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... The Mother: Questions and Answers 1956 , p. 263. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , p. 42. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58, pp. 109-110 (first and third... Mother: Questions and Answers 1950-51 , p. 19. × Ibid., p. 159. All texts of the Mother have been checked against the original French and corrected where necessary. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1950-51... × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953 , p. 7. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1954 , p. 36. × ...

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The Psychic Being  >  More Lights on the Psychic Being

... more complex and precise form in the manifestation. But the reality of that form is one, it is bound to the One. And all the units are linked together and reproduce the One. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 17 February 1954 Sweet Mother, is there a spiritual being in everybody? That depends on what we call "being". If for "being" we substitute "presence", yes, there is a spiritual... powerful enough, to be able to control not only this dwelling but what surrounds it and in a field of radiation and action that is more and more extensive... and effective. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 11 June 1958 What characterises the substance of the psychic world? The substance of the psychic world is a substance proper to it, with its own psychic characteristics:... their substance does not become psychic substance as a consequence. They can be under the influence of the psychic and assume its nature more or less but not its substance. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 19 March 1951 Is the psychic being in the heart? Not in the physical heart, not in the organ. It is in a fourth dimension, an inner dimension. But it is in that region ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  15: The Manifestation of the Supramental

... × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956 , CWM 9 p. 13. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954 , CWM 6 p. 516. × ... × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956, CWM 8 pp. 127 ff. × Id., p. 263. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1957-58 , CWM 9 p. 45. ... × Mother’s Agenda, 20 August 1960. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1955, CWM 7 pp. 321-2. × Id., pp. 323-24. ...

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Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history  >  Bibliography

... Volume 5 — Questions and Answers 1953. Oral answers to questions about the Mother's Questions and Answers 1929. Volume 6 — Questions and Answers 1954. Oral answers to questions about the Mother's essays on education and self-development, and Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga, The Mother and Bases of Yoga. Volume 7 — Questions and Answers 1955. Oral answers to questions about... children. And other writings. Volume 3 — Questions and Answers. Oral answers to questions about Yoga raised by disciples in 1929 and in 1930-31. Oral commentary on The Dhammapada in 1957-58. Volume 4 — Questions and Answers 1950-51. Oral answers to questions about the Mother's essays on education and self-development, her Questions and Answers 1929, and Sri Aurobindo's The Mother. ... chapters from his The Synthesis of Yoga, and the Mother's drama. The Great Secret. Volume 8 — Questions and Answers 1956. Oral answers to questions about Part One of Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga and his Thoughts and Glimpses. Volume 9 — Questions and Answers 1957-58 . Oral answers to questions about Sri Aurobindo's Thoughts and Glimpses, The Supramental Manifestation ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  3 February 1951

... February Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 3 February 1951 "What do you want the Yoga for? To get power? To attain to peace and calm? To serve humanity? "None of these motives is sufficient to show that you are meant for the Path." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 7 April ) The main trouble is that you think with words, but these words... and take a plunge and sink down." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 7 April ) Naturally, when I speak of the heart, I do not mean the physical organ, the viscera, but the psychological or psychic centre of the being. Mother then reads a question asked during her talk in 1929: "What is one to do to prepare oneself for the Yoga?" Questions and Answers 1929 ( 7 April ) I replied to the... you want the Yoga for the sake of the Divine?... If so, then only can it be said that you have a call for the Path. "This is the first thing necessary—aspiration for the Divine." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 7 April ) The first movement of aspiration is this: you have a kind of vague sensation that behind the universe there is something which is worth knowing, which is probably (for you ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  17 February 1951

... February Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 17 February 1951 Mother begins with a passage about "false visions" ( Questions and Answers 1929 , 21 April ). Is a vision false if the being who appears in the vision pretends to be what it is not? I don't think it is this that people mean when they speak of "false visions". They say "false visions"... " Questions and Answers 1929 ( 21 April ) It is always the same thing, this is our screen before which we must pass everything to know whether one may accept it or whether one is told not to. "The number of hours spent in meditation is no proof of spiritual progress. It is a proof of your progress when you no longer have to make an effort to meditate." Questions and Answers 1929 (... me do, it is you who made me do it!" "What is required of you is not a passive surrender, in which you become like a block, but to put your will at the disposal of the divine Will." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 21 April ) How can one make an offering of one's will?... Some people, when they offer their will, stop willing! This is more convenient, but evidently this is not the right way. ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Becoming Conscious

... that gradually, slowly, with perseverance, first of all with great care and much attention, one becomes conscious, learns to know oneself and then to become master of oneself. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 13 January 1951 What is one to do to prepare oneself for the Yoga? To be conscious, first of all. We are conscious of only an insignificant portion of our being; for... You will have to be patient and persistent and vigilant—“sleepless”, as the adepts say; you must always refuse to give any chance whatever to the undivine against the divine. The Mother Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): 7 April 1929 … in order to reject anything from the being one has first to become conscious of it, to have the clear inner experience of its action and to discover its actual... first day but you must do it persistently and little by little or perhaps suddenly one day it will vanish. Then you will find out after a time that you are another person. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 26 April 1951 What the Mother spoke of was not self-analysis nor dissection. Analysis and dissection are mental things which can deal with the inanimate or make the live ...

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Emergence of the Psychic  >  References

... of the Mother (CWM) Vol. Title 3 Questions and Answers 4 Questions and Answers 1950-51 5 Questions and Answers 1953 6 Questions and Answers 1954 7 Questions and Answers 1955 8 Questions and Answers 1956 9 Questions and Answers 1957-58 10 On Thoughts and Aphorisms 12 ...

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Sri Aurobindo And The Mother  >  Bibliography

... 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 1954 Page 276 7. Questions and Answers 1955 8. Questions and Answers 1956 9. Questions and Answers 1957-58 10. On Thoughts and Aphorisms ...

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Patterns of the Present  >  6: The Supramental “Catastrophe”

... The Mother: Questions and Answers 1955 , p. 414. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1929, p. 5. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1950-51 , p. 287. ... × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1956, p. 323. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , pp. 172-73 (emphasis added). × ... tremendous descent of the vital forces – the hostile forces of the vital world – into the material world.” (The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953, p. 184). × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58, pp. 296 ff. × ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  15 July 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 15 July 1953 "Each man has some fad or one preferred shibboleth or another, each thinks that he is free from this or that prejudice from which others suffer and is willing to regard such notions as quite false; but he imagines that his is not like theirs, it is for him the truth, the real truth. An attachment to a rule... rule of the mind is an indication of a blindness still hiding somewhere." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 19 May 1929 ) Are superstitions mental rules? No, not rules but mental formations. Generally a superstition originates in an experience. For instance, there is a certain superstition in Europe, and you are told: "Never walk under a ladder, it will bring you ill-luck." It is probable... to pass. But they are necessary too in order to break down the limits which your mental constructions have built around you and which prevent your opening to the Light and the Truth." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 19 May 1929 ) When we come to the spiritual life with an aspiration, can the adverse forces attack us? Everybody, without exception. Even though they look very nice ...

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The Psychic Being  >  Process of Psychic Growth and Development

... These psychic beings give their whole existence to the divine Work—this is not absolute, inevitable, they choose freely, but ninety times out of a hundred this is what they do. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 24 February 1951 Each time that the soul takes birth in a new body it comes with the intention of having a new experience which will help it to develop and to perfect its... during the period of earthly existence. And it is the psychic which carries the progress over from one life to another, by organising its own evolution and development itself. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 12 February 1958 If it is not the mind, vital or physical which take birth again but only the psychic being, then the vital or mental progress made before is of no value... everything. Nobody prevents you from doing it! It is only because you identify yourself with this ( indicating the body ). You have only to stop identifying yourself with that." The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 18 November 1953 Does the psychic being always progress? There are in the psychic being two very different kinds of progress: one consisting in its formation, building and ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Organisation, Harmonisation, Unification

... one you understand best, most easily, the disharmony which seems most evident to you. Then from there, gradually, you will go to the more difficult and more central things… The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 5 January 1955 We are made up of many different parts which have to be unified around the psychic being, if we are conscious of it or at least around the central aspiration. If... is as though a bridge has been built and little by little the crust becomes thinner and thinner until the two parts are wholly joined and the inner and the outer become one. The Mother Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): 14 April 1929 You can be a different person at different moments in your life. I know people who took decisions, had a strong will, knew what they wanted and prepared to... twenty years. Then at the end of a few years, look back, turn your gaze upon what you were three years ago: “How I have changed!… Was I like that?…” It is very entertaining. The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 1 April 1953 There are people who in a certain state of being are constructive, for example, and capable of organising their life and doing very useful work, and in another part ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Magic, Miracles and the Planchette

... had made a formation of death, it would have been they who died. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 3 March 1954 “They [powers] have to be used in the same way as they came. They come by union with the Divine. They must be used by the will of the Divine and not for display.” Questions and Answers 1929 (14 April) If you use power to show that you possess it, it becomes so full... make sure of you they work these little miracles to encourage you, and when they feel that you are well trapped, they play a fine trick upon you and it is all over with you. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 8 February 1951 “Ambition has been the undoing of many Yogis…. “A story is told of a Yogi who had attained wonderful powers. He was invited by his disciples to a great... The disciples wondered. But all of a sudden the Master jumped up and rushed out screaming and crying, ‘Nevermore shall I have a disciple, nevermore! Woe is me! I have betrayed my God.’” Questions and Answers 1929 (14 April) This is a temptation that every teacher meets at each step, for the very simple reason that ordinary humanity, in a general way, not being in personal contact with the divine ...

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Preparing for the Miraculous  >  11: The Kalki Avatar

... bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine.” 44 In the last years of the Entretiens ( Questions and Answers ), the Mother explained the significance of Sri Aurobindo’s birth on the various levels of existence. Physically, she said, the consequences of his birth will last as long as the Earth; mentally... Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga , p. 411. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1950 , p. 80. × Sri Aurobindo: op. cit. , p. 410. ... Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , p. 65. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-1958 , p. 208. × The Mother’s Agenda , 1961, p. 417. ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  13: The Yoga of the Body Cells

... The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953 , CWM 5 p. 255. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM 4 p. 244. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1957-58 , CWM 9 p. 360. ... The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM 4 p. 28 × The Mother, On Education , CWM 12 p. 171. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM 4 p. 3. ... The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51, CWM 4 pp. 157 ff. × The Mother, Words of the Mother I, CWM 13 p. 56. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954, CWM 6 p. 111. ...

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Patterns of the Present  >  1: The Big Picture

... The Mother: Questions and Answers 1950-51, p. 242. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953 , p. 276. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1955, p. 91. ... The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953, p. 275. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 83. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953 , pp. 249-50. ... × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1929 , p. 26. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1950-51, p. 330. × ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  2: Artist among the Artists

... × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953 , CWM5 p. 2. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM4 pp. 311-12. × ... × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954 , CWM6 p. 72. × See The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM4 pp. 298 ff. × ... × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1955 , CWM7 p. 189 ff. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954 , CWM6 p. 71. × ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Soul and Psychic Being

... into direct and constant contact with the psychic being, one may say in the same way that the physical being of this person is organised by the central divine consciousness. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 24 February 1951 The soul or psychic is immutable only in the sense that it contains all the possibility of the Divine within it, but this it has to evolve and in its evolution... soul”… but all that applies to the vital being, for the psychic being has no need to be saved! It does not share the faults of the external person, it is free from all reaction. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 22 February 1951 The soul or spark is there before the development of an organised vital and mind. The soul is something of the Divine that descends into the evolution as... feeling that it is always the same being which was there and continues to be there and will continue to be there with more or less progressive and more or less conscious changes. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 29 June 1955 A distinction has to be made between the soul in its essence and the psychic being. Behind each and all there is the soul which is the spark of the Divine—none could ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Occult Worlds and Entities

... worlds in our dreams. And the study of dreams itself already demands much time and care, and in itself may constitute a preparation for a deeper study of the invisible worlds. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 11 July 1956 Are there not accidents which are almost inevitable? I just read of a case cited by an American who had the gift of clairvoyance. A child was playing on a railway track... the other, started working again. I saw it myself, you know, it was a charming incident. He was angry, he said, “This is a bad joke!” And all the clocks started going again! The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 2 April 1951 Have these vital beings a psychic being? No, I said that the first thing they have to do to incarnate is to drive away the psychic being of the person whom... seen this happen three times consecutively in a case, so much so that in the end I had to tell the person: “I am tired, get rid of it yourself, I am no longer interested!” The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 8 March 1951 In all religious monuments, in monuments considered the most… well, as belonging to the highest religion, whether in France or any other country or Japan—it ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Preface

... The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 13 January 1951 × Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - I: Self-Consecration × The Mother, Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 9 April... × The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 19 March 1951 × The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 13 January 1951 × ... April 1958 × The Mother, Questions and Answers (1954): 27 January 1954 × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga , Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Vol. 22, p. 276. ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  5 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 5 April 1951 "Everything here is followed by the supermind; the mind movements and not less the vital, the material movements, all the play of the universe have for it a very deep interest, but of another kind. It is about the same difference as that between the interest taken in a puppet-play by one who... dry and dull. That is why all this ignorance, all this illusion has lasted so long; it is because men like it, because they cling to it and its peculiar kind of appeal that it endures." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 23 June ) How can interest be founded on illusion? So you think you are not in the illusion? You imagine you are outside the illusion? In the world as it is now, all is illusion... "But whatever you ask for or whatever your effort, you must feel, even while trying your best, using knowledge or putting forth power that the result depends upon the Divine Grace." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 23 June ) But first you must will it, I believe that is quite important! There is no one method to follow.... I read this and at the same time ask myself how many people would be ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Vital

... there would never have been any progress…. In ordinary life it is something very useful but when one decides to do yoga, to find the Divine, it becomes a little cumbersome. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 26 September 1956 … the vital soul is what animates the body, the life which animates the body. You see, in ordinary language it is said, “You die when your soul leaves your body”... is, giving life. Is this the “vital desire-soul”, Sweet Mother? Yes, the vital soul is full of desires. The vital being is full of desires. It is built of desires. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 6 October 1954 One must refuse pleasure if one wants to open to the delight of existence, in a total beauty and harmony. This brings us quite naturally to vital austerity, the... you into all kinds of troublesome and untoward experiments; and if you succeed in convincing it in some way or other, then you will advance with giant strides on the path. The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 9 September 1953 Sweet Mother, is desire contagious? Ah, yes, very contagious, my child. It is even much more contagious than illness. If someone next to you has a desire, ...

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Patterns of the Present  >  5: Science, Scientism, Modern Technology

... See also in Questions and Answers 1953 , pp. 67-68, the revealing passage of a conversation on science Sri Aurobindo had in 1925 or 1926 with Pavitra, the French disciple who was a scientist with a degree from the École polytechnique in Paris. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953 , p. 82.... × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1955, pp. 364-65. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , p. 109. × ... Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , p. 13. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , pp. 447-48. × Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, p. 195. ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  14: The Mother’s Reincarnations

... Sri Aurobindo, On the Mother , SABCL 25 p. 78. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956 , CWM 8 p. 156. × The Mother, On Thoughts and Aphorisms , CWM 10 p. 89. ... Hancock, Keeper of Genesis , p. 82 (quoted from the Corpus Hermeticum). × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM 4 pp. 196-97. × Graham Philips, Act of God , p. 149. ... × Id., p. 175. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956, CWM 8 pp. 155-56. × Arnold Berbers and Hendrik Beumer, De Mummie van Nofretete , p ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  4: A Synthesis in the Making

... The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954 , CWM 6 p. 71. × The Mother, Three Plays , p. 4. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953 , CWM 5 pp. 263-64. ... The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953, CWM 5 p. 352. × The Mother, Words of Long Ago , CWM 2 p. 47. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953 , CWM 5 p. 355. ... texts, but to see them like that and to pay them but scant attention would be a serious error. There is hardly a topic touched upon in the eight volumes of her Entretiens, called in English Questions and Answers, that is not already present in a mature form in Words of Long Ago. Underestimation of these texts has resulted in many misunderstandings of the Mother’s contribution to Sri Aurobindo’s vision ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  10: The Laboratory

... × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953 , CWM 5 p. 299. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1929-31 , CWM 3 p. 3. × ... The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956, CWM 8 pp. 161-62. × Sri Aurobindo, op. cit., p. 227. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953 , CWM 5 p. 2. ... × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM 4 p. 215. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954, CWM 6 p. 295. × Sri ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Note on the Text

... 1997. The conversations of 1929 were also published in 1977 as the first part of Questions and Answers , Volume 3 of the Collected Works of the Mother (first edition); in that volume the conversations were titled Questions and Answers 1929 . The present volume contains the same text. Questions and Answers 1930 – 1931. These twenty-six reports of the Mother’s conversations with disciples in... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Note on the Text Questions and Answers 1929. This collection of fifteen conversations of 1929 was first published in 1931 for private circulation under the title Conversations of the Mother . The conversations were first made available to the public in 1940 as the main part of the book Words of the Mother . This book was reprinted... 1951 and in 1966. A new talk, “Difficulties in Yoga”, was included in the collection when it was brought out in 1977 as part of Questions and Answers , Volume 3 of the Collected Works of the Mother (first edition). In that volume the talks were entitled Questions and Answers 1930 – 1931 . The present volume contains the same text. In 1989 these talks were printed together with the Mother’s 1929 con ...

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On The Mother  >  Select Bibliography

... Mother. Vol.5 Questions and Answers 1953. Oral answers to questions about the Mother's Questions and Answers 1929. Vol.6 Questions and Answers 1954. Oral answers to questions about the Mother's essays on education and self-development, and Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga, The Mother and Bases of Yoga. Vol.7 Questions and Answers 1955. Oral answers to questions about... children. And other writings. Vol.3 Questions and Answers. Oral answers to questions about Yoga raised by disciples in 1929 and in 1930-31. Oral commentary on The Dhammapada in 1957-58. Vol.4 Questions and Answers 1950-51. Oral answers to questions about the Mother's essays on education and self-development, about her Questions and Answers 1929, and about Sri Aurobindo's The Mother... Cycle, two chapters from his The Synthesis of Yoga, and the Mother's drama. The Great Secret. Vol.8 Questions and Answers 1956. Oral answers to questions about Part One of Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga and his Thoughts and Glimpses. Vol.9 Questions and Answers 1957-58. Oral answers to questions about Sri Aurobindo's Thoughts and Glimpses, The Supramental Manifestation ...

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Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo  >  Eckhart Comes to Me

... × The Mother. Questions and Answers '57-58, × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1955, × An apt... × The Mother, Questions and Answers '50-51, CWM. Vol,4, pp. 18.19. × The Mother, Questions and Answers '57-58, CWM, Vol.9.pp.135.136. × ... a diary written by the Mother during years of intensive yogic discipline. × The Mother. Questions and Answers '50-51, Collected words of the Mother. Centenary Edition (here·after CWM). (Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo Ashram. 1972-87). Vol. 4. p. 261. ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  8: The Seven Hidden Years

... The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953, CWM 5 p. 230. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1955 , CWM 7 p. 100. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM 4 p. 238. ... See The Mother, Questions and Answers 1955, CWM 7 p. 98-99. × In M.P. Pandit (ed.), Breath of Grace, p. 79. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM 4 p. 238. ... Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, SABCL 26 p. 459. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM 4 p. 223. × The Mother, Words of Long Ago, CWM 2 p. 166. ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Life - A Mass of Vibrations

... the domain of the lower Nature is governed by what we may call chance—that is to say, it is a field in which various conflicting forces intermix, having no single definite aim.” “Chance”, Questions and Answers 1929-31 If chance is the expression of disorder in the lower worlds, still there are “happy” chances which are not necessarily the expression of a disorder, aren’t there? Happy for whom... best in this field. When one thing is realised, how many others could have been realised, which were not, because this one was realised? And all these things, we do not know. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 14 May 1951 Sweet Mother, I have not understood this: “At best we have only the poor relative freedom which by us is ignorantly called free will. But that is at bottom illusory... makes an impact on you, and this impact brings up a response, as when you play a note. Well, this vibration of desire comes and strikes you in a certain way and you respond. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 8 February 1956 You must… understand that you are not separate individualities, that life is a constant exchange of forces, of consciousnesses, of vibrations, of movements of all ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  16: What Is to Be Done Is Done

... The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956 , CWM 8 pp. 399-400. × The Mother, Words of the Mother II, CWM 14 p. 67. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956, CWM 8 p. 398. ... The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953, CWM 5 p. 350. × Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL 18 p. 242. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953, CWM 5 p. 60-61. ... Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book XI, Canto I, CWSA 34 p. 700. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1957-58 , CWM 9 p. 411. × Ibid. ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  16 September 1953

... work that would require years in the ordinary course, can be done by Yoga in a few days and even in a few hours." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 16 June 1929 ) × Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 16 June 1929 ) ... Questions and Answers (1953) 16 September 1953 "The force that comes down into one who is doing Yoga and helps him in his transformation, acts along many different lines and its results vary according to the nature that receives it and the work to be done. First of all, it hastens the transformation of all in the being that is ready to be transformed... dislocation somewhere; and wherever or whenever this dislocation occurs, it can translate itself into an illness. The nature of the illness depends upon the nature of the dislocation." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 16 June 1929 ) Why is the receptivity of the body limited? Because in the physical world, in order that things do not get mixed up, it was necessary that it should be somewhat ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  19 August 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 19 August 1953 "The movement of love is not limited to human beings and it is perhaps less distorted in other worlds than in the human. Look at the flowers and trees. When the sun sets and all becomes silent, sit down for a moment and put yourself into communion with nature, you will feel rising from the earth, from... yearning so pure and in- tense that if you can feel the movement in the trees, your own being too will go up in an ardent prayer for the peace and light and love that are unmanifested here." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 2 June 1929 ) The trees aspire for the light. What is this light? The sun, my child. Have you never seen leaves closing up when night comes, as soon as the sun dips below... human nature, full of its impure demands, asking for something in exchange, bartering what it gives, clamouring for its own inferior satisfactions, distorting and soiling what was divine." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 2 June 1929 ) Page 230 Why do human beings always want to have something in exchange for what they give? Because they are shut up in themselves. They sense their ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  27 May 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 27 May 1953 "There is a state of consciousness in union with the Divine in which you can enjoy all you read, as you can all you observe, even the most indifferent books or the most uninteresting things. You can hear poor music, even music from which one would like to run away, and yet you can, not for its outward self... between good music and bad music, but you pass through either into that which it expresses. For there is nothing in the world which has not its ultimate truth and support in the Divine." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 28 April 1929 ) What is there "behind" the external form of music? Music is a means of expressing certain thoughts, feelings, emotions, aspirations. There is even a region... at every step that you belong to the Divine; you must have the constant experience that, in whatever you think or do, it is always the Divine Consciousness that is acting through you." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 28 April 1929 ) When one is conscious does one perceive the Divine in His form in everything? Oh! that is, you expect to see a divine form in everything!... I do not know ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  6: Speaking the Word

... × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956 , CWM 8 p. 276. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1955 , CWM 7 p. 414. × ... × Id., p. 239. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953 , CWM 5 p. 306. × Id. 1954 , CWM 6 p. 69. ... The Mother, Words of Long Ago , CWM 2 p. 137. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM 4 p. 303. × Kireet Joshi, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother , p. 180. ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  How to Invoke the Divine's Grace?

... the march forward to the divine realisa- Page 118 tion may be as swift, as complete, as total and harmonious as possible, considering the circumstances of the world." {Questions and Answers 1956, Cent. Ed., p. 251) "... if you can keep within yourself a confidence, a candid trust which does not argue, and the sense of... yes, it is truly a kind of trust that what is done... thing to lead you in the quickest way possible out of all your difficulties and towards the goal... if you can keep that strong in you, well, your path will become tremendously easier." (Questions and Answers 1954, Cent. Ed., p. 445) We recall in this connection the luminous words the Mother once addressed to the students of the Ashram School in course of one of her evening class talks... more and more, and the most surprising ones can be realised one after another.... at each step one comes to see that things are exactly what they had to be and the best that could be." (Questions and Answers 1955, p. 243) Now about the 'Warning and Guiding Grace'. While walking through life it may often happen that, faced with a particular situation, the sadhaka is not being able to know ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  The Ninefold Daily Sadhana

... every circumstance to advance more quickly. "There is a difference between preventing yourself from falling and advancing more quickly. "And both are absolutely necessary." (Questions and Answers, MCW Vol. 3, pp. 202-03) Page 20 3. "Stepping Back" Vigilance will make the sadhaka aware of the situation facing him. But that is not enough. For, after... talks of 1953, she expounded in detail the technique of this sadhana. What follows below draws its inspiration from what she said to the Ashramites on that occasion. ( Vide pp. 212-15 of Questions and Answers 1953, M C W Vol. 5) Whenever faced with a surging wrong impulse in oneself, which is strongly seeking an outlet of expression, one often offers a lame excuse whose form is somewhat like... seek the truth and not to do it, to display the external signs of consecration to the divine life... but within to be concerned only with oneself, one's selfishness and one's own needs." {Questions and Answers, M C W Vol. 3, p. 190) 7. "To Take Life Seriously" Wishing to wake up certain sadhakas of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram from their accustomed torpor and lethargy, the Mother once ...

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Growing up with the Mother  >  The Game of Flowers

... While working on this book, I also asked the Mother many questions on flowers. Not all the questions and answers and clarifications were included in the book Flowers and their Messages . We are therefore reproducing the questions and answers here as a separate section. But the innumerable questions and answers on clarification of colours, significances, and translations have not been included here as... specifically for the significance of the flowers they would therefore not be suitable. The work on the book therefore got shelved for a while. At that time, I was working with the Mother on questions and answers on Thoughts and Aphorisms . When we came towards the end of the book in 1970, the Mother asked me what I would like to take up next. I promptly put forward the proposal for the book of flowers ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Becoming an Individual

... a contact with his psychic which opens all the doors for him. They close again later, but once they have opened you never forget it. The remembrance remains very vividly… The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 22 September 1954 Sweet Mother, why are we so attached to our ego? As I said just now, probably because you still need it very much, isn’t that so? In order to become a conscious... you live in this way. It stops here, begins here, ends here. That’s all. You do from day to day, minute to minute, things which you do, like that… it happen to be like that. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 22 September 1954 Ego means what? I think it is the ego that makes each one a separate being, in all possible ways. It is the ego which gives the sense of being a person separate... naturally, as it has taken so much trouble to build you, it does not give up its work so easily, and it asks for the reward of its efforts, that is, to enjoy the individuality. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 12 January 1955 So there is a long, long, long way to go before merging one’s ego in the Divine. Merge one’s ego in the Divine! But first, one can’t merge one’s ego in the Divine ...

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The Psychic Being  >  The Psychic’s Choice and Conditions of Rebirth

... consciousness; so at that moment, the moment of death, the moment of leaving the body, it formulates a hope or an aspiration or a will, and usually this decides the future life. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 16 March 1955 Can it happen that the psychic being does not fall at the place where it wanted to take birth? If a psychic being sees from its psychic world a light on the earth... won a partial victory over it. There are a thousand possibilities, you know. One cannot say that everything goes according to the same plan—every psychic being is different. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 1 March 1951 For past lives, are there any general rules, broad outlines, or is everything possible? All depends on the category to which one belongs, and the degree... tendencies opposite to their sex. But at the time of the "choice" one may decide to belong to the creatrix Consciousness or to the immobile Witness. That depends upon the origin. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 8 March 1951 When the psychic is about to enter into the world, does it choose in advance the form it is going to take? It is an interesting question. That depends. ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  3 March 1951

... your nature, they would retire and leave you." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 5 May ) The best way of facing hostile forces is always to aspire, always to remember the Divine. And never to fear. Mother reads a question asked during the talk in 1929: "Do the hostile forces generally come from outside or inside?" Questions and Answers 1929 ( 5 May ) They come from outside the co... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 3 March 1951 "There is even a necessity for the existence of the hostile forces. They make your determination stronger, your aspiration clearer. "It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them reason to exist. So long as there is something in you which answers to them, their intervention... firmly in death.... If this belief could be cast out first from the conscious mind, then from the vital nature and the subconscious physical layers, death would no longer be inevitable." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 5 May ) This is a negative way of looking at the problem. If one believed that immortality was possible, that would be a more active way of seeing; and not only that it is possible ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  29 July 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 29 July 1953 Mother, you told us one day that all that happens to us has been decided in advance. What does that mean? This is but a way of speaking. This happens because to express a thing I can't be saying all the words at the same time, can I? I am obliged to say them one after another. Otherwise, if all the... echo of the universal Will, where is the place of individual initiative? Is the individual only an instrument to register universal movements? Has he no power of creation or origination?" Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 26 May 1929 ) Ah! Nor do I. When these questions were put to me, I had the utmost difficulty in answering them, for they were altogether outside my understanding of things. Here... whole play is a rigidly connected chain; one link merges imperceptibly into another. Nothing can be taken out of the chain and explained by itself as if it were its own source and beginning." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 26 May 1929 ) × "If a being were able to create in that way a thought or feeling ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  7 October 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 7 October 1953 "The method by which you will be most successful depends on the consciousness you have developed and the character of the forces you are able to bring into play. You can live in the consciousness of the completed cure or change and by the force of your inner formation slowly bring about the outward change... action is needed, and it will work out the change. Or, again, you can present your difficulty to the Divine and ask of It the cure, putting confidently your trust in the Divine Power." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 23 June 1929 ) What is this "consciousness of the completed cure"? This does not mean that there is a specific consciousness of the completed cure. It means: "To live in... realisation. The nature of the consciousness and the degree of its stress determine the forces that you bring into play and whether they shall help and fulfil or fail or even harm and hinder." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 23 June 1929 ) What is the difference between mental aspiration, vital aspiration and spiritual aspiration? In what way do you aspire in the mind and in the vital or aspire ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  5 August 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 5 August 1953 Does the psychic being always progress? There are in the psychic being two very different kinds of progress: one consisting in its formation, building and organisation. For the psychic starts by being only a kind of tiny divine spark within the being and out of this spark will emerge progressively... when the lower vital manifests certain desires and impulses, the more material mind comes to its aid and justifies and supports them with specious explanations and reasonings and excuses." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 26 May 1929 ) × "This physical mind is usually in a kind of alliance with the... when the lower vital manifests certain desires and impulses, the more material mind comes to its aid and justifies and supports them with specious explanations and reasonings and excuses." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 26 May 1929 ) ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  23 September 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 23 September 1953 "Each spot of the body is symbolical of an inner movement; there is there a world of subtle correspondences. But this is a long and complex subject and we cannot enter into its details just now. The particular place in the body affected by an illness is an index to the nature of the inner disharmony... unreceptive, open that part and put the force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed and the illness would immediately go." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 16 June 1929 ) Why is "each spot of the body symbolical of an inner movement"? Because the whole physical world is the symbol of universal movements. So our body is the... earth.... That will come out somewhere one day. 3 Page 276 × The one who put the questions in Questions and Answers 1929-1931 . × "What you say about the "Evil Persona" interests me greatly as it answers to ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  10 June 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 10 June 1953 "Attacks from adverse forces are inevitable: you have to take them as tests on your way and go courageously through the ordeal. The struggle may be hard, but when you come out of it, you have gained something, you have advanced a step. There is even a necessity for the existence of the hostile forces. They... you which answers to them, their intervention is perfectly legitimate. If nothing in you responded, if they had no hold upon any part of your nature, they would retire and leave you." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 5 May 1929 ) Sometimes when an adverse force attacks us and we come out successful, why are we attacked once again by the same force? Because something was left inside.... and therefore false. A power has the right movement when it is set into activity for the Divine purpose; it has the wrong movement when it is set into activity for its own satisfaction." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 5 May 1929 ) When a part of the being steps beyond its sphere, why does it get deformed and perverted? I use the word "sphere" in the sense of the place and the role one ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  3 June 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 3 June 1953 "Freedom and fatality, liberty and determinism are truths that obtain on different levels of consciousness." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 28 April 1929 ) What are these different levels of consciousness? But I have explained it later on. All that follows is the explanation. I have already... and initiative. These things in him are Her pragmatic tools or devices and it is through this machinery that the movements and issues planned and foreseen elsewhere are realised here." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 28 April 1929 ) These "things in him", that is in the individual, are: the sense of freedom, independence and initiative. You know what independence is? It is precisely the freedom ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  25 March 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 25 March 1953 You have said: "You must be vigilant and see that you do not use the Divine as a cloak for the satisfaction of your desires." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 14 April 1929 ) Many people accept certain theories, some of which are very convenient, and they say, "Everything is the result of the... many people like that. Therefore I said, "Do not use the Divine as a pretty cloak to hide your desires." "The question is to be sincere. If you are not sincere, do not begin Yoga." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 14 April 1929 ) Sincerity is perhaps the most difficult of all things and perhaps it is also the most effective. If you have perfect sincerity, you are sure of victory. It ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  15 April 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 15 April 1953 You have written: "Do not try to pull at the forces of the Divine." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 14 April 1929 ) Can one pull the divine forces by violence? Yes, if you call very strongly, if you aspire very strongly, you may pull down a large number of forces into you, but you will... they are wicked; they become as though unconscious. They end up by not knowing anything at all any longer. What is it that you call "the basis of equanimity in the external being"? Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 14 April 1929 ) It is good health, a solid body, well poised; when one does not have the nerves of a little girl that are shaken by the least thing; when one sleeps well, eats ...

