The Mother:   The Lord is not an all-powerful automaton that human beings can move by the push-button of their will.  And yet most of those who surrender to God expect that from Him.   DIVINE LOVE


The Mother: In the Divine’s love we always ﬁnd all support and all consolation.   When you reach the contact with the Divine’s love you see this love in everything and all circumstances.   The Divine’s love and knowledge must always govern our thoughts and actions.   May the Divine’s love dwell as the sovereign Master of our hearts and the Divine’s knowledge never leave our thoughts.


The Mother:    The Divine’s love can generate in all peace and the satisfaction that comes from benevolence.   The Divine’s love is an eternal truth.   The Divine Love is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by human confusions.


The Mother:   An Old Chaldean Legend  Long ago, very long ago, in the desert land that is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated on earth to awaken it to the Supreme Love. As one would expect, he was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, hunted after. Mortally wounded by his assailants, he wished to die alone, quietly, so that his work might be accomplished; and, pursued by them, he ﬂed. Suddenly in the broad barren plain, a tiny bush of pomegranate appeared.


The Mother: The Saviour stole under its low branches in order to give up his body in peace; and at once the bush expanded miraculously, increased itself, widened, became deep and luxuriant in such a way that when the pursuers passed by they did not even suspect that the One whom they were chasing was hidden there, and they continued on their way.  While, drop by drop, the sacred blood fell, fertilising the soil, the bush covered itself with marvellous ﬂowers, scarlet, enormous — clusters of petals, innumerable drops of blood...  These are the ﬂowers that, for us, express and hold the Divine Love.


The Mother: Yesterday morning I distributed petals of “Divine Love”. The previous night was, here, the darkest of the year and in India it is a great festival. Its true signiﬁcance is that the Divine’s Love is at the base and core of all manifestation, even where it seems most completely inconscient.


The Mother: When Consciousness separated from its Origin and became Inconscience, the Origin emanated Love to reawaken Consciousness from the depth of the Inconscience and bring it back into touch with its Origin.   It may be said that at its origin love is the supreme power of attraction which awakens, in response, the irresistible need of an absolute self-giving; they are the two poles of the urge towards complete fusion.  No other movement could, better and more surely than this, throw a bridge across the abyss dug by the sense of separation that comes from the formation of the individual. It was necessary to bring back to itself what had been projected into space without destroying for this purpose the universe created thus.  That is why love sprang up, the irresistible power of union.


The Mother:  When the baker wants to make the dough of his bread rise, he puts some leaven into it, and it is from within that the transformation takes place.  When the Divine wanted to rouse Matter, awaken it and make it rise towards God, He threw Himself into Matter under the form of love, and it is from within that the transformation takes place.  So it is by living from within an organisation that one can help it to become enlightened and rise towards the Truth.


The Mother:  Consciousness is a state and a power.  Love is a force and an action.    The Divine has an equal love for all human beings, but the obscurity of consciousness of most men prevents them from perceiving this divine love.  Truth is wonderful.


The Mother: It is in our perception that it is distorted.     Only he who loves can recognise love. Those who are incapable of giving themselves in a sincere love, will never recognise love anywhere, and the more the love is divine, that is to say, unselﬁsh, the less they can recognise it.


The Mother:    To become conscious of the Divine Love, all other love must be abandoned.


The Mother: DIVINE LOVE AND HUMAN LOVE  Lean more exclusively on the Divine’s love. When one receives the Divine’s love, of what value can be any human love?


The Mother: There is always a bitter taste behind the human love — it is only the Divine Love which never disappoints.     Do not grieve. Human love is fugitive.


The Mother: It is only the Divine’s love that never fails.     Certainly one has the right to love and true love carries in itself its joy, but unhappily human beings are egoistic and immediately mix with their love the in return, and this desire is contrary to spiritual truth and the cause of passions and sufferings.  The one you love must have the right of freedom in her feelings and if you want the truth you must understand this right and accept it.


The Mother: Otherwise there will be no end to your miseries. This  is an occasion to surmount your egoism and to open to the true life. If you decide to make this effort my help will be with you.   The need for human love, to the extent that it is not merely in obedience to the instinct of Nature or to a vital attraction, is the need to have a Divine for oneself alone, at one’s entire and exclusive disposal, a Divine who is one’s personal property and to whom one gives oneself totally only if the gift is reciprocated.  Instead of enlarging oneself to the size of the Divine and having a love as vast as the universe, one tries to reduce the Divine to one’s own size and have His love for oneself alone.


The Mother: Therefore, human love is not a need of the soul, but rather a concession it makes for a time to the ego.   I have postponed my answer to give you time to look carefully into the problem and to face it with more quiet and detachment.  One thing only I can tell you that whatever the sincerity, simplicity and purity of the relation between two human beings, it shuts them off more or less from the direct divine force and help and limits their strength, light and power only to the sum of their potentialities.  I cannot say that this is very advisable in your case.


The Mother:  You lose a great part of your strength, energy and capacity due to your so-called human love. It is a great hindrance in your progress.§


The Mother: If there is, somewhere in some part of your being, still the need for human affection and love, it is better to go through the experience of life; it is the best preparation for Yoga.       The thirst for affection and love is a human need, but it can be quenched only if it turns towards the Divine.


The Mother: As long as it seeks satisfaction in human beings, it will always be disappointed or wounded.     There is a thirst for Love which no human relation can quench.  It is only the Divine’s love that can satisfy that thirst.


The Mother:  They always speak of the rights of love but love’s only right is the right of self-giving.     Without self-giving there is no love; but self-giving is very rare in human love which is full of selﬁshness and demands.


The Mother:   So long as the ego is there, one cannot love.  Love alone can love, Love alone can conquer the ego.


The Mother:  Self-love is the great obstacle.  Divine love is the great remedy.    One is outwardly alone only if one is closed to the divine love.


The Mother:  You feel lonely because you feel the need to be loved. Learn to love without demand, to love just for the joy of loving (the most wonderful joy in the world!) and you will never again feel lonely.    The Rungs of Love  At ﬁrst one loves only when one is loved.  Next, one loves spontaneously, but one wants to be loved in return.


The Mother: Then one loves even if one is not loved, but one still wants one’s love to be accepted.  And ﬁnally one loves purely and simply, without any other need or joy than that of loving.     There is a love in which the emotion is turned towards the Divine in an increasing receptivity and growing union.


The Mother: What it receives from the Divine it pours out on others, but truly without demanding a return. If you are capable of that, then that is the highest and most satisfying way to love.     It is not the love that someone feels for you that can make you happy, it is the love you feel for others that makes you happy: for you receive the love that you give from the Divine, who loves eternally and unfailingly.


The Mother:  All the forms that love has taken in the human consciousness on earth are but awkward attempts, deformed and incomplete, to ﬁnd once again true Love.     True love has no need of reciprocation; there reciprocation because there is only Love,, which has no other aim than to love.


The Mother: It is in the world of division that one feels  the need of reciprocation — because one lives in the illusion of the multiplicity of Love; but in fact there is only One Love and it is always this sole love which, so to say, responds to itself.   Indeed, there is only Love, universal and eternal, as there is only Consciousness, universal and eternal.  All the apparent differences are colorations given by individualisation and personiﬁcation. But these alterations are purely superﬁcial. And the “nature” of Love, as of Consciousness, is unalterable.


The Mother:  When one has found divine Love, it is the Divine that one loves in all beings. There is no longer any division.     Once one has found divine Love, all other loves, which are nothing but disguises, can lose their deformities and become pure — then it is the Divine that one loves in everyone and everything.


The Mother:  True love, that which fulﬁls and illumines, is not the love one receives but the love one gives.  And the supreme Love is a love without any deﬁnite object — the love which loves because it cannot do other than to love.    There is only one love — the Divine’s Love; and without that Love there would be no creation. All exists because of that Love and it is when we try to ﬁnd which does not exist that we do not feel the Love, the only Love, the Divine’s Love which permeates all existence.


The Mother:   When the psychic loves it loves with the Divine Love.  When you love, you love with the Divine’s love diminished and distorted by your ego, but in its essence still the Divine’s love.  It is for the facility of the language that you say the love of this one or that one, but it is all the same one Love manifested through different channels.  I have given you the clue to ﬁnd the love you are seeking for since many years; but it is not a mental clue; and it is only if your mind falls silent that you can feel what I want to convey to you.


The Mother: Blessings.    As for true love, it is the Divine Force that allows consciousnesses to unite themselves with the Divine.


The Mother: True love is something very deep and calm in its intensity; it may quite well not manifest itself in any exterior acts sensational or affectionate.     Divine Love, true love, ﬁnds its delight and its satisfaction in itself; it has no need to be received and appreciated, nor to be shared — it loves for the sake of loving, as a ﬂower blooms.   To feel this love in oneself is to possess an immutable happiness.


The Mother:  LOVE AND SEXUAL DESIRE Love is not sexual intercourse.  Love is not vital attraction and interchange.  Love is not the heart’s hunger for affection.  Love is a mighty vibration coming straight from the One, and only the very pure and very strong are capable of receiving and manifesting it.


The Mother: To be pure is to be open only to the Supreme’s inﬂuence and to no other.    I do not like that the word love should be polluted to speak of sexual desire, the human inheritance of the animal.   You are making a great confusion between maternal sentiment which is, in the physical, an expression of the force of the universal Mother, and the physical act of procreation which is something wholly animal, most often even bestial, and which is only a means that Nature has found to perpetuate the different species.


The Mother:  Sexual relations belong to the past, when man was closer to the animal than to the Divine. All depends on what you expect from life, but if you sincerely want to do the Yoga, you must abstain from all sexual activities.      [


The Mother: facsimile on this whole page]   A decisive choice has to be made between lending the body to nature’s ends in obedience to her demand to perpetuate the race as it is, and preparing this very body to become a step towards the creation of a new race. The two cannot go together; at every minute you have to decide whether you wish to remain within the manhood of yesterday or belong to the supermanhood of tomorrow.


