The Mother: Grant that this love, this beauty and joy which ﬂood all my being that is hardly strong enough to bear their intensity, may also ﬂood the consciousness of all those I have seen, all those I have thought of and all those also whom I have never thought of or seen . . . Grant that all may awake to the consciousness of Thy inﬁnite Bliss!  O my sweet Lord, ﬁll their hearts with joy, love and beauty.    RADIANT Love who ﬁllest all my being and makest it festive, art Thou received, art Thou given? Nobody can say, for Thou receivest Thy own self and givest Thyself to Thyself, being sovereignly active and receptive, at once in all things, in every being.


The Mother: N the world of forms a violation of Beauty is as great a fault as a violation of Truth in the world of ideas.  For Beauty is the worship Nature offers to the supreme Master of the universe; Beauty is the divine language in forms. And a consciousness of the Divine which is not translated externally by an understanding and expression of Beauty would be an incomplete consciousness.  But true Beauty is as difﬁcult to discover, to understand and above all to live as any other expression of the Divine; this discovery and expression exacts as much impersonality and renunciation of egoism as that of Truth or Bliss. Pure Beauty is universal and one must be universal to see and recognise it.


The Mother: O Lord of Beauty, how many faults I have committed against Thee, how many do I still commit. . . . Give me the perfect understanding of Thy Law so that I may not again fail to keep it. Love would be incomplete without Thee, Thou art one of its most perfect ornaments, Thou art one of its most harmonious smiles. At times I have misunderstood Thy role, but in the depths of my heart I have always loved Thee; and the most arbitrary and radical doctrines could not extinguish the ﬁre of worship which, from my childhood, I had vowed to Thee.  Thou art not at all what a vain people think Thee to be, Thou art not at all attached exclusively to this or that form of life: it is possible to awaken Thee and make Thee shine in every form; but for that one must have discovered Thy secret. . . .


The Mother: O Lord of Beauty, give me the perfect understanding of Thy Law, so that I may no longer fail to keep it, so that Thou mayst become in me the harmonious consummation of the Lord of Love.   ( )  “OOK: thou seest the living form and the three inanimate images. The living one is clad in violet, the other three are made of dust, but cleansed and puriﬁed.


The Mother: It is in the calm of silence that the living form can, by penetrating the other three, unite them in order to transform them into a living and acting vesture.”     O Lord, Thou knowest that I am surrendered to Thee and that my being adheres with a peaceful and deep joy to all that Thou givest it.


The Mother: “I know thy adherence, but I would increase thy consciousness, and for that awaken what still sleeps within thee. Open thy eyes to the light, and in the limpid mirror of the mind will be reﬂected what thou shouldst know . ”


The Mother:   Lord, all is silent within my being and waits. . . .


The Mother: “Knock at the door of consciousness and the door will be opened to thee.”    The river runs limpid and silvery; its unbroken ﬂow descends from the sky to the earth. But what dost Thou want to say to me that I must understand?


The Mother: “Thy silence is not yet deep enough: something stirs within thy mind. . . .  “The ﬁre of the soul must be seen through the veils of the manifestation; but these veils must be clear and distinct like words traced upon a luminous screen. And all this should be preserved in the purity of thy heart, as the sown meadow is shrouded and protected under the snow.  “Now that thou hast sown the seeds in the ﬁeld and traced the signs on the screen, thou mayst return to thy calm silence, thou mayst go back to thy calm retreat to renew thy strength in a deeper and truer consciousness.  Thou canst forget thy own person and ﬁnd again the charm of the universal.


The Mother: “May peace be upon thee in these hours of repose; but do not forget the reveille which will sound soon.  “Thou wilt smile yet at thy destiny which speaks to thee.   “Thy heart will use the returning strength.  “Thou shalt be the woodcutter who ties the bundle of ﬁrewood.  “Thou shalt be the great swan with outspread wings which puriﬁes the sight with its pearly whiteness and warms all hearts with its white down.


The Mother: “Thou wilt lead them all to their supreme destiny.  “Thou hast seen the hearth and seen the child. One attracted the other: both were happy; one because it burned, the other because it was warm.  “Thou seest it in thy heart, this triumphant hearth; thou alone canst carry it without its being destructive.  If others touched it, they would be consumed.


The Mother: Do not let them come too near it. The child should know that it must not touch the dazzling ﬂame which attracts it so much. From far it warms it and illumines its heart; too close, it would reduce it to ashes.  “One alone may dwell fearlessly within this heart; for he is the ray that has indeed kindled it. He is the salamander ever reborn in the ﬁre.


The Mother: “Another is above, unafraid of being burnt: it is the immaculate phoenix, the bird come from the sky who knows how to return to it.  “The ﬁrst is the Power of realisation.  “The other is the Light.  “And the third the sovereign Consciousness.”


The Mother:    O Lord, I listen to Thee and lie prostrate at Thy feet: Thou hast opened the door to me; Thou hast opened my eyes, and a little of the night has been illumined. . . .


The Mother: HERE is a sovereign royalty in taking no thought for oneself. To have needs is to assert a weakness; to claim something proves that we lack what we claim. To desire is to be impotent; it is to recognise our limitations and confess our incapacity to overcome them.  If only from the point of view of a legitimate pride, man should be noble enough to renounce desire. How humiliating to ask something for oneself from life or from the Supreme Consciousness which animates it!


The Mother: How humiliating for us, how ignorant an offence against Her!  For all is within our reach, only the egoistic limits of our being prevent us from enjoying the whole universe as completely and concretely as we possess our own body and its immediate surroundings.  Such too should be our attitude towards the means of action.  O Thou who dwellest in my heart and directest all by Thy supreme Will, Thou hast told me a year ago to burn all my bridges and cast myself headlong into the Unknown, as did Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon: it meant the Capitol for him or the Tarpeian Rock.  Thou didst hide then from my eyes the result of the action.


The Mother: Now still Thou keepest it secret; and yet Thou knowest that my equanimity remains the same before greatness as before misery.  Thou hast willed that for me the future should be uncertain and that I should go forward with conﬁdence without even knowing where the road would lead.   Thou hast willed that I should put the care of my destiny utterly in Thy hands, and abdicate altogether all personal preoccupation.  This means undoubtedly that my road must be virgin even to my own thought.   ACH time that a heart leaps at the touch of Thy divine breath


The Mother: , a little more beauty seems to be born upon the Earth, the air is embalmed with a sweet perfume, all becomes more friendly.  How great is Thy power, O Lord of all existences, that an atom of Thy joy is sufﬁcient to efface so much darkness, so many sorrows and a single ray of Thy glory can light up thus the dullest pebble, illumine the blackest consciousness!  Thou hast heaped Thy favours upon me, Thou hast unveiled to me many secrets, Thou hast made me taste many unexpected and unhoped for joys, but no grace of Thine can be equal to this Thou grantest to me when a heart leaps at the touch of Thy divine breath.  At these blessed hours all earth sings a hymn of gladness, the grasses shudder with pleasure, the air is vibrant with light, the trees lift towards heaven their most ardent prayer, the chant of the birds becomes a canticle, the waves of the sea billow with love, the smile of children tells of the inﬁnite and the souls of men appear in their eyes.  Tell me, wilt Thou grant me the marvellous power to give birth to this dawn in expectant hearts, to awaken the consciousness of men to Thy sublime presence, and in this bare and sorrowful world awaken a little of Thy true Paradise?


The Mother: What happiness, what riches, what terrestrial powers can equal this wonderful gift!   O Lord, never have I implored Thee in vain, for that which speaks to Thee is Thyself in me.  Drop by drop Thou allowest to fall in a fertilising rain the living and redeeming ﬂame of Thy almighty love. When these drops of eternal light descend softly on our world of obscure ignorance, one would say a rain upon earth of golden stars one by one from a sombre ﬁrmament.  All kneels in mute devotion before this ever-renewed miracle.


The Mother: HOU hast shown to my mute and expectant soul all the splendour of fairy landscapes: trees at festival and lonely paths that seem to scale the sky.  But of my destiny Thou didst not speak to me. Must it be so veiled from me? . . .  Once more, everywhere I see cherry trees; Thou hast put a magical power in these ﬂowers: they seem to speak of Thy sole Presence; they bring with them the smile of the Divine.  My body is at rest and my soul blossoms in light: what kind of a charm hast Thou put into these trees in ﬂower?


The Mother: O Japan, it is thy festive adorning, expression of thy goodwill, it is thy purest offering, the pledge of thy ﬁdelity; it is thy way of saying that thou dost mirror the sky.  And now here is a magniﬁcent country, of high mountains all covered with pines and richly tilled valleys. And the little pink roses this Chinese brings, are they a promise of the near future?    DEEP concentration seized on me, and I perceived that I was identifying myself with a single cherry-blossom, then through it with all cherry-blossoms, and, as I descended deeper in the consciousness, following a stream of bluish force, I became suddenly the cherrytree itself, stretching towards the sky like so many arms its innumerable branches laden with their sacriﬁce of ﬂowers. Then I heard distinctly this sentence: “Thus hast thou made thyself one with the soul of the cherry-trees and so thou canst take note that it is the Divine who makes the offering of this ﬂower-prayer to heaven.”


The Mother: When I had written it, all was effaced; but now the blood of the cherry-tree ﬂows in my veins and with it ﬂows an incomparable peace and force. What difference is there between the human body and the body of a tree?  In truth, there is none: the consciousness which animates them is identically the same.  Then the cherry-tree whispered in my ear: “It is in the cherry-blossom that lies the remedy for the disorders of the spring.”   NCE the threshold of the kingdom of Thy Omniscience has been crossed, each time there is a return to the mental world, every thought one has there seems a marvellous and unfathomable problem one had never dreamed of before.


The Mother: Above, no question is put; in that calm silence all is known from all eternity. Below, all is new, unknown, unexpected.  And the two meeting in one single consciousness bring a trustful wondering, source of Peace and Light and Joy.   Y heart has fallen asleep down to the very depths of my being. . . .  The whole earth is in a stir and agitation of perpetual change; all life enjoys and suffers, strives, struggles, conquers, is destroyed and formed again.


