The Mother: ( )  Supreme Lord, Eternal Truth  Let us obey Thee alone and live according to Truth.    As long as they are not determined to follow the Truth I can do nothing for them outwardly.


The Mother: Not the truth as they see it but the Truth as it is.  To be able to know the Truth you must be without preferences and without desires, and when you aspire for the Truth your mind must be silent.    This is because the whole world is steeped in falsehood — so all actions that arise will be false, and this situation may continue for a long time and will bring much suffering to the people and the country.


The Mother: The only thing to do is to pray — from the heart — for the Divine intervention as that is the only thing that can save us.  And all people who can become conscious of this must decide very ﬁrmly to stand only on the Truth and to act only in the Truth.. This is very essential. It is the only way.  Even if things seem to go wrong and badly for us, as indeed they will, because of the present prevailing falsehood — we should not be deterred from our own determination to stand on the Truth.


The Mother: .§      India shall take her true place in the world only when she will become integrally the messenger of the Divine Life.


The Mother:


The Mother: India is not the earth, rivers and mountains of this land, neither is it a collective name for the inhabitants of this country. India is a living being, as much living as, say, Shiva. India is a goddess as Shiva is a god. If she likes, she can manifest in human form.§


The Mother: It is one of the greatest weapons of the Asura at work when you are taught to shun beauty. It has been the ruin of India.  The Divine manifests in the psychic as love, in the mind as  knowledge, in the vital as power and in the physical as beauty.  If you discard beauty it means that you are depriving the Divine of this manifestation in the material and you hand over that part to the Asura.§


The Mother: From time immemorial (some scholars say 8000 years before the Christian era) India has been the land of spiritual knowledge and practice, of the discovery of the Supreme Reality and union with it. It is the country that has practised concentration most and best. The methods, called Yoga in Sanskrit, that are taught and used in this country are countless. Some are merely material, others purely intellectual, others religious and devotional; lastly, some of them combine these various processes in order to achieve a more integral result.   Blinded by false appearances, deceived by calumnies, held back by fear and prejudice, he has passed by the side of the god whose intervention he implores and saw him not; he has walked near to the forces which will accomplish the miracle he demands and had no will to recognise them.


The Mother: Thus has he lost the greatest opportunity of his life — a unique opportunity of entering into contact with the mysteries and marvels whose existence his brain has divined and to which his heart obscurely aspires.  In all times the aspirant, before receiving initiation, had to pass through tests. In the schools of antiquity these tests were artiﬁcial and by that they lost the greater part of their value.  But it is no longer so now. The test hides behind some very ordinary every-day circumstance and wears an innocent air of  coincidence and chance which makes it still more difﬁcult and dangerous.


The Mother: It is only to those who can conquer the mind’s preferences and prejudices of race and education that India reveals the mystery of her treasures. Others depart disappointed, failing to ﬁnd what they seek; for they have sought it in the wrong way and would not agree to pay the price of the Divine Discovery.    ( )  The new State of Pondicherry is here represented by a small country craft carrying a pavilion.


The Mother: The four principal pillars of this pavilion are the four Continents of Asia, Europe, Africa and America. Asia is represented by the Buddha, Europe by Pallas Athene, Africa by Isis and America by the Statue of Liberty. The spiritual supports upbear the globe of the world on which the Dove of Peace descends from on high. On either side of the globe stand an Indian lady with a welcoming leaf of palm and a French lady with an auspicious olive branch. This amity between the Orient and the Occident augurs well for an enduring peace and concord among nations.


The Mother: The open spaces between the four pillars of the pavilion are covered by entwining creepers with alternating red and white lotuses. The red and the white lotuses represent the twin spiritual Consciousness guiding the terrestrial evolution.  At the four corners of the pavilion stand four guarding lions symbolising spiritual Powers.  It is hoped that the State of Pondicherry will materialise this spiritual vision and become a meeting place of all the cultures of the world with the full consciousness of the fundamental Unity that binds the peoples of the world together.


The Mother:   ( Histoire de Pondich´ery)   My dear child, I have just been through the beautiful and book; I have looked at the pictures and read the recommended passages, as well as some others, which are very valuable for their information.  It is very ﬁne, and I am happy to congratulate you on this beautiful work.  Will we have a copy for the library?


The Mother: In that case, I shall not send mine.  A day will come, I hope, when we shall be able to tell freely and truly all that Sri Aurobindo’s Presence has meant for the town of Pondicherry....  In the meanwhile, I send you my love and blessings.


The Mother: I have the deepest respect for Indian languages and continue to study Sanskrit when I have time.    The Sanskrit ought to be the national language of India.  Blessings.


The Mother:   Hindi is good only for those who belong to a Hindi-speaking province. Sanskrit is good for all Indians.     Yes.