The Mother:


The Mother: Sex seems rather to be more of the body. It is only when you pass from the lower to the higher hemisphere that you can completely erase the thing. Sex belongs to Nature in her lower working and as long as you belong to that Nature, her working will be there automatically in you.


The Mother: You have to persevere until it is valid.    When you will think no more of sex at all and see no more women as women but only as human beings, then and then only  I will know that you are beginning to get cured.


The Mother:  Sexual desires do not come from eating well but from wrongly and concentrating on that. The less you think about it, the better it is. You should not concentrate on what you do not want to be, but on the contrary on what you want to become.


The Mother: Instead of being dominated by the sexual impulsions, they must be put under the domination of the highest will.     Passion: it is a force, but is dangerous and cannot be used unless it is perfectly surrendered to the Divine.


The Mother:   Human passions changed into love for the Divine: may they become a real fact, and their abundance will save the world.


The Mother: Perfect attachment to the Divine replaces all vital attractions and passions.     LOVE FOR THE DIVINE Greed, greed, always greed... is the response of material nature.  In whatever way the Divine manifests there, it becomes at once an object of covetousness.


The Mother: A rush to appropriate, an endeavour to rob, exploit, squeeze, swallow and in the end crush down the Divine, this is the receptivity of matter to the divine touch.   O my Lord, Thou comest as the redeemer and these would make of Thee a dupe! Thou comest for union, for transformation, for realisation, and they think only of absorption and selﬁsh increase.


The Mother: No half-measure would be enough to please you.  In short, what you want is a Divine for yourself, who would have no other occupation than to satisfy you, a Divine whom you could see physically at every hour of the day or night, whom you could argue with at your leisure, whom you could live with, marry — for in its ideal principle, marriage is nothing else but that.  But for it to be so, this Divine would have to be of your own size, your own stature.  And towards what could He lead you if not towards yourself . Is this what you really want in the truth of your being?


The Mother: I refuse to believe it.     Child, you say to me, “To love me is to do what I want.”  But I say to you that for the Divine to love truly is to do what is best for the one He loves.


The Mother:  Each and every one, when he turns to the Divine, demands that He should do for him exactly what he asks. Whereas the Divine does for each one what is best for him from all points of view. But man, in his ignorance and blindness, revolts against the Divine when his desire is not satisﬁed, and says to Him, “You do not love me.”


The Mother: You say of your God: “I have loved Him so much and yet He did not remain with me!” But what kind of love have you given Him? In its essence, love is one, just as consciousness is one; but in the manifestation, it is coloured and differentiated by each individual nature. If you are impure and egoistic, love in you will become impure and egoistic, narrow, sectarian, limited, ambitious and possessive, violent, jealous, vulgar, brutal and cruel. Is this the kind of love that can be offered to God?


The Mother: If you want your love to be worthy of the one you love, if you want to enjoy love in its eternal perfection, become perfect, break out of the limitations of your ego, partake of eternity. And then you will always be close to the object of your love, for you will grow into his likeness.     It is said that one grows into the likeness of what one loves; but with regard to God it is also true that one can remain always with Him only when one grows into His likeness.


The Mother:   It is not through human love that one can learn to love the Divine, for the love is of quite a different nature. First learn to give yourself sincerely to the Divine and then the joy of love will come afterwards. By giving yourself sincerely all your difﬁculties will disappear.


The Mother:   The true love for the Divine is self-giving, free of demand, full of submission and surrender. It makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargain, indulges in no violences of jealousy or pride or anger — for these things are not in its composition.


The Mother: When the true and sacred love is there (love the Divine and the Divine), whatever happens is always utilised as a means for increasing and perfecting the union. This leaves no place for worry, regret and depression, but, on the contrary, ﬁlls the consciousness with the certitude of victory.    Integral love for the Divine: pure, complete and irrevocable, it is a love that gives itself for ever.


The Mother:   Flaming love for the Divine: ready for all heroism and all sacriﬁce.


The Mother: To love truly the Divine we must rise above attachments.      GENERAL


The Mother: Love is with all, working for the progress of each one equally — but it triumphs in those who care for it.      (


The Mother: )  Love alone can overcome hate and violence.   Let the divine compassion express itself through you always and in all circumstances.  The divine compassion reaches out not only to the one who is eaten but also to the one who eats, not only to the one who is tortured but also the one who tortures.


The Mother:   Divine Love can overcome the evil and the cruel — the tiger does not attack the yogi.   Unmanifest Divine Love: the splendour of the marvellous love which the Divine keeps for the pure heart.     Indeed, all life is love if we know how to live it.


The Mother:   Sweetness is within every heart.  Bitterness is an illusion that melts in the Sun of Divine Love.   CALM


The Mother: Be very careful to remain always calm and peaceful and let an integral equanimity establish itself more and more completely in your being. Do not allow your mind to be too active and to live in a turmoil, do not jump to conclusions from a superﬁcial view of things; always take your time, concentrate and decide only in quietness.    You know that it is indispensable to be calm; you must try hard to become calm.


The Mother: Then in the calm, pray to Sri Aurobindo to give you the right consciousness; pray in all sincerity, with faith and trust. Your prayer will surely be granted one day.     It is an excellent state which one can keep quite easily, but it must be sincere; I mean, it should be not a mere appearance of calm but a real and deep calm which spontaneously keeps you silent.


The Mother:   The ﬁrst step is perfect calm and equanimity.      You must learn to be calm and quiet even in the midst of difﬁculties.


The Mother: This is the way to overcome all obstacles.     Yes, but for this the calm must be perfect, in all the parts of the being, so that the power may express itself through it.


The Mother:   So that the experience does not become dangerously distorted and painful, you must keep an absolute calm.  It is only in peace and calm that the Divine Force expresses itself and acts.


The Mother: It is very good to have recovered the calm.  It is in the calm that the body can increase its receptivity and gain the power to contain.    Do not confuse calm with inertia.


The Mother: Calm is self-possessed strength, quiet and conscious energy, mastery of the impulses, control over the unconscious reﬂexes. In work calm is the source of efﬁciency and an indispensable condition for perfection.    Increase the inner rest, it must become a rest always present even in the midst of the greatest activity and so steady that nothing has the power to shake it — and then you will become a perfect instrument for the Manifestation.    QUIET


The Mother: Surely to be quiet is not tamas. In fact it is only in quietness that the proper thing can be done. What I call quietness is to do work without being disturbed by anything and to observe everything without being disturbed by anything.   Be quiet. We have only to work patiently without being disturbed by anything and keep unshaken the faith in the inevitable Victory.


The Mother:  Quietness, quietness, a calm and concentrated strength, so quiet that nothing can shake it — this is the indispensable basis for the integral realisation.   The more a person is quiet in front of all occurrences, equal in all circumstances, and keeps a perfect mastery of himself and remains peaceful in the presence of whatever happens, the more he has progressed towards the goal.


The Mother: In quietness you will feel that the divine force, help and protection are always with you.    At the hour of danger a perfect quietness is required.


The Mother: When one remains perfectly quiet and without fear, nothing serious can happen.


The Mother: The only thing you have to do is to remain quiet, undisturbed, solely turned towards the Divine; the rest is in His hands.     That is always the best thing to do. To keep quiet, open and call or wait for the descent.


The Mother:  Be quiet always, calm, peaceful, and let the Force work in your consciousness through the transparency of a perfect sincerity.    It is only in quietness and peace that one can know what is the best thing to do.


The Mother: The storm is only at the surface of the sea; in the depths all is quiet.    You told me all that last night between 10 and 11, and as you were somewhat restless, I told you, “First of all you .” The whole thing was and I appreciate the power of your thought — but I insist on the necessity of being  and.


The Mother: With love and blessings.    Do not get agitated.   Keep quiet and everything will be all right.


The Mother: Love and blessings.      It


The Mother: is in quietness, peace and silence that the spiritual forces act.   All agitation and excitement come from an adverse inﬂuence.


The Mother: The true Power is always quiet. Restlessness, agitation, impatience are the sure signs of weakness and imperfection.


The Mother: Keep quiet, try to detach yourself and observe as a witness, to prevent all possibility of acting on impulse.§    It is not in the outward circumstances that you must look for quietness, it is from inside yourself. Deep inside the being there is a peace that brings quietness in the whole being down to the body, if we allow it to do so.  It is that peace you must seek and then you will get the quietness you wish for.


The Mother:  Quietness is always good and even indispensable for a true and lasting progress.  Blessings.    PEACE The peace must be immense, the quietness deep and still, the calm unshakable, and the trust in the Divine ever-increasing.


The Mother:   It is by a quiet, strong and persistent peace that the true victories can be won.    It is only in tranquillity and peace that one can know what is the best thing to do.


The Mother:   Truly peace is badly needed — without peace the simplest thing makes at once a big fuss.


The Mother: Nowhere will you be able to ﬁnd peace unless you have peace in your heart.    If you ask from within for peace, it will come.    When the heart and the mind are at peace, the rest naturally follows.


The Mother:    [ facsimile ]


The Mother: There is no greater peace than that of a pure mind.     Solace in the mind: a silent peace.


The Mother:    The vast peace and the calm are there, ready for you to open to them and receive them.   Let the vast peace of the Divine penetrate you entirely and initiate all your movements.    Let the Peace be manifested in you more and more constantly and integrally.


The Mother:  Let the Divine’s peace always reign in your heart and mind.     In peace and inner silence you will more and more become conscious of the constant Presence.


The Mother:   In peace and silence the Eternal manifests. Let nothing trouble you and the Eternal will manifest.


The Mother: It is in an unshakable peace that can be found the true power.     It is in peace that knowledge and power are truly effective.


The Mother:    The Divine’s Peace must dwell constantly in our hearts.


The Mother: It is in the most complete peace, serenity and equality that all is the Divine even as the Divine is all.    Peace of mind must be acquired not through favourable circumstances but through inner transformation.


The Mother: It is from the Divine that a sadhak receives peace, a peace quite independent from outward circumstances. Turn more towards the Divine, aspire for the real inner peace and you will get enough peace to carry on your work without disturbance.  Blessings.