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The Psychic Being  >  Guidance through Organisation of Life

... the least sincere, you say: "Ah! It wasn't I who was right—it was Nature or the divine Grace or my psychic being who did it." It is the psychic being which organised that. The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 16 December 1953 If you have within you a psychic being sufficiently awake to watch over you, to prepare your path, it can draw towards you things which help you, draw people, books... taken this decision, once you have decided to find the truth of your being, once you start sincerely on the road, then everything seems to conspire to help you to advance. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 29 March 1951 When someone is destined for the Path, all circumstances through all the deviations of mind and life help in one way or another to lead him to it. It is his... ignorance is replaced by mind of light one could not follow the true path, and that this was the indispensable preparation before any integral transformation could take place. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 29 June 1955 ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Universal Vital Force

... narrowness. It happens because one is shut up in limits, and so there is, as Sri Aurobindo writes here, a force which presses too strongly for these limits—it upsets everything. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 4 May 1955 On what do our physical reserves depend, Mother? Physical reserves? You mean the reserve of energy? Yes. It depends on the capacity to receive the universal... into contemplation and aspire for a higher life and call down the forces from above, this recuperates your energies more than anything else. But there are numerous methods. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 2 March 1955 Sweet Mother, do the universal vital forces have any limits? I don’t think that forces have a limit, because in comparison with us they are certainly unlimited.... forces and afterwards, being satisfied with having received them you let yourself fall into all the ordinary movements, well, you close the door and the force no longer returns. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 4 May 1955 ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  24 February 1951

... February Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 24 February 1951 The other day I said that most of the time people do not have their psychic being within them. I would like to explain this in greater detail.... You must remember that the inner beings are not in the third dimension. If you open up your body you will find only the viscera of the body which... has an individuality, a personality. Mother reads a question asked during her talk in 1929: "Do many remember that they have passed over [to the other side] and are back again?" Questions and Answers 1929 ( 28 April ) I was seriously ill, unconscious for two hours, and I had the impression that I had gone over to the other side, that I was in a different world. When I came back to myself... realisation; to come to that, one must have attained to a permanent consciousness within us which is everlasting and holds together all our existences in past or present or future time." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 28 April ) You must always distrust people who go rambling in some kind of mental or vital domain, and then tell you stories imagining that they remember their past lives. You know ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  31 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 31 March 1951 Mother reads a question asked during her talk in 1929: "Can all physical ailments be traced to some disorder in the mind?" Questions and Answers 1929 ( 16 June ) If there is one mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses, it is fear. But, each man can make his own experiment... unreceptive, open that part and put the force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed and the illness would immediately go." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 16 June ) Page 263 Will you explain how each part of the body is symbolical of an inner movement? In the ancient schools of initiation there was the practice of saying ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  5 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 5 March 1951 Mother reads a passage about natural calamities ( Questions and Answers 1929 , 5 May ). Why do disasters occur? Because a higher consciousness wants to manifest itself in the world, and man and Nature resist it. This is partly true. But I don't think Nature has this feeling. When there... would not be very generous! However... "...Philosophy has always failed to unveil the secret of things; it is because it has tried to fit the universe into the size of the human mind." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 5 May ) "To fit the universe into the size of the human mind", this is precisely what everybody does. And not only do they judge the universe, but they judge the divine principles ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  8 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 8 March 1951 "The true remembrance of past births may indeed be part of an integral knowledge; but it cannot be got by that way of imaginative fancies. If it is on one side an objective knowledge, on the other it depends largely on personal and subjective experience, and here there is much chance of invention... free from any mental interference or any vital interference, liberated from your personal notions and feelings and from your mind's habit of interpreting or explaining in its own way." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 5 May ) What should be done to get rid of mental intervention? The mind must learn to be silent—remain calm, attentive, without making a noise. If you try to silence your mind... are not necessarily united with a being of the higher planes. Then Mother passes on to another question, that of "possession" or the embodiment on earth of beings of the vital world (See Questions and Answers 1929 , 12 May ). Have these vital beings a psychic being? No, I said that the first thing they have to do to incarnate is to drive away the psychic being of the person whom they possess ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  19 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 19 March 1951 "Mind is one movement, but there are many varieties of the movement, many strata, that touch and even press into each other. At the same time the movement we call mind penetrates into other planes... Now, there are mental planes that stand high above the vital world and escape its influence;... influence; there are no hostile forces or beings there. But there are others—and they are many—that can be touched or penetrated by the vital forces." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 26 May ) Which mental plane are you speaking of? Of the physical mind. Certainly not of the higher mind, for there are no adverse forces there. The reference is to the mind that deals with material things. Are there... because there no separation divides mind from mind. It is only when you unite in that region with others that you can understand them; otherwise you are not attuned, you do not touch...." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 26 May ) It is only in the silence that one can understand. It often happens that two persons speak about a certain subject and all of a sudden, for some reason, both fall silent ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  12 February 1951

... February Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 12 February 1951 "Some persons ask: 'Why has not the Divine come yet?' Because you are not ready. If a little drop makes you sing and dance and scream, what would happen if the whole thing came down? "Therefore do we say to people who have not a strong and firm and capacious basis in the body and... possess the necessary basis and foundation, we say, on the contrary, 'Aspire and draw.' For they would be able to receive and yet not be upset by the forces descending from the Divine." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 14 April ) Why does the divine force upset people? Because it is too strong for them. It is as though you were in the midst of a big cyclone. It happens at times that the wind... turn to the Divine it happens that every material prop or everything they Page 100 are fond of is removed from their life. And if they love someone he also is taken away." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 14 April ) We enter here into a big problem.... The notion of what is good for a being and what isn't is not the same to his evolved consciousness as to the divine consciousness. ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  17 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 17 April 1951 "The spiritual life reveals the one essence in all, but reveals too its infinite diversity; it works for diversity in oneness and for perfection in that diversity." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 4 August ) This is the very motive of the creation of the universe, that is to say, all are... they pass from one person to another. Men do not generate desire in themselves, but are invaded by these waves; whoever is open and without defence is caught in them and tossed about." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 4 August ) Can the protective envelope also feel the waves of desire, the impulsions from others, etc.? You mean whether the protective envelope of which I spoke from a physical ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  14 May 1951

... May Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 14 May 1951 "Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that is the supramental—the reign of Truth, the expression of the Divine Law. In the Supermind, therefore, chance has no place. But in the lower Nature, the supreme Truth is obscured: hence there is an absence... domain of the lower Nature is governed by what we may call chance—that is to say, it is a field in which various conflicting forces intermix, having no single definite aim." "Chance" , Questions and Answers 1929-31 If chance is the expression of disorder in the lower worlds, still there are "happy" chances which are not necessarily the expression of a disorder, aren't there? Happy for... which aims at a fixed goal? You have found that all by yourself! You have said in the same talk: "Peace has been given to you several times and often you lost it...." "Chance" , Questions and Answers 1929-31 Yes, how many times has peace been given to you and how many times have you lost it? Innumerable times, I have said. Divine peace, not only ordinary peace (because, for ordinary ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  Note on the Text

... Education between 1957 and 1963. In 1973 a new English translation of all the conversations was brought out as a book entitled Questions and Answers 1957 & 1958 . The same book, with minor revisions of the translation, was published in 1977 under the title Questions and Answers 1957–58 as Volume 9 of the Collected Works of the Mother (first edition). The present volume, which is part of the second edition... Questions and Answers (1957-1958) Note on the Text These conversations of 1957 and 1958 were spoken by the Mother in French and appear here in English translation. All of them were tape-recorded. Passages from some of these conversations were published in the French original with an English translation in issues of the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  12: Sri Aurobindo’s Descent into Death

... Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , SABCL 25 pp. 35-36. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954 , CWM 6 pp. 291 ff. × The Mother, Words of the Mother I, CWM 13 p. 365. ... Quoted in Nirodbaran, Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo , pp. 162-63. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956 , CWM 8 pp. 30-31. × The Mother, Words of the Mother I, CWM 13 p. 360. ... × Id., p. 143. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1957-58 , CWM 9 p. 190. × Id., p. 191. ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  Sadhana through Meditation

... comes and knocks at the door... they immediately get furious and say: There, my meditation is spoilt! Completely spoilt.'... Naturally this is not a sign of great spiritual progress." (Questions and Answers 1953, M C W, Vol. 5, p. 42) Well, all these are counterfeit 'meditations'. But it cannot be gainsaid that there are genuine meditations of great spiritual value and among people who... that first of all it is necessary to take the reverse path, the way of interiorisation and of withdrawal from life, in order to find within oneself this Truth which has to be expressed." (Questions and Answers 1955, M C W, Vol. 7, p. 355) The Mother further added: "That is, the first movement is a withdrawal of the consciousness from... [the] total identification with outward and apparent... "Whether you sit down to meditation or go about and do things and work, what is required of you is consciousness; that is the one need, — to be constantly conscious of the Divine.'' {Questions and answers, M C W, Vol. 3, p. 20) Such being our real objective, meditation can be for us only a means — a potent means at that — to acquire this state of constant and unfailing concentration ...

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Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny  >  The Deficiencies

... we must be a collectivity, and then speak to you about the different conditions required for being a collectivity. But last night (smiling) I had a symbolic vision of our collectivity." (Questions and Answers 1957-58, p. 137) The Mother mentioned that she had this vision in the early part of the night, and then remarked: "it made me wake up with a rather unpleasant impression." All Ashramites... perusal of the piece will help us be aware of our individual roles and responsibilities in the matter. (The Mother's discourse is printed on pages 137 to 142 of Page 29 her Questions and Answers 1957-58, CWM Vol. 9.) The Mother had a symbolic vision of our Ashram and she saw that "all the possibilities are there, all activities are there, but in disorder and confusion. They... they come, and sometimes, if some aspiration arises and one meets a difficulty in oneself, one says, 'Oh, Mother is there, she will manage this for me', and then thinks of something else!" (Questions and Answers 1954, p. 296) The Mother continues with her scolding: "I am even astonished that you don't feel an intense need for it: 'How can one know?' For you know - you have been told, told repeatedly ...

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On The Mother  >  Ministry of Words

... from the mass of mankind. And so, without more ado, the Mother concluded: I am not a poet, I am content with doing. I would rather act than speak. 16 V The Mother's weekly Questions and Answers sessions in the Playground were to go on throughout 1956 and till November 1958, after which they had to be discontinued. Once on 3 October 1956, the Mother made a distinction between her... of the sophisticated mentalised style of the practised teacher or preacher, but rather the native tremors and the primordial rhythms of the Spirit. Again, although these were known as Questions and Answers sessions, they followed no rigid rules. A passage was read out from Sri Aurobindo's or the Mother's writings and commented on, and questions arising out of it were answered: this was the normal... that marvellous ministry of words, that dialectic of doubt and faith or of the present and the future, the human and divine? Prosaic assessment is out of place. Even the transcripts of the Questions and Answers - whether in the original French or in English translation - are but shadows. What, then, is the deeper truth about that golden ministry of words by the Mother who was herself the Rose of God ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2  >  Sri Aurobindo the Poet-Jeweller

... place of pride. The English poets may not have treated these metals and stones seriously as portents of good or evil. However, they did feel a sense of awe before these gems. 1 Questions and Answers , CWM, Vol. 6, p. 229. Shakespeare depicts Antony's immese love for Cleopatra through the gift of a single orient pearl and the Roman promises that at whose foot, To... of suggestions. The first point that strikes us is 43 Ibid ., p. 723. 44 Ibid ., p. 721 45 Letter on Yoga , SABCL, Vol. 23, p. 960. 46 Ibid , p. 970. 47 Questions and Answers , CWM, Vol, 5, p. 229. Page 499 preciousness of forests as a refuge for hermits from the world outside and as a provider for their needs. They have also provided a spiritual... unconscious chance. 88 82 Ibid ., p. 277. 83 Ibid ., p. 390. 84 Ibid , p. 423. 85 Ibid , p. 639. 86 Ibid ., p. 687. 87 Letters On Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 23, p. 982. 88 Questions and Answers, CWM, Vol. 9, p. 323. Page 508 Pearls, especially the natural ones, remind us of the oyster's pain and the effort to transmute that suffering into a treasure. Therefore ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  7: In Japan

... Nirodbaran, Talks With Sri Aurobindo I, p. 112. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956, CWM 8 p. 186. × The Mother, Words of Long Ago, CWM 2 p. 143 ff. ... Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, SABCL 26 p. 126. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM 4 p. 308. × Sri Aurobindo Circle, n° 34, pp. 119 ff. ... × Id., p. 399. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51 , CWM 4 p. 306. × The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, p. 351. ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  8 February 1951

... February Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 8 February 1951 "The outer being is like a crust. In ordinary people the crust is so hard and thick that they are not conscious of the Divine within them. If once, even for a moment only, the inner being has said, 'I am here and I am yours', then it is as though a bridge has been built and little by little... little the crust becomes thinner and thinner until the two parts are wholly joined and the inner and the outer become one." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 14 April ) Have you ever thought of unifying your being? Have you been disturbed, sometimes, to see that now you are one person, at other times another, at one time you want to do one thing, at another time you cannot do it, that you find yourself... The disciples wondered. But all of a sudden the Master jumped up and rushed out screaming and crying, 'Nevermore shall I have a disciple, nevermore! Woe is me! I have betrayed my God.'" Questions and Answers 1929 ( 14 April ) This is a temptation that every teacher meets at each step, for the very simple reason that ordinary humanity, in a general way, not being in personal contact with the ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Appendix to Questions and Answers 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Appendix to Questions and Answers 1929 The Mother asks: "What do you want the Yoga for? To get power?" 1 Does "power" here mean the power to communicate one's own experience to others? What does it precisely mean? Power is a general term—it is not confined to a power to communicate. The most usual form... because it becomes a strong obstacle to the smooth and rapid progress towards the goal. Page 311 × Questions and Answers 1929 , Page 1 . The page number in this and the following footnotes refers to the present volume × ... Page 25 . × See Entretiens 1929 , the French translation of Questions and Answers 1929. The original English ( page 25 of the present volume) is: "And as for those who have the will of running away, even they when they go over to the other side, may find the flight was ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  5 February 1951

... February Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 5 February 1951 Mother reads the beginning of the talk of 14 April. Having spoken of the dangers of Yoga ("If you cannot get rid of ambition, do not touch the thing. It is fire that burns."), Mother speaks of the two methods of Yoga: "There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasyā (discipline) and the... the other of surrender." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 14 April ) What is surrender? It means that one gives oneself entirely to the Divine. Yes, and then what happens? If you give yourself entirely to the Divine, it is He who does the Yoga, it is no longer you; hence this is not very difficult; while if you do tapasya, it is you yourself who do the yoga and you carry its whole respon... thing [the sex impulse] to disassociate from it, take as little notice of Page 72 it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, to remain indifferent and unconcerned." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 14 April ) This is much more difficult than to sit upon a difficulty! It is much more difficult to stand back from the difficulty, to look at it as something which does not concern ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  14 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 14 March 1951 "When you come to the Divine, you must abandon all mental conceptions; but, instead of doing that, you throw your conceptions upon the Divine and want the Divine to obey them. The only true attitude for a Yogi is to be plastic and ready to obey the Divine command whatever it may be...." ... Questions and Answers 1929 ( 19 May ) What is "plasticity"? That which can easily change its form is "plastic". Figuratively, it is suppleness, a capacity of adaptation to circumstances and necessities. When I ask you to be plastic in relation to the Divine, I mean not to resist the Divine with the rigidity of preconceived ideas and fixed principles. I knew a man who declared: "I am wholly... selfish turning back upon yourself that cuts you off from the light and divine energy and gives the attack this advantage. It is this that is the cause of your falling ill and not microbes." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 19 May ) One thing that is now beginning to be recognised by everyone, even by the medical corps, is that hygienic measures, for example, are effective only to the extent that one ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  1 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 1 March 1951 "There is a plane of divine consciousness in which all is known absolutely, and the whole plan of things foreseen and predetermined. That way of seeing lives in the highest reaches of the Supramental; it is the Supreme's own vision. But when we do not possess that consciousness, it is useless... accept another; we can follow one path, turn away from another. And that we can do, even though what is actually happening may have been foreseen and predetermined in a higher plane." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 28 April ) The word "predetermined" does not correspond to the reality; the word "pre-existent" would be more correct. The consciousness of an unfolding has a reality, it is not only... plane what is foreordained in her own supreme self, she moves here upon earth as if she did not know the whole story; she works as if it was a new and untried thread that she was weaving." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 28 April ) If you undertake a work and are told beforehand that all will be useless and you will not be able to do what you want, would you do it? No, surely not! Well, it is something ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  26 February 1951

... February Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 26 February 1951 Mother reads a question asked during her talk in 1929: "In the initial stages of Yoga, is it well for the Sadhaka to read ordinary books?" Questions and Answers 1929 ( 28 April ) It is a question I have been asked many times. If someone can tell me the effect on him of the... by the appearance, physical or moral or aesthetic... you can reach beauty and delight even through what affects the ordinary sense only as something ugly, poor, painful or discordant." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 28 April ) The state of consciousness of which I speak here is very difficult to attain; it is a discipline which needs years and it is a realisation which is not within everybody's... mind imagines. But is there any need to explain after all? The whole universe explains everything at every moment and a particular thing happens because the whole universe is what it is." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 28 April ) The whole universe explains each thing at each moment. That is very important. If one wants to learn a language, is it not necessary to read ordinary books like those ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Mental

... up of different states of being which have their own independent life, one can’t have a complete control over one’s being. There will always be something that escapes you. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 8 September 1954 … the true role of the mind is the formation and organisation of action. The mind has a formative and organising power, and it is that which puts the different... its own satisfaction. These are the two uses of the mind: it is a controlling force, an instrument of control, and it is a power of organisation. That is its true place. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 20 June 1956 Is reason the highest function of the mind? Of the mind properly speaking, of the human mind, yes, certainly. That is, with the reason one doesn’t risk making... which is sufficiently developed to be able to put something upon it that will make it understand. All depends on the degree of development of the individual’s consciousness. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 25 May 1955 “Late, I learned that when reason died then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.” Once again I must repeat that the form of these Aphorisms ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Physical

... in one’s envelope, a few minutes’ concentration, a call to the force, an inner peace is sufficient for it to be all right, get cured, and for the untoward thing to vanish. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 27 January 1951 All illnesses pass through the nervous or vital-physical sheath of the subtle consciousness and subtle body before they enter the physical. If one is conscious... I mean that you must watch all the more attentively, be all the more on your guard, not allow, precisely, this inattentiveness, this slackening of consciousness to come in. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 2 April 1951 The body… has its own consciousness and acts from it, even without any conscious mental will of our own or even against that will, and our surface mind knows... do what is necessary to set itself right again. The body in its natural state likes equilibrium, likes harmony; it is the other parts of the being which spoil everything. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 19 May 1954 How should we come out of the physical consciousness which keeps us preoccupied all the time and exclusively with physical circumstances? There is a considerable ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Our Manifold Being

... whether animals had a consciousness; so they began to scratch their heads and said, “Perhaps it is we who put our consciousness in the animal when we look at it,” like that… The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 9 February 1955 It is part of the foundation of Yoga to become conscious of the great complexity of our nature, see the different forces that move it and get over it a control of... it is to organise one’s being; because when you have about a dozen elements, you can quickly compass and organise them, but when you have thousands of them, it is difficult. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 22 June 1955 Men do not know themselves and have not learned to distinguish the different parts of their being; for these are usually lumped together by them as mind, because it... indeed yours is a glorious walk towards transformation, for you no longer go from darkness to knowledge but from knowledge to knowledge, light to light, happiness to happiness…. The Mother Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Surrender, Self-offering and Consecration An “entity” is a personality or an individuality. There are many such “personalities” in each one of us. If these personalities ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  7 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 7 April 1951 Mother reads a question put to her in 1929 by an English disciple: "If the Divine that is all love is the source of the creation, whence have come all the evils that abound upon earth?" Questions and Answers 1929 ( 30 June ) Whence come the evils?... Who is going to answer me? A ... benignant and some have shaped things mischievous and evil. And some too have been distorters rather than builders, for they have interfered and spoiled what was begun well by others." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 30 June ) I would not reply in this way now, it is an altogether "administrative" answer! It is thus that governments always reply; they say, "It is not I who am responsible, it is... disharmonious and obscure; but that is only an accident, a false start. One day it will become beautiful, rhythmic, full of light; for that is the consummation for which it was made." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 30 June ) This lady had definitely an altogether Chaldean idea of God, who from nothing made a world (which is badly made, I admit it; if it has been made like that, it was truly ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  22 July 1953

... is there. Page 186 × Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 19 May 1929 ) × Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 19 May 1929 ). ... Questions and Answers (1953) 22 July 1953 "There are two factors that have to be considered in the matter [the causes of illness]. There is what comes from outside and there is what comes from your inner condition. Your inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is a resistance or revolt in it or when there is some part in you that does... calls in the adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you and their attack takes often the form of illness." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 19 May 1929 ) "Some part in you that does not respond to the protection." What does this mean, Mother? I have already explained it to you. What is it that you do not understand ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  30 September 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 30 September 1953 "There is a plane in the mind where the memory of everything is stored and remains always in existence. All mental movements that belong to the life of the earth are memorised and registered in this plane. Those who are capable of going there and care to take the trouble, can read in it and learn anything... body. Then only can you enter into that region and see. But if you are sufficiently interested to make this effort, you can arrive there and read what is written in the earth's memory." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 23 June 1929 ) You have said that in order to go to the place where all mental movements belonging to earthly life are recorded and preserved, one must silence the movements... to answer, is a foolish idea. It is as inept as the expectation from the spiritual man of feats and miracles that would satisfy the vulgar external mind and leave it gaping with wonder." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 23 June 1929 ) × "Men are too easily inclined to believe that they have climbed ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  28 October 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 28 October 1953 "True art is a whole and an ensemble; it is one and of one piece with life. You see something of this intimate wholeness in ancient Greece and ancient Egypt; for there pictures and statues and all objects of art were made and arranged as part of the architectural plan of a building, each detail a portion... itself blends marvellously with the surrounding nature. In India, too, painting and sculpture and architecture were one integral beauty, one single movement of adoration of the Divine." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 28 July 1929 ) Mother, I did not understand what you have said: "True art is a whole and an ensemble; it is one and of one piece with life." What I have said? Nothing else... on how it is used, on what is behind it. There is nothing that cannot be used for the Divine purpose—just as anything can pretend to be the Divine and yet be of the mushroom species." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 28 July 1929 ) What do you mean by "mushroom species"? Don't you know what a mushroom is? how mushrooms grow? Mushrooms spring up anywhere and seem not to belong to any ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Outside Suggestions and Vibrations

... back to Sri Aurobindo’s sentence: if this control seems to you quite impossible today, well, that means that not only will it be possible, but that it will be realised later. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 12 December 1956 You said that our body can become receptive to forces which are concentrated in certain places or in certain countries. 7 But can we have this physical sensation... something which gives you a very precise impression of the difference of quality. And it is very precise, as distinct as seeing black and white, it is truly a sense perception. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 19 March 1951 One lives amidst constant collective suggestions, constantly; for example, I don’t know if you have been present at funerals, or if you have been in a house... with a little wider range, well, we would see that there is something which comes out, as something comes out from other bodies—and that all this gets mixed up and interacts. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 8 February 1956 Are you able to know, when you are with others, what comes from you and what from the others? To what extent their way of being, their particular vibrations act ...

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Some Answers from the Mother  >  Letters to a Young Captain (1961-1970)

... avoided. × Questions and Answers 1929-1931 , CWM, Vol. 3, p. 128 . × Questions and Answers 1929-1931 , CWM, Vol. 3, p. 133 . × ... distrust never thy experience." Thoughts and Aphorisms , in SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 89 . × Questions and Answers 1929-1931 , CWM, Vol. 3, p. 128 . × Sri Aurobindo sent a special messenger to Delhi advising... × Words of Long Ago , CWM, Vol. 2, p. 50 . × Questions and Answers 1929-1931 , CWM, Vol. 3, p. 79 . × Words of the Mother - II , CWM, Vol. 14, p. 84 . ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  Eleven Basic Attitudes

... shadow of a fear. To walk on the path, one must be dauntless, Page 11 and never indulge in that petty, small, feeble, nasty shrinking back upon oneself, which is fear." (Questions and Answers 1956, M C W Vol. 8, p. 261) After dauntless courage, which has to be clearly distinguished from a spirit of haughty rashness, come the virtues of patience and persistence which stand... Mother: Page 14 "...the hours, circumstances, life pass in vain, bringing nothing, and you awake from your somnolence in a hole from which it is very difficult to escape." (Questions and Answers, M C W Vol. 3, p. 203) So every sadhaka of the Integral Yoga has to resolve from the very first day of his sadhana that he will resolutely and thoroughly put into living practice the... action, immediately you take the resolve not to indulge it in any way, not even for once, not even for this time alone. Otherwise you will never realise your goal." (Based on pp. 212-14 of Questions and Answers 1953) (11) Not to Forget the Goal We now come to one of the most vicious vices which has not only endangered but completely destroyed the spiritual life of many a sadhaka ...

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Mysteries of Death, Fate, Karma and Rebirth  >  The Fear of Death and the Ways of Conquering it

... will be sufficient to remember what Krishna has said in the Gita: "I am both in the form of death and in the form of immortality. It is I who manifests himself as death." In her books Questions and Answers 1929 (CWM, Vol. 3, p. 37) and On Thoughts and Aphorisms (CWM, Vol. 10, p. 168), the Mother has explained how the presence of periodic death helps in Page 14 the attainment... nothing dramatic about them. They seem to me more and more like soap-bubbles.... I have known suffering also, but there was always a part of myself which knew how to stand behind, apart." (Questions and Answers 1957-58, p. 282) (2)"... when something extremely unpleasant happens to you, you may tell yourself, 'Well, this proves I am worth the trouble of being given this difficulty, this proves... difficulty', and you will notice that instead of tormenting yourself, you rejoice - you will be so happy and so strong that even the most unpleasant things will seem to you quite charming." (Questions and Answers 1951, pp. 354-55) Fifth Factor - But even this assurance from the Mother will not shield us from feeling a dreadful anxiety about death. For there are other psychological factors ...

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Mother or The New Species - II  >  22. The New Perception

... proofs from the reprint of an old edition of her Questions and Answers from the year 1930, page 229. So I corrected page 229, closed the envelope and sent it back to the press. Then I resumed reading the Agenda, the year 1968: on the first page I opened that morning, Mother was commenting on that very conversation, p. 229 of her Questions and Answers.... By what "chance" did all these years of the... the Agenda, perhaps around page 4000, happen to coincide with that page 229 of an old Questions and Answers, and with what chronometric complicity of the printers, the proofreaders, the delivery boys? The year 1930 of Mother's Questions and Answers had intersected the year 1968 of her Agenda through a singular journey through time, space, printers and typists as if they were on the same web ...

