The Mother: Beyond all question it is the supramental light.  Do not tense yourself, be open, passively allow it to penetrate your body. It has the power to restore you to strength and health.    A new world is born — all those who want to have a place in it must sincerely prepare themselves for it.


The Mother:  Heralding the birth of a new world, we invite all those who want to have a place in it to prepare themselves sincerely for it.     Last night I had a vision of what the supramental world would be like if people were not sufﬁciently prepared. The confusion that now exists on earth is nothing in comparison with what might happen. Just imagine an extremely powerful will with the capacity to transform matter according to its liking!


The Mother: If the sense of collective unity did not grow in proportion to the growth of power, the resulting conﬂict would be even more acute and chaotic than all our material conﬂicts.    To celebrate the birth of a transitory body can satisfy some faithful feelings.  To celebrate the manifestation of the eternal Consciousness can be done at every moment of the universal history.  But to celebrate the advent of a new world, the supramental world, is a marvellous and exceptional privilege.


The Mother:  By whatever name it is called, the Supramental is a truth and a fact and its reign is certain.     The advent of a new world is an ineluctable fact and whatever name is given to it, its victory is certain.


The Mother:   The supramental inﬂuence liberates man from all that holds him back to the animal.     Supramental action: an action which is not exclusive but total.


The Mother:   Supramental knowledge: an infallible vision of all problems.    Supramental consciousness: gloriously awake and powerful, it is luminous, sure of itself, infallible in its movements.   To become the builders of a better future in the light of the supramental consciousness.   ( ) The Golden Day


The Mother: Henceforth the 29th February will be the day of the Lord.    I never intended to give Sri Aurobindo’s symbol.  The design on the medal signiﬁes —  the twelve rays of the new creation issued from the manifestation of the Avatar: lotus — Avatar square — manifestation 12 rays — new creation  Bulletin  Half an hour later.


The Mother: Bulletin  E.     Yes, the Sadhana has undergone a great change, because it is now in the physical itself that you have to do it.  Concentrate on the physical transformation; by physical I mean the mental, vital and body consciousness.


The Mother: You are trying to get the experience in your mind, but it is not the mind that can get it. Come out of your mind and you will understand what I mean.     Man must understand that in spite of all his intellectual achievements he is as incapable of perceiving the supramental vibrations as the animal was incapable of perceiving the mental vibrations  when they pervaded the earth before the appearance of the human species.


The Mother:   Two irrefutable signs prove that one is in relation with the supramental: 1. a perfect and constant equality, 2. an absolute certainty in the knowledge.  To be perfect, the equality must be invariable and spontaneous, effortless, towards all circumstances, all happenings, all contacts, material or psychological, irrespective of their character and impact.  The absolute and indisputable certainty of an infallible knowledge through identity.


The Mother:   A perfect equality towards all circumstances, material or psychological, and an absoluteness in the knowledge — a knowledge that comes not through the mind but through identity. The person who is in contact with the supramental possesses these two qualities.  You cannot understand unless you have the experience.     not


The Mother: It is certainly the ﬁrst time that the Supramental has come down as a general force of transformation for the whole earth. It is a new starting-point in the terrestrial creation.  But it may be that once before the supramental force has manifested partially and momentarily in an individual as a promise and an example.   The anniversary of the ﬁrst Supramental descent comes every four years (the leap year). I do not see what the number 7 has to do in the matter.


The Mother: This year 1964 (leap year) was the second anniversary of the ﬁrst descent. The next one will take place on  the 29th February 1968 — and it will be exactly 12 years after the ﬁrst descent and we shall see then what happens.   The Divinity mentioned by Sri Aurobindo is not a person but a condition that will be shared by all those who have prepared themselves to receive it.   For Sri Aurobindo “coincidences” do not exist. All that happens is the result of the action of the Divine Consciousness.


The Mother: The Force which is at work at this moment is a Force of harmony that makes for unity — the uniﬁcation of all the symbols that express the Divine Truth.    Acting decisively on the mind of men and the course of events.   We can wait with a little patience and we shall see.  Since a few months the children born, amongst our people mostly, are of a very special kind.


The Mother:  ( )  Truth alone can give to the world the power of receiving and manifesting the Divine’s Love.     THE NEW CONSCIOUSNESS


The Mother: To be able to receive the new consciousness without deforming it: One must be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow.    There is only one new fact — from the beginning of this year a new consciousness has manifested and is working energetically to prepare the earth for the new creation.   It is the Consciousness that is at work since January. But its action has become much more intense.


The Mother:  It will continue until the world is ready and willing to receive the new creation; the consciousness of this new creation is already at work upon earth since the beginning of this year. If instead of resisting, people were collaborating, it would be quicker.  But stupidity and ignorance are very obstinate!    This great change is the appearance upon earth of a new race which will be for man what man is for the animal. The consciousness of this new race is already at work upon earth to enlighten all who are able to receive it and heed it.


The Mother:   To concentrate and open to receive the new progressive consciousness, to receive the new things which are coming down.


The Mother: The change does not need our help to come, but we need to open ourselves to the consciousness so that its coming is not in vain for us.   1) Be receptive and 2) Be plastic    The ﬁrst indispensable condition to prepare ourselves to receive the new consciousness is a true and spontaneous humility which makes us feel deeply that we know nothing and are nothing in the face of the marvellous things we have to acquire.    THE SUPRAMENTAL AND THE NEW BEING


The Mother: Let us prepare, as best we can, the coming of the New Being.  The mind must be silenced and replaced by the TruthConsciousness — a consciousness of the whole harmonised with a consciousness of detail.   The mind must be silent to allow the Supramental Consciousness to take its place.   The Truth-Consciousness must pervade all the being, dominate all the movements and quiet the restless physical mind. These are the preliminary conditions for the manifestation.


The Mother:   Wisdom in the physical mind: a ﬁrst step towards the supramental manifestation upon earth.


The Mother: (  )  It is only when the Supramental manifests in the body-mind that its presence can be permanent.    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.      The Truth-Consciousness can manifest only in those who are rid of the ego.


The Mother:   Man and the mind are not the last term of creation. A supramental being is in preparation.


The Mother:    The mind does not know truly; aspire sincerely to the supermind.


The Mother:     Superhumanity: the aim of our aspirations.


The Mother:    Man is the intermediary being between what is and what is to be realised.


The Mother:   Man is a transitional being upon earth and hence, in the course of his evolution, he has had several successive natures which have followed an ascending curve and will continue to do so till he reaches the threshold of the supramental nature and is transformed into superman. This curve is the spiral of mental development. We tend to call “natural” any spontaneous manifestation which is not the result of a choice or a premeditated decision, that is to say, which is without the intrusion of mental action.  That is why, when a man has a vital spontaneity which is not  very mentalised, he seems to us more “natural” in his simplicity.


The Mother: But it is a naturalness which is much like that of the animal and is at the very bottom of the human evolutionary scale.   You must never forget that the outer person is only the form and the symbol of an eternal Reality, and that, passing through the physical appearance, it is to this higher Reality that you must turn. The physical being cannot become truly expressive of the Eternal Reality until it is completely transformed by the supramental manifestation. And until then, it is by it that you must ﬁnd the Truth.


The Mother: It is difﬁcult to reply without seeing the context. Which “supreme faculties” does it refer to? Those of man on the way to becoming superman, or those which the supramental being will possess when he appears on earth?  In the ﬁrst case, they are faculties that develop in man as he opens to the higher mind and overmind and through them receives the light of Truth. These faculties are not a direct expression of the supreme Truth but a transcription, an indirect reﬂection of it.


The Mother: They include intuition, foreknowledge, knowledge by identity, and certain powers such as those of healing and of acting upon circumstances to a certain extent.  If it refers to the supreme faculties of the supramental being, we cannot say much about them, for all we can say at the moment belongs more to the realm of imagination than to the realm of knowledge, since this being has not yet manifested on earth.     Both statements are true.  (1) So long as matter remains what it is, it cannot be made immune.


The Mother: But (2) the supramental force is expected to  the material body also (in the long run) and when is done then everything becomes possible or rather nothing is impossible.  Blessings.    All these are mental speculations and once you enter the domains of mental imaginations there is no end to the problems and to their solutions. But all that does not bring you one step closer to the truth.


The Mother: The safest and most healthy attitude of the mind is like this one: We have been told in a positive and deﬁnite way that the supramental creation will follow the present one, so, whatever is in preparation for the future must be the circumstances needed for this advent whatever they are. And as we are unable to  foresee correctly what these circumstances are, it is better to keep silent about them.    To anticipate difﬁculties is to help them happen.  Always to foresee the best with a total trust in the Divine Grace is to collaborate effectively in the supramental work upon earth.


The Mother:   Last night, we (you and I and a few others) were together for quite a long time in Sri Aurobindo’s permanent dwelling-place in the subtle physical (what Sri Aurobindo called the true physical).  Everything that took place there (far too long and complicated to relate) was organised, so to say, to express concretely the rapidity of the present movement of transformation. And with a smile, Sri Aurobindo told you something like this: “Do you believe now?”


The Mother: It was as if he were evoking the three lines from: “God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep, For man shall not know the coming till its hour And belief shall be not till the work is done.”  I think that this is a sufﬁcient explanation of the meditation you refer to.  My blessings.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]   Somebody asked me, — “In the work of Transformation, who is the slowest to do his part, man or God?”


The Mother: I replied, — Man finds that God is too slow to answer his prayers.  God finds that man is too slow to receive His influence.  But for the Truth-Consciousness all is going on as it ought to go.    [facsimile] The Lord is Eternal and Infinite.  Even when the supramental will be fully realised upon earth the Lord will infinitely exceed this realisation which will be followed by other manifestations of the Lord.


