found time for teaching arithmetic to a boy and reading Prayers and Meditations in French, at midnight to some youngsters. Once a young boy was found in the streets at about 2 a.m. The French officer who was on patrol challenged him. When he saw that the boy had a flower ...
... Aurobindo Ashram too the cult of flowers was to reign with an unfading freshness and glow, and adding, and exploring, newer and newer avenues of significance. VII In the Prayers and Meditations , there is a single entry between 10 October 1918 and 22 June 1920. Perhaps it was a lean period for fresh spiritual harvests; may be, it was a period of quiet consolidation; or, what was... man refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and care, I invoked the God to take it. ' There is here a sharp unmistakable personal note. Granted the general impersonality of Prayers and Meditations - Mirra is speaking as a rule, not exactly or exclusively for herself but on behalf of and often in the name of the earth and its sorrowing inhabitants with their ardours, hopes, setbacks ...
... of her life are really an easy and persuasive introduction to the theory and practice of Yoga, the Integral Yoga of life-transformation and world-transformation. Unlike the entries in Prayers and Meditations, which were originally written in French, the conversations of 1929 and many of 1930 and 1931, were in English, and so did not need the sometimes diluting or distorting medium of a ... messengers of Truth? A perfect servant of Truth should abstain even from the slightest inexactitude, exaggeration or deformation. 10 The following could have come out of the pages of Prayers and Meditations , for it has the same piercing fervour and clarity of utterance: Lord, Thy Love is so great, so noble and so pure that it is beyond our comprehension. It is immeasurable and infinite: ...
... could benefit by a careful study of Sri Aurobindo's writings - notably The Life Divine and The Synthesis of Yoga - as in the seven Arya volumes. The first English edition of the Mother's Prayers and Meditations hadn't yet been published, and her Conversations of 1929 circulated only in typescript. For the non-intellectuals, indeed, the Yoga was a simple thing: "Remember and offer." They asked for... tide in the sadhana, it was desirable it should be taken at the flood to be led on to the goal. On 23 October 1937 the Mother wrote the mantric piece, now the final entry in her published Prayers and Meditations, "A prayer for those who wish to serve the Divine": Glory to Thee, O Lord, who triumphest over every obstacle. Grant that nothing in us shall be an obstacle in Thy work. ...
... suffering and transforms it into a glad light pouring its rays into the hearts of all!"... "Grant my prayer: Transform me into a brazier of love and limitless compassion."² ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother—Nov. 8, 1914. ² ibid. Feb, 2, 1914. Page 346 "Divine Master of love, eternal Teacher, Thou guidest our lives. It is in Thee alone that we would live; enlighten... incapable of reaching the Divine Love and bringing it down to transform human life. The mind's interest and aspiration may be damped by the frosts of life, and the heart's ardours even ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother Jan. 30, 1914. Page 347 may be quenched, but the psychic love, once awakened knows no flagging or cooling—it goes on growing in depth and intensity till it ...
... preconceived ideas and unfavourable suggestions.”² The mind imposes its own ideas, which are nothing but ignorant constructions, ¹ Bulletin of Physical Education. ² Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 265 upon the body, and, in its effort to compel it to subserve its own ends, disrupts the natural harmony of the physical-organism and throws it out of gear... that ceaselessly flow into each other and change and mingle. Against this fluidity of the vital world you are ¹ Bulletin of Physical Education, Vol. I. No. 3. ² ibid. ³ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, Page 267 defenceless unless you can oppose to it a very powerful light and force from inside; otherwise it penetrates you and there is nothing to hamper its invading ...
... soar in eternity, no longer feel one’s limits, escape from Time and Space.”¹ And she wonders : "Why do men flee from these boons, as though they feared them ? What a, ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 273 strange thing is ignorance, that source of all suffering ! How miserable that obscurity which keeps men away from the very thing which would bring... we learn to live in our essential identity and union with Him, the sombre nightmare of our separative existence vanishes for ever. This is the identity and fundamental oneness ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 274 that our love fumbles for in the obscurity of ignorance and amidst the finite and fugitive objects of the senses. An illumined love discovers Him at ...
... world has heard, Wonder no more at any happy change. 23 21 Ibid., p. 686. 22 Ibid., p. 719. 23 Ibid., p. 723. Page 58 -4- In her Prayers and Meditations* the Mother says: Comme I'homme n'a pas voulu du repas que j'avais préparé avec tant d'amour et de soin, alors j'ai invité le Dieu á leprendre. Et mon Dieu, Tu as accepté ...
... breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. These were exactly the same vibrating words which she had written many years earlier in her Prayers and Meditations, but what was at the time still a promise for the future, and therefore grammatically written in the future tense, had now become reality and all the verbs were put in the present tense. ...
... January 1942 × This sentence is taken from the Mother's introductory message for the 1941 edition of Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. ...
... be constant and impersonal, that is to say, altogether independent of circumstances and persons, since it cannot and should not be concentrated on any of them in particular." (Mother's Prayers and Meditations, 21 December 1916.) "... (for) love is sufficient unto itself and has no need of any reciprocity"... punarmusika: a Sanskrit idiom which literally means, "going ...
... , and a new phase of the yoga was entered, the transformation or divinization of the body cells. The Mother had been working on the transformation of the cells ever since the time of her Prayers and Meditations, but from a different level; now her Integral Yoga was a development in the consciousness of her body cells themselves. As always, she went about her accepted task with all the superhuman ...
... rare human comfort which you get from the Divine Mother and Sri Aurobindo's children alone. The other greatest comfort I found in my saddest moments was from The Life Divine, Savitri a nd Prayers and Meditations . These are 'life-saving' books which bring deep peace, inner poise and sweet calm to a mind dumb, dead and drowning in a sea of sorrow! Amal Kiran's first advice to me was, "Now you must ...
... voice was cultured, deep and pleasant. She invited me to be at the meeting on the 21st. I went. There were readings from Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's books. Doris asked me to read from Prayers and Meditations this prayer: O Divine Masten grant that this day may be for us an opening to a completer consecration to Thy law, a more integral self-giving to Thy work, grant that in a communion with ...
... is empty of ardour, set it aflame; If my love is insignificant, make it intense; If my feelings are ignorant and egoistic, Give them the full consciousness in the truth The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: October 25, 1914 ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother February 15, 1914 O Thou, sole Reality, Light of our light and Life of our life, Love supreme, Saviour of the world, grant that more and more I may be perfectly awakened to the awareness of Thy constant presence. Let all my acts conform to Thy law; let there be no difference between my will ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother August 27, 1914 To be the divine love, love powerful, infinite, unfathomable, in every activity, in all the worlds of being—it is for this I cry to Thee, O Lord. Let me be consumed by this love divine, love powerful, infinite, unfathomable, in every activity, in all the worlds of being! Transmute ...
... Aurobindo in which he referred to the Mother in her transcendent, universal and individual aspects. In addition, the volume contains Sri 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 ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother March 31, 1917 Each time that a heart leaps at the touch of Thy divine Breath, a little more beauty seems to be born upon the earth, the air is embalmed with a sweet perfume and all becomes more friendly. How great is Thy power, O Lord of all existences, that an atom of Thy joy is sufficient ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother August 31, 1914 In this formidable disorder and terrible destruction can be seen a great working, a necessary toil preparing the earth for a new sowing which will rise in marvellous spikes of grain and give to the world the shining harvest of a new race.... The vision is clear and precise, the ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother October 7, 1914 Oh, let Light be poured on all the earth and Peace inhabit every heart.... Almost all know only the material life heavy, inert, conservative, obscure; their vital forces are so tied to this physical form of existence that, even when left to themselves and outside the body, they ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother March 8, 1915 For the most part the condition is one of calm and profound indifference; the being feels neither desire nor repulsion, neither enthusiasm nor depression, neither joy nor sorrow. It regards life as a spectacle in which it takes only a very small part; it perceives its actions and ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother October 5, 1914 In the calm silence of Thy contemplation, O Divine Master, Nature is fortified and tempered anew. All principle of individuality is overpassed, she is plunged in Thy infinity that allows oneness to be realised in all domains without confusion, without disorder. The combined harmony ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother February 15, 1915 O Lord of Truth, thrice have I implored Thy manifestation invoking Thee with deep fervour. Then, as always, the whole being made its total submission. At that moment the consciousness perceived the individual being mental, vital and physical, covered all over with dust and ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother December 27, 1916 O my beloved Lord, my heart is bowed before Thee, my arms are stretched towards Thee imploring Thee to set all this being on fire with Thy sublime love that it may radiate from there on the world. My heart is wide open in my breast; my heart is open and turned towards Thee ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother April 28, 1917 "Lo! here are flowers and benedictions! here is the smile of divine Love! It is without preferences and without repulsions. It streams out towards all in a generous flow and never takes back its marvellous gifts." Her arms outstretched in a gesture of ecstasy, the eternal Mother ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother December 29, 1916 O my sweet Lord, teach me to be the instrument of Thy Love. Page 641 ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 11, 1914 Every moment all the unforeseen, the unexpected, the unknown is before us, every moment the universe is created anew in its entirety and in every one of its parts. And if we had a truly living faith, if we had the absolute certitude of Thy omnipotence and Thy sole reality, Thy manifestation could at each moment ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 7, 1914 For him who, by being integrally united with Thee, is constantly conscious of what expresses Thee most perfectly in action considering the circumstances, no external rule is any longer necessary. The principles of life are in sum only makeshifts for diminishing as far as possible the ignorance of those who do not ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 11, 1914 As soon as one rises above the perception of contingencies, as soon as one's consciousness is identified with Thy supreme consciousness and one enters thus into that omniscience which I cannot define except as absolute Knowledge, how easy and even a little childish seem all those problems about what should or should ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 8, 1914 O Lord, sweet Master of love, Thou who bringest us out of the darkness to awaken us to consciousness, who deliverest us from suffering to make us commune within Thy eternal peace, every morning my aspiration soars ardently towards Thee, and I implore that my being, integrally awake to Thy knowledge, may now live ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 5, 1914 What could be said that is not always the very same aspiration: the law of divine love, the purest expression of what we can conceive of Thee, must be realised more and more upon earth and triumph over all ignorant egoism; we must become more and more perfectly the faithful servitors of that power of love and light ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 24, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O thou who art the sole reality of our being, O sublime Master of love, Redeemer of life, let me have no longer any other consciousness than of Thee at every instant and in each being. When I do not live solely with Thy life, I agonise, ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 30, 1914 All that is conscious within me belongs unreservedly to Thee, and gradually I shall strive always harder to conquer the subconscient, the yet dark bedrock. O divine Master of love, eternal Teacher, Thou guidest our lives. It is in Thee alone and for Thee alone that we want to live; enlighten our consciousness ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 10, 1914 With peace in our hearts, with light in our minds, we feel Thee, O Lord, so living within us that we await events with serenity, knowing that Thy path is everywhere, since we carry it in our own being, and that in all circumstances we can become the heralds of Thy word, the servitors of Thy work. With a calm ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 2, 1914 O Lord, I would like to be so ardent a love that all lonelinesses may be filled up by it and all sorrows soothed. O Lord, I cry unto Thee: Make me a burning brazier which consumes all suffering and transforms it into joyous light irradiating the hearts of all!... Grant my prayer: Transform me into a brazier ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 13, 1914 How many different levels there are in consciousness! This word should be reserved for what is illumined in a being by Thy Presence, is identified with Thee and partakes of Thy absolute Consciousness, for that which has knowledge, that which is "perfectly awakened", as the Buddha says. Outside this state there ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 10, 1914 In the silence of the night Thy Peace reigned over all things, in the silence of my heart Thy Peace reigns always; and when these two silences were united, Thy Peace was so powerful that no disturbance of any kind could resist it. Then I thought of all those who were watching over the boat to safeguard and protect ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 21, 1914 Every morning my aspiration rises ardently to Thee, and in the silence of my satisfied heart I ask that Thy law of Love may be expressed, that Thy will may manifest. And in anticipation I adhere with joy and serenity to those circumstances which will express this law and this will. Oh, why be restless and want ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 7, 1914 On board the "Kaga Maru" Thou wert with us yesterday as the most marvellous of protections; Thou didst permit Thy law to triumph even in the most external manifestation. Violence was answered by calm, brutality by the strength of sweetness; and where an irreparable disaster would have occurred, Thy power was glorified ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 19, 1914 O Lord, eternal Teacher, Thou whom we can neither name nor understand, but whom we want to realise more and more at every moment, enlighten our intelligence, illumine our hearts, transfigure our consciousness; may everyone awaken to the true life, flee from egoism and its train of sorrow and anguish, and take refuge ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 22, 1914 O Lord, divine Master of Love, enlighten their consciousness and their hearts. They have made an effort to reach out towards Thee but because of their ignorance their prayers probably did not rise to Thee, and their false conceptions have barred the way to their aspiration. Yet in Thy mercy Thou dost turn all goodwill ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 20, 1914 Thou art consciousness and light, Thou art peace in the depth of all things, the divine love that transfigures, the knowledge that triumphs over darkness. To feel Thee and aspire to Thee one should have emerged from the immense sea of the subconscient, one should have begun to crystallise, to grow distinct so as to ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 28, 1914 From the time we started and every day more and more, in all things we can see Thy divine intervention, everywhere Thy law is expressed, and I need all my inner conviction to feel that this is perfectly natural, so that I do not pass from wonder to wonder. At no moment do I feel that I am living outside Thee and ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 8, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. In front of this calm sunrise which turned all within me into silence and peace, at the moment when I grew conscious of Thee and Thou alone wast living in me, O Lord, it seemed to me that I adopted all the inhabitants of this ship, and enveloped ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 9, 1914 Just at the moment when I was feeling the imperious need of resuming these notes regularly so as to come out of this overwhelming mental inertia, my physical organism suffered a defeat such as it had not known for several years and during a few days all the forces of my body failed me; I saw in this a sign that I had ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 12, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. More and more it seems to me that we are in one of those periods of activity in which the fruit of past efforts becomes apparent,—a period in which we act according to Thy law in the measure in which it is the sovereign controller of our being ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 16, 1914 I was interrupted yesterday just when I was trying to formulate the experience I had. And now everything seems changed. That precise knowledge, that clear-sightedness has given place to a great love for Thee, O Lord, which has seized my whole being from the outer organism to the deepest consciousness, and all lies prostrate ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 25, 1914 O Divine Master of love and purity, grant that in its least stages, its smallest activities, this instrument which wants to serve Thee worthily may be purified of all egoism, all error, all obscurity, so that nothing in it may impair, deform or stop Thy action. How many little recesses lie yet in shadow, far from the ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 13, 1914 This somnolence of my thought, O Lord, Thou wilt shake off so that I may have the knowledge and understand the experience Thou hast given to my being. When something in me questions Thee, always Thou repliest, and when it is necessary for me to know something, Thou teachest it to me, whether directly or indirectly. ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 19, 1914 This mental being which throughout my individual existence had the power to set all my faculties working: deep devotion for Thee, infinite compassion for men, ardent aspiration for knowledge, effort for self-perfection—seems to have fallen into a deep sleep and no longer sets anything at all in movement. All the individual ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 4, 1914 To be merged both in Thee and in Thy work ... to be no longer a limited individuality ... to become the infinitude of Thy forces manifesting through one point ... to be freed from all shackles and all limitations ... to rise above all restrictive thought ... to act while remaining outside the action ... to act with and ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 17, 1914 O Lord, deliver me from the mental influences which weigh upon me, so that, completely free, I may soar towards Thee. O Thou, Universal Being, Supreme Unity in perceptible form, through an irresistible aspiration I nestled within Thy heart, then I was Thy heart itself, and I knew then that Thy heart is no other than ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 21, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Outside all manifestation, in the immutable silence of Eternity, I am in Thee, O Lord, an unmoving beatitude. In that which, out of Thy puissance and marvellous light, forms the centre and reality of the atoms of matter I find Thee; thus without ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 22, 1914 Thou art all love, O Lord, and Thy love shines resplendently in the depths of every thought and every heart. Accomplish Thy work of transfiguration: illumine us. Open the still closed doors, widen the horizon, establish strength, unify our beings and make us participate in Thy divine beatitude that we may be able to ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 5, 1914 O Eternal Master, Thou art in all things like a vivifying breath, a sweet peace, a sun of luminous love piercing the clouds of darkness. Grant that we may be Thy vivifying breath, Thy sweet peace, Thy luminous love upon the earth amidst our ignorant and sorrowful human brothers. O divine Master, accept the offering ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 4, 1914 O Lord, O eternal Master! Men, driven by the conflict of forces, are performing a sublime sacrifice, they are offering their lives in a bloodstained holocaust.... O Lord, O eternal Master, grant that all this may not be in vain, grant that the inexhaustible torrents of Thy divine Force may spread over the earth ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 19, 1914 O Lord, Thou art the omnipotent Master of Thy own manifestation; grant to these instruments that they may escape from frames too narrow, from limits too fixed and mediocre. All the riches of human possibility are needed to translate even one atom of Thy infinite Force.... Open the doors that are closed, make the sealed ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 25, 1914 At the rising of the sun I sang the praise of this world in which it is possible not only to desire Thee but to know Thee and even to become Thee. And I was astonished that there should be some who so ardently aspire to leave this universe and enter another world of perfection. Thou hast placed such contentment ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 15, 1914 What, O Lord?... Just as Thou wilt, just as Thou wilt.... This instrument is weak, mediocre; Thou hast taught it that all activities are possible to it, that nothing was radically strange to it in all human activities; but it is in intensity, in perfection only that the Divine begins, and until now Thou hast ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 27, 1914 Humbly, quietly, my prayer rises to Thee, O sweet Master, Thou who acceptest without argument and without censure all that is offered to Thee, Thou who givest Thyself and makest Thyself known to all, without asking whether they are worthy of it or not, Thou who findest nothing too weak, too small, too modest, too ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 18, 1914 Two things remain unshakable despite all storm-winds, even the most violent: the will that all may be happy with the true happiness—Thine, and the ardent desire to unite perfectly and be identified with Thee.... All the rest is perhaps still the result of an effort and a pretension, this is spontaneous, unshakable; ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 9, 1914 Lord, we are before Thee that Thy will may be done. Remove from our thought all obstacles, doubts, all weaknesses, limitations, all that veils our knowledge and obscures our understanding. I am athirst for Thy consciousness, I am athirst for an integral union with Thee, not in inaction and a flight from physical ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 31, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. In this formidable disorder and terrible destruction can be seen a great working, a necessary toil preparing the earth for a new sowing which will rise in marvellous spikes of grain and give to the world the shining harvest of a new race ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 1, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O Mother Divine, with what fervour, what ardent love I came to Thee in Thy deepest consciousness, in Thy high status of sublime love and perfect felicity, and I nestled so close into Thy arms and loved Thee with so intense a love that I ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 5, 1914 "Face the danger!" Thou saidst to me, "why dost thou wish to turn away thy gaze or flee far away from action, flee from the battle, into the deep contemplation of Truth? It is its integral manifestation which must be realised, its victory over all the obstacles of blind ignorance and dark hostility. Look the danger ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 4, 1914 Darkness has descended upon the earth, thick, violent, victorious... All is sadness, terror, destruction in the physical world, and the splendour of Thy light of love seems darkened by a veil of mourning.... O sweet Mother, I merge into Thee in an immense love and an intense supplication to the Lord of all things ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 6, 1914 Higher, ever higher! Let us never be satisfied with what is achieved, let us not stop at any realisation, let us march always onwards, ceaselessly, energetically, towards an ever completer manifestation, an ever higher and more total consciousness.... Yesterday's victory must be only a stepping-stone to the victory ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 10, 1914 Thy love is like a rising tide, invading the entire being and breaking upon all things. Lord, Thy love will penetrate all hearts and kindle in them the divine flame which never goes out, the divine beauty which does not fade, and, above every contrast and contradiction, it will establish in all that unchanging ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 14, 1914 There is no longer an "I", no longer an individuality, no longer any personal limits. There is only the immense universe, our sublime Mother, burning with an ardent fire of purification in honour of Thee, O Lord, divine Master, sovereign Will, so that this Will may meet with no farther obstacle in the way of its ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 24, 1914 How present Thou art in our midst, beloved Mother! It is as if Thou wouldst assure us of Thy complete assistance, as if Thou wouldst show us that the Will which means to manifest through us, has found in us instruments which can realise Its Law, by placing it in complete accordance with Thy present possibilities ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 20, 1914 My pen is mute, for thought is silent, but my heart aspires to Thee, O Lord, uniting Thee with our divine Mother in one love, one veneration. And through Thee the entire being strains towards the Ineffable; beyond Being, beyond the very Silence, that is united with That. Page 249 ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 27, 1917 ( Communication in dialogue received during meditation ) "Look: thou seest the living form and the three inanimate images. The living one is clad in violet, the other three are made of dust, but cleansed and purified. It is in the calm of silence that the living form can, by penetrating the other three, unite them ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 30, 1916 Why, O Lord, does my heart seem to me to be so cold and dry? I feel, I see my soul living deep within my being, and my soul sees Thee, recognises Thee and loves Thee in all things, in everything that is; it is fully conscious of this, and as the outer being is surrendered to it, it too is conscious; the mind ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 30, 1917 [There is a sovereign royalty in taking no thought for oneself. To have needs is to assert a weakness; to claim something proves that we lack what we claim. To desire is to be impotent; it is to recognise our limitations and confess our incapacity to overcome them. If only from the point of view of a legitimate ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 7, 1917 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. A deep concentration seized on me, and I perceived that I was identifying myself with a single cherry-blossom, then through it with all cherry-blossoms, and, as I descended deeper in the consciousness, following a stream of bluish force, I ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 5, 1917 Love is nothing but the tie that binds and holds together all the flowers of Thy divine bouquet. It is an unobtrusive role, modest, unrecognised, a role essentially impersonal, which can find all its utility only in this very impersonality. Because I am becoming more and more this tie, this link of union gathering ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 14, 1917 ... "May all who are unhappy become happy, may the wicked become good, may the sick become healthy!" Thus was formulated the aspiration within me concerning the manifestation of Thy divine Love through this instrument. It was like a request, a request a child makes to its father with the certitude that it will be ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 1, 1917 Thou hast shown to my mute and expectant soul all the splendour of fairy landscapes: trees at festival and lonely paths that seem to scale the sky. But of my destiny Thou didst not speak to me. Must it be so veiled from me?... Once more, everywhere I see cherry trees; Thou hast put a magical power in these flowers: ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 6, 1917 Thou hast filled my being with an ineffable peace and unequalled repose... Without any personal thought or will, I let myself be cradled passively by Thy infinity. Page 346 ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 19, 1917 And the hours pass, fading away like unlived dreams.... Page 350 ...