The Mother: My heart has fallen asleep down to the very depths of my being. . . .  In all these innumerable and manifold elements, I am the Will that moves, the Thought that acts, the Force that realises, the Matter that is put in motion.  My heart has fallen asleep down to the very depths of my being. . . .  No more personal limits, no more individual action, no longer any separative concentration creating conﬂict, nothing but a single and inﬁnite Oneness.


The Mother: My heart has fallen asleep down to the very depths of my being. . . .    MY divine Master, who hast appeared to me this night in all Thy radiant splendour, Thou canst in an instant make this being perfectly pure, luminous, translucid, conscious. Thou canst liberate it from its last dark spots, free it from its last preferences. Thou canst . . . but hast Thou not done this tonight when it was penetrated with Thy divine efﬂuence and Thy ineffable light?


The Mother: It may be . . . for in me is a superhuman strength made all of calm and immensity. Grant that from this summit I may not fall; grant that peace may for ever reign as the master of my being, not only in my depths of which it has long been the sovereign but in the least of my external activities, in the smallest recesses of my heart and of my action.  I salute Thee, O Lord, deliverer of beings!


The Mother: “Lo! here are ﬂowers and benedictions! here is the smile of divine Love! It is without preferences and without repulsions. It streams out towards all in a generous ﬂow and never takes back its marvellous gifts!”


The Mother: Her arms outstretched in a gesture of ecstasy, the Eternal Mother pours upon the world the unceasing dew of Her purest love!   NE day I wrote: “My heart has fallen asleep down to the very depths of my being. . . . ” Merely asleep? I cannot believe it. I think it is completely hushed, perhaps for ever.


The Mother: From sleep one awakes, from this quietness there is no falling back.  And since that day I have not observed any relapse. In place of something very intensely concentrated which for a long while was intermittently tumultuous, has come an immensity so vast and calm and untroubled, ﬁlling my being; or rather my being has melted into that; for how could that which is limitless be contained in a form?  And these great mountains with their serene contours which I see from my window, range after majestic range up to the very horizon, are in perfect harmony with the rhythm of this being, ﬁlled with an inﬁnite peace. Lord, couldst Thou have taken possession of Thy kingdom?


The Mother: Or rather of this part of the kingdom, for the body is still obscure and ignorant, slow to respond, without plasticity.  Will it be puriﬁed one day like the rest? And will Thy victory then be total? It matters little. This instrument is what Thou wantest it to be and its bliss is unalloyed.   HOU hast subjected me to a hard discipline; rung after rung, I have climbed the ladder which leads to Thee and, at the summit of the ascent, Thou hast made me taste the perfect joy of identity with Thee.


The Mother: Then, obedient to Thy command, rung after rung, I have descended to outer activities and external states of consciousness, re-entering into contact with these worlds that I left to discover Thee.  And now that I have come back to the bottom of the ladder, all is so dull, so mediocre, so neutral, in me and around me, that I understand no more. . . .  What is it then that Thou awaitest from me, and to what use that slow long preparation, if all is to end in a result to which the majority of human beings attain without being subjected to any discipline?  How is it possible that having seen all that I have seen, experienced all that I have experienced, after I have been led up even to the most sacred sanctuary of Thy knowledge and communion with Thee, Thou hast made of me so utterly common an instrument in such ordinary circumstances?


The Mother: In truth, O Lord, Thy ends are unfathomable and pass my understanding. . . .  Why, when Thou hast placed in my heart the pure diamond of Thy perfect Felicity, sufferest Thou its surface to reﬂect the shadows which come from outside and so leave unsuspected and, it would seem, ineffective the treasure of Peace Thou hast granted me? Truly all this is a mystery and confounds my understanding.   Why, when Thou hast given me this great inner silence, sufferest Thou the tongue to be so active and the thought to be occupied with things so futile? Why? . . .


The Mother: I could go on questioning indeﬁnitely and, to all likelihood, always in vain. . . .  I have only to bow to Thy decree and accept my condition without uttering a word.  I am now only a spectator who watches the dragon of the world unrolling its coils without end.   ORD, how many times, giving way before Thy decree, I have prayed to Thee: “Spare me this calvary of earthly consciousness; let me merge in Thy supreme unity.” But my prayer is faint-hearted, I know, for it remains unfruitful.


The Mother: HAVE cried to Thee in my despair, O Lord, and Thou hast answered my call.  I have no right to complain of the circumstances of my existence; are they not consonant with what I am?  Because Thou ledst me to the threshold of Thy splendour and gavest me the joy of Thy harmony, I thought I had reached the goal: but, in truth, Thou hast regarded Thy instrument in the perfect clarity of Thy light and plunged it back into the crucible of the world that it may be melted anew and puriﬁed.  In these hours of an extreme and anguished aspiration I see, I feel myself drawn by Thee with a dizzy rapidity along the road of transformation and my whole being vibrates to a conscious contact with the Inﬁnite.  It is so that Thou givest me patience and the strength to surmount this new ordeal.


The Mother: LORD, because in an hour of cruel distress I said in the sincerity of my faith: “Thy Will be done”, Thou camest garbed in Thy raiment of glory. At Thy feet I prostrated myself, on Thy breast I found my refuge. Thou hast ﬁlled my being with Thy divine light and ﬂooded it with Thy bliss. Thou hast reafﬁrmed Thy alliance and assured me of Thy constant presence. Thou art the sure friend who never fails, the Power, the Support, the Guide.


The Mother: Thou art the Light which scatters darkness, the Conqueror who assures the victory. Since Thou art there, all has become clear. Agni is rekindled in my fortiﬁed heart, and his splendour shines out and sets aglow the atmosphere and puriﬁes it. . . .  My love for Thee, compressed so long, has leaped forth again, powerful, sovereign, irresistible — increased tenfold by the ordeal it has undergone. It has found strength in its seclusion, the strength to emerge to the surface of the being, impose itself as master on the entire consciousness, absorb everything in its overﬂowing stream. . . .


The Mother: Thou hast said to me: “I have returned to leave thee no more.”  And, my forehead on the soil, I have received Thy promise.   UDDENLY, before Thee, all my pride fell. I understood how futile it was in Thy Presence to wish to surmount oneself, and I wept, wept abundantly and without constraint the sweetest tears of my life. . . . Ah yes, how refreshing, how calm and sweet were those tears I shed before Thee without shame or constraint!


The Mother: Was it not like a child in its father’s arms? But what a Father! What sublimity, what magniﬁcence, what immensity of comprehension! And what a power and plenitude in the response!  Yes, my tears were like holy dew.


The Mother: Was it because it was not for my own sorrow that I wept? Tears sweet and beneﬁcent, tears that opened my heart without constraint before Thee and melted in one miraculous moment all the remaining obstacles that could separate me from Thee!   Some days ago I had known it, I had heard: “If thou canst weep without restraint or disguise before Me, many things will change, a great victory will be won.” And that is why when the tears rose from my heart to my eyes, I came and sat before Thee to let them ﬂow as an offering, devotedly.


The Mother: And how sweet and comforting was the offering!  And now, although I weep no longer, I feel so near, so near to Thee that my whole being quivers with joy.  Let me stammer out my homage: I have cried too with the joy of a child, “O supreme and only Conﬁdant, Thou who knowest beforehand all we can say to Thee because Thou art its source!   “O supreme and only Friend, Thou who acceptest,  Thou who lovest, Thou who understandest us just as we are, because it is Thyself who hast so made us!


The Mother: “O supreme and only Guide, Thou who never gainsayest our highest will because it is Thou Thyself who willest in it!  “It would be folly to seek elsewhere than in Thee for one who will listen, understand, love and guide, since always Thou art there ready to our call and never wilt Thou fail us!  “Thou hast made me know the supreme, the sublime joy of a perfect conﬁdence, an absolute serenity, a surrender total and without reserve or colouring, free from effort or constraint.  Joyous like a child I have smiled and wept at once before Thee, O my Well-Beloved!”


The Mother:    MY beloved Lord, how sweet it is to think that it is for Thee and Thee alone that I act! It is at Thy service that I am; it is Thou who dost decide and ordain and set in motion, guide and accomplish the action. What peace, what tranquillity, what supreme delight come with the feeling and perception of this! For it is enough to be docile, plastic, surrendered, attentive, in order to let Thee act freely; no longer then are any errors or faults, any lack or insufﬁciency possible, for what Thou hast willed Thou doest and Thou doest it even as Thou hast willed it. . . .  Accept the ardent ﬂame of my gratitude and my joyous and fully conﬁdent adherence.


The Mother: My father has smiled and taken me in his powerful arms. What could I fear? I have melted into Him and it is He who acts and lives in this body which He himself has formed for His manifestation.   INCE the man refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and care, I invoked the God to take it.  My God, Thou hast accepted my invitation, Thou hast come to sit at my table,


The Mother: and in exchange for my poor and humble offering Thou hast granted to me the last liberation. My heart, even this morning so heavy with anguish and care, my head surcharged with responsibility, are delivered of their burden. Now are they light and joyful as my inner being has been for a long time past. My body smiles to Thee with happiness as before my soul smiled to Thee. And surely hereafter Thou wilt withdraw no more from me this joy, O my God!


The Mother: for this time, I think, the lesson has been sufﬁcient, I have mounted the Calvary of successive disillusionments high enough to attain to the Resurrection. Nothing remains of the past but a potent love which gives me the pure heart of a child and the lightness and freedom of thought of a god.   (END OF THE FIRST PART)   FTER granting me the joy which surpasses all expression, Thou hast sent me, O my beloved Lord, the struggle, the ordeal and on this too I have smiled as on one of Thy precious messengers.


