... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Personal Effort and the Mother's Help The Mother's help is always there for those who are willing to receive it. But you must be conscious of your vital nature, and the vital nature must consent to change. It is no use merely observing that it is unwilling and that, when thwarted,... is thwarted or asked to change, it creates this depression by its revolt or refusal of consent. You have to insist till it recognises the truth and is willing to be transformed and to accept the Mother's help and grace. If the mind is sincere and the psychic aspiration complete and true, the vital can always be made to change. 15 July 1932 As for the feeling of people that there must be something ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Difficulties and the Mother's Help Not to be disturbed, to remain quiet and confident is the right attitude, but it is necessary also to receive the help of the Mother and not to shrink back for any reason from her solicitude. One ought not to indulge ideas of incapacity, inability... but not to allow oneself to be upset or pained or discouraged. Yoga is not an easy path and the total change of the nature cannot be done in a day. 27 May 1931 Throw aside this weakness. The Mother's help is there—keep yourself quiet and calm and face the difficulties with the courage a sadhak must have when seeking the Divine. 22 November 1933 Once one has entered the path of Yoga, there ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Helping Others and the Mother's Help The best way to help X is to assist her by your own example and atmosphere to get the right attitude. Instead of the sense that she is very ill, she should be encouraged to have a bright and confident feeling, open to receive strength and health... themselves into channels through which the Mother can act. Otherwise it is just vital ego trying to show others that one can "help". Page 323 Quite right. One can be a channel for the Mother's help, but the idea of oneself helping others comes in the way and so long as it is there one cannot be a truly effective channel. 17 April 1935 I believe that I cannot really help others or ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Natural Disasters, Adverse Forces and the Mother's Help Is it true that earthquakes are inevitable phenomena in the process of the Divine Manifestation on the earth and the transformation of matter? Not at all. The method of the Divine Manifestation is through calm and harmony ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Help in Worldly Matters The Mother does not usually give specific advice such as you ask for in regard to the Insurance company. You must learn to get the true inspiration in the mind's silence. 18 August 1932 X has written me a letter and asked something which ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Calling the Mother in Difficulty Why this bad feeling? I am feeling all bad today. When in difficulties always remain as quiet within as possible and call the Mother. Surely the Mother's force is there to transform you and it will prevail. You must progress to a point at... there with you even when you do not feel it; remain quiet and persevere. 15 September 1934 When X complained to me about her difficulty, I told her that it could be removed by calling the Mother's help. But she argued that there was no hope for the calls of a newcomer like herself to be heard by the Mother. There were so many calls coming from the older and advanced sadhaks that fresh calls ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Help and the Hostile Forces There are times when I think myself to be a simple vessel and imagine that things coming from the outside have no importance, for the adhar can be purified and what is not wanted can either be thrown out or allowed to end in a natural way. ...
... added the further threat to call his friends to help him deal with you. The calm and inoffensive behaviour you put up was just the right thing - both to impress the bully and to receive the Mother's help and grace. The bully was impressed and the Mother did come to your protection. Wasn't it a signal favour to you that the man summoned to assist in pulping you happened to be of a gentle... stopped abusing him in your presence. Perhaps you don't live consciously enough all the time. Be more self-watchful - and I think you won't get into scrapes. Now to your question about the Mother's help. No doubt, those who are in what you call "conscious contact" with her can draw her help better in a continuous way. But that does not mean others can't have it effectively. To appeal to ...
... right Page 47 manner with her. But one should keep off nervous and mental disturbance on account of lack of money: one should not be upset if one gets poor. One should pray for the Mother's help and do everything possible to avert poverty, but in an atmosphere of inner calm. Then the help too comes most, by way both of directive inner inspiration and of changed outer circumstance. ...
... to the suggestions of these forces whom you know to the enemies of your own soul and of your quiet and happiness, no 1 hostile to you than to us and our work; especially, do not shut yourself the Mother's help for any reason whatever, and never do what these for tell you to do; this shutting yourself up against help is the great mist you make when you are in this trouble. For some time you resisted ...
... you and has always been there. I cannot believe that you will reject it. For God's sake throw aside these misunderstandings and these movements, recover your true self and face out firmly, with the Mother's help and mine, the difficulties of the Yoga. "Your poem entitled 'In Darkness' is a very moving one — delicate, true and beautiful in every line." On another occasion, however, I was not so ...
... the Mother, and details of the transaction were placed before her for the divine intervention. I suggested to my friend also to pray to the Mother for her help. A letter sincerely praying for the Mother's help to solve the problem was sent by registered post with a copy of my friend's photograph. I was to go to Pondicherry soon after the letter was dispatched. So, I took with me a copy of the letter ...
... take its proper place here as a small portion and instrument of the Divine, something that is nothing without the Divine but with the Grace can be everything that the Divine wishes it to be. The Mother's help is always there but you are not conscious of it except when the psychic is active and the consciousness not clouded. The coming of suggestions is not a proof that the help is not there. Suggestions ...
... the worst possible example to others. 3) Dissimulation and falsity of speech. This is an exceedingly injurious habit of the lower nature. Those who are not straightforward cannot profit by the Mother's help, for they themselves turn it away. Unless they change, they cannot hope for the descent of the supramental Light and Truth into the lower vital and physical nature; they remain stuck in their ...
... given away from you. These imaginations and their effect on you are suggested by the same vital forces that are disturbing you so that you may not get free from the disturbance. My help and the Mother's help are there—you have only to keep yourself open to it to recover. 27 March 1933 Today my lower vital rose up and disturbed me because the Mother did not smile at me. For years and years I ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Praying to the Mother You say, "When one is a sadhak the prayer should be for the inner things belonging to the sadhana and for outer things Page 314 only so far as they are necessary for that and for the Divine work." This latter portion about prayer for outer things ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Difficulties and the Mother's Grace You must throw all that away. Such depression can only make you shut to what Mother is giving you. There is absolutely no good reason for such an attitude. The existence of difficulties is a known thing in the Yoga. That is no reason for questioning ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Protection The Mother puts her protection round all the sadhakas, but if by their own act or attitude they go out of the circle of the protection there may be undesirable consequences. 1 April 1933 I think that one observes the rules here either because one feels ...
... to have full faith in the Mother's assurances. My mind could hardly think reasonably. The dark forces assailed me in both repulsive and attractive forms. It was not easy for me to call for the Mother's help and to receive her response inwardly, because I became absolutely blind and deaf under the spell of those misleading influences. Nevertheless my true self aspired for the perfection of the whole ...
... contact with France. Because we did not implement it, a serious problem arose afterwards. To solve it I was again asked to go to Pondicherry after Sri Aurobindo had passed away in 1950." And with the Mother's help and intervention the whole plan of integration with India was finalised here. Yet the Mother was not at all willing at first to meddle in politics; she said she was not interested in it. Political ...
... not do it until they become a conscious channel for the Mother to work through them. Otherwise it is rather our vital ego that is prominent. Quite right. One can be a channel for the Mother's help but the idea of oneself helping others comes in the way and so long as it is there one cannot be a truly effective channel. The idea of helping others is a delusion of the ego ...
... ease and one with the Mother." Very good — it is the attitude I wanted you to take. The waves of subconscient tamas rose up today. Becoming detached I invoked the Mother's help. Then I watched her Force fighting it out. This experience proves the deeper urge of my Prakriti: "Whatever the confrontation with the lower nature, it will be met by the Mother. And I shall remain ...
... but a mind plastic and receptive to the higher truth and able to act under its impulsion, and also open to the psychic behind. As my mind began to develop with Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's help, the answers to my letters began to be more and more brief. At first this came as a shock, but later I understood that Sri Aurobindo wanted me to try and solve my own questions about my sadhana ...
... Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 THE MOTHER AND HER WORKING All these who are doing Sri Aurobindo's Yoga know that it cannot be done except with the Mother's help. In fact, as the sadhana progresses, one becomes conscious that it is she who is doing the sadhana in him and bearing the burden of his transformation. Truly speaking, to become conscious of the ...
... given away from you. These imaginations and their effect on you are suggested by the same vital forces that are disturbing you so that you may not get free from the disturbance. My help and the Mother's help are there — you have only to keep yourself open to it to recover. 8.4.33 The Mother as you know had suggested to X not to seek a sentimental reconciliation with you so as not to ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Difficulties and the Mother's Force What is the means of dealing day by day with difficulties? Page 296 Equality, rejection, calling in of the Mother's force. 1 August 1933 When difficulties arise, remain quiet within and call down the Mother's Force to remove them ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Opening to the Mother in Difficulty There is nothing wrong in your experience or insincere in your expression of it; to write is helpful and it is our wish that you should go on doing it. An occasional sinking of the consciousness happens to everybody. The causes are various, some ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Turning to the Mother for Help It is the physical mind that feels too inert—but if some part of the being turns to the Mother, that is enough to bring the help. 25 January 1934 I feel a sense of tiredness, depression, sadness, but all the same I stick to you. I am quiet sometimes ...
... growth of consciousness and perhaps less aspiration? Page 493 It depends on the person. Some profit, some do not. No general statement can be made. Is it possible to receive the Mother's help at a great distance—say Bombay or Calcutta—almost in the same way as here in the Asram? One can receive everywhere, and if there is a strong spiritual consciousness one can make great progress ...
... months or once in a year—apart from the Pranam and meditation. On the other hand one near her physically or seeing her often may not feel such a thing at all; he may complain of the absence of the Mother's help and love altogether or as compared to what she gives to others. If the childishly simple rule of three given above were true, such contrasts would not be possible. Whether one feels the Mother's ...
... call on that to sustain you; if your force is insufficient against the ill-will and opposition that surround Page 33 you, open yourself to receive that force in its place. The Mother's help and mine are always there for you. You have only to turn fully towards it and it will act on you. What has come across is these wrong ideas about your unfitness, about bad things in you that ...
... lodgings: there is no external flying from the world in any extreme sense. They undergo no strenuous austerities, shoot up in no prolonged trances: while entering, with the Master's and the Mother's help, more and more into a vast inner light and joy beyond the human and the mortal, they live serious busy lives, do their daily work in the Ashram as if they were earning their own livelihood ...
... many yearsago it was he who used to keep the Mother informed almost daily about my condition. 1 also remember with deep gratitude the many occasions on which he has, at my request, invoked the Mother's help and blessings to solve difficult and critical problems facing my friends and relatives. Besides the fact that we are co-disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (which, of course ...
... down in English from memory, and are therefore approximate. ) 1) When N.S. spoke of what Indira said about the troubles she is having and the difficulties she is facing and that she wanted the Mother's help, strength and guidance, the Mother said She knew Page 146 very well about all this, and that she was constantly giving Her help and blessings to Indira. 2) Regarding the danger ...
