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... Opening, Sincerity and the Mother's Grace The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Grace Do calm and equality come down from above by the Mother's Grace? When they descend, it is by the soul's aspiration and the Mother's grace. The Mother's grace is there always; open yourself to it in quietude and confidence. I don't feel... 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"? The Mother's Grace comes down by the Mother's will. The Purusha can accept or reject the Grace. 22 April 1933 Is there any law of the working of the Mother's Grace? The more one develops the psychic, the more is it... tarnished and, each time, the possibility of his feeling the presence will diminish. He Page 165 must have a strong will to purification and an aspiration that does not flag and cease, if the Mother's grace is to be there and effective. 6 May 1930 To practise Yoga implies the will to overcome all attachments and turn to the Divine alone. The principal thing in the Yoga is to trust in the Divine ...

... Divine Grace. 4 February 1933 Can it be believed that the Mother's Grace is acting even when the difficulties do not disappear? In that case everybody might say that all my difficulties must Page 299 disappear at once, I must attain to perfection immediately and without difficulties, otherwise it proves that the Mother's Grace is not with me. 20 July 1933 You should not yield... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Difficulties and the Mother's Grace You must throw all that away. Such depression can only make you shut to what Mother is giving you. There is absolutely no good reason for such an attitude. The existence of difficulties is a known thing in the Yoga. That is no reason for questioning... yield to sorrow or despair—there is no reason why you should. The Mother's grace has not been withdrawn from you for a moment. Do not allow the attacks of others to shake you like this—you know well the motives from which they act—and for the rest they are not going to pursue any farther the course which a fit of passion dictated to them. The protection will be with you and you need not fear or sorrow ...

... approved of but had been snatched away at the last minute. Aided by a sadhaka who knew the landlord well, I got the place transferred with ease, and moved into it in February 1954. The Mother's Grace is a tactician of unthinkable accuracy. It seemed to withdraw, as it were, during the first negotiations. But that was evidently a matter of "reculer pour mieux sauter" - "draw back... force him to leave Pondicherry: he had to be present at a particular place at a precise minute: he had to catch sight of me: he had to bring up the subject of my settling in Pondicherry. The Mother's Grace is just like the Mother herself - unexpected in turn and attentive to the smallest detail. Page 142 On February 29, 1956, I left for Bombay on account of... out, "Mother, you came to inform me, a person like me? Oh, I feel so grateful, so grateful..." ٭ Perhaps after this, everything would read like an anti-climax. But the Mother's Grace has a variety and a versatility that cannot but be marvellous. I have already spoken of my grandfather who had been long a-dying and making fools out of the best doctors who, night after ...

... Her way with the help of Her more subtle but still powerful forces."   The Darshan Days marked certain significant occasions. The occasions still remain significant.I f, as you believe, the Mother's grace operates all throughout the year in spite of the departure of her physical presence, why should it not be thought to operate on those Darshan occasions in a special way as it used to do when... not matter in the long run. Is it not illogical to hold that such transformation has been hastened for us by her departure and that it is even likely in the life-time of some of us?   The Mother's grace has made the Ashram flourish even in her absence and it has become increasingly a centre for the earth's peoples to flock to and inwardly profit there from the Divine Presence she has subtly ...

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... happy to see that you will do nothing that "goes against the basic teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, even though it may cause loss of money".   You have raised the question: "Is the Mother's grace available only to those who have taken to the practice of the Page 237 Integral Yoga or does it go to all who may have devotion to her and Sri Aurobindo but are not sufficiently... people who worship him: people who are in distress, people who want prosperity, people who want to know the truth of things and, finally, people who have realised the truth. Your feeling that the Mother's grace, just like Krishna's, answers to the needs of all seeking souls is right. Wherever there is earnestness, the sense of one's own poor show before the Infinite and the Divine, the capacity for ...

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... Opening, Sincerity and the Mother's Grace The Mother with Letters on the Mother Opening to the Mother and the Integral Yoga I cannot understand whether I am doing Yoga. Can it be said that I am doing your Purna Yoga? Everyone who is turned to the Mother is doing my Yoga. It is a great mistake to suppose that one can "do" the Purna Yoga—i.e. carry... opening, self-giving to the Mother are the one condition necessary throughout. 23 September 1935 It seems to me that the best place for getting rid of wrong movements is the Asram, under the Mother's grace, help, protection and physical nearness. That is only true if one can open oneself to the Mother. To be here and shut up to it and under another control does not help. 8 March 1936 ...

... This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 6, "Surrender". "Q: If the Purusha does not consent to the action of the Mother's Grace, does it prevent the other beings from receiving or feeling the Mother's Grace for transformation? "A: No. The Purusha often holds back and lets the other beings consent or feel in his place." What does he exactly understand ...

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... sadhaks were not fit for any Yoga, much less for the Integral Yoga. It was sheerly by the Mother's Grace that we were accepted. And yet the only return we have offered to her is to tire her out by our ego and vital demands. It is so - if the sadhaks had been different in their reaction to the Mother's grace, the work in the physical would have been much easier and less perilously subject to ...

... thought of chiding you for being so late in writing to me, but your letter has given me exceeding delight. Your study of the Synthesis and the Life Divine together must have been inspired by the Mother's Grace. It is a very wise combination—the Synthesis giving you the spiritual and psychological, and the Life Divine the philosophical illumination. And, you know, both are indispensable in our Integral... psychic attitude, the psychic self-giving, the psychic faithfulness and obedience—this is the only path to the Divine Life on earth. This is what Sri Aurobindo calls the sun-lit path. And it is the Mother's Grace alone that can lead us through this path to our Divine fulfilment. The Mother is Sri Aurobindo, and Sri Aurobindo is the Mother. 2.10.66 * * * I am glad you are diving deeper... man. And yet, we know, he has to become Divine. He has to become a vehicle of God's Love and Light, Peace and Harmony on earth. May the dark night pass and the promised Dawn break at last! May the Mother's Grace shower upon Her stricken children! 7.06.68 * * * It is the hour of God. The world is in Sri Aurobindo's grip. The elite of humanity are turning to Him, knowingly or unknowingly ...

... you. You have only to turn fully towards it and it will act on you. What has come across is these wrong ideas about your unfitness, about bad things in you that prevent you from receiving the Mother's grace, about the lack of aspiration which prevents you from having realisation and experience. These thoughts are quite wrong and untrue—they are not even your own thoughts, they are suggestions thrown... come to you. No sadhak ought ever to indulge thoughts of unfitness and hopelessness—they are quite irrelevant because it is not one's personal fitness and worthiness that makes one succeed, but the Mother's grace and power and the consent of the soul to her grace and the workings of her Force. Turn from these dark thoughts and look to the Mother only, not with impatience for the result and desire, ...

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... has only to keep that will and there will be no real danger. For when one begins to be conscious in the way you have begun and something from within raises up all that was hidden, it means that the 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... former difficulty from which you fled renewed with less favourable circumstances. There is no way out there. Instead of indulging such feelings, you should put them away from you and turn to the Mother's Grace which has not failed and which is not going to fail you for strength and succour. Recover your balance and develop the psychic progress you were already making so rapidly up to now. Suicide ...

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... Opening, Sincerity and the Mother's Grace The Mother with Letters on the Mother Sincerity This child of the Mother is so unworthy. Only she knows when the child will be fit to have a place in her lap. There is only one thing needed to make anyone fit for the Mother's grace—it is a perfect sincerity and a truthful openness to the Mother in all the ...

... enlarged and we had a chance of inviting the Mother's Grace in our activities. Now we shall have a look at the action of the Divine Grace in three different streams of life lived for a single destination, which taught me to do all activities for the Divine and realize the Divine at every moment in waking as well as in sleep. I was trying to invoke the Mother's Grace in all my activities and wished to ...

... the telegram: 'Stick to the date. Live on faith. Blessings - Mother.' With a whoop the office went into action - and faith in the Mother's Grace has kept Mother India in action up to now." 10   Throughout his life Amal Kiran has been depending on the Mother's Grace. It was noticed by me when Amal met with a serious accident in 1991 and he fell down in his office room while moving with the ...

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... at all, I shall attend to this task much later in my life, surely not so soon." 2."Oh, what can I do? I am too weak to fight these weaknesses." 3."Why do I bother about these things? The Mother's Grace and Consciousness are there to work out everything. She will free me from my weaknesses in her own time. Meanwhile..." This sort of escapist attitude has to be scrupulously Page 43... 43 avoided. Difficulties are bound to arise in course of the sadhak's sadhana but he has to make a sincere effort to overcome them - of course, aided and sustained by the Mother's Grace. If he does not do so, what spiritual progress can he expect to register? Let us listen to what Sri Aurobindo has to say in this connection. This will, let us hope, help us shake off our attitude of lethargy ...

... gratitude to Kireet-bhai,  "Kireet-bhai, what you've done for the Music section as the Registrar of the school is quite extraordinary!" He smiled sweetly and replied, "Shobha-di, all this is the Mother's Grace. But let me tell you one thing since you've brought up the topic. I used to love music very much right from my childhood and I wanted to study it. However, my father refused to let me pursue... cannot tarry on the shore anymore. Who art thou who call'st me thus.? Call me again, call me yet again! In your beckoning call, for my union with you.     By the Mother's Grace, a door, as it were, opened in my creative world. I composed the music and wrote the poem that came to me. This was the first time I had ever composed a song. I was eager to share this experience ...

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... during the crucial process her attitude to the question of getting my cataracts removed was clearly negative. My hurry in the opposite direction was mistaken and has actually proved useless. The Mother's Grace has intervened to check it. A doctors' strike has gone on stopping what I had arranged to be done as soon as I would have arrived in Bombay. Here I may record in parenthesis an interesting ...

... of Bengal. For some years he was the principal of Kalabhavan in Baroda. He was an ardent seeker and a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. An instance of Promode Kumar's absolute faith in the Mother's grace is that he never locked his room when he went out for work or a walk. When he settled here he brought a large collection of his paintings. Mother always showered her grace on him. Now, after ...

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... English well enough to write my experience, she asked me to tell her privately what my experience was. And when I did she put it down in writing for me. Here it is: 1) Being fully conscious of the Mother's Grace I feel very, very happy. 2) I am also aware of all my being and all its parts, all the cells of my body as made out of the Mother's substance and consciousness and it gives me a feeling of ...

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... high, and saw the supreme Mother. I mean by this / my spirit. Otherwise how can I know who she is. This must have been beyond the Overmind. The spirit knew that her Grace was descending, the Mother's Grace. Page 45 30:12:1995 The Grace was descending for a long time, for more than half an hour. It was continuously descending. I could see it. It is not just a description; ...

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... be inevitably tarnished and, each time, the possibility of his feeling the presence will diminish. He must have a strong will to purification and an aspiration that does not flag and cease, if the Mother's grace is to be there and effective. January 25, 1931 I like your new poem immensely—it seems to me that you have achieved in it a largeness and depth of thought and an ample harmony ...

... ces in which every comfort and any career were open to them. Then there are the Westerners settled here for decades: they have had the grit to stand against all odds and, concentrating on the Mother's Grace, persisted in their endeavours to know their own souls. As for spiritual fantasies, Indians are not immune to indulgence in them. In some letters of the 'thirties Sri Aurobindo refers ...

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... from his hands owing to the intervention of a third party. The third party happened to be the young Muslim who had later to leave Pondicherry. It struck me as nothing short of a miracle of the Mother's Grace that the man who had taken away the flat approved for us by her should have been waiting at the precise bus-stand where I had to alight in order to get my ticket for the trip to Pondicherry ...

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... complete fulfilment.   Some earlier lines add another shade to the last stanza. At the beginning of the poem I differentiate between those who try to aggrandise themselves by taking the Mother's grace and those who come to her to surrender their souls. About the action of the former I say:   This is but rapturous robbery, Deaf to infinity's call That we should leap and plunge ...

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... when it had gone, you exploited your good luck too much by taking up normal daily work at home. You have to be rather careful and not push yourself. I am sure the body will again respond to the Mother's grace. Don't think, as you may tend to do, that she wants the body to suffer in order that your soul may come nearer to her!   One can always use one's bodily ailments as an opportunity to intensify ...

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... soul has its own curve of development, its own destiny. We should not try to pressurise people to fall into one pattern. The old-time fanatic single-tracked religious spirit is wrong. Invoke the Mother's grace for your family, live in the atmosphere of inner communion with her and she will do the needful for the souls of your people. Encourage them when required, indicate quietly the right direction ...