The Mother:   Those who are ready for the transformation can do it anywhere.  And those who are ready cannot do it wherever they are.   The supramental transformation is hard labour and needs a strong body. For some time more, probably more than a hundred years, the physical body will need to eat in order to keep its strength; and we have to comply with this necessity.   IMMORTALITY Eternal youth: it is a gift the Divine gives us when we unite ourselves with Him.


The Mother:  Forms are in perpetual transformation; identify yourself with the Immortal Consciousness and you will become It.    Immortality is not a goal, it is not even a means. It will proceed naturally from the fact of living the Truth.


The Mother:   Integral immortality: it is a promise. When will it be a material fact?


The Mother: Supramental immortality: it is an established fact, but few human beings have experienced it.    Supramental immortality upon earth: this remains to be realised.    Vital immortality: in its own ﬁeld it exists but conditioned by surrender to the Divine.


The Mother:   Aspiration for immortality: pure, aspiring, trusting.     Physical aspiration for immortality: intense aspiration but ignorant of the means.


The Mother:  Aspiration for integral immortality: an organised, tenacious and methodical development of consciousness.   Attempt towards immortality: persistent and co-ordinated.    THE NEW CREATION  Action is a narrowing of the consciousness in order to achieve a particular object.


The Mother: The creation of a new world is no exception to this rule.     Realisation of the new creation: it is for this that we must prepare ourselves.


The Mother:   Anything and everything can be an instrument for the Supreme Wisdom to prepare the earth in view of the new creation!    Matter prepares itself to receive the supramental: matter tries to liberate itself from old habits to prepare for the new creation.


The Mother: Ideal of the new creation: the ideal must be progressive in order to realise itself in the future.     Manifold power of the new creation: the new creation will be rich in possibilities.


The Mother:   Charm of the new creation: the new creation is attractive for all those who want to progress.     Beauty of the new creation: the new creation tries better to manifest the Divine.


The Mother:  Usefulness of the new creation: a creation which aims at teaching men to surpass themselves.   OLD AGE AND DEATH  Only those years that are passed uselessly make you grow old.  A year spent uselessly is a year during which no progress has been accomplished, no growth in consciousness has been achieved, no further step has been taken towards perfection.


The Mother: Consecrate your life to the realisation of something higher and broader than yourself and you will never feel the weight of the passing years.    From birth to death, life is a dangerous thing.  The brave pass through it without care for the risks.


The Mother: The prudent take precautions.   The cowardly are afraid of everything.  But ultimately, what happens to each one is only what the Supreme Will has decided.


The Mother:   Some of the living are already half-dead. Many of the dead are very much alive.


The Mother: Dear friend, Your letter came bringing me news I knew already, because often your thought comes bringing me your remembrance and keeps me in touch with your tribulations. Everyone, in truth, has his own and you know as well as I that it is only in the inner attitude that peace is found.   So long as we are in a body, whatever its age and difﬁculties, it is certain that we have something to do or learn in it, and this conviction gives the necessary strength to face all vicissitudes.  I had hoped, in putting you into touch with the Tibetan refugees, that among them there would be one who would be happy to consecrate his or her life to have the opportunity to develop intellectually and learn all that you would be able to teach him or her in exchange for this service.  Would this not be possible?


The Mother: For me the Grace is an active reality which guides our destiny through the ages.  One must not be in a hurry and hasten the departure, even if it is for the eternal repose or the beatitude of nothingness. As long as we are in a body, undoubtedly we have yet something to do or learn therein.    This suggestion of death comes from the “ego” when it feels that soon it will have to abdicate.


The Mother: Keep quiet and fearless. Everything will be all right.    You speak of absolute renunciation, but to give up the body is  the absolute renunciation. The true and total renunciation is to give up the ego which is a much more arduous endeavour.


The Mother: If you have not renounced your ego, to give up the body will not bring freedom to you.    ( ) The vital world is mostly like that and those who live exclusively in the physical and vital go there after death. But there is the Grace!...


The Mother:    Death is not at all what you believe it to be. You expect from death the neutral quietness of an unconscious rest. But to obtain that rest you must prepare for it.  When you die you lose only your body and at the same time the possibilities of relation with and action on the material world.


The Mother: But all that belongs to the vital world does not disappear with the material substance; all your desires, attachments, cravings persist with the sense of frustration and disappointment, and all that prevents you from ﬁnding the expected peace. To enjoy a peaceful and eventless death you must prepare for it.  And the only effective preparation is the abolition of desires.  So long as we have a body we have to act, to work, to do something: but if we do it simply because it has to be done, without seeking for the result or wanting it to be like this or like that , we get progressively detached and thus prepare ourselves for a restful death.


The Mother:  If you wish to escape from death, you must not bind yourself to anything perishable.  One can conquer that alone which one fears not, and he who fears death has already been vanquished by death.


The Mother: In order to be able to conquer death and win immortality, one must neither fear death nor desire it.      The target at which we are aiming is immortality.


The Mother: And of all the habits, death is surely the most obstinate.   From the viewpoint of spiritual knowledge, decrepitude and decay — disintegration — are quite simply and undoubtedly the result of a wrong attitude.     Because they do not know how to keep up with Nature in her progress towards the Divine.


The Mother: One should respect everything, living and dead, and know that everything lives in the Divine Consciousness.  The respect should be felt in the heart and the inner attitude.   The Divine is; and I repeat that for the Divine there are no living or dead — everything lives eternally.


The Mother: Have no sorrow and remain very peaceful and quiet, while keeping an affectionate remembrance of the one who has departed.  When something separates them from the Divine.  Love him sincerely and deeply without trying to stop his tears.


The Mother: Normally the consciousness of the departed ought to feel no pain for what happens to the body after his or her departure.   But there is in the material body itself a consciousness called the “spirit of the form” which takes some time to get completely out of the aggregated cells; its departure is the starting point of a general decomposition, and before its departure it may have a kind of feeling of what happens to the body. That is why it is always better not to be in a hurry for the funeral.    You say that it is through a newspaper that the news came of your nephew’s death.


The Mother: So the child died a few days ago. Did X and Y ﬁnd any difference in their atmosphere, their feelings, their thoughts, their sensations — a difference, an uneasiness or a sense of loss, which would give a real ground for their sorrow?  I am pretty sure that they did not. So their sorrow, if they have any, is not but the result of conventional thoughts and feelings; it is all illusion coming from the family idea, which is one of the most artiﬁcial and false of all conventions.  In truth the child was in their atmosphere, otherwise they would have become aware of his death without needing to receive the news of it; he was no more in their atmosphere than any one of the two hundred thousand human beings who die every day — for the average death of human beings is two hundred thousand a day.


The Mother: Do they know that? Is not death the most common and everyday happening and can they reasonably expect that none of those they know will escape this general law?    Your father died because it was his time to die. Circumstances can be an occasion but surely not a.


The Mother: The cause is in the Divine’s will and nothing can alter it.  So, grieve not and surrender your sorrow at the feet of the Divine. He will give you peace and freedom.    ()


The Mother: Now you are no longer able to bend over this body and take care of it, you can no longer express through your acts your deep affection, and it is this which is painful. But you must overcome this sorrow and look within, look above, for it is only the material body that will be dissolved. All that you loved in her is in no way affected by the dissolution of the material envelope; and if, in the calm of a deep love, you concentrate your thought and your energy on her, you will see that she will remain close to you and that you can have a conscious contact with her, a contact more and more concrete.


The Mother:   Life is immortal. It is only the body that dissolves.   It is in the consciousness of man that he became a god and that is why it is so difﬁcult to transform him.   REBIRTH


The Mother: The outer form only dissolves, unless that too is made conscious and is organised round the divine centre. But the true mental, the true vital and even the true subtle physical persist: it is that which keeps all the impressions received in earthly life and builds the chain of Karma.   If we go a little way within ourselves, we shall discover that there is in each of us a consciousness that has been living throughout the ages and manifesting in a multitude of forms.    In rebirth it is not the external being, that which is formed by parents, environment and circumstances — the mental, the vital and the physical — that is born again: it is only the psychic being that passes from body to body.


The Mother: Logically, then, neither the mental nor the vital being can remember past lives or recognise itself in the character or mode of life of this or that person.  The psychic being alone can remember; and it is by becoming conscious of our psychic being that we can have at the same time exact impressions about our past lives.  Besides, it is much more important for us to ﬁx our attention upon what we want to become than upon what we have been.


The Mother: My dear child, The sudden departure of X is a painful loss for all here. He was perfect in consecration and honest in his work, a man on whom one could count, which is a truly exceptional quality. He has departed into a solar light and is enjoying the conscious rest which he truly deserved.     This dream is surely true because X went straight to join Sri Aurobindo.


The Mother: Every fully conscious and developed psychic being is free to choose what its next life will be and when that life will take place.  That is its usual choice when it reincarnates immediately.  If it is fully developed, it is capable of doing so.   The solar light is the symbol of the supramental light.


The Mother: Blessings.     Bulletin  The memories you refer to, which are mentioned in newspapers, are memories of the vital being that, exceptionally, has gone out of one body in order to enter another. It is something that can happen, but it is not frequent.  The memory that I refer to is that of the psychic being, and one is conscious of it only when one is in conscious relation with one’s psychic being.


The Mother: There is no contradiction between the two things.     If it is necessary you will know it.


The Mother:  Except for very rare cases, animals are not individualised and when they die they return to the spirit of the species.   SUICIDE  If you are sincere in your aspiration to see me, you must throw far away from you these morbid ideas of suicide which are quite contrary to any divine life. Be patient, ﬁrm and steady, face quietly the difﬁculties of life and still more quietly the difﬁculties of “sadhana” — then you will be sure of the ﬁnal success.


The Mother: With blessings.     It is that you have to change and that the change is possible. If you run away from this world, you will have to come again probably in worse conditions and you will have to do everything all over again.


