The Mother: It is always our weaknesses that make us sad, and we can easily recover by advancing one step more on the way.     You must not worry about these little things — they have no importance in themselves; their value is to show us where unconsciousness still exists in our nature, so that we can bring the light there.


The Mother:   It is all right to see the imperfections and deﬁciencies but only on condition it brings a greater courage for a new progress, an increase of energy in the determination and a stronger certitude of victory and future perfection.     These ideas of incapacity are absurd, they are the negation of the truth of progress — what cannot be done today, will be done another day, if the aspiration is there.


The Mother:   Even if things are not as they ought to be, worry does not help to make them better. A quiet conﬁdence is the source of strength.


The Mother: Whenever you have made a mistake I always told you very frankly without hiding anything from you. Everybody makes mistakes and everybody has to learn and to progress. Moreover I have given you a big responsibility. I appreciate fully what you have done but there is still much to learn and I am sure that you will be quite glad to acquire knowledge and experience. With my love and blessings.


The Mother:   It is quite wrong to go on brooding about the past. The true attitude is to remember that nothing happens but by God’s will and to submit to that will quietly. If you have made mistakes in the past it is by lack of true surrender and the only way to repair the mistakes is to surrender truly.    But it is not a reason for being upset about it.


The Mother: There is only to remain quite cool and do best within the limits that the human nature ascribes to us.  After all, the whole, is the Lord’s and nobody else’s. So there is nothing to worry about.    It is good to recognise your mistakes, but you must not torment yourself.


The Mother: You must not suffer, you must correct yourself instead.     My dear child, You must not torment yourself about these little mishaps.


The Mother: Keep very calm and these accidents will not happen any more.  My blessings are always with you.


The Mother: sabl´e [ ]   You must not worry about these little things, and above all do not believe in fatality.


The Mother: These little failures always have a cause that can be avoided with a little more experience, which is sure to come.  I tasted the bun — the taste is very good. They did not rise because they are not cooked enough. The oven must have been too hot, the bun burned and the outside began to brown before the inside was cooked.  As for the, they are not burnt, they are very good.


The Mother: My blessings are always with you.   MISTAKES: RECOGNISE AND CORRECT THEM  When a mistake is made, it must always be used as a means for progress; once the necessary change is realised, the mistake and its cause disappear and there can be no repetition.


The Mother: It is very good that you have become conscious of the mistakes and defects of the nature. Once you are conscious it is always possible to rise out of them and to change the nature.     It seems to me, on the contrary, that the best way is to remain where you are and make an effort to discover your own faults — you are bound to have some as everybody has — and try to correct them.


The Mother: To be conscious of one’s own mistakes is the surest way to come out of a difﬁculty.      A mistake recognised is a mistake pardoned.


The Mother:  A mistake one denies is a mistake one refuses to set right.     Repentance: the ﬁrst step towards rectifying mistakes.    It is no use excusing yourself; you must have the will never to fall back into the faults you have committed.


The Mother:  Before going to sleep every night, we must pray that the mistakes we may have committed during the day should not be repeated in future.   In this last day of the year, let us take the resolution that all our weaknesses and obstinate obscurities will drop from us along with the ﬁnishing year.   A strong and effective resolution not to commit the same faults any more and a complete trust in the Divine’s Grace are the only remedy.   FEAR


The Mother: Fear is always a very bad adviser.   It is the fear — more or less conscious — which does almost all the mischief.  Without fear can happen.   Do not fear, keep your conﬁdence, all these troubles will leave you.


The Mother: With my love and blessings.    Stop fearing and the bothers will stop also.   A child of mine cannot fear.


The Mother: Blessings.    My protection is always with you and nothing bad can happen.  But you must take the decision to shake off the fear and then my force can work fully.


The Mother:   Do not torment yourself, do not worry; above all try to banish all fear; fear is a dangerous thing which can give importance to something which had none at all. The mere fear of seeing certain symptoms renew themselves is enough to bring about this repetition.    This fear comes from weakness of nerves and of the vital. This fear must be got rid of, before any attempt is made to follow the path of Yoga.


The Mother:   Yoga and fear do not go together.    You are frightened because your breathing seems to stop when you try to concentrate. Don’t enter this path if you are so full of fears.


The Mother: Suppose it comes to the worst; then what will happen?  You may die — and then? What great harm will be done if you are dead? Our Yoga is not for cowards; if you have no courage, better leave it — your fears will bring disaster.§


The Mother:   What can he fear who belongs to the Divine? Can he not walk, his soul expanding and his brow illumined, upon the path the Divine traces for him, whatever it may be, even if it is altogether incomprehensible to his limited reason?


The Mother: All fear must be overcome and replaced by a total conﬁdence in the Divine Grace.    If you are not frightened, there is no harm — it is not the moon, it is the fear which harms.


The Mother: Nothing can harm you if you.  So, fear not, be quiet and calm — all will be all right.   With love and blessings.   The ﬁrst thing from which you must cure yourself once for ever, is.


The Mother: It is more dangerous than the worst disease.   With love and blessings.    There is to fear — all is the Lord — there is than the Lord; the exists and all that tries to frighten us is only a silly and meaningless disguise of the Lord.


The Mother: Cheer up — the way is open before you, shake off this obsession of illness and bring down the Divine Calm.  Then everything will be all right.   With love and blessings.    You must not be afraid.


The Mother: Have full trust in the Divine who is Love, Light and Life.     Go safely to Siddhapur and.  It is only fear which hurts, not the “spirits”.


The Mother: When people who have left their body appear in front of you, you must not fear — it is generally because they are restless and lack peace — give them a good thought and wish them to be in peace and it will be over.  In any case you can tell them to go to Mother and they will not bother you any more.   Go to Siddhapur and avoid unpleasant company if there is any, but always remember that it is only fear which harms and that with conﬁdent faith in the Divine’s Grace you are safe.


The Mother: You can be entirely free from fear only when you have driven out of you all violence.      Get rid of all violence and you will no longer have any fear.


The Mother:   Fear is hidden consent. When you are afraid of something, it means that you admit its possibility and thus strengthen its hand. It can be said that it is a subconscient consent.


The Mother: Fear can be  overcome in many ways. The ways of courage, faith, knowledge are some of them.§


The Mother: Fear is slavery, work is liberty, courage is victory.    DOUBT Doubt is not a sport to indulge in with impunity; it is a poison which drop by drop corrodes the soul.


The Mother: We must decide to get rid of all doubts, they are among the worst enemies of our progress.   DEPRESSION Do not pay attention to the depression and act as if it was not there.


The Mother:   Why don’t you try to read something beautiful and interesting and turn your attention away from yourself? That is the best remedy.    Do not indulge in such ridiculous ideas.


The Mother: “Madness” and “hell” and “dark cell” are all in your imagination.  You had better replace them by the sense of my love and blessings.     My dear child, I hope your poem is only a poem and that you are not truly suffering from depression.


The Mother: Indeed, depression is the worst of all illnesses and we must reject it with as much energy as we use to get rid of a disease.   With my love and blessings always.


The Mother: It is the devil of depression and despondency that we shall slay tonight — so that all those who have the sincere will to get rid of this disease will receive the necessary help to conquer.    A depression is always unreasonable as it leads nowhere. It is the most subtle enemy of the Yoga.


The Mother: I have only one thing to say: Depression is a bad adviser.  My love is always with you. Have faith and you will be all right.  It is the depression that gives you bad health.  Blessings.


The Mother:    It is the ego that gets depressed.  Do not mind it. Go on quietly with your work and the depression will disappear.


The Mother: At these moments of depression or of revolt, no fresh decision must be taken under the impulse of the wrong movement, but practically one must go on with the usual routine, quiet and undisturbed.


The Mother: When you feel unhappy like that, it means that you have a progress to make. You can say that we always need to progress, it is true. But at times our nature gives its consent to the needed change and then everything goes smoothly, even happily. On the contrary sometimes the part that has to progress refuses to move and clings to its old habits through inertia, ignorance, attachment or desire.


The Mother: Then, under the pressure of the perfecting force, the struggle starts translating itself into unhappiness or revolt or both together.  The only remedy is to keep quiet, look within oneself honestly to ﬁnd out what is wrong and set to work courageously to put it right.  The Divine Consciousness will always be there to help you if your endeavour is sincere; and the more sincere your endeavour the more the Divine Consciousness will help and assist you.    Periods of obscuration are frequent and common; generally, it is enough to keep quiet without worrying, knowing that these are spiritual nights which alternate with the full light of the days.


The Mother: But to be able to remain in peace you must keep in your heart gratitude towards the Divine for all the help He gives. If gratitude also is veiled, the obscure periods last much longer. There is, however, a swift and effective remedy: it is to keep always burning in your heart the ﬂame of puriﬁcation, the aspiration for progress, the intensity, the ardour of consecration. This ﬂame is kindled in the heart of all who are sincere; you must not let ingratitude cover it up with its ashes.   You must remember one thing: the dark periods are inevitable.


The Mother: When your psychic is active, you feel a delight without any apparent reason. It continues for some time and again the same mental or vital reactions come in and you go back to the darkness. This will continue. The brighter days will become longer and the dark periods will come after longer intervals and for shorter duration till they ﬁnally disappear. Till then you must know that the sun is there behind the clouds and you need not worry.


The Mother: You must have the conﬁdence of a child — a conﬁdence that there is someone who takes care of you and you can entirely depend on him.§      SUFFERING


The Mother: My word to you is: Do not cherish suffering and suffering will leave you altogether. Suffering is far from being indispensable to progress. The greatest progress is made through a steady and cheerful equanimity.   The world is full of sufferings and sorrows.


