... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Calling the Mother's Force I tried to meditate, but I simply had to give it up as the mind would not cooperate. When you cannot meditate, remain quiet and call in the Mother's Peace or Force. 8 April 1933 Suppose I am in a fix and call down the Mother's force which is above me. Now, how... and simultaneously keep me in complete touch with the Mother? Page 215 You can't order anything to the Mother's force; the Mother's force is the manifestation of the Mother herself. I cannot understand how this force can deal with action. You think the Mother's force has nothing to do with action or that it is too feeble to act? Or what? What is a force meant for but to act? ... Mother? What you should do is to have confidence and try to remain always confident and cheerful. If you feel depressed call for the Mother's Force to remove the depression. If you fall ill, call the Mother's Force to cure you. When you work call the Mother's Force to support you and do the work through you. Page 217 ...
... Quietness is not necessarily sufficient for the Force to come down. A certain state of psychic self-giving is the best condition. It is the Mother's Force that has to work through the sadhak, not the sadhak who has to work through the Mother's Force. The first stage is when one works with the outer energy, but there is an inner consciousness supporting it which relies wholly on the... written to Dilip that there is a special Force for the work and, if it is brought down, its action need not remain a separate thing from meditation. What is this Force for work? It is the Mother's Force, naturally. It is said that we should refer all our acts to the Mother. But I Page 137 don't know how to refer and get her answer before doing actions... used to happen daily to the physical workers in the Ashram. Working with immense energy and enthusiasm with a passion for the work. The sense of rest and the flood of energy came after a call to the Mother's Force. " Which period of general sadhana were you referring to? I was speaking of the time when the sadhana was in the vital and people had a great enthusiasm for work. Have the ...
... The Mother's Force and Its Action From the very day of my arrival in the Ashram I was hearing a great deal about the Mother's Force. Everybody was talking about this Force as if it had been synonymous with the Mother herself! When someone was sick, met with some difficulty in work, faced a problem in study or an obstruction in the inner sadhana, he invoked the Mother's Force and it usually... Master further explained the relationship between the Mother and Her Force: When I speak of the Mother's Force I do not speak of the force of the Prakriti which carries on things of the Ignorance but of the higher Force of the Divine that descends from above to transform the nature. The Mother's Force is the Page 80 manifestation of the Mother herself... It is the... the case with the Mother's Force, too. How much potency it must have that it not only removes the Ignorance but also changes and transforms the nature into the divine Nature, a process which was never attempted in the old Yogas. Sri Aurobindo tried to enlighten me further about the workings of this Force in my correspondence: Myself: Sometimes, if not often, the Mother's Force comes down, carries ...
... also delight). You often speak of "the Mother's Force". What is it? The Mother's force is the manifestation of the Mother herself. It is the Divine Force which works to remove the ignorance and change the nature into the divine nature. Page 168 Sometimes, if not often, the Mother's Force comes down, finishes its work and disappears... quiet, egoless, surrendered. You often speak of the Mother's Force. What is it really? When I speak of the Mother's Force I do not speak of the force of the Prakriti which carries on things of the Ignorance but of the higher Force of the Divine that descends from above to transform the nature ...The Mother's Force is the manifestation of the Mother herself. ... every Sadhaka ready to receive and contain the Mother's force at any time and in any circumstances? Who on earth would not like to hold its constant action. It is not a question of mental wish but of capacity and whether all the parts of the being are ready and can retain it. If everybody were containing the constant action of the Mother's force, the sadhana would be finished by now and ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Descent of the Mother's Force What you feel streaming down must be the Mother's overhead Force. It flows usually from above the head and works at first in the mind centres (head and neck) and afterwards goes down into the chest and heart and then through the movement of the whole body. It is the... you must be feeling in the head up to the shoulders. The Force that comes down from above is the one that works to transform the consciousness into that of a higher spiritual being. Before that the Mother's Force works in the psychic, mental, vital and the physical plane itself to support, purify and psychically change the consciousness. When you began to meditate, you saw the Mother's face; that... very good, it means that there is an inner connection established. The absence of the smile does not mean that she is displeased or that you have done anything against her will. At the same time the Mother's force descended on you, it was the pressure of her Force that you felt on the head and breast—everybody feels in the beginning this pressure—and what you felt in the breast was the working of the Force ...
... not worked out. An active life presents every opportunity for all the lower energies of the nature to emerge to the surface; and in the Integral Yoga the very first result of the pressure of the Mother's Force is an upsurge of the dormant or suppressed desires and passions of the being. "Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you... important role, and achieve, even at their best, a partial and precarious purification,, and a superficial ethical polish in the nature. In the Integral Yoga, on the contrary, the first touches of the Mother's Force rouse up the repressed or slumbering: appetites of the unregenerate nature and compel them to be converted into their spiritual counterparts. It is to be noted here that when we speak of the... that thou eatest, all that thou renouncest, all that thou givest and all that thou practises to kindle thy soul's energy." When one surrenders and offers in this way all one's action to the Mother's Force, one shakes up all desires, latent or patent, and forces them, not by repression, but by an intense, detached and dynamic will, to submit to a spiritual conversion. This individual will, supported ...
... take up and enlighten the outer action and grow conscious of the Mother's force behind it guiding it in its works. 3 January 1937 Should one try to put out the Mother's Force during work, if one is conscious of it? It is the Mother's Force that has to work through the sadhak, not the sadhak who has to work through the Mother's Force. If one is not yet conscious of her Force, should one... and you feel it is the Mother's and that the Mother's force is working in you, then fatigue does not come. July 1933 Page 241 During the work, is it good to go on thinking: "It is the Mother who does the work through us"? If it is work , you can always do that, provided you realise that it depends on the instrument whether the Mother's force works fully or not. But if we think... Sadhana through Work for the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother Finding the Mother's Force in Work and Action Yesterday I worked with great vigour and after I saw Mother in the evening I felt that there was no physical tiredness at all and that I could work for twelve hours more. It is the Mother's energy that comes down into the vital and ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Force and the Forces of the Lower Nature There is in me a revolt of the vital against the Light resulting in much vital confusion. I hope that one day all my desires and ambition will go away and I will depend completely on the Mother. In the meantime, as these things too come from... down into the lower vital unless you can go there with the Mother's Force and Light supporting you. If you are pushed or fall into the lower vital confusion, then to remain quiet (not discussing or consenting to whirl round in the lower vital chaos), to reject the vital suggestions and experiences and open yourself calling down the Mother's Force to change this part of the being. Instead of that you... but wait. What things? The vital confusion and desires? It is entirely false to say that these things come from the Mother. They come from the lower Nature and its darkness and ignorance. The Mother's Force is not the lower Nature, it is the Power of the Divine Page 223 Truth and Light working upon the lower Nature to drive out the confusion and falsehood and desire from it and to ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Progress in Sadhana and the Mother's Force When you say to someone, "You are open to the Mother", do you mean open in a general way? Are not all in the Asram more or less open to the Mother as soon as they have accepted her as the Mother? And when the Mother has accepted a sadhak, does her Force... true? The Mother's Force is working in all alike, according to their capacity they will receive it and it will work in them; if there is any difference, it is their own nature that makes it. 6 February 1933 Page 194 This restless mind and unquiet vital are not peculiar to you; they are the human nature from which every sadhak starts. What you have to get is the Mother's force and grace... Is not every sadhak ready to receive and contain the Mother's force at any time and in any circumstance? Who would not want to hold its constant action? It is not a question of mental wish but of capacity and whether all the parts of the being are ready and can retain it. If everybody were containing the constant action of the Mother's force, the sadhana would be finished by now and the siddhi ...
... between the Mother and Her Force: Page 266 THE MOTHER'S FORCE When I speak of the Mother's Force I do not speak of the force of the Prakriti which carries on things of the Ignorance but of the higher Force of the Divine that descends from above to transform the nature. The Mother's Force is the manifestation of the Mother herself. . . . It is the... Too many people in the Ashram forget that they are here for yoga. Page 265 SUPPLEMENT THE MOTHER'S FORCE AND ITS ACTION From the very day of my arrival in the Ashram I was hearing a great deal about the Mother's Force. Everybody was talking about this Force as if it had been synonymous with the Mother herself! When someone was sick, met with... case with the Mother's Force too. How much potency it must have that it not only removes the Ignorance but also changes and transforms the nature into the divine Nature, a process which was never attempted in the old Yogas. Sri Aurobindo tried to enlighten me further about the workings of this Force in my correspondence: MYSELF: Sometimes, if not often, the Mother's Force comes down ...
... suggestion of these vital Forces that produces the upsetting. 7 September 1936 The feeling of the vibration of the Mother's force around the head is more than a mental idea or even a mental realisation, it is an experience. This vibration is indeed the action of the Mother's Force which is first felt above the head or around it, then afterwards within the head. The pressure means that it is working... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Pressure of the Descending Force This is the meaning of your experiences: (1) The power of the Divine Mother from above is descending upon you and the pressure you feel on your head and the workings of which you are aware are hers. Put yourself completely into her hands, have entire confidence... of pressure and heaviness in different parts of the body as the pressure comes down. When it passes, the mind is at peace, the heart free, the body light and easy. The pressure is that of the Mother's force. When there is a resistance, you feel the pressure. When the resistance is cleared away, there is the lightness and ease. 4 October 1932 Nowadays in the evening I try to remain calm and ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Conditions for the Working of the Mother's Force When you can receive the Mother's peace in the mind and heart, it will act on the vital also and calm it. Once the vital is calm then force can be there in it and give it strength. There is no intention of test or ordeal. But for the Mother's force... they will disappear. 21 April 1932 I wish to become ceaseless in aspiration. I feel that it is the Mother's Force that is aspiring in me. But if the Mother herself does not increase my aspiration through her Grace, how can I become ceaseless in it? It is true that it is the Mother's Force that aspires in you, but if the personal consciousness does not give its assent, then the Force does... no use thinking only of the past. Leave him to the Mother to deal with and forget all that. If ego-sense comes back upon you so strongly, it must be because something in you admits it. The Mother's force is there always and can help you to get rid of these things, but you on your part must with faith and sincerity accept the Mother and put yourself entirely on her side so as to make it possible ...
... I not leave the charge of my sadhana to the Mother's Force? Why let my adhar think that it is doing it for the Mother? The system has first to be accustomed to the Force working. Today I felt as if someone other than myself was carrying out my actions. Of course I was there, but in the background. Was it not the Mother's Force? What you say amounts only... n are necessary. Peace is necessary for the higher states to develop. The silence, at least the quietude, was there for the whole day. During such a state shouldn't one feel the Mother's Force working in the being? If one feels it is all right — but it does not always happen. The quietness, silence or peace is a basis for the extension of consciousness, the coming of the... have said that it gets mixed with the action of the present mind, vital and body. That is inevitable since it has to work upon them. It is only after the trans-formation that it can be fully the Mother's Force with no mixture of the separate personality. If the Divine Force in all its perfection without mixture were to act from the beginning, not taking any account of the present nature, then there ...
... change or disappear." The mind of the sâdhaka may not be able to see how the Mother's Force works in the parts of the being which are veiled from it, but the central will, once kindled and concentrated upon a thing, can never fail of its objective. The will, exercised with a quiet persistence, calls down the Mother's Force, which begins to act on the inconscient and the subconscient for their p... perception in all parts of the nature. The sâdhaka should try to identify himself with his psychic being or soul, and "feel with the psychic nature and see with the psychic vision" the working of the Mother's Force in the submerged reaches of his being. In proportion as the purification of these reaches progresses, he will experience an increasing freedom from the compulsion of the lower appetites, the... the mechanical habits, which are so great an obstacle to the transformation of nature. When the psychic Page 278 perception develops, he will be not only aware of the action of the Mother's Force, but also able to hold up the remote and recondite tracts of his nature to its transforming light. Purification renders the nature transparent, and develops in it many new perceptive faculties ...
... this stage is a sincere and sustained personal effort to surrender the whole nature to the Mother's Force, so that the Force can enter into the nature and effect the purification in its own infallible way. The sooner the lead in the work of purification is transferred from the sâdhaka's mind to the .Mother's Force, the better for the sâdhanâ. But the will of the sâdhaka, concentrated upon the purification... an unimpeded correlation and interaction are established in the whole nature, replacing the present discords and resistances. Besides, with the progress of the Yoga and an increasing action of the Mother's Force, there takes place a descent of the higher Light, and Power and Peace and Purity, which begin to effect a radical change in the parts of our nature and sublimate them into Page 209 ... cramping hold of the others, and given the utmost autonomy to develop in its own natural way, and at the same time in happy and harmonious relations with all. This can be perfectly done only when the Mother's Force begins to act directly and freely in the nature, bringing down more and more of its supramental omnipotence. THE THREE STEPS OF PURIFICATION The beginning of the movement of ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Receptivity and Openness to the Mother's Force Do not allow yourself to be troubled or discouraged by any difficulties, but quietly and simply open yourself to the Mother's force and allow it to change you. 10 March 1931 When you decided to tell the Mother, it had the effect of opening something... something in your physical consciousness and the Mother's Force acted. It often happens so—the action of the Mother's Force depends on a certain power of receptivity in the mind or vital or body—and openness is the first necessary condition for the receptivity. 29 May 1933 How to become one with the Divine? Open yourself to the Mother's Force and aspire—in time you will become one with the... the Divine. 15 June 1933 The vital defects and difficulties are the same in all and also the shortcomings of the mind. One has to open in faith and confidence to the Divine; the Mother's Force will gradually put everything right. 15 September 1933 I am overcome with disappointment and depression. After reading your last letter, everything crumbled down in a wave. You said you would increase ...
... DOWN THE HIGHER FORCE When there is a spiritual emptiness I call down or draw the Mother's Force in order to fill it. Do you have any objection to this process? No. It is all right. Whenever possible should I draw down the Mother's Force? Yes, you can do so. When I make an attempt at drawing down the Force, I experience... blankness but something else - I see by reference to the passage in your letter that it was a "state in which aspiration is not needed." Such a state is not blankness but a condition in which the Mother's Force is present to the consciousness and doing everything. In any case, if the aspiration is used there is no harm at least. Is it not so? No. What kind of... the being remain in muteness. If the silence is sufficiently intense, then no activity of the mind or anything else can disturb it. Yesterday I tried to bring down the Mother's Force into the silence in order to make it solid and dynamic, as suggested by you. Was it all right? If there is no disturbance of the silence, it is all right. Page 172 ...
... on the Mother Difficulties and the Mother's Force What is the means of dealing day by day with difficulties? Page 296 Equality, rejection, calling in of the Mother's force. 1 August 1933 When difficulties arise, remain quiet within and call down the Mother's Force to remove them. 26 August 1933 In my sadhana I have received only... "Let me do what I can; the Mother's Force is there, the Divine is there to see that in due time all will be done." 4 November 1935 There has been no letter from you for three nights. Whatever difficulty has come across, keep your faith and reliance on the Mother and lay open whatever opposes from outside or within Page 298 to the working of the Mother's Force. 25 March 1936 ... on the nature. 9 April 1937 Do not admit these suggestions of despair or impatience. Give time for the Mother's force to act. 12 June 1937 Whatever difficulties still remain, be sure that they will be surmounted. There is no need for the outer being to be nervous—the Mother's Force and the devotion within you will be sufficient to overcome all that stands in the way. ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Reliance on the Mother's Force My mind is not yet quiet and that is why I am not getting any joy in my sadhana, any experience or realisation—nothing at all. This makes me very sad and unhappy. May the Mother bestow on me the flow of Peace and help me to open my closed heart-centre. There has... 1929 You should not rely on anything else alone, however helpful it may seem, but chiefly, primarily, fundamentally on the Mother's Force. The Sun and the Light may be a help, and will be if it is the true light and the true Sun, but cannot take the place of the Mother's Force. 28 May 1930 Page 198 There is no aspiration in me, no capacity to follow something higher. I feel dullness... was the result of your own effort or merit, but of your taking the right attitude of reliance and the Mother's force working, so you should not think that any slowness or difficulty was due to your own demerit but only Page 199 seek to keep this attitude of reliance and let the Mother's Force work,—slowly or rapidly does not matter. The dream was again one of these experiences of test ...
... remember that the work is the Mother's—and the results also. You must learn to feel the Mother's force behind you and to open to the inspiration and the guidance. Always to remember by an effort of the mind is too difficult; Page 247 but if you get into the consciousness in which you feel always the Mother's force in you or supporting you, that is the true thing. 18 August 1932 The Mother... you can have constantly the feeling of a calm being within concentrated in the sense of the Divine Presence while the surface mind does the work, or when you can begin to feel always that it is the Mother's force that is doing the work and you are only a channel or an instrument, then in place of memory there will have begun the automatic constant realisation of Yoga, divine union, in works. April... sadhana. Work for the Mother done with the right concentration on her is as much a sadhana as meditation and inner experiences. 14 March 1934 During physical pursuits, I find that the Mother's Force takes them up. But when I am not working, what should I aspire for? For the Mother's power to work and bring down by the proper stages the higher consciousness. Also for the system to be ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Becoming Conscious of the Mother's Force Yesterday I felt a great Peace and Power. I felt the Mother's atmosphere around me and a strange nearness to her. I thought Page 201 that the Mother's thought or consciousness must be with me. Is this true? The Force is always around you,... of it—what you describe of your feeling about it, is quite correct—to become clearly conscious in all parts of the being takes time. 6 July 1933 X told me that he does not feel it is the Mother's force that works in him, since with his own force he is able to lift 40 lbs. of grain. What is meant by one's own force? All force is cosmic and the individual is merely an instrument—a certain... make it his own. There are certain possibilities in the way of the experience. First there is the faith, or sometimes a mental realisation and this of itself is enough to make one open to the Mother's force so that it is always available at need or call. Even if one does not feel the Force coming, yet the results are there and visible. The next is when one feels oneself like an instrument and is ...
... There was a dynamic action of the Mother's Force in my left arm. But why did the arm become especially red? There is no reason why the arm should become physically red merely because there was Force in it. If the redness was a subtle physical phenomenon, that is different. Today I felt for a long time a powerful action of the Mother's Force in my feet. It was an experience... kinds, sattwic, rajasic and tamasic. Page 98 In most there are one or two defects which are exceptionally obstinate and return even after a long rejection. Cannot the Mother's Force intervene directly and quickly wash them out? If there is the consent from the part affected, it can be done. The ego can be made to give its consent. If it were not so, the... That is for you to see. You have to become sufficiently conscious of yourself to see where ego mixes and where it does not. You say that the difficulty in the descent of the Mother's Force is due to something in the vital which is not ready. What is this "something"? I suppose not yet sufficiently surrendered or free from ego. The Force can come down in spite of that, but ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Force and the Body When can it be said that the material being is ready for the Divine? If the material consciousness is open, feels the Mother's Force working in it and responds, then it is ready. 11 June 1933 I feel the Mother's light, peace, beauty, joy and love descending... medication for me. Medicines are insignificant compared to the Mother's Force and Compassion. Everything will come all right through her Love and Force—this is my strong faith. For the Mother's Force to work fully in the body, the body itself and not only the mind must have faith and be open. 9 October 1933 I pray that the Mother's Force may help my body. Kindly let me keep her Light and by that... obstacles that were obstructing you, you can have the Yoga experiences as well as anyone else here. 3 December 1933 Is the heat that I felt in the body the heat of the fever or the heat of the Mother's Force? It exerted a tremendous pressure on my mind, life and body. That has still to be seen. It is most probably the tapas heat; the question is whether it is turned partially in the body into ...
... impregnated with the Mother's force. X is now convinced that there is nothing of any medicine left after potentisation except Homeopathic philosophy (the Mother's force). What is your opinion? I never have opinions—except for the purpose of writing or conversation. To the eye of the Yogin all opinions are true and all are false. It is only realities and results that matter. The Mother's force is a reality... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Therapeutic Force While working, I suddenly felt a pressure of weakness, a depression in the chest. When I became conscious of it, I opened myself and called the Mother's force. After a few minutes it disappeared. Was it the divine strength that supported me in some mysterious way,... or was it the inherent strength of the body that awakened? The inherent strength of the body does not do things like that. It is the Mother's force that does it, when one calls and opens oneself. Even people who never did Yoga and are conscious of nothing, get cured like that without knowing the reason or feeling the way in which it was done. The Force comes from above or in descending it envelops ...
