... each time I tried it was impossible to get a rapid downward pull of the Light. After that I got into feelings and nice sensations in the body, but they took me down to a low state. (1) The Mother's consciousness (white) is not only peace, but Light and Power. (2) When one gets into contact with the Light above the mind, the first result should be peace in the mind. (3) Whatever Power of the... with confusion and disturbance or for purposes and movements that are those of an inferior consciousness and not those of the Truth. (5) There cannot be any real incompatibility between the Mother's consciousness and contact with the Light above. 2 June 1932 What is the colour of the light around the Mother? The Mother's special colour is white, but all the other colours are hers also.... her—the consciousness which is necessary for Yoga. 28 July 1937 It [ the Mother's light ] is always there in the inner Purusha. That means the light of the divine consciousness (the Mother's Consciousness, white light) in the vital. Blue is the higher mind, gold the divine Truth. So it is the vital with the light of the higher mind and the divine Truth in it emanating the Mother's light. ...
... the ordinary nature or from the Mother's Force. In fact I don't actually know what is meant by living in the Mother's Consciousness. I wrote simply thinking that to dwell in the Self-consciousness is only the first step towards living in the Mother's Consciousness. Yes, it is the first step. Afterwards the silent self gets filled up with the Mother's active consciousness... making me fix what has already been achieved. Thus something will remain stabilised for good. That is what is being done. Being in the Self, am I now living in the Mother's consciousness? And are not all actions coming from that true consciousness? What do you mean by coming from the true consciousness? The pure existence consciousness does not initiate any action ...
... you write on this page is entirely sound and accurate; it shows that you are getting the true knowledge. Most in fact of the day's experiences are signs of the true consciousness coming. The Mother's consciousness with the wideness of the light, the white light in the vital, the golden light in the silence of the outer mind, the change in the vital, the quiet and natural trust and confidence are all... unbearable, and even today some disturbance in the physical is there. Is it due to some mistake I have made? Page 286 The Mother "manifesting" in you is an ambiguous expression—it is the Mother's consciousness, the higher consciousness with the light, strength that has to come down in each sadhak, with the Mother's presence always there. Along with this experience there must have been an attempt... means. Probably you became aware of some part of your being which feels united with the Mother. 24 August 1935 From the morning I was feeling an intense aspiration to get lost in the Mother's consciousness. Then I felt my consciousness frequently rising and stationing itself above. Before Pranam I felt as if even the parts near the navel and below were being drawn upwards. After Pranam I e ...
... On waking up this morning, I felt myself in contact with the Mother's consciousness; it gave me a good feeling and even Ananda. While meditating this morning, my mind opened up above and the contact deepened and I felt aspiration and peace. I have been able to progress and get experiences by keeping contact with the Mother's consciousness; but I have the idea that this contact is not enough to give... give me all the experiences I aspire for. That is your mistake to think the contact is not enough. The contact with the Mother's consciousness will lead to all necessary realisations and the fulfilment of all true aspirations. 14 January 1932 In my waking consciousness I feel that I flow always in the stream of sadhana, but in my sleep I am quite a different person. I want to be changed... meditate and through meditation pass into sleep. At least before going to bed have a meditation. 13 September 1932 I was feeling very happy alone in my room, with an inner feeling of the Mother's consciousness. When I went to see X, I felt ill at ease and I lost the inner contact with the Mother. Mixing with people destroys the inner feeling, but I cannot Page 457 always remain secluded ...
... head is part of the movement of the sadhana. There is a higher consciousness above you, not in the body, so above the head, which we call the higher, spiritual or divine consciousness, or the Mother's consciousness. When the being opens then all in you, the mind (head), emotional being (heart), vital, even something in the physical consciousness begin to ascend in order to join themselves to this greater... consciousness. Afterwards things begin to descend from above, peace, joy, light, strength, knowledge etc. and a great change begins in the nature. This is what we call the descent of the higher (the Mother's) consciousness. The unease you felt was because of the unaccustomed nature of the movement. It is of no importance and quickly goes away. The Psychic Consciousness and the Descent from Above As... comes forward and controls and changes the nature. This is what has happened in you with great rapidity; it must complete itself, but that it will do naturally. The second is the descent of the Mother's consciousness from above the head and its transformation of the whole being and nature. This also is now preparing in you. It is the reason of the pressure, the silence in the heart etc. What you experienced ...
... opposition between the Mother's consciousness and my consciousness was an invention of the old days ... and emerged in a time when the Mother was not fully recognised or accepted by some of those who were here at the beginning. Even after they had recognised her they persisted in this meaningless opposition and did great harm to themselves and others. The Mother's consciousness and mine are the... is a tribute at her Feet from her erring child. Whatever my deviations into wrong paths, however grave my errors, my labyrinthine movements will at length lead me into the Temple of the Mother's Consciousness, for where else except in the Mother's lap can her son find the end of his journey? 19 To return to the late nineteen-twenties: the number of inmates in the Ashram increased... others. " 21 Page 247 VI Writing to another sadhak, Sri Aurobindo observed that the central aim of the Yoga, the Sadhana, should be to grow "into a divine life in the Mother's consciousness". On the contrary, "To insist upon one's own mind and its ideas, to allow oneself to be governed by one's own vital feelings and reactions should not be the rule of life here." The ...
... making him watch his actions and see his own defects and pushing him to rectify them, by establishing a connection between his consciousness and the Mother's Consciousness, by preparing his nature to be taken up more and more by the Mother's Consciousness and Force, by giving him experiences which make him ready for the major experiences of Yoga, by stimulating the growth of his psychic being, by opening ...
... work and summarised in himself the seeds of modern Europe." 29.7.1937 What is meant by the light of the Mother's consciousness and is it the same as that of yours? Does she lead us to the same goal as you? "The Mother's consciousness is the Divine Consciousness and the Light that comes from it is the Light of the Divine Truth. "One who receives ...
... above, only more bright, from which these minor suns derive their light and power. The golden [ Sun ] is the Light of the Truth on the higher planes. The white [ Sun ] is the Sun of the Mother's consciousness (the Divine Consciousness) which manifests on all the planes. Page 143 The white sun indicates the purity and peace of the Divine Consciousness. The red sun is a symbol... the true, illumined physical consciousness which is to replace the obscure and ignorant physical consciousness in which men now live. Red is the colour of the physical; the red diamond is the Mother's consciousness in the physical. In the experience the disc of the sun indicates the supramental consciousness with the Divine Being in it (the supramental Divine who can bridge by his light the gulf ...
... Two in One The Mother with Letters on the Mother One Consciousness The opposition between the Mother's consciousness and my consciousness was an invention of the old days (due mainly to X, Y and others of that time) and emerged in a time when the Mother was not fully recognised or accepted by some of those who were here at the beginning. Even after they... they had recognised her they persisted in this meaningless opposition and did great harm to them and others. The Mother's consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play. Nothing can be done without her knowledge and force, without her consciousness—if anybody really feels her consciousness, he should know that I am there behind it and ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 7 The Symbolic Ignorance How can there be dark spots in the light of the full consciousness (the Mother's consciousness)? The darkness is only relative and depends upon the degree or status of consciousness. At the outset, on lower and narrower ranges, the light is dim and confined: it is surrounded by a much greater and... universe including especially the earth. And earth is a dark object; it is made of ignorance and unconsciousness. The light envelops it and only gradually penetrates and transforms it. The Mother's consciousness is thus the representative consciousness; it represents all that is yet unconscious and striving secretly without knowing towards consciousness; it is also at the same time the light itself ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 The Symbolic Ignorance How can there be dark spots in the light of the full consciousness (the Mother's consciousness)? The darkness is only relative and depends upon the degree or status of conscious-ness. At the outset, on lower and narrower ranges, the light is dim and hedged in: it is surrounded by a... the universe including especially the earth. And earth is a dark object; it is made of ignorance and unconsciousness. The light envelops it and only gradually penetrates and transforms it. The Mother's consciousness is thus the representative consciousness; it represents all that is yet unconscious and striving secretly without knowing towards consciousness; it is also at the same time the light itself ...
... up the work again later. When Pralaya occurs, they go back to their original home in the Mother's Consciousness. It is a wonderful mystery of the adventure of love. Today also, souls retire; they are not lost. Even if the present earth is demolished, souls will be safely lodged in the Mother's Consciousness, and perhaps with them will be lodged those parts of the earthly consciousness which ...
... making him watch his actions and see his own defects and pushing him to rectify them, by establishing a connection between his consciousness and the Mother's Consciousness, by preparing his nature to be taken up more and more by the Mother's Consciousness and Force, by giving him experiences which make him ready for the major experiences of Yoga, by stimulating the growth of his psychic being, by opening... be able to live, not in an impersonal sense, but in the Mother's manifested physical form? I do not know how you are going to live in the manifested physical form. To live in the Mother's consciousness down to the physical with the manifested form as the centre of this unity is possible. Perhaps you mean that? But how are you going to do that if the other parts are left to remain as they ...
... Becharlal, Sir. SRI AUROBINDO: Ask Becharlal. Which do you find better? DR. BECHARLAL: Remaining in the Mother's consciousness—that is, feeling the Mother's presence and influence, feeling her action in oneself. SRI AUROBINDO: That, of course. DR. MANILAL: What is meant by the Mother's consciousness? SRI AUROBINDO: As he said, feeling the presence and the influence. DR. MANILAL: Remembrance... whenever I see one. SRI AUROBINDO: You may have been a Christian , then , in a past life. DR. MANILAL: But Shankara does not give me peace. EVENING DR. BECHARLAL: Is remaining in the Mother's consciousness the same as Japa? SRI AUROBINDO: How do you mean? DR. BECHARLAL: Are we not in the same state? SRI AUROBINDO: No. Japa is a means to the other, just like constant rememberance; both ...
... October 1935 The diamond is the symbol of the intensest light of the Mother's consciousness, so your visions indicate that you saw her full of that light and radiating it. Other jewels must be symbols of other forces, the ruby indicating power in the physical. 23 February 1936 The diamond is the symbol of the Mother's consciousness; the colour depends on the particular force which her consciousness ...
... Inside the temple there was the full power of the divine consciousness. What is the meaning of my dream? The temple is the Mother's consciousness into which you enter by sadhana (as in your other experience described today you entered into the world of the Mother's consciousness and saw things from there) and you come out of it when you turn to something outward but can ascend again at will once you ...
... the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Consciousness and the Divine Law What I seek is the total transformation of myself, so that no movement can be outside the Divine Law. Establish the Divine Consciousness (the Mother's consciousness) in you and the Divine Law will flow from that. 25 March 1932 ...
... making him watch his actions and see his own defects and pushing him to rectify them, by establishing a connection between his consciousness and the Mother's consciousness, by preparing his nature to be taken up more and more by the Mother's consciousness and force, by giving him experiences which make him ready for the major experiences of Yoga, by stimulating the growth of his psychic being, by opening ...
... inner heart and the psychic being your centre and seek union with the Mother's consciousness through self-giving and surrender. 22 August 1933 Page 145 You have to make your vital single-pointed towards the Mother, peaceful, without demands and desires, aspiring only for surrender and to be one with the Mother's consciousness and filled with her. 24 September 1933 I can only say—it ...
... the things which are practically necessary that the knowledge brings at the moment, I suppose. Page 205 When one forgets oneself entirely and moves only in the Mother's consciousness, one actually feels whatever one thinks. This statement may appear strange to the limited human mind. But the experiences when sufficiently developed will prove its truth. Do... a single day. Persistence is needed. There is an attempt to keep a part of my human consciousness on the higher plane, so that at least half of myself stays exclusively in the Mother's Consciousness and so that her Force can work freely through this part into my whole nature. Yes, that would be very good. After receiving the Mother's touch at the Pranam ...
... realisation; not only at the end, but from the beginning they have been the same. 3 Again, on 13 November 1934: The opposition between the Mother's consciousness and my consciousness was an invention of the old days.... The Mother's consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play. Nothing, can be done without her knowledge and ...
... Maurice prospers as a banker in the Banque Ottoman. 1878 Feb 21 Birth of Blanche Rachel Mirra Alfassa (the Mother) at 10:15 a.m. at 41, boulevard Haussmann, Paris. Sri Aurobindo: 'The Mother's consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play.' The Mother: 'Without him, I exist not; without me, he is unmanifest.' 1879 Sri... Overmind Godhead, into Sri Aurobindo's physical being. The 'birth' of the Ashram with about twenty-four sadhaks. The sadhana here, declared Sri Aurobindo, is to grow 'into a divine life in the Mother's consciousness'. Sri Aurobindo 'soon retired into seclusion and the whole material and spiritual charge of the Ashram devolved on her'. Later he explains: 'I am seeking to bring down the Supermind. ...
