The Mother: Preconceived ideas are the innumerable habitual mental constructions in which you live, which are ﬁxed and therefore have no plasticity and cannot progress. All this must be thrown aside. Then new ideas are born, active thought which is creative.


The Mother: Energy of a plastic mind does not draw back from any effort to progress.     Mental plasticity: indispensable for true knowledge.


The Mother:   In modern civilisation, men work on the surface. The mind is the surface of existence; they work on the surface and they try to ﬁnd the Truth that is behind by studying more and more deeply.  Whereas the true method is to enter into direct contact with the inner Truth, and impelled by that, guided by that, to make an outer construction which is not a seeking for the Truth, but a creation of the Truth; that is to say, the Truth-force realises itself outwardly through the human instrument.  Men always make plans, mental constructions and attempt to create on that basis, but not one human creation is a total realisation of their mental construction.


The Mother: They always add something, or else it is always altered by a force they do not understand; they think it is chance, fortune, circumstances, all sorts of things, but it is in fact the Truth-force which is trying to manifest on earth  and which is exerting a pressure, and naturally this changes the mental and vital creations which are only superﬁcial ones. In the there was a quotation from Sri Aurobindo on this subject. He said: ﬁrst one must know and then act, whereas men act and try to know through their action.


The Mother: The more we know the more we can see that we do not know.   QUIET MIND, CALM MIND, SILENT MIND  Quiet mind: the best way of learning.


The Mother: Perfect quietness in the mind: essential condition for true progress.     Quietness established in the mind: the essential condition of its transformation.


The Mother:   You should not confuse a calm mind with a silent mind. You can calm your mind and stop its ordinary activity, but it may still be open to ideas coming from outside and that too disturbs the calm. And for the mind to be completely silent, you must not only stop its own activity but shut out all that comes from other minds. This is not easy.


The Mother: Moreover, you must learn to distinguish between a phenomenon of consciousness and a mental phenomenon. One can  be of an experience in such a way that this consciousness is not formulated into a thought or thoughts. This is very important if the mind is to remain absolutely quiet and silent.


The Mother: But one thing is indispensable if they want a result: . Then there is hope for the consciousness to be concentrated.  To begin with, they must know the difference between and, two quite different things.


The Mother: Unless they have the experience of it nothing can be done.§     Practise of mind, it gives power of understanding.


The Mother:   Always I answer your letters but rarely I have time to put my answer on paper. You are capable of receiving these answers directly, but for that you must learn to keep your mind silent — this is the true meditation — the brain blank, immobile and turned upward. This is the necessary condition to receive the answers.


The Mother: If you can hand over the care of your existence and your development to the Supreme Consciousness, then peace will enter your heart and your problems will be solved.     Wait quietly for the exact indication; all mental intervention and decisions are arbitrary. The clear indication comes in the silence of the mind.


The Mother:   It is only in mental that you can hear the voice without distorting it — be very peaceful.      Don’t torment yourself, and keep your mind very quiet.


The Mother: True knowledge comes from beyond.  Blessings.    ( ) The only radical way is to concentrate and go beyond your mental.  Silence and contemplation.


The Mother: Blessings.   In the silence of a simple and faithful heart one can understand the mystery of incarnation.    A great joy is always deep in our heart, and always we can ﬁnd it there.


The Mother:    A simple and faithful heart is a great boon.   Our mind must be silent and quiet but our heart must be full of an ardent aspiration.   Look into the depths of your heart and you will see there the Divine Presence.


The Mother:   Our heart is puriﬁed from the trouble and anguish; it is ﬁrm and calm, and sees the Divine in everything.


The Mother: The Divine is always seated in your heart, consciously living in you.    All help is given to you always, but you must learn to receive it in the silence of your heart and not through external means.  It is in the silence of your heart that the Divine will speak to you and will guide you and will lead you to your goal.  But for that you must have full faith in the Divine Grace and Love.


The Mother:   The guidance is in your heart. Go ahead according to your inspiration.


The Mother:   Experience goes far beyond the reasoning mind. Evidently the reasoning mind ﬁnds it very difﬁcult to reach the Divine, but a simple heart can enter into contact with Him, almost without effort.


The Mother: It is the heart that has wings, not the head.       [


The Mother: facsimile ]  Read with your heart and you will understand.  Blessings.   Yes, there is a seat of creative vital force there.


The Mother:  The vital is the seat of our power, energy, enthusiasm, effective dynamism. It needs a systematic education.


The Mother: Vital centre: passionate and strong, it asks for control.     It is the vital that gives enthusiasm, but the vital by nature is unsteady and always wants new things. Unless it is converted and becomes a docile servant of the Divine, things are always ﬂuctuating.


The Mother:  Power of vital expression is useful only when the vital is converted.     Conversion of the vital: enthusiastic and spontaneous, it gives itself unstintingly.


The Mother:   The day the vital will be converted it will have much to give.    Generosity in the vital gives itself unstintingly.


The Mother:   Strength in the vital likes to show its beauty and power.     Consent of the vital: amiable, smiling, ever ready for action, with a great goodwill.


The Mother:  Vital consecration: delightfully modest and fragrant, it smiles at life without wanting to draw attention to itself.     Steadfast vitality: the vitality which depends on integral consecration.


The Mother:  Stability in the vital: one of the important results of conversion.     Vital transparency: indispensable to conversion.   Vital patience: indispensable for all progress.


The Mother:  Vital progress: organisation around the Divine Will and a progressive surrender to this Will.    The vital governed by the Presence: the vital force rendered peaceful and disciplined by the Divine Presence.    Formative faculty in the vital: spontaneous but not always happy, it needs to be disciplined.


The Mother:  Candid simplicity in the vital: one of the most difﬁcult qualities for the vital to acquire.    Trust in the Divine: very indispensable for the impulsive vital.    Vital trust in the Divine: full of courage and energy, no longer fears anything.


The Mother:  Vital joy in matter: the reward for abolishing selﬁshness.    Peace in the vital: the result of abolishing desires.   Silence in the vital: a powerful help for inner peace.


The Mother:   Sincerity in the vital: the sure road to realisation.    Light in the vital: one of the ﬁrst steps on the long road.


The Mother:  Spiritual awakening of the vital: it soars towards the heights in the hope of reaching them.     In the vital even a little victory has great consequences.


The Mother:   To harmonise the vital is a psychological masterpiece.  Happy is he who accomplishes it.


The Mother: This is natural: the world of the human vital is an ugly one; it greatly needs to be changed.    The egoistic vital reactions must disappear before anything serious can be done.


The Mother: Vital will manifesting in life: it is often the cause of the greatest disorders.     Vital sensitivity is excessive if not controlled.


The Mother:   These are vital perturbations which show themselves in the course of the Sadhana and have to be eliminated. They must not be regarded as natural movements justiﬁed by the wrong actions of others and bound to continue so long as there is an external cause. The real cause is internal and it can be got rid of by yogic discipline, vigilance, self-detachment and a quiet but strict rejection.


The Mother:     As for the change in the vital, it will come by itself when you form the habit of remaining in your higher consciousness where all these petty things and movements are worthless.    By the surrender of the vital, its opening to the light, and by the growth of consciousness.


The Mother:  Right attitude in the vital: self-conﬁdence — mental and vital quiet faith — in your own realisation and in the Divine’s help.   The senses are liars — they do not convey to us the truth of things but only an incomplete and even falsiﬁed appearance of things.   It is extremely ignorant to think that the eyes and ears never deceive us. Every psychologist knows that they do; it is a fact known to all that one cannot rely on human evidence based on the eyes and ears and that human deductions founded on them can lead to gross errors. The same incident reported by ten different persons elicits ten different versions.


The Mother:   Accurate perception: a perception which does not deform the Truth.


The Mother: Puriﬁed senses can be obtained only by a total surrender to the Truth.   Physical centre: occupied mainly with material things, it likes to have an ordered life.     The physical nature is obscure and recalcitrant everywhere; it is very difﬁcult for it to become conscious of the divine Presence.


The Mother: That is why we must be patient and keep on aspiring with the certitude of Victory.  My blessings are always with you.     Each victory we win over the obscure physical Nature is the promise of a greater one to come.


The Mother:   In the physical the joy of being is the best expression of gratitude towards the Divine.   The Divine is present in the very atoms of our body.    The physical being itself can be the seat of perfect existence, knowledge and bliss.


The Mother:   For the body, to know means to be able to do. In fact the body knows only what it can do.


The Mother:   Peace in the physical: to want what God wills is its best condition.     Peace in the cells: the indispensable condition for the body’s progress.


The Mother:   Light in the cells: the ﬁrst step towards purity in the cells.


The Mother: Purity in the cells cannot be obtained except through conquest of desires; it is the true condition for good health.    It is the resistance of the mentalised substance in the cells of the body and can be overcome only by an integral and total conversion.  Blessings.


The Mother: It is quite possible as the “sadhana” is done now in the body itself.     The inner progress has been sufﬁciently rapid for the exterior being to ﬁnd it difﬁcult to follow. Now the body must learn to receive the Divine Force and to keep it.


The Mother:   Transparency in the physical: the physical prepares itself for transformation.    Ananda in the physical: may it be welcome, even if it manifests itself rarely.


The Mother:   Ananda in the physical body: puriﬁed of all desire and all repulsion, in a perfect equality and surrender, the physical body is ready to enjoy the divine Ananda.


The Mother: Ananda in the centres: this will be one of the good results of the conversion of the physical.     Integral even basis in the material: when all your material movements are organised, harmonised and co-ordinated and when all things ﬁnd themselves in you in their respective places and your entire material basis is thus prepared and becomes ready to receive the Light and the Power.   The material consciousness has a ﬁrm and solid steadfastness.   ( ) I was referring to some evidently subconscient movement — but you need not worry about it nor ﬁx your attention upon it — one day the understanding will come spontaneously.