The Mother: Before, I dreaded the conﬂict, for it hurt in me the love of harmony and peace. But now, O my God, I welcome it with gladness: it is one among the forms of Thy action, one of the best means for bringing back to light some elements of the work which might otherwise have been forgotten, and it carries with it a sense of amplitude, of complexity, of power. And even as I have seen Thee, resplendent, exciting the conﬂict, so also it is Thou whom I see unravelling the entanglement of events and jarring tendencies and winning in the end the victory over all that strives to veil Thy light and Thy power: for out of the struggle it is a more perfect realisation of Thyself that must arise.   NE must know how to give one’s life and also one’s death, give one’s happiness and also one’s suffering, to depend for everything and in all things upon the Divine Dispenser of all our possibilities of realisation, who alone can and will decide whether we shall be happy or not, whether we shall live or not, whether we shall participate or not in the realisation.  In the integrality and absoluteness of this love, this self-giving, lies the essential condition for perfect peace, the indispensable foundation of constant beatitude.


The Mother: HERE is a Power that no ruler can command; there is a Happiness that no earthly success can bring; there is a Light that no wisdom can possess; there is a Knowledge that no philosophy and no science can master; there is a Bliss of which no satisfaction of desire can give the enjoyment ; there is a thirst for Love that no human relation can appease; there is a Peace that one ﬁnds nowhere, not even in death.   It is the Power, the Happiness, the Light, the Knowledge, the Bliss, the Love, the Peace that ﬂow from the Divine Grace.    MY Lord, my sweet Master, for the accomplishment of Thy work I have sunk down into the unfathomable depths of Matter, I have touched with my ﬁnger the horror of the falsehood and the inconscience, I have reached the seat of oblivion and a supreme obscurity.


The Mother: But in my heart was the Remembrance, from my heart there leaped the call which could arrive to Thee: “Lord, Lord, everywhere Thy enemies appear triumphant; falsehood is the monarch of the world; life without Thee is a death, a perpetual hell; doubt has usurped the place of Hope and revolt has pushed out Submission; Faith is spent, Gratitude is not born; blind passions and murderous instincts and a guilty weakness have covered and stiﬂed Thy sweet law of love. Lord, wilt Thou permit Thy enemies to prevail, falsehood and ugliness and suffering to triumph?  Lord, give the command to conquer and victory will be there. I know we are unworthy, I know the world is not yet ready. But I cry to Thee with an absolute faith in Thy Grace and I know that Thy Grace will save.”


The Mother: Thus, my prayer rushed up towards Thee; and, from the depths of the abyss, I beheld Thee in Thy radiant splendour; Thou didst appear and Thou saidst to me: “Lose not courage, be ﬁrm, be conﬁdent, —.”   ( ) LORY to Thee, O Lord, who triumphest over every obstacle.  Grant that nothing in us shall be an obstacle in Thy work.


The Mother: Grant that nothing may retard Thy manifestation.   Grant that Thy will may be done in all things and at every moment.  We stand here before Thee that Thy will may be fulﬁlled in us, in every element, in every activity of our being, from our supreme heights to the smallest cells of the body.


The Mother: Grant that we may be faithful to Thee utterly and for ever.  We would be completely under Thy inﬂuence to the exclusion of every other.   Grant that we may never forget to own towards Thee a deep, an intense gratitude.


The Mother: Grant that we may never squander any of the marvellous things that are Thy gifts to us at every instant.   Grant that everything in us may collaborate in Thy work and all be ready for Thy realisation.   Glory to Thee, O Lord, Supreme Master of all realisation.


The Mother: Give us a faith active and ardent, absolute and unshakable in Thy Victory.


The Mother: It matters little that there are thousands of beings plunged in the densest ignorance, He whom we saw yesterday is on earth; his presence is enough to prove that a day will come when darkness shall be transformed into light, and Thy reign shall be indeed established upon earth.  O Lord, Divine Builder of this marvel, my heart overflows with joy and gratitude when I think of it, and my hope has no bounds.  My adoration is beyond all words, my reverence is silent.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]    What Sri Aurobindo represents in the world’s history is not a teaching, not even a revelation; it is a decisive action direct from the Supreme.


The Mother:    (  )


The Mother: What Sri Aurobindo represents in the history of the earth’s spiritual progress is not a teaching, not even a revelation; it is a mighty action straight from the Supreme.      (


The Mother: )  He has come to bid the earth to prepare for its luminous future.    Sri Aurobindo has brought to the world the assurance of a divine future.


The Mother: Sri Aurobindo has come on earth not to bring a teaching or a creed in competition with previous creeds or teachings, but to show the way to overpass the past and to open concretely the route towards an imminent and inevitable future.    Sri Aurobindo does not belong to the past nor to history.  Sri Aurobindo is the Future advancing towards its realisation.  Thus we must shelter the eternal youth required for a speedy advance, in order not to become laggards on the way.   [facsimile]


The Mother: Lord, this morning Thou hast given me the assurance that Thou wouldst stay with us until Thy work is achieved, not only as a consciousness which guides and illumines but also as a dynamic Presence in action. In unmistakable terms Thou hast promised that all of Thyself would remain here and not leave the earth atmosphere until earth is transformed. Grant that we may be worthy of this marvellous Presence and that henceforth everything in us be concentrated on the one will to be more and more perfectly consecrated to the fulfilment of Thy sublime Work.     The lack of receptivity of the earth and men is mostly responsible for the decision Sri Aurobindo has taken regarding his body.


The Mother: But one thing is certain: what has happened on the physical plane affects in no way the truth of his teaching. All that he has said is perfectly true and remains so. Time and the course of events will prove it abundantly.


The Mother: To Thee who hast been the material envelope of our Master, to Thee our inﬁnite gratitude. Before Thee who hast done so much for us, who hast worked, struggled, suffered, hoped, endured so much, before Thee who hast willed all, attempted all, prepared, achieved all for us, before Thee we bow down and implore that we may never forget, even for a moment, all we owe to Thee.     To grieve is an insult to Sri Aurobindo who is here with us, conscious and alive.


The Mother:   We must not be bewildered by appearances. Sri Aurobindo has not left us. Sri Aurobindo is here, as living and as present as ever and it is left to us to realise his work with all the sincerity, eagerness and concentration necessary.


The Mother:   I was painfully shocked when I heard the translation of the leaﬂet you are distributing here in the Ashram. I never imagined you could have such a complete lack of understanding, respect and devotion for our Lord who has sacriﬁced himself totally for us. Sri Aurobindo was crippled; a few hours before  he left his body he rose from his bed and sat for a long time in his armchair, speaking freely to all those around him.


The Mother: Sri Aurobindo was not compelled to leave his body, he chose to do so for reasons so sublime that they are beyond the reach of human mentality.  And when one cannot understand, the only thing to do is to keep a respectful silence.     People do not know what a tremendous sacriﬁce Sri Aurobindo has made for the world.


The Mother: About a year ago, while I was discussing things, I remarked that I felt like leaving this body of mine. He spoke out in a very ﬁrm tone, “No, this can never be. If necessary for this transformation, I might go, you will have to fulﬁl our Yoga of supramental descent and transformation. ”§


The Mother:   Lord, we are upon earth to accomplish Thy work of transformation. It is our sole will, our sole preoccupation. Grant that it may be also our sole occupation and that all our actions may help us towards this single goal.   We stand in the Presence of Him who has sacriﬁced his physical life in order to help more fully his work of transformation.


The Mother: He is always with us, aware of what we are doing, of all our thoughts, of all our feelings and all our actions.    §   When I asked Him (December 8, 1950) to resuscitate his body, He clearly answered: “I have left this body purposely. I will not take it back. I shall manifest again in the ﬁrst supramental body built in the supramental way.”


The Mother:   Sri Aurobindo has given up his body in an act of supreme unselﬁshness, renouncing the realisation in his own body to hasten the hour of the collective realisation. Surely if the earth were more responsive, this would not have been necessary.   The sentence can be understood in four different ways on four ascending planes of consciousness:  1. Physically, the consequence of the birth will be of eternal importance to the world.


The Mother: 2. Mentally, it is a birth that will be eternally remembered in the universal history.   3. Psychically, a birth that recurs for ever from age to age upon earth.


The Mother: 4. Spiritually, the birth of the Eternal upon earth.     Since the beginning of earth history, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great earthly transformations, under one form or another, one name or another.


The Mother:  You can say that all through history Sri Aurobindo played an active part. Especially in the most important movements of history he was there — and playing the most important, the leading part. But he was not always visible.    [facsimile] Sri Aurobindo is constantly among us and reveals himself to those who are ready to see and hear him.    Sri Aurobindo, immense and very concrete (in the subtle physical), was sitting over the whole compound during the meditation.


The Mother:    Last night, we (you and I and some others) were together for quite a long time in the permanent dwelling-place of Sri Aurobindo which exists in the subtle physical (what Sri Aurobindo called the true physical).


The Mother:   Sri Aurobindo is in the subtle physical, you can meet him when you sleep, if you know how to go there.


The Mother: ( :)  Sri Aurobindo shows himself according to the need of each one and in the subtle physical the things are not as ﬁxed as they are here.  Attach more importance to the feeling produced by the vision than to details of what you have seen.    On the contrary, it is quite correct, he has never been so alive as now!


The Mother:   Sri Aurobindo is constantly in the subtle physical, very active there. I see him almost daily, and last night I spent many hours with him.  If you become conscious in the subtle physical you will surely meet him, it is what he called the true physical — it has nothing to do with the psychic.


The Mother:   The help of Sri Aurobindo is constant: it is for us to know how to receive it.    Sri Aurobindo is always with us, enlightening, guiding, protecting. We must answer to his grace by a perfect faithfulness.


The Mother: ()  Today is the ﬁrst day of Sri Aurobindo’s centenary year. Though he has left his body he is still with us, alive and active.  Sri Aurobindo belongs to the future; he is the messenger of the future. He still shows us the way to follow in order to hasten the realisation of a glorious future fashioned by the Divine Will.