The Mother: One should try never to be the cause of any additional suffering.   The only remedy for all human suffering: divine love.   Turn towards the Divine, all your sufferings will disappear.


The Mother: Do not take the sorrows of life for what they seem to be; they are in truth a way to greater achievements.     LAZINESS, TIREDNESS, FATIGUE, TAMAS  It is a dangerous illness: laziness.


The Mother:   Tiredness shows lack of will for progress. When you feel tired or fatigued that is lack of will for progress.  Fire is always burning in you.   Fatigue comes from doing without interest the things you do.


The Mother: Whatever you do you can ﬁnd interest in it, provided you take it as the means of progressing; you must try to do better and better what you are doing, the will for progress must always be there and then you take interest in what you do, whatever it is. The most insigniﬁcant occupation can prove interesting if you take it that way.   But even the most attractive and important activity will soon lose all its interest for you if the will for progress towards an ideal perfection is not there while you act.


The Mother:  Take no notice of it and go on with your programme as usual.  It is the quickest way of getting rid of it.     It is because you are receptive to the force when you work and that sustains you.


The Mother: But when you are not under the strain of the work you are less receptive. You must learn to be receptive in all circumstances and always — especially when you take rest — it must not be the “rest” of inertia but a true rest of receptivity.   The forces behind the cyclone were not hostile but full of transforming power. You did the right thing, and I can assure you that to go inward and to receive the force is more helpful than to throw oneself into an agitated action. Certainly is not good, but it is only through surrender to the Divine Consciousness that can be changed.


The Mother:  Tamas and sluggishness.   Become more and more conscious.    MATERIAL DESIRES Do not expect any satisfaction from physical life and you will no more be tied to it.


The Mother:   For our passage in the material world, what is indispensable to our life and action is put at our disposal according to the place we should occupy there.  The more we are consciously in contact with our inner being, the more exact are the means we are given.


The Mother: What is truly needed will surely come.   Things must be asked for only when truly needed.


The Mother: What is bad is slavery. Slavery to abstinence as well as slavery to needs. What comes we take but always ready to let it go, if it goes...


The Mother: GREED (FOR FOOD)  Greed for anything concerning physical consciousness, so-called necessities and comfort of whatever nature — this is one of the most serious obstacles to sadhana.  Each little satisfaction you get through greed is one step backward from the goal.


The Mother:   When you have a desire you are governed by the thing you desire, it takes possession of your mind and your life, and you become a slave. If you have greed for food you are no more the master of food, it is the food that masters you.    A sadhak must eat to satisfy the needs of his body and not to meet the demands of his greed.


The Mother:  If you prefer the pleasures of the palate to the union with the Divine, it is your own look-out and I have nothing to say, except that I do not approve, but each one must be free to choose whether he will rise above his lower nature or sink down in the material pit. My help is always for those who choose the higher path.    It is an inner attitude of freedom from attachment and from greed for food and desire of the palate that is needed, not undue diminution of the quantity taken or any self-starvation. One must take sufﬁcient food for the maintenance of the body and its strength and health, but without attachment or desire.


The Mother:   It would be a hundred times more effective to waste food than to cut down one meal as a show and to eat more before and after.  A strong, ardent, sincere campaign against the waste of food is essential and full-heartedly I approve of it.   Let the inmates of the Ashram show their goodwill and collaboration in never eating than they can digest and never ask for more than they can eat.


The Mother:   There is no easy way to get over physical animality and vital greed. It is only an obstinate perseverance that can succeed.    DESIRES, IMPULSES AND SELF-CONTROL


The Mother: If each one took the resolution of mastering oneself and controlling one’s impulses, the situation would become more clear.  When people allow their consciousness to remain in a turmoil, all their life becomes a turmoil.


The Mother: An impulsive person who cannot control himself has a disordered life.   First learn to know yourself perfectly and then to control yourself perfectly. You will be able to do it by aspiring at every moment. It is never too early to begin, never too late to continue.    Control over the lower impulsions is the ﬁrst step towards realisation.


The Mother:   Renunciation of desires: the essential condition for realisation.


The Mother: Yes, we must keep the seat of our consciousness in the higher being and do whatever we are doing from there, not allowing the lower, blind and selﬁsh movements and reactions to spoil our work.   To accept the uglinesses of the lower nature under the pretext that they exist — if this is what is meant by realism — does not form part of the sadhana. Our aim is not to accept these things and enjoy them, but to get rid of them and create a life of spiritual beauty and perfection. That cannot be done as long as we accept these uglinesses.  To be aware that they are there and to reject them, not to let them touch us is one thing; to accept them and submit to them is quite another.


The Mother: Beware of what pulls you downward. Do not yield to any lower instinct. Keep intact your aspiration for the Divine.


The Mother:  Yielding to desires is not the way of getting rid of them. There is no end to desires — each one which is satisﬁed is at once replaced by another one and they go on clamouring more and more.  It is only by conquering the desires that you can get rid of them, by coming out of this consciousness of the lower nature and rising to a higher consciousness.     Refuse to do anything whatsoever which leads you away from the Divine.


The Mother:  If you want to become conscious of my presence in you and to be delivered from hostile attacks, you must renounce any attempt to satisfy your desires. Only when the vital has lost all hope of seeing its desires satisﬁed does it consent to be spiritualised.   My help and blessings are with you.


The Mother:   A desire which knows that it will never be satisﬁed at once vanishes.


The Mother: All the lower movements have to be conquered if ever anything divine is to be established upon earth.     There is no greater victory than that of controlling oneself.   It is indispensable to perceive the lower movements of your being, in a detached and scientiﬁc manner, as a witness with clear vision and insight.


The Mother: But you must never allow these movements to express and assert themselves as if they had the right to exist and govern the rest of the being. In other words, you must never act under the impulse of these movements, never physically translate their suggestions into speech or action, never permit their orders to be carried out in any inner or outer gesture.    Keep quiet, try to detach yourself and observe as a witness, to prevent all possibility of acting on impulse.§


The Mother: Do not act under an impulse.     Never forget that, as much outside as in the Ashram, if you want to lead a happy life, you must be the master of your lower nature and control your desires and vital impulses; otherwise there is no end to the miseries and the troubles.


The Mother:    At every moment of life you are put in the presence of a choice between the Grace and your personal satisfaction.   One cannot overcome one’s desires by making oneself weak but only in strength, balance and peace.


The Mother:  If one is not master of one’s desires, one cannot be master of one’s thoughts.      The Grace works for progress on the path.


The Mother: The satisfaction of desire may also serve that purpose in showing the inanity of desire.  And the good of yesterday may no more be good tomorrow.   So follow your inspiration and my blessings are with you.    You have my love and grace and blessings.


The Mother: But if you are to feel them you must be disciplined, attentive and concentrated; above all you must not listen to any of your desires and fancies.   In life, one must choose between a disordered and useless life of desires and that of an ascent into the light of aspiration and mastery of one’s lower nature.   No self-indulgence and no desire.   To conquer a desire brings more joy than to satisfy it.


The Mother:  Self-mastery is the greatest conquest, it is the basis of all enduring happiness.    Continence: control over oneself.   To be continent is to allow no other movements in the being (mental, vital and physical) than those strictly indispensable to manifest the Divine’s Will.    EGO The ego thinks of what it wants and has not.


The Mother: This is its constant preoccupation.  The soul is aware of what it is given and lives in endless gratitude.    Abolition of the ego: one exists only by the Divine and for the Divine.


The Mother:   All bitterness in life comes from the ego refusing to abdicate.   All that happens is to teach us one and the same lesson, unless we get rid of our ego there is no peace either for ourselves or for others. And without ego life becomes such a wonderful marvel!...


The Mother:   We can contemplate the divine smile when we have conquered our ego.     Without the play of ego, there would be no conﬂicts; and if there were not in the vital a tendency to drama, there would be no dramatic happenings in life.


The Mother:   Yes, those who live in their ego live constantly in an ugly drama.  If people were a little less selﬁsh things would not be so bad.  Meanwhile we must meet all these adverse circumstances with patience, endurance and equanimity.


The Mother: The extent of your difﬁculties gives you the measure of your ego.   Ignore him and go through.   To get over our ego is not an easy task.  Even after overcoming it in the material consciousness, we meet it once more — magniﬁed — in the spiritual.


The Mother:  SELFISHNESS By a complete consecration to the Divine and a loving surrender to the Divine’s Will.  Blessings.    Each thought turned towards oneself veils the Divine.


The Mother:   We must be free of all selﬁshness to serve properly the Divine’s Cause.     Selﬁshness and self-pity lead nowhere.


The Mother: You would do better to get rid of them — for it is these two narrow movements which prevent you from feeling the Divine’s help and love.   PRIDE Pride: a great obstacle to progress.     It is not the soul but the ego and its pride that feel defeat and humiliation.


The Mother:  VANITY Vanity: one of the most frequent forms of falsehood.     It is better to be than to seem to be.  Vanity is the most serious obstacle to true greatness.


The Mother:   There was a time when your was a great help. It saved you from doing many stupid things by telling you that they were beneath your dignity. But now it is the greatest obstacle in your way.§


The Mother: AMBITION   Certainly this is correct. Ambition is always a source of disturbance and confusion.


The Mother:   Certainly, action without ambition and egoistic calculation is the condition of peace and felicity — both inner and outer.    Behind all ambitions there is a Truth waiting for the opportune time to manifest. Now that the ambition is gone, it is time for the truth (the capacities and abilities) to manifest.


The Mother: Take great care not to become “swollen”; but I am with you, helping you, in order to do something interesting.    JEALOUSY  Certainly — but then you must do it in all sincerity and not accept these movements of jealousy in any way.   There is never any reason for jealousy.