The Mother:   These are the explanations, the excuses the mind always ﬁnds in such cases; but these mental explanations follow or at the most accompany the movements to be explained, they never precede them.  What starts the movement is an obscure impulse, instinctive, almost mechanical and unconscious in its origin, something that contradicts without knowing why. (It is this unconsciousness which repels X although it is not a legitimation for repulsion or shrinking — these being themselves movements of unconsciousness.)


The Mother:   If the subconscient were to accept the Consciousness, it would no longer be the subconscient, it would become consciousness. I think that you mean: has the subconscient submitted to the rule, to the law of the higher Consciousness? This is not done as a whole, for the subconscient is vast and complex; there is a mental subconscient, a vital subconscient, a physical subconscient, a bodily subconscient. We have to wrest the  subconscient fragment by fragment from its ignorant and inert resistance.


The Mother:   These small physical inconveniences can also be made use of to hasten the progress. The seat of all these resistances is in the subconscient. We must enter there with a conscious will and establish the rule of the Divine even in semi-conscious matter.


The Mother: Your ﬁrst attitude of detachment was the true one. The weakness that you are experiencing now is the result mostly of collective suggestion acting through subconscient memories of old ideas and feelings.  Our help and blessings are with you.


The Mother: Subconscient remembrance must be puriﬁed of all that is useless.   Power of the truth in the subconscient : it can act only when sincerity is perfect.


The Mother: As your aspiration is sincere, whatever was in the subconscient standing in the way of the Divine Realisation has come to the surface in order to be transformed; and you must rejoice at these occasions to make a progress.    It is especially during the body’s sleep that one is in contact with the subconscient. In becoming conscious of one’s nights, control of the subconscient becomes much easier.  The control can become total when the cells become conscious of the Divine in them and when they open themselves voluntarily to His inﬂuence. This is what the consciousness that descended on the earth last year is working for.


The Mother: Little by little the subconscient automatism of the body is being replaced by the consciousness of the Divine Presence governing the entire functioning of the body.    The Divine Will acting in the subconscient: the rare moments when the Divine asserts Himself visibly.    This should be done and it is indispensable to enlighten one’s subconscient.


The Mother: There is a psychological health as much, as a physical health; there is a beauty and harmony of the sensations as much as a beauty of the body and its movements.   Get out of your mind to have the true intelligence.  Get out of your sensations to have the true feelings.  Get out of your sensitiveness to have the true dynamism.


The Mother:  For the mind — knowledge.  For the heart — love and joy.  For the life — power.  For the matter — beauty.


The Mother: THE UNIVERSE: MANIFESTATION OF THE DIVINE  It is He, the perfect spirit who ﬁlls all.  The perfect spirit ﬁlls all.  It is who ﬁlls all.  Who is He?


The Mother: The perfect spirit.  It is He, the perfect spirit who ﬁlls all.     It is the Lord who sets all in motion from the depths of the being; it is His will that directs, His force that acts.


The Mother:   At the service of the Divine we are; it is the Divine who decides, ordains and puts in motion, directs and accomplishes the action.    Himself.


The Mother:   Nothing in advance. Everything immediately, directly, spontaneously, without any intermediary. The intervention of intermediaries has mostly complicated matters rather than simpliﬁed. A rather long story to tell.


The Mother:


The Mother: When the Lord becomes conscious of Himself, the world is created.  Consciousness is the breath that gives life to all.


The Mother: Without consciousness you would not even know that you live.     Consciousness is the faculty of becoming aware of anything through identiﬁcation.


The Mother: The Divine Consciousness is not only aware but knows and effects. To become aware of a vibration, for instance, does not mean that you know everything about it.     In the Divine Consciousness the smallest things from below unite with the highest, the most sublime from above.


The Mother: The whole universe is the manifestation of the Divine, but a manifestation which begins with a total unconsciousness of its origin and rises little by little towards this consciousness.     Do not forget even for a moment that all this has been created by Him out of Himself. Not only is He present in everything, but also He is everything.


The Mother: The differences are only in expression and manifestation.  If you forget this you lose everything.     There is no end to the wonders of the universe.


The Mother: The more we get free from the limits of our small ego, the more these wonders disclose themselves to us.   The Lord will possess His universe perfectly only when the universe will have become the Lord.   THE DIVINE WORKING IN THE UNIVERSE  The universe is a ﬁnite whole, but its content is inﬁnite; the changes which occur in this inﬁnity result from the action of Essence on substance, from the penetration, the permeation of quantity by quality, which brings about a constant and progressive organisation and reorganisation of the content of the universe.


The Mother: At every minute the universe is created in its totality and in each of its parts.     No two combinations, no two movements in the universe are similar; nothing is reproduced exactly. There are analogies, there are similarities, there are families, families of movements that can be called families of vibrations, but there are no two things that are identical, neither in time nor in space.


The Mother: Nothing is repeated, otherwise there would be no manifestation, no becoming; there would be only one creation, one single thing.  The manifestation is just this diversity. It is the One that unfolds itself in the Many — endlessly.    On the physical plane the Divine expresses himself through beauty, on the mental plane through knowledge, on the vital plane through power and on the psychic plane through love.


The Mother: When we rise high enough, we discover that these four aspects unite with each other in a single consciousness, full of love, luminous, powerful, beautiful, containing all, pervading all.  It is only to satisfy the universal play that this consciousness divides itself into several lines or aspects of manifestation.     This world is a chaos in which darkness and light, falsehood and truth, death and life, ugliness and beauty, hate and love are so closely intertwined that it is almost impossible to distinguish one from the other, still more impossible to disentangle them and put an end to an embrace which has the horror of a pitiless struggle, all the more keen because veiled, especially in human consciousness where the conﬂict changes into an anguish for knowledge, for power, for conquest, — a combat obscure and painful, all the more atrocious because it seems to be without issue, but capable of a solution on a level above the sensations  and feelings and ideas, beyond the domain of the mind — in the Divine Consciousness.


The Mother:  The manifestation will overcome all difﬁculties, for manifestation means the overcoming of all difﬁculties.     One Divine Consciousness is here working through all these beings, preparing its way through all these manifestations. At this day it is here at work upon earth more powerfully than it has ever been before.


The Mother:    I would


The Mother: say: may the world become aware that the Divine is manifesting.     O, to see no longer the appearances which change incessantly; to contemplate only the Divine’s immutable oneness in everything and everywhere!


The Mother:  If one looks at outer forms no longer in themselves, for themselves, in their appearance alone, but as the expression of a deeper and more abiding reality, then all of them — as well as all circumstances and events — become symbolic of the Force that is behind and that uses them for its self-expression.  For a certain state of consciousness, there is not a single circumstance, not a form, an action or a movement that is not expressive of a deeper or higher, more abiding, more essential and truer reality.     Behind the appearances there is a subtle reality much closer to Truth; it is that one we are trying to show you.


The Mother: Upon this world of illusion, this sombre nightmare, the Divine has bestowed His sublime Reality, and each atom of matter contains something of His Eternity.      Is it not, for the Divine, a supreme sacriﬁce to renounce the beatitude of His unity in order to create the painful multiplicity of the world?


The Mother:   Poor Divine! Of what an amount of horrors He is accused.  If these accusations were true, what a monster He would be, He who in truth is all-compassion.


The Mother:   It is wrong to say that the world, as it is, is made according to the Divine’s Will. If it were so, (a) All the wickedness of the world would be the Divine’s wickedness.  (b) There would be no need to change either oneself or the world.


The Mother:   All things considered, looking at the world as it is and as it seems it must be irremediably, the human intellect has decreed that this world must be a mistake on the part of God and that the manifestation or creation is surely the result of desire, desire to manifest oneself, desire to know oneself, desire to enjoy oneself.  Therefore the only thing to do is to put an end to this mistake  as soon as possible by refusing to cling to desire and its deadly consequences.  But the Supreme Lord answers that the comedy has not yet been completely played out, and He adds, “Wait for the last act; no doubt you will change your mind.”


The Mother: When the physical world will manifest the divine splendour, all will be marvellous.   The whole creation speaks of the Divine to him who knows how to hear within his heart.     There is no other consciousness than the Supreme Consciousness.


The Mother: There is no other will than the Supreme Will.  There is no other life than the Supreme Life.  There is no other personality than the Supreme Personality, the One and the All.


The Mother: There is nothing in this world which is not submitted to a direct action beyond Nature — but most of the men are unaware of it.     Divine presence: it hides from ignorant eyes its ever-present magniﬁcence.


The Mother:   You speak of delight, but in the material world there is no such thing as delight. Yet, remove the delight and the whole world will collapse.   Nature is happy to be beautiful.


The Mother:   Nature rejoices at her beauty.   Beauty is the joyous offering of Nature.


The Mother: Nature has a soul which blossoms very prettily.   All in Nature is spontaneously generous.     Abundance: Nature all at once gives to us generously and we have the joy of abundance.


The Mother:   Nature has an instinctive thirst for light.   Nature knows that one day she will realise.   It is man who has rendered Nature sorrowful.


The Mother:   Intimacy with universal Nature: this intimacy is only possible for those whose consciousness is vast and who are without preference and without repulsion.    The so-called forces of Nature are nothing but the exterior activities of beings out of proportion with man by their size and by the powers which they wield.


The Mother:    (  )  This cyclone was simply a push from the Earth-Nature to wake up some of her somnolent human children to the necessity of making a progress based on Sri Aurobindo’s saying, “Materially you are nothing, spiritually you are everything.”