The Mother: It is much better not to be a coward, to face now the situation and to make the necessary effort to conquer. The help is always with you; you must learn to avail yourself of it.   Love and blessings.    Know for certain that to commit suicide is the most foolish action that a man can do; because the end of the body does not mean the end of the consciousness and what was troubling you while you were alive continues to trouble you when you are dead, without the possibility of diverting your mind which you can get when you are alive.


The Mother:   Mother India Suicide, far from being a solution, is a stupid aggravation of the situation, that for perhaps centuries will make life intolerable.     1. For the Supreme there is no sin.


The Mother: 2. For the devotee there is no greater sin than to be far from the Lord.    3. At the time when the Ramayana was conceived and written, the knowledge revealed by Sri Aurobindo that the earth will be transformed into a divine world and an abode of the Supreme was not known or accepted.


The Mother: If you consider these three points you will understand the legend. (Although it may be that the actual facts were not as they have been told.)   SLEEP AND REST   Not necessarily.


The Mother: There is always a part of the subconscient which is awake, and it is sufﬁcient to have the will to wake up at a certain hour to make this part awaken you.    Obviously you did not quiet your thoughts before going to sleep.  At the time of lying down one should always begin by quieting one’s thoughts.


The Mother:    To pass a sleepless night once in a while, every three or four months, does not matter much, provided that the rest of the time you sleep well.


The Mother:   I advise you to sleep well and to take enough rest. This is indispensable in order to be able to keep doing the work regularly and well.   My blessings are always with you.


The Mother:   Sleep is the school one must pass through if one knows how to learn one’s lesson there, so that the inner being may become independent of the physical form, conscious in its own right and master of its own life. There are entire parts of the being that need this immobility and semi-consciousness of the outer being, of the body, in order to be able to lead their own life independently.  It is another school for another result, but it is still a school.  If one wants to achieve the maximum possible progress, one must know how to make use of one’s nights just as one makes use of one’s days.


The Mother: Only, people usually have no idea how to go about it; they try to stay awake and all they achieve is a physical and vital imbalance, and sometimes a mental one too.    Sleep is indispensable in the present state of the body. It is by a progressive control over the subconscient that the sleep can become more and more conscious.


The Mother: I know by experience that it is not by lessening the food that sleep becomes conscious; the body becomes restless but this in no way increases the consciousness. It is in good, sound and quiet sleep that one can get in contact with a deeper part of oneself.     I hope that soon you will completely recover and that you will not feel tired any more.


The Mother: But are you eating enough? Sometimes it is hunger that keeps one from sleeping.   My blessings are always with you.    Proper rest is a very important thing for the sadhana.


The Mother:   You must rest — but a rest of, not of diluted non-resistance to the adverse forces. A rest that is, not the rest of weakness.


The Mother: To Rest Before Sleeping  There is no end to the discoveries that you can make in dreams.  But one thing is very important: never go to sleep when you are very tired, for if you do, you fall into a sort of unconsciousness and dreams do with you whatever they like, without your being able to exercise the least control.


The Mother: Just as you should always rest before eating, I would advise you all to rest before going to sleep.  But then you must know how to rest.  There are many ways of doing it. Here is one: ﬁrst of all, put your body at ease, comfortably stretched out on a bed or in an easy-chair. Then try to relax your nerves, all together or one by one, till you have obtained complete relaxation.


The Mother: This done, and while your body lies limp like a rag on the bed, make your brain silent and immobile, till it is no longer conscious of itself. Then slowly, imperceptibly, pass from this state into sleep. When you wake up the next morning, you will be full of energy. On the contrary, if you go to bed completely tired and without relaxing yourself, you will fall into a heavy, dull and unconscious sleep in which the vital will lose all its energies.  It is possible that you may not obtain an immediate result, but persevere.


The Mother:   Before trying to sleep, when you lie down to sleep, begin by relaxing yourself physically (I call this becoming a rag on the bed).  Then with all the sincerity at your disposal, offer yourself to the Divine in a complete relaxation, and... that’s all.


The Mother: Keep trying until you succeed and you will see.  Blessings.    DREAMS


The Mother: Usually I give no “meaning” to dreams, because each one has his own symbolism which has a meaning only for himself.    I will speak of certain details in this connection, next time we meet. Until then I shall keep the papers with me. (Sri Aurobindo and myself alone will see them.)


The Mother: In the ﬁrst dream we can take the theatre as the symbol of this world where all is a play — the appearance of something and not the thing itself. Here the kings and queens are not such because of an inner and divine right but as a result of the confusion of circumstances and birth.  I suppose the obstacles which were standing in the way of your joining me represent the difﬁculties (inner and outer) which are to be overcome in order to realise the union with the true consciousness.  The second dream seems to be an embodiment of old impressions left in the subconscient of social surroundings and your reactions to them.   In the third the train is, as always, an image of the way and the journey towards the goal.


The Mother: The sets of people are the various groups (secret societies etc.) that have been formed for this purpose. The one you were supposed to join was the society to which you became attached — composed of the boys who were with you at your ﬁrst “school”; the image is clear, but an association which you did not feel to be deﬁnitive.    Both of these dreams (are they only dreams?) are of a quality far superior to the former ones.  The ﬁrst seems to be one of those symbolic transcriptions of the inner condition and action which one so often gets in sleep.


The Mother: What appears to me most clear is how pointedly this dream shows the lack of any true ground for the apprehension you felt while swimming (the fear of not being able to reach the goal).  For the protection showered from the shore to be reached brings you there even when in appearance conditions or circumstances seem to be driving you away from it.  To say exactly what the motor launches stand for is difﬁcult in the absence of details.  The second is certainly not a dream but a reality, a very charming expression of the reality of the constant presence of Sri Aurobindo and of his help given through an intimate and true relation, even though veiled to the outer consciousness. This is a precious experience worth being kept in the most sacred corner of the remembrance.


The Mother:  : the seats, basis of the powers of creation (6).  One still occupied by the titanic forces (the last, most material one). : who showed us the way through the “labyrinth”, gave us some food and even a smoky light (torch, very poor) to ﬁnd our way in the dark, the lower nature; she asked  to be paid for her services, saying that the “other gentleman” (titan) was always paying her.  : some vital layer in the physical consciousness.


The Mother:   This dream is the result of a psychic impression which rose to the surface during sleep.   Keep constantly and sincerely in you the will to conquer.  Blessings.


The Mother:   One can learn much by controlling one’s dreams.   You ask me whether your illness comes from yoga. By no means — far from damaging health, yoga helps to build up a health that is robust and unfailing.   Do not forget that to succeed in our yoga one must have a strong and healthy body.


The Mother: For this, the body must do exercise, have an active and regular life, work physically, eat well, and sleep well.  It is in good health that the way towards transformation is found.   It is good to do exercises and to lead a simple and hygienic life, but for the body to be truly perfect, it must open to the divine forces, it must be subject only to the divine inﬂuence, it must  aspire constantly to realise the Divine.   Good health is the exterior expression of an inner harmony.


The Mother: We must be proud if we are in good health and not despise it.    As yet happiness and good health are not normal conditions in this world.  We must protect them carefully against the intrusion of their opposites.    INNER CAUSES OF ILLNESS


The Mother: You need not torture yourself about these small things — they have no importance in themselves and their utility is to show us where inconscience is still to be found in our nature so that we may put light there.   You must take this illness as a sign that in spite of all your convictions, perhaps even resolutions, you have to do sadhana and to add to your outer consecration in work the inner consecration of deep understanding and psychological transformation and make use of your seclusion for that purpose.  My love and help are with you.    Physical ailments are always the sign of a resistance in the physical being; but with surrender to the Divine’s Will and a complete trust in the working of the Grace, they are bound to disappear soon.


The Mother:  Sri Aurobindo says, “Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of the body”, and I add,   “An illness of the body is always the outer expression and translation of a disorder, a disharmony in the inner being; unless this inner disorder is healed, the outer cure cannot be total and permanent.”     Physical troubles always come as lessons to teach and to reveal what in us is pure and luminous enough to remain unaffected.


The Mother: It is in equality that one ﬁnds the remedy.   An important point: equality does not mean indifference.   The illness has come like a test and gone like a puriﬁcation carrying away all that was standing in the way of the joy of an integral consecration.   This illness has been put upon you by the hostile forces as a strong test.


The Mother: You have not met it with the proper attitude.  That is why it lingers.  Your going back to Madras does not ameliorate the attitude — on the contrary.  You yield to a movement of fear and distrust in the Divine.  I cannot see that it will lead to anything good for you.


The Mother:   Your illness was not a mere accident. You did not give sufﬁcient attention to the inner change, a psychological change with a broadening of your consciousness. You were satisﬁed with yourself.


The Mother: You were shut up in your small shell and did not try to make any progress. You said sadhana did not interest you  and you thought that the little work that you were doing was quite sufﬁcient for you and nothing more was needed. It was this attitude that took you out of my protection. I gave you a warning, but you challenged Nature by saying that nothing could touch you. All these things combined and brought your mental difﬁculties, weakness and illness.


The Mother: You must change. You must try to fulﬁl the conditions of Mahasaraswati, make your work more and more perfect, make progress and try for a psychological transformation. Less than this will not help you. This is the minimum and if you try sincerely, my help will always be there.  These days my work is going on at such a speed that unless you make a serious effort, you will be left far behind and not be able to remain with me.


The Mother: But if you do as I say, everything will be all right.    Your illness gave you an opportunity to open your eyes towards the need for an inner change. You must take advantage of this and progress.   Things that do not want to change in your nature join together and come out in the form of illness.


The Mother: The only thing to be done is to have a strong aspiration and a total change. Then everything will be all right.   FEAR AND ILLNESS  Be on your guard. There was on X a formation of fear — fear of cold, fear of bad health, etc. — take care that this formation does not jump upon you; you must reject it resolutely.