The Mother:   Be peaceful, conﬁdent in the divine working.   SILENCE Silence: the ideal condition for progress.


The Mother: It is in Silence that true progress can be made.      It is that a true progress can be made; it is  that one can rectify a wrong movement; it is  that one can be of help to somebody else.


The Mother: If you have found out a truth, or rectiﬁed a mistake in yourself, or made a progress, to speak or to write about it to anybody else than the Guru is to lose at once the truth or the progress.    A silent help seems to be more effective and sure, more constant and detailed.   In silence is the greatest respect.   In the silence of the heart, you will receive the command.


The Mother:  In the silence of our heart there is always peace and joy.   In a quiet silence strength is restored.     Let us adore in silence and listen to the Divine in a deep concentration.


The Mother:  In the perfect silence of the contemplation all widens to inﬁnity, and in the perfect peace of that silence the Divine appears in the resplendent glory of His light.     In concentration and silence we must gather strength for the right action.


The Mother:  Certain silences are revelations and are more expressive than words.    Meditation  We sat together in silence for a few minutes, enjoying the company of our soul, and we witnessed the gates of Eternity opening wide before us.


The Mother: It is in silence that the soul best expresses itself.     It is in the silence of complete identiﬁcation with the Divine that true understanding is obtained.   With words one can at times understand, but only in silence one knows.


The Mother:  Silence: the condition of the being when it listens to the Divine.   OPENNESS   Openness is the will to receive and to utilise for progress the force and inﬂuence; the constant aspiration to remain in touch with the Consciousness; the faith that the force and consciousness are always with you, around you, inside you and that you have only to let nothing stand in the way of your receiving them.


The Mother:  Opening is a release of the consciousness by which it begins to admit into itself the workings of the Divine Light and Power.   Open to the consciousness which is working on and in you and keep always as quiet and peaceful as you can.   Open yourself more and more to the Consciousness and you will receive inspiration.   The opening to the Divine Light cannot be made through coercion.    “To open more to love and to the light.”


The Mother: This is exactly the answer I send to your last letter. Rise higher in the consciousness, love more widely, open to the light — and all divergences will disappear. You must be as vast and comprehensive as the world to do the Yoga.   If you open yourself to the Force and the Help, there will be .


The Mother: Opening: the help is constant in all the domains. It is for us to know how to beneﬁt from it.     Integral opening of the being towards the Divine: the ﬁrst step of the ascent.


The Mother:  WIDENESS Widen yourself to the extreme limit of the universe... and beyond.  Always take upon yourself all the necessities of progress, and resolve them in the ecstasy of Unity. Then you will be divine.   To and open as vastly as one can is more effective than to bring down and to try to push the force into the narrowness of the small human being.    PLASTICITY Plasticity: always ready for the progress demanded.


The Mother:  RECEPTIVITY Receptivity is the capacity of admitting and retaining the Divine Workings.    Receptivity: conscious of the Divine Will and surrendered to it.


The Mother:   Integral receptivity: the whole being is aware of the Divine Will and obeys it.     Psychic receptivity: the psychic responds joyously to the ascending force.


The Mother:  Mental receptivity: always ready to learn.    Emotional receptivity: emotions wanting to be divinised.


The Mother:  Vital receptivity happens only when the vital understands that it must be transformed.  The vital blossoms in aspiration for the Divine.


The Mother: Physical receptivity: that which one should not have except towards the Divine.     Supramentalised receptivity: the receptivity of tomorrow.   It is with the widening of the consciousness and the onepointedness of the aspiration that the receptivity increases.


The Mother:  By revolt the doors of receptivity are closed.     In order to be ﬁlled anew the vessel must get empty sometimes.  It is when we are preparing for greater receptivities that we feel empty.


The Mother:   Consciousness?  Be receptive — it is there.  Love and blessings.


The Mother:   Try to be satisﬁed with what you receive — for it is a matter of , because — you can believe me —  than what the people are capable of receiving — and in two or three minutes they could have quite enough to go for a whole month. But the mind interferes with its ignorant demands and the whole thing is spoiled.


The Mother: My love is always with you; if then you do not feel it, it is because you are not capable of receiving it. It is your receptivity that is lacking and should be increased; for this you must open yourself, and one opens oneself only if one. Surely you are trying more or less consciously to draw the forces and the divine love towards you. The method is bad. Give yourself without calculating and without expecting anything in return, and then you will become capable of receiving.


The Mother:   When we feel the urge to give and the joy of giving to the Divine’s work, then we can be sure that we have become receptive.


The Mother: To be receptive To be receptive is to feel the urge to give and the joy of giving to the Divine’s Work all one has, all one is, all one does.   PURITY  Purity is the best of powers.


The Mother:   This is purity, to accept no other inﬂuence but only the inﬂuence of the Divine.     On earth, true purity is to think as the Divine thinks, to will as the Divine wills, to feel as the Divine feels.


The Mother:  If one lives only for the Divine and by the Divine, there follows a perfect purity.    Purity is perfect sincerity and one cannot have it unless the being is entirely consecrated to the Divine.


The Mother:   By wanting it and always aspiring for it.   Integral purity: the whole being is puriﬁed of the ego.    Power of integral purity: the power to accept nothing but the divine inﬂuence.


The Mother:  Mental purity: a mirror which does not distort.    Perfect mental purity: a spotless mirror constantly turned towards the Divine.    Integral mental purity: silent, attentive, receptive, concentrated on the Divine — this is the path to purity.


The Mother:   Vital purity: it begins with the abolition of desire.


The Mother: Collective purity: a very precious achievement but one difﬁcult to obtain.     Divine purity: it is happy just to be, in all simplicity.


The Mother:  SIMPLICITY There is a great beauty in simplicity.     Integral simplicity: the simplicity which is the consequence of perfect sincerity.    Spirituality is supreme simplicity.


The Mother:   True spirituality is simple.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]


The Mother: To express Harmony, of all things Simplicity is the best.   HUMILITY AND MODESTY Humility: adorable in its simplicity.


The Mother: The greater beings are always the most simple and modest.     Correct self-evaluation: simple and modest, does not try to push itself forward.    Modesty is satisﬁed with its own charm and does not draw attention to itself.


The Mother:   The more we advance on the Path, the more modest we become and the more we see that we have done nothing in comparison to what remains to be done.   We must learn that whatever our efforts, whatever our struggles, whatever even our victories, compared with the path still to be traversed what we have already travelled is nothing.


The Mother:  Do not think yourself big or small, very important or very unimportant; for we are nothing in ourselves. We must only live to become what the Divine wills of us.   You are becoming very wise and approaching the realisation that we are nothing, we know nothing and we can do nothing; only the Supreme Divine knows, does and.    True humility consists in knowing that the Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Will alone exists and that the I.


The Mother:   To be humble means for the mind, the vital and the body never to forget that they know nothing, are nothing and can do nothing; without the Divine they are nothing but ignorance, chaos and impotence. The Divine alone is Truth, Life, Power, Love, Felicity.   Therefore the mind, the vital, and the body must learn and feel, once and for all, that they are wholly incapable of understanding and judging the Divine, not only in his essence but also in his action and manifestation.


The Mother: This is the only true humility and with it come quiet and peace.  This is also the surest shield against all hostile attack. Indeed, in the human being it is always the door of pride at which the Adversary knocks, for it is this door which opens to let him enter.


The Mother: Whatever is your personal value or even your individual realisation, the ﬁrst quality required in yoga is.     A true and sincere humility is our safeguard — it is the surest way to the indispensable dissolution of the ego.


The Mother:   Humility and sincerity are the best safeguards. Without them each step is a danger; with them the victory is certain.   GRATITUDE


The Mother: Gratitude: it is you who open all the closed doors and let the Grace which saves penetrate deeply.    Gratitude A loving recognition of the Grace received from the Divine.  A humble recognition of all that the Divine has done and is doing for you.


The Mother: The spontaneous feeling of obligation to the Divine, which makes you do your best to become less unworthy of what the Divine is doing for you.    Detailed gratitude: the gratitude that awakens in us all the details of the Divine Grace.   Integral gratitude: the whole being offers itself to the Lord in absolute trust.


The Mother:  Mental gratitude: the gratefulness of the mind for what makes it progress.    The best way to express one’s gratitude to the Divine is to feel simply happy.    There is no better way to show one’s gratefulness to the Divine than to be quietly happy.


The Mother:    To accept gladly what I give is never selﬁsh.  There is no better cure for egoism than a happy gratefulness.


The Mother:  Always joyfully accept what is given you by the Divine.    A self-willed man cannot be grateful — because when he gets what he wants he gives all the credit for it to his own will, and when he gets what he does not want he resents it badly and throws all the blame on whomever he considers responsible, God, man or Nature.


The Mother: It is very difﬁcult to keep up your gratitude; for a time it comes very strongly and again it goes back. The Divine can go on tolerating everything in spite of your ingratitude because He knows fully the how and why and wherefore of everything. He knows why you are doing a certain thing. He knows the full working and that is why He can tolerate it.§


The Mother:   The nobility of a being is measured by its capacity of gratitude.


The Mother: FAITHFULNESS   Faithfulness: we can count on you. You never fail us when we need you.    Incorruptible faithfulness: nothing can turn you away from the duty you have chosen.


The Mother:  This is faithfulness, to admit and to manifest no other movements but only the movements prompted and guided by the Divine.


The Mother: The strength is always with you to be always faithful to the Divine Will.     In the present condition of the world an absolute faithfulness to the Divine has become an indispensable need.


The Mother:   Surely when unfaithfulness prevails all around, it is time to be truly faithful and to stand untouched and unmoved in the storm.    Faithfulness is a condition for peace and protection.


The Mother:   Without faithfulness in one’s consecration to the Divine there can be no peace in the heart.   Be faithful to the Divine and you will enjoy a constant peace.   Be always faithful to your faith and you will feel no sorrow.