The Mother:  ( ) Nature is collaborating in her own way. All is meant for the growth of a spontaneous sincerity.   One must let things grow just as plants grow in Nature. Every too rigid form or limitation we would seek to impose on them before their time, would hamper their natural development and would sooner or later have to be destroyed.  The Divine in Nature creates nothing ﬁnal; everything is temporary and at the same time as perfect as it is possible for it to be under the circumstances at the time.


The Mother:  In our way of working we must not be the slaves of Nature; all these habits of trying and changing, doing and undoing and redoing again and again, wasting energy, labour, material and  money, are Nature’s way of action, not the Divine’s. The Divine Consciousness sees ﬁrst the truth of a work, the best way of doing it according to the given circumstances. And when She acts it is ﬁnal; She never comes back to what is done, She goes forward, using failure as well as success for a new progress, one more step towards the goal.  In order to progress Nature destroys, while the Divine Consciousness stimulates growth and ﬁnally transforms.


The Mother:   If you do not feel your responsibility and if you are not always alert and painstaking, then Nature will play mischief with you.  If you want to stop the mischief of Nature, you have to do your work with exactness and a sense of responsibility. You must not leave anything undone. You must always be careful and alert and you will be safe.


The Mother: THE GODS   Those who still believe in gods can certainly continue to worship them if they feel like it — but they must know that this creed and this worship has nothing to do with the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and no connection whatever with the Supramental Realisation.


The Mother: Even the gods have to make their surrender to the Supreme if the Divine creation is to be realised upon earth.     Men like festivals.    It is men who give a meaning to festivals in order to legitimate their presence.


The Mother:   KRISHNA AND RADHA  Krishna represents both the universal Godhead and the immanent Godhead, he whom one can meet within one’s being and in all that constitutes the manifested world.  And do you want to know why he is always represented as a child? It is because he is in constant progression.


The Mother: To the extent that the world is perfected, his play is also perfected — what was the play of yesterday will no longer be the play of tomorrow; his play will become more and more harmonious, benign and joyful to the extent that the world becomes capable of responding to it and enjoying it with the Divine.   Krishna’s play: a power of progress veiling itself behind appearances.   Krishna’s play in Matter: beauty, love and joy are comrades; a play which widens and makes you progress.   Krishna’s play in the physical: the rule of the Avatar upon earth, that is to say, the realisation of the new divine world.    Surely she has lived and is still living.


The Mother:   Radha’s consciousness symbolises perfect attachment to the Divine.


The Mother: KALI, MAHAKALI, MAHALAKSHMI, MAHASARASWATI   It must be Kali’s force which you evoke.    It is evidently the working of the Kali force that has lit and is directing this ﬁre in you. There is nothing wrong in its action; it is not an anger personal to you but the wrath of a divine power and it must be allowed to act; in fact, I think you could not stop it from burning in you even if you wanted to stop it.


The Mother: This man has drawn it on himself and there is nothing wrong in what is happening, he alone is responsible. Of course, it must not be used for any personal aim or in any self-regarding way.    Of all the aspects of the Mother, Kali most powerfully expresses vibrant and active love, and despite her sometimes terrible aspect, she carries in herself the golden splendour of an all-powerful love.


The Mother:   Kali rarely acts in the mind. In the higher domains she is a power of love which pushes towards progress and transformation; in the vital she is a power of destruction of falsehood, hypocrisy and ill-will.   All that is good, truthful and progressive is never destroyed by her. On the contrary, she protects and sustains it.


The Mother:   Behind all destructions, whether the immense destructions of Nature, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, ﬂoods, etc., or the violent human destructions, wars, revolutions, revolts, I ﬁnd the power of Kali, who is working in the earth-atmosphere to hasten the progress of transformation.  All that is not only divine in essence but also divine in realisation is by its very nature above these destructions and cannot be touched by them. Thus the extent of the disaster gives the measure of the imperfection.


The Mother: The true way of preventing the repetition of these destructions is to learn their lesson and make the necessary progress.     Integral wealth of Mahalakshmi: wealth of feelings and action in all ﬁelds of activity — intellectual, psychological and material.


The Mother: Mahasaraswati’s mission is to awaken the world to the need of perfection; but perfection itself belongs to the Supreme Lord alone; no one else can even know what it is.    The Mother In their aspect above the Overmind, in the higher regions, the aspects of the Mother have very simple forms and don’t have multiple limbs.   All the details and complications are appearances mostly added by men in order to give a symbolic expression to invisible qualities.    THE AVATAR Avatar — the Supreme manifested on earth in a body.


The Mother:   The Avatar: the supreme Divine manifested in an earthly form — generally a human form — for a deﬁnite purpose.     The Divine, being all-powerful, can lift people up without bothering to come down on earth.


The Mother: It is only if it is part of the world arrangement that he should take upon himself the burden of humanity and open the Way that avatarhood has any meaning.     Men tolerate the presence of the Divine upon earth only on condition that He suffers there.   Only when men depend exclusively on the Divine and on nothing else, will it no longer be necessary for the incarnate god to die for them.


The Mother:   The chief purpose of the “avatar” is to give to man a concrete proof that the Divine can manifest upon earth.     Unless your aim is the Divine Realisation upon earth, at any cost, take good care not to draw too close to the divine messengers: for their action is like a hurricane that sweeps away all established things.


The Mother:  SUPERIOR BEINGS  The human race tolerates and accepts the existence of superior beings only on condition that they are at its service.   For ordinary men, the sage is a sort of music box of wisdom into which it is enough to put the penny of a question in order to receive the answer automatically.


The Mother: For them to recognise a god, he must have a halo behind his head; for them to recognise a king, he must have a sceptre in his hand.    One who is no longer egoistic no longer has any personal place in this world. That is to say, in exact proportion to his impersonality, this personal world no longer has any personal relations with him. He is in relation with the world, with beings and things only as universal and non-individual forces are; like them, he acts in all, animates all, supports all, but in a general way he is completely ignored by all that he animates, supports and sets in motion.


The Mother: It is not he who no longer wants the world, it is the world that no longer wants him or, rather, that no longer even notices that he exists.    ADVERSE FORCES   Each time that we have made a decisive step in our spiritual progress, the invisible enemies of the Divine always try to take their revenge, and when they cannot injure the soul they strike the body. But all their efforts are in vain and will ﬁnally be defeated, for the Divine Grace is with us.


The Mother:   We must never give a chance to the adverse forces to do their mischief — they take advantage of the slightest unconsciousness.    It is jealousy, selﬁsh dissatisfaction and hurt vanity that open the doors of the consciousness to the hostile attacks by pulling one out of the Divine’s protection.


The Mother: It is only by refusing to allow these wrong movements to take place in oneself that one can hope to get rid of the adverse inﬂuence and its disastrous effects.     It is a great ignorance that makes a being answer to the suggestions of the forces of darkness and destruction. With a true sense of gratitude for the Divine’s inﬁnite mercy, one would be saved from such dangers.


The Mother:   Yes, they do come from outside, from some vital entity that is amusing itself by sending them to you to see how you will receive them. I saw the suggestion passing at the time I gave you the ﬂower. I did not attach any importance to it because it was just foolishness — but I see that you received it.


The Mother:    The wrath of Mahakali manifests from time to time and acts all right, but the effect of it does not last because those who answer to the adverse force do not truly want to be cured — they are not sincere.    If you thought less about the attacks, there would not be so many.


The Mother:   Constantly thinking of the hostile forces and fearing them is a very dangerous weakness.     As you say, it is the adverse force itself that must be conquered and destroyed, otherwise it will always ﬁnd people to manifest it.


The Mother:   Hostile forces are tolerated in the world only because they put man’s sincerity to the test. The day that man becomes integrally sincere, they will pass away, for there will no longer be any reason for their existence.    These adverse forces are connected with sexual desire.


The Mother: They live on the energy wasted when the act takes place. And even a thought, a mental or vital desire is sufﬁcient to let them come in and settle in the atmosphere. Thus it is in the mind itself that the puriﬁcation must take place.  My blessings.


The Mother: These visions are imaginations which probably come from old thought-forms. There is no reason to sentimentalise about ﬂies.  They are beings created by the adverse forces and they must disappear from the earth.    In the terrestrial organisation, the world of insects is, so to say, the direct work of hostile creators in the vital world; they are the result of adverse and often diabolical thoughts and imaginations, directed not towards man but towards the divine work.


The Mother: Often an insect that looks quite harmless is the messenger of a bad and malevolent will; in that case one must deal severely with it.  Love can tolerate anything — but in action, the Divine chooses and decides. Yet even in his act of destruction, there shines out pure Love, sublime Love.


The Mother: When the adverse forces are dealt with in the right way, all that is ugly and false disappears to leave place only for what is true and beautiful.   Your ego, at the slightest thing that displeases it, is in the habit of opening the door of your being to an evil spirit of arrogant and impudent disbelief which passes its time in throwing mud and ﬁlth on all that is sacred and beautiful and especially on the aspiration of your soul and the help from the Divine’s Grace.  If this is allowed to continue, it will end in a sure catastrophe and ruin. Strong steps must be taken to put an end to this, and for that the collaboration of your soul is needed. It must wake up and join in the ﬁght against the ego by resolutely closing the door to this evil spirit.


The Mother:   After all, what is freedom? To go about doing whatever you like? But do you know what is “you”? Do you know what is your own will?


The Mother: Do you know what comes from you and what comes from elsewhere? Well, if you had a strong will I could have allowed you to work. But it is not like that; it is only impulses that move you and they are also not your own. They come from outside and make you do all sorts of stupid things.


The Mother: You fall into the hands of the Rakshasas. First they make you do stupid things and then they laugh. If you have a strong will, if your will, your impulses and all else are centred around the psychic, then and then alone can you have some taste of liberty and freedom; otherwise you are a slave.