The Mother: It is a very low and ignorant movement.     Jealousy comes from a narrowness of the mind and a weakness of the heart. It is a great pity that so many are attacked by it.


The Mother:  Jealousy with its escort of slanders is the output of the weak and the small.  It deserves more pity than anger, and must leave us perfectly indifferent to it, enjoying the bliss of our unshakable certitude.   QUARRELS  You cannot expect the whole world to be at your service and everything to happen as you fancy it to be more convenient for you.   You must stop quarrelling with everybody and about everything; otherwise how can you expect to make any progress in yoga?


The Mother:   Keep this attitude — never side with anybody nor take up any personal quarrel — think only of the Divine Peace, Harmony, Light and Happiness and become more and more their puriﬁed and quiet instrument.    You must never forget that I disapprove of quarrels and always consider that both sides are equally wrong.


The Mother: To surmount one’s feelings, preferences, dislikes and impulses, is an indispensable discipline here.    Of course, X told me the story in a very different way — but I am used to the fact that each one tells me things from a particular angle, the one which is most favourable to him — and I do not give much importance to that. There is only one thing I always regret: the useless quarrels that make life so difﬁcult when, with a little mutual goodwill, everything could be settled harmoniously.


The Mother: Pardon and blessings are there, but one way or another a different arrangement must be made to stop these quarrels.  Love and blessings.    This is a very good opportunity to test the value of the relation.  .


The Mother: They are harmful for the sadhana of both of you.   Try your level best, and if you cannot succeed, then you will have to give up the relation.    In quarrels I never interfere, because surely both are wrong.


The Mother:  When two persons quarrel, always both are in the wrong.    It is always wrong to quarrel, even if one is not the aggressor.


The Mother: When you start a quarrel it is as if you were declaring war on the Divine’s work.


The Mother: Yes, all these quarrels are a very sad thing — they interfere terribly in the work and make everything more difﬁcult.      Before getting angry at the mistakes of others one should always remember one’s own mistakes.


The Mother:     You must get rid of all inner as well as all outer movements of anger, impatience and dislike. If things go wrong or are done wrongly, you will simply say, “The Mother knows” and go on quietly doing or getting things done as well as you can without friction.§


The Mother:    That one feels sad for one’s own faults, — this may, if necessary, be useful to strengthen one’s resolution to correct them.  But that one can be offended by another’s bad conduct, this has truly nothing to do with the spiritual life and the service of the Divine.


The Mother:  To be above offence or insult makes one truly great.     As for ill-will, jealousy, quarrels and reproaches, one must  be above all that and reply with a benevolent smile to the bitterest words; and unless one is absolutely sure of himself and his reactions, it would be better, as a general rule, to keep silent.


The Mother:   As usual, it is only a misunderstanding, and also as usual, the ego of each one, by its reaction, magniﬁes the thing and aggravates it. But it is easy to arrange, and, with the goodwill of all, I am sure that all will be well.   I consider that we are at an excellent occasion for collective and individual Sadhana and that is why I engage myself in it and take special interest in it.  We do not work for the success of X’s play, or of Y’s dance, or of Z’s scenario.


The Mother: We want to render in physical terms, as perfectly as possible, the inspiration sent by the Lord for the accomplishment of His work upon earth.  And for that each individual soul is a helper and a collaborator, but each human ego is a limitation and an obstacle.    It is obviously very regrettable to allow oneself to be upset by such little things, and if each one gave more thought to his work as the really important thing, all these little quarrels would be seen for what they are, that is, as utterly ridiculous.  I hope that everything will be settled soon and that harmony will reign once more among the bakery-workers.


The Mother: With my blessings.     My blessings and my help are always with you and with those who work in the bakery, so that harmony may reign among you more and more.


The Mother:   This world is full of pitiable miseries. But of all beings those are the most to be pitied who are so small and so weak that they cannot avoid being nasty.    This is just what the Supreme Lord says to Himself when He sees the life of men upon earth.


The Mother: Love and blessings.     We speak of union and say we are working for it. But the spirit of quarrelling is in our midst.


The Mother: Shall we not conquer this insincerity?  I am here to ask you to do it. And the best way is to join in the service of the Divine.  Blessings.


The Mother: No disputes, no quarrels — the sweetness of a life without clashes.      Take the division out of the heart and then speak of no division.


The Mother:  NARROWNESS AND ONE-SIDEDNESS  The whole trouble comes from the fact that you cannot harmonise with someone unless he is in agreement with your own ideas and his opinion and way of doing things are in conformity with yours.  You must widen your consciousness and understand that everyone has his own law. It is necessary to ﬁnd the ground of understanding and harmony in a happy combination of individual wills and not to try that all may be the same in an identical will and action.


The Mother:   One of the chief obstacles to the establishment of a progressive harmony is our eagerness to prove to an opponent that he is wrong and we are right.    It depends on how much each one cares more for harmony than for the triumph of his own will!    How do you expect others to keep to an arrangement when you are not doing it yourself?


The Mother: How do you hope to get out of your shallowness if you remain in your perception of things?   X is quite justiﬁed in thinking and feeling as he does, but he must understand that the others also are justiﬁed in their thinking and feeling although it differs from his and he ought not to despise them and call them bad names.  Among human beings, the most widely spread disease is mental narrowness. They understand only what is in their own consciousness and cannot tolerate anything else.


The Mother:  A person who considers only his own opinion becomes more and more narrow.    For each problem there is a solution that can give satisfaction to everybody, but for ﬁnding this ideal solution each one must want it, instead of meeting the others with the will to enforce one’s own preference.   Enlarge your consciousness and aspire for the satisfaction of all.


The Mother:    You see only your side of the question, but if you want to widen your consciousness it would be better to look from all sides impartially. Later you will discover that this attitude has great advantages.


The Mother:  As long as you are some and others, you are necessarily.      The more a mind is ignorant, the more easily it judges everything it does not know or is incapable of understanding.     I want the peace to come into your mind and also the quiet, patient wisdom which prevents one from jumping to hasty conclusions and judgments.


The Mother:  It is always better to keep a quiet mind and to abstain from rushing to conclusions before you have the necessary information.   Tell your vital not to judge on appearances and to collaborate.  All is well in the long run.    You were wrong to be disturbed; that shows that suspicion was in your mind and heart.


The Mother: And if one is perfectly pure oneself, one cannot have any suspicion. The mind is incapable of knowing; it judges by appearances and not even by their totality but by what it can perceive of them, and its judgment is necessarily false. Only the truth-consciousness can know the truth, and it never suspects or judges.     Before deciding that something is wrong in others or in circumstances, you must be quite sure of the correctness of your judgment — and what judgment is correct so long as one lives in the ordinary consciousness that is based on ignorance and ﬁlled with falsehood?


The Mother: Only the Truth-Consciousness can judge. So it is better, in all circumstances, to leave the judgment to the Divine.   Whenever somebody is not just according to the usual pattern, if all the parts and activities in him have not the usual balance, if some faculties are more or less missing and some others are exaggerated, the common and easy habit is to declare him “abnormal” and to have done with him after this hasty condemnation. When this summary judgment is passed by somebody in a position of power the consequences can be disastrous. Such people ought to know what true compassion is, then they would act differently.


The Mother: The ﬁrst necessity is to abstain from thinking of anyone in a depreciatory way. When we meet a person, our criticising thoughts give to him, so to say, a blow on the nose which naturally creates a revolt in him. It is our mental formation that acts like a deforming mirror to that person, and then one would become queer even if one were not. Why cannot people remove from their minds the idea that somebody or other is not normal?  By what criterion do they judge?


The Mother: Who is really normal? I can tell you that not a single person is normal, because to be normal is to be divine.  Man has one leg in animality and the other in humanity. At the same time he is a candidate for divinity. His is not a happy condition.


The Mother: The true animals are better off. And they are also more harmonious among themselves. They do not quarrel as human beings do. They do not put on airs, they do not consider some as inferiors and keep them at a distance.   One must have a sympathetic outlook and learn to cooperate with one’s fellows, building them up and helping them instead of sneering at whatever seems not up to the mark.


The Mother: Even if somebody has a deﬁciency and is hypersensitive and self-willed, you cannot hope to improve him by summary measures of compulsion or expulsion. Do not try to force his ego by your own, by behaving according to the same pattern. Guide him gently and understandingly along the lines of his own nature. See whether you can place him where he can work without coming into conﬂict with others.


The Mother: If those who are in power are puffed up with their own importance, they disturb the true working. Whatever their abilities, their achievement is not the real thing.  But it is not that they are always lacking in good-will. They have false ideas of what is proper. If they become more conscious of the divine aim, they can surely succeed in carrying it out.


The Mother:   With our own perfection grows in us a generous understanding of others.


The Mother: Do not trouble yourselves with what others do, I cannot repeat it to you too often. Do not judge, do not criticise, do not compare.  That is not your lookout.


The Mother: You have no right to judge a man unless you are capable of doing what he does better than himself.      And what is X’s criterion of judgment? Has he become divine?


The Mother: Only the Divine knows the true value of each one.     She has climbed on the heights of a too recently acquired purity to judge and criticise with undue severity an elder brother who has always been very kind to her.


The Mother:    Be severe to yourself before being severe to others.


The Mother: Do not mind the stupidity of others, mind your own.


The Mother: It would be better if the mind also did not meddle with others’ affairs, and still more if the vital took no interest in them.     I would suggest to you for your future guidance not to meddle in matters which do not concern you. If X is still here, it is because I choose to keep her with me.


The Mother:    It is one of the highest virtues — not to poke your nose in the affairs of others.§   Suffering inﬂicted on others is not a good base on which to build spiritual realisation.