The Mother: Blessings.     M A  Stop thinking that you are of the West and others of the East.  All human beings are of the same divine origin and meant to manifest upon earth the unity of this origin.   M I F I P


The Mother: In any country the best education that can be given to children consists in teaching them what the true nature of their country is and its own qualities, the mission their nation has to fulﬁl in the world and its true place in the terrestrial concert. To that should be added a wide understanding of the role of other nations, but without the spirit of imitation and without ever losing sight of the genius of one’s own country. France meant generosity of sentiment, newness and boldness of ideas and chivalry in action. It was that France which commanded the respect and admiration of all: it is by these virtues that she dominated the world.  A utilitarian, calculating, mercantile France is France no longer.


The Mother: These things do not agree with her true nature and in practising them she loses the nobility of her world position.  This is what the children of today must be made to know.    It is France that can connect Europe with India. There are great spiritual possibilities for France.


The Mother: She will play a big part in spite  of her present bad condition. It is through France that the spiritual message will reach Europe. That is why I chose France for my birth, although I am not French.§


The Mother: The true freedom is to be free from desire.  The true independence is to be independent from passion.  The true mastery is to be master of oneself.  That alone is the key to happiness; all the rest is passing illusion.


The Mother: It is not in division but in unity that can be found the solution of human problems and the remedy to human miseries.    Money is not meant to make money; money is meant to make the earth ready for the New Creation.    Those who serve the Truth cannot take one side or another.


The Mother: Truth is above conﬂict and opposition.  In Truth, all countries unite in a common effort towards progress and realisation.    Israel as a nation has the same right to exist as all the other nations.


The Mother: How can you believe that the Grace works for one nation or  another? The Grace works for and in the present conditions of the world, Truth and falsehood are both present everywhere, in all nations. It is the human mind which thinks: this one is right and that one is wrong — right and wrong are present everywhere.  The Truth is above all conﬂicts and all oppositions.


The Mother: Yes.  No. I said — it is a constant working.   You are mixing up two things, the working of the Grace and the result which is the inevitable consequence of the triumph of the Truth: they are quite different things on a different level.  The progressive victory of the Truth brings automatically certain results complex and often unexpected by the human mind which always wants clean cuts.


The Mother: It is only a total vision both in time and space that can understand.    impasse  Perhaps the enmity exists only because they are neighbours!  Violence and enmity... when brothers hate, they hate much more than others.


The Mother: Sri Aurobindo has said: “Hate is the indication of the possibility of a much greater love.”  It is not this conﬂict that will decide the future of our civilisation.  The Mussulmans and the Israelites represent the two religions where the faith in God is the most extreme. Only, the faith of the Israelites is a faith in an impersonal God and the faith of the Mussulmans is a faith in a personal God.


The Mother: The Arabs have passionate natures. They live almost exclusively in the vital, with its passions, its desires, while the Israelites live chieﬂy in the mind with a greater power of organisation and of realisation, which is quite exceptional. The Israelites are intellectuals with a remarkable will. They are not sentimental, that is to say they do not like weakness.   The Mussulmans are impulsive, the Israelites are rational.


The Mother:  ()  Japan was in the physical world the teacher of beauty.  She must not renounce her privilege.  Blessings.


The Mother: All countries are equal and essentially “one”.  Each of them represents an aspect of the One Supreme.  In the terrestrial manifestation they all have the same right to a free expression of themselves.  From the spiritual point of view, the importance of a country does not depend on its size or its power or its authority over other countries, but on its response to Truth and on the degree of Truth it is capable of manifesting.


The Mother: To ﬁnd the Divine who is in each of us and in all things.   Only one thing is important, it is to ﬁnd the Divine.  For each one and for the whole world anything becomes useful if it helps to ﬁnd the Divine.    Life is meant for seeking the Divine.


The Mother: Life is realised when ﬁnding the Divine.     Let this be our one need in life, to realise the Divine.


The Mother:   Yes, to live in the consciousness of the Divine Presence is the only thing that matters.   To want only what the Divine wants in us and for us, is the one important thing.


The Mother: The individual self and the universal self are one; in every world, in every being, in each thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man’s mission is to manifest it.    We are upon earth to manifest the Divine’s will.   The only important thing is the goal to be attained. The way matters little, and often it is better not to know it in advance.


The Mother:  Whatever we do, we must always remember our aim.    The aim of our life on earth is to become conscious of the Divine.


The Mother:    The true purpose of life — To live for the Divine, or to live for the Truth, or at least to live for one’s soul.  And the true sincerity — To live for the Divine without expecting any beneﬁt from Him in return.


The Mother:    The true destiny is to reach the Divine Consciousness.   To serve the Divine.    The only thing worth living for is to serve the Divine.


The Mother:   Conversion of the aim of life from the ego to the Divine: instead of seeking one’s own satisfaction, to have the service of the Divine as the aim of life.


The Mother: What you must know is exactly the thing you want to do in life. The time needed to learn it does not matter at all. For those who wish to live according to Truth, there is always something to learn and some progress to make.


The Mother: The true aim of life is to ﬁnd the Divine’s Presence deep inside oneself and to surrender to It so that It takes the lead of the life, all the feelings and all the actions of the body.  This gives a true and luminous aim to existence.    Life has a purpose.  This purpose is to ﬁnd and to serve the Divine.