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... question all the more acute because we have had a living sense of the light and love with which the Divine has met us again and again.   I have been asked by many from Orissa: "Why has the Mother's Grace not saved this Oriya child of hers? Why was he not protected by her from those dacoits?" No perfect answer has ever been given to such perplexities. So you can't expect me to outshine the great ...

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... together in a Supplement. The most concrete sign of welcome to the series came when my friend Harshad V. Mehta spontaneously expressed his wish to bring it out in book-form. This was the Mother's Grace indeed. But the loan available could be only a bright start, not a full covering of the course. Harshad happened to speak to his friend Maganbhai V. Patel. To his surprise his inspiration ...

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... outer mind need not get depressed because of the encroachment of these shadows. Really they are shadows and not substances, however solid they may look. And if you glow with the conviction that the Mother's Grace is operative all the time not only will you withstand the clutching approaches of ignorance but you will also suffuse the surrounding blindness with a scatter of stars lit from the sun that is ...

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... against me and I was to-tally submerged. I felt extremely uncomfortable because it was a most unusual phenomenon with me. But I think the extreme form of my experience was secretly a gift of the Mother's grace, for it broke open an inner vision. When I hung my head down and looked between my legs at the stairs, I did not see the stairs but a black abyss, a bottom-less black abyss. At once I was shocked ...

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... gradually I gained confidence. Sudha Gokal from South Africa met me in the plane. We became very good friends. Both of us joined the Denson Secretarial College. Each and every moment I felt the Mother's Grace guiding and protecting me. My letters were re-directed to my new residence by the nuns. Among other letters I found an envelope from Pondicherry. I opened it. It contained a lovely card from ...

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... get married—I had many distractions—I had gone nuts —I had a loose character—so the Mother was sending me away. Some even thought that I was totally possessed by the devil and had fallen out of the Mother's Grace forever. Their nasty tongues kept wagging about me. ...

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... portion of the house in Gomtipur where I have been living since then. While repairing that portion of the house I had to spend a good amount. Anyway slowly I was able to arrange six shops and the Mother's Grace had changed most of the old tenants to fetch the best possible return for the money that had been spent in rearranging the house and in constructing six shops on the ground floor. This was a ...

... g with communal tension and riots in 1941. We shifted to our house. We arranged our furniture in the shop and wanted to begin and put up our sign-board the next day. But look at the mercy of the Mother's Grace! I received a call for visiting a patient suffering from chronic fever. I went to the patient, noted down his history, examined his lungs, abdomen and tongue. There was nothing wrong with his ...

... years. I was sure of the action of the Divine Grace. It went on improving the condition of my friend. We met to change the promissory note in October 1976. He signed it and informed me that the Mother's Grace has improved his business and he will be able to return the money soon. The Divine Mother's intervention and constant help, solved the problem, and my friend returned the amount in 1977 that ...

... also others have Page 386 had who have now got over them and some still have them. There is no reason why you should not get over them as many others have done. The Mother's love and the Mother's grace are with you. The only other thing needed is the growth of the psychic consciousness and the psychic movement within you. That had begun and was fast increasing; it has only to reach a certain ...

... Opening, Sincerity and the Mother's Grace The Mother with Letters on the Mother Opening and Presence Make yourself quiet and open—have complete confidence and you will feel the Mother's presence with you. 9 October 1933 It is by the constant remembrance that the being is prepared for the full opening. By the opening of the heart the Mother's presence ...

... can. But if the Presence of the Mother can always be felt vividly and continuously, then one need not be troubled by their endeavours; one can face and repel them in the full consciousness of the Mother's grace and protection. 1936 ...

... they have difficulties; it is only a reason for giving more of her help and support. All these ideas you speak of are suggestions generated by the adverse pressure on you. You can rely always on the Mother's Grace and you may be perfectly sure that we shall not throw you off—our support will be always with you. 4 July 1933 Today at Pranam the Mother was not as usual with me. I got the idea of her ...

... what do you say?" On January 27, 1949, the Editor received the telegram: "Stick to the date. Live on faith. Blessings, - Mother." With a whoop the office went into action and faith in the Mother's Grace has kept Mother India in action up to now. During Sri Aurobindo's life-time this Grace, though often directly bestowed in response to questions, was frequently operative from behind ...

... stilled Silence, a condition in which the very stuff of the mental consciousness sank into muteness. But how to carry out the physical work when the whole being is in an absolute motionless state? The Mother's Grace came to my rescue and touched the stillness — that gave it the power to persist even during external action.       It is very good. Page 100 ...

... directly as if she had been physically Page 237 present before me and speaking. These have been recorded in the book.       Had it not been for this rare act of the Mother's Grace, I would never have been able to go ahead so boldly and confidently on the path; for I have always felt assured that if I were to make any serious mistake she would not only inform me inwardly ...

... movements etc.) is the basic condition into which the higher consciousness can flow.         This morning and evening my consciousness was silent and receptive as usual; it received the Mother's grace and at the same time felt a voidness. That is, there was no movement, inner or outer.       The voidness is the best condition for a full receptivity.         I was returning from ...

... this being she could connect or link up with a being of the higher sphere – a counterpart, an over-soul as it were for each soul. It was a kind of descent – a subtle incarnation of Gods which the Mother's Grace occasioned or brought about into the elevated and sublimated human level. The ground had already been prepared, we may note, by the descent of the 24th November 1926 – the descent ...

... missing his sleep - Champaklal used to do his work with meticulous care, 2. "Visions of Champaklal" compiled and edited by Roshan and Apurva. Page xvii which earned him the Mother's grace who said: "Champaklal is very particular and careful about his work." The Mother was so satisfied with Champaklal that once She told him as follows: "I am very much pleased with your work ...

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... the Mother." I received this compliment too without reacting. Whenever people praise me for my programme, I don't let it touch me personally, for I know that whatever happens is entirely due to the Mother's Grace. It is all Her doing and I have nothing to do with it.     This happened the following day. It was my habit to go and see Nolini-da on the day following my programmes. And each time he would ...

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... ! 22 On still another occasion, when the sadhaks were asked to record their most Valuable experience in the context of the Integral Yoga, Champaklal it he was constantly conscious of the Mother's Grace, that he felt a sense of unity with her, and that his only aspiration was that' 'the exterior being with all its energy should be entirely consecrated to the service of the Mother". 23 . ...

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... about my music, I had not the slightest inkling of musical creation in me. Writing poems in Bengali was farthest from my capabilities. All this happened quite some time later, entirely because of the Mother's Grace. That is why if I have been able to capture a drop from that infinite, unfathomable ocean of music, then that drop of music too is but Her gift. Whatever I have been able to create has been made ...

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... appropriate manner. The launching of "Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library" in thirty large volumes was an important memorial. Ardent aspiration and unflinching faith on the one hand, and the Mother's Grace and godspeed on the other, were the sole golden credit at the beginning. But from 1969 onwards this stupendous enterprise went into action, and the early volumes in the superb deluxe edition ...

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... of our nature and their detailed and exhaustive consecration to the Divine. An unwavering concentra­tion in the heart, a quiet but intense aspiration for the Divine, a call and reliance on the Mother's Grace, a renunciation of desire and attachment and egoism, and a growing spontaneity in devotion and surrender, are the most potent means for the opening of the psychic. The second way of opening ...

... breaks down at every point. Progress in sadhana or superior capacity is not dependent on one's being near the Mother or meeting her more often. Q.E.D. 30 July 1936 There is a confusion here. The Mother's grace is one thing, the call to change another, the pressure of nearness to her is yet another. Those who are physically near to her are not so by any special grace or favour, but by the necessity ...

... 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 come to the front to 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 ...

... Mother and Clashes between Workers You need not mind X 's quick temper. Remind yourself always it is Mother's work you are doing and if you do it as well as you can, remembering her, the Mother's Grace will be with you. That is the right spirit for the worker, and if you do it in that spirit, a calm consecration will come. 1 March 1933 You have written, "Harmony cannot be brought about ...

... trouble. I had the belief that the Mother's look and grace at the Sunday Pranam would ease my situation, but it has not. Shall I undergo medical treatment or rely solely on Page 237 the Mother's grace and influence which I shall receive at the Sunday Pranam? Sunday Pranams are not the only way of receiving Force, one can do it at any time by opening to receive in a quiet concentration. ...

... comes. There is no reason why suffering should be indispensable for making progress. You bring the suffering on yourself by the wrong ideas of the mind and by the revolts of the vital. The Mother's grace and love are there, but the mind refuses to recognise it. If there is confidence, if the mind and vital consent to surrender and have full faith and reliance, then there may be difficulties but ...

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... violent impatience directed against things the mind and vital do not like, would have no ground to rise at all—or if it rose without cause could be more easily rejected. Rely for the sadhana on the Mother's grace and her Force, yourself remembering always to keep only two things, quietude and confidence. For things and people, leave them to the Mother also; as you have difficulties in your nature, so ...

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... law of things—in her embodied physical action is the opportunity of a constant Grace,—it is for that that the embodiment takes place. 12 August 1933 Is there any law of the working of the Mother's Grace? Why does the Mother in her universal action act according to the law of things, but in her embodied physical by constant Grace? Page 51 It is the work of the Cosmic Power to maintain ...

... Opening, Sincerity and the Mother's Grace The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Psychic and Opening When I opened myself to the Mother in meditation, I saw her approaching me with an infant in her arms. As she came near, the golden Purusha frowned at her and she drew back behind you. I have seen this vision several times. What am I to do? You fill ...

... Opening, Sincerity and the Mother's Grace The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Meaning of Opening What is real opening? It is the receptivity to the Mother's presence and her forces. What is the right and perfect rule of opening? Aspiration, quietude, widening of oneself to receive, rejection of all that tries to shut you to the Divine ...

... Opening, Sincerity and the Mother's Grace The Mother with Letters on the Mother Loyalty and Fidelity If an adverse Force comes, one has not to accept and welcome its suggestions, but to turn to the Mother and refuse to turn away Page 160 from her. Whether one can open or not, one has to be loyal and faithful. Loyalty and fidelity are not qualities ...

... about anything and everything, even trifles. From morning to night it is in an unhappy condition. I have my doubts whether it can be changed. I know that it is not in my power to do the work; the Mother's Grace alone can do it. My outer mind needs some rays of hope. It is to be assumed that you are capable of the change since you are here in the presence and under the protection of the Mother. The ...

... As heavy odds he would fight Armed with a smile, And always paint With hues varied and bright The twin canvases Of literature and life, Girdled with the Mother's Grace And Sri Aurobindo's Light. SHYAM KUMARI Page 396 ...

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... what do you say?" On January 27, 1949, the Editor received the telegram: "Stick to the date. Live on faith. Blessings. — Mother." With a whoop the office went into action — and faith in the Mother's Grace has kept Mother India in action up to now. During Sri Aurobindo's life-time this Grace, though often directly bestowed in response to questions, was frequently operative from behind the ...

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... )’ What do you say?" On 27 January 1949, the editor received the telegram: "Stick to the date. Live on faith. Blessings - Mother." With a whoop the office went into action - and faith in the Mother's Grace has kept Mother India in action up to now. After Sri Aurobindo's passing the Mother did not like political writings to be published in the magazine. According to her suggestion ...

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... Strange Dreams For quiet some time now, at night, I get strange dreams. I forget my way, come across many obstacles, but ultimately I would find my way by the Mother's Grace and also feel Her Protection. Earlier, I did not get such dreams at all. I used to fly straight. Why am I getting such dreams nowadays? You used to have dreams on the vital plane also long ...

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... photographs of this type. But this one was exceptionally beautiful. It made me very happy. One afternoon during our stay there, almost everybody was resting. I did not require rest because by the Mother's grace, I always felt very fresh. So I went to the verandah to enjoy the open air, and sat on a chair. The Mother's photograph was there just behind me. My neck spontaneously turned again and again ...

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... On occasions he taught us through couplets, verses, poems, or fables. At that time these things interested me but were not fully understood. Now I understand their deeper meanings only by the Mother's Grace. A lesson that my father taught me through a doha of the saint-poet Tulsidas has had a lasting effect on my life. In a very melodious voice he would sing: Kahān kahoon chhabi āpaki, ...

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... start work today on digging the hole themselves, and I will go and help them this afternoon and so will Christi. I feel this is a time to keep very calm and clear and to trust absolutely in the Mother's Grace. At the service of truth, Shraddhavan ...