The Mother:   Be simple, sincere and faithful in front of the Grace which is constantly with you.   OBEDIENCE The obedience to the Divine Will must be total.   Perfect obedience: obedience to the divine order with joy and without hesitation or reserve in all parts of the being.


The Mother: To learn to obey is good; to obey only the Divine is better.   WILL Will: power of consciousness turned towards effectuation.    A persevering will surmounts all obstacles.


The Mother:  One must have an unvarying will to acquire what one does not have in one’s nature, to know what one does not yet know, to be able to do what one cannot yet do.  One must progress constantly in the light and the peace which come from the absence of personal desire.  If one has a strong will, he has only to orient it properly; if he has no will, he has ﬁrst of all to build one for himself, which always takes long and is sometimes difﬁcult.    Even the most beautiful thoughts will not make us progress unless we have a constant will for them to be expressed in us through nobler feelings, more exact sensations and better actions.


The Mother:  1) to be that you.  2) to will to change without accepting the excuses of the lower nature.   3) to persist in the will in spite of every fall.  4) to have an unshakable faith in the help you receive.


The Mother:  A   The true Agni always burns in deep peace; it is the ﬁre of an all-conquering will.   Let it grow in you in perfect equanimity.


The Mother:  Agni: the ﬂame of puriﬁcation which must precede all contact with the invisible worlds.    RESOLUTION Resolution: nothing can stop its development.


The Mother: We must gather ourselves in a calm resolution and an unshakable certitude.     Keep ﬁrm in your resolution and everything will be all right.  Love.


The Mother:   Let your resolution be integral and constant and little by little your future will be revealed to you.   With love and blessings.


The Mother:   DETERMINATION  It is difﬁcult to get rid of all habits. They must be faced with a steady determination.


The Mother: It is not because a thing is difﬁcult that one should give it up, on the contrary, the more a thing is difﬁcult the more determined should one be to succeed in it.    Determination knows what it wants and does it.    STEADY EFFORT


The Mother: Ambitious plans generally fall ﬂat. It is better to go slow and steady.   Be steady and patient — everything will be all right.   You must keep your aspiration steady and be patient in your endeavour — and you are sure of success.   Steady efforts always bring great results.


The Mother:   Remaining steady in our effort and quiet and ﬁrm in our determination, we are sure to reach the goal.   Effort well-directed breaks down all obstacles.   Be steady in your aspiration and it is sure to be granted.  Love.


The Mother:   No effort is lost. There is always an answer, even if it is not perceived.


The Mother:    Personal effort is indispensable; without it nothing can be done.  When the personal effort is sincere the help is always there.


The Mother:  All sincere effort to progress and get rid of dangerous habits is answered and supported by an active help from the Grace — but the effort must be and the aspiration must be.   PERSISTENCE Do not worry, be patient and persistent in your aspiration.   Persist in your aspiration and it will be fulﬁlled.    Persist in your aspiration and your effort and you will succeed.


The Mother:  Continuity: knowing how to persist in one’s effort.    PERSEVERANCE Perseverance: the decision to go to the very end.


The Mother: Perseverance is patience in action.     Perseverance breaks down all obstacles.   Persevere and all obstacles will be conquered.


The Mother:  Persevere — it is the surest way to success. What you have not been able to achieve in you last year, you will do this year.   With my love and blessings.   Persevere in your aspiration and effort, do not allow yourself to be discouraged by setbacks.


The Mother: This always happens in the beginning. But if you continue to ﬁght without paying any attention to them, a day will come when the resistances give way and the difﬁculties vanish. My help is always with you, but you must learn to use it and to rely on it rather than on your own resources.     [facsimile] What you are not able to do today, you will achieve tomorrow.


The Mother: Persevere and you shall conquer.     It is by that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph.


The Mother: Victory goes to the most enduring. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results.     It is the wrong use of a great quality — perseverance.


The Mother: Make a good use of it and it will be all right.   Be obstinate in your effort towards progress, and your obstinacy will become useful.    I already told you that my help is with you and will continue to be so — you are sure to reach the goal but you must be very perseverant.


The Mother: To be constantly in contact with the Truth is not easy and needs time and a great sincerity. But you can be sure of my guidance and my force.   With love and blessings.   ENDURANCE Endurance: going to the very end of the effort without fatigue or relaxing.


The Mother:  Endurance is the capacity of bearing without depression.   Cheer up, all will be all right, if we know how to last and endure.


The Mother: To know and be able to bear and endure, undoubtedly produces a ﬁrm and ﬁxed joy.


The Mother:  The most important is a steady, quiet endurance that does not allow any upsetting or depression to interfere with your progress.  The sincerity of the aspiration is the assurance of the victory.    A quiet endurance is the sure way to success.


The Mother:   The things we cannot realise today we shall be able to realise tomorrow. The only necessity is to endure.   The victory is to the most enduring.


The Mother: Endure and you will triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring.  And with the Grace and divine love nothing is impossible.  My force and love are with you.


The Mother: At the end of the struggle there is Victory.     In silent endurance, one step forward towards victory with the help of eternal love.


The Mother:    Open to the Divine Grace and thou shalt endure.   PATIENCE Patience: indispensable for all realisation.


The Mother:   Patience: the capacity to wait steadily for the Realisation to come.   Accomplishment is without any doubt the fruit of patience.    With patience one arrives always.   It is not in a day that one can overcome one’s own nature.


The Mother: But with patience and enduring will the Victory is sure to come.     With patience any difﬁculty can be overcome.   Everything will come in its time; keep a conﬁdent patience and all will be all right.


The Mother:  With patience and perseverance all prayers get fulﬁlled.    With sincerity, make an effort for progress, and with patience, know how to await the result of your effort.    To know how to wait is to put Time on your side.


The Mother:  Yes, it is not good to be impatient and agitated — you must do everything peacefully and quietly without excessive haste.    If the mind remains quiet in all circumstances and happenings, patience will be more easily increased.


The Mother: Yoga cannot be done in a hurry — it needs years. If you are “pressed for time” it means that you have no intention of doing yoga — is it so?  It is not the soul, but the ego and its pride that feel “defeat and humiliation”.


The Mother: One goes much faster when he is not in a hurry.  To really move forward, one should feel, with complete conﬁdence, that eternity lies before him.    To realise anything one must be patient. And the vaster and more important the realisation, the greater the patience must be.


The Mother: Blessings.     One must be patient and stubborn in order to reach the goal.   Heroism is to be able to stand for the Truth in all circumstances, to declare it amidst opposition and to ﬁght for it whenever necessary.


The Mother: And to act always from one’s highest consciousness.    Heroism: (1) To do always what is most beautiful and most noble.  (2) To act always from the height of one’s consciousness.


The Mother:   Heroic action ﬁghts for the beautiful and the true without fear of obstacles and opposition.     Heroic thought goes to the conquest of the unknown without fear of difﬁculty and incomprehension.


The Mother:   Only he is never vanquished who refuses to be vanquished.


The Mother: We aspire to be the valiant warriors of the Lord so that His glory may manifest upon the earth.     Bravery fears nothing and knows how to hold tight against adversaries.    BOLDNESS Boldness: do fearlessly what must be done, not dreading any difﬁculty.


The Mother:   Mental boldness: let your mind be capable of foreseeing the perfections of tomorrow.


The Mother: Vital boldness must surrender to reason.     Physical boldness does not know the impossible in its consecretion to the Divine.


The Mother:  Spontaneous boldness: one of the results of perfect trust in the Divine.    COURAGE Courage: bold, it faces all dangers.


The Mother:   Integral courage: whatever the domain, whatever the danger, the attitude remains the same — calm and assured.    Courage is a sign of the soul’s nobility.  But courage must be calm and master of itself, generous and benevolent.


The Mother:   In true courage there is no impatience and no rashness.   Never mistake rashness for courage, nor indifference for patience.    Vital courage must be controlled to be helpful.


The Mother:  A noblest courage is to recognise one’s faults.     There is no greater courage than that of recognising one’s own mistakes.


The Mother:   There is no greater courage than to be always truthful.   Have the courage to be completely frank with the Divine.


The Mother: Whosoever has courage can give courage to others, just as the ﬂame of the candle can light up another.     It is quite necessary that those who have courage should have some courage for those who have none.


The Mother:    The moral courage and endurance are often much more difﬁcult to get than the material courage and endurance.    STRENGTH, FORCE AND POWER The true strength is always peaceful.


The Mother:   All who are truly strong and powerful are always very calm. It is only the weak who are restless. True calmness is always a sign of forcefulness.


The Mother:   Integral silence: the source of true force.


The Mother: An exterior power has value only in proportion of its expression of the power of Truth.     Individual power: limited in its capacity and action.


The Mother:   Enlightened individual power: limited in its action but of a very high capacity.     Mentalised power: power becomes utilisable.


The Mother:   Dynamic power: indispensable for progress.   Vigilance: indispensable for all true progress.


The Mother:   In each human being there is a beast crouching ready to manifest at the slightest unwatchfulness. The only remedy is a constant vigilance.


The Mother: Prudence: very useful for weakness because weakness needs prudence; strength does not need it.     Common sense: it is very practical and avoids any mistakes, but it lacks light.


The Mother:   Sobriety has never done harm to anyone.     Equanimity: immutable peace and calm.   In the deep peace of equanimity the love will grow to its full blossoming in a sense of pure and constant unity.    The loss of money is of small importance, but the loss of equipoise is a much more important thing.


The Mother:  All mischief comes from a lack of balance.  So, let us keep our balance carefully, always, in all circumstances.    Perfect balance: one of the most important conditions of a growing peace.   Joyous enthusiasm: the best way of facing life.


The Mother:  True enthusiasm is full of a peaceful endurance.    Our courage and endurance must be as great as our hope and our hope has no limits.


The Mother:  A steady hope helps much on the way.   Our hopes are never too great for manifestation.  We cannot conceive of any thing that cannot be.     Straightforwardness shows itself as it is, without compromising.


The Mother:


The Mother: Transparency can come only as a result of perfect sincerity.     Illumined transparency: an effect of the Divine Grace.