... upon it. OPENING AND SURRENDER TO THE MOTHER'S FORCE The first and greatest means of release from the ego, as of achieving anything substantial in the Integral Yoga, is a constant and exclusive opening to the Mother's Force. This cannot be too much insisted upon. The very basic principle of this Yoga is an entire reliance upon the Mother's Force, and an ungrudging surrender to her guidance... help and protection. It is only our faith and confident call that are needed to make that Presence dynamically felt and effective. But mere opening without surrender cannot avail much.- The Mother's Force may come, but, finding our nature too rigid or recalcitrant, and reluctant to accept its influence and impulsion, can only withdraw, leaving us to stumble ¹ Letters of Sri Aurobindo... beyond or in the supracosmic Silence; and for that dynamic fulfilment what is of primary importance is an extirpation of the ego from every part of human nature. A quiet, unfailing opening to the Mother's Force supplemented by a surrender of the whole being and a ruthless detection and rejection of the ego will go a long way towards the realisation of that fulfilment. But more is needed. PSYCHIC ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Discrimination and the Working of the Mother's Force It is dangerous to think of giving up "all barrier of discrimination and defence against what is trying to descend" upon you. Have you thought what this would mean if what is descending is something not in consonance with the divine Truth, perhaps... An Adverse Power could ask no better condition for getting control over the seeker. It is only the Mother's Force and the divine Truth that one should admit without barriers. And even there one must keep the power of discernment in order to detect anything false that comes masquerading as the Mother's Force and the divine Truth, and keep too the power of rejection that will throw away all mixture. ... action always"? To support its action means that one must recognise the Mother's force when it acts and distinguish it from other egoistic or ignorant forces and give assent to the one and refuse the others. It is again a general rule—its application each sadhaka has to see for himself. 1 July 1933 The Mother's Force may do everything but one has to become more and more conscious of one's ...
... Force. At present when the descent of the Mother's Force is the only movement prominent, why do I feel an increasing weakness in the body? Probably the material is not yet open enough to receive the Force. In the evening I felt something descending and reaching down to the chest. Probably it was the Mother's Force. Probably. You should establish the Force... which resists the Power and so causes Page 56 the aching of the spine and the body. Why should the spine and body ache if there were no physical resistance? THE MOTHER'S FORCE ON THE PHYSICAL BEING During the present extrovert state when I try to concentrate for a silent receptivity it creates a pain in the forehead and particularly between the... the most inconscient part of the body, have entered into the field of experience! Yes, these things are felt when the Force is working. But I wonder why the action of the Mother's Force is confined so much. All is limited up to the parts of my neck only! It always begins like that. You said yesterday: "These things are felt when the Force is working." ...
... "true consciousness"? Activity would mean either directing work by the ordinary vital or mental consciousness or else handing it over to the Mother's Force. But for that you must be conscious of the Mother's Force doing things through you. You wrote, "Rasa must be there in the work." But I am not able to get this rasa, this enjoyment. For the perfect... good field for the Mother to prepare and lift up my inner being. A little later, when I did become aware of the sadhana, it was a surprise to find myself suddenly touching depths and heights. The Mother's Force acts, of course, in all states and not in the work only. The question is: to what extent can we offer it a more or less total receptivity? In solitary meditation the outer being becomes vague... one and is either dormant or quiescent while the inner reigns supreme. In work, although the exterior self is predominant, the inner is there just behind it, if not with it supporting it with the Mother's Force, Light and Peace. Thus the whole being is dynamised in the work, and whatever change comes is made permanent. On the other hand, all that Page 191 is achieved in meditation ...
... ng to the Mother wears down the residual resistance in the nature and clears the way for a more and ¹ The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Page 119 more manifest working of the Mother's Force. At times one feels the Force streaming in and impelling certain actions and then going out; at other times, it enters and occupies the being, lighting up some tracts of the mind intensifying... and the play of its dualities with the calm gaze of a dispassionate witness. The more his surrender is sincere and pervasive in the nature, the greater is the tangibility and effectiveness of the Mother's Force; and, feeling the Force working in him, initiating his actions and carrying them out, he is strongly confirmed in his experience and attitude of the instrument, and ceases to be the worker... servant. This second stage is called the stage of the instrument. The illusory sense of oneself being the doer of one's actions is dispelled now for ever. One comes in concrete contact with the Mother's Force, universal, all-seeing and all-achieving, and, passive in its hands, like the machine in the hands of the mechanic, sees one's life and nature being remoulded and transformed in the image of ...
... depressed by that, but persist in the aspiration and will till it is done. The Mother's Force will be there to bring it about as soon as possible. You have only to allow the consciousness to develop—at first there will be mistakes as well as true ideas, but when there is sufficient development and the Mother's force and knowledge directly working in you, things will become more and more right—not... unsteadiness come across, your will to quiet might meet it or soon reappear and dispel the disturbance. That would make the elimination of the restlessness or impatience easier; but in any case the Mother's force is there working behind the variations of the surface consciousness and it will bring you through them. The experiences you had were renewed glimpses of the Page 33 psychic working... their lapses. But fundamentally it is by the widened consciousness in your mind and vital and physical that you will be quite freed from these small reactions. You have only to continue with the Mother's Force working in you and these things will smooth themselves out hereafter. These small movements [ such as useless talking ] are the most difficult of all to change owing to their very smallness ...
... thoughts, voices etc. That is not so. You can be open in all your being, but to the Mother alone, to the Divine alone and to nothing else. Page 152 When the consciousness is filled with the Mother's force, then there is the condition you speak of as felt in the head—a solid block, compact, silent, free from all random thoughts and movements. But this can be felt not only in the head, but in all... like that then all foreign intrusions are either automatically excluded or if they come, easily observed and rejected as not one's own and not the Divine's. One feels full of the Divine, full of the Mother's force and presence so that nothing else can enter and misuse the mind, the vital or the body. 6 April 1931 Sita suffered without Rama, the Gopis without Krishna—how they longed for God! This... vital also. 16 February 1932 The advantage of being in the psychic consciousness is that you have the right awareness and its will being in harmony with the Mother's will, you can call in the Mother's Force to make the change. Those who live in the mind and the vital are not so well able to do this; they are obliged to use mostly their personal effort and as the awareness and will and force of the ...
... yourself to the Mother's force. If vanity, ambition and self-conceit stand in your way, cast them from you. You will not get rid of these things by merely waiting for them to disappear. If you merely wait for things to happen, there is no reason why they should happen at all. If it is incapacity and weakness that oppose, still, as one opens oneself truly and more and more to the Mother's force, the strength... given and will grow in the adhar. 11 March 1932 It is owing to the good psychic condition in which you are that this lightness and power of work comes into you; for then you are open to the Mother's Force and it is that that works in you, so that there is no fatigue. You felt the fatigue formerly after the work was over because your vital was open and the vital energy was the instrument of the... and for too long a time, there may be a breakdown of health and strength under the overstrain. Rest is then needed for recovery. If however the mind and the vital get the habit of opening to the Mother's Force, they are then supported by the Force and may even be fully filled with it—the Force does the work Page 257 and the body feels no strain or fatigue before or after. But even then ...
... drawing at first, was not the Mother's Force, but something different which he could control? Who said that? It was a higher Force at least, even if not taken from the Mother, but drawn down by himself. But it was coming in small doses and he played happily with it. When it threatened to come in earnest and a great mass, he got frightened. And when the Mother's Force descended he got frightened... lives through tonight and the next few days with an amelioration there may be a chance. I put this all down in order to have the situation clear in my mind. One thing only is a good sip that the Mother's force + R's medicines blessed by her pulled her out of the certain death which had come on her the other night; but on the other hand it did not prove as it would have been in another case, decisive... force came and gripped his neck (?). Well, that's quite possible. If it does, one has only to kick it away and say, "Get off, you fool." Or if you are not vigorous enough to do that, call the Mother's force. Anyway this fear must go. Exactly. People come in contact with so many planes, beings and forces in meditation, and if one gets afraid, there is a chance of madness. [Sri Aurobindo ...
... impression was that such a herculean task could only be performed by the Mother's Force, while I maintained my station above. I always had a will for it but did not put myself to work at it. One can remain in the higher consciousness and yet associate oneself with the change of the lower nature. No doubt it is the Mother's Force that will do what is necessary but the consent of the" sadhak,... s descent of that which is above. Should I allow such an effort? There is no harm at all in allowing it. The effort to ascend and draw down the Mother's Force does not succeed every time. Still do you want me to go on developing this process till it becomes easy and natural for the Force to come down by itself even without my conscious call? ... bringing anything down oneself For one always thinks it is enough if one can dwell there up above and whatever is to be brought down or worked out below in the lower planes will be accomplished by the Mother's Force alone. If you can rise always, it can be done like that. But the inertia prevents that, then there must be a descent to remove the obstacle. The will for that must be there. ...
... Page 192 You often speak of the Mother's Force. What is it? It is the Divine Force which works to remove the ignorance and change the nature into the divine nature. 18 June 1933 Why do I feel that it is I who do this thing or that? For is it not true that it is the Mother's force which does everything in us? When I speak of the Mother's force, I do not speak of the force of Prakriti... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother What Is the Mother's Force? What is the Yoga shakti? What is Yogic mind-force, Yogic life-force and Yogic body-force? In the Yogic consciousness one is not only aware of things, but of forces, not only of forces, but of the conscious being behind the forces. One is aware of all this not only ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Faith and the Working of the Mother's Force Is it so difficult to have faith and confidence in the Mother? Even with a little of that attitude, the descent was taking place in you. If you want to get back your faith and keep it, you must first quiet your mind and make it open and obedient... obedient to the Mother's force. If you have an excited mind at the mercy of every influence and impulse, you will remain a field of conflicting and contrary forces and cannot progress. You will begin to listen to your own ignorance instead of the Mother's knowledge and your faith will naturally disappear and you will get into a wrong condition and a wrong attitude. March 1928 Put your faith in the Divine... Divine Shakti, set your mind at rest and let the Mother's Force work. 26 August 1933 There is no reason to be discouraged. Three years is not too much for the preparation of the nature and it is usually through fluctuations that it gradually grows nearer to the point where a continuous progress becomes possible. One has to cleave firmly to the faith in the Mother's working behind all appearances ...
... is a good help for that also, especially if it brings the strong faith and reliance. The feeling of the vibration of the Mother's Force around the head is more than a mental idea or even a mental realisation, it is an experience. This vibration is indeed the action of the Mother's Force which is first felt above the head or around it, then afterwards within the head. The pressure means that it is working... of Descent Sensations in the Inner Centres It [ a pressure felt in meditation ] is what we call the pressure of the Force (the Force of the higher spiritual or divine consciousness, the Mother's Force); it comes in various forms, vibrations, currents, waves, a wide flow, a shower like rain etc. It passes to each centre in turn, the crown of the head, the forehead centre, throat, heart, navel... kind of heaviness is often felt at one centre or another Page 470 where the Force is working. If it is only a weight or pressure on the head, it may be only the pressure of the Mother's Force. It comes like that to most people. Once the consciousness is open and the Force enters, there is no longer this feeling. It is the pressure of the higher consciousness (planes of blue ...
... Mother's grace is on your nature and her force is working and your inner being is aiding the Mother's force to get rid of all these things. So you must not be sorrowful or discouraged or fear anything, but look steadily at all that comes out and have the will that it should go completely and for ever. With the Mother's force working and the psychic being supporting the force, all can be done and all will surely... right attitude of selfless devotion within and persisting in it in spite of the surface nature's troublesome self-repetitions one enables this inner being and consciousness to emerge and with the Mother's Force working in it deliver the being from all return of the movements of the old nature. Why do you indulge in these exaggerated feelings of remorse and despair when these things come up from... will only have the same difficulties again with probably less favourable circumstances. The way to succeed in sadhana is to refuse to be discouraged, to aspire simply and sincerely so that the Mother's force may work in you and bring down what is above. No man ever succeeded in this sadhana by his own merit. To become open and plastic to the Mother is the one thing needed. Despair is absurd ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Surrender to the Mother and the Working of Her Force Is it the Purusha who consents to the Mother's Force acting in the whole being? Yes. If the Purusha does not consent to the working of the Mother's Force, does it mean that the other beings (mental, vital, physical and psychic) also cannot... enable the sadhak to receive the Mother's Grace? No. The Purusha often holds back and lets the other beings consent or reject in his place. 22 April 1933 Make the central surrender. The Mother's Force will do the rest. 25 October 1933 In this process of the descent from above and the working it is most important not to rely entirely on oneself, but to rely on the guidance of the Guru ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Force and the Three Gunas When one feels that it is the Mother's Force that acts through one and not one's own force, is it the Mother's Force alone that works in one's actions while the gunas remain quiescent? No, the gunas are there and not quiescent—for they are the instrumentation ...
... not doing the work. Instead of accepting these reactions as if they were an unchangeable law of your nature, you should make up your mind that they must come no longer—calling down the aid of the Mother's force to purify the vital and eliminate them altogether. If you believe that the trouble in the body must come, naturally it will come; rather fix in your mind the idea and will that it must not come... What you have to realise is that your success or failure depends, first and always, on your keeping in the right attitude and in the true psychic and spiritual atmosphere and allowing the Mother's force to act through you. Page 242 If I can judge from your letters, you take its support too much for granted and lay the first stress on your own ideas and plans and words about the work;... principle of karmayoga and to do it with joy because it is done for the Mother is the true psychic and vital condition in this Yoga. There are those who have done the lawyer's work with the Mother's force working in them and grown by it in inward consciousness. On the other hand religious work can be merely external and vital in its nature or influence. I may say however that I do not regard ...
... Mother, the Mother's light, the Mother's force, and the change they bring in you. You have to throw away all other influences and open yourself only to the Mother's influence. You have to think and talk no longer about energies flowing out and your energies and others' energies. The only energy you have to feel is the descent and inflow and action of the Mother's force. These were my instructions... cannot make your mind quiet, work and pray and wait. Those who are able to open to the Divine receive him—but also to those who can wait for the Divine, the Divine comes. If one feels [ the Mother's Force working while in a state of quietness ] it is all right—but it does not always happen. The quietness, silence or peace is a basis for the extension of consciousness, the coming of higher experiences... and experiences will come; but the most important thing is to get in the peace, Ananda, confidence and establish it. When that is fixed, afterwards the consciousness can open to the working of the Mother's Force—its coming down into the body and its working will bring all the experience and change that is needed. To fix the calm and strength is the main thing now—more important than fresh experiences; ...
... oneself, and is more easily transformed altogether. Whatever difficulties there may still be in the outer nature, they will not make any difference to the fact that you are now awake within, the Mother's force working in you and you her true child destined to be perfectly that in all ways. Put your faith and your thought entirely on her and you will go through all safely. What you express in... is needed—when that development takes place, then all will become more clear and coherent. This development will take place if, without getting disturbed, you quietly aspire and go on calling the Mother's Force to do what is needed. Your call will always reach the Mother. If you remain quiet and confident, you will in time become aware of the answer. The more the mind becomes quiet, the clearer will... rendered it invisible. I am glad to hear of the development you speak of in your dealing with others. It is a power proper to the Yoga consciousness that is developing in you, because the Mother's force is at work and is developing the inner consciousness. For it is one of the powers of this inner consciousness to bring about what it sees to be the right thing by simply communicating in entire ...
... this impulse to go that you must refuse to admit—for so long as these forces think they can bring it about, they will press as much as they can on this point. You must also open yourself more to the Mother's Force in that part and for that it is necessary to get rid of this suggestion about Page 130 the Mother's disappointment or lack of love, for it is this which creates the reaction at the... force again—and for that the mind must always follow the psychic suggestion and refuse at once to harbour the opposite suggestions and at the same time keep itself open to the Mother, so that the Mother's Force may come down into it and occupy it and work there. Vital Restlessness I have no idea why he wants to change [ his work ]. If he wants to make himself some day fit for the spiritual life... aspire and assent to the light when it comes, to reject and detach oneself from desire and any dark movement. But if one cannot do these other things successfully, then call and still call. The Mother's force is there with you even when you do not feel it. Trust to it, remain quiet and persevere. Page 134 Yes, dryness comes usually when the vital—here certainly the vital physical—dislikes ...
... learned a calm strength and quiet courage without weakness and without fuss and violence, founded on confidence in the help he could always have received from here and on openness to the Mother's force, things would have been favourably settled by this time. But he cannot take advantage of any help given him because his vital nature cherishes its weakness and is always indulging and rhetorically... to get discouraged. One has to see them as the play of nature, mental nature, vital nature, physical nature, common to all human beings—to see them so and remain calm and detached, calling in the Mother's force and light for transformation of this defective play into the true nature—not getting impatient if it is not done at once, but going on steadily and giving time for the change. The full change... For all these things, the way is detachment, to stand back; separate yourself from the desire, observe it, refuse sanction and put a quiet and persistent will for it to cease, calling on the Mother's force at the same time to dissolve and eliminate the greed, desire, attachment, obscurity and inertia. If sincerely, persistently and rightly done, it will succeed in the end, even though it may take ...
... place. What you have to realize is that your success or failure depends, first and always, on your keeping in the right attitude and in the true psychic and spiritual atmosphere and allowing the Mother's force to act through you and move those whom you approach for this work. Or, if you cannot do that always, you must at least be able to put them into relation with her force and keep them in connection... them, but through an impulse and an interest or a psychic need created in them, and the work would be done. It is not "their movement" or your movement that matters most, but the movement of the Mother's force. If I can judge from your letters, you take its support too much for granted and lay the first stress on your own ideas and plans and words about the work; but these whether good or bad, right... inspiration from this pressure and made a magnificent answer. And you do not immediately seize on this response. This is an example of what I meant when I warned you to keep yourself open to the Mother's force and not follow merely your own ideas and plans. Now the only thing to do is to speak to Vithaldas and see whether he keeps to his offer. If so you should accept at once. The sooner we get the ...
... consciousness to come down into you in which there is not the ego. When it comes down, the real change will come. But you must be quiet within, not worried and restless—you must open confidently to the Mother's Force and let it work in you. The human consciousness is permeated in all its past ideas with this substance of egoism. It is only by a constant quiet vigilance and increasing consciousness... common affliction of the vital) will go like the rest. If you have the aspiration to get rid of it, it Page 244 can only come by force of habit, and with the psychic growing in you and the Mother's force acting, the power of the habit is sure to diminish and fade away. Do not be discouraged by its occasional return, but reject it so that it may be unable to stay long and will be obliged to retire... transformed or dissolved.—Ed. × A doctor went about claiming that he could cure people because the Mother's Force worked through him. The correspondent asked, "Is not all this humbug?"—Ed. × An Indian p ...
... the faith and opening are there, medicines are not indispensable. To separate yourself from the thing and call in the Mother's force to cure it [ is the Yogic method ]—or else to use your own will force with faith in the power to heal, having the support of the Mother's force behind you. If you cannot use either of these methods then you must rely on the action of the medicine. Yogic force... often to call in the aid of physical treatment and that is then used as a support of the Force. X in his treatment does not rely on medicines alone, but uses them as an instrumentation for the Mother's force. You are very much behind the times. Do you not know that even Page 581 many doctors now admit and write it publicly that medicines are an element but only one and that the ...
... (which is a very common affliction of the vital) will go like the rest. If you have the aspiration to get rid of it, it can only come by force of habit, and with the psychic growing in you and the Mother's force acting the power of the habit is sure to diminish and fade away. Do not be discouraged by its occasional return, but reject it so that it may be unable to stay long and will be obliged to retire... matters is the suggestions that come, about death and going away and the rest of it. These you must throw away at once. They have no reason for existence when the inner working has begun and the Mother's Force is sure to carry you through. Remain firm within and recover your quietude. 6 July 1936 I do not know why you suppose that the Mother was displeased with you for your letter. I think my... you bring it up and want to follow it. These and other insistences are your own fancies you must learn to give up. As for the desires, the proper way is to have a sincere aspiration and call on the Mother's force to work in you. When the Mother's light and force are working in you they will show you all that has to be changed in you and will change it provided you give your sincere and full consent. ...
... Calling the Mother in Difficulty Why this bad feeling? I am feeling all bad today. When in difficulties always remain as quiet within as possible and call the Mother. Surely the Mother's force is there to transform you and it will prevail. You must progress to a point at which there is always something within which in spite of any surface disturbance is always quiet, unshaken, holding... let it go on working with a full adhesion, with a constant support of your consent, with a constant rejection of all that is not that, till all the inner being is tranquillised and filled with the Mother's Force, Peace, Joy, Presence—then the outer nature will be obliged to follow suit in its turn. 8 May 1933 In a dream I saw a dull painting with an expanse of water in the background, and in the... aspire and assent to the Light when it comes, to reject and detach oneself from desire and any dark movement. But if one cannot do these other things successfully, then call and still call. The Mother's force is there with you even when you do not feel it; remain quiet and persevere. 15 September 1934 When X complained to me about her difficulty, I told her that it could be removed by calling ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Receiving the Mother's Force at a Distance I write from Comilla to present to you the sad story of a sad person's life. For over twenty-five years I have suffered from leucorrhoea. I have taken all kinds of treatments, but never succeeded in removing it. My body is becoming weaker day by day. I... possible for him to receive where he is without coming here if he has the adoration of the Mother in his heart and an intense call. 25 August 1935 You spoke of my friend X as receiving the Mother's Force. Page 238 "In contact with" the Divine Force which is the force of the Mother—that was what I wrote, I believe. But which Mother? How many Mothers are there? Ours or ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Mental Knowledge and the Working of the Mother's Force During the evening meditation my mind tries to become conscious of the thoughts which the Mother brings down. Is this the right activity? It is not altogether the way—if the mind is active it is more difficult to become aware of what the... mind only, but to feel them and see them with the inner experience. 18 June 1933 Page 230 My mind fails to make out the present state of the being. It does not understand what the Mother's Force is doing. Plenty of people progress rapidly without understanding what the Force is doing—they simply observe and describe and say "I leave all to the Mother." Eventually the knowledge and ...