The Mother: All those who want to collaborate for the progress of humanity and for India’s luminous destiny must unite in a clairvoyant aspiration and in an illumined work.   Aspire and be sincere and obstinate in your endeavour.  Make an effort to progress in understanding.   Open to Sri Aurobindo’s consciousness and let it transform your life.    Sri Aurobindo is always present.


The Mother: Be sincere and faithful.  This is the ﬁrst condition.  Blessings.    ( )


The Mother: The best homage we can pay to Sri Aurobindo is to prepare for the advent of the Supramental race.   Sri Aurobindo came to tell the world of the beauty of the future that must be realised.  He came to give not a hope but a certitude of the splendour towards which the world moves. The world is not an unfortunate accident, it is a marvel which moves towards its expression.


The Mother: The world needs the certitude of the beauty of the future.  And Sri Aurobindo has given that assurance.    Sri Aurobindo came to tell us how to ﬁnd Thee and how to serve Thee.  Grant that in this year of his centenary we may truly understand what he has taught us and in all sincerity put it into practice.


The Mother:    The red lotus is the ﬂower of Sri Aurobindo, but specially for his centenary we shall choose the blue lotus, which is the colour of his physical aura, to symbolise the centenary of the manifestation of the Supreme upon earth.     Sri Aurobindo gave his life so that we may be born into the Divine Consciousness.


The Mother:    BONNE ANN ´EE  This year is consecrated to Sri Aurobindo.  To understand his teaching better and try to put it into practice, is certainly the best way of showing our gratitude to him for all the light, knowledge and force which he has so generously brought to the earth.  May his teaching enlighten and guide us, and what we cannot do today, we shall do tomorrow.


The Mother: Let us take the right attitude in all sincerity, and it will truly be a B A´.     Without the Divine we are limited, incompetent and helpless beings; with the Divine, if we give ourselves entirely to Him, all is possible and our progress is limitless.  A special help has come upon the earth for Sri Aurobindo’s centenary year; let us take advantage of it to overcome the ego and emerge into the light.


The Mother: B A´      Sri Aurobindo does not belong to a country but to the whole earth. His teaching leads us towards a better future.


The Mother:   When Sri Aurobindo left his body he said that he would not abandon us. And, in truth, during these twenty-one years, he has always been with us, guiding and helping all those who are receptive and open to his inﬂuence.  In this year of his centenary, his help will be stronger still. It is up to us to be more open and to know how to take advantage of it.


The Mother: The future is for those who have the soul of a hero. The stronger and more sincere our faith, the more powerful and effective will be the help received.    Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world and not merely did he announce this manifestation but embodied also in part the supramental force and showed by example what one must do to prepare oneself for manifesting it. The best thing we can do is to study all that he has told us and endeavour to follow his example and prepare ourselves for the new manifestation.


The Mother: This gives life its real sense and will help us to overcome all obstacles.   Let us live for the new creation and we shall grow stronger and stronger by remaining young and progressive.    ( )


The Mother: This year, let us offer all the activities of our body in consecration to Sri Aurobindo.   [facsimile on this whole page]   ( Sri Aurobindo — A Garland of Tributes)   Sri Aurobindo is an emanation of the Supreme who came on earth to announce the manifestation of a new race and a new world: the Supramental.


The Mother: Let us prepare for it in all sincerity and eagerness.     Sri Aurobindo has given us the spiritual teaching which teaches us to come in direct contact with the Divine.   Sri Aurobindo shows us the way towards a glorious future.


The Mother:   ()  Sri Aurobindo’s message is an immortal sunlight radiating over the future.


The Mother: Sri Aurobindo came on earth from the Supreme to announce the manifestation of a new race and the new world, the Supramental.  Let us prepare for it in all sincerity and eagerness.     Man is the creation of yesterday.


The Mother: Sri Aurobindo came to announce the creation of tomorrow: the coming of the supramental being.    The best homage that we can render to Sri Aurobindo on his centenary is to have a thirst for progress and to open all our being to the Divine Inﬂuence of which he is the Messenger upon the earth.   15-8-72  One more step towards Eternity.   Sri Aurobindo’s work is a unique earth-transformation.


The Mother:   Sri Aurobindo incarnated in a human body the supramental consciousness and has not only revealed to us the nature of the path to follow and the method of following it so as to arrive at the goal, but has also by his own personal realisation given us the example; he has provided us with the proof that the thing can be done and the time is now to do it.     Never for an instant vacillate in the belief that the mighty work of change taken up by Sri Aurobindo is going to culminate in success.


The Mother: For that indeed is a fact: there is not a shadow of doubt as to the issue of the work we have in hand.... The transformation is going to be: nothing will ever stop it, nothing will frustrate the decree of the Omnipotent. Cast away all difﬁdence and weakness and resolve to endure bravely awhile before the great day arrives when the long battle turns into an everlasting victory.    We have faith in Sri Aurobindo.


The Mother: He represents for us something we formulate to ourselves with words which seem to us the most exact for expressing our experience. These words are evidently the best according to us for formulating our experience.  But if, in our enthusiasm, we were convinced that they are the only appropriate words to express correctly what Sri Aurobindo is and the experience he has given us, we would become dogmatic and be on the point of founding a religion.   He who has a spiritual experience and a faith, formulates it in the most appropriate words for himself.  But if he is convinced that this expression is the only correct and true one for this experience and faith, he becomes dogmatic and tends to create a religion.


The Mother:   Each one has his own idea and ﬁnds out suitable sentences from Sri Aurobindo’s writings to support his views. Those who oppose such views can also ﬁnd suitable sentences from his writings.  That is the way mutual opposition works.


The Mother: Nothing can be truly done until Sri Aurobindo’s total view of things is taken.     In the eternity of becoming, each Avatar is only the announcer, the forerunner of a more perfect realisation.  And yet men have always the tendency to deify the Avatar of the past in opposition to the Avatar of the future.


The Mother: Now again Sri Aurobindo has come announcing to the world the realisation of tomorrow; and again his message meets with the same opposition as of all those who preceded him.  But tomorrow will prove the truth of what he revealed and his work will be done.   The essential mistake was to have considered Sri Aurobindo’s teaching as one among the spiritual teachings — and the work done here now as one among the many aspects of the Divine works.  This has falsiﬁed your basic position and has been the cause of all the difﬁculties and confusions.  If this mistake is corrected in your mind and in your attitude all other difﬁculties will disappear easily.


The Mother: You must understand that what Sri Aurobindo represents in the world’s history, is not a teaching, not even a revelation; it is a direct from the Supreme.  And I am just trying to fulﬁl that action.    In the effort of humanity to reach the Truth and manifest it, all those who made a discovery, however small it may be, have a place, and Gandhi is one of them.  But the great mistake has always been to oppose these partial discoveries instead of unifying them in a supreme harmony.


The Mother: That is why humanity is still groping in the dark.   Sri Aurobindo has come to reveal that this supreme harmony exists and to show us the way to discover it.


The Mother: ()  One should read Sri Aurobindo and know the answer.    If one reads Sri Aurobindo carefully one ﬁnds the answers to all that one wants to know.   By studying carefully what Sri Aurobindo has said on one can easily reach a complete knowledge of the things of this world.   Read Sri Aurobindo and follow his discipline.


The Mother:   the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo’s vision   ( Savitri)  1) The daily record of the spiritual experiences of the individual who has written.  2) A complete system of yoga which can serve as a guide for those who want to follow the integral sadhana.


The Mother: 3) The yoga of the Earth in its ascension towards the Divine.  4) The experiences of the Divine Mother in her effort to adapt herself to the body she has taken and the ignorance and the falsity of the earth upon which she has incarnated.     ( )  [facsimile on rest of this page]


The Mother: The importance of is immense.  Its subject is universal. Its revelation is prophetic.  The time spent in its atmosphere is not wasted.


The Mother: Take all the time necessary to see this exhibition. It will be a happy compensation for the feverish haste men put now in all they do.   The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo.


The Mother: How beautiful is the day when one can offer one’s devotion to Sri Aurobindo.   You must feel that Sri Aurobindo is looking at you.    It is not a question of disobedience. I know nothing about your additions to the Life Sketch of the sources from which they were taken.


The Mother: My point of view is this, that anything written by a sadhak about Sri Aurobindo which brings him down to an ordinary level and admits the reader to a sort of gossiping familiarity with him is an unfaithfulness to Him and His work. Good intentions are not sufﬁcient, it is necessary that this should be understood by everybody.    Sri Aurobindo says that it is impossible for him to take up political action and enter the political ﬁeld which would involve a sacriﬁce of his spiritual work.  His spiritual help is given to the country and individually to all those who aspire for it.


The Mother: He is ready to continue this help and even to increase it if it is necessary. But he is convinced that written messages alone are not sufﬁcient to have a permanent effect or even a sufﬁciently wide effect.    ()  To express our gratitude to Sri Aurobindo we can do nothing better than to be a living demonstration of his teaching.   S A’ S


The Mother: [facsimile]  The descending triangle represents Sat-Chit-Ananda.  The ascending triangle represents the aspiring answer from matter under the form of life, light and love.   The junction of both — the central square — is the perfect manifestation having at its centre the Avatar of the Supreme — the lotus.  The water — inside the square — represents the multiplicity, the creation.


The Mother:   His Grace is always with those who want to progress and realise the Truth of tomorrow.


The Mother: What are his qualiﬁcations and titles to such a great privilege?  Visiting again is all right. People can come to Sri Aurobindo’s room. But to be allowed to sit and meditate there, one must have done much for Sri Aurobindo.


The Mother: To do something for the Lord is to give Him something of what one has, or of what one does, or of what one is. That is to say, to offer to Him one part of our goods or all of our possessions, to consecrate to Him one part of our work or all our activities, or to give ourselves to Him totally and without reserve so that He may take possession of our nature in order to transform and divinise it. But there are many people who, without giving  anything, always want to take and to receive. These people are selﬁsh and unworthy to meditate in Sri Aurobindo’s room.