... Questions and Answers (1956) 18 July 1956 I would like an explanation, Sweet Mother. In Prayers and Meditations there is a sentence: "And the hours pass, fading away like unlived dreams." 19 January 1917 This is an experience. Do you know what an unlived dream is?... I did not take the word "dream" in ...
... mind! There are many explanations in this book [ The Synthesis of Yoga ], so if you tumble into the midst of an explanation... It should be rather a book like Thoughts and Glimpses , or Prayers and Meditations , or Words of the Mother ; also Questions and Answers. We tried the Letters of Sri Aurobindo, Mother, the third series. The Letters?... Give me the book. Isn't this the one about ...
... the world." And then in Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of Yoga : "If we see unity everywhere, if we recognise that all comes by the divine will... etc." And something else, from my Prayers and Meditations : "It is Thou who art the doer in each thing and each being, and he who is near enough to Thee to see Thee in all actions without exception, will know how to transform each act into a ...
... Mother makes a movement with her hands ) to one's gastric habits. Now I have said what was on my mind! You may ask questions. ( Silence ) No questions? Mother, you have said in it "Prayers and Meditations": "What must happen will happen." Then why should we make personal efforts? "What must happen will happen"? You know what I meant?—that there have been prophecies from the beginning of ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 17, 1913 O Lord, Master of our life, let us soar very high above all care for our material preservation. Nothing is more humiliating and depressing than these thoughts so constantly turned towards the preservation of the body, these preoccupations with health, the means of subsistence, the framework of life.... How very ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 9, 1914 Lord, incomprehensible reality, Thou who ever fleest before our conquest, effective though it may be, Thou who shalt always be the Unknown despite all that we shall learn to know of Thee, despite all that we shall ravish from Thy eternal mystery, we would go forward, making a complete and constant effort, combining ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 5, 1914 For a long while I have been sitting with this note-book before me, unable to make up my mind to write, so much is all within me mediocre, worthless, insipid, hopelessly commonplace. Not a single thought in my head, not a single feeling in my heart, a complete indifference to everything and an insurmountable dullness ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 23, 1913 O Lord, inconceivable Splendour, may Thy Beauty spread through all the earth, may Thy Love be kindled in every heart and Thy Peace reign over all. A deep and solemn chant, smiling and subtle, rises from my heart, and I do not know whether this chant goes from me to Thee or comes from Thee to me or whether Thou and ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 17, 1913 Grant, O Lord, that I may be like a fire that illumines and gives warmth, like a spring of water that quenches thirst, like a tree that shelters and protects.... Men are so unhappy and ignorant and have so great a need of help. My trust in Thee, the certitude within me grow deeper day by day; and day by day too ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 2, 1914 This marvellous silence manifests Thee despite the mad human agitation—the immutable and constant silence so living in all things that one has but to listen to hear it, in contrast with all that is futile noise, vain agitation, useless dispersion of energies. Let it flower in our being as a source of light and peace; ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 21, 1913 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. ...Yet what patience is needed! How imperceptible the stages of progress!... Oh! how I call Thee from the very depths of my heart, True Light, Sublime Love, Divine Master who art the source of our light and of our living, our guide and our ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 22, 1913 A few minutes passed in silence before Thee are worth centuries of felicity.... Grant, O Lord, that all shadows may be dispelled and that I may be more and more Thy faithful servant in constancy and serenity. Before Thee may my heart be pure as a pure crystal, so that wholly it may reflect Thee. Oh! the sweetness ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 15, 1913 In this even-fall, Thy Peace deepens and grows more sweet and Thy Voice more clear and distinct in the silence that fills my being. O Divine Master, Thine is all our life, our thought, our love, all our being. Take unto Thyself once more what is Thine; for Thou art ourselves in our Reality. Page 28 ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 6, 1914 Geneva After having suffered acutely from their suffering, I turned towards Thee, trying to heal it by infusing into it a little of that divine Love which is the source of all peace and all happiness. We must not run away from suffering, we must not love and cultivate it either, we must learn how to go deep down ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 12, 1914 When, conscious with Thy supreme consciousness, one considers all earthly circumstances, one sees their complete relativity and says, "To do this thing or that, after all that is not of much importance; yet a particular mode of action will be the best utilisation of a certain faculty, a certain temperament. All ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 13, 1914 In the silence of an intense concentration I would unite my consciousness with Thy absolute consciousness, I would identify myself with Thee, O sovereign Lord of our being, divine Master of love, so that Thy law may become clear and perceptible to us and we may live only by it and for it. How beautiful, grand ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 1, 1914 It is in one's own self that all the obstacles lie, it is in one's own self that all the difficulties are found, it is in one's own self that there is all the darkness and ignorance. Were we to travel throughout the earth, were we to go and bury ourselves in some solitude, break with all our habits, lead the most ascetic ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 15, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O thou, sole Reality, Light of our light and Life of our life, Love supreme, Saviour of the world, grant that more and more I may be perfectly awakened into the awareness of Thy constant presence. Let all my acts conform to Thy law; let ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 27, 1914 O Lord, I sense the infinite happiness which is the portion of those whose life is entirely consecrated to Thee. And this does not depend upon outer circumstances but on one's own state of being and its greater or lesser degree of illumination. A perfect consecration to Thy law cannot but bring about modifications ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 20, 1914 The only thing that is important, the one thing that counts, is the will to be identified more and more completely with Thee, to unite our consciousness with Thy absolute Consciousness, to be more and more the peaceful, calm, disinterested, strong servitor of Thy sovereign law, Thy loving Will. O Lord, give ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 19, 1914 O Lord, be ever present in my thought! Not that I ask this of Thee, for I know that Thy Presence is constant and sovereign, I know that all we see and all that escapes our sight is just what it is only through Thy marvellous intervention, because of Thy divine law of love; but I say this and repeat it, I implore ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 17, 1914 O Lord, how ardently my aspiration rises to Thee: give us the full consciousness of Thy law, the constant perception of Thy will, so that our decision may be Thy decision and our life solely consecrated to Thy service and as perfect an expression as possible of Thy inspiration. O Lord, dispel all darkness, all ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 7, 1914 What kind of courage is mine that I always try to avoid the fight? What kind of energy is mine, that I am instinctively frightened of the new effort to be made and try, without being aware of it, to go to sleep passively, relying upon the results of previous efforts? In order to act, I have to be compelled and my mute ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 10, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Suddenly the veil was rent, the horizon was disclosed—and before the clear vision my whole being threw itself at Thy feet in a great outburst of gratitude. Yet in spite of this deep and integral joy all was calm, all was peaceful with the ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 3, 1914 It seems to me that I am being born to a new life and all the methods, the habits of the past can no longer be of any use. It seems to me that what I thought were results is nothing more than a preparation. I feel as though I have done nothing yet, as though I have not lived the spiritual life, only entered the path ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 13, 1914 Karikal Everything works together to prevent me from remaining a creature of habits, and in this new state, in the midst of these circumstances, so complex and unstable, I have never before so completely lived Thy immutable peace or rather the "I" has never before disappeared so completely that Thy divine peace ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 23, 1914 All rules have vanished, the regularity of the discipline is gone, all effort has ceased; not by my own will nor, I believe, through negligence, but because circumstances are working together to bring this about. It seems that this inner will, always alert, like a steersman holding the rudder, has evaporated or fallen ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 18, 1914 Yesterday morning the last veil was almost rent, the last stronghold of the blind and ignorant personality seemed to be on the point of yielding; for the first time I thought I had understood what true impersonal service was, and the obstacle separating me from the integral realisation seemed very fragile to me, and ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 28, 1914 Thou art the Master of the world; Thy law unfolds before us with precision, and as I thought or rather as Thou didst make me understand it before we left Paris, it is the best—what could best serve Thy work in the world—that has happened. In beatitude I communed with Thy puissance dominating over darkness and error ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 2, 1914 Every day, when I want to write, I am interrupted, as though the new period opening now before us were a period of expansion rather than of concentration. It is in the activity of each moment that we must serve Thee and identify ourselves with Thee rather than in deep and silent contemplation or in meditation, written ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 29, 1914 Pondicherry O thou whom we must know, understand, realise, absolute Consciousness, eternal Law, Thou who guidest and illuminest us, who movest and inspirest us, grant that these weak souls may be strengthened and those who fear be reassured. To Thee I entrust them, even as I entrust to Thee our entire destiny. ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 14, 1914 It is a veritable work of creation we have to do: to create activities, new modes of being so that this Force, unknown to the earth till today, may manifest in its plenitude. To this travail I am consecrated, O Lord, for this is what Thou wantest of me. But since Thou hast appointed me for this work, Thou must give ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 15, 1914 "Lie cradled in my heart and do not worry: what has to be done will be done. And it is just when thou doest it unknowingly that it is done best"... I am in Thy heart, Lord, and nothing can take me away from it. And it is from the unfathomable depths of this heart, in the smiling peace of its beatitude, that I look ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 1, 1914 O vivtorious power of divine Love, Thou art the sovereign Master of this universe, Thou art its creator and its saviour, Thou hast permitted it to emerge from chaos, and now Thou leadest it to its eternal goal. There is not a thing so humble but in it I see Thee resplendent, not a being apparently so hostile to Thy ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 16, 1914 Like a sun Thy splendour descends upon the earth and Thy rays will illumine the world. All those elements which are pure enough, plastic enough, sufficiently receptive to manifest the very splendour of the central fire-nucleus are grouping themselves together. This grouping is not arbitrary and does not depend on the ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 2, 1914 In a silent contemplation, in a mute adoration, uniting myself with all this dark and painful substance, I hail Thee, O Lord, as the divine saviour; I bless Thy love as the supreme liberator, I offer thanks for its countless boons, and I give myself fully to Thee so that Thou mayst complete Thy work of perfectioning ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 3, 1914 Now that the whole being is more and more deeply plunged into material activity, into the physical realisation which includes such a multitude of details to be thought of and regulated, I call to Thee, O Lord, so that my consciousness, turned thus outwards, may constantly keep this communion with Thee, which is the ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 28, 1914 Thou settest in motion, Thou stirrest and churnest the innumerable elements of this world, so that, from their primal darkness, their primeval chaos, they may awaken to consciousness and the full light of knowledge. And Thou usest Thy supreme love to churn all these elements in this way. And it is from Thy infinite ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 11, 1914 Every morning, O Lord, an innumerable salutation rises towards Thee, a salutation from all the states of being and from all the multitude of their elements. And it is a daily consecration of all things to the All, a call from ignorance and egoism to Thy light and love. And Thy answer comes constant and is integrally ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 19, 1914 Fill our hearts with the delight of Thy love. Flood our minds with the splendour of Thy light. Grant that we may effectuate Thy Victory! Page 178 ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 30, 1914 Each activity in its own field accomplishing its particular mission, without disorder, without confusion, one enveloping the other, and all graded hierarchically around a single centre: Thy will... What is most lacking in all beings is clarity and order; each element, each state of being, instead of fulfilling its ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 25, 1914 What wisdom is there in wanting to be like this or like that? Why torment oneself thus? Art Thou not the supreme worker? Is it not our duty to be Thy docile instruments and, when Thou puttest the instrument aside for a time, will it complain that Thou abandonest it because Thou dost not make it work? Will it not be ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 7, 1914 Peace, peace upon all the earth.... Not the peace of an inconscient sleep or a self-satisfied inertia; not the peace of a self-forgetful ignorance and a dark, heavy indifference, but the peace of the omnipotent force, the peace of perfect communion, the peace of integral awakening, of the disappearance of all limitation ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 12, 1914 In all the states of being, in all the modes of activity, in all things, in all the worlds, one can meet Thee and unite with Thee, for Thou art everywhere and always present. He who has met Thee in one activity of his being or in one world of the universe, says "I have found Him" and seeks nothing more; he thinks he ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 28, 1914 All Nature hails Thee, O Lord, and with arms lifted and hands outstretched she implores Thee. Not that she doubts Thy infinite generosity and thinks she must ask in order to have; but that is her way of bowing to Thee and giving herself to Thee, for is this giving anything else than being ready to receive? She delights ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 21, 1914 To be at once a passive and perfectly pure mirror, turned simultaneously without and within, to the results of the manifestation and the sources of this manifestation, so that the consequences may be placed before the guiding will, and to be also the realising activity of that will, this, more or less, is what a human ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 8, 1914 O Divine Force, supreme Illuminator, hearken to our prayer, move not away from us, do not withdraw, help us to fight the good fight, make firm our strength for the struggle, give us the force to conquer! O my sweet Master, Thou whom I adore without being able to know Thee, Thou who I am without being able to realise ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 11, 1914 The entire physical being would like to be dissolved and reconstituted in an adoration that would have no bounds. O Lord, Thou who comest to touch Matter as the Messenger of the Supreme Power and Supreme Beatitude, Thou createst the conception of what the total realisation can be. And when the being believed it was ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 13, 1914 Patience, strength, courage, calm and indomitable energy.... Let the mind learn to be silent, let it not be eager to profit immediately by the forces which come to us from Thee for the integral manifestation.... But why hast thou chosen for the expression of Thy Will the poorest element, the most mediocre, the ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 30, 1914 Lord, Thou hast broken down the barriers of thought and the realisation has appeared in all its amplitude. Not to forget any of its aspects, to carry out their accomplishment at the same time, without neglecting any of them, not to allow any limitation, any restriction to come in the way and delay our march, this ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 7, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Oh, let Light be poured on all the earth and Peace inhabit every heart.... Almost all know only the material life heavy, inert, conservative, obscure; their vital forces are so tied to this physical form of existence that, even when left ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 25, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. My aspiration to Thee, O Lord, has taken the form of a beautiful rose, harmonious, full in bloom, rich in fragrance. I stretch it out to Thee with both arms in a gesture of offering and I ask of Thee: If my understanding is limited, widen ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 6, 1914 O sweet Mother, Thou shouldst teach me to be integrally and constantly Thyself, entirely consecrated to the giving of an ever more perfect means of expression to That which wills to manifest.... All is calm, serene; there is no more struggle, no more anguish; aspiration itself becomes sovereignly peaceful in its ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 25, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O divine and adorable Mother, with Thy help what is there that is impossible? The hour of realisations is near and Thou hast assured us of Thy aid that we may perform integrally the supreme Will. Thou hast accepted us as fit intermediaries ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 28, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. My pen is mute to chant Thy presence, O Lord; yet art Thou like a king who has taken entire possession of his kingdom. Thou art there, organising, putting all in place, developing and increasing every province. Thou awakenest those that ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 10, 1914 O Lord, Thy Presence is settled within me like an unshakable rock; and the whole being exults in belonging to Thee without the least reserve, with a wide and complete surrender. O Consciousness, immobile and serene, Thou watchest at the confines of the world like the sphinx of eternity. And yet to some Thou ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 9, 1914 O Lord, for perfect consciousness we aspire... All the being is gathered into a well-tied sheaf made of various but harmonised flowers. The will was the hand that gathered the flowers and the tie that bound the sheaf and it is the will that now holds it out to Thee like a scented offering. To Thee it is held ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 17, 1914 O Mother divine, the obstacles shall be overcome, the enemies appeased; Thou shalt dominate the whole earth with Thy sovereign love, and every consciousness shall be illumined with Thy serenity. This is the promise. Page 265 ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 20, 1916 The days have gone by, stormy and troubled to all appearance but calm and strong in their reality reflecting Thy divine will; they have gone by, deploying, disclosing, developing once more all the unexpected and varied splendour of Thy untiring divine play. And how marvellous it is to watch this when one perceives ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 24, 1915 One day, O Lord, Thou didst teach my mind that it could act fully as an instrument of manifestation of Thy divine truth, as an intermediary of Thy eternal will, without being limited in its realising constructions by the narrow field of possibilities of the external being. Till then this mind, except very rarely, was ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 7, 1916 Tokio Long months have gone by in which nothing could be said, for it was a period of transition, of passing from one equilibrium to another, vaster and more complete. The outer circumstances were manifold and new, as if the being needed to accumulate many perceptions and observations in order to give a more extensive ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 28, 1916 Thou madest me read these childish babblings once again, for they are awkward attempts at expression of a mind still in its infancy and all this seemed to me far, very remote, clad in the charm and purity of the experiences of a candid and enthusiastic childhood. And yet, before Thee, O eternal Lord, I have not ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 3, 1915 On board the Kamo Maru [Solitude, a harsh, intense solitude, and always this strong impression of having been flung headlong into a hell of darkness! Never at any moment of my life, in any circumstances, have I felt myself living in surroundings so entirely opposite to all that I am conscious of as true, so contrary ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 25, 1916 ( What I heard in the silence and noted down last evening ) "By renouncing everything, even wisdom and consciousness, thou wert able to prepare thy heart for the role assigned to it: apparently the most unrewarding role, that of the spring which always lets its waters flow abundantly for all, but towards which ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 4, 1916 Since Thou hast permitted it, O Lord, I have once again begun to come to Thee daily, freeing myself for a few brief moments from an activity of which I know the complete relativity, even while I am engaged in it. Thou hadst plunged me back into action and the ordinary consciousness, and now Thou grantest me the ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 9, 1916 It is now, a long while after having come out of my contemplation, that I realise what it was. Once again this evening I entered that state in which the consciousness is scattered in a multitude of different elements, centres of consciousness both individual and collective, to carry out a certain action there ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 14, 1916 I hail Thee, O Lord, and bow before Thee. But I shall not write, for Thou hast just told me, in reply to a question about the present meditation: "We have had a private conversation which even thy own physical ears should not hear." Page 330 ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 24, 1914 Lord, it is in a heart-felt gratitude that I draw near to Thee. Thou hast given me the first words of the knowledge I so longed for, and with this knowledge has come effectivity, the true power in each field of realisation. It is only a beginning, it is not an accomplishment; but the road opens, visible and straight ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 18, 1914 Let me turn to Thee in a profound and silent contemplation; let me place this integral being and its multiple activities at Thy feet as an offering; let me stop all the play of these forces, unify all these consciousnesses, so that one alone may persist, the one which is able to hear Thy command and understand it; ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 16, 1914 For three days I waited in an ardent prayer, hoping to see the new things... and all the obstacles surged up to veil, retard, deform Thy manifestation. And now we do not seem any nearer the goal than before. O my sweet Master, why hast Thou told me to leave the blessed place in Thy heart and return to earth to ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 29, 1914 What would be the use of man if he were not created to throw a bridge between That which is eternally but is unmanifested and that which is manifested, between all the transcendences and splendours of the divine life and all the dark and sorrowful ignorance of the material world? Man is the link between What must ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 13, 1914 The being stands before Thee, with arms lifted, palms open, in an ardent aspiration. O sweet Master, it is a Love more wonderful and formidable than any manifested so far which the earth needs; it is for this Love that it yearns.... Who will be capable and worthy of being its intermediary to it? Who? That matters ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 26, 1914 O my sweet Master, O Lord of Felicity, all these worlds of felicity interpenetrating and completing one another are an immensity difficult to perceive in their totality. Give us the knowledge of these laws, give us the power to awaken the earth to an understanding and perception of the aim so blindly pursued. ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 28, 1914 O Lord, O eternal Master, my thought lies mute and powerless before Thee but my heart calls to Thee; awaken all my being that it may be for Thee, entirely, the needed instrument, the perfect servitor. Oh, to be infinitely Thou, Thou in all things, Thou everywhere, Thou always, the absolute silence, the absolute ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 27, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. To be the divine love, love powerful, infinite, unfathomable, in every activity, in all the worlds of being—it is for this I cry to Thee, O Lord. Let me be consumed with this love divine, love powerful, infinite, unfathomable, in every activity ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 17, 1914 All errors, all prejudices, all misunderstandings must vanish in this whirlwind of destruction that is carrying away the past.... The light must become perfectly pure, free from all limitation, so that Thou canst manifest Thyself fully within it. Lord, Thou hast the Power and Thou wilt realise this supreme miracle ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 11, 1915 More than ever before, the aspiration of the mental being rose to Thee with great fervour.... The perception of infinity and eternity is always there. But it is as if Thou hadst willed to cut me off from all religious joy, all spiritual ecstasy, in order to plunge me into the most strictly material circumstances ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 10, 1914 Listen, O Lord... in the silence of deep meditation my prayer rises ardently to Thee. Is it not a great folly to become identified with one form of thought, one mental construction, however vast and powerful it may be, to the point of making it the living centre of one's being, one's experience and activity ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 17, 1915 Now, Lord, things have changed. The time of rest and preparation is over. Thou hast willed that from the passive and contemplative servitor I was, I become an active and realising one; Thou hast willed that joyful acceptance be transformed into joyful battle, and that in a constant and heroic effort against everything ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 18, 1915 Lord, hear my prayer.... In me Thou art all-powerful, sovereign Master of my destiny, my life's guide, conqueror of all obstacles, victor over preconceived wills and mental prejudices. Perhaps to be all-powerful in the world outside, Thou needest the instrumentation of my mind, organiser and shaper of the means ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 20, 1914 Oh, I would be before Thee, Lord, always like an absolutely blank page, so that Thy will may be written in me without any difficulty, any mixture. The very remembrance of past experiences should sometimes be swept away from the thought so as not to obstruct this work of perpetual reconstruction which alone in ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 15, 1915 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O Lord of Truth, thrice have I implored Thy manifestation invoking Thee with deep fervour. Then, as always, the whole being made its total submission. At that moment the consciousness perceived the individual being mental, vital and ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 12, 1914 We must know at each moment how to lose everything that we may gain everything; we must be able to shed the past like a dead body that we may be reborn into a greater plenitude.... It is so that the constant aspiration of the inner being expresses itself; turned to Thee, it wants to reflect Thee in an ever purer ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 21, 1914 O Lord, Thou hast given me Thy Power that Thy Peace and Joy may reign over the world. And this being is now only an embrace of peace enveloping the whole earth, an ocean of joy breaking over all things. O you who are full of hatred, rancour shall be effaced from your hearts as the sea effaces an imprint upon ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 16, 1914 Thou art like the wind upon the sea, driving the boat back ashore until it is at last loaded with all the goods necessary for the long voyage. Thou wouldst not have us embark thoughtlessly. Thy servitors must be ready for all eventualities, must be capable of answering all demands, satisfying all needs. Page ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 24, 1931 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O my Lord, my sweet Master, for the accomplishment of Thy work I have sunk down into the unfathomable depths of Matter, I have touched with my finger the horror of the falsehood and the inconscience, I have reached the seat of oblivion ...