The Mother: To advance alone on the path can be a form of egoism. One can liberate oneself alone only if the others refuse to follow.  One must therefore ﬁrst offer to lead them along. And if this burdens the advance and increases the difﬁculties, one should take it as the effect of a special Grace that tests the sincerity of the consecration in this way. The capacity to receive the divine help is in proportion to this sincerity.


The Mother:   To help others is the best way of helping oneself. For, if you are sincere, you will soon discover that all their difﬁculties and all their failures are the sure signs of the same corresponding deﬁciency in you. Indeed, they prove that something in you is not perfect enough to be all-powerful.


The Mother:   We ﬁnd in others what is in us. If we always ﬁnd mud around us, it proves that there is mud somewhere in us.


The Mother:   It is only egoism that is shocked to ﬁnd egoism in others.     Each of those who are around us can be for us, provided we are attentive, a mirror in which one or more aspects of our being are reﬂected.


The Mother: If we know how to proﬁt by it, it is a powerful help for our progress. And when the mirror is sincere and of goodwill, the value of the help becomes considerable.


The Mother: If you have sympathy for them and a true understanding of their difﬁculty, you can always help them.   You bring help to him who knows how to use it.


The Mother:     Humanity is a sick child always wanting what is bad for him.  Philanthropy is like a mother who, in order to satisfy her child’s demands, would give him the very thing that will make him worse.


The Mother:   It is a mistake to consider service to humanity as the highest expression of service to the Divine. To do so is to remain far too conﬁned within the limits of an exclusive human consciousness.


The Mother: The best way of helping others is to transform oneself. Be perfect and you will be in a position to bring perfection to the world.   Rise to a higher consciousness for the world to be saved.   Change your consciousness for the world to be saved.   Change yourself if you wish to change the world.


The Mother: Prove by your inner transformation that a truth-consciousness can take possession of the material world and that the Divine Unity can be manifested upon earth.   Organisations, however vast and complete they may be, can achieve nothing permanent unless a new force, more divine and all-powerful, expresses itself through a perfected human instrument.   No material organisation, whatever its degree of preparation, is capable of bringing a solution to the miseries of man.  Man must rise to a higher level of consciousness and get rid of his ignorance, limitation and selﬁshness in order to get rid also of his sufferings.   The best way to help the world is to transform oneself by an  and yoga.


The Mother:  The world will be made better only in proportion as we make ourselves better. The Vedantic truth that the world is only a projection — a function — of our consciousness is as pragmatically true as it is spiritually true. The ills that humanity suffers from — collectively and individually — stem from the errors that lie at the roots of our ignorant nature. We must be cleansed of these evils — individually ﬁrst of all — if we ever hope to see a clean world outside. A yoga of self-puriﬁcation is the condition precedent to a yoga of perfection.


The Mother: But, in the end, a Higher Destiny leans over earth’s children and its ways are beyond calculation.    So long as you do not have the power to change the world, it is useless to say that the world is wrong. And if you abolish in yourself the things that are wrong in the world, you will see that the world will no longer be wrong.    When you are truly changed, everything around you will also be changed.


The Mother: You are quite right in not allowing the moods and fancies of people to effect you. You must soar above all that in the constant feeling of the Divine’s Presence, Love and Protection.     Don’t let anything from outside approach and disturb you.


The Mother: What people think, do or say is of little importance. The only thing that counts is your relation with the Divine.     It is always regrettable when one is open to the inﬂuence of another person.


The Mother: One shouldn’t admit any inﬂuence except that of the Divine.     To feel hurt by what others do or think or say is always a sign of weakness and proof that the whole being is not exclusively turned towards the Divine, not under the divine inﬂuence alone.  And then, instead of bringing with oneself the divine atmosphere made of love, tolerance, understanding, patience, it is one’s ego that throws itself out, in response to another’s ego, with stiffness and hurt feelings, and the disharmony is aggravated.


The Mother: The ego never understands that the Divine has different workings in different people and that to judge things from one’s own egoistic point of view is a great mistake bound to increase the confusion. What we do with passion and intolerance cannot be divine, because the Divine works only in peace and harmony.  You are distressed because instead of listening to the voice of your soul, you have accepted the suggestions of vulgar minds  and obscure consciousnesses who see ugliness and impurity everywhere because they are not in contact with the psychic purity.   Refuse to listen to these wrong suggestions, turn deliberately to the Divine and rekindle your faith in His Supreme Guidance.


The Mother:   The vital of some people calls always for confusion and disharmony, petty quarrels and confusion; they generally have also a kind of mania of perfection and believe that everybody is against them. To cure that is most difﬁcult and requires a radical transformation of the nature.  The best when dealing with them is the reactions and go on doing what one has to do with simplicity and sincerity.


The Mother:   Do not worry about the reactions of people, however unpleasant they may be — the vital is everywhere and in everybody full of impurities and the physical full of unconsciousness. These two imperfections have to be cured, however long it may take, and we have only to work at it patiently and courageously.    Who has told you that your nature is inferior to X’s?


The Mother: Each one has his own nature and follows his own path, and comparisons with others are always useless and most often dangerous.    Timidity is a form of vanity. When you are timid, it means that you attach much more importance to the opinion others have of you than to the sincerity of your action.    It is not necessary to attach any importance to the opinions of people because they are the passing results of passing impressions; other times and new impressions will easily change them.


The Mother:   He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.  Why should he listen to threats? He must act according to the and not according to public opinion.


The Mother: When you give yourself to the accomplishment of an unselﬁsh aim, never expect ordinary people to praise and support you — on the contrary, they will always ﬁght against you, hate and curse you.  But the Divine will be with you.    To be plastic towards the Divine means not to oppose Him with the rigidity of preconceived ideas and ﬁxed principles. And this requires a great strength, for the more you are plastic to the divine will, the more you come in conﬂict with the human wills that are not in contact with the divine will.


The Mother: Give your will entirely to the Divine and it will feel free from the imposition of any human will.     Even if you were the only person in the whole world to give himself entirely and in all purity to the Divine — and thus being alone, misunderstood naturally by everyone upon earth — even if it were so, there is no reason why you should not do it.


The Mother:   This is exactly the kind of treatment the Divine received from the world. Even Sri Aurobindo was not spared. So you see that you are in good company and there is no reason to despair!


The Mother:   Do not do your own will, but the Divine’s will.  Do not either do other people’s will, for you will be torn apart.   All that is based on human relationship is unstable and transient, mixed and unsatisfactory; it is only what is established in the Divine and through the Divine that can last and give satisfaction.


The Mother: I am sure that in the conscious part of your being your relationship with X is what you say it is. But one must always be wary of the subconscious and that is why it is always preferable to have no [ . . . ] friendships and intimacies, because in the subconscious vital, ties are established which form an obstacle to the sadhana.  My dear child, my blessings are with you.


The Mother: A friendship free from desire and attachment might be the ideal solution, but to be carried out it requires a perfect mastery over oneself and an unshakable discipline of the vital and the body.   And as for the moment it is not yet the case, it is wiser not to tempt the devil and to cut all relations.    There was a time when you were very passionate and your affections degenerated immediately into passions with all the disequilibrium that this entails.


The Mother: But now you are more sober and undoubtedly you are more calm and quiet, until the day there will be no attachments any longer but luminous and sweet sympathies without any demand or egoism.      All depends upon the kind of attraction.  If it is a physical attraction, the need, the instinct of the animal pushing it to reproduction, the best thing is that you leave the place and not see X again.


The Mother: For this would mean that this person’s inﬂuence awakens and encourages the lower instincts.  If it is a vital attraction you can try to purify and control it, by avoiding a too close intimacy and cutting down your relation to what is indispensable when living in the same house.  If it is a sentimental and emotional attraction, it is easier to channelise and turn it to the Divine by conﬁning your relations to a common seeking for the Divine and the spiritual life.  Then all will depend on your sincerity and reciprocal goodwill.


The Mother: I very much appreciate your frankness and your sincerity. It is true that it is extremely difﬁcult to keep free from vital mixture any close relation with human beings. But the remedy is not to cut all such relations, but to be constantly vigilant (on one’s guard) and not to allow the vital attractiveness to rule one’s actions.    Keep yourself free from all human attachment and you will be happy.


The Mother:  Remembrance is a dangerous ally of attachment.   For the time being, it is better to keep quiet and concentrate on your inner development. Later, when you feel free from every trace of attachment, you will be able to resume your  correspondence spontaneously and without difﬁculty; it will then be useful and proﬁtable. But the rule is always to realise yourself what you wish to give to others.   Take advantage of the circumstances to get rid of all attachment to the members of your family.


The Mother: You must learn that you have no more brothers, sister, father, mother, except Sri Aurobindo and myself, and you must feel free and unconcerned whatever happens to them. We are your whole family, your protection, your all in all.   Duty towards the Divine is far more sacred than any social or family duty; it is all the more sacred because within the human collectivity it is almost wholly ignored or misunderstood.    One who has given himself to the Divine has no longer any other duty than to make that consecration more and more perfect.


The Mother: The world and those who live in it have always wanted to put human — social and family — duty before duty to the Divine, which they have stigmatised as egoism. How indeed could they judge otherwise, they who have no experience of the reality of the Divine? But for the divine regard their opinion has no value, their will has no force. These are movements of ignorance, nothing more. You should not attempt to convince; above all, you should not let yourself be touched or shaken.


The Mother: You must shut yourself carefully within your ivory tower of consecration and await from the Divine alone help, protection, guidance and. To be condemned by the whole world is nothing to him who knows that he has the approval of the Divine and his support.  Besides, has not mankind proved its utter incompetence in the organisation of its own existence? Governments succeed governments, regimes follow regimes, centuries pass after centuries, but human misery remains lamentably the same. It will always be so, as long as man remains what he is, blind and ignorant, closed to all spiritual reality.