... this significance to the combination of Sri Aurobindo's symbol and her own: The effective manifestation of Ishwara and Ishwari in union. Sri Aurobindo has disclosed: The Mother's consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play. Nothing can be done without her knowledge and force, without her consciousness—if anybody ...
... letter: ...I feel it should be mainly to protect the inner chamber with a solid and compact shell. So that this protection is lasting. If we all make the effort to work in tune with the Mother's consciousness, Her Grace will flow and there will be no financial or any other difficulty. Moreover, the people whom the Mother has chosen for Her work will come back and join hands with all of us and ...
... the progress of the sadhana these different parts or personalities get developed or transformed and harmonised with each other—all becoming parts of the ultimate perfection of the being in the Mother's consciousness. The Psychic Being and the Ego There is individuality in the psychic being but not egoism. Egoism goes when the individual unites himself with the Divine or is entirely surrendered ...
... into Śama The tamas is part of the general physical Nature and so long as that is not fully changed and illumined, something of it remains; but one has only to go on opening oneself to the Mother's consciousness and in time the tamas too will change into the inner divine rest and peace. All undesirable things are a mistranslation in the Ignorance of something that on a higher plane is or might ...
... cheerful confidence in the Mother, an unshaken faith and a constant inner closeness, and also to bring down from above the peace, wideness, purity etc. of the higher Self which is that of the Mother's consciousness. It is these things that are the basis of the siddhi in this Yoga—other experiences are only a help, not the basis. It is the psychic surrender in the physical that you have begun ...
... feelings fall away and a sort of calm neutral void is made for a higher nature to manifest. It must be fulfilled and replaced by a sense of large silence and freedom into which the Mother's Page 240 consciousness can flow from above. In the ordinary consciousness one takes a personal interest in what is done, feels joy or feels sorrow. When one does sadhana, a condition may come in ...
... whitish blue light is "Sri Aurobindo's light"—it is the blue light modified by the white light of the Mother. The snake form is a symbol of Energy and the white blue light may be that of the Mother's consciousness in the higher mind, or if it is not two separate colours but whitish blue then it is Sri Aurobindo's light. The light is a manifestation of Force, the nature of the force being indicated ...
... the Divine. A lotus usually indicates an opening into the spiritual. The white and red are symbols of the Mother and the incarnating Divine. The white lotus is the symbol of the Mother's consciousness,—it does not indicate any part of the individual consciousness. The red lotus is the flower of the Divine Presence. The red lotus is the presence of the Divine on earth—the ...
... otherwise I can't do sadhana; if I ever lose that, I shall die"—whereas the proper attitude is, "Even if I lose it for a time, it will be because something in me has to be changed in order that the Mother's consciousness may be fulfilled in me not only in the self but in every part." The lower forces attacked at this weak point, made demands through the vital and brought about a state of inertia in which ...
... thinking "it is hopeless" or "I cannot change". You do right to be confident that the change will come. For nothing is impossible in the nature if the psychic being is awake and leading you with the Mother's consciousness and force behind it and working in you. This is now happening. Be sure that all will be done. Very obviously, you ought not to have said or written what was a lie, and you should avoid ...
... still have to be done, but from that moment it will no longer be so hard and painful. Peace and Quiet in the Vital What you have to aspire for and bring down in you is the peace of the Mother's consciousness. Peace, calm, equanimity in the emotional being and the rest of the vital especially—it is that which will purify the emotions and deliver the vital. If you bring down the peace into ...
... It would not be a more absurd or meaningless question than this one put by the vital against wearing artistic and beautiful dress. 27 February 1933 Does it make any difference to the Mother's consciousness whether she puts on the best saris or the old ones, whether she lives in a palace or in a forest? What do these outer things add to the inner reality? Outer things are the expression ...
... intensified and elevated, but perhaps by that intensity the vital and other parts of the being could pass beyond their usual condition. It is possible to intensely identify oneself with the Mother's consciousness through what you read—in that case the result you speak of could come. It could also have an effect on the vital up to a certain point. 21 August 1935 Page 622 ...
... happiness and harmony—it is only the vital love between persons that has to be rejected because it draws away from full consecration to the Divine. But this helps the growth of the soul into the Mother's consciousness and helps the work and helps also the inner life to grow. 10 February 1936 ...
... In such a case, is it still necessary to aspire for bringing down her Force? Page 482 I do not know how you are going to live into the manifested physical form. To live in the Mother's consciousness even to the physical with the manifested form as the centre of this unity is possible. Perhaps you mean that? But how are you going to do that if the other parts are left to remain as they ...
... and your apparently diminished interest in the work. It is what the Mother says that is true and matters and not what people say; if you listen to what people say, you will lose touch with the Mother's consciousness. It is because of that that these thoughts Page 485 have come back on you about your badness and the rest of it. The Mother had told you to work freely with X ; she told you ...
... envelop your being and enter the Adhar and pervade it—usually passing by degrees through the centres on its way downward. Sometimes it comes first as Peace, sometimes as Force, sometimes as the Mother's consciousness and her presence, sometimes as Ananda. When you lost it before, it must have been due either to some uprising of vital imperfections in yourself or an attack from outside. Of course the ...
... felt the contact of the Mother's mind even in the cells. After that I felt that all my questions were answered and it was no use asking anything at all. That is the right way. Union with the Mother's consciousness is the true way for knowledge to come. But always I get this desire for knowledge and feel that it would be a great help if I could know some things. You should throw away this feeling ...
... they call it union. But of course that is only a step towards union. Union is much more than that. 5 March 1934 While sitting in the meditation hall, I felt a sort of oneness with the Mother's consciousness. But these days it is not possible to go deep in meditation at all. Perhaps it is not even necessary if there is receptivity in the waking state. What is most important is the change ...
... is always in connection with her being here. So when he does anything like what you did in this case with faith and bhakti, it reaches, through that emanation of herself which is with him, the Mother's consciousness inner or outer and the Force goes in return for the result. Page 240 × Written by Sri Aurobindo ...
... work is indeed the true basic consciousness of Karmayoga—the calm consciousness from above supporting and the strength from above doing the work, with that the Bhakti which feels it to be the Mother's consciousness present and working. You know now by experience what is the secret of Karmayoga. 15 September 1936 ...
... "All can be done if the God-touch is there." This is what Sri Aurobindo has written in Savitri and how true it is! I am happy—really happy—to share this splendid gift with everybody in the Mother's Consciousness, Truth and Love. Huta ...
... was an advanced sadhaka - a great Yogi in his past life, according to the Mother's own evaluation. Before he passed away, he lay on his death-bed and consciously deliberately transferred to the Mother's consciousness all his mental, vital and physical powers and possibilities. This process took many hours, and only when it was completed, he breathed his last. It was on his part a marvellous sadhana through ...
... thought, that is how a mother saves her children at her own cost. If this accident had not happened to her, perhaps Nirod-da wouldn't be here. An identity of consciousness you know very well. The mother's consciousness is so much tied up with the children, perhaps because she brings out the children from her own body, so she feels it even when the child cries out far, far away. I'll give you another ...
... otherwise I can't do sadhana; if I ever lose that, I shall die" — whereas the proper attitude is "Even if I lose it for a time it will be because something in me has to be changed in order that the Mother's consciousness may be fulfilled in me, not only in the self but in every part." The lower forces attacked at this weak point, made demands through the vital and brought about a state of inertia in which ...
... I see a dawning possibility of my silence and work getting fused into each other. That will surely happen. Till recently, it was I who used to enter into the Mother's consciousness and live in it. Now, it seems as if she has begun to come into me and be with me more and more. It is the next thing that must be perfected. It seems to me ...
... will by itself work out the transformation of human life as and when it wishes. The whole earth is the instrument of the Mother's Divine Force of Action. Each human being is a centre of the Mother's Consciousness. When this Divine Consciousness will awaken in human life, when this Force will act, then the whole world will get transformed too. Man has been doing what is within his own means so ...
... too will be cleared by the Mother. "The Mother will show you the way. And what needs to be done She herself will do for you. The more you advance Page 57 inwardly in the Mother's consciousness the more strength you get. You are doing fine." 'Everything becomes so clear when I listen to you, Dada the girl replied. Dada gave her a photo of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo ...
... is the same : the transformation of Matter, the transmutation of the physical being of man. But this is not a theme that originated with the Prayers and Meditations, but had its birth in the Mother's consciousness very early in her life, and has been ever since the one out-standing mission of her life. She too felt like Sri Aurobindo that divine perfection could only be attained in earthly life by ...
... redeemed, and in which the integral union is to be attained. And yet, implicit in the very grain of this identification, its inalienable base and sustenance, is the perfect identification of the Mother's consciousness with the Consciousness of the Absolute in its eternal Silence and Immutability. This combination constitutes what the Mother calls integral divine Union. And still there may be many more ...
... reference to the rest, like the spider and its web, with the annihilation of the ego, the ego-point didn't exist anymore, and things existed by themselves without suffering any distortion. Thus the Mother's consciousness was now in things; it did not draw things to itself. 38 Page 797 On 18 December, the Mother recalled Sri Aurobindo's saying that it was the physical mind that must receive ,the ...
... descent of the Supramental light, or ensure the near descent — well, the sacrifice was worth making. Since, after all, even without his physical presence, he would be here, one with the Mother's consciousness and power, he could also accelerate, witness and participate in the decreed Divine manifestation upon earth. "A meditative silence reigned in the Ashram for twelve days after ...
... the same: the transformation of Matter, the transmutation of the physical being of man. But this is not a theme that originated with the "Prayers and Meditations," but had its birth in the Mother's consciousness very early in her life, and has been ever since the one, outstanding mission of her life. She too felt like Sri Aurobindo that divine perfection could only be attained in earthly life by ...
... in the sadhana. 10 July 1937 There is one thing everybody should remember that everything should be done from the point of view of Yoga, of sadhana, of growing into a divine life in the Mother's consciousness. To insist upon one's own mind and its ideas, to allow oneself to be governed by one's own vital feelings and reactions should not be the rule of life here. One has to stand back from these ...
... be there, it shall cease for me also. Page 389 Then what will the "Mother of Sorrows" do? What else can she do? She will be the "Mother of Delight". Savitri represents the Mother's Consciousness, doesn't she? Yes. What does Satyavan represent? Well, he is the Avatar. He is the incarnation of the Supreme. Page 390 ...
... represents the Divine is in this difficult endeavour imperative and indispensable. 11 September 1934 Nothing is impossible if the nature of the psychic being is awake and leading you with the Mother's consciousness and force behind it and working in you. 19 October 1935 ...
... my own meditation becomes lighter and I can feel that she is no longer in meditation. I would like to know if it is a good sign for sadhana. It shows at least that your contact with the Mother's consciousness is perfectly spontaneous and genuine. The Mother puts out her Force on all in the meditation and the intensity of your meditation shows that you receive it—as soon as she ceases, the dynamic ...
... cheerful confidence in the Mother, an unshaken faith and a constant inner closeness, and also to bring down from above the peace, wideness, purity etc. of the higher Self which is that of the Mother's consciousness. It is these things that are the basis of the siddhi in this Yoga—other experiences are only a help, not the basis. 17 January 1934 ...
... for that trust wholly in the Mother's force and her grace which is with you—do not let things or people disturb you,—for compared with the truth within and the journey to the full Light of the Mother's Consciousness these things have no importance. 6 December 1935 It is not possible for Mother to intervene personally in these matters. Formerly she used to try to intervene and arrange matters, but ...
... and for that trust wholly in the Mother's force and her grace which is with you - do not let things or people disturb you, - for compared with the truth and the journey to the full Light of the Mother's Consciousness these things have no importance. Sri Aurobindo No independent work Independent work does not exist in the Ashram. All is organised and interrelated, neither the heads of departments ...
... and vital or the obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of the physical vital, or the illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body-nature is prone. If light, strength, the Mother's consciousness is brought down into the body it can penetrate the subconscient also and convert its obscurity and resistance. When something is erased from the subconscient so completely that it leaves ...