The Mother:   A day will come, I hope, when we shall be able to tell freely and truly all that Sri Aurobindo’s Presence has meant for the town of Pondicherry....     There is no question and there can never be any question of cutting off the relationship with Sri Aurobindo.


The Mother: If you have the privilege of being conscious of his answer, keep it like a precious treasure, and make the best use of it. Through Sri Aurobindo you will come into contact with the Supreme and be quite sure of not going astray.


The Mother: Be perfectly sincere and He will answer your call.     Sincere and progressive.    ()


The Mother: From the artistic point of view, it is certainly a masterpiece. It is also an inspired work, inspired by an inner contact with Sri Aurobindo or rather with one of his aspects, with one side of his being, the intellectual side, that of knowledge, the.


The Mother: (  )  The vast, calm, simplicity of his forehead, reﬂecting the perfect peace of total knowledge.    Remembrance of Sri Aurobindo: let us make an effort to realise the ideal of life that He has marked out for us.


The Mother: ( )   Red lotus — symbol of the manifestation of the Supreme upon earth.  White lotus — symbol of the Divine Consciousness.


The Mother:   Our Love is an eternal Truth.     Without him, I exist not; without me, he is unmanifest.


The Mother:  When in your heart and thought you will make no difference between Sri Aurobindo and me, when to think of Sri Aurobindo will be to think of me and to think of me will mean to think of  Sri Aurobindo inevitably, when to see one will mean inevitably to see the other, like, — then you will know that you begin to be open to the supramental force and consciousness.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]


The Mother: [facsimile on this whole page]      [facsimile] Since the beginning of the earth, wherever and whenever there was the possibility of manifesting a ray of the Consciousness, I was there.     That which is speaking to you now, is a faithful servant of the Divine.


The Mother: From all time, since the beginning of the earth, as a faithful servant of the Divine, it has spoken in the name of its Master. And as long as earth and men exist, it will be there in a body to preach the divine word.  So, wherever I am asked to speak, I do my best, as a servant of the Divine.   But to speak in the name of a particular doctrine or of a man, however great he may be, that I cannot do!


The Mother: The Eternal Transcendent forbids me.      Myself and My Creed


The Mother: I belong to no nation, no civilisation, no society, no race, but to the Divine.  I obey no master, no ruler, no law, no social convention, but the Divine.   To Him I have surrendered all, will, life, self; for Him I am ready to give all my blood, drop by drop, if such is His Will, with complete joy; and nothing in His service can be sacrifice, for all is perfect delight.  [facsimile]   How I Became Conscious of My Mission


The Mother: When and how did I become conscious of a mission which I was to fulﬁl on earth? And when and how I met Sri Aurobindo?  These two questions you have asked me and I promised a short reply.  For the knowledge of the mission, it is difﬁcult to say when it came to me. It is as though I were born with it, and following the growth of the mind and brain, the precision and completeness of this consciousness grew also.


The Mother: Between 11 and 13 a series of psychic and spiritual experiences revealed to me not only the existence of God but man’s possibility of uniting with Him, of realising Him integrally in consciousness and action, of manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. This, along with a practical discipline for its fulﬁlment, was given to me during my body’s sleep by several teachers, some of whom I met afterwards on the physical plane.  Later on, as the interior and exterior development proceeded, the spiritual and psychic relation with one of these beings became more and more clear and frequent; and although I knew little of the Indian philosophies and religions at that time I was led to call him Krishna, and henceforth I was aware that it was with him (whom I knew I should meet on earth one day) that the divine work was to be done.  In the year 1910 my husband came alone to Pondicherry where, under very interesting and peculiar circumstances, he made the acquaintance of Sri Aurobindo. Since then we both strongly wished to return to India — the country which I had always cherished as my true mother-country.


The Mother: And in 1914 this joy was granted to us.  As soon as I saw Sri Aurobindo I recognised in him the wellknown being whom I used to call Krishna.... And this is enough to explain why I am fully convinced that my place and my work are near him, in India.   O, my Lord, my Lord!  What you want of me, let me be.


The Mother: What you want me to do, let me do.    My Lord, I will not try to escape from the work Thou hast given me. Wherever Thou placest my consciousness, it will remain without any attempt to rise to the blissful heights. Even if Thou willest it to be in the mud of the most material nature, it will stay there peaceful and at rest.


The Mother: But wherever it is, it cannot but be without aspiring towards Thee, opening to Thy inﬂuence and calling Thee down into itself as the sole reality of its existence.    With what ardour the consciousness aspires to escape from the prison of material vibrations and soar towards Thee, Lord, in the immaculate heights!  But ﬂight is impossible... it is against Thy Will.


The Mother: The consciousness must remain caught in the mud of this obscure and ignorant nature. That is all right; the joy of being and doing what Thou wantest surpasses all other joys, even the most sublime.  But the consciousness cries: “I want Thee, I want Thee; without Thee I am nothing, I do not even exist!” And the vibration of the call is so strong that even this heavy Matter is shaken by it. “I want Thee, I want Thee!


The Mother: Since Thou dost not permit me to spring towards Thee, leaving all behind to be with Thee, I shall call Thee from here; and I shall beseech Thee so very much that Thou wilt come down to infuse Thyself into a world that has ﬁnally awakened to the absolute need of Thy Presence.” And the vibration of this invocation was so intense that through the dark and amorphous mass passed the ﬁrst quiver announcing the approach of the Beloved.      O my God, Thou hast told me: “Plunge into Matter and identify thyself with it: it is there that I would manifest.”


The Mother: And Thy will has been done — but Matter has ignored the gift and persists in wanting to seek in obscure and false activities and relations a satisfaction which it cannot ﬁnd there.  And yet Thou hast promised me the Victory...     O Lord, awaken my entire being that it may be for Thee the needed instrument, the perfect servant.


The Mother:   What I want to bring about in the material world, upon the earth.   1. Perfect Consciousness.


The Mother: 2. Integral Knowledge, omniscience.  3. Power invincible, irresistible, ineluctable; omnipotence.  4. Health, perfect, constant, unshakable; perpetually renewed energy.   5.


The Mother: Eternal youth, constant growth, uninterrupted progress.  6. Perfect beauty, complex and total harmony.  7. Inexhaustible unparalleled riches, control over all the wealth of this world.


The Mother: 8. The gift of healing and giving happiness.  9. Immunity from all accidents, invulnerability against all adverse attacks.  10. Perfect power of expression in all ﬁelds and all activities.


The Mother: 11. The gift of tongues, the power of making oneself understood perfectly by all.  12. And all else necessary for the accomplishment of Thy work.


The Mother: I wish 1. personally to be eternally the perfect expression of the Supreme Divine.  2. that the supramental victory, manifestation and transformation should take place at once.  3. that all suffering should disappear for ever from the worlds present and future.


The Mother: A DECLARATION  I want to mark this day by the expression of a long cherished wish; that of becoming an Indian citizen. From the ﬁrst time I came to India — in 1914 — I felt that India is my true country, the country of my soul and spirit. I had decided to realise this wish as soon as India would be free. But I had to wait still longer because of my heavy responsibilities for the Ashram here in Pondicherry.


The Mother: Now the time has come when I can declare myself.  But, in accordance with Sri Aurobindo’s ideal, my purpose is to show that truth lies in union rather than in division. To reject one nationality in order to obtain another is not an ideal solution. So I hope I shall be allowed to adopt a double nationality, that is to say, to remain French while I become an Indian.  I am French by birth and early education, I am Indian by choice and predilection.


The Mother: In my consciousness there is no antagonism between the two, on the contrary, they combine very well and complete one another. I know also that I can be of service to both equally, for my only aim in life is to give a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo’s great teaching and in his teaching he reveals that all the nations are essentially one and meant to express the Divine Unity upon earth through an organised and harmonious diversity.    Yes.  If they ask nationality, you put.


The Mother:    Do not fill up the form for my book or books — I do not claim any rights of authorship — and I refuse to answer the question they ask.  It is true that this body was born in Paris and that its soul has declared that it is Indian, but I belong to no nation in particular.  And as administrations cannot understand that, I refuse to deal with them.


The Mother:   [facsimile]   The reminiscences will be short.  I came to India to meet Sri Aurobindo. I remained in India to live with Sri Aurobindo.


The Mother: When he left his body, I continued to live here in order to do his work which is, by serving the Truth and enlightening mankind, to hasten the rule of the Divine’s Love upon earth.    [facsimile] Do not ask questions about the details of the material existence of this body; they are in themselves of no interest and must not attract attention.  Throughout all this life, knowingly or unknowingly, I have been what the Lord wanted me to be, I have done what the Lord wanted me to do. That alone matters.


The Mother:   While looking at the Samadhi: I do not want to be worshipped. I have come to work, not to be worshipped; let them worship Thee to their heart’s content and leave me, silent and hidden, to do my work undisturbed — and of all veils the body is the best.     Let it be the last time something is publicly mentioned about my past life! — this body does not want to be spoken of — it wants to be quiet and, as far as possible,.


The Mother: If it is the Will of the Supreme that those who depend on me should have no faith in me, I have nothing to say. I am responsible only for the absoluteness of my own sincerity.     I know perfectly well what I want or rather what the divine Will is, and it is that which will triumph in time.


The Mother:   No, it does not depend at all upon human beings. What has to be done will be done despite all possible resistances.   There is only one thing of which I am absolutely sure, and that is.


The Mother: Sri Aurobindo also knew it and declared it. Even the doubts of the whole of humanity would change nothing to this fact.  But another fact is not so certain — it is the usefulness of my being here in a body, doing the work I am doing. It is not out of any personal urge that I am doing it. Sri Aurobindo told me to do it and that is why I do it as a sacred duty in obedience to the dictates of the Supreme.