... also asked for water to drink. The great pain continued for some time, accompanied by a splitting headache. We did our best to make her comfortable. I sat by her, soothing her and invoking the Mother's help. Gradually she fell asleep. At about 3.15 she woke up, wanting to go to the bathroom. I took her there. When she saw her face in the mirror she was amazed at the gravity of the hurt ...
... heard again from the couple. They reported a good chance to solve their problem. The closing words of the note were: "We have done our utmost on our side — but really the final touch would be the Mother's help. We find it very hard at present to live as we are. But it just can't be helped... All we can do is to put our faith in the Mother. Perhaps she'll make the new chance come true." I ...
... ' collection of the poems when, on Sri Aurobindo's recommendation, they were brought out as a book in 1949. Undoubtedly the heart-trouble seemed worthwhile having for the inner experience of the Mother's help and the outer expression in those eighty-nine poems. Page 89 May I continue to speak for a little while more? I'll turn to another aspect of life. Once it got into ...
... tendered. The Seventh Limb: The Resignation — Sri Aurobindo has warned the sadhakas that there is a great difference between "calling' and 'pulling' — one can and must always call for the Mother's help and the answer will be proportionate to the sadhaka's capacity of reception and assimilation. But pulling is a selfish movement that may bring clown forces quite disproportionate to one's capacities ...
... solved? No. but by the change of the consciousness there can be a more conscious and perfect functioning of the memory replacing the old mechanism. Just as I seek the Mother's help for opening in me new Page 222 capacities for her work, can I not do the same regarding memory? Yes, if the consciousness opens itself sufficiently to the ...
... rejection and forgetfulness. The Tantric is a hero, he does not avoid or bypass the difficulty, he faces the vital urge but not in his own strength, his own individual capacity but invokes the Mother's help; he calls the Mother; the Divine Prakriti into himself so that she fights the battle for him; he simply lies quiet behind, perhaps like the Lord Shiva at her feet. The battle is fought by the ...
... without the Mother, Sri Aurobindo's stupendous realisations could not have taken such a concrete shape on this terrestrial base. In fact, he was waiting for the Mother's coming. He said that with the Mother's help he covered ten years of sadhana in one year. The very building up of the Ashram testifies to this irrefutable truth: "He wills, I execute." After Sri Aurobindo's passing, it was feared in some ...
... for yourselves what misuse money is being put to. But someday wealth has to be won back from these hostile forces and used in the service of the Divine. This is the deeper significance behind the Mother's help to start a shop. Do you understand?" "A little," replied Sachet. "What else did he tell you?" "Oh, many things, very interesting stories, but most of them happened much later, after the ...
... little ones. The front verandah of our house used to come alive with their singing every evening. I began preparing myself to be able to run this Music section. However, at all times, I felt the Mother's help. On Sunday mornings when I went to Her for Pranam, She would sometimes ask if it was not inconvenient to take classes at home. She would also explain to me that a good space hid not yet been found ...
... to read it. How was I able to prepare such a script? The words of the Mother echoed in my ears: When I give someone a responsibility, I also give that person the force to carry it out. I felt the Mother's help and inspiration constantly guiding me during the entire preparation of this programme. The first part of the programme was based on the script. The second part was to be music. At that time I ...
... Speaks 30 March 1936 A few years ago I started painting relying only on Mother's help. Later, in order to learn the technique I went to A and K on a few occasions. Somehow I stopped. Now there is an urge to continue painting. I pray for Mother's guidance as to how I should start. The best thing is to take something that appeals to you and try to paint it—not ...
... Other Sadhanas 1949-09-23 Ali 1 had sought Mother's help for a friend of his and Mother had responded. When Ali asked Mother on behalf of the friend whether he could continue his usual japa of Rama-nama or not, she answered that for full benefit of her help, he must stop the other thing. × ... Ali Hydari, son of Sir Akbar Hydari (Prime Minister of Hyderabad and a devotee of Sri Aurobindo), and his wife Alys were very devoted to the Mother and lived in the Ashram for several years. For more about them and the Ashram of that period see Bilkees Latif, Her India , 1984, pp. 166-190. ...
... Correspondence with The Mother 9 November 1967 Dearest Mother, May I have a block made of these words of yours? I shall not be quoting the question to which they are a reply. The title will be: THE MOTHER’S HELP A LETTER I am not in the habit of forcing my will upon others. If they, themselves, ask for help, the help will be given. All ...
... It only distracts me from aspiring, from striving, from doing the yoga. Mother, what to do? Sometimes I feel like stopping everything—food, sleep, work, exercise—and just call and call until there is a breakthrough, until something opens. There is no sense in going on as I am. I cannot go on this way. Mother, help me, I pray. Perhaps if you stop doing "yoga" and just live joyfully—yoga... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 8 October 1965 Gracious Divine Mother, What is the matter? I can't find any inside, any door, any opening to "step through". There is no place I can go to hide, to rest, to find any peace. Why is it that I still can't trust the sadhana to you? Many years ago when ...
... Correspondence with The Mother 26 May 1963 Dear Mother, I badly lack the intensity of aspiration and the initial effort needed to establish contact with the psychic. Even there is no intensity in my prayer to You. Mother, help me to grow on the path of sadhana. I often feel that I am not progressing. Please do help. Do not bother about the... effective so far. Even now I am doing this Japa, keeping Your image in my heart. Mother, should I change this traditional way and follow some other method? Be plastic to the inner impulse, not too tied by fixed rules and programmes. Let your feeling have a more free play. In any case you can be sure of the help. With love and blessings 26 May 1963 ... the progress — it will come by itself with the growth of the sincerity. Fund collection for the Mother will form a major part of my work in the future. In reply to my enquiry about Lord Ganesh some time back, You very graciously explained the whole thing and wrote at the end about collecting money: “But if now you invoke Ganesh sincerely, he may resume his good offices through you. It can be tried ...
... a force greater than mine must help me accept that my way is here. I need you, Mother, for without you I am lost. I need you to tell me that the Truth of my being is indeed here and that I am truly ready to follow this path. Mother, I beseech you, help me to see the truth of my being, give me some sign that my way is here and not elsewhere. I beg of you, Mother, help me to know. I also had a very... you, do you want to help me? Alone I can do nothing. I am in an absolute solitude, even beyond all rebellion, at my very end. Yet I love you in spite of all that I am. Signed : Bernard Page 72 ( Mother's reply ) 4.4.56 My child, I have not abandoned you, and I am ready to forget, to efface all revolt. My help is always with you. Signed : Mother ... 1956 1956 Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 April 4, 1956 ( Letter to Mother from Satprem ) Pondicherry, April 4, 1956 Mother, two months ago I had a clear mental perception of what was asked of me: to spend the rest of my life here. This is the source of my difficulties and of the inner hell I have been living through ever since. Each time I try to emerge ...
... And the Ashram is expected to show the way to the solution of India's problems. Can the Ashram rise up to play its role? At least that was the Mother's intention. It all depends upon its individual members. Of course, we must remember, Mother's help is always there. Talk of September 9, 1976 Page 47 ... so-called "best" ones, that is, chose who are more conscious, to detect and reject and change all that is wrong and false in them and develop Page 46 all that is true and good, and thereby help to change those very elements in the Ashram atmosphere as well as outside it. That is the only solution and the only remedy—to cure the ills individually, personally in ones own consciousness. Then... The Mother Abides - Final Reflections The Ashram, the World and the Individual Mother told us long ago that our Ashram is an epitome or India. It represents all that is good in India and also all that is bad—all the bad qualities, the weaknesses, all that is crooked and false, dark and obscure. And the Ashram, being a concentrated centre of all that, represents ...
... Page 331 child with her at your feet. Mother, help me. I need you. Sujata is healing something that was very painful in me, as though it were flayed or wounded, and which threw me into revolt. With this calming influence, I would like to begin a new life of self-giving. This change of residence is for me like the symbol of another change. Oh, Mother! may the painful road be over, and may all... 1959 1959 Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 October 15, 1959 ( Letter to Mother from Satprem ) Rameswaram, October 15, 1959 Sweet Mother, Here are two or three things that might interest you: 1) X spoke to me again of the war without my asking anything. He repeated, 'There will be war,' and he again spoke of an attack on India by China ... 2)... changed very much. He spoke as well of certain people in the Ashram, but I will tell you about this in person. He had a rather amusing way of speaking about people, 'people who pretend to worship the Mother but who keep their mind as a dustbin!' 7) X wants to send me back to Pondicherry this Sunday (Sunday the 18th, arriving Monday the 19th morning). He says it is useless for me now to remain here ...
... solved. And the Ashram is expected to show the way to the solution of India's problems. Can the Ashram rise up to play its role? At least that was the Mother's intention. It all depends upon its individual members. Of course, we must remember, Mother's help is always there. Page 27 ... especially the so-called ‘best’ ones, that is, those who are more conscious, to detect and reject and change all that is wrong and false and develop all that is true and good, and thereby to change or help to change the very elements in Ashram-atmosphere as well as outside: that is the only solution and the only remedy – to cure the ills individually, personally in one's own consciousness. Then only a... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 6 The Ashram, the World and The Individual* MOTHER told us long ago that our Ashram is an epitome of India. It represents all that is good in India and also all that is bad – all the bad qualities, her weaknesses, all that is crooked and false, dark and obscure. And the Ashram, being a concentrated centre ...
... has plunged me into total disarray.... I feel like an orphan.... It is thus with all my earnestness that I say to you: Mother, help me to live again." ( Mother remains concentrated for a very long time ) It's a beautiful letter. ( silence ) Is he French? Yes, Mother. What day is it today? And what time is it there? Today is Saturday. It's about five o'clock in the morning there... instrument, as one of the instruments. May Your Will be done, Lord... with a great force of concentration. ( Mother plunges in ) ( Mother then listens to several texts from Sri Aurobindo for the message of April 24. Sujata suggests the following passage from Savitri, which Mother immediately accepts: ) He comes unseen into our darker parts And, curtained by the darkness, does his work... 1972 1972 April Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 April 8, 1972 Perhaps you remember that in January, Msgr. R. wrote to you, and you concentrated on him for a long time; then you asked me to write him and ask "if he had been conscious of something." 1 I have received his reply: one letter addressed to me and another to you. Here's what he writes to me (his ...
... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother Sadhana through Work for the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother Opening to the Mother in Work Demands should not be made. What you receive freely from the Mother helps you; what you demand or try to impose on her is bound to be empty of her force. The Mother deals with each person differently according... yourself to the Mother's force. If vanity, ambition and self-conceit stand in your way, cast them from you. You will not get rid of these things by merely waiting for them to disappear. If you merely wait for things to happen, there is no reason why they should happen at all. If it is incapacity and weakness that oppose, still, as one opens oneself truly and more and more to the Mother's force, the strength... get the strength you need would be to do the work conscientiously and scrupulously, allowing nothing to interfere with its exact discharge. If you did that, opening yourself at the same time to the Mother in your work, you would receive more constantly the grace and would come to feel her power doing the work through you; you would thus be able to live constantly with the sense of her presence. If on ...