The Mother: If you refuse to become a docile and surrendered servant of the Divine and of the Master who manifests Him, it means that you  will remain a slave of your egoism, your vanity, your presumptuous ambition, and a toy in the hands of the Rakshasas who allure you with brilliant images in their attempt — not always unsuccessful — to possess you.     If you had understood and reacted in the right way, you would have passed the test and got rid not only of this special difﬁculty but probably of this hostile’s inﬂuence altogether. But you failed and got possessed.


The Mother: And only one thing was left to me to do, it was to ﬂood you with the pure light, the white ﬂame of puriﬁcation to chase from inside you the intruder. It is what you took probably for a cut in our relations, a wall of separation between us; there was nothing of the kind; I was inside you, penetrating you as usual, but in the form of this supreme purity which is so foreign to all that is anti-divine or even to all ordinary human movement.  This adverse entity is not only vital, it is also mental and supports its desires by some apparently reasonable principles which become aggressively stupid by their rigidity. When this seizes you, you seem to lose all common sense and the most elementary understanding.  No wall at all — only the pure light, the white ﬂame of puriﬁcation penetrating right through, from outside inside, from inside outside.


The Mother: Now I can tell you what has happened with a chance of being understood.   ()  Here is a sad but striking illustration of what I said.  This case is clear. For some egoistic reason he attempted to do more than he could.


The Mother: If the year had been he might have succeeded.   With an ordinary or year he would not have succeeded but without bad results for himself or for the others.  This year, because it is dangerously bad, the consequences came in full. Now all I can do is to make the best out of the situation; but it has become a big ﬁght.  This is what I meant when I spoke, but very few people understood what I meant by “Be careful.”


The Mother: I meant: “Do always the best you can and make as far as possible no spiritual mistake.”  On the contrary, most of them started fearing and that in itself is already a big spiritual mistake. Instead of being more vigilant and more faithful, most of them at once opened the door to the hostile suggestions and aggravated the situation. Some went even so far as to blame me for having spoken, not understanding that if I cannot warn the people here and advise them to keep ﬁrm in the right attitude, it means that they are not true sadhaks and have no sincerity in their attitude.  In order to make myself more clear, I repeat what I wanted to say; in a year like this one when the adverse forces have decided to attack at the utmost of their capacity, it is required from all those who have decided to ﬁght for the Divine Realisation, to avoid carefully all fear.


The Mother: When I spoke at the beginning of the year I insisted on the necessity of being especially vigilant because when times are bad whatever mistake one makes brings immediately its full consequences, the action of the Grace being hampered by the intensity of the adverse attack; the faith must be more total, the vigilance more constant, the trust in the Divine more absolute.    As for your opening upward — fear nothing; it all depends on your sincerity. If it is the Divine alone that you want and not some personal advantage, it is the Divine alone who will answer  your call. Adverse replies are a danger only when the motive is egoistic.


The Mother: With my blessings.    This is the disadvantage of placing oneself under the inﬂuence of several occult forces.  In the past, one was recommended, not without reason, to choose one spiritual master and to take great care not to see any others, to avoid a mixture of inﬂuences, which has serious disadvantages.


The Mother: So-called modern wisdom, which springs from ignorance, is open to all kinds of inﬂuences which are sometimes contradictory, and the result is a great confusion.  Now there is only one solution, to go beyond all human representations and approach the Supreme directly with the utmost sincerity you are capable of, and... await the result.  Blessings.   RELIGION  God gives Himself to His whole creation; no one religion holds the monopoly of His Grace.


The Mother:  Instead of excluding each other, religions ought to complete each other.    The spiritual spirit is not contrary to a religious feeling of adoration, devotion and consecration. But what is wrong in the religions is the ﬁxity of the mind clinging to one formula as an exclusive truth.


The Mother: One must always remember that formulas are only a mental expression of the truth and that this truth can always be expressed in many other ways.     You express your faith in Sri Aurobindo with certain words which are for you the best expression of this faith; this is quite all right. But if you are convinced that these very words are the only correct ones to express what Sri Aurobindo is, then you become dogmatic and are ready to create a religion.


The Mother:   In a severe tone: “Madam, you are pledging your word.”  Very quietly: “I know it, sir, and when I make a promise, I keep it. But for me these things don’t have much importance. I have no  attachment for any religion, and when one has no attachment, one has no aversion either.


The Mother: For me religions are forms, much too human, of spiritual life. Each one expresses one aspect of the single and eternal Truth, but in expressing it exclusive of the other aspects, it deforms and diminishes it. None has the right to call itself the only true one, any more than it has the right to deny the truth contained in the others. And all of them together would not sufﬁce to express the Supreme Truth which is beyond all expression, even whilst being present in each one.”  In a dry tone: “I am sorry, madam, but in this ﬁeld I cannot follow you.”


The Mother: Smiling and peaceful: “I know that very well, sir, and I told you all this only to explain to you why I did not reply very seriously to the promise you were demanding from me.”     Why do men want to worship?  It is far better to become than to worship.


The Mother: It is the reluctance to change that makes one worship.   One may abstain from worship only on condition that one changes, for there are many who want neither to change nor to worship!     The attitude to be taken towards religions


The Mother: A benevolent goodwill towards all worshippers.  An enlightened indifference towards all religions.  All religions are partial approximations of the one sole Truth that is far above them.    A benevolent goodwill towards all worshippers.  An enlightened indifference towards all religions.


The Mother: As for the relation with the beings of the Overmind, if this relation exists already, each case must have its own solution.    Religions are based on creeds which are spiritual experiences brought down to a level where they become more easy to grasp, but at the cost of their integral purity and truth.   The time of religions is over.


The Mother: We have entered the age of universal spirituality, of spiritual experience in its initial purity.   () I have read the article — it is all right. I have made only one change — in the last page, where you write “since it will be the age of God” (God is still too religious) I have put “of the” — because it will truly be the age of Unity.


The Mother: I approve of your continuing this practice in the Arya Home provided those who live there are to attend or not according to their own conviction. Practices of this kind have no spiritual value if they become a habit or a compulsion, even if it is only a compulsion. I mean to say that no propaganda spirit must be used.   With blessings.


The Mother:   Religious thought cannot be used unless it is liberated from the inﬂuence of religions.    We call “religion” any concept of the world or the universe which is presented as the exclusive Truth in which one must have absolute faith, generally because this Truth is declared to be the result of a revelation.  Most of the religions afﬁrm the existence of a God and the rules to follow to obey Him, but there are some Godless religions, such as the socio-political organisations which, in the name of an Ideal or the State, claim the same right to be obeyed.


The Mother: Man’s right is to pursue the Truth freely and to approach it freely in his own way. But each one ought to know that his discovery is good for him alone and is not to be imposed upon others.    You must not confuse a religious teaching with a spiritual one.  Religious teaching belongs to the past and halts progress.


The Mother: Spiritual teaching is the teaching of the future — it illumines the consciousness and prepares it for future realisation.  Spiritual teaching is above religions and strives towards a global Truth.  It teaches us to enter into direct relation with the Divine.   OCCULTISM Occultism does not truly blossom except when it is surrendered to the Divine.


The Mother: And yet there is an analogy. Just as you may read all the books possible on the art of playing the piano, but if you do not play it yourself you will never be a pianist, so too you may read everything that has been written on occultism, but if you do not practise it yourself you will never be an occultist.     Pre-vision: the power of projecting one’s consciousness into the future.


The Mother:     I do not like these showy miracles — they most often fail pitifully under the pressure of the Force. The ﬁrst effect is a dangerous swelling of the ego. In front of all that, there is only one attitude to take — do your best and leave the result to the Lord.


The Mother: A psychological truth because anybody can become for you the Lord if so you decide. The subjective point of view is much more widely prevailing than is generally admitted.     I have gone through the papers you sent me.


The Mother: The historic part of the papers seems to be true. The founder must surely have been acquainted with the Kaballah and with some mystics of Asia Minor. The original appears to have been written in Latin with adjuncts of Hebrew words (probably taken  from the Kaballah). But the Osiris-Isis part looks to me like a more recent addition which came in something like 50 or 60 years ago.  The whole thing is from its origin a very well-made, a very strong and elaborate, powerfully designed to catch hold of certain vital elements and forces (both outside and inside the individuals) to rule and use them and through the vital to exercise a partial power over the physical.


The Mother: Formations of this kind are numerous; they translate upon earth into secret societies. I have met of the kind, more or less ancient, more or less powerfully organised, but all of a similar type. They are not, in their nature, spiritual. If there is any spirituality in them, it comes but from the presence, in the society, of one or several personalities with a spiritual character and achievement.     In ancient times the teaching of the great spiritual truths was a secret teaching reserved for a small number of initiates.


The Mother: Even now there are things that are spoken but cannot be written down, and still less can they be printed.     In our daily practices we are endeavouring to express the great mystery of the Divine Incarnation.


The Mother:   In the ﬁnal analysis, formulated knowledge is only a language that gives the power to act upon the object of this knowledge.


The Mother: (   )  I always advise to let the mantra rise from the depth of the heart as a sincere aspiration.    OM.


The Mother:  OM is the signature of the Lord.    ( pranam)  This gesture, when one makes it in all sincerity, is the consecration to the Divine in the whole creation. It is that, that is the origin of the thing...


The Mother: Like a recognition, a recognition and a submission to the Divine in the creation.  That is the true meaning. Naturally, in outer appearance, not one person in a thousand does that... but that is the true meaning of this gesture.    ASTROLOGY  Do not fear for your life — the astrologers do not always say the truth.


The Mother:   The stars have no decisive inﬂuence. It is only if one does not believe in the Divine that one unnecessarily suffers by believing that they determine one’s life.  I have known many astrologers both in Europe and India.  So far, nobody has been able to read the future correctly.