... occult is a vast field and complicated and not without its dangers. It need not be abandoned but it should not be given the first place. You need not think about the occult Power. Let the Mother's consciousness grow in you and her Force work; occult powers are not indispensable, but if they are needed they will come in their proper time. A sincere heart is worth all the extraordinary powers ...
... anger and old movements was also that of the psychic. Page 471 The pressure you felt on the head comes always when there is the pressure from above of the Higher Consciousness, the Mother's consciousness, to come in and the coolness etc. you felt are also often felt at that time. The first result was the detachment from personal connections, the freedom, lightness, openness of heart, fearlessness ...
... of the consciousness out of the ordinary limits—whiteness of the wideness means that it is the pure consciousness one is feeling, unless it is white light or luminous white which indicates the Mother's consciousness there or some influence of it. The subtle barrier you felt must have been the same thing that prevents your ascent from the heart and from it going beyond into the regions above. There is ...
... realised its true nature a cry came from your lower nature itself for the change. You were then shown the light of the higher nature by whose descent the change could come—the white light of the Mother's consciousness and a flame of it descended into you by the usual path and filled you with the light. From there it descended into the subconscient and brought the light there. As a result the consciousness ...
... being with a universalised consciousness which can hold the universe and its cosmic forces in itself—the one (individual) merges into the other (the universal). The boat is the formation of the Mother's consciousness in you in which you are preparing to sail on this sea. The river represents some movement of the consciousness. All these are images of the vital plane. Page 151 ...
... meet some place above. If you allow such strange and wrong ideas to get hold of you, it is not surprising that you get confusion and find it difficult to make any steady progress. The Mother's consciousness is the divine Consciousness and the Light that comes from it is the light of the divine Truth; the Force that she brings down is the force of the divine Truth. One who receives and accepts ...
... , Page 98 but I also get confusion and nothing is settled. Sometimes the very law of life seems to be fight and disagreement. Today I felt a quiet peace in the vital and the Mother's consciousness. For a long time I remained quiet after seeing the Mother. I am getting many experiences, but the consciousness gets diverted by suggestions and by activity. 1) A quiet mind makes co ...
... Loving Mother and the Baby 1980-02-02 Seeing of one's own dead body could mean that some obstructing part of consciousness is thrown out and one can, then, get suffused with the Mother's Consciousness (the white light). The snow-white ball on the heart is the Mother's pressure towards freeing the soul into its divine source. The beautiful baby in the Mother's lap is Champaklal's ...
... even the gift. I went to Senteurs and bought a small pot with the Matrimandir soil in it for Rs. 10. I gave the pot to Shyamsunder and told him that this attitude was not in tune with the Mother's Consciousness. Even if Nata changed the name on the plastic bags, he was still selling the soil. This must be stopped. And afterwards it was stopped. ...
... close to the Matrimandir, where the digging of the lake was in progress. Inwardly I was shocked to see the plans and development of the gardens and lake, which was not at all in tune with the Mother's Consciousness, because I recalled the words She spoke to me on 25.6.1965: The shrine must have a vast area—not like this [the Mother took Her hand-kerchief in Her palm and closed Her hand] , so small ...
... Sri Aurobindo says: The White Light is a manifestation of pure divine force descending from one of the truth planes leading to the Supramental. Sri Aurorindo on the Mother The Mother's consciousness is the divine consciousness and the Light that comes from it is the light of the Divine Truth. One who receives and accepts and lives in the Mother's light, will begin to see the truth on ...
... I am giving only outlines in Mother India . But I have to write fourteen volumes—each will be almost hundreds of pages! Please pray for me. I have so much to tell you—all in tune with the Mother's Consciousness. But I wonder when you will be here! Mohini is well. Sometimes we meet and talk for hours. She gave me your address and told me of your feeling that the Ashram is your true home. But, of ...
... informed me that I should not worry about the girl, she is getting on well with the painting. And now I can see what he meant! At that very moment I was made to understand that not only did the Mother's Consciousness help me in this work but Sri Aurobindo's Consciousness too played its role admirably. According to Sri Aurobindo, Dawn always means an opening of some kind—the coming of something ...
... was a strange declaration. It could mean either that Sri Aurobindo, for a reason of his own, kept secret from the Mother his decision to depart, or else that the uncertainty lay not in the Mother's consciousness but in Sri Aurobindo's own because he was working out momentous possibilities one way or the other. From the snatch of conversation between Sri Aurobindo and his attendants on the 4th ...
... mind by the Supramental Light's reception there. Merely because it is "involutionary" in the Mother's sense - that is, a Light descending from above - it does not rank as typal. 4) The Mother's Consciousness and Sri Aurobindo's are essentially one but in the dynamics of the play they are both one and two. Each has a specialised role in certain fields and knowledge can be veiled between them ...
... me that I should not worry about the girl. She is getting on well with the painting. And now I can see what he meant! At that very moment I was made to understand that not only did the Mother's Consciousness help me in this work, but that Sri Aurobindo's Consciousness too played its role admirably. According to Sri Aurobindo: Dawn always means an opening of some kind—the coming ...
... in the following passage: "There is one thing everybody should remember that everything should be done from the point of view of Yoga, of Sadhana, of growing into a divine life in the Mother's consciousness. To insist upon one's own mind and its ideas, to allow oneself to be governed by one's own vital feelings and reactions should not be the rule of life here. One has to stand back from these ...
... longer sufficient to be a warrior, nor sufficient even to be a hero. What should we be? Something greater than a hero. One must be a Yogi. The Yogi is one who has the Divine Consciousness or the Mother's consciousness. If you find that it is not so easy for one to be a Yogi, even if one tries sincerely, I suggest to you another alternative. It is to leap into another dimension: to be a child, a child of ...
... fear, freedom from the compulsion of authority, freedom from any type of imposition are what she aimed at, among other things. How far we are true to that spirit, to what extent we reflect the Mother's consciousness—in our individual lives and in Page 110 our collective existence—depends upon the measure of this freedom we have realised. It is from this standpoint that we have ...
... time comes." It may appear strange to our human mind that the Mother should leave Sri Aurobindo at this critical moment. We must remember that we are not dealing with human consciousness. The Mother's consciousness always being united with Sri Aurobindo's, the physical nearness is not indispensable at all times. Besides, we know that at this particular hour she had very important occult work to do. ...
... sufficient Page 96 even to be a hero. What should we be? Something greater than the hero. One must be a Yogi. The yogi is one who has the Divine Consciousness or the Mother's consciousness. If you find that it is not so easy for one to be a yogi, even if one tries sincerely, I suggest to you another alternative. It is to leap into another dimension: to be a child, a child of ...
... Mother who took charge of the Ashram when Sri Aurobindo retired into complete Page 250 solitude in 1926, and it is she who would continue the Work after his departure in 1950. The Mother's consciousness and mine are the same. 308 It is quite significant that the living synthesis of East and West, which Sri Aurobindo already symbolized, would become perfected by this meeting between East ...
... and steady blazes inspired or provoked by Sri Aurobindo's seminal little book. The whole sequence is fascinating as well as instructive since one can see the identity of Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's consciousness, and one can also appreciate their different ways of conveying the same insights and illuminations. But since the commentaries are spread over four periods clearly distinguishable according ...
... young... young and rich with all the realisations of tomorrow. 1 The Future - the joy of youth and of perpetual buoyancy - and the movement towards Truth and Perfection were always in the Mother's consciousness. We have seen how in one of her plays, Towards the Future, there is a clairvoyant leap into coming possibilities in human relationships; how in another, The Great Secret, seven men in ...
... the Ashram, were but individual disciples, and had no special status as a married couple or as a family. One and all had to seek union in the Mother, and also recognise one another in the Mother's consciousness alone. A pair may have first come as guardian and ward, but after acceptance, they became equal in the eyes of the Mother, for both were her children. When in the far future a true spiritual ...
... the Supramental Light, or ensure the near descent and diffusion - well, the sacrifice was worth making. Since, after all, even without his physical presence he would be integrally one with the Mother's consciousness and power, he could certainly accelerate, witness and participate in the decreed new manifestation upon the earth. III "A meditative silence reigned in the Ashram for twelve days ...
... her physical mind. All knowledge is available in her universal self, but she brings forward only what is needed to be brought forward so that the working is done.¹ 13-8-1933 The Mother's consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play. Nothing can be done without her knowledge and force, without her consciousness – if ...
... Though we have cited these two Prayers as an illustration of the psychic love, we can already discern in them something transcending it, some wider, mightier, sovereign Love, occupying the Mother's consciousness, shaping, stimulating and transmuting her psychic love into its own image and pouring out upon the world to redeem and illumine it. Let us quote another Prayer in which this process of dynamic ...
... same position, in profile, his head held high . He turned his head towards me .. . and I saw in his eyes that it was He."The recognition was mutual. The recognition was mutual. "The Mother's consciousness and mine are the same," Sri Aurobindo said simply, "the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play." He stated further, setting at rest any doubt anyone ...
... EVERYTHING were there. It can't be described. Wonderful. Then this Consciousness took my Page 136 consciousness and went like this ( gesture in a circle starting from Mother on her left, going through the column of light, then returning to Mother on her right ).... I felt it [the column of light, when Mother's consciousness went through it]. I felt it, but I didn't see anything [i.e., no... (Satprem:) Being totally transparent. But that's all the way up! ( Mother laughs ) ( To Satprem: ) He's leaving for Bombay to do some good work. (F.B.:) I hope so. It's very interesting ( Mother points to her note ): there was the experience of the Consciousness, the light of the Consciousness.... Very well, here ( Mother gives François B. a "blessings packet" ), it's to keep in your pocket... It's good. So you must take up that mission. ( Mother lays her hand on FB.s head ) It's good. I'll do all I can. ( To Satprem: ) Oh, you know, I asked this Consciousness what was needed to receive it without distorting it, and it answered me ( Mother reads out a note ): "One must be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow." (Satprem:) Without ...
... Diamonds may indicate the Mother's Light at its intensest, for that is diamond white light. The diamond in your heart was a formation of the light of Mother's consciousness there,—for the Mother's light is of a white and at its most intense of a diamond radiance. The light Page 183 is a sign of the Mother's presence in your heart and that is what you saw once and felt for a... (here in the intuitive consciousness) and the going up means an ascent to higher planes. The crown indicates the higher consciousness in its static condition, the wheel its dynamic action. The red light is the Power sent down to change the physical. Diamond The diamond is the symbol of the Mother's light and energy—the diamond light is that of her consciousness at its most intense. ... Higher Consciousness above. A revolving disc means a force in action on the nature. The whitish blue light is known as Krishna's light, also as Sri Aurobindo's light. White is the Mother's. Perhaps here it is a combination. The [ Sudarshan ] Chakra symbolises the action of Sri Krishna's force. The chakra is the energy at work and it brings the first opening of the consciousness in ...
... original unified status and move abroad and away, as it liked. Thus the Supreme saw himself as his own power of self-manifestation, and that is the Mother Consciousness, Adya Shakti, Aditi—consciousness-power, who again in her forward creative urge expressed herself in the first four major Emanations (Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Maha-saraswati). But this free urge, free to separate itself... the Divine Consciousness, there stood out the utter unconsciousness: the Light disappeared into absolute Darkness. It was the result of a self-choice in the consciousness: but the end was the very opposite of consciousness. It was a dead silence, more silent than Death and more dead than Silence itself. And it was utter helplessness and hopelessness. . The Divine Consciousness —Aditi—saw... of Sri Aurobindo - Part 6 THE STORY OF CREATION Consciousness is the source and basis of creation. Even the most material object, apparently unconscious, the stone, for example, has inherent in it a vibration of consciousness. Where there is absolutely no consciousness, it is the Inconscient. If you ever descend into the Inconscient, that is to say, further ...
... status and move abroad and away, as it liked. Thus the Supreme saw himself as his own power of self-manifestation, and that is the Mother Consciousness, Adya Shakti, Aditi – consciousness-power, who again in her forward creative urge expressed herself in the first four major Emanations (Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati). But this free urge, free to separate itself and proceed ... Supreme, the Divine Consciousness, there stood out the utter unconsciousness: the Light disappeared into absolute Darkness. It was the result of a self-choice in the consciousness: but the end was the very opposite of consciousness. It was a dead silence, more silent than Death and more dead than Silence itself. And it was utter helplessness and hopelessness. The Divine Consciousness – Aditi – saw the... Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 The Story of Creation CONSCIOUSNESS is the source and basis of creation. Even the most material object, apparently unconscious, the stone, for example, has inherent in it a vibration of consciousness. Where there is absolutely no consciousness, it is the Inconscient. If you ever descend into the Inconscient, that is to say, further ...