The Mother:   You must not fear. Most of your troubles come from fear. In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of the subconscient fear of the body. In the ordinary consciousness of the body there is a more or less hidden anxiety about the consequences of the slightest physical disturbance. It can be translated by these words of doubt about the future: “And what will happen?”


The Mother: It is this anxiety that must be checked. Indeed this anxiety is a lack of conﬁdence in the Divine’s Grace, the unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and perfect.  As a practical means of overcoming this subconscient fear each time that something of it comes to the surface, the more enlightened part of the being must impress on the body the necessity of an entire trust in the Divine’s Grace, the certitude that this Grace is always working for the best in our self as well as in all, and the determination to submit entirely and unreservedly to the Divine’s Will.  The body must know and be convinced that its essence is divine and that if no obstacle is put in the way of the Divine’s working, nothing can harm us. This process must be steadily repeated until all recurrence of fear is stopped.


The Mother: And then even if the illness succeeds in making its appearance, its strength and duration will be considerably diminished until it is deﬁnitively conquered.    When physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must face it with courage, calmness, conﬁdence, with the certitude that illness is a and that if one turns entirely, in full conﬁdence, with a complete quietude to the divine grace, it will settle in these cells as it establishes itself in the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delight.     The real disease is fear.


The Mother: Throw the fear away and the disease will go.  My help is with you.  Blessings.    As for cancer, the ﬁrst thing is that you should drive off all fear.


The Mother:   If you want to get cured there are two conditions. First you must be without fear, absolutely fearless, you understand, and secondly you must have a complete faith in the Divine protection.  These two things are essential.


The Mother:  WORRY AND BOTHER ABOUT ILLNESS  You must not worry; you will soon be back on your feet, especially as your vitality has remained very strong. Have no fear and keep your full trust in the Divine Grace.     Do not bother about it and increase your faith in the Divine’s Grace.


The Mother: Blessings.    This attack is not due to work or exposure but to the suggestion of an old habit rising from the subconscient. Do not listen to what people say and keep your faith in the Divine’s Grace.  Everything will become all right in the course of time.


The Mother: My blessings.     Do not worry and rest your hand.


The Mother: That is the best way to get better quickly.    My advice is not to worry. The more you think of it, the more you concentrate upon it and, above all, the more you fear, the more you give a chance for the thing to grow.  If, on the contrary, you turn your attention and your interest elsewhere you increase the possibilities of cure.


The Mother:   Why give so much importance to these material workings of the body? It is better to feel absolutely free of them and let them go their own way without bothering about it, until we have the force and knowledge necessary to intervene in their obscurity  and to compel them to change and become the true expression of the Supreme Light and Consciousness.


The Mother: Health: not to be preoccupied with it, but to leave it to the Divine.     Think less of yourself and your health.  Surely you will become stronger.


The Mother: But if you are convinced that you have an illness, go to the hospital, surely there they will ﬁnd one.    If parents could leave their children alone, they would not fall ill so often, perhaps not even once out of ten times. Yes, you have not said anything to the child, but how worried you were about its health. It appeared as if a catastrophe had happened or the child had suddenly developed cancer.


The Mother: It is your worry that spoils the whole atmosphere and increases the trouble.    If you are ill, your illness is looked after with so much anxiety and fear, you are given so much care that you forget to take help from the One who can help you and you fall into a vicious circle and take a morbid interest in your illness.


The Mother: When I was twenty, a doctor told me that in cases of troubles of the stomach or intestines, the best thing is to continue eating as usual and not to bother about the trouble. He said, “If you have acidity, it will come from whatever food you take and the more you bother about it, the more it will increase. If you go on changing your food, in the end you will ﬁnd that you cannot  even drink a drop of water without getting into trouble. But if you remain normal and don’t worry, you will become all right.”  And I have found this advice to be quite true.


The Mother:   WRONG THINKING AND ILLNESS  In fact I can assure you that the pain in the stomach as well as many other discomforts are due 90% to wrong thinking and strong imaginations — I mean that the material basis for them is practically negligible.


The Mother: With love and blessings.    Do not torment yourself and 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.


The Mother:  In the effect of food on the body 90% belongs to the power of thought. If you follow with conﬁdence the treatment of Dr. X, it will cure you.  Blessings.    You may have been told that certain bodily complaints will give you a great deal of pain.


The Mother: Things like that are often said. You  then make a formation of fear and keep expecting the pain. And the pain comes even when it need not.  But in case it is there after all, I can tell you one thing. If the consciousness is turned upward, the pain vanishes.


The Mother: If it is turned downward, the pain is felt and even increases. When one experiments with the upward and the downward turnings, one sees that the bodily complaint as such has nothing to do with the pain. The body may suffer very much or not at all, although its condition is exactly the same. It is the turn of the consciousness that makes all the difference.  I say “turned upward” because to turn towards the Divine is the best method, but what can be said in general is that if the consciousness is turned away from the pain to one’s work or anything that interests one, the pain ceases.


The Mother: And not only the pain but whatever damage there may be in an organ is set right much more easily when the consciousness is taken away from the trouble and one is open to the Divine.  There is the Sat aspect of the Divine — the pure supreme Existence above or beyond or behind the cosmos. If you can keep in contact with it, all physical complaints can be removed.


The Mother: Stop imagining wrong things and your miseries will stop at the same time.  Blessings.    His vital force is and mental suggestions rather strong.   Do what he asks for a time.


The Mother: He may ﬁnd out that it is all his imagination, for it is his that makes him sick or rather gives him the of sickness.   WILL TO CONQUER ILLNESS Wake up in yourself a will to conquer. Not a mere will in the mind but a will in the very cells of your body. Without that you can’t do anything; you may take a hundred medicines but they won’t cure you unless you have a will to overcome the physical illness.  I may destroy the adverse force that has possessed you.


The Mother: I may repeat the action a thousand times. But each time that a vacuum is created it will be ﬁlled up by one of the many forces that try to rush in. That is why I say, wake up the will to conquer.   Do not love your ill health and the ill health will leave you.


The Mother: Both the things are correct. You must put a strong will for getting rid of your illness and you must remain quiet and unperturbed by the results. The two are not contradictory. One should accompany the other. When you are completely cured, it will be an indication of some inner progress.


The Mother: Sri Aurobindo’s compassion is always there to help you, but some effort is needed from your side also.    She must take the resolution to get well, otherwise she will never be all right.


The Mother: The body is cured if it has decided to be cured.    The body should reject illness as energetically as we reject falsehood in the mind.   CONTROL OF DESIRES


The Mother: In order to be cured, my child, not only is it necessary to stop all these unseemly practices completely, but it is necessary to get rid of all these unhealthy from your thought and sensation, for it is desires that irritate the organs and make them ill. You must ruthlessly clean up everything and your will is not strong enough for that; invoke my will, call it sincerely and it will be there to help you. You are right when you say that with my help you will surely be able to conquer. That is true, but you must sincerely want this help and let it work within you and in all circumstances.   ( ) The power cannot work if you have no control over your desires.


The Mother:    Your readings are correct.  In my last note I was referring to food desires. Unless you control the food you take, you will always be ill.   Conquest over the greed for food: a promise of good health.


The Mother:    PEACE AND QUIET, FAITH AND SURRENDER  To keep quiet and to concentrate, leaving the Force from above to do its work, is the surest way to be cured of anything and everything.


The Mother: There is no illness that can resist that if it is done properly, in time and long enough, with a steady faith and a strong will.   Remain peaceful and conﬁdent and it will soon be over.   You must not lose patience, this does not hasten the cure. On the contrary, you must keep a peaceful faith that you are going to be cured.    Establish a greater peace and quietness in your body, that will give you the strength to resist attacks of illness.


The Mother:   The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means — whether by reading Sri Aurobindo’s books or meditation. It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures.


The Mother: The medicines only give a faith to the body. That is all.    My dear child, now it is time for the faith to become truly active and to stand unshaken against all contradictions. Have the faith, the true faith, that you will be cured and the cure is bound to come.


The Mother: My love and blessings.    Instead of being upset and struggling, the best thing to do is to offer one’s body to the Divine with the, “Let Thy Will be done. ” If there is any possibility of cure, it will establish the best conditions for it; and if cure is impossible, it will be the very best preparation for getting out of the body and the life without it.


The Mother: In any case the ﬁrst indispensable condition is a quiet surrender to the Divine’s will.   With love and blessings.     [facsimile] Turn your mind completely away from your difficulty, concentrate exclusively on the Light and the Force coming from above; let the Lord do for your body whatever He pleases.


The Mother: Hand over to Him totally the entire responsibility of your physical being.  .   With my blessings.    The imperative condition for cure is calm and quietness.


The Mother: Any agitation, any nervousness prolongs the illness.   ( ) It is due to restlessness and agitation. What is the matter? Bring down peace, the, in your stomach and it will be all right.


The Mother:   Catch hold of a peace deep within and push it into the cells of the body. With the peace will come back the health.


The Mother: Peace and stillness are the great remedy for disease.  When we can bring peace in our cells, we are cured.     Peace in the nerves: indispensable for good health.


The Mother:  CURE BY THE DIVINE GRACE  ( )  Have faith.


The Mother: There is no disease which cannot be cured by the Divine Grace.    Do not think you are invalid for ever, because the Grace of the Lord is inﬁnite.     I am enclosing a portrait of two birds with to encourage you to have faith that your eyes will be cured.


The Mother: I shall see what can be done.   Be passively conﬁdent: let me do it and it is done.    Cure me, O Mother!


The Mother:   Her mental disease was congenital, that is to say, caused by her physical constitution, and it would have happened to her wherever she would have been and whatever life she would have lived. In fact, I made her last here one-and-a-half years more than she would have lasted elsewhere.  These congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of the body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana ; otherwise it is only a so-called “miraculous cure” that can take place and that kind of “miracle” can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine and an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace.