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Patterns of the Present  >  4: Reason on Trial

... Michel Winock: Chronique des années soixante , p. 62. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , p. 101. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , p. 102. ... Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , pp. 129-30. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1929-31 , pp. 50-51. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 418. ... Nirodbaran: Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo , pp. 357, 358 and 362. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1950-51 , p. 335. × Nirodbaran: op.cit. p. 325. ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  11: The Mother’s War

... × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954, CWM 6 p. 296. × Id., pp. 339-40. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953 , CWM 5 pp. 286, 288. ... Nirodbaran, Talks With Sri Aurobindo III, p. 127. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953 , CWM 5 pp. 378-79. × Nirodbaran, Talks With Sri Aurobindo I, p. 306. ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  3: Explorations of the Occult

... × Id., p. 652. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954 , CWM 6 p. 38. × Id., p. 190. ... Sujata Nahar, The Mother’s Chronicles III, pp. 166-67. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954, CWM 6 p. 55 ff. × Ibid. ... Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , SABCL 25 p. 372. × See The Mother, Questions and Answers 1957-58 , CWM 9 p. 60. × Id., pp. 61-63. ...

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The Mother - Past-Present-Future  >  November 17, 1974

... all this is perhaps even more important. The Mother affirms: "But once it was done (Sri Aurobindo has said 1 Bulletin, August 1967, p. 71. All our excerpts from the Bulletin or Questions and Answers are taken from our fellow-disciple's own selection from the Mother's talks. 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid., February 1968, p. 57. 4 Ibid. Page 56 that), once... "...yesterday, or the day before, I do not know, all of a sudden the body said: 'No! It is finished— I want life, I want nothing else.' And then things are getting better since." From Questions and Answers of 1956, 3 the year of the Supermind's Manifestation in the subtle-physical, we may cull: "What Sri Aurobindo promised and what naturally interests us, we who are here now, is that the time... longer to be animal-men but become supermen." Note the phrases: "Sri Aurobindo promised"—"We who are here now"—"The time has come"—"will be able to transform their bodies." Finally, from Questions and Answers '57-58, 4 we have the Mother's assurance that "This was certainly what he expected of us, what he conceived of as the superman... I think—I know— that it is now certain that we shall realise ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  10 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 10 March 1951 "The power of money is at present under the influence or in the hands of the forces and beings of the vital world. It is because of this influence that you never see money going in any considerable amount to the cause of Truth. Always it goes astray, because it is in the clutch of the hostile... out of this compact organisation is a most difficult task. Each time that you try to draw a little of this money away from its present custodians, you have to undertake a fierce battle." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 12 May ) It is often said in fairy tales that a treasure is guarded by serpents. Is this true? Yes, but it is not a physical serpent, it is a vital serpent. The key to the treasures... vital world. And what is the first thing you try to do when you are in the grip of a night-mare? You rush back into your body and shake yourself into your normal physical consciousness." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 12 May ) What becomes of the vital being after death? It is dissolved. Rarely does it happen otherwise. But if you have had a very strong passion, if you were divided by fixed ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  12 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 12 March 1951 In the vital world, forces exist: do mental forms exist in the mental world? Yes, there is a concrete mental world and there are mental forms which do not resemble vital forces but have their own law. There are many, innumerable mental forms. They are almost indestructible; one can only... book is what you have already experienced deep within you.... The knowledge that seems to come to you from outside is only an occasion for bringing out the knowledge that is within you." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 19 May ) Why are certain subjects so very difficult? That is due to many things—to the formation of the brain, to atavism, to the early years of education, particularly to atavism... quite the contrary of its sense. If you want to understand truly and avoid this kind of error, you must go behind the sound and the movement of the words and learn to listen in silence." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 19 May ) How can one learn to listen in silence? It is a matter of attention. If you concentrate your attention on what is being said, with the will to understand it correctly ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  22 February 1951

... February Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 22 February 1951 "Yoga means union with the Divine, and the union is effected through offering—it is founded on the offering of yourself to the Divine." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 28 April ) What is the difference between surrender and offering? The two words are almost synonymous: "I make... even the smallest thing to which you do not usually pay much attention or care, ceases to be trivial and insignificant; it becomes full of meaning and it opens up a vast horizon beyond." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 28 April ) Because the least detail of life and action, each movement of thought, even of sensation, of feeling, which is normally of little importance, becomes different the moment ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  14 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 14 April 1951 Mother reads a question asked during her talk in 1929: "Is not surrender the same as sacrifice?" Questions and Answers 1929 ( 4 August ) Who is going to answer? What is the difference? Surrender comes spontaneously. I congratulate those whose surrender is spontaneous! It... sacrifice is not fulfilment; it is a deprivation, a self-immolation.... When you do anything with the sense of a compression of your being, be sure that you are doing it in the wrong way." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 4 August ) Why does sacrifice have such a great value in religion? Many religions are founded upon the idea of sacrifice; for instance, all the Chaldean religions. The reforms ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  29 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 29 March 1951 "The articles and dogmas of a religion are mind-made things and, if you cling to them and shut yourself up in a code of life made out for you, you do not know and cannot know the truth of the spirit that lies beyond all codes and dogmas, wide and large and free.... "In every religion there... found there and lived there the same spiritual life. It is their own capacity, it is some power of their inner being and not the religion they profess that has made them what they are." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 9 June ) Are all religions mental constructions? All religions were perhaps not that in their beginning, but they have certainly become that with time. What is the "Little... you want to be sure of your religion, you must choose it; if you want to be sure of your country, you must choose it; if you want to be sure of your family, even that you must choose." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 9 June ) What does "choose one's family" mean? You have come into the world in a certain milieu, among certain people. When you are quite young, but for a few rare exceptions ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  29 April 1953

... force, the same power, but the images made of it are different in different faiths." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 21 April 1929 ) And then? You are not very talkative today! Is that all? You say that "each person has his own world of dream-imagery peculiar to himself." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 21 April 1929 ) Each individual has his own way of expressing, thinking... Questions and Answers (1953) 29 April 1953 Sweet Mother, you have said that one can exercise one's conscious will and change the course of one's dreams. Ah, yes, I have already told you that once. If you are in the middle of a dream and something happens which you don't like (for instance, somebody shouts that he wants to kill you), you say: ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  1 April 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 1 April 1953 "Ambition has been the undoing of many Yogis. That canker can hide long. Many people start on the Path without any sense of it. But when they get powers, their ambition rises up, all the more violently because it had not been thrown out in the beginning." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 14 April... note of it also. It is this I call the canker. It eats up all that is inside and leaves the appearance intact. You say that it is necessary to establish "homogeneity in our being"? Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 14 April 1929 ) Don't you know what a homogeneous thing is, made up of all similar parts? That means the whole being must be under the same influence, same consciousness, same ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  14 October 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 14 October 1953 Q. "If the Divine that is all love is the source of the creation, whence have come all the evils abounding upon earth?" "All is from the Divine; but the One Consciousness, the Supreme has not created the world directly out of itself; a Power has gone out of it and has descended through many gradations... benignant and some have shaped things mischievous and evil. And some too have been distorters rather than builders, for they have interfered and spoiled what was begun well by others." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 30 June 1929 ) You say, "Many creators or rather 'formateurs', form-makers, have presided over the creation of the world." Who are these 'formateurs'? That depends. They... "When one takes up the human body, one accepts along with it a mass of these general suggestions, race ideas, race feelings of mankind, associations, attractions, repulsions, fears." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 30 June 1929 ) When one takes up a human body, is it necessary to accept suggestions of fear? It seems more inevitable than necessary!... One doesn't even perceive that ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  13 May 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 13 May 1953 "There are some who, when they are sitting in meditation, get into a state which they think very fine and delightful." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 21 April 1929 ) What is this state? Whatever it may be, they think their state is delightful and remarkable. They have a very high opinion... personal pretensions in opposition to the Divine. You have said: "If you surrender you have to give up effort, but that does not mean that you have to abandon also all willed action." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 21 April 1929 ) But if one wants to do something, it means personal Page 45 effort, doesn't it? What then is the will? There is a difference between the will ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  2 September 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 2 September 1953 "All religions have each the same story to tell. The occasion for its birth is the coming of a great Teacher of the world. He comes and reveals and is the incarnation of a Divine Truth. But men seize upon it, trade upon it, make an almost political organisation out of it. The religion is equipped by... dogmas, wide and large and free. When you stop at a religious creed and tie yourself in it, taking it for the only truth in the world, you stop the advance and widening of your inner soul." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 9 June 1929 ) If someone follows a religion and has a good capacity, can he go farther and reach identification with the Divine? Page 244 It is impossible. Religion... necessary for human beings to stand on their legs and move on their way. If the vision of the Truth were suddenly Page 246 given to them they would be crushed under the weight." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 9 June 1929 ) Are men advancing more and more towards the Divine? It is difficult to say. Logically the whole creation must advance more and more towards the Divine, because ...

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Emergence of the Psychic  >  Introduction

... draw towards you things which help you, draw peo- ple, books, circumstances, all sorts of little coincidences which come to you as though brought by some benevo- 5. The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953, Collected Works of the Mother, Vol. 5, pp. 394-95. xxii lent will and give you an indication, a help, a support to take decisions and turn you in the right direction... 6 Contact with the Psychic Contact with the psychic, like the influence of the psychic, is at first unconscious. An unconscious contact with one's 6. The Mother, Questions and Answers '50-'51, Collected Works of the Mother, Vol. 4, p. 140. xxiii psychic being may begin at the moment an infant utters its first cry, but conscious contact with the psychic usually... feeling of immortality, of having always been and being always, eternally" (pp. 61-62). With a definitive contact one has even the memory of one's past lives. 7. The Mother, Questions and Answers 1956, Collected Works of the Mother, Vol. 8, p. 250. xxviii "When you enter into contact with the psychic you be- come conscious of all the lives you have lived, it keeps ...

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The Psychic Being  >  Memory of Past Lives

... life, I have lived it." But if someone comes and narrates to you all his previous lives from the monkey onwards, with a mass of details, you may be sure that he is a humbug! The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 24 February 1951 How is it that in newspapers one quite often reads stories of small children who remember their past lives and that the details have been verified? And... of its consciousness. How many people upon earth have reached that state?... Not many, I believe. And usually they are not in the least inclined to narrate their adventures. The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 6 May 1953 Only when one is consciously identified with one's divine origin, can one in truth speak of a memory of past lives. Sri Aurobindo speaks of the progressive manifestation... which come from previous lives. But, as I was saying, these are "moments" of life. And so one sees, one can see these various moments, but one cannot narrate a whole life. The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 6 May 1953 ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1971  >  April 17, 1971

... we do not take the trouble to find him." ( Questions and Answers , 8.13.1958 ) And again this: "For many, spiritual life is meditation. As long as that nonsense is not uprooted from human consciousness, the supramental force will always find it very difficult not to be swallowed up in the obscurity of an uncomprehending human mind." ( Questions and Answers , 4.17.1957 ) And if you know how to read... is. A single instant, a single impulse of deep and true love, a single minute of deep communion with the divine Grace brings you much closer to the goal than all possible explanations." ( Questions and Answers , 5.14.1958 ) "In the other hemisphere, there is an intensity and a plenitude which result in a power different from the one here. How can I explain it? One cannot. The quality ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  On will-power in Sadhana

... can't!' — that's enough to prevent It from working. "How can you accept the idea that you can't? You don't know — that, yes, you may not know — but once you know, it's finished!" (Questions and Answers 1956, M C W, Vol. 8, pp. 294-95) Yes, there are justifiable reasons why the Mother should scold us for the feebleness of our will; we should be ashamed on that account. But ashamed... oneself all that prevents one from going forward, and to set out into the unknown with the ardent faith that this is the truth of to-morrow, inevitable, which must necessarily come..." {Questions and Answers 1957, p. 158) (v)The sadhaka must build up in his consciousness a strong sense of dignity and self-respect. A note of warning has to be sounded here. The dignity we are referring... friends I can allow myself to forget all about it.' To persist in this attitude means that you will remain untransformed and never have the true union; always you will be divided..." (Questions and Answers , M C W, Vol. 3, p. 24) Let us go back to the point we were discussing. Suppose a particular temptation has come before the sadhaka to test the power of his will: the aspirant is face ...

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Mother or The New Species - II  >  8: The Triple End

... , as false on one side as on the other: the same kind of distortion, one from above and the other from below. How She tried to explain that to them! Those last Questions and Answers at the Playground—eight years of questions and answers—are almost poignant in retrospect: one feels how much She was trying to open a way in those consciousnesses, how She took them all in her encompassing look as though... understood; that is what Mother told me before she left—and there are four and half billion people in the world. The End of Materialism Other means had to be found. It is not through "questions and answers" that the world can be transformed. Somehow, the process had to take place in spite and outside of people's heads, otherwise it was hopeless. And time was pressing. In 1958, She was eighty. ...

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Growing up with the Mother  >  Preface

... correspondence which helped me through my difficulties and failures and through the ups and downs of life, which I would now like to share with my friends and seekers on the path. Most of these questions and answers, in the original French and English translations, have been printed in the Ashram Bulletins and have appeared in different volumes of the Collected Works of The Mother , but are being published... the Group A (Green Group) classes of which I was the captain from the age of 10 1/2, however, has not been incorporated. I hope to bring these out as a separate book in the near future. My questions and answers of the Mother on Thoughts and Aphorisms are also not included here, since these have appeared as a separate book entitled On Thoughts and Aphorisms . While working with the Mother on the... vegetal life which did not find place in the final print of the book Flowers and Their Messages . Hence, these have been incorporated here as a separate chapter on flowers. But the innumerable questions and answers on clarifications of colours of flowers, significances, their translations into English etc., have not been included since it would not make interesting reading for everybody. I owe a deep ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  20 May 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 20 May 1953 You have said: "And as for those who have the will of running away, even they, when they go over to the other side, may find that the flight was not of much use after all." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 28 April 1929 ) What do you call "the other side"? We speak of the other side of the ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  8 July 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 8 July 1953 "The mind is an instrument of action and formation and not an instrument of knowledge; at each moment it is creating forms. Thoughts are forms and have an individual life, independent of their author: sent out from him into the world, they move in it towards the realisation of their own purpose of existence... a form and goes out to find him; and, if your thinking is associated with some will that is behind it, the thought-form that has gone out from you makes an attempt to realise itself." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 19 May 1929 ) Do prayers and aspirations also take a form like thoughts? Yes. At times they take even the form of the person who has the aspiration or makes the prayer—often ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  21 October 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 21 October 1953 When a true artist concentrates and sees the Divine in himself, can he use art to express the Divine? And why not? Whom do you call an artist, first of all? A painter, a sculptor—Is that all? What else? What meaning do you give to the word "artist"? Of whom do you think when you speak of an artist... revoir , my children. Page 330 × The one who asked the question in the conversation of 28 July : see Questions and Answers 1929-1931 . × According to the texts, it seems, flowers fell from the skies after Sita's ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  26 August 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 26 August 1953 "Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine. The material world in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that... possibility of coming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 2 June 1929 ) Where does love come from? Where does love come from? From the Origin of the universe. Besides, I say that there. That's what I say. I say that love is ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  Note on the Text

... Questions and Answers (1954) Note on the Text These talks of 1954 were given by the Mother in French and appear here in translation. All of them were tape-recorded. The talks from January 2 to September 15 were first published in the original French with an English translation in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from April 1973... 1973 to August 1978. In 1979 all the talks were brought out in English under the title Questions and Answers 1954 , as Volume 6 of the Collected Works of the Mother (first edition). In that volume the Bulletin translations were slightly revised and the remaining talks translated for the first time. The present volume has the same text as the first edition of the Collected Works, apart from some minor ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  24 June 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 24 June 1953 "The beings of the vital world are powerful by their very nature; when to their power they add knowledge, they become doubly dangerous. There is nothing to be done with these creatures; you should avoid having any dealings with them unless you have the power to crush and destroy them. If you are forced... hypnotic power; for the centre of their consciousness is in the vital world and not in the material and they are not veiled or dwarfed by the material consciousness as human beings are." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 12 May 1929 ) Mother, you say: "These beings are very powerful"; what kind of power have they? The power that the vital has over Matter. And, in fact, you can do nothing ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  1 July 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 1 July 1953 "The human being is at home and safe in the material body; the body is his protection. There are some who are full of contempt for their bodies and think that things will be much better and easier after death without them. But in fact the body is your fortress and your shelter. While you are lodged in it... that you must acquire a complete knowledge and learn to use a full and complete power. Only when you have done that will you be free to move about with entire security in all the worlds." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 12 May 1929 ) (A child) After death people enter the vital world, but those who do good go to paradise? Where is your paradise? Who has taught you that? They have spoken ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  6 May 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 6 May 1953 "People often meet in these planes, before they meet upon earth. They may join there, speak to each other and have all the relations you can have upon earth. Some know of these relationships, some do not know. Some, as are indeed most, are unconscious of the inner being and the inner intercourse, and yet... yet it happens that when they meet the new face in the outer world, they find it very familiar, quite well known." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 21 April 1929 ) That depends very much upon the level of consciousness in one's inner being. For most people, all that is a mixture in the mental, vital and physical planes; they are not at all conscious of what is happening. Some are conscious and ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  18 March 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 18 March 1953 "We are conscious of only an insignificant portion of our being." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 7 April 1929 ) What are these insignificant parts of our being? Almost all of them. There are very few things which are not insignificant; all your ordinary reactions, ordinary thoughts ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  Note on the Text

... Questions and Answers (1950-1951) Note on the Text The talks in this volume were given between December 1950 and May 1951. The earliest ones were noted down by hand, but most were recorded on a dictating machine and then transcribed. They were first published in an incomplete form in French and English in the quarterly Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International... November 1963 and February 1967. The first complete edition of the original French text was published in 1967 under the title Entretiens 1950 – 51 . A complete English translation, entitled Questions and Answers 1950–51 , was brought out in 1972. That translation, with a few minor revisions, was reprinted in the same year as Volume 4 of the Collected Works of the Mother (first edition). The present ...

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The Psychic Being  >  Evolution and the Psychic

... movement which completes itself. And that is why each individual has the possibility of reaching the utmost realisation, independent of the form to which he momentarily belongs. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 30 October 1957 In the previous stages of the evolution Nature's first care and effort had to be directed towards a change in the physical organisation, for only so could... there is the possibility of the psychic being growing to its full stature even so far as to be able in the end to join and unite with a descending being, a godhead from above. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Psychic Presence and Psychic Being - Real Origin of Race Superiority ...

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The Psychic Being  >  Function of the Psychic

... the psychic without even knowing it. That is why those parts adhere to it and begin to aspire also for the divine knowledge, the divine union, the relation with the Divine. The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 16 December 1953 What is the work of the psychic being? What is the work of the psychic being? You want it to have some work? What do you want to say exactly? What is its function... desirable, from the way he treats this presence—exactly that! He prefers to it the ideas of his mind, prefers the desires of his vital being and the habits of his physical. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 9 June 1954 Sweet Mother, What is the role of the soul? But without the soul we wouldn't exist! The soul is that which comes from the Divine without ever leaving Him ...

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The Psychic Being  >  The Psychic and the Spiritual

... surface of the words and intimately connected even in their difference. Intellectual definitions and distinctions are too external and rigid to seize the true truth of things. The Mother Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): 26 May 1929 What is the difference between "spiritual" and "psychic"? It is not the same thing. The psychic is the being organised by the divine Presence and it belongs... the spiritual life. Therefore, the psychic being in the human being is the manifestation of spiritual aspiration; but there is a spiritual life independent of the psychic. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 1 March 1951 The psychic has two aspects—there is the soul principle itself which contains all soul possibilities and there is the psychic personality which represents whatever ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Shadow

... two opposite tendencies of character,… which are like the light and the shadow of the same thing.” 39 Why are things made in this way? Can’t one have only the light? The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 3 February 1954 Yes, if one eliminates the shadow. But it must be eliminated. That does not happen by itself. The world as it is is a mixed world. You cannot have an object which... s: the “Evil Persona” 40 ? It is in the Bulletin . The thing is very well explained there. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - IV: The Difficulties of Human Nature The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 3 February 1954 × "... Everyone possesses in a large measure, and the exceptional individual ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  The Psychic

... elements. But that’s how it is. There is the psychic consciousness at work in life, organising all the circumstances of your life but not with a deliberate choice of the details… The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 29 June 1955 Has the psychic any power? Power? It is usually the psychic which guides the being. One knows nothing about it because one is not conscious of it but usually it... the least sincere, you say: “Ah! it wasn’t I who was right—it was Nature or the divine Grace or my psychic being who did it.” It is the psychic being which organised that. The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 16 December 1953 ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Forces of Illness and Accident

... with which men go through life; they don’t know how to live, there’s not one in a million who knows how to live, and they live like that somehow or other, limping along… The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 11 May 1955 Accidents are due to many things; in fact they are the result of a conflict of the forces in Nature, a conflict between the forces of growth and progress and the forces... accident that has lasting results, it is always the result of a more or less partial victory of the adverse forces, that is, of the forces of disintegration, disorganization. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 27 January 1954 ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Supermind - Force of the New World

... to be established and for the anguish of the present disorder and struggle to disappear and be replaced by an order which will allow a harmonious functioning of the whole. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 19 March 1958 24th April 1956 The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality. It is at work here, and one day... world. We can participate in it, we can become this new world. And truly, when one has such a marvellous opportunity, one should be ready to give up everything for its sake. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 24 July 1957 ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  The Divine Grace

... capable one becomes of seeing it, or perceiving it constantly at every place where it is. It is ignorance and lack of faith, it is blind egoism which prevents one from seeing. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 23 November 1955 In the whole manifestation there is an infinite Grace constantly at work to bring the world out of the misery, the obscurity and the stupidity in which it lies... progress. So the only truly effective attitude is a perfect, total, fervent giving of our being to That which is above us and which alone has the power to change everything. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 29 October 1958 ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  9 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 9 April 1951 Mother reads a passage about art and yoga ( Questions and Answers 1929 , 28 July ), then asks: What is the relation between art and yoga? Can the artist and the yogi have the same source of inspiration? ( Mother turns to a disciple :) Amrita, will you tell us what relation there is between ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  2 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 2 April 1951 You have said: "By Yoga the inner transformation that is in slow constant process in the creation is rendered more intense and rapid, but the pace of the outer transformation remains almost the same as in ordinary life. As a result, the disharmony between the inner and the outer being in one... one who is doing Yoga tends to be all the greater, unless precautions are taken...." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 16 June ) What are these precautions? That depends upon people. Each case is different. Individual precautions would be different according to individual reactions, difficulties, resistances. For each one there is a programme to follow which is good only for him. There is no ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  19 February 1951

... February Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 19 February 1951 To be able to enter the "earth-memory" consciously, a discipline is needed. 1 What discipline? A discipline much more difficult than the discipline of yoga! It is an occult discipline. First of all, one must learn to go out of one's body consciously and to enter into another... be thought that they are not progressing. They too follow a discipline, but it is of another nature.To work, to act with devotion and an inner consecration is also a spiritual discipline." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 21 April ) ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  Note on the Text

... Questions and Answers (1956) Note on the Text These conversations of 1956 were spoken by the Mother in French and appear here in English translation. All of them were tape-recorded. Passages from some of the talks were published in the French original with an English translation in issues of the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from... Between March 1970 and August 1974 a new translation of all the talks was serialised in the monthly journal Mother India . This translation was brought out as a book in 1973 under the title Questions and Answers 1956 . The same book, with minor revisions of the translation, was published in 1978 as Volume 8 of the Collected Works of the Mother (first edition). The present volume has the same text as ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  13 August 1958

... August Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 13 August 1958 Sweet Mother, in July 1953 you told us that after five years you would give us lessons on spiritual life. 1 I have brought what you said, Sweet Mother. Really! That is interesting! ( Mother reads the text given by the child ) Has it been printed... See Question and Answers 1953 ( 15 July 1953 ). × Presently entitled Questions and Answers 1929-1931. ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Superconscient

... of things. The Overmind, therefore, does not and cannot possess the power to transform humanity into divine nature. For that, the Supramental is the sole effective agent. The Mother Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Supermind and Overmind * Supermind Here it is written: “It is very unwise for anyone to claim prematurely to have possession of the supermind or even to have a taste... which Sri Aurobindo has described which only very rare individuals can reach, and still he speaks of them as mental regions. He does not use for them the word supramental. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 24 November 1954 ...

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Overman  >  3: Turning Towards the Earth

... Sri Aurobindo: On the Mother, p. 373. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , p. 320. × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 36. ... cycle of civilisation or the debased remnants of a dead or obsolete culture …” × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953, 2 September. × Rudra is the terrible aspect of Shiva. ...

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Patterns of the Present  >  2: The Avataric Field

... by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother we know that their disciples had participated in their avataric and vibhutic mission in times past. The Mother even said so explicitly to her audience of the Questions and Answers . They belonged, she said, to “the family of the aspiration”, and she had promised most of them in a previous incarnation that they would be present at the time of the great realisation, meaning... × Sri Aurobindo: On Himself, p. 368. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1955, pp. 323-24. × Id., p. 415 (emphasis added). ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  9: Three Dragons

... judge by appearances with our ordinary human knowledge. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1953 , CWM 5 p. 388. × Kireet Joshi, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother , pp. 89-90. ... K.D. Sethna, Aspects of Sri Aurobindo , p. 97. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1957-58, CWM 9 pp. 147-48. × Sri Aurobindo, On Himself , SABCL 26 p. 456. ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  July 18, 1960

... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 July 18, 1960 Of course, we're dating all these old Questions and Answers , but not everyone pays attention to dates. How can those old ones be mixed with the present things which are on an altogether different plane? There is an experience in which one is entirely outside of time—that is, ahead, behind, above, below, all... same. And at the very moment the identification takes place, there is no longer any past, present or future. And really, it's the only way to know. As the experiences unfold, these old Questions and Answers give me the feeling of someone circling outside a garden while describing what's inside it. But a day comes when you enter the garden, and then you know a little better what's inside. And I'm ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  May 23, 1961

... it's nothing. X said it would go away completely. The doctor said, 'It will not go away.' So my body is observing the phenomenon! ( Mother laughs ) ( Mother reviews some earlier 'Questions and Answers.' In one of them—dated November 14, 1956 —someone had asked if mastery over circumstances depended on self-mastery, citing the case of Vivekananda, who was said to possess great mastery over... want it to—in fact, the Supreme is making use of you. Consequently, you have no mastery at all; you are an instrument used by the Supreme, and that's all. So all these things [the earlier Questions and Answers ] seem quite childish to me, quite childish—irrelevant chatter. You are outside the garden talking about what is within. It would be best to delete the whole thing. ( In vain, Satprem protests ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1969  >  February 8, 1969

... Germany—I got them yesterday. Well! Now to you [Satprem], do you have something? There are the proofs of the Bulletin. Oh, we must see them. This is the Synthesis, then the Questions and Answers: this very long talk [on illness].... In this connection, yesterday R. [Auroville's architect] asked me questions so as to be able to answer people; he asked me if it was necessary to have... wondered, Mother, if for February 21 we couldn't play a recording of what you said, for instance on the superman consciousness? Do you think... Yes, at the Playground they still play old "Questions and Answers". Do you think it can be useful? I think it obviously has much more power than... Than the written thing. From a personal standpoint, the thing that bothers me is that I ask ...

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Our Light and Delight  >  The Mother, Sri Aurobindo and the Procession of the Avatars

... of the Divine could have failed to know that the Divine's very self — that is, the Being of the Supermind-plane — was constantly on earth and hence in their time as Vibhuti. The detailed questions and answers touch only on Buddha and Christ. We have Sri Aurobindo saying: "... If the Mother were in Rome in the time of Buddha, how could Buddha know as he did not even know the existence of Rome?¹... more and more conscious bodies and finally manifested in a kind of recognised line of Beings who have descended directly from the Supreme to perfect this work of preparing ¹ Questions and Answers 1958 (the Mother's Centenary Library, Pondicherry, 1977), Vol. 9, pp. 332-334. Page 65 the universe so that, through a continuous progression, it may become ready to ...

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Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny  >  Formal Adherence Replacing the Spirit of Sadhana

... see friends I can allow myself to forget all about it.' To persist in this attitude means that you will remain un-transformed and never have the true union; always you will be divided..." (Questions and Answers, CWM Vol. 3, p. 24) It is regrettable to note that in recent years, with the passing away of the senior Ashramites of the Mother's time, this sort of all-time sadhana has been progressively... the Divine, while the rest remains in its ordinary ways, engrossed in ordinary things; your entire life is taken up, an integral transformation is gradually realised in you." (The Mother, Questions and Answers, CWM Vol. 3, pp. 23, 24) (2)"Vigilance means to be awake, to be on one's guard, to be sincere - never to be taken by surprise. When you want to do sadhana, at each moment of your life ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  Foreword

... synonymous with the practice of meditation. Referring to this attitude in a critical vein, the Mother remarks, "...when they think of the spiritual life, they immediately think of meditation." (Questions and Answers '57-'58, Collected Works of the Mother, Vol. 9, p. 88.) However, even meditation, as a set practice, is not an indispensable part of the practice of Integral Yoga. The reader will, therefore... Aurobindo has said, repeated, written, affirmed and said over and over again, that his yoga, the integral yoga, can begin only after that experience [reversal of consciousness], not before." (Questions and Answers '57-'58, C W M, Vol. 9, p. 337) Combining the clear, analytical thought of a scientist with the psychic insightfulness of a sadhaka, Prof. Mukherjee has succeeded in producing a book ...

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Sri Aurobindo And The Mother  >  Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

... resulting in an ever-growing methodised discipline for the transformation of man and the eventual transmutation into a new species. __________________________________ ¹The Mother, Questions and Answers, 21.12.1955. ² Ibid. Page 74 It is this discovery which is at the base of the affirmation that 'spiritual liberation' or Mukti is not the highest possible aim for Man on... significance was his vision of the transformed human body in the chapter entitled: 'The Divine Body'. He declared quite unambiguously: _______________________________ ¹The Mother, Questions and Answers, 8.3-51, 25.11.53. Page 94 If a total transformation of the being is our aim, a transformation of the body must be an indispensable part of it; without that no full divine life ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 3  >  Part-III

... what happens and what I fail to understand by myself. Out of one thousand mental questions and answers there are only one or two here and there that are really of any dynamic assistance - while a single inner response or a little growth of consciousness will do what these thousand questions and answers could not do. The Yoga does not proceed by upadesh but by inner influence. To state your ...