The Mother:     Integral transparency


The Mother: : it is the result of perfect goodwill and sincerity.     Integrality is super-sincerity.   Nobility: the incapacity for any pettiness either of sentiments or of action.


The Mother:  Aristocracy: incapable of baseness and pettiness, it asserts itself with dignity and authority.    Dignity afﬁrms its worth, but demands nothing.    Dignity of the emotions: not to permit one’s emotions to contradict the inner Divinity.


The Mother:   Dignity in the physical: above all bargaining.   Psychic dignity refuses to accept anything that lowers or debases.


The Mother:   Reﬁnement: gradually grossness is eliminated from the being.   Sensitivity: one of the results of the reﬁnement of the being.    Gentleness: always gracious and wishing to give pleasure.


The Mother:     Charm envelops and conquers by an inexhaustible sweetness.


The Mother:   Sweetness adds its smiling touch to life without making a fuss.


The Mother: Sweetness itself becomes powerful when at the service of the Divine.    A smile acts upon difﬁculties as the sun upon clouds — it disperses them.


The Mother: I don’t think that one can ever smile too much. Someone who knows how to smile in all circumstances is very close to true equality of soul.     Generally speaking, man is an animal who takes himself terribly seriously.


The Mother: To know how to smile at oneself in all circumstances, to smile at one’s sorrows and disillusions, ambitions and sufferings, indignation and revolt — what a powerful weapon with which to overcome oneself!     Learn to smile always and in all circumstances; to smile at your sorrows as well as your joys, your sufferings as well as your hopes, for in a smile there is a sovereign power of self-mastery.    If you can always smile at life, life also will always smile at you.


The Mother:    If one can smile eternally, one is eternally young.


The Mother:   Eternal smile: a kindness only the Divine can give.     You can smile genuinely at an enemy if you are above all insult and offence.


The Mother: This is the primary condition for the yogic attitude.      To smile at an enemy is to disarm him.


The Mother: CHEERFULNESS Cheerfulness: a joyous smile of Nature.     Cheerful endeavour: the joy that one ﬁnds in the effort towards the Divine.


The Mother:   Mental cheerfulness: it knows how to take delight in everything.


The Mother: Keep a cheerful mind and a peaceful heart. Let nothing disturb your equanimity and make every day the necessary progress to advance with me steadily towards the goal.   HAPPINESS Happy heart: smiling, peaceful, wide open, without a shadow.   You must never forget that you are much more helpful when you are quietly happy than when you become dramatic.   Be happy, my child, it is the surest way of progress.


The Mother:   Happiness is as contagious as gloom — and nothing can be more useful than to pass on to people the contagion of a true and deep happiness.     Try to be happy — immediately you will be closer to the Light.   Indeed he is happy who loves the Divine because the Divine is always with him.


The Mother:  The only way to a true and lasting happiness is a complete and exclusive reliance on the Divine’s Grace.   Always be good and you will always be happy.   Let us always do the right thing and we shall always be quiet and happy.   Let us seek our happiness only in the Divine.    When the Divine grants the true inner happiness nothing in the world has the power to snatch it away.


The Mother:  Spiritual happiness: calm and smiling, nothing can disturb it.   Always remember that on the happiness you give will depend the happiness you get.   The happiness you give makes you more happy than the happiness you receive.   To be concerned for one’s happiness is the surest way of becoming unhappy.


The Mother:   If we want to keep our happiness intact and pure, we must do our best not to attract upon it the attention of unfriendly thoughts.   To be always happy, with an unclouded, unﬂuctuating happiness — of all things this is the most difﬁcult to accomplish.    JOY Joy comes when you take the right attitude.


The Mother:   Joy comes from submission to the divine command.   Joy of spirituality: the reward of sincere effort.


The Mother:   Once a man has tasted the joys of inner life nothing else will ever satisfy him.     No joy is comparable to the feeling of the eternal Presence in one’s heart.


The Mother:   Joy of integral peace: calm and tranquil, a smile which does not disappoint.


The Mother: Joy’s call: it is modest and rarely makes itself heard.    BEATITUDE AND BLISS There is no greater bliss than that of being like a newborn child in front of the Divine.     The immutable Beatitude of the Divine is translated in the consciousness by an impelling force of progress of an incomparable intensity.


The Mother: This force is transformed in the most external being into a calm and assured will which no obstacles can overthrow.      To know beatitude is to know the Divine.


The Mother: To know the Divine is to know beatitude.   They are intimately and eternally united in an indissoluble identity.    HARMONY


The Mother: Harmony: let us strive that the day may come when this will be the means and the end.    Harmony is my aim and all that leads to harmony makes me happy.    Integral harmony: harmony between things, harmony between people, harmony of circumstances and above all harmony of all aspiration directed towards the Supreme Truth.


The Mother:  A harmonious collective aspiration can change the course of circumstances.     Collective harmony is the work undertaken by the Divine Consciousness; It alone has the power to realise it.


The Mother:  There is a deep and true consciousness in which all can meet in love and harmony.   It is only in union with the Divine and in the Divine that harmony and peace can be established.    Surely we must always want peace and harmony and work for it as much as we can — but for that the best ﬁeld of action is always within ourselves.    Look for the inner causes of disharmony much more than the outer ones.


The Mother: It is the inside which governs the outside.      Do not worry or be impatient — all the disharmonies will disappear, but it must be on the true basis of a settled luminous consciousness leaving no room for the play of the ego.


The Mother:    For all


The Mother: to agree, each one must rise to the summit of his consciousness: it is on the heights that harmony is created.     You must rise so high in your consciousness that it dominates the opposition.


The Mother: This is the solution.   COLLABORATION Collaboration: ever ready to help and knowing how to do it.     Collaboration does not mean that everybody should do the will of the man who asks for it.


The Mother: True collaboration is a non-egoistic union of all personal efforts to express and realise the Divine’s Will.    We must replace competition and strife by collaboration and fraternity.   Substitute the spirit of rivalry and competition by the goodwill of collaboration and mutual understanding.


The Mother: It is when things are going wrong that it is the best opportunity to show one’s goodwill and spirit of true collaboration.    GOODWILL Indeed, the good will hidden in all things reveals itself everywhere to the one who carries good will in his consciousness.  This is a constructive way of feeling which leads straight to the Future.


The Mother:  One should keep goodwill and love constantly in his heart and let them pour out upon all with tranquillity and with equanimity.    Good will for all and good will from all is the basis of peace and harmony.


The Mother: Goodwill: of modest appearance, it makes no noise but is ever ready to be useful.      Mental


The Mother: goodwill likes to show off a little, but is very useful.    BENEVOLENCE Benevolence makes life fragrant without attracting attention.


The Mother: A tireless benevolence, clear-seeing and comprehensive, free from all personal reaction, is the best way to love God and serve Him upon earth.  I mean a benevolence sincere and spontaneous in thought and speech and not a supposed benevolence in acts which is accompanied most often by a dreadful sense of condescending superiority serving chieﬂy as a platform for human vanity.   TOLERANCE  Tolerance is full of a sense of superiority; it should be replaced by a total understanding.


The Mother:  Tolerance is only the ﬁrst step towards wisdom.  The need to tolerate indicates the presence of preferences.  He who lives in the Divine Consciousness regards all things with a perfect equanimity.   Liberty is to depend only on the Divine.


The Mother:    If you have a strong and conscious will and your will is centred around the psychic then you can have a taste of liberty, otherwise you are the slave of all the outside inﬂuences.


The Mother:  Freedom does not come from outer circumstances but from inner liberation.   Find your soul, unite with it, let it govern your life and you will.  Blessings.


The Mother:   Freedom is to do only what the Supreme Consciousness makes us do.  In every other case one is a slave, whether of the will of others, or of conventions, or of moral laws, or of vital impulses, or of mental fancies, or, above all, of the desires of the.


The Mother:   Freedom is far from meaning disorder and confusion. It is the inner liberty that we must have, and if you have it nobody can take it away from you.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]


The Mother:   The only true liberty is that obtained by union with the Divine.  One can unite with the Divine only when the ego is mastered.   Liberation: the disappearance of the ego.   TRUTH


The Mother: Effort towards the truth should exist in every man of goodwill.   Our life ought to be governed by the Love for Truth and the thirst for Light.   Absolute truthfulness must govern life if one wants to be close to the Divine.   Only those who are perfectly truthful can be my true children.   Let the light of Truth be born upon earth from today and for ever.


The Mother:  The Light of Truth broods over the world to permeate and mould its future.   Everything must be transformed by the knowledge of the Truth.    Take Truth for your force, take Truth for your refuge.   The only important thing is to follow the Divine’s truth with love and joy.   The truth is in us, we have only to become aware of it.


The Mother:  Blessed will be the day when the earth, awakened to the Truth, lives only for the Divine.    The Truth is in you — but you must want it, in order to realise it.    The Divine’s Will is that the mind should know and He says, “Awake and be conscious of the Truth.”


The Mother:  Let the Lord of Truth be always with you.   Let the ﬂower of Truth blossom within you.    We must all be the faithful army of the Truth.   We aspire for the Truth and its triumph in our being and our activities.   Let the Truth be your master and your guide.


The Mother:  Let your consecration to Truth be complete and constant.   Be more eager for truth than for success.   Cling to Truth.    O Splendour of eternal Truth I call Thee.


The Mother: I salute Thee, O Sun of the morrow.   Supreme Lord, Eternal Truth  Let us obey Thee alone and live according to Truth.    ()  The moment approaches when the Truth will govern the world.


The Mother: Will you work to hasten its coming?  Blessings.


The Mother: Let us all work with a growing sincerity for the manifestation of the Divine Truth.     [


The Mother: facsimile ]  Salute to the advent of the Truth.


The Mother: FALSEHOOD AND TRUTH Once falsehood is conquered, all difficulties will go.      In all human beings is not falsehood always mixed with Truth?


The Mother:   Falsehood is the great ally of Death.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]  There is one Truth but a million ways of distorting it in the attempt to express it.