The Mother: There are three reasons for the failure. First, the astrologers do not know how to read the future properly. Secondly, the horoscope is always incorrectly made — unless a man is a mathematical genius. And even for such a person it is very difﬁcult to make a correct horoscope. Thirdly, when people say that the stars in this or that house at the time of birth rule your life, they are quite wrong.


The Mother: The stars under which you are born are only “tape-recorders” of physical conditions. They do not rule the future of the soul. There is something beyond, which rules the stars themselves and everything else. The soul belongs to this Supreme Being. And if it is doing Yoga, then all the more it should never believe in the power of the stars or in any other power.


The Mother: An astrologer who predicts a catastrophe for you is like a joker. Many jokers say things like, “Today you will break your neck!” But in spite of the joke nothing happens.  Only a great Yogi can tell you your future correctly. But even then there is the Supreme Will which alone controls and decides everything.


The Mother:   The horoscope is sufﬁciently vague and favourable to be taken in consideration as the base of a mental conception for your future.  The most important factor in a horoscope is the intuitive faculty of the astrologer.


The Mother: Why do you believe in what the astrologers say? It is the belief that brings the trouble.  Sri Aurobindo says that a man becomes what he thinks he is.


The Mother: Horoscopes have no importance for those who take up yoga, because the inﬂuence that works through yoga is much more powerful than the inﬂuence of the stars.   PALMISTRY  Palmistry is a very interesting art, but it depends for its exactitude and truthfulness almost entirely upon the real ability of the one who practises it. Moreover, it relates only to the material destiny and this destiny can be altered by the intervention of the higher forces.    NUMBERS 1 — The One 2 — Decision for Creation 3 — Beginning of Creation 4 — Manifestation 5 — Power 6 — Creation 7 — Realisation 8 — Occult Formation 9 — Power of Static Fulﬁlment 10 — Power of Expression


The Mother: 11 — Progress 12 — Perfect Manifestation Stabilised  1 — The Origin  2 — Appearance of the Creative Consciousness  3 — Sachchidananda 4 — Manifestation 5 — Power 6 — New Creation 7 — Realisation 8 — Double Enclosure (protection from inner and outer enemies) 9 — New Birth  10 — Perfection 11 — Progress  12 — Double Perfection (spiritual and material)


The Mother: 14 — Transformation      When I picked up the ﬂowers to give you, I felt that several were coming and I willed: “Let it be the number of the states of the being in which the Sincerity (in the consecration to the Divine) will be deﬁnitively established.”


The Mother: Four means integrality: the four states of being, mental, psychic, vital, physical.   COLOURS  Greenish yellow is mental.  Orange yellow is the symbol of light.   SYMBOLS The fox on the envelope means cleverness.


The Mother:   It is a hare — “prudence”.     Gentleness and swiftness of movement.


The Mother:   Generally a snake symbolises a movement of falsehood, When something in the nature is in afﬁnity with falsehood, snakes are attracted. The nature of the falsehood is indicated by the nature of the snake and the plane where it appears.   The horse signiﬁes the powers of the individual being, which must be controlled (bridled).


The Mother:   It is a, which means “purity”.


The Mother: This boar is the symbol of desires.    ()  Keen sight.


The Mother:    The snake is not the symbol of power but of, and just as there are obscure and perverted energies, so too the snake can be the symbol of unregenerate and anti-divine forces.    Mere tradition based on old symbols.


The Mother:    I do not remember the picture I sent. A house is generally a place of rest and safety.


The Mother: [facsimile]     This little badge was chosen as it is — a single ball hanging from a cord made of countless silk threads — for the following reasons.  The ball — the globe — is a symbol of universality, integrality, infinity.


The Mother: One, it becomes the symbol of the Supreme Oneness manifested in all the domains of the being — the multiplicity — represented by the silk cord.    The red lotus is the symbol of the Avatar and the offering of the red lotus is meant to suggest the full consecration to  the Avatar; the yellow background represents the supramental manifestation.


The Mother: Yes, it is the symbol of the descent of the divine forces upon the physical plane.     Water signiﬁes many things such as ﬂuidity, plasticity, suppleness, the purifying principle. It is the driving force and marks the beginning of organised life.


The Mother:   Water corresponds to the vital, air to mind, ﬁre to the psychic, earth to matter and ether to the spirit.    The diamond is the symbol of pure spiritual light.


The Mother: No hostile force can cross it. If you put that light on a hostile force, he simply melts away. But the diamond light cannot be used indiscriminately in all cases, because human beings who shelter these adverse forces get very dangerously affected.  Of course I am not speaking of material diamonds.    The solar light is the symbol of the supramental light.


The Mother:   We invoke the solar light, symbol of the Supreme Lord, to give us the Light of Truth.


The Mother: Symbols are a convention, and their value is the same as the value of the languages.   MORALITY  You have no right to dispense with morality unless you submit yourself to a law that is higher and much more rigorous than any moral law.


The Mother: You can break the moral rules only when you observe the Divine Law.     Moral laws have only a very relative value from the point of view of Truth. Besides, they vary considerably according to country, climate and period.


The Mother: Discussions are generally sterile and without productive value. If each one makes a personal effort of perfect sincerity, uprightness and good-will, the best conditions for the work will be realised.   Never judge on appearances, still less on gossip.  What is moral in one country is immoral in another.  Service to the Divine exacts a sincerity of self-sacriﬁce unknown to any morality.


The Mother:   WAR AND VIOLENCE  Not so long ago, at the beginning of this century, during what was perhaps the most murderous war of all, the fate of millions of men was decided many a time by the ﬁnancial speculations of the contending heads of state.    O men! How can you utter the sublime word “Peace” when there is no peace in your hearts?


The Mother: The War is over, so you say, and yet everywhere man is slaying man and Cain still sheds his brother’s blood!


The Mother: In the Bible, God calls Cain and asks him: “What have you done with your brother?”  Today I call man and ask him: “What have you done with the earth?”    For all those whom the Divine Grace has kept far from the horrible conﬂict which is tearing men apart, the only way to express their gratitude is by a complete consecration of their whole being to the divine work.


The Mother:   Don’t worry about Hitler. No asuric force can stand eternally against the divine force and the hour of his defeat is bound to come.     [facsimile


The Mother: ]  The Victory has come, Thy Victory, O Lord, for which we render to Thee infinite thanks-giving.  But now our ardent prayer rises towards Thee. It is with Thy force and by Thy force that the victors have conquered. Grant that they do not forget it in their success and that they keep the promises which they have made to Thee in the hours of danger and anguish.


The Mother: They have taken Thy name to make war, may they not forget Thy grace when they have to make the peace.   The Atomic Bomb  The Atomic bomb is in itself the most wonderful achievement and the sign of a growing power of man over material nature. But what is to be regretted is that this material progress and mastery is not the result of and in keeping with a spiritual progress and mastery which alone has the power to contradict and counteract the terrible danger coming from these discoveries. We  cannot and must not stop progress, but we must achieve it in an equilibrium between the inside and the outside.


The Mother:   Violence is never a good way to make a cause triumph. How can anyone hope to obtain justice by injustice, harmony by hatred?


The Mother:   Tell him that I refuse to be a prophet.     This old idea of the necessity of the catastrophe to make the power is a limitation that has to be overcome.


The Mother:   There is no question of welcoming destruction, but of learning the lesson it gives.


The Mother: I disapprove totally of violence. Each act of violence is a step back on the path leading to the goal to which we aspire.  The Divine is everywhere and always supremely conscious.  Nothing must ever be done that cannot be done before the Divine.    So long as you are capable of giving somebody a beating, you open the door to the possibility of being given a beating yourself.


The Mother:  Popular outbursts: the monstrous cruelty of the mud that hates and despises the light.     There is a difference between violence and cruelty. In a violent mood one can do a very dreadful act, but afterwards one feels very sorry for it.


The Mother: Whereas a cruel person does the thing in a cold-blooded way — everything is prearranged and is done for its own sake.   SAFETY AND PROTECTION  During the bombardments, to those who fear for their skins and ﬂee: Why should you be in safety when the whole world is in danger? What is your special virtue, your special merit for which you should be so specially protected?  In the Divine alone is there safety.


The Mother: Take refuge in Him and cast away all fear.   ( ) They can come to Pondicherry, but those who are afraid are afraid everywhere and one who has faith is in safety everywhere.    The best protection is an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace.   Protection is active and can be effective only with on your side, absolute and constant.   Let us give ourselves entirely and sincerely to the Divine and we shall enjoy His protection.


The Mother:  Integral protection: that which can be given only by the Divine.   Psychic protection: the protection resulting from surrender to the Divine.   Physical protection is possible only with a total surrender to the Divine and the absence of all desires.   Concentrate more constantly on the Divine Presence and the protection will be more spontaneous.


The Mother:   Exclusive turning of all movements towards the Divine: the sure means of having security.


The Mother: Nothing is in safety except what is given to the Divine.   WEALTH AND ECONOMICS   [ facsimile


The Mother: ]  Money is not meant to make money, money is meant to make the earth ready for the advent of the new creation.    It is to the Divine that all riches belong. It is the Divine who lends them to living beings, and it is to Him that they must naturally return.


The Mother:  Wealth under the psychic influence: wealth ready to return to its true possessor, the Divine.    A day shall come when all the wealth of this world, freed at last from the enslavement to the antidivine forces, offers itself spontaneously and fully to the service of the Divine’s Work upon earth.     Give all you are, all you have; nothing more is asked of you but also nothing less.


The Mother:  True wealth is that which one offers to the Divine.   You are rich only by the money that you give to the Divine Cause.   You are richer with the wealth you give than with the wealth you keep in your possession.


The Mother:    (  )  The true fortune is to spend in the right way.


The Mother: You become truly rich when you dispose of your wealth in the best possible way.       Prosperity stays consistently only with him who offers it to the Divine.