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Education and the Aim of human life  >  The Class Work

... collective teaching is really necessary as a consistent and regular means of acquiring knowledge and capacity. It will consist in lectures from the teacher, reading aloud, comment, dictation, oral questions and answers, conversation, debate, drama - any work which is done in a raised voice with the aim of perfecting oral expression, whether prose or poetry, and which involves the whole class. Collective... are incorrect and which need a further attempt by the Page 122 student, and so on till the answers are all correct. The student has then to make a fair copy of the whole - questions and answers - in another note-book which will be again submitted to the teacher for control and signature. This note-book will be carefully preserved as a warrant of the work done, and at the same time ...

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Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo  >  The Divine Mother

... to her of their need, — then at about 1.00 p.m. she would hold a class in the Darshan hall, in the form of questions and answers, somewhat on the lines of Sri Aurobindo's talks with us, very probably inspired by them. But only those who knew French were allowed to attend it, questions and answers being conducted in French. Here again exceptions were made afterwards. Some people who did not know French ...

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At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo  >  Part - I

... on a particular topic, and enquired at the end of the meditation what its result was in each individual. Then followed questions and answers, which were recorded in shorthand by Shantimayi. This phase began on 7th April 1929 and lasted fifteen weeks. All the questions and answers running into fifteen chapters were published in 1931 in book-form under the title Conversations with the Mother ...

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Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo  >  Personal Effort and Surrender

... Tolle, Stillness Speak,, Novato, CA: New World Library. 2003. p. 66. × The Mother. Questions and Answers '50-'51. CWM Vol. 4, p. 35. × Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. SABCL. Vol. 23, p.... Sri Aurobindo. The Mother. SABCL, Vol. 25, p. 7. × The Mother. Questions and Answers 1955, CWM, Vol. 14. p. 339. × "In the spiritual sense ... sacrifice ... does not so much ...

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Preparing for the Miraculous  >  2: The Development of Sri Aurobindo’s Thought

... intermediary beings who must find the means to create beings of the Supermind. And there is no doubt that, when Sri Aurobindo wrote this, he was convinced that this is what we have to do.” ( Questions and Answers 1957-58 ) And then he finished Savitri , his last bequest to those who would follow the path he had hewn in the virgin forest, going where none had gone. Gradually he prepared everything... K.D. Sethna: Aspects of Sri Aurobindo , p. 97. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , pp. 147-148. × Mother’s Agenda II , pp. 410-411. ...

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Patterns of the Present  >  7: The Future of Humanity

... Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , p. 1012. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , pp. 298-99. × See, once again, Georges Van Vrekhem: Overman: The Intermediary between... × Id., p. 1012. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , pp. 35-36. ...

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Overman  >  2: Four Pillars

... The Mother: Questions and Answers 1955, p. 387. × Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga , p. 530. × See the Mother: Questions and Answers , p. 77. ...

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Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 1)  >  chapter 005

... people think it better to avoid grandiose problems and just stop with such popular questions and answers as: (I) "What is mind" - "No matter!", (2) "What is matter?" - "Never mind!". Now for a spot of seriousness. Most philosophical problems arise from a lack of comprehensiveness in vision. The two questions and answers which I have quoted at the end of the last para seem often a necessity because ...

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My Savitri work with the Mother  >  01 January 1957

... ran: A power greater than that of Evil can alone win the victory. It is not a crucified but a glorified body that will save the world The Mother explained fully its meaning in [ Questions and Answers 1957-58, pp. 3-5] ( https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/2-january-1957#p23-p26 ). The last passage is the most striking: ... It is neither sacrifice nor renunciation nor weakness which can... supramental force. It is much more difficult than giving up everything and running away, it asks for an infinitely greater heroism—but that is the only means of conquering. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 2 January 1957 The Mother sent me on 1st January 1957 a Japanese card in which there was a painting of an attractive landscape on a bamboo sheet. She wished me: ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  Thought and Knowledge

... intuitive, non-intellectual consciousness developing within you. Out of one thousand mental questions and answers there are only one or two here and there that are really of any dynamic assistance—while a single inner response or a little growth of consciousness will do what those thousand questions and answers could not do. The Yoga does not proceed by upadeśa but by inner influence. To state your ...

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The Psychic Being  >  What is Meant by the Psychic Being

... one finds this luminous presence." (The Mother, Some Answers from the Mother: 20 September 1969 ). See also the answer to the question, "Is the psychic being in the heart?" (The Mother, Questions and Answers (1954): 3 November 1954 ) The Mother Some Answers from the Mother: 1 February 1967 Are the soul and the psychic being one and the same thing? That depends on the definition... but all that applies to the vital being, for the psychic being has no need to be saved! It does not share the faults of the external person, it is free from all reaction. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 22 February 1951 A distinction has to be made between the soul in its essence and the psychic being. Behind each and all there is the soul which is the spark of the Divine—none ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  Help from the Guide

... put things in the form of questions, I hardly write anything. Out of one thousand mental questions and answers there are only one or two here and there that are really of any dynamic assistance—while a single inner response or a little growth of consciousness will do what those thousand questions and answers could not do. The Yoga does not proceed by upadeśa but by inner influence. To state your ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  17 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 17 March 1951 "In the workings of the universe whatever happens is the result of all that has happened before." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 26 May ) What do you mean by this? The universe is in perpetual movement and it is the unfolding of the supreme Consciousness. So all that happens is ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  10 February 1951

... February Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 10 February 1951 "You must be able, if you are ready to follow the Divine order, to take up whatever work you are given, even a stupendous work, and leave it the next day with the same quietness with which you took it up and not feel that the responsibility is yours. There should be no attachment—to any... any object or any mode of life. You must be absolutely free." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 14 April ) I would like someone to tell me what he understands by "be absolutely free", for it is a very important question. I shall tell you why. Most people confuse liberty with licence. For the ordinary mind, to be free is to have the chance of committing every stupidity that one likes, without ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Subliminal - The Inner Being

... what he wants, all these things, better than when one is in waking contact with him. This happens when one has entered the subliminal. Very often one dreams in the subliminal. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 6 April 1955 It is not necessarily more enlightened, more balanced—no. It is more subtle, it is less dull than our outer consciousness. Our external consciousness is so dull, it... see, one has a feeling of being like this, enclosed in something; whereas, there, immediately one feels that one is in contact with many other things; and it is much greater. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 6 April 1955 … from there [subliminal forces] come all the greater aspirations, ideals, strivings towards a better self and better humanity without which man would be only a thinking ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Subconscient

... r, but a movement which goes like this… you see ( gesture of spiral movement ). One seems at times to be going back, but that’s in order to go farther and farther forward. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 15 September 1954 Sweet Mother, is the subconscient stronger than the mind, vital and physical? … It has a greater power. Well, just because it is subconscient it is everywhere... full consciousness and work there, but this is difficult. Yet so long as this is not done, all the progress one has made—I mean physically, in one’s body—can always be undone. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 11 May 1955 … we mean by the subconscient that quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious and coherent thought, will or feeling or organised reaction ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  Note on the Text

... Questions and Answers (1955) Note on the Text These talks of 1955 were spoken by the Mother in French and appear here in English translation. All of them were tape-recorded. Passages from some of the talks were published in the French original together with an English translation in issues of the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education ... from 1955 to 1960. The first five months of talks were serialised in the Bulletin from November 1978 to November 1980. In 1979 all the talks were brought out in English under the title Questions and Answers 1955 as Volume 7 of the Collected Works of the Mother (first edition). In that volume previous Bulletin translations were slightly revised and the remaining talks translated for the first ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  6 June 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 6 June 1956 Once or twice, as a game, you took one of your books or Sri Aurobindo's and opened a page at random, and read out a sentence. Can these sentences give one a sign or an indication? What should we do to get a true answer? Everybody can do it. It is done in this way: you... 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 literature? Yes, Mother. Then it's the worst of ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  17 June 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 17 June 1953 "There is a true movement of the intellect and there is a wrong movement: one helps, the other hinders." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 5 May 1929 ) What is the true movement of the intellect? What exactly do you understand by intellect? Is it a function of the mind or is it a part of the ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  24 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 24 March 1951 You say, "Love is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very stones...." 1 If there is love in a stone, how can one see it? Perhaps the different elements constituting the stone are coordinated by the spark of love. I am sure that when the Divine Love descended... consciousness: why am I here, for what reason? This seems to me the normal starting-point. Page 246 × Questions and Answers 1929 ( 2 June ) ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  8 April 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 8 April 1953 "One of the commonest forms of ambition is the idea of service to humanity. All attachment to such service or work is a sign of personal ambition." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 14 April 1929 ) Why do you say that this is ambition? Why do you want to serve humanity, what is your idea? ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  9 September 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 9 September 1953 "Each time that something of the Divine Truth and the Divine Force comes down to manifest upon earth, some change is effected in the earth's atmosphere. In the descent, those who are receptive are awakened to some inspiration from it, some touch, some beginning of sight. If they were capable of holding... under the pressure. But some have the capacity to receive and the strength to bear, and it is they who will become the vessels of the full knowledge, the chosen instruments and agents." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 9 June 1929 ) How does the divine Force choose the instrument in which it wants to manifest itself? Through affinity. For the quality, the nature of the consciousness is ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  4 November 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 4 November 1953 Before beginning the class Mother spoke for a few minutes about the "sphere with spirals" which the children had constructed to give an idea of what She had explained the preceding week: ...The sphere is touched only by a part of the curve, the rest is evolved inside. It cannot be made. This one is... is an arbitrary notion. It takes things that are relative and tries to impose them as absolutes; for this good and this bad differ in differing climates and times, epochs and countries." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 4 August 1929 ) In the past, why did men offer human sacrifices in temples? I don't quite understand the question. Why should they not do it! There is not much difference ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  11 November 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 11 November 1953 Mother is about to begin reading the first pages of Quelques Paroles, Quelques Prières . The first texts were written in 1912. Many of you were not yet born. It was a small group of about twelve people who met once a week. A subject was given; an answer was to be prepared for the following week.... instrument of this movement. Both are important, both needed in the entire plan; the movement that stores up and concentrates is no less needed than the movement that spreads and diffuses." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 4 August 1929 ) What do you mean by "soul-type"? What is the sentence?... ( Mother looks at the text ) Ah! it is the Page 355 spirit of the type; just as we ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  Note on the Text

... Questions and Answers (1953) Note on the Text These talks of 1953 were given by the Mother in French and appear here in translation. The first eight talks were noted down by one of the participants; the rest were tape-recorded. The talks were first published in the French original and in English translation in the quarterly Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International... International Centre of Education from August 1967 to February 1973. In 1976 the English translation, slightly revised, was brought out under the title Questions and Answers 1953 as Volume 5 of the Collected Works of the Mother (first edition). The book was reprinted independently in 1998. The present volume has the same text as the first edition of the Collected Works, apart from some minor revisions of ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  The Subconscient, the Subliminal and the Superconscient

... destroying their remembrance, destroying in oneself the memory of the state one is in when in that difficulty, if one is sincere it would be the end of all difficulties for ever. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 13 October 1954 One is born with a slough to clean before one begins to live. And once you have made a good start on the way to the inner transformation and you go down to the ... mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers were, and if at a certain moment you are unable to control yourself, you will understand, “I am like that because they were like that.” The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 29 March 1951 Our waking state is unaware of its connection with the subliminal being, although it receives from it—but without any knowledge of the place of origin—the ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Occultism - Science of Hidden Forces

... the feeling that something is going to happen; and it is these vibrations of fear which put out certain forces from you, forces which give these entities the power to act. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 3 August 1955 Mother, can physical science by its progress open to occultism? It does not call it “occultism”, that’s all. It is only a question of words…. They are making s... step forward. They are soon going to meet—it will be nothing more than a question of words—then, if they are not too rigid, they can agree on the value given to the words! The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 10 September 1958 ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Play of Forces

... those forces did not want it—it disturbed their habits. It is like a government which fears that it will be thrown out and so intervenes violently in order to keep in power. The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 7 October 1953 I have not said [in the preceding letter] that everything is rigidly predetermined. Play of forces does not mean that. What I said was that behind visible events... capable of passing into a higher condition, you begin to see that you are an instrument of the one consciousness; you take a step upward and you rise to a higher conscious level. The Mother Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): 26 May 1929 ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Forces of Our Formations

... mix with each other, knock against each other. There is a struggle to see which is the strongest, which tries to realise itself, and all this creates an atmosphere indeed!… The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 11 August 1954 When one meditates there are moments when one sees very unpleasant forms in front of himself for some days. It begins and later ends. What does it mean? Yes, it... in a dream of this kind the justification of their movements—whereas it is only a very striking image of their own feeling. For the formation returns upon one in this way. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 9 March 1955 ...

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The Psychic Being  >  Knowledge—Mental and Psychic

... done, and without intervention—the least intervention—of the reasoning mind. The mind is silent: it simply looks on and listens in order to register things, it does not act. The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 23 December 1953 The perception of the exterior consciousness may deny the perception of the psychic. But the psychic has the true knowledge, an intuitive instinctive knowledge... can mislead you. It is that and not your faith that misleads you. Pure in itself, faith can get mixed up in the being with low movements and it is then that you are misled. The Mother Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Faith ...

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The Psychic Being  >  Emergence of the Psychic—Bringing Forward the Psychic

... understood. For the psychic it is the same thing. When the psychic is in front one knows it, and there is no possibility of any doubt. Consequently one no longer asks the question. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 10 November 1954 The sense of release as if from jail always accompanies the emergence of the psychic being or the realisation of the self above. It is therefore spoken of as a... the knowledge, everything—at that moment one sees that and has an altogether sure guide for everything that one may do. But this, perforce, takes a very long time to come. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 24 February 1954 Aspiration, constant and sincere, and will to turn to the Divine alone are the best means to bring forward the psychic. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - III: ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  December 23, 1961

... Very good. But while these things are happening, we shouldn't speak of them. So... nonetheless, we still need a Bulletin ! ( For the next 'Bulletin,' Satprem reads to Mother from 'Questions and Answers,' dated January 4, 1956 . ) '...And so a time comes when one would be incapable of saying, "This is divine and that is not...." Oh, that's a wonderful thing—at times it's truly stupendous... there is necessarily struggle; and if there is struggle, there is choice; and to choose, you need discrimination.' ( Mother remains silent ) ( Satprem again reads from the same 'Questions and Answers' of 1956: ) 'All things are attracted to the Divine. Are the hostile forces also attracted to the Divine?' You know, I can say one thing about this.... There's a type of woman I have ...

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Some Answers from the Mother  >  Letters to a Sadhak (1966-1969)

... physical consciousness but a divinisation of that consciousness. 31 December 1968 Page 393 × Questions and Answers 1957-1958 , CWM, Vol. 9, p. 315 . × By "solar plexus", the Mother is referring to the heart... × Savitri , Book X, Canto 2 . × Questions and Answers 1953 , CWM, Vol. 5, p. 82 . × Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga , SABCL, Vol. 20, p ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  The Hill-Top Temple

... not much importance. If you are united with the consciousness of eternity, time no longer has any reality. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 22 March 1951 It is never too early to begin, never too late to continue. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 13 January 1951 Find the Guide secret within you or housed in an earthly body, hearken to his voice ...

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Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny  >  The Misgivings

... not in its essence but in its outer manifestation - not yet recognised, not even felt, denied by the majority. But it is here, making an effort to grow, absolutely sure of the result." (Questions and Answers 1957-58, pp. 149-150) In the light of the above declaration of the Mother, can it not be contended, ask some, that the Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's Work will now be all the world over... possibility of absorbing consciousness and progress which is not found elsewhere. And if you don't prepare yourselves to receive this, well, you will lose the chance that's given to you." (Questions and Answers 1954, CWM Vol. 6, p. 269) But the sceptic may rejoin that all this might have been true when Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were there physically present in the Ashram; but what about ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  The Conquest of Self-love

... there is such a profound delight that nothing can be "compared to it. "This is the only thing that deserves... that is worthy of being attempted. All the rest is only marking time." (Questions and Answers, M C W, Vol. 3, p. 269) Alas, this 'marking time on the same spot' many of us have been doing most of the time. We pretend to do the necessary sadhana by displaying the inessential... Indeed, it is lamentable.... "Now, in those beautiful cities that are so comfortable, when one wants to condemn anything, what does one say? — 'It's a dream, it is imagination.' " (Questions and Answers, M C W, Vol. 3, p. 204) Now, both these whisperings referred to above which militate so much against the sadhaka' s spiritual zeal come from the same source, the source of self-love ...

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Growing up with the Mother  >  Introduction

... could hear. From 1953, whatever She said was tape-recorded. Portions of Her talks were first published in the Bulletin of physical education and later as a series of books titled Questions and Answers . These Wednesday classes continued until December 1958 when the Mother stopped all Her activities at the playground. After December 1958, the Mother did not see us often, but whenever I... Over the years, I also asked Her other questions which occurred to me in the course of my study of Sri Aurobindo’s books, and also questions about my work and my life. What follows are questions and answers on sadhana and life. They reflect the Mother’s patient and loving guidance towards the growth of my inner being. ...

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Growing up with the Mother  >  Introduction

... not speak to Her personally about our problems, I started sending Her questions on the difficulties that we faced in the school and the Playground. This led to an interesting collection of questions and answers on education. Whenever the Mother answered my questions, I would type out two copies and send one to Her. The other copy would often circulate amongst my friends, captains and teachers, some... tic of the research work in the Ashram. Though the Mother’s replies deal specifically with the type of education She envisaged, they will be of general interest to all educationists. These questions and answers show how much importance the Mother gave to the inner development of the child along with his physical, emotional and mental development. And for both inner and outer growth, She created ample ...

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Growing up with the Mother  >  Questions and Answers on Flowers

... Chapter 4: Flowers Growing up with the Mother Questions and Answers on Flowers (Regarding the small green rose named, “Timidity in attachment for the Divine”) Timidity in attachment: I mean that the attachment is not complete and unreserved; there are parts of the being that question and hold back because they do not have total trust; it is a conditional... flowers with a definite intention or prayer, it is possible that Sri Aurobindo receives the message and answers it, and that one receives his answer if one is sensitive enough. Two oral questions and answers: But Mother, what if I see a particular flower on the Samadhi that I need ... But it is not Sri Aurobindo who chooses the flowers on the Samadhi. It can be anybody. Mother, should ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Comments on Specific Conversations

... Comments on Specific Conversations These conversations of 1929 were first published in 1931 as Conversations with the Mother. They now form the first part of Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2003 ), volume 3 of the Collected Works of the Mother. The page numbers given after quoted passages in this subsection refer to the 2003 edition ...

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Words of Long Ago  >  The Mother and Abdul Baha

... more effective and your heart will be filled with an unwavering joy. 9 June 1913 Page 116 × Questions and Answers 1950-51 (14 April), pp. 316-17 . × From an unpublished talk. ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Vital Conversion - Rebirth and Personal Survival

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Vital Conversion - Rebirth and Personal Survival It is very important that the vital should agree to change: it must learn to accept conversion. The vital is not in itself anything to be decried: in fact, all energy, dynamism and push comes from it—without it you may be calm and wise and detached, but you will be absolutely ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Different Kinds of Space and Time - Fearlessness on the Vital Plane

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Different Kinds of Space and Time - Fearlessness on the Vital Plane Space and time do not begin and end with the mental consciousness: even the Overmind has them. They are the forms of all cosmic existence: only, they vary on each level. Each world has its own space and time. Thus the mental space and time do not tally ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Psychic Presence and Psychic Being - Real Origin of Race Superiority

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Psychic Presence and Psychic Being - Real Origin of Race Superiority With regard to the evolution upwards, it is more correct to speak of the psychic presence than the psychic being. For it is the psychic presence which little by little becomes the psychic being. In each evolving form there is this presence, but it is ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Power of Right Attitude

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Power of Right Attitude Is it really the best that always happens?... It is clear that all that has happened had to happen: it could not be otherwise—by the universal determinism it had to happen. But we can say so only after it has happened, not before. For the problem of the very best that can happen is an individual ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Reincarnation - Memory of Past Lives

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Reincarnation - Memory of Past Lives To understand rightly the problem of what is popularly called reincarnation, you must perceive that there are two factors in it which require consideration. First, there is the line of divine consciousness which seeks to manifest from above and upholds a certain series of formations ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Faith

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Faith The perception of the exterior consciousness may deny the perception of the psychic. But the psychic has the true knowledge, an intuitive instinctive knowledge. It says, "I know; I cannot give reasons, but I know." For its knowledge is not mental, based on experience or proved true. It does not believe after proofs ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Selfless Admiration

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Selfless Admiration People are so unwilling to recognise anything that expresses the Divine that they are ever on the alert to find fault, discover apparent defects and so reduce what is high to their own level. They are simply furious at being surpassed and when they do succeed in finding superficial "shortcomings" they ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Stepping Back

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Stepping Back Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch of external influences. You live almost projected, as it were, outside your own body, and when you meet some unpleasant being similarly projected you get upset. The whole trouble arises out of your not being accustomed to stepping back. You ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  18 November 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 18 November 1953 "In rebirth it is not the external being, that which is formed by parents, environment and circumstances,—the mental, the vital and the physical,—that is born again: it is only the psychic being that passes from body to body. Logically, then, neither the mental nor the vital being can remember past ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  13 April 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 13 April 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". Now, has anyone any questions? Sweet Mother, here it is written: "I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously..." It means that he is laughing at them, simply that. (The child continues ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  29 June 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 29 June 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Planes and Parts of the Being". Sweet Mother, has the vital nature of man come out from his true vital being? Come out? What do you call coming out? You mean that first there was the true vital being and that this expresses itself in the physical nature, the earth ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  9 March 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 9 March 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of "the psychic opening in the physical consciousness"? I think I have already told you this once. One can find the psychic through each part of the consciousness: you can find a ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  20 July 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 20 July 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Surrender and Opening". What does "to seek after the Impersonal" mean? Oh! It's very much in fashion in the West, my child. All those who are tired or disgusted with the God taught by the Chaldean religions, and especially by the ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  6 July 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 6 July 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Planes and Parts of the Being". Sweet Mother, here it is written: "Finally the soul or psychic being retires into the psychic world to rest there till a new birth is close." Then, Mother, what happens to the central being afterwards ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  27 April 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 27 April 1955 No class was held on the 20th of April. This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". Sweet Mother, what is the difference between a symbolic dream and a vision? Usually one has a vision when one is not asleep, when one is awake. When one is awake and enters ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  15 June 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 15 June 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "The Goal". Sweet Mother, what is "dynamic realisation"? It is the realisation which is expressed in action. There is a realisation in inaction like that of those who enter into contemplations from which they don't come out, and who don't move; and then there is ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  23 March 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 23 March 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". Here Sri Aurobindo says: "As for the things in our nature that are thrown away from us by rejection but come back, it depends on where you throw them. Very often there is a sort of procedure about it." What is this procedure ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  4 May 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 4 May 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". Sweet Mother, how can one draw on "the universal vital Force"? One can do it in many ways. First of all, you must know that it exists and that one can enter into contact with it. Secondly, you must try to make this ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  23 December 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 23 December 1953 If the mind "is incapable of finding knowledge" 1 what part of the being finds knowledge? One must enter the knowledge which belongs to the supramental region. But in order to bring it down? Every time something attracts this knowledge (something which is evidently ready to receive it) ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  30 December 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 30 December 1953 What do you mean by the instinct of destruction in children? It is not there in all children. I have known many who, on the contrary, were very careful. Children are not as "concretised", materialised in their physical consciousness as older people—as one grows up, it is as though one is coagulated ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  3 February 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 3 February 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " Vital Education ". "In some ancient initiations it was stated that the number of senses that man can develop is not five but seven and in certain special cases even twelve. Certain races at certain times have, out of necessity, developed more or less perfectly ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  27 January 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 27 January 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " Physical Education ". Mother, does a person's body-formation express his character? No. Even the character itself is not a simple affair, that is, the character of a person is not the expression of his true being but the result of many things. For example ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  9 December 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 9 December 1953 "We are always surrounded by the things of which we think." Words of the Mother, CWM Vol. 14, p. 343 This is very important. If you think of nasty things, you will be surrounded by nasty things. "To get over our ego is not an easy task. "Even after overcoming it in the material ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  24 February 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 24 February 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " Psychic Education and Spiritual Education ". Sweet Mother, here you have said: "From beyond the frontiers of form a new force can be evoked, a power of consciousness which is as yet unexpressed and which, by its emergence, will be able to change the course ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  24 March 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 24 March 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations ", Part I. If one eats a heavy meal, why is the sleep disturbed by nightmares? Because there is a very close connection between dreams and the condition of the stomach. Observations have been made and it has been ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  10 February 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 10 February 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " Mental Education ". What is the method of increasing the "capacities of expansion and widening"? I say there that a great variety of subjects should be studied. I believe that is it. For instance, if you are at school, to study all the subjects possible ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  16 December 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 16 December 1953 Sweet Mother, you have said: "...Many methods have been framed to attain this perception [of the psychic being in us] and finally to achieve this identification [with the psychic being]. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical." On Education, CWM Vol. 12, p. 4 ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  20 October 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 20 October 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 1, "Calm—Peace—Equality". Sweet Mother, what is "the freedom of the Self"? It means that in the true inner being one feels perfectly free, and is free from everything. One has the feeling of a complete freedom—free from all external ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  31 December 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 31 December 1954 New Year's Eve. After a meditation, Mother distributes her New Year's Message to everyone. I am going to read the prayer to you in French—it is a message not a prayer—in French and in English. And then I have brought two of Sri Aurobindo's replies to questions which have not been published anywhere ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  29 September 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 29 September 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 1, "Calm—Peace—Equality". "It is good for the physical to be more and more conscious, but it should not be overpowered by these ordinary human reactions of which it becomes aware or badly affected or upset by them. A strong equality ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  24 November 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 24 November 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 2, "Faith—Aspiration—Surrender". "To keep the psychic awake and in front": what does "in front" mean, Sweet Mother? That is to say, in the forefront of the consciousness, instead of being pushed behind, in a background which is ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  15 December 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 15 December 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, "In Difficulty". What is the meaning of "the mental witness"? The witness we have spoken about several times already, only here it is in the mind. There are witnesses everywhere. It is a capacity of the being to detach itself ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  10 November 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 10 November 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 2, "Faith—Aspiration—Surrender". What does this mean exactly: "In Yoga it is out of the inner victory that there comes the outer conquest"? Yes. First you must attain the true consciousness, be in contact with the Divine and let ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  19 January 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 19 January 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, "In Difficulty". Sweet Mother, what is the work of the higher mind? Work? What exactly do you want to know? What it ought to do? Or what should one...? Its role. The role of the higher mind? It ought to receive inspirations from above ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  29 December 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 29 December 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, "In Difficulty". So? ( To a child ) No questions? ( To another ) You have a question? Sweet Mother, why is it said that "those who have the greatest power for Yoga... have too, very often... the greatest imperfections"? Why ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  23 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 23 April 1951 Mother reads Sri Aurobindo's "The Divine Superman" (Cent. Vol. 17, p. 74 ). "Thou must reach thy own summit," says Sri Aurobindo. Is the summit the same for everybody or does each one have his particular summit? In the last analysis, it is always the same summit—the divine oneness which ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  14 July 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 14 July 1954 This talk could not be recorded very clearly because of the noise of the fireworks celebrating the French Republic Day. The talk is based upon Chapter 2 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Sweet Mother, does Sri Aurobindo make a difference between the Divine and the Shakti? Here he speaks of "surrender ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  7 July 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 7 July 1954 A few days before this class, Mother told the children that she would proceed differently with the new book they were to study, Sri Aurobindo's The Mother . She herself (not the children as previously) would read out passages from the book. Each child was asked to read beforehand the chapter to be taken ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  21 July 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 21 July 1954 This talk is based upon Chapter 3 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Which of you did not ask questions last time?... The first one! What is the difference between "the divine, spiritual and supramental Truth?" If I could only hear what you are saying, it would be easier! ( The child repeats ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  14 April 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 14 April 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations ", Part III. Sweet Mother, I did not understand this: "At the beginning of this manifestation, in the purity of its origin, love is composed of two movements, two complementary poles of the urge towards complete oneness ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  18 August 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 18 August 1954 This talk is based upon Chapter 6 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Sweet Mother, I didn't understand this: "This is the power of Mahalakshmi and there is no aspect of the Divine Shakti more attractive to the heart of embodied beings." That means men. It is another way of saying human beings ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  26 May 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 26 May 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 8, "The Psychic Opening". Sweet Mother, when we see you in a dream, is it always a symbolic dream? No, not necessarily. It can be a fact. This means that instead of seeing physically, one sees in the subtle physical or the vital or ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  7 April 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 7 April 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations ", Part II. "When a thought is expressed in speech, the vibration of the sound has a considerable power to bring the most material substance into contact with the thought, thus giving it a concrete and effective reality ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  4 August 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 4 August 1954 This talk is based upon Chapter 5 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Sweet Mother, what is the difference between a servant and a worker? I don't think there is much difference; it is almost the same thing. Perhaps the attitude is not quite the same, but there is not much of a difference. In "servant" ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  28 April 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 28 April 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 3, "Aspiration". Mother, what is an "acute resistance"? Acute? Acute is used in a figurative sense. Acute describes something pointed, don't you know?—and perhaps this means an aggressive, sharp resistance which sinks deep like ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  27 July 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 27 July 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Surrender and Opening". He has said everything, I have nothing to add. Sweet Mother, here it is written: "The heart in this Yoga should in fact be the main centre of concentration until the consciousness rises above." But each one's ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  21 September 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 21 September 1955 Mother reads The Great Secret : The Writer . Sweet Mother, here it is written: "The word is sufficiently immaterial to be in contact with subtle things, forces and vibrations, principles and ideas." My children, I have to tell you to begin with that this is ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  24 August 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 24 August 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Surrender and Opening". So? Sweet Mother, when we concentrate on one of your photos—there are many photos, each one with a different expression—does it make a difference for us, the one on which we concentrate? If you do it purposely, yes, of course. If you ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  5 October 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 5 October 1955 Mother reads The Great Secret : The Scientist . I had the intention of leaving out the last speeches and going straight to the answer of the Unknown Man. But... I shall tell you, because it didn't raise... it seemed to me that it didn't give rise to enough questions ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  14 September 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 14 September 1955 Mother reads The Great Secret : The Statesman [ The Great Secret : A drama arranged and partly written by Mother, in six monologues and a conclusion, staging six of the most famous men of the world and an Unknown Man in a life-boat in which they have taken refuge after the ship which was taking ...