... 1961 My Savitri work with the Mother 17 October 1961 On 17th October 1961 the Mother distributed the following Message on Durga Puja: Durga is the Mother's power of Protection. Those who are not straightforward cannot profit by the Mother 's help, for they themselves turn it away. Unless they change, they cannot hope for the descent of the Supramental ...
... With love and blessings. Mother, I feel terribly ill at ease, there are doubts about the Power and all sorts of troublesome things. I feel as if I were suffocating little by little, I have a headache that drifts here and there, it is terrible; I feel bound Page 242 to something tamasic, inert and dark. I cannot get rid of this. Help me, Mother, I don't know what to do, everything... everything is dark, dark, dark. I don't know how long I can hold out against this, a sort of something which gradually drains my energy and wants to draw me into itself. Mother, help me, I really don't know what to do. You must not be afraid. Have full trust in the Divine who is Love, Light and Life. 8 March 1972 Go safely to Siddhapur and do not fear . It is only fear which hurts, not the... 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. ...
... Moreover, Mother, I find no interest in life these days. No work interests me. It is a peculiar state. It is so intense that I feel no interest in living. Sometimes I pray that I may leave this body quietly and merge myself in Thy consciousness. Mother, what is this? I want to serve Thee sincerely, but how can I do this in the present state in which I am? Mother, please help. I shall tell... Madanlal) Madanlal Himatsingka's Correspondence with The Mother 9 January 1973 Mother, You have been so kind to me that I cannot express it in words. You have been and are giving me everything — but Mother, I feel that I am throwing it all away and cannot retain even a portion of it. Mother, is there no way to make me hold what you so graciously ...
... September September Mother’s Agenda 1961 September 28, 1961 ( Letter to Mother from Satprem ) Sweet Mother, I feel completely abandoned to myself. This book is a real SUFFERING. I don't see where I am going, I am groping in all directions. Mother, do help me. Where lies the fault? I am suffering, you know. I would like to do it well, but it comes... Signed : Satprem Page 334 ( Mother's reply ) Thursday Satprem, my dear child, If you agree, here is what we could do: read aloud to me what you have written; perhaps seeing it in my consciousness will help you. If you think this could be useful, I will see you on Saturday at 10 o'clock. With all my tenderness, Signed : Mother ...
... human! Mother always helped wherever she saw some possibility. × See Yvonne Artaud's “A Child of the Ashram” in Mother India , November 1974, pp. 840-43. × This second-floor room is between the Mother's room which... monkey she had adopted, Mother as it was his birthday today. The interview took place in the Music room 2 . I was there by Mother's side. It was interesting that from the moment Thoth came into the room he behaved not only with Mother but even with me as if he knew us both. He sat in Mother's lap, folded his hands and did namaskar and looked at her so wonderfully. The Mother gave him the flower... which, since 1974, we visit on 21st February and 17th November, and the Terrace on which the Mother used to come out on the four Darshan days of the year after she stopped coming downstairs. The last Darshan from the Terrace was on 15th August 1973. ...
... to make the best use of it and let the Mother know how you do it. Page 458 I am ready to give up all my relations with everyone and be merged in the Mother alone. Please tell me what rules I should follow to overcome all obstacles. May Mother help me both inwardly and outwardly. The most important thing is to be turned inwardly towards the Mother and to her alone. To avoid too many outward... simply call her help before I retire to bed? Aspire and want it always—that is the first thing. As for methods, perhaps it is best not to go to sleep straight in the ordinary way, but to 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... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother Relation between the Mother and Her Children The Mother with Letters on the Mother Inner Contact with the Mother Let the inner contact with the Mother increase—unless that is there, the outer contacts if too much multiplied easily degenerate into a routine. Today while going to the Mother, I felt concentrated ...
... merely one hour a day, when I see you. I know that you do not like to write, Mother, but couldn't you say in a few words if you approve of my project or what I should do? In spite of all my rebellions and discouragements and resistances, I am your child. O Mother, help me! Page 50 Signed : Bernard ( Mother's reply ) My dear child, No doubt it would be better to go to Almora for... You may go to Almora if you think it will help you break this shell of the outer consciousness, so obstinately impenetrable. Perhaps being far away from the Ashram for a while will help you feel the special atmosphere that exists here and that cannot be found anywhere else to the same extent. In any event, my blessings will always be with you to help you find, at long last, this inner Presence... 1955 1955 Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 April 4, 1955 ( Letter to Mother from Satprem ) Pondicherry, April 4, 1955 Mother, for more than a year now I have been near you and nothing, no really significant inner experience, no sign has come that allows me to feel I have progressed or merely to show me that I am on the right path. I cannot even say I am ...
... Goal. The Mother guides, helps each according to his nature and need, and, where necessary, herself intervenes with her Power enabling the sadhak to withstand the rigours and demands of the Path. She has placed herself—with all the Love, Peace, Knowledge and Consciousness that she is—at the disposal of every aspiring soul that looks for help. All in me is proceeding towards the Mother's love, devotion... 332 devotion, love and 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 ... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother and the Sadhana in the Ashram The Mother with Letters on the Mother Broad Lines of the Sadhana The basis of life here is wholly spiritual. An inner discipline is given, but it is on broad lines allowing each individual the necessary freedom for his nature and temperament to grow and change spontaneously ...
... have done without his invaluable help always forthcoming to my hundred and one questions; apart from the task of editing this Book Six of Mother's Chronicles. Help has also come from brothers Abhay, Nirmal and Noren, and sister Suprabha, for the out-of-the-blue questions I have the habit of putting. Page 9 And why not tell you the material help extended by friends Magda and Werner... Mother's Chronicles - Book Six A Word with You, Please Hello! Hello! Friends. Are you still there? My absence has been pretty long, hasn't it? But only a wink in time, no? This probably calls for an explanation. But knowing my readers, I don't think it's necessary. As you enter this story you will understand the reasons for the length of time taken over ...
... 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 that... 1961 My Savitri work with the Mother 06 November 1961 On 6th November the Mother met me in the morning in the Meditation Hall upstairs and explained to me the ninth picture: A glamour from the unreached transcendences Iridescent with the glory of the Unseen, A message from the unknown immortal Light Ablaze upon creation's quivering edge, Dawn... grandeur in the hours. || 1.26 || She drew a faint line here and there on a piece of paper, I could hardly make out anything. The Mother wished me to use various colours for the painting. She asked me: Have you seen the dawn? I said: "No, Mother, because I work late at night, I cannot get up early to see the dawn. I am sorry." She laughed softly and left me in an ambiguous state. ...
... joy have taken their place. You know that I love you and that I am always with you to support you, to help you and to show you the way. Blessings. 26 August 1969 * * * Sweet Mother, Help me to become your true child. This is a good resolution. You can be sure of my help and of the presence of my consciousness which is with you to enlighten and guide you whenever you call on... realisation. But just now I want to tell you that my love and help are always with you to help you on the way. Blessings. 2 July 1971 * * * When I left for Europe at the end of April 1972, the Mother gave me a card with the following message: I am with you always, and will be with you throughout your journey to help you to find the Divine — the only way to have lasting happiness... progress is exceptional. Will you not be of those who take advantage of it? 1 April 1971 * * * Sweet Mother, Pacify this tempest in me and establish peace. Calm this violence and make love reign. At this moment I aspire with all my heart to become Your true child. Help me to become worthy of You. My dear child, I was very happy to read what you have written. The day of your ...
... 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... . 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... does the 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 ...
... known as Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is the joint creation of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother; they are now completely identified—the sadhana in the Asram and all arrangement is done directly by the Mother, Sri Aurobindo supports her from behind. All who come here for practising Yoga have to surrender themselves to the Mother who helps them always and builds up their spiritual life. ... about the separation between the Mother and myself and our paths being different or our goal different are quite erroneous. Our path is the same; our goal too is the same—the Supramental Divine. 24 February 1932 Mother was doing Yoga before she knew or met Sri Aurobindo; but their lines of sadhana independently followed the same course. When they met, they helped each other in perfecting the ... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother Two in One The Mother with Letters on the Mother One Path There is something undivine in the world, a part that seems obscure; I said to the Mother that its truth here is expressed by the Mother's Light. The other truth is expressed by Sri Aurobindo's Light. They are two different paths and seem to be poles ...
... from an historical point of view, for many of these conversations with Mother were invisibly oriented by his own condition. In fact, he was intimately linked with the flow of this Agenda, which thus stands mutilated. Need we add that we had to prepare the first two volumes as fugitives, and it required Mother's miraculous help to avert even more serious mutilations than the auto-da-fé of Satprem's... This letter to Mother is, with a few others, the sole survivor of thirteen years of correspondence. All the rest, all Satprem's correspondence with Mother since 1960, was confiscated by the Ashram after the Mother's departure, for its own reasons. His letters of 1960, already published in Volume I, escaped the destruction because Mother herself had kept them. It makes a big hole... September September Mother’s Agenda 1961 September 30, 1961 ( Mother gives Satprem a flower she has recently named 'Unostentatious Certitude': Platycodon grandiflorum ) This is the complete negation of 'bluff.' I find it very beautiful. When I saw this flower, it struck me as something very profound, very calm—absolutely sure, immobile. I don't know ...
... under my pillow. I had to be in bed for fifteen days. After the operation I felt pain all over my body and I was wondering how to pass fifteen days in bed. So I kept Mother's Blessing packet under my pillow and started calling Mother for help with all the intensity of my heart. The next morning when I woke up I was surprised to feel that all my pain had disappeared and that my body was filled with peace... And then we observed that if we had been there, the sea would have washed us to its water. The next day, when we reported the matter to Mother, She smiled and said that She had asked the sea not to trouble us up to 8:30 p.m. When Mother's love, help and protection are there, none can harm us. We have only to be sincere and truthful to Her. Page 72 ... during the year 1957 or 1958, Mother had not called me to play with Her for months. I was sad and inwardly disturbed and took umbrage with Mother. So I decided not to be present in the tennis court when Mother came to play tennis. I went to play football or for a swim in the sea. One evening when Mother returned from the playground—and I used to be present to see Mother upstairs in the corridor—suddenly ...