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... roses. In fact, I was not satisfied with my recitations. However, the performances of the slides of the Savitri paintings and the paintings of Sri Aurobindo's Poems were a great success by The Mother's Grace. In the beginning of June 1972 the foundations of the Matrimandir pillars were completed. The construction of the actual pillars was to start. ...

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... happy—very happy indeed. I saw each and every painting and could not keep back my tears. Each painting was living. I could not believe my eyes that I could do all these paintings. But all was the Mother's Grace and her own creation. I was profoundly grateful to the Mother for using me for her purpose. As always my aspiration was: O Divine, prepare me, make me worthy, and use me always for your cause ...

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... experienced. I have been quite frank about my weaknesses, defects, difficulties and struggles, my revolts against the Truth, and the dreadful attacks of the hostile forces; and I have told how the Mother's Grace and Love saved me miraculously in spite of severe ordeals, tremendous falls and even catastrophes. The story also shows how the Mother shapes and develops our consciousness. And of course ...

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... following letter to Nolini-da: Dear Nolini-da, Good morning to you. Hope you are well. According to your kind advice the true inspiration has worked wonderfully. I feel strongly that all is the Mother's grace. Now everything regarding my going to the Matrimandir on the 21st is all right. I will put the Mother's blessing packet and flowers given by you in the foundation—down below in the pillar ...

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... packed with the Mother's Presence, Force and Peace. I shall never forget the day, and the kindness and collaboration of the people at Auroville. It was really a unique experience for me. All was the Mother's Grace. When I came back to the Ashram I offered at the Samadhi the bouquet of white roses which had been given to me, along with my gratitude and love. I was happy because the work the Mother had ...

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... Aurobindo on Himself. × Here is the text of Sri Aurobindo's letter: "There is a confusion here. The Mother's grace is one thing, the call to change another, the pressure of nearness to her is yet another. Those who are physically near to her are not so by any special grace or favour, but by the necessity ...

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... avoid such circumstances and give the affected spot a little time to forget the subtle impressions and to live long enough in the experience of the sudden relief following the invocation of the Mother's grace by someone over a thousand miles away from you. Such a "miracle", as you call it, does not happen at all times but when a keen loving faith is at the receiving end an unusual result is quite ...

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... power, a vital self-confidence. Give up the feeling that others are better equipped than you and that you can't cope with the call to be a good M.D. in pediatrics. Besides, you have invoked the Mother's Grace and thus opened yourself to potentialities beyond your own: you are in contact with reservoirs of ultra-human forces and can tap them much more than those who are not doing constant sadhana ...

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... close by on the other side of the road. Page 48 One of the Ashramites who had rushed to our help said to me the next day that he had witnessed the whole affair and surely it was the Mother's Grace that had made the car miss me by the fraction of an inch. No doubt he is right, but I have been asking myself why the terrible danger had at all come about and what might be the condition under ...

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... struck against me and I was totally submerged. I felt extremely uncomfortable because it was a most unusual phenomenon with me. But I think the extreme form of my experience was secretly a gift of the Mother's grace, for it broke open an inner vision. When I hung my head down and looked between my legs at the stairs, I did not see the stairs but a black abyss, a bottomless black abyss. At once I was shocked ...

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... now. I explain that to you in the answers below. For quite some rime now, at nights, I get strange dreams. I forget my way, come across many obstacles, but ultimately I would find my way by the Mother's Grace and also feel Her Protection. Earlier, I did not get such dreams at all. I used to fly straight. Why am I getting such dreams nowadays? You used to have dreams on the vital plane also long ...

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... life was begun? As though some divine energy was flowing into her! Thereafter she began to walk normally once again. I have had the same experience. Normally walking is painful for me. But the Mother's Grace once made me climb 1500 steps in the Himalayas. Another time, in a garden in Delhi, she made me walk for an hour and ten minutes without feeling any pain or exhaustion! Yet, normally it is very ...

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... statement that Sarat's cure (which he says is not complete, but only a metamorphosis of a dangerous illness into an ordinary dyspepsia) is still a miracle which he attributes to the intervention of the Mother's grace. Which statement is the correct one? The partisans of reason will plump for the first one, the partisans of spiritual force for the other. And we are where we were. You will excuse me therefore ...

... Sri Ramakrishna, 1922). Dilip was deeply fascinated by Sri Ramakrishna's personality, installed him in his heart as his Guru and loved him deeply. He wrote, "Faith suddenly descended into me—the Mother's grace through the soul- stirring message of her beloved son, the great Messiah Sri Ramakrishna." 17 May 1913 Sudden demise of his father Dwijendralal Roy, owing to apoplexy. ...

... may take the form of the series below: 1. The Mother. 2. The Mother represents divine Consciousness in a human body. [The thought stops here for quite some time and then proceeds.] 3. The Mother's Grace is boundless. [Thought Hops here too for a good length of time and then moves forward.] 4. Self-surrender to the Mother is the most effective way of one's spiritual fulfilment. [Thought pauses ...

... will very soon convince any sadhaka that we are for the most part full of vital insincerities, praying and pretending on the surface that something positive should really happen through the Mother's grace but sheltering all the while just below the threshold of our superficial consciousness a lurking desire that this should not actually happen so soon. In fact if it ever happens to come to be ...

... pessimistic. Knowing that there cannot but be some natural difficulties on the arduous path of the achievement of our difficult goal, we should redouble our efforts at self-amelioration and invoke the Mother's Grace and help to crown our efforts with victory. But one thing we have to avoid: we must not be complacent in our attitude and allow things to drift on. On one side we have to remember that ...

... struggle, darkness and falsehood, they were going back to their Mother-Soul. People's stone-throwing may indicate the resistance of the earth-nature. But nothing can touch those who are guarded by the Mother's Grace on the way. When the girls were near to their goal something from above fell on one of them. That something could be taken as a crown upon the one representing the self. For my psychic being ...

... and slippery slope. At the centre lay a narrow and crooked path of not more than nine inches breadth! A slight wrong step from the centre and there was water below to swallow us up! However, by the Mother's grace we three crossed all that and arrived at a certain safe place. And yet we had not reached the destination (somehow in the dream itself we had thought: "How can we hope to attain the goal so easily ...

... this being she could connect or link up with a being of the higher sphere—a counterpart, an over-soul, as it were, for each soul. It was a kind of descent, a subtle incarnation of Gods which the Mother's Grace occasioned or brought about, into the elevated and sublimated human level. The ground had already been prepared, we may note, by the descent of November 24, 1926, the descent of the Over-mind ...

... ever Page 204 raise an objection to this kind of molestation, it was accepted by all with perfect equanimity, with joy almost; it was considered to be a necessity, a sign of the Mother's Grace. But these attentions were reserved only for two or three people. During this process, the Mother of course remained silent and engrossed in meditation. All was done, no doubt, under her control ...

... catalytic for growth in consciousness, for a steady movement towards the beckoning heights of the Life Divine. Thus the Master's power (through his writings and by means of his occult presence), the Mother's Grace and the readiness and extent of the sadhaks' response, these together conditioned the quality of life in the Ashram and determined its effectivity for world-action. Such spectacular ...

... informed of my new undertaking, and that she had blessed it. "I am sure this work will be as successful as the book on Sri Aurobindo," Nolini-da wrote. "It is more difficult, to be sure; but with the Mother's Grace, you will come out of it brilliantly." This was god speed indeed, and it was as though Grace had already taken the matter in hand. The Mother had in the meantime withdrawn into a deeper ...

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... by the revelation of today. 1 Vaidya Kesarimal had paid his first visit as early as 1932 and offered Sudarshan Choorna to the Mother. His visits had been repeated several times, and the Mother's grace flowed into him abundantly. The special accent in the Ayurvedic Dispensary was to be the doubling of the old knowledge with the insights of Integral Yoga so as to produce the best results in ...

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... needed replenishments of the spirit. There were the visitors - some "very important" ones, and self-important too - who came and went, the triple-steel walls of their egos blindly resisting the Mother's Grace, the tenor of their lives suffering little or no change, - and there were grand exceptions too! Yet even the most adamantine, the most resistant to change, even the emissaries of Erebus, felt ...

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... was affirmed and clarified in several of Sri Aurobindo's letters: Remind yourself always it is Mother's work you are doing and if you do it as well as you can remembering her, the Mother's Grace will be with you. 33 Work should be done for the Mother and not for oneself, - that is how one encourages the growth of the psychic being and overcomes the ego. The test is to do the ...

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... of facing its difficulties one not only gets into blacker difficulties after death but in the next life all becomes not better but worse .... Instead of indulging such feelings ... turn to the Mother's Grace which has not failed and which is not going to fail you for strength and succour. 25 If one looked closely into the inner lives of spiritual seekers, one would thus light upon similar ...

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... one. I asked Her:     I - Mother, have You played this organ?     Mother - No.     She blessed me once more. Today, after all these years, I look at myself and I understand how much of the Mother's Grace and benediction were behind that simple act of giving me that organ. Page 159 ...

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... Recollections The Mother's Grace Strands of The Mother’s hair - a gift lost Sri Ma would come down from Her room in the morning. The Ashramites would have their darshan and receive "flowers" as blessings from Her hands. Sri Ma then went to the Meditation room. I went to Her in the morning and then in the afternoon. After giving the Balcony Darshan, She would ...

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... higher life, Do not blame others, (2) Never blame others. By the Gracious Mother's abundant Grace alone     We shall be free, we shall be free from this. (2)     She alone will free us. (2) Always invoke the Compassionate Mother's Grace, (2)     Always, the Compassionate Mother's Grace. (3) Om the Supreme Mother of Ananda,     Consciousness and Truth. (3) ...

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... “Mother’s Grace on Kamala” The Mother has showered her grace on her children in such a way that every child can say, “This is a special grace of the Mother for me alone. For none else she has done this.” Kamala is indeed one of those children. Kamala does not write about herself, but I am interested in writing about her for two reasons. Firstly, it was the Mother who sustained my... my interest in Kamala, and secondly, recollecting incidents of Mother's grace to her is at the same rime a worship of the Mother. In the beginning Kamala did not speak when she was in Mother's presence. Then when she asked Mother for some work she was given the work of sweeping my room. Thereafter Mother kept giving her one work after another. Offering fruits . In those days, Kashibhai had asked... saying, “I do not believe it.” Stitching Mother's cloth : This is the most memorable among the constant acts of Mother's grace to Kamala. Sometimes, after Mother would go into her bathroom and shut the door, she would suddenly come out with a small piece of cloth and tell Kamala: “Kamala, stitch this immediately; I need it just now.” I used to wonder: Mother has so many handkerchiefs and clothes, so ...

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... night between the 28th and the 29th of May, at last, with Mother's grace, we will cast top ring which will conclude the structure of Matrimandir. The concreting will start at 8 p.m. in the evening and it will end in the dawn. It is such an important phase that we wish you share in your heart this moment with all of us, praying to the Mother for the future of Auroville and Her Victory over all the ...

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... The Grace of the Gracious One The Compassionate Mother's Grace descended, (2) At a tender age the Mother called me, (2) Always had I yearned     for the Mother's remembrance and service, (2) And hoped for living a life in that manner. I experienced then the boundless Grace     of the Gracious Mother, (2)     And felt it every moment, (3) I experienced then the infinite Grace     of...     of the Gracious Mother, (1)     And felt it continuously. To help all was my heart's tendency (3) That service I offered at the Divine Mother's and Lord's Feet (4)     At Their Feet, at Their Feet, at Their Feet. Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma.... O mind, repeat Thou the Mother's name This name makes all auspicious And changes all that is undesired. ...

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... arranged by period just as Mother had wanted it! And what is more, he did not do this just for printing them in a book; he told me that even in his house he places them in that way. How interesting! By Mother's grace two combinations came to me on the same day. ... Photographs Nowadays, I am asked by people to comment on the placing of a particular photograph of the Mother alongside one of Sri Aurobindo's: “How is this arrangement? Is it all right?” At first, I used to remain silent, but sometimes when asked, I give my opinion. For instance, Mother was against placing her photograph with a veil [taken in 1905 or 1906] alongside one of Sri Aurobindo taken... of earlier days. I do not like it.” Mother had specifically told some people that the main consideration is to keep contemporaneous photos of both together. Now, I will give you an instance of how she conveys the same thing even at present through means other than physical words. Just the day after I wrote about this, someone brought two combinations of Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's photographs arranged ...