... 1972 1972 February Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 February 10, 1972 ( A note from Mother ) Human consciousness is so corrupt that people prefer the misery and ignorance of the ego to the luminous joy that comes from sincere surrender to the Divine. Their blindness is so great that they refuse even to attempt the experience and prefer to be subjected ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 28 July 1934 Mother, My consciousness is getting changed. I see and realise Oneness, Union, Harmony. You are in each one of us and You shine in all. I feel You, Mother, Your Love and Your Light. It is your own consciousness that is growing and changing, and it is very good. All ...
... The myth of Demeter and Persephone speaks of the separation of the soul from its Divine Mother-Consciousness and its descent into Matter, (the Greek "hyle"), into Hades. Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, called also "the Nether Zeus", is the entire material Nature which imprisons the soul until the Divine Consciousness descends and redeems it, and all Nature with it. The ancients certainly knew these deeper... the Divine Consciousness has to come into the mortal world to redeem the soul and change all material Nature. The ancient seers seem to have had a sufficiently clear intuition of these fundamental primal truths which are true for all time, for they are eternal. The "Mysteries" are both mysterious and revelatory. Sri Aurobindo's vision and the knowledge given to us by him and the Mother stand behind... three daughters of Keleos take her to their home where she heals their little brother and is engaged by Metaneira, their mother, to tend him. Wishing to make the child immortal, she rubs him with ambrosia every night and puts him in the fire, and he grows "like unto a god". The mother, suspicious and uneasy, spies on Demeter and destroys her work. Demeter reveals her godhead and leaves the place. The ...
... youthfulness, we have been given a supplementary boon, that of consciousness, Mother's own consciousness. It is this additional element that has given a special turn and temper in the atmosphere here and has brought about a change not only in the degree but in the kind of the ordinary youthful qualities. I am speaking of your soul-consciousness. I say you may not know it or recognise it by your mind and... also to be displayed as living entities in your being – in your consciousness, and in your life, even in your body. That is the better part of your work – indeed, the essential part. Today a new consciousness is abroad. The earth-atmosphere is filled with the new spirit. But here the Mother has left with us not merely her consciousness but a conscious being – a part of her living personality in ... the atmosphere where her body still endures. You have within you the rare thing hardly found elsewhere, the spark of which I was speaking – it is a particle of the Mother's own consciousness, her own life and her own subtle body-consciousness. You have imbibed it in you with your breath and are still imbibing. ¹ A talk to young children given on 12 August 1974 . ...
... particle of the Mother's own consciousness, her own life and her own subtle body-consciousness. You have imbibed it in you with your breath and are still imbibing it. Page 69 It is there; you have to be conscious of it and realise the full benefit of it. You have to be living embodiments, not merely echoes and imprints but embodiments of the word of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Each of... youthfulness, we have been given a supplementary boon, that of consciousness, Mother's own consciousness. It is this additional element that has given a special turn and temper to the atmosphere here and has brought about a change not only in the degree but in the kind of the ordinary youthful qualities. I am speaking of your soul-consciousness. I say that you may not know it or recognise it by your mind... are also to be displayed as living entities in your being—in your consciousness, in your life, even in your body. That is the better part of your work, indeed, the essential part. Today a new consciousness is abroad. The earth-atmosphere is filled with a new spirit. And here the Mother has left with us not merely her consciousness but a conscious being, a part of her living personality in us; that ...
... course. What is being done is meant to prepare the manifestation of the supermind in the earth-consciousness down to Matter itself, so it can't be for the physical of myself or the Mother alone. 15 September 1935 It seems to me that if the Supermind has not descended into Mother's body-consciousness, it is not because she is not ready for it, but because she has first to prepare the physical... nobody would have been able to approach us nor could the sadhana have been done. There could have been no hope of contact between ourselves and the earth and men. Even as it is, Mother has to come down towards the lower consciousness of the sadhaks instead of keeping always in her own, otherwise they begin to say, "How far away, how severe you were; you do not love me, I get no help from you etc. etc." The... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother Incarnation and Evolution The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother, Sri Aurobindo and the Supramental Descent X has made the following remark: "The present preparation is going on to bring down the Supermind into the physical of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo." Is it correct? [ Sri Aurobindo bracketed ...
... surrender myself totally, spontaneously (3) Make us all do it, make us all do it, (3) Keep us constantly awake always. (3) Gracious Mother, Blissful Mother, Mother of Consciousness, Mother of Truth, Supreme Mother, Supreme Mother, Supreme Mother, (3) Guru is Brahma (Creator), Guru is Vishnu (Sustainer) Guru is Maheshwara (Great God), Guru is God incarnate, I bow to that Glorious... Prayers and Aspirations O Our Supreme Mother and Lord O our Supreme Mother and Lord (3) O the Mother and Master of everyone's heart (3) Victory, victory to Mother Mira, Sri Aurobindo, (3) Victory to the sweet Mother, sweet Father. [^] On this good, sacred, auspicious, purifying, joy-giving Gurupurnima day, Your Champak prays, (2) ... victory to the Supreme Mother and Lord. (3) Chant victory to Mother Mira, Chant victory, chant victory, chant victory. Gurupurnima (full moon) day 24.7.83. × Whenever we first met the Mother in the morning, I used to say, “Bonjour. douce Mere” (Good Morning, Mother!). The Mother used to reply “Bonjour ...
... never alone on the Path. And this is the deeper side of the spiritual truth. For me Divine's Eye is always fixed upon the sadhaka; the Mother Consciousness is always accompanying him at every step of his advancement. Not only that; in reality the Divine Mother is everything. She is, of coarse, the Goal but she is also the Way; and she is again the Mahasadhika, carrying on that Sadhana herself.... affirm once again with insistence that the law of functioning of the siddha-cetanā , the consciousness of the realised Yogi, is quite different from the law of conduct of the ego-bound consciousness of an ordinary ignorant individual. And we should not forget that it is the quality and the level of consciousness of the sadhaka 'Which alone matters in the spiritual field. Hence the sadhaka... Yoga also it is the Divine who is the Sadhaka and the Sadhana; it is his Shakti with her light, power, knowledge, consciousness, Ananda, acting upon the Adhara... that makes the Sadhana possible." (Cent. Ed.,p.6) But this truth is at present veiled from the ego-consciousness of the sadhaka, and his lower nature is quite active with the sense Page 135 of a separately ...
... psychic being become open? How to understand the psychic and vital beings in the adhar? By the force of aspiration and the grace of the Mother. Psychic: your true being, the being that is in the heart and that is the spark of the Mother's own consciousness. Vital: the part from which proceed desires and hunger and dynamic activities, having its physical basis round about the navel. 6)... . 2) How should I continue my practice (sadhana) after returning home ? Quiet yourself and in the quiet see and feel the Mother. 3) How can I meditate? What is meant by opening? Where should I open? An inner purity and receptivity that freely lets in the Mother's influence Begin with the heart. 4) I aspire for higher life from above the head; but I always feel strained on the middle... the lower forces (anger, lust etc.). I humbly request the Mother for help and protection. Detachment. 9) My wife is devoted to Goddess Ambaji. Her heart opens to Her, but she cannot get rid of the worldly attachments. Please help her. May I send her photo? If you like. 10) / request for permission to write letters to the Mother. You can write. 11) What attitude should I keep while ...
... the One, but on condition that you do not stop there, taking it as the highest Truth, but proceed to realise the same One as the supreme Mother, the Page 57 Consciousness Force of the Eternal. If on the other hand you approach through the supreme Mother, she will give you the liberation in the silent One also as well as the realisation of the dynamic One and from that it is easier to arrive... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother, the Divine and the Lower Nature The Mother with Letters on the Mother The One and the Supreme Mother The Shankara knowledge is, as your Guru pointed out, only one side of the Truth; it is the knowledge of the Supreme as realised by the spiritual Mind through the static silence of the pure Existence... in being; the Parashakti manifests the universe, manifests too the Divine in the universe as the Ishwara and herself appears at his side as the Ishwari Shakti. Or, one may say, it is the Supreme Consciousness-Power of the Supreme that manifests or puts forth itself as Ishwara Ishwari, Atma Atmashakti, Purusha Prakriti, Jiva Jagat. That is the truth in its completeness as far as the mind can formulate ...
... Durga on it is the symbol of the Divine Consciousness acting through a divinised physical-vital and vital-material force. November 1933 What aspect of the Mother's personality comes out on Prosperity day? Is it something like the goddess Annapurna, who satisfies one's material needs? I suppose it would be some aspect like that—an aspect of Durga. 2 March 1934 Your attitude towards... towards any divine manifestation in the Mother's external consciousness is illuminating, "terrifying not only to the Asuras, but to the sadhaks". And yet it was only a limited and particular force—the Durga power! Others did not go so far as that, but they found her high, far-away, aloof, severe—asked what was the cause of her displeasure against them. And that comes to the same—to be severe against the Asuras... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother Forms, Powers, Personalities and Appearances of the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother Durga The lion is the attribute of the Goddess Durga, the conquering and protecting aspect of the Universal Mother. 12 July 1929 Durga is the Mother's power of Protection. 15 April 1933 The lion with Durga ...
... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.’ (On Himself , p. 459) The equivalence of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is self-evident when considering their basic declarations: ‘The Mother’s consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play’ (Sri Aurobindo); and: ‘Without him I exist not, without me he is not manifest.’ (The Mother) These pronouncements... Road Together The Mother (biography) 9: Three Dragons [The Mother] has descended upon earth to participate in [her children’s] nature. Because if she did not participate in their nature, she could not lead them farther. If she remained in her supreme consciousness where there is no suffering, in her supreme knowledge and consciousness, she could not have... said that he wrote on 21 February 1940: ‘Today is the Mother’s birthday. On this blessed day this is a tribute at her feet from her erring child. Whatever my deviations into wrong paths, however grave my errors, my labyrinthine movements will at length lead me into the Temple of the Mother’s consciousness, for where else except in the Mother’s lap can her son find the end of his journey?’ 31 ...
... of these last two days. ( Towards the end of the conversation, Satprem once again complains of his difficulties in writing his book. Mother proposes that he try to unblock the way by reading his manuscript to her. ) You know, it [Mother's consciousness] is an immobile mirror that projects things from below upwards and receives things from above to transmit them below. This mirror is two-surfaced... Vibration (only it doesn't really invert—it's a curious phenomenon: the vibration remains what it is but it's received inverted)—this falsehood in the body is a falsehood in the CONSCIOUSNESS. The falsity of the consciousness naturally has material consequences... and that's what illness is! I immediately made an experiment on my body to see if this held, if it actually works that way. And I realized... ( As she is leaving, Mother asks for some papers left by Pavitra for her to examine: some proposals for school reforms. ) Give me that stuff. I am their despair because I always tell them, 'It doesn't make any difference! Do it like this or do it like that, it all comes down to the same thing.' They are indignant: 'What do you mean it all comes to the same thing!' ( Mother laughs wholeheartedly ...
... attunement to the supreme Divine Will. The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo promises to realise this aim in individual and collective humanity. Its method is an integral surrender to the Mother, the Consciousness- Force of the Divine, and the crown of its achievement the manifestation of God in a transfigured humanity. But because if proceeds in the inscrutable steps of the divine Light... The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo At The Feet of The Mother PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION A substantial demand for this book from America has made it necessary to bring out a second edition. But as the demand is urgent, there is no time to prepare an index and make certain additions and... words and phrases have been appended in the footnotes. The demand for this book is one of the minor indications of the growing interest the elite of the West are taking in Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's Integral Yoga and philosophy. It is heartening to find that many eminent thinkers of Europe and America are turning to Sri Aurobindo as the only hope and refuge in the dismal bankruptcy of the modem ...