... or tail out of these paintings. Afterwards I never attempted to repeat my stupidity, because I knew that this type of painting was beyond my capacity. I needed the Mother's direct help. Now my inner being warned me to wait for the Mother to teach me, to guide me according to her vision and will. Mr. Purani came to my apartment and saw the paintings. Then he entered my meditation room, remained absorbed... Savitri work with the Mother 21 October 1960 The Mother arranged my first reading of Savitri with Ambalal Purani on 21' October 1960. She said: I shall be there with you, I mean my Consciousness, while you read Savitri I commenced my study of the Epic with Mr. Purani in his room on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Meanwhile the Mother asked me to do some... Savitri paintings according to selected verses. Later, in order to test me, the Mother asked me to do some paintings of Savitri . So I painted 6 or 7 paintings with full enthusiasm without asking the Mother's guidance, inspiration and instructions. But it was sheer folly on my part. Nevertheless, the Mother saw them and asked me to alter them. Thus she encouraged me. Then I realised my mistake ...
... aspire always for their removal, to call always the Force of the Mother to help to remove them. But the most entirely effective thing is if you can feel the Force of the Mother working in you and support its action always. 29 June 1933 You have written: "But the most entirely effective thing is if you can feel the Force of the Mother working in you and support its action always." What is the meaning... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Discrimination and the Working of the Mother's Force It is dangerous to think of giving up "all barrier of discrimination and defence against what is trying to descend" upon you. Have you thought what this would mean if what is descending is something not... An Adverse Power could ask no better condition for getting control over the seeker. It is only the Mother's Force and the divine Truth that one should admit without barriers. And even there one must keep the power of discernment in order to detect anything false that comes masquerading as the Mother's Force and the divine Truth, and keep too the power of rejection that will throw away all mixture. ...
... stopped. This morning, it started again. I pray Mother to help me. What is it that I hear as Mother, Mother around me. Is it true or a delusion? The atmosphere you carry around you is part of your consciousness as much as the rest that you feel inside you. When you repeat the name of the Mother, it begins to echo in all your consciousness the Mother, outside as well as inside you. What you... was saved by Thy Grace. Mother, why am I having this fear of a snake? It is not clear. It looks like a suggestion (imagination) of the vital plane forced upon your mind. Did you kill the scorpion? S RI A UROBINDO Mother, I have been seeing my sister Yashoda and all members of my family in my night's dream. Mother, help me to see you and remember only you... but your face. Why are my relatives frequently coming in my dreams? Please help me uproot these things from my being. Do you think of them or speak of them much in the daytime? If so, it will come up in your sleep also and bring them in your dreams to you. 4.12.32 Sri Aurobindo Mother, I saw the following dream two days back. I along with two ...
... Invoking the Divine Mother's help we have to go forward to the best of our lights and take our share in the inner and outer battle. We may commit mistakes, but that does not imply that we should never dare to correct anything but must accept everything as being perfectly in order and requiring no opposition from us. The easy argument, that Satprem could not have ignored the Divine Mother's wish unless she... Sri Aurobindo for Mother India — I cannot bring myself to attach much meaning to the eruption of the El Chinchonal volcano in south-east Mexico after centuries of quiescence on 29 March, the date on which the Mother first came to Pondicherry and met Sri Aurobindo — much less to the army reporting about it on 4 April, the date of Sri Aurobindo's arrival in Pondicherry. The Mother never encouraged too... follows: "How is it that the Divine Mother who, by definition, must be both omniscient and omnipotent, has allowed the Agenda to be got hold of entirely by Satprem in spite of her telling her son Andre that in case of publication it should be edited by him — without necessarily meaning utter exclusion of Satprem as collaborator? No matter if the Divine Mother has left her body she cannot cease having ...
... So these are concrete examples of the Lord's tangible help. They come only on one condition: sincerity. I am not boasting about it. If you want something sincerely, the Divine, the Lord or the Mother helps. Some have recorded how help came to them, and my friend Champaklal tells me of many experiences of this kind - how the Divine helps him in his work. He has a big stock of materials - like I... He'll keep quiet rather than answer me. Once, long ago, when I was on the point of weeping - can you believe it ? - Sri Aurobindo used to say, "Don't weep, weeping does not help," and, at other times, He would say, "Crying helps." So you see, the ways of the Lord are mysterious! So that morning, before my meditation at 6:30 a.m., I was quarrelling with the Guru within myself. Since, if nothing... out of devotion. Look at His eyes." The Mother said, "Yes, He is looking, looking." Then, looking at Jayantilal, She said, "Keep it downstairs for people to see." Jayantilal replied: "But I was thinking of framing it before exhibiting it." Mother: "Yes." Artist: "No, keep it like this. What do you say, Mother?" Mother: "All right. What will you do next?" Artist: ...
... to an end. I still had not been able to overcome my sense of ego, but kept quiet about it. I prayed to the Mother to help me change my nature. My birthday arrived and the Mother gave me a card with a birthday message. There were some grass-flowers stuck on the front of the card. The Mother's spiritual significance of this flower is Humility! Inside the card was the following message in French... programme. As he really liked the adaptation, I sent the script to the Mother and told Her about our wish to put it up. The Mother asked us to show it to Nolini-da. Then through Nolini-da, the Mother sent us word that the 1 st December programme of that year (1964) would be The Hour of God. Along with my friend K, we requested the Mother if She could record The Hour of God in Her voice. She agreed. Sunil-da... certain point, Norman-da suggested that I write a letter to the Mother about it. Let me simply Page 139 share here with the readers my letter and the Mother's reply to it: Mother Divine, We have started our work on The Hour of God. We want our labour to be a true offering to You and to Sri Aurobindo. Mother, I want to bring to your kind attention that this idea of ...
... folded Her arms and began watching the marching seriously. All this playfulness and mischief of the Mother helped to take us out of that solemn grief into which Sri Aurobindo’s departure had plunged us. The Mother was now totally alone. This fact caused us a lot of pain. From time to time the Mother would become extremely serious. We could not understand this. The thought that was uppermost on our... each word. I can hear his call. He hasn’t sent a single person to his death.” I can still hear the Mother’s voice. The Mother always helped all Her children and devotees whenever they called out to Her. Needless to say, I was filled with joy on hearing so much praise for my uncle. The Mother probably didn’t know that this Subodh Kumar Niyogi was my uncle. He was, in fact, my younger uncle Himangshu... to the Mother. The Mother used to enjoy talking to us about a host of things. She would watch very attentively how each person marched. One day all of a sudden She exclaimed: “Look there, a spider!” We turned and saw that one of the sadhaks was stretching his arms sideways in such a way that he really looked like a spider. Gauri and I could not help laughing. Then I exclaimed: “Mother, look ...
... the Soup Distribution by the Mother in the room downstairs, the Mother brought her file of 'Prayers and Meditations' written in her own hand. She asked each of us what his or her favourite sentence was. I chose the one which in the English translation reads: "O Page 180 divine and adorable Mother, with Thy help what is there that is impossible?" The Mother immediately cut out for me... crumbling Amal Kiran - could also take place just by his constant appeal to the divine and adorable Mother for help. It may be of interest to you to know what the Mother said when once in the meeting in the "Prosperity"-room the question arose as to who most often made a call to the Mother for help. She named Duraiswamy, a well-known advocate of Madras who used to come to the Ashram on weekends,... quiet way. All of us have the Page 178 aspiration to come nearer and nearer our divine Gurus — Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - but we should never despair and never accept such notions of non-progress. We are in their hands and they will always help us go forward. Our one aim should be to give ourselves to them more and more in devotion and surrender and leave the problem of our progress ...
... wanted to return. As soon as the Mother heard the mention of the child, she relented and said, "Look for a house and ask them to start at once." I was astonished by her change of attitude and inferred that the child’s cry must have touched the Mother’s heart. Since then, they have been here; the children are in the school and my niece’s husband has by the Mother’s help got a job in a local mill. This... friend of mine to give her some monetary help. She replied, "Better not." At the same time she seemed to have done something in her occult way which thenceforth rendered my mother’s life quite comfortable, even cheerful. Here when she took up work in the Dining Room, the Mother remarked, "It is good to do some-work." I was told that she used to compose nursery rhymes in the old style and was quite popular... family. Now the Mother took up the charge and directed Counouma, the Manager of the Ashram, to try all means possible to keep the boy here. The boy was a member of the Ashram, but by mistake was enlisted as a refugee, as he had to take shelter in a refugee camp at the border. Surendra Mohan Ghose helped us in the matter. As a result, the Government kept quiet. But after the Mother’s passing, all of ...
... in saying that these things are finished for ever. If you had not confessed, the Mother would have been obliged to deal severely with you; but as you have confessed, this lapse may be considered as annulled, provided it is never repeated. A greater frankness and sincerity in laying yourself open to the Mother will help you avoid such aberrations in future. There is no reason why you should not succeed... more strict with yourself, more trustful in the Divine Grace, more sincerely open to the Mother. 10 September 1933 Page 673 Some [personal] rules I have been following—not reading newspapers, not eating outside, and so forth—now seem like mental dogmas. Rules like these are intended to help the vital and physical to come under the discipline of sadhana and not get dispersed in fancies... things in order to help you and put you in the right way. A certain inner and outer discipline is necessary in order that one may grow into the spirit of the Yoga and the natural impulses of the vital cannot be a guide to action there. One has to perceive what one should or should not do and impose this discipline on oneself; for that X 's advice and guidance can be of great help to you. 20 October ...
... long as Nature lasts, he too is there; For this is sure that he and she are one. I.IV.72 × Mother helps a disciple, a painter, to illustrate some passages from Savitri . × Mahalakshmi's music. ... is automatically there, because the experience is there. It's the same with my mantra. When I wanted to translate the end of my mantra, "Glory to You, O Lord," into Sanskrit, I asked for Nolini's help. He brought his Sanskrit translation, and when he read it to me, I immediately saw that the power was there—not because Nolini put his power into it (!), God knows he had no intention of "giving" me... sure Page 133 of. And he gave me his own example (I had mine, too) of certain things considered dangerous or bad, which we both did independently and spontaneously, and which were a great help to us! Consequently, all those stories of posture and so on are the petty mechanical bounds of the human mind. It came to me while I was walking [for the japa]. I had a kind of vision of you squatting ...
... suffer from ill-health, Mother presses the nourishment of the divine strength and health into your physical being, renewing its substance with that. 4 November 1934 If we want the Mother to help someone outside with her Force, but we give her wrong information, does the help she sends miss its mark or does it go automatically where it should? Yesterday I suppose the Mother acted before X gave the... take the help of treatment. It is a fact of my experience that when the resistance in the body is too strong and persistent, it can help to take some aid of physical means as an instrumentation for the Force to work more directly on the body itself; for the body then feels itself supported against the resistance from both sides, by means both physical as well as supraphysical. The Mother's force can... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Therapeutic Force While working, I suddenly felt a pressure of weakness, a depression in the chest. When I became conscious of it, I opened myself and called the Mother's force. After a few minutes it disappeared. Was it the divine strength ...