The Mother:   Hypocrisy and pretension are the homage ignorance pays to the truth.  Hypocrisy and pretension are the first signs of the inconscient’s aspiration towards consciousness.


The Mother: Simultaneous with the progress and intensification of the sadhana, there is increasingly felt the imperative need that all hypocrisy and compromise should stop.     This earth is still governed by ignorance and falsehood. But the time has come for the manifestation of Truth.


The Mother:   May the Truth be invincible, overwhelming, all-powerful, leaving no room for falsehood anywhere and for ever.     Such is life!  The world is a place of falsehood and it is only in the silent depths of the Divine that one can ﬁnd the peace of truth.


The Mother:   Truth is stronger than falsehood. There is an immortal Power that governs the world. Its decisions always prevail.


The Mother: Join with it and you are sure of the ﬁnal victory.     Worship Truth.  It will cure you of Falsehood.


The Mother:    When men will be disgusted with the falsehood in which they live, then the world will be ready for the reign of the Truth.


The Mother:   Before dying falsehood rises in full swing.  Still people understand only the lesson of catastrophe.  Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the truth?


The Mother: So I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be.  It is only the Truth that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed.     For those who are eager to get rid of falsehood here is the way


The Mother: Do not try to please yourself, do not try either to please others.   Try only to please the Lord.  Because He alone is the Truth. Each and every one of us, human beings in our physical body, is a coat of falsehood put on the Lord and hiding Him.


The Mother: As He alone is true to Himself, it is on Him that we must concentrate and not on the coats of falsehood.   There is only one solution for falsehood: It is to cure in ourselves all that contradicts in our consciousness the presence of the Divine.     Let us offer our falsehood to the Divine so that He may change it to joyous Truth.


The Mother:   TRUTH IS ABOVE MIND  Truth is eternally beyond all that we can think or say of it.


The Mother:   Truth cannot be formulated in words, but it can be lived provided one is pure and plastic enough.     When the gates of true knowledge are crossed, no words are left to express what is known.


The Mother:   He who has crossed the gates of the true Knowledge has nothing more to say or to teach.      [


The Mother: facsimile ]   To come closer to the Truth, you must often accept not to understand.


The Mother:    Because there is no true right and wrong — the only Truth is the Lord and He remembers everything.


The Mother: Each idea (or system of ideas) is true in its own time and place.  But if it tries to be exclusive or to persist even when its time is over, then it ceases to be true.    If any element of this totality is taken separately and affirmed as the sole truth, however central or comprehensive it may be, it necessarily becomes a falsehood, for then it denies all the rest of the total Truth. This is precisely what constitutes an indisputable dogma, and this is why it is the most dangerous type of falsehood, because each one affirms that it is the sole and exclusive truth. The absolute, infinite, eternal Truth is unthinkable for the mind which can only conceive that which is spatial and temporal, fragmentary and limited.


The Mother: Thus, on the mental plane, the absolute Truth is divided into innumerable fragmentary and contradictory truths which strive in their entirety to reproduce the original Truth as best they can — for each is a truth that attempts to affirm itself as the sole truth, to the exclusion of all the other truths, which, through their innumerable totality, express progressively in the becoming the Infinite, Eternal and Absolute Truth — that is how they deny the total Truth.   [facsimile] The truth is neither in separation nor in uniformity.  The truth is in unity manifesting through diversity.     Intellectually, the Truth is the point where all the opposites meet and join to make a unity.


The Mother: Practically, the Truth is the surrender of the ego, to make possible the birth and manifestation of the Divine.  Doubt is the best arm used by the ego to protect itself from extinction.  These are remarks on the way which may lead you a little further.  They are sent with blessings.


The Mother:   Truth is above mind; it is in silence that one can enter into communication with it.  To pray to the Divine and to surrender oneself entirely and in all sincerity to Him are the essential preliminary conditions.   He who sincerely wants to serve the Truth will know the Truth.


The Mother:  OPINION AND TRUTH  In the Ignorance mental opinions always oppose one another.  In the Truth they are complementary aspects of a higher knowledge.   All opinions are an aspect of the Truth that can be reached only when you can make a comprehensive whole with all these aspects.    Naturally, all these discussions (or exchanges of opinion) are purely mental and have no value from the viewpoint of the Truth.


The Mother: Each mind has its way of seeing and understanding things, and even if you could unite and bring together all these ways of seeing, you would still be very far from attaining the Truth.  It is only when, in the silence of the mind, you can lift yourself above thought, that you are ready to know by identity.  From the viewpoint of outer discipline it is indispensable, when you have an opinion and express it, to remember that it is only an opinion, a way of seeing and feeling, and that other people’s opinions, and ways of seeing and feeling are as legitimate as your own, and that instead of opposing them you should and try to ﬁnd a more comprehensive synthesis.  On the whole the discussions are always pretty futile and seem to me to be a waste of time.   In all opinions there is something true and something false.


The Mother: It is indeed a great and useful thing to be able to listen to the opinions of others without losing one’s temper.   To know how to listen: to be attentive and silent.


The Mother: It is always better to tell the truth rather than give a pleasant and sweet smile. But what you are saying is not the truth. It is only an expression of your opinion.  To tell the truth is not to utter whatever crosses your mind.§    HONESTY Honesty is the best protection.


The Mother:   A peaceful heart is the best reward of honesty.    Be sincere and honest and your mind will be at rest.


The Mother: Vital honesty: not to allow our sensations and desires to falsify our judgement and determine our action.     Mental honesty: one does not try to deceive others or to deceive oneself.


The Mother:  Mental sincerity: the essential condition for integral honesty.    SPEAK ALWAYS THE TRUTH To speak always the truth is the highest title of nobility.


The Mother: One drop of truth is worth more than an ocean of false information.   Never tell a lie: absolute condition for safety on the path.    Each lie uttered is a step taken towards disintegration.


The Mother: I have always and will always forbid lies.      If


The Mother: you do not wish to say something which is true, instead of lying just keep silent.     Let nothing be written with this pen except what is perfectly true.


The Mother:   If we allow a falsehood, however small, to express itself through our mouth or our pen, how can we hope to become perfect messengers of Truth? A perfect servant of Truth should abstain even from the slightest inexactitude, exaggeration or deformation.


The Mother: Silence is far superior to inexactitude.   CONTROL OF SPEECH  Control over what one says is more important than complete silence. The best is to learn to say what is useful in the most exact and true way possible.


The Mother:    It is the control over oneself that is the ﬁrst thing needed, and especially the control over one’s tongue! If people could learn to keep silent how many troubles would be avoided!   Be quiet and gather strength and force not only to do work but also, chieﬂy, to achieve the Transformation.


The Mother:   If only people did remain a little quiet before speaking, acting or writing, much trouble could be avoided. So many things are said uselessly, they bring misunderstandings and bad feelings which could have been saved with silence.  If were spoken only the words that needed to be spoken, the world would be a very silent place.


The Mother:    The world is deafened with useless words.


The Mother:   Yes, it is very good to know how to remain silent and not take part in discussions that are always useless and unwholesome.     There is a great strength in the power to keep silent.


The Mother:   It is always better not to listen to talks especially on so-called spiritual matters. Each one must follow his own way and the others have nothing to do with it.    An atmosphere of spirituality sometimes helps much more than an exchange of words.


The Mother:  You must always do what you say, but it is not always wise to speak about everything you do.  When you speak, you must always speak the truth; but sometimes it is better not to speak.


The Mother: When speaking of physical things one should have a lively, pleasant, witty style.  When speaking of vital things the style should be eloquent.   When speaking of mental things the style should be clear, precise, exact.


The Mother: When speaking of psychic things one must be inspired.    Spiritual speech: all-powerful in its simplicity.


The Mother: Frankness says candidly what it has to say without caring for the result.    It is always a sign of strength to be able to say things gently and it is always weakness that bursts out into unpleasantnesses.   Anger has never made anyone say anything but stupidities.


The Mother: Never boast. By boasting you dissipate your capacity for realisation.    Boasting, boasting — one of the greatest obstacles to progress.  It is a foolishness one must carefully avoid if one aspires to a true progress.


The Mother: The criticising habit is more destructive than many bad habits.    . I don’t know how to translate  into English.


The Mother: It is not exactly “speaking ill”. Crooked mind, crooked tongue, crooked heart: this comes out in speech that looks like honey but tastes like poison.     Every word spoken uselessly is a dangerous gossiping.


The Mother: Every malicious word, every slander is a degradation of the consciousness.  And when this slander is expressed in a vulgar language and gross terms, then that is equivalent to a suicide — the suicide of one’s soul.     When, in ignorance, one speaks ill of others, he debases his consciousness and degrades his soul.


The Mother: A respectful and modest silence is the only attitude beﬁtting a disciple.     To cure a critical sense that manifests by incontinence of speech: 1) When you are in this state, absolutely refuse to speak — if need be, make it physically impossible for yourself to speak.  2) Study yourself without pity and realise that you carry in yourself precisely all the things that you ﬁnd so ridiculous in others.


The Mother: 3) Discover in your nature the opposite way of being (benevolence, humility, goodwill) and insist that it develop to the detriment of the contrary element.     True strength and protection come from the Divine Presence in the heart.  If you want to keep this Presence constantly in you, avoid carefully all vulgarity in speech, behaviour and acts.


The Mother: Do not mistake liberty for licence and freedom for bad manners. The thoughts must be pure and the aspiration ardent.     Be careful always to keep the living Presence and Protection around you when you speak to people and speak as little as possible.


The Mother:   You are right in keeping quiet in front of those who do not understand, because the Divine is with you, and that is the only thing that matters.   With love and blessings.


The Mother:   You need not go to apologize. But as your words were misunderstood you do right to resolve to be more careful about what you say.    It is certainly very bad to speak about the faults of others; everyone has his defects and to keep on thinking of them surely does not help to cure them.