... between the Mother’s consciousness and my consciousness was an invention of the old days … and emerged at a time when the Mother was not fully recognised or accepted by some of those who were here at the beginning. Even after they had recognised her they persisted in this meaningless opposition and did great harm to them and others.’ And here follows the well-known declaration: ‘The Mother’s consciousness... and therefore least perceptible ones. ‘I carried all of them in my consciousness as in an egg,’ the Mother would say later. It was she who was actually doing their yoga, so much so that Sri Aurobindo had to enlighten the disciples: ‘The Mother in order to do her work had to take all the Sadhaks inside her personal being and consciousness; thus personally (not merely impersonally) taken inside, all the... ultimately in a material manifestation. Every force is a consciousness and every consciousness a being. The positive cosmic forces are the cosmic Beings called ‘Gods’. ‘They are the various facets of Something that exists in itself. Those beings are endowed with different aspects according to the countries and civilisations,’ said the Mother. The cosmic forces are evidently the same in the whole cosmos ...
... in the subconscient, but wrapped up in the tegument or veil of the lower Maya." 1 Voicing the same truth, the Mother says, "...from many points of view our subconscient has greater knowledge than our habitual consciousness." 2 Locating and describing the subconscient the Mother says in her Prayer of March 13, 1914, just a fortnight before her fateful meeting with Sri Aurobindo: "The... luminous consciousness, and the principal means to attain it is a descent of the supreme divine Light into them. "Even the inconscient and subconscient have to become conscious in us, susceptible to the higher light, no longer obstructive to the fulfilling action of the Consciousness-Force, but more and more a mould and lower basis of the Spirit." 2 This is the conquest that the Mother speaks of... Aurobindo 2 The Life Divine, Vol. II, Chap. XXVI Prayers and Meditations of the Mother Page 46 consciousness of Thy divine Presence," 1 and calls this conquest "the work to be accomplished, the mission to be fulfilled upon the earth." Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are both agreed that so long as we live under the dismal sway of the Subconscient and the Inconscient ...
... Gather all the strings of your consciousness that are spread abroad, roll them up and take a plunge and sink down. A fire is burning there, in the deep quietude of ¹ Words of the Mother, 3rd Series, Page 86 your heart. It is the divinity in you—your true being. Hear its voice, follow its dictates.”¹ "In the depths of your consciousness is the psychic being, the temple... effective way in which the psychic can be discovered, the Mother says : "Very often at the beginning of sādhanā one has the impression as if the psychic being is shut up in a kind of shell or prison and it is that which prevents it from manifesting itself outside and coming into conscious and constant contact with the external consciousness, the surface being. In endeavouring to join with the psychic... door, push more and more with increasing ¹ Words of the Mother. ² ibid. ³ ibid, Page 87 energy until all on a sudden the door gives way and you enter thrown as it were into the light. It is a powerful, unforgettable experience : you go through a sudden and radical change of consciousness, with an illumination that completely seizes hold of you, giving you ...
... you use words that mean something else, that's all. But how do YOU perceive consciousness? Without consciousness, you can't feel anything. Consciousness is indeed the basis of all things. ( Mother looks at the child's letter and hands it to Satprem ) "Sweet Mother, "I'd like to know: What is consciousness? I asked a teacher, but they said, 'It's very hard to explain.' "I want your blessing... June June Mother’s Agenda 1966 June 29, 1966 This morning I got a letter from a little girl who asks me, "What is consciousness? I asked my teachers, they answered me it was very hard to explain"! ( Mother laughs ) So she's asking me. And since she asked me, I've been looking at it. How can we express it? Do YOU know how it can be explained? Because... second stage, the human. ( Mother laughs and writes: ) Page 145 "When the Lord became conscious of Himself, that created the world." Now your turn to say! It's for you to say. No, no! Let me hear it. I don't know.... Consciousness is the breath or the fire that carries everything. But if I say "fire," they'll immediately say, "Ah, consciousness is fire, then!" The breath ...
... it. It takes years and years and years of silent, quiet and extremely careful work before there can be any visible and tangible results, before anything can be noticed, even for the [Mother's] individual consciousness. As for those who want to go quickly, if they try going quickly in this realm, they'll be thrown off balance. You can't go quickly. Once, when I saw how it was, I complained... physical seems to DOSE OUT its power and light and capacity of consciousness according to the amount of receptivity in the purely physical vibration. That's why the effects stretch over a long period of time. It's being done very, very gradually. But it's an almost continuous work. Only when there's some bodily activity and the consciousness must turn outwards (not in the same way as before, that's impossible... August August Mother’s Agenda 1962 August 28, 1962 ( It is extremely unfortunate that the beginning of this conversation, which would have thrown a clear light on what follows, was not kept. As far as Satprem remembers, the subject was his sleep. It seems Mother was saying that while his "strolls by the sea" took place ...
... no more axis. I was looking... it just isn't there any more—gone, vanished! It [Mother's consciousness] can go here, it can go there and there ( gesture to the cardinal points ), it can go backwards, forwards, anywhere at all—no more axis, no turning on an axis. Interesting. I think I've lost you! ( Mother laughs. ) It's an interesting experience. No more axis. ... makes time slow down. In Mother's experience (which is every bit as "physical"), the "intensity of the Presence" seems to be the origin of time change. In other words, consciousness is what makes time slow down. Thus we are witnessing two experiences with identical physical results, but formulated in different languages. In one, we speak of "speed," in the other of "consciousness." But what is speed, after... "speed of light" is biped. Speed increases and time slows down, they say. The future biology says: consciousness intensifies and time slows down or ceases to exist—distances are abolished, the body doesn't age. And the world's whole physical cage collapses. "Time is a rhythm of consciousness," says Mother. We change rhythm and the physical world changes. Might this be the whole problem of transformation ...
... or disturbs the nature. 16 March 1937 What attitude should I take during my meditation with the Mother? Last time I could not properly receive the Mother's Force or become conscious of her working. To be conscious of the Force or working in a meditation with the Mother, the consciousness must be still and passive to her. If one is accustomed to be active and make one's own formations, ... that stands in the way and must be suspended during the meditation. I could not quite follow what the Mother said [in the last interview] about things in the exterior consciousness coming in disguise. Mother only remembers to have said that there were many things in the exterior consciousness that obscured and veiled the inner being—this was in connection with what you said about the heart not... say No to your vital desire. 28 September 1935 The Mother does not usually speak with those who come for an interview before starting. If she had to speak, she would not give an interview at all to most, for she would have no time. Moreover it is not by speech or instruction or answering questions that Mother works on the consciousness of the sadhaks, it is by a silent influence to which they ...
... feels the mind grow wider, even in the end the physical consciousness grows wider and wider, until you feel all things in yourself, yourself one with all things. You then become one with the Mother's universal Consciousness. That is why you feel the mind becoming wide. But also there is much above the human mind and it is this which you feel like a world above your head. All these are the ordinary ... come with the growing consciousness. The consciousness that is aware of the Divine and the Truth and does not look at things from the ego [ is the true consciousness ]—it is wide and calm and strong and aspires to union and surrender—it is many things besides, but this is the essential. It [ an experience reported by the correspondent ] is the true Yogic consciousness in which one feels... The Parts of the Being and the Planes of Consciousness The Parts of the Being and the Planes of Consciousness The Concentric System: Outer to Inner Letters on Yoga - I Chapter II The True Being and the True Consciousness The True Being The true being may be realised in one or both of two aspects—the Self or Atman and the soul or antarātman , psychic ...
... there is a nadir, there must be a corresponding zenith. In the Vedic image, if man is born of the Dark Mother, he is also a child of the White Mother (krsna and sveti) , Or again, if Earth is our mother, the Heaven is our father— dyaur me pita mata prthivi iyam. In other words, consciousness extends not in depth alone, but in height also—it is vertically extended, infinite both ways. As there is... the Inner Consciousness, we may note, serves as a medium through which the action of the Inmost (as well as that of the Uppermost) takes place. We can picture the whole phenomenon in another way and say in the devotional language of the Mystics that the Inmost Consciousness is the Divine Child, the Superconscient is the Divine Father and the Inferior Consciousness is the Great Mother (Magna Mater):... in the grossest, the material mode or in the most subtle, the ideative mode is originally a seed, a stress, a point of concentration of this consciousness. The Yogi becomes potentially all-powerful, because he is one with the All-Power, the Mother Consciousness. The perfect spiritual man not merely dwells with or is close to the Divine {salokya), he is not merely made in the image of the Divine (sarupya) ...
... there is a nadir, there must be a corresponding zenith. In the Vedic image, if man is born of the Dark Mother, he is also a child of the White Mother (krsna and sveti). Or again, if Earth is our mother, the Heaven is our father – dyaur me pita mata p rthivi iyam. In other words, consciousness extends not in depth alone, but in height also – it is vertically extended, infinite both ways. As there... the Inner Consciousness, we may note, serves as a medium through which the action of the Inmost (as well as that of the Uppermost) takes place. We can picture the whole phenomenon in another way and say in the devotional language of the Mystics that the Inmost Consciousness is the Divine Child, the Superconscient is the Divine Father and the Inferior Consciousness is the Great Mother (Magna Mater):... in the grossest, the material mode or in the most subtle, the ideative mode is originally a seed, a stress, a point of concentration of this consciousness. The Yogi becomes potentially all-powerful, because he is one with the All-Power, the Mother Consciousness. The perfect spiritual man not merely dwells with or is close to the Divine (salokya), he is not merely made in the image of the Divine (sarupya) ...
... Here is Mother's text : "Consciousness develops best through work done as offering to the Divine. Indolence and inaction lead to tamas : That is a fall into unconsciousness, it is contrary to all progress and light. "To overcome one's ego, to live only in the service of the Divine—that is the ideal and the shortest way towards acquiring the true consciousness." ... true consciousness, one doesn't have to work! Yes, that's it. I heard that also. They say, "Work belongs to the old world"...! Yes, that's how they understand it. So, what can you do?... What did you reply to them? I spoke to R. I told him what I thought. I said that work is the foundation. Yes. It's by being and working in matter that one can bring a little consciousness into oneself... I suddenly felt I had lost my influence over those people. I tell them things—they couldn't care less. Page 112 You could speak to R. and see. Yes, Mother.... But R. says, "Mother doesn't want to interfere. Mother doesn't want to make any decisions." But I think perhaps it's up to him to make a decision. But no one will listen to him. You see, I can't make decisions anymore because ...
... there is a nadir, there must be a corresponding zenith. In the Vedic image, if man is born of the Dark Mother, he is also a child of the White Mother (krishna and shveti). Or again, if earth is our mother, the Heaven is our father— dyaur me pita mata prithivi iyam. In other words, consciousness extends not in depth alone, but in height also —it is vertically extended, infinite both ways. Page... the Inner Consciousness, we may note, serves as a medium through which the action of the Inmost (as well as that of the Uppermost) takes place. We can picture the whole phenomenon in another way and say in the devotional language of the Mystics that the Inmost Consciousness is the Divine Child, the Superconscient is the Divine Father and the Inferior Consciousness is the Great Mother (Magna... in the grossest, the material mode or in the most subtle, the ideative mode is originally a seed, a stress, a point of concentration of this consciousness. The Yogi becomes potentially all-powerful, because he is one with the All-Power, the Mother Consciousness. The perfect spiritual man not merely dwells with or close to the Divine (salokya), he is not merely made in the image of the Divine (sarupya) ...
... ion. These gods that emanated out of the supreme consciousness of the Divine Mother as her fundamental aspects and personalities had automatically an absolute freedom of action and movement, otherwise they would not be divine personalities. And this freedom could be exercised and was in fact exercised in cutting the tie with the mother consciousness, in order to follow a line of independent and separate... fulfilment intended for it. Earth is there as the home of man, as his mother and nurse; she has fashioned man out of her substratum and is seeking through him the release, the growth and expression of her secret consciousness. 2 The purpose of man's existence upon earth is the growth of his consciousness. Each human being is a soul, a psyche, a spark from the Spirit sent down... gods into Asuras, that was how Lucifer became Satan. And that was how Paradise was lost. But the story of Paradise Regained is yet more marvellous. When the Divine Mother, Page 267 the creative infinite Consciousness found herself parcelled out and scattered (even like the body of Sati borne about by Shiva, in the well-known Indian legend) and lost in unconsciousness, something shot ...
... being open? How to understand the psychic and vital beings in the Adhara? Page 38 By the force of aspiration and the grace of the Mother. Psychic: your true being, the being that is in the heart and that is the spark of the Mother's own consciousness. Vital: the part from which proceed desires and hunger and dynamic activities, having its physical basis round about the navel. 6) My... A spoken comment of the Mother which was noted from memory by a sadhak and approved by the Mother for publication. × A spoken comment of the Mother which was noted from memory by a sadhak and approved by the Mother for publication. ... The Path of Yoga The Path of Yoga Words of the Mother - II Aspects of Sadhana Divine Mother, I wish to get light on the following points. 1) Have I the capacity and are there potentialities in me to follow this path? This is not the question, the question is whether you have the necessary aspiration, determination and perseverance and whether ...