... Four Letters by Sri Aurobindo Prayers and Meditations 21 August 1936 In some of the Mother's Prayers which are addressed to "divin Maître" I find the words: "avec notre divine Mère". How can the Mother and "divin Maître" have a "divine Mère"? It is as if the Mother was not the "divine Mère" and there was some other Mother and the "divin Maître" was not ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 23, 1937 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. ( A prayer for those who wish to serve the Divine ) Glory to Thee, O Lord, who triumphest over every obstacle. Grant that nothing in us shall be an obstacle in Thy work. Grant that nothing may retard Thy manifestation. Grant ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 22, 1920 Pondicherry Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. After granting me the joy which surpasses all expression, Thou hast sent me, O my beloved Lord, the struggle, the ordeal and on this too I have smiled as on one of Thy precious messengers. Before, I dreaded the conflict, for ...
... Four Letters by Sri Aurobindo Prayers and Meditations 17 August 1938 There are many who hold the view that she was human but now embodies the Divine Mother and her "Prayers", they say, explain this view. But, to my mental conception, to my psychic being, she is the Divine Mother who has consented to put on her the cloak of obscurity and suffering and ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 6, 1927 One must know how to give one's life and also one's death, give one's happiness and also one's suffering, to depend for everything and in all things upon the Divine Dispenser of all our possibilities of realisation, who alone can and will decide whether we shall be happy or not, whether we shall live or not, whether ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 28, 1928 There is a Power that no ruler can command; there is a Happiness that no earthly success can bring; there is a Light that no wisdom can possess; there is a Knowledge that no philosophy and no science can master; there is a Bliss of which no satisfaction of desire can give the enjoyment; there is a thirst for Love ...
... Four Letters by Sri Aurobindo Prayers and Meditations 4 January 1935 I have said that the Divine does the Sadhana first for the world and then gives what is brought down to others. There can be no Sadhana without realisations and experiences. The Prayers are a record of Mother's experiences. 4 January 1935 ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 10, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O Supreme Master, Eternal Teacher, it has been once more granted me to verify the unequalled effectivity of a full confidence in Thy leading. Thy Light was manifested through my mouth yesterday and it met no resistance in me; the instrument ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 11, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. I await, without haste, without inquietude, the tearing of another veil, the Union made more complete. I know that the veil is formed of a whole mass of small imperfections, of attachments without number.... How shall all these disappear ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 2, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. So long as one element of the being, one movement of the thought is still subjected to outside influences, not solely under Thine, it cannot be said that the true Union is realised; there is still the horrible mixture without order and light ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 3, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Let Thy Light be in me like a Fire that makes all alive; let Thy divine Love penetrate me. I aspire with all my being for Thy reign as sovereign and master of my mind and heart and body; let them be Thy docile instruments and Thy faithful ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 13, 1913 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. ...Let the pure perfume of sanctification burn always, rising higher and higher, and straighter and straighter, like the ceaseless prayer of the integral being, desiring to unite with Thee so as to manifest Thee. Page 18 ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 12, 1918 [Suddenly, before Thee, all my pride fell. I understood how futile it was in Thy Presence to wish to surmount oneself, and I wept, wept abundantly and without constraint the sweetest tears of my life....] 1 Ah yes, how refreshing, how calm and sweet were those tears I shed before Thee without shame or constraint ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 28, 1917 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O my divine Master, who hast appeared to me this night in all Thy radiant splendour, Thou canst in an instant make this being perfectly pure, luminous, translucid, conscious. Thou canst liberate it from its last dark spots, free it from its ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 13, 1917 Akakura One day I wrote: "My heart has fallen asleep down to the very depths of my being...." Merely asleep? I cannot believe it. I think it is completely hushed, perhaps for ever. From sleep one awakes, from this quietness there is no falling back. And since that day I have not observed any relapse. In place ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 3, 1919 Oiwaké Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Since the man refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and care, I invoked the God to take it. My God, Thou hast accepted my invitation, Thou hast come to sit at my table, and in exchange for my poor and humble offering ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 15, 1917 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. I have cried to Thee in my despair, O Lord, and Thou hast answered my call. I have no right to complain of the circumstances of my existence; are they not consonant with what I am? Because Thou ledst me to the threshold of Thy splendour ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 10, 1918 O my beloved Lord, how sweet it is to think that it is for Thee and Thee alone that I act! It is at Thy service that I am; it is Thou who dost decide and ordain and set in motion, guide and accomplish the action. What peace, what tranquillity, what supreme delight come with the feeling and perception of this! For ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 10, 1917 My heart has fallen asleep down to the very depths of my being.... The whole earth is in a stir and agitation of perpetual change; all life enjoys and suffers, strives, struggles, conquers, is destroyed and formed again. My heart has fallen asleep down to the very depths of my being.... In all these innumerable ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 9, 1917 Once the threshold of the kingdom of Thy Omniscience has been crossed, each time there is a return to the mental world, every thought one has there seems a marvellous and unfathomable problem one had never dreamed of before. Above, no question is put; in that calm silence all is known from all eternity. Below, all ...
... Prayers and Meditations Undated A few days later Lord, how many times, giving way before Thy decree, I have prayed to Thee: "Spare me this calvary of earthly consciousness; let me merge in Thy supreme unity." But my prayer is faint-hearted, I know, for it remains unfruitful. Page 371 ...
... Words of Long Ago Prayers and Meditations Insofar as the activities of the physical organism are egocentric, it is both legitimate and necessary to separate the consciousness from it and to regard the body as a servant to be directed, guided and made obedient. As the terrestrial being grows more receptive to the divine forces and manifests them in its ...
... Existent and the Non-Existent, the Personal and the Impersonal—Love. Not a love between two things, two beings... A love containing everything. In the early part of the century, I wrote Prayers and Meditations , and I too spoke of 'Him'; but I wrote that with all my aspiration, all my sincerity (at least with all the sincerity of the conscious parts of my being) and I locked it up in a drawer so ...
... to behave, I shouldn't come to the table! ( Mother goes into peals of laughter ) It was during this period that I used to go out of my body every night and do the work I've spoken of in Prayers and Meditations (I only mentioned it in passing). 8 Every night at the same hour, when the whole house was very quiet, I would go out of my body and have all kinds of experiences. And then my body gradually ...
... mentally. I tell myself it's the same in your body. Yes, that's closer, but ( laughing ) it's not quite it! I see the problem very clearly, because all these experiences (if you reread Prayers and Meditations , you will see), I had them in the mind, even in the vital, and at the time, naturally, what I said was very clear, it made perfect sense; but the body didn't participate: it obeyed. When it's ...
... serenity, all sufferings into an immutable happiness, all miseries into an immobile peace, into an inexpressible joy that poor words cannot express. (For the last half I have consulted "Prayers and Meditations".) 17/20 good Lignorance, douloureuse ecole de l'existence ordinaire, toute faite de luttes et de souffrances est le compagnon des hommes puisqu'ils ont tourne le dos ...
... twenty I was more involved in vision: painting; and sound: music), but as regards language, literature, language sounds (written or spoken), it was approximately from twenty to thirty. The Prayers and Meditations were written spontaneously with that rhythm. If I stayed in an ordinary consciousness I would get the knack of that rhythm—but now it doesn't work that way, it won't do! Yesterday, after ...
... going to give me?" (They spoke in French.) Then P. said, "I have only one thing, which I always keep with me and is infinitely precious to me, but I will give it to you," and he gave him Prayers and Meditations . And the Pope answered, "I am going to read them." So it all fits together. It's interesting. Oh, yesterday I saw the photo of a man, a German who speaks German, but it's not clear ...
... say that this kind of cleverness will not have its consequences, but it can't be denied at the same time that people with such qualities succeed in life. NIRODBARAN: You have said in your Prayers and Meditations that justice exists and one can't avoid the law of Karma except by the Divine Grace. Why doesn't one believe in this Grace? THE MOTHER (after looking for some time with meditative eyes) ...
... that it was masculine, but soft — some have called it musical — low-pitched, quiet and measured, with a clear English accent. This was my impression formed from a gradual closeness. In her Prayers and Meditations , the Mother describes the voice of the Lord which can apply very well to Sri Aurobindo's. On June 27, 1913, she writes, "Thy voice is so modest, so impartial, so sublime in its patience and ...
... I wrote a letter to the Mother in French. It is translated in English: Sweet Mother, I bow to you. My Mother! I want four books in French. A dictionary , Lights on Yoga, Prayers and Meditations, and a grammar book. Mother! Will you please give me the books? You see I can't write very well in French. The letter contains many mistakes. With love, Huta The Mother ...
... memories of her made me shut my eyes with content when at last I went to bed. The next morning, before I left for Bombay with my husband, the Mother sent to me through Dyuman her book Prayers and Meditations, along with her blessings. I opened it and read her introductory words, which appealed to me enormously: Some give their soul to the Divine, some their life, some offer their work, some ...
... experiences. From these diaries which continued over several years, a small selection was later translated into English, some of it by Sri Aurobindo himself, and published under the title Prayers and Meditations. As spiritual literature, it is an incomparable treasure but the Mother set such small store by her writings that the bulk of the diaries was destroyed by her. In 1912 Mirra was closely ...
... you cannot yet do it with the true spiritual consciousness, it, the work as well as the mental occupation, must be done with the right mental or vital will in it. The Mother says in her "Prayers and Meditations" that experience is willed by the Divine. Am I then to suppose that dearth or abundance of experiences is, in any given case, willed by the Divine? To say so has no value unless you realise ...
... Sumitra with him, the former being in charge of the Copyright section and the latter his secretary. When I had finished reading the first Talk which ends with one of us stating that the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations contains many things identical with Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy and Yoga, she Page 142 asked, "What did he say?" "He simply heard it, Mother," I answered. The following day, I ...
... taking with the Mother’s permission a French class for a few sadhaks. The number was restricted and approved by her. It was hardly a class: we used to read one sentence each from the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations - that’s all. I was not very regular. One day the Mother herself came to the class and read a whole prayer and that very day I was absent! I learnt that her visit had been pre-arranged, but ...
... the sadhana first for the world and then gives what is brought down to others. There can be no sadhana without realisations and experiences. Both myself and the Mother have done sadhana. The Prayers and Meditations are a record of Mother's experiences. Is not the Mother far above what we feel as experience? The Mother is not an "experience", she is the Being and Page 157 ...
... contact in 1926 to devote himself to the "supramental yoga", she collaborated with him and at the same time organized and developed the Ashram. The Mother is the author of several books. Prayers and Meditations and On Education are her short but important books. She presided over the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in which hundreds of students studied. The Mother herself taught ...
... world in joy and gratefulness, utters this mantra. of thanksgiving: "If this is she of whom the world has heard, Wonder no more at any happy change." 1 (4) In her Prayers and Meditations the Mother says: "Comme l'homme n'a pas voulu du repas que j'avais. préparé avec tant d'amour et de soin, alors j'ai invité le Dieu à le prendre. Et mon Dieu, Tu as accepté ...
... and gratefulness, utters this mantra of thanksgiving: If this is she of whom the world has heard, Wonder no more at any happy change. 21 (4) In her Prayers and Meditations the Mother says: Comme l'homme n'a pas voulu du repas que j'avais préparé avec tant d'amour et de soin, alors j'ai invité le Dieu à le prendre. Et mon Dieu, Tu as ...
... Or, the "I" has completely merged itself into the working Force and is one with it. What is conscious is not the personality or the individual I, but the Force of action. ¹ The Mother: Prayers and Meditations, 7 April 1914 Page 291 ...
... – Paradise Lost, 156n Mimansakas,137 Mitra, 207 Morgan, 56-7 Mother, The, 63, 65-6, 270, 282-3n., 285n., 289n., 29In., 319 Page 432 -Prayers and Meditations, 266, 270, 282-3n., 285n., 289n., 291n., 336 Mozart, 427 Mysteries, 192 -Orphic, 192 -Eleusinian, 192 NAPOLEON, 116,209,406 OFFERTORY, the, 82 Olympians, 46, 253 ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5 One Day More IN her “Prayers and Meditations” (Prières et Méditations) Mother wrote under the date 25 September 1914: A new light will break upon the earth, A new world will be born, And the things promised will be fulfilled.¹ Subesquently ...
... themselves so entirely and with such sovereign ease. This implies a complete obliteration of the past, erasing it with its virtues and faults. The Mother has referred to this in one of her Prayers and Meditations. When she came here, she gave herself up to the Lord, Sri Aurobindo, with the candid simplicity of a child, after erasing from herself all her past, all her spiritual attainments, all the riches ...
... existence. Now when all sense of personality—not only the sense but even the fact itself—had totally dissolved, the voice of the Supreme Divine was heard and His impulsion recorded. The Prayers and Meditations hereafter were written through such an impulsion; it was truly automatic writing—the instrument did not know what it was writing and even did not understand the meaning of the recorded words ...
... 179 The Mother gave the French edition of Prières et Méditations to Dada: (To Pranab so that he realises.) Page 180 For the English edition of Prayers and Meditations the Mother wrote: (To Pranab, in memory of the French lessons...) Page 181 Words of the Mother (Fourth Series) was given to Dada with these words ...
... After that for a number of days she read The Mother to me. We used to have our midday meal together and after the meal Mother would read the book to me. Then later she fully read her Prayers and Meditations, Words of Long Ago and other books as well. As this reading went on in the afternoons, one by one many came to join us. A good number started coming. Then Mother shifted it to the hall in ...
... infinite consciousness, and is not, like morality and religion, a working of the human mind. It is the breaking of a lid, the tearing of a covering, or the opening of a door; it ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. ² ibid. Page 249 is a leap into the unknown or an invasion of the unknown into our consciousness. Whatever its beginning or the trend and tempo of its ...
... will remain the Divine will cut asunder. There is "the very universal superstition, prevalent all over the world, that asceticism and spirituality are one and the same ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother Page 175 thing. If you describe someone as a spiritual man or a spiritual woman, people at once think of one who does not eat or sits all day without moving, ...
... Montague, William Pepperell. The Ways of Knowing (Allen & Unwin, London, 4 th Impression, 1953). Morgan, Charles. Liberties of the Mind (Macmillan, London, 1951). Mother, The. Prayers and Meditations, translated from the French (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, Revised edition, 1948). Words of the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 3 rd Edition, 1946). Mukerjea ...
... keep losing the real aim of life because we get caught in some petty pleasure or the other. The Mother is feeding us food that She has cooked but we refuse to take it. In a prayer from Prayers and Meditations the Mother says: Since the man refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and care, I invoked the God to take it. Nolini-da has written: What food had the Mother prepared ...
... quietly: they seemed perfectly unconscious of what had happened! After the descent of the Supramental Light, the Mother modified the last four lines of Her prayer of 25th September 1914 in Prayers and Meditations from: The Lord hast 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 ...
... Old values are already broken up and one need not regret it if they had no contribution to make to human progress. But young men uprooted, _________________ 8 Book I, Canto 4. 9 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother : P. 131. June 9, 1914. Page 10 psychologically, from their own culture are taking to the glamorous outer values of the powerful Western culture in their bewilderment ...
... had especially her sadhana to do for ailing and tortured earth, and she made quite a few explorations into the Unknown, and spiritual conquests as well, and these were duly recorded in her prayers and meditations. Richard had now to visit Japan on an assignment, but even as in 1910 and 1914, he had combined politics and electioneering with a serious spiritual quest when he visited Pondicherry, now ...