The Mother: This was not the case, she was full of fears, desires and demands and terribly concentrated on her exterior being and  what she called its needs. This is just the opposite of a sincere consecration.     My dear child, Let your receptivity increase this year, to the extent of giving you the power to fully utilise the force that is at work for restoring perfect good health in you.


The Mother: With my love and blessings.     How “unnoticed”? She got cured!


The Mother: Man of little faith!    Anything may happen. It is only our “logical” minds which put limitations. I must congratulate your body for its receptivity.


The Mother:   This gives the exact measure of your body’s receptivity. Concentrate the force on the diseased parts and they will improve.    It depends on the physical reception of each one, and that receptivity depends on the more or less dominating mind.   It is a question of receptivity.


The Mother: I am doing the best that can be done for him, but he goes on thinking that he is ill. All the time he is busy with that idea and he has made a strong formation of illness around him. He is unable to receive my help because of this formation. Let him discard the idea of illness and more than half the trouble will be over and it will be easy to cure him.


The Mother:  DOCTORS AND MEDICINES Illnesses Truth is supreme harmony and supreme delight.  All disorder, all suffering is falsehood.  Thus it can be said that illnesses are falsehoods of the body and, consequently, doctors are soldiers of the great and noble army ﬁghting in the world for the conquest of Truth.     If we take the human body as a tabernacle of the Lord, then medical science becomes the ritual of worship and doctors the priests who ofﬁciate in the temple.


The Mother: Thus considered, the medical career is a priesthood and should be treated as such.     A broad mind, a generous heart, an unﬂinching will, a quiet steady determination, an inexhaustible energy and a total trust in one’s mission — this makes a perfect doctor.


The Mother:  After all, an illness is only a wrong attitude taken by some part of the body.  The chief role of the doctor is, by various means, to induce the body to recover its trust in the Supreme Grace.   To medical knowledge and experience, add full faith in the Divine’s Grace and your healing capacity will have no limits.    Spiritual power of healing: opening and receptivity to the divine inﬂuence.


The Mother:   The material power to heal demands a great sincerity in one’s goodwill.    My dear child, I quite agree with you that there is a power other and much more powerful than that of the doctors and the medicines and I am glad to see that you put your trust in it.  Surely it will lead you throughout all difﬁculties and in spite of all catastrophic warnings.


The Mother: Keep your faith intact and all will be all right.      (


The Mother: )  I am not specially interested in these things which are only exterior help for the exterior consciousness and not essential for the yoga.


The Mother: The whole value of a medicine is in the Spirit it contains.    To go from one doctor to another is the same mistake as to go from one Guru to another. One is on the material plane what the other is on the spiritual. You must choose your doctor and stick to him if you do not want to enter into physical confusion. It is only if the doctor himself decides to consult another or others that the thing can be done safely.


The Mother:   I sent you to the doctor and expect you to do what he asks you to do.    It is true that the faith cures more than the treatment. You might take Dr. X’s treatment and call for the Divine’s help.


The Mother:    Before being so desperate, try ayurvedic treatment and take it with a concentration on Kali’s Force.  Blessings.


The Mother:     In every case, it is the Force that cures.  Medicines have little effect; it is the faith in medicines that cures.  Get treated by the doctor whom you trust and take only the medicines that inspire trust in you.


The Mother: The body only has trust in material methods and that is why you have to give it medicines — but medicines have an effect only if the Force acts through them.  Allopaths ordinarily cure one thing, only to the detriment of another.  Ayurvedic doctors do not usually have this drawback. That is why I recommend them.   You are quite right.


The Mother: Stick to your faith and you will get cured.   With blessings.   MESSAGES FOR ASHRAM MEDICAL SERVICES  (


The Mother: )  In this new activity the knowledge of the past must be illumined by the revelation of today.   With my blessings.    ( )


The Mother: Children’s Dispensary  As many cases so many cures.  The most important thing in therapeutics is to teach the body to react properly and reject the illness.  Blessings.


The Mother:    (  )  The more the mind is quiet, the more the sight is good.


The Mother:    ( )


The Mother: Nature is the all-round Healer.      (


The Mother: )  Finally it is Faith that cures.  Blessings.


The Mother:      (  )


The Mother: Veritas curat.      GENERAL


The Mother: Yes, you should do it every day; it gives strength and maintains one’s energy.


The Mother: You must avoid coughing as much as you can.  , and you should always try to achieve this control, because coughing is unnecessarily tiring.     Probably some bad suggestions which you must learn to drive away.


The Mother:    (:)   The ﬁre of puriﬁcation ought to purify without causing fever, and it is quite possible to be puriﬁed without falling ill.


The Mother:   Most probably the end is approaching. All depends on his nature and will. If he prefers to go away quietly without struggle, let him be quiet and pull on as long as he can. If he likes to ﬁght let him be operated upon and see what happens.


The Mother: My blessings in any case are with him.    The operation was quite successful, done by a very skilful surgeon, but X’s heart was weak beyond expectation and he died of heart failure ﬁve days after the operation. It has been a sad event and a big loss for the work. But for some time he suffered much and felt tired of it.


The Mother: He had several times expressed the wish to change his body for a better one. It is surely this wish that is responsible for what happened.     It is difﬁcult to say exactly which of the two possibilities would be more helpful to recover your health. But in a general way a change is more helpful for the body at the beginning than in the long run, as the thing most detrimental to the body’s welfare is the lack of interest in life and surroundings.


The Mother: Anything new can wake up this interest for the time being — but the effect is never very lasting.     These contradictory impressions are quite natural.  The material consciousness naturally rejoices when circumstances combine to satisfy what it considers to be its need; in any case, they will help it to recover its balance and conﬁdence in life.


The Mother: The soul witnesses yet another victory of Matter over spirit (for every illness that resists the inner cure is for the spirit a defeat, which may only be short-lived but which is nonetheless a defeat). The soul can neither be troubled nor unhappy, for it has faith in its own eternity and is aware of it; but it may sometimes feel a certain melancholy.     Why does he complain?


The Mother: The energy must be spent to be renewed. The human body is not a closed jar that gets emptied by spending. The human body is a channel that receives only when it spends.  Let him eat well, sleep well, avoid wrong thinking and spend normally. He will soon be all right.


The Mother:   It is only by correcting your way of living that you can hope to secure good health.


The Mother: It is because of all your quarrels, shouting, restlessness, nervousness, agitation, discords and disputes, that X is unwell. I said from the beginning that she needed rest and quietness. It was especially indispensable, but she has been surrounded by the opposite atmosphere — no wonder if she is ill. She weeps and trembles because her nerves are overtaxed and they are overtaxed because all of you have no mastery over yourselves and no control over your speech.  Cooking for her is quite nice, but it is not sufﬁcient; you must let her have enough peace and quietness to be able to eat.


The Mother:  The best way is to call for the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmony, to replace the vibrations of disorder and confusion.     It is not very difﬁcult to get rid of headache and giddiness.  However bad your condition may be, call the light from above.


The Mother: Try to feel that the light is entering into you from the crown of your head bringing with it calm and peace. If you do it seriously, your headache and giddiness will disappear in no time.    Tumours always indicate some difﬁculty in the nature; certain cells decide to be independent of the discipline of the body.


The Mother: They do not remain in harmony with the other parts and begin to grow out of all proportion. Generally this is the result of a very  strong greed in the nature. It may be greed for material things or for power or any other subtle object.  By performing an operation you may remove the tumour, but if the inner nature remains unchanged, it will come up in some other part and all the trouble that the patient has to undergo for the operation and its after-effects will be in vain.


The Mother:  The cells of the body get the habit of increasing without cause.  This is cancer. If you change the consciousness in the cells and get rid of their habit, cancer can be cured.   NEW YEAR MESSAGES   Let the birth of the new year be the new birth of our consciousness.


The Mother: Leaving the past far behind us, let us run towards a luminous future.     Lord, the year is dying and our gratitude bows down to Thee.  Lord, the year is reborn, our prayer rises up to Thee.


The Mother: Let it be for us also the dawn of a new life.    We surrender to Thee this evening all that is artiﬁcial and false, all that pretends and imitates. Let it disappear with the year that is at an end. May only what is perfectly true, sincere, straight and pure subsist in the year that is beginning.


The Mother: O Lord! Grant that this year may be the year of Thy Victory. We aspire for a perfect faithfulness which would make us worthy of it.    Glory to Thee, O Lord, who triumphest over every obstacle!  Grant that nothing in us may be an impediment to Thy work.


The Mother:   Lord, grant that everything in us may be ready for Thy Realisation. On the threshold of the new year we bow down to Thee, O Lord, Supreme Realiser.    Will be the year of puriﬁcation.  O Lord, all those who take part in the divine work implore Thee that by a supreme puriﬁcation they may be liberated from the domination of the ego.


The Mother: A year of silence and expectation...  Let us ﬁnd, O Lord, our entire support in Thy Grace alone.      The world is ﬁghting for its spiritual life menaced by the rush of hostile and undivine forces.  Lord, we aspire to be Thy valiant warriors so that Thy glory may manifest upon the earth.


The Mother:   Glory to Thee, O Lord, conqueror of every foe!  Give us the power to endure and share in Thy victory.     The hour has come when a choice has to be made, radical and deﬁnitive.


The Mother: Lord, give us the strength to reject falsehood and emerge in Thy truth, pure and worthy of Thy victory.      O Lord, the world implores Thee to prevent it from falling back always into the same stupidities.  Grant that the mistakes recognised may never be renewed.


The Mother: Grant lastly that its actions may be the exact and sincere expression of its proclaimed ideals.     The earth will enjoy a lasting and living peace only when men understand that they must be truthful even in their international dealings.   O Lord, it is for this perfect truthfulness that we aspire.