... action does the harmonising etc. The second way is to act with your mental will on these things, not allowing yourself to drift and not getting upset by difficulties and checks, calling on the Mother's Force to assist and finally use your will. There are others, but I stop here. I want urgently that part of the Divine which will help me keep my poise, calm, peace against any assault from the... the central being, and get it into action. There is no how. One decides to do it and one does it. My mental will itself is weak. It can be made strong. I can try to call down the Mother's force, but faith and surrender would require a wonderful Yogic poise and power possible only in born Yogis, I think. Not at all. A wonderful Yogic poise and power would usually bring self-reliance... walk off again. Any time to circulate some Force for poetry? Yes. N.B. I send you the lucubrations of the S fellow for your information. I absolutely object to his living in and on the Mother's force—he would be there like his own ball, 31 neither melted, nor plastic nor disappeared. Any remarks? Please return the gem as I may have to answer it. August 21, 1936 I have been ...
... observing Purusha can separate himself, but cannot change the Prakriti. But to be the observing Purusha is a first step. Afterwards there must be the action of the Purusha-Will as an instrument of the Mother's force. This Will must be founded on a right consciousness which sees what is wrong, ignorant, selfish, egoistic, moved by desire in the nature and puts it right. What a great will the... behind all actions, is the condition of the liberated man. In the unattached actions, it is, as you said, usually the sattwa that predominates. What happens, then, to the gunas when the Mother's Force takes up our actions? They are used and led gradually towards transformation. In the process, are the gunas first transformed or the Prakriti? The Prakriti can be... then does the Prakriti fall back into the gunas? It is because of the existence of the ordinary consciousness which relapses to its old movement. When one feels it is the Mother's Force that acts through one and not one's own, is it then her Force alone that works in the actions and do the gunas remain quiescent? No, the gunas are there and not quiescent - for they are ...
... in which the lower forces did not rise up. If such a case occurred I fancy it would be the first in human history. Could it be made possible if we left the sadhana wholly to the Mother's Force? Page 109 It is possible — when one has learned how to do it. But till then they rise. In fact I have tried it myself. So long as the remembrance... again, you have to fight it out again. It is the habit of responding to the old things and giving Page 112 it when it insists the same consent as you give to the Mother's force when you are clear. Passivity to the contrary force — that is the only answer to your "what is all this". PRESSURE AND RESISTANCE What was there on the... resistance? When there is a pressure for a fresh opening, there is often a strong resistance from below. Which part of my being is interfering with the action of the Mother's Force? It is always the same — the lower nature admitting the contrary pressure from below. There was some restlessness in the physical mind, so I started studying ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Assimilation of the Mother's Force Allow a quiet and steady will to progress to be settled in you; learn the habit of a silent, persistent and thorough assimilation of what the Mother puts into you. This is the sound way to advance. March 1928 As for the Mother's force, when one receives it ...
... yourself to the Mother's force. If vanity, ambition and self-conceit stand in your way, cast them from you. You will not get rid of these things by merely waiting for them to disappear. If you merely wait for things to happen, there is no reason why they should happen at all. If it is incapacity and weakness that oppose, still, as one opens oneself truly and more and more to the Mother's force, the strength... you can have constantly the feeling of a calm being within concentrated in the sense of the Divine Presence while the surface mind does the work, or when you can begin to feel always that it is the Mother's force that is doing the work and you are only a channel or an instrument, then in place of memory there will have begun the automatic constant realisation of Yoga, divine union, in works. * ...
... inner consciousness altogether. One has only to aspire sincerely and keep oneself as open as possible to the Mother's Force. Then whatever difficulties come, they will be overcome—it may take some time, but the result is sure. One has to suppose that [ the Mother's ] force everywhere around and call it in—if one feels it, so much the better, but even otherwise if there is faith and power... "getting" aspiration? Aspiration is an act of the will and one can always aspire. Activity in aspiration, tapasya, rejection of the wrong forces, passivity to the true working, the working of the Mother's force are the right things in sadhana. One has to aspire to the Divine and surrender and leave it to the Divine to do what is true and right with the Adhar once it is perfected. Intensity ...
... preference—likes and dislikes in the vital. All work given you must be felt as the Mother's and done with joy, opening yourself for the Mother's force to work through you. If there is the full surrender in the work and you feel it is the Mother's and that the Mother's force is working in you, then fatigue does not come. The pain, burning, restlessness, weeping and inability to work which you... for Energy During the course of the sadhana one can learn to draw upon the universal Life-Force and replenish the energies from it. But usually the best way is to learn to open oneself to the Mother's Force and become conscious of it supporting and moving or pouring into the system and giving the energy needed for the work whether it be mental, vital or physical. There is naturally a higher Energy ...
... we are one and whatever is given is from both. If I give, the Mother's Force goes with it, or else the sadhak would get nothing, and if the Mother gives, my support goes with it and gives it my light as well as the Mother's. It is two sides of one indivisible action, one carrying with it the Page 79 other. It is the Mother's Force that gives the push, but also the peace. 16 July 1936... 1936 Whatever one gets from the Mother, comes from myself also—there is no difference. So, too, if I give anything, it is by the Mother's Force that it goes to the sadhak. 20 August 1936 ...
... thing. To feel the forces coming from the Mother and to be open to the Mother's Force — are these two things Page 112 different? The two include each other. If you feel the forces it means that you are open. If you open, you will soon become conscious of the Mother's Force. What is meant by "burning aspirations"? Very... there is a veil of self-centred vital ego which many find it difficult to remove without an inner tapasya. Page 115 Is it not time I left the charge of my sadhana to the Mother's Force? That can be only when all is ready. The system has first to be accustomed to the Force working. For the higher working, is not a state of blankness and silence better ...
... What is the Yogic method of getting rid of a pain or illness? To separate yourself from the thing and call in the Mother's Force to cure it — or else to use your will force with faith in the power to heal, having the support of the Mother's Force behind you. If you cannot use either of these methods then you must rely on the action of the medicines. I think my... Is such a state inevitable? It need not come if one is able to detach oneself from the body and the sense of illness. By detaching yourself you must make it easier for the Mother's Force to work on the body — that is the object. Reject the movement of the vital physical and affirm the principle of health. The vital desires to be ill — throw out the desire. ...
... You have to feel yourself even in the mental, vital, physical levels (not only above) a consciousness that is neither mind, life nor body. Up to the last year the Mother's Force had to continue its pressure on my lower nature to change. But now a mutual understanding seems strangely to emerge between the higher and the lower. Through my mental Purusha the higher con... — for that is always stupid — or it may be the mind is tired of the old kind of thinking and wants something better. My physical work goes on smoothly by the Mother's Page 216 Force. But even an inner silence cannot be maintained during mental work. It is only because it is more difficult to separate from the active mind than from the body... course of the sadhana. I suppose that the usual action of memory is for a time suspended by the mental silence or else by the physical tamas. How then is life to be carried on? The Mother's Force reminds me of what is to be done at the right time. That happens. The memory comes back in another way of action. I do not know what to do when I fail to understand ...
... comes through your mind can be accepted as binding unless it is confirmed by her. You have made a confusion which is often made at the beginning of this kind of experience. It is no doubt the Mother's Force that was working within you or upon you, and some of the experiences, such as that of feeling the Mother in your heart, were perfectly genuine. But when the pressure of the Force works upon the... your experiences to us, because, apart from anything else, we have the knowledge and experience of these things and can immediately put a check on any tendency to error. Keep yourself open to the Mother's Force, but do not trust all forces. As you go on, if you keep straight, you will come to a time when the psychic becomes more predominantly active and the Light from above prevails more purely and ...
... learn to keep always in contact with the Mother, always in the true consciousness, only then can these things be dealt with safely. Do not go down into these lower unredeemed parts without the Mother's force with you. If you feel yourself down, remain quiet, call on the Mother and her force, but do not try to deal with it by your mind. But as far as possible resist the downward movement so long as... control over the forces. That is the very reason why one should never put oneself into the control of these forces or make oneself a free crossways for their passage. It is only by opening to the Mother's force alone that a control can be established over these lower workings. Ananda and the Lower Vital It is indeed in the lower vital that there is the main difficulty for the spiritual change ...
... Inner Union and Outer Relation with the Mother Some part or parts of my being seem to be trying to live in the Mother all the time, and to leave the other parts completely in the hands of the Mother's Force. That did not succeed in the past. I mean "live" not in an impersonal sense, but live into her very manifested physical form. In such a case, is it still necessary to aspire for bringing... But how are you going to do that if the other parts are left to remain as they are? They will go on pulling you out of the true consciousness as they do now. And how are they to be changed if the Mother's Force is not there in them to change them? 14 January 1936 It is true that the Mother is one in many forms, but the distinction between the outer and the inner Mother must not be made too trenchant; ...
... pray for the Mother's Force to help me to offer every morsel to the Mother, to get everything easily digested, to make a growth of complete equality and detachment in my consciousness enabling me to take any food with equal Rasa of universal Ananda without any insistence or seeking or greed or desire. This is again part of the sadhana. 7) When I go for work, I pray for the Mother's Force to take ...
... it is the tamas that prevents the aspiration, because the mind gets inert also. The cause of the fatigue is not clear from what you have written. It is by opening yourself and calling down the Mother's force into you that you can get back the aspiration and get rid of the fatigue — whatever the cause of the fatigue may be. Mother, Today I felt that you are displeased with me. ... first it takes time, often a long time, for the consciousness to be prepared in this way and during that time many difficulties can come up, but if one perseveres, a time comes when all is ready. The Mother's Force opens the consciousness fully to the Divine, then all that must develop, develops within, spiritual experience comes and with it the knowledge and union with the Divine. 9.4.37 ...
... It is evidently from what you have written the thing that is happening — the physical consciousness is opening to the spiritual experience. In action I feel detached and the Mother's Force working in my place; I find myself above with her at the same time. All is very good — to live on a higher plane and see the action in the physical from it as something separate... silence — they appear to be there all the time, but something else happened yesterday. The subconscient inertia arose, and I put the whole of my concentration on it. I felt at the same time that the Mother's Force was working in the nerves of my left hand. It was a concrete experience. Another thing. I cannot quite make out why I need to be inactive in order to observe the experiences of ...
... a simultaneous action of a vital fire. How is that? There is no incompatibility between them. What is it that acts in the Agni? It is the Mother's Force that works in the Agni. Before my consciousness could realise fully the Self the psychic seems to have come so much forward. Is the experience of a burning action almost everywhere... the superior Force first. Is it not possible at my present stage to maintain my central consciousness in the pure-existence all the time and let my external actions be directed by the Mother's Force so that they may come automatically from the true consciousness? No, it is not yet possible. The true consciousness must be there in the mind and vital before that is done and the ...
... for the light that is pressing to descend? No. But when you make the effort you will naturally become conscious of whatever resistance there may be to the effort. The Mother's Force, instead of descending through the head, seems to come at times through the forehead. It can come in anywhere but the normal way of descent is through the head. What enters... Tantric sadhana the Kundalini rises." Can we have Tantric experiences here? One can feel the experiences of any sadhana as a part of this one. Was the experience of the Mother's Force inter-fered with by the lower vital's depression because that Force entered this part of the being? It may have been —but very often the lower Nature pushes these things across an ...
... the higher consciousness of which the first basis is the peace and wideness and realisation of the Self, the One that is all. In the quietness or silence, should not one feel the Mother's Force working? If one feels, it is all right — but it does not always happen. The quietness, silence, or peace is a basis for the extension of consciousness, the coming of higher experiences... What do you mean by coming from the true consciousness? The pure existence consciousness does not initiate any action. Actions come through it either from the ordinary nature or from the Mother's Force. In fact I don't actually know what is meant by living in the Mother's Consciousness. I wrote simply thinking that to dwell in the Self-consciousness is only the first step towards ...
... your sadhana and if you want people to feel comfortable with you and ready to help you, you must get rid of these vital moods and defects—you must put a control on yourself and try to change. The Mother's Force is there to help you, but there must be your active consent and cooperation, your own steady will and endeavour. 1 November 1933 I cannot do anything myself so long as the inertia in me... to keep the conscious connection and also write more often; if not every day, yet every second or third day. 17 December 1936 It is not that I want you to do all by your own strength; the Mother's force is there. I should like you however to persist in meditation and the endeavour to be quiet within; even if at Page 302 present there is no definite self-understanding or experience ...
... do more work, it disturbs the higher working. I don't know what the cause of this is. There is no special cause for it. It is always so with everybody Page 747 unless one feels the Mother's Force working through one in the action. I find it hard to work while remaining in the Yogic consciousness. My inner state is too passive. It is possible to work through the passive state even... for a fairly long period an active sadhana was proceeding within you. Everybody's capacity however is limited—little can be done by one's own strength alone. It is reliance on the Divine Force, the Mother's Force and Light and openness to it that is the real capacity. This you had for a time, but as with many others it got Page 749 clouded over by the coming up of the physical nature in its ...
... inspiration from this pressure and made a magnificent answer. And you do not immediately seize on this response! This is an example of what I meant when I warned you to keep yourself open to the Mother's force and not to follow merely your own ideas and plans. Now the only thing to do is to speak to Vithaldas at once and see whether he keeps to his offer. If so, you should accept it at once. The sooner... communicate his experience or his difficulties direct to her. It is not desirable that in matters of the Sadhana Punamchand or anybody else should come in between, even as a channel of communication. The Mother's force must go direct undisturbed by any other influence. December 1928 Page 432 [8] Champaklal As regards the Vedic "Dictionary" write to Punamchand that I do not want anything ...
... The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Pulling the Mother's Force I am depressed that the Divine has made me meditate the wrong way for three and a half years without letting me know Page 220 it was wrong. Why did I feel that I must stimulate my aspiration through great concentration in meditation in order to expedite my ...
... Mother, or, if it cannot do that, by persuading him that he is unfit and so disturbing him that he gets upset and loses faith and courage. What you have to do is always to remain calm and call in the Mother's force and to refuse steadily all the suggestions whether against yourself or against the Mother. Preserve your calm always, keep an entire faith in the Mother and in your own spiritual destiny. Reply... reason and obviously are only waves from outside. You should recognise them as such, things not your own but forced on you by a Force from outside and when they come remain still, reject and call the Mother's force to liberate you. 15 July 1936 Page 321 ...
... a thing that happens of itself by sincerity of will and aspiration. It means to be able to receive the higher forces that come from the Mother. Opening means only to be able to receive the Mother's force. Whether one is open or not is shown by two things. If one is conscious of the force working in one, then one is open. But even if one is not conscious, yet if results of the working happen,... It is true that through whatever is strongest in him a sadhak can most easily open to the Divine. In the practice of Yoga, what you aim at can only come by the opening of the being to the Mother's force and the persistent rejection of all egoism and demand and desire, all motives except the aspiration for the Divine Truth. If this is rightly done, the Divine Power and Light will begin to work ...
... the ego less active and the physical mind at rest knowledge would come from above; in place of the physical mind's stupidities, Page 73 the vital mind could be calm and quiet and the Mother's Force take up the action and the higher consciousness begin to come down. That is the proper sequel of emptiness. But nothing of this has happened because the "emptiness" could not complete itself... physical is more full of old habits, more obstinate in keeping and always repeating them, more slow to receive anything new or to change. But by the detachment and steady rejection and reliance on the Mother's force, this obstinacy can be overcome and the cup emptied for filling with the Divine Light. There is nothing out of the normal in what you describe—it happens in the course of the change of ...
... An adverse Power could ask no better condition for getting control over the seeker. It is only the Mother's Force and the divine Truth that one should admit without barriers. And even there one must keep the power of discernment in order to detect anything false that comes masquerading as the Mother's Force and the divine Truth, and keep too the power of rejection that will throw away all mixture. ...
... for that only makes it last more, but to put entire confidence in the Mother and quietly persist in faith, patience and steady will for the complete Page 389 change. It is so that the Mother's force can best work in the being. The sense of helplessness, of impossibility of removal [ of obscurity ] is like the obscurity itself a characteristic of the physical consciousness which is... as the obstruction is obstinate. Do not therefore be discouraged by the persistence of the obstruction of the ignorance. Page 397 The persistence of your own will to conquer with the Mother's force supporting it will come to the end of the resistance. I don't know of any effective outward means of getting rid of it [ inertia ]. Some, in hours when they cannot do sadhana, spend the ...
... you. You should not rely on anything else alone, however helpful it may seem, but chiefly, primarily, fundamentally on the Mother's Force. The Sun and the Light may be a help, and will be if it is the true Light and the true Sun, but cannot take the place of the Mother's Force. It is good. No one can easily get rid of desires. What has first to be done is to exteriorise them, to push them ...
... it is necessary first to establish the entire openness of the physical being and stabilise in it the descent of calm, strength, purity and joy with the feeling of the presence and working of the Mother's Force in you. It is only on that assured basis that one can become an entirely effective instrument for the work. Once that is done, there is still the dynamic transformation of the instrumental being... the change can be radical by a direct action in the part itself, instead of an indirect influence upon it through the mind or higher vital. Rest and restore your physical forces, open so that the Mother's Force may fully work on you, the trouble pass away and a new and stronger movement commence. The Bringing of Realisation into the Physical Yes, certainly, that is what I am insisting on—the bringing ...
... to the Mother it means that one is not really open to Sri Aurobindo. Very often Sri Aurobindo says one should allow the Mother's Page 104 force to govern. Does it mean that there is a difference between the two forces? There is one force only, the Mother's force—or, if you like to put it like that, the Mother is Sri Aurobindo's Force. Somebody told me: "When I came here, ...
... All discord, disharmony, quarrelling must spoil the work which depends on harmony and cooperation and it must spoil the atmosphere by bringing in rajasic forces of the lower nature. How can the Mother's force then favour these things. Let us suppose that personal relations have to be transcended—but, if so, is dislike and repulsion the proper and spiritual way to do it—they can only create a new and... them and passing into the sole relation with the Divine. But as a matter of fact Yogananda himself has disliked or quarrelled with many people, even with his closest friends here. Each time the Mother's force has worked not to make the rift definitive but to mend it, to remake, to renew the good relation of friendships, to substitute better relations for antagonism and dislike. Then ? October ...
... right then. Sciatica is of course an illness of the lower part of the body — the legs especially. But it should go out from there. The pain is increasing. I have started using the Mother's Force on it. If you get rid of it by the Force, so much the better, but if it increases like that then physical treatment will be necessary. The difficulty is that there is... Obviously. The first thing to do is to get rid of the constipation. Perhaps you could try Ambu's asana, if your sciatica allows? Could I leave the constipation to be cured by the Mother's Force or just forget about its weakening effects and go forward? If it persists you have to work on it yourself either by asana or otherwise. I have told Nirod he can treat ...
... imposes the result of its experience on the outer. After the samadhi is over, many parts of my being continue to remain indrawn. The physical and mental activities are handed over to the Mother's force. Then I feel myself positively living and moving in quite another region, and the actions are felt as if carried out by some other person, as if it was somebody else elsewhere. That is... if the inner being is separate from the outer consciousness, otherwise the outer consciousness is sure to pull the central down. I aspire also for the inner being to bring down the Mother's Force not merely to guide the actions of the outer being but to take the actions into itself and be their doer. That is more possible, provided the inner being separates itself from the outer ...
... I think you would agree that the going down of my consciousness into a still lower and darker plane is due to the need of the sadhana. It is to open and expose my lowest nature for the Mother's Force to transform it. That is not enough by itself; there must also be the steady will for transformation. You said that it is the ordinary oscillations of the co... find no difference. What to do then? Nothing can be done except to keep yourself detached, unless you can recover the use of the knowledge and the will or else bring down the Mother's Force. Page 154 ...
... snakebites, etc., by using the Mother's Force, by the stretching of his right and left hands. SRI AUROBINDO: There is no mention of leprosy. NIRODBARAN: No. SRI AUROBINDO: It is the vital force. There were many such cases of cures by placing the hand on the head. They used to call it the passage of fluid magnetism into the body. CHAMPAKLAL: He says it is the Mother's Force. SRI AUROBINDO: Why ...
... AUROBINDO: What he may perceive may be the Cosmic Force. But what we seek is something higher than the Cosmic Force. One may say that the Cosmic Force is also the Divine Force or the Mother's Force. True, but the Mother's Force is acting through it under certain conditions for a certain purpose. The Cosmic Force works through Nature, which one has to observe and reject. Then it is not the question of ...