The Mother: The Divine is not far, He is in ourselves, deep inside and above the feelings and the thoughts. With the Divine is peace and certitude and even the solution of all difﬁculties.   Hand over your problems to the Divine and He will pull you out of all difﬁculties.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]  There is a purpose in life — and it is the only true and lasting one — the Divine.


The Mother: Turn to Him and the emptiness will go.  Blessings.     You are here to contact your soul, and that is why you live.


The Mother: Aspire persistently and try to silence your mind. The aspiration must come from the heart.   To be and to become more and more what the Divine wants us to be should be our greatest preoccupation.    Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain.


The Mother:   Happiness is not the aim of life.  The aim of ordinary life is to carry out one’s duty, the aim of spiritual life is to realise the Divine.


The Mother:   In the world, as it is, the goal of life is not to secure personal happiness, but to awaken the individual progressively towards the truth-consciousness.   It is not in order to be happy that we are upon earth, for in the present conditions of terrestrial life happiness is an impossibility.  We are upon earth to ﬁnd and realise the Divine, for the Divine Consciousness alone can give true happiness.   Do not live to be happy, live to serve the Divine and the joy that you will experience will be beyond all expectations.


The Mother:  The life of a man is unfulﬁlled unless he has found the Divine.   The Divine is everywhere and in everything; and we are created to discover the Divine and to unite with the Divine for his manifestation.    Man was created to express the Divine. His duty is therefore to become conscious of the Divine and to surrender himself entirely to His Will. All the rest, whatever the appearance, is falsehood and ignorance.


The Mother:  We seek not our personal salvation but the absolute surrender of our being to the Divine.     Concentration on the Divine is the only truly valid thing. To do what the Divine wants us to do is the only thing valid.


The Mother:   What is lasting, eternal, immortal and inﬁnite, that indeed is worth having, worth conquering, worth possessing. It is divine Light, divine Love, divine Life — it is also Supreme Peace, Perfect Joy and All-Mastery upon earth with the Complete Manifestation as the crowning.   [facsimile] Never forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you helping and guiding you.


The Mother: He is the companion who never fails, the friend whose love comforts and strengthens. Have faith and He will do everything for you.     Never forget that you are not alone.


The Mother: The Divine is with you helping and guiding you. He is the companion who never fails, the friend whose love comforts and strengthens. The more you feel lonely, the more you are ready to perceive His luminous Presence. Have faith and He will do everything for you.    It is in the Divine that we shall always ﬁnd all that we need.


The Mother:   Alone the Divine can give us a perfect safety.


The Mother: Let the Divine Consciousness be the leading power in your life.   Let the Divine Presence be always with you.


The Mother: Whatever you do, always remember the Divine.   The Divine manifests upon earth whenever and wherever it is possible.


The Mother: In each heart, the Divine’s Presence is the promise of future and possible perfections.    It is only in the Divine that we can ﬁnd perfect peace and total satisfaction.     Behind the surface of things there is a sea of perfect consciousness in which we can always dip.


The Mother:   There is a consciousness that nothing can debase or tarnish or deﬁle; it is the one that we call the Divine Consciousness.


The Mother: The Divine Consciousness must be our only guide.     The Divine Consciousness is the only true help, the only true happiness.


The Mother:   The Lord has said, “The time has come” and all the obstacles will be overcome.    The Divine is the savour of all life and the reason of all activity, the goal of our thoughts.


The Mother:    The Divine’s Presence is for us an absolute, immutable, invariable fact.


The Mother: In the Divine, by the Divine all is transﬁgured and gloriﬁed; in the Divine is found the key of all mysteries and all powers.    In all there lacks the unchanging peace of the Divine’s sovereign contemplation, and the calm vision of the Divine’s immutable eternity.    In the Divine’s light we shall see, in the Divine’s knowledge we shall know, in the Divine’s will we shall realise.


The Mother:   Outside the Divine all is falsehood and illusion, all is mournful obscurity. In the Divine is life, light and joy. In the Divine is the sovereign peace.


The Mother:   All our strength is with the Divine. With Him we can surmount all the obstacles.    The Divine’s voice is heard as a melodious chant in the stillness of the night.


The Mother:    The Divine’s triumph is so perfect that every obstacle, every illwill, every hatred rising against Him is a promise of a vaster and still completer victory.


The Mother:   For the plenitude of His light we invoke the Divine to awaken in us the power to express Him.    The Divine’s words comfort and bless, soothe and illumine, and the Divine’s generous hand lifts a fold of the veil which hides the inﬁnite knowledge.


The Mother: How calm, noble and pure is the splendour of the Divine’s contemplation.    To live in the Divine with a life quite new, a life solely made of the Divine, of which the Divine should be the sovereign Lord — and so all troubles will be transformed into serenity, all anguish into peace.   We feel the Divine so living in us that we await events with serenity, knowing that His way is everywhere since we carry it in our being.