The Mother:   Unselﬁsh prosperity: he who receives it abundantly, gives all that he has as he receives it.


The Mother: Generosity gives and gives itself without bargaining.      Let money come and go in abundance for good works.


The Mother:    You are quite right and I approve of your attitude.


The Mother:


The Mother: Never mix in your thought and because it leads straight to catastrophe.     A gift made through vanity is proﬁtable neither to the giver nor to the receiver.    I wanted to make him understand and experience that the thought, the feeling and the force that is in a gift is much more important and valuable than the thing given itself.


The Mother:   “The Divine has many ways of giving.”  This is the correct thing. One never has any obligation to anybody, one has an obligation only to and there totally. When a gift is made, one can always take it as coming from the Divine and leave it to the Divine to take care of what is needed in exchange or response.


The Mother: As for ill-will, jealousy, quarrels and reproaches, one must  be above all that and reply with a benevolent smile to the bitterest words; and unless one is absolutely sure of himself and his reactions, it would be better, as a general rule, to keep silent.  To the rich God gives money, but to the poor He gives Himself.   All depends on the poor giving more value to the riches or to God.     The ﬁnanciers and businessmen have been offered the possibility to collaborate with the future, but most of them refuse, convinced that the power of money is stronger than that of the future.


The Mother: But the future will crush them with its irresistible power.


The Mother:    In this material world, for men, money is more than the Divine’s Will.


The Mother: Greed for money: the surest way to decrease one’s conscience and to narrow one’s nature.     I am not for getting interest on money.   You ought to know that I do not approve at all of speculation — but what is done is done.


The Mother:   If “betterment of consciousness” means an increased, enlarged consciousness, a better organisation of it, then as a result there should naturally be a greater control of outward things (including the “economic condition”). But also, naturally when one has a “better consciousness” one is less preoccupied with such things as one’s economic condition.   Solution of the economic problem: Arriving at the synthesis of two problems: (1) adjusting the production to the needs; (2) adjusting the needs to the production.    GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS


The Mother: One must be able to control oneself before one can hope to govern others.   1) To have is the indispensable condition for controlling others.  2) To have, not to like one and to dislike the other — with everybody.  3) To be patient and enduring.  Also to speak only what is quite indispensable and nothing more.


The Mother:   One takes seriously what is said by those whose lives are governed by reason; but how can one attach any importance to the so-called decisions made by those who are actually the playthings of their whimsical impulses?     Idea: essential for all organisers; on its quality depends the quality of the organisation.


The Mother:    It is easier to suppress than to organise, but the true order is far superior to suppression.


The Mother: Organisation and discipline are the necessary basis for all realisation.  To know how to command well, one must ﬁrst know how to obey well.    Only he who knows how to obey is capable of governing.


The Mother:   In their ordinary consciousness, human beings cannot tolerate any authority, however legitimate, if it is exercised over them by somebody whom they believe to be on the same level as themselves.  On the other hand, for human authority to be legitimately exercised over others, it must be enlightened, impartial and unegoistic to the extent that nobody can reasonably challenge its value.    [facsimile] To those whose work is to govern or to lead.  When you want to please the people, you let things go as they are, waiting for Nature to impose her progress upon man.


The Mother: But this is not the truth of the creation. The true mission of man is to impose his progress on Nature.    He only who has a perfect sense of true justice can claim the right to be obeyed.


The Mother:   When I say that the “wise” should govern the world, I am not taking a political point of view but a spiritual one.  The various forms of government can stay as they are; that is only of secondary importance. But whatever the social status of the men in power, they should receive their inspiration from those who have realised the Truth and have no other will than that of the Supreme.    Remain in politics and try to bring Truth into politics.


The Mother: It is a very sure way towards effective spirituality.     Completely give up this ordinary vulgar political practice of publicly abusing people either in speech or writing. One should wage a war of ideas so that the truth may triumph, not a war of .


The Mother:   Yes.   Yes.  Yes. True.


The Mother: Yes.  Blessings.   Talk little, be true, act sincerely.


The Mother:  To think that communism is the Truth is to make the same error as all religious fanaticism and puts communism on the same level as all other religions... very far from the Truth.   HUMAN UNITY  Message to America Stop thinking that you are of the West and others of the East.  All human beings are of the same divine origin and meant to manifest upon earth the unity of this origin.


The Mother:  The earth will enjoy a lasting and living peace only when men understand that they must be truthful and sincere even in their international dealings.  For the Governments honesty lies not only in saying what they are doing but also in doing what they say.     If diplomacy could become the instrument of the Truth and the Divine Grace, instead of being based on duplicity and falsehood, a big step would be taken towards human unity and harmony.


The Mother: About Peace  It is only by the growth and establishment of the consciousness of human unity, that a true and lasting peace can be achieved upon earth. All means leading towards this goal are welcome, although the external ones have a very limited effect; however, the most important, urgent and indispensable of all, is a transformation of the human consciousness itself, an enlightenment of and conversion in its working.  Meanwhile some exterior steps may be taken usefully, and the acceptance of the principle of double nationality is one of them. The main objection to it has always been the awkward position in which those who have adopted a double nationality would be in case the two countries were at war.


The Mother: But all those who sincerely want peace must understand that to think of war, to speak of war, to foresee war is to open the door to it.  On the contrary, the larger the number of people who have a vital interest in the abolition of war, the more effective the chances towards a stable peace, until the advent of a new consciousness in man makes of war an impossibility.


The Mother: Shake off all narrowness, selﬁshness, limitations, and wake up to the consciousness of Human Unity. This is the only way to achieve peace and harmony.     Alas! If I did it would not be from a very high level!


The Mother: The nations, as yet, do not seem ready to listen to any true spiritual message.      On the ingratitude of nations: It takes nobility of character not to resent someone who does you good.


The Mother:    (  )


The Mother: The future of the earth depends on a change of consciousness.  The only hope for the future is in a change of man’s consciousness and the change is bound to come.  But it is left to men to decide if they will collaborate for this change or if it will have to be enforced upon them by the power of crashing circumstances.  So, wake up and collaborate!  Blessings.


The Mother:   ( ) By becoming conscious of its origin.   Spiritual education, that is to say an education which gives more importance to the growth of the spirit than to any religious or moral teaching or to the material so-called knowledge.  A change of consciousness is equivalent to a new birth, a birth into a higher sphere of existence.


The Mother: A change in human consciousness will make possible the manifestation upon earth of a higher Force, a purer Light, a more total Truth.    Nothing but a radical change of consciousness can save humanity from the terrible plight into which it is plunged.


The Mother: All the so-called “practical” means are a childishness by which men blind themselves so as not to see the true need and sole remedy.    To realise the Consciousness of the.    ( ) A new world, based on Truth and refusing the old slavery to falsehood, wants to take birth.


The Mother: In all countries there are people who know it, at least feel it.   To them we call: “Will you collaborate?”


The Mother: M W U   The World is a unity — it has always been, and it is always so, even now it is so — it is not that it has not got the unity and the unity has to be brought in from outside and imposed upon it.


The Mother: Only the world is not conscious of its unity. It has to be made conscious.  We consider now is the time most propitious for the endeavour.  For, a new Force or Consciousness or Light — whatever you call the new element — has manifested into the world and the world has now the capacity to become conscious of its own unity.


The Mother: You are. Old methods cannot do for this new work.  Not only a new consciousness must be ﬁrmly established but  also a new process must be found before anything truly effective can be done.


The Mother: To those concerned with World Union work All your differences are purely mental, and, in spite of the great importance you seem to give to them, they are, in fact, of very little importance, and could easily be overcome if made a broadening effort and understood that what he thinks is only one point of view of the question, and that any attempt for effectivity must admit the other points of view as well and try to make a synthesis of them all.  Otherwise, whatever is the quality of your intellect, you are hopelessly narrow and limited. This applies to everybody who has not realised the supramental consciousness and crossed to the upper hemisphere.  You will all work together harmoniously and happily, forgetting your differences, and thinking only of doing  work as well as he can and according to his own conception, but tacitly recognising the validity of the others’ conceptions and accepting the necessity of a synthesis.


The Mother:   Do not divide what is one. Both science and spirituality have the same goal — the Supreme Divinity. The only difference between them is that the latter knows it and the other not.


The Mother:    As I told you already World Union is an outward movement for those who need an outward activity and organisation to give a more concrete reality to their faith.


The Mother: It is an ideal activity for those who want to harmonise humanity as it is, in order to make it ready for a future integral progress.  Some others — a few — lay more stress on the inner individual preparation and progress — they are the forerunners who show the way to the world. These must not be pulled out of their concentration and must remain sympathetic witnesses of World Union, but not active participants.    Here is my deﬁnition which can serve also as a motto and a programme.


The Mother: A world union based on the fact of human unity realising the truth of the Spirit.   With blessings.


The Mother: I want to tell you that from the higher vision, the whole world is advancing rapidly towards a radical change, and, if properly conducted, the World Union may have a special place in this change.   Unity does not come from any exterior disposition, but by becoming conscious of the eternal Oneness.    There is some truth behind all these theories, but none is perfect in itself.  A broad synthesis supple and progressive ought to be elaborated not in an arbitrary mental way, but by a living experience and an inner progress.  We start from what is existing at present with the will to advance towards a more perfect realisation.


The Mother:   ( )  I have no objections to World Union, yourself and X joining the demonstration. I simply refused the participation of our students, because I do not believe in the usefulness of words spoken or written, when the world’s problems are concerned.


The Mother: I insist on the fact that an inner effort to acquire oneself the consciousness of Unity and the consequent transformation of one’s action is inﬁnitely more effective than speeches and articles.    The message written for Christmas was blocked for that very purpose. You must utilise it.  If you want peace upon earth, ﬁrst establish peace in your heart.