... and experientially one and the same. Said Sri Aurobindo in 1935: It is a very common experience, that of the identity between myself and the Mother. ... There is one force only, the Mother's force - or if you like to put it like that, the Mother is Sri Aurobindo's Force. 10 In a talk given on 24 February 1971, K. D. Sethna said that his theme was really a mixture of three ingredients:... would see the person coming and speaking to her or she herself going there. Besides that, wherever the Force is working, the Presence is there. 16 It was a misunderstanding of the way the Mother's Force acted that led to many of the grumblings of the sadhaks, their readiness to evaluate progress in their yoga in terms of the hucksterings of the market-place, and their only too common weakness ...
... purified, illumined and converted into their spiritual equivalents by the self- unfolding process of the Integral Yoga, proceeding under the guidance of the Mother's Light and fulfilling itself by the Mother's Force. DESIRES ARE FORMATIVE ENERGIES Very few people care to study the working of the energies called desires, which have a powerful formative force, and carry in themselves the... most effective means of delivering the nature-parts from the darkness of egoistic ignorance and initiating in them the reign of Light and Love and Bliss. And a full and conscious surrender to the Mother's Force and Light is the only way to illumine and Page 259 transform the citta and abolish its uncanny hold upon. the different parts of our nature. For, the human mind even at its ...
... Page 381 after the passing of the beloved Master. Then the normal activities began, but with a striking difference. One felt a pervading Presence in the Ashram atmosphere and the Mother's Force as more sovereignly in command of the life blossoming there. There was an imperative call, a kindling inspiration, almost an irresistible pull to transcend the normal levels of human consciousness... grow according to its law. Evidently it is a signal departure from the aims and objects of traditional spirituality, which points to the Beyond as the only kingdom of perfection and fulfilment. The Mother's Force is directed to the radical transformation of the whole active nature of man, so that the gulf between his outer consciousness and the divine Consciousness may be bridged and he may manifest the ...
... Ashram for twelve days after the passing of the beloved Master. Then the normal activities began, but with a striking difference. One felt a pervading Presence in the Ashram atmosphere and the Mother's Force as more sovereignly in command of the life blossoming there. There was an imperative call, a kindling inspiration, almost an irresistible pull to transcend the normal levels of human consciousness... according to its law. Evindently it is a signal departure from the aims and objects of traditional spirituality, which points to the Beyond as the only kingdom of perfection and fulfilment. The Mother's Force is directed to the radical transformation of the whole active nature of man, so that the gulf between his outer consciousness and the divine Consciousness may be bridged and that he may manifest ...
... sees external objects, an inner sight in us which can see things yet unseen and unknown, things at a distance, things belonging to another place or time or other worlds.... It is the working of the Mother's force which is opening it... Remember the Mother always, call on her and aspire to feel her presence and her power working in you .... The frequent seeing of lights... is usually a sign that the ...
... later I got a little nervous. And my eyes opened. They closed again and I remained seated cherishing the memories and experiences of that last room. In what a miraculous way Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's Force works! × Something that resembles the “ Sudarshanchakra ” is seen. I do not know what the “ Sudarshanchakra ...
... conditioned reactions and limitations, a consciousness deeper or higher than that of the mind needs to be invoked. Eckhart calls it Presence. In Sri Aurobindo's yoga it is called the Divine Force or the Mother's Force. I realize more than ever before that, to invoke the Divine Force, it is not enough merely to detach oneself and stand back as a witness but to offer all the movements of one's ordinary co ...
... communicate his experience or his difficulties direct to her. It is not desirable that in matters of the Sadhana Punamchand or anybody else should come in between, even as a channel of communication. The Mother's force must go direct undisturbed by any other influence. December 1928 Sri Aurobindo Champaklal As regards the Vedic “Dictionary” write to Punamchand that I do not want anything of ...
... is already a great step and one that cannot be attained without a considerable inner progress. Probably, what you feel that you need is a Page 42 constant and vivid sense of the Mother's force working in you, descending from above and taking possession of the different planes of your being. That is often a prior condition for the twofold movement of ascent and descent, and it will ...
... already there in a hidden form in the obsessive present. Along with this attitude or posture, continue with your medication. Go to the psychiatrist and state your symptoms from time to time. The Mother's force can work also through the drugs. The Supreme Grace is many-moded. But the central mode for you is "Patient endurance." Your father is indeed very considerate and he is right in suggesting ...
... capital mistake, a false premise. Besides this unfortunate point de depart, there is to my mind a note of over-optimism about our own immediate possibilities. I should be ready to grant that the Mother's force is working for the advent of the new race, but I cannot believe that the collectivity can so easily become responsive now and achieve for itself what it is alleged to have fatally prevented the ...
... Your brochure on Matrimandir is simply excellent. I showed it to some of my friends and they like it very much. Someone told me: "At last the truth is coming—it is so simple." So see how the Mother's Force is working. Here too people want to know the Truth. I am sure with your help we can do much more work for Auroville and show to people what exactly the Mother wanted for Auroville. Your paintings ...
... work with the Mother September 1958 I painted several pictures of flowers and vases, but they were not up to much, because I was unable to receive the Mother's Force and inspiration directly. The days passed, piling themselves into weeks. At last I waved adieu to East Africa and came back to the Ashram in the middle of September 1958. I was ready to ...
... Divine. The true vital consciousness is one in which the vital makes full surrender, converts itself into an instrument of the Divine, making no demand, insisting on no desire, answering to the Mother's force and to no other, calm, unegoistic, giving an absolute loyalty and obedience, with no personal vanity or ambition, only willing to be a pure and perfect instrument, desiring nothing for itself ...
... rise up—it invariably happens. The thing to be done is to stand back, observe and reject, not to allow these things to get hold of you, to keep your central will separate from them and call in the Mother's Force to meet them. If one does get involved as often happens, then to get disinvolved as soon as possible and go forward again. That is what everybody, every Yogin does—to be depressed because one ...
... becomes very strong and conscious. This consciousness can come by practice, but it can also come by turning to the Mother and thinking of her always and offering to her everything. The being opens, the Mother's force begins to work and one becomes more and more conscious. It is indeed a great thing that you can keep this calm and this unaffected witness attitude. It is always the sign of a strong inner ...
... or are done wrongly, you will simply say, "The Mother knows" and go on quietly doing or getting things done as well as you can without friction. At a later period we will show you how to use the Mother's force so that things may go better, but first you must get your inner poise in a quiet vital, for only so can the Force be used with its full possible success. There are two attitudes that a ...
... lifts only in concentration may cease to exist even when one is in the ordinary unconcentrated condition. It is for this deepening that the strong tendency to go inside comes upon you. Lastly, the Mother's force always there and receiving also a response at once from the physical consciousness. These three things together can do anything. It takes time to make them all three constantly active together ...
... a heated condition in which you could not meditate etc. I asked you to drop the effort and remain quiet and you did so. My intention was that by your remaining quiet, it would be possible for the Mother's Force to work in you and establish a better starting-point and a course of initial experiences. It was what was beginning to come; but if your mind again becomes active and tries to arrange the sadhana ...
... descent of the higher consciousness with its peace, light, force, knowledge, Ananda etc. into all the planes of the being down to the most physical. All this has to be done by the working of the Mother's force aided by your aspiration, devotion and surrender. That is the Path. The rest is a matter of the working out of these things for which you have to have faith in the Mother's working. Three ...
... many obstacles and much lapse of time—so if you take it up it must be with a firm resolve to carry it through to the end with a whole-hearted sincerity, faith, patience and courage. It is the Mother's force that descended to work in the system. There are two things that have to be established in order to make a foundation for the workings of the sadhana in the waking consciousness, 1st a descent ...
... ists, artists etc. who have the intense will of perfecting what they do and all their central energies are thrown into this flame. The same intense fire should burn in the Yoga. It is the Mother's Force that works in the Agni. Agni and the Psychic Fire If it is in the heart it may be psychic fire—it is possibly not the joy that created the fire, but the decision you had come to to believe ...
... the psychic condition and attitude and what you have written in your letter is an exact description of this psychic condition and psychic attitude. One has to keep this and see what happens and the Mother's Force will do the rest. Let the sweetness and the happy feeling increase, for they are the strongest sign of the soul, the psychic being awake and in touch with us. Let not mistakes of thought ...
... could give an exact description of the main character of the thoughts that come, what things and ideas they are concerned with etc. But in any case the one thing to do is to open yourself to the Mother's force by aspiration, thought of the Mother or any other way and let it drive out the attack. We shall send Force continually till this is done. It will be better to let us know every three days or ...
... its own,—as if a stranger had come into the room and was trying to impose his ideas or his will on the inmates. After that it becomes more easy to get rid of it altogether. Of course, there is the Mother's Force working, but this kind of assent from the mind and vital makes the result quick and easy—otherwise it takes time and more labour and struggle. Dissolution You can dissolve a thought formation ...
... when one cannot react actively against the difficulty. For the quiet passive resistance will make it pass sooner,—even if one is disturbed and anxious. Even when one cannot call in actively the Mother's Force, one must keep the reliance that it will come. Do not let the difficulties you feel or meet from outside overcome or depress you. Keep this one thing in your mind that to come to the Divine ...
... pushing out and it is not easy to get rid of this recurrence altogether. The one thing when they come is not to get distressed or upset, to realise what it is and to remain very quiet calling for the Mother's Force to push it away. In this way the habit Page 665 of these recurrences diminishes, the strength and intensity also, and on the other side one is able to recall the true consciousness ...
... peculiar to you, but comes to all sadhaks—it does not imply an unfitness for the sadhana or justify hopelessness. But you must train yourself to overcome this reaction of depression, calling in the Mother's force to aid you. All who cleave to the path steadfastly can be sure of their spiritual destiny. If anyone fails to reach it, it can only be for one of two reasons, either because they leave the ...
... is opposed to the discipline of the work, then they have to be controlled, but it should be done quietly and kindly, not with anger. Very often, if one has developed a silent power of putting the Mother's force on the work with one's own will as instrument, that by itself may be sufficient without having to say anything as the person changes his way of himself as if by his own initiative. To ...
... action is already a great step and one that cannot be attained without a considerable inner progress. Probably, what you feel you need so much but cannot define is a constant and vivid sense of the Mother's force working in you, descending Page 138 from above and taking possession of the different planes of your being. That is often a prior condition for the twofold movement of ascent and ...
... at its disposal. Painting Painting also is sadhana; so it is perfectly possible to make them one. It is a matter of dedicating the painting and feeling the force that makes you paint as the Mother's force. Of course everybody is here for Yoga and not for painting. Page 292 Painting or any other activity has to be made here a part of Yoga and cannot be pursued for its own sake ...
... identify oneself with them or get upset or troubled because they are there, but rather looks on them as something foreign to one's true consciousness and true self, rejects them and calls in the Mother's Force into these movements to eliminate them and bring the true consciousness and its movements there. The firm will of rejection must be there, the pressure to get rid of them, but not any wrestling ...
... and the vital nature. Do not therefore remain in these thoughts that have no foundation but are only a mood of despondency or a suggestion from outside. Let the psychic being in you grow and the Mother's force work. The relation of the child and the Mother is there in your soul; it will make itself felt in your mind and vital and physical consciousness till it becomes the foundation of the whole c ...
... and judgments, then you will have the wisdom to understand her. Let there be no obsession of self-will, ego-drive in the act, love of personal authority, attachment to personal preference, then the Mother's force will be able to act clearly in you and you will get the inexhaustible energy for which you ask and your service will be perfect. 27 November 1940 Page 838 For Satyendra A ...
... you can feel it. You need to recover your health and strength and we wanted you to do Page 368 the necessary things for that for a sufficiently long time—food, rest, treatment with the Mother's force behind all that to make it successful. But a full confidence in the Mother and acceptance of her decisions and her guidance is necessary; if you have and keep that, then you can recover your ...
... this impulse to go that you must refuse to admit—for so long as these forces think they can bring it about, they will press as much as they can on this point. You must also open yourself more to the Mother's Force in that part and for that it is necessary to get rid of this suggestion about the Mother's disappointment or lack of love, for it is this which creates the reaction at the time of Pranam. Our ...
... For that it is necessary for the psychic to come in front—for the psychic knows, while the mind, vital and physical look only at surface appearances and misinterpret them. It is that for which the Mother's force is working, and whenever the psychic comes near the surface, you have felt love and nearness coming up. But it needs time to prepare the other parts so that they also may know and feel. Therefore ...
... came to her with your external being, external mind and vital and in your vital there were things it did not want the Mother to see or change or else it felt uncomfortable under the pressure of the Mother's force at pranam, because that was a pressure on it to change. But now you are approaching the Mother with your soul and that brings with it the true feeling and true relation it has always had with ...
... because whatever she does must be good, since she is the Mother. You must impose the truth on this vital part. 6 May 1935 Do not allow mental anxiety to harass you. Wait on the working of the Mother's force which will open the lotus of the heart. In the light from above devotion will blossom in you. 25 October 1936 ...
... personalities most of whom would be dominated by one of the four personalities of the Mother. The others you mention would be personalities and powers of the Ishwara, but in them also, as in all, the Mother's force would act. I do not quite catch the question about the transformation of the Vibhutis. All creation and transformation is the work of the Mother. 29 October 1935 Since all creation is ...
... y to say all your thoughts to X and it would not be good either. It is only to the Mother and myself that you can say freely all that is in you, not to anybody else. There is no reason why the Mother's force should not be able to work in you as in others. ...
... that of the shirker who won't do anything, the other is that of the sadhak who does his best, but when he is reduced to quiescence for a time and things are adverse, keeps always his trust in the Mother's force and presence behind all and by that trust baffles the opposition force and calls back the activity of the sadhana. 26 October 1936 How long will it take for all the parts of my being to ...
... in unison with the Mother's will knowing that it is an instrument only and that it is the Mother's will behind that alone can give the result. Afterwards, when one becomes conscious fully of the Mother's force working within, then the personal will is replaced by the divine. 15 July 1935 ...
... can see things yet unseen and unknown, things at a distance, things belonging to another place or time or to other worlds; it is the inner sight which is opening in you. It is the working of the Mother's force which is opening it in you, and you should not try to stop it. Remember the Mother always, call on her and aspire to feel her presence and her power working in you; but you do not need, for that ...
... personalities most of whom would be dominated by one of the four personalities of the Mother. The others you mention would be personalities and powers of the Ishwara, but in them also as in all the Mother's force would act. I do not quite catch the question about the transformation of the Vibhutis. All creation and transformation is the work of the Mother. 29 October 1935 Page 73 Since ...
... same and will always remain the same to you, so you should never accept this idea that she is displeased or severe. But whatever the mistakes or the difficulties, our help will be with you and the Mother's force will work to bring you out and get you back the psychic openness and peace which you had for many days this time and which is bound to return and become permanent after a while. 19 November ...
... I wish to feel that I am lying in the Mother's lap. The Mother is always with you. The vital has its desires and therefore does not believe in the Mother's presence. You have to call down the Mother's Force into it to remove its doubts and desires. 11 November 1933 The Mother is always with you. Put your faith in her, remain quiet within and do with that quietude what has to be done ...
... the Divine alone. The principal thing in the Yoga is to trust in the Divine Grace at every step, to direct the thought continually to the Divine and to offer oneself till the being opens and the Mother's force can be felt working in the Adhara. 26 July 1932 When a sadhak feels the Mother's Grace coming down in him, is it by the consent of the Purusha in him? What do you mean "by the consent" ...
... 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 you and the Mother's force..." Who is this person? This person? Anybody at all. Anybody at all who... There are all kinds of ways of letting someone come between you and the divine force. First of all it is to attach ...
... me, very few would escape this strictness. Love and blessings. About 1963 ( The disciple wrote about a man who was performing miracles and claiming that they were done through the Mother's Force. The letter ends: ) He attributes all these miracles to you. But I wonder whether such miracle-mongering is safe. It may be like old wine in new bottles. We do see your miracles so often ...
... Page 367 It is said that there are certain methods in the Tantras to open the chakras from below, whereas in the integral yoga the chakras open from above by the descent of the Mother's force. What is the difference between the results of the opening of the chakras in these two systems? In Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga, there are no such rigid rules and distinctions. Each ...
... had a great regard. Once he told me: Huta, let other people go in the Frontier Mail, we will go in the goods train. That too will reach the goal—slowly but surely. I liked his advice. The Mother's Force was working ceaselessly in my whole being to fulfil my soul's aspiration. She believed in killing several birds with one stone. Only the Divine Diplomat can do this. ...
... specific taste in matters of food was taken away, so that I really began to eat merely to sustain my body. This was truly a miracle, performed by a small packet of flower-petals surcharged with the Mother's Force. About the power of her blessings she has stated: My blessings are very dangerous. They cannot be for this one or for that one or against this person or against that thing. It is for ...
... temperature is a foretaste of the heat hereafter. But that also is for you to see. P doesn't seem to be willing to oil her machine with olive oil! She wants, I suppose, to rely "only on the Mother's force". I suppose she does not like medicines. September 20, 1935 ... Just see what you wrote—"The psychic is the first of two transformations necessary—if you have the psychic transformation ...
... 1936 Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo February 1936 By the way, you spoke of my friend J.B. as receiving the Mother's Force. [Sri Aurobindo underlined "Mother's Force".] " In contact with " the Divine Force which is the force of the Mother—that was what I wrote, I believe. But which Mother? Ours or some universal Mother as people ...
... I approach for help? Though I did not openly ask him to cure himself using my poor self as the physical instrument, as I did in my other medical cases, still with the conviction that his and the Mother's force would be there, I proceeded with the instructions left by the specialist. But I was not free from anxiety. Meanwhile, I wrote to Dr. Manilal about the complication, asking him to come down and ...
... whether I had got the idea. I replied: Then I painted the bird on 25th January 1962, thanks to my good memory. Otherwise it was not easy to grasp the whole thing in a moment, but, I felt that the Mother's Force was there to give me a clear vision. The Mother praised immensely the painting of the white-fire dragon bird. Days rolled on and I was absorbed more and more in the fascinating work of ...
... said to me. Her jasmines suffused the room with perfume. At close to midnight I was still sitting there, as rain beat down outside—the earth smelt refreshing. Now my soul was charged with the Mother's Force, and ready for the future. I laid my hand on my neck, and felt the sacred chain. Sweet memories of her made me shut my eyes with content when at last I went to bed. The next morning, before ...
... seven the sun took over: a new day—my new life had started. I abandoned the ordinary world without any regret. But escaping from the net of circumstances entangling me was not so easy. If the Mother's Force had not been with me I would surely have failed. My husband saw me off at the airport, which was quite far from our house. He was under the impression that I would return to him. After ...
... I dreamed that I had gone to a distant relative's house. There I met a friend of mine looking hideous because his nose had been eaten up by a disease. I thought of curing him by calling down the Mother's Force. Then I actually felt the Force coming down; when I put my hand on him, lo, he was cured! Miracle and concrete Force in dream? A feat on the vital plane. If you begin to be conscious of the ...
... does not know what is being done,—so that there is no room for doubt or mental resistance. He himself admitted that he could not expect such a miraculous result from his treatment. It was the Mother's force that did it. Naturally. Is it then the question of mediumship? If so, I dance in rapture thinking that yogi-doctors have a vast possibility! Yes, provided they do not entrench themselves ...
... greater force and Ananda than she had ever got when the Mother put her hand fully. Now I see that the ego is not likely to go so easily. But why does the vital turn against the Mother's Force? Where is the ego if not in the vital? On this topic could I submit one more question? Since you had perceived this defect in me, why did you not point it out to me at ...
... similar pain into the corresponding toe of my foot. Is it not rather interesting? Yes. but that kind of experience should not be pushed too far. At times I watch the Mother's Force lifting my body-consciousness to a higher level. I become unaware of the contents of the body — like the bones, flesh, etc. Then any trace of illness, even of a violent pain, vanishes! ...
... The higher consciousness keeps contact only through my passive self and if I do more work some part in me feels disturbed. It is always so with everybody unless one feels the Mother's Force working through one in the action. It is possible to work through the passive state even, provided one feels that one is not doing the work but it is being done through one. ...
... my present state of helplessness and hopelessness? What is all this? It is the habit of responding to the old thing and giving it when it insists the same consent as you give to the Mother's Force when you are clear. Passivity to the entering force — that is the only answer to your "what is all this". What is the connection between the inertia which is a static tamasic ...
... our mind, vital and physical? Usually it is the Mind (buddhi) that governs the rest as best it can. When the Buddhi governs the Adhar (mind, vital and physical), does the Mother's Force work through the Buddhi? Not necessarily — if the Buddhi is surrendered or open to the Mother, she works through it. If it is ignorant and closed to her, the mental Nature (Intelligence) ...
... touching it should fall off. It is the way in which the silence of the outer mind usually comes. The peace has to spread in all the parts. In the peace one must become conscious of the Mother's Force descended and working in all the being. You always seem to think that because the silence is there in the consciousness, the whole consciousness must be equally affected by it. The ...