... alone To heal with her feet the aching throb of life And break the seals on the dim soul of man And kindle her fire in the closed heart of things. 23 V Mirra's prayers and meditations were but the stray ripples from the ocean infinite of her inner life, and at different moments they strike us differently: now seemingly austere and resigned when the sky is overcast with ...
... balance left; perhaps she should sell some of her jewellery! 29 And the ceaseless pressure on her time, and the endless calls on her love: for example, somebody would come at midnight to read Prayers and Meditations with her, another for lessons in arithmetic, a third for a smile and a flower, and so "the wheel went round and round with hardly a stop". 30 And how variegated the meetings, from the sublime ...
... written by her in 1893 in her fifteenth year, and there were the plays The Great Secret and The Ascent to the Truth written over sixty years later, and there were selections from the Prayers and Meditations as well. While the birthday was celebrated at all Sri Aurobindo Study Centres, the Pathamandir at Calcutta, besides sponsoring the Golden Book, also organised a seminar, the proceedings ...
... Mother as a progressive realisation of her life's mission. Those who feel interested in the Mother's experiences, thoughts and activities, are advised to read the foLl owing books: 1) Prayers and Meditations of the Mother 2) Words of the Mother 3) The Supreme Discovery—by the Mother 4) The Four Austerities—by the Mother 5) On Education—by the Mother etc. etc. ...
... continues to see the faults of others with pleasure. When it will understand that the faults of others increase its own work, the pleasure will disappear. 12.7.1970 In "Prayers and Meditations" Mother has said, "Above, no question arises ..." Does "above" mean "in the consciousness of the Supreme Lord"? Page 147 If you had given ...
... disciple, breaking through the casement of Matter and Mind. For the rest, one read Sri Aurobindo's published works or unpublished correspondence, one read the Mother's Conversations or Prayers and Meditations, one joined the evening Meditation, one tried to lose oneself in "her finite's multitude in an infinite space". 56 Or one tried to take in the argument of books like The Human Cycle ...
... The Synthesis of Yoga, 20:42 × Prieres et Meditations (Prayers and Meditations), 2.22.1914 × Mother’s Agenda II, 4.29.1961 ...
... April 4, Sri Aurobindo takes refuge in Pondicherry. April, Paul Richard’s first visit to Pondicherry. Mirra marries Paul Richard, 7-9 rue du Vai de Grace. 1911 Beginning of Prayers and Meditations. 1914 March 7, Mother embarks for India aboard the Kaga Maru. March 29, meeting of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. August 1, declaration of war. August 15, first issue of the Arya ...
... and His breath is abroad upon the waters of our being. In the calm solemnity of this blessed hour the Mother proclaims the advent of a New Age .and the Victory of a new Light:¹ ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother— June. 9, 1914. Page 472 "....From this centre, this burning nucleus which is and will be more and more penetrated with Thy light and love. Thy forces will ...
... our life." A constant and loving concentration of our thought on the Divine is another potent means of freeing ourselves from the hold of the physical mind. Whenever ¹ "Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 272 the mind turns towards the objects of sense, or towards the body and its urges, it has to be directed with love towards the Divine, the infinite ...
... dans le silence de la plus pure dévotion je t'adore. ( Prières et Meditation , p. 31) O Thou whom I cannot understand, in the silence of the purest devotion I adore Thee. The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: August 16, 1913 पृथ्वी रेणुरणुः पयांसि कणिकाः फल्गुः स्फुलिङ्गो लघु- स्तेजो निःश्वसनं मरुत्तनुतरं रन्ध्र सुसूक्ष्म नमः। क्षुद्रा रुद्रपितामहप्रभृतयः कीटाः समस्ताः सुरा दृष्टा यत्र ...
... the heart of the shadow, in the bosom of the silence burns the lamp that can never be extinguished, the fire of an ardent aspiration to know Thee and totally to live Thee. The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: November 8, 1914 न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः। यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम ॥६॥ na tadbhāsayate sūryo na śaśāṅko na pāvakaḥ, yadgatvā na nivartante taddhāma paramaṁ ...
... intégralement! Elle est mon bonheur et ma loi. ( Prières et Méditations , p. 318) May Thy will be done, O Lord — done integrally. It is my happiness and my law. The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: January 11, 1915 अजं शाश्वतं कारणं कारणानां शिवं केवलं भासकं भासकानाम्। तुरीयं तमापारमाद्यन्तहीनं प्रपद्ये परं पावनं द्वैतहीनम् ॥७॥ नमस्ते नमस्ते विभो विश्वमूर्ते नमस्ते नमस्ते ...
... rayonnes et Tu règne. ( Prières et Meditations , p. 62) ...each atom of matter contains something of Thy Absolute. Thou art, Thou livest, Thou art radiant and reignest. The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: January 13, 1914 महेशान्नापरो देवो महिम्नो नापरा स्तुतिः। अघोरान्नापरो मन्त्रो नास्ति तत्त्वं गुरोः परम्॥ maheśānnāparo devo mahimno nāparā stutiḥ, aghorānnāparo mantro nāsti ...
... ...O Toi que je ne puis penser mais que je connais avec certitude! ( Prières et Meditations , p. 250) ...O Thou whom I cannot think, but whom with certitude I know! The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: August 20, 1914 नमस्ते शरण्ये शिवे सानुकम्पे नमस्ते जगद्व्यापिके विश्वरूपे।१। नमस्ते जगच्चिन्त्यमानस्वरूपे नमस्ते महायोगिनि ज्ञानरूपे॥२॥ नमस्ते जगद्वन्यपादारविन्दे नमस्ते जगत्तारिणि ...
... Méditations , p. 146) O Lord, Lord, grant that Thy sovereign Power may manifest; grant that Thy work may be accomplished and Thy servitor be consecrated solely to Thy service. The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: May 3, 1914 ब्रह्मार्पणं ब्रह्म हविर्ब्रह्माग्नौ ब्रह्मणा हुतम्। ब्रह्मैव तेन गन्तव्यं ब्रह्मकर्मसमाधिना॥ brahmārpaṇaṁ brahma havirbrahmāgnau brahmaṇā hutaṁ, brahmaiva tena gantavyaṁ ...
... Music 1996 Listen Prayer 1996... C'est Toi qui vis en moi, Toi seul;... ( Prières et Meditations , p. 32) It is Thou who livest in me, Thou alone;... The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: August 17, 1913 ॐ सह नाववतु । सह नौ भुनक्तु । सह वीर्यं करवावहै। तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु। मा विद्विषावहै ॥ ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः॥ om saha nāvavatu, saha nau bhunaktu, saha vīryaṁ ...
... vivons et Ta loi est la supreme maîtresse de notre vie. ( Prières et Méditations , p. 113) In Thee, by Thee, for Thee we live and Thy law is the supreme master of our life. The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: March 19, 1914 नमो ब्रह्मणे । नमस्ते वायो । त्वमेव प्रत्यक्षं ब्रह्मासि । त्वामेव प्रत्यक्षं ब्रह्म वदिष्यामि। ऋतं वदिष्यामि । सत्यं वदिष्यामि । तन्मामवतु । तद्वक्तारमवतु। अवतु माम् ...
... Mother's Chronicles - Book Four 1 The Consecrated House Mirra was seated at her desk writing in her diary which we know as Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. It was 3 March 1914. She was going to set out to meet Sri Aurobindo. She wrote, "As the day of departure draws near, I enter into a sort of calm collectedness; I turn ...
... 1911,5 May -MIRRA marries PAUL RICHARD. They live in N°9 Rue du Val de Grace. 1911-1913 -Mother's second group, L 'Union des Pensees Féminities. 1912,November -Beginning of Prayers and Meditations. Page 325 ...
... dictation, Tuesdays for recitation and Fridays for stories. Thrice a week Mother was taking a translation class with the senior students and sadhaks, and on Wednesdays She would take a class ’Prayers and Meditations’ for our Group B. Thus She took classes everyday in the Playground of some group or the other. In 1954, the Mother discontinued the dictation classes on Sundays. Later the recitation classes ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother March 7, 1915 I am exiled from every spiritual happiness, and of all ordeals this, O Lord, is surely the most painful that Thou canst impose: but most of all the withdrawal of Thy Will which seems to be a sign of total disapprobation. Strong is the growing sense of rejection and it needs all ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother December 26, 1916 Always the word Thou makest me hear in the silence is sweet and encouraging, O Lord. But I see not in what this instrument is worthy of the grace Thou accordest to it or how it will have the capacity to realise what Thou attendest from it. All in it appears so small, weak and ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother July 12, 1918 Suddenly, before Thee, all my pride fell. I understood how futile it was in Thy Presence to wish to surmount oneself, and I wept, wept abundantly and without constraint the sweetest tears of my life. Tears sweet and beneficent, tears that opened my heart without constraint before ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother November 8, 1914 For the plenitude of Thy Light we invoke Thee, O Lord! Awaken in us the power to express Thee. All is mute in the being as in a desert crypt; but in the heart of the shadow, in the bosom of the silence burns the lamp that can never be extinguished, the fire of an ardent ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother March 3, 1915 Solitude, a harsh intense solitude, and always this strong impression of having been flung down headlong into a hell of darkness! Never at any moment of my life, in any circumstances have I felt myself living in surroundings so entirely opposite to all that I am conscious of as ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother December 28, 1928 There is a Power that no ruler can command; there is a Happiness that no earthly success can bring; there is a Light that no wisdom can possess; there is a Knowledge that no philosophy and no science can master; there is a Bliss of which no satisfaction of desire can ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 11, 1913 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. As soon as I have no longer any material responsibilities, all thoughts about these things flee far away from me, and I am solely and entirely occupied with Thee and Thy service. Then, in that perfect peace and serenity, I unite my will to Thine ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 5, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. In Peace and Silence the Eternal manifests; allow nothing to disturb you and the Eternal will manifest; have perfect equality in face of all and the Eternal will be there.... Yes, we should not put too much intensity, too much effort into ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 12, 1913 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. As soon as all effort disappears from a manifestation, it becomes very simple, with the simplicity of a flower opening, manifesting its beauty and spreading its fragrance without clamour or vehement gesture. And in this simplicity lies ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 15, 1913 Even he who might have attained a perfect contemplation in silence and solitude would have arrived at it only by withdrawing from his body, by disregarding it; and so the substance of which the body is constituted would remain as impure, as imperfect as before, since he would have left it to itself; and by a misguided ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 5, 1913 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Thy voice is heard as a melodious chant in the stillness of my heart, and is translated in my head by words which are inadequate and yet replete with Thee. And these words are addressed to the Earth and say to her:—Poor sorrowful Earth, ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 10, 1913 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. My being goes up to Thee in thanksgiving, not because Thou usest this weak and imperfect body to manifest Thyself, but because Thou dost manifest Thyself , and that is the Splendour of splendours, the Joy of joys, the Marvel of marvels ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 7, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Like a flame that burns in silence, like a perfume that rises straight upward without wavering, my love goes to Thee; and like the child who does not reason and has no care, I trust myself to Thee that Thy Will may be done, that Thy Light ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 18, 1913 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. To turn towards Thee, unite with Thee, live in Thee and for Thee, is supreme happiness, unmixed joy, immutable peace; it is to breathe infinity, to soar in eternity, no longer feel one's limits, escape from time and space. Why do men flee from ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 8, 1913 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O Lord, Thou art my refuge and my blessing, my strength, my health, my hope, and my courage. Thou art supreme Peace, unalloyed Joy, perfect Serenity. My whole being prostrates before Thee in a gratitude beyond measure and a ceaseless worship; ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 25, 1913 The greatest enemy of a silent contemplation turned towards Thee is surely this constant subconscient registering of the multitude of phenomena with which we come into contact. So long as we are mentally active, our conscious thought veils for us this over-activity of our subconscious receptivity; an entire part ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 7, 1913 This return after an absence of three months to the house which is consecrated to Thee, O Lord, has been the occasion of two experiences. The first is that in my outer being, my surface consciousness, I no longer have the least feeling of being in my own home and the owner of anything there: I am a stranger in a ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 28, 1913 In this calm concentration which comes before day-break, more than at any other moment, my thought rises to Thee, O Lord of our being, in an ardent prayer. Grant that this day which is about to dawn may bring to the earth and to men a little more of pure light and true peace; may Thy manifestation be more complete ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 29, 1913 Why all this noise, all this movement, this vain and futile agitation; why this whirlwind carrying men away like a swarm of flies caught in a storm? How sad is the sight of all that wasted energy, all those useless efforts! When will they stop dancing like puppets on a string, pulled they know not by whom or what ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 2, 1913 This morning, as I was glancing over the month that is beginning and wondering how I could serve Thee better, I heard the small voice within like a murmur in the silence, and this is what it said to me: "See how very little all outer circumstances matter. Why strive and strain so to realise thy own conception of Truth ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 13, 1913 Give me Thy light, O Lord, grant that I do not fall into any error. Grant that the infinite reverence, the utter devotion, that intense and profound love I bring to Thee may be radiant, convincing, contagious, and be awakened in every heart. O Lord, Eternal Master, Thou art my Light and my Peace; guide my steps ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 8, 1913 O sweet harmony that dwellest in all things, sweet harmony that fillest my heart, manifest thyself in the most external forms of life, in every feeling, every thought, every action. All is to me beautiful, harmonious, silent, despite the outer turmoil. And in this silence it is Thou, O Lord, whom I see; and I see ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 27, 1913 Thy voice is so modest, so impartial, so sublime in its patience and mercy that it does not make itself heard with any authority, any force of will but comes like a cool breeze, sweet and pure, like a crystalline murmur that brings a note of harmony to a discordant concert. Yet, for him who knows how to listen to the ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 16, 1913 O Love, divine Love, Thou fillest my whole being and overflowest on every side. I am Thyself even as Thou art I, and I see Thee in each being, each thing, from the soft breath of the passing breeze to the glorious sun which gives us light and is a symbol of Thee. O Thou whom I cannot understand, in the silence ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 1, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. I turn towards Thee who art everywhere and within all and outside all, intimate essence of all and remote from all, centre of condensation for all energies, creator of conscious individualities: I turn towards Thee and salute Thee, O liberator ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 13, 1914 Thou hast passed, O Lord, like a great wave of love over my life, and when I was immersed in it I knew integrally and intensely that I had offered to Thee—when? I do not know, at no precise moment and most probably always—my thought, my heart, my body in a living holocaust. And in that great love which enveloped ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 9, 1914 Whatever names may be given to Thee, O Lord, by the élite of humanity, athirst for something absolute, it seeks ardently for Thee. Even those who seem to move farthest away from Thee, even those who are exclusively occupied with themselves, are they not searching for an absolute in sensation, an absolute in satisfaction ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 31, 1914 Every morning may our thought rise fervently towards Thee, asking Thee how we can manifest and serve Thee best. At every moment in the manifold choices which we can make and which, despite their apparent insignificance, are always of great importance—since according to our decision we become subject to one category ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 19, 1914 O Lord, divine Master of Love, Thou art the eternal victor, and those who become perfectly attuned to Thee, those who live for Thee alone and by Thee alone, cannot but win all victories; for in Thee is the supreme force, the force of complete disinterestedness, of perfect clear-sightedness, sovereign kindness. ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 14, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Peace, peace upon all the earth! May all escape from the ordinary consciousness and be delivered from the attachment for material things; may they awake to the knowledge of Thy divine presence, unite themselves with Thy supreme consciousness ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 16, 1914 O supreme, sole Reality, true Consciousness, permanent Oneness, sovereign repose of perfect light, with what an intensity I aspire to be conscious of only Thee, to be only Thyself. This incessant whirl of unreal personalities, this multiplicity, this complexity, this excessive inextricable confusion of conflicting ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 29, 1914 It is Thy Presence in every being, O divine Master of love, that makes it possible for every man, even the most cruel, to be open to pity and even the most vile to respect, almost despite himself, honour and justice. It is Thou who, beyond all conventions and prejudices, illuminest with a special light, divine and ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 12, 1914 A teaching can be profitable only if it is perfectly sincere, that is, if it is lived while it is being given, and words often repeated, thoughts expressed frequently can no longer be sincere.... Page 56 ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 17, 1914 Pondicherry Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O Lord, O almighty Master, sole Reality, grant that no error, no obscurity, no fatal ignorance may creep into my heart and my thought. In action, the personality is the inevitable and indispensable intermediary of Thy will ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 8, 1914 Lord, my thought is calm and my heart ingathered; I turn towards Thee with a profound devotion and a boundless trust: I know that Thy love is all-powerful and that Thy justice will reign over the earth; I know that the hour is near when the last veil will be rent and all iniquity disappear to give place to an era of ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 15, 1914 As on reaching a summit, one discovers a vast horizon, so, O Lord, when one's consciousness is identified with that intermediate domain between Thy Unity and the manifested world, one participates both in Thy Infinitude and in the realisation of the world. It is as though one were at a centre where the consciousness ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 18, 1914 Thou art the sole Reality, O Lord, Thou art Omnipotence and Eternity. And he who is united with Thee in the depths of his being becomes Thy Reality in its eternal and immutable omnipotence. But for others the command is, even while remaining in contact with Thee, to turn their eyes and activity towards the earth; such ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 19, 1914 There is a great difference between being in the midst of active work, of external action, while keeping one's thought constantly fixed on Thee, and entering into that perfect union with Thee which leads to what I have called "absolute Consciousness, true Omniscience, Knowledge". When one acts, though with the thought ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 20, 1914 After having hoped so much, after having believed that my outer being was at last to become an instrument adapted to Thy purpose, after feeling hopeful that I would at last be delivered from this obscure and cumbersome "self", I feel I am as far from the goal as before, as ignorant, as egoistic as I was before this ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 10, 1914 It is Thy sweet joy, O Lord, that fills my heart; it is Thy silent peace that reigns over my mind. All is repose, force, concentration, light and serenity; and all this is without any limit, without any division; is it only the earth or rather the whole universe that lives in me, I do not know; but it is Thou, O Lord ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 3, 1914 O Divine Love, supreme Knowledge, perfect Oneness, at every moment of the day I call to Thee so as to be nothing but Thou alone! May this instrument serve Thee, conscious of being an instrument, and may all my consciousness, merged in Thine, contemplate all things with Thy divine vision. O Lord, Lord, grant that ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 2, 1914 Beyond all human conceptions, even the most marvellous, beyond all human feelings, even the most sublime, beyond the most magnificent aspirations and the purest flights, beyond Love, Knowledge and the Oneness of Being, I would enter into constant communion with Thee, O Lord. Free from all shackles I shall be Thyself; ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 10, 1914 O thou who eternally, immutably art, who consentest to Thy becoming in this world that Thou mayst bring into it a new Illumination, a new Impulsion, Thou art here, manifest Thyself more and more completely, always more perfectly; the instrument has given and gives itself to Thee with a fervent adhesion, a total surrender; ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 26, 1914 Hail to Thee, O Lord, Master of the world. Give us the power to do the work without being attached to it and to develop the capacities of individual manifestation without living in the illusion of personality. Strengthen our vision of reality; make firm our perception of unity; deliver us from all ignorance, all darkness ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 27, 1914 My being is happy with what Thou givest it; what Thou wantest from it, it will do, without weakness, without vain modesty and without futile ambition. What does it matter which place one occupies, what mission Thou entrustest?... Does not all lie in the fact of being entirely Thine, as perfectly as one can be, without ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 6, 1914 What plenitude in the perception! The entire individual being, modest, humble, surrendered, adoring, calm and smiling, feeling one with all beings, unable to make any difference of value, in perfect solidarity with all things, is kneeling down before Thee together with them all; and at the same time the formidable ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 4, 1914 O sovereign Force, O victorious Power, Purity, Beauty, supreme Love, grant that this being in its integrality, this body in all its totality may draw near to Thee solemnly and offer to Thee in a complete and humble surrender this means of manifestation abandoned perfectly to Thy Will, if not perfectly ready for this ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 1, 1914 We hail Thee, O Lord, with adoration and with joy, and give ourselves to Thee in a gift constantly renewed, so that Thy will may be accomplished upon earth and in all the places of this universe. When we turn towards Thee the thought is mute but the heart exults; for Thou shinest resplendent in all things, and the ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 29, 1914 Give joy, peace and happiness to them all... If they suffer, illumine their suffering and make it a means of transfiguration; grant them the beatitude of Thy love and the peace of Thy unity; may their hearts feel vibrating within them Thy eternal Presence. They are all in me, O Lord, I am in them all, and since instead ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 5, 1914 All that belongs to the outer, lower being which is still obscure, prostrates itself before Thee in a mute and fervent adoration, calling with all its strength Thy purifying action which will make it fit to manifest Thee fully. And in this adoration is found perfect silence and perfect beatitude. Thou repliest ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 16, 1914 Salutation of my silent and humble adoration.... I bow down before Thy glory, for it dominates me with all its splendour.... Oh, let me dissolve at Thy feet, melt into Thee! Page 203 ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 3, 1914 For quite a long time, Lord, my pen had fallen silent.... Yet hast Thou given me hours of unforgettable illumination, hours in which the union between the most divine Consciousness and the most material grew perfect, hours when the identification of the individual being with the universal Mother and of the universal ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 14, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Mother Divine, Thou art with us; every day Thou givest me the assurance and, closely united in an identity that grows more and more total, more and more constant, we turn to the Lord of the Universe and to That which is beyond in a great ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 8, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. For the plenitude of Thy Light we invoke Thee, O Lord! Awaken in us the power to express Thee. All is mute in the being as in a desert crypt; but in the heart of the shadow, in the bosom of the silence burns the lamp that can never be ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 11, 1914 Why this persistent feeling so tinged with uneasiness and expectancy? The being, entirely turned to Thee, lives in the beatitude of the divine communion; all is calm, serene, strong, sovereignly peaceful; all is light in widened horizons and, in silent contemplation, my devotion has become intenser yet. What then ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 10, 1914 May the offering of my being, constantly renewed and growing more and more integral, be laid before the Supreme Reality, the Unthinkable who cannot be formulated, but who, in time, expresses himself eternally in an ever completer and more perfect manifestation. O Thou whom I cannot name, Thou whose will I perceive ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 8, 1914 The joy that is contained in activity is compensated and balanced by the perhaps still greater joy contained in withdrawal from all activity; when the two states alternate in the being or are even simultaneously conscious, the felicity is complete, for then, O Lord, Thy plenitude is realised. O divine Master, ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 12, 1914 It was their sorrow and suffering which the physical being was feeling, Lord. When will ignorance dissolve? When will pain cease? O Lord, grant that each element of the universe may become conscious of its principle of being and, without disappearing, be transformed; may the veils of egoistic blindness which hide ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 23, 1914 O Lord, the entire being is ready and it calls Thee to take possession of what is Thine; of what service can be the instrument if the Master will not use it? And whatever be the mode of manifestation, it shall be well, from the most humble, most obscure, most material, most outwardly limited, to the vastest, most ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 16, 1914 It is Thy Will that I should be like a channel, always open, always wider, through which Thy forces may pour themselves in abundance on the world.... O Lord, let Thy Will be done. Am I not Thy Will and Thy Consciousness in a felicity supreme?... The being grows immeasurably in largeness and becomes vast like ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 8, 1916 This was our conversation today morning, O Lord: Thou didst wake up the vital being with the magic wand of Thy impulsion and say to it: "Awake, bend the bow of thy will, for soon the hour of action will come." Suddenly awakened, the vital being rose up, stretched itself and shook off the dust of its long torpidity; ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 21, 1916 Lord, Thou didst speak to me through the lips of one of those who have known Thee best—most probably to make me understand Thy lesson better (was I then deaf to Thy direct suggestion?). And still I do not understand at the moment what to do. Thou knowest what happiness would be mine if by Thy grace I could be ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 26, 1916 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Always the word Thou makest me hear in the silence is sweet and encouraging, O Lord. But I see not in what this instrument is worthy of the grace Thou accordest to it or how it will have the capacity to realise what Thou attendest from ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 7, 1916 Lord, I could in truth say that I have neither Yoga nor any virtues, for I am completely divested of that which constitutes the glory of all those who want to serve Thee. Apparently my life is as ordinary and banal as can be; and inwardly what is it? Nothing but a calm tranquillity without any variation or surprises; ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 10, 1916 Certain apparent weaknesses are sometimes more useful to Thee for Thy work, O Lord, than too evident a perfection. A manifest perfection seems to be the possible prerogative only of one who has withdrawn both from the world and from work in the world. But for him whom Thou hast chosen as one of Thy workers upon ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 24, 1916 Lord, without allowing my mind to become aware of what was going to happen and how it was going to happen, Thou gavest me this evening a foretaste of what Thou expectest from me, only a foretaste, for it is a first, very timid step upon the marvellous road Thou hast partially opened before me. It was like a rising ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 5, 1916 Thou hast granted me the grace of Thy repose in which all individual limits are dissolved, in which one is in all and, more clearly still, all is in oneself. But the mind, merged in this divine ecstasy, cannot yet find any power of expression. ( Factual notation of the experience ) "Turn towards the earth ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 12, 1916 My mind was worried about being so constantly turned towards such petty things, moving in so narrow a circle of practical and immediate thoughts. It has learned to see Thee in everything, Lord, and in the least thing it is aware of Thee and rejoices in Thee. But even while delighting in Thee thus and recognising ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 27, 1916 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O my beloved Lord, my heart is bowed before Thee, my arms are stretched towards Thee imploring Thee to set all this being on fire with Thy sublime love that it may radiate from there on the world. My heart is wide open in my breast; my ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 25, 1917 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O Lord, because in an hour of cruel distress I said in the sincerity of my faith: "Thy Will be done", Thou camest garbed in Thy raiment of glory. At Thy feet I prostrated myself, on Thy breast I found my refuge. Thou hast filled my being ...