The Mother: A transformation, an illumination of the human consciousness alone can bring about a real amelioration in the condition of humanity. Thus even from the standpoint of human life, it follows logically that the ﬁrst duty of man is to seek and possess the divine consciousness.    Each force or power has an inﬂuence on other forces and powers and this reaction is reciprocal. To escape this constant and general confusion or inﬂuence, there is only one way, to concentrate exclusively on the Divine Consciousness and to open oneself only to the Divine Consciousness.


The Mother:   There can be no true integral surrender to the Divine if any human relations and their habits and attachments are still maintained. All relations must be turned upward and directed to the Divine alone and transformed into means for the union and surrender.


The Mother: Vital relations are always dangerous.  A complete, absolute consecration of the vital to the Divine is the only solution.    You preferred human friendship to divine friendship, but human friendship is unsteady and now you feel cut off from both. Not that the Divine has withdrawn his friendship from you — never does he withdraw it — but you have got into a state of vital incapacity for enjoying it.


The Mother:   Aspiration. Sincerity.   Never keep company with those who follow muddy tracks for it is your own companions who will smirch you.


The Mother:  Cut connection, suddenly if possible, to let the vibrations fall down.      By his way of thinking, feeling, acting, each one emanates vibrations which constitute his own atmosphere and quite naturally attract vibrations of similar nature and quality.


The Mother:  There is no better way to become friends than to laugh together.   Our best friend is he who loves us in the best of ourselves and yet does not ask us to be other than we are.   Slavery  No law can liberate women unless they liberate themselves.


The Mother: What makes them slaves is: (1) Attraction towards the male and his strength, (2) Desire for home life and its security, (3) Attachment to motherhood.  If they get free from these three slaveries, they will truly be the equal of men.  Men also have three slaveries: (1) Spirit of possession, attachment to power and domination, (2) Desire for sexual relation with women, (3) Attachment to the small comforts of married life.  If they get rid of these three slaveries, they can truly become the equal of women.


The Mother:   Women are not more bound to the vital and material consciousness than men are. On the contrary, as they have not, in general, the arrogant mental pretensions of men, it is easier for them to discover their psychic being and to allow it to guide them.  In general, they are not conscious in a mental way which can be expressed in words, but they are conscious in their feelings and the best of them are so even in their actions.


The Mother: There have been many outstanding feminine ﬁgures in spiritual life. But on one side women are more interested by action than by mentalisation and intellectual expression, that is why very  few women have recorded their spiritual experience and thus they have remained unknown.


The Mother: To be truly a good wife is almost as difﬁcult as to be a true disciple.    The idea that women should cook for males is against my principles. Are they slaves?


The Mother: To unite your physical lives, your material interests, to become partners in order to face together the difﬁculties and successes, the defeats and victories of life — that is the very foundation of marriage, but you already know that it is not enough.  To be united in your sensations, to have the same aesthetic tastes and enjoyments, to be moved in common by the same things, one through the other and one for the other — that is good, that is necessary, but it is not enough.  To be one in your deeper feelings, to keep a mutual affection and tenderness that never vary in spite of all the blows of life and can withstand every weariness and irritation and disappointment, to be always and on every occasion happy, extremely happy, to be together, to ﬁnd in every circumstance tranquillity, peace and joy in each other — that is good, that is very good, that is indispensable, but it is not enough.  To unite your minds, to harmonise your thoughts and make them complementary, to share your intellectual preoccupations and discoveries; in short, to make your sphere of mental activity identical through a widening and enrichment acquired by both at once — that is good, that is absolutely necessary, but it is not enough.  Beyond all that, in the depths, at the centre, at the summit of the being, there is a Supreme Truth of being, an Eternal Light, independent of all the circumstances of birth, country, environment, education; That is the origin, cause and master of our spiritual development; it is That which gives a permanent direction to our lives; it is That which determines our destinies; it is in the consciousness of That that you must unite.


The Mother: To be one in aspiration and ascension, to move forward at the same pace on the same spiritual path, that is the secret of a lasting union.    It was not at all a selection. I simply said that this girl looked the best of the three, that is all. In any case, marriage is not a direct way to prepare oneself for sadhana. It can be an indirect one if the outward nature needs troubles and disappointments to get rid of all worldly attachments, but in that case the experiment usually ends by separation and often a painful one, at least for one of the two associates.


The Mother: That is all I can tell you on the subject.    Yes, only for the few exceptional individuals who follow some high mental or spiritual ideal.   More liberty and plasticity in the system are advisable.


The Mother: Fixed rules are harmful to evolution.   Marriage will always take place, but legal ceremonies must not be enforced, to avoid.  Here also both things must be equally admitted and practised.  There are many cases in which it would be a blessing for the baby to be separated from his parents.  A minimum of.


The Mother: A maximum of.  All possibilities must have equal scope for manifestation, then humanity will progress more rapidly.      You say that you could not bring up your children properly because although you are well-educated and cultured you have no time to spare for them, and that your wife has time but she is uneducated, uncultured, good for nothing.


The Mother: Will you tell me who is responsible for her condition? For more than twenty-ﬁve years she has lived with you. What did you do in these twentyﬁve years to educate her or give her your “culture” — absolutely nothing. Even the idea did not occur to you. You never thought that even if you had given her one hour daily for her education, it would have made a big difference in twenty-ﬁve years.


The Mother: For you she existed only as a machine to look after your comforts and produce your children. You could not take her into your conﬁdence, you could not do anything for her improvement, but there you stand with all your vanity, blaming her for being uneducated and uncultured.  I hold you responsible for all her shortcomings.§


The Mother: You want your children to do as you bid. What do you know of Truth? You want to impose your will because you are stronger.  That way a giant can catch hold of you and you will have to do whatever he says.  It is a most difﬁcult thing to bring up children.


The Mother: I have not seen many parents who can do the proper thing.  What right have you to impose your will on the children, you who have brought them into the world without giving any serious thought to their problems or making the necessary preparations?§    Do not beat your children — It clouds consciousness and spoils character.     Let us offer our work to the Divine; this is the sure means of progressing.


The Mother:   Consciousness develops best through work done as an offering to the Divine.  Indolence and inaction end in: that is a fall into unconsciousness; it is contrary to all progress and light.  To overcome one’s ego, to live only in the service of the Divine — that is the ideal and the shortest way towards acquiring the true consciousness.


The Mother:  You must do the work as an offering to the Divine and take it as part of your Sadhana. In that spirit the nature of the work is of little importance and you can do any work without losing the contact with the inner presence.    Your work is your sadhana, and it is by doing your work in a spirit of consecration that you can make most progress.  I think it would be better not to tire yourself too much by reading or drawing.


The Mother:   Everything can be made into a means of ﬁnding the Divine.  What matters is the spirit in which things are done.     Work done in the true spirit is meditation.


The Mother:   All depends on the attitude with which you do the work. If done with the right attitude, it will surely bring you nearer to me.


The Mother:   I am quite satisﬁed with your way of doing the work and it is sure to help you to come nearer to me.   I make no difference between work and yoga. Work itself is yoga if it is done in a spirit of dedication and surrender.


The Mother:   Yes, it is true that in and through work one can enter into contact with the sun of divine light and force.    Your attitude towards work is the right one and I see no changes to suggest. The work done through love and because of love is surely the most powerful.


The Mother:   Works of love: the best condition for work.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]   Let us work as we pray, for indeed work is the body’s best prayer to the Divine.


The Mother:  To work for the Divine is to pray with the body.   One can progress through meditation, but through work provided it is done in the right spirit one can progress ten times more.    The progress in sadhana comes from the rectiﬁcation of the inner and outer attitude, not from the nature of the work one does — any work, even the most humble, can lead to the Divine if it is done with the right attitude.


The Mother: It is not so easy to do work. In true work you have to do all that is done in Sadhana and much more.   You have to do all that a yogi does, you have to reach the highest heights and bring down those conditions of consciousness, light and peace and manifest them in your everyday work. For you no job is insigniﬁcant or trivial.


The Mother:   Go and prepare yourself and the best preparation is to be useful to the Divine’s work.   It is not necessary if your work is a constant offering to the Divine.


The Mother: Usually one works for one’s own proﬁt and satisfaction; instead of that, one should work to serve the Divine and express His will.    Whatever is our work and whatever we do, we must do it sincerely, honestly, scrupulously, not in view of any personal proﬁt, but as an offering to the Divine, with an entire consecration of our being. If this attitude is sincerely kept in all circumstances, whenever we need to learn something to do the work more effectively, the occasion to acquire this knowledge comes to us and we have only to take advantage of the opportunity.   Now that you are about to take your ﬁrst steps on the path of action, it is time to decide whether you will consecrate your life to your own personal interest or whether you will make an offering of it for the accomplishment of the work.  In either case the ﬁeld of action remains the same.


The Mother: But the spirit in which it is done is totally different.    It must not be forgotten that the offering is made to the Divine’s Work and not to any human enterprise. So the only thing that can be done is to express some appreciation in a few words.


The Mother: Do work as sadhana. You offer to the Divine the work you do to the best of your capacities and you leave the result to the Divine.  (2) Try to become conscious ﬁrst above your head, keeping the brain as silent as possible.  If you succeed and the work is done in that condition, then it will become perfect.    Be faithful to your ideal and dedicate your work to the Divine.


The Mother:  Work for the Divine and you will feel an ineffable joy ﬁlling your being.     Disinterested work done for the Divine: the surest means of progressing.