The Mother: Time will reveal how far earth has beneﬁted through it.   [facsimile]  An objective reply to a letter  If the supreme consciousness is incarnated and manifests itself in this body, all the denials in the world cannot prevent it from being so.  And if it is not so, my physical existence can be interesting only to those who have faith and who, with the help of this faith, can, through me, enter into contact with the Supreme Consciousness.   The question has importance only for those, and others have no need to be concerned about it.


The Mother: For such a faith, to be sincere and effective, cannot be the object of any propaganda, either for or against it. Its birth must be free and spontaneous.  It cannot be obtained through coercion nor destroyed through denial.  He who feels the need to ﬁght violently against conviction or faith, of whatever kind, proves by that very fact that some part of his being, however tiny, is touched by this conviction, while another part of himself, generally more important and external, completely refuses to accept a faith which seems to him the more dangerous because he is more sensitive to it, and his will to deny it forcefully comes from the necessity of convincing himself.  From the subjective point of view, I know what I am.


The Mother: But this knowledge that is lived ﬁnds its value only in my sincerity; and of this sincerity the Supreme alone can be the judge.    I know that I cannot do much — I cannot satisfy the human desire for wonders and miracles. There was a time when I could and did do it. But for that one must live in the vital consciousness and use vital forces, which is not very recommendable.


The Mother:   It will be said of me: “She was ambitious, she wanted to transform the world.” But the world does not want to be transformed except by a very long and slow process, so slow that the change cannot be perceptible from one generation to the other.  I ﬁnd that Nature delays and wastes.


The Mother: But she ﬁnds that I am too much in a hurry and too troublesome and exacting.   Let me write down all I have to say; let me foretell all that  will be done, and then, if no one ﬁnds that I am doing it properly, then I shall retire and leave the others to do it.


The Mother: I do not deny that you have got a connection with something of Sri Aurobindo, the something that was interested in you and in what you are doing. This something might have remained with you to inspire and help you in your work in America and elsewhere. But it is only a part, a very, very small part of Sri Aurobindo whom I know and with whom I lived physically for thirty years, and who has not left me, not for a moment — for He is still with me, day and night, thinking through my brain, writing through my pen, speaking through my mouth and acting through my organising power.    To believe or not to believe in the possibility of avatarhood can make no difference to the bare fact.


The Mother: If God chooses to manifest in a human body I do not see how any human thought, approval or disapproval can affect in the least His decision; and if He takes birth in a body, the denial of men cannot prevent the fact from being a fact. So what is there to get excited about. It is only in perfect quietness and silence, free from all prejudices and preferences, that the consciousness can perceive the truth.    Concerning my avatarhood, in what way can the opinion of people have any importance?


The Mother: If I am not [an avatar], the belief of thousands of devotees cannot make that I should be. On the other hand, if I am, the denial of the whole world cannot prevent me from being.     There is.  There is here a Consciousness working.


The Mother: Each one when he goes against this divine Consciousness loses something of his consciousness every time he does so. He goes down each time he does something against it. Each one gains in his consciousness every time he acts according to this divine Consciousness.  The world goes on as it is. When there is nothing you or I can do to change it, we can only keep quiet, silent witness like Brahman.


The Mother: As in the world so here also. So many things go on:  each one tries to prove his superiority; there is politics of all kinds, propaganda. I only witness like Brahman; I am neither for nor against, neither approve nor condemn.


The Mother: For me everything in human life is mixed, nothing is completely good, nothing completely bad. I cannot give my entire and exclusive support to this idea or that idea, to one cause or another.  The only important thing for me, in action, is Sri Aurobindo’s work, automatically my conscious support is with all that helps that work and in proportion to the help. And for the work to be carried on as it must be I need all collaborations and all helps, I cannot accept only this one or that one and reject the others. I cannot belong to this party or that party.


The Mother: I belong to the Divine alone and my action upon earth is and will always be for the triumph of the Divine, irrespective of all sects and parties.  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.   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.


The Mother: Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted ﬂow.     I had nothing to learn for that, because the Supreme Lord contains everything in Himself: the whole world, the knowledge of the world and the power to make it. When He decided that there should be a world, He ﬁrst brought forth the knowledge of the world and the power to make it and that is me, and then He commanded me to make the world.


The Mother:   Because if I did not come like you, I could never be close to you and I would not be able to tell you: “Become what I am.”


The Mother: This question can be asked of any human being. And the answer is: Yes, potentially.   And the task of each one is to make it a real fact.    I do not know if I am powerful or not (because it is not sure where is the I) but the Lord is all-powerful.


The Mother: Trust is beyond all doubts and the Lord is looking into the matter.    Consciousness.    When I speak, I what I say and I communicate the together with the words — no machine can record that.


The Mother: That is why the text seems completely different when it is heard or read, the main thing has gone, for it is beyond all notation.   Even when what I have written myself is printed in a book or an article, the intensity of the experience I had while writing it escapes, and the text seems ﬂat, although the words are identical.  This is the real reason for the physical Presence, its incontestable importance.


The Mother:   Do not take my words for a teaching. Always they are a force in action, uttered with a deﬁnite purpose, and they lose their true power when separated from that purpose.   This body has neither the uncontested authority of a god nor the imperturbable calm of the sage. It is yet only an apprentice in supermanhood.


The Mother:   O my sweet Lord, supreme Truth, I aspire that the food I take may infuse into all the cells of my body Thy all-knowledge, Thy all-power, Thy all-goodness.


The Mother: Only when it is no longer necessary for men’s progress that my body should be like theirs will it be free to become supramentalised.     It is a fact that the Godhead has always taken a physical body with the intention of transforming that body and making of it a ﬁt instrument for His manifestation upon earth. But it is a fact also that, until now, He has failed to do so and for one reason or another He had always to leave that physical body with the work of transformation unﬁnished.


The Mother: In order that the Divine may keep, till a total transformation takes place, the body through which He is manifesting upon earth, it is necessary that, for at least one individual if not more, fulﬁlling the required conditions of harmony, strength, sincerity, endurance, unselﬁshness and poise in the physical, this body in which the Divine incarnates should be not only the most important thing, but even the thing exclusively important, more important than the divine Work itself, or rather that this body  should become the symbol and the concretisation of the divine Work upon earth.   It is never work that makes me tired; it is when I am compelled to work in an atmosphere of dissatisfaction, despondency, doubt, misunderstanding and bad will, then each step forward represents an enormous effort and tells on the body more than ten years of normal work.     For the last few days when I wake up in the morning I have the strange sensation of entering a body that is not mine — my body is strong and healthy, full of energy and life, supple and harmonious and this one fulﬁlls none of these qualities; the contact with it becomes painful; there is a great difﬁculty in adapting myself to it and it takes a long time before I can overcome this uneasiness.


The Mother:   This experience followed conclusively the one I had last night while seeing the ﬁlm. I felt very strongly that my children were emancipated and that they no longer need my physical intervention to do their work well. It is enough that my presence among them is an inspiration and guide for them to keep a clear vision of the goal and not to go astray on the way.


The Mother: This leads quite naturally to a physical withdrawal into oneself so as to concentrate materially upon the work of transformation of the body. I can now leave them externally to do things according to their own ideas of execution, reducing my presence to a more or less invisible role of creative inspiration and consciousness.    The body repeats constantly and with a poignant sincerity: “What am I to demand anything whatsoever from anyone at all? Left to myself I am nothing, I know nothing, I can do nothing. Unless the truth penetrates into me and directs me, I am incapable of taking even the minutest decision and of knowing what is the best thing to do and to live even in the most insigniﬁcant circumstance.


The Mother: Shall I ever be capable of being transformed to the point of becoming What I ought to be and of manifesting What wants to manifest upon earth?” But why does this answer always come from the depths, from You, Lord, with an indisputable certitude: “If you cannot do it, no other body upon earth can do it.” There is but one conclusion: I shall persist in my effort, without giving in, I shall persist until death or until victory.    My Lord, what Thou hast wanted me to do I have done.


The Mother: The gates of the Supramental have been thrown open and the Supramental Consciousness, Light and Force are ﬂooding the earth.  But as yet those who are around me are little aware of it — no radical change has taken place in their consciousness and it is only because they trust my word that they do not say that nothing has truly happened. In addition the exterior circumstances are still harder than they were and the difﬁculties seem to be cropping up more insurmountable than ever.  Now that the supramental is there — for of that I am  even if I am the only one upon earth to be aware of it — is it that the mission of this form is ended and that another form is to take up the work in its place? I am putting the question to Thee and ask for an answer — a sign by which I shall know for certain that it is still my work and I must continue in spite of all the contradictions, of all the denials.


The Mother: Whatever is the sign, I do not care but it must be.     I cannot yet say “myself”, because when I say “myself” people think of my body, and my body is not yet truly, it is not yet transformed, and that produces a confusion in their minds.  Besides, I have always felt that this attitude of my body perceiving its own imperfection was indispensable in order to keep a living and constant humility in the physical consciousness.


The Mother: When the transformation is total, then I shall be able to speak, not before.     O divine Light, supramental Reality: With this food, penetrate the whole body, enter into every cell, establish Thyself in every atom; may everything become perfectly sincere and receptive, free from all that obstructs the manifestation, in short, open to Thee all the parts of my body that are not already Thyself.


The Mother:   And the body says to the Supreme Lord: “What You want me to be, I shall be, what You want me to know, I shall know, what You want me to do, I shall do.”    But this body needs exercise and going up and down the steps is a very good exercise indeed. Moreover it is accustomed to collaborate in my work and would be sorry if any change was made because of its difﬁculties.


The Mother: So things will go on as usual and when it will be time for it to come out of difﬁculties, the difﬁculties will disappear.     The help is always there but it will be intensiﬁed because you must be ready to wait for some pretty long time.    I suppose you mean my new or my body.


The Mother: Because for a body, I do not know of anybody who could make a complete living body into which I could step without losing, at least partly, my present consciousness. This of course could be a relatively quicker process, but not quite fair for the cells of this body so full of enthusiasm, and lending themselves so willingly to the somewhat exacting process of transformation.  In any case, as I told you already, you must be prepared to wait a long time for it, and to see many birthdays pass on.  Which, of course, is very good and of which I fully approve.