The Mother: If you want union in the world, ﬁrst unify the different parts of your own being.    Do not attach too much importance to what is said. Words are only words and in each mind they take a different colouring.   Prove to the World the possibility of Union by being united among yourselves.


The Mother:  The unity of humanity is an underlying and existing fact.  But the external union of mankind depends on man’s goodwill and sincerity.   The power of division is unsteady and impermanent.  Union works for a steady power and a harmonious future.   When men will be disgusted with the falsehood in which they live, then the world will be ready for the reign of the Truth.


The Mother:  If you want union in the world, ﬁrst unify the different parts of your own being.   If you abolish in yourself the things that are wrong in the world, the world will no longer be wrong.    THE WORLD TODAY  We are at one of the “hours of God” as Sri Aurobindo puts it — and the transforming evolution of the world has taken a hastened and intensiﬁed movement.


The Mother:   It is true that “we” are passing through a difﬁcult period (“we” means the world) but those who remain steady will get out of it  than before.    We are deﬁnitely not living at a time when men have been left to their own means.


The Mother: The Divine has sent down His consciousness to enlighten them.  All who are able to do so, should proﬁt by this.    Truth will conquer in spite of the turmoil.


The Mother:   Even within the confusion, there is the seed of the Divine order.   In front of a beautiful realisation.    Every day things seem to become worse. In truth we feel more and more disgusted with the old rotting world, and are more and more convinced of the necessity of founding, somewhere out of the well-trodden tracks, a new centre of life in which a new and truer light can be manifested, a new world no more based on selﬁsh competitions and egoistic strife but on general and eager endeavours to promote the welfare, knowledge and progress of all — a society based on spiritual aspiration instead of lust for money and material power.


The Mother:   What I see is the world of tomorrow, but the world of yesterday is still alive and will still live for some time. Let the old arrangements go on so long as they are alive.  Upon earth, the changes are slow to come.


The Mother: Do not worry — and keep hope for the future.    Let us wait and see. The result is sure — but the way and the time are uncertain.


The Mother:  DARKNESS AND LIGHT  In spite of the night the spiritual Light is there.   Light must illumine the consciousness and the shadows of Ignorance must be dissolved in all.   Open your heart and the Light will enter and dwell within it.    Life is a journey in the darkness of the night.


The Mother: Wake up to the inner light.   All veils must be dissolved and the light must shine fully in the hearts of all.   Every obstacle must disappear, in every part of the being, the darkness of the ignorance must be replaced by the Divine’s knowledge.   The light is everywhere, the force is everywhere. And the world is so small.


The Mother:    A new light is dawning on the world. Wake up and unite to receive and welcome it.


The Mother:    Some men in their blindness, when they seek knowledge, forsake the Light where they are — only to enter into what is for them a new darkness.   In their blindness men leave the Light and go to the darkness to obtain knowledge!


The Mother: THE PAST  Use the past as a spring-board to leap towards the future.     Often we cling to that which was, afraid of losing the result of a previous experience, of giving up a vast and high consciousness and falling again into an inferior state.


The Mother: But we must always look forward and advance.     The very memory of the past experience has sometimes to be swept away from the thoughts that it may not impede the work of perpetual reconstruction which alone, in this world of relativities, permits the perfect manifestation of the Divine.


The Mother:   Beware of the charm of memories. What past experiences leave behind is the effect they have had on the growth of the consciousness. But when you try to relive a memory by putting yourself in similar circumstances, you soon realise that they are empty of their power and charm, for they have lost their usefulness for progress.


The Mother:   Lasting remembrance: the remembrance of that which has helped the being to progress.    Sentimental remembrance: only those circumstances which helped us in our seeking for the Divine must be the object of this remembrance.    At certain periods, the whole terrestrial life seems to pass miraculously through stages which, at other times, it would take thousands of years to traverse.


The Mother:  At every moment one must know how to lose everything in order to gain everything, to shed the past as a dead body and be reborn into a greater plenitude.   For each person, everything depends on knowing whether one belongs to the past that perpetuates itself, to the present that is exhausting itself or to the future that longs to be born.   To do yoga, one of the most important things to achieve is to get rid of all attachment to the past.   Let the past be past and concentrate only on the progress you want to make and the surrender to the Divine you have to achieve.


The Mother: My blessings and help are always with you.  With love.    Unless we break with the habits and beliefs of the past, there is little hope of advancing rapidly towards the future.


The Mother: To forget the past and


The Mother: to lose habits of thinking is indeed a difﬁcult thing and generally requires a strong “tapasya”. But if you have faith in the Divine’s Grace and you implore it full-heartedly, you will succeed more easily.  Blessings.


The Mother: Let the waves of the past ﬂow far from you, carrying away with them all attachments and all weaknesses.  The luminous joy of the divine consciousness is waiting ready to take their place.    Complete consecration to the Divine wipes out what one has been in the past.   My dear child, Your prayer has been heard.


The Mother: Your past has disappeared.  Prepare to grow in consciousness, in light, in peace.  Our blessings are always with you.   Let the past be past.  Concentrate only on the Eternal.


The Mother: Blessings.    When one lives in contact with the universal harmony, time passes without leaving any trace.     THE PRESENT The same minute never strikes twice on the clock of Fate.


The Mother:   There are unique moments in life that pass like a dream. One must catch them on the wing, for they never return.


The Mother: The present is the most important moment in life.    What is the most important moment in life? The present moment. For the past no longer exists and the future does not yet exist.


The Mother:  Soar ever higher, ever farther, without fear or hesitation!  The hopes of today are the realisations of tomorrow.    THE FUTURE  The future is necessarily better than the past.


The Mother: We have only to push forward.     Forward! Towards a better future, the realisation of tomorrow.   From step to step, from truth to truth, we shall climb ceaselessly until we reach the perfect realisation of tomorrow.


The Mother:  The future: a promise yet unrealised.   The future is full of promise.   The future is full of possibilities for those who know how to prepare themselves for it.   Each new dawn brings the possibility of a new progress.  We move forward without haste, for we are sure of the future.


The Mother:   I propose that we should simply do what is right and fair, without thinking too much of the future, leaving it to the care of the Divine’s Grace.   PROGRESS  Progress is the sign of the divine inﬂuence in creation.


The Mother:   Progress: the reason why we are on earth.   The purpose of earthly life is progress. If you stop progressing you will die.


The Mother: Every moment that you spend without progressing is one step closer to your grave.     From the moment you are satisﬁed and aspire no longer, you begin to die. Life is movement, life is effort; it is marching forward, climbing towards future revelations and realisations.


The Mother: Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest.     One has always something to learn and a progress to make, and in each circumstance we can ﬁnd the occasion of learning the lesson and making the progress.   Progress: to be ready, at every minute, to give up all one is and all one has in order to advance on the way.


The Mother:   There is no end to progress and every day one can learn to do better what one does.      Do not think of what you have been, think only of what you want to be and you are sure to progress.


The Mother:    Do not look behind, look always in front, at what you want to do — and you are sure of progressing.


The Mother:  Let us keep ﬂaming in our heart the ﬁre of progress.      What cannot be done today will surely be done later on.


The Mother: No effort for progress has ever been made in vain.     Let us progress ourselves, it is the best way of making others progress.


The Mother:   Stagnation means decomposition.  No enterprise can ﬂourish unless it is progressive.  Go always forward towards a growing perfection.    No institution can live unless it is progressive.


The Mother: The true progress is to come always closer to the Divine.  Each year that passes must be marked by a new progress towards perfection.


The Mother: Whatever is new will always meet an opposition from conservative people. If we yield to this opposition, the world will never advance one step.


The Mother: The world progresses so rapidly that we must be ready at any moment to overpass what we know in order to know better.     In the constant march forward of the universe, whatever has been accomplished is nothing but the ﬁrst step towards a greater realisation.


The Mother:   Each year that passes should be — and is necessarily — a new conquest.     Everybody and everything can always progress and I am always working in view of a possible improvement, knowing that the greatest difﬁculty brings always the greatest victory and I trust that you are with me for that.


The Mother:     PERFECTION  Mixing will not make you perfect — perfection must come from within.


The Mother:   Perfection is not a maximum or an extreme. It is an equilibrium and a harmonisation.


The Mother:   Perfection is not a summit, it is not an extreme. There is no extreme: whatsoever you do, there is always the possibility of something better and exactly this possibility of something better is the very meaning of progress.


The Mother: Perfection is eternal; it is only the resistance of the world that makes it progressive.     It may be said that perfection is attained, though it remains progressive, when the receptivity from below is equal to the force from above which wants to manifest.


The Mother:   You cannot expect anybody to be perfect unless you are perfect yourself. And to be perfect means to be exactly as the Lord wants you to be.    Perfection is all that we want to become in our highest aspiration.


The Mother:   Thirst for perfection: constant and multiple aspiration.   SUCCESS Never forget the goal. Never stop aspiring. Never halt in your progress, and you are sure to succeed.


The Mother:   Power of success: the power of those who know how to continue their effort.


The Mother: It is not enough to try, you must succeed.


The Mother: One must never try for the sake of succeeding.


The Mother: (  )  Let us become as vulgar as we can and success is sure to come.    All that is done with the purpose of pleasing the public and obtaining success is vulgar and leads to falsehood. I enclose a deeper view of the subject.


The Mother: Blessings.      Whatever circumstance is given to you, make the best use of it in line with the Truth; to take advantage of it is quite different.


The Mother: All success depends upon the measure of your truth.    Success depends entirely on the sincerity.   Success in supramental works: the result of patient labour and a perfect consecration.


The Mother:  Spiritual success is the conscious union with the Divine.     Success is a harder ordeal to pass through than misfortune.  It is in the hour of success that one must be especially vigilant to rise above oneself.