The Mother:   Lord, it is Thy Peace we would have and not a vain semblance of peace, Thy Freedom and not a semblance of freedom, Thy Unity and not a semblance of unity. For it is only Thy Peace, Thy Freedom and Thy Unity that can triumph over the blind violence and the hypocrisy and falsehood that still reign upon earth.  Grant that those who so valiantly struggled and suffered for Thy Victory, may see the true and genuine results of that victory realised in the world.


The Mother: [facsimile]   At the very moment when everything seems to go from bad to worse, it is then that we must make a supreme act of faith and know that the Grace will never fail us.     Forward, for ever forward!  At the end of the tunnel is the light...  At the end of the ﬁght is the victory!


The Mother:   Lord, on the eve of the new year I asked Thee what I must say.  Thou hast made me see two extreme possibilities and given me the command to keep silent.    Don’t speak. Act.  Don’t announce.


The Mother: Realise.     Lord, we are upon earth to accomplish Thy work of transformation. It is our sole will, our sole preoccupation. Grant that it may be also our sole occupation and that all our actions may help us towards this single goal.


The Mother: [facsimile ]


The Mother: O Lord, Thou hast decided to test the quality of our faith and to pass our sincerity on Thy touchstone. Grant that we come out greater and purer from the ordeal.    Lord, Thou hast told us: Do not give way, hold tight. It is when everything seems lost that all is saved.


The Mother:   My Lord, here is Thy advice to all, for this year: “Never boast about anything, let your acts speak for you.”     [facsimile]  No human will can finally prevail against the Divine’s Will. Let us put ourselves deliberately and exclusively on the side of the Divine, and the Victory is ultimately certain.


The Mother:   The greatest victories are the least noisy.  The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum.      [


The Mother: facsimile ]    A Power greater than that of Evil can alone win the victory.  It is not a crucified but a glorified body that will save the world.


The Mother:    [ facsimile


The Mother: ]    O Nature, Material Mother, thou hast said that thou wilt collaborate and there can be no limit to the splendour of this collaboration.    At the very bottom of the inconscience most hard and rigid and narrow and stiﬂing I struck upon an almighty spring that cast me up forthwith into a formless limitless Vast vibrating with the seeds of a new world.    To know is good, to live is better, to be, that is perfect.    This wonderful world of delight waiting at our gates for our call, to come down upon earth...


The Mother:     We thirst for perfection. Not this human perfection which is a perfection of the ego and bars the way to the divine perfection.  But that one perfection which has the power to manifest upon earth the Eternal Truth.


The Mother: Let us prepare for the Hour of God.     Are you ready?    Salute to the advent of Truth.


The Mother:         Let us serve the Truth.


The Mother:   Men, countries, continents!  The choice is imperative: Truth or the abyss.     Remain young, never stop striving towards perfection.


The Mother:     No words — acts.    The world is preparing for a big change.  Will you help?


The Mother:   Blessed are those who take a leap towards the Future.      Let us all try to be worthy of Sri Aurobindo’s centenary.     When you are conscious of the whole world at the same time, then you can become conscious of the Divine.


The Mother:    C N Y M


The Mother: The hour has come when a choice has to be made, radical and deﬁnitive.  Lord, give us the strength to reject falsehood and emerge in Thy truth, pure and worthy of Thy victory.  This is no question of general theory; it belongs to the actuality of things. The Asura is the force of falsehood, antidivine, which reigns as sovereign over the physical world; his inﬂuence is felt everywhere, it is in everything in Matter. But the time has now come when the separation, the puriﬁcation, can be made, the falsehood, the Asuric inﬂuence, rejected and there can be an exclusive living in the Divine Truth.


The Mother:    This is not a prayer, but an encouragement.  Here is the encouragement and a comment upon it:  “At the very moment when everything seems to go from bad to worse, it is then that we must make a supreme act of faith and know that the Grace will never fail us.”  The hours before the dawn are always the darkest.  The servitude just before freedom comes is the most painful of all.


The Mother: But in the heart endowed with faith burns the eternal ﬂame of hope which leaves no room for discouragement.     This wonderful world of delight waiting at our gates for our call, to come down upon earth...  It has always been waiting, since the beginning of the creation.   Not necessarily.


The Mother: This is absolutely evident.  I did not specify what gates they are.  Certainly not.   Understand and be sincere.


The Mother: Each one must ﬁnd that for himself.   For those who spontaneously feel like doing it, it will be helpful.  Because I received it in English ﬁrst.  There is always something — many things — left unsaid.


The Mother:   Are you ready?  The question means: Are you ready for the Hour of God?    Let us serve the Truth He who wants sincerely to serve the Truth, will know the Truth.     Men, countries, continents!


The Mother: The choice is imperative: Truth or the abyss.  The conﬁdence is quite legitimate.  The message is only for those who are still asleep and quite satisﬁed with their sleep.


The Mother: Right now there is a great tension. They have all taken positions as if to start war. It is the blind passion that men put into their international relations.  At the base of all there is fear, general distrust, and what they believe to be their “interests” (money, business) — a combination of these three things. When these three lowest passions of humanity are brought into play, that is what I call “the abyss”.


The Mother: When someone has decided to consecrate his life to the seeking for the Divine, if he is sincere, that is to say, if the resolution is sincere and carried out sincerely, there is absolutely nothing to fear, because all that happens or will happen to him will lead him by the shortest way to this realisation.  That is the response of the Grace. People believe that the Grace means making everything smooth for all your life. It is not true.   The Grace works for the realisation of your aspiration and everything is arranged to gain the most prompt, the quickest realisation — so there is nothing to fear.


The Mother: Fear comes with insincerity. If you want a comfortable life, agreeable circumstances, etc., you are putting conditions and restrictions, and then you can fear.  But it has no business in the sadhana!    The world is preparing for a big change.  Will you help?


The Mother: The best way of helping is to let the Consciousness that has come down upon earth work in you for transformation.      To begin with, not to stick to the old habits individual and national.


The Mother:


The Mother: May this year be a year of luminous peace in the joy that comes from true kindness — the human child of Divine Compassion.   Let us hope also that this year will not pass without bringing us together once more.


The Mother:     [ facsimile


The Mother: ]  Let the dawn of the New Year be for us also the dawn of a new and better life.     Yes, the New Year must dispel the smoke of ignorance and make the Light shine forth.


The Mother: My blessings are with you.    DARSHAN MESSAGES 24 April 1950  The disciples judge the forms by the Master.  Outsiders judge the Master by the forms.   15 August 1950


The Mother: Our sadhana has reached a stage in which we are mostly dealing with the subconscient and even the inconscient. As a consequence the physical determinism has taken a predominant position bringing an increase of difﬁculties on the way which have to be faced with an increase of courage and determination.  In any case, whatever happens and whatever you do, do not allow to invade you. At the slightest touch of it, react and call for help.  You must learn not to identify with your body and treat it as a young child who needs to be convinced that it must not fear.


The Mother: F is the greatest of all enemies and we must overcome it here, once and for all.   21 February 1952  Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to become. May we ﬁght successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born,  against the past that seeks to endure; so that the new things may manifest and we may be ready to receive them.   24 November 1952


The Mother: To follow Sri Aurobindo in the great adventure of his integral Yoga, one needed always to be a warrior; now that he has left us physically, one needs to be a hero.   21 February 1954 When you fear death it has already defeated you.    24 April 1956 The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality.  It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.


The Mother:  24 November 1956  Without care for time, without fear for space, surging out puriﬁed from the ﬂames of the ordeal, we shall ﬂy without stop towards the realisation of our goal, the supramental victory.    24 April 1957 In the eternity of becoming each Avatar is only the announcer, the forerunner of a more perfect future realisation.   21 February 1958  To celebrate the birth of a transitory body can satisfy some faithful feelings.


The Mother: To celebrate the manifestation of the eternal Consciousness can be done at every moment of the universal history.  But to celebrate the advent of a new world, the supramental world, is a marvellous and exceptional privilege.   24 April 1958  There are two complementary aspects of the liberating action of the Divine Grace upon earth among men. These two aspects are equally indispensable, but are not equally appreciated.


The Mother: The sovereign immutable peace that liberates from anxiety, tension and suffering.  The dynamic all-powerful progress that liberates from fetters, bondages and inertia.  The peace is universally appreciated and recognised as divine, but the progress is welcomed only by those whose aspiration is intense and courageous.   15 August 1961 In the depths of the Inconscient there also shines the Divine Consciousness, resplendent and eternal.    21 February 1965


The Mother: Above all the complications of the so-called human wisdom stands the luminous simplicity of the Divine’s Grace, ready to act if we allow It to do so.   21 February 1968 The best way to hasten the manifestation of the Divine’s Love is to collaborate for the triumph of the Truth.   21 February 1969 It is only immutable peace that can make possible eternity of existence.   21 February 1970 Truth is a difﬁcult and strenuous conquest. One must be a real warrior to make this conquest, a warrior who fears nothing, neither enemies nor death, for with or against everybody, with or without a body, the struggle continues and will end by Victory.


The Mother:  21 February 1971  A life consecrated to union with the Divine is the only life worth living.    24 April 1971 Needless to say that those who aspire to Truth must abstain from telling lies.   21 February 1972 The complete uniﬁcation of the whole being around the psychic centre is the essential condition to realise a perfect sincerity.   15 August 1972


The Mother: Sri Aurobindo’s message is an immortal sunlight radiating over the future.   24 November 1972  Beyond all preferences and limitations, there is a ground of mutual understanding where all can meet and ﬁnd their harmony: it is the aspiration for a divine consciousness.   21 February 1973  The more we advance on the way, the more the need of the Divine Presence becomes imperative and indispensable.


The Mother:   24 April 1973 Beyond man’s consciousness Beyond speech O Thou, Supreme Consciousness Unique Reality Divine Truth   MESSAGES FOR THE SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION UPON EARTH 29 FEBRUARY 1956 The Golden Day  Henceforth the 29th February will be the day of the Lord.    29 February 1956  This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you.