The Mother:    For writing, even more than for speaking, if you aspire to remain in the best attitude for advancing swiftly towards the Divine, you should make it a strict rule to speak (and even more to write) only what is. It is a marvellous discipline if you follow it sincerely.   Neither too many nor too few words — just what is needed.


The Mother:  It and harmful and lowers not only the consciousness of those who gossip, but also the general atmosphere of the place.     To gossip about what somebody is doing or not doing is wrong.


The Mother: To listen to such gossip is wrong.  To verify if such gossip is true is wrong.  To retaliate in words against a false gossip is wrong.   The whole affair is a very bad way of wasting one’s time and lowering one’s consciousness.


The Mother: Unless this very nasty habit is eradicated from the atmosphere, never will the Ashram reach its goal of Divine Life.  I wish all would repent like you and take the resolution of stopping this unhealthy activity.   SPEECH AND PRACTICE  It is not enough to know, you must.  It is not enough to pretend, you must.


The Mother:   On the path of Truth, in order to know more you must put into practice what you already know.  A little bit of sincere practice is worth much more than a lot of written or spoken words.


The Mother:  A drop of practice is better than an ocean of theories, advices and good resolutions.    Speak less, act more.


The Mother: Talk little, be true, act sincerely.      To


The Mother: listen is good, but not sufﬁcient — you must understand.  To understand is better, but still not sufﬁcient — you must act.


The Mother: ( )  To speak well is good. To act well is better.


The Mother: Never let your actions be below your words.      It is better to state a truth than to disregard it; but it is much better still to live it than to state it.


The Mother:   One speaks a great deal about this teaching but one does not follow it.   People who do not live what they think are useless.   It is good to read a Divine Teaching.


The Mother: It is better to learn it.  The best is to live it.    A teaching can be proﬁtable only if it is perfectly sincere, and that means if it is lived at the moment when it is given. Words often repeated, thoughts often expressed cannot be any longer sincere.


The Mother:   All theories, all teachings are, in the last analysis, nothing but ways of seeing and speaking. Even the highest revelations are worth no more than the power of realisation that comes with them.  To live the Supreme Truth, if only for a minute, is worth more than writing or reading hundreds of books on the methods or processes by which to ﬁnd it.


The Mother:   To realise a progressive truth, theory must be moulded according to the practice and not practice made to suit the theory.     Before acting, know what you have to do.     CIRCUMSTANCES: RESULTS, NOT CAUSES


The Mother: It is an error or superstition to believe that an external thing or circumstance can be the cause of anything. All things and circumstances are the accompanying results of a Force that acts from behind the veil.  The Force acts and each thing reacts according to its own nature.


The Mother: One must not take consequences for causes.     Never take physical happenings at their face value. They are always a clumsy attempt to express something else, the true thing which escapes your superﬁcial understanding.


The Mother:  Do not mind the apparent contradictions. There is a truth to be found behind.    CIRCUMSTANCES: RESULTS OF PAST ACTIONS


The Mother: ( )  I am full of sympathy but unshakably convinced that each one meets in this life the circumstances which he has, inwardly and outwardly, built for himself.     Each one is the artisan of his own miseries.


The Mother:  It is always a mistake to complain about the circumstances of our life, for they are the outward expression of what we are ourselves.      It is in oneself that there are all the obstacles, it is in oneself that there are all the difﬁculties, it is in oneself that there are all the darkness and all the ignorance.


The Mother:  Addressed to People of Ill Will The evil you have wilfully done always comes back to you under one form or another.     Each one is free to do whatever he likes, but he cannot prevent his acts from bearing their natural consequences.


The Mother: It is only what is done with the Divine and for the Divine that is free from the slavery of consequences.    There is a Supreme Divinity witness of all our actions and the day of consequence will come soon.    Each one brings upon himself the consequences of his acts.


The Mother: About what you say on the last page of your letter. Things are not altogether what you think them to be. For some years already, I have had much to say on the subject. But what is the use? There are certain waters which are best left unstirred.


The Mother: In any case, I would like you never to forget this: What each one meets in life is always exactly in accordance with what he is. Not in the way ignorant human justice understands it, but according to a law that is much more subtle, more deep, more true. Let us never forget that the supreme Lord is behind everything and that it is He who is the master of our destinies.


The Mother: CIRCUMSTANCES AND ONE’S INNER CONDITION Satisfaction does not depend on outer circumstances but on an inner condition.     People think that their condition depends on circumstances. But that is all false.


The Mother: If somebody is a “nervous wreck”, he thinks that if circumstances are favourable he will improve. But, actually, even if they are favourable he will remain what he is. All think they are feeling weak and tired because people are not nice to them. This is rubbish. It is not the circumstances that have to be changed: what is required is an inner change.


The Mother:    If you feel that a change is needed, it can be in the, giving importance to what is to be said and realised and using the past as a preparation for the future. This is not a very difﬁcult thing to do — and I am quite sure that you will easily do it.    You have this trouble.


The Mother: It is an indication that there is something in you that needs an immediate change. There is something that is refusing to come into the Light. If you can change your consciousness, the trouble will disappear.§    When one is in need of outward changes, it means that he is not progressing within; for he who progresses within can live always under the same outward conditions: they constantly reveal to him new truths.


The Mother: All outward change should be the spontaneous and inevitable expression of an inner transformation. Normally, all improvement of the conditions of physical life should be the blossoming to the surface of a progress realised within.    There can be no physical life without an order and rhythm.  When this order is changed it must be in obedience to an inner growth and not for the sake of external novelty.


The Mother: It is only a certain part of the surface lower vital nature which seeks always external change and novelty for its own sake.  It is by a constant inner growth that one can ﬁnd a constant newness and unfailing interest in life. There is no other satisfying way.    By changing house you cannot change character.  If you change your character you need not change your environment.


The Mother:   Exterior things must be of little importance when one does “sadhana”. The needed inner peace can be established in any surroundings.  With love and blessings.   This need not be; if the consciousness is centred elsewhere, more deeply, physical things lose much of their importance.


The Mother: THE CAUSE AND UTILITY OF DIFFICULTIES   The difﬁculties are always due to a resistance, some part or several parts of the being refusing to receive the force, the consciousness and the light put upon them and revolting against the divine inﬂuence. It is rare that somebody can surrender entirely to the Divine’s Will without having to face one or another of these difﬁculties. But to keep steady one’s aspiration and to look at oneself with an absolute sincerity are the sure means to overcome all obstacles.


The Mother:  Surely all these troubles come from a resistance somewhere, something that opposes the work of transformation.     Always circumstances come to reveal the hidden weaknesses that have to be overcome.


The Mother:   Difﬁculties are sent to us exclusively to make the realisation more perfect.  Each time we try to realise something and meet with a resistance or an obstacle or even a failure — what seems to be a failure — we should know, we should never forget that it is exclusively, absolutely, so that the realisation may be more perfect.  So this habit of cringing, of getting discouraged or even of feeling uncomfortable, or of abusing yourself and telling yourself: “There!


The Mother: Again I have made a mistake” — all that is absolute foolishness.   Simply tell yourself: “We don’t know how to do things as they ought to be done; well, they are being done for us, come what may!” And if we could see to what extent all that seems to be, yes, a difﬁculty, a mistake, a failure, an obstacle — all that is just to help us, so that the realisation may be more perfect.  Once you know that, everything becomes easy.


The Mother:  Shocks and trials always come as a divine grace to show us the points in our being where we fall short and the movements in which we turn our back on our soul by listening to the clamour of our mental being and vital being.  If we know how to accept these spiritual blows with due humility, we are sure to cover a great distance at a single bound.    Be absolutely convinced that everything that happens, happens in order to give us precisely the lesson we needed, and if we are sincere in the “sadhana”, the lesson should be accepted with joy and gratitude.  For one who aspires to the divine life, what can the actions of a blind and ignorant humanity matter to him?


The Mother:   If truly you love the Divine, prove it by remaining quiet and peaceful. All that comes to each one in life, comes from the Divine to teach us a lesson, and if we take it in the right spirit, we make rapid progress.


The Mother: Try to do so.    Difﬁculties come because there are possibilities in you. If in life everything was easy, then it would be a life of nothing. Because difﬁculties come on your way it shows you have possibilities.  Do not be afraid.


The Mother:   You can say to X, on my behalf, that he must look at this apparently unhappy circumstance as the proof that the Lord considers that he is ready for spiritual life and that he must no more be attached to any exterior or material thing.  If he takes things that way, he will soon feel that all sorrow is gone away from him.  What I meant was, not to worry about it.


The Mother: Let him take what comes to him without getting upset or sorry, excited or nervous.    For the aspirant and the “sadhak”, all that comes in his life comes to help him to know the Truth and to live it. Be conﬁdent, you will conquer; and it will mean a big step forward.


The Mother: With love and blessings.     The difﬁculties come always to make us progress. The greater the difﬁculty, the greater can be the progress.


The Mother: Be conﬁdent and endure.   With love and blessings.


The Mother:   The hours preceding Victory are most often the most difﬁcult.  For the individual’s surrender, it is the last resistances, sometimes quite insigniﬁcant, that are the most obstinate and difﬁcult to conquer.   But with a greater obstinacy a victorious conclusion of the ﬁght is certain.


The Mother:  NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT DIFFICULTIES  He who wants to advance on the path of perfection must never complain about the difﬁculties on the way, for each is an opportunity for a new progress. To complain is a sign of weakness and insincerity.   Where the two extremes meet, to complain of anything at all, of oneself, of others or of circumstances, is a weakness and an insincerity towards one’s supreme Self.  The two extremes meet in their effect on the attitude towards the circumstances of life: the total surrender to the Divine Will manifested in all things; and the consciousness of the supreme power that organises all things according to its all-powerful conception.


The Mother: In either case there is no place for complaint: if one is completely surrendered to the Divine, how can one complain about His Will, whatever form it takes? And on the other hand, if one feels the power of organising the world according to the supreme truth of life, how can one complain about the state this life is in, since it depends only on oneself to change it?     Never grumble.