The Mother:   Disinterested work: work done with no other motive than of doing as well as possible the Divine’s work.   You have only to unite and identify yourself with the Divine.   You will become more and more perfect in your work as the consciousness grows, increases, widens and is enlightened.   In all action, all work done, the degree of perfection depends upon the degree of consciousness.


The Mother:  Yes, it is correct.  Certainly you must not stop working for me. It is by working that the perfection of the working comes.


The Mother:  Try to enjoy doing everything you do.   When you are interested in what you do, you enjoy doing it.  To be interested in what you do, you must try to do it better and better.


The Mother: In progress lies true joy.     When work becomes attractive and is done with joy, how much better it is.    It is true that my force is always with him to help him to do his work; but my force is essentially a force for perfection, and to be able to allow it to work fully, one must have a constant will for progress in the work.


The Mother:    It is by combined and patient effort that all good work is done.


The Mother:  Perfection in the work must be the aim, but it is only by a very patient effort that this can be obtained.   Open yourself more and more to the Divine’s force and your work will progress steadily towards perfection.   Let us constantly aspire to be a perfect instrument for the Divine’s work.   Let nothing short of perfection be your ideal in work and you are sure to become a true instrument of the Divine.


The Mother:    There must be order and harmony in work. Even what is apparently the most insigniﬁcant thing must be done with perfect perfection, with a sense of cleanliness, beauty, harmony and order.


The Mother: With method, order and care there is no difﬁculty that cannot be solved.   Organisation: indispensable for all good work.   Regularity: indispensable for all serious accomplishment.


The Mother: For the work steadiness and regularity are as necessary as skill.  Whatever you do, do it always carefully.    Always do what you do with care.


The Mother:  Any work done with care becomes interesting.   Nothing is too small to be neglected, the same care meets all circumstances.    To undo one thing in order to build another is not a good policy.  Those who are consecrated and want to work for the Divine must be patient and know how to wait for things to be done at the right moment and in the right way.


The Mother:  It is better to use the energies received from the Divine for perfection rather than for aggrandisement.  The perfection of the work done is much more important than its bulk or the bigness of its scope.   When one works for the Divine, it is much better to do perfectly what one does than to aim at a very big work.


The Mother: It is better to do well than to do quickly.   To begin a work and to leave it half done and to start another work elsewhere, is not a very wholesome habit.


The Mother:   In works, aspiration towards Perfection is true spirituality.


The Mother: Whatever work you do, do it as perfectly as you can. That is the best service to the Divine in man.    I was intending to write to you that this neglected work must be carried out immediately.  I accept your explanation that it is not bad will but negligence. But I must tell you that for me negligence is the worst form of bad will, for it is the refusal to surrender to the divine inspiration and consciousness which demand a constant vigilance.


The Mother: I hope that this new year will bring you all the breadth of mind and generosity of heart which will make such unfortunate incidents impossible.  Blessings.    Faultless planning of work cannot be obtained except with the consciousness of the Divine.


The Mother:    If men had to stop work when they are not perfect, everybody would stop working. It is in the work that we must progress and purify ourselves.


The Mother: Continue to do the work you are doing but never forget that it can and must become better.   To do the work that one does with all sincerity, as perfectly as one can, is certainly one of the best ways to serve the Divine.    When the instruments of work — hands, eyes, etc. — become conscious and the attention is controlled, the capacity for work seems to have no bounds.


The Mother:   Skilful hands, a clear vision, a concentrated attention, an untiring patience, and what one does is well done.    Skilful hands, precise care, a sustained attention and one compels Matter to obey the Spirit.   To know how to observe in silence is the source of skilfulness.


The Mother:   Skill in works must be used knowingly.   The ﬁeld of work does not change. What you are doing now, you will continue to do.


The Mother: It is in the attitude in the work, , that the change must take place. Each one sees the work in his own way and believes it is the only true way, the only way that expresses the Divine Will. But none of these ways is completely true; it is only by rising above these divided conceptions that one can reach a better understanding of the Divine’s Will. This means mutual understanding and collaboration instead of opposition and clash of wills and feelings.   For harmony and better work, it is not by changing men that things can get better, but by changing one’s own consciousness and character.


The Mother:  As a general rule it is better not to intervene in things that do not fall within one’s own work.     If in the work you meet with some difﬁculties, look sincerely into yourself and there you will discover their origin.    The difﬁculties in work come not from circumstances or petty outer occurrences, they come from something which is wrong in the inner attitude, especially in the vital attitude: egoism, ambition, ﬁxity of mental conceptions regarding work, vanity, etc.


The Mother: And it is always good, in order to correct the disharmony, to look for the cause in oneself rather than in others.   To recognise the presence of a “disharmonious atmosphere” is useful only so far as it wakes in each one the will to change it into a harmonious atmosphere and to do that the ﬁrst important step is for each one to get out of his own limited point of view in order to understand the point of view of others. It is more important for each one to ﬁnd the mistake in than to insist on the mistake of others.  I add that all those to whom I have given responsibility in the work are expected to be faithful to this responsibility and, without allowing of any “hurt feeling” to creep in, do their best to carry on successfully their duty.  My blessings are with all those who are sincere and have goodwill.


The Mother:   Indeed I have allowed X to shift her rose plants there. But I do not think she needs the whole place for them. Moreover, in the present food-crisis it is not wise to use for ﬂowers a place where vegetables have always grown very well. It seems that the place where tomatoes were grown is now ready for beans — these beans must be sown and well looked after so that they may be productive.


The Mother: The trees and shrubs must be left in place and the sitaphal tree (custard apple) must be very carefully attended to as it gives excellent fruits. In consequence I wish that this garden should be looked after by both X and Y, each one taking care of the things with which they are concerned reciprocally. I hope  they will take advantage of this occasion to show that work can be done unselﬁshly and harmoniously, putting in ﬁrst place the welfare of the work itself and checking in themselves all wrong movements that could stand against this achievement.   With my love and blessings.


The Mother:  Psychic work: a work governed by harmony.    I came to the bindery to explain to what you had to do, and expect that you will do accordingly. I want you to work all together harmoniously, helping one another as much as you can.


The Mother: Everyday programme  The university work goes ﬁrst, then the library work, then the individual work, if there is time.  Blessings.


The Mother:  Without discipline, no good work can be done.  Each one to his place, doing conscientiously the work assigned to him, and all will be well.    Organised teamwork: each one at his place and all together.


The Mother:  To make any change in a work, I require before taking any decision that both parties should write to me explaining their case and the proposed change and then I shall decide.   My love and blessings.    I do not believe that to change work will help you to change your character; it has never proved successful before.


The Mother:    The reasons for which you ask to change your work are psychological and do not depend on the work itself. Wherever you will go, you will carry them with you and nowhere will you be able to ﬁnd peace unless you have the peace in your heart.


The Mother:   When one has work to do for a community, to take a decision for personal motives and to abandon one’s work is a serious mistake.  You mention faults committed which cannot be corrected: this is wrong. Any fault can be corrected if you sincerely set to work to. To run away from the progress to be made is an act of cowardice and I cannot approve of it.


The Mother: First of all make a sincere and complete confession of faults committed. Afterwards I shall see what is to be done.     Collaboration and reciprocal goodwill are indispensable for good work.


The Mother:   To concentrate on a close collaboration in the work would be obviously a more useful attitude than to concentrate on mutual grievances.  The most important point is that the work should be quickly done and well done.    To the Bangavani Workers No great work can be done without co-ordination and discipline.


The Mother: A true and organised collaboration is the condition of success.     It is only in harmonious collaboration that effective work can be done.


The Mother: The important thing is to ﬁnd the point on which you can all agree — and after this is ﬁrmly established, each one must be ready to yield his personal will in order to keep intact this point of harmony.    When we have to work collectively, it is always better to insist, in our thoughts, feelings and actions, on the points of agreement rather than on the points of divergence.  We must give importance to the things that unite and ignore, as much as possible, those that separate.  Even when physically the lines of work differ, the union can remain intact and constant if we keep always in mind the essential points and principles which unite, and the Divine Goal, the Realisation which must be the one unchanging object of our aspiration and works.


The Mother:   If anyone were capable of seeing the welfare of the work quite independent of his preferences and without turning everything into a personal question, then most of the difﬁculties would be solved.    If people could stop speaking of the work as work it would put an end to a lot of trouble. Here, all work is the Divine’s.


The Mother:    It is the work which is important, not the way in which our little self does the work.


The Mother: Unless you can rise above your personal ideas, opinions and preferences, you cannot become a good worker. As long as you have your personal preferences, you will not be able to do the exact thing needed.§   All manual work is tiring the ﬁrst few times one does it. But gradually the body gets used to it and becomes strong.


The Mother: However, when you feel really tired, you must stop and rest.   With consecration the work can be done much more easily and happily. But nobody must be asked a greater effort than what he can do.


The Mother: The best way to work without getting tired is to offer the work you do (whatever work it is) to the Divine and to ﬁnd in the Divine the support you need — for the Divine’s Force is inexhaustible and He answers always to whatever offer is made to Him sincerely.  Then, when you will feel that it is the Divine’s Force that has done the work in you and through you, in your sincerity you will know that the merit is His and not yours — so there is no more reason to be proud.  Blessings.


The Mother: Do not worry about the work; the more you will do it quietly and calmly, the more it will become effective.    But through work the nature becomes less rigid, more plastic and supple.    I trust you fully and know you are capable of fulﬁlling quite well your responsibilities. As for the difﬁculties and deﬁciencies, everybody has some and one is here to overcome them.


The Mother: This is the meaning of the sadhana of works. Go on courageously with your duties, keeping all faith in the Divine and relying only on the Divine’s help and grace.     I do not see why you should feel oppressed.