... 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) I request for permission to write letters to the Mother. You can write. Page 39 11) What attitude... 12) What should I read at present? Sri Aurobindo's books. November 1928 How to open to the Mother? The following are the means: (1) To remember You constantly or from time to time― Good. (2) By taking Your name through Japa― Helpful. (3) With the help of meditation― More difficult if one has not the habit of meditation. (4) By conversation about You with... 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. ...
... of acute pain. My inner appeals to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother brought on some alleviation now and again but no appreciable relief. Soon after sunrise, my friend Ambu who used to be a great help to me in the early days of my stay in the Ashram came to enquire how I was. I told him of my restless night and gave him a note for the Mother to be taken immediately to her door and to see that it got... a surprising metamorphosis of the terrible prolonged sinking feeling in the middle of the chest as if I were passing inexorably out of life. I was inwardly calling to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother for help but also acted in a "realistic" manner by calmly telling my wife that there appeared to be not much hope of my survival. I believe it was the sustained intensity of my cry to my gurus that... Apocalypse. Day after day, although the doctor had advised me not even to raise my head from the pillow if I could help it, I used to sit up and write poems in a condition of thrilled inspiration which made my heart go like a race-horse. All the time I felt the force of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo behind the poetry and, with every act of offering the surprising results to them, the room within ...
... has been lulled. The Mother Guidance and help Be sure that I am always present among you to guide and help you in your work and your sadhana. The Mother My help is with you My help is always with you to help you in your progress and your work. The difficulties you cannot overcome today will be overcome tomorrow or later on. The Mother The cradle of the new... still much more difficult to realise. The Mother Working together with Sri Aurobindo's help We are here in the Ashram to do this work together with the help of Sri Aurobindo's knowledge and force, in an attempt to realise a community that is more harmonious, more united, and consequently much more effective in life. The Mother Young people here All you young people here... " The Mother Reading Sri Aurobindo's books It seems to me that apart from the work at the Building Page 24 Service, if you feel like studying, it would be better to read Sri Aurobindo's books seriously and carefully, without hurrying. This Will help you more than anything else for your sadhana. The Mother To be turned only to the Mother I see ...
... about my sadhana, I told the Mother, "During meditation I feel some Force coming down to my head, but when I try to bring it further down into my heart, I cannot. What should I do? Will Mother help me?" She said, "I should not disturb the action, it will create a lot of trouble. Let it follow its own natural course." I have two entries in my diary of what the Mother said to Pradyot. Since they... paper by somebody else. In the middle of this year I felt that I needed an assistant to help me in my work. I found a young girl, who had been my student, ready to do it. I proposed her name. The Mother gave her consent readily. On the eve of my birthday in the year 1969, I wrote a letter to the Mother saying, "Perhaps you don’t yet know that tomorrow is my birthday. Sudha dreamt that you were... time I remained alert in order to seize any available opportunity for help. In this mood, I met most unexpectedly the Mother’s son Andre in front of his office. I was not yet very familiar with him. It was his birthday. Our glances met. Approaching him I Page 126 wished him Bonne Fête. I asked him about the Mother’s condition, as he was one of those who had been seeing her at that time ...
... over the last few months. But be assured that your wish that I should appeal to the Mother to help you has always been answered. You speak of losing vitality through contact with people. You have to develop a zone of protection around you. You can do this by a constant act of offering yourself to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and invoking their will to intervene in your life. An atmosphere of... finally, people who have realised the truth. Your feeling that the Mother's grace, just like Krishna's, answers to the needs of all seeking souls is right. Wherever there is earnestness, the sense of one's own poor show before the Infinite and the Divine, the capacity for gratitude to all that is beyond one's powers, the Mother's loving help responds. But one must understand what this grace aims at. No... Yes, along with the outflow of its unexpected charity, the Mother means to draw us subtly towards a keener realisation of her blissful and life-refining nearness. However, this mysterious aim has a certain side to it which is liable at times to bewilder us. The Mother has said that her blessings are essentially intended to help the soul in us emerge more and more. And it is not always through ...
... he declared that the Mother had left Her body. This was at 7:25 p.m. Then, being present and feeling my responsibility, I thought what I should do. At that time there were present André [Mother's son], Champaklalji [the helper], Dr. Sanyal, Dyumanbhai, Kumud [the attendant] and myself. I talked with André and told him that I wanted to wait for some time and then take the Mother's body down, place it... how they “persuaded” her. I cannot help thinking of the vision I had eleven years earlier ( Agenda II , February 11, 1961 ), in which Mother had "died" because she had eaten "a grain of rice." × On May 19,1973, six months before Mother left, Pranab closed Mother's door on Satprem, and on everyone else... n is therefore prophetic. Such was Mother's immediate entourage: a devoted but uncomprehending helper, a doctor with no faith, a violent and despotic bodyguard, and a blind and blinded little being controlled by her passions and by Pranab. Henceforth, we will let the facts speak for themselves. Page 139 ( After a silence, Mother resumes the conversation. ) The body has ...
... one ball after another into the basket. I could not help thinking of Arjuna in the Mahabharata hitting the target. * We also did marching with the Mother in the Playground for some time: Minnie-di, Milli-di, Gauri, Violette, Vasudha, Kakima (Bina-di, Pranab’s Kakima) and I. We were the Mother’s ‘ satkanya ’ (the seven daughters). The Mother used to walk so fast that we could not keep pace with... the Mother. On seeing Her then I felt that She was Mother Durga herself. Those same golden eyes overflowing with love. This golden light used to radiate from Her eyes from time to time, from those iridescent golden eyes. Absolutely incredible! We used to wait for hours in a hush just to get a touch of that Divine Sight! The Second World War During the Second World War the Mother helped countless... this mischievous aspect of the Mother. After the marching the Mother would get into the small room and sit on a raised seat. We sat on the floor around Her. Gauri would then give the Mother something to eat. The Mother distributed some of it as prasad to us. That same American lady suddenly turned up in the room! She began talking to the Mother in French. The Mother glanced at us with a fleeting ...
... compelled to act and be guided by the will of X? It amounts to the surrender of one's intellect, energies and capacities to him instead of to the Mother. How does working under such a person help one's sadhana? It is not physically possible for the Mother to give the work direct to each worker and exercise a direct control, so that physically as well as inwardly he may offer it to her. For every ... of things the Mother wanted and in these two parts of the work it might even have been impossible. The Divine Will is there but it works through persons and there is a great difference between one instrument and another—that is why the person can be of so much importance. December 1936 In fact, if X and a few others had not made themselves the instruments of the Mother and helped her to reorganise... indulgent to everybody and strictness is indispensable. That is what Mother found when she was herself looking after the work; indulgence only brought absolute disorder, people became entirely selfish, undisciplined, taking every advantage they could. I do not see either how a system of indulgence to the moods of the women is likely to help their sadhana,—it is likely rather to nourish what is wayward and ...
... what we had studied, about any poems we had learned. I had learned a poem about a tiger which I recited to Mother. Mother helped me with the poem. The Mother became “excited” and told me, “You must feel the power of the tiger.” When I grew older I was allowed to visit Mother every day. The Mother was very busy overseeing every department of the Ashram. Some of us (Tara Jauhar. Gauri Pinto and others)... years old, the Mother told me she wanted me to be a teacher and at age eleven she said, “You will be a teacher.” I started teaching French at age twenty to students age sixteen at the Centre of Education. I was teaching part time while I was still in school. The Mother said, “I am there to help you” and she did. She would suggest books on how to develop observation and understanding. Mother was continually... during performance it was very clear to me that Mother, herself, was speaking through me. Performing was so helpful for my sadhana. I would make a personal prayer to Sri Aurobindo and call to him strongly. My prayer was, “I pray that I do this in the way in which you would want me to do it.” His help did come. I felt his Force. From December 1, 1958 Mother no longer came physically to the theatre, but ...
... made me struggle for three years got me a rent of Rs. 150 per month. Who else could transform and raise the income from Rs. 25 to Rs. 150 excepting the Grace of the Divine Mother? There was another case of the Divine Mother's help and protection. There are two houses in our khirki both having their ownership rights of the open land of that khirki. My neighbour insisted that open land of the khirki... attribute these successes to my individual capacity. All positive, inspiring and miraculous results were brought about by the Grace of the Divine Mother and not by that little 'I' of mine. I am ever grateful to my beloved Master and the Mother for their help to me to walk safely on the muddy and thorny path of life and to lead it to its fulfilment by transmuting it into a pure stream of Dedication Pilgrimage... The Divine Mother so arranged that this was the first and the only boy I saw for Arvinda. I thanked the Mother Divine with gratitude for solving this problem. An invitation for the marriage was sent to the Divine Mother, I invoked her Presence in the marriage ceremony to bless the couple who had decided to proceed towards the Divine through marriage. We received the blessings from the Mother on the day ...
... Mother started teaching me occultism in 1947-48. When Mother had finished all her work round one-thirty or two at night, my occultism class would begin. Page 237 First Mother taught me to concentrate with her on the heart-centre. Then with her help I learnt to go out of the body. After all sorts of experiences outside I returned into the body with Mother's help. This was... night I used to feel very sleepy indeed. One day I told Mother: "Can't you just pass on your occult power into me without going through all this trouble? If in a specific situation I need your help I'll call you and you will help me. Can't something like this be possible?" Mother replied: "Yes, that can be done too." So I said: "Then Mother do that. I can't keep awake at night. I feel very sleepy... relation with Mother was simple, spontaneous and beautiful. Like a little child he would come to Mother and talk to her in complete candour about all sorts of things. He was a great pundit. He had passed out from Polytecbnique, France's most distinguished university. He was an engineer and a chemist but worked in the Ashram as Mother's General Secretary. It was mainly with his help that Mother opened the ...
... I can help you more consciously. With all my love and blessings. 25 March 1970 Sweet Mother, I will try to do it every day from 12:45 to 1:00 p.m. I will write to you if I succeed in doing anything. Help me, sweet Mother. Good; it is a convenient time for me and you can be sure that I will help you. Blessings. 26 March 1970 Page 363 Sweet Mother, ... understand life, its purpose and its goal. For them, Sri Aurobindo's books are the best reading of all. Blessings. 10 September 1969 Sweet Mother, Help me to become your true child. This is a good resolution. You can be sure of my help and of the presence of my consciousness which is with you to light your way and to guide you whenever you call on it. It is in silent aspiration that... do it? Blessings. 23 March 1970 Sweet Mother, I would very much like to try this experiment if You guide me. I am ready to help you. The first step is to consciously unite with your psychic being. Have you tried? If you have, tell me what happened to you. Blessings. 24 March 1970 Page 362 Sweet Mother, My mind is in such a turmoil these days that ...