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... Visions of Champaklal Visions of Champaklal The Mother’s Grace - A Vision Seen after 4.30 a.m. 1978-07-03 The Mother asked Kamalaben something about me, but I could not hear Kamalaben's answer to which the Mother said that she too had noticed it. Even earlier, Kamalaben used to draw my attention repeatedly to my carelessness. I had told her that it... had conveyed this to the Mother. The Mother came very close to me, held both my hands and kept looking at me with the feeling of oneness and love. She asked me, “What is this, Champaklal?” She did what she used to do whenever there was something specific to convey; I said, “Mother! Nowadays my leaning is more and more towards carelessness and disinterestedness.” The Mother said, “Disinterestedness... s, Champaklal! Disinterestedness! Disinterestedness!” Champaklal: “Mother! This is very natural for me.” The Mother nodded her head and indicated her displeasure, but with a sweet smile. Again, smilingly, she fixed her gaze at me and kept looking at me continuously with her penetrating eyes. I bowed down and put my head on her hands that were holding my hands. I experienced total peace and a new ...

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... remember you in my heart. My childlike feeling is that if Lord Ganesh manifests before me, he will make me capable of doing a lot of work for the Mother — giving me a lot of money for her. But I also feel that without the Mother’s Grace, he will not appear. Mother, how can I know him? My dear child, In answer to your question I shall say that each one must invoke Ganesh according to his own feeling... (Correspondence with Madanlal) Madanlal Himatsingka's Correspondence with The Mother 8 November 1962 Mother, Who is the God Ganesh? I am told that you have written something about this God. Mother, how to come in contact with Ganesh? Panditji 29 once gave me a Ganesh mantra and at times I repeat it regularly. First I say your name, Sri ...

... meeting with Roger and Piero and Shyamsunder, Roger agreed that the 'Petals' of the Matrimandir could be done in a grass or green ground-cover if we can do it. Huta, it will be done by Mother's grace. My love at the Mother's feet. Narad Narad's letter was in connection with the twelve gigantic meditation rooms (60 feet high!) around the Matrimandir, without windows and fully air-conditioned. This... room! Above all, this is not the Mother's vision or wish. Nevertheless, she named these twelve colossal rooms, because she had to: Sincerity, Humility, Gratitude, Perseverance, Aspiration, Receptivity, Progress, Courage, Goodness, Generosity, Equality, Peace . The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Matrimandir Suggesting something to the Mother and insisting on it , and accepting her... speaking, this 'Yes' or ‘With my blessings' do not signify her willingness, vision or wish. So many things happened in this way. Several times the Mother told me: Child, do not believe it when people take my name and say 'Mother has said this', 'Mother has said that', and so on. Only believe what I say personally to you and write to you directly . On another occasion she said: You know, my ...

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... 1984-03-21 A time will come— The Compassionate Mother,     the Gracious Mother alone will bring it— (2)     Such a time will come When ours or others' mistakes will not be taken     as mistakes at all. (2)     They will be stepping-stones for our growth, The Compassionate Mother, the Gracious Mother     with Her abundant Grace,     Abundant Grace, (3)     Is making a staircase, Is making... making a staircase for us. (3) This is the Gracious Mother's limitless Grace, (3)     limitless Grace. (2) Om the Supreme Mother of Bliss,     Consciousness and Truth. (3) (21.3.84) ...

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... Savitri. The audience with the Mother after my thesis had brought me the doctoral degree, the publication of the book, my post-doctoral work on Sri Aurobindo and Dante Alighieri growing out of one section in this book, my days spent in reading Sri Aurobindo and writing about him guided gently by my father are all entwined in its pages. It is all due to Mother's grace and I bow to her in gratitude....         The first edition appeared on 24 November 1962 and the second on 24 November 1985. Apparently the Mother has willed a twenty-three-year gap between editions for Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Study of the Cosmic Epic (earlier titled A Study of Savitri)] Her grace has sustained me throughout my life. When my father, Prof K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, communicated to her that a panel of... initiating the idea of this new edition. I was delighted when Sri Vijay of Sri Aurobindo Society came forward to set off the process for its publication. This I do consider as a direct ray of grace from the Mother as the book is being issued during the golden jubilee of the Society. It has also been a joy to work with the young and enthusiastic helpers in the task of production, Krishna, Gita and Vilasni ...

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... It was so lifelike! Someone who had been to the cell before the photo was installed went there afterwards and remarked that now the whole atmosphere of the cell has been transformed. It was Mother's Grace that arranged everything so well. ... to improve the condition of the cell. Then I wrote, “Here there should only be the picture of Sri Aurobindo of that time. Not of any gods and goddesses.” He asked: “Not even of the Mother?” I wrote, “Yes. Not even Mother's. Only Sri Aurobindo's and that too only of the days when he stayed here.” He said, “We shall do it.” Kishorilal, who was with us, offered to send that photograph to him. I am not... photograph along with this table which was designed in the classical Indian style. Finally, we installed that photograph on 15th April, 1979, the Bengali New Year Day. Now to give an instance of how the Mother arranges everything without any outward intervention. We had approached Sanjivan for a photograph of Sri Aurobindo of that period—we wanted him to print a new copy. But at that time his stock of p ...

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... the incident to Mother and She said that She had seen some kind of accident and that is why She had cautioned me. Mother's love, grace and protection were for all of us and for all the time. Long back, we were once concreting in Parea Charbon: a compound wall to protect the property from sea erosion. Page 71 The next morning, we reported the matter to Mother and we informed... next use! Mothers Grace knew no bounds. This is only to give an example of how She had always concern for all of us. Page 70 Her love for our present, past and future was like ocean of love, unlimited, vast and no words can express the same. Once upon a time I was going to Madras Airport to fetch someone. Before starting for the airport, I went to Mother for Her blessings... during the year 1957 or 1958, Mother had not called me to play with Her for months. I was sad and inwardly disturbed and took umbrage with Mother. So I decided not to be present in the tennis court when Mother came to play tennis. I went to play football or for a swim in the sea. One evening when Mother returned from the playground—and I used to be present to see Mother upstairs in the corridor—suddenly ...

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... used to happen, The Mother showered Her Grace,     the Mother showered Her Grace, showered Her Grace,     The Mother, the Mother,     the Mother showered Her Grace. Now I feel boundless joy, joy, joy within Flowing out, to everyone, it is flowing out to everyone, Flowing out to everyone, flowing out to everyone, (3) The Mother's joy, the Mother's joy, the Mother's joy She is pouring, pouring... pouring. The Gracious Mother, Gracious Mother, Gracious Mother,     Gracious Mother, Gracious Mother is pouring. She is pouring joy into everyone,     She is pouring joy into everyone (3) Ma, the Mother of Grace is pouring happiness into all (4) The Mother's joy, the Mother's joy Why this used to happen, why this used to happen,     The Mother showered Her Grace, The Mother's joy,... joy,...... The Mother’s Joy 1976-10-14 Once there was a time (2) When I kept hearing around me phrases like: “Don't like it, don't like it, don't like it.” 1     ”“There's no peace, there's no peace.” I also got infected by this vibration.     Now I wonder, Why this used to happen (2)     Now the Gracious Mother has revealed to me, (2) Why this used ...

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... is Compassionate Mother's infinite Grace,     infinite Grace. (2) Live this truth within, live within.     It will give you happiness, peace, bliss. (2) The Compassionate Mother will grant you,     the Compassionate Mother will grant you. The Compassionate Mother is showering Her Grace     Showering Her Grace all the time and always, (2)     She is showering Her Grace continuously. Never... bliss. (2) Do not seek hither and thither in vain, don't look in vain (2) Take refuge at the Mother's feet, at Her feet alone, (5) Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma...     Take refuge in the Mother, only in Her, (5)     In Her alone, (2)     Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma...     Seek refuge in the Mother alone. ...

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... Cheated I have never ever cheated myself consciously (2)     Myself, or others, or others Never cheated, never cheated, never cheated,     never cheated. It is by the Compassionate Mother's great Grace     That I have not been cheated by myself, I have not been cheated by myself, by myself. (2) Even when I am about to do something undesirable,     She draws my attention, She draws ...

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... not good. They constantly insult her and are often unjust to her, treating her as if she were insane. I am unable to say anything to my elders. As yet I am neutral, but what should I do?” Then by Mother's grace I was reminded of an incident my father told me in my childhood. I recount it here because it may help some in their own progress and in their behaviour with others. My father had a lawyer friend... family was disagreeable and this greatly angered my mother. My father then told her, “There is nothing unusual in treating someone well who behaves decently. To do so even when he mistreats you, would show the generosity and nobility of your nature.” I remember very well how these words calmed my mother. Whenever we were to visit somebody our mother would instruct: “Remember, work is appreciated by... you finished sweeping?” When she said yes, my mother pointed out the corners behind the doors: “Have you cleaned here?” My father told us that whatever the work, if one does it methodically and with an attitude to do better, we learn more and more things. In my work with the Mother all that my parents taught me about work proved very useful. Mother was always happy with my work, and often expressed ...

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... have all felt Her, sometimes as Mother Aditi Herself, sometimes as Maheshwari, at other times as Mahakali, Mahalakshmi or as Maha-saraswati. Standing next to a fire, how can our body not be touched by its warmth? And in spite of our untransformed, ignorant condition the Mother’s Grace has so spontaneously blessed us in all Her forms. But we have never known the Mother’s Body or had the experience of it... offered my birthday ‘pranam’ at the Mother’s Feet for what was to be the last time. After completing my ‘pranam’ as usual, and accepting the Mother’s flower-blessings, I was about to leave the room when Champaklal-ji called out: “Priti, the Mother is calling you.” From the door I quickly went back to the Mother. As I knelt down, Champaklal-ji handed the Mother a colour photograph of Her Divine... us that this human body of the Mother, in whose protection we have been advancing on this difficult path, is in its every atom and in its very external form too, the body of Mother Aditi Herself. Being so close to the Mother we always looked upon the Mother physically as our best friend. But how immeasurably valuable this was, was revealed to us one day by the Mother Herself in the course of events ...

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... mon petit.... ( Mother plunges in holding Satprem's hands. 2 Then Champaklal's bell rings, twice, three times. ) What is the time? Eleven o'clock, Mother. Ten o'clock? No, it's, eleven. Thank you, mon petit. Oh, Mother.... Thank you, mon petit. We need you, Mother. Thank you. Oh!... Oh, thank you, mon petit.... Ah, Mother, what Grace to be here with you... 1973 1973 May Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 May 9, 1973 ( Mother is very late, she has Satprem and Sujata called in before the other disciples. She immediately takes Satprem's hands. It is heartrending. ) Something's wrong. Something's wrong. I see you.... Something's wrong. What's wrong, Mother? I feel like screaming... very tangible. Like that. But when I am in my body, I feel so uncomfortable.... Yes, Mother, I understand. And then everything takes up so much time! I haven't seen anybody this morning. They're all here [waiting at the door]. What can I do, mon petit? Oh, Mother.... We love you, Mother. Eh? We love you. Page 412 What? We love you, we have much love for you ...

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... June 1955 On June 1st I wrote to the Mother: The Divine Forces are slow to appear, while the anti-divine forces are prompt to rush into my consciousness and upset everything. Why is that? She answered: Because your call is not sincere enough and your confidence in the Divine's Grace is not sufficient. In my letter I had added: Mother, grant me three things on this Prosperity... you must call with a true and sincere faith. Help and Grace are always with you. But you must open yourself to them. I 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... real. I was over-credulous and hypersensitive—hence the conflict between my inner and my outer being. This acutely painful division often left me sullen and confused. Many a time prayers to the Mother arose from my aching heart, begging for her help. She wrote to me: I am giving and shall continue to give—but the important thing is that you must receive. If you call or aspire with fear ...

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... man with a new hope to restart his new life given to him by the Grace of the Divine Mother. Sorabji Bharucha gave a party in 1949 to honour the result obtained by naturopathy, under the presidentship of Dr. Hariprasad Desai, a well-known public figure of the time. This was an honour given not to me but to the Divine Mother's Grace who had guided, helped and secured the success that was a miracle... The Touch of Grace in the Practice of Naturopathic Eye Clinic Health is the expression of Harmony, If Harmony is disturbed, ill health is expressed The Mother The eye clinic was started on 4-10-1947 (Vijayadashami) under the name of "Arogyamandir" with the blessings of the Divine Mother. It was started in an aristocratic area where people had... When the Gymnastic Association of Gujarat could not organize the competitions they returned the shield to me after five years and I offered it to the Divine Mother whose Grace was at the root of all the miraculous results. The Mother worked many more miracles in my practice of the eye treatment, but this is not the place that I can relate all of them. Apart from five blind cures many incurable ...