... disturbance. After some time, my consciousness entered a state where it could not only detach itself from the vital and its revolt but force it to throw away its selfish and unsatisfied feelings by the Mother's Force which was there. During that time I felt as if I were neither mind, vital nor physical, but something else. What was that experience? What experience? The separation ...
... not lead to inactivity— but the physical may wrongly take the pressure of passivity for an Page 119 invitation to inactivity. Does it help to assimilate the Mother's Force if one keeps awake at night as much as possible? One can assimilate in sleep also. Remaining awake like that is not good, as in the end it strains the nerves and the system receives ...
... beforehand things that happen in the physical. One can see them on the vital plane or on the subtle physical, — but the subtle physical foreseeing is usually more exact and sure. The Mother's Force has started working in my ears! Often it closes them as if with some physical substance. Then I feel quite deaf for the time being. It is through the ears that the thought vibrations ...
... core of minds and hearts who are essentially spiritual in their motivation, impersonal in their dealings, capable of holding to the Mother's LOVE in all conditions. Once the unit is formed the Mother's Force is sure to vitalise it and function boldly and uncompromisingly. In the actual working there can be no question of superiority or position of eminence. Within the group the select persons ...
... state of uncertainty: Page 36 "I myself, Champaklal, do not know what I will do tomorrow or what will happen to me." But if we will it from within then Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's Force and Consciousness will protect us till the end and assist us to overcome all obstacles and difficulties. It is like rowing a boat in the dark during a cyclone.' * Dada is ...
... from the next day. He was soon to discover the difference between the attitude of some of the "intellectuals" in the Ashram and the new batch of devoted workers, and opened more and more to the Mother's force until one day the Mother saw "a star at the centre of my heart emanating four rays, which had something to do with the four powers of the Mother". The next day when the same thing was repeated ...
... What appears impossible to the limited capacity of the human mind need not be impossible to the omnipotence of the divine Force, the supreme Mother. What our personal effort may fail to achieve, the Mother's force will surely accomplish, if we can realise an integral surrender to it; for, that Force is no other than the vijnāna śakti or the creative Force of the Divine Himself. And still the fact ...
... inhibitions and taboos, so that whatever is obscure crooked or perverse in them and resistant to the soul's divine flowering may be detected Page 403 and offered up to the fire of the Mother's Force for a radical transmutation. No part is maimed or atrophied for each is an indivisible portion of the whole organism and essential to the fullness of its perfection. A complete freedom from the ...
... The higher the aspiration, the less the chance of the consciousness sinking down into the morass of material cares. And along with concentration and aspiration, there must be an opening to the Mother's Force, so that it may come down and effect the purification and release of the physical being from its own grossness. "The higher consciousness and its force have to work long and come again and ...
... There must come a condition in which you live within in the psychic consciousness with the feeling of the Mother's constant presence, while all the outer activities go on only on the surface and the Mother's Force acts on them to change them into more and more true psychic and spiritual action. The way you speak of is the best for bringing about that condition. Offer all to the Mother in complete confidence ...
... ic light, the pale blue is mine,—the golden, dark blue and others correspond to various other forces. 26 October 1933 We normally see your force working in us as a pale blue light and the Mother's force working as a white light. But today Page 262 I saw a red-coloured force working in me, red like a lotus flower. Was this your force too? It must have been a special force working ...
... until it is ready for the spiritual change. Once one practises this Yoga, the life becomes a part of the sadhana. Even so Sri Aurobindo seldom gives directions or advice in specific matters; only the Mother's Force is there to help and if the sadhak is open and sincere, he can receive and become aware of help and guidance. For discipleship a certain readiness is necessary. To be able to bear adverse fortune ...
... of its nature, one can react and throw it away. Or if it still presses one can keep one's will and faith firm and come out of the temporary obstacle with a greater opening and a new progress. The Mother's force and mine will be with you always. Page 525 × This and many other letters in this and the next chapters ...
... hurt or abhiman or disappointment or shakes or disturbs the nature. 16 March 1937 What attitude should I take during my meditation with the Mother? Last time I could not properly receive the Mother's Force or become conscious of her working. To be conscious of the Force or working in a meditation with the Mother, the consciousness must be still and passive to her. If one is accustomed to be ...
... Indian tradition and that the acceptance of life and works of all kinds, sarvakarmāṇi , is un-Indian, European or Western and unspiritual. Food The food given from the Dining Room has the Mother's force behind it. It contains everything that is necessary to keep you in good health to do the sadhana. Keep that attitude and eat. Everything will go well. 1 circa 1927 It is certainly not ...
... It is quite impossible to take you away from the kitchen and leave the others to work in your place. Such a solution would be very bad for you, for it would mean your losing a work in which the Mother's force has been long with you and sitting in your room with your thoughts which will not be helpful or according to your active nature. It would be very bad too for the kitchen; your place cannot be ...
... experience—and that is the one thing all sadhaks must have or develop—this you have, for it showed itself clearly. The rest does not depend on personal capacity, but on reliance and opening to the Mother's force. It was because you had that that you were progressing for some time very well. It got covered over by the physical consciousness which understands only external things and understands even those ...
... lights can be contained in the Divine Light. 17 February 1931 Today in meditation my entire body opened and spread out infinitely. I felt a slight uneasiness at first, but I could feel the Mother's force. It carried me deeper and deeper into dense darkness through immense worlds of disgust and depression. Though I felt no peace and joy on this long journey, I continued to walk steadily and swiftly ...
... be put right and there is no use in these letters full of complaints against his behaviour; for then you should bear whatever trouble comes as quietly as possible and concentrate on receiving the Mother's force to cure you. It must be one course or the other. My proposal made by the Mother to X was that he should now withdraw from the work he is doing in the kitchen so as to diminish the causes of ...
... sadhaks are sufficiently awakened and changed to feel the need of greater harmony and union with each other. Let only your spiritual change and progress matter for you and for that trust wholly in the Mother's force and her grace which is with you—do not let things or people disturb you,—for compared with the truth within and the journey to the full Light of the Mother's Consciousness these things have no ...
... Sadhaks are sufficiently awakened and changed to feel the need of greater harmony and union with each other. Let only your spiritual change and progress matter for you and for that trust wholly in the Mother's force and her grace which is with you - do not let things or people disturb you, - for compared with the truth and the journey to the full Light of the Mother's Consciousness these things have no ...
... has to be replaced by a quiet settled psychic gladness with the mind and Vital very clear and very peaceful. When one works on this basis, then everything becomes glad and easy, in touch with the Mother's force and fatigue or depression do not come. Sri Aurobindo Developing a double consciousness It is because the energy is put forward in the work. But as the peace and contact grow, a double ...
... has something dark and heavily dull about it. The Mother Page 50 An inward consciousness There are those who have done the lawyer's work with the Mother's force working in them and grown by it in inward consciousness. On the other hand religious work can be merely external and Vital in its nature or influence. Sri Aurobindo Cleaning the floor ...
... so much the habit of them in the past, but they will now have to go because your soul wants to get rid of them and your soul is growing stronger in you. So you must both use your will aided by the Mother's force to get rid of these things, and go on with your inner psychic experiences—it is by the two together that all will be done. The persistence or the obstinate return of the old Adam is a ...
... observing Purusha can separate himself, but cannot change the Prakriti. But to be the observing Purusha is a first step. Afterwards there must be the action of the Purusha Will as an instrument of the Mother's force. This Will must be founded on a right consciousness which sees what is wrong, ignorant, selfish, egoistic, moved by desire in the nature and puts it right. It needs a quiet mind [ to know ...
... alternate. Fluctuations of this kind cannot but come and when they come, one has to remain very quiet and detach oneself from the surface condition and wait for it to pass while calling the Mother's Force. A neutral condition of this kind serves a certain purpose in the economy of the purification and change—it brings up things that have to be transformed or rejected, lifts up some part of the ...
... 1933 Painting and Sadhana Painting also is sadhana; so it is perfectly possible to make them one. It is a matter of dedicating the painting and feeling the force that makes you paint as the Mother's force. 4 September 1935 Of course everybody is here for Yoga and not for painting. Painting or any other activity has to be made here a part of Yoga and cannot be pursued for its own sake. If ...
... the right way at the right place. The advantage of being in the psychic consciousness is that you have the right awareness and its will being in harmony with the Mother's will, you can call in the Mother's Force to make the change. Those who live in the mind and the vital are not so well able to do this; they are obliged to use mostly their personal effort and as the awareness and will and force of the ...
... the Divine Force and its government of the whole nature. Do not allow yourself to be troubled or discouraged by any Page 124 difficulties, but quietly and simply open yourself to the Mother's force and allow it to change you. It is not at all true that the Mother takes away the mental control—that is one of the many foolish misinterpretations that certain sadhaks make about the sadhana ...
... The psychic being in you is open always to the Divine Power, and when it comes in front, your spiritual capacity awakens and you are fully within the protection and can be moved by the Mother's force. The other parts are divided and can be carried away by the wrong movements of the ordinary nature. Especially if you trust your physical mind and mistake its ideas and suggestions for the true ...
... for the Life Principle. Ascent and Change of the Lower Nature One can remain in the higher consciousness and yet associate oneself with the change of the lower nature. No doubt, it is the Mother's Force that will do what is necessary, but the consent of the sadhak, the association of his will with her action or at least of his witness vision is necessary also. Your tendency was to go ...
... complete. There is no incompatibility between the two movements; some begin the psychic first, others the spiritual first, some carry on both together. The best way is to aspire for both and let the Mother's Force work it out according to the need and turn of the nature. The experiences you describe are coherent with each other and very clearly explicable. The first shows that some part of your ...
... physical mind and so help the body consciousness to throw off the suggestion. If necessary, make a counter-suggestion, "No, I shall be well; I am and shall be all right." And in any case call in the Mother's Force to throw out the suggestion and the illness it is bringing. Page 555 By suggestion [ of illness ] I do not mean merely thoughts or words. When the hypnotist says, "Sleep", it ...
... then you feel the peace, the force as something alien to you or non-existent or outside you or at a distance. If you keep the quiet persistently, then this instability will begin to decrease, the Mother's Force will get in everywhere and, though there will still be much to do, there will be a firm foundation for what has to be done. It is different parts of the being that have these different ...
... etc. All these defects you know are in you; to cast them out may take time, but if the will to be true to the inner self in all ways is strong and persistent and vigilant and always calls in the Mother's force, it can be done sooner than now seems possible. That is all right [ not to worry about the recurrence of thought-movements ]—provided there is detachment and refusal of consent. One ought ...
... won't do anything, the other is that of the sadhak who does his best but even when he is reduced to Page 676 quiescence for a time and things seem adverse, keeps always his trust in the Mother's force and presence behind all and by that trust baffles the opposition force and calls back the activity of the sadhana. Page 677 ...
... peace and opening are irrevocably settled in all the nature. For that what is needed is perseverance—to go on without discouragement, recognising that the process of the nature and the action of the Mother's force is working through the difficulty even and will do all that is needed. Our incapacity does not matter—there is no human being who is not in his parts of nature incapable—but the Divine Force ...
... till they pass. Do not allow these depressing thoughts to find credit with you. If they come, look at them as not yours, as suggestions from outside. Remain as quiet as you can and let the Mother's Force work in you. However or from wheresoever it came, the only thing to do with a depression is to throw it out. Dealing With Depression Naturally, if the vital is quiet and allows the ...
... but the full victory which will prevent any return of the attack is not won; for that you must cease to be helpless before the attack, you must be able to fight and repel it (of course with the Mother's Force near whether manifest or veiled and supporting you). At present you have got so far that you can sometimes repel it with your safety pin, that is, by a small action supported by the peace behind; ...
... question. One can get rid of this kind, if the will is determined to do so. If you want to get back your faith and keep it, you must first quiet your mind and make it open and obedient to the Mother's force. If you have an excited mind at the mercy of every influence and impulse, you will remain a field of conflicting and contrary forces and cannot progress. You will begin to listen to your own ...
... transform the whole nature. Otherwise there would be no need of the embodiment. It could be done by simply thinking of oneself as the Brahman. There would be no need of the Mother's presence or the Mother's force. 27 December 1935 ...
... all these personal things and allow her Force to guide and drive it in the ways of a higher Truth which are not its own ways: so it resists, does not want to be dominated by the Truth Light and the Mother's Force, insists on its own independence and refuses to surrender. These ideas of breakdown and personal frustration are again wrong suggestions and the dissatisfaction with yourself is as harmful ...
... ideas or to some vital desire, then there will be a failure in the sadhana. Only if it is accepted, can his coming and doing sadhana here be fruitful. 26 November 1929 Keep yourself open to the Mother's Force, but do not trust all forces. As you go on, if you keep straight, you will come to a time when the psychic becomes more predominantly active and the Light from above prevails more purely and ...
... than the others because the physical is more full of old habits, more slow to receive anything Page 164 new or to change. But by the detachment and steady rejection and reliance on the Mother's force, this obstinacy can be overcome and the cup emptied for filling with the Divine Light." January 15, 1937 Sri Aurobindo "As for sadhana, it is not that you have no capacity, but ...
... encouraging, inspiring and enlightening. They enhance my faith. “In this dream, I have noticed three things. “One—The inner consciousness can be separated completely from the body. “Two—The Mother's Force is transforming the mind, the vital and the body—particularly the body now. “Three—The many forms of the Mother, here, mainly the loving Mother is giving a taste of love to the love-thirsty ...
... journey in a state of peace and bliss. After my return at the end of the day I used to feed my body with fruits or whatever I got from that locality and sit in deep concentration for hours inviting the Mother's force to fill up every cell of the body to remove the exertion and to replenish with a new energy and I was ready and refreshed the next morning to restart my journey to the Divine. Once I had been ...
... stirred and welcomed the change of consciousness. Often I turned my thoughts away from the easy path that the majority of human beings tread. A number of times I could persuade my mind to trust the Mother's Force and be sure of Its final Victory. But it was not easy to keep my steps always steady on the spiritual path. Suggestions were constantly hovering in the atmosphere, and would descend on me ...
... endeavoured to follow her advice to the best of my ability. But it was hard to persevere. Some parts of my being refused to accept the new conditions of life, and frequently revolted against the Mother's Force, Grace, Love, Light, Truth and Peace. Time and again, these parts opened the door to perilous forces. I found myself amidst strangers, and strange customs. There had been an instant change ...
... remarked: An evil spirit was there also . Personally I feel that the true Spirit of Auroville was rejected and removed, so no wonder the evil spirit remained! And played havoc! Nonetheless, the Mother's Force and Grace were and are still there to make Auroville her "Dream". ...
... Nolini-da. I asked him whether I should take the Mother's photograph or Sri Aurobindo's, or those of both. He said, "Better take the Mother's feet." I was amazed and was absolutely convinced about the Mother's Force and the feeling of my true being. Then and there I remembered these lines from Savitri : But first high Truth must set her feet on earth And man aspire to the Eternal’s light And all ...
... War I. Asked by Headquarters for a report of affairs at the front he wrote back: "My left wing is broken. My centre is crumbling. The situation is excellent. I am attacking." I wrote also that the Mother's force was making me feel as if I could write the whole issue single-handed each time. But could 1 trust this "delusion of grandeur" against the sage warning of veterans? I asked the Mother for her ...
... must confess that by this disease my Sadhana has got such an intensity as I would never have reached without it" This does not mean that you should ask to be more and more ill in order to feel the Mother's Force increasingly. It only means that She stands behind everything and sometimes makes use of abnormal circumstances to find short-cuts to us. Last night, during my sleep, I was for hours in the ...
... from whatever you clearly perceive to be out of tune with the Aurobindonian harmony of spirit and life, no matter how distantly. When you can't avoid a certain environment, stay calm, invoke the Mother's Force and be confident of its action. 1 may add that at no time should there enter into your attitude any sense of egoistic superiority or any excited urge of hostility. These things are not Aurobindonian ...
... gap was there inside the mouth. Believe me, within 3 minutes or less, the ache was completely gone. It returned only after 4 hours. Here was a little miracle. Evidently I had got in touch with the Mother's Force and it had passed through those words to my sorry plight. The next day the dentist helped me out. I have some other incidents also to report but there doesn't seem to be time enough ...
... had a great regard. Once he told me: "Huta, let other people go by the Frontier Mail, we will go in the Goods Train. That too will reach the goal—slowly but surely." I liked his advice. The Mother's Force was working ceaseless in my whole being to fulfil my soul's aspiration. She believed in killing several birds with one stone. Only the Divine Diplomat can do this. When I was completely ...
... been the sense of the removal of some veil of obscurity covering the mind — the head from the crown to the throat being the seat of the thinking mind. Opening means only to be able to receive the Mother's force. Whether one is open or not is shown by two things. If one is conscious of the force working in one, then one is open. But even if one is not conscious, yet if results of the working happen, ...
... communicate his experience or his difficulties direct to her. It is not desirable that in matters of the Sadhana Punamchand or anybody else should come in between, even as a channel of communication. The Mother's force must go direct undisturbed by any other influences. December 1928 Sri Aurobindo ...
... quiet in his ādhāra and call the Shakti down or out to the front — for it is always there behind and above him whether he knows it or not. His only effort should be to keep himself open to the Mother's Force and to keep the whole being always on its side in its dealings with the forces of the lower nature. The present essay deals with the preliminary stage of sadhana and with the problems ...
... indicated in one of Sri Aurobindo's letters: "All this cannot be done in a day. So you are once more right in not being anxious or uneasy. One must be vigilant, but not anxious or uneasy. The Mother's Force will act and bring the result in its own time, provided one offers all to her and aspires and is vigilant, calling and remembering Page 68 her at all times, rejecting quietly ...
... well-known experience — when even the body consciousness feels only the self-existence. Till lately my physical being was all void — as the emptiness had entered there too. But now the Mother's Force seems to have begun to occupy it. Very good. Page 27 My lower vital is putting itself into the Mother's hands. However, the subconscient still resists ...
... be) on his doing his duty—but by losing the temper you raise issues and make it a case of Greek meets Greek. Besides that, you must learn to use a silent inner force on the man or else call in the Mother's force, as C suggested. It may not be successful at first through want of practice and skill in the handling, but when you become an expert in that Yogic way, you will be surprised at the additional ...
... the path, ever harder, but on we go with energy undaunted: 'We shall seize the all-swallower and lay him low at the feet of the All-victorious! We shall never fail, We spring from the Mother's Force: On we drive over towering boulders of danger and difficulty! Mother is our Home of Joy, Mother our Mantra; Victory is ours, sleepless we shall battle and bring to Her the Victory ...
... followed. After she had gone, talk began about homoeopathy. SRI AUROBINDO: Lila was cured by Ramchandra. She found fault with him and discontinued the treatment, saying that she would rely on the Mother's Force since it was the Mother who had cured her. DR. SATYENDRA: That is the difficulty here. Sir! The patients come to oblige us and when they are cured it is done by the Mother. Then why come to ...
... "What is Sadhana?" "There you are! I already said that you wouldn't understand me. My Sadhana was my effort to bring down an enormous Power on earth and this became progressively easier when the Mother's Force and mine came together. It was this that, night and day, I was working at, apart from an hour or two that I spent with the boys or with a few visitors. I also walked seven to eight hours a day ...
... formidable mass of energy, limited only by the smallness of our receptivity and capacity. When the disciples speak of their experience with this descending Force, they call it "Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's Force." But they do not mean that this Shakti is the personal property of Sri Aurobindo and Mother; they merely express, unwittingly, the fact that it has no equivalent in any other known yoga. Here ...
... in the force or effectivity in your working and the Mother's? the succinct answer was, "No, it is a single Power." And he declared again, as if qualifying the above: "There is one force only, the Mother's force - or, if you like to put it like that, the Mother is Sri Aurobindo's Force." 6 Page 830 On the other hand, it needs perhaps some tapasya of aspiration and realisation to behold ...
... Page 21 It is said that there are certain methods in the Tantras to open the chakras from below, whereas in the integral yoga the chakras open from above by the descent of the Mother's force. What is the difference between the results of the opening of the cakras in these two systems? In Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga, there are no such rigid rules and distinctions ...
... relation to her is a flame of aspiration, her relation to us is an embrace of love and protection. "This relation," says Sri Aurobindo, "takes up the mind, vital and inner Physical." In other words, the Mother's force acts upon these segments of our being. and purifies and transforms them. By exposing oneself to the transforming radiations of the Mother's Light, one slowly experiences a change in one's whole ...
... axiomatic that when one did the Divine's work, the Divine must lend a helping hand. This too was reiterated in Sri Aurobindo's letters: If the mind and the vital get the habit of opening to the Mother's Force, they are then supported by the Force, and may even be fully filled with it - the Force does the work and the body feels no strain or fatigue before or after. 35 The intellectual ...