... back out; two, three times like that: the consciousness rose and then bounced back out like a spring. 'If I could only tip over this stool,' I thought (there was a small stool under my feet), 'the noise would wake me up!' But nothing doing. And I was breathing more and more heavily. I was terribly afraid. Suddenly I remembered Mother and cried out, 'Mother! Mother!' and found myself back in my body, awake... you could make in-depth psychological studies of your own being. And so by observation and elimination I eventually discovered that between this and that ( gesture indicating two levels of Mother's consciousness ), there was an undeveloped layer—it wasn't conscious. So I worked for ten months on nothing but that: absolutely no results. I didn't care, I kept right on, telling myself, "Well, it may take... al." Yes, that's mainly what makes it interesting: it shows them that consciousness can exist outside the body. That's it. But it's not at all indispensable for one's development. No. But I'd still like.... It would amuse you! Well, yes! It wouldn't just amuse me—I'd get the feeling that my consciousness was developing Not necessarily. If you aren't open up there ( above ...
... Aurobindo and the Mother. Sri Aurobindo wrote: “The Mother and I are one but in two bodies.” “The Mother’s consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play. … If anybody really feels her consciousness, he should know that I am there behind it and if he feels me it is the same with hers.” “Whatever one gets from the Mother, comes from myself... no difference.” “The Mother and myself stand for the same Power in two forms.” 58 The Mother wrote: “Without him, I exist not; without me, he is not manifest.” 59 (Cf. Sri Aurobindo: “There is one force only, the Mother’s force – or, if you like to put it like that, the Mother is Sri Aurobindo’s Force.”) “Sri Aurobindo and I are always one and the same consciousness, one and the same person... Vibhuti veiling the fuller Divine Consciousness. If we admit that the object of Avatarhood is to lead the evolution, this is quite reasonable, the Divine appearing as Avatar in the great transitional stages and as Vibhutis to aid the lesser transitions.” 42 “The Mother’s consciousness and mine are the same,” wrote Sri Aurobindo, “the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary ...
... think I was wrong in taking that the Mother's Force and Peace were already there. You have not said that the Force of the Higher Consciousness has come down and settled itself in the body. It is only now that you are speaking of the descent of that Force. Mother's Force is acting all the time, but that can act upon or through the ordinary consciousness also. Page 142 ... In that case, does it not mean that what my consciousness feels as the Force is not the real Force of the Mother? I have said that it gets mixed with the action of the present mind, vital and body. That is inevitable since it has to work upon them. It is only after the trans-formation that it can be fully the Mother's Force with no mixture of the separate personality. If the... that a cold had already entered. My consciousness brought down the Mother's Force and the cold disappeared. The same process was tried for other troubles too. I want to know if the method adopted for the Force was quite the right one. It is quite the right way. It is very good that you are learning to use the Force. The higher consciousness flows down perpetually with its ...
... ), on the edge of a cliff—you mustn't make a single false step. As if the Consciousness were putting pressure on circumstances so they become more definite and clear. Only, then, it's the end of peace and tranquility. ( silence ) But also, under that pressure, the consciousness [Mother's physical consciousness] is becoming clearer and clearer, and realizes how much work we have to do for... November November Mother’s Agenda 1971 November 10, 1971 Well, do you have anything? I have something, but what about you? Me... for the moment.... ( Mother seems tired ) I don't know if something will come later. The consciousness [of the body] is changing very fast. I'll see later if something comes. ... right. Yes, but then I wonder if it isn't egoistic? No, mon petit! Sri Aurobindo used to tell me, "The Divine is the supreme egoist!" ( Mother laughs and everyone laughs. ) ( long silence ) There's something I wanted to read to you, but... ( Mother looks among the papers beside her, without success ). The external circumstances have become intensified, as if there were a pressure, you ...
... profound silence. In lonely silence again, I realised the Divine Mother, the Consciousness of all consciousnesses, manifesting Herself as a luminous young child-Bala. I became one with Her in consciousness. My uvula curved upwards' and tasted the oozing Amrita (Nectar) of Grace. The thousand-petalled lotus opened itself. I sensed its subtle 'fragrance full of Grace. The lid of B... in Bliss, the most precious gift of the Mother. The infinite pure Consciousness and the Self were realised. The bond of birth and death has been broken and with that the dualities of pleasure and pain, sorrow and happiness were cancelled. The being has become free by realising the Light of Consciousness which is the source of the Vedas. Mother Bala gave by Her Grace the Eye of Knowledge... which they came. The Divine Mother lit the Light of a Lamp burning in the middle of my forehead. I t is a Light that extended, with its flaming heat, in all directions. In the depth of a silence beyond mind and heart, I found the pure flame of Truth blazing in its intensity. As the bud blossoms unfolding its petals all around, so the inner consciousness blossomed and expanded in that profound ...
... Veda. Page 76 when there is equilibrium between all these innumerable points of consciousness and their opposites, the central Consciousness is found." Mother, whose consciousness was one with the central Consciousness, and indwelled equally the innumerable points of consciousness and their opposites — "My centre is everywhere. Be very careful," she once cautioned Satprem— could... Mother's Chronicles - Book Three 5 Pralaya "I was taught the history of occult traditions by Theon," said Mother. In the Cosmic Tradition, as developed by him, "there were many things —Madame Theon was the clairvoyant and it was she who got the visions, she was excellent—but many things, which I myself had seen and known before meeting... creations behind us. "We are in the seventh, the last," said Mother. "The world will find a new equilibrium — a superior equilibrium —not static, but progressive. In other words, there will be an unlimited progress in equilibrium and harmony." It was several years later, when describing to Satprem an experience she had just had, that Mother remarked, "And I have understood why Theon said that we are ...
... Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, instrument, servant or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her consciousness and force.... "You will know and see and feel that you are a person and power formed by her out of herself, put out from her for the play and yet always safe in her, being of her being, consciousness^ her consciousness, force... himself completely identified with the divine consciousness. Sri Aurobindo has described this summit realisation in this way: "[In] the last stage of this perfection... you... feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, instrument, servant or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her [the Divine Mother's] consciousness and force. Always she* will be in you and you... works..." (The Mother, Cent. Ed., pp. 15-18. Paragraphing ours.) Such then is the whole programme set before the sadhaka of the Karma-yoga, his course of sadhana, and the nature of the ultimate attainment, siddhi. When resolved into their component elements, they amount to: Page 142 1.A total elimination of all sorts of desires from the consciousness of the sadhaka ...
... l" milieu. They will tell us that Mother's foot still bumps against the table leg and is quite possibly bruised from it, even though Mother's consciousness may be simultaneously in New York and Hong Kong and goes through the meshes of the web. And they will tell us that at the end there is the fact of the corpse. And that all the changes in time and consciousness change nothing of this fact. The corpse... "cures," it is rather that it makes you step into another kind of Matter (yet you remain apparently in the same one, since Mother's body was there, "concrete", tangible and firmly seated in her armchair) in which all these things do not exist. A reversal of consciousness, Mother said. A change of vibration that changes everything. A change of Matter, we might say. A Vibration which annuls the opacity... preceding species know. Such is the Turning Point Mother was reaching. And one morning, as She was nearing that moving borderline of Matter (our "Matter"), the whole picture of evolution became clear to her: We may say that all experiences tend toward a single revelation—that consciousness alone exists. And that it is the decision or the choice of the consciousness that causes the form—all the forms, from ...
... to do with the Mother. Especially about the Supermind they have such queer notions — that it is something greater than the Mother. Page 268 If they have a greater experience or consciousness than the Mother, they should not stay here but go and save the world with it. If the Supermind has not been established in Mother's body-consciousness, it is not because... the earth-consciousness down to Matter itself, so it can't be for the physical of myself and the Mother alone. We know the Supermind is to be brought down into the physical; at least most of us do, but what Naik means is that the preparation is going on for * Sri Aurobindo. bracketing a part of Naik's sentence, left out the words: "of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo... ourselves and the earth and men. Even as it is. Mother has to come down towards the lower consciousness of the sadhaks instead of keeping always in her own, otherwise they begin to say "How far away, how severe you were; you do not love me, I get no help from you, etc., etc." The Divine has to veil himself in order to meet the human. The Mother does not work on the sadhak directly from her ...
... my flesh too feels some experience? The flesh has a consciousness as well as the mind — all the consciousness is connected together so if the mind is freed, there is no reason why there should not be an effect on the physical also. Let me tell you what happened during my noon nap. I was on the lap of the Mother. She had put her transforming palm on my head. With her thumb she... as rajas is the degradation of Tapas, the Divine Force. The physical consciousness is always trying to substitute its own inertia for the calm, peace or rest of the true consciousness, just as the vital is always trying to substitute its rajas for the true action of the Force. At present when the descent of the Mother's Force is the only movement prominent, why do I feel an increasing weakness... felt something descending and reaching down to the chest. Probably it was the Mother's Force. Probably. You should establish the Force now in the form of a strong peace. For the last three Darshans it has been noticed that the physical consciousness rises up and disturbs the free play of my consciousness just during these days. The obstacles still in the nature very ...
... and the Mother said about the transitional being was not taken into consideration till the present day.) Would Sri Aurobindo and/or the Mother come back, preferably as soon as possible? (Since 1973 several women have declared themselves to be an incarnation of the Mother.) Are there any signs that the Work is going on, that the Supermind is active? (The fact of the presence of the Consciousness of the... beings have come here [near him in Pondicherry] who are ready to join with great lines of consciousness above, represented often by beings of the higher planes and are therefore specially fitted to join with the Mother intimately in the great work that has to be done. These have all a special relation with the Mother which adds to the past one.” 19 He also wrote: “A number of souls have been sent to... freedom movements in Ireland and Italy, he felt strongly that he had a role to play in the liberation of his motherland, but nothing more. Sri Aurobindo has explicitly stated that his and the Mother’s consciousness were one. This is indirectly shown by the parallelism of their early lives at a time they did not yet know of each other, at least not in their surface awareness. Both had parents who wanted ...
... work has been admirably done, spreading out in a super-rainbow spectrum of multiple tones the white light of the Mother's truth-consciousness. The word "tones" is apt, for here we get not only the diverse shades of a spiritual being's vision-moulded thought but also the varied modulations of a living voice - the soft or strong, intimate or commanding, piercing or wide-vibrationed... Yes, a light, to make us both know and do, comes to us in these pages. The Mother, no doubt, does not philosophise in any intellectual fashion, but she often transmits in a systematised intellect-stirring shape the discoveries she has made in the realms of psychology, occultism, the universal consciousness, the transcendental being. To every subject discussed she brings a quickening insight... Path to Perfection. Compiled from the Writings of the Mother by Keshavmurti. Dipti Publications, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1968. Rs.12. Close on the heels of M. P. Pandit's compilation, Dictionary of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga, comes this ordered ensemble from another disciple, aiming to do for the Mother's writings what the former book did for the Master's. The work ...
... with them today; tomorrow it may be elsewhere. All depends on the way they discharge their trust while it is with them; in what spirit, with what consciousness in their use of it, to what purpose.”² ¹ Words of the Mother. ² The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Page 256 The Conquest of the Money-Power No dynamic spirituality which aims- at the regeneration of... enjoy the result of the enormous expenditure. The pleasure derived from the spending of the huge amount is an exclusively vital pleasure, which obscures ¹ Words of the Mother. Page 255 his consciousness, inflates his pride and egotism, and retards, if it does not, indeed, impede, his spiritual evolution. "It is not that those rich men who are more or less toys and instruments... money, as in every other thing, and lead to an integral consecration of all our consciousness and nature to the dynamic Master of the universe. Money, which is regarded as a source of evil, will thus be turned into a means of self-perfection and divine work. In the New Creation or the supramental new- . ¹ The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Page 259 moulding of life, money will be restored ...