The Mother:    The Divine’s glory transforms defeats into eternity’s victories, shadows have ﬂed before His radiant brightness.


The Mother: The Divine’s Presence gives us peace in strength, serenity in action and an unchanging happiness in the midst of all circumstances.    The Divine is the unalloyed happiness, the blissful felicity, but this felicity is perfect only when it is integral.


The Mother: The Divine is the sure friend who never fails, the Power, the Support, the Guide. The Divine is the Light which scatters darkness, the conqueror who assures the victory.


The Mother: The Divine alone is the support that never fails.   The only response that never fails is the Divine’s.   The only love that never fails is the Divine’s.


The Mother: Love the Divine alone and the Divine will always be with you.     The opinion of the Supreme Lord alone has importance.  The Supreme Lord alone deserves all our love and He returns it to us a hundredfold.


The Mother:  Take the Divine alone into your soul’s conﬁdence.   Think of the Divine alone and the Divine will be with you.   A single occupation, a single aim, a single joy — the Divine.    Concentration upon oneself means decay and death. Concentration on the Divine alone brings life and growth and realisation.


The Mother:  Without the Divine life is a painful illusion, with the Divine all is bliss.   The ideal attitude is to belong only to the Divine, to work only for the Divine and above all to expect only from the Divine strength, peace and satisfaction. The Divine is all-merciful and gives us all that we need to lead us as quickly as possible to the goal.   It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security.


The Mother: Find this Presence in yourself and all your difﬁculties will disappear.   Day and night constantly the Presence is there.  It is enough to turn silently inward and we detect it.    Remember always the Divine and all you do will be an expression of the Divine Presence.


The Mother:  In activity and in silence, in taking and in giving, always the glad remembrance of Thee.   All our thoughts, all our sentiments will move towards the Divine as a river towards the sea.    Let all thoughts, all feelings, all actions, all hopes be turned towards the Divine and concentrated on Him. He is our only help and our only safety.


The Mother:   Yes, my child, it is quite true that the Divine is the sole refuge — with Him is absolute safety.   For those who are afraid of a word: This is what we mean by “Divine”: all the knowledge we have to acquire, all the power we have to obtain, all the love we have to become, all the perfection we have to achieve, all the harmonious and progressive poise we have to manifest in light and joy, all the new and unknown splendours that have to be realised.    The Divine is indeed what you expect of Him in your deepest aspiration.


The Mother:  God is the perfection that we must aspire to realise.   The Divine is the perfection towards which we move.  And if you like, I shall lead you to Him very willingly.  Have conﬁdence.     Every being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant; and although no being in the whole universe is as weak as man, none is as divine as he.


The Mother:   The individual existence is a canticle perpetually renewed, that the universe offers to the inconceivable splendour of the Divine.     With regard to the Truth, we are all divine; but we hardly know it. And in us, it is precisely that which does not know itself as divine which we call “ourselves”.


The Mother:  Our worth lies only in the measure of our effort to exceed ourselves, and to exceed ourselves is to attain the Divine.   Human mediocrity is intolerable.  We aspire for a knowledge truly knowing, for a power truly powerful, for a love that truly loves.


The Mother:   Suffocated by the shallowness of the human nature we aspire to the knowledge that truly knows, the power that truly can, the love that truly loves.


The Mother: The Divine under many disguises.   All is relative except the Supreme. The Supreme alone is absolute; but as the Supreme is at the centre of each being, each being carries in himself his absolute.    After all, it is very simple, we have only to become what we are in the depths of our being.


The Mother:   There is nothing more beautiful than to unite with the divine Consciousness.  One is sure to ﬁnd what one seeks — if one seeks it in all sincerity; for what one seeks is within oneself.


The Mother:  None can say to the Divine, “I have known Thee”, and yet all carry Him in themselves, and in the silence of their soul can hear the echo of the Divine’s voice.   One can live the Divine even though unable to express the Divine, one can realise and be the Divine’s inﬁnity though unable to deﬁne or explain the Divine.     For him who is in union with the Divine, everywhere is the Divine’s perfect felicity, in every place and in every circumstance it is with him.


The Mother:   Communion with the Divine: for him who has it, all circumstances can truly become an opportunity for it.   The joy of perfect union can come only when what has to be done is done.   Take conquer in the sense of “acquisition” or “possession”.   You might say — the conquest of the Divine’s consciousness is a difﬁcult task.


The Mother: Commentary: For human beings to become conscious of the Divine and to possess His nature is difﬁcult.      As we progress and purify ourselves of our egoism, our friendship with the Divine becomes more and more clear and conscious.


The Mother:  Friendship with the Divine: delicate, attentive and faithful, ever ready to respond to the smallest appeal.   Closeness to the Divine will always grow with the growth of consciousness, equanimity and love.   God cannot be taken by violence. It is only through love and harmony that you can reach God.  Be in peace — my blessings are with you.