... fully the connection between the psychic being and the outer nature. The other is to open upward to the Divine Peace, Force, Light, Ananda above .... The best way is to aspire for both and let the Mother's Force work it out according to the need and turn of the nature. 23 One day, in a fit of gloom or moment of excessive self-dramatisation, another sadhak writes to the Mother wanting to ...
... ³ ibid. Page 160 in the Yoga is to trust in the Divine Grace at every step, to direct the thought continually to the Divine and to offer oneself till the being opens and the Mother's force can be felt working in the ādhāra. ”¹ Nobody, however powerful ² he may be, can do the Integral Yoga and reach its great goal of supramental trans- formation by his own strength and effort ...
... against the Divine they cannot stand. This opposition however shows that the time is near when even surface things will change. All this is happening to delay the inevitable destiny of earth. May the Mother's Force be victorious over all obstacles. Nothing can delay the inevitable realisation. 16 February 1965 ...
... the trouble is there." "So you are conscious of it. What I am doing is that I am putting a pressure on them to change." "Yes, Mother, that is the radical solution; by the pressure of the Mother's force they should change. But it takes time, and in the meantime it affects the progress of Auroville even in the physical. Even where these are one or two good persons the thing works and there is ...
... Part I — Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Mother’s Force 1926-10-04 C: “Mother, I want to see your Force.” Mother: “Oh, you want to see my Force? If I draw out my Force you will completely collapse; you will be flat. Do you want to experience it? You will not be able to go even up to the railway station. ...
... I felt myself calm and peaceful and more gathered within than before. Mother, I pray to Thee to make me entirely free from any other influence except Thine. I would like to know how to make myself entirely plastic to Thy touch? I do not quite understand the meaning of “Thy touch”. Touch means the contact of Mother's force and its influence. If you allow no other influence, you will easily become ...
... the change can be radical by a direct action in the part itself, instead of an indirect influence upon it through the mind or higher vital. Rest and restore your physical forces, open so that the Mother’s force may freely work on you, all trouble pass away and a new stronger movement commence. (22.3.36) ... Part – III (Sri Aurobindo’s Letters) At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo 22 March 1936 You feel as you do only because you are largely identified with the part that has to undergo change and so you feel the difficulty, even the impossibility of changing. But although the difficulty is there the impossibility does not exist. Even this identification ...
... needs a constant vigilance, — you will finally find that the control stands itself and can in the long run always intervene. This must be done so long as that movement is not fully opened to the Mother’s Force and Light, for if that happens the thing can be done more quickly and sometimes with a great rapidity. There is also the intervention of the psychic, if the psychic is sufficiently awake and active... Part - II At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo 11 October 1938 MYSELF: It seems there is a control over speech; still, how difficult for me! What we call a slip of the tongue seems also to be less now. I wonder at the amount of tangles in which our nature is caught. To change them will be a Herculean job. One gets lost even to think of it. SRI ...
... etc. All these defects you know are in you; to cast that out may take time, but if the will to be true to the inner self in all ways is strong and persistent and vigilant and always calls in the Mother’s force, it can be done sooner than now seems possible. (21.8.36) ... Part – III (Sri Aurobindo’s Letters) At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo 21 August 1836 There is no reason for despondency; when one has progressed as far as you did, that is so far as to feel and maintain the calm and have so much of the psychic discrimination and the psychic feeling, one has no right to despair of one’s spiritual future. You ...
... One. In the morning the Mother made me understand each painting. I would go home and do the picture in order to show it to her in the afternoon. Thus I was doing one painting a day. The Mother called me twice a day. Along with the paintings the Mother made me understand their significance and the truth behind them. There were always Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's Force and Presence to see me through... I may clarify that the Mother never wanted anybody to be present during our Savitri work. I was surprised to read in Mother India — Monthly Review of Culture—June 1993—page 400— Nirodbaran's talk on Champaklal . He has stated about Champaklal: He used to be present during the Mother's work with Huta. This is a mistake. Champaklal was never present when the Mother and I worked together on... Savitri paintings and their colour schemes. Also, when I was recording the Mother's recitations of chosen Savitri passages from the First University Edition 1954, and her comments on verses, the Mother preferred that I should be alone with her. When we were working together on Savitri the doors were closed and the Mother gave strict orders to Vasudha (her personal attendant) not to allow anybody ...
... for so long as these forces think they can bring it about, they will press as much as they can on this point. You must also open yourself more to the Mother’s Force in that part and for that it is necessary to get rid of this suggestion about the Mother’s disappointment or lack of love, for it is this which creates the reaction at the time of Pranam. Our help, support, love are there always as before... Part - II At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo 26 January 1937 (2) It would not be at all right to yield to these suggestions which are obviously there of a force that wants to make use of unease and disappointment of the vital in order to drive you to break your sadhana. These are the usual suggestions that come to all under the stress of the vital... suggestions; otherwise a less disturbing even if a slower movement would be quite possible. The Mother has in no way changed towards you nor is she disappointed with you — that is the suggestion drawn from your own state of mind and putting its wrong sense of disappointment and unfitness on to the Mother. She has no reason to change or be disappointed, as she has always been aware of the vital obstacles ...
... gained a steadiness — it only means that the steadiness you have gained is not a personal virtue but depends on your keeping the contact with the Mother — for it is her force that is behind it and behind all progress you can make. Learn to rely on that Force more, to open to it more completely and to seek spiritual progress even not for your own sake but for the sake of the Divine — then you will go... up — it invariably happens. The thing to be done is to stand back, observe and reject, not to allow these things to get hold of you, to keep your central will separate from them and call on the Mother’s Force to meet them. If one does get involved as often happens then to get disinvolved as soon as possible and go forward again. That is what everybody, every yogin does — to be depressed because one... Part – III (Sri Aurobindo’s Letters) At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo Undated You say after several years you have not changed your nature. I only wish the external nature were so easy to transform that it could be done in a few years. You forget also that the real problem — to get rid of the pervading ego in this nature is a task you have seriously ...
... minutes, I proceeded relying solely on the gracious Mother's Force. As a matter of fact, climbing the many stairs of Matrimandir was indeed a daring act on my part. That is why I contemplated “relying solely on the gracious Mother's Force” for She alone has come to my aid on numerous occasions whenever such situations arose. Now also only the Mother made it possible for me to reach Matrimandir. ... are similar to those written by the Mother in Her message. What a pleasant coincidence!” I too found it interesting. Why would I not feel so? The gracious Mother had taken me through a much more enchanting experience. Thereupon it occurred to me how lovely and apt it would be to crown my vision with the perfect offering of Her Message in Her own hand. How the Mother arranged everything without my speaking... speaking a single word! Victory, Victory, Victory! Victory again to the Mother! Facsimile of the Mother's message is given here. Nava and Sushila for Auroville 28.2.1969 “Let light, peace and joy be with all those who live in Auroville and work for its realisation.” blessings The Mother ...
... respect. On the Mother’s instruction these grown-up women let go instantaneously of all of their social habits and traditions. These grown-up women were proof of how easily the Mother’s Force works with women. In a second the Mother broke the age-old shackles that had bound women so inextricably. Sahana-di, Amiyadi, Aruna-di (Sahana-di’s elder sisters), Rani-di, Swarna-di (Minu’s mother), Usha-di (Tejen-da’s... children the great work was initiated to enable the Mother’s Force and Light to work even in the gross human body. That is why I said sadhana in the guise of sports! How difficult this sadhana is! You cannot ignore the body. Annam Brahman , Matter also is Brahman! Until now the body had been rejected from the path of sadhana but now the Mother radically changed the course of such thinking. So great... How can one ever forget those days, Anju, Paroma? You too have grown up right from childhood sheltered in the Mother’s Love. The Mother’s laughter, the Mother’s words are still glowing in the treasure-house of your memory. Once you have known and received the Divine Mother Herself as your mother and as your friend, the very tenor of your life changes. The heart’s lyre is always heard in the strain: ...
... was answered and my whole being spilled over with gratitude and love. I bowed to the Mother and came away. How tremendous has been the Mother’s force behind this rebirth of East Bengal. The Mother followed the progress of this war in great detail. In the end Her force vanquished the Pakistani army. The Mother’s children proved once again that they were not cowards. They offered their lives in order... à la Douce Mère !” (Victory to Sweet Mother!) The Mother was delighted. “You are saying ‘Victory to Sweet Mother’? Everyone has been telling me the same thing since this morning.” I offered Her the ‘Victory’ flowers. “Mother, Bangladesh is my country.” The Mother took both my hands into Hers and said: “Ah! So you are from that country?” “Yes, Mother,” I replied happily, “Bangladesh is my... love and goodwill for Bangladesh. The Mother’s inexhaustible love had helped liberate Bangladesh. During those difficult times it was the Mother’s untiring dynamic power that gave strength and limitless courage to the youth of Bengal. This part of history is known to all and we were its witnesses. My birthday is on 31st December and so I went to the Mother with a bunch of ‘Victory’ flowers. As soon ...
... 'mantra of life,' refused to tell him the mantra. Faced with the enormity of the result of his anger Theon got hold of himself, and it took all Mother's force and all Theon's occult science to get Mother back into her body—which created a kind of very painful friction at the moment of re-entry, perhaps the type of friction that makes new born children cry out. ... 1960 Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 May 28, 1960 K left his body. The operation had been extraordinarily, almost miraculously successful—one of those dreadful operations where they extract part of your body. He was quite all right for four days afterwards, then everything went wrong. During the operation and just afterwards, I had simply put the Force on him... Ma : Mother, in the languages of India. × It was at Tlemcen, in Algeria. While Mother was in trance, Theon caused the thread which linked Mother to her body to break through a movement of anger. He was angry because Mother, who was in a region where she saw the 'mantra ...
... was fortunate in getting a foreign-qualified man for the post. I could not but be struck by the swift turn of events as if some force had been driving me. But, my crass physical nature realised much later that it was the Mother’s Force that had achieved that miracle. "A Force worked, but none knew from where it came." A fixed income and some private practice made life smooth and promising, if not... fresh in my mind. I got myself so entangled in a sordid affair that I found no way of escape from it. I was completely under the grip of a vile Force and there was no strength or even inclination to resist. At that critical moment, a rose given by the Mother came from my niece without my asking. I did not know what was in that rose, for I did not feel anything, but I found myself full of strength and... up. So it was that as I was swept along in the tide, all on a sudden I received a copy of Conversations with the Mother with my name, the Mother’s "blessings" and her signature written on it. I could not but be surprised and extremely moved at the same time: the fact that the Mother had remembered me though I had forgotten her shed a new light and made a dent somewhere in me. But "the roots were ...
... keeps coming and accumulating. It was a force with a sparkling white light at its center, the light which is the force of the Divine Mother, and as soon as it was well packed and concentrated inside, or condensed, it took on all the colors—vibrations of every color ... Like a materialization—these colors were like a materialization of the Divine Force when it enters matter. (Just as matter is a... puja one day to really know—from afar I'm not so sure. It's merely an impression. This is what I am constantly seeing now, but along with this Divine Force or this Divine Consciousness that Sri Aurobindo speaks of when he says, 'Mother's Force is with you.' When it comes, it is sparkling white, perfectly white and perfectly luminous. And as it accumulates inside, it makes living vibrations of every... interesting was that when I woke up, I was in a state in which this formation that is the Ashram and the Force that is condensed here to realize what this Voice wanted, seemed a very tiny, tiny part of myself. I heard the Voice and awoke with the feeling of this Power, this Light, this Force of realization concentrated here which sets everything in motion (as always, it is always the same, a Power ...
... comfortable only when it is conscious of the divine Force acting ( gesture of descent through the body ), but otherwise it's.... Page 204 Any concentration on the body itself causes a kind of strange discomfort, a discomfort which stops only when it is conscious of the Force—of the Force working ( same gesture of descent through Mother ), the Force working, when "That" comes and flows through... (which is purely illusory), there's a... tremendous Force here. Yes, certainly. Mind you, it's a Force seemingly too strong for the body; but when the body stays VERY quiet, like this... ( gesture, hands open ), and as nonexistent as possible, then all goes well. Then, you feel... ( gesture of something flowing through Mother ). But that Force is... stupendous! Page 205 Oh, yes... that comes to me in English: "the joy of nothingness." ( silence ) But don't you have any questions? Personally, for example, before, my tendency was to turn to Sri Aurobindo or to a Force... to THE Force—to That, to the Lord, I don't know. Well, but the effect has not at all been the same since I really started to turn to you as a person. Ahh! But since I really turned to you as a person ...
... not like that. But I think it is time to write it down. How pretty it is, a very pretty humanity! But, Sweet Mother, your force is extremely active right now. Yes, I know. I know, when I am in this state I see the Force all the time―it is not my force, it is the Divine Force. As for myself, I try, I try to be like that. This body tries to be simply... simply a transmitter, as transparent... as immaterial as possible, in other words, not to be an obstruction to the Force that is coming down. Now, now it is the body, the body itself that wants it with all its cells. That is the only reason for its existence. To try, to try to realise on earth a purely transparent, translucid element which would allow the Force to act without distorting it. Page 348 ... Auroville Auroville Words of the Mother - I Talk of 30 March 1972 Since we have set aside all conventions, immediately everybody thinks: "Ah! Nice place to satisfy our desires." And they nearly all come with that intention. And because I built a maternity clinic for the children of people I was obliged to send away from the Ashram, so that they would ...
... felt the Mother's constant Force and Presence. For I was completely blank and with-drawn. It was a unique experience for me. All was Her Grace and I am eternally grateful to the Mother. Shyamsunder and other people showed me around, since I was going there after two years. I noticed certain things which were contrary to the Mother's vision. I would not dare to say anything if the Mother had not... the 4th of this month and we had a heart-to-heart talk regarding the Mother's wishes about the Matrimandir. Pourna revealed to me many things, all that the Mother told her. I was amazed to learn from her that the Mother told her about the flame, which is exactly what the Mother told me repeatedly. Pourna also said that the Mother wanted flowers, trees, etc. around the Matrimandir, also that the Matrimandir... but this too the Mother told me, but I kept quiet since the whole plan was changed. I disclosed to Pourna everything—all that the Mother told me and wrote to me. And Pourna said: "Huta, all that you have said is exactly what the Mother told me, and it is true. My full support is and will be with you throughout. Now I know that the Truth will win, because somehow the Mother makes her way to work ...
... thinking, old habits and customs, this ever-present endeavour at change is our inheritance from the Mother and a reflection of Her continuing workings in our lives. This aspiration, this enthusiasm to receive the new Consciousness has been so deeply embedded and established by the Mother's divine force in our lives that this has become our sole preoccupation. However much the Page 204 ... environment and aspiration. In their prolific writings, both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have given us very clear guidelines to become conscious participants in this adventure of the new Consciousness, how to transform our old human nature in order to manifest the new. This has been the primary focus of the Mother's workings in us. And the work IS continuing: the transformation of our human nature... Living in The Presence To round off... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have left us the assurance of the new Supramental consciousness. To receive it, one needs to develop a surrender that is complete through one-pointed sadhana. This Ashram was created for the realisation of this Truth, for its manifestation. I did not come here from my early childhood, no doubt ...
... put it in writing. Because I say I am against the old conventions, it means we can live like animals. But, Mother, your force is extremely active right now, you know. Yes, I know. I know: when I am like now, I always see the Force—it isn't "my" force, it is the Divine Force. I try—I only try to be like this ( gesture like a channel ). This body tries to be simply... simply a transmitter... transparent and immaterial as possible, so that it doesn't obstruct the descending Force. Page 118 Now—now it's the body itself, the body wants this with all its cells. That is its only purpose in life. To try, to try to create on earth one completely transparent, translucent element that would let the force pass through without any distortion. ( silence ) Au revoir. You'll tell Satprem... 1972 1972 March Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 March 30, 1972 ( A conversation with R., an American disciple, then with Sujata. ) ( Mother speaks in English ) Since we have set aside all conventions, immediately everybody thinks, "Ah, nice place to fulfill our desires!" And they almost all come with that intention. And because I made a maternity clinic ...
... From The Mother The Path of Progress and Liberation If you observe you will see that one after the other, be it in the spiritual field of Sadhana or in the social or national field of administration, man has always sought the path of progress and liberation in all the ways possible. The force of knowledge, the force of philosophy, the force of thought... itself work out the transformation of human life as and when it wishes. The whole earth is the instrument of the Mother's Divine Force of Action. Each human being is a centre of the Mother's Consciousness. When this Divine Consciousness will awaken in human life, when this Force will act, then the whole world will get transformed too. Man has been doing what is within his own means so far... through the soul. And we should always endeavour to keep ourselves open to the Divine Consciousness. Then will the Divine Grace and Force descend in our being and body and make the total transformation possible. The Mother has assured us that this Divine Force and Consciousness, this Supramental Consciousness has come down onto the earth. It is at work in man. The Supramental itself will descend ...
... Yes, Mother. In the last verses, Savitri said: Let those who were tied to body and to mind, Tear off those bonds and flee into white calm Is it Savitri who says that? Yes, Death told her one must leave one's body in order to find God's height.... ( Mother translates the sequel ) But how shall I seek rest in endless peace Who house the mighty Mother's violent force, Her... July July Mother’s Agenda 1970 July 1, 1970 ( Satprem reads out the conversation of June 27—"a very slight shift of consciousness"—which Mother thought could be used for the "Notes on the Way.") Is that all? I said only this much?.... I thought I had said something interesting—it's not very interesting. Yes, it... to our logic (but it exists), and that logic was fully satisfied when I saw that. It's odd, it was also when R. was here that I had that experience of the supramental light going through within [Mother] without causing any shadow. 1 R. has something like that, I don't know.... And this time, it's really interesting. I was quite interested. It was there, tranquil, and saying to me, "But you're ...
... more interesting than listening to everybody's stories! Oh.. ( Mother raps her head ). That's all. ADDENDUM ( These are the last lines of Savitri Mother translated. They were found in her notebook under the date July 1, 1970 : ) But how shall I seek rest in endless peace Who house the mighty Mother's violent force, Her vision turned to read the enigmaed world, Her will tempered... idea and speech, A symbol of what can never be symbolised, A language mispronounced, misspelt, yet true. 2 ( X.IV.647 ) ( Mother's translation ) 1.7.1970 Mais comment puis-je chercher le repos dans une paix sans fin Moi qui abrite la force violente de la formidable Mère, Sa vision attentive à lire le monde énigmatique, Sa volonté trempée par le brasier du soleil de la Sagesse... × See in the Addendum the last lines of Savitri that Mother translated. × Here are the three following lines, which Mother never translated: Its powers have come from the eternal heights And plunged into the inconscient dim Abyss And risen ...
... our physical but into yours and the Mother's. If it comes down into our physical it would mean that it has come down into Matter and so there is no reason why it should not manifest in the sadhaks. At 'pranam' time, after returning from the Mother, K felt an immense pressure on the head. Does this mean that a direct Supramental Force has started working and that our nature... That is a very important truth. In our sadhana, at times we experience seas of the Mother's Peace, Force, Ananda, etc. But let not such heights or depths be usurped by our little human ego and make us feel, as some already do, that we shall belong to the Mother's select band of Supermen. I do not wish to be a Superman (with an 'S' big or small)! I shall be... ego. One can aspire for the Divine to bring about the supramental transformation, but that also should not be done till the being has become psychic and spiritualised by the descent of the Mother's peace, force, light and purity. Those who consciously carry in them ambitious ideas about developing in sadhana and becoming equal in status with the Divine Himself may have to stay back ...
... saved so-and-so, you..." I almost perform miracles, but... They think it's me, but there's no "me"! There's nothing, there's no "me" here; it's only... ( gesture of something flowing through Mother ) the Force flowing. I try, I only try not to block, not to check or diminish anything, that's my sole effort: let it go through me as impersonally as possible. You're the only one I can say these things... 1972 1972 January Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 January 8, 1972 What's new?... Feeling better?... No?... I don't know. I don't quite understand what course we're following. Why, I myself don't understand it at all! Simply... ( Mother opens her hands in a gesture of surrender ). It isn't easy. It isn't easy, but... again.... So I'd rather not speak about it. ( silence ) Now that I am here like this, in seclusion, the lowest nature of everyone comes out. They do things, thinking "Oh, Mother won't know." That's how it is. So this "Mother won't know" means there's no more restraint. I would say it's rather disgusting. People to whom I have said, "You can't stay in the Ashram" move in anyway. And nobody stops ...
... his hernia, it depends (some are bad), but if it's an ordinary one, it can be cured quickly. 1 Page 360 ( Then Mother listens to the Talk of 26 August 1953 about Love ) Sujata would like to ask you a question. (Sujata:) Mother, this Force of Love that comes—sometimes it comes, one feels, you know, one truly loves—why can't one keep it constantly? One should be able... questions: "I have not come to India to cure myself, but to put myself at the disposal of the Force and to learn. I don't feel inspired to stop curing people so as to look after myself, and I don't want to make an arbitrary mental decision to stop. Moreover I never 'decide' anything: I do what I am asked to. if Mother asks me to stop and to cure myself, I will do it." He also explained that he had already... that now he only had to rest. But it can wait for a few more days, there are still two people I'd like him to see... If I were him, I would stay here (!) because he is REMARKABLY receptive to the Force; so if he stays here, he'll be able to get cured—yesterday I saw he could very well be cured. I did what's needed, it's up to him to receive it—I don't need to see him for that. How about you, are ...