... difficulty has to be faced and conquered; the Divine Mother's help has to be invoked at every stage of the ascension. One cannot hope to bypass any stages of 1 get a double or a triple promotion. One must hasten slowly and start from the very first stage of this sadhana of Karma-yoga. The' successful completion of any one stage of progress will greatly help the sadhaka to tackle the next stage. Let us... outer, has five distinctly separate limbs: 1.Who is initiating the action and what is the motive or impulsion behind it? 2.Who is executing the action, its karta.7 3.With whose help and instruments the work is being done? 4.For whom and in whose interest is the action being undertaken? And finally 5.Who is expecting any fruit out of this particular action and what is... any specific action. If this becomes the habitual poise of his consciousness, the sadhaka will by and by come across a new spiritual phenomenon. He will no longer have to choose an action with the help of his imperfect and fallible "best light" but .will rather be guided in his choice directly by the divine inspiration. Of course, this achievement has got many stages of progress. Thus, at ...
... out to all that helps that work. Part II Notes, Prayers and Reflections of the Mother Personal Notes, Prayers and Reflections of the Mother Part III, "Miscellany", tells us about the significance of blessings, blessings-packets, the Mother's signature and several symbols she designed. It also contains some Sanskrit names given by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to disciples and... more than words. The Mother gave help and encouragement to a number of disciples who wished to draw and paint, both beginners and trained artists. For some of these aspiring artists, she made sketches and suggested compositions. During the early 1920s Sri Aurobindo's brother Barindra did some oil paintings under the Mother's guidance. His portrait of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's feet is given here... events of his daily life, including his visions, experiences and problems. He wrote to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother regularly — short notes about work, long letters about his personal progress and sadhana — and received guidance from both of them. He also brought to them the letters of others. To help others was his very nature. He served them not only directly but by helping the disciples and devotees who ...
... not Ganesha as he really is. Mother who had, told brother Noren that Ganesha is more handsome than he is represented. We of course know how Mother had met Ganesha and how they were "on very good terms, very friendly." 2 So it is not surprising to hear that she came to his rescue on one occasion. It was late 1960s, the Manakula temple trustees prayed to the Mother to help widen the narrow southern p... trustees also offered to bear the entire cost. But Mother arranged the matter in her own way. "Thanks to the munificence of 'Mother' " 3 the temple got an extra space of 130 square metres. The old boundary wall was demolished, a new wall was constructed—all cost borne by Mother—and everything handed over to the temple trustees on 21 January 1969. Mother had given this job too to Abhay. A few days later... distilled from cashew apples. Let us not forget those mango groves. Mother had taken that property of about ten hectares on lease for eighteen years in November 1968. Decades of neglect had left the garden overgrown with nettles and thorny planer. The bungalow was inhabited by ghosts and bats. It was to my brother Abhay that Mother gave the responsibility of developing the property. He was then in his ...
... This was simultaneously the Grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the crowning touch to all that they had done in those three weeks from November 24 onwards for a poor aspirant whose dependence on them was abject. * I went back to Bombay with the prayer within me that soon, very soon, the Mother might help me and my wife to be near her. At last the second Pilgrimage became... spoke to the Mother about my plight. On December 12 the inmates of the Ashram met her again and each received from her hands a photograph of Sri Aurobindo taken after his passing. It was dusk, as far as I recollect. She must have seen a certain helplessness on my face. Smiling as she alone can do, she looked me in the eyes and said, "Nothing has changed. Call for inspiration and help as you have always... conveyed to the Mother, she confirmed its authenticity. But to make the decision practicable in terms of rupees, annas and pies was not easy. During one of my short visits, I laid before her all the difficulties. At that time I was somewhat hard-up and I said, "Mother, I must have Rs. 500 to settle a few matters and pay for a thorough migration with my wife and our dog." The Mother replied, "You must ...
... December the Mother helped Sri Aurobindo take a drink. At midnight she came again into his room. This time he opened his eyes and the two looked at each other in a steady gaze. “We were the silent spectators of that crucial scene,” writes Nirodbaran. At 1 a.m. on the 5th of December the Mother came again. Her face was calm, there was no trace of emotion. Sri Aurobindo was indrawn. The Mother asked Dr... tune ourselves to them, we are helped by four powerful aids: the Supramental Force, active since 1956; the Consciousness of the Overman, active since 1 January 1969 27 ; Sri Aurobindo’s presence; and the Mother’s presence. For Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s Work of building the New World cannot have been limited to their years of incarnation in a physical body. Helpers of the progress of the Earth... strange to our human mind that the Mother could leave Sri Aurobindo at this critical moment.” Yet, the Mother’s clarification is quite different: “As long as I was in the room he could not leave his body. I used all my power to prevent him from departing. So there was a terrible tension in him: the inner will to leave and then this kind of thing [ i.e. the Mother] that was holding him there, like that ...
... Narad came in the evenings, all the way from Auroville, to help with the botanical and common names and descriptions of the flowers and the plants for Flowers and Their Messages. Since Mother used flowers as a help for our spiritual progress, Kailas felt that relevant quotations from the writings of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo would help the reader, so she chose appropriate passages. Lyn Miller did... to the Mother and she helped him with spellings and said, “As you grow older your ideas about God will also change.” Richard said he was a rather austere, shy young boy and somewhat fanatical about being morally correct. When Richard was ten years old his father joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a nurse, and he saw very little of him after that time until the war ended. Richard’s mother was left... one at the Delhi Ashram and one in Bangalore. It was in 1962 that he invited me to help him as a teacher in Bangalore. Did you go? I asked the Mother. She replied to me in strong and touching words. She said, “Richard, my dear child: I have absolutely no intention of letting you leave from here — we have need of you and your excellent work. I consider you like my son and I have great confidence ...
... consciousness and impedes your progress. The ego does not change because it feels sure that it is always right. Blessings. 24 November 1970 * * Sweet Mother, Help me, give me the force to realise my prayer. My help and my force are always with you. Have confidence and everything will be all right. With all my love and blessings. * * * 5 July 1971 The victory is the... and to perfect ourselves in the course of many successive lives. What we cannot do this time, we shall do next time, and all the progress we make this time will help us then. Kali always helps those who can call on her, and with her help the progress comes more quickly. Blessings. November 1971 * * * We are at a moment of transition in the history of the earth. It is merely a... set to work to make it, without excusing yourself on the grounds that others are not making it. Each one is responsible first for himself; and if you aspire to help others, it is by giving an example of what one should be that you can help them most effectively. And the Divine Grace is always there, marvellously effective for those who are sincere. 28 December 1971 * * * We are at a decisive ...
... the best place for getting rid of wrong movements is the Asram, under the Mother's grace, help, protection and physical nearness. That is only true if one can open oneself to the Mother. To be here and shut up to it and under another control does not help. 8 March 1936 That is what must be done. Trust in the Mother and will only to be open to her always and as quietly confident as may be... oneself in any way to the Mother. If one conceals what is happening in one from the Mother, something gets shut up. It is the mistake X has been making. Formerly she was quite open and unreserved and whenever there came a difficulty she got the full help. The Mother has told her to be perfectly open and hide nothing; if she does that, she will soon recover. The Mother can not only know everything... at once enable you to be completely open and her also to help you fully. 22 July 1934 Page 155 I am not getting much time to sit down for meditation, but the calmness is maintained throughout my work. What should I do when I can make no time for meditation? Keep yourself open, remember the Mother always—call for her help and guidance in your work. You must get into a condition in ...
... self is always above the Creation and so is ever detached and dynamic. It can bring down whatever help and protection is necessary from the Mother. Yes, the two are necessary for any complete or rapid transformation. I am aware that for such a powerful action of the Mother I must remain in a fully conscious state of vigilance, intense aspiration, surrender and rejection... rather refuse to conceive that there is no limitation of time and space with the Divine, that she can create wonders in the fraction of a moment. Thus their minds deny rigidly that she, the Divine Mother, can help them adequately by a mere look or a touch. As they are so limited and narrow they take her also to be such! No doubt such foolishness is not in the true being, but in the outer. But then it must... merged in the Mother, while the (subtle) physical has begun to feel itself on the lap of the Mother. Yes. When X went to the Mother for Pranam and she put her hand on his head I too felt the touch of her hand on my own head. How did this happen? It shows that the subtle physical is growing conscious and felt the touch and blessing of the Mother which is always ...
... no more concentrated on her body. March 1966 Sweet Mother, Yesterday Mother saw the boy in Y's family. Y prays to Mother to guide the medical treatment of his son. He will implicitly do what Mother says. If the parents could stop being anxious and somewhat nervous in their relation with the boy, it would very much help towards his recovery. Blessings. July 1966 Z has... February 1964 Sweet Mother, I feel exhausted. Having to meet so many persons leaves me sucked out. I could not sleep last night. The others working in my office are also showing signs of exhaustion. Pray sustain us. The force is there to help you. Do not think of yourselves, but only of the Divine. Blessings. 2 March 1964 Sweet Mother, When they speak of a heart-attack... is likely to have cataract. The general condition of his health is very low. He prays for help and asks Mother whose treatment she would like him to undergo. Let him choose his doctor, because it is the confidence in the doctor that is most important. Blessings. October 1963 Sweet Mother, Z has been ailing continuously for years now with one thing or other. Usually it is ...
... occur to us we shall let her know at once. As to the experience, certainly Janak Kumari’s call for help did reach the Mother, even though all the details she relates in her letter might not have been present to the Mother’s physical mind. Always calls of this kind are coming to the Mother, sometimes a hundred close upon each other and always the answer is given. The occasions are of all kinds... although I must reaffirm that what i have said about the Mother’s feelings and mine towards you are perfectly sincere and nothing has been written merely to please you. i shall see what I can write further to help you out of these difficulties: our inner help will be always with you. * May 1, 1949* i have spoken to Mother about Janak Kumari’s experience. She says that it... I need change nothing. I still do not understand why you should think that Mother and myself do not appreciate the hard work you have done for us in Bengal and the help you have given us at a moment when we very badly needed it and still need whatever help you can get at this difficult and critical juncture. It helped us to meet to some extent a very serious emergency and though that emergency ...
... you meet. Let me add to this spiritual advice a practical piece of common sense: "Fear never robbed tomorrow of its sorrow. It only robs today of its strength." The Mother once wrote to me that fear, rather than being of any help, tends to attract just the trouble we seek to escape. (7.6.1993) As regards the life here, what 1 have noticed in particular at present is what I may specify... conveyed in your letter of 27.6.93. There is nothing foolish in your wanting letters from me. Your eagerness only shows how much you value my words, my regard for you. I am so glad my writings in Mother India help to clear away whatever depression comes to you. (6.7.1993) You have never been absent from my thoughts. Not only at the Samadhi where you in your wheelchair next to mine are vividly... struggling soul but a sheer soul with its own subtle responsive body free of all embarrassments of the material life. The dream begins on this plane, then shifts to the other where you need help, but even the help is a sufficient minimum and it can be dropped at the earliest opportunity. From that moment you are soul-powered and your contact with the Lord is so deep and strong and continuous that it ...