... nothing is impossible. 6 July 1939 Mother, when someone asks me what I have done during all the years I have been here, I say that I have served with devotion, and that is my sadhana. I do not understand anything else. It is true that it has taken me a long time to understand this, and that I have sometimes been anxious. By Mother's Grace I understand a little about Her service, and in... for me. Isn't it so, Mother? Certainly you understand and you act better and better, with a consciousness that is progressing towards a total light. It is rather difficult to refuse when anyone asks me for something. I think it is a failing in my nature. Isn't it so, Mother? It all depends on how you look at it and the spirit in which it is done. Mother, today I made a fan out... Aurobindo and the Mother at an advanced level. When the Academy was first proposed, Mother wrote to its founder: ) Anything that is done can contribute to the progress of humanity, but all depends on the way of doing it. My blessings are with you and your project. March 1970 × Mother underlined these four ...

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... deep-felt emotion I replied, "As long as I am alive, Nolini-da, let this book remain with me. It can be handed over to the Archives afterwards." I have treasured this book as a testimony of the divine Mother's Grace. Page-80 ... and my heart felt fulfilled with the Mother's darshan. In that silence, I prayed to the Mother, Oh, sweet Mother, make me yours! The Mother's eyes were still on me. Once again from deep within my being, a silent prayer rose again, Oh, sweet Mother, turn my entire being towards You. Make me yours! This silent prayer kept echoing deep within my heart. The Mother smiled sweetly at me, cast a significant... morning, I went for the Mother's Balcony darshan, feeling very tranquil and indrawn. After that, I got down to my daily activities, remembering the Mother in a very conscious way. Before the Mother left for Her game of tennis in the afternoon, I went and stood in front of the staircase door next to Nirod-da's room, hoping to see the Mother there. At the assigned time, the Mother came down and as soon ...

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... out of this ego that belittles everything, diminishes everything, to emerge from it! All is falsehood in it. And I, who understood nothing of love, am beginning to suspect who Satprem is. Mother, your grace is infinite, it has accompanied me everywhere in my life. We are still in Kataragama, and we shall only go up to northern Ceylon, to Jaffna, around the 15th, then return to India towards the... 1958 1958 Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 April 3, 1958 ( Letter to Mother from Satprem ) Kataragama, April 3, 1958 Sweet Mother, I was waiting for things to be well established in me before writing you again. An important change has occurred: it seems that something in me has 'clicked'—what Sri Aurobindo calls the 'central will,' perhaps—and I am living... myself am in this affair is a screen, a resisting obstacle. O Mother, break this screen that I may be wholly transparent before you, that your transforming force may purify all the secret recesses in my being, that nothing may remain but you and you alone. O Mother, may all my being be a living expression of your light, your truth. Mother, from the depths of my being, I offer you a sole prayer: may ...

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... sat near the Mother’s Feet in total openness and trust. The Mother kept looking at them from time to time. The little ones had this kind of relationship. They looked upon the Mother as their best friend. And on the strength of this intimacy and openness they began to progress. The Mother’s Grace and the children’s boundless trust began working even in the atoms of the body. The Mother has asked for... 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: ... Like the sunflower, we were always turned to the Mother and our new life unfolded. A sense of total trust and openness was instilled in us in every cell by the Mother, our universal Mother. Let me give you some instances of this total openness and trust. Whatever the little ones do is extraordinary, isn’t it? You have a fever? Go and tell Mother. The Mother looks at the little boy for a few seconds. A ...

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... have already bolted; The sharp edge of the scythe that is the Mother's name        has cut away all the sinful weeds, Love and devotion are showering their fostering rains        day and night. . . O my friend, the four great fulfilments are the fruits        that the Mother's bounteous Grace has yielded.   (5)   Her whole head of hair run... have found the heart of things. ² He who is the Heart of things has taught me the things of the heart.   Page 159 The earth with her eager lips cries, " mother , O mother",        as in thunder roll And the soft smile of love's ecstasy makes the lightning gleam And tears flow ceaselessly like ceaseless rains. The rainbird, my heart, is... gold And I shall scrub and clean the temple of jewel. Prasad says: Devotion and Liberation I carry on my head, Now I know that Brahman is another name of Shyama,        my Mother, And I have abandoned all pious observances and practices.   (2)   A dark cloud has arisen in the sky within: And my soul, like a peacock, dances about in sheer ...

... to make Mother's Grace effective. We append below some passages from the Mother's writings which should act as beacon lights to our students and as sure guidelines. With this help, they have to shape their actions and reactions in course of their daily life if they would like to be true children of the Mother and be fit to belong to the new humanity which is the dream-vision of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo... which is rich with all the realisations that are to come, full of beauty and light. (xiv)He is full of love for all those who are around him. (xv)He is full of confidence in the Divine Grace. (Vide ibid., pp. 150-52) (20)"The true wisdom is to be ready to learn from whatever source the knowledge can come. We can learn things from a flower, an animal, a child, if we are... aims and purpose that led to its establishment and put all your effort for their realisation. Now the passages from the Mother's writings which, we hope, will prevent you from being derailed from the right Path. Victory to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother! The Mother Speaks: (1)"We want to show to the world what must be the new man of tomorrow. Is this the example that we will set before ...

... and our Dullness — The Mother and Food — Not only Guru but True MotherGrace towards Youngsters — Freedom and Discipline All of us have aspired for the grace of being allowed physical nearness to the Mother. The possibility to be in her presence hour after hour has seemed the greatest luck. Naturally I once exclaimed to her: "Oh Mother, I wish I could live with... her need in the marriage which the Mother had sanctioned was tackled. What I have to say further will show another aspect of the Grace the Mother could pour on a young soul. Both Jean and her two brothers had been born in Bombay under the Mother's creative eye, as it were: her help had been received all during the prenatal months and they grew up in the atmosphere of deep devotion which my sister... a reaction of recoil. The one mood in front of food has to be: "May it all go to the growth of the Divine within me!" The Mother assured us that food would be much better digested if it was inwardly offered to the Divine. This offering goes beyond the grace often said before meals in a Christian household. Over and above the gratitude for God's gift of the "daily bread", there has to be ...

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... Memorable Contacts with The Mother XI: MY FAMILY AND THE MOTHER’S GRACE By "my family", I mean my old mother, my sister and her children. Most unexpected was their arrival here, particularly of my sister; and most generous, I should say magnanimous, was the Mother in her acceptance of them all. My mother came first followed by my sister with her children... as the Mother heard the mention of the child, she relented and said, "Look for a house and ask them to start at once." I was astonished by her change of attitude and inferred that the child’s cry must have touched the Mother’s heart. Since then, they have been here; the children are in the school and my niece’s husband has by the Mother’s help got a job in a local mill. This is how the Grace of the... the Mother flows and spreads all over the world and particularly over those who have come under her Love’s Protection. I am sure each one of us has such stories to tell and if they were gathered together they would make a wonderful collection full of instances of her Grace beyond any reason. Though some have come out, still a large number remains unpublished. Page 98 ...

... was so glad to meet them and hear them talk enthusiastically about the Mother, her Grace and affection. Their devotion and love for the Mother showed in their eyes. After thanking them and bidding them Au revoir I sat quietly on a sofa and opened the packet. I found the Bulletin and the message of 24th November with the Mother's love and blessings. I was charmed to see a card: a lovely pink rose painted... nature are the defence It turns against the saviour hands of Grace; It meets the sons of God with death and pain. || 2.12 || Days passed rapidly. It was the last day of the year 1959. I stood near my window in a melancholy mood watching the vast vista of the snow. My heart was filled with a longing to return to those days when the Mother and I meditated in her room. I aspired for Light to make... 1959 My Savitri work with the Mother Undated? I received Mr. Jaykissen Bahety and Mr. Narottam Mehra—both devotees of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother—at Mercury House. We greeted one another. They were on a business trip. Apart from that they wanted to purchase a wonderful gift to offer to the Mother on the golden occasion—the 1st recurrence of the Supramental ...

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... elderly ladies remembered the Mother quite unknowingly in different ways as they lived their lives. Probably this too is the Mother’s divine Grace. Ranga-didima came to the Ashram two or three times. She even had the Mother’s darshan in Her room. She was very keen on getting the Mother’s charanamrita and so I told Nolini-da about it. As soon as Nolini-da told the Mother about it She touched some water... Otherwise you will provoke Mahakali.” That vast, fearful figure of the Mother, that tremendous brow of Hers emerged before my eyes. Finally the boy calmed down with the Mother’s Grace. He took the flower-blessings and came down. He probably did not realise the frightening catastrophe he had been spared thanks to the Mother’s Grace. Another incident took place some time earlier. In those times all... all the sadhaks were having all kinds of experiences. By the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s Grace each one would reach a very high level in his or her sadhana. One such sadhak was getting such significant experiences that he lost all control. He went up to the Mother and exclaimed: “I am Sri Aurobindo.” There was no escape. The Mother roared: “What? What did you say?” Mahakali was awakened. The ...

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... powerfull gurus remove human sorrow and suffering. The Mother did the same with our Ma's pain. After all, She is the mighty divine Mother! Her Grace and divine touch changed our Ma.She was born anew." I listened mesmerised to all these stories  about the Mother and the Ashram from Dada's mouth. This was our first contact with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. All this time we had been worshiping our family deity... in front, Ma behind him and I was behind Ma. We came and stood in front of the Mother. Ajit-da received the Mother's blessing first. Then moving a little to the side he brought Ma forward and told the Mother, 'Sweet Mother, this is Mrs Ashalata Mitra and behind her is her eldest son, Arunendranath Mitra.' At once the Mother stretched out both Her hands and held Ma's and placed them on Her lap. Then She... into Ma's eyes. Ma told the Mother in Bengali that she had lost her youngest son on 15th August last year. There was a great sadness in her heart and she was unable to feel at peace. The Mother called me near Her and enquired if we had any photograph of my youngest brother. I replied to the Mother that I would bring his photograph the following day at darshan time. The Mother kept holding Ma's hands on ...

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... body can throw away any kind of difficulty in it by coming in the contact with Mother's love and grace. One day, I asked Mother from within not to allow more such attacks which bring me almost to a condition of collapse every now and then and, Mother, it never came afterwards since about ten days!..." 2 ( Mother remains silent ) Yes, he told me he was very struck to discover practically... No questions, nothing to say? There is a note from G., if you'd like me to read it.... He says: Page 136 "Mother, "My health problem [serious heart attacks] has led me to reveal many hidden elements in the body, like Mother's love, grace, and Mother herself with me.... My body seems no more at the mercy of old beliefs. Thus, my confidence in the body is increasing more and more... but... Do you hear when I speak? Yes, yes, Mother, very clearly! ( silence Mother moans now and then ) Later... Later. ( Mother takes Satprem's hands ) I will soon have a dangerous contagion, you know! ( Mother laughs ) × Exactly what aphorism Mother is referring to is not clear, perhaps this one ...

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... had X informed. But I didn't tell him my difficulty (this mantra they threw on me to kill me), I didn't speak of that at all. For he had insisted, from the beginning he had said, 'Mother must see to it, only Mother's grace can save them.' And I understood—their attack came just at the time of Durga Puja, so I understood that Durga had to intervene. So that's the story. Things are not going so well... doesn't matter; what we have to do, we'll do' (this fear of not being able to do what has to be done is the most irksome), if at that moment you can sincerely say to yourself, 'No, I trust in the Divine Grace ... no, I will do what I have to do, and I'll be given the power to do it, or the power to do it will be created in me'—then that is the true attitude. I feel that's what you give me. ... Page 448 said, 'Oh, he'll come back before September 26, BUT inform Mother so that She may see to it.' therefore, I concentrated a little. About two weeks later (in other words, ten days or so before September 26), some more news—the boy's older brother, who lives in Ahmedabad (not Bombay), came to visit his mother, father and grandmother (there's also a grandmother), and he asked about his ...