The Mother:   To each and every one of my children Whenever they think, speak or act under the impulse of falsehood, it acts on my body like a blow.     To say the truth, I can take anything without likes and dislikes, but as on the table there is an ample choice, I preferably take what the body accepts and digests with ease.


The Mother:   There is no disease from which I have not suffered. I have taken all the diseases upon my body to see their course and to have their knowledge by experience in the physical, so that I may be able to work upon them. But as my physical has no fear and it responds to the higher pressure, it is easier for me to get rid of them.§   Every day, at each moment, my blessings are with you.


The Mother:   My child, My blessings are with you to widen and purify your consciousness so that peace may always be within you.


The Mother: Whether the words are written or not, I always send you my blessings.     My blessings are always there to awaken you, but you must want to make use of them.


The Mother:   Blessings are a manifestation of the divine grace, in favour of an individual or a collectivity.     My love and blessings are with you.


The Mother: Understand that blessings are for the best spiritual result, not necessarily according to human wishes.    My blessings are very dangerous. They cannot be for this one or  for that one or against this person or against that thing. It is for... or, well, I will put it in a mystic way: It is


The Mother: for the Will of the Lord to be done, with full force and power. So it is not necessary that there should always be a success. There might be a failure also, if such is the Will of the Lord. And the Will is for the progress, I mean the inner progress.  So whatever will happen will be for the best.


The Mother: From many instances I have come to know that my face is like a mirror showing to each one the image of his own internal condition.   I feel inclined to reply: I live so far from all these conventions that I had not even thought of that.    () The anniversary of my return to Pondicherry, which was the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces.


The Mother: “Who are you?” asks the adverse force.  “I am the impartial and truthful mirror in which each one can ﬁnd his true likeness.”    The Supermind had descended long ago — very long ago — into the mind and even into the vital: it was working in the physical also but indirectly through those intermediaries. The question was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical.


The Mother: Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical  mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.§    As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he has called the Mind of Light got realised in me.


The Mother: M’ S  [ facsimile ]  The central circle represents the Divine Consciousness.


The Mother: The four petals represent the four powers of the Mother.   The twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother manifested for Her work.     The central circle represents the Supreme Mother, the Mahashakti.


The Mother: The four central petals are the four aspects of the Mother — and the twelve petals, Her twelve attributes.   It is the symbolic design of the white Lotus of Supreme Consciousness, with the Mahashakti (the form of the Mother as universal creation) at the centre in her four aspects and twelve attributes.    Do not ask me any questions about the mind; I am no longer interested in it. I am concentrated on union with the overmind.


The Mother:  I cannot give it mentally; it is to be received inwardly.     My help is always with you as active as ever; but I do no more answer mentally.


The Mother:   Why do you want me to say something?  In silence is the greatest power.   M’ S [facsimile on rest of this page]


The Mother: “I AM WITH YOU”  Mother gives always to each one the love he needs.    I am always seated in your heart, consciously living in you.


The Mother:   Open your heart and you will ﬁnd me already there.  Don’t be restless, remain quietly concentrated in your heart and you will ﬁnd me there.    Go deep inside the temple and you will ﬁnd me there.


The Mother:  All souls who aspire are always under my direct care.    Mother is with all those who are sincere in their aspiration towards a divine life.    I hold you to my heart and keep you there.


The Mother: Blessings.     I am always with you inwardly.  Blessings.


The Mother:  I am always present, near you, in you, and my blessings come with me.    Be sure that I am always present among you to guide and help you in your work and your sadhana.   For the moment the important thing is to cultivate this widening and deepening of the consciousness which enables you to feel my constant presence with you, to feel it in a real and concrete way which will bring you an immutable peace.   Keep always this awareness of my constant loving presence and all will be all right.


The Mother:   Have conﬁdence, I am near you.  With all my tender love.   Today at Pranam, for the ﬁrst time I could enter X’s heart and an emanation of mine settled there.   I am happy with this awakening in your consciousness. You should allow it to develop more and more so that the light can penetrate everywhere, even into the darkest corners.


The Mother: My help and protection are always with you.   My help is always with you to help you in your progress and your work.  The difﬁculties you cannot overcome today will be overcome tomorrow or later on.    I always look upward.


The Mother: Beauty, Peace, Light are there, they are ready to come down. So, always aspire and look up, in order to manifest them upon this earth.  Do not look down at the ugly things of the world. Look always upward with me, whenever you feel sad.


The Mother:    Be very quiet and


The Mother: you will feel my help.    Child, you complain that you see me only as a friend... but what could be better than to have a friend who knows, who acts, who loves?


The Mother: Surely, my child, I have no intention of leaving you and you need not worry; one thing you must know and never forget: all that is true and will always be kept. Only what is false and insincere will disappear.  In the measure in which your need for me is sincere and genuine, it will be fulﬁlled.    My dear boy, All this talk of leaving you is mere nonsense.


The Mother: What you are or are not I know better than you do; and I know the treasures that are hidden behind what you call your lower vital.  The only thing true you say is that love is unselﬁsh and unconditioned. Such is the love of Sri Aurobindo and myself for you.  That is why we shall never listen to all your nonsense and will love you surely.


The Mother: Come to me without fear. I will not scold and not with “round eyes”.    My very dear boy, I knew something of this although you had not spoken, and the only thing I regretted is that you did not love and trust your Mummy enough to tell her frankly. How could you think that this could change my love for you?


The Mother: Now stands in the way between us, between X and his Mummy, and if my love for you could be greater, it would be so now that you have shown full conﬁdence in me.     Remember what Sri Aurobindo has written to you. When these moods come, why do you run away from Mother?


The Mother: Come to her, on the contrary, and she will cure you easily. This is the substance of what he has said.    My dearest little child, What a sad thing that my lovely is not well! I hope it is getting better now; but keep quiet and do not worry either about work or anything — you must not move until it is all gone....


The Mother: If you feel this afternoon, come and I will be very happy.  With all my love and affection I am near you holding you in my arms and praying that you will be quite all right very, very soon.    My love remains with you with all its intensity. And in the intensity of this love, I have prayed and prayed to our Lord, asking Him to pour His Grace upon you and to make you conscious of the Divine Light and Soul in you, to give you the supreme realisation of His Presence.


The Mother:   Let all the clouds disperse, all the attachments disappear, all the obstacles vanish, so that you can enjoy fully the peace and the joy of being here, so close to me, in the Divine’s abode.    I am writing to tell you that surely you should be able to feel my presence every day. I am with you so concretely, I see you so clearly, we speak together, together we contemplate the harmony of a beautiful park; I explain to you and show you how to keep within oneself always this great peace which makes you live in eternity, beyond all human miseries, in the Presence (Truth) of the Lord.


The Mother:  I received your letter. My deepest sympathy is with you.  We must pray for the day when the Light of the Truth will reappear in the consciousness. Meanwhile my love and blessings are always with you.


The Mother:  My dear little child, My love remains with you. I am constantly praying to our Lord that He should make you conscious of His Presence in you and thus one with me.    Always with you in a growing light and peace.  Forward, always forward in love and joy and a peace rising ever higher.


The Mother:  I remember and love all my children equally even if they never write to me — and all sincere prayers are always answered even if I do not write myself. So have no pain and be cheerful.    Day and night hundreds of calls are coming — but the consciousness is always alert and it answers.  One is limited by time and space only materially.


The Mother:  X is always present in our thoughts and living in our hearts.  For the thought the world is small, for the heart there is no distance.     Days when it is cold and you would like to wrap Mother’s love around your shoulders.


The Mother:   That much only! Surely I do think of you more often!!  Love and blessings.


The Mother: “I”  I am with you because I am you or you are me.  I am with you, that signiﬁes a world of things, because I am with you on all levels, on all planes, from the supreme consciousness down to my most physical consciousness. Here, in Pondicherry, you cannot breathe without breathing my consciousness. It saturates the atmosphere almost materially, in the subtle physical, and extends to the Lake, ten kilometres from here. Farther, my consciousness can be felt in the material vital, then on the mental plane and the other higher planes, everywhere.


The Mother: When I came here for the ﬁrst time, I felt the atmosphere of Sri Aurobindo, felt it materially at a distance of ten miles, ten nautical miles, not kilometres. It was very sudden, very concrete, an atmosphere pure, luminous, light, light that lifts you up.  It is now long since Sri Aurobindo has put up everywhere in the Ashram this reminder that you all know: “Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you, because she is, indeed, always present.”  This is not a mere phrase, not simply words, it is a fact. I am with you in a very concrete manner and they who have a subtle vision can see me.


The Mother: In a general way my Force is there constantly at work, constantly shifting the psychological elements of your being to put them in new relations and deﬁning to yourself the different facets of your nature so that you may see what should be changed, developed, rejected.   But that apart, there is a special personal tie between you and me, between all who have turned to the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and myself, — and, it is well understood, distance does not count here, you may be in France, you may be at the other end of the world or in Pondicherry, this tie is always true and living. And each time there comes a call, each time there is a need for me to know so that I may send out a force, an inspiration, a protection or any other thing, a sort of message comes to me all of a sudden and I do the needful. These communications reach me evidently at any moment, and you must have seen me more than once stop suddenly in the middle of a sentence or work ; it is because something comes to me, a communication and I concentrate.


The Mother: With those whom I have accepted as disciples, to whom I have said Yes, there is more than a tie, there is an emanation of me. This emanation warns me whenever it is necessary and tells me what is happening. Indeed I receive intimations constantly, but not all are recorded in my active memory, I would be ﬂooded; the physical consciousness acts like a ﬁlter. Things are recorded on a subtle plane, they are there in a latent state, something like a piece of music that is recorded without being played, and when I need to know with my physical consciousness, I make contact with this subtle physical plane and the disc begins to turn. Then I see how things are, their development in time, the actual result.