... trinity-in-unity personalising the creative, preservative arid destructive qualities of the Supra-cosmic putting forth the cosmos and incarnating Himself again and again in the world, an ultimate Mother-force or Shakti bringing out for manifestation the secrets of the one Lord and Master of all existence - this is Hinduism. And it is also Hinduism that man can experience and realise the Divine, become... God-knowers and God-lovers who open up for man the possibilities of a further evolution: this is a capital mistake, a loss of right proportion, a blurring of correct perspective, a depreciation of the force that alone can in the long run put a radical rather than a superficial and therefore temporary end to the iniquities that in different shapes are the sad lot of millions not only m India but also abroad... negative approach which has two undesirable effects. First, it frustrates the mind 's swabhava to make philosophical formulations and give justifiable patterns for Page 82 the life-force to follow. Second, it leaves the world without any strong supporting truth of itself in the Ultimate Reality: that Reality becomes more the world's annulment than its fulfilment-and the world naturally ...
... it went on, I would put the concentration of the divine Force there, so that all—all that pain, all that suffering, everything—would hasten the preparation of the earth and the Descent of the Force. 7 Each of Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s illnesses has coincided with the earth’s illnesses. From Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo wrote to Mother: It is a singular condition of the world, the very definition... difficulty into her own body. Everything Mother did was physical. She never blamed “others,” She blamed her own body—perhaps because everything was gradually becoming her own body. The being is progressively and methodically expanding, She noted about an experience of 1915, breaking through all barriers, shattering all obstacles to contain and manifest a Force and a Power ceaselessly growing in vastness... the disintegration would be so slow and the battle so long: Everything internal is ripe or ripening, He wrote to Mother, but there is a sort of locked struggle in which neither side can make a very appreciable advance (somewhat like the trench warfare in Europe), the spiritual force insisting against the resistance of the physical world, that resistance disputing every inch and making more or less ...
... mistakes while reciting! The Mother kept listening to me, seated in Her chair, without saying a word, without reprimanding me. In the end, I just broke down into tears. My sobbing was uncontrollable. The Mother straightened up in Her chair and said, "Come, let's recite 'Om' together. I will start and you follow." Thus, the Mother started chanting 'Om'. With the Mother's divine force, all my gloom was simply... entire being was full of this peace! The Mother's eyes were fixed on me. After some time, She spoke again, "When you feel unwell, or when some unpleasant, ugly force or thought tries to attack you, and you want to stay away from it, then keep chanting 'Om'. You will see how those hostile forces disappear. You will feel a tremendous peace within you." Then the Mother fixed me with Her eyes again. "When something... continued in the room and in my ears. Slowly the Mother opened Her eyes and turned Her gaze on me in speechless silence. Seated at the feet of the Mother, I experienced that day the tremendous power of silence. Then the Mother said, "Now, you chant Om. I touched Her feet and said, "Mother, I won't be able to say Om today. I have lost myself in You today." The Mother did not say anything to that. Then, after ...
... with this man. He's here now with his mother—they came to thank me. It's he who gave me the details. He's a nice boy, but all this has left him with some anxiety, especially when he speaks of it. He's trying to forget. He told me he'd like to join the army and asked my permission. The boy feels a need for force and he has the idea that to be part of such a force would be good for him. (Of course, he... these people, when he said he had seen them, he fainted. Finally, I was told the story, and the poor family wrote to me saying, 'Who are these demons with such a great power that even it withstands Mother's force as well as that of X—and who are holding our son?' So X was again informed and, knowing the story of the elder brother's friend, he said, 'Ah, now I know where the other one is, and I hope it won't... he didn't tell me all this, he's Page 452 not that conscious. But that's what he feels—the need to be supported by an organization of force.) So I encouraged him. I told him it was a good idea. His mother wasn't very happy! She feared he was leaping from the frying pan into the fire! Another curious detail is that after having taken away all his appetite and having put him in the café ...
... reactions compared to the number of people subjected to vaccination. That was because of the Mother’s force that acted as a bulwark against untoward consequences. Sri Aurobindo wrote to me, "Whom are you vaccinating? Mother wants to have the report every- day." It meant that the Mother would put her force on the eve of the vaccination in order that the reaction could be reduced to a minimum. People... your call all right." Another patient who later became an attendant of Sri Aurobindo had been suffering from a chronic headache, migraine, from his childhood. I wrote to the Mother, "I wonder if it can be cured by the Force." She replied, "Nothing is incurable but it is the hidden cause of the illness that must be discovered. I’ll put in French what I mean: C’est un fonctionnement qui est mauvais... for Westerners who cannot digest Dining Room food. The second patient had never come to us before. Very probably he disliked drugs and hoped to be cured by the Divine Force, but failed. There were many such instances. The Mother hardly forced people to take medical treatment against their will. Some cases were receptive to her and were cured, but it seems this general receptivity was lost afterwards ...
... pursuit of individual fancy. When they do these things, the Mother does not intervene at every moment to check them; a standard has been set, they have been warned against waste, a framework has been created, for the rest they are expected to learn and grow out of their weaknesses by their own consciousness and will with the Mother's inner force to aid them. In the organisation of work there was formerly... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother and the Discipline in the Ashram The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother and Material Things The Mother had arranged for the good order of the distribution of dishes and their return. X was to arrange for all necessary facilities demanded by Y , Y was to be responsible for the good order... insufficient, so long as it lasts. I do not know what you mean by these phrases about jumping into disorder or all being the Mother's children. The Mother gives no sanction to disorder, and it is idle for the sadhaks to sentimentalise about being children of the Mother and at the same time constantly to disregard and disobey her. 3 February 1932 X of the Washing Department has resolved not ...
... child. Morning O my Lord, my Sweet Mother, Let me be Yours, absolutely Yours, perfectly Yours. Your force, Your light and Your love will protect me against all evils. Page 214 Midday O my Lord, Sweet Mother, I am Yours and pray to be more and more perfectly Yours. Night O my Lord, Sweet Mother, Your force is with me, Your light and Your love, and You... My sweet Lord, my little Mother, Give me the true love, the love that forgets itself. My Lord, my Mother, You are always with me with your blessings and your grace. Your Presence is the supreme protection. Remember that the Mother is always with you. Address Her as follows and She will pull you out of all difficulties: "O Mother, Thou art the light of my intelligence... and the next time it is the head that is full of adoration and the heart is silent and full of peace. Page 220 ( About the Mother's prayer of 3 September 1919 [ Prayers and Meditations , CWM, Vol. 1, p. 377 .]) In this prayer it is the Universal Mother in the form of material, terrestrial Nature who is speaking. The meal is the world that she has brought out of the Inconscient by the ...
... on the whole. Have you been FORCE-ing at last? I have of course been forcing furiously for the last 3 days. But is it not the medicine that deserves the credit? 28 September 1938 It is only through your Divine help and the Mother's blessings that it is possible to diagnose correctly and give the right treatment. Kindly therefore press the action of the Force home without considering for... negligence on our part in putting the force for X 's change—the Mother has been doing that daily; nor is the trouble she has contracted one for which we are in any way responsible—it is not imposed as an ordeal or anything else. If there is so obstinate a persistence of her attachment and the demands it makes, it is because there is in her own vital a resistance to the Force that would remove it. If there... outside Force to support its resistance. When this rises, her mind also begins to justify the claim and demand, her vital feels very hurt and angry with the Mother because she does not support it. All that is proof of a very familiar kind of resistance which refuses to yield to the mind's will or the soul's aspiration. It is like that in X ; it is so in many others here. The Divine Force does not ...
... tendency of the buddhi is neutralised by a wide aspiration for an integral union with the Divine and for His manifestation in life, and a dynamic surrender of the whole nature to the Mother's transformative Force. The magnetism of the peaks is counter-balanced by the call of the base, and the Light that descends responds to the rays (the cows of the Vedas) that are released and ascend from below ...
... the beginning the Mother used to listen very seriously and hand some flower-blessings to Amrita-da for her. Once, after mother had stumbled yet again and Amrita-da reported this to the Mother, She shouted: “Why does Bibhavati keep falling?” She was very angry. From that day the falls stopped. In a flash such an age-long tendency disappeared! When the Mother uses Her own Force all difficulties... too will drag you by force.” Then She stretched Her hands in such a way, as if to take us by the neck, that we recoiled a little. “You will not be able to rid yourself of me,” She went We went on staring at the Mother’s face with fear and “Good Lord! Why is the Mother so angry with us? We are like terrified kittens.” We were frightened to be so close to the Mother. But I went on calling... today. Under the force of the stormy winds this tree had got uprooted. That’s why when the Mother said that I had ‘no solid base’ I thought of this Transformation tree. To come back to the real story, then. I heard what the Mother said but did not reply. I could not deny that my body was indeed going through all kinds of miseries. One evening when I went to see the Mother, all of a sudden ...
... people, it becomes no more than a channel, a kind of ... ( gesture showing the Force flowing down through Mother to the people ), for the Consciousness of the Lord to flow through it and go. There isn't even, or there is as little need to receive as possible: it's an Action like this ( same gesture through Mother ), the Force passing through. And when it happens in that room over there which is reserved... In the tunnel, oh, why? A lot of work... ( Mother laughs ) Oh, this is amusing! Yesterday or in the night, I forget when, I told you, but with great force (it was something "very important"!), I told you, "At the end of the tunnel there is the light, and don't argue—don't argue: at the end of the tunnel THERE IS the light." ( Mother laughs ) I wondered, "Why do I tell him that!..." Page... l mind or conceptions: it's only a kind of action to bring people into contact with that light. I heard about him from a German woman who is here (her mother is in Germany and she is a disciple of that man and she sent her the book). But her mother is a bit frightened. There is something inexorable—why? I don't understand. Because Christ came, on the contrary, to speak of brotherhood, goodness, ...
... anything to do with the cure. It was pure and simple Mother's Force throughout. What was wanted by the Mother was complete suspension of medicine, but since the patient didn't have so much faith, homeopathy was allowed—which is as good as no treatment. That is the allopath's prejudice. I quite believe that homeopathy has a place. I've heard from Mother to that effect and, from other authoritative sources... great sense of joy pervaded him along with the idea that S had passed the danger zone. He opened his eyes and caught Mother looking at him. Mother's fixed reassuring grip of his hand confirmed his intuition. Is all this true? There was something—a sense of a danger passed and a Force put out. There was also a pressure on R which amounted to this "No more bluff—bluff won't do here. You must now justify... asked Mother about R, and she said that he has a magnetism around him, which he can put into his patients. I have also marked that he has enormous self-confidence and a capacity to create confidence in others. That is his real strength along with the magnetism and power of suggestion. The man is a tower of vital strength and a dynamo of vital force—but with all the turbidity of a vital force. ...
... than I. One thing struck me in his note, when Agarwal says that he cured N.P. in a day because Mother's force works actively through him. It may be that the force works, but so actively as to cure him in a day? Why not? If there is sufficient receptivity, then time does not matter. Alas, the force works through me in months, if at all! Agarwal has self-confidence and with that one can always... as a stream of force, erect a circle or wall of consciousness around oneself, direct an idea so that it shall enter somebody's head in America etc., etc. Can it be said also that people who are "powerful" love-makers have a need in some part of their being or part of their make-up? D surely has no need, he has enough vital strength and all that to spend. People with vital force are not only always... will profit by some bitter tonic. I didn't suggest it to him, though. [ Mother :] You might suggest. May 11, 1938 ... André gave Mr. Raymond a tonic—Carnine Lefranco, which, I find, is a concentrated meat extract. I would have preferred something else... [The Mother underlined "meat extract".] [ Mother :] Better not give it—meat is not good for him— May 12, 1938 ...
... time to give recognition to Mother (and even while Sri Aurobindo was there, how many letters did he have to write to defend Mother). So we suspect that this same little clique, very influential today, has never really recognized Mother, except by paying lip service, preferring to hide behind a "philosophical Sri Aurobindo," while Mother was forcing them (or trying to force them) to do a more thorough... 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 Sri Aurobindo and Mother, you will see that they have completely described this road of here and the sunlit path— On the Way... answered [Mother's letter]. She must think I am soft in the head! Oh, no, I don't think so, Mother! They are... three quarters think that way, mon petit. No, Mother, no. Because I can't do things as they do, I no longer see very well and I hear badly, so I must be completely in a daze. No, no, Mother! I really don't think there are so many. It doesn't matter anyway! ( Mother laughs ...
... self-existent forces than the principal aspects of the mother-force. One flames high, cool to the eye, wide and dense blue, like the starless and cloudless sky; it nourishes and protects whatever comes to it; it has an enormous strength; its foundation is the quiet calmness of the Eternal. There is another that flames up high. This force is bright white in colour. It has the mighty power to rend... destined end, achieving its own end by the force that is itself. There consciousness and force are not two different things. Page 52 There force is consciousness and consciousness is force. Hence particular groupings of consciousness that are real-ideas are will. That means a will that knows and a real-idea that is will. Now faith is the driving force of action which is soul going through... and eternal. The pranic force delivered out of matter fails in its creation and mutilates the types; then the physical consciousness confers upon the Page 60 pranic force the release of death and gives a new birth to it, opens to it a fresh trial in another manner. The anxiety of this consciousness to preserve the types with which the pranic force is endowed is actively visible ...
... self-existent forces than the principal aspects of the mother-force. One flames high, cool to the eye, wide and dense blue, like the starless and cloudless sky; it nourishes and protects whatever comes to it; it has an enormous strength; its foundation is the quiet calmness of the Eternal. There is another that flames up high. This force is bright white in colour. It has the mighty power to rend... consciousness as real-ideas, aware of its own destined end, achieving its own end by the force that is itself. There consciousness and force are not two Page 52 different things. There force is consciousness and consciousness is force. Hence particular groupings of consciousness that are real-ideas are will. That means... eternal. The pranic force delivered out of matter fails in its creation and mutilates the types; then the physical consciousness confers upon the Page 60 pranic force the release of death and gives a new birth to it, opens to it a fresh trial in another manner. The anxiety of this consciousness to preserve the types with which the pranic force is endowed is actively visible ...
... self-existent forces than the principal aspects of the mother-force. One flames high, cool to the eye, wide and dense blue, like the starless and cloudless sky; it nourishes and protects whatever comes to it; it has an enormous strength; its foundation is the quiet calmness of the Eternal. There is another that flames up high. This force is bright white in colour. It has the mighty power to rend... destined end, achieving its own end by the force that is itself. There consciousness and force are not two different things. Page 4 There force is consciousness and consciousness is force. Hence particular groupings of consciousness that are real-ideas are will. That means a will that knows and a real-idea that is will. Now faith is the driving force of action which is soul going through several... and eternal. The pranic force delivered out of matter fails in its creation and mutilates the types; then the physical consciousness confers upon the Page 11 pranic force the release of death and gives a new birth to it, opens to it a fresh trial in another manner. The anxiety of this consciousness to preserve the types with which the pranic force is endowed is actively visible ...
... activities of the school. The body needed to be made a conscious base for the descent of the spiritual force. When did the Mother give you the name Aster? It was around this time that the Mother gave me a new name. I was about eleven at the time. The name given me by my father was Mira. Mother said to me, “I have a new name for you. It is Aster, a French word.” She made me pronounce it after her... drawn from all countries of the world. An eighteen-member Steering Committee was elected. The way events followed during the three weeks of the Assembly was an incredible experience of how the Mother’s Force worked to shape world situations. It was so concrete in its action in all details. The consensus of the Assembly was that it was the whole personality that should be developed in the course of... at Benares Hindu University and there was an invitation to hold the Chair and do some work. A year’s sojourn gave a powerful experience of the living force and might emanating from the Ganges River as it flowed through Varanasi. Came 1973, and Mother withdrew from the body. The Divine Action is full of the unforeseen. All the external came to rest within . The pressure of the inner became more powerful ...
... rejected from the consciousness, and the true movement steadily put in its place.”¹ "You should not rely on anything else, however helpful it may seem, but chiefly primarily, fundamentally on the Mother’s Force.”² The dignity of our divine manhood demands a complete conquest of desire, a lax or helpless subjection to which is our normal lot in ignorance and the source of most of the ills that... released atoms, a rhythmic swing, characterised by the dual movement of attraction and repulsion. The atoms combine and separate, aggregate and disaggregate, in response to an inscrutable force operating in them. That force is a blind hunger, immeasurable, unquenchable. It is an urge implanted Page 222 in the centre of every atom, towards individual growth, development, expansion and expression... conscious craving, an insistent longing to seize and possess and enjoy what one feels one lacks. No individual life at this stage of evolution can progress without this propelling force of desire. It is the sole motive force that neutralizes to a considerable extent the constant gravitational pull towards inertia and disintegration, on the one hand, and creates the conditions and designs the contours ...
... quite impressive. When the script was ready, I myself was moved to read it. How was I able to prepare such a script? The words of the Mother echoed in my ears: When I give someone a responsibility, I also give that person the force to carry it out. I felt the Mother's help and inspiration constantly guiding me during the entire preparation of this programme. The first part of the programme was based... done? You have conquered the impossible. I knew that you were capable of this." The Mother had to see a couple of other people after me and so I could not stay with Her for very long. However, these few words from Her and Her blessings have guided me all along my life. Under the influence of the Mother's divine force, our inner and outer beings were deeply touched and the programme itself had been rendered... rendered possible in a way that our ordinary human endeavour could never have been able to achieve. That is why today as I remember that descent of the Mother's extraordinary divine force, my whole being sings aloud: Victoire à la Douce Mère! Page 172 ...
... explain this force that continued to descend into myself, and I was feeling increasingly uncomfortable with him. Then in March of 1967, Tim again introduced me to someone else, one Sandeep Mukherjee, a devotee of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Mukherjee confirmed this descending force as that of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and as a mark of their yoga, instructing me to meditate on the Mother’s image surrounded... a child of twelve years old, a Force would come into his body during sleep, very material and dense, and would often be accompanied by a milk-white light, very pure and dynamic. As soon as he arrived in India, the penetration of this force through the top of the head became stronger and stronger. After coming into contact with the Mother, he recognized it as her Force and Light which had been with him... pressure of the force and myself falling into a very deep well. As I fell deeper and deeper, I became frightened and began to call out to the Mother. Suddenly I heard a voice saying, “Yes, one day you will know who I am. You will have in life a power of action….” She said other things which I could not remember as the mind became active. The voice was exactly the same as that of the Mother which I later ...
... consciousness and force of the Supreme.’ 15 ‘The Mother was inwardly above the human even in childhood … It is so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti … She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine.’ 16 When some of his beautiful letters about the Mother had been collected and published as a booklet, the then... house’, and whom she worships with ceremonial pujas just like the statues of the gods in the house. A second reason for lower respect shown to the Mother-force is the comparison with the Supreme, generally considered as masculine: she is his force, his shakti, having come forth from him and as a consequence of secondary importance. But this is the human interpretation of a metaphysical fact that... revealed the Divine Mother to him, and he on his part had surrendered totally and unconditionally to her. This revelation and his surrender he has expressed in the canto of Savitri called The Adoration of the Divine Mother: She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. The luminous heart of the Unknown is she, A power of silence in the depths of God; She is the Force, the inevitable Word ...
... presence of the original divine Truth-Force of the Supreme Mother. Our motion one with her motion and merged in it, our will one with her will, our energy absolved in her energy, we shall feel her working through us as the Divine manifest in a supreme Wisdom-Power, and we shall be aware of the transformed mind, life and body only as the channels of a supreme Light and Force beyond them, infallible in its... individual consciousness will recover its true sense and action; for it is the form of a Soul sent out from the Supreme and, in spite of all appearances, a nucleus or nebula in which the Divine Mother-Force is at work for the victorious embodiment of the timeless and formless Divine in Time and Matter. This will reveal itself slowly to our vision and experience as the will of the Master of works and... our nervous and vital reactions, in our mental workings, of a Force greater than body, mind and life which takes hold of our limited instruments and drives all their motion. There is no longer the sense of ourselves moving, thinking or feeling but of that moving, feeling and thinking in us. This force that we feel is the universal Force of the Divine, which, veiled or unveiled, acting directly or ...