The Mother: All sorts of forces enter you when you grumble and they pull you down. Keep smiling. I seem always to be joking but it is not mere joking. It is a conﬁdence born from the psychic. A smile expresses the faith that nothing can stand against the Divine and that everything will come out all right in the end.


The Mother:   The more you grumble, the more your pains will increase.    If you are not satisfied with what you are, take advantage of the Divine’s help and change yourself. If you haven’t the courage to change, submit to your destiny and keep quiet.  But to constantly complain about the condition you are in, without doing anything to change it, is a waste of your time and energy.


The Mother: The difficulties can disappear only when the egoistic concentration upon desires and conveniences disappears.    NEVER WORRY ABOUT DIFFICULTIES  [ facsimile


The Mother: ]  Never worry.   Do with sincerity all you do and leave the results to the Divine’s care.


The Mother:   Let us live each day without anxiety. Why worry beforehand about something that will probably never happen?    Anxiety is a lack of conﬁdence in the Divine’s Grace, the unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and perfect.


The Mother:    Don’t foresee difﬁculties — it does not help to surmount them and helps them to come.


The Mother: It is better not to worry about progress, because worrying only hinders the advance. It is better to open in all trust and simplicity to the divine help and to have faith in the Victory.   Live in the consciousness of the Eternal and you will have no more worry.


The Mother: FORGET ABOUT DIFFICULTIES  One must not attach too much importance to these little things.  What is important is always to keep in view the ideal that one wants to realise and always to try one’s best to realise it.


The Mother:   Yes, after all, these small superﬁcial things are of very little importance if compared to the mission we have to fulﬁl upon earth.    We must always keep in mind the big ideal and work that is to be achieved so that we should not give too much importance to small details, triﬂes that must not draw our attention ; let them come, let them go like small clouds in the sky, which do not affect the ﬁne weather.


The Mother:   Do not attach undue importance to unimportant things.   We must be freed from all care for contingencies, we must be delivered from the ordinary outlook on things.


The Mother: Never think of a difﬁculty — you give it strength.      Do not concentrate on an obstacle; that only strengthens it.


The Mother:    If you go on thinking of the trouble, it will go on increasing. If you concentrate upon it, it will swell up, it will think that it is being welcomed.


The Mother: But if you don’t pay any attention, it will lose interest in you and go away.§      The best remedy is to stop thinking of yourself and your defects and difﬁculties.


The Mother: Let us think of the big work to be done, the ideal that Sri Aurobindo has given us to realise. and how  do it.  I will help.    Forget your difﬁculties. Think only of being a more and more perfect instrument for the Divine to do His work and the Divine will conquer all your difﬁculties and transform you.


The Mother: With love and blessings.


The Mother: Forget your difﬁculties.   Forget yourself...  And the Lord will take care of your progress.


The Mother: With love and blessings.    Do not give any importance to that part and it will lose its strength and little by little even its existence.   My love and blessings are always with you.


The Mother:  FACE AND OVERCOME DIFFICULTIES Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.   The joy one experiences in living for an ideal is the sure compensation for all the difﬁculties of the path.   Have faith in your destiny and your road will be lit.


The Mother:   For each one and for the whole world anything becomes useful if it helps to ﬁnd the Divine.      The grace and protection are always with you.


The Mother: When in any inner or outer difﬁculty or trouble, do not allow it to oppress you; take refuge with the Divine Force that protects.  If you do that always with faith and sincerity, you will ﬁnd something opening in you which will always remain calm and peaceful in spite of all superﬁcial disturbances.     Those who are sincere I can help and turn easily towards the Divine.


The Mother: But where there is insincerity I can do very little. And as I have told you already, we have only to be patient and wait for things to become better. But surely I do not see why you should get disturbed and in what way your disturbance would help things to be better. You know by experience that there is only one way of getting out of confusion and obscurity; it is to remain very quiet and peaceful, ﬁrm in equanimity and to let the storm pass away. Rise above these petty quarrels and difﬁculties and wake up once more in the light and the power of my love which never leaves you.


The Mother:  All unpleasantness should be faced with the spirit of Samata.     It is good to turn a difﬁculty into an occasion for a new progress.    Surely you could not believe that sadhana could be done without facing some difﬁculties.


The Mother: As your aspiration is sincere, whatever was in the subconscient standing in the way of the Divine Realisation, has come to the surface in order to be transformed.  There is nothing there to make you sad or depressed — on the contrary you ought to rejoice at these occasions to make progress and never forget to lean for support and help on my love, force and blessings.    If you keep your faith unshaken and your heart always open to me, then all difﬁculties, however great, will contribute to the greater perfection of your being.   Try to withdraw from your outward circumstances which alone can be upset by such things and ﬁnd the peace inside which remains always untouched.


The Mother:  Always when one faces difﬁculties and overcomes them it begins a new spiritual opening and victory.     When you want to make a progress, the difﬁculty you wished to conquer increases tenfold in importance and intensity in your consciousness. You have only to persevere.


The Mother: That is all; it will pass away.      This is the right attitude. Stick to it and you shall conquer.


The Mother:   Sadhana is always difﬁcult and everybody has conﬂicting elements in his nature and it is difﬁcult to make the vital give up its ingrained habits.  That is no reason for giving up sadhana. One has to keep up the central aspiration which is always sincere and go on steadily in spite of temporary failures; and it is then inevitable that the change will come.


The Mother: With my love and blessings.    What do obstacles matter? We shall always go forward.


The Mother: That doesn’t matter! The difﬁculties are there for the pleasure of surmounting them.   Go forward, keep conﬁdent and all will be well.


The Mother:   I have always the same thing to say: quiet conﬁdence and courage is the only way of getting out of difﬁculties.     Perfect mental balance: indispensable for facing the difﬁculties of life.


The Mother:   To conquer the difﬁculties there is more power in a smile than in a sigh.     Ordeals are there for everybody. It is the way in which one faces them that makes the difference.


The Mother: Some have a smile, some make a fuss.      Whenever


The Mother: things become difﬁcult we must remain quiet and silent.      Whatever is the difﬁculty, if we keep truly quiet the solution will come.


The Mother:   The errors can become stepping-stones, the blind gropings can be changed into conquests.


The Mother: To keep steady one’s aspiration and to look at oneself with an absolute sincerity are the sure means to overcome all obstacles.


The Mother: All difﬁculties are there to test the endurance of the faith.    Look life in the face from the soul’s inner strength and become master of circumstances.


The Mother: Do not let the view of the part hide the perception of the whole, and the details of one step obstruct the concentration on the Goal.  Blessings.    What I meant is that life is always full of difﬁculties, hardships and sufferings; this is a common fact and each one has to face his own lot of them.


The Mother: The only way to face them properly is to endure and to put one’s interest, hope and faith in the inner life and consciousness turned towards the Divine, aspiring for the Divine and capable of receiving the Divine’s Force and Help.  But often the vital being or some part of it takes a kind of perverse pleasure in giving a dramatic importance to each and every difﬁculty and thus cuts the contact with the inner being and the Divine’s Force.   This bad habit which is common to many people must be stopped and then each one can and will feel that he receives very concretely the help he needs to go through the ordeals of life.


The Mother:  Our ordeals never exceed our capacity of resistance.     The difﬁculties are for the strong, and help to make them stronger.  Persevere and you will conquer.


The Mother: You can be sure that my help, force and blessings are always with you.  With love.


The Mother: The ordeals are for everybody — it is the way of meeting them that differs according to individuals.   With love and blessings.   The only way out of your difﬁculty is to ﬁnd the psychic being and to live entirely in its consciousness.  Life upon earth as it is now is full of miseries and any sensitive heart is full of sorrow because of that.


The Mother: To get in contact with the Divine Consciousness and to live in its mercy, its strength and its light is the only truly effective way to get out of this difﬁculty and suffering and by uniting with the psychic we can obtain this condition.  My help and blessings are with you for this purpose.    All difﬁculties are solved by taking rest in the Divine’s arms, for these arms are always opened with love to shelter us.   When everything goes wrong, one must know how to remember that God is all-powerful.


The Mother:    The Divine is present among us. When we remember Him always He gives us the strength to face all circumstances with perfect peace and equanimity. Become aware of the Presence and your difﬁculties will disappear.


The Mother:    To live within, in constant aspiration towards the Divine — that renders us capable of regarding life with a smile and remaining in peace whatever the external circumstances.


The Mother:    Live within, do not be shaken by external circumstances.


The Mother: To live only for the Divine: this means to have overcome all the difﬁculties of the individual life.


The Mother: He who lives to serve the Truth is not affected by outward circumstances.    [facsimile]  MISTAKES CAN BE EFFACED  If errors and mistakes could not be effaced at every moment, there would be no hope of salvation for the world.


The Mother:    Do not give too much importance to the little incidents of life.  The importance of these incidents lies in the extent to which they have served you to make a progress.  And once the progress has been made, the consequences of past errors, if there are any, disappear through the intervention of the divine Grace.


The Mother:  For the Supreme Lord, sin does not exist — all defect can be effaced by sincere aspiration and by transformation.  What you feel is the aspiration of your soul that wants to discover the Divine and live Him.  Persevere, be more and more sincere and you will succeed.


The Mother: Sin belongs to the world and not to yoga.     If you make one mistake in life, then you may have to suffer all your life. It does not mean that everybody suffers like that.


The Mother: There are people who go on making mistakes and yet they do not suffer.  But those who are born for a spiritual life have to be very careful.    MISTAKES: NO TORMENT, WORRY OR SADNESS  If the sense of unworthiness ﬁlls you with overﬂowing gratitude and throws you at Sri Aurobindo’s feet in an ecstasy of joy, then you can know that it comes from a true source; if, on the contrary, it makes you miserable and brings an impulse to hide or to run away, then you can be sure that its origin is hostile. To the ﬁrst you can open freely; the second must be rejected.


The Mother:   One must not torment oneself over errors that one may commit, but one must keep and in the end everything will be all right.


The Mother: Thinking too much about one’s impurities does not help. It is better to keep the thought ﬁxed on the purity, light and peace that one wants to acquire.