... Aurobindo’s Yoga is the joint creation of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.” 14 The equivalence of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is evident when considering the following basic declarations. Sri Aurobindo: “The Mother’s consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play.” The Mother: “Without him I exist not, without me he is not manifest.” These... herself gave us a glimpse of Mahashakti, the cosmic Mother, when she narrated one of her experiences on 3 February 1958. “The supramental world exists permanently and I am there permanently in a supramental body. I had proof of it this very day, when my earth-consciousness went there and remained there consciously between two and three o’clock in the afternoon. Now I know that what was lacking for the two... is “consciousness,” and the way immaterial consciousness can relate to a material brain and have an impact on it, haunts the biological and neurological sciences since Descartes. He had tried to get rid of it by declaring consciousness an “epiphenomenon” of matter, thus sticking a label on a bottle without known contents. Neurology in the present day has not advanced much further. Consciousness is now ...
... enter in the high, the highest consciousness. This is Root of all. You're [in] touch with that Consciousness.Remembering Mother also is [only] sadhana stage. Not [only] remember, you're [to] become Mother. First you remember, remember Mother; after, you're in the Mother. Mother means that Supreme Consciousness, you are become one with that Supreme Consciousness. 7 (Pause) But this not... also surrendered to Mother! That time [Those days] Mother go trance; even eight hours or more Mother will be trance. Mother come generally 7, 7.30 [a.m.] in Meditation Hall [for] meditation. That day [when in trance] even 3 o'clock [p.m.] Mother will be sit, the body is there and that physical consciousness. That time Sri Aurobindo take food 9 o'clock, that Mother only give. After meditation... this form, that Consciousness you can identify with this consciousness. It's not only an imagination, you can hear, you can see with these eyes. The same way you can sit and see that Consciousness, you can enter also. There is no doubt because it is not any imagination or only belief: "Mother say therefore that [experience) comes", no, that is there therefore Mother say! You see, Veda ...
... fundamental pronouncements: ‘The Mother’s consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play.’ 18 ‘The Mother and I are one but in two bodies.’ 19 ‘The Mother and myself stand for the same Power in two forms.’ 20 The Mother from her side said: ‘Sri Aurobindo and I are always one and the same consciousness, one and the same person.’ ... consciousness and force of the Supreme.’ 15 ‘The Mother was inwardly above the human even in childhood … It is so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti … She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine.’ 16 When some of his beautiful letters about the Mother had been collected and published as a booklet, the then... ‘feminine’ Avatar represents the whole Godhead: both are ONE. Therefore a mantra given by Sri Aurobindo in Sanskrit was translated by the Mother as follows: ‘OM — She the Ananda, She the Consciousness, She the Truth, She the Supreme’ (17.11.63). And the Mother once wrote their names as ‘MOTHERSRIAUROBINDO’ to demonstrate their essential unity. The indivisible unity of the Divine, his manifesting ...
... between the body-consciousness and the physical consciousness?... Oh yes! The physical consciousness is something very complex; it includes the whole physical, conscious world. My physical consciousness has been universalized for a long, long time, it encompasses all terrestrial movements 3 ; but the body is limited solely to this small concentration of substance ( Mother touches her body... body? In being THAT, it might be said, Mother thus resolves the famous question of the "unified-field theory," the theory to which Einstein devoted the last years of his life in vain, that would describe the movements of both planets and atoms in a single mathematical equation. Mother's body-consciousness is one with the movement of the universe, Mother lives the "unified-field theory" in her body... peculiar state... I might describe it as: what gives me the illusion of a body ( Mother laughs ).... I entrust it to the person I walk with. In other words, it's not my responsibility: the other person has to make sure it doesn't fall, doesn't bump into anything—you see what I mean. And the consciousness is a limitless consciousness, like a material equivalent or expression of these gusts—it's like waves, ...
... progress according to its own nature. 13 November 1971 * * * Sweet Mother, How can we develop our consciousness in order to work in a better way with plants and flowers? First you must learn to be silent, then notice carefully what happens in your consciousness. 13 November 1971 * * * Sweet Mother, Many of the plants we are trying to grow here suffer because of our climate... Divine Will acting in the subconscient Yes. * * * 13 July 1970 Sweet Mother, For Consciousness turned towards the Light, will the large flowers and the small flowers have the same significance? Yes, there are large people and small people. 14 July 1970 * * * Sweet Mother, What is the best way of opening ourselves to the profound influence of flowers? ... The increase of consciousness in the atmosphere will surely have an effect which is difficult to describe beforehand. Naturally, the plants that like cold climates could grow in greenhouses. Also, by planting forests one could have a regulating action on the climate. 13 November 1971 * * * Sweet Mother, If our offering of flowers depends on our state of consciousness, does that help ...
... beginning with the experience of dissolution in the One, but on condition that you do not stop there, taking it as the highest Truth, but proceed to realise the same One as the supreme Mother, the Consciousness Force of the Eternal. If on the other hand you approach through the supremeMother, she will give you the liberation in the silent One also as well as the realisation of the dynamic One and from... Shankara's conception of the undifferentiated pure Consciousness as the Brahman is your view of it, then it is not the path of this Yoga that you should choose; for here the realisation of pure Consciousness and Being is only a first step and not the goal. But an inner creative urge from within can have no place in an undifferentiated Consciousness—all action and creation must necessarily be foreign... be a reality; its object is to enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light, the Divine Ananda. Page 447 But for that, surrender of the mortal mind, life and body to that Higher Consciousness is indispensable, since it is too difficult for the mortal ...
... let him give. It can only be good for him. I felt as if a closed window within my heart had been Page 124 opened, and through it, a ray of light from the Mother's divine consciousness had touched me. What a marvellous experience! I remember another incident, a deeply moving one. Two artists had come, a singer and a dancer who were a couple. The singer's... extremely reluctant and uncomfortable about this. One day, I met the Mother and told Her about it. I - Mother, we who love music so much, have received a lot from him. We have taken a lot from him. Can't we forgo their lodging charges? Mother - Did he say anything about this? I - No, Mother. This is just my feeling. Mother - Then, don't say anything to him. Let him give the money. I... requested both of them to send two separate letters to the Mother and I carried them with me, when I went to see Her. After acquainting the Mother briefly about the problem, I handed over to Her their letters. The Mother wanted to know how long they were going to stay in the Ashram. When I told the Mother about their departure date, the Mother agreed to see them. I asked Her if I could accompany them ...
... Infinite Sat-Chit and Ananda—infinite Being,—consciousness—and delight—"the triune being who is all and one" "And yet is no one but himself apart". Savitri knew all this "not by some thought" but "by the self", by identity. She passed from room to room of the soul and felt one with everything. "She knew herself Beloved of the Supreme: "Mother was she of Beauty and Delight, The... "There was no temptation of the joy to be"—the delight of Existence was not there. CANTO SEVEN Savitri's daily life went on plodding as usual. She was living in the supreme Mother's consciousness but nobody knew anything about her inner condition. "They saw a person where was only God's vast". All people found her "the same perfect Savitri." To all she spoke the same words, she did... greater Life-Being. Man put his consciousness on the surface and has succeeded in mastering Nature partially by his Mind. Thus he "grew towards an unseen heaven of thought and dream". Man is now able to take his stand on the mind and gaze above; "He calls the Godhead into his mortal life". Savitri's inmost soul had achieved all this behind her surface consciousness and she found that she came to ...
... also female in embodiment though one in Consciousness: the Great Mother had to be directly present, in person, at the perilous juncture of the transition and transformation of the lower into the higher hemisphere. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had tried out many ways to construct the new path; in the end Sri Aurobindo confided the Integral Yoga entirely to the Mother, who was doing it herself, literally... were the double-poled supramental Avatar, descended to create a divine world. “The Mother’s consciousness and mine are the same”, asserted Sri Aurobindo; “the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play.” 32 Those who feel that the suffering Sri Aurobindo mentions is perhaps exaggerated might contemplate for a moment what it must have meant to be nailed to a cross knowing... is a Yoga of transformation”, he wrote, “but a transformation of the whole consciousness and the whole nature from the top to the bottom.” 64 This is explicit. A spiritual effort of this kind cannot bear fruit unless every part of the human being is fully open to the divine influence and direction. It is the Great Mother, the Divine Creatrix, who is the origin fons et origo, of the whole manifestation ...
... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother 7 Towards the Transformed Body A momentous stage was reached. An irreversible stage was reached. The whole work, the real work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, was to open up the consciousness of the cells by fixing the supramental consciousness in the body-consciousness. This work was done; the rest was a secondary c... 'overlife'. A perilous journey it was—and we shall describe here in Mother's own words some of these resistances and discoveries. Page 199 Let us begin with Mother's experience of 19th November, 1969, where she gives us the essential equations of the supramental consciousness as experienced by her body-consciousness. 19 November 1969 This morning at about eight o'clock, I... Oh.... I really don't want to say (Mother shakes her head), I don't want to insist, but... truly... (Mother speakes with her eyes closed, all the pain of the world is in the shake of her head). ... The consciousness is clearer, stronger than it has ever been, and I look like an old....'¹ This happened to be the last meeting of Satprem with Mother. Thereafter, he had no further interview ...
... Centre – the Divine above. > 3. The Consciousness – moves upward, it cannot be tied down upon the earth. 4. Jewel Centre – the highest centre at the top of the head representing the highest seat of mind beyond which is the Vast and Infinite Consciousness. 5. Mother-in-law – ordinary consciousness. 6. Sun and Moon – day and night, the... Supreme Shakti and declares her mightinesses. Here also the woman-singer, filled with the divine afflatus, intones her inexpressible experiences. Her individual consciousness is identified with the universal Mother consciousness. And as such while she casts her glance into herself, into the depth of her womb, she finds the entire universe there and it comes out in a burst. But she notes that... power. Five = the senses. Page 264 6. Queen = the Divine Consciousness-Power. Chit-Shakti. King = the ignorant being (Purusha) that normally rules the ignorant nature. 7. 64. squares = fullness, integrality of life. Kali, Mother Nature, is said to have 64 yoginis, powers and instruments. There are also 64 arts (kalas) embellishing ...
... dream and a golden dream. 113 Festival of the Birth of the Eternal Light OM Anandamayi, Chaitanyamayi, Satyamayi, Parame' OM Mother of Delight, Mother of Consciousness, Mother of Truth, O Supreme Jayastute' namastute' Victory to Thee, Salutations to Thee Sarvam Khalhidam, Brahman: All is verily divine; the Divine is truly all; Rises... The House of the Mother O fortunate Pilgrim, voyager on the sacred highway, You are welcome to the Temple dedicated to the Mother Divine. Offer your fatigue and anxiety, your suffering, your sadness, Your solitude, your struggles and torments and long lonely nights On the altar of the Mother Divine, of the Eternal. These are the most... Welcome the Mother Elan I ride the wild winds and enjoy Flying over the green hills and dales, I rise like a rocket in the sky, Then dive into perilous seas for fun. All earth is my home, all people my own. In a flash I am where my hands are needed. I obey the command of my Sovereign, Mother Divine ...
... of the Mother’s consciousness and a flame of it descended into you by the usual path and filled you with the light. From there it descended into the subconscient and brought the light there. As a result the consciousness (it was the inner consciousness) became like a crystal pillar connecting the heights with the depths, the superconscient with the subconscient. In it the image of the Mother filled... figure… Today is my birthday, O Mother! And I have come to Thee. Keep me in Thy lap today, Today You envelop me. Today You have made me reborn Kissing the cheeks of my life anon, Rejuvenation rings in the blood in me… The birth from the human-mother is over With Supramental-Mother’s kiss; The eyes blaze with a new sight In body and mind new consciousness’ bliss. I see this world and life... the undivided country, I want Integral India. Whose soil enshrines the idol of the Eternal Mother In this earth-temple; whose snow-capped mountains Embody the sky high, unshakeable, great and vast ideal; Whose Jahnavi of affection pours in an undisturbed clear stream The ambrosia of Mother-Consciousness into the heart Of all humanity; whose mud blossoms the lotus of life To end the darkness of ...