The Mother:   Attachment for the Divine wraps itself around the Divine and ﬁnds all its support in Him so as to be sure never to leave Him.   Affection for the Divine: a sweet and conﬁdent tenderness that gives itself unfailingly to the Divine.    Intimacy with the Divine: complete surrender to the Divine and total receptivity to His inﬂuence, without any conditions to this intimacy.


The Mother:  Intimacy with the Divine in the physical is possible only for the one who lives exclusively by the Divine and for the Divine.   Intimacy with the Divine in the vital: only a pure, calm and desireless vital can hope to have access to this marvellous state.    Intimacy with the Divine in the psychic: the natural state of the fully developed psychic.   Integral intimacy with the Divine: the entire being no longer vibrates except with the Divine’s touch.


The Mother:   It pleases Him to be like that. He is like that.  And simply, the secret is to be in the “it pleases Him”.


The Mother: Not to be only what is objectiﬁed; to be also in That which objectiﬁes. That is everything.     The Omnipresent, Eternal Spirit remains immutably One. The various ways of serving and understanding It make no difference to Its Reality.


The Mother:   ()  The Lord and his Shakti God and his devotee The father and his child The master and his disciple The Beloved and Lover The Friend and co-worker The child and his mother   To give oneself to the Divine, to receive and be the Divine, to transmit and spread forth the Divine: these are the three simultaneous movements which constitute our total relation with the Divine.   The Divine’s Grace is wonderful and almighty.


The Mother: And the ways of working of the Lord are full of a delightful sense of humour...     Be always ready to receive the Divine, for He may visit you at any moment.  And if sometimes He makes you wait at the appointed meeting-place, that is certainly no reason for you yourself to be late.


The Mother:  It is quite evident that for some reason or other — or may be for no reason at all — the Supreme has changed His mind about it.    The Supreme must have changed His decision in order to try your faith and see if it depended on such an external thing.   Surely the Divine, like everybody else, has a right to change His mind.


The Mother:   God does not indulge in conversation.   When you believe He is angry.  Surely He has deep compassion for you, but His eyes are not of the kind that shed tears.


The Mother:   It may be that the Divine does not see things in the same way as humans do.  A sudden show may be very useful for Sadhana.


The Mother: According to the law of man the guilty ought to be punished.  But there is a law more imperative than the human law. It is the Divine law, the law of compassion and mercy.  It is because of this law that the world is able to endure and progress towards Truth and Love.


The Mother: The Divine does not see things as men do and has no need to punish or reward. Each and every action carries in itself its fruit and its consequences.  According to the nature of the action, it brings you near to the Divine or takes you away from Him, and that is the supreme consequence.    Human beings are capable of withdrawing from the Divine — and they often do it; but for the Divine to withdraw from human beings, that is an impossibility.


The Mother:    If the supreme Consciousness got angry over the defects of men, humanity would long since have ceased to be.


The Mother:    It is not God who made man wicked.  It is man who makes himself wicked by separating himself from God.


The Mother:


The Mother: The Divine may very well lean down towards you, but to understand Him rightly you must come up to Him.   To understand the Divine we must have no more preferences.   To understand the Divine one must become the Divine.      The mountain path leads always in two directions, upward and downward — all depends on what we put behind us.


The Mother:   Life is a perpetual choice between truth and falsehood, light and darkness, progress and regression, the ascent towards the heights or a fall into the abyss. It is for each one to choose freely.


The Mother:   In each one’s life a moment comes when he has to choose between the Path and the muddle. You cannot put one foot here and one foot there. If you try to, you will be torn to pieces.  A heart that does not choose is a heart that will die.


The Mother:  You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise.    When the path is known it is easy to tread upon it.   To follow the path to the end, one must be armed with a very patient endurance.    On the spiritual path each step forward is a conquest and the result of a ﬁght.


The Mother:  The road to the Divine: always long, often dry in appearance, but always abundant in its results.   Ascension: stage by stage one climbs towards the Consciousness.     Spiritual ascension: fearless, regular, uninterrupted.


The Mother:   One will pass through as many stages as it is necessary to take, but one will arrive.


The Mother: The intellectual attitude comes ﬁrst and practice follows little by little. What is very important is to maintain very alert the will to live and to be what one knows to be the truth. Then it is impossible to stop and even more to fall back.    All human beings have a spiritual destiny which is near or far depending on each one’s determination.


The Mother: One must will in all sincerity.     All depends upon the choice of the force that you allow to make use of you as its instrument. And the choice has to be made at every moment of your life.


The Mother:   It is the conﬂict in you between what is attached to ordinary life and what aspires for the divine life. It is up to you to choose which is the strongest in you and to act accordingly.    You can follow the meanderings of innumerable reincarnations or choose the steep and rapid path of intensive “sadhana”.


The Mother:    He who follows


The Mother: the steep path that climbs the heights can easily slip down into the abyss.   For those whose destiny it is to scale the summits, the least false step risks being a mortal danger.   The perfect path: for each one the path which leads fastest to the Divine.   All was gold and gold and gold, a torrent of golden light pouring down in an uninterrupted ﬂow and bringing with it the consciousness that the path of the gods is a sunlit path in which difﬁculties lose all reality.