The Mother:   As soon as you think that you have succeeded in a certain thing, the adverse forces make it a point to attack and spoil it. Moreover, when you think of success, you relax your aspiration and the slightest relaxation is sufﬁcient to spoil the game. The best thing is not to think of it but to go on doing your duty. But sometimes when you go on thinking of your shortcomings and failures and you get depressed, then you have to put the success before your nose and say, “Look at this.”   VICTORY We have come not for Peace but for Victory, because in a world governed by the hostile forces Victory must come before Peace.


The Mother:   Two things you must never forget: Sri Aurobindo’s compassion and the Mother’s love, and it is with these two things that you will go on ﬁghting steadily, patiently, until the enemies are deﬁnitively routed and the Victory is won for ever.  Courage outside, peace inside and a quiet unshakable trust in the Divine’s Grace.


The Mother:  In front of the repeated attacks from the enemy you must keep your faith intact and endure till the Victory is won.    The ultimate victory of the Divine is certain beyond all doubt.    The Victory is certain and with this certitude we can face patiently any amount of wrong suggestions and hostile attacks.   The certitude of the Victory gives an inﬁnite patience with the maximum of energy.


The Mother:  Let us have a sincere aspiration united to a constant goodwill and the victory is certain.   The victory of yesterday must be only one step towards tomorrow’s victory.    In the sincerity of our trust lies the certitude of our victory.   There is nothing which is not ultimately an instrument leading to the integral victory of the Divine.


The Mother:   I was not referring to victory in games, but to the victory of the consciousness over ignorance and stupidity.     Victory will triumph over all obstacles.   TRANSFORMATION


The Mother: [ facsimile ]  There is a Supreme Divine Consciousness.


The Mother: We want to manifest this Divine Consciousness in the physical life.  Blessings.    The goal is not to lose oneself in the Divine Consciousness. The goal is to let the Divine Consciousness penetrate into Matter and transform it.


The Mother:   The Divine Consciousness is at work to transform you and you must open to it in order to let it work freely in you.    Of all things the most difﬁcult is to bring down the Divine Consciousness into the material world; must the endeavour be abandoned on that account? Surely not.   You belong to this stage of spirituality that needs to reject matter and wants to escape from it.


The Mother: The spirituality of tomorrow will take up matter and transform it.      True spirituality transforms life.


The Mother:    After one year’s experience of the shallowness and inefﬁciency of human ways, it is time to start climbing on the steep way leading to the true goal, transformation.     Transformation: the goal of creation.


The Mother:    The new world: the result of transformation.   T C


The Mother: A work that has terrestrial progress as its goal cannot be started unless it has the sanction and help of the Divine.  It cannot endure unless there is a constant material growth which satisﬁes the will of Nature.   It cannot be destroyed prematurely except by human illwill, which then serves as an instrument of forces hostile to the Divine, which are striving to delay as much as possible His manifestation and the transformation of the earth.    One thing you must know and never forget: in the work of transformation all that is true and sincere will always be kept; only what is false and insincere will disappear.


The Mother:  Obscurity will disappear more and more as the transformation progresses.


The Mother:    Each one of you represents one of the difﬁculties that have to be surmounted for the transformation.   Unless one has an endless patience and an unshakable perseverance, it is better not to start on the way of transformation.   Let each suffering pave the way to transformation.


The Mother:  Be quiet and gather strength and force not only to do work but also to achieve the transformation.   Perfect integral balance: one is ready for transformation.     The constant remembrance of the Divine is indispensable for transformation.   Be simply sincere in your obedience to the Divine — this will take you far on the way to transformation.


The Mother:  Silence all outside noise, aspire for the Divine’s help; open integrally to it when it comes and surrender to its action, and it will effectively bring about your transformation.   With the Divine Love is the supreme power of Transformation.   With the Divine’s Love is the power of Transformation. It has this power because it is for the sake of Transformation that it has given itself to the world and manifested everywhere.


The Mother: Not only into man but into all the atoms of Matter has it infused itself in order to bring the world back to the original Truth. The moment you open to it, you receive also its power of Transformation.  But it is not in terms of quantity that you can measure it — what is essential is the true contact; for you will ﬁnd that the true contact with it is sufﬁcient to ﬁll at once the whole of your being.    And when the day will come for the manifestation of the supreme Love, for the crystallised, concentrated descent of the supreme Love, that will indeed be the moment of Transformation.


The Mother: Because nothing will be able to resist That.    TRANSFORMATION AND THE PARTS OF THE BEING   Transformation demands a total and integral consecration. But isn’t this the aspiration of all sincere sadhaks?


The Mother: Total means vertically in all the states of being, from the most material to the most subtle.  Integral means horizontally in all the different and often contradictory parts which constitute the outer being, physical, vital and mental.    The being organised around the psychic: the ﬁrst stage of transformation.


The Mother:   Mental opening: the ﬁrst step of the mind towards transformation.    Mental prayer: spontaneous in a mind aspiring for transformation.


The Mother:  Thirst to understand: very useful for transformation.    Honesty in the physical mind: preliminary indispensable condition for transformation.    Integral offering of the vital: an important stage towards transformation.


The Mother:   Renunciation of emotional desires: indispensable for transformation.     Not only the mind and the vital, but the body also in all its cells must aspire for the divine transformation.


The Mother:   Physical plasticity: one of the important conditions of the transformation.   Let the physical offer itself sincerely to the Divine and it will be transformed. This is proof of the resolution to liberate oneself from the ego.


The Mother:   Humility before the Divine in the physical nature: ﬁrst attitude needed for transformation.


The Mother: Psychic light in the physical movements: the ﬁrst step towards the transformation of the physical.    Psychic light in the material movements: essential condition for transformation.    Psychic awakening in matter: matter open to spiritual life.


The Mother:   Matter under the supramental guidance: the condition required for its transformation.     Supramental light in the subconscient: essential condition for transformation.


The Mother:   Supramental inﬂuence in the subconscient: under its modest appearance it is a great force for transformation.     Transformation is the change by which all the elements, and all the movements of the being become ready to manifest the supramental Truth.


The Mother:  THE SUPRAMENTAL Realisation: the establishment of the supramental Truth upon earth.    In the supramental Truth all falsehoods will be dissolved.   The supramental is not only Truth itself, but also the very negation of falsehood. The supramental will never come down, settle and manifest in a consciousness harbouring falsehood.


The Mother: Naturally the ﬁrst condition for conquering falsehood is to stop telling lies, though this is only a preliminary step. An absolute, integral sincerity must ﬁnally be established in the being and all its movements if the goal is at all to be attained.    No quarrels: a very important condition to fulﬁl in order to facilitate the advent of the Supramental.   A consciousness luminous without obscurity, turned towards the supramental light and full of a supramentalised plasticity are the conditions for the manifestation of the supramental light upon earth.


The Mother:  We must never forget that our goal is to manifest the Supramental Reality.    The Force is there waiting to be manifested, we must discover the new forms through which It can manifest.


The Mother: New forms are needed for the manifestation of a new Force.   The Supramental Force is ready for manifestation, let us get ready also and it will manifest.     When the Supramental manifests, an unequalled joy spreads over the earth.


The Mother:   Drop all fear, all strife, all quarrels, open your eyes and your hearts — the Supramental Force is there.     With patience, strength, courage and a calm and indomitable energy we shall prepare ourselves to receive the Supramental Force.


The Mother:   New words are needed to express new ideas, new forms are necessary to manifest new forces.   We must never forget that we are here to serve the Supramental Truth and Light and to prepare its manifestation in ourselves and upon the earth.   Each new progress in the universal expression means the possibility of a new manifestation.


The Mother:   So much obscurity has fallen upon earth that only the supramental manifestation can dissolve it.


The Mother: Let us advance always, without stopping, towards an always more complete manifestation, an always more complete and higher consciousness.    The supramental force has the power to transform even the darkest hate into luminous peace.     We aspire to be liberated from all ignorance, liberated from our ego so that we may open wide the doors of the Supramental’s glorious manifestation.


The Mother:    All our life, all our work must be a constant aspiration towards the supramental perfection.


The Mother:    The serene and immobile consciousness watches at the boundaries of the world as a Sphinx of eternity and yet to some it gives out its secret.  We have, therefore, the certitude that what has to be done will be done, and that our present individual being is really called upon to collaborate in this glorious victory, in this new manifestation.


The Mother:  All barriers must be thrown down one after the other, for the being to put on the integral amplitude of all the possibilities of manifestation.   A new light shall break upon earth, a light of Truth and Harmony.    Supramental manifestation: it will be welcome.    How can these questions be answered before the supramental is manifested upon earth?


The Mother: It is only after that manifestation that we may know how it came and how it manifests.    THE SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION UPON EARTH 29 February 1956  This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine.


The Mother: As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that”, and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces.  Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted ﬂow.   [facsimile]  29 f´evrier — 29 mars  Seigneur, Tu as voulu et je r´ealise.  Une lumi`ere nouvelle point sur la terre, Un monde nouveau est n´e, Et les choses promises sont accomplies


The Mother: .  29 February — 29 March  Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born.  The things that were promised are fulfilled.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]


The Mother: 24th April 1956  The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality.  It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.


The Mother: I am speaking of a supramental manifestation evident to all, even the most ignorant — as the human manifestation was evident to all when it happened.   To all those who aspire Open yourself to the new Force. Let it do in you its work of Transformation.    Open yourself to the new Light that has dawned upon earth and a luminous path will spread in front of you.


The Mother:   Without care for time, without fear for space, surging out puriﬁed from the ﬂames of the ordeal, we shall ﬂy without stop towards the realisation of our goal, the supramental victory.


The Mother: Let the new Light be spread upon earth and change the condition of human life.