... Four Letters by Sri Aurobindo Prayers and Meditations 23 December 1933 There are some Prayers of the Mother of 1914 in which she speaks of transformation and manifestation. Since at that time she was not here, does this not mean that she had these ideas long before she came here? The Mother had been spiritually conscious from her youth, even from ...
... × The experience referred to is one which the Mother had on 26 November 1915 . This has been described in her Prayers and Meditations . Sri Aurobindo's reply to the Mother, dated 31 December 1915, is published in The Mother , SABCL. Vol. 25, p. 384 . ...
... × MS (copy) certain × See The Mother , Prayers and Meditations (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2003), pp. 311-12 ; entry of 26 November 1915. × ...
... concentration to the preparation of the events of those two days because she had decided on a big cultural programme, her own play "Vers l'Avenir", dances, recitation from Savitri and from the Prayers and Meditations for the 1st December and also a big and ambitious programme for the 2nd of sportive items and events. This meant a good deal more time for these purposes but not any interruption of her other ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother September 1, 1914 O Mother Divine, with what fervour, what ardent love I came to Thee in Thy deepest consciousness, in Thy high status of sublime love and perfect felicity, and I nestled so close into Thy arms and loved Thee with so intense a love that I became altogether Thyself. Then in the ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother September 30, 1914 O Thou, Sublime Love, to whom I gave never any other name, but who art so wholly the very substance of my being, Thou whom I feel vibrant and alive in the least of my atoms even as in the infinite universe and beyond, Thou who breathest in every breath, movest in the heart ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother October 14, 1914 Mother Divine, Thou art with us; every day Thou givest me the assurance, and closely united in an identity which grows more and more total, more and more constant, we turn to the Lord of the universe and to That which is beyond in a great aspiration towards the new Light. All ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother October 25, 1914 My aspiration to Thee, O Lord, has taken the form of a beautiful rose, harmonious, full in bloom, rich in fragrance. I stretch it out to Thee with both arms in a gesture of offering and I ask of Thee: "If my understanding is limited, widen it; if my knowledge is obscure, enlighten ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother November 28, 1913 The Mother titled this prayer: "A morning prayer".—Ed. Mother Divine, grant that today may bring to us a completer consecration to Thy Will, a more integral gift of ourselves to Thy work, a more total forgetfulness of self, a greater illumination, a purer love. Grant that ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother September 28, 1914 My pen is mute to chant Thy presence, O Lord; yet art Thou like a king who has taken entire possession of his kingdom. Thou art there, organising, putting all in place, developing and increasing every province. Thou awakenest those that were asleep. Thou makest active those ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother September 25, 1914 A new light shall break upon the earth, A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 16, 1913 Pure and disinterested love, Thy love in what we are able to perceive and manifest of it, is the sole key that can open all hearts that seek for Thee. Those who follow the path of the intellect may have a very high and true conception; they may have all the information about the true life, the life One with Thee ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 10, 1914 My aspiration rises towards Thee ever the same in its almost childlike form, so ordinary in its simplicity, but my call is ever more ardent, and behind the faltering words there is all the fervour of my concentrated will. And I implore Thee, O Lord, in spite of the naïveté of this expression that is hardly intellectual ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 6, 1914 Thou art the one and only goal of my life and the centre of my aspiration, the pivot of my thought, the key of the synthesis of my being. And as Thou art beyond all sensation, all feeling and all thought, Thou art the living but ineffable experience, the Reality lived in the depths of the being but untranslatable ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 4, 1914 The tide of materialistic thoughts is always on the watch, waiting for the least weakness, and if we relax but one moment from our vigilance, if we are even slightly negligent, it rushes in and invades us from all sides, submerging under its heavy flood the result sometimes of numberless efforts. Then the being enters ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 1, 1914 To Thee, supreme Dispenser of all boons, to Thee who givest life its justification, by making it pure, beautiful and good, to Thee, Master of our destinies and goal of all our aspirations, was consecrated the first minute of this new year. May it be completely glorified by this consecration; may those who hope ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 29, 1913 O Lord, grant that this collective convention of the ending year be for us also the occasion to put an end to a whole lot of bonds and attachments, illusions and weaknesses which have no longer any purpose in our lives. At every moment we must shake off the past like falling dust, that it may not soil the virgin ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 7, 1914 Give them all, O Lord, Thy peace and light, open their blinded eyes and their darkened understanding; calm their futile worries and their vain anxieties. Turn their gaze away from themselves and give them the joy of being consecrated to Thy work without calculation or mental reservation. Let Thy beauty flower in ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 8, 1914 Let us shun the paths that are too easy and ask no effort, the paths which give us the illusion of having reached our goal; let us shun that negligence which opens the door to every downfall, that complacent self-admiration which leads to every abyss. Let us understand that however great may have been our efforts ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 3, 1914 It is always good to look within oneself from time to time and see that one is nothing and can do nothing, but afterwards one must turn one's eyes to Thee, knowing that Thou art all and Thou canst do all. Thou art the life of our life and the light of our being, Thou art the master of our destinies. ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 22, 1914 When I was a child of about thirteen, for nearly a year every night as soon as I had gone to bed it seemed to me that I went out of my body and rose straight up above the house, then above the city, very high above. Then I used to see myself clad in a magnificent golden robe, much longer than myself; and as I rose ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 9, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Those who live for Thee and in Thee may change their physical surroundings, their habits, climate, "milieu", but everywhere they find the same atmosphere; they carry that atmosphere in themselves, in their thought constantly fixed on Thee. ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 3, 1914 As the day of departure draws near, I enter into a kind of self-communion; I turn with a fond solemnity towards all those thousand little nothings around us which have silently, for so many years, played their role of faithful friends; I thank them gratefully for all the charm they were able to give to the outer side ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 12, 1914 O Lord, my one aspiration is to know Thee and serve Thee better every day. What do outer circumstances matter? They seem to me each day more vain and illusory, and I take less and less interest in what is going to happen to us in the outer life; but more and more am I intensely interested in the one thing which seems ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 25-26, 1914 He who wants to serve Thee worthily should not be attached to anything, not even to those activities which enable him to commune more consciously with Thee.... But if as a result of the totality of circumstances, material things still take a greater place in life than usual, one must know how not to become absorbed ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 21, 1914 Every day, every moment should be an occasion for a new and completer consecration, and not one of those enthusiastic and flurried consecrations, over-active, full of illusions about the work, but a deep and silent consecration which is not necessarily visible but penetrates and transfigures all action. Our mind ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 23, 1914 Grant O Lord, that we may be more and more conscious of Thy law, that is, be one with it, so that we may foster its manifestation in all things. Lord, grant that I may become master of my vagabond thought, that living in Thee I may see life only through Thee, and the illusion of material reality may come to ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 14, 1914 In the immutable solitude of the desert there is something of Thy majestic presence, and I understand why one of the best means of finding Thee has always been to withdraw into these immense stretches of sand. But for one who knows Thee, Thou art everywhere, in all things, and none of them seems more suitable than ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 4, 1914 It is likely to be the last time for a long while that I am writing at this table, in this calm room all charged with Thy Presence. For the next three days I shall probably not be able to write.... In an indrawn state I contemplate this turning page, vanishing into the dream of the past and look at the new page all ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 22, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. When we have discerned successively what is real from what is unreal in all the states of being and all the worlds of life, when we have arrived at the perfect and integral certitude of the sole Reality, we must turn our gaze from the heights ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 20, 1914 From the height of that summit which is the identification with Thy divine infinite Love, Thou didst turn my eyes to this complex body which has to serve Thee as Thy instrument. And Thou didst tell me, "It is myself; dost thou not see my light shining in it?" And indeed I saw Thy divine Love, clothed in intelligence ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 23, 1914 O Lord, Thou of whom I would be constantly conscious and whom I would realise in the smallest cells of my being, Thou whom I would know as myself and see manifested in all things, Thou who art the sole reality, the sole cause and aim of existence, grant that my love for Thee may grow ever greater so that I may be all ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 27, 1914 In each one of the domains of the being, the consciousness must be awakened to the perfect existence, knowledge and bliss. These three worlds or modes of the Divine are found in the physical reality as well as in the states of force and light and those of impersonality and infinitude, of eternity. When one enters with ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 24, 1914 O my sweet Master, let me not be submerged by outer things. They have no interest, no savour for me. If I busy myself with them, it is because I feel that such is Thy will and the work must be accomplished integrally, down to the least details of the action and substance. But it is quite enough to turn one's attention ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 31, 1914 When the sun set in the indrawn contemplation of the calm twilight, all my being prostrated itself before Thee, O Lord, in mute adoration and complete self-giving. Then I was the whole earth and the whole earth prostrated itself before Thee, imploring the benediction of Thy illumination, the beatitude of Thy love. Oh ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 26, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. On the surface is the storm, the sea is in turmoil, waves clash and leap one on another and break with a mighty uproar. But all the time, under this water in fury, are vast smiling expanses, peaceful and motionless. They look upon the surface ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 4, 1914 O thou who triumphest over all obstacles, Thou shalt be in us the victory over all that would be an obstacle to the accomplishment of Thy divine law. Thou wilt dispel the darkness of ignorance and the black smoke of egoistic ill-will; Thou wilt dissolve all wrong suggestions and strengthen in us a pure and clear vision ...
... Prayers and Meditations May 29, 1914 O my sweet Lord, those who are in Thy head, that is, to speak more intellectually, those who have identified their consciousness with the absolute Consciousness, those who have become Thy supreme Knowledge, can no longer have any love for Thee, since they are Thyself. They enjoy that infinite bliss characteristic of ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 22, 1914 O Lord, Thou who art on the threshold of the Unknowable, I greet Thee! And is it not Thou greeting Thy own self in the Unthinkable Essence of Being, in its immeasurable depths, and even in its most external realisations? For the Being is Thyself, whatever its mode of existence, and the Unthinkable Eternal is ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 20, 1914 To see the goal from a new angle which may usefully light up the others, we should constantly renew the experience of the inner discovery and return to the extreme limit of consciousness without at any time postulating beforehand what the end of our journey will be. But instinctively the mind remembers the impression ...
... Prayers and Meditations October 5, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. In the calm silence of Thy contemplation, O Divine Master, Nature is fortified and tempered anew. All principle of individuality is overpassed, she is plunged in Thy infinity that allows oneness to be realised in all domains without confusion ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 9, 1914 The world is divided between two opposite forces struggling for supremacy, and both are equally against Thy law, O Lord; for Thou dost not want either mortal stagnation or blind destruction. It is in a constant, progressive and luminous transformation that Thou expressest Thyself; and it is this we must establish ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 21, 1914 O Lord, Lord, the whole earth is in an upheaval; it groans and suffers, it is in agony... all this suffering that has descended upon it must not be in vain; grant that all this bloodshed may produce a swifter germination of the seeds of beauty and light and love which must blossom and cover the earth with their rich ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 25, 1914 O Lord, let Thy Will be done, Thy work be accomplished. Fortify our devotion, increase our surrender, give us light upon the path. We erect Thee within us as our supreme Master that Thou mayst become supreme Master of all the earth. Our speech is still ignorant: enlighten it. Our aspiration is still imperfect: ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 17, 1914 No longer can any impulse to action come from outside or from any particular world. It is Thou, Lord, who settest all things in motion from the depths of the being, it is Thy will which directs, Thy force which acts; and no longer in the limited field of a small individual consciousness but in the universal field ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 16, 1914 Hearken to the voice that rises, hearken to the chant that is lifted up to hail Thy divine Dawn. Let the supreme Law be fulfilled; whether it be existence eternal, universal, or re-absorption into Non-Being matters little. Must one choose between the two? I cannot; in my consciousness there is no longer any ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 13, 1914 With fervour I hail Thee, O divine Mother, and in deep affection identify myself with Thee. United with our divine Mother I turn, O Lord, to Thee, and bow to Thee in mute adoration and in an ardent aspiration identify myself with Thee. Then all becomes a marvellous Silence; Being is absorbed in Non-Being, all ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 2, 1915 Every idea, however powerful and profound it may be, repeated too often, expressed too constantly, becomes stale, insipid, worthless.... The highest concepts thus lose their freshness after a time and the intelligence which delighted in transcendental speculations suddenly feels an imperious need to abandon all ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 7, 1915 It is past, the time of sweet mental silence, so peaceful, so pure, through which could be felt the profound will expressing itself in its all-powerful truth. Now the will is no longer perceived; and the mind once more necessarily active, analyses, classifies, judges, chooses, constantly reacts as a transforming agent ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 4, 1915 Always the same harsh solitude... but it is not painful, on the contrary. In it more clearly than ever, is revealed the pure and infinite love in which the whole earth is immersed. By this love all lives and is animated; the darkest shadows become almost translucent to let its streams flow through, and the intensest ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 15, 1914 The one important thing is the goal to be reached; the road matters little, and often it is preferable not to know it beforehand. But what we need to know is whether the time for the divine action upon earth has really come, and whether the work conceived in the depths can be realised. Of this, O Lord, Thou ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 17, 1914 Alas, sublime Mother, how great must be Thy patience! Each time Thy conscious will attempts to manifest itself in order to rectify errors, to hasten the uncertain progress of the individual led astray by his own illusion of knowledge, to trace the sure path and give him the strength to walk steadily upon it without ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 4, 1914 After long days of silence, entirely occupied by outer work, it is at last given to me to resume these pages and continue with Thee, Lord, this conversation which is so sweet to me.... But Thou hast broken all my habits, for Thou wouldst prepare me for liberation from every mental form. Certain mental forms, ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 22, 1914 It is for the Truth, O Lord, that I implore Thee. Once again make active this mind which fell mute in order to surrender to Thee, give it the knowledge of Thy will. It welcomed and allowed all possibilities to take form in it; then in order to stop the conflict of their contrary tendencies, it closed the ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 24, 1915 Lord, I have long remained silent before Thee in one of those inner prostrations full of an ardent adoration which culminate in a supreme identification.... And, as always, Thou saidst to me: "Turn thy look towards the earth." And I saw all the roads wide open and radiant with a calm and pure light. In mute adoration ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 15, 1914 O Lord, Thou hast given me peace in power, serenity in action, immutable happiness in the heart of all circumstances. Page 284 ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 31, 1917 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Each time that a heart leaps at the touch of Thy divine breath, a little more beauty seems to be born upon the Earth, the air is embalmed with a sweet perfume, all becomes more friendly. How great is Thy power, O Lord of all existences ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 24, 1917 Tokio Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Thou hast subjected me to a hard discipline; rung after rung, I have climbed the ladder which leads to Thee and, at the summit of the ascent, Thou hast made me taste the perfect joy of identity with Thee. Then, obedient to Thy ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 29, 1917 In the world of forms a violation of Beauty is as great a fault as a violation of Truth in the world of ideas. For Beauty is the worship Nature offers to the supreme Master of the universe; Beauty is the divine language in forms. And a consciousness of the Divine which is not translated externally by an understanding ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 23, 1917 Thou didst fill my being with so complete, so intense a love and beauty and joy that it seemed impossible to me that this would not be communicated. It was like a glowing hearth whence the breath of thought wafted far many sparks which, entering the secrecy of men's hearts, kindled other similar fires, fires of ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 4, 1917 O Lord, Thou showerest upon me all Thy boons. Now that this being expects nothing, desires nothing from life any longer, life brings it its most precious treasures, those coveted by all men. In all the domains of my individual being Thou showerest Thy boons, in the mind, the psychic and even the physical. Thou hast ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 10, 1917 Dost Thou then want to teach me that every effort that has my own being as its aim will be useless and vain? That action alone which has as its motive the radiating of Thy Grace is accomplished with ease and success. When the will acts in the external life, it is powerful and effective; when it attempts to practise ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 25, 1917 O Radiant Love who fillest all my being and makest it festive, art Thou received, art Thou given? Nobody can say, for Thou receivest Thy own self and givest Thyself to Thyself, being sovereignly active and receptive, at once in all things, in every being. Page 352 ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 8, 1917 Thou hast made my heart and mind fall silent; but no voice has arisen from the depths of this silence. Peace alone has reigned, a sweet and beneficent guest. Page 347 ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 29, 1916 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. O my sweet Lord, teach me to be the instrument of Thy Love. Page 341 ...