The Mother: Such is the path open before us if we choose to take it.    = one who follows a yogic discipline.   = yogic discipline.   = union with the Divine (by extension: the path which leads to this union).


The Mother:   This has nothing to do with a spiritual life, not even with religion. X will explain to you in detail, but I can tell you that Yoga is not only an aspiration of the mind towards the Divine but also and chieﬂy a yearning of the heart.


The Mother: The whole world is in a process of progressive transformation; if you take up the discipline of Yoga, you speed up in yourself the process.   Yoga is commensurate with all life.   True spirituality transforms life.   Three Conceptions of the World


The Mother: The world is an illusion, a ﬁeld of ignorance and suffering due to ignorance. The one thing to do is to get out of it as soon as possible and to disappear into the original Non-Existence or Non-Manifestation.  The world is essentially divine, for the Divine is omnipresent there. But its exterior expression is distorted, obscure, ignorant, perverted. The one thing to do is to become conscious of the inner Divine and remain ﬁxed in that consciousness without troubling about the world; for this external world cannot change and will always be in its natural state of unconsciousness and ignorance.


The Mother: The world as it is, is not the divine creation it is meant to be, but an obscure and perverted expression of it. It is not the expression of the divine consciousness and will, but this is what it is meant to become; it has been created to develop into a perfect manifestation of the Divine under all His forms and aspects — Light and Knowledge, Power, Love and Beauty.  This is our conception of it and the aim we follow.    The usual sadhanas have for aim the union with the Supreme Consciousness (Sat-chit-ananda).


The Mother: And those who reach there are satisﬁed with their own liberation and leave the world to its unhappy plight . On the contrary, Sri Aurobindo’s sadhana  starts where the others end. Once the union with the Supreme is realised one must bring down that realisation to the exterior world and change the conditions of life upon the earth until a total transformation is accomplished. In accordance with this aim, the sadhaks of the integral yoga do not retire from the world to lead a life of contemplation and meditation.


The Mother: Each one must devote at least one third of his time to a useful work. All activities are represented in the Ashram and each one chooses the work most congenial to his nature, but must do it in a spirit of service and unselﬁshness, keeping always in view the aim of integral transformation.  To make this purpose possible, the Ashram is organised so that all its inmates ﬁnd their reasonable needs satisﬁed and have not to worry about their subsistence.  The rules are very few so that each one can enjoy the freedom needed for his development, but a few things are strictly forbidden: they are (1) politics, (2) smoking, (3) alcoholic drink and (4) sex enjoyment.  Great care is taken for the maintenance of good health and the welfare and normal growth of the body of all, small and big, young and old.


The Mother:    What we are doing now is a new thing; it has nothing to do with the past.   We want the divine conquest of this world, the conquest of all its movements and the realisation of the Divine here.


The Mother:   It can be called an adventure because it is the ﬁrst time that a yoga aims at transformation and divinisation of physical life instead of escape from it.    We want to translate into physical terms, as perfectly as possible, the inspiration sent by the Lord for the accomplishment of His work upon earth.  And for that, each individual soul is a help and a collaborator; but each human ego too is a limitation and an obstacle.


The Mother:  To those who want to practise the integral Yoga, it is strongly advised to abstain from three things: 1) Sexual intercourse 2) Smoking 3) Drinking alcohol   The more I go, the more I know that it is in work that Sri Aurobindo’s integral yoga is.


The Mother: It is not what you do but the spirit in which you do it that is important for the integral Yoga.   [facsimile] From the standpoint of Yoga it is not so much what you do but how you do it that matters most.     It is not so much the act that matters, but the consciousness in which it is done.


The Mother: So all is well and do not torment yourself. My love is always with you.    From the point of view of a spiritual life, it is not what you do that matters most, but the way in which it is done and the consciousness you put into it. Remember always the Divine and all you do will be an expression of the Divine Presence.


The Mother: When all your actions are consecrated to the Divine, there will be no longer activities that are superior and activities that are inferior; all will have an equal importance — the value given them by the consecration.     Whatever one does, it becomes useful if one puts a spark of true consciousness into it.  The consciousness one has is much more important than the act one performs. And the most apparently useless acts can become very productive if they are performed with the true consciousness.


The Mother:   It is the spirit and the consciousness from which it is done that makes an action yogic; it is not the action itself.   This is not the question, the question is whether you have the necessary aspiration, determination and perseverance and whether you can by the intensity and persistence of your aspiration make all the parts of your being answer to the call and become one in the consecration.


The Mother: Quiet yourself and in the quiet see and feel the Mother.  An inner purity and receptivity that freely lets in the Mother’s inﬂuence. Begin with the heart.  Do not strain yourself.