The Mother: And if for some reason you write to me asking for my help and I answer “I am with you”, it means that the communication with you becomes active, you come into my active consciousness for a time, for the time necessary.  And this tie between you and me is never cut. There are people who have long ago left the Ashram, in a state of revolt, and yet I keep myself informed of them, I attend to them. You are never abandoned.  In truth, I hold myself responsible for everyone, even for those whom I have met only for one second in my life.


The Mother: Now remember one thing. Sri Aurobindo and myself are one and the same consciousness, one and the same person.  Only, when this force or this presence, which is the same, passes through your individual consciousness, it puts on a form, an appearance which differs according to your temperament, your aspiration, your need, the particular turn of your being. Your individual consciousness is like a ﬁlter, a pointer, if I may say so; it makes a choice and ﬁxes one possibility out of the inﬁnity of divine possibilities. In reality, the Divine gives to each individual exactly what he expects of Him.


The Mother: If you believe that the Divine is far away and cruel, He will be far away and cruel, because it will be necessary for your ultimate good that you feel the wrath of God; He will be Kali for the worshippers of Kali and Beatitude for the Bhakta. And He will be the All-knowledge of the seeker of Knowledge, the transcendent Impersonal of the illusionist; He will be atheist with the atheist and the love of the lover. He will be brotherly and close, a friend always faithful, always ready to succour, for those who feel Him as the inner guide of each movement, at every moment. And if you believe that He can wipe away everything, He will wipe away all your faults, all your errors, tirelessly, and at every moment you can feel His inﬁnite Grace.  The Divine is indeed what you expect of Him in your deepest aspiration.


The Mother: And when you enter into this consciousness where you see all things in a single look, the inﬁnite multitude of relations between the Divine and men, you see how wonderful all that is, in all details. You can look at the history of mankind and see how much the Divine has evolved according to what men have understood, desired, hoped, dreamed and how He was materialist with the materialist and how He grows every day and becomes nearer, more luminous according as human consciousness widens itself. Each one is free to choose. The perfection of this endless variety of relations of man with God throughout the history of the world is an ineffable marvel. And all that  together is only one second of the total manifestation of the Divine.


The Mother: The Divine is with you according to your aspiration. Naturally that does not mean that He bends to the caprices of your outer nature, — I speak here of the truth of your being.  And yet, sometimes he does fashion himself according to your outer aspirations, and if, like the devotees, you live alternately in separation and union, ecstasy and despair, the Divine also will separate from you and unite with you, according as you believe. The attitude is thus very important, even the outer attitude.


The Mother: People do not know how important is faith, how faith is miracle, creator of miracles. If you expect at every moment to be lifted up and pulled towards the Divine, He will come to lift you and He will be there, quite close, closer, ever closer.   “TO BE NEAR ME”  In order to be always near me really and effectively you must become more and more sincere, open and frank towards me.  Cast away all dissimulation and decide to do nothing that you could not tell me immediately.


The Mother:  Do only what you could do before me without feeling embarrassed, say only what you could repeat to me without difﬁculty.


The Mother: Be very sincere and straightforward , harbour nothing within yourself which you cannot show me without fear, do nothing which you would be ashamed of before me.     Try to be spontaneous and simple like a child in your relations with me — it will save you from many difficulties.


The Mother:    [ facsimile


The Mother: ]  Be simple, Be happy, Remain quiet, Do your work as well as you can, Keep yourself always open towards me — This is all that is asked from you.   PHYSICAL NEARNESS  Whether I see you or not makes no difference to the help. It will always be there.


The Mother:   You must remove two falsehoods from your mind.  1) What you get from me has nothing at all to do with what the others have or have not. My relation with you depends on you alone; I give you according to your true need and capacity.   Even here, already you were alone with me; if there were no others you would receive nothing more.


The Mother: 2) It is a great mistake to think that physical nearness is the one thing indispensable for the progress. It will do nothing for you if you do not establish the inner contact, for without that you could remain from morning to night with me and yet you will never truly meet me. It is only by the inner opening and contact that you can realise my presence.    You ought not to forget that each one meets in life the exact expression of what he is himself.


The Mother: Grace and blessings are always with you. Not one day have I stopped taking the usual care of those who depend on my force.     Do the work — my inspiration and guidance will always be with you; and when it is necessary I shall see you physically.


The Mother: But I am working to lessen more and more this necessity. Because to  be able to receive the inner guidance is indispensable for the perfection of the work.     Now that you are here, the only thing to do is to forget the past and to concentrate on your work here.


The Mother: It is true that for the moment I cannot see you regularly, but you must learn to get the contact (it is one of the chief reasons of my retirement) and then you will know that I am always with you to guide you and to help you and that you can have no better conditions than here to do properly your sadhana.     It would be more correct to say that certain thoughts, certain feelings and certain actions take people away from me or create a separation between someone and me in spite of all physical proximity.


The Mother:  There is no real separation, but if the consciousness takes a wrong attitude, it puts itself into a state in which it has the sensation or the feeling of separation.     No, this physical contact is not indispensable. Certainly for those who have the true attitude, the physical contact helps the body to follow the movement of transformation, but the body is  rarely in a state to proﬁt by it.


The Mother: Generally on birthdays it is more receptive.   I am no more living an active life; if you are open, help is bound to come.   ROLE AS GUIDE  If you are quite sincere, you will agree with me that you are complaining of my being not too Divine but not Divine enough.  For if in my physical body I had assumed, for instance, the appearance cherished by the ancient Indian tradition, how convenient it would be!


The Mother: Imagine, if having several heads and a great number of arms, possessing the power of ubiquity, when X comes to manicure my hands and so unceremoniously knocks at the door to inform me that she is there, (I cannot tell her not to knock because she is very busy) I could send her a pair of hands for her work and still be in my small room to answer to Y who is sitting with me there, how nice it would be!...  So, you see, I fear I have accepted to become too human, too much bound by the human laws of time and space, and thus not capable of doing half a dozen things at the same time!     Lord, I lament my limitations...


The Mother: but it is through them, by virtue of them, that men can approach Thee. Without them, Thou wouldst be as remote, as inaccessible to men as if Thou hadst not put on a body of ﬂesh.   This is why each progress they make represents a true liberation for me, for each step they take towards Thee gives me the right to cast away one of these limitations and to manifest Thee more truly, more perfectly.  And yet these limitations could have been dispensed with.  But then it would have been necessary to keep near us only those who have experienced the Divine, who have identiﬁed themselves with Thee, Lord, even if only once, either within themselves or in the universe.


The Mother: For this identiﬁcation is the indispensable basis of our Yoga; it is its starting-point.   It is their own mental and vital formation of me that they love, not myself. More and more I am confronted with this fact. Each one has made his own image of me for himself in conformity with his needs and desires, and it is with this image that he is in relation, through that he receives the little amount of universal forces and the still smaller amount of supramental forces that manage to ﬁlter through all these formations. Unfortunately, they cling to my physical presence, otherwise I could withdraw into my inner solitude and do my work quietly and freely from there; but this physical presence is a symbol for them and that is why they cling to it, for in fact they have very little real contact with what my body truly is or with the tremendous accumulation of conscious energy that it represents.


The Mother: And now, O Higher Force, that You are descending into me and penetrating more and more totally all the atoms of my body, the distance between myself and everything around me seems to be increasing more and more, and more and more I feel myself ﬂoating in an atmosphere of radiant consciousness that is totally beyond their understanding.     Since I love only You, O Lord, it is You alone whom I love in all and in each one; and by dint of loving You in them, I shall end up by making them a little conscious of You.  For them, the real thing is to know how to let themselves be loved without any preference and obstruction. But, not only do they not want to be loved except in their own way, they do not want even to open themselves to love unless it comes to them through the intermediary of their choice... and what could be done in a few hours, a few months or a few years takes centuries to be accomplished.


The Mother:   After establishing a conscious contact with each person present, I merge with the Supreme Lord and then my body is nothing but a channel through which He pours out upon all His Light, His Consciousness and His Joy, to each one according to his capacity.    I take the greatest care to open the door within all of you, so that if you have just a small movement of concentration within you, you do not have to wait for long periods in front of a closed door that will not move, to which you have no key and which you do not know how to open.  The door is open, only you must look in that direction.


The Mother: You must not turn your back on it.    I am not eager to be the Guru of anyone. It is more spontaneously natural for me to feel the Mother of all and to carry them forward silently through the power of love.


The Mother:   I am not eager to be the Guru of anyone. It is more spontaneously natural for me to be the universal Mother and to act in silence through love.  But as you put the question, I shall answer.  From the time you started using a mantra, I had put in it the power to make it effective. Now that you have stated what is the word of this mantra, I am conﬁrming the power into it.


The Mother:   Are you not the son of the universal Mother?    Until now, my spontaneous attitude was that of the supreme Mother who carries the universe in her loving arms, and I was dealing with each one as with the child from whom she tolerates everything equally; and all that the people here were doing to please me I was taking as a token of their love and I was very grateful for it.


The Mother: Today I have learnt that many, if not most, are looking at me as their Guru and that they are eager to please me because to please the Guru is the best way to acquire merit on the path. And then I have understood that the duty of the Guru is to encourage from each one only that which can lead him quickly to the Lord and serve His Divine Purpose, — and I am very grateful for the lesson.    Everyone has to follow his own path which, necessarily, is the best and the swiftest for reaching the goal.  As I happen to know the way, it is my duty to show it to them.


The Mother:   When say that I have initiated someone, I mean that I have revealed myself to this person,, and that he was capable of seeing, feeling and knowing What I am.     “DO AS YOU LIKE”  When people suggest two alternative things and ask me which one to do, I answer “As you like” when neither is better than the other.


The Mother:   “If you want” obviously implies that there is a risk that the consequences of what you want to do may not be very good for your sadhana, but also that perhaps you are not ready to make the necessary progress which would enable you not to do what you wish to do.     It seems that you are far too complex and complicated to understand my straight direct simplicity.