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... trust in the Divine's Grace, the certitude that the Grace is always working for the best in ourself as well as in all, and the determination to submit entirely and unreservedly to the Divine’s Will.”³ A complete and unwavering trust in Grace is the most effective antidote against all fear. Grace and the Integral Yoga It can be said that as the Mother regards Grace to be the sole motive... assured ourselves of the traditional background of an almost universal faith in Grace among spiritual seekers. Let us now turn to the teachings of the Mother and try to understand what she says on the subject. What is Grace ? Going to the very root of the matter, the Mother explains the genesis of Grace and its essential nature, and then she throws light upon the nature of its action... saved. This interception by a person from behind him is an intervention of Grace, which nullifies the rigid determinism of Nature. "It is the great work of the Avatāras”, says the Mother, "to manifest the Divine Grace upon earth. To be a disciple of the Avatāra is to become an instrument of the Divine Grace. The Mother is the great dispensatrix—through identity—of the absolute mechanism of Universal ...

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... The Mother has given me this experience in every moment of my life. In Pondicherry, when anyone asked me, 'How are you?' my usual answer was, “The Compassionate Mother, by her Infinite Grace, has made me walk just as much as required. The most important thing is my inner condition which is very fine. Then what more is needed? Every day, all the time, the Compassionate Mother's Infinite Grace is being... on hygienic principles but we did them without understanding anything. We however enjoyed ourselves and used to wait for this day even though we understood nothing. It is only by the Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's Grace and through the experience given by them, that the real meaning of all these rites is understood by me now. It is very clear to me now that all these rituals are a prayer for living a... being experienced.” The one whose voice was heard spoke again, remaining invisible. This voice was not The Mother's nor Sri Aurobindo's but it was full of compassion and was very sweet and charming. During the massage time, I am lying on the Dhara Patthi (long wooden tray used during the time of massage in Malabar). I feel as if the whole Patthi is lifted up. Simultaneously I experience uneasiness ...

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... and he were all in all to each other. Our Mother's Grace was something like that to us. I remember Counouma once telling me that one could have quite a delusion about oneself if one did not know well enough the Mother's way with those who had an intimate relationship with her. She often made them feel wonderfully unique. Something of this Krishna-like Grace is sought to be pictured in the last lines... Garden of Eden may be designated as utkata karma in an agelong shape, for all descendants of Adam are said to incur this "original sin" and, in consequence, are deprived of adequate power of winning "grace". So extreme is the inherited sinfulness believed to be, that no Page 255 human being can atone for it. One who is taken to be God's own Son is understood to have shouldered the re... price is said to be his "crucifixion" as a common "criminal" on a charge of violating Jewish orthodoxy and transgressing Roman authority. By this act he is commonly credited with opening man to Divine Grace through man's faith in him as the one and only Son of God, the single universal Saviour. I am mentioning all this as a possible illustration, not recommending the semi-mythological and narrowly ...

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... Infinite Grace of the Mother on Kamalaben The Mother has showered her grace on her children in such a way that every child can say, "The Mother has specially showered her grace on me only. For none else she has done this." Kamala is indeed one of them. Kamala has not written about herself, but I am interested in writing about her for two reasons. Firstly, it was the Mother who sustained... sustained my interest in the life of Kamala and secondly, it gives me an opportunity to admire the Mother as I recollect many events of her infinite grace on Kamala. In the beginning, Kamala observed silence when she went to the Mother. After some time she asked the Mother for some work. The Mother gave her the work of sweeping Champaklal's room. In those days, Kashibhai used to place an order... I was interested in witnessing all this on two counts. One was to see the Mother's ways of working on Kamala and the other was to see the Mother showering grace on her. Someone might think why only Kamala was with Champaklal. I have written this at length to show that by showering her infinite grace the Mother had Kamala with me from childhood and till today she has kept her with me. It ...

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... the Mother's central work, her special gift, her grace to us. When you love a thing, you love, as it is said, through the heart; but there is love and love, and there is a heart within the heart. True love, the love that is divine, is within this inner heart, which is your soul, the real being or person in you; and the soul coming out, coming to the front as we say, is the Mother's special Grace here... The Mother Abides - Final Reflections The Mother and the Nature of Her Work It seems I am to tell you something about the Mother—a bit of her life, a bit of her activities. Well, the first part of her life, as you all know, the Mother passed in France; she was born in France, in Paris. So naturally it was very often pointed out to her that she was French... hold it, grasp it with all love and affection. The Mother is still living and active among us and her Presence is still here, even concretely, for each one of you has the Divine Child in you. I end with a prayer, a prayer that I made to the Mother some time ago; it was on behalf of the small children of our playground: Sweet Mother, your Playground children are angels. They have not ...

... the Mother's central work, her special gift, her grace to us. When you love a thing, you love, as it is said, through the heart, but there is love and love and there is a heart within the heart. True love, the love that is Divine, is within this inner heart which is your soul, the real being or person in you, and the soul coming out, coming to the front as we say, is the Mother's special Grace here... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 6 The Mother - The Nature of Her Work IT seems I am to tell you something about the Mother – a bit of her life, a bit of her activities. Well, the first part of her life, as you all know, the Mother passed in France, she was born in France, in Paris. So, naturally it was very often pointed out to her... Page 7 it with all love and affection. The Mother is still living and active among us and her Presence is still there, even concretely, for each one of you has the Divine Child in you. I end with a prayer, a prayer that I made to the Mother sometime ago, it is on behalf of the small children of our playground: "Sweet Mother, your playground-children are angels. They have not become ...

... communion with the Mother through flowers which lasted for over four years. She started it by sending a dinner-size dish filled with “purity” (jasmine) with a lotus-shaped small vase in the center, holding a rose of “Surrender”, both of which indicated her aspiration. The Mother took them herself and filled her dish with flowers of “Divine Grace”. This went on for as long as the “Divine Grace” was blooming... overwhelming presence of beauty and joy and peace: the beauty and bliss of the Divine Mother’s Grace! [“Flowers bring with them the smile of the Divine” — from Prayers and Meditations .] Many were the stories Jyotin-da, another sadhak, would tell. This is one that had baffled him when he tried to fathom the Mother’s ways with her children. He told me of a flower I had not seen though I knew the tree... Aurobindo looked austere and impassive. The Mother was radiant and smiling! There were some darshan days when the Mother would be in a trance. Sri Aurobindo would be smiling and gracious. One felt a warmth and sweetness from him. Darshan days were quite different from other days when one met with the Mother. They were a much more powerful experience. Mother said darshan is the culmination or the f ...

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... trivial instance, but typical of the Mother’s subtle action. It belongs to the earliest period of our twelve years with Sri Aurobindo. The Mother brought a big calendar for Sri Aurobindo’s room and said to me that I should tear off each date-sheet day by day and hand it over to her when she would leave the room after her work. I took the gesture as a sign of Grace on her part, though I could not understand... member of the same family. She took up the responsibility and had to undergo a lot of trouble, from the boy’s waywardness and other bad habits till he himself left the Ashram, but she earned the Mother’s grace. I have spoken of a young boy in the medical chapter who came as a patient, but whom I was given also to look after as a sort of a guardian and friend. I was supposed to Page 71 ... Memorable Contacts with The Mother IX: THE MOTHER’S WAYS OF ACTION The Mother gave me some apparently simple and trivial work whether as a test or with a deeper intention, I cannot say. But this we knew that she had almost always an occult or hidden purpose behind her movements. Sometimes she would disclose it. At any rate we were supposed to take it as ...

... Her magic spell charms one and all, To see her once she does enthral. This little bird called Tuntuni In Mother's Love, grown strong and sunny. In Mother's shade she loves to grow, Fear and doubt she does not know. May Mother's Grace be always hers, The Grace protect sweetest of birds. Our Tuntuni, this girl so strong Links all her strength to this Contact long. ... such joy we get, It makes us all other joys forget. Ever forward She leads us our Mother Divine, She clears our path of any negative design. Our little sister busy in knowledge's pursuit Her mind and body blossom on Her Grace's route, Her being is ever prostrate at Mother's Feet, Her words of light she does always repeat. Page 117 I ask you now, O... door he plumps! Ever full of cheer, A joy to see and hear, Such a boy's very hard to find: In a million one of his kind. All I pray for At the Mother's dool; May good come his way In Her Grace's sway. 22.4.92 Ashwini-bhai Who can beat us? None defeat us! Ashwini-bhai is on my side! Who can beat us? None defeat us ...

... unpoetic words in Savitri . In the context, it is quite significant. This feminine force, or the force of the World-Mother, is directly empowered by the Supreme. The initiated reader of Sri Aurobindo's literature instantly remembers the word in The Mother : "The Grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of the Supreme." 4 That is why Gokak sees in Savitri a doctrine which incarnates as imagination... end-stopped lines, but often in wonderful "run-on" images. Calm heavens of imperishable Light, Illumined continents of violet peace, Oceans and rivers of the mirth of God 4 The Mother . SABCL, Vol. 25, p. 10. 5 Aspects of Indian Writing in English, Essays in honour of K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Edited by M. K. Naik, Macmillan, New Delhi, 1979, p. 50. Page 480 ...

... come what may, I would keep trying till my very last breath. I also thought that Mother would complete Sri Aurobindo's unfinished work. She would bring about the physical transformation in her own body. I lived on with that hope. Then on 17th November 1973 Mother left her body. But by then by Mother's Grace, a poise and peace had taken root in me. And that is why even though I was saddened... becomes an aid in his sadhana. In every work there is my consciousness, my Grace. If the sadhak adopts the right attitude in doing his work then through that Grace he can progress much more." And so you should all know that whatever work is given to you is the work you are worthy of and the place you should be in. Mother has kept the Ashram environment and field of action as a free open field... railing. And so Mother started cleaning the mess herself. This sadhika who told me this story was present there at that time. At once she said to Mother: "Mother, you needn't clean up this dirt. Let me do it!" Mother answered: "You know, I clean much filthier dirt in men!" And she continued to clean the railing. (75) O nce an elderly sadhak protested to Mother that the work ...

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... readily recognise people. Page 401 Photo A was taken before the ailment; photo B this month. The family prays for Mother's Grace and Blessings. Modern medicines are not fit for children. Blessings. ( On a slip accompanying the photos of the child, the Mother wrote: ) If Nature is given a chance she may repair the damage. June 1965 The American lady X has become a big... to be as secure as now. His sub-tenant has gone and he finds it difficult to maintain the flat which he got by Grace. He prays for Mother's Blessings. He must face the difficulty with faith and confidence; and everything will end well. Blessings. March 1966 Sweet Mother, Someone is reported to have done black magic against Z. A lemon was found placed on a pillar. They are... disciple wrote to the Mother about rumours being spread against him. ) My dear child, For the last months you have been fast progressing spiritually, and I would like you to take all these attacks as an outward expression of the usual tests that the adverse forces make to fortify and intensify the sadhana. It is teaching you to have an absolute faith and confidence in the Divine Grace, because when they ...

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... carrier. We arranged exhibitions on the Ashram and gave talks at schools and temples and conference halls… just the two of us with no one else. We trudged through the jungles of Africa and with Mother’s grace and protection we managed to escape a herd of charging elephants, swarms of locusts and serious floods along the way. It was quite an adventure. When you returned to the Ashram after being in... to date, articles used by the Mother, i.e. combs, hair-pieces and European perfume bottles. The third cabinet holds postage stamps of Mother and Sri Aurobindo issued by the Indian Government. The fourth cabinet includes saris and shawls used by the Mother when she was writing Prayers and Meditations in the Ashram; Mother’s gold watch and Huta’s painting of Mother at the organ. In the fifth... and gold. The Mother has all the subtle pastel colors. Can you share the story of your meeting with, marriage to and work with Balkrishna Poddar? I was around twenty and teaching English in the Ashram school in the mornings. I asked the Mother for some additional work for the afternoons after school. Simultaneously, Balkrishna had asked the Mother for a helper at SABDA. The Mother gave this work ...

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... But how did the Mother get to know about this? The Mother knew every little detail even about our childhood, whereas I myself had forgotten! This instance of the Mother’s infinite Grace moved me very deeply. The Mother saved us in this way from innumerable dangers and difficulties and She continues to do so. But by their deprivation now hast Thou saved me! * The Mother one day asked me... effortlessly that I feel even gods and goddesses themselves must have been envious of us. The Mother Herself has come down onto this mortal world and opened up the treasure-trove of Her Grace. Now in these moments of leisure, every utterance, every gesture of the Mother overwhelms the heart with a memory of divine grace and beauty. In remembering Her, my entire consciousness sinks deep within my heart. At... here at the Ashram a couple of times, sitting next to the Mother. While watching the film I would sometimes look at the Mother. Even while the Mother guided us to the new life She also taught us how to forgive human pettiness and baseness. With Compassion Thine My life I’ll cleanse. How clasp Thy Feet Without that Grace immense? * Two memorable incidents of my life occurred ...