The Mother: I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine.  As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that” and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces.  Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted ﬂow.    The Mother  Truth alone can give to the world the power of receiving and manifesting the Divine Love.    It is only when the Supramental manifests in the body-mind that its presence can be permanent.


The Mother:  MESSAGES FOR THE MOTHER’S FIRST ARRIVAL IN PONDICHERRY 29 MARCH 1914   I need not appear to be good if my sincerity is perfect.  It is better to be than to seem.    Never forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you helping and guiding you.


The Mother: He is the companion who never fails, the friend whose love comforts and strengthens. Have faith and He will do everything for you.     29 February — 29 March  Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born.


The Mother: The things that were promised are fulﬁlled.     When you are in need of an external change, it means that you do not progress internally. For he who progresses internally can live always under the same external conditions; these constantly reveal to him new truths.    Our Path


The Mother: To walk on the path you must have a dauntless intrepidity, you must never turn back upon yourself with this mean, petty, weak, ugly movement that fear is.  An indomitable courage, a perfect sincerity, a total selfgiving to the extent that you do not calculate or bargain, you do not give with the idea of receiving, you do not offer yourself with the intention of being protected, you do not have a faith that needs proofs, — this is indispensable for advancing on the path, — this alone can shelter you against all dangers.     MESSAGES FOR SRI AUROBINDO’S ARRIVAL IN PONDICHERRY 4 APRIL 1910  Be sincere, always sincere, more and more sincere.  Sincerity exacts from each one that in his thoughts, his feelings, his sensations and his actions he should express nothing but the central truth of his being.


The Mother:   A new Light shall break upon the earth, a new world shall be born: the things that were promised shall be fulfilled.    [facsimile (Sri Aurobindo’s symbol)]   The descending triangle represents Sat-Chit-Ananda.  The ascending triangle represents the aspiring answer from matter under the form of life, light and love.


The Mother: The junction of both — the central square — is the perfect manifestation having at its centre the Avatar of the Supreme — the lotus.   The water — inside the square — represents the multiplicity, the creation.      Physically, materially, upon earth, it is in gratitude that one ﬁnds the source of the purest delight.


The Mother:  PUJA MESSAGES L P 1955   Mother divine, thou art with us, each day thou givest me the assurance, and closely united in an identiﬁcation which grows more and more integral, more and more constant, we turn to the Lord of the universe and to That which is beyond in a great aspiration towards the new Light.   K P 1955 An Old Chaldean Legend  Long, long ago, in the dry land which is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated upon earth to awaken in it the supreme love.


The Mother: As expected it was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, pursued. Mortally wounded by its assailants, it wanted to die quietly in solitude in order to be able to accomplish its work, and being pursued, it ran away. Suddenly, in the vast desert land there appeared a small pomegranate bush. The saviour crept in under the low branches, to leave its body in peace; and immediately the bush spread out miraculously, it grew higher, larger, became deep and thick, so that when the pursuers passed by, they did not even suspect that the One whom they were chasing was hidden there, and they went their way.   While drop by drop the sacred blood fell, fertilising the soil, the bush was covered with marvellous ﬂowers, scarlet, large, crowded with petals... innumerable drops of blood.


The Mother: These are the ﬂowers which express and contain for us the Divine’s Love.   D P 1957 M  To express our gratitude to Sri Aurobindo we can do nothing better than to be a living demonstration of his teaching.   D P 1957 V D: V D  For those who use their physical eyes alone, the victory will be apparent only when it is total, that is to say, physical.


The Mother:  C P D ()   Today was truly a day of victory, victory over all that yet remained human in the physical consciousness.  O Nature, I bring to thee force and light, truth and power; it is for thee to receive and utilise them. It is thou who wilt be receptive in the fruit of thy creation, man, and open the doors of his understanding; it is thou who wilt give him the energy  of progress and the will of transformation; and, above all, it is thou who wilt make him accept the Presence and aspire for Realisation.


The Mother:    ( )


The Mother: It is victory day; let it be a true victory of the Spirit over ignorance and falsehood.    ()  A verbal notation of the experience I transmitted during meditation.  The annual battle and victory of Durga symbolise the rhythmic intervention of the Supreme Divine Consciousness that periodically gives a new impetus to the universal progress.


The Mother:    (  )


The Mother: But this does not mean that it is not already won in principle.    ()  We who have a common uplifting ideal, shall unite; and in this union and by this union we will face and overcome the attacks of all opposing forces of darkness and devastation. In union is  the strength, in union is the power, in union the certitude of Victory.


The Mother: Mother Kali will be with you on this day.      CHRISTMAS


The Mother: MESSAGES   No¨el.  Blessings.


The Mother: Bon No¨el.  Blessings.    Bon No¨el to all.  With the blessings of the Grace for all.    May the New Light illumine your thoughts and your lives, govern your hearts and guide your action.


The Mother: Blessings.       Joyeux No¨el.  Let us celebrate the Light by letting it enter into us.


The Mother:   If you want peace upon earth, ﬁrst establish peace in your heart.  If you want union in the world, ﬁrst unify the different parts of your being.  Blessings.    Bon No¨el to all.    Bon No¨el to all, in Peace and Joy.


The Mother: May this new Christmas be for you the advent of a new light, higher and purer.    Union and goodwill upon earth.  Behind the rigidity of the outward celebrations there is a living symbol; it is this that we must remember.   Peace and goodwill to all.  Unless a break is made with the habits and the beliefs of the past, there is little hope of advancing rapidly towards the future.


The Mother:   Love the Truth.  Let the light dawn in your consciousness.   Blessings to all.    Hail the new light.


The Mother: That it may grow in all hearts .  Blessings.    Bon No¨el.


The Mother:     The time has come for the rule of falsehood to end.  In the Truth alone is salvation.     We want to show to the world that man can become a true servitor of the Divine.


The Mother: Who will collaborate in?


The Mother:    Father Christmas, I evoke you today!  Answer our call. Come bearing all your marvellous gifts.


The Mother: You are the great dispenser of worldly possessions; you are the untiring friend who hears every request and grants it generously.   Give each one the material object he desires, and as for me, give me enough, give me much so that I may give largely to all.


The Mother: (  )  Gold: wealth of the world and supramental knowledge.  Frankincense: puriﬁcation of the vital.


The Mother: Myrrh: immortalisation of the body.   BIRTHDAY MESSAGES  My dear child, my love and blessings are and will be with you throughout the year. Let them help you to make one more progress on the way towards the divine goal.


The Mother:   Let this year be a year of progress and transformation — one more step on the way leading to the Divine Realisation.   Let this year be for you the year of a complete opening and of the breaking of all limitations.   Let this year bring you the true faith — a faith that no darkness can obscure.   Let this day of your birth be for you an occasion to give yourself a little more, a little better to the Divine. Let your consecration be more total, your devotion more ardent, your aspiration more intense.


The Mother: Open yourself to the New Light and walk with a joyful step on the path.  Resolve on this day that it may be thus and the day will not have passed in vain.    A grain of practice is worth a mountain of theories.


The Mother: “Lord, on this anniversary day of my birth, grant that the power to know changes in me into a power to transform myself integrally.”     A bonne fˆete!  A new birth also, the birth into a new consciousness in which you will be above all little personal reactions because you will constantly feel in your heart the presence of the Divine; may it give you the force to surmount all obstacles, all pettiness and all difﬁculties.


The Mother: With my love and my blessings.   On this day, we take the decision to make a decisive step towards the victory of truth.  Each year that passes should be — and necessarily is — a new conquest.  Let a decisive step be taken this year towards His Victory.   With this new year that starts for you, you must start a new life, with a renewed resolution to drive away from your consciousness and action all that deforms, diminishes, obscures and ﬁnally stops your progress and impairs your health.


The Mother: In your effort for inner growth and puriﬁcation, you can be sure of being sustained and helped by my force and my blessings.    Bonne Fˆete!  May this new year be for you a year of progress in the perfection of work and of consecration, in sincerity, energy and peace.


The Mother: With my blessings.    Bonne Fˆete!  With my blessings for a year of perfect consecration and integral progress in love and peace.    Bonne Fˆete In silent endurance, one step forward towards the victory, with the help of eternal love.


The Mother:  Bonne Fˆete To mark one more step on the luminous road leading to the Divine Realisation in Peace, Love and Joy.      Bonne Fˆete With my love for a life of collaboration and my blessings for the prolonged continuation of this happy collaboration in peace and love.


The Mother:  Bonne Fˆete With my love, my trust and my blessings for transformation.  Forward to the Realisation.    MESSAGES FOR CENTRES AND ORGANISATIONS


The Mother: ( )  1. Prayer  (Sri Aurobindo, Mother — grant us your help in our endeavour to understand your teaching.)  2.


The Mother: 3. A moment of silence.  4. One question can be put by whoever wants to put a question on  5. Answer to the question.


The Mother: 6.  This is the meeting of a but simply a class for studying Sri Aurobindo’s books.    I have read X’s letters and would like you to tell him that: 1) I think it would be better to begin the circle without a too expensive basis to start with, so that the question of money will not be at the forefront and troublesome. Later on when the circle will have proved a success it can move to more expensive quarters.


The Mother: 2) The yearly subscription for the members can be ﬁxed at Rs.10, but I propose that all those who wish to come to read and study Sri Aurobindo’s books can do so without being of the circle and on a small subscription of Rs. 2 for instance.  3) It is better not to books and let them go out of the circle premises.  4) I wish that apart from the yearly subscription, no money should be asked from those who send money here regularly because it would be so much taken from their contribution here.   5) He must not form a committee except with people with whom he can fully agree and also who are accepted by Sri Aurobindo and myself here.  6) He must not do anything without our written consent and to save time it is better if he writes directly to me in English, stating in a short and precise way the steps he intends to take.