... of Consciousness through him and that he “just held the pen Did you have a similar experience with the translation? Yes, Mother and Sri Aurobindo were all the time with me. The Mother had told me that she and Sri Aurobindo would help me with the work. I could feel the help coming from above my head as I was engaged in the translating. Did you translate other works of Satprem? I translated... wonderful. Prayer is essential. Always pray to the Mother for help. Also one should look at oneself clearly and honestly in order to set things right in one’s being. Only with her help and power and presence can one come through such times. In the early days when we were younger, often when the difficulties seemed insurmountable, we used to go to the Mother about the problems and she would set everything... during pranam, the Mother asked me if I would take a class in the school. She had heard of my qualifications from some of the students. I accepted. She also put me to work for the Bulletin of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Editcation. It was clerical work taking care of postings, getting addresses ready and accounts for subscribers. I still do this work with some help from others. At this ...
... slightly . fat scale to H.G. Wells and whom I had nicknamed H. Ghee Wells was found missing one evening at the Mother's Soup Distribution. His friends were worried and after the Distribution they went to the house where he was staying. On entering it they heard faint cries for help from him. After looking up and down they realised that H. Ghee Wells's voice was coming (appropriately I may say)... no disparity with the left leg may be left. Don't feel anxious about me. I am well taken care of and I both eat and sleep normally. And at the Samadhi I shall appeal to our Lord and the Divine Mother to help my deeply cherished friend. (23.10.1992) As regards a photo of you which I have requested, it is all right if you have shunned being snapped for several years lest a picture should... your letter: "The Mother whom we see as the Mother of the universe - how could she give permission to the late Bhai Dyuman to prepare chicken soup on the doctor's advice? Was that poor animal not a child of hers?" I may add that in the article Dyumanbhai is quoted as saying that he himself tasted the soup before giving it to the Mother - as was his custom for the sake of the Mother's safety. Page ...
... This was accepted and all throughout I felt Mother’s Presence and Help and even saw her face before me. The Mother had told me before I left India, “You have only to call me and I will be with you at once, at every moment I will be with you.” Can you share some of the advice that the Mother gave to you for your personal sadhana? One day I asked Mother, “I have been doing the yoga for many years... progressed.” I asked the Mother to help me. “You are doing it all wrong,” she said. “But what shall I do?” She replied, “I will do the yoga for you.” I was thrilled! “What do I have to do?” I said. “Give yourself over to me and I will do it for you.” I asked, “How do I surrender?” She said to me, “Do you sincerely want to?” I answered “Yes, certainly. Mother.” Then Mother asked, “When you get up in... looking as though he were gazing out into eternity in his great lonely days of descent into mortal life in order to help humanity. [Udar chose not to personalize other impressions of Sri Aurobindo but instead he quoted a passage from Savitri , Book III, The Book of the Divine Mother, Canto IV, The Vision and the Boon. Udar said Sri Aurobindo was writing about King Aswapati in that passage and speaks ...
... is doing nothing) "Can you give her some work?" "Yes, Mother." "Then give her work." 5.She wants a new name. "When she will be a new person," said Mother. A sick woman gone out for treatment asks for Mother's help. Mother said, "What can we do? She has no faith." * * * 28.11.72 Mother signed a paper and disposed of a letter and requests for joining... Transport" can help in getting the reservation if 24 hours notice is given. Blessings. —The Mother * * * 3.5.71 Mother's reply to Christiane, The egoistic vital reactions must disappear before anything serious can be done. 6.5.71 Gene does not want to resume responsible work at the Matrimandir Centre unless it is Mother's wish. Mother's reply : ... were donated by Vincenzo's wife Claire." Mother concentrated long. "Mother, what may be the reason ?" "You mean reason, or cause ?" "Yes, Mother." Page 132 She concentrated. I asked, "Should the police be asked to leave or to continue their inquiry ?" "Can they help in finding the responsibility ?" "Yes, Mother." "Well." Coming out I saw Vincenzo ...
... personal topics. I am indeed grieved that you have to pass through physical troubles which upset your whole system. Of course my good wishes are always there -good wishes in the form of appeals to the Mother to help her physically unfortunate child who is so sincere in his aspiration to be inwardly moulded by her. 1 am glad that time and again you are saved because, as you say, she wants you to continue your... human possibility. Finally, the suggestion of her words was that this body should be able to continue its work on earth and for that it was necessary to do everything which could help. Most pointedly the words implied not only help from herself but from others as well - and the second kind of assistance was rather crucial because sufficient realisation of its need might not come to us. So her whisper connoted... to her. One of them said: "Mother, I want to tell you something important. Will you please come into my room?" The Mother answered: "If I come, I shall be late at the Playground and have no time to take a little refreshment in my room there before attending to the Playground activities." The person addressed just kept weakly smiling and would not say: "All right, Mother. I shan't keep you." Obviously ...
... that singular gesture. A disciple wrote to the Mother, "The Congress is asking us not to contribute to the War Fund. What shall we do?" The answer given was: "Sri Aurobindo has contributed for a divine cause. If you help, you will be helping yourselves." Some were wishing for the victory of the Nazis because of their hatred for the British. The Mother had to give a stern admonition. She wrote: "It... fighting for the Divine and those for the Asuras?' I said, 'Yes, Mother, I do see; only what baffles me is that Churchill, whom you and Sri Aurobindo have chosen as your direct instrument, wants today India's help for his own country's existence; and yet says that His Majesty's government has no intention of liquidating its Empire!' The Mother said, 'But leave all that to the Divine. Churchill is a human... be given. The Mother says, 'The French have betrayed Czechoslovakia and thereby stand condemned.'" Similarly, when France, after the fall of Dunkirk, rejected Churchill's proposal of a common citizenship for Britain and France so that they might carry on the fight as one country, the Mother seems to have considered it a rejection of the Divine Grace itself that had come to the help of France at the ...
... She asked me: 'Is the darshan over?' "No, Mother, I answered, There is plenty of time. Take some rest until then. I'll call you when It is time." The Mother was in trance then. At darshan-time I accompanied the Mother and helped Her to reach the railing. She gave Her darshan. Then She asked: 'Is the darshan over?' "Yes, Mother", I answered. And once again I held her and... true that the Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's consciousness pervades the Ashram atmosphere and they are guiding each aspirant according to his or her capacity and aspiration. But the presence of a true leader amongst us on the material plane will make a big difference. I am always praying to the Mother to send us a true leader, who would guide us in our day-to-day activity and help us to achieve... a single leader here is not on the Mother's programme, is true as long as the Mother with us in Her physical body. But after Her Mahasamadhi the situation has to be viewed from a different angle. It is my firm conviction that in the present Ashram set- up, only a man having Supramental Realisation can handle effectively all our Ashram problems, and help us to march towards our goal of Integral ...
... friend and helper of all the peoples.’ 7 On that occasion the Mother had her flag hoisted above the Ashram, more specifically over the terrace of Sri Aurobindo’s room. She called it the spiritual flag of India. ‘It is the flag of India’s spiritual mission. And in the accomplishment of this mission will India’s unity be accomplished,’ 8 she declared on 15 August. The Mother’s flag contains... cruel loss. It is true that for the moment her presence is more nominal than active, as she does not have the opportunity to manifest herself. But even so she is a wonderful help in the Work. For of all the aspects of the Mother, this is the one which has the greatest power for the transformation of the body. It is a fact that the cells which are able to vibrate to the contact of divine joy, which are... losing interest in himself.’ She would repeat this to Sanyal late at night. In the morning of the fourth Sri Aurobindo wanted to sit up and ‘insisted strongly’ when the doctors objected. The Mother helped him to take a light breakfast. ‘We were so happy at this sudden change and thought that at last our prayer had been heard,’ writes Nirodbaran. ‘We boldly asked him now: “Are you not using your force ...
... This was simultaneously the Grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the crowning touch to all that they had done in those three weeks from November 24 onwards for a poor aspirant whose dependence on them was abject. ٭ I went back to Bombay with the prayer within me that soon, very soon, the Mother might help me and my wife to be near her. At least the second Pilgrimage... within itself and to give the utmost constructive help to all that encouraged that instinct. Without flinching, Mother India spoke forth on many political subjects in direct contradiction of official or popular ideas. Those were the days when Stalin overshadowed, almost overawed, the world, especially the Asian world. But Mother India, while never advocating stark individualism... enlivening stream of inner help from Pondicherry was clearly felt. And, paradoxically, the most intense experience of it came after the Master had left his body! I had flown to the Ashram on getting the heart-shattering news. As already recounted, the Mother had assured the appalled disciple that nothing had really changed and that he would get as ever the fullest help possible from Sri Aurobindo ...
... very benevolent, who came for [the Mother seems to lift the imaginary small ball gently from the hollow of her hand]. It gave the impression of a personal divinity who comes to help. And so strong, so strong, and at the same time so gentle, so all-embracing …’ ‘Is it something that will permeate the bodies which are ready?’ asked the disciple with whom the Mother had the conversation. She answered:... Indira Gandhi was close, and the prime minister sought her advice and spiritual assistance on many occasions, often with B.D. Jatti, then lieutenant-governor of Pondicherry, as intermediary. The Mother’s help was especially sought before and during the 1971 war with Pakistan, which would result in the break-up of that country when its eastern part became independent and was called Bangladesh. She followed... is with me, and he is very happy and in peace. His vital is still helping those who seek his help.’ 15 Amrita and Pavitra left in 1969. About the latter’s passing we find the following statement by the Mother: ‘It was very interesting, the experience I had that night. Nothing like it I ever had in my life. It was in the night before he passed away. The time was nine o’clock. I felt he was ...
... control, what else can we want?’ That time, I had just once or twice visited the Ashram, but I had absolute faith in Mother’s Force. Similarly, during Mithran’s last illness I never worried because I had the faith that Mother’s protection was there. So now too, I have faith in Mother’s help and so I am pulling on. I know nothing will happen until she decides." Two comments made by Amma in June... names. I was stunned when one day a sadhak I hardly knew, shouted ‘Minakshi’ from behind me. Afterwards, I realised how this could help keep one’s ego in check and remember we are all equal in Mother’s eyes." This was a most healthy practice, judged in the light of Mother’s declaration: "With those whom I have accepted as disciples, to whom I have said Yes, there is more than a tie, there is an emanation... the first death in the Ashram. What a shock it was! Mother patted me for a long time when she came to console me. Soon afterwards, a sadhika died and people began to lose their faith about Yama being barred from entering this Ashram." Skanda contracted diarrhoea in 1929. A young sadhak with a medical certificate but no experience tried to help but failed. By the time Dr. André of the General Hospital ...