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... Call for Sri Aurobindo's peace which is invisibly there all the time above you and around you and deep within you. Once he has accepted you as his own, he never leaves you. The same with the Mother's sweet grace. She can never be far from you and both she and the Lord hold you always in their arms. Try to be conscious of this fact and do not allow your heart and mind to be troubled, no matter how many... troubling you? Love is an absolute value independent of whether this or that action is possible. The very presence of the loving heart and face is a boon and must be felt in your own depths as divine grace. Then you will experience a wonderful solace. Strength and tranquillity will be yours, making you free in the centre of your being from all that burdens or hurts you. The slings and arrows of outrageous... Soup Distribution in the old days I used to go ahead and wait in the courtyard of the main building for the Mother to pass on her way to the staircase leading upstairs. Once I saw the silhouette of Sri Aurobindo behind the shutters on the first floor. I felt very happy. When I told the Mother of it afterwards, she said: "It is better not to look at him." Evidently the work he was doing on his own ...

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... after she had taken the flower from Her hand, the Mother continued watching her leg as she limped away. One day, I told Malavika-di about this incident and she was deeply moved and her eyes welled up with tears of joyous gratitude. Thus she got from the Mother’s infinite Grace, the strength to battle against pain and disease. * I went to see the Mother in the morning. Everyone was standing in line... day the Mother was not to meet anyone after the balcony darshan. I was leaning against the gate of the ‘Mother’s kitchen’ opposite the balcony and thinking that I would not be able to meet the Mother. In the meantime, the Mother appeared at the balcony. I stood there, my eyes fixed on Her as I filled myself with Her presence knowing that She would not meet anyone later that day. As the Mother was re-entering... of the Mother every morning and we still do. At the very beginning of the prayer She addresses the Divine Mother: O Divine and adorable Mother, with thy help what is there that is impossible? After the manifestation of the Supramental Light, the Mother finally revealed Herself to the earth. Thou dost execute was changed to I execute as the universe heard in hushed wonder the Mother’s proclamation ...

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... have a strange feeling that there's some danger hovering over you. Be alert." But thanks to Mother's grace no danger came my way. Page 40 This is just an instance of how very alert Mother always was about my welfare and safety. (40) I mentioned to you earlier that Mother took a lot of trouble to learn all kinds of fine arts - music, painting, literature, poetry,... class and she did not object. Mother herself arranged vases with flowers and asked me to photograph them. On the Ashtami, Dasami, Lakshmi Puja and Kali Puja days Mother used to give special blessings. I took photos of Mother on these occasions. Mother had consented to these photos being taken only because of Dr. Sanyal's enthusiasm. However, Mother told me very clearly the photos that... was a happy moment with Mother. It was named the 'Vegetable Darshan'. This gentleman from Bombay came and placed the barbell there. Mother asked: "What's this?" "Mother, it's a barbell. I'll exercise with it." Mother said: "No, no, you mustn't. All those who exercise with heavy instruments have short lives. You mustn't." With these remarks Mother asked Udar to take it ...

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... the Second World War. In his breast pocket he always carried a packet of Mother's "Blessings". Once, a bullet hit his chest during battle and strangely right over the packet of "Blessings". But by Mother's grace nothing happened to him. The bullet did not pierce his chest and he was saved! Later, this soldier came to see Mother and recounted this incident to express his gratitude to her. He also... arrives to liberate her from the world of sleep into life. Mother watched this film with deep interest. Mother used to enjoy many other similar stories. And what about Sri Aurobindo's Savitri? There he has shed light on the mysterious secret for gaining immortality. Mother liked this epic immensely. (6) O nce Mother told me that the kings of mediaeval Europe wanted to enjoy... Once Mother told Pavitra-da in jest that he had been an alchemist in his previous life. Page 163 (7) I am reminded of four stories told to me by Mother about her childhood. Mother was five or six at that time. She accompanied her parents and brother on a trek in the mountains. They were walking along a mountain path that zigzagged up­ward. Suddenly Mother felt like ...

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... Call for Sri Aurobindo's peace which is invisibly there all the time above you and around you and deep within you. Once he has accepted you as his own, he never leaves you. The same with the Mother's sweet grace. She can never be far Page 41 and both she and the Lord hold you always in their arms. Try to be conscious of this fact and don't allow your heart to be vexed, your mind to... the leader of the human march upwards - the steed which was said to gallop always towards the dawn, that symbol of the spiritual awakening. Then the secret reading of Savitri, which Sri Aurobindo graced me with, by privately sending me every morning a passage from the on-going composition of the epic, brought me the Yoga of Savitri's father Aswapati -literally, "the Lord of the Horse". When I asked... had the luck to sit in a semi-circle in front of the Mother before the evening's Soup Distribution. The Mother was told that this book, from which I had quoted to her, had been buried in the Washington Vault among other writings and objects for people some centuries hence to open and see what our time was interested in and productive of. The Mother smiled and said: "The Americans like somewhat fantastic ...

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... come today. The Mother of Bliss is Herself present in our midst. Doubts, despair, sorrows, death—nothing can impede our march ahead. Each new day is a declaration of war against these forces. Thanks to the Mother’s unearthly Grace we have overcome so many of these obstacles and difficulties. The Mother always used to mitigate the punishment that we merited for our conduct. The Mother’s Body was our... good qualities. This is what I learnt from the Mother through a very ordinary incident. We were waiting in the Playground for the Mother. When she came the Mother looked at us and smiled and said a few words. Plucking up a little courage I told the Mother: “Look, Mother! This girl doesn’t study at all.” (The girl was standing near us.) The Mother looked at the girl and sweetly smiled: “But... erect.” The Mother’s eyes and face were glowing with a marvellous tenderness. Probably it was from this divine Mother that human mothers had learnt to praise their own children. While She was saying this, the Mother looked exceedingly beautiful. It was after a long time that I had heard something like this from the Mother. After the descent of the Supramental Light in 1956, the Mother started becoming ...

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... agitated state, I ran back home to my mother. I frankly told my mother everything. Ma drew me close to her bosom and caressing me tenderly said, "Khuku, how fortunate you are! The Mother has asked you to come and live here! Is there a greater Grace? What need you think after this? As I cannot leave you alone I too will come with you." Hearing this from my mother, I hugged Ma very tight and remained... Pondicherry, had Ma Page 28 not stood by me and opposed Baba in that way. Today I draw all my support and strength from the Grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, from Their blessing but my reaching Their Feet has been made possible only by my mother's steadfast faith. And for this I shall remain eternally and infinitely grateful to her.     And... to Pondicherry. When he heard about the Mother's words, he at once agreed to be our escort. It was Nau-da who made all the arrangements, not just the financial but everything else too, and kept the entire matter under wraps from Baba and my brothers. Both Ma and I felt that behind this spontaneous, generous help from Nau-da was the Mother's unmistakable Grace. Else nothing would have moved.     ...

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... 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? Think on! Think hard! Think, brothers, think... say! I never heard of a rat beating a man before! He ought to go to the criminal court, instead of the hospital. MYSELF: X says Mother has sent him but when I go to apply medicine he says, ask Mother! SRI AUROBINDO: Nonsense! It is implied. Mother doesn't send him to the Dispensary for a promenade or to dine. MYSELF: The patient has some signs in the lung, better to make... must surely have done this long ago otherwise how could I be catching the tail of the supramental whale? MYSELF: Mother is giving us doctors very good compliments, I hear, that we confine people to bed till they are really confined! SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. Mother did pass on that epigram. Doctors were born to hear such remarks. MYSELF: Surely Yogis ought to be able to try to ...

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... towards the beginning of my Ashram-life, I used to occasionally go on pretty long cy­ cling-trips with some boys and girls on Sundays. Now let me tell you about an incident in which thanks to Mother's Grace and to the courage, intelligence and presence of mind of the children, I was saved from an accident. Our destination that morning was what we used to call the. "Gingee-bridge". After crossing... He came laughing to Mother to show her his new dress. Then without interrupting his laughter he told Mother: "Someone told me that I was looking like a son-in-law. The famous Bengali 'jamai-babu'." At this, both Mother and Pavitra-da laughed even more. Sometimes Mother used to try and make Pavitra-da Page 240 Mother on a visit to Biren's... ja. I conveyed the Mother's request to the group. And they agreed to stay back one more day. After receiving Mother's blessings of Lakshmi-puja they left the next day. (40) Let me tell you a story about Mother's sense of fun. It was round 1953-54. We were having our Athletics competitions in the Sports Ground. Mother had come there. Vishu-bhai had come in a multi-coloured ...

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... answers is that essentially the Mother symbolised Grace, and Grace could - and often did - act irrespective of our work, our aspiration, or even our cry for help. Grace is Grace, but Faith is important too; "faith is miracle, creator of miracles," said the Mother. And one's love for the Mother - for the Divine - should be pure of all selfish claims and desires for Grace to act without any interference... problem of reconciling the need for human unity and harmony with the claims of human variety and teeming multiplicity, the need for order and the need for freedom, the need for Power with the need for Grace, and the need for a solid material base with the need for the life, mind and spirit dimensions - how Auroville was going to find the means of self-growth and self-realisation and to fill the proposed... Ashram, and the two Darshans were attended by over 5000 sadhaks, disciples and admirers. On 25 February, the New Age Association held a seminar on a subject given by the Mother: "What we expect from the Mother." For a start the Mother herself was asked a series of questions, and pat came the answers: What is the right thing that we should expect from You? Everything. What have You been ...

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... Ashram poet to spontaneous rhythmic utterance. Thus Pujalal, whom the Mother had called "My poet": Calm thou standest here close by The Master's deep material trance; Thine is a silent prayer's cry That mates with God's all-gracious glance. ... The Golden God thou serves! here Thou hast the Mother's golden grace; All gold thou shalt be. Soul sincere! And shower gold on... expression: KILLING, 6 and he felt deeply concerned. If such were the Mother's trials of endurance and exasperation in the course of her manifold ministry, the predicament for Sri Aurobindo was grimmer still, and this too necessarily affected the Mother. In April 1950, for the first time in about thirty years, the Mother permitted fresh photos of Sri Aurobindo to be taken. The French artist,... Henri Cartier-Bresson, not only photographed Sri Aurobindo and the Mother at Darshan time on 24 April, but took also numerous other photographs of the Master, the Mother and the Ashram. Was there, after all, a purpose in Sri Aurobindo and the Mother relaxing the earlier rule prohibiting new photographs of themselves? While outwardly the life of the Ashram was apparently going on as usual, if ...

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... think of the Mother as living in a sort of daylong and nightlong simmering cauldron of displeasure about nothing and anything and everything under the sun. Lord! what a queer idea! I had compared your behaviour, mentally, with others and said to myself: "If such and such a person goes on doing this and that almost all the time of the day (I had S particularly in mind), still Mother is Grace herself... Will it be folly to get wise?" Tot mind, sir. I have gone out of my mind long ago. I wrote "mud' mud, mud, mud of the subconscient. Can you not tell us a few words on this subconscient? By the grace of Freud and other psychologists, we have come to look upon it as Dante's Inferno or Michael's Hell. Your description seems to come close to it, but you've said somewhere that in this subconscient,... Blessed Company I meant the company of the Mother—very obviously, if you will read the sentence again. I meant that she has been criticised in the same way thousands of times and accused of still meaner motives than those imputed to you. So you ought not to mind, but rather enjoy being in the same boat with the Mother. I am really amazed to hear that Mother told a child, E, I think, that only 5 or ...

... Nishikanta offers Rs. 100 today as he wants to offer Mother something. Please allow me to say that I have offered Mother for Gitasri more than Rs. 500 already of which Rs. 250 is really Nishikanta’s. As he however wanted to offer [the amount].... * April 8, 1944 I enclose Nolini’s typescript of your letter on Grace as it is important and as I don’t quite understand the... him at one time whenever somebody fell or slipped, especially somebody deemed in the Ashram to be a big sadhak or one in favour with the Mother. If L. has gone the way of others, it was not because she was the Mother’s favourite and could not bear the grace (that is absurd), nor was she a “favourite “, but rather the opposite, that she wanted to be the favourite, first, alone and unique... tired of itself and give up altogether. * April 27, 1944 There is a confusion here. The Mother’s grace is one thing, and the call to change another, the pressure of nearness to her is yet another. Those who are physically near to her are not so by any special grace or favour, but by the necessity of their work – that is what everybody here refuses to understand or believe ...