The Mother: It is not an easy job to run an establishment like X Garden and many bitter experiences may be necessary before you learn the job. I only ask that you should keep a.  For the rest, that is to say the results, we must be patient.   With my love and blessings.


The Mother:   Here, for each work given, the full strength and Grace are always given at the same time to do the work as it has to be done. If you do not feel the strength and the Grace, it proves that there is some mistake in your attitude. The faith is lacking or you have fallen back on old tracks and old creeds and thus you lose all receptivity.   The resistance with which we meet in the accomplishment of our work is proportionate to its importance.


The Mother:   For work the present is the most important thing: the past must not come in the way and the future must not pull you away.   Your work can never be good if you go on thinking of the next thing. For work, it is the present that is most important. The past should not drag you behind, the future should not pull you forward. You must be fully concentrated on the present, on what you are doing.


The Mother: You must be so concentrated on what you are doing that it is as if the salvation of the whole world depended only upon your work.§    Unless you work hard you do not get energy, because in that case you do not need it and do not deserve it. You get energy only when you make use of it.


The Mother:    Be sincere in the work you have undertaken and the Grace will always be there to help you.   Concentrate on your work — it is that that gives you strength.  Blessings.


The Mother:   Continue doing your work with a simple and peaceful heart and a quiet mind. The aspiration will come gradually according to the need.    If you leave the department, the work will be ruined!


The Mother: As soon as I have a moment free I shall call you in the morning and we shall talk it over.  The more I grow, the more I know that it is in work that Sri Aurobindo’s integral yoga is.  Love and blessings.    It would be so good if you were not affected and continued the work just now that there is so much to do and the help of all is so badly needed.  If you want to see me, I shall be glad to see you, but you know that I am never alone and it is difﬁcult to speak.


The Mother: In any case, be sure that my love and blessings are with you always.   You are not only wanted but for the work which would not be done properly without you. So I ask you to be patient and not to attach importance to the difﬁculties on the way.  Love and blessings.


The Mother:     Take up the work and have faith, the force will come in proportion to the need; and your receptivity depends on your faith and conﬁdence.  Love and blessings.   For the sake of sadhana and for the sake of work, it is always better to.


The Mother:  When there is some work to do, the less one speaks of it the better it is.     Talk as little as possible.  Work as much as you can.


The Mother:  X has a very bad habit of coming and talking to people while they are working. If he does not work himself, he should at least allow others to work conscientiously.  So if he comes again to talk while you are working, you had better tell him — “No, not now, we can talk when I have ﬁnished my work.”


The Mother:   This is exactly what I have tried to make them understand — but the tendency to plan and talk seems to be too strong to be checked. Let us hope some work also will be done.     I don’t quite understand your question.


The Mother: Certainly the work should be done as conscientiously as possible. But that does not mean that you have to be grave. What is necessary is to be always peaceful and full of calm energy.   Because you do not things sufﬁciently


The Mother: It is always very good to make use of things instead of uselessly destroying them.     It was an act of ignorance.  Received in the right spirit the curtains could have lasted two or three years more.


The Mother: Received wrongly they might have gone to pieces within a month. Things also have a consciousness of their own.     The Divine is in things also and that is why they must be treated with care.


The Mother:   Not to take care of material things which one uses is a sign of inconscience and ignorance.  You have no right to use any material object whatsoever if you do not take care of it.  You must take care of it not because you are attached to it, but because it manifests something of the Divine Consciousness.


The Mother: What would you say if a temple, built according to the design of some great artist, were to boast: “Admire my merits; am I not beautiful, well-built, solid and durable? Truly I am worthy of all praise!” — just as if it were the author of its own perfections. We would ﬁnd that very silly and ridiculous, and yet that is what we are doing constantly. We, like the temple, are ignorant of the great conscious power that has made us what we are, and because we do not perceive the labour of the Sublime Worker, we ascribe the merit of the Work to ourselves.


The Mother:   Power of action: the power which results from a true surrender to the Divine.    Once the consciousness is settled in the aspiration, it cannot depend on work or absence of work.


The Mother:   There is a time for action and there is a time for concentration; if, by mistake, one chooses the time for concentration to start an action, the action is bound to fail.  But if one keeps faith alive, even failure can become a shortcut for reaching the Divine.     It is true that the divine protection is always around us, but it fully works only when we are faced by dangers which were unavoidable; that is to say, if dangers suddenly rise on the way when we are doing some work for the Divine, then the protection works at its best.


The Mother: But to take up some work which is, after all, not at all indispensable and not even surely useful and which is extremely dangerous, counting on the divine protection to save us from all possible consequences, this is a movement which is like a challenge to the Divine, and the Divine will never accept it.    When action is initiated by the Divine Will, it is pure.


The Mother: If in all sincerity one acts only to express the Divine Will, all actions without exception can become unselﬁsh. But as long as this state has not been reached, there are actions which are more favourable for the contact with the Divine.    Each must ﬁnd the activity favourable to his progress.


The Mother:  A good material work not exceeding normal capacities is most useful for keeping a good physical and moral poise.      Have you no intention of working physically yourself?


The Mother: Yet, it is quite indispensable for the welfare of the body.    With a quiet mind and a peaceful heart, let us do the work happily.


The Mother: All work must be play, but a divine play, played for the Divine, with the Divine.      To work for the Divine is very good, it is a delight.


The Mother: But to work with the Divine is a felicity inﬁnitely deeper and sweeter still.     There is no existence without labour — if you want to get out of labour you must get out of existence. The only way to accomplish that, is the way to Nirvana, and that way, to follow it, is of all labours the greatest.


The Mother:  We have, every one of us, a role to fulﬁl, a work to do, a place which we alone can occupy.


The Mother: (  )  Blessings for all who work with conscience, good will, regularity and good taste and for all who want to learn and progress.


The Mother: Do the work with all your heart and as best you can and my help and my blessings will always be with you.     The soul is that which comes out of the Divine without ever leaving Him and goes back to Him without ever ceasing from manifestation.  The soul is the Divine made individual without ceasing to be divine. In the soul the individual and the Divine are eternally one.


The Mother: Thus to ﬁnd one’s soul is to be united with the Divine.  It can therefore be said that the role of the soul is to make of man a true being.     Theories differ according to schools and sects, and each one puts forth excellent reasons to support what it asserts.


The Mother: There is certainly truth in whatever one afﬁrms and any case is not only possible but has existed in the history of the earth.  The only thing I can speak of is my own experience: the soul is divine, an eternal portion of the Supreme Divine and therefore cannot be limited or bound by any law whatever, other than its own.   These souls are emanated by the Lord to do His work in the world and each one comes upon earth with a special purpose, for a special action and with a special destiny, carrying in itself its own law which is imperative for itself alone and cannot be a general law.  Thus, in the eternity of becoming, any case imaginable or unimaginable must evidently exist.


The Mother: The soul is eternal and universal, and all these incapacities and impossibilities have no reality for it.    When one speaks to the soul of a man, one always speaks to the same soul, whatever may be the differences of body, race or culture.   The soul cannot think the Divine but knows Him with certitude.   Your soul blossoms to the Light as a ﬂower opens to the sun.


The Mother:  To have any action on your soul you must be ﬁrst conscious of it. And then when you will be conscious of your soul, you will probably ﬁnd out that instead of you making your soul progress, it is your soul who will help you to progress.     The ﬁrst form of the soul is a spark of light from the Divine.


The Mother: By evolution it becomes an individualised being and then it can take the form it wants.      The mind, the life and the body must become and live what the Soul knows and is.


The Mother:   When one has an awakened soul, it is not easy to get rid of it; so it is better to obey its orders.      Obey your soul, it alone has the right to govern your life.


The Mother:


The Mother: Psychic centre: luminous and calm, it is made to govern the human being.   The psychic gets its power of expression when it governs the whole being.


The Mother: The psychic power organises the activities of the nature to make them progress.    Under the psychic inﬂuence all activity becomes balanced.   The psychic inﬂuence compels the physical to turn towards the Divine.


The Mother:  Let this house be a symbol of the psychic, the temple of the eternal divine Presence.    Live in the consciousness of the psychic centre; thus your will will express the Divine’s Will alone and your transformed being will then be able to receive and manifest the Divine Love .   The centre of the human being is the psychic which is the dwelling-place of the immanent Divine. Uniﬁcation means organisation and harmonisation of all the parts of the being (mental, vital and physical) around this centre, so that all the activities of the being may be the correct expression of the will of the Divine Presence.


The Mother:   Unless and until the whole of the individual consciousness is organised around the central Divine Presence, the movements are fugitive, although recurrent, and we cannot expect them to have any permanence.    Nothing is permanent in a terrestrial being except the psychic.


The Mother:   ( ) This is a proof that your whole being is not united around the central psychic Presence.  This is a personal task that each individual must do for himself. The help is always there but the effectivity of its action is in the measure of the receptivity and the conscious appeal.  After all it is a question of patience in the endeavour.


The Mother:    A human being is made of many different parts and it takes time and conscious effort to harmonise and unify all these parts.  When you surrendered, it is not the whole of your being that did so. Little by little some other part that had not surrendered came to the surface and the joy of the surrender vanished and was replaced by dullness and indifference. But after some time this part also gets converted and thus the happy condition comes back.


The Mother:  Your letter has just come, bringing me your problem which, by the way, is the problem of the life of all human beings, especially when they have reached a certain degree of inner development but are not yet on the summit of spiritual freedom through the uniﬁcation of their being around their conscious soul. For it is the lack of uniﬁcation which is the cause of all problems. One part of the being pulls one way, another pulls the other way, sometimes one is stronger and gives a certain orientation to life, sometimes it is the other and then the orientation suddenly changes, and the result is an incoherence. And as it is the part which usually comes to the surface to express its want of satisfaction, , unless one is a sage, one is never satisﬁed with the life one leads and always misses the life one could have led — whether in one direction or the other.