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The Psychic Being  >  The Psychic Being—Centre for Self-Unification

... very entertaining. "I could speak like that? I could talk like that, think like that?... But I was indeed stupid! How I have changed!" Isn't it very interesting, isn't it? The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 1 April 1953 ...

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The Psychic Being  >  Psychic-Mental, Psychic-Vital, Psychic-Physical

... psychic being is definitive, and it is about this that I say, when people ask, "Do I have a contact with my psychic being?", "Your question itself proves that you don't have it!" The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 3 August 1955 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Individuality Is a Conquest

... through a supreme consciousness of unity, in the other through a perfect unconsciousness of unity. The fixity of form is the means by which individuality can be formed. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 20 February 1957 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  What One Calls “Myself”

... possible movements and has no self-control. The body is the last instrument and yet it’s this which one calls “myself” most of the time, unless one has begun to reflect. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 27 July 1955 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Becoming Aware of the Highest in Oneself

... When one has had it one feels that one has begun to live, that before this one did not know what life was. Suddenly one has entered fully into life. This is not forgotten. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 8 December 1954 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Need for Establishing a Relation between the Outer and the Inner

... deeper life. They cut themselves into two, so there is a portion inside which progresses and a portion outside which becomes worse and worse, because it is completely neglected. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 15 December 1954 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Witnesses in the Being

... and not being affected by things. One detaches oneself from them, looks at them as at a dramatic scene, without participating in it. This does not change things very much. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 15 December 1954 ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Nature and Action of Universal Forces

... depends on your relation. This too, it is quite possible the meteorologist scholars would have been able to explain, I know nothing about it, they explain everything one wants. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 30 November 1955 There are forces, and subliminal experience seems to show that there are supraphysical beings embodying those forces, that are attached in their root-nature to ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  26 May 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 26 May 1929 If our will is only an expression or echo of the universal will, where is the place of individual initiative? Is the individual only an instrument to register universal movements? Has he no power of creation or origination? All depends upon the plane of consciousness from which you are looking at ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  28 April 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 28 April 1929 It has been said that in order to progress in Yoga one must offer up everything to the Divine, even every little thing that one has or does in life. What is precisely the meaning of that? Yoga means union with the Divine, and the union is effected through offering—it is founded on the offering ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  5 May 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 5 May 1929 What is the proper function of the intellect? Is it a help or a hindrance to Sadhana? Whether the intellect is a help or a hindrance depends upon the person and upon the way in which it is used. There is a true movement of the intellect and there is a wrong movement; one helps, the other hinders ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  4 August 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 4 August 1929 Is not surrender the same as sacrifice? In our Yoga there is no room for sacrifice. But everything depends on the meaning you put on the word. In its pure sense it means a consecrated giving, a making sacred to the Divine. But in the significance that it now bears, sacrifice is something that ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Endurance - the Vital's Hunger for Praise - Signs of the Converted Vital

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Endurance - the Vital's Hunger for Praise - Signs of the Converted Vital Let endurance be your watchword: teach the life-force in you—your vital being—not to complain but to put up with all the conditions necessary for great achievement. The body is a very enduring servant, it bears the stress of circumstance tamely like ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Victory over Falsehood

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Victory over Falsehood The lords of Falsehood hold, at present, almost complete sway over poor humanity. Not only the lower life-energy, the lower vital being, but also the whole mind of man accepts them. Countless are the ways in which they are worshipped, for they are most subtle in their cunning and seek their ends ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Renunciation

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Renunciation There is in books a lot of talk about renunciation—that you must renounce possessions, renounce attachments, renounce desires. But I have come to the conclusion that so long as you have to renounce anything you are not on this path; for, so long as you are not thoroughly disgusted with things as they are, ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Awakened One (The Buddha)

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Awakened One (The Buddha) He whose victory has never been surpassed nor even equalled—which path can lead to Him, the Pathless, the Awakened One who dwells within the Infinite? One in whom there is neither greed nor desire, how can he be led astray? Which path can lead to Him ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  25 December 1950

... December Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 25 December 1950 A disciple explains to the children that the shortest day of the year corresponds to the greatest declination of the sun to the south, about the 21st of December; then the sun again mounts to the north. Mother comments: That is why the 25th of December was a festival of Light long before ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  30 December 1950

... December Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 30 December 1950 "We are not aiming at success—our aim is perfection. "We are not seeking fame or reputation; we want to prepare ourselves for a Divine manifestation." "Tournaments" , On Education What is perfection? Some people put perfection at the apex. It is generally thought that ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Path

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Path The best of all paths is the Eightfold Path; the best of all truths is the Fourfold Truth; the best of all states is freedom from attachment; the best among men is the One who sees, the Buddha. Truly, this is the Path; there is no other which leads to purification of vision ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  21 December 1950

... December Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 21 December 1950 "O Consciousness, immobile and serene, Thou watchest at the 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 ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Bhikkhu

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Bhikkhu To control the eye is good; to control the ear is good; to control the nose and the tongue is good. It is good to control one's actions, words, mind. Control in all things is good. The Bhikkhu who controls himself entirely is delivered from all suffering. The man ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  28 December 1950

... December Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 28 December 1950 Mother reads out her article "Correct Judgment" ( On Education ). After examining various elements that falsify our judgment, Mother adds this commentary: The sense organs are under the influence of the psychological state of the individual because something comes in between the eye's ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Pleasure

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Pleasure One who gives himself entirely to what is unprofitable, who does not give himself to what is profitable, who sacrifices true knowledge for the sake of pleasure, will envy those who have chosen the path of self-knowledge. Therefore do not seek after pleasure, much less what ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  23 December 1950

... December Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 23 December 1950 Mother reads out her article "Concentration and Dispersion" ( On Education ), then comments on it: To solve a problem, to learn a lesson, a lot of concentration and attention is needed, everyone knows that—an intellectual attention and concentration. But concentration is not only an ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Old Age

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Old Age Why this joy, this gladness, when the world is forever burning? O you who are enveloped in shadows, why do you not seek the light? See then this poor decorated form, this mass of corruptible elements, of infirmities and vain desires in which nothing is lasting or stable. ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  26 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 26 March 1951 "At every moment one must know how to lose all in order to gain all." What does this mean? We have already spoken about this. When we enter upon the path of yoga, why do our dear ones leave us? One loses all worldly possessions, all one's attachments; sometimes, even, one loses one's position ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Vigilance

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Vigilance + − AUDIO ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Knowledge by Unity with the Divine - The Divine Will in the World

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Knowledge by Unity with the Divine - The Divine Will in the World Consciousness is the faculty of becoming aware of anything whatsoever through identification with it. But the divine consciousness is not only aware but knows and effects. For, mere awareness is not knowledge. To become aware of a vibration, for instance ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Punishment

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Punishment All tremble when faced with punishment; all fear death. Seeing others as ourselves, do not strike, do not cause another to strike. All tremble when faced with punishment; life is dear to all. Seeing others as ourselves, do not strike, do not cause another to strike. ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Sage

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Sage We should seek the company of the sage who shows us our faults, as if he were showing us a hidden treasure; it is best to cultivate relations with such a man because he cannot be harmful to us. He will bring us only good. One who exhorts us to good and dissuades us from doing ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Adept

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Adept No sorrow exists for one who has completed his journey, who has let fall all cares, who is free in all his parts, who has cast off all bonds. Those who are heedful strive always and, like swans leaving their lakes, leave one home after another. Those who amass nothing ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Mind

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Mind Just as the arrow-maker straightens his arrows, so also the intelligent man straightens his thoughts, wavering and fickle, difficult to keep straight, difficult to master. Just as a fish cast out of the water, our mind quivers and gasps when it leaves behind the kingdom of ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Flowers

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Flowers Who will conquer this world of illusion and the kingdom of Yama 1 and the world of the gods? Who will discover the path of the Law as the skilled gardener discovers the rarest of flowers? The disciple on the right path will conquer this world of illusion and the kingdom ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Supermind and Overmind

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Supermind and Overmind Sri Aurobindo's work is a unique earth-transformation. Above the mind there are several levels of conscious being, among which the really divine world is what Sri Aurobindo has called the Supermind, the world of the Truth. But in between is what he has distinguished as the Overmind, the world ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Difficulties in Yoga

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Difficulties in Yoga The nature of your difficulty indicates the nature of the victory you will gain, the victory you will exemplify in Yoga. Thus, if there is persistent selfishness, it points to a realisation of universality as your most prominent achievement in the future. And, when selfishness is there, you have also ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Supramental Descent

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Supramental Descent Do you know what the flower which we have called "Successful Future" signifies when given to you? It signifies the hope—nay, even the promise—that you will participate in the descent of the supramental world. For that descent will be the successful consummation of our work, a descent of which the ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  25 January 1951

... January Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 25 January 1951 "The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depression, of passions and revolt. It can set in motion everything, build up and realise, it can also destroy and mar everything. It seems to be, in the human being, the ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  13 January 1951

... January Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 13 January 1951 "An aimless life is always a miserable life." "The Science of Living" , On Education Why? If one has an aim, one can follow quietly the way which leads to the goal. It is not necessary to have a goal in order to follow the way quietly. So many men who have no goal follow ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  15 January 1951

... January Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 15 January 1951 "It is only by observing these movements (of our being) with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to educate in us a discernment which does not err." "The Science of Living" ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  15 February 1951

... February Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 15 February 1951 Mother reads the beginning of her talk of 21 April 1929 about dreams and visions. Often I have dreams about railways. I often miss the train... It is quite symbolical! ...because I have too much luggage. I run after it and at times I succeed in catching up with it and jumping ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  20 January 1951

... January Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 20 January 1951 "To complete this movement of inner discovery, it is good not to neglect the mental development. For the mental instrument can be equally a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human mind is always limited in its vision, narrow in its understanding, rigid in its conceptions ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  28 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 28 April 1951 "But so long as the lower nature is active the personal effort of the Sadhaka remains necessary." Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , p. 6 Outwardly, one believes in one's own personality and one's own effort. So long as you believe in personal effort, you must make a personal effort ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  5 May 1951

... May Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 5 May 1951 "If you want to be a true doer of divine works, your first aim must be to be totally free from all desire and self-regarding ego." Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , p. 15 Sometimes we go to the bazaar to buy our things. Is that good? One cannot make general rules. This depends on the ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  26 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 26 April 1951 "... Reject too the false and indolent expectation that the divine Power will do even the surrender for you. The Supreme demands your surrender to her, but does not impose it: you are free at every moment, till the irrevocable transformation comes, to deny and to reject the Divine or to recall ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  11 May 1951

... May Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 11 May 1951 Mother reads the passage about Mahakali ( pp. 28-30 ) from The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Are the stories told about the image of Mahakali true? What stories? Hundreds of stories are told, my child. Which stories are you speaking of? Which Mahakali? The images made of her, the statues? This ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  15 August 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 15 August 1956 " It is here that the emergence of the secret psychic being in us as the leader of the sacrifice is of the utmost importance; for this inmost being alone can bring with it the full power of the spirit in the act, the soul in the symbol. It alone can assure, even while ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  21 November 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 21 November 1956 Mother distributes the booklet Thoughts and Glimpses , then glances through one of the copies: Five paragraphs dealing with five modes of being or five states of being, and the same thing recurs in all the different domains: " When we have passed beyond knowings ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  14 November 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 14 November 1956 Mother finishes reading Part One of The Synthesis of Yoga. Now we have finished. Do you have something to ask about this subject, in conclusion? What are your reflections? Your comments? ( Silence ) All right. What effect has this had on you? Has it helped ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  26 December 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 26 December 1956 " Not to go on for ever repeating what man has already done is our work, but to arrive at new realisations and undreamed-of masteries. Time and soul and world are given us for our field, vision and hope and creative imagination stand for our prompters, will and thought ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  9 January 1957

... January Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 9 January 1957 " God cannot cease from leaning down towards Nature, nor man from aspiring-towards the Godhead. It is the eternal relation of the finite to the infinite. When they seem to turn from each other, it is to recoil for a more intimate meeting. " In man nature ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  2 January 1957

... January Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 2 January 1957 " If Brahman were only an impersonal abstraction eternally contradicting the apparent fact of our concrete existence, cessation would be the right end of the matter; but love and delight and self-awareness have also to be reckoned. " The universe is not ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  5 December 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 5 December 1956 Now we are going to read what should be done to realise what was expressed in the five preceding paragraphs: " Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal. " Transform effort into an even and sovereign over-flowing of the ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  19 December 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 19 December 1956 " Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced state and a yet unaccomplished journey. " If thou wouldst have humanity advance, buffet all preconceived ideas. Thought thus smitten awakes and becomes creative. Otherwise it rests ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  16 January 1957

... January Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 16 January 1957 " Man seeks at first blindly and does not even know that he is seeking his divine self; for he starts from the obscurity of material Nature and even when he begins to see, he is long blinded by the light that is increasing in him. God too answers obscurely ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  30 July 1958

... July Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 30 July 1958 Sweet Mother, what kind of forces can be called up by using the planchette, and how is it done? Oh! Oh!... Do you mean automatic writing? Yes, Mother. That depends on the people who do it. Sometimes there are no forces at all! It is the mental and vital ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  19 March 1958

... March Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 19 March 1958 " Next, it may be conceded that each type or pattern of consciousness and being in the body, once established, has to be faithful to the law of being of that type, to its own design and rule of nature. But it may also very well be that part of the law of the ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  23 July 1958

... July Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 23 July 1958 Mother, how can the faculty of intuition be developed? There are different kinds of intuition, and we carry these capacities within us. They are always active to some extent but we don't notice them because we don't pay enough attention to what is going on ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  4 June 1958

... June Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 4 June 1958 " At first this truth of the spirit and of spirituality is not self-evident to the mind; man becomes mentally aware of his soul as something other than his body, superior to his normal mind and life, but he has no clear sense of it, only a feeling of some of its ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  16 April 1958

... April Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 16 April 1958 " In the previous stages of the evolution Nature's first care and effort had to be directed towards a change in the physical organisation, for only so could there be a change of consciousness; this was a necessity imposed by the insufficiency of the force of ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  25 June 1958

... June Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 25 June 1958 " In the very nature of things all evolution must proceed at first by a slow unfolding; for each new principle that evolves its powers has to make its way out of an involution in Inconscience and Ignorance. It has a difficult task in pulling itself out of the ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  23 April 1958

... April Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 23 April 1958 Sweet Mother, when we make an effort to do better but don't see any progress, we feel discouraged. What is the best thing to do? Not to be discouraged! Despondency leads nowhere. To begin with, the first thing to tell yourself is that you are almost entirely ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  2 April 1958

... April Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 2 April 1958 Mother, you said that when one consciously makes a mistake it is much more serious than if one makes it unconsciously. When you make a mistake because you don't know that it is a mistake, through ignorance, it is obvious that when you learn that it is a mistake ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  4 January 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 4 January 1956 " If we are to attempt an integral Yoga, it will be as well to start with an idea of the Divine that is itself integral. There should be an aspiration in the heart wide enough for a realisation without any narrow limits. Not only should we avoid a sectarian religious ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  27 June 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 27 June 1956 Last week I spoke to you about birth: how souls enter a body; and I told you that the body is formed in a very unsatisfactory way for almost everyone―exceptions are so rare that one can hardly speak of them. I told you that due to this obscure birth one arrives with a ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  1 August 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 1 August 1956 Sweet Mother, does the worship offered to the goddess Durga and to Kali have any spiritual value? That depends on who offers the worship. It is not that which is of importance for the spiritual value. For the integrality and the complete truth of the Yoga it is important ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  22 August 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 22 August 1956 Sweet Mother, what does Sri Aurobindo call "the heaven of the liberated mind"? The heaven of the liberated mind? It is a metaphorical phrase. When the mind is liberated, it rises to celestial heights. These higher regions of the mind Sri Aurobindo compares with the ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  5 September 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 5 September 1956 " A principle of dark and dull inertia is at its [life's] base; all are tied down by the body and its needs and desires to a trivial mind, petty desires and emotions, an insignificant repetition of small worthless functionings, needs, cares, occupations, pains, pleasures ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  19 September 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 19 September 1956 Sweet Mother, I haven't understood this well: "Will, Power, Force are the native substance of the Life-Energy, and herein lies the justification for the refusal of Life to acknowledge the supremacy of Knowledge and Love alone,—for its push towards the satisfaction ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  10 October 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 10 October 1956 Some days ago, during the Translation Class 1 I found a passage in The Life Divine which, I thought, might interest you this evening. Sri Aurobindo is speaking of the movement of Nature and he explains how from matter which seems inert came life, then how from life ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  31 October 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 31 October 1956 Mother, someone has asked me to request you to explain one of your sentences. You have said somewhere that one must become divine before one can bear the pressure of Divine Love. It is in the "Diary". Oh! you are repeating it a little freely! Well, what does he ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  7 November 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 7 November 1956 " The Shakti, the power of the Infinite and the Eternal descends within us, works, breaks up our present psychological formations, shatters every wall, widens, liberates... she frees the consciousness from confinement in the body; it can go out in trance or sleep or ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  12 September 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 12 September 1956 Sweet Mother, do we have a right to ask questions if we don't practise what you say? You always have the right to do anything! ( Laughter ) You may ask all the questions you like. Practise? Fundamentally, it is up to each one to choose, isn't it?—whether he wants ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  19 February 1958

... February Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 19 February 1958 Mother reads her comments upon an experience she had on February 3 : Between the beings of the supramental world and men, almost the same separation exists as between men and animals. Some time ago I had the experience of identification with animal life ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  27 November 1957

... November Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 27 November 1957 " It is open also to doubt whether the evolution is likely to go any farther than it has gone already or whether a supramental evolution, the appearance of a consummated Truth-Consciousness, a being of Knowledge, is at all probable in the fundamental Ignorance ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  30 October 1957

... October Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 30 October 1957 " This terrestrial evolutionary working of Nature from Matter to Mind and beyond it has a double process: there is an outward visible process of physical evolution with birth as its machinery,—for each evolved form of body housing its own evolved power of ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  13 November 1957

... November Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 13 November 1957 I have a question about the first page where Sri Aurobindo says, "A spiritual evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is then the key-note, the central ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  5 February 1958

... February Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 5 February 1958 " The metaphysical objection [to a teleological cosmos] is more serious; for it seems self-evident that the Absolute can have no purpose in manifestation except the delight of manifestation itself: an evolutionary movement in Matter as part of the manifestation ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  18 December 1957

... December Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 18 December 1957 Mother reads a paragraph from The Life Divine , SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 829 . The only really important thing modern science has discovered is that from the purely outer and physical point of view things are not what they seem to be. When you look at a body ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  12 March 1958

... March Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 12 March 1958 " On the side of consciousness the new manifestation, the human, could be accounted for by an upsurge of concealed Consciousness from the involution in universal Nature. But in that case it must have had some material form already existent for its vehicle of ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  26 February 1958

... February Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 26 February 1958 Sweet Mother, you have often spoken about the powers of the sun but you have never said anything about the moon or the stars. From what point of view? Symbolically? Yes, Mother. That depends on the schools of thought, the periods, the countries ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  15 January 1958

... January Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 15 January 1958 Mother reads a paragraph from The Life Divine continuing arguments from the point of view that each type of being, including man, is fixed in its type and does not progress, and that if a new creation is intended, it cannot develop out of man. (SABCL, Vol ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  25 January 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 25 January 1956 " Life, not a remote silent or high-uplifted ecstatic Beyond—Life alone, is the field of our Yoga. The transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an integrated ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  21 December 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 21 December 1955 Mother reads from The Synthesis of Yoga , " Self-Consecration ". "Often he (the sadhak) finds that even after he has won persistently his own personal battle, he has still to win it over and over again..." Yes. So? Then does this mean that others profit by ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  22 February 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 22 February 1956 Sweet Mother, I don't understand "the strong immobility of an immortal spirit". Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 95 What is it you don't understand? That an immortal spirit has a strong immobility? It says what it means. An immortal ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  2 May 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 2 May 1956 Sri Aurobindo says that the union has a threefold character: first, the liberation from the Ignorance and identification with the Real and Eternal.... This is the yoga of knowledge. Then the dwelling of the soul with or in the Divine.... That is the aim of the ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  11 July 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 11 July 1956 I have received three questions, one of which would require some fairly unpleasant remarks which I don't want to make to you.... There are two others here which I could perhaps answer: One is about a sentence in The Synthesis of Yoga where Sri Aurobindo speaks of the psychic ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  14 March 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 14 March 1956 " The practice of this Yoga demands a constant inward remembrance of the one central liberating knowledge.... In all is the one Self, the one Divine is all; all are in the Divine, all are the Divine and there is nothing else in the universe,― this thought or this faith ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  30 May 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 30 May 1956 " The Yogin's aim in the sciences that make for knowledge should be to discover and understand the workings of the Divine Consciousness-Puissance in man and creatures and things and forces, her creative significances, her execution of the mysteries, the symbols in which ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  29 February 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 29 February 1956 On this evening, during the meditation which followed this conversation, there took place what Mother has called "the first Manifestation of the Supramental Light-Force in the earth-atmosphere". " The law of sacrifice is the common divine action that was thrown out ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  9 May 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 9 May 1956 Sweet Mother, where does our true spiritual life begin? The true spiritual life begins when one is in communion with the Divine in the psychic, when one is conscious of the divine Presence in the psychic and in constant communion with the psychic. Then the spiritual life ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  21 March 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 21 March 1956 Sweet Mother, here it is written: "There is one fundamental perception indispensable towards any integral knowledge.... It is to realise the Divine in its essential self and truth...." Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 106 How can ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  10 July 1957

... July Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 10 July 1957 " It may well be that the evolutionary urge would proceed to a change of the organs themselves in their material working and use and diminish greatly the need of their instrumentation and even of their existence. The centres in the subtle body , sūkṣma śarīra ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  2 October 1957

... October Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 2 October 1957 " The essential character of Supermind is a Truth-Consciousness which knows by its own inherent right of nature, by its own light: it has not to arrive at knowledge but possesses it. It may indeed, especially in its evolutionary action, keep knowledge behind ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  31 July 1957

... July Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 31 July 1957 Sweet Mother, on Friday the subject you gave for meditation was "How to awaken in the body an aspiration for the Divine." Yes. How to do it, Sweet Mother? Naturally, there are many ways of doing it and, in fact, each one should find his own. But the ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  18 September 1957

... September Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 18 September 1957 Mother, what place will occultism have in the supramental life? Why particularly occultism? Because everything will be known, won't it? Why occultism? There is a place for everything in the supramental life. Does this interest you specially ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  17 July 1957

... July Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 17 July 1957 Has no one any questions on the text?... I have nothing special to tell you this evening, and if you are not curious to know what the new perfections of the body could be... Mother, in the physical education we practise here our aim is a greater and greater ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  9 October 1957

... October Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 9 October 1957 Mother reads the last pages of The Supramental Manifestation . " Even in the material world which seems to us a world of ignorance, a world of the workings of a blind and inconscient Force starting from inconscience and proceeding through Ignorance and ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  24 July 1957

... July Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 24 July 1957 " In fact, a supermind is already here but it is involved, concealed behind this manifest mind, life and Matter and not yet acting overtly or in its own power: if it acts, it is through these inferior powers and modified by their characters and so not yet recognisable ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  25 September 1957

... September Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 25 September 1957 " A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  14 August 1957

... August Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 14 August 1957 This evening, instead of answering questions, I would like us to meditate on the remembrance of Sri Aurobindo, on the way to keep it alive in us and on the gratitude we owe him for all that he has done and is still doing in his ever luminous, living and active ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  8 February 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 8 February 1956 Sweet Mother, I have not understood this: "At best we have only the poor relative freedom which by us is ignorantly called free will. But that is at bottom illusory, since it is the modes of Nature that express themselves through our personal will; it is force of Nature ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  11 January 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 11 January 1956 Mother, "this craving life-force or desire-soul in us has to be accepted at first, but only in order that it may be transformed." Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 77 But even when we understand that it is a desire and must be rejected ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  1 February 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 1 February 1956 Sri Aurobindo writes here, "It is possible, indeed, to begin with knowledge or Godward emotion solely or with both together and to leave works for the final movement of the Yoga." Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 86 What is this ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  14 December 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 14 December 1955 Mother reads from The Synthesis of Yoga , " Self-Consecration ". Sweet Mother, I haven't understood this paragraph very well. Which paragraph? "The powers of this world and their actual activities, it is felt, either do not belong to God at all or are for ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  15 February 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 15 February 1956 Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo speaks of "this executive world-Nature". Is there an executive Nature on the other planes also? On the other planes, what do you mean? In the mind and higher up. The earth-Nature contains not only matter—the physical and its different ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  7 December 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 7 December 1955 Mother reads from The Synthesis of Yoga , " Self-Consecration ". Mother, one can make an offering of oneself only when one reaches quite a high level, but when one is leading a more or less unconscious life, the self-giving becomes more or less mental, doesn't it ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  23 November 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 23 November 1955 Mother reads from The Synthesis of Yoga , " The Four Aids ". I did not understand the last part very well. Which last part, my child? "... the sadhak of the integral Yoga will not be satisfied until he has included all other names and forms of Deity in his ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  9 November 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 9 November 1955 Mother reads from The Synthesis of Yoga , " The Four Aids ". Mother, I don't understand "Our sense of personal effort and aspiration comes from the attempt of the egoistic mind to identify itself in a wrong and imperfect way with the workings of the divine Force." ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  17 August 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 17 August 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Surrender And Opening". Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of "a horizontal opening into the cosmic consciousness"? You see, one always has the feeling either of a vertical ascent to the heights of the Supreme Consciousness or a kind of... how to put it?... ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  10 August 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 10 August 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Surrender and Opening". Here we are. Nothing to ask? Nobody has anything to say? ( Silence ) We can meditate for five minutes. Let us try collective meditation, shall we? It's going to be a little difficult. We can try. You would like to try on what we have ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  19 June 1957

... June Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 19 June 1957 Sweet Mother, if someone falls seriously ill, is this a purely physical phenomenon or is it a difficulty in his spiritual life? That depends on the person! If it is someone who is doing yoga, it is quite obviously a difficulty in his spiritual life. If it is ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  30 January 1957

... January Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 30 January 1957 " The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature. " Man is in love with the bonds of birth; therefore he is caught in the companion bonds of death. In ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  29 May 1957

... May Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 29 May 1957 " A divine life in a divine body is the formula of the ideal that we envisage.... The process of the evolution upon earth has been slow and tardy—what principle must intervene if there is to be a transformation, a progressive or sudden change? " It is indeed ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  10 April 1957

... April Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 10 April 1957 " Another invaluable result of these activities [sports, etc.] is the growth of what has been called the sporting spirit. That includes good humour and tolerance and consideration for all, a right attitude and friendliness to competitors and rivals, self-control ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  8 May 1957

... May Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 8 May 1957 Mother, usually we see that many of us take an interest in the games and activities in which there is some excitement, but few take interest in serious activities, serious exercises. Why is that? Because in the vast majority of cases, what gives interest is vital ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  13 March 1957

... March Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 13 March 1957 This evening, once again, no reading. But someone has asked me a question on something I have written—Pavitra, do you have it? Read it. (Pavitra reads) "Our best friend is he who loves us in our best part, and yet does not ask us to be different from what ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  6 March 1957

... March Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 6 March 1957 My eye won't allow me to read today. 1 But I have been asked a question on what I read to you last week. I am going to reply to it this evening. Pavitra, will you read, please? (Pavitra reads) What does this paragraph mean?: "Freedom is the law of being ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  20 March 1957

... March Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 20 March 1957 " The delight of victory is sometimes less than the attraction of struggle and suffering; nevertheless the laurel and not the cross should be the aim of the conquering human soul. " Souls that do not aspire are God's failures; but Nature is pleased and loves ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  9 July 1957

... July Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 9 July 1957 This brief talk was given to the children as an exception on a Tuesday before the meditation. We said that we were going to prepare ourselves methodically for the sadhana.... There is one point on which I have already insisted strongly, but unfortunately without ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  10 September 1958

... September Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 10 September 1958 " In modern times, as physical Science enlarged its discoveries and released the secret material forces of Nature into an action governed by human knowledge for human use, occultism receded and was finally set aside on the ground that the physical alone ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  22 October 1958

... October Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 22 October 1958 " But this is not the standpoint from which the true significance of the spiritual evolution in man or the value of spirituality can be judged or assessed; for its real work is not to solve human problems on the past or present mental basis, but to create ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  26 November 1958

... November Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 26 November 1958 " As Mind is established here on a basis of Ignorance seeking for Knowledge and growing into Knowledge, so Supermind must be established here on a basis of Knowledge growing into its own greater Light. But this cannot be so long as the spiritual-mental ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  12 November 1958

... November Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 12 November 1958 " If it is the sole intention of Nature in the evolution of the spiritual man to awaken him to the supreme Reality and release him from herself, or from the Ignorance in which she as the Power of the Eternal has masked herself, by a departure into a higher ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Recognising Another’s Soul; Looking at Oneself

... one has seized the thread, and when one speaks of control, one can know, “Ah! Yes, this is what has the power of control.” This is how one learns to look at oneself. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 9 April 1958 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Psychic Being and Individual Progress

... many, countless species before and carries an experience of thousands of years within you, and which will continue while your human body remains human and finally decomposes. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 30 October 1957 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Reviewing the Movements of One’s Being

... ur feelings, your thoughts, your impulses, etc,—around the psychic centre which is the inner light, you will see that all inner disorder will change into a luminous order. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 15 January 1951 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Need for Perfecting the Instruments of Consciousness

... you to make the right movement at the right moment but it is not exclusive. When you seek perfection, you must not neglect the one under the pretext that you have the other. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 15 January 1951 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Does Everyone Always Progress?