The Mother: By the force of aspiration and the grace of the Mother.   Psychic: your true being, the being that is in the heart and that is the spark of the Mother’s own consciousness.   Vital: the part from which proceed desires and hunger and dynamic activities, having its physical basis round about the navel.


The Mother: Detachment.  Inform when you are ready to come. It is only then that the permission can be given.  Detachment.  If you like.


The Mother: You can write.   Detachment.  Sri Aurobindo’s books.


The Mother: Good.  Helpful.  More difﬁcult if one has not the habit of meditation.  Risky because, when talking, often some nonsense or at least some useless things can be said.  Good.


The Mother: Very good.  Good.   Three things indispensable to begin with:  Absolute sincerity in the whole being and all its activities.  Complete self-surrender without any reservation


The Mother: .  Patient work on oneself and at the same time a steady conquering of perfect unshakable peace and equanimity.    Our human consciousness has windows that open on the Inﬁnite but generally men keep these windows carefully shut. They have to be opened wide and allow the Inﬁnite freely to enter into us and transform us.


The Mother: Two conditions are necessary for opening the windows: 1) ardent aspiration; 2) progressive dissolution of the ego.  The Divine help is assured to those who set to work sincerely.    Aspiration.  Silence.


The Mother: Concentration in the solar plexus region.   If need be, a prayer addressed to the Divine: I belong to You and I want to know You so that all that I do is nothing but what you want me to do.   Encourage only what leads quickly to the Lord and serves His divine purpose.   The Examiners  The integral yoga consists of an uninterrupted series of examinations that one has to undergo without any previous warning, thus obliging you to be constantly on the alert and attentive.


The Mother: Three groups of examiners set us these tests. They appear to have nothing to do with one another, and their methods are so different, sometimes even so apparently contradictory, that it seems as if they could not possibly be leading towards the same goal. Nevertheless, they complement one another, work towards the same end, and are all indispensable to the completeness of the result.  The three types of examination are: those set by the forces of Nature, those set by spiritual and divine forces, and those set by hostile forces. These last are the most deceptive in their appearance and to avoid being caught unawares and unprepared requires a state of constant watchfulness, sincerity and humility.


The Mother: The most commonplace circumstances, the events of everyday life, the most apparently insigniﬁcant people and things all belong to one or other of these three kinds of examiners. In this vast and complex organisation of tests, those events that are generally considered the most important in life are the easiest examinations to undergo, because they ﬁnd you ready and on your guard. It is easier to stumble over the little stones in your path, because they attract no attention.   Endurance and plasticity, cheerfulness and fearlessness are the qualities specially needed for the examinations of physical nature.  Aspiration, trust, idealism, enthusiasm and generous selfgiving, for spiritual examinations.


The Mother: Vigilance, sincerity and humility for the examinations from hostile forces.  And do not imagine that there are on the one hand people who undergo the examinations and on the other people who set them. Depending on the circumstances and the moment we are all both examiners and examinees, and it may even happen that one is at the same time both examiner and examinee. And the beneﬁt one derives from this depends, both in quality and in quantity, on the intensity of one’s aspiration and the awakening of one’s consciousness.  To conclude, a ﬁnal piece of advice: never set yourself up as an examiner.


The Mother: For while it is good to remember constantly that one may be undergoing a very important examination, it is extremely dangerous to imagine that one is responsible for setting examinations for others. That is the open door to the most ridiculous and harmful kinds of vanity. It is the Supreme Wisdom which decides these things, and not the ignorant human will.


The Mother: Each time you have to make progress, you have to undergo an examination.    In ancient times the disciple had to undergo severe tests to prove his ability for initiation. Here we do not follow that method.  Apparently there is no test and no trial.


The Mother: But if you see the truth, you will ﬁnd that here it is much more difﬁcult. There the disciple  knew that he was undergoing a period of trial and after he had passed through some outward tests, he was taken in. But here you have to face life and you are watched at every moment. It is not only your outer actions that count. Each and every thought and inner movement is seen, every reaction is noticed.


The Mother: It is not what you do in the solitude of the forest, but what you do in the thick of the battle of life that is important.  Are you ready to submit yourself for such tests? Are you ready to change yourself completely? You will have to throw off your ideas, ideals, values, interests and opinions. Everything will have to be learnt anew.


The Mother: If you are ready for all this, then take a plunge; otherwise don’t try to step in.§     The whole life is a sadhana. It is a mistake to cut it into bits and say this is sadhana and that is not.


The Mother: Even your eating and sleeping should be a part of sadhana.§     ( )


The Mother: Everything can be part of “sadhana”; it depends on the inner attitude.  Naturally, if one lets himself be invaded by the Western atmosphere, farewell to the sadhana.  But even in the most materialistic milieu, if one retains one’s aspiration and one’s faith in the Divine Life, the sadhana can and should continue.   A discipline imposed by the will for any spiritual end is tapasya.§


The Mother:   Tapasya: a discipline aiming at the realisation of the Divine.


The Mother: Mental tapasya: the process leading to the goal.     Vital tapasya: the vital undergoes a rigorous discipline in order to transform itself.