... before. Only my body was less numb than before. There was also the difference that while doing japa of Mother's name I feel the current giving me much more pronounced peace and a feeling of being soothed (formerly the peace was not so pronounced) and I felt really happy thanks to Mother's grace. It is very good. The increase of peace whether in intensity or solidity is always the first... needful—for that might very well mean inertia. I have seen too that very often a long tapasya with doubtful results prepares the moment of grace and the spontaneous downflow. All which seem to be contradictions, but are not in a whole view of things. Mother will see about the time to be fixed for the music. February 18, 1933 At least the inner being, the psychic, is nowadays... created on a very high level for a very long time. Page 367 But that does not mean that I am not grateful to him for his great favour. I want to do my little best with your and Mother's grace to publish a number of Harm's translations in the prospective anthology and for that Tagore's favour cannot be prized too much. I am sure Harm too will appreciate it. Tagore was unwilling to ...

... is indeed such a thing called divine Grace and that he must learn at every step to invoke this Grace and depend on its unfailing assistance. Here are two passages from Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's writings which make clear to us the reality and the role of the divine Grace and the nature of its way of working. "The Supreme has sent his Grace into the world to save it." ( MCW ... 122 ine, he will surely receive the help of the Grace to extricate him from the threatening trouble. Here is what the Mother says: "Why, when you get into trouble, do you no longer ask for the help of the Divine Grace? Yet you know from experience that the result is unfailing and marvellous!" (Words of the Mother, MCW, Vol. 16, pp. 27-28) Man's life is, at times quite... 123 way to do so. In this case too the sadhaka's main reliance should be on the dispensing Grace of the Divine. Here are some assuring words of the Mother: "And if you add to this the ardour of a faith and trust in tin Divine Grace and that kind of self-giving to the Grace which makes you expect everything from It, then it can become tremendous; you can see things being realised ...

... as Mother's supreme Grace that she did not leave any directions to me in the diary. First, Mother left me completely independent and free. She did not tie me down to any sort of responsibility. Secondly, by leaving a note in her own hand, Mother took care to remove any eventual doubt from people's minds that I may have torn those pages out myself to destroy the negative things that Mother may... words one after the other but none of them satisfied Mother. Some others came up with suggestions but Mother rejected them. Then Mother asked Satprem: "What about you, Satprem?" He gave one but Mother dismissed that as well. Then Mother asked the entire class: "Can anyone tell me?" Silence, no one ventured a suggestion. Now Mother turned to Nolini-da sitting on the last bench: "Nolini... the show, at noon, I took them to Mother. Mother used to meet the little ones on the first floor in the room above the Meditation Hall. They would sit in a line and Mother would give them a flower or sometimes sweets or chilled tomatoes and things of the sort. On that day too Mother gave them something and then asked: "How did you like the film?" Mother asked me to briefly recount the story ...

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... it is the Grace that makes me want to go in speed. The Grace responds always to a sincere aspiration and favours its realisation even when .the appearances are deceptive. 18.9.1969 On 11 January 1914 Mother had written, "I know that a day will come when Thou wilt transform all those who come to us. Page 105 I find an echo of it in what Mother has said on... identification with the Divine that true understanding is gained. 26.10.1969 For all that I have to realise, Your Grace, O Divine Mother, is my refuge. The Grace is with you and will take you to the goal. Blessings. 28.10.1969 To be useful to Mother I feel the necessity of being more open to Her. When you came to me this morning, you said this to me in silence, and... 13.2.1969 In 1917 Mother spoke of a vertiginous rapidity on the path of Transformation. Here am I, a big laggard by contrast. What can be my destiny? Why do you get unquiet over it? Is the Grace not there to remedy all the delays? The only thing called for is sincerity . . . and it is there. 15.2.1969 With Your Remembrance, Mother, the aspiration becomes more ...

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... believed that it was the Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s unlimited Grace that had protected Feni. For many years father could not go to Pondicherry. With a heart longing for Sri Aurobindo, every night father loudly called out to Him. Hearing him give that longing call I used to feel that father was undergoing a lot of pain. But for whom? My heart would be overwhelmed. One day I asked mother: “Ma, why is father... consciously. I noticed a black, ugly shape standing behind me. His eyes were sharply fixed on me. But I did not feel frightened and was absorbed in deep meditation. Thanks to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s infinite Grace I realised that this being was the devil of depression. You need to be most careful. Be most conscious right from the beginning. Never let depression approach you, even a little.” Father... “But, Mother, Bibhavati [Priti’s mother] will be saddened.” The Mother took father’s hands in Hers and told him with exceeding tenderness: “Next year you will all come here for good.” Father’s eyes filled with tears of joy. In deep gratitude he kissed the Mother’s hands. Finally father’s deepest wish was fulfilled. The Mother had herself made the arrangements for our stay here. I often ...

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... had been sent for me to return, but I had not received it. It had been lost. Grace in action! Would you describe that birthday darshan with the Mother? Frankly, I could not really connect physically with the Mother. The connection was always inward, and I communicated indirectly through her secretaries. I feel the Mother did not feel it was necessary for me to have so much of an external relationship... which is the Divine Mother. The aspect of knowledge has always been important to me — the thirst to arrive at an understanding of what everything is aiming at. The one thing that was always very clear from the beginning was that an inner guidance and grace were continually present, protecting and showing me the path to greater spiritual growth. This I attribute to the Mother. And I feel that the inner... the last few years, this state of inner happiness and joy has been growing and remains for me the only base for stability in an increasingly chaotic world. For this is the touch of the Supreme Mother, the grace and guidance that uphold us through all the vicissitudes of life. Matrimandir Auroville 2002 The Auroville Rose Garden – Jan. 2004 All that thou hast ...

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... the time to you and Mother for the tireless grace you have both shed on me and I really want (believe me) to make some return by personal service. I know I am vain (though I am less now I feel) and full of faults and flaws but if your grace is there I can make some headway as you know too. For instance (this I mention deliberately to help Cohayne), Cohayne’s letter to Mother two days ago imploring... again. Had it not been absolutely necessary, I would not have written. I realised in a way I never did before the great work you and Mother have been doing, and believe me that I meant it when I told Mother day before yesterday that I wanted to be worthy of the grace she and you have all along showered on me. I have numerous faults of which I am fully conscious but insincerity, I trust, is not one... imploring her to take him in hand. Here is a man of real intelligence, I have exchanged heaps of letters with him and he was a tireless critic and yet the Mother’s grace and yours has worked through me. My only desire of course was that he should serve you – with all others too I love. That is why I trouble you so about them. Please give Cohayne your force and protection – he is a fine fellow you ...

... still unfamiliar and strange. But the distance soon vanished and by the Grace of the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s touch, a new world came to light which was reflected in the lives of the inmates. I perceived that a new consciousness was seeking an opportunity to be born at every instant. Inspired by the unique teachings of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, my journey started leading through an unaccustomed... Thee with an absolute faith in Thy Grace and I know that Thy Grace will save.” Thus my prayer rushed up towards Thee; and, from the depths of the abyss, I beheld Thee in Thy radiant splendour; Thou didst appear and Thou saidst to me: “Lose not courage, be firm, be confident, — I COME.” A few days after my arrival, I got permission to cook for the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. There was then no... limited measure allowed but the Mother’s Grace soon made me see from where came the so-called objections. Much had I thought of hard austerities regarding sadhana before coming here, but found that the way of sadhana here was not at all one of that type. No one needed to follow that difficult path. In order that we might give ourselves fully to the Divine, the Mother had provided for all our needs ...

... Blessings of the Grace THE MOTHER Significance given by the Mother   ‘Divine Grace’ [1] “Thy goodness is infinite; we bow before Thee in gratitude!” THE GRACE Bonjour! Bonjour, Douce Мèrе. What … you have brought ‘Divine Grace’ for me? [2] ( In a teasing tone ) But… why? You still have need of Grace? You do not have... Then I am going away. ( Mother goes towards the staircase to go up to the 2nd floor, and She turns back ) It is clear that you do not want a flower, since you do not smile. Evidently, I do not give it to you. If… Mother, You cannot refuse me the Divine Grace. What? Say that once again that I may hear you properly. Mother, You cannot refuse me the Grace. ( Mother hurries back towards me... something not all right, not working? Mother, is there any limit in asking for the Divine Grace? I do not think so. Perhaps not, from a certain point of view. It depends…. But you are not aware of what surrounds you, of the Grace that is showered constantly on all of you. You are bathed, inundated, filled up till there ( indicating the head ) with the Divine Grace. You have no idea as to what it is ...

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... of devotion. When I looked at Mother this evening, a prayer came up to my lips to cure me effectively of the last traces of selfishness and clamouring and what not and make me humble—really humble, not the modesty of social manners which is often worse than Shavian assertiveness (which is more sincere). I want to feel I am superior to none and can pray for love as a grace not because I am so worthy of... of it. I have a feeling (1 hope it is true) that my difficulties are at long last about to melt away through Mother's grace and yours. Make me pure at heart and sincere and one-pointed in my aspiration. The Shavian assertiveness is not offensive (as the Hugoesque 1 tends to be) because it is full also of a smiling self-mockery, an irony that under a form of deliberate self-praise Cuts at itself... conditioned by the Law of the world as it is, but a full action and therefore bringing the reign of light, peace, harmony, joy, love, beauty and Ananda, for these are the Divine Nature. The Divine Grace is there, ready to act at every moment, but it manifests as one grows out of the law of the Ignorance into the Law of Light and it is meant, not as an arbitrary caprice, however miraculous often its ...

... a sense of purity, a freedom from the Old Adam etc., thanks to Mother's grace whose grace too Page 145 may now begin to dawn in the "trough of the dim night". Augury shall we say ? The poem did mean it anyhow. Very good. The good Promod Sen sends Rs. 10. He prays for a copy of Mother's Conversations. Given. August 1936 (...) I... goes without saying grace a vous et Mere [thanks to you and Mother] whose sweet- ness I felt especially today—her talk too. How beautifully she talks—truly. What a grace she has ! Yet you champion yogic uncouthness, ungainliness and unmannerliness among sadhakas! What the deuce! Where ? Which ? Can't locate this championship. Aghast I would be had not Mother countered your position... At present I am even beyond the reach of suicide for house-worries. So I trust I will pull through—thanks to Krishna's dance and your grace and Mother's. An instance in point. Last evening a melody tinkled and I sat down after a meditative meditation with Mother in the evening and Jo, the enclosed came through. What do you think of it? Symbolic ? Mystic ? Or both ? Or none ? Lyric-dramatic ...

... greater transparency. And you, Micheline, have that chance or that Grace to serve this terrestrial Work more closely. So we can safely throw everything into that great Work and Mother will take care of us. It is the best way to help circumstances, whether they are personal or general. I trust you. Open your hands, give everything to Mother and rush into the New World. ......... But I wanted to... is such a marvellous Grace to see each element in its proper place, so inevitable. It is truly a Divine sign (if we needed one). ...... This Land's End, after having resisted so much, is a marvel of beauty and peace — truly, it is Mother's place. Sujata noticed that this big round lawn at the edge of an abyss of open sky strangely resembled her vision of "Mother's Island," where we landed... opposition when there intervened sheer miracle of Mother's grace.... " I don't know what this miracle is, but there will be a Miracle ... for the world. That's it, brother. Look in the true dimension, always. Satprem P.S.: There is a thing that I want you to keep in your consciousness: Canada. We must have a man there and catch up with Mother again, who has been completely distorted in ...

... front led by Mother’s son, an honorable septuagenarian, in order to have their “false Agenda” accepted, to tell him of my “betrayal of Mother” and to make him understand that they could take him to court, because they were the “owners” of Mother and Page 16 of all my books originally published by the Ashram... I was being strangled on all sides. There is truly a sublime grace that made... May I add that your letter warmed the cockles of my heart. How much thought you have given to the Mother’s work is astonishing. Specially since the Mother’s withdrawal we have become accustomed to indifference, opposition and bad-will. But your letter brought to us a concrete evidence of Mother’s Grace. Shall I take your time, Uncle, and explain to you the situation in which we find ourselves... against my Page 135 heart even while I repeat: Ma, Ma, your Grace is wonderful. With love and gratitude, Satprem January 20, 1976 (Message from Sujata) May Sri Aurobindo and Mother be established at last. May They be. January 25, 1976 I have finished the revision of Mother’s book. Now Mother is walking upon the world. January 30, 1976 (Letter to two Aurovilian ...