... and open to the divine Forces. So, a man as a momentary individual being may not appear to progress. But the progress is continued through him, as through all organisms. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 28 December 1955 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Pleasure and Joy

... can’t have pleasure for a long time. The only thing which can be lasting is joy, if one enters into contact with the truth of the being which holds this joy permanently. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 20 June 1956 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Asceticism and Self-Mastery

... when for one reason or another it goes away, to let it go and not regret it. Not to refuse it when it comes, to know how to adapt yourself and not to regret it when it goes. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 15 December 1954 ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  15 August 1958

... August Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 15 August 1958 This short talk was given on a Friday, the day on which the Dhammapada was usually read. As today is Sri Aurobindo's birthday I thought that instead of reading the Dhammapada I could read to you something which will both interest you and show you how Sri ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 13

... the most part the dates in this section are those of the written questions. The Mother sometimes answered long after the question was submitted to her, without dating her reply. Some of the questions and answers towards the end of this section were oral. 13—They told me, "These things are hallucinations." I inquired what was a hallucination and found that it meant a subjective or psychical experience ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1969  >  September 20, 1969

... it's good. It's if there were some vital STIR at the same time that one should beware, but when there's nothing... ( silence ) Do we have some work to do? There's the Bulletin: the "Questions and Answers." Is it worth publishing? Oh, yes, certainly! Certainly. ( Mother laughs ) They're FINE, these Talks. Are you taking up the old ones again? Yes, of 1953. ( Satprem ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  February 3, 1958

... Indeed, one of the people near Mother had pulled Her out of the experience. × See Questions and Answers , ( July 10, 1957 ). ...

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The Golden Path  >  Tehmi Masalawalla

... The Golden Path Tehmi Masalawalla Tehmi Masalawalla, a gifted poet, teacher, translator of Mother’s Questions and Answers and Satprem’s Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness , was one of the first to reside in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram’s Golconde residence from as early as 1947. When I visited her room I was immediately struck by the ...

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Preparing for the Miraculous  >  8: Sri Aurobindo’s Descent into Death

... K.D. Sethna: The Passing of Sri Aurobindo , p. 5. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , p. 57. × Nirodbaran: Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo , p. 266. ...

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Overman  >  Introductory Quotes

... to the human being of animal origin, but that he will transform his consciousness sufficiently to belong, in his realisation and activity, to a new race, a race of overmen. The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58, p. 277 ...

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Preparing for the Miraculous  >  3: Preparing for the Miraculous

... Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga , pp. 537 and 585. × The Mother: Questions and Answers , 16 April 1958. × Ibid . ...

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Patterns of the Present  >  Introductory Quotes

... to the Hereafter or the On-high, try to realise physically, externally, the change of consciousness they have realised within themselves – all those are apprentice-overmen. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 8 October 1958 ...

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Hitler and his God  >  References

... p. 15. 950 Id., p. 14. 951 Georges Van Vrekhem: The Mother – The Story of Her Life, p. 26. 952 Id., p. 27. 953 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 652. 954 The Mother: Questions and Answers 1954, p. 38. 955 Sri Aurobindo, op. cit., p. 876. 956 Mother India, Jan. 1989, p. 26. For more details about Golconde see Georges Van Vrekhem: Beyond Man, pp. 204 ff. 957 Id., ...

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Hitler and his God  >  Bibliography

... Entretiens 1953 Mère: Entretiens 1954 Mère: L’Agenda de Mère II Mosse, George: The Crisis of German Ideology – Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (1998 ed.) Mother: Questions and Answers 1954 Neuberger, Helmut: Winkelmass und Hakenkreuz Nirodbaran: Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo Nirodbaran: Talks with Sri Aurobindo Nirodbaran: Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  17 May 1974

... and intense that if you can feel the movement in the trees, your own being too will go up in an ardent prayer for the peace and light and love that are unmanifested here . The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): 2 June 1929 ...

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The Story of a Soul  >  25 October 1955

... world it is the Spirit which will become the master of this world in its entirety and of all its manifestations and all its expressions consciously, spontaneously, naturally. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 26 November 1958 I wondered why Mother gave importance to birthays. Every evening I saw many birthday people going to her at the end of the distribution, carrying posies ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  The Godhead

... communion with eternity, with the true Life, the Light that never fails. It is to be free in true Liberty, the Liberty of the constant and invariable union with the divine Will. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Happiness Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chandod he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  Because Thou Art

... the being, the Divine manifests Himself differently. In the higher parts He manifests as Power, Love, etc., but in the physical He manifests Himself as harmony and beauty. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 25 January 1951 Ishwara is God, the Divine Being, Lord of all the Beings, conscious in the conscious, also in the inconscience, master and controller of the many who ...

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My Savitri work with the Mother  >  04 November 1961

... starting-point. Unless your consciousness changes its dimension, it will remain just what it is with the superficial vision of things, and all the profundities will escape you. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 4 January 1951 The next morning I finished the picture, and showed it to the Mother in the afternoon. She clasped my hands, looked into my eyes for a moment or two and gave ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  Evening

... He is All, He ever seeks to find Himself in what is not-Himself — that is why He has created in His own being what seems to be a colossal not-Himself, this phenomenal world. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  25 February 1966

... were more marked, a little more precise and at the same time reduced in power and capacity. Then from the Overmind they come down into the human mind, the terrestrial mind. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 11 May 1951 Sri Aurobindo has written about Gods: Gods are Personalities or Powers put forth by the Divine, they are therefore in fact limited emanations, although the ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  16 February 1968

... flower, and they waste the force that has been put in it through their unconsciousness and lack of receptivity. But the force is there, and the flower receives it wonderfully . The Mother, Questions and Answers (1954): 14 July 1954 ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  01 November 1963

... consciousness, enter a little more deeply into one's being and try to perceive the play of forces behind the appearance, and the Divine Presence behind the play of forces . The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Niraya (Hell) Here are Sri Aurobindo's words which are quite apt: To look into ourselves and see and enter into ourselves and live within us is the first necessary step ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1962  >  February 13, 1962

... several Playground Talks to be published in the Ashram Bulletin:) [From 1951 to 1958, Mother gave regular talks at the Ashram Playground. These talks were later published under the title Questions and Answers .] It's easy reading, it won't tax their brains. Still, it's worth saying. Actually, I have noticed one thing: nowadays if I spontaneously say something the way I see it, without ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  November 12, 1960

... can be troublesome ... Let us see. ( After a moment of silence ) We don't have time now to work, it's too late. And anyway, we can't see properly. Did you bring anything? Yes, some 'Questions and Answers.' More small talk! Speaking of which, I looked at T's most recent questions on the Aphorisms again. All these children haven't the least sense of humor, so Sri Aurobindo's paradoxes ...

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Words of the Mother - III  >  15 November 1958

... total victory. Page 370 × The Mother commented on this experience in her talk of 19 February 1958, ( Questions and Answers 1957-58 , CWM, Vol. 9, pp. 271-283 ). × The experience of November 13. ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  May 19, 1959

... Original English. × In December 1958 , when Mother stopped the Questions and Answers at the playground and thereafter left the Ashram building only rarely. ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  June 2, 1961

... Mother’s Agenda 1961 June 2, 1961 ( Regarding an earlier 'Questions and Answers'— March 13, 1957 —where Mother says: 'And finally, isn't the Divine the best friend one could have? The Divine to whom one can tell all, reveal all, because here is the source of all mercy, of all power to efface error when it no longer recurs ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  March 3, 1960

... 1960 Experiences are coming at a furious pace—fabulous experiences. If I were to speak now, it's certain that I would not at all speak as I used to. That's why we must date all these Questions and Answers , at least all which come before the [Supramental] Manifestation of February 1956, so that there will be a clear cut between those before and those after. Only a few days ago, on the morning ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1967  >  September 6, 1967

... that, and he showed that so we would both see it—and he smiled and smiled.... I think he wanted to laugh! × Questions and Answers. ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1967  >  March 2, 1967

... how it is, that's how it will be." There. Page 68 × Mother is referring to the Playground Talk ( Questions and Answers ) of May 14, 1951 , on "chance," in which she said in particular: "Unless the event is the result of the divine Will expressed without admixture, it is the work of what we call 'chance.' In ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1967  >  March 11, 1967

... Mother’s Agenda 1967 March 11, 1967 There is a question of terminology. I would like to put a note at the beginning of the third volume of "Questions and Answers," in which I say: "We found it fitting to begin this new volume with the Talk of February 29, 1956 , because on that day, during the meditation that followed the class, there took place..." ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1966  >  September 7, 1966

... it, anyway I don't have that money; if I had given it I would have had the credit of giving it; now I have neither the money nor the credit!" ( Mother laughs ) Ah! What have you brought? "Questions and Answers" for the Bulletin ? What is it about? A talk about money! Oh, see! ( Satprem reads the Talk, then Mother comments ) That's why I spoke to you about money—see how it is. Yes ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1966  >  August 27, 1966

... say? No, you are the one who must say. No. I always make a resolve not to speak. Why? Because it waters down the experience. This is also words ( Mother shows the stack of "Questions and Answers" for the next Bulletin ). Yes, but... Page 181 We live in words. Well, yes, it can't be helped! It's unfortunate. Until the world is made differently... No, ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1963  >  August 13, 1963

... × It may be mentioned that at the time, Satprem had undertaken the systematic publication of the older Questions and Answers (Mother's talks at the Ashram Playground), which is why they will come up now and then in the Agenda . ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1963  >  August 13, 1963

... prefer to say 'the Truth,' although it is but one very limited aspect of That which we cannot name but is the Source and Goal of all existence." ) Satprem, Here is what came to me for the Questions and Answers after you left, you will see if you can use it and insert it in the text: I do not readily use the word "God" because religions have made it the name of an almighty being, foreign to his ...

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Our Light and Delight  >  The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

... possibility. On September 25, 1957, the very year of the February Message, she asserts in connection with a passage in Sri Aurobindo's book. The Supramental manifestion: ¹ ¹ Questions and Answers 1957-58 (Collected Works of the Mother —The Centenary Edition, 1977), p. 191. Page 11 "I think — I know — that it is now certain that we shall realise what he expects ...

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Our Light and Delight  >  The Mother and the Beings of the Vital Plane

... building where he was himself residing. The strange story as told in Sri Aurobindo's own words is included in Dilip Kumar Roy's Among the Great and the Mother has recollected it in her Questions and Answers. The phenomenon I am going to describe took place in the first house I occupied — 13 rue Ananda Rangapillai — on my arrival in Pondicherry in 1954 for permanent residence. Sehra and I were ...

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Problems of Early Christianity  >  Raised From The Dead-Section I

... its most energetic preacher, go almost invariably by Acts' sensational tale of Jesus' appearance to him on the road to Damascus. While we have no reason to doubt the substance of the initial questions and answers that Acts narrates between Paul and the widely shining presence of Jesus, what environs and follows them is at utter variance with Paul's own writing. In Acts 9:6 Jesus orders the dazzled Paul ...

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On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri  >  Questions and Answers on Savitri

... On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri Questions and Answers on Savitri (WITH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO SRINVANTU, AUGUST 1986) (A few of us have been trying to read and study Savitri in a group. We requested Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) to kindly give us a guide-line, so that our understanding as well as enjoyment of Savitri might be enhanced and enriched ...

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Our Light and Delight  >  The Birth-Centenary of the Mother

... the physical remains of the Master. Shortly after the body had been brought down from the Mother's room, rapid and extensive deterioration was observed. On 1 February 1969, in a series of questions and answers on death, when she had been asked: "How can one tell for certain that the physical body is dead?" her reply was: "Only when it decomposes." Now no doubt could remain as to what she had allowed ...

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Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo  >  Sri Aurobindo on the Witness Consciousness

... Aurobindo. These points will be dealt with further in the next chapter. Page 76 × The Mother, Questions and Answers, CWM,vol.3,p.184. × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL, VOL.23.p.689 ...

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Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo  >  Acknowledgments

... patience and endurance due to unexpected problems in recording the interview. I thank also Thomas Lilly who painstakingly transcribed long extracts from several of Eckhart's talks, including the questions and answers at Esalen. I wish to express my sincere appreciation to Lynn Crawford for her esteemed help in preparing the manuscript of this book and in providing valuable constructive comments and suggestions ...

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The Mother - Past-Present-Future  >  The Supramental Manifestation of February 29, 1956 (Indra Sen)

... WITH THE MOTHER May 13,1956 THE MOTHER: Were you here on the 29th February? Yes, Mother, I was here. I arrived the same day in the morning and I was present at the "Questions and Answers" and the Meditation. THE MOTHER: Did you feel anything then? No, Mother. All I was aware of is that it was a calm and quiet meditation. It is only on the Darshan Day, the 24th April ...

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The Veda and Indian Culture  >  Appendix 3

... geography, and apart from many legends, there is also a description of secret knowledge relating to birth, death, and the condition of the soul after the death of the body. We also find in them questions and answers dealing with philosophic and yogic matters. Most importantly, Puranas are related to great deities, particularly Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Bhāgavata Purāna is considered to be the most valuable ...

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Bhagavadgita and Contemporary Crisis  >  The Princess

... the husband of the Princess—was an excellent cameraman and was devoted to the production of films which would have direct relevance to education. He wanted to tape-record all the sessions of questions and answers between me and the Princess, and he wanted, therefore, some time for preparation of setting up the tape- recording system in one of the rooms of the castle. The Princess wanted to write ...

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A Pilgrims Quest for the Highest and the Best  >  Notes and References

... education were carried out Page 138 under her guidance. This educational work was a part of Supramental Yoga, and we have rare insights into education and yoga in the volumes entitled Questions and Answers, which contain conversations of the Mother that took place in her classes. In 1958, the Mother withdrew to her room in order to come to terms with the research in the problems related to the ...

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Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays  >  Educational Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo

... country, and they have also received wide attention from the world at large. Mention may be made of the Mother's small but great book on education as also to a series of "Conversations" and "Questions and Answers" which have been published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. 5 Page 144 In 1968, she founded Auroville a few miles form Pondicherry, as a "Laboratory of the New Evolution". Auroville ...

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Integral Yoga, Evolution and the Next Species  >  Part Five

... Divine’, 'The Synthesis of Yoga’, 'Letters on Yoga’, "The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth’, 'Savitri’ — an epic written in the English language, as also 'The Mother's Conversations’, 'Questions and Answers’, and several others show that no change has been more radical than the evolution attempted by means of this new synthesis of yoga. Everything in the world follows its fixed habits Page ...

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The Aim of Life  >  The Ascent to Truth

... ----------------- : The Mother, On Education, Text from pp. 501-516. Page 316 Painting by Rolf, Auroville Suggestions for further reading The Mother. Questions and Answers. Pondicherry: Centenary Edn., 7 Volumes, 1977. Mother's Agenda. Paris: Institute for Evolutionary Research (13 Volumes). For distribution in India: Mira Aditi Centre, Mysore. ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  The conquest over the Hostile Forces

... there are all the difficulties of ignorance of the different states of being, to which are added the endless malice and the unbounded cunning of the hostile forces in the world." (The Mother, Questions and Answers 1950-51, M C W, Vol. 4, pp. 251-52) It is thus clear that the life of sadhana is not always sunlit and the sadhaka has to pass through many difficulties and ordeals; and all this is ...

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The Growth of a Flame  >  Guidance in Daily Activities

... The Growth of a Flame Guidance in Daily Activities These are a few selected questions and answers for guidance in daily activities from 1931 to 1939. Dear Father, I am awaiting a reply from you. Please give me an answer. There is no use in going to Gujarat for learning English. You can learn it here, if you want, much better than ...

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Mysteries of Death, Fate, Karma and Rebirth  >  Some Knotty Problems of Rebirth

... Mysteries of Death, Fate, Karma and Rebirth VIII Some Knotty Problems of Rebirth (In Questions and Answers) The process of successive rebirths of an individual human soul in different physical bodies upon earth is not a simple affair. It is an issue bristling with many problems of understanding; man's rational mind becomes inquisitive to know more ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  Sadhana During Our Body's Sleep

... while, with eyes closed, in a mood of inner assimilation, and when it is done properly And one feels that everything is Page 325 there, one gets up quietly, composedly." (Questions and Answers 1955, p. 136. Adapted.) 'One gets up quietly, composedly': that is all right so far as that goes. But the matter does not end there for the sadhaka of the Integral Yoga. For he has to ...

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Sri Aurobindo And The Mother  >  The Mother meets Sri Aurobindo

... move his fingers on the machine—whereupon it was transcribed.³ ________________________________ ¹ Ibid., pp. 168-9. ² Conversations avec Pavitra, p.156. ³ The Mother, Questions and Answers, 29.8.1956. Page 56 During the period of 1914, when she was in Pondicherry, Mother came to see Sri Aurobindo every afternoon; she learnt Sanskrit from him She also formed a small ...

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The Destiny of the Body  >  Introduction

... and intervention has ushered in an age of miracles — miracles, we repeat, to a mind 1 The Life Divine, p. 1024. 2 3 Lines from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. 4 Questions and Answers, 1957 & 1958, pp. 129-30. "That sees the empiric fact as settled law", 1 forgetting that so-called laws are nothing but long-standing "habits of the world" which can ...

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Sri Aurobindo And The Mother  >  The Mother Continues Sri Aurobindo's Work

... them, in order to move on to ever new combinations. As I said, it is a huge cauldron. Things gets churned up in it and somehow something _______________________________ ¹ The Mother, Questions and Answers, 10.7.57. ² Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 1, p. 131. Page 114 emerges; if it's defective, it is thrown back in and something else is taken out... One form, two forms or a hundred ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  On Aspiration

... "You no longer live like a little machine, hardly half-conscious. You want to feel truly, to act truly, to know truly.... "The starting-point: to want it, truly want it, to need it." {Questions and Answers 1957-58, pp. 373-75) So this is aspiration, and the Mother in her infinite compassion cited her own personal case to exemplify the thing. She told the inmates of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram ...

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Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny  >  Criteria of Admission: A Suggestion

... truly. ... The starting-point: to want it, truly want it, to need it. The next step: to think, above all, of that. A day comes, very quickly, when one is unable to think of anything else." (Questions and Answers 1957-58, pp. 373-75) So, this is what we mean by "receiving a call" and an intending entrant into our Ashram life should feel in some measure the "need" for the higher spiritual existence ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 3  >  Part-VI

... asking questions from me as well as into your answering them yourself.         Was there any egoism in my answers about the sadhana? Sometimes the ego may have mixed itself. Questions and answers in themselves are not egoistic.         Now I feel a great disgust with my way of answering the questions myself. I seek permission to give it up in the future.       How then ...

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On Savitri  >  Preface

... has to be taken as Sri Aurobindo's spiritual autobiography which is meant to make us re-live his inner life of both poetic creativity and creative spirituality." (Amal Kiran [K.D. Sethna] "Questions and Answers on Savitri" in Aspects of Sri Aurobindo, The Integral Life Foundation, USA 1995.) In fact, to enter the portals of any of Sri Aurobindo's major works such as The Life Divine, The Human ...

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Education and the Aim of human life  >  Bibliography

... Divine. 1970. Vols. 22-23. Letters on Yoga. 1970. WORKS OF THE MOTHER The Mother's Collected Works (MCW). 17 vols. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press. Vol. 8. Questions and Answers 1956. 1977. Vol. 12. On Education. 1978. WORKS OF THE AUTHOR Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Education. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, 1990. Sri Aurobindo ...

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A stream of Surrender : Minakshi-Amma  >  content

... Mataram in March 1908. [2] More Answers from the Mother , Collected Works of the Mother (CWM), Vol. 17, 1978, pp.122-3. [3] Questions and Answers ’57-58 , CWM, Vol. 9, 1978, pp. 373-74. [4] Prayers and Meditations , December 7, 1912. [5] "…when you have one or more ...

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Sri Aurobindo - A dream-dialogue with children  >  The Ashram Children And Sri Aurobindo’s Life—A Dream-Dialogue

... for ordinary people." Udita said, "Some time ago, the Russian gymnasts came here, the Mother talked to us about them in the evening class." Udita asked Champaklal if she could have the Questions and Answers from the shelf there. He gave it to her, and she turned the pages of the book, found the passage and read it out, 'We saw with what ease they did exercises which for an ordinary man are impossible ...

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Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness

... all, no one would try to teach him anything (rather, "unlearning" was what was required); there were no classes and no "teaching," except for Sri Aurobindo's written works and the Mother's Questions and Answers , which were at everyone's disposal (as well as all other teachings, in fact, both traditional and nontraditional). There were no rules, either. A disciple had to discover everything for ...

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On the Path  >  1967

... phase of realising power in 1967. " 1 Have things advanced at the required speed? Yes. 2.1.1967 May I try to make my nights conscious? I pray for guidance. 1 Questions and Answers 1957-58 (1977), p. 315. Page 1 1) A short concentration before going to sleep, with an aspiration to remember your activities of the night when you wake up. 2) When ...

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On The Mother  >  Year of Wonders

... Does the success of Your Work for us and for humanity depend in any way upon the fulfilment of Your expectation from us and from humanity? Happily not. The real point of the questions and answers is that essentially the Mother symbolised Grace, and Grace could - and often did - act irrespective of our work, our aspiration, or even our cry for help. Grace is Grace, but Faith is important ...

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On The Mother  >  Readings in Dhammapada

... February 1965. Canto 24 ("Craving"), omitted in the earlier series, was printed in the April and August 1973 issues of The Advent. This translation, revised, appeared in 1977 as part of Questions and Answers, volume 3 of the Mother's Collected Works, pages 183-298; those pages were photographically reproduced in book-form in 1989 as Commentaries on the Dhammapada. Page 639 ...

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On The Mother  >  Powers and Personalities

... they were published separately, with a Foreword by the Mother, as Conversations . In the centenary edition of the Mother's Collected Works they are included in volume 3 under the title Questions and Answers 1929. Again, during 1930 and 1931, the Mother used to come in the evening to the Prosperity Room on the first floor of the Library House, and a select number of disciples used to gather ...

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On The Mother  >  The Golden Bridge

... necessary and finally answering them), but without any counterbalancing advantage. No doubt, more often than not, the replies from the Mother or Sri Aurobindo were pointedly brief, and the questions and answers just filled the pages of exercise books, much as words are exchanged in quick conversation. But there were also longer communications (especially from Sri Aurobindo), extending in a few cases ...

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On The Mother  >  Her Lonely Strength

... easily understand French and converse in it as well. The Mother began taking classes for these advanced pupils, and others also, including quite a few sadhaks attended. There were readings, questions and answers. These classes were to become a wonderful instrument for the communication of information, knowledge, occult wisdom and spiritual illumination, all in an atmosphere of peace, informality and ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine  >  The Human Aspiration

... awaken and develop the faculties or not. If you awaken them then there is a discipline, there is a work to be done, a hard work to be done, but the reward is great. Page 16 Questions and Answers Q : Isn't it only the will (grace) of the Lord and Mother that chooses ? A : No, there are two parts of sadhana,—spiritual effort. The yogic life in Sri Aurobindo's path ...

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Lectures on Savitri  >  Lecture III

... because in two or three days you can't get the whole of Savitri. But you can get something about what it deals with, you can get an idea, a rough outline. Page 79 Questions and Answers When you were reading about pain, this world situation, couldn't we think of it as birth pangs? Yes, of course we can. Certainly the present world situation is the birth ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine  >  Pure Existent

... what it was, ever is and ever will be; its sole object is the joy of the dancing". A timeless, spaceless pure existence and a measureless movement in time : Shiva and Kali in one. Questions and Answers Q : Can one say : "Absolute existence is absolute nonexistence ? A : To say "Absolute" non-existence is contradiction in terms. Non-existence is negative, one cannot put ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine  >  The Divine Maya

... Omnipotent Force. And when it makes the world the object of its consciousness then it becomes seizable by our thought. The Higher Consciousness has no need to reason because it knows. Questions and Answers Q : How does one enter the life of yoga ? because, ordinarily man has many motives that satisfy him in life. A: Ordinary motives—like satisfaction of desires and impulses or ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine  >  Delight of Existence - the Solution

... realized by the realization of the Supreme, Satchidananda. That might give us the resolution of this problem. Delight is the problem and Delight is the solution. Page 122 Questions and Answers Q : He who loses his life shall find it. A : It is not bliss. "I am the resurrection and the light. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And he ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine  >  Matter

... perfect physical body, also, can be evolved if man admits the possibility. The body cannot be denied the possibility of changing into a higher substance than matter. Page 237 Questions and Answers Q: You gave the example of Rasputin, the Russian Monk; was he possessed by some vital being? A. I think it was not a case of mere possession but perhaps that of an incarnation ...

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Sri Aurobindo and the Earth's Future  >  Sri Aurobindo and the Earths Future

... × Evening Talks, p. 92 × Questions and Answers, 12.11.58 × Savitri, III.IV.389 ...

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Mother or The Divine Materialism - I  >  Introduction

... × On Himself, 26:457 × Entretiens (Questions and Answers), 10.14.1953 × Mothers Agenda XII, 12.1.1971 ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Five  >  From His Students

... he-would throw light on the subjects in an all-round way. "I remember him once lecturing on the political philosophy of Burke. His exposition was so luminous that there was no need of questions and answers. Also I remember the days when he was teaching us Reflections on the Revolution in France 1 by Burke. Sri Aurobindo never took the help of the book and never cared to read it with us to the ...

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Learning with the Mother  >  STORIES

... because She stopped coming to the Playground after 5th December 1958 and all her evening activities were discontinued. Later, around 1960-61, the Mother took up the Thoughts And Aphorisms (questions and answers) at my request and gave Her elucidations in writing. I would write out the aphorism and the relevant question in my notebook, and the Mother would send the answer. This continued up to 27th ...

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Our Light and Delight  >  Some Famous People Admired by the Mother

... spirit of violin-playing. I remember her once alluding to his presence as having a head like a lion's. Even before she spoke at a little length about him in one of her evening sessions of Questions and Answers¹ at the Playground in 1953. I had known from her that something of Beethoven's power had possessed him or had reincarnated in him. She regarded the musician César Franck highly for ...

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The Golden Path  >  Jhumur Bhattacharya

... Wednesday after March Past, gymnastics, concentration and distribution of sweets and prasad, I will teach a class.” Thus on Wednesday nights she began the talks that were later published as Questions and Answers. Everyone joined in. She taught us young people the deeper meaning of yoga and sadhana gradually and slowly. Can you speak to me about your impressions of Sri Aurobindo. What do you remember ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2  >  Apropos of Savitri

... been engaged / in the Yoga of the Earth, the Prithvi Yoga. The dual power of God has been set on the march by God. Therefore in saluting that power we indeed salute God himself. 48 Questions and Answers, CWM, Vol. 5, p. 391. For discussion of several related aspects, see also R.Y. Deshpande, Satyavan Must Die.1996. 49 Savitri , p. 720. Part Two A Brief Resume ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2  >  Shilpa-Yoga and the Kingdom of Subtle Matter

... the shilpa-yogin' s contemplation and 25 Abanindranath Tagore, Bageshwari Shilpa Prabandhābali, Calcutta, Allahabad, Bombay, 1969, p.1. (Author's translation). 26 Questions and Answers, CWM, Vol. 3, p. 105. 27 Ibid., Vol. 6, p. 83. Page 251 representation in the new spiritual Age that is seeking for manifestation, is Sri Aurobindo's invitation ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2  >  Savitri- Its Inner Significance

... of Life. According to Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of evolution we see how out of Matter Life emerged and how out of both Matter and Life, 17 Ibid., pp. 667, 679. 18 Questions and Answers, CWM, Vol. 9, p. 333. Page 144 Mind came upon this creation. How could all these emerge? Not out of a chaos or disorder! In a mother's womb when a child is prepared, it ...

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Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo  >  Method of Spiritual Practice

... The Mother, Question, and Answers 1956, CWM. Vol. 8. p. 193. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 57-58, CWM. Vol. 9, p. 415. × Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL. Vol. ...

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Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo  >  Mind and the Spiritual Life

... Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 24, p. 1243. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1955. CWM. Vol. 7. pp. 213, 214. × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga. SABCL. Vol. 23 ...

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Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo  >  Mind and the Witness Consciousness

... sorrows of a child who is playing and loses himself in the play. 46 Page 93 × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954, CWM, Vol. 6, p. 426. × Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga, SABCL. Vol. 22. p ...

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Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo  >  Questions and Answers at Esalen

... Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo 3 Questions and Answers at Esalen (Eckhart's responses to written questions from the author during a talk at the Esalen retreat, June 1 and 2, 2001. The responses have been paraphrased and abbreviated by the author.) DALAL: Can the state of surrender in which one is able to say "yes" to whatever is , be attained ...

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Patterns of the Present  >  Introduction

... have been organised around some of the main topics, chosen as themes of the chapters. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58, p. 277. × See Georges Van Vrekhem: Beyond Man: The Life and Work of Sri Aurobindo ...

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Overman  >  6: The Consciousness of the Overman

... × Mother’s Agenda , 15 April 1972. × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , p. 411. × Mother’s Agenda , 18 May 1968. ...

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Beyond Man  >  Chapter Twenty: The Golden Day

... is trousers and shirt. × See Georges Van Vrekhem, The Mother’s Vision – Selections from Questions and Answers , published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume II  >  Notes

... he could give diksha to others, he went out of the Brahmo Samaj, and later founded an ashram near Dacca. At the end of his life he became a Vaishnav. He wrote a book called Prashnottor [Questions and Answers]. 45. mayamrga: a magical golden deer which enticed Sita in the Ramayana. Sita requests Rama to catch the deer for her and in his absence, she is abducted by Ravana. 46. Sattva ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  17: The Passage Perilous

... The Mother, Notes on the Way , CWM 11 p. 74. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1955 , CWM 7 pp. 146-47. × Mother’s Agenda , 10 July 1968. ...

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On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri  >  The Opening of Savitri

... On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri THE OPENING OF SAVITRI 1 SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON BOOK ONE CANTO ONE 1 Would you kindly help me to understand the following points in Savitri (International University Centre Edition, with the Author's Letters on the Poem, 1954)? P. 3. "A power of fallen boundless self..." Is ...

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Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 2)  >  chapter 003

... might delay your spiritual realisation and might be otherwise dangerous for you. This does not mean that the realisation will not come." (A general statement of the Mother's may be cited from Questions and Answers of 1957 (p. 165): "Sri Aurobindo expected of us to become supermen - I think -I know - that now it is certain that we shall realise what he expects of us. It has become no longer a hope but ...