... confines of the world like a sphinx of eternity. And yet to some Thou confidest Thy secret. These can become Thy sovereign will which chooses without preference, executes without desire." Prayers and Meditations, 10 November 1914 This immobile Consciousness is the "Mother of Dreams", 1 the sphinx of eternity who keeps vigil on the confines of the world like an enigma to be solved. This enigma ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 2, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Although my whole being is in theory consecrated to Thee, O Sublime Master, who art the life, the light and the love in all things, I still find it hard to carry out this consecration in detail. It has taken me several weeks to learn that ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 28, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. The outer life, the activity of each day and each instant, is it not the indispensable complement of our hours of meditation and contemplation? And is not the proportion of time given to each the exact image of the proportion which exists ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 26, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. What a hymn of thanksgiving should I not be raising at each moment unto Thee! Everywhere and in everything around me Thou revealest Thyself and in me Thy Will and Consciousness express themselves always more and more clearly even to the ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 19, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. I said yesterday to that young Englishman who is seeking for Thee with so sincere a desire, that I had definitively found Thee, that the Union was constant. Such is indeed the state of which I am conscious. All my thoughts go towards Thee ...
... Prayers and Meditations December 3, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Last night I had the experience of the effectivity of confident surrender to Thy guidance; when it is needful that something should be known, one knows it, and the more passive the mind to Thy illumination, the clearer and the more adequate ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 23, 1914 As I see it, the ideal state is that in which, constantly conscious with Thy Consciousness, one knows at every moment, spontaneously, without any reflection being necessary, exactly what should be done to best express Thy law. That state I know, for I have experienced it at certain moments, but very often the knowledge ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 18, 1914 Thou art perfect knowledge, absolute consciousness. He who unites with Thee is omniscient—while the union lasts. But even before attaining this stage, he who has given himself to Thee in all the sincerity of his being, with all his conscious will, he who has resolved to make every effort to help in the manifestation ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 24, 1914 The result of all my reflections of yesterday is the finding that the only disturbance I experience comes from my fear of not having been or of not being perfectly identified with Thy law. And this disturbance comes precisely from the fact that the identification is not complete; for if it were, I could not ask myself ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 17, 1914 When physical conditions are a little difficult and some discomfort follows, if one knows how to surrender completely before Thy will, caring little for life or death, health or illness, the integral being enters immediately into harmony with Thy law of love and life, and all physical indisposition ceases giving place ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 30, 1914 In the presence of those who are integrally Thy servitors, those who have attained the perfect consciousness of Thy presence, I become aware that I am still far, very far from what I yearn to realise; and I know that the highest I can conceive, the noblest and purest is still dark and ignorant beside what I should ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 25, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Silent and unseen as always, but all-powerful, Thy action has made itself felt and, in these souls that seemed to be so closed, a perception of Thy divine light is awake. I knew well that none could invoke Thy presence in vain and if in the ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 15, 1914 My thought is filled with Thee, my heart is full, all my being is filled with Thy Presence, and peace grows ever deeper, giving rise to that happiness, so special, so unmixed, of a calm serenity, which seems vast as the universe, deep as the unfathomable depths which lead to Thee. Oh, these silent and pure nights ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 1, 1914 I feel we have entered the very heart of Thy sanctuary and grown aware of Thy very will. A great joy, a deep peace reign in me, and yet all my inner constructions have vanished like a vain dream and I find myself now, before Thy immensity, without a frame or system, like a being not yet individualised. All the past ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 4, 1914 O Lord, my adoration rises ardently to Thee, all my being is an aspiration, a flame consecrated to Thee. Lord, Lord, my sweet Master, it is Thou who livest and willest in me! This body is Thy instrument; this will is Thy servant; this intelligence is Thy tool; and the whole being is only Thyself. Page 118 ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 24, 1914 From the point of view of the manifestation, the work to be carried forward upon earth, a hierarchy is needed—but in this world which is still in disorder, can it be established unarbitrarily, that is, in perfect conformity with Thy law?... The witness being, calm, indifferent, smiling, looks upon the play, the comedy ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 13, 1914 First of all, knowledge must be conquered, that is, one must learn to know Thee, to be united with Thee, and all means are good and may be used to attain this goal. But it would be a great mistake to believe that all is done when this goal is attained. All is done in principle, the victory is gained in theory, and ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 9, 1914 Lord, I am before Thee like an offering a flame in the blazing fire of the divine union.... And what is thus before Thee is all the stones of this house and all it contains, all those who cross its threshold and all who see it, all who are connected with it in any way and from one to another the whole earth. From ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 17, 1914 All that has been conceived and realised so far is mediocre, banal, insufficient beside what ought to be. The perfections of the past no longer have any force now. A new puissance is needed to transform the new powers and to subject them to Thy divine will. "Ask and this shall be", is Thy constant answer. And now, ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 23, 1914 Thou art the sovereign power of transformation, why shouldst Thou not act on all who are brought into contact with Thee through our mediation? We lack faith in Thy power: always we think that men should in their conscious thought want this integral transformation for it to come about; we forget that it is Thou who ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 20, 1914 Thou must accomplish the work of transfiguration, Thou must teach us the path to be followed and Thou must give us the power to follow it to the very end... O Thou source of all love and all light, Thou whom we cannot know in Thyself but can manifest ever more completely and perfectly, Thou whom we cannot conceive ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 22, 1914 What has to be will be, what has to be done will be done.... What a calm assurance Thou hast put into my being, O Lord. Who or what will manifest Thee? Who can say it yet?... In all things that strive towards a new, ever higher and completer expression, Thou art present. But the centre of the light is still not ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 12, 1914 O my sweet Master, eternal splendour, I can only unite with Thee in silence and peace, saying that Thy Will may be done in every detail as in the whole. Take possession of Thy kingdom, master all that revolts against Thee, heal the souls who do not know Thee and the intellects that do not want to submit and be consecrated ...
... Prayers and Meditations June 18, 1914 Always the same Will is at work. The Force is there awaiting the possibility to manifest: we must discover the new form which will make the new manifestation possible. And Thou, only Thou, O Lord, can grant us this knowledge. It is for us with our whole being to make the effort, to ask, to aspire. But it is for Thee ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 31, 1914 It seems to me that Thou wouldst make me taste successively all the experiences which are ordinarily put at the summit of a Yoga as its culmination and the proof of its perfect accomplishment. The experience is striking, intense, complete; it carries within it the knowledge of all its effects, all its consequences; ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 17, 1914 Earthly realisations easily take on a great importance in our eyes, for they are proportionate to our external being with this limited form which makes us men. But what is an earthly realisation beside Thee, before Thee? However perfect, complete, divine it may be, it is nothing but an indiscernible moment in Thy eternity; ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 8, 1914 My pen is silent.... So absorbing is this material world! Why must we let it take so much place in our consciousness? Is it an incapacity in us? Is it Thy Will? O my sweet Master, I would live only in Thee but Thou hast told me that I must live for Thee, and in thus living for Thee our consciousness turns towards ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 11, 1914 O my sweet Master, enter into all these confused thoughts, all these anguished hearts; kindle there the fire of Thy divine Presence. The shadow of the earth has fallen back upon it, it has been completely shaken by it; but this shadow was hiding Thy immutable sun, and now that it has crashed down upon this poor world ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 21, 1914 There was no longer any body, no longer any sensation; only a column of light was there, rising from where the base of the body normally is to where usually is the head, to form there a disk of light like that of the moon; then from there the column continued to rise very far above the head, opening out into an immense ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 2, 1914 What are these powerful gods whose hour of manifestation upon earth has come, if not the varied and perfected modes of Thy infinite activity, O Thou Master of all things, Being and Non-Being and What is beyond, Marvellous Unknowable One, our sovereign Lord...? What are these manifold brilliant intellectual activities ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 6, 1914 What then are the defects, the blemishes that prevent the offering from being complete enough for Thee to welcome it, the holocaust from seeming to Thee worthy to be received?... There are still some limitations in this being, but wilt Thou not shatter them? O Lord, we know that it is an hour of great gravity for ...
... Prayers and Meditations August 3, 1914 All the being, this morning, is mute adoration and the immensity of Thy love fills its soul... The preparation and the work, the work and the preparation alternate and interpenetrate to such an extent that sometimes it becomes difficult to distinguish them; and their combination constitutes Thy divine life upon ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 23, 1914 Lord, Thou art all-powerful: become the fighter, gain the victory. May Thy Love be the sovereign Master of our hearts and Thy Knowledge never leave our thoughts.... Do not abandon us to impotence and darkness; break every limit, shatter every chain, dispel every illusion. Our aspiration rises to Thee in ardent prayer ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 26, 1915 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. The entire consciousness immersed in divine contemplation, the whole being enjoyed a supreme and vast felicity. Then was the physical body seized, first in its lower members and next the whole of it, by a sacred trembling which made ...
... Prayers and Meditations April 19, 1915 Lunel An imperious need has forced me to return to this confidant of my seekings and the efforts of my soul. All external circumstances have changed, giving a flat lie to the dream of the ideal which sought expression even in material activities. The hour has not yet come for joyful realisations in outer physical ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 31, 1915 Marsillargues Should I, playing the role of a servant, an instrument, turn to Thee, O Lord, and address a hymn of adoration to Thee? Should I, identifying myself with Thee in the eternal Reality and infinite Bliss, speak to men of the peace and joy they do not know?... The two attitudes are simultaneous, the two ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 7, 1915 3 a.m. Without any external sign, any special circumstance, the moments passed by so majestically, in so solemn an inner silence, a calm so deep and vast, that my tears began to flow profusely. For the last two days the earth seems to have been going through a decisive crisis; it seems that the great formidable ...
... Prayers and Meditations November 2, 1915 Paris ( After a few moments spent in arranging familiar objects ) As a strong breeze passes over the sea and crowns with foam its countless waves, so a great breath passed over the memory and awoke the multitude of its remembrances. Intense, complex, crowded, the past lived again in a flash, having lost nothing ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 15, 1916 O thou whom I may call my God, Thou who art the personal form of the Transcendent Eternal, the Cause, Source and Reality of my individual being, Thou who hast through the centuries and millenniums slowly and subtly kneaded this Matter, so that one day it could become consciously identified with Thee, and be nothing ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 23, 1916 O thou divine inhabitant of this gross form, Thou seest that it is a mass of limitations: wilt Thou not break all these limitations so that it may participate in Thy infinity? Thou seest that it is full of obscurities: wilt Thou not dissolve this darkness with Thy resplendent light so that it may participate in ...
... Prayers and Meditations March 8, 1915 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. For the most part the condition is one of calm and profound indifference; the being feels neither desire nor repulsion, neither enthusiasm nor depression, neither joy nor sorrow. It regards life as a spectacle in which it takes only a very ...
... Prayers and Meditations January 22, 1916 Thou hast taken entire possession of this miserable instrument and if it is not yet perfected enough for Thee to complete its transformation, its transmutation, Thou art at work in each one of its cells to knead it and make it supple and enlighten it, and in the whole being, to arrange, organise and harmonise it ...
... Page 195 yesterday.... 1 The first one is to say the least bizarre! I am giving it to you exactly as it is here. I am asked: "Is the real Buddha you know, whom you speak of in Prayers and Meditations, 2 the same as the one whose statues are worshipped?" Statues... there are thousands of statues of the Buddha. There is the Buddha as he is known in India, the Buddha known in Ceylon ...
... should be constant and impersonal, that is, absolutely independent of circumstances and persons, since it cannot and must not be concentrated upon any one thing in particular...." The Mother , Prayers and Meditations, (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2003), Collected Works of the Mother (second edition), vol. 1, p. 335 . × ...
... The Mother: Some Events in Her Life The Mother with Letters on the Mother Arrival in Pondicherry In Prayers and Meditations, the Mother mentions her seeing you first on the 29th March 1914; in other words she met you when she first came to Pondicherry. How is it then that the 24th April 1920 is considered to be the day on which Mother saw you first? ...
... 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 Mother made a change in one of her old "Prayers and Meditations" and made the passage go: "Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute, A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled." ...
... 1962 I don't have far to go on my translation of The Synthesis of Yoga (it's going very quickly), and I have found what I'll do next.... It will be something like those notebooks [ Prayers and Meditations ]. I am going to take the whole section of Savitri (to start with, I'll see later) from "The Debate of Love and Death" to the point where the Supreme Lord makes his prophecy about the earth's ...
... When Mother returned from Japan in April 1920. × The first Prayers and Meditations date from November 1912 , but there may have been earlier ones among the numerous texts Mother destroyed. ...
... (Correspondence with Amrita) Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother 11 September 1932 ( Two sentences from the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations , chosen by her for Amrita ) To Amrita What Thou willest, what Thou willest... At every moment one must know how to lose everything in order to gain everything, to shed the past as a dead body and be ...
... The third cabinet holds postage stamps of Mother and Sri Aurobindo issued by the Indian Government. The fourth cabinet includes saris and shawls used by the Mother when she was writing Prayers and Meditations in the Ashram; Mother’s gold watch and Huta’s painting of Mother at the organ. In the fifth cabinet one finds French boxes, hand-painted cards, purses in brocaded fabric, usually containing ...
... most powerful help lies in praying to the Divine to carry one safely through the dark periods. The Divine is always ready to pick you up whenever you fall. A certain passage in the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations has been the chief support of my yoga. It begins, “O Divine and adorable Mother, what is there that cannot be overcome with Thy Help?” There is also the passage, “Thou hast promised to lead ...
... an authoritative manner. She never wrote any comprehensive systematic account of her life. But a fair quantity of genuine biographical material is scattered in her books, talks, and Prayers and Meditations. The biographical account had to be sorted out and arranged in a chronological order, related to the various phases of the Mother's life, and given the form of a well-connected story. ...
... of Matter, I have touched with my finger the horror and the falsehood and the inconscience, I have reached the seat of oblivion and a supreme obscurity,’ 2 she wrote in one of her last Prayers and Meditations. With an unconditional dedication she had taken up her material task, namely the building of a livable place where the souls who had incarnated as human beings to answer the Call could live ...
... 1908; both were instructed in an occult way by invisible teachers; the Bhagavad Gita played an important role in the development of both; Sri Aurobindo’s Record of Yoga and the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations were started at the same time; both discovered the Supermind and their mission independently … The earthly presence of the Avatar of the Supermind, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, is better ...
... The Mother, Words of the Mother III, CWM 15 p. 103. × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, CWM 1 p. 273. × The Mother, Words of the Mother III, CWM 15 p. 104. ...
... or another, one name or another, 3 has plunged in the depths of the Night of Death in order to score a radical victory over this formidable Adversary of life; 1 The Mother, Prayers and Meditations (Pondicherry, 1954), p. 91. (Italics ours). 2 The Mother on Sri Aurobindo, p. 15. 3 Ibid., p. 7. Page 414 for, has it not been pointed out that ...
... the events of those two days because she had decided on a big cultural programme, her own play “Vers l’avenir/’ [ “Towards the Future “], dances, recitation from Savitri and from the Prayers and Meditations for the first December and also a big and ambitious programme for the second of sportive items and events. This meant a good deal more time for these purposes but not any interruption ...
... The Mother, Entretiens 1954, CWM6 p. 40. × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, CWM1 p. 81. × Words of the Mother I , CWM3 p. 38-39. ...
... programme of performances. Some small children did a mouse dance, which was most entertaining. When the day came to an end I was tired—there had been no repose. Before going to sleep I opened Prayers and Meditations. The prayer I read had been written by the Mother on March 13th, 1913: Let the pure perfume of sanctification burn always, rising higher and higher, and straighter and straighter, like ...
... more living still, that Thy brazier may become more immense, Thy flames higher and more powerful, that the entire being may now be only an ardent burning, a purifying pyre. The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: September 30, 1914 BURNING: It is the purification of the physical that is usually indicated in the symbol of burning. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Sun, Moon, Star, ...
... given me against my heart and slept. This sacred shawl has a magnificent background. In Mother India February 21, 1958, pp. 7-8, it is stated: The Mother's diary which comprised the Prayers and Meditations was started two years earlier. Every day at 5 a.m. she used to sit down to meditate near her window with a Kashmiri shawl wrapped round her. The meditation being over, she would note down ...
... Volume One (1954-1955) The Story of a Soul 1955 Every day I used to read the Mother's Prayers and Meditations —this gave me tremendous strength. Dyuman's letters, which brought with them the Mother's blessing-packets and her messages, also encouraged and supported me very much. The New Year message the Mother sent to me through Dyuman was extremely ...
... draw us away from this contact? Aspiration. Sincerity. 1972 Page 287 × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations , 23 October 1937 . ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 April 23, 1956 Mother takes a passage from Prayers and Meditations of September 25, 1914 : The Lord hast 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. and rewrites it as follows in her own hand: 29 February—29 ...
... something, I burn it myself.... I've burned lots of things. You know that I burned all those notebooks.... For how many years?—over at least four or five years, every day I used to write Prayers and Meditations (I had several big notebooks, big like this). Then, when Sri Aurobindo told me to make a book out of them (naturally, as it was written every day, there were some repetitions), so I made my ...
... to his letter, better than with words. So he writes: "I have been many times in direct contact with Mother, and I feel her force enveloping me. Yesterday I began reading Mother's Prayers and Meditations. It is a splendor. Every day P.L. and I talk about the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Every day. The Lord has taken you by the hand to this oasis of peace and light: bless him. I envy you!... Together ...
... once the Mother asked the group of us, sitting with her in the evening in the "Prosperity Room" before the Soup Distribution downstairs, to mention what lines we cherished the most in her Prayers and Meditations. She had Page 248 brought her manuscript with her and was cutting out of it whatever passage was our favourite and giving it to us after pasting it on a blank sheet of paper ...
... writings. Read the Mother's Talks and Sri Aurobindo's Letters on Yoga.I would advise you to keep with you as a constant companion Sri Aurobindo's small book, The Mother and the Mother's Prayers and Meditations. I am enclosing a blessing-packet. By turning to the Mother you will surely get out of the mental and physical deterioration you have marked, particularly after taking a mantra from someone ...
... suddenly take on a meaning, they are full of meaning. I know that. That's why even when it's in an "incomplete" stage, it's good. For instance, there are passages I wrote in those Prayers and Meditations , some of which have been published—passages I wrote in Japan, and when I wrote them, I didn't at all know what they meant. For a very long time I didn't know. And very recently, one of those ...
... were wont to do, in the "Prosperity" room in the Library House, in the evening before the hour of the Soup Distribution by the Mother in the room downstairs, the Mother brought her file of 'Prayers and Meditations' written in her own hand. She asked each of us what his or her favourite sentence was. I chose the one which in the English translation reads: "O Page 180 divine and adorable ...