The Mother: Finally you can send him my blessings and my recommendation to avoid all quarrels, bad feelings and misunderstandings.  A word to ﬁnish:     ( ) Let the eternal Light dawn on the eastern horizon.


The Mother:    (


The Mother: )  Let this place be worthy of its name and manifest the true spirit of Sri Aurobindo’s teaching and message to the world.   With my blessings.


The Mother: In Delhi at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram branch they need very badly somebody qualiﬁed who could give lectures on Sri Aurobindo’s teaching and organise the higher studies in the Ashram School.  I am quite convinced that you are the best man to do that work. You have a very clear and deep understanding of Sri  Aurobindo’s writings and at the same time your explanations are very attractive and comprehensible.  Kindly let me know if you agree to this proposal, so that the necessary arrangements can be made.  I feel quite sure that you have fully beneﬁted by this time of rest you had with your family and that you are quite ﬁt now.


The Mother: Blessings to all and for you with my love.     To all those who work and learn in the Delhi Branch of the Ashram, I send my blessings.


The Mother: Let each one do his very best and, peacefully, leave to the Supreme the care of the results.   ( )  To open a centre is not sufﬁcient in itself. It must be the pure hearth of a perfect sincerity in a total consecration to the Divine.


The Mother: Let the ﬂame of this sincerity rise high above the falsities and deceptions of the world.   With blessings.   Sri Aurobindo’s Action and Sri Aurobindo Society are equally working for the manifestation of the truth in the immediate future; and to help both equally is to work for this realisation.   And my blessings are with all help and good will.


The Mother:  MESSAGES FOR DEPARTMENTS AND BUSINESSES  ( )  Obligeance, rectitude, r´egularit´e.


The Mother: Obliging, correct, regular.  Blessings.


The Mother: ( )  Let peace and good will always prevail here.   With my blessings.


The Mother:    ( )


The Mother: A happy beginning A good continuation and no end — an endless progression.      (


The Mother: )  Faithfulness is the sure basis of success.    MISCELLANEOUS MESSAGES  ( )  In each and every one, the highest consciousness must be the ruler of the life.


The Mother: Blessings.      (


The Mother: )  Our life ought to be governed by the Love for Truth and the thirst for Light.  Blessings.


The Mother: ( )  Let this new house be ﬁlled with an ardent aspiration for the Divine Realisation and, in answer to the call, the Divine Presence will be there.  PRAYER AND CALLING THE DIVINE


The Mother: The whole of our life should be a prayer offered to the Divine.     Integral prayer: the whole being is concentrated in a single prayer to the Divine.


The Mother:    When coming out of sleep you must keep quiet for a few moments and consecrate the coming day to the Divine, praying to remember Him always and in all circumstances.  Before going to sleep you must concentrate for a few minutes, look into the day that has passed, remember when and where you have forgotten the Divine, and pray that such forgettings should not happen again.


The Mother:  When waking up every morning, let us pray for a day of complete consecration.   Let us pray with all our heart that the divine work may be accomplished.


The Mother: All sincere prayers are granted, but it may take some time to realise materially.    All sincere prayers are granted, every call is answered.    Sincere calls surely are heard and receive an answer.


The Mother:  We ought to be in a constant state of aspiration, but when we cannot aspire let us pray with the simplicity of a child.     We pray that the Divine should teach us ever more, enlighten us more and more, dispel our ignorance, illumine our minds.


The Mother:   It is never in vain that an ardent and sincere prayer is addressed to the Divine’s Grace.    The Supreme is divine knowledge and perfect unity; at each moment of the day let us call to Him so that we may be nothing else than Himself.


The Mother:  When, in our despair, we cry to the Divine, always He answers to our call.   We pray to the Divine to accept the ardent ﬂame of our gratitude and of our joyous and fully conﬁdent adherence.     With humility and sincerity.  It goes without saying that all bargaining spirit is an insincerity that takes away all value from the prayer.


The Mother:  Nothing is difﬁcult for those who call sincerely the Divine.   PRAYERS  To complete what I told you yesterday about Radha’s dance I have noted this down as an indication of the thought and feeling Radha must have within her when she stands at the end in front of Krishna: “Every thought of my mind, every emotion of my heart, every movement of my being, every feeling and every sensation, each cell of my body, each drop of my blood, all, all is yours, yours absolutely, yours without reserve. You can decide my life or my death, my happiness or my sorrow, my pleasure or my pain; whatever you do with me, whatever comes to me from you will lead me to the Divine Rapture.”


The Mother:   R’ P O Thou whom at ﬁrst sight I knew for the Lord of my being and my God, receive my offering.  Thine are all my thoughts, all my emotions, all the sentiments of my heart, all my sensations, all the movements of my life, each cell of my body, each drop of my blood. I am absolutely and altogether Thine, Thine without reserve. What Thou wilt of me, that I shall be. Whether Thou choosest for me life or death, happiness or sorrow, pleasure or suffering, all that comes to me from Thee will be welcome.


The Mother: Each one of Thy gifts will be always for me a gift divine bringing with it the supreme Felicity.     My Lord, make me entirely Thine.


The Mother: My Lord, let me be entirely and sincerely yours.     O Lord, give me a perfect sincerity.


The Mother: O Lord, let me be perfectly yours for ever.     Aspiration addressed to the Supreme: Let all in me be always at Your service.


The Mother:   O Lord, awaken in me an ardent desire to know Thee.  I aspire that my life may be consecrated to Thy service.    Let me always follow Thy divine Guidance. Let me be aware of my true destiny.


The Mother:   O Lord, Thy sweetness has entered into my soul, and Thou hast ﬁlled all my being with joy.


The Mother: My heart is at peace, my mind is free from impatience, and in all things I rely on Thy will with the smiling conﬁdence of a child.    My Lord, every day, in all circumstances, let me repeat with the full sincerity of my heart, “May Thy Will be done and not mine.”


The Mother: Lord, with all my soul I want to accomplish what Thou directest me to do.     My Lord, deliver me from all vanity; make me humble and sincere.


The Mother:   O Lord, most humbly I pray that I may be at the height of my endeavour, that nothing in me, conscious or unconscious, may betray Thee by failing to serve in Thy sacred mission.  With a solemn devotion I salute Thee.    A daily prayer  O Lord, let me be free from fear and worry so that I can always serve you to the best of my ability.


The Mother:   Lord, give me the strength of a total and perfect sincerity that I may be worthy of Thy Realisation.


The Mother: O my heart, be great enough for the Victory.      My


The Mother: heart aspires to be vast enough for Thy Victory.     I aspire to be delivered from all egoistic weakness and all unconscious insincerity.


The Mother:   Lord, grant that my vision of things may be direct and objective and my acts be completely transformed by it.    Lord, grant that a stupidity once committed and recognised may never be repeated.


The Mother:  My Lord, grant me this quiet trust in Thee which overcomes all the difﬁculties.


The Mother: Grant me a quiet trust, a peaceful strength, an ardent faith and devotion.      Lord


The Mother: , grant that I may be entirely and eternally faithful to Thee.     Lord, grant me this Grace, that I may never forget Thee.


The Mother:   My Lord, make the consciousness clear and precise, the speech thoroughly true, the surrender complete, the calm absolute and transform the whole being into an ocean of light and love.    Make me entirely transparent so that my consciousness may unite with Thine.  I aspire to place at Thy feet all the riches of this world.


The Mother:   O Lord, I pray to Thee, guide my footsteps, enlighten my mind, that at every moment and in all things I may do exactly what Thou wantest me to do.


The Mother: Lord, give me perfect sincerity, that sincerity which will lead me straight to Thee.     Lord, give me Thy blessings that I may become more and more sincere.


The Mother:     Lord, give me the real happiness, that which depends only upon Thee.


The Mother: Prayer for 1971  O Lord, let me be what you want me to be.    I belong to Thee. And I wish to know Thee so that all that I do may be only what Thou wantest me to do.


The Mother:   Lord of Mercy, make me worthy of Thy Grace.


The Mother: Morning and Evening Prayer  Lord, I want to be Yours and worthy of You; make me Your ideal child.


The Mother:    Morning


The Mother: O my Lord, my Sweet Mother, Let me be Yours, absolutely Yours, perfectly Yours.  Your force, Your light and Your love will protect me against all evils.    Midday O my Lord, Sweet Mother, I am Yours and pray to be more and more perfectly Yours.  Night


The Mother: O my Lord, Sweet Mother, Your force is with me, Your light and Your love, and You will save me from all difﬁculties.     My sweet Lord, my little Mother, Give me the true love, the love that forgets itself.


The Mother:  My Lord, my Mother, You are always with me with your blessings and your grace.  Your Presence is the supreme protection.    Remember that the Mother is always with you.


The Mother: Address Her as follows and She will pull you out of all difﬁculties:  “O Mother, Thou art the light of my intelligence, the purity of my soul, the quiet strength of my vital, the endurance of my body. I rely on Thee alone and want to be entirely Thine. Make me surmount all obstacles on the way.”


The Mother:   I have a sweet little Mother Who lives in my heart; We are so happy together, We shall never part.


The Mother:     My Lord, Thou hast given me tonight this supreme knowledge.  We are living only because such is Thy will.  We shall die only if it be Thy will.


The Mother:    To will what Thou willest always in all circumstances, is the only way of enjoying an unshakable peace.


The Mother:  Lord, give us true happiness, the happiness that depends on Thee alone.    Lord, give us the indomitable courage that comes from a perfect trust in Thee.


The Mother: Lord, give us the strength to live integrally the ideal we proclaim.   Give us faith in a glorious future and the capacity to realise it.     Lord, let consciousness and peace increase in us so that more and more we may be the faithful intermediaries of Thy one divine law.


The Mother:   Lord, let nothing in us obstruct Thy work.    Lord, deliver us from falsehood, make us emerge in Thy truth pure and worthy of Thy victory.