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Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 1)  >  chapter 030

... been secretly laid across the ages to come. From the distant future the saviour arms of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were stretched out to us just as from the past they were gently 1. Questions and Answers 1956, p. 220. Page 271 pushing us forward and in the present upholding us with a loving word in our ears. 1 remember the Mother telling me about the divine movement ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  28 March 1970

... aware of the Divine who is the Universe, the Origin, cause and goal of life . Those who find the secret of the Sphinx of Eternity become that active and Creative Power . The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 21 December 1950 ...

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Letters on Yoga - I  >  Transformation and the Body

... Mother: "If this belief [in the necessity of death] could be cast out ... death would no longer be inevitable" and "Death as a fact has been attached to all life upon earth...." ( The Mother , Questions and Answers 1929-1931, 2003 ed., p. 36 ) The correspondent read these statements in French.—Ed. ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  The Question of Avatarhood

... posed by the correspondent in his "typewritten MS". Sri Aurobindo returned the small sheet containing his paragraph-long reply to the correspondent on 6 March 1935. This became the basis of the questions and answers of 7 March that are reproduced on pages 416-19 . Sri Aurobindo also wrote long and detailed replies to the questions on the "typewritten MS"; they are reproduced on pages 420-29. —Ed. ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  8 January 1951

... January Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 8 January 1951 Mother reads out her article "What a Child Should Always Remember" ( On Education ). You say that one should have "the certitude of Truth's final victory". But doesn't this certitude seem very different from, and often the very opposite of, what one teaches in ordinary life? Yes ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  27 January 1951

... January Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 27 January 1951 "More than a third of our existence is passed in sleep...." "On Dreams" , Words of Long Ago Physical sleep therefore well deserves our attention. I said "physical sleep", for we are inclined to believe that the whole of our being goes to sleep when the body is asleep. "It is ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Brahmin

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Brahmin Strive, O Brahmin! Seal up the current (of craving), cast away all pleasures of the senses. Knowing how to uproot the elements of existence you shall know the Uncreated. When the Brahmin has attained the summit of the two paths (concentration and insight), all bonds fall ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  4 January 1951

... January Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 4 January 1951 Mother reads out her article "Transformation" ( On Education ), then comments on it: We want an integral transformation, the transformation of the body and all its activities. Formerly, when one spoke of transformation one meant solely the transformation of the inner consciousness ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Craving

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Craving The craving of a heedless man grows like the Maluva creeper. Like a monkey seeking fruits in the forest, he leaps from life to life. For one who in the world is overcome by the craving that clings, his miseries increase like Birana grass after the rains. For one who in ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  11 January 1951

... January Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 11 January 1951 Mother comments upon some of the qualities enumerated in her article "What a Child Should Always Remember" ( On Education ). "To be modest" This is to take oneself at one's true worth. Generally people pass from an excessive appreciation of their personal value to an equally ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  28 July 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 28 July 1929 Is it possible for a Yogi to become an artist or can an artist be a Yogi? What is the relation of Art to Yoga? The two are not so antagonistic as you seem to think. There is nothing to prevent a Yogi from being an artist or an artist from being a Yogi. But when you are in Yoga, there is a profound ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  23 June 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 23 June 1929 Can a Yogi attain to a state of consciousness in which he can know all things, answer all questions, relating even to abstruse scientific problems, such as, for example, the theory of relativity? Theoretically and in principle it is not impossible for a Yogi to know everything; all depends upon ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  30 June 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 30 June 1929 What is the ground of the repulsion that one instinctively feels towards certain animals, such as snakes and scorpions? It is not an inevitable necessity that one should feel this or any other repulsion. To have no repulsion at all is one of the fundamental achievements of Yoga. The repulsion ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Union with the Divine Consciousness and Will

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Union with the Divine Consciousness and Will The force which, when absorbed in the Ignorance, takes the form of vital desires is the same which, in its pure form, constitutes the push, the dynamis towards transformation. Consequently, you must beware at the same time of indulging freely in desires, thinking them to be ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Ordinary Life and the True Soul

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Ordinary Life and the True Soul The ordinary life is a round of various desires and greeds. As long as one is preoccupied with them, there can be no lasting progress. A way out of the round must be discovered. Take, as an instance, that commonest preoccupation of ordinary life—the constant thinking by people of what ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Surrender, Self-offering and Consecration

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Surrender, Self-offering and Consecration Surrender is the decision taken to hand over the responsibility of your life to the Divine. Without this decision nothing is at all possible; if you do not surrender, the Yoga is entirely out of the question. Everything else comes naturally after it, for the whole process starts ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine's Love

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine's Love Here is the flower we have called "Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine's Love." By the "Physical" I mean the physical consciousness, the most ordinary outward-going consciousness, the normal consciousness of most human beings, which sets such great store by comfort ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Aspiration in Plants

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Aspiration in Plants Have you never watched a forest with all its countless trees and plants simply struggling to catch the light—twisting and trying in a hundred possible ways just to be in the sun? That is precisely the feeling of aspiration in the physical—the urge, the movement, the push towards the light. Plants have ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Resurrection

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Resurrection Resurrection means, for us, the falling off of the old consciousness; but it is not only a rebirth, a sudden change which completely breaks with the past. There is a certain continuity in it between dying to your old self, your low exterior nature and starting quite anew. In the experience of resurrection ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Conjugate Verses

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Conjugate Verses + − AUDIO ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Evil

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Evil Hasten towards the good, leave behind all evil thoughts, for to do good without enthusiasm is to have a mind which delights in evil. If one does an evil action, he should not persist in it, he should not delight in it. For full of suffering is the accumulation of evil. If ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth As I have often been questioned about it, I shall touch briefly on the meaning of true humility, supramental plasticity and spiritual rebirth. Humility is that state of consciousness in which, whatever the realisation, you know the infinite is still in front of ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Fool

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Fool Long is the night for one who sleeps not; long is the road for one who is weary; long is the cycle of births for the fool who knows not the true law. If a man cannot find a companion who is his superior or even his equal, he should resolutely follow a solitary path; for no ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Thousands

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Thousands Better than a thousand words devoid of meaning is a single meaningful word which can bring tranquillity to one who hears it. Better than a thousand verses devoid of meaning is a single meaningful verse which can bring tranquillity to one who hears it. Better than the repetition of a hundred verses ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Knowledge of the Scientist and the Yogi

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Knowledge of the Scientist and the Yogi The climax of the ordinary consciousness is Science. For Science, what is upon the earth is true, simply because it is there. What it calls Nature is for it the final reality, and its aim is to build up a theory to explain the workings of it. So it climbs as high as the physical ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Supramental Realisation

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Supramental Realisation In order to know what the Supramental Realisation will be like, the first step, the first condition is to know what the supramental consciousness is. All those who have been, in one way or another, in contact with it have had some glimpse of the realisation to be. But those who have not, can ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Power of Imagination

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Power of Imagination The imagination is really the power of mental formation. When this power is put at the service of the Divine, it is not only formative but also creative. There is, however, no such thing as an unreal formation, because every image is a reality on the mental plane. The plot of a novel, for instance ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Chance

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Chance What do we understand by the term "chance"? Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that is the supramental—the reign of Truth, the expression of the Divine Law. In the Supermind, therefore, chance has no place. But in the lower Nature the supreme Truth is obscured: ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  21 April 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 21 April 1929 There is a common idea that visions are a sign of high spirituality. Is this true? Not necessarily. Moreover, to see is one thing but to understand and interpret what is seen is quite another thing and much more difficult. Generally, those who see are misled because they give the meaning or i ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  14 April 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 14 April 1929 What are the dangers of Yoga? Is it especially dangerous to the people of the West? Someone has said that Yoga may be suitable for the East, but it has the effect of unbalancing the Western mind. Yoga is not more dangerous to the people of the West than to those of the East. Everything depends ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  9 June 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 9 June 1929 What is exactly the nature of religion? Is it an obstacle in the way of the spiritual life? Religion belongs to the higher mind of humanity. It is the effort of man's higher mind to approach, as far as lies in its power, something beyond it, something to which humanity gives the name God or Spirit ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  19 May 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 19 May 1929 What is the nature of the power that thought possesses? How and to what extent am I the creator of my world? According to the Buddhist teachings, every human being lives and moves in a world of his own, quite independent of the world in which another lives; it is only when a certain harmony is created ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  16 June 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 16 June 1929 Can all physical ailments be traced to some disorder in the mind as their ultimate source? If so, what kind of mental disorder would produce such an ailment as, for example, prickly heat or sore throat? There are as many reasons for an illness as there are people who fall ill; the explanation is ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  12 May 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 12 May 1929 There are some human beings who are like vampires. What are they and why are they like that? They are not human; there is only a human form or appearance. They are incarnations of beings from the world that is just next to the physical, beings who live on the plane which we call the vital world ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  2 June 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 2 June 1929 What is the relation of human love to Divine love? Is the human an obstacle to the Divine love? Or is not rather the capacity for human love an index to the capacity for Divine love? Have not great spiritual figures, such as Christ, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, been remarkably loving and affectionate ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  7 April 1929

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) 7 April 1929 Will you say something to us about Yoga? What do you want the Yoga for? To get power? To attain to peace and calm? To serve humanity? None of these motives is sufficient to show that you are meant for the Path. The question you are to answer is this: Do you want the Yoga for the sake of the ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Ego

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Ego If a man holds himself dear, let him guard himself closely. The sage should watch through one of the three vigils of his existence (youth, maturity, or old age). One should begin by establishing oneself in the right path; then, one will be able to advise others. Thus the sage ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Impurity

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Impurity Now you are like a withered leaf; the messengers of Yama await you. It is the eve of your departure, and you have made no provision for your journey! Quickly make for yourself an island of refuge, strive hard and become wise. When you are cleansed and purified of all impurity ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Just Man

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Just Man A man is not just if he judges arbitrarily. The wise man is one who distinguishes the just from the unjust, who judges others in full knowledge according to law and equity; this guardian of the Law is called a just man. The sage is not the man who speaks most. The man ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Niraya (Hell)

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Niraya (Hell) One who speaks untruth goes to Hell like one who, when he has done a thing, says: "I did not do it." Both, after death, will share the same fate, for these are men of evil. Though they wear the yellow robe, those who are dissolute and evil-natured, their evil actions ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Elephant

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Elephant As the elephant on the battlefield endures the arrow shot from the bow, so also shall I patiently bear insult, for truly there are many of evil mind in the world. It is a tamed elephant that is led to the battlefield; one whom the Raja rides. The best among men is he ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Miscellany

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Miscellany If renouncing the slightest happiness enables him to realise a greater one, the intelligent man should renounce the lesser for the sake of the greater. If he seeks his own happiness by harming others, bound by hate, he remains the slave of hatred. To neglect what should ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The World

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The World Do not follow the way of evil. Do not cultivate indolence of mind. Do not choose wrong views. Do not be of those who linger in the world. Arise. Cast off negligence. Follow the teaching of wisdom. The sage knows happiness in this world and the other. Follow the teaching ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Happiness

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Happiness Among those who hate, happy are we to live without hatred. Among men who hate, let us live free from hatred. Among those who suffer, happy are we to live with-out suffering. Among men who suffer, let us live free from suffering. Among those who are full of greed, happy ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Anger

... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Anger One should cast away anger, one should reject pride, one should break all bonds. One who is not attached to name or form, who possesses nothing, is delivered from suffering. Whosoever masters rising anger, as one who controls a moving chariot, that one indeed is worthy of being ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  12 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 12 April 1951 What is the difference between Japanese art and the art of other countries, like those of Europe, for example? The art of Japan is a kind of directly mental expression in physical life. The Japanese use the vital world very little. Their art is extremely mentalised; their life is extremely ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  3 May 1951

... May Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 3 May 1951 "Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force in its manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness of the outer life. In its origin and its true action it belongs to the Divine. But like other powers of the Divine it is delegated ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  21 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 21 April 1951 "[This yoga] cannot be done if you insist on identifying these lowest things of the Ignorance with the divine Truth or even the lesser truth permissible on the way. It cannot be done if you cling to your past self and its old mental, vital and physical formations and habits; one has continually ...

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Emergence of the Psychic  >  Contact with the Psychic Being

... with my psychic being?", "Your question itself proves that you don't have it!" 51 * "We are conscious of only an insignificant portion of our being." — The Mother, Questions and Answers 1929 What are these insignificant parts of our being? Almost all of them. There are very few things which are not insignificant; all your ordinary reactions, ordinary ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Inconscient

... more consciousness than it has, but the difference between the consciousness of the stone and the total Inconscient is perhaps greater than that between the stone and you. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 24 March 1951 We know by experience that if we go down into the subconscient, lower than the physical consciousness, into the subconscient and even lower still into the ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  12 October 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 12 October 1955 Mother reads The Great Secret : The Unknown Man . When is it going to happen, eh? There. That's the question I was waiting for. ( To a child ) What did you want to ask? What you said just now. You see, I know how to read thoughts. And so, if I were to ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  7 September 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 7 September 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Work". "All work" is "a school of experience"? Yes, surely. You don't understand? No, Mother. If you don't do anything, you cannot have any experience. The whole life is a field of experience. Each movement you make ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  18 January 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 18 January 1956 Sweet Mother, here Sri Aurobindo writes, "For all this first period he [the individual] has to work by means of the instruments of the lower Nature." Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 79 What is this work, and how is it accomplished ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  16 November 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 16 November 1955 Mother reads from The Synthesis of Yoga , " The Four Aids ". ( To a child ) Have you prepared a question for your Birthday? What is the significance of 18? Of the number 18? It depends on how it is read. It can be read as 10+8; it can be read as 9+9; ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  7 March 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 7 March 1956 Sweet Mother, what is this form of sacrifice in which animals are slaughtered upon altars? It is certainly one of the obscurest and most unconscious. And the sacrifice spoken about here and in the Gita, is the sacrifice one makes of oneself, not of others. Because ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  28 December 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 28 December 1955 Mother reads from The Synthesis of Yoga , " Self-Consecration ". Sweet Mother, what is "an all-receiving concentration that is the very nature of the integral Yoga"? An all-receiving concentration? No—a concentration which is open to all that exists; it ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  28 March 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 28 March 1956 " If a departure from the world and its activities, a supreme release and quietude were the sole aim of the seeker, the three great fundamental realisations 1 would be sufficient for the fulfilment of his spiritual life: concentrated in them alone he could suffer all ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  4 April 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 4 April 1956 " On one side, he [the seeker] becomes aware of a witness recipient observing experiencing Consciousness which does not appear to act but for which all these activities inside and outside us seem to be undertaken and continue. On the other side he is aware at the same time ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  11 April 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 11 April 1956 " On one side, he [the seeker] is aware of an infinite and self-existent Godhead in being who contains all things in an ineffable potentiality of existence, a Self of all selves, a Soul of all souls, a spiritual Substance of all substances, an impersonal inexpressible ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  12 December 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 12 December 1956 Straight away we are leaping into the greatest difficulty! I believe this one paragraph alone will be enough for this evening: " What I cannot do now is the sign of what l shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  3 October 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 3 October 1956 I have a whole flood of questions here! But before beginning to answer them, I am going to explain something to you. You must have noticed on several occasions that my way of talking to you is not always the same. I don't know if you are very sensitive to the difference ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  25 July 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 25 July 1956 " It may be said that a complete act of divine love and worship has in it three parts that are the expressions of a single whole,―a practical worship of the Divine in the act, a symbol of worship in the form of the act expressing some vision and seeking or some relation ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  28 November 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 28 November 1956 " When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge. Reason was the helper; Reason is the bar. " When we have passed beyond willings, then we shall have Power. Effort was the helper; Effort is the bar. " When we have passed beyond enjoyings, ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  29 August 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 29 August 1956 I suppose most of you come on Fridays to listen to the reading of Wu Wei. If you have listened, you will remember that something's said there about being "spontaneous", and that the true way of living the true life is to live spontaneously. What Lao Tse calls spontaneous ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  24 October 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 24 October 1956 I have something here, I don't know if it will take us very far, but still it will make a good change. All these last few weeks the subject was always progress: how to progress, what hindered progress, how to use the supramental Force, etc. This is going on, I have a whole ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  8 August 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 8 August 1956 Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo writes: "A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it." Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 155 Isn't the psychic fire always lit? It is not always lit. ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  26 September 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 26 September 1956 " All or most of the works of life are at present or seem to be actuated or vitiated by the soul of desire; even those that are ethical or religious, even those that wear the guise of altruism, philanthropy, self-sacrifice, self-denial are shot through and through ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  17 October 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 17 October 1956 Is delight the highest state? And if so, could it be said that when one loses delight, one's consciousness is lowered? Sri Aurobindo has said that the universe is built upon the delight of existence and that delight, being its origin is necessarily also its goal, ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  30 November 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 30 November 1955 Mother reads from The Synthesis of Yoga , " The Four Aids ". How is Time a friend? It depends on how you look at it. Everything depends on the relation you have with it. If you take it as a friend, it becomes a friend. If you consider it as an enemy, it becomes ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  18 July 1956

... 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 ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  13 June 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 13 June 1956 " Already in the process of spiritualisation it [the spiritualised mind] will have begun to pass out of the brilliant poverty of the human intellect; it will mount successively into the pure broad reaches of a higher mind and next into the gleaming belts of a still greater ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  20 June 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 20 June 1956 Sweet Mother, here Sri Aurobindo writes: "And yet there is in the heart or behind it a profounder mystic light..." Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 140 What is this mystic light? It is love. But after that, Sri Aurobindo ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  23 May 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 23 May 1956 Sweet Mother, what is the difference between yoga and religion? Ah! my child... it is as though you were asking me the difference between a dog and a cat! ( Long silence ) Imagine someone who, in some way or other, has heard of something like the Divine or has a ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  16 May 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 16 May 1956 " In sum, it may be safely affirmed that no solution offered can be anything but provisional until a supramental Truth-Consciousness is reached by which the appearances of things are put in their place and their essence revealed and that in them which derives straight from ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  18 April 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 18 April 1956 " At one pole of it the seeker may be conscious only of the Master of Existence putting forth on him His energies of knowledge, power and bliss to liberate and divinise; the Shakti may appear to him only an impersonal Force expressive of these things or an attribute of ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  25 April 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 25 April 1956 " Beyond the limited human conception of God, he will pass to the one divine Eternal.... " Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 121 What man calls God is a limited consciousness of God, not the full consciousness of God; so he will go beyond ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  4 July 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 4 July 1956 Sweet Mother, it is said that if one sees a shooting star and at that moment one aspires for something, that aspiration is fulfilled within the year. Is this true? Do you know what that means?―The aspiration must be formulated during the time the star is visible; and ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  26 June 1957

... June Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 26 June 1957 " But there is here still the necessity of a resort to the normal means of propagation and the gross method of physical Nature. A purely occult method, a resort to supraphysical processes acting by supraphysical means for a physical result would have to be possible ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  24 April 1957

... April Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 24 April 1957 " A divine life in a material world implies necessarily a union of the two ends of existence, the spiritual summit and the material base. The soul with the basis of its life established in Matter ascends to the heights of the Spirit but does not cast away its ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  3 July 1957

... July Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 3 July 1957 I have been asked if we are doing a collective yoga and what the conditions for the collective yoga are. I might tell you first of all that to do a collective yoga we must be a collectivity (!) and then speak to you about the different conditions required for ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  17 April 1957

... April Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 17 April 1957 " Perfection is the true aim of all culture, the spiritual and psychic, the mental, the vital and it must be the aim of our physical culture also. If our seeking is for a total perfection of the being, the physical part of it cannot be left aside; for the body ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  15 May 1957

... May Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 15 May 1957 Mother, since the beginning of creation, why is there this difference between male and female? Since the beginning of which creation? Which creation are you speaking about?... Of the Earth? Yes. First this is not correct. There are species in which there ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  5 June 1957

... June Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 5 June 1957 Do you have any questions? No? Sweet Mother, should one ask questions which don't come spontaneously? What do you mean by a question that doesn't come spontaneously? For, usually, in class, we often feel that if we don't ask questions you won't tell us ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  12 June 1957

... June Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 12 June 1957 " It is indeed possible even while fasting for very long periods to maintain the full energies and activities of the soul and mind and life, even those of the body, to remain wakeful but concentrated in Yoga all the time, or to think deeply and write day and night ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  3 April 1957

... April Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 3 April 1957 " All would change if man could once consent to be spiritualised; but his nature, mental and vital and physical, is rebellious to the higher law. He loves his imperfection. " The Spirit is the truth of our being; mind and life and body in their imperfection ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  1 May 1957

... May Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 1 May 1957 " In the admission of an activity such as sports and physical exercises into the life of the Ashram it is evident that the methods and the first objects to be attained must belong to what we have called the lower end of the being. Originally they have been introduced ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  22 March 1951

... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 22 March 1951 You say that "time is relative". What does that mean? The sense of the length of time depends upon your consciousness. If you are in the ordinary human consciousness, time is measured by the number of years you expect to live. So, what requires, let us say, fifty years to be realised, seems ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  7 May 1951

... May Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 7 May 1951 Mother reads the first part of Chapter 6 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. What is a "hierarchy"? It is a grouping organised in order of merit. For instance, you have a chief at the centre and you may have four persons around him, and around these four, 8, then 12, 24, 36, 48, 124, and so ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  12 May 1951

... May Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 12 May 1951 "Harmony and beauty of the mind and soul, harmony and beauty of the thoughts and feelings, harmony and beauty in every outward act and movement, harmony and beauty of the life and surroundings, this is the demand of Mahalakshmi.... Where love and beauty are not or are reluctant to be born, she ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  22 April 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 22 April 1953 The following brief passage about sleep and dreams, is part of a longer, incompletely recorded talk. When one sleeps, how can one distinguish the nature of the visions? They do not leave the same impression at all. In order to know things well, one must educate oneself, develop the conscious ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  22 December 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 22 December 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, "In Difficulty". When a being is possessed by a hostile force, what becomes of his psychic? It depends on the degree of the possession. Usually it is something progressive. First there is an influence under which one comes, and ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  9 February 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 9 February 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 4, "Desire—Food—Sex". Sweet Mother, here we have: "The Sun and the Light may be a help, and will be..."? Obviously it is someone who had written an experience in which he was in contact with a sun and a light, and he wanted to take the support of ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  26 January 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 26 January 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, "In Difficulty". Sweet Mother, who is this "Master of forces" who sees "the defects of the present machinery"? It is the divine Presence which sees from within what is incomplete and imperfect in the working of the present being. The divine ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  16 February 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 16 February 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 4, "Desire—Food—Sex". Sweet Mother, here it is said that one should have no attachment for material things; then, when you give us something, if we lose it and feel sad, it can be called attachment? It is better not to lose it. ( Laughter ) But ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  23 February 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 23 February 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 4, "Desire—Food—Sex". Sweet Mother, from the beginning man ate because he needed food in order to live. Then why did taste for food develop? One eats what one likes to, and doesn't eat what one doesn't like! I think primitive man was very close ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  12 January 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 12 January 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, "In Difficulty". "To question, to resist in some part of the being increases trouble and difficulties." For instance, when the guru tells you to do something, if you begin to ask, "Why should I do it? What is the necessity of doing it? Explain ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  8 December 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 8 December 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 2, "Faith—Aspiration—Surrender". Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of "the psychic surrender in the physical"? Why, we spoke about it last time, didn't we? I think so. It is the psychic surrender expressing itself in the physical ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  5 January 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 5 January 1955 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, "In Difficulty". Sweet Mother, how can we create "the attunement of the nature with the working of the Divine Light and Power"? How can you do it? By trying. First you must be conscious of the kind of attunement you want to ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  2 February 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 2 February 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, "In Difficulty". What is the meaning of "you must take the right attitude"? He has explained this before. The right attitude is the attitude of trust, the attitude of obedience, the attitude of consecration. "Let nothing and nobody come between ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  11 May 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 11 May 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". Who is going to ask questions today? Sweet Mother, how can we make the body immune to every attack? Well, Sri Aurobindo has written it later, hasn't he? He says that only the descent of the supramental Force can ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  19 October 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 19 October 1955 Mother reads from Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga , " The Four Aids ". Sweet Mother, here: "Last comes the instrumentality of Time, Kāla; for in all things there is a cycle of their action and a period of the divine movement...." What is this period of the divine ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  2 November 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 2 November 1955 Mother reads from The Synthesis of Yoga , " The Four Aids ". Now then, your question? "The process of Yoga is a turning of the human soul from the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward appearances..." I did not quite understand "the egoistic state ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  6 April 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 6 April 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". What is this psychoanalysis of Freud, Sweet Mother? Ah, my child, it is something that was in vogue, very much in vogue at the beginning of the century... no, in the middle of the century! ( Mother turns to Pavitra ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  13 July 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 13 July 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Planes and Parts of the Being". Now then! Sweet Mother, what does "cosmic spirit and cosmic Nature" mean? Universal. Cosmic is the synonym of universal. But what does "cosmic spirit" mean? Cosmic spirit? It is the cosmic ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  3 August 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 3 August 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Surrender and Opening". What is "the true life-activity"? It is to express the Divine. That is the very reason of existence and life, its truth and its sole true activity. Sweet Mother, here Sri Aurobindo has said "It is impossible." Why? For you have said ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  26 October 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 26 October 1955 Mother reads from The Synthesis of Yoga , " The Four Aids ". No questions! There aren't any questions here, it is clear as crystal. Here it is written: "The word within may be the utterance of the inmost soul in us which is always open to the Divine or it may be the word of the secret and universal ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  22 June 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 22 June 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Planes and Parts of the Being". How can one awaken his Yoga-shakti? It depends on this: when one thinks that it is the most important thing in his life. That's all. Some people sit in meditation, concentrate on the base of the vertebral column and want it very ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  30 March 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 30 March 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". Sweet Mother, here it is written: "There is a Yoga-Shakti lying coiled or asleep..." How can it be awakened? I think it awakens quite naturally the moment one takes the resolution to do the yoga. If the resolution ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  31 August 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 31 August 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Work". Sweet Mother, here I did not understand "One must have the same consciousness in inner experience and outward action and make both full of the Mother." I haven't understood either. 1 Isn't there a clause of the sentence missing? I too haven't understood ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  15 March 1957

... March Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 15 March 1957 The following talk was given on a Friday, the day Mother used to read to the children. Reminiscences of Tlemcen Once again, this evening, I am not going to read, but I won't tell you a story; I am going to tell you about Madame X. Madame X was born ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  23 January 1957

... January Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 23 January 1957 " The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the Divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity. " But that immergence is not in the nature of an annihilation. Extinction is not the fulfilment of all this ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  20 February 1957

... February Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 20 February 1957 " The limitations of the body are a mould; soul and mind have to pour themselves into them, break them and constantly remould them in wider limits till the formula of agreement is found between this finite and their own infinity. " Thoughts and Glimpses ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  22 March 1957

... March Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 22 March 1957 The following story was told by Mother during a Friday class. This evening I am going to read to you a short story which seemed quite instructive to me. It is a tale of ancient times, of what used to happen before there were printing presses and books, of the ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  6 February 1957

... February Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 6 February 1957 " Death is the question Nature puts continually to Life and her reminder to it that it has not yet found itself. If there were no siege of death, the creature would be bound forever in the form of an imperfect living. Pursued by death he awakes to the idea ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  7 February 1957

... February Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 7 February 1957 As an exception, Mother gave this talk on a Thursday evening, before the collective meditation. Before the meditation this evening I am going to say a few words to you, because several people have asked me the difference between a collective meditation ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  27 March 1957

... March Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 27 March 1957 " Wherever thou seest a great end, be sure of a great beginning. Where a monstrous and painful destruction appals thy mind, console it with the certainty of a large and great creation. God is there not only in the still small voice, but in the fire and in the ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  13 February 1957

... February Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 13 February 1957 " Pain and grief are Nature's reminder to the soul that the pleasure it enjoys is only a feeble hint of the real delight of existence. In each pain and torture of our being is the secret of a flame of rapture compared with which our greatest pleasures ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  8 March 1957

... March Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 8 March 1957 The following story was told by Mother during one of the Friday classes, generally reserved for readings to the children. A Buddhist Story As I am still unable to read to you this evening, I am going to tell you a story. It is a Buddhist story which perhaps ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  7 August 1957

... August Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 7 August 1957 Sri Aurobindo has written: "The descent of the Supermind will bring to one who receives it and is fulfilled in the truth-consciousness all the possibilities of the divine life. It will take up not only the whole characteristic experience which we recognise ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  4 December 1957

... December Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 4 December 1957 " In fact we see that the principles of creation are permanent and unchanging: each type of being remains itself and does not try nor has any need to become other than itself; granting that some types of existence disappear and others come into being, it ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  23 October 1957

... October Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 23 October 1957 Mother begins the reading of the last six chapters of The Life Divine . " A spiritual evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is then the key-note, the ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  11 September 1957

... September Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 11 September 1957 Sweet Mother, why does one feel attracted at first sight to some people and feel a repulsion for others? Usually this is based on vital affinities, nothing else. There are vital vibrations which harmonise and vital vibrations which don't. It is usually ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  16 October 1957