... tender coconut. That is Mother . There coming and this is physically Mother is helping. Not only me, many people Mother physically helping. You only faith in your heart. Faith, belief, devotion to Mother, that's enough. Whether Her giving not giving our doubt, how can Mother will help? Any incidents before that? Earlier day, when I come my village. 1930, 1928-29, that period,... "Head-nurse, you're giving so much help, I going. You not only [attend] every day, night also come and give coffee and this is. You give this coconut, coconut most help to this thing." After (chuckles) that lady say, "I never come! {Laughter) I never come. I never give you money. Why I come night 12 o'clock?" After here I come, without I ask, Mother sanction two coconuts, tender... say, "No money mother. If you give ten rupee...." After I two-three day take, this disease completely come to normal stage! This doctor all will be surprised. "How is possible? This boy cannot possible two years, before two months it is stopped!" But I can't remain that atmosphere. So much madness. After, that doctor itself saw the thing and sent me [back] with my helper. That time, I go ...
... the instruments of the Mother and helped her to reorganise the whole material side of the Ashram, the Ashram would have collapsed long ago under the weight of a frightful mismanagement, waste, self-indulgence, disorder, chaotic self-will and disobedience. He and they faced unpopularity and hatred in order to help her to Page 249 save it. It was the Mother who selected the heads... had. Just before approaching the Mother for Pranam, I feel a rapid and powerful heart-beating. But it ceases the moment I am with her. Why so? Many people have felt that at times - some excitement of the vital, difficult to say why. Today during the common meditation of the Mother I could receive her help easily and spontaneously. But after the meditation... misled or in danger of being misled by false visions and false voices. That does not mean that visions and voices have no value. The visions and voices can help one to receive constant directions from you or the Mother. Well, why not open me to them? I shall then not need to trouble you with all sorts of questions. With this faculty you will always appear before me and talk to me. ...
... to him. Mother refused as it was inwardly indicated to her that it was meant only for her and that it should not be communicated to Theon. Theon became violently angry and the link that connected Mother to her body was cut. When he realised the catastrophe his anger had caused, Theon grew afraid (for he knew who Mother was) and he then made use of all his power, and with Mother's active help from above... Page 27 conscious union with the Divine Presence and... I had done this ALL ALONE, without ANYONE'S help, not even books. When a little later I chanced upon Vivekananda's Raja Yoga, it really seemed so wonderful to me that someone could explain something to me! And it helped me realise in only a few months what would have otherwise taken years. I met a man (I was perhaps 20 or 21... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother 2 The Mother The Mother (Mirra Alfassa) was born in Paris on the 21st February, 1878. Her mother was Egyptian and her father was Turkish—both of them were perfect materialists. As a result, although she had inner experiences, including that of the divine Presence, right from her childhood, she was in her external life ...
... there were many leaders who were approaching Mother for guidance and help. This movement was increasing day by day, and during 1971, when the situation in Bangla Desh took an ugly turn, Generals of the Army and many leaders in the Government of India turned to Mother for help, advice and blessings for positive action. In the early part of 1971, Mother had, in reply to a request from the then Prime... __________________ ¹ Satprem, Mother or The Mutation of Death, pp. 280-1. (see also Mother's Agenda, Vol. 10, 24.5.1969). ² Mother had told Satprem in 1968: 'But the new way of being wilt be visible only to someone who has himself or herself the supramental vision.... I see all sorts of things MATERIALLY, but which are not visible to the others (Mother looks around the disciple). But it... t that's not true! It isn't true. In any case, it has become ready [Mother's body] to live without an ego.... The trouble is that life's ordinary laws no longer hold. Which means all the old habit, plus the new thing to be learned. ________________________________________ ¹See Mother's Agenda, Vol. 12, p. 87—where Mother says: 'For me, Victory is certain, but I don't know... if it's tomorrow ...
... way immediately out of mind into overmind, the result would be disaster. Therefore concern yourself with your own progress and follow there the lead the Mother gives you. Leave X or others to do the same; the Mother is there to guide and help them according to their need and their nature. It does not in the least matter if the way she follows with him seems different or the opposite of that which... when there is reason for it according to common standards, it should not be there, for it is a sentiment lacking in nobility and quite unyogic. As for getting rid of lobha , certainly the Mother's full help will be with you. It is jealousy of course. 5 Fame and success always create a great amount of jealousy and ill-will anywhere but most in countries where there has been a suppressed... pushed away from you each time it rises that it will consent to disappear and return no more. As for our support and help it is there, but you must remain conscious of it—and you must not allow any wrong ideas like those of this morning to diminish the sense of unity and contact with the Mother. I do not see why you make such a big difference between the quarrels and jealousy over other women and ...
... over you to lead you to an exceptional realisation. Along with it my love and blessings never leave you. The Mother The Mother has given this significance to the Carnation: Collaboration, ever ready to help and knowing how to do it. After that the Mother started sending me for painting numerous objects from her rare collections. Also many varieties of exquisite flowers,... my constant and affectionate help so that this progress will increase without stop. My love and blessings and the presence of the Divine Grace never leave you. The Mother Page 7 Towards the end of 19581 went to London according to the Mother's wish. I came back in August 1960. This was the New Year message of 1961 from the Mother to all: This wonderful... 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 of something that is not yet fully there. On the morning of 8th November the Mother instructed me about the tenth picture: 5 Savitri ...
... Matteo's highest conception seems to have been to 'serve humanity.' As Mother said, "He could conceive of nothing better than 'to help others' —philanthropy. That's why he became a governor. Upon leaving the Polytechnique he had the choice of several posts, and he expressly chose this post in the colonies, because his idea was 'to help the backward races to progress'— all that nonsense." Why is it... money!' She was most miserable. I consoled her a bit. But I had great trouble persuading her not to stay on and watch over her money so they don't squander it away." Mother had helped her own grandmother, just as she had helped many other people, to cross the passage after their death. "I had experiences at night, a sort of night activity, when I looked after people who were leaving their bodies... some other means? It was Satprem's birthday. Mother meditated with him. After the meditation she said, "As soon as the meditation started, I saw some perfectly familiar scenes from ancient Egypt. And you, you were slightly different but very similar all the same." The first thing Mother saw was the jackal-faced Egyptian god, Anubis, who helped reassemble the strewn pieces of Osiris' body, so that ...
... 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) I request for permission to write letters to the Mother. You can write. 11) What attitude should I keep while... Any other rule would make the existence of the Ashram impossible. Sri Aurobindo Keep faith and confidence and remain cheerful. 2-9-28 The Mother November 1928 ( Mother's answers to questions by Muljibhai Talati ) Divine Mother, J wish to get light on the following points. 1) Have I the capacity and are there potentialities in me to lead this path? This is not the... Das's actions and utterances apart from all question from personal friendship, arises first from the fact that the push he is giving, although I do not think it likely to succeed at present, may yet help to break the narrow and rigid cadre of the “constructive” Bardoli programme which seems to me to construct nothing and the fetish worship of non-cooperation as an end in itself rather than a means and ...
... happened along when this had taken place that very morning —a litter of feathers! It was disgusting. And she was asking for my help!" Mother shook her head. Anyhow, as a result of this sight, for years together Mother could not take even chicken soup, let alone eat those birds. Mother said reflectively: "But what's strange is that they are beings — beings of the vital world —but Page 140 ... " Mother always said that she was a mediocre artist. We wonder. Using a simple combination of lines, an unpretentious harmony of colours, she could raise this medium to suggest profound truths with perfection. In the Ashram she did not have much time to sit and paint, but she did a lot of rapid sketches of people. Anyway, I have seen how with a stroke or two of the brush Mother would help a painter... solely out of fear." Mother summed up: "It's a very common thing; the majority of cases in an epidemic is that." So fear is at the root of contagious diseases? But fear is not the only emotion that helps spread contagion. Other strong emotions can act in the same way. "I knew a person who got a wound through a kind of horror at the sight of another person's wound." Mother Page 102 ...
... on a couch and holds him under his dagger. I'll father you. Prepare, prepare your soul, Your black and crime-encrusted soul for hell. I'm death and not your father. NUREDDENE Mother, quick! Help, mother! Ameena comes hurrying in. The poor dear old man is mad. IBN SAWY Ahh, woman! wherefore do you come so soon? NUREDDENE How his eyes roll! Satan, abandon him. Take... dear child slain. Permit me to depart and in my desolate house Comfort the stricken mother and his kin. ALZAYNI Perhaps a stone of all thy house may stand. The mother and thy niece? It hurts my heart. They too are criminals and punished. Page 173 IBN SAWY God! ALZAYNI Slaves, help my faithful Vizier; he will faint. IBN SAWY Let me alone; God made me strong to... there, I think, they fall in love at sight? ANICE But will you help me, Doonya, will you help me? To him, to him, not to that grizzled King! I am near Heaven with Hell that's waiting for me. DOONYA I know, I know! you feel as I would, child, If told that in ten days I had to marry My cruel boisterous cousin. I will help you. But strange! to see him merely pass and love him! Did he look ...
... world and for Mother’s love, I come to pray to you to help me save this Work. I feel as though Mother tells me: write to her. With my deep respect and my gratefulness, Satprem April 15-16, 1976 Vision of Indira, who takes me in her arms! April 26, 1976 (To a friend in Paris) Rachel, I remember our meeting very well. Your affectionate message is right. Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s... tremendous thing that is at stake....Mother is very materially here to help us. It only takes a bit of right attitude and a call in the heart for everything to change and to miraculously open. Go on, work and wage the battle against the “hundred-headed hydra” — Victory is certain. September 3, 1977 (Letter from Satprem to his mother) My little mother, Here is a feather from our blue... wretches to emerge from this disaster. One day, I will make up a book with these letters and some of François’s most beautiful letters. Oh, my little mother, all we can do is to draw some light of help and compassion from this whole disaster. After Mother’s and François’s departure, my life is somewhat broken. I don’t know how long I am still to live, but I want to use my remaining years or days to give ...
... ) We must understand the occult play, we must understand that the Mighty Mother is behind us and our action. We are weaklings imagining that Mother is powerless and that we must do something to help Her! We proceed like faithless asses. We do not trust the real thing. We do not know that Mother, the Mighty Mother, is simply there waiting that we awake a little to the greatness of the Purpose... house clandestinely in the night, with the help of our friends from Auroville, and ah! whew! What a relief not to breathe that perfidious and poisonous air any longer, I was sick with all that hatred around me. Sujata and I are like school children on holiday after these four years of misery since Mother's departure. We are going to build a place where Mother will be able to be truly, in the joy... that Grace to serve this terrestrial Work more closely. So we can safely throw everything into that great Work and Mother will take care of us. It is the best way to help circumstances, whether they are personal or general. I trust you. Open your hands, give everything to Mother and rush into the New World. ......... But I wanted to talk to you about Bibi Heyman. I felt that she had a role ...
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