... poised above earthly matters was really an eye-opener. No wonder the Mother's story has stuck in my mind. Another startler was when the Mother brought her original manuscript of Prayers and Meditations. The printed book had already come out, but we had never seen the handwritten version, the personal diary. With the shut volume in her lap, she asked us: "Name your favourite sentence." All ...
... his wife. Between 1911 and 1913 she gave a number of talks to various groups of seekers in Paris and began to record her deepening communion with the Divine in the diary later published as Prayers and Meditations. In 1914 the Mother voyaged to Pondicherry, South India, to meet the Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo. After a stay of eleven months, she was obliged by the outbreak of the First World War ...
... who must and truly want to serve Thee, so that Thy work may be accomplished, the bridge definitively established, and Thy forces poured unwearyingly over the world. (The Mother: Prayers and Meditations; August 29,1914, p. 255) Amal-da surely deserves this place of honour among Her children for being such an instrument and bridge for the Clear Ray of the Divine to shine upon ...
... had been told by a friend that it was one of the best things in the Ashram and that the Mother appeared in her real divinity there. Today she read out the three last Prayers from her book Prayers and Meditations and discoursed a little about them and about her introduction to the book. It was an exquisitely deep half-hour. I was ex-tremely glad I attended this class held in the Mother's own room at ...
... upon earth by my whole being, grew clear before it: To be the life in all material forms, the thought organising and using this life in all forms, the love widening, enlightening, * Prayers and Meditations. CWM, Vol. 1, p. 359. Page 95 intensifying, uniting all the varied elements of this thought, and thus, through a total identification with the manifested world, to be able ...
... in 1926 to devote himself to the "supramental yoga", she collaborated with him and at the same time organised and developed the Ashram. The Mother is the author of several books. Prayers and Meditations and On Education are her short but important books. She presided over the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in which hundreds of students studied. The Mother herself taught ...
... accomplished; let everything become resplendent and transfigured by the knowledge of the Truth." [We may mention here that some of the prayers cited above have been taken from the Mother's Prayers and Meditations.) The point is that there is no dearth of prayers to engage the consciousness of the sadhaka if he is eager to search for them. Let the whole course of his daily life take the form ...
... And the wonderful results that will follow out of this pure and unreserved attitude of self-resignation and surrender are simply indescribable. Here is what the Mother has written in her Prayers and Meditations in this connection: "Last night I had the experience of the effectivity of confident surrender to Thy guidance; when it is needful that something should be known, one knows it, and ...
... Works of The Mother To commemorate The Mother's Birth Centenary in 1978, the following Works of The Mother have been issued in15volumes. They are as follows: 1. Prayers and Meditations 2. Words of Long Ago 3. Questions and Answers 1929 4. Questions and Answers 1950-51 5. Questions and Answers 1953 6. Questions and Answers ...
... enverrai le livre [Prieres et Meditations de la Mere] demain; mais il faut bien etudier la grammaire si vous voulez comprendre ce que vous lisez. I shall send you the book [Prayers and Meditations of the Mother] tomorrow; but you must study grammar well if you want to understand what you read. Voulez-vous que je dessine quelquefois des oiseaux ou des animaux? ...
... proceed from the heart, their knowledge aspect will be limited. But Ramakrishna was a homo-psychicus with no atom of intellectuality—yet he had plenty of knowledge. Mother says in the "Prayers and Meditations" that there is a knowledge which surpasses all other knowledge which means knowledge of the Divine. In that case, psychics or otherwise who realise the Divine, will have the same width, vastness ...
... ed habit into the consciousness which will help it, first to be less outward in work and, secondly, to develop a receptive tendency which can bear its fruits even in the work. In her "Prayers and Meditations", under 8th October, 1914 the Mother says: "The joy that is contained in activity is compensated and balanced by the perhaps still greater joy contained in withdrawal from all activity..." ...
... themselves so entirely and with such sovereign ease. This implies a complete obliteration of the past, erasing it with its virtues and faults. The Mother has referred to this in one of her Prayers and Meditations. When she came here, she gave herself up to the Lord, Sri Aurobindo, with the candid simplicity of a child, after erasing from herself all her past, all her spiritual attainments, all the ...
... more at any happy change. 3 1 Op. cit. Book XI: Canto 1: p. 770. 2 Op. cit. Book XII: Canto: p. 808. 8 BooAA77.-p.812. Page 266 (4) IN her Prayers and Meditations the Mother says: Comme I'homme n'a pas voulu du repas que j'avais prepare avec tant d'amour et de soin, alors j'ai invite Ie Dieu a Ie prendre. Et mon Dieu, Tu as accepte ...
... been persuaded to write on each canto of the poem in this inimitable fashion. Furthermore, he relates this episode in Savitri's Yoga to an experience which the Mother has described in her Prayers and Meditations. The Mother once seems to have remarked that Sri Aurobindo had lain bare in Savitri quite a few secrets of her inner spiritual life. Nolinida helps us to understand what the Mother must ...
... physical strength, vital strength is necessary. Yes, the Japanese have a vital that is strong, controlled, ordered, sensitive. You may remember one or two prayers of the Mother in her Prayers and Meditations. She speaks of the cherry-blossom, which is the emblem of the Japanese artistic sense, the feeling for beauty, a purified sense-perception: not a rough and crude and violent (lower) vital ...
... The Mother Abides - Final Reflections One Day More 1 In her Prayers and Meditations Mother wrote under the date September 25, 1914: 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. Subsequently, after a ...
... however, when the consciousness has 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 ...
... among them, mostly dwelt apart from humanity in consciousness and even away from human contact; the earth could not profit wholly by their example. Therefore the Mother says in her Prayers and Meditations that having gone beyond all desires still she had to live in the midst of desires; she had no choice of her own, no preference, no attachment, no need of anything, yet she was put in the ...
... sorrow that is not egoistic, a sorrow that is an expression of one's identification with the universal sorrow through sympathy. I have described the experience at some length in one of the Prayers and Meditations. I spoke there of "the sweetest tears that I shed in life"; for those tears were not for my sake, I was not weeping for myself. In almost every case man grieves for egoistic reasons, in ...
... coming to India for some time she continued to write prayers. There were seven or eight fat notebooks filled with Mother's prayers. A selection from those prayers was brought out as Prayers and Meditations . Then she destroyed all those fat notebooks. From one book she cut out a page and gave it to me. The following prayer was on it: Remplis les coeurs des délices de Ton Amour Inonde ...
... our nature is the very fundamental process of our yoga. Due to it, there have been some revolts, which is the sad part of the story. 322 I used to wonder, friends, while reading Prayers and Meditations, at the similarity of the ideas of Mother and Sri Aurobindo about yoga, transformation of nature, the subconscience, etc. There is so much parallelism in Mother's practising the yoga of ...
... Without her, no organised manifestation would have been possible. She has been doing this kind of sadhana and work from her very childhood. NIRODBARAN: Yes. We also find in the Mother's Prayers and Meditations a striking resemblance between your ideas and hers. ...
... that range in it or its human inhabitants or all of these together? No, it is something else; it is a centre of consciousness which has as its bodily frame the particular ¹ The Mother: Prayers and Meditations. Page 285 geographical boundary: it is that which dwells in its mountains and meadows, vibrates in its vegetation, lives and moves in its animal kingdom; and it is that ...
... however only to find that it is real, supremely real when it is suffused with its true substance, when it is the embodiment or vehicle of the supramental consciousness. ¹ The Mother: Prayers and Meditations, 19 May 1914 Page 289 ...
... genuine among them, mostly dwelt apart from humanity in consciousness and even away from human contact; the earth could not profit wholly by their example. Therefore the Mother says in her Prayers and Meditations that having gone beyond all desires still she had to live in the midst of desires; she had no choice of her own, no preference, no attachment, no need of anything, yet she was put in the ...
... existence. Now when all sense of personality – not only the sense but even the fact itself – totally dissolved, the voice of the Supreme Divine was heard and His impulsion recorded. The Prayers and Meditations hereafter were written through such an impulsion; Page 266 it was truly automatic writing – the instrument did not know what it was writing and even did not understand ...
... sorrow that is not egoistic, a sorrow that is an expression of one's identification with the universal sorrow through sympathy. I have described the experience at some length in one of the Prayers and Meditations. I spoke there of "the sweetest tears that I shed in life"; for those tears were not for my sake, I was not weeping for myself. In almost every case man grieves for egoistic reasons, in the ...
... Wonder no more at any happy change.³ ¹ Op. cit. Book Xl: Canto I: p. 770. ² Op. cit. Book XII: Canto: p. 808. . ³ Book XII: p. 812. Page 246 (4) IN her Prayers and Meditations the Mother says: Comme l' homme n' a pas voulu du repas que j' avais préparé avec tant d' amour et de soin, alors j' ai invite le Dieu à le prendre. Et mon Dieu, Tu as accepté mon ...
... Between 9.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. the Mother came to comb his hair, apply a lotion and plait it. Most often she finished some business during this period. When a sadhak translated the Mother's Prayers and Meditations into English and wanted her approval, she had it read out before Sri Aurobindo and both of them made the necessary changes. She sometimes talked of private matters, and when her voice sank ...
... 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 PARIS, 171, 173 Pashupati, 179 Pawamana Soma, 330 Pharaohs, the, 264 Pindar, 278n - Olympian Odes, 278n Plato ...
... 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 choice of teachers, in the organisation of studies, sports and community life, the School remembered its close Ashram affiliations - it was not merely ...
... 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, 396; Prayers and Meditations, 396ff; voyage to India, 397; the meeting, 397, 525; "His presence is enough", 397-8; collaboration on Arya and Revue, 3989,470; meditations on the European war, 400ff; on evolutionary ...
... establish an electric contact with the inapprehensible. III There was, then, the Polish sadhika Janina who responded to the marvellous insights and illuminations in the Mother's Prayers and Meditations and Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, and rendered them in formulations and depths of colour that revealed an uncanny force and vivacity. And of particular significance was Huta's first volume ...
... meditations were in a representative - representing earth's tribulations and aspirations - rather than in her own individual capacity. But divers mystical strains certainly mingle in her prayers and meditations, and the total recordation is a spiritual symphony of incomparable authenticity of inspiration and melting power of articulation. VII One of the amusing things that happened ...
... beyonding the worlds of the vital beings, beyonding the Kingdoms of the Little and the Greater Mind, beyonding her own past and all her tally of realisation through her intense sessions of prayers and meditations of the immediately preceding years when she had sought the Divine in her heart's purity and loneliness, beyonding all human reason and prudence and calculation, beyonding all mental constructions ...
... the inner life a quick graph connecting certain significant pins of light in that multi-dimensional world was all that I could attempt relying mainly on the Mother's writings, notably her Prayers and Meditations. Although generally approved by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, as my late friend Shankargauda intimated to me at the time, the publication had to be delayed for over a year, and the book ...
... into their mouth one by one while admiring these flowers and exclaiming from time to time 'How wonderful' or 'How beautiful'! The Japanese are very fond of cherry-blossoms. In Her Prayers and Meditations the Mother mentions these cherry-blossoms. She says: ' O Japan, it is thy festive adorning, expression of thy good-will, it is thy purest offering, the pledge of thy fidelity; it ...
... No hole is necessary. What you need is only silent aspiration and receptivity, turned upwards. 12.1.1969 Page 68 Some hours after writing my last letter I opened "Prayers and Meditations" and here is the first sentence I saw: "O Lord, deliver me from the mental influences that weigh heavily on me, so that, completely free, I may rush towards Thee." This is a ...
... capacity which involved expertise in a hundred different fields of specialisation, as also her easy mastery of the written and spoken word, and of music and painting. Page 733 Her Prayers and Meditations, her letters and he conversations, all sprang up, not from the levels of activity familiar to us but from overhead levels of instantaneous apprehension and articulation. Her music, as Sunil ...
... the abundant strength of Grace, she played also the roles of collaboratrix and creatrix laying the first obscure foundations of a new Heaven and a new Earth. In the Centenary Edition of Prayers and Meditations, although the entries begin in 1912 and go on till 1937 (a period in all of a quarter of a century), the entries for 1914 comprise 282 pages, three-fourths of the total. Even as 1914 ...
... dual tapasya to beat back the hostile forces, and not only retrieve the lost ground, but also to start the march again towards the supramental horizons. In the Mother's spiritual diary, Prayers and Meditations, there are but a few entries after her final arrival in Pondicherry on 24 April 1920. Page 344 The one dated 22 June 1920, with reference to some difficulty in life has already ...
... all happenings in the physical plane? A: Including what Lloyd George had for breakfast today or ¹ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , With Letters on The Mother and Translations of Prayers and Meditations (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972), pp. 272-73. ² Sri Aurobindo, On Himself , p. 152. ³ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga , Parts Two and Three, p. 526. Page 267 ...
... within our reach; only the egoistic limits of our being prevent us from enjoying the whole universe as completely and concretely as we possess our own body and its surroundings.”¹ ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 240 ...
... anywhere else, that one can perceive the gleam of the heavenly Light the Mother has been striving to establish in the earth-consciousness, the Light about which she wrote decades ago in her Prayers and Meditations: "A new Light shall break upon the earth, a new world shall be born : the things that were promised shall be fulfilled.” Addressing the children of the Centre of Education ...
... anywhere else, that one can perceive the gleam of the heavenly Light the Mother has been striving to establish in the earth-consciousness, the Light about which she wrote decades ago in her Prayers and Meditations: "A new Light shall break upon the earth, a new world shall be bom: the things that were promised shall be fulfilled." Addressing the children of the University, she said in ...
... necessary leisure.” (19 December 1931) One can have some rough idea of the true nature of the Mother’s illness when one reads her Prayer of 24 November of the same year from her book, Prayers and Meditations , in the light of this illness. Let me quote it: November 24, 1931 O My Lord, my sweet Master, for the accomplishment of Thy work I have sunk down into the unfathomable depths of Matter ...
... hope that this material mind, the mind of the cells, will be transformed—all of a sudden, here was all this mind saying a prayer. A prayer ... you know how I used to make prayers before, in “Prayers and Meditations” [Mother’s former diary at the beginning of the century]. It was the Mind saying prayers; it would have experiences and say prayers; well, here we are, now it's the experience of all the ...
... the future—She seemed to think only of the future, it was an obsession. At every moment we must shake off the past like falling dust so it does not tarnish the virgin path ... 3 Thus Prayers and Meditations was born, which She began in 1911. Why all this noise, all this bustle, this vain and hollow agitation? Why this whirlwind that sweeps men away like a swarm of flies caught in a tempest? ...
... II At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo 22 July 1932 MYSELF: Tell me frankly — is there anything objectionable if I go and read your Prayers and Meditations with D? He says he can explain it to me (there will be two or three other persons). If anyone else could explain Prayers I would equally be willing to take the help. Anyhow, I will do ...
... Sit before the organ daily. Pray to Sri Aurobindo for a few minutes before starting to play. Something will come. To start with you will need some text. You could select some parts from my Prayers and Meditations. Try and compose something around that. Then the Mother smiled a little, concentrated on my eyes, then continued: Mother - Let's end it here ...
... for their selfish, mean and foolish satisfactions, to snatch them from this vortex which hides death behind its treacherous glitter, and turn them towards Thy conquering harmony! * Prayers and Meditations ( 1979) p. 63. (The original is in French, Prières et Méditations de la Mère, but the quotations are all from the English version in the Collected Works of the Mother — Centenary Edition ...
... volume are not mere results of man’s technological advance; they are an armour against all fear, helplessness, depression. They make us hear the anahata nada the Mother recorded in Her Prayers and Meditations : “And in my heart is the song of gladness of Thy sublime magnificence.” Sri Aurobindo has spoken of the Gita’s ideal of Yoga as “skill in works”. We find this yoga in the patient manner ...
... to the supramental change and the divine realisation; not only at the end, but from the beginning they have been the same." The next day, on 30 March 1914, Mirra wrote in her diary, Prayers and Meditations : "It matters not if there are hundreds of beings plunged in the densest ignorance. He whom we saw yesterday is on earth: His presence is proof enough that a day will come when darkness shall ...
... et Méditations , p. 195) Lord! Fill our hearts with the delight of Thy love. Flood our minds with the splendour of Thy light. Grant that we may effectuate Thy Victory! The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: June 19, 1914 भद्रं कर्णेभिः शृणुयाम। भद्रं चक्षुर्भिरवलोकयाम। भद्रं मनोभिश्चिन्तयाम। भद्रं बाहुभिः साधयाम॥ bhadraṁ karṇebhiḥ śṛṇuyāma, bhadraṁ cakṣurbhiravalokayāma, bhadraṁ ...
... Master, it is Thou who livest and willest in me! This body is Thy instrument; this will is Thy servant; this intelligence is Thy tool; and this whole being is Thyself. The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: April 4, 1914 Seigneur, Seigneur, mon doux Maître, c'est Toi qui vis et veux en moi! Ce corps est Ton instrument; cette volonté est Ta servante; cette intelligence est ton outil; et ...
... seeing Thee and constantly communing with Thee. Liberate us from all ignorance, liberate us from ourselves that we may open wide the doors of Thy glorious manifestation. The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: February 5, 1914 अग्नियथैको भुवनं प्रविष्टो रूपं रूपं प्रतिरूपो बभूव । एकस्तथा सर्वभूतान्तरात्मा रूपं रूपं प्रतिरूपो बहिश्च ॥९॥ वायुयथैको भुवनं प्रविष्टो रूपं रूपं प्रतिरूपो बभूव ...
... dans l'essence et dans la manifestation... ( Prières et Méditations , p. 6) Thou everywhere and always; nothing but Thou in the essence and in the manifestation. The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: November 26, 1912 परमधामधामस्थे महायोगीशहृत्पुरे। अमेयभावकूटस्थे जगद्धात्रि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥१२ अगम्ये जगतामाये माहेश्वरि वराङ्गने। अशेषरूपे रूपस्थे जगद्धात्रि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥८ त्वमेव ...
... Prières et Méditations , p. 292) Thou wilt reign over all the earth with Thy sovereign love, and mthe consciousness of men will be full of the light of Thy serenity. This is the promise. ( Prayers and Meditations , 1948, p. 204) तदेवाग्निस्तदादित्यस्तद् वायुस्तदु चन्द्रमाः। तदेव शुक्रं तद् ब्रह्म तदापस्तत्प्रजापतिः॥२॥ tadevāgnistadādityastad vāyustadu candramāḥ, tadeva śukraṁ tad brahma ...
... Prières et Méditations , p. 418) Glory to Thee, O Lord, Supreme Master of all realisation. Give us a faith active and ardent, absolute and unshakable in Thy Victory. The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: October 23, 1937 ॐ शङ्खचक्रधरं देवं द्विभुजं पीतवाससम्। ॐ आदित्यं विष्णुं सूर्यं ब्रह्माणं च बृहस्पतिम्॥ om śaṅkhacakradharaṁ devaṁ dvibhujaṁ pītavāsasam, om ādityaṁ viṣṇuṁ sūryam ...
... event. But she did recall a pointer. "The realization of the inner Divine, that's when I started writing my Meditations." Her meditations were published in book form under the title Prayers and Meditations. And the first few lines of the very first 'meditation' that has come down to us, dated 2 "Although my whole being is in theory consecrated to Thee, O Sublime Master, who art the life ...
... Mother's Chronicles - Book Six 54 Mirra's Prayers Mirra continued to confide her thoughts to her diary, which we know as the Prayers and Meditations of The Mother. Shall we have a look at some of those pages between her arrival at Pondicherry and Sri Aurobindo's birthday? "Pondicherry, March 29, 1914." It was a Sunday. "O Thou ...
... between them, the link of the same purpose, the same will and the same faith. These can gather in a methodical manner to practise common prayer and meditation, and if their aim is high, their organisation good, their ideal powerful, through their prayers or meditations these groups can have a considerable effect on Page 369 world events or on their own inner development and collective progress... Sweet Mother, what is the effect and value of collective prayer? We have already spoken about this, about collective prayers, the use that has been made of them. I believe that it has even been published in the Bulletin . Besides, there are different kinds of collective prayer, just as there are different kinds of collectivities. There is the anonymous mass, the... for the recovery of someone in whom they were specially interested. Of course, these very crowds can gather for a completely different purpose, out of hatred, and their cries are also a sort of prayer, a prayer to the adverse and destructive forces. Those movements are spontaneous, not organised, unexpected. There is also the collectivity formed by individuals who have gathered together around ...