... death, 737; "spiritually imperial", 737; Hindu's tribute, 738; burial under "service tree", 739-40; Mother's hymn of gratitude, 741; the nine withdrawals, 741; divers roles, 742; the occult reason for the final withdrawal, 742; the samadhi, 744,751; on Mother's consciousness, 748; on Mahasaraswati, 748-50; proliferation of influence, 752ff; E.F.F. Hill on, 752; Robert Bristow on, 752; advice... 147 Katha Upanishad, 337 Kazantzakis, Nikos, 649 Keats, John, 30,41,176,177 Kena Upanishad, 337,459, 461ff, and Isha, 461; comparison with Mother's prayer, 462; and stair of consciousness, 462; and The Life Divine, 463 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 722 Khanna, Ravindra, 690 Khaparde, G. S., 227, 269,272, 528 Kimberley, Lord, 37... house, 5401; installing Sri Aurobindo as Master and Lord of Yoga, 541; on consciousness, 547; spiritual guidance, 547; on Siddhi day, 548; translation of Synthesis, 551; Barindra on her role, 574; on vibration of Harmony, 591; on Savitri, 659, 662; as Savitri, 685; on the Partition, 711; on the Soul of India, 712; prayer to Mother India, 714; on energy inexhaustible, 719; visit of André, 726; talk with ...
... knew before this that I was the Mother, but the complete identification took place only in 1914,’ 33 said the Mother many years later. Who is the Universal Mother? A few pages before we have seen that when the One wanted to objectify Itself in order to have a ‘concrete’ knowledge of Itself, It activated Its Consciousness-Power. The Mother is the Consciousness-Power of the Divine, which means... otherwise than that she was Sri Aurobindo’s Shakti. This is why Sri Aurobindo would say: ‘The Mother’s consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play,’ and that the Mother would say: ‘Sri Aurobindo and I, we are always one and the same consciousness, one and the same person.’ Moreover, Mrinalini’s own father would testify about her: ‘She... 31 The Mother There is only one thing of which I am absolutely sure, and that is who I am. Sri Aurobindo also knew it and declared it. Even the doubts of the whole of humanity would change nothing of this fact. 32 – The Mother ‘It was in 1914 that the identification with the Universal Mother took place, the identification of the physical consciousness with her. Of course ...
... earth-atmosphere in 1956. The Mother had been forming the archetype of the ‘overman’ ( surhomme) and the overhuman consciousness had manifested upon the Earth on 1 January 1969, with the inevitable consequence that this consciousness would embody itself in suitable instruments, in overmen. Though for the Mother this consciousness acted as a mentor, helping her in her avataric sadhana , she had not... know that it was the consciousness of the overman, which means the intermediary between the human and the supramental being.’ 18 January 1969. ‘That [consciousness of the overman] is very consciously active. It is like a projection of power and it has now become habitual. ‘It contains a consciousness — something very precious — that teaches lessons to the body [of the Mother], that teaches it... supramental ship. But the Mother herself was far ahead again. The New Body The Avatar had come to establish permanently upon the Earth the foundations of a new evolution — one might say to bring into the earth-atmosphere the ‘archetype’ of the possibilities and forms of the new evolution. The Supramental Consciousness, the main goal of the Work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, had come into the ...
... even the sadhaks and not simply of the Master and the Mother. A letter of Sri Aurobindo on January 14, 1932 has the phrase: "... I want to divinise the human consciousness, to bring down the Supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Light, the Force into the physical to transform it..." Again, a letter of September 5,1935, which couples the Mother with Sri Aurobindo by name, says: "What is being done... the Mother had made to him on the eve of his departure from the Ashram. She had told him that she was expecting something great and decisive in the course of the year and that he should be back before the event. The sadhak's reference ran: "This is a year in which, I believe, the Truth-Consciousness may make up its mind, or rather its Supermind, to descend. I was expecting a wire from the Mother in... But actually the problem is very complicated. To begin with: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had the choice of transforming their own bodies in isolation from common humanity. In 1933 a sadhak asked Sri Aurobindo whether he was right in believing that if the Supermind was not established in the Mother's body-consciousness, it was not because she was not ready for it like us, but because in order to establish ...
... first step towards this victory was the permanent establishment, in the Mother's most outward self, of that phase of the supramental consciousness which he had called the Mind of Light. And that establishment was a prelude to the progressive illumination, which she subsequently described, of the subtle consciousness within the very cells of the body. But when this illumination had reached—if we may judge... comfort with the drive of numberless pronouncements by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother? Two brief expressions by Sri Aurobindo of their fundamental goal may be quoted to speak for all. A letter on January 14, 1932, has the phrase: "...I want to divinise the human consciousness, to bring down the Supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Light, the Force into the physical to transform it...." 1 The same... Divine's manifestation. Again, Sri Aurobindo's letter of September 15,1935, which couples the Mother with him by name, says: "What is being done is meant to prepare the manifestation of the Supermind on the earth-consciousness down to Matter itself, so it can't be for the physical of myself or the Mother alone." 3 This short declaration implies three basic points: (1) Not only 1 Sri Aurobindo ...
... fate. The question she has to face was whether it is possible to break the bounds of human consciousness and go beyond to another state of consciousness higher than the mind. For, only so can man's problem be resolved. She found that she had within herself the Higher consciousness—in her the Divine Mother herself arose when she was preparing to face the danger. The other three Cantos of the first... possession of all the planes of consciousness. (Yoga of the King) III. Finally, he aspires no longer for himself but for all, for a universal realisation and new creation. (Book of Divine Mother). "As if a childlike finger" "It is not intended that the two images "finger laid" and "clutch" should correspond exactly to each other; for the "void" and the "Mother of the universe" are not the... seeker of the Divine and as an adept of the great spiritual and mystic realisation of the past gives us a wonderful picture of man's growth from mental consciousness through various intermediate stages to the Supreme Divine Mother Consciousness. "The Yoga of the Soul's Release" is the subject of this Canto. Here for the first time it becomes clear that this great epic deals with the spiritual ...
... But now this distinction... the other consciousness has become almost more concrete and real than the physical consciousness; the purely material consciousness is more wobbly.... Strange. 12 * "But how does one go from one state to the other or from one perception to the other?" I asked Mother. "What makes the difference between the two?" I don't know what comparison I should use, she answered... or rather the little mischievous eyes of Mother's body. How strange that even Mother's cells were humorous. But since I was the Philistine, She tried to explain to me as best She could: Just try for a moment, try and imagine you're the Divine! Everything is in you; you simply play at bringing it all out in a certain order. But for you, in your consciousness, it's all there simultaneously: there is... and "death." The degree of reality is in the degree of consciousness. The degree of life is in the degree of consciousness. A world that definitely seems to make a lot of sense The next world. The world of conscious Matter. We have to learn the laws of the next world. A More Complete World Progressively, through the years, Mother's experience took shape, with a kind of obvious concreteness ...
... the collapse happening at this moment: it is part of the transitional event. According to the Mother a consciousness higher than the human rational mind has recently been established in the atmosphere of the Earth and is active here. She called it, after Sri Aurobindo, the supramental consciousness and said that it would embody first in the overman and then as the superman. This does not mean that... be expected if the view of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and the forces activated by their Work, contain any truth. Man is “the mental being” par excellence, as one finds repeated time and again in their books. If man has to be surpassed by the overman and afterwards by the supramental being, then reason, the mental being’s main means of consciousness, must be surpassed – something painfully traumatic... whatever they are, are of different values and come from different planes of consciousness. Even the same thought-substance can take higher or lower vibrations according to the plane of consciousness through which the thoughts come in (e.g. thinking mind, vital mind, physical mind, subconscient mind) or the power of consciousness which catches them and pushes them into one man or another. Moreover there ...
... there was nobody there except the Mother in the other room.... Humanly he was a person who would never disturb anybody, who would never call anybody unless absolutely necessary.... However, it seems the Mother received a strong vibration in Her sleep or in Her trance.... and felt at once that something had happened to Sri Aurobindo. This is ... unity of consciousness. And She came and found Sri Aurobindo... re-capture the vision and re-enact in the Mind of Light awakened out of the Mind of Night that "supreme revelation". The Mother's comment on the very first line lightningly projects the sublime spiritual perspectives of the poem. The first emanations from the Supreme Mother - Consciousness, Bliss, Truth, Life - lose contact with their Origin, get immersed in Darkness, and in consequence dwindle into Unc... won a new height of realisation, and perhaps he wished to make the revised Savitri a channel for the communication of some ambrosial new insights or of some new power of consciousness. Sri Aurobindo seems to have told the Mother at the time he took up Savitri again: I am impelled to launch on a new adventure.... I was hesitant at the beginning, but now I am decided. Still I do not know how ...
... physical world as it is, in which Mother's body, Mother's cellular consciousness, "traveled" instantly and everywhere? × Mother's Agenda X, 20.12.69 × Mother's Agenda I, 23.7.58 ... visions?" I asked Mother one day. It's as if the consciousness were not in the same position with respect to things. So they seem completely different.... The ordinary human consciousness, even in people who are broad-minded and all that, is always at the center, and things exist in relation to a center—you're at one point and everything exists in its relation to that point of consciousness. While now,... Someone said to Mother: we are going to build the house here. And Mother replied: no, build there instead, you will hit water. They dug, and there was a spring. Or else someone said: I need two truckloads of cement for this work, and Mother saw eight bags of cement passing in front of her, together with the disciple's deceit. Or I can perhaps give a personal example, because that consciousness of Matter ...
... 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 path... earnest. It was a great surprise that I never felt tired in the least after working at a stretch for many hours. Since the mind dwelt in the Mother’s consciousness it brought deep concentration, and joy in the work, especially because I was fulfilling the Mother’s wish. Let me give a little description of the detailed work upon the screen, so that one may appreciate it fully. First, one sees a part... had come to do that sadhana. We can well understand from this letter of the Mother the way in which she and Sri Aurobindo want always to lift us to what they hold up before our consciousness. I am speaking of the time when our sadhana took a particular turn, when we were not going out or seeing anyone without the Mother’s permission. She knew all about our sadhana. She created such an atmosphere ...
... psychic being become open ? How to understand the psychic and vital beings in the adhar? By the force of aspiration and the grace of the Mother. Psychic : your true being, the being that is in the heart and that is the spark of the Mother's own consciousness. Vital : the part from which proceed desires and hunger and dynamic activities, having its physical basis round about the navel. 6)... Yoga if values are so topsyturvy in the consciousness. Apart from such extravagance, these things which aught to be only among the most minor values even in the human life, are promoted by many here to a rank they ought not to have. At the same time it is better, if it is possible, to have well-cooked rather than badly-cooked food. The idea that the Mother wants tasteless food to be served because... B. Purani With regard to the attacks you get there A.G. says they are bound to come as long as your entire consciousness is not transformed. Even when the higher power works in you down to your physico-vital consciousness, the attacks will find a way through the physical consciousness. Even if the power is in full action down to the physical itself, the attacks you complain of in your letter, ...
... whole—the Supreme Consciousness.' When Satprem asked if this Supreme Consciousness was the 'New Consciousness,' Mother replied, 'Not "new"! One can't say new"—Supreme Consciousness.' ². This entire experience and Mother's insistence that it all happened 'without moving', unlike the experience of the ascent of the Kundalini, suggests that it is the supramental consciousness concealed in the depths... return to the body-consciousness (not the physical consciousness but the body-consciousness), to the individual body-consciousness. The first sign of the return to individuality was a prick of pain, a tiny point (Mother holds between her fingers a minuscule point in the space of her being). Yes, because I have a sore, a sore in a rather awkward place, and it hurts¹ (Mother laughs). So I felt... and how Mother continued that Work. For a full study of this question, a thorough understanding of the relevant writings of Sri Aurobindo and 13 volumes of Mother's Agenda would be necessary. Satprem had made a detailed study of this question in his biography of Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, and in his biography of the Mother in three volumes, Mother or the Divine ...
... not of a few only, must change. They must cling less to the conditions and feelings of the external physical consciousness and open themselves to the true consciousness of the Yogin and sadhaka. If they did that, the inner eye would open and they would not be bewildered or alarmed if the Mother again manifested externally something of the Divine Personalities and Powers as she did before. They would... manifest or at least to enlighten and purify this vital from behind so that to rise to a higher Consciousness will be no longer too difficult. How he is to do it I cannot tell him. If he has the sincere sincerity (not merely the vital eagerness) he will find the way. Page 56 May 8, 1934 Mother knew nothing about the occurrence regarding Nishikanta. Nolini acted on his own initiative... But what is there in all that to affect you who do not gibe at faith, even if you yourself doubt, and do not attack or criticise the Mother. As for the sense of superiority, that too is a little difficult to avoid when greater horizons open before the consciousness, unless one is already of a saintly and humble disposition. There are men like Nag Mahashoy 27 in whom spiritual experience creates ...
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