... October Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 16 October 1957 I have received four questions. Naturally they are not about what I have just read, and they are on three different subjects. And each one needs a very lengthy answer. But still, I am going to take the first two which go together. They are about the involution ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  13 October 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 13 October 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 1, "Calm—Peace—Equality". Sweet Mother, what does "the reduction of the mental being to the position of a witness" mean? Have you never felt this? As though you were a little behind or above things, and were looking at them taking ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  25 August 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 25 August 1954 This talk is based upon Chapter 6 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. "There are other great Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences i ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  22 September 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 22 September 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 1, "Calm—Peace—Equality". "Calm, even if it seems at first only a negative thing, is so difficult to attain, that to have it at all must be regarded as a great step in advance. "In reality, calm is not a negative thing, it is ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  6 October 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 6 October 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 1, "Calm—Peace—Equality". "Absolute faith—faith that what is for the best will happen, but also that if one can make oneself a true instrument, the fruit will be that which one's will guided by the Divine Light sees as the thing to be ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  15 September 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 15 September 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 1, "Calm—Peace—Equality". When one detaches oneself from the thought-mind, does the mind continue to think? Usually it continues to think, but this does not affect you any longer. It is not exactly "thinking", it is like a market-place ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  8 September 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 8 September 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 1. The book is comprised of extracts from letters written in reply to the queries of disciples. "The forces that stand in the way of sadhana are the forces of the lower mental, vital and physical nature. Behind them are adverse powers ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  11 August 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 11 August 1954 This talk is based upon Chapter 6 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. At the very beginning is written: "The four Powers of the Mother." Which are these four powers, Sweet Mother? These! The aspects, aren't they, Mother? ( Long silence ) Yes. What does this mean: "The Supreme is ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  17 November 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 17 November 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 2, "Faith—Aspiration—Surrender". Sweet Mother, here it is written: "The Truth for you is to feel the Divine in you, open to the Mother and work for the Divine till you are aware of her in all your activities." Why has he said "the Divine" ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  3 November 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 3 November 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga , Chapter 2, "Faith—Aspiration—Surrender". "In this Yoga all depends on whether one can open to the influence or not. If there is a sincerity in the aspiration and a patient will to arrive at the higher consciousness in spite of all obstacles ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  10 March 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 10 March 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " The Fear of Death and the Four Methods of Conquering It ". Why have you written "The Fear of Death" just now? Because it was necessary to say this. So far you had not said it, Mother, why do you say it now? Ah! There are many things I have not said ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  28 July 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 28 July 1954 This talk is based upon Chapter 4 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. "Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force in its manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness of the outer life. In its origin and its true action it belongs ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  30 June 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 30 June 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 14, "Some Explanations". "Q: What is the place of occult power in Yoga? "A: To know and use the subtle forces of the supraphysical planes is part of the Yoga. "Q: What is the meaning of occult endeavour and power? "A: ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  9 June 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 9 June 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 11, "Transformation". "Q: When a sadhak gets dreams signifying some spiritual truth, does it not indicate that his nature is getting transformed?" "A: Not necessarily. It shows that he has more consciousness than ordinary people ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  23 June 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 23 June 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 13, "Sex—Food—Sleep". "Q: Is taking very little food helpful in controlling the senses? "A: No, it simply exasperates them—to take a moderate amount is best. People who fast easily get exalted and may lose their balance. "Q: ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  16 June 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 16 June 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 12, "Difficulties and Progress". "Q: Do our thoughts (good and bad) about others affect them in any way? "A: Yes, there is an influence. "Q: Is it possible that the desires, doubts, etc. of one person can pass on to another ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  5 May 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 5 May 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 4, "Sincerity" and Chapter 5, "Faith". "Q: What is the right attitude to stick on to this path till the Supramental Truth is realised?" "A: There is the psychic condition and sincerity and devotion to the Mother." What is "the ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  19 May 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 19 May 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 7, "Love". There is a pure affection for the Divine and a pure love for the Divine. What is the difference? That depends upon the meaning you give to your words. It depends upon what you call affection. I don't know, but generally ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  2 June 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 2 June 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 9, "Experiences and Visions" and Chapter 10, "Work". No questions?... I was going to propose a meditation. What are the causes for not being able to meditate? Because one has not learnt to do it. Why, suddenly you take a fancy: ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  12 May 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 12 May 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 6, "Surrender". "Q: If the Purusha does not consent to the action of the Mother's Grace, does it prevent the other beings from receiving or feeling the Mother's Grace for transformation? "A: No. The Purusha often holds back and lets ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  12 August 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 12 August 1953 How do you know the character of a man by looking at his eyes? Not only by looking at his eyes. I know the character of a man through self-identification. And then outwardly, if you want, the eyes are like doors or windows: there are some which are open, so one enters within, goes very deep inside ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  19 April 1951

... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 19 April 1951 "This yoga can only be done to the end by those who are in total earnest about it and ready to abolish their little human ego and its demands in order to find themselves in the Divine. It cannot be done in a spirit of levity or laxity; the work is too high and difficult, the adverse powers in ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  25 November 1953

... Questions and Answers (1953) 25 November 1953 You have said: "It is in proportion to our trust in the Divine that the Divine Grace can act for us and help." 1 If someone has no trust in the Divine, but calls very sincerely when he is in difficulty, in danger, what will happen to him? How can he call? The two things are contradictory. If ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  31 March 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 31 March 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations ", Part I. "...the vital has three sources of subsistence. The one most easily accessible to it comes from below, from the physical energies through the sensations. "The second is on its own plane, when it is ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  17 March 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 17 March 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations ", Part I. Here you have said: "The avowed purpose of such [ascetic] practices is to abolish all sensation so that the body may no longer stand in the way of one's flight towards the Spirit." In the old spiritual ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  3 March 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 3 March 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " The Fear of Death and the Four Methods of Conquering It ". Sweet Mother, I did not understand the ending, the last paragraph: "There is yet another way to conquer the fear of death, but it is within the reach of so few that it is mentioned here only as a matter ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  17 February 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 17 February 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " Psychic Education and Spiritual Education ". Once the being has entered into contact with the psychic, why does the psychic again hide itself? It is not the psychic that hides itself, it is the being which returns to its ordinary consciousness!... It is ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  21 April 1954

... Questions and Answers (1954) 21 April 1954 On this date Mother began the reading of Elements of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo. The book contains his answers to elementary questions about Yoga which were asked during the years 1933 to 1936. The following talk is based upon Chapter 1, "The Call and Fitness" and Chapter 2, "The Foundation". You have ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  18 May 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 18 May 1955 This talk is based upon Mother's article "The Problem of Woman". [First published in the Bulletin of April 1955, now published in On Education , CWM, Vol. 12, pp. 102-06 ] Now, no questions! I have nothing to add. I have said everything. You wanted to ask something? You have given the title ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  8 June 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 8 June 1955 Mother reads from Sri Aurobindo's Lights on Yoga , "The Goal". Now then! We shall have impromptu, improvised questions, not prepared ones. ( To a child ) You have any? Sweet Mother, here it is written: "This liberation, perfection, fullness too must not be pursued ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  25 May 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 25 May 1955 Mother reads from Sri Aurobindo's The Human Cycle , Chapter 14, " The Suprarational Beauty ". I can see that you haven't understood three-fourths of the thing. Now we shall go slowly, step by step. ( To a child ) Ask a question just from where it begins; simply say, "Here, what does this mean?" ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  16 March 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 16 March 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". This evening the reading ends with the following lines: "The subconscient is the main cause why all things repeat themselves and nothing ever gets changed except in appearance. It is the cause why people say character ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  2 March 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 2 March 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 4, "Desire—Food—Sex". Sweet Mother, what is the right spirit and the right consciousness in which one should take food? It is the spirit of consecration and... What is the other one you said? The right consciousness. Yes, it is the same ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  1 June 1955

... Questions and Answers (1955) 1 June 1955 Mother reads from The Human Cycle , Chapter 14, " The Suprarational Beauty ", second paragraph. What do you want to ask about this? Sweet Mother, what is an aesthetic conscience? It is the consciousness of beauty. Aesthetic means that which concerns beauty, art. There are people, for example, ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Intuition and Its Development

... one meets many obstacles and the result is very precarious; one must be very persistent, obstinate, persevering, and one is sure to succeed, but only after a great labour. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 23 July 1958 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Mental Honesty

... in a different relation with circumstances, in order to see clearly, completely, how far one was deceiving oneself—and at that moment one was convinced that one was sincere. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 21 May 1958 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Spontaneity

... mentioned in this story, it is better not to be spontaneous in one’s daily actions, for one would risk being the plaything of all the most disorderly impulses and influences. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 29 August 1956 I saw a child wallowing in the dirt and the same child cleaned by his mother and resplendent, but each time I trembled before his utter purity. Can a child keep ...

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Our Many Selves  >  How to Will

... like jelly-fish… there… a mass of good wills—and I am considering the better side of things and forgetting the bad wills—a mass of good wills, half-conscious and fluctuating… The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 29 September 1954 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Features of a “World Personality”

... the needs of his body and the means of governing them. He will be able to control his needs and rule them, transform them according to the necessity of what he wants to do. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 5 December 1956 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Sincerity and Division in the Being

... desires, you no longer know where you stand, and you can no longer be sure of what may happen, for one part can not only undo but totally contradict what the other wants to do. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 29 August 1956 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Is Personal Effort Always Egoistic? Distinction between “Selfish” and “Egoistic”

... length of time, not a little effort, a fairly complete education. But one may be quite unselfish long before being ready not to have the ego any longer. That is something else. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 16 November 1955 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Substance of the Psychic

... their substance does not become psychic substance as a consequence. They can be under the influence of the psychic and assume its nature more or less but not its substance. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 19 March 1951 ...

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Guidance on Education  >  Notes on the Texts

... is from Words of the Mother, Collected Works Volume 15, pp. 319-21. The subsequent conversations of 1951 up to the end of 1958 are from Volumes 4-9 of the Collected Works, that is, from the Questions and Answers volumes, where they may be located by date. The conversation of 17 March 1961 is from On Thoughts and Aphorisms, Collected Works Volume 10, pp. 85-86 and the conversation of 6 March 1963 from ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Existence of Spiritual Force

... powerful enough, to be able to control not only this dwelling but what surrounds it and in a field of radiation and action that is more and more extensive… and effective. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 11 June 1958 ...

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The Psychic Being  >  The Process of Rebirth

... their first cry. There are also people whose psychic being comes a few hours after their birth, or some days after, or some weeks, some months, some years after or... never! The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 24 February 1951 I know nothing about any terrible suffering endured by the soul in the process of rebirth; popular beliefs even when they have some foundation are seldom ...

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The Psychic Being  >  Becoming Conscious of the Psychic Being—Need for Sadhana

... y one says, "This is not an ordinary human being." That's the case of people who have been considered more or less divine beings and who were great yogis, great initiates. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 17 August 1955 You wrote to me that it is not easy to come in contact with the psychic being. Why do You consider it difficult? How should I begin? I said "not easy" because ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Progress from Life to Life

... during the period of earthly existence. And it is the psychic which carries the progress over from one life to another, by organising its own evolution and development itself. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 12 February 1958 Does a being carry his mental, vital and physical experiences from one life to another? Each case is different. It all depends on the degree of the ...

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Our Many Selves  >  What Aspires in Everybody

... they cannot do it. Deliberately, consciously, they try all they can; but they know very well they cannot do it. Even the most monstrous being there is always a means to touch. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 28 December 1955 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Difference between “Spiritual” and “Psychic”

... the spiritual life. Therefore, the psychic being in the human being is the manifestation of spiritual aspiration; but there is a spiritual life independent of the psychic. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 1 March 1951 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Atavistic Elements in One’s Make-Up

... without any burden. Then you will be a new man, living a new life, almost with a new nature. And if you look back you will say, “It is not possible, I was never like that!” The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 29 March 1951 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Truth of the Being

... exclusive relation with the Divine, which hasn’t its equal. There, now. And naturally, because it is the truth of your being, that is what you should express in your life. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 22 August 1956 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  The Ordinary State of People - Identification and Dispersion

... who carry with them an atmosphere which irradiates joy, peace, confidence; it is very rare. But these are truly benefactors of humanity. They don’t need to open their mouth. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 27 July 1955 ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Body Formation and Character

... it is only with the growth of the consciousness and as the development becomes voluntary and organised that the body can begins to express the true character of the person. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 27 January 1954 ...

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The Psychic Being  >  Nature of the Psychic Being

... external noises and movements, in what it sees, what it does, what it says, instead of looking within, into the depths of the being and listening to the inner inspirations. The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 16 December 1953 It is the action of the psychic being, not the being itself, that gets mixed with the mental, vital and physical disabilities because it has to use them to express ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  26 March 1958

... March Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 26 March 1958 " It is pertinently suggested that if such an evolutionary culmination is intended and man is to be its medium, it will only be a few especially evolved human beings who will form the new type and move towards the new life; that once done, the rest of humanity ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  9 April 1958

... April Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 9 April 1958 Sweet Mother, with the human mind is it possible to recognise another person's soul? Things are not so clear-cut and separate as they are in speaking; that is just why it is quite difficult to see very distinctly and clearly in oneself the different parts ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  1 January 1958

... January Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 1 January 1958 O Nature, material Mother, Thou hast said that thou wilt collaborate and there is no limit to the splendour of this collaboration. New Year Message , 1 January 1958 Sweet Mother, will you explain the message for this year? It is already ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  21 August 1957

... August Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 21 August 1957 Mother, for quite some time there has been a feeling that the general consciousness in our activities has fallen, especially since the Ashram has grown so large. What is the reason for it and how can we put it right? Are you referring to all the activities ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  11 December 1957

... December Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 11 December 1957 " Even if it be discovered hereafter that under certain chemical or other conditions Life makes its appearance, all that will be established by this coincidence is that in certain physical circumstances Life manifests, not that certain chemical conditions ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  12 February 1958

... February Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 12 February 1958 Mother, since in each new life the mind and vital as well as the body are new, how can the experiences of past lives be useful for them? Do we have to go through all the experiences once again? That depends on people! It is not the mind and vital ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  22 January 1958

... January Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 22 January 1958 Mother reads a passage from The Life Divine which concludes the exposition of the intellectual arguments against the appearance of a higher species. Next time we begin the argument. All these arguments take place in a field where you don't usually go ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  28 August 1957

... August Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 28 August 1957 Mother, Sri Aurobindo says here: "Whether the whole of humanity would be touched [by the Supramental influence] or only a part of it ready for the change would depend on what was intended or possible in the continued order of the universe." The Supramental ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  4 September 1957

... September Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 4 September 1957 Today I received a question about a phrase I used on the fourteenth of August, the eve of Sri Aurobindo's birthday. And this question seemed interesting to me because it was about one of those rather cryptic phrases, that are almost ambiguous through s ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  30 April 1958

... April Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 30 April 1958 As I had foreseen, I have received a shower of questions to oblige me to explain mentally my supramental experience of the third of February. 1 You want to make me speak and mentalise the experience until a new system is established and you can sit down ...

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On Education  >  The Science of Living

... humanity should progress; whether it professes to lead a yogic life or not matters little, provided it makes the necessary effort for progress. The Mother 25 December 1950 Questions and Answers 1950-51, Cent. Vol. 4, p. 7. The Science of Living To know oneself and to control oneself An aimless life is always a miserable life. Every one of you should have ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  27 August 1958

... August Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 27 August 1958 Sweet Mother, when you tell us to meditate on a subject, we choose, for instance, to meditate that we are opening to the light; we imagine all sorts of strange things, we imagine a door opening, etc., but this always takes a mental form. It depends on the ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 69

... impermanent, incapable of progressing. 12 January 1962 × See the Mother's comments on her experience in Questions and Answers 1957-58 ( 19 February 1958 ). × See Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  5 March 1958

... March Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 5 March 1958 Mother, won't you please speak to us about the "reversal" you have already mentioned to us several times? You said that a reversal was necessary to obtain the new consciousness. A reversal? What kind of reversal do we need, now? You said "a reversal of ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  29 January 1958

... January Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 29 January 1958 " Even in the Inconscient there seems to be at least an urge of inherent necessity producing the evolution of forms and in the forms a developing Consciousness, and it may well be held that this urge is the evolutionary will of a secret Conscious-Being and ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  7 May 1958

... May Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 7 May 1958 " In the earliest stages of evolutionary Nature we are met by the dumb secrecy of her inconscience; there is no revelation of any significance or purpose in her works, no hint of any other principles of being than that first formulation which is her immediate pr ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  21 May 1958

... May Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 21 May 1958 Sweet Mother, what does "mental honesty" mean exactly? It is a mind that does not attempt to deceive itself. And in fact it is not an "attempt", for it succeeds very well in doing it! It would seem that in the ordinary psychological constitution of man, the ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  28 May 1958

... May Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 28 May 1958 " It is quite true that to a surface view Life seems only an operation of Matter, Mind an activity of Life, and it might seem to follow that what we call the soul or spirit is only a power of mentality, soul a fine form of Mind, spirituality a high activity of the embodied ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  16 July 1958

... July Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 16 July 1958 " Religion's real business is to prepare man's mind, life and bodily existence for the spiritual consciousness to take it up; it has to lead him to that point where the inner spiritual light begins fully to emerge. It is at this point that religion must learn ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  9 July 1958

... July Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 9 July 1958 " Religion has opened itself to denial by its claim to determine the truth by divine authority, by inspiration, by a sacrosanct and infallible sovereignty given to it from on high; it has sought to impose itself on human thought, feeling, conduct without discussion ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  14 May 1958

... May Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 14 May 1958 " As plant-life contains in itself the obscure possibility of the conscious animal, as the animal-mind is astir with the movements of feeling and perception and the rudiments of conception that are the first ground for man the thinker, so man the mental being is ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  6 August 1958

... August Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 6 August 1958 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 ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  11 June 1958

... June Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 11 June 1958 " When there is the decisive emergence, one sign of it is the status or action in us of an inherent, intrinsic, self-existent consciousness which knows itself by the mere fact of being, knows all that is in itself in the same way, by identity with it, begins even ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  8 January 1958

... January Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 8 January 1958 Mother reads a paragraph from The Life Divine . We have decided to read paragraph by paragraph so that we can go into certain detailed explanations, but this method has one drawback: as I have already told you, it is that Sri Aurobindo takes up all the ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  17 September 1958

... September Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 17 September 1958 " An intellectual approach to the highest knowledge, the mind's possession of it, is an indispensable aid to this movement of Nature in the human being. Ordinarily, on our surface, man's chief instrument of thought and action is the reason, the observing ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  18 June 1958

... June Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 18 June 1958 " There are four main lines which Nature has followed in her attempt to open up the inner being,—religion, occultism, spiritual thought and an inner spiritual realisation and experience: the three first are approaches, the last is the decisive avenue of entry ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  24 September 1958

... September Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 24 September 1958 " Our thinking mind is concerned mainly with the statement of general spiritual truth, the logic of its absolute and the logic of its relativities, how they stand to each other or lead to each other, and what are the mental consequences of the spiritual ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  3 September 1958

... September Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 3 September 1958 Sweet Mother, the other day you told me that it was necessary to learn how to discipline the imagination. Yes. How is it done? Imagination is something very complex and manifold—what is vaguely called "imagination". It can be the capacity ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  29 October 1958

... October Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 29 October 1958 " It is true that the spiritual tendency has been to look more beyond life than towards life. It is true also that the spiritual change has been individual and not collective; its result has been successful in the man, but unsuccessful or only indirectly ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  5 November 1958

... November Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 5 November 1958 " Spiritual truth is a truth of the spirit, not a truth of the intellect, not a mathematical theorem or a logical formula. It is a truth of the Infinite, one in an infinite diversity, and it can assume an infinite variety of aspects and formations: in the ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  8 October 1958

... October Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 8 October 1958 Sweet Mother, will there not be any intermediary states between man and superman? There will probably be many. Man and superman? You are not speaking of the new supramental race, are you? Are you really speaking of what we call the superman, that ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  1 October 1958

... October Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 1 October 1958 Sweet Mother, what is an ideal of moral perfection? There are thousands of moral perfections. Everyone has his own ideal of moral perfection. What is usually called moral perfection is to have all the qualities that are considered moral: to have no ...

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More Answers from the Mother  >  Series Four (1942 - 1970)

... always with you so that you may be peaceful, calm and contented. 22 January 1970 Page 351 × Questions and Answers 1929-1931 , CWM, Vol. 3, p. 150 . × One crore = ten million. ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  April 18, 1961

... able to express ourselves with our present vocabulary! ... We need another language! × In 'Questions and Answers,' February 5, 1958 (the 'Great Voyage of the Supreme'). × Once again, Mother's experience ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  June 6, 1961

... riding test which terminated the examination. × Mother is alluding to two extracts from Questions and Answers (dated June 19 and July 17, 1957 ) which she has just reviewed for inclusion in the Bulletin. In them she speaks of the causes of illness and of using the conscious will for physical development ...

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Some Answers from the Mother  >  Letters from the Mother to Her Son

... Mother had not slept for several months. × These fifteen "conversations" are published in Questions and Answers 1929—1931 , CWM, Vol. 3, p. 1 to p. 120 . × A literary monthly published in France until ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  August 5, 1961

... So, mon petit, do you have any questions? Not many more. Some small details. 3 Could you hand me a fan? The mosquitoes are a nuisance. Well then? First of all, in the 'Questions and Answers' you speak of the 'reversal of consciousness.' Is this synonymous with the psychic realization? Because in one Conversation you connect the two things: the reversal of consciousness and the ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  July 15, 1961

... of the Work. × Experience of November 8, 1957. Mother has commented on this experience in 'Questions and Answers' of January 1, 1958 . See Agenda I , p. 131 . × End of 1958. ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  January 31, 1959

... consecration—and I feel your Love, your Presence. Things are opening a little. Sweet Mother, I love you and I want to serve you truly. Your child, Signed : Satprem P.S. All the old Questions and Answers will also have to be revised with you, perhaps not in their entirety, but certain problems need clarification. What a grace to be able to work with you! ( Mother's reply ) Sri Aurobindo ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  December 4, 1958

... to the Ashram and throw myself headlong into the work in order to forget all this. There is a lot of work with Herbert's things to correct, the revision of The Synthesis of Yoga , your old Questions and Answers and the Dhammapada , and perhaps you would accept to take up our work together again? Otherwise, if you consider it preferable to wait, I could go join Swami in Rameswaram, discarding all ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  November 8, 1960

... it's painful, sometimes joyful, or with a certain amount of toil that bears witness still to the presence of the personality or the individuality and its Page 469 limitations (the Questions and Answers are full of this)—but the other thing is different, completely different: the other thing is an overflowing joy, and not only the joy of knowing but the joy of BEING. An overflowing joy. 2 ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  October 11, 1960

... and the texture of the pictures. It is very interesting. Basically, I see more and more that the Supreme Consciousness makes use of ANYTHING AT ALL when the time comes. In these Questions and Answers , for example, you had wanted to edit out the words 'Sweet Mother' since people from the West might not understand. But then, we have just now received a letter from someone who suddenly had ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1964  >  June 4, 1964

... nt. The details were picturesque and interesting but too long to narrate. .......... Don't worry about the Bulletin : Nolini has only just finished his translation. I will revise the Questions and Answers with Pavitra, and as for the aphorism, we will see later. I have received a letter from Bharatidi, 1 who is reading your book with enthusiasm and a fine understanding. You do not ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1963  >  June 29, 1963

... you are. It left a very strong sense of Power—concentrated. That was yesterday. Page 195 × Questions and Answers , July 18, 1956 . × See Aphorism 35 : "Men are still in love with grief; when they see ...

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Sri Aurobindo - The Poet  >  Some Questions and Answers on Book One Canto One

... Sri Aurobindo - The Poet THE OPENING OF SAVITRI * Some Questions and Answers on Book One Canto One I Would you kindly help me to understand the following points in Savitri ( International University Centre Edition, with the Author's Letters on the Poem, 1945) ? P. 3. "A power of fallen boundless self..." Is it the same as "The huge ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1970  >  January 10, 1970

... worked out a program with them, and he saw it was... It's gone. I have, fully ready at the Press , The Bases of Yoga, Lights on Yoga, The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, and your Questions and Answers of 1958 [all in French]. I have those five volumes ready and waiting. Put that down on a piece of paper for me. The next time I see Z [the manager], I'll tell him. But then, Mother ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1969  >  January 18, 1969

... Knowledge and Truth and Love and Harmony; but those things could manifest—visibly, little by little—once the ground, so to speak, had been prepared by the action of a sovereign will and power." Questions and Answers , December 18, 1957 . ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1967  >  November 29, 1967

... your life which gave it a new orientation. But never will you be able to describe the dress you wore or the gentleman with whom you spoke or the neighbours or the kind of field you were in.' (Questions and Answers of May 6, 1953 ) And regarding the memory of small details, you said, 'It's perfectly silly.' "But then how is it that one fairly often reads in newspapers the story of little children ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1968  >  December 25, 1968

... spend a weekend by the sea, where I have a very pretty tiny apartment.... There I meditate and go through all the teachings of Mother again by immersing myself in The Life Divine and the Questions and Answers. I lighted an incense stick. Suddenly my whole body broke into a profuse sweat, and an atrocious struggle began. If I could use religious terms from before my Ashramite experiences, I would ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1970  >  August 1, 1970

... whoever they are, are welcome. This ( Mother points to the brochures ) is part of the literature we distribute, there are very good things in it. I haven't read it. It's a series of questions and answers about all kinds of problems: education, language, and so on. Are there answers from Sri Aurobindo? I don't know, it's not signed. Yet I see one thing from you.... Nothing is quoted or ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1971  >  December 11, 1971

... × A.B. Purani, Evening Talks , p. 92. × Questions and Answers , November 12, 1958 . × Savitri , III.IV.343 . ...

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Aspects of Sri Aurobindo  >  Questions And Answers on Savitri

... Aspects of Sri Aurobindo Questions And Answers on Savitri (With acknowledgements to Srinvantu, August 1986) (A few of us have been trying to read and study Savitri in a group. We requested Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) to kindly give us a guide-line, so that our u nderstanding as well as enjoyment of Savitri might ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  A God’s Labour

... above reason. It must not be made to sink into the domain of the reason, because it will get spoiled.... It is to be understood by an internal contact much more than by words." The Mother, Questions and Answers (1954): 31 December 1954 ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  The Blue Bird

... matter in order to awaken it to the Divine Consciousness; matter is automatically under the obligation to give itself to the Divine; it is a mutual and reciprocal sacrifice. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1956): 29 February 1956 Golden light is usually a light from the supermind, a light of Truth-Knowledge. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Colours Blue light is ...

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Talks by Nirodbaran  >  27 November 1969

... but still, when He had stretched out His hand in friendship, I was only too eager to accept it, and I took full advantage of it. So here are the two volumes of correspondence between us, of questions and answers. Questions about everything: medical questions, spiritual questions, literary questions, political questions. Regarding the last category, I used to write to Him in secret, and He used to ...

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Finding the Psychic Being  >  Finding the Psychic Being

... touch we feel: If the chamber door is even a little ajar, What then can hinder God from stealing in Or forbid his kiss on the sleeping soul? Page 59   In the 'Questions and Answers' you speak of the 'reversal of consciousness.' Is this synonymous with the psychic realization? Because in one Conversation you connect the two things: the reversal of consciousness and the ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  Editor’s Note

... usually answered Nirodbaran's questions in the margin and at times long answers followed at the end. But since we cannot reproduce this form in print, the device adopted here is to arrange the questions and answers in paragraphs. Nirodbaran sent 3 notebooks at a time: private, medical and literary. So the reader may sometimes find a single day's correspondence jumping from one subject to another. ...

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Mysteries of Death, Fate, Karma and Rebirth  >  What is Death And What Happens at the Moment of Death

... a few minutes. It is a knowledge which needs the lived experience of many years, thoroughly systematic, and which requires an inner preparation, to make it harmless. (based on the Mother's Questions and Answers 1956, pp. 217-19) Such is the disconcerting complexity of the variegated worlds which exist beyond our well-known physical-material plane. But a question remains: Apart from the habitually ...

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Sri Aurobindo And The Mother  >  The Mother

... can no longer say T, for I shall be Thou. ___________________________________ ¹. Mother's Agenda, Vol. 3. p. 400. ² About the opening of the psychic being, see The Mother, Questions and Answers, 17.8.55, 6. 6. 56. Page 42 How many times a day, still, I act without my action being consecrated to Thee; I at once become aware of it by an indefinable uneasiness which is translated ...

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Sri Aurobindo And The Mother  >  Introduction

... Page 2 were carried out under her guidance. This educational work was a part of the Supramental Yoga, and we have rare insights into education and yoga in the volumes entitled Questions and Answers, which contain conversations of the Mother that took place in her classes. In 1958, Mother withdrew to her room in order to come to terms with the research in the problems related to the ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  The Bird of Fire

... Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Sun, Moon, Star, Fire Moon: In a general way, the moon is associated with spiritual force, spiritual progress, spiritual aspiration. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 26 February 1958 ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  In The Battle

... without shadow, harmony; beauty whole and entire and irresistible Power, the Delight that is the Divine Presence itself, in its essence, in its will and in its realisation. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1955): 7 December 1955 In some faint dawn, In some dim eve,    Like a gesture of Light,    Like a dream of delight Thou comst nearer and nearer to me. Sri Aurobindo, ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  Jivanmukta

... Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Jivanmukta ============= Aspiration is the dynamic push of your whole nature behind the resolution to reach the Divine. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Knowledge by Unity with the Divine - The Divine Will in the World The aspiration is always the sign of the possibility. Aspiration is a thing that is cultivated like all ...

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From Man Human to Man Divine  >  Science and Spiritual Knowledge

... clashed with the spirit and findings of Science. For what characterises a truly spiritual life is a direct 1.Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 1054. 2. Ibid., p. 1055. 3. Questions and Answers, Cent. Vol. 3, p. 33. Page 59 contact with the spiritual Reality, a union with the Divine and a living in the Divine Consciousness. Spirituality represents thus an essentially ...

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Mysteries of Death, Fate, Karma and Rebirth  >  Where does the Jiva Go after Death

... n" in two of her evening conversations, those of March 10, 1954 and December 29,1954. Readers are advised to go through the relevant portions of these two conversations as recorded in her Questions and Answers 1954. We Page 76 content ourselves with quoting here two short passages from these conversations. "...once one has left his body, whether he is conscious or unconscious ...

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Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny  >  The Ideal Group-life: Its Character

... but all as one, within himself. For each one the others must be himself as much as his own body, and not mentally and artificially, but by a fact of consciousness, by an inner realisation." (Questions and Answers 1957-58 , pp. 140-41) In such a community, perfect co-existence of freedom and harmony, unity and universality and not, as at present, separative division, would be the foundation of ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  Sadhana through Love and Devotion

... wall to belong to the Divine, to live only for the Divine, to will only what the Divine wills, to express only the divine Will, to have no other source of energy than that of the Divine." (Questions and Answers 1953, Cent. Ed., p. 5) Now, to arrive at this state of perfect love the Mother has prescribed for the sadhaka a certain programme of action which is as follows:' "Think ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  The Conquest of self-will and the Enthronement of the Divine will

... effort you will find that.... Everything becomes so interesting, the least little thing, the least casual meeting, the least word exchanged, ... everything is full of life and interest." (Questions and Answers 1950-51, M C W, Vo l .4, pp. 88 - 89) Such is the spiritual recompense for all sincere sadhana. Page 229 ...

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