... meeting and meditation. The scent of sandalwood incense-sticks pervaded the room faintly. There were many people including my friends. I made them all read the message. They appreciated it immensely. Doris introduced me to Aravinda Basu and his son Sudipta (Babi). He introduced me to Mrs. Margaret Fletcher who was also there. Suddenly I felt as if I had known her for ages. After the prayers and meditation ...
... 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 it is busy with something else, in an invocation to the Supreme Lord, asking Him to manifest His supreme Truth in this world of falsehood, and His supreme Love in this world of disharmony. So, at any time when you feel like praying, you can do so and your prayer is sure... the Truth is always with us . And if we do not see It and feel It, it is because we are not capable of seeing and feeling It—This is the reason of the delay. The Lord answers at once all sincere prayer, but we are not aware of His answer. ...
... of the growth of the Psychic Being—without any interference from mental thinking. In this case, the journey of his soul to the higher levels of consciousness became possible by penetrating prayer, deep meditation and continuous contact with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, who are, to Champaklal, manifestations of God. Champaklal was born in Patan, Gujarat, on 2-2-1903. Even as a young boy he lost interest ...
... Introduction ON the evening of July 25, 1954 a few disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother came to our estate in Miwani (Kenya). We assembled for readings, prayers and meditation. Among the passages read were the following verses from Sri Aurobindo's mystic epic Savitri : I will pour delight from thee as from a jar, I will whirl thee as my chariot through the ...
... very well for beings like you and the Mother, who are Avatars, but how can we poor mortals take this vague prescription for guidance? And how to get this attitude if not through constant prayer, arduous meditation and a constant effort to reject wrong movements? You say that this way is too difficult for you or the likes of you and it is only "avatars" like myself or the Mother that can do it. ...
... to Sri Ramakrishna's five-fold sadhana which culminated in the realisation of the harmony of all religions. Beneath this tree Ramakrishna sat for hours together—it was his favourite seat for prayer and meditation. I found peace and silence in this place, and his words arose in my consciousness: You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are... to Belur Math, built by Vivekananda on the bank of the Ganges. Ma Sharadamani Devi and Vivekananda had lived there. My husband took me to this wonderful place. My heart was quickened by the evening prayers: various instruments were played while the monks sang in front of the huge marble statue of Ramakrishna. The atmosphere was entrancing—the presence of Ramakrishna, Ma Sharadamani Devi and Vivekananda ...
... difference between doing meditation in a sitting position and doing it while walking? I feel that while walking, it is not possible to get the same amount of concentration as in the other—for beginners, at least. It is as each finds convenient. Some meditate better walking, some sitting. I suppose meditation while walking is more likely to be a prayer than meditation proper. Not at all. ...
... many things to do. So you must learn to feel always my very real presence and also my help whenever things become difficult. It would be good if daily you could devote some time to prayer, worship and meditation in whatever place you find easier. Meanwhile keep courage and faith. I shall see you on the first November, your birthday, with the purpose of giving you a new birth, a birth in the... Volume One (1954-1955) The Story of a Soul 25 October 1955 I really wanted to be released from the grip of the opposing elements. In reply to my prayer she wrote: 25.10.55 My dear, very dear little child, I do want that you should be freed from these cruel forces that make you so unhappy and inwardly I am constantly working to save you from their... a delicious perfume. Along with them came a plate and an incense-holder. Then I started praying, meditating and worshipping the Divine as she had advised me, although I was hardly an expert in meditation. She started sending roses, to be placed near the photographs of Sri Aurobindo and herself. Now my room had the air of a temple. When I burnt the incense-sticks, their aroma transported me to ...
... obscurite de I' insconscience." "I do not know anything, I am nothing, I can do nothing, I am in the obscurity of the inconscience." (From the Mother's Prayers &: Meditations) The Mother has, in a few illuminating sentences clearly brought out the distinction between the Ego and the Self. She observes : The Ego is always thinking of what it wants and has ...
... perfectly as we can. 2.Develop our mind, life and body, with proper culture and study, to the maximum of their possibilities. 3.Keep a constant contact with our psychic being by japa, prayer, meditation or simply by remembering. 4.Keep ourselves open upward so that when the higher forces come down, they can enter into us and do their work. 5.Remain quietly happy all the time. Page ...
... 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) Musset, Alfred de, 41, 45 –Poésies Clwisies, Nuit de Decembre, 41n. NANDI, SUNIL KUMAR, 176 Nath, Rabindra ...
... her and prayer to her to manifest her force and take up the action so that there too and not only in inner silence you can feel her presence and working. I don't think you understood very well what Mother was trying to tell you. First of all she did not say that prayers or meditation either were no good—how could she when both count for so much in Yoga? What she said was that the prayer must well... the psychic, the mental—for when the psychic is forward, there is no lack of life and joy in the prayer, the aspiration, the seeking, no difficulty in having the constant stream of bhakti and when the mind is quiet and inturned and upturned there is no difficulty or want of interest in meditation. Meditation by the way is a process leading towards knowledge and through knowledge, it is a thing of the... be got rid of in two ways, by rejecting it and pushing it out, till it remains as an outside force only—by bringing down the higher peace and light into the physical mind. Concentration, Meditation and Prayer What you felt before was in your mental being and consciousness; after coming here you have evidently come out into your external and physical consciousness, that is why you feel as if all ...
... but (Allah) and Mohammad is his messenger." 2. Prayer The second rule is the commitment to prayers (Salat) five times a day: Between first light and sunrise, after the sun has passed the middle of the sky, between mid-afternoon and sunset, between sunset and the last light of the day, between darkness and dawn. Prayer is accompanied by prescribed rituals of washing, prostration... Ramadan falls during the ninth month of the lunar Islamic calendar. During the period of fasting and prayer, Muslims are not permitted to eat, drink, and engage in sexual intercourse or pleasurable activities from sunrise to sunset. In refraining from food or drink and in meditation and prayer, Muslims thus personally experience the rigors of suffering, thirst and hunger of those less privileged than themselves... rich widow of Mecca, then forty years of age. She was a gentle woman of spotless character. Mohammed frequently went to a cave in the desert three miles from Mecca, where he spent months in prayer and meditation. One morning, the angel Gabriel appeared to him and said: "Rise, for thou art the Prophet of God. Go forth and preach in the name of thy Lord. Your God is merciful." A voice was heard - the ...
... tell him that there are two stages in the Yoga, one of preparation and one of the actual intensive sadhana. It is the first that he can undertake. In this stage aspiration in the heart with prayer, bhakti, meditation, a will to offer the life to the Divine are the important things. Purification of the nature is the first aim to be achieved. There should be no over-eagerness for experiences but such as... Entering Sri Aurobindo's Path Acceptance as a Disciple 1926-1949 His aspiration may be satisfied if he makes himself fit. Let him continue to read the Arya and practise daily meditation. In the meditation he should concentrate first in an aspiration that the central truths of which he reads should be made real to him in conscious experience and his mind opened to the calm, wideness, strength... early done, it often creates more difficulties than it removes. 31 May 1937 Sometimes people whose aspiration is doubtful or whose acceptance is not known to me, come and claim to join my meditations here as a matter of right. The word "accepted" in these conditions has no great importance. If people want to join the Asram, then acceptance or non-acceptance has a meaning. But outside there ...
... Ground activities? No joined. Only Mother's work only. My whole life Mother's work only. Mother's work is like our prayer and meditation. Whenever some trouble come, before Mother's photo I sit and pray for her. This is my sadhana. Even I don't sit for meditation also. Only Mother's work and sit before Mother's photo. What kind of sadhana was there at that time when you came... times I see in Meditation Hall where there is Mother's chair [couch]. Whenever I feel so much difficulty I come here. This is Mother, her not left Ashram. Whatever your difficulty, without going to write. Mother will solve that thing. Now... before, I write to Mother and Mother will be through management you do. No, now nothing there. Anything trouble, only I remember prayer to Mother; next... no worry, no botheration. Surety of our goal. This is simple child, like naked child to Mother's feet. That is great joy. You are thinking how much more you do by meditation. What, what is going in meditation? Through meditation you are going to realise your self. Whenever your desire, ambition, all lower nature silent, naturally the divine nature manifests! Mother give work not only ...
... contact with the several inmates whose work she had to coordinate for the smooth efficiency of organisational working; and of course she joined the daily evening meditation. Aside from her own private session of prayer and meditation, she found time to read the French paper Le Matin, to tend the banana garden at the back, and to resolve the one hundred and one minor problems that kept cropping... of 1926, several of the women disciples started having their meditation with Mirra, as much by preference as for the sake of convenience. After August, some of the other disciples also joined these sessions with her permission. In those days, Mirra seldom went out of the compound of the Library House, and she used to sit for meditation in upper-storey room. About a dozen - including Bejoy Nag, Rani... with divinity. The meditation lasted about forty-five minutes. After that one by one the disciples bowed to the Mother. She and Sri Aurobindo gave blessings to them. Whenever a disciple bowed to the Mother, Sri Aurobindo's right hand came forward behind the Mother's as if blessing him through the Mother. After the blessings, in the same silence there was a short meditation. In. the interval ...
... his age. Very well. Mother is telling Dyuman January 28, 1935 Why do I feel so sleepy in spite of having enough sleep? Is it tamas? I hardly seem to be doing any sadhana; no prayer, no meditation—nevertheless quite well! If you feel quite well, it is all right. Perhaps you are "assimilating"! My bravado has not worked. N's temperature is still running. Is it absolutely necessary... avoided getting into a railway train because there might be a collision or into a steamer for similar reasons and certainly you would never dare go in an aeroplane! January 2, 1935 In meditation, I had again a stillness of the inner and outer being, but the body was gradually bending down, as ill was in a light sleep. I could remember that you were there. Was that a state of sleep due to... discover the central being in themselves, then a true harmonious whole can be created. (For a case of a double being who had no central organising part in him you can take R as an example.) During meditation, I had again a strong feeling of pressure. As you had advised, I tried to enlarge my consciousness by thinking that I was as large as the universe. But is that the way? Yes. At any rate it is ...
... but with a sattwic reliance) was the best course for you. Prayer, yes—but not prayer insisting on immediate fulfilment—but prayer that is itself a communion of the mind and the heart with the Divine and can have the joy and satisfaction of itself, trusting for fulfilment by the Divine in His own time. Meditation? Yes, but your meditation has got into a wrong Asana, that of an eager and vehement wrestling... other movements of your lower vital; you will then, I think, find less difficulty in your meditation and your general sadhana. It is surely better to seek to right yourself than to let yourself float in the stream of vital despondency and weakness. What do you expect the Mother to answer to such prayers [ for death ]? It is not the soul's demand or need, but an outcry of vital weakness. X did... is why I would like you to desist from these too strenuous efforts and go on quietly, praying and meditating if you like but tranquilly without strain and too vehement striving, letting the prayer and meditation (not too much of the latter) prepare the mind and heart till things begin to flow into them in a spontaneous current when all is ready. Accustomed as I am to the misunderstanding or ...
... lapse of many years in which I had never prayed. So what she had taught me was there in my subconscious. So, I thought, let me pray a little before going. I sat down, Buddha-like, for prayer or for meditation; but, by Jove! As soon as I sat down, God alone knows what I felt. I saw that this part of my head, no exaggeration at all, this part of my head was hanging here (Laughter) and this part... when they are meant to be given to Mother. So he picked out a very beautiful rose and said: "Take this, let's go." Changing my clothes, becoming a young Bengali 177 Lotus Position used for meditation in Hatha Yoga. Page 121 man again, I went to see Mother. Mother used to give interviews at that time in what you call Library House - in other words, Rajen's office, the place ...
... tongue Gujarati, her intense prayers to the Divine Mother with single-pointed devotion, feeling irresistibly drawn as iron is by the magnet. 1 In 1981, in a preface to her autobiography, she wrote: A few disciples of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo had come to our house in Miwani (Kenya), East Africa [on 25 July 1954]. We had all gathered together and started prayer, meditation and reading. What was read... will never desert me. ... Page 587 Do call me to You soon. For, more and more my heart is drawn to You. And I cannot now dissuade my heart. You can hear my heart's cry. 4 In prayer after prayer, she tells the Mother how eager she is to place her whole being at the disposal of the Divine. Sacrificing one's deeper interests one can no doubt reap worldly success, but the wiser thing will... the divine Mother; but will it be accepted? It was accepted indeed, and Huta came to the Ashram for a short visit and had her first darshan of the Mother. It was the 1st of November and, in the Meditation Hall, the Mother was distributing her message on the occasion of Pondicherry's merger. With slow footsteps I approached her. My heart started beating a shade faster. Comforting vibrations came ...
... Develop our mind, life and body, with proper culture and study, to the maximum of their possibilities. Page 138 3. Keep a constant contact with our psychic being by Japa, prayer, meditation or simply by remembering. 4. Keep ourselves open upward so that when the higher forces come down, they can enter into us and do their work. 5. Remain quietly happy all the time.' ... at the same place that I recovered the diamond the other day and today I have been saved from this goonda." Page 121 "Tomorrow morning I should come and meditate under this tree. My prayers will certainly be answered. I will pray for my hugely bald head to be cured of its baldness." Now as he was thinking this he began imagining that his bald head was covered with thick black hair... lying on a rivulet of rainwater. It was glistening in the dark. He thanked his fortune as he picked up the diamond thinking: "I have been very lucky indeed in finding the diamond. God has heard my prayer!" Another day, he was wandering in the vicinity of that very tree. Darkness had already fallen and the streetlights were lit. The place was deserted. During the rainy season the Darjeeling streets ...
... the time when the weak of heart weeps ever his misfortune or in anticipation of the hardships of prison life. And the lover of God feels the nearness of his deity, and has the joy of his prayer or meditation in the silent night. Then to these three thousand creatures who came from God, victims of a miserable social system, the huge instrument of torture, the Alipur jail, is lost in a vast silence... boys, we have the testimony of one of them, Upendranath Bandopadhyaya, as recorded in his book of reminiscences in Bengali: Arabinda would also keep his comer and get lost in his spiritual meditations. Even the hell of the noise that the musical boys made did never disturb or Page 321 affect him. In the afternoons, he would pace up and down the room, and read the Upanishads... break into the theatre of Chaos and Old Night and put them to flight. While, like Andromeda lying in chains on the nude high rock, Sri Aurobindo sat in his comer of the exposed cage absorbed in meditation, not listening to the evidence, not attending to the trial; while, in the background, like Poseidon and Pallas Athene the powers of the Bureaucracy and of Nationalism were anxiously awaiting the ...
... and aglow with his soul's fire. I read almost all his books in Bengal, and have read over again some of them here. I am reading the Savitri also everyday. I hope you are reading the Prayers & Meditations. Both these books have an inner affinity, as if they pulse with the same life of Light. 7.11.66 * * * I consider the Synthesis to be a greater book than the Life Divine for those... sense, but direct by the physical being through an- outer action. This will be an outer action, or even the initiation of an outer action, in Page 27 the form of a worship or prayer by the body itself. Let me make it clearer by an example. Supposing you are going to make a final decision in regard to the life you are going to settle down to. You can make an offering of this decision... reply by a letter or otherwise, just as She finds most necessary at that time and stage of your life. Or, She may not reply at all. That is Her concern, and should be left to Her. But the fact of your prayer to Her for a guidance in the forming of your decision will throw open the windows of your physical being and make it possible for Her Force to enter into it. Each time you refer something, even the ...
... attaches g reat importance to integral items of education like Yogasanas, Page 435 games and sports, attendance in morning prayers and meditation, attendance in universal prayers and participation in morning prayers and participation in morning assembly talks, attendance in classes and social work/self-reliance programmes. These are incorporated in the total system of... Hostel Schedule The life starts at 05:00 a.m. when the bell goes followed by devotional music. The students arise from bed and after ablutions assemble in the prayer hall at 05:15 am. and up to 05:45 a.m. there will be prayer and meditation. Thereafter they will go for yoga/physical exercises: 06:00 a.m.-07:00 a.m. They will then have bath and breakfast and go to the institute at 08:00 a.m. They come... AND MATERIAL A)1. Guide for teachers—subjectwise topics and value education 2.S.U.P.W. 3.Art and creativity 4.Physical and Health Education care B)1. Book Prayer and Song Book (Prayers, Inspiring incidents, Subhashit, Dohay, Thoughts for the day, Thus he spoke....) C)Quarterly magazine Page 515 D)1.Hand book for teachers 2.Activity based approach ...
... Development Retreat' could be held to enable the students develop self-control, punctuality, sharing and caring respect for other faiths, cooperation and the values of silence (inner peace). - Prayer, meditation and' Shramadan' could form part of the content of value education. They can help the students cultivate inner poise and an attitudinal shift, and develop the quality of 'dignity of labour'... *No discrimination be made as to the standard of education between the poor and the rich, girl or the boy belonging to any caste, creed or religion. *Morning classes should start with songs and prayers acceptable to all. *Folk songs, folk stories, plays and folk music be introduced wherever possible. At least one period be allotted for physical training. *History lessons should be based... Dance iii.Fine Arts and Liberal Arts iv.Group Work and Discussions v.Assembly Activities vi.Co-scholastic Activities vii.Physical Education and Sports viii.Yoga and Meditation *The Central Board of Secondary Education wants to ensure implementation of Value Education programme through interdisciplinary approach across all curricular areas. *The Board has introduced ...
... must become perfect first before one can hope for any result in meditations. No wonder my attempts were fruitless. Last evening as I lolled on the pier alone I felt sad: what is this path I have taken where one has to be a Hercules to be able to do anything—even to try meditation. My cherished preconception that prayer, meditation, etc. purify received such a blow! Then how on earth is one to... understood very well what Mother was trying to tell you. First of all she did not say that prayers or meditation either were no good — how could she when both count for so much in Yoga. What she said was that the prayer must well up from the heart on a crest of emotion or aspiration, the japa or meditation come in a live push carrying the joy or the light of the thing in it. If done mechanically... time (she writes from Bangalore) actually seeing me in meditation with Mother as I was and getting peace, etc., after which she was too eager to visit Pondi for a few days again, thanking me so profusely for so demonstrably helping her through my prayer; while Jawaharlal, I was all but sure, never felt it. Why, I asked, did some prayers act in this sort of vivid convincing way, while others were ...
... the supermind, that the retirement can cease. Of course all prayer is not heard—the world would be a still more disastrous affair than it is, if everybody's prayers were Page 220 heard, however sincere. Even the Godward prayer is not always heard—at once, even as faith is not always jus Lined at once. Both prayer and faith are powers towards realisation which have been given to... but with a sattwic reliance) was the best course for you. Prayer, yes—but not prayer insisting on immediate fulfilment—but prayer that is itself a communion of the mind and the heart with the Divine and can have the joy and satisfaction of itself, trusting for fulfilment by the Divine in His own time. Meditation? Yes, but Your meditation has got into a wrong āsana, that of an eager and vehement wrestling... hours of japa, prayer, etc. to you for your love and in a sort of secure seclusion in that room. I want to do as much as I can to get an opening to you and I want your especial force. I want your especial aid to be as patient as you want to try some austerities in my day concentration so that I may not be discouraged (as I always am after a spell of strenuous effort) by my meditation, etc. not yielding ...
... dated 22nd February from some residents at Peace was read: Page 124 "On days when special meditations are held in the Ashram, some of us would rather remain in Auroville than to go to town. We would like to hold collective meditation in Matrimandir at the same time that meditation is held at the Samadhi. Do you approve of this ?" Mother approves. * * * 25.2.72... packet for a sick child. * * * 29.1.73 Letters were disposed of. Narad's letter about working with the plants through music, prayer, meditation and other new ways. Mother's remark, "I don't understand...how can meditation work with the plants?" Aurofood is not on Auroville land. Nor is it contributing anything to Auroville in money or by produce. Is it correct to include... Offerings, blessings and signing of papers. Mother answered questions on meditation sent by Seyril and Sadhana of the Matrimandir Workers Camp. Q. Should we assemble for meditation as a community in the Matrimandir excavation? A. I do not like so much going inside the excavation. Q. Should the meditation be held as in the Ashram with tapes? Or in complete silence? A. As they ...
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