... material body's spinal cord corresponds. The Shakti. the Mother-Force, in its course towards the top of the head, activates the chakras. The body, both subtle and gross, is the field of experiment. Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is Tantric in the general sense that it takes the body into its scope and in the particular sense that it calls upon the Mother-Force, the Shakti, to work on the body. But it is Vedantic... in the dark about what was below the surface that Sri Aurobindo, along with the Mother, declared that fundamentally this war was theirs and not merely a conflict of the Western democracies with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy and, towards the concluding period, militarist Japan. For the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was for a new spiritualised earth building dynamically a greater beauty of the... asked: "How much longer will this world itself last?" I had reminded you that the nuclear age is also the age of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. I wrote: "I, small and insignificant in myself but blessed with the rare good fortune of having known Sri Aurobindo and the Mother intimately for years, make bold to assure you that all shall be well with the world these two have made their home and that in spite ...
... forceful a reality. Peace is all right, but there has also to be the Truth's dynamism. It is this dynamic aspect which gives credibility to this world. Aswapati found love and sweetness of the Mother-force absent here. This would not satisfy him and he is prompted to go beyond the realization of this silent self. II: 14 The World-Soul In search of the active power... Savitri goes deeper within and meets the three Shaktis of her soul. First is the Mother of Compassion full of suffering and divine grief, Karunamayi Mata, nursing the little spirit of man. Her task is to change this world of pain by patient work. Challenging her there stands the small life-force with its sorrow. But because of this God's labourer there is hope. The next in the inner world... Godheads of the Little Life There is nothing that can be called angelic in this empire of little life. Chaos governs the infernal creatures inhabiting it. Life has force and she is driven by idea, but the Idea-Force is absent. Instinct is followed by thought and thought by will. Out of this queer stuff was shaped man and it could be proclaimed that he was well made. Still Page – 55 ...
... myself also – there is no difference.” “The Mother and myself stand for the same Power in two forms.” 58 The Mother wrote: “Without him, I exist not; without me, he is not manifest.” 59 (Cf. Sri Aurobindo: “There is one force only, the Mother’s force – or, if you like to put it like that, the Mother is Sri Aurobindo’s Force.”) “Sri Aurobindo and I are always one and the same consciousness... golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces. Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow.” 52 About the Divine Mother, i.e. about herself, the Mother said: “She has descended onto Earth to participate in their nature [ i.e. the nature of the humans]. For if she did not participate... some notion of the multiple and glorious personalities of the Mother – who was at one time sitting there in that simple chair on the second storey of the Ashram building, bent in the back and subject to the symptoms of old age. The great World-Mother now in her arose … A flaming warrior from the eternal peaks Empowered to force the door denied and closed Smote from Death’s visage its dumb ...
... one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces. Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow 29.2.1960 The Mother Here I recall the following verses from Savitri , Book One, Canto 2: The great World-Mother now in her arose: A living choice reversed fate's cold dead turn, Affirmed the spirit's tread on ... revolving Wheel And stopped the mute march of Necessity. || 4.47 || A flaming warrior from the eternal peaks Empowered to force the door denied and closed Smote from Death's visage its dumb absolute And burst the bounds of consciousness and time. || 4.48 || The Mother has emphasised in her writing: The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact... tell me what happened and why you wish to leave this place." I said: "Aunt, I take a very grim view of this episode, because the chain along with the locket were not ordinary. They held the Mother's marvellous Force." And my eyes filled with irresistible tears. I continued: "I have the strong impression that the woman was not only a thief but a desperate character. If I had taken the locket from the table ...
... its attitude. It was the vital mind that refused inwardness, silence etc. Unfortunately he seemed to think that Mother is harder than you: she is grim and doesn't love etc., etc. That is because Mother's pressure for a change is always strong—even when she doesn't put it as force it is there by the very nature of the Divine Energy in her. But it was just this change his vital did not want—hence... undoubtedly, Sir, your Force is growing! By the number of departees, one can see that! They are not departees—yet. X gone on a spree—says he will one day come back. V sent as a missionary by the Mother—don't expect his mission will be very fruitful though. R went for her property—property and herself held up by family, as we told her it would be etc. So no sufficient proof of Force here. If they had... now. Nonsense—it is he who wanted to stop, saying no improvement very costly—So I said, he could stop. P's carbuncle is much better—says bandage is now bondage! Seems much struck by Mother's force as per cure carbuncle—no gratitude to the doctor. Such is life! March 11, 1937 All interest in life has disappeared, Sir! Poems are a bore; what prescription? Shift to a centre ...
... antidoting heat? MYSELF: V suffering from a simple pharyngitis—if that also must run its course of about 4 to 5 days, then the Force is playing the same part as the medicines—if at all, Sir, I am thinking. Feels wretched. Begs for Mother's Grace 'and Force. Is it coming? SRI AUROBINDO: V's illness is that? However simple, not surprising he should be wretched....Is he receiving it? ... don't find anything wrong with his system. We must eliminate the possibility of Force. I heard about A who fell down once while meditating in standing posture. About epilepsy I'm not sure for it usually doesn't occur at his age. Mother's suggestion about worms is very good. SRI AUROBINDO: Bunkum about Force. Obviously if a man goes into trance while standing or walking, he may fall dow... possible by the Mother's knowledge to ascertain the nature of a disease? We would expect some sudden opening as it did in your case of painting. SRI AUROBINDO: My dear sir, in that case I should have to do all the doctoring. Page 81 So I take care not to let the medico open. Simple measure of prudence. MYSELF: You said that if right medicine is not given, the Force has to counteract ...
... receptivity. That is why your force cannot work in them. Mother - ( Looking straight into my eyes ) I said that many have the aspiration, they aspire and I even send my force to them but they are unable to receive that force because they lack receptivity. I - Sweet Mother, am I too like them? Mother - No. Page 57 I - Mother, I feel the stirrings of... only the Mother, only Her. Then, slowly, I returned to my normal state. I realised I was sitting in front of the Mother for the interview. I became conscious and resumed my conversation with Her. I - Mother, Sri Aurobindo has said in his book The Mother that unless the entire being is turned towards the Mother, Her force cannot work. Does it mean that this force from you does not... Mother - He has not said that. I - Then what has he said? Mother - He has said that for the complete transforma- Page 58 tion, the entire being has to turn towards the Divine. If any part of the being is insincere, then my force cannot bring about the transformation of the whole being. But this does not mean that my force cannot work ...
... already there even in the beginning and in the long middle stages of the great endeavour. For at all times the seeker will be aware of the Divine Guide and Protector or the working of the supreme Mother-Force; he will know that all is done for the best, the progress assured, the victory inevitable. In either case the process is the same and unavoidable, a taking up of the whole nature, of the whole life... and Knowledge too are corrupted and misused, Power is divine and put here for a divine use. Shakti, Will, Power is the driver of the worlds and, whether it be Knowledge-Force or Love-Force or Life-Force or Action-Force or Body-Force, is always spiritual in its origin and divine in its native character. It is the use of it made in the Ignorance by brute, man or Titan Page 174 that has to... important part of integral Nature, just the one force in it that is a necessary instrument in any world-creative purpose. The Life-Force is an indispensable intermediary, the effectuating element in Nature here; mind needs its alliance if the works of mind are not to remain shining inner formations without a body; the spirit needs it to give an outer force and form to its manifested possibilities and ...
... boons are great since thou art He". But how shall I who house the mighty Mother's violent force seek such a peace? The world is "A language mispronounced, misspelt, yet true". "The world is not cut off from Truth and God". "Man's soul crosses through thee to Paradise". Heaven's sun and its light force their way through death and night. "How sayst thou Truth can never light the... "If Knowledge brings not power to change the world, If Might comes not to give to Truth her right. "Reveal thy power, lay bare thy spirit's force Then will I give back to thee Satyavan." or if you are the supreme Mother show me her face. "Let death- less eyes look into the eyes of Death". Then thy dead can return to life and earth feel near the secret body of God. Savitri... poignancy Nor for my happy body's bliss alone I have claimed from thee the living Satyavan, But for his work and mine, our sacred charge." Page 347 "For I the Woman am the force of God, He the Eternal's delegate sole in man. My will is greater than thy law, O Death; "Our love is the heavenly seal of the Supreme." "For Love is the bright link twixt earth ...
... Narad to speak out, if there was the doom; suspense is worse than suffering. "To know is best, however hard to bear". Then Narad spoke setting free destiny in that hour, "piercing the mother's heart", "forcing to steel the will of Savitri." Satyavan whom Savitri has chosen is marvellous, "His figure is the front of Nature's march, His single being excels the works of Time". He is ... suffering still "he carries the suffering world in his own breast". "A siege, a Page 300 combat is his inner life", because he has to meet "an ancient adversary Force". 'In the fight against the antidivine Force "the weeping of the centuries visits his eyes", "the poison of the world has stained his throat". "He is the victim of his own sacrifice", because he voluntarily invites suffering—"he... one who is destined to carry out some great spiritual change for man. Narad here actually says: "For this the silent Force came missioned down; In her the conscious Will took human shape" Savitri no longer is a woman—she is the embodiment of that silent Force and conscious Will on earth. Therefore, says Narad, "leave her to her mighty self and Fate". So saying Narad disappeared ...
... itself work out the transformation of human life as and when it wishes. The whole earth is the instrument of the Mother's Divine Force of Action. Each human being is a centre of the Mother's Consciousness. When this Divine Consciousness will awaken in human life, when this Force will act, then the whole world will get transformed too. Man has been doing what is within his own means so far... through the soul. And we should always endeavour to keep ourselves open to the Divine Consciousness. Then will the Divine Grace and Force descend in our being and body and make the total transformation possible. The Mother has assured us that this Divine Force and Consciousness, this Supramental Consciousness has come down onto the earth. It is at work in man. The Supramental itself will descend... of more than this. If he wants to find the key to his problems then he must take recourse to the Divine Consciousness and Force. The Divine Man shall emerge with the joint endeavour, the joint yagna (askesis) of Man and the Divine. This then is what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother called the "Sunlit Path" of human life. So in brief this is what we must do now. We must try to: 1. Do our work ...
... to the Mother alone, was quite different from the one when I sang at other places. I wrote to the Mother: “Oh Mother, “I have observed that when I sing to you on your terrace, the voice becomes very forceful, which is not so elsewhere. So I wrote to you that a special force works from behind, making me sing differently. It must be your force, isn’t it, Mother? I feel it must be your force that... harmony with the Mother’s will, you can call in the Mother’s Force to make the change. Those who live in the mind and in the vital are not so well able to do this; they are obliged to use mostly their personal effort and as awareness and will-force of mind and vital are divided and imperfect, the work done is imperfect and not definitive. It is only in the supermind that Awareness, Will, Force are always... we can do some things, why we cannot do other things and why, where and when we fail, though the help and force given by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo are always standing behind all our effort and work like wakeful sentinels. When one can throw oneself in the stream which the force of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo has set going in order to take us in a certain direction and is constantly striving to ...
... wanted to get away from it as soon as possible. ‘That is the story, but the question I asked [the Mother] was this: Why did this have to happen in our absence? The answer I received is interesting. The whole procedure went on without any hitch because of the unshakeable faith we had in the Mother’s Force. But for the last piece, if we had been there and actually seen the cranes tipping over, that faith... mankind does not yet possess the necessary knowledge to understand and accept it, or the indispensable conscious force to execute it. That is why I call it a dream. ‘Yet, this dream is on the way to becoming a reality …’ 42 There had already been several occasions in the Mother’s life when she had tried to give shape to the dream in totally different circumstances. The ones we know of are... some weeks before’ as May 1968, and with as many or more theses to explain them. When the Mother was asked by a youngster when one would see concrete, visible signs of the action of the Supramental, she answered that there had been such signs throughout most of the twentieth century. The working of the New Force in the world may be the real explanation of ‘inconceivable’ events like May 1968 and the ...
... bodies,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo, and: ‘The Mother and myself stand for the same Power in two forms.’ He would stress: ‘There is one force only, the Mother’s force – or, if you like to put it like that, the Mother is Sri Aurobindo’s Force,’ in other words his Shakti. 31 And the Mother would pithily formulate the essence of their relationship: ‘Without him I exist not, without me he is not manifest.’ ... n, Its Consciousness-Force or Shakti, who is the Great Mother. To present this truth, the sages have called the part of the One that ‘took the decision’ Purusha, the ‘male’ initiator, and the part that executed the decision Prakriti, the ‘female’ executive, productive force. This is, on the one hand, a spiritual metaphor; in one of her talks at the Playground, the Mother would forcefully deny... appeared to be drawing force and using it according to his divine will.’ 19 It is striking how those who saw Mirra in those years describe her as very beautiful. So Kanailal Ganguly: ‘It was the first time that I saw the Mother. She looked at me for a second. She was very beautiful, looked much younger than her age.’ 20 A.B. Purani writes: ‘This time [in 1921] I saw the Mother for the first time ...
... humanity.] Because I say I am against the old conventions, it means we can live like animals. But, Mother, your force is extremely active right now, you know. Yes, I know. I know: when I am like now, I always see the Force — it isn't "my" force, it is the Divine Force. I try — I only try to be like this (gesture like a channel). This body tries to be simply... simply a transmitter... Do you want to help me? Yes, Mother. Good. Would you like us to work together? Yes, Mother. Good. I'm ready to speak to [the head of Sri Aurobindo Society], Mother, if you permit me. Yes, speak to [the head of Sri Aurobindo Society], it will do him some good. I'll speak very fraternally, Mother, very sincerely, for I have a lot of things... as transparent and immaterial as possible, so that it doesn't obstruct the descending Force. Now - now it's the body itself, the body wants this with all its cells. That is its only purpose in life. To try, to try to create on earth one completely transparent, translucent element that would let the force pass through without any distortion. (silence) Page 241 April ...
... control, what else can we want?’ That time, I had just once or twice visited the Ashram, but I had absolute faith in Mother’s Force. Similarly, during Mithran’s last illness I never worried because I had the faith that Mother’s protection was there. So now too, I have faith in Mother’s help and so I am pulling on. I know nothing will happen until she decides." Two comments made by Amma in June... the true reasons behind Mother stopping, changing, or starting something here." * When the Second World War broke out Amma’s sons enlisted. The elder, Mithran, joined the Indian Army as an engineer, and the younger, Thyagaraj, then studying in England, joined the Royal Air Force. Reminiscing on those days, Amma told me in June 1990: "You know, Mother had once told us that Thyaga... (taken on a 15 th August night) in the best corner of her room. I had purchased it a fortnight back in memory of my late mother’s birthday. She chose to indulge me to the extent of allowing Nayana’s photograph (showing the crack on his forehead caused by the descent of a great Force) to be shifted to the ante-room where, as it transpired later, she was to spend the last months of her life. The same ...
... working is perfect. If you feel inclined to sleep don't resist it. 32 There was a meditation again after two days: Pavitra: Something deep must have happened .... Mother: The force which descended is a force of transformation. It will act from the centre now .... 33 Then, when he had an interview on 31 October, Mirra gave him this heartening assurance: Something is... Aspire for force and peace in the heart, open yourself to us here .... There is no obstacle. Don't be anxious. Go ahead. Everything will be all right. 41 And of Course, there was young Champaklal, who thought of Mirra from the very beginning as "Mother". Since his final coming in 1923, his relationship steadily grew closer to her, and he would rush to her, as to his mother, whenever in... something must have disturbed you .... You have a power of aspiration but it has been almost completely strangled by the mind. The force which descended at first is a force of wisdom, of pure knowledge which descended to the level of the solar plexus .... A force of calm, a silence, descended afterwards .... .. . in that, in this calm, there was Ananda. There was some response in the ...
... Participating in the same being as we, they work towards our metamorphosis by submitting themselves as the first to the dissolution of the personality, as the Force working in and suffusing us requires. Whatever they do, it is this Force—Mother's Force— which they must always feel. For them and by them, the words of Sri Aurobindo must be substantiated: this consummation is "fully possible only when the ... feel, think or say. When what is termed the Good is demanded of them, they appear at the side of the Good; if the Force ordains what is named Evil, they appear at the side of Evil. But, in both cases, their consciousness is identical and the Force fills them identically. It is the Mother of the universe who endlessly creates worlds, to speak in the language of devotion. Or if one prefers to speak... in fact, the meaning of universal Destiny. A Force affects them without having been sought by them. A power supports them without having been invoked by them. An unformulated certainty inspires them with a temerity enabling them to tear away all the masks which comprise the persona, to dismember themselves or even sever heads as did Chinnamasta, the Mother Goddess in her most terrifying Indian representation ...
... face report it to the Mother. She would just listen quietly. Meanwhile letters from the relatives urged the patient to return. When the Mother heard about it, she replied, "If I can't cure it, there is none who can." The fight continued, it was a grim encounter, indeed. As a result of the Mother's steady Force, things looked bright and I felt we had turned the corner. The Mother kept her vigil and wasted... his being busy protecting the Mother and unmindful about himself, under the assumption that the adverse forces would not dare to attack him. "That was my mistake," he said. The Mother herself could take any risk, launch upon any adventure, for she had entire faith and reliance upon Sri Aurobindo's mighty force and protection. Anybody who has come in contact with the Mother knows that her dynamic nature... between the Divine Force and the natural force. The Divine Force would of course win: slowly the Fury would leash her forces and withdraw into the cave. But as soon as the intended object was achieved, a deluge swept down as if in revenge. Sri Aurobindo observed that that was often the rule. During the harvesting season too, S.O.S. signals would come to Sri Aurobindo through the Mother to stop the rain ...
... all is won or all is lost for man. ... For this the silent Force came missioned down; In her the conscious Will took human shape: She only can save herself and save the world. 80 At last, "immobile in herself, the Mother gathered force, and gave the world the mantra of renewal, the Mother's hymn of gratitude to the Master in the name and on behalf of all the... Aurobindo explained why, unlike Sri Ramakrishna who wouldn't use spiritual force for preserving the body, he was not unwilling to maintain the body "in good health and condition as an instrument or physical basis" for Yoga sādhanā . In his reported conversation with the Mother, it is implied that it was open to the Mother as well as Sri Aurobindo to decide for themselves if, or when, they should... and its progress or arrest. Then once the Mother spoke to Sanyal in the ante-room: "He is fully conscious within, but he is losing interest in himself." It was the well-beloved, ever-faithful Champaklal who ventured to put the crucial question to the Master: "Are you not using your Force?" "No" came the ominous answer. But why? "If you don't use your Force, how is the disease to be cured?" interposed ...
... spiritual force above. And as you are in touch here with it, it tries to manifest in you. Mother has spoken of the blue light of Shri Krishna? Yes. Krishna is generally depicted as blue. It is his colour. It means that it is one aspect of the Divine. All these colours are aspects of the divine force. Is it a force of Knowledge? Not exactly. Knowledge manifests more by a force whose... mulddhara the force proceeds downwards towards the legs and feet or permeates the whole physical consciousness. But the centre of consciousness, which appears as separate in meditation from the higher consciousness, is felt where I said. Now there is something I don't understand. When I meditated with Mother last Tuesday the divine force came down. But what is the part of either you or Mother in such... I will speak with Mother and answer later. Sunday, October 17, 1926 With Mother: I think I have understood what you meant. Since yesterday I have changed everything in my meditation. Instead of doing things myself as though I was directing the force, I quite simply open myself and remain passive. Almost the whole day through I could keep the contact with the force and opened myself ...
... What does it mean? You understand, she was not only a woman with a tremendous force: there was something of Mother, an emanation of Mother there. Yes, as Sujata says, it was an "attribute" of the supreme Mother that was there. And they killed her. They can kill her. What does it mean? They killed Mother, they killed Kennedy and they killed Ludmila. What does it mean for the Earth? ... in the name of spiritual unity, or the sacrosanct money-power or in the name of Tantra and all the sacred texts of India. But who wants Mother pure and simple, Sri Aurobindo pure? What force do you want, what protection do you want? That of Mother, Mother's mantra, or little tantric mantras to get little powers and play the charlatans in public? — Don't you understand what you are opening... something that fills truly, that Satprem exists and continues to live — for nothing else. It's for that that he lived near to Mother — for nothing else. So, what's it all about? It's about bringing to Italy a little living air and true force. Mother's Agenda is that force, is that air, is that active food. And it's to spread it that we founded this "Institute" in France. The labels matter little ...
... that?" I replied, "Mother wrote something to me for my birthday." "May I see it?" she said. I let her read it. I don't think I did the right thing. Obviously, when I give a prayer on such an occasion I concentrate a certain force in it. By showing the prayer to others you destroy a great deal of the effect of this force. 22 May 1934 I think there is also some force in your letters, so... What is the nature of this depression and why is it lasting so long? Before, Mother, Your force would come and drive it away. Where is that force now? Alas! I have lost it. Be calm and quiet; it is only a crisis which will pass with the increase of consciousness. 10 September 1934 Page 58 Sweet Mother, I feel that I am doing something against Your will. This unknown thing is... any significance? If the dream has a significance (which is not sure), it would mean that a certain type of hostile force took the likeness of Y in your consciousness. Lights going out are always the symbol of the consciousness descending into unconsciousness. Sweet Mother, I would like to know why my consciousness is going outwards and also why my aspiration has diminished. Probably a part ...
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