The Mother: In your case there is something more. As your soul remains very closely linked with my being, as the contact with the supramental consciousness grows more and more total and constant, it acts very strongly on your soul like an almost irresistible attraction. This is what happened in 1958.  To conclude, “an easy and pleasant life” can only satisfy the outer being; but what answers in the physical being to the soul’s inﬂuence needs for its ﬂowering a life more in conformity with the soul’s needs and “languishes” when it cannot ﬁnd it.


The Mother: It is because an individual is not made all of one piece, but of many different entities which sometimes even contradict each other; some want the spiritual life, others are attached to the things of this world. It is a long and difﬁcult work to reconcile all these parts and unify them.  The force and light received by the most developed parts gradually spread to the rest of the being by a process of assimilation, and during this period of assimilation the progress of the parts that are in front seems to be interrupted. This is what Sri Aurobindo was speaking about.


The Mother: In fact all your different parts are correct in their argument, and the wisdom is to go deep enough in the consciousness to ﬁnd the place where they meet and agree, completing one another rather than contradicting.  As for the actual action, a smooth, harmonious working is generally better than the difﬁculties created by too rigid principles, but that also is not absolute — and the ideal condition is at each occasion to receive in the inner silence the guidance from above.  With constant practice and goodwill, it becomes possible.    The psychic inspiration alone is true.


The Mother: All that comes from the vital and the mind is necessarily mixed with egoism and is arbitrary. One should not act in to outer contact, but with an immutable vision of love and goodwill. Everything else is a mixture which can only have confused and mixed results, and perpetuate the disorder.    It is not the psychic being that suffers for personal reasons, it is the mind, the vital and the ordinary consciousness of ignorant man. This is because the contact between the outer consciousness and the psychic consciousness is not well established.


The Mother: He in whom the contact has been well established is always happy.  The psychic being works with perseverance and ardour for the union to be made an accomplished fact, but it never complains and knows how to wait for the hour of realisation to come.    The outer being, left to itself, is not very responsible; it is most often the plaything of the forces of Nature. But the inner or higher being, the deeper consciousness, is the master and builder of our destiny.


The Mother: That is why it is so important to discover this sovereign consciousness and unite with it in order to put an end to all the incoherences of life and all the conﬂicts of Nature.   To ﬁnd the psychic one must conquer the desires of the vital and silence the mind and then make a sincere submission to the Divine of whom the psychic is the instrument in man.   The inner contact with the psychic is a concrete and undeniable fact which imposes itself on all sincere consciousness.


The Mother:  The psychic is always there, and it is strong.  It is the receptivity that is weak.     The best way to get rid of the rule of the ego is to ﬁnd the psychic being, instrument of the Divine in human beings.


The Mother: Go deep into yourself (i.e. the heart region) and aspire steadily. The true meeting of the psychic is unmistakable.     It is indispensable that each one ﬁnds his psychic and unites with it deﬁnitively.


The Mother: It is through the psychic that the supramental will manifest itself.     Certainly you are not the only one. Many are like this.


The Mother: Only those who have centred their whole being around the  of the psychic can cure themselves of it.     The next step is ﬁnding your psychic being and uniting with it.


The Mother:    The human being is made of different parts, sometimes clearly separated. They can unite only under the psychic inﬂuence and action. Persist in your endeavour and you are sure to succeed.


The Mother: Blessings.       What you seek is always there ready for you.


The Mother: Let the psychic turn grow complete and it will of itself bring you to that for which you aspire.


The Mother: The psychic is depressed.


The Mother: I tell you that because its nature is divine and The psychic can observe with regret the stupidity of the other parts of the being, but by its very nature it is for it to be depressed.    In the psychic is the source of constant happiness.    Psychic purity: the condition natural to the psychic.


The Mother:    By its very nature the psychic is calm.


The Mother:    Psychic peace : it is spontaneous and knows no difﬁculties.


The Mother:   Psychic prayer: spontaneous and fervent.    Psychic offering: it is the spontaneous attitude of the psychic in relation to the Divine.


The Mother:   Psychic generosity gives for the joy of giving.     Psychic perfection means to smile at everything.


The Mother: MIND: ONLY AN INSTRUMENT Mind: its true worth depends on its surrender to the Divine.     Puriﬁed mind: mind ready to surrender to the Divine.


The Mother:   Mental surrender: this happens when the mind has understood that it is only an instrument.     Conversion of the mind: the mind has liberated itself from its arrogance and knows it is only an instrument.


The Mother:  Clear mind: the ﬁrst step on the road to conversion.    Birth of true mental sincerity: with its birth the mind will understand that it is only a means and not an end in itself.   The mind must learn to express only what is dictated by the Divine.


The Mother:   Power of mental expression has no value unless it is in the service of the Divine.    Reason: an excellent instrument when at the Divine’s service.


The Mother:   Physical mind becomes a good instrument of action when it is content to be that alone.     When the mind turns towards the Divine, it becomes a powerful instrument.


The Mother:   Work of the enlightened mind: it is very powerful for leading the being to the Divine and can be very useful for progress.


The Mother: Higher mind: its superiority consists in its capacity to open to the divine light.    Voice of the higher mind: in quest of Truth.


The Mother: The mind attains its full utility when it knows how to listen to the higher inspiration.    Aspiration of the mind for the supramental guidance: the mind feels that its complexity is powerless and asks for a greater light to illumine it.   Response of the mind to the supramental light: represents an important step towards realisation.    Victory in the mind is the reign of the supramental Truth in the mind.


The Mother:  Supramentalised mind: mind has become an instrument for transformation.    MENTAL LIMITATIONS AND WEAKNESSES  Does one enter a temple with dirty feet?  Likewise, one does not enter the temple of the spirit with a sullied mind.


The Mother:  In human beings, along with the growth of the mental activities grows the subtlety of self-deception. The more they are intellectual the more they are, in their self-deception, completely candid and insincere at the same time.    [There is] the habit of always furnishing in the presence of a mistake a this favourable explanation seems to jump out from the mind spontaneously and automatically — trying to obviate any sincere recognition of the error.


The Mother:    Your mind is driven by passion and to support the passion it gives a twist which prevents you from seeing the truth of things.


The Mother: Guard against the twist, be conscious of the passion.  Action perverted by such a twist looks like insincerity. Be always on your guard against this persistent defect. This is my gift for the New Year.    May this new year bring you the liberation and enlightenment of an ignorant and arrogant mind which thinks it can judge everything without even having the elements of the problems that it judges according to its own preferences and attachments.


The Mother:   The whole world may perish provided my whims are gratiﬁed!  Such is the attitude of the egoistic mind which seeks to impose its principles upon all.  In the divine sight, principles and desires are one and the same thing: principles are whims of the mind just as desires are whims of the vital.


The Mother:    Mental fantasy: wild, disorderly, it usually lacks coordination.   Imagination: abundant and varied, it may be charming but must not be substituted for the Truth.


The Mother:   Those who think falsely will live in falsehood and misery. Get out of wrong thinking and you will get out of suffering.  An old wise man in China has written, “Thought creates for itself its own suffering.”


The Mother:   Ugly thoughts bring ugly feelings — ugly feelings take you away from the Divine and throw you defenceless into the arms of the devil who wants only to swallow you up — and that is the source of endless sorrow and suffering .     Most often these attacks are the result of bad thoughts you have had, which fall back on you.


The Mother:  We are always surrounded by the things of which we think.   Your mind also is full of doubts and has to be blamed as much as the vital because it believes in falsehood.   One of the chief functions of the physical mind is to doubt.  If you listen to it, it will always ﬁnd a thousand reasons for doubting. But you must know that the physical mind is working in ignorance and full of falsehoods.


The Mother:   It is only love that can understand and get at the secrets of the Divine Working. The mind, the physical mind especially, is incapable of seeing correctly and yet it always wants to judge. It is only a true, sincere humility in the mind, allowing the psychic to rule the being, that can save human beings from ignorance and obscurity.


The Mother:   As for your progress — it is because you are trying and the mental is always a limitation to the consciousness. It is only the aspiration from the heart and the psychic that can be  effective. (And when you stop trying, you let me work in you and I know the proper way!)


The Mother:   Your mind is too active. It comes in the way of your being automatically guided by my will.    My dear child, it is your that prevents you from receiving the help in the vital and the physical.


The Mother: Quiet as much as you can this galloping mind and you will see the results.   With love and blessings.    Above all the complication of so-called human wisdom there is the luminous simplicity of the Divine Grace ready to act if we allow it to act.


The Mother: Life could be quite simple and easy if man’s mind did not introduce in it so many useless complications.     Once the mind has started its working, it hampers the action of the Grace.


The Mother:     Beware of fanciful mental suggestions!  Love.


The Mother:   Formative faculty in the mind: it is a natural and very spontaneous gift.     In this case, it is of no importance, because there are mental constructions which can be true and which lead safely to the .


The Mother:    You want to make me speak and mentalise the experience until a new “system” is established and you can sit down comfortably in your new mental construction.


The Mother:    Mind is so lazy that it wants convenient answers. But it is not like that. Each one is different.


The Mother:     Perhaps there is an explanation which can give peace to your mind. In fact there is probably an explanation for each case — and the explanations also can be contradictory!...


The Mother: Poor mind!  This is indeed a test!!     To make progress you must throw aside all the old constructions, demolish all the preconceived ideas.