The Mother:    Integral tapasya: the whole being lives only to know and serve the Divine.


The Mother: Perfect tapasya: that which will reach its goal.    [facsimile]  No life can be successful without self-discipline.


The Mother: To be a man, discipline is indispensable.  Without discipline one is only an animal.  One begins to be a man only when one aspires to a higher and truer life and when one accepts a discipline of transformation.


The Mother: For this one must start by mastering one’s lower nature and its desires.     It can be said that all discipline whatsoever, if it is followed strictly, sincerely, deliberately, is of considerable help, for it makes the earthly life reach its goal more rapidly and prepares it to receive the new life. To discipline oneself is to hasten the arrival of this new life and the contact with the supramental reality.


The Mother: The true attitude is neither to be an ascetic nor to indulge in desire. The true attitude is to take in all simplicity what I give, to be perfectly satisﬁed with it and neither to ask for more nor to refuse what is given. This is the true example to give, the one that can help the others towards a better understanding of their duties as sadhaks.  Remain my child, simple, quiet and content, and all will be all right.


The Mother: A sannyasi who makes demands is not sincere. To be sincere a sannyasi must be perfectly satisﬁed with what is given to him and ask for nothing more. In all that happens to him, he must see the Divine’s Grace and be at once happy and grateful for it.  Moreover, he who wants to do “intensive sadhana” must be able to isolate himself from his surroundings and, if necessary, to sit in deep meditation even on a battleﬁeld in the midst of the roaring guns.


The Mother: I do not believe that sadhana in the cave is easy — only there the insincerity remains hidden, while in life and action it is revealed.  You can like a Yogi in a cave, but in life the humbugging is more difﬁcult, because you have to like a Yogi.    One thing we want to know is how much you are eating and whether you sleep regularly and sufﬁciently. These two points are of great importance, for a sadhana of this kind demands in order to bear it that the mind and body and nervous system should not be weakened by undernourishment and lack of sleep.   It is not by fasting but by improving the will that one obtains the Truth.


The Mother:   You said that X was “doing mischief” with the children, because in your mind the idea of sadhana is associated with quietness, stillness and meditation, but the more you stay here the more you will have to realise that it is not only in meditation that one can reach the Divine consciousness, you will learn that one can remain in contact with the Divine even while playing or doing gymnastics or walking or doing anything; at every moment, you should remember the Divine and try to remain in the Divine consciousness.    Here sensibleness is indispensable and the integral yoga is based on balance, calm and peace and not on an unhealthy need to suffer.


The Mother:    As long as it is an austerity there are reactions.  When it becomes an imperative need, it is good.


The Mother:    ()  If the need is a true one, the means to do it will come spontaneously.


The Mother:    It is the old methods of yoga which demand silence and solitude.  The yoga of tomorrow is to ﬁnd the Divine in work and in relation with the world.


The Mother: Look within yourself, reﬂect upon it and tell me what your choice is.   According to my experience people fall into when they go into solitude.   To be by oneself very much needs a certain force of inner life. It may be better to vary solitude with some kind of its opposite.  But each has its advantages and disadvantages and it is only by being vigilant and keeping an inner poise that one can avoid the latter.


The Mother:   Entire physical retirement is seldom healthy, although a temporary retirement is often helpful. But the main thing is the inner detachment and complete turning to the Divine.   The movement that stores up and concentrates is no less needed than the movement that spreads and diffuses.


The Mother:  Concentration does not aim for any effect, but is simple and persistent.   Concentration on a precise goal is helpful to development.   The more we concentrate on the goal, the more it blossoms forth and becomes precise.   The Yogi knows by his capacity for a containing or dynamic identity with things and persons and forces.


The Mother:   There is always some kind of with the surrounding people and things; but by will and practice one can learn to concentrate on somebody or something and to get consciously identiﬁed with this person or this thing, and  through this identiﬁcation you know the nature of the person or the thing.     Nothing is impossible for one who is attentive.


The Mother:  It is said that the faculty of concentrated attention is at the source of all successful activity. Indeed the capacity and value of a man can be measured by his capacity of concentrated attention.  In order to obtain this concentration, it is generally recommended to reduce one’s activities, to make a choice and conﬁne oneself to this choice alone, so as not to disperse one’s energy and attention. For the normal man, this method is good, sometimes even indispensable. But one can imagine something better.


The Mother:   All should be done and each one when it comes spontaneously.   When you sit in meditation you must be as candid and simple as a child, not interfering by your external mind, expecting nothing, insisting on nothing. Once this condition is there, all the rest depends upon the aspiration deep within you.


The Mother: And if you call upon Divinity, then too you will have the answer.   Each meditation ought to be a new revelation, for in each meditation something new happens.


The Mother: Even if you are not apparently successful in your meditation, it is better to persist and to be more obstinate than the opposition of your lower nature.   The increase of time given to meditation is not very useful unless the urge for meditation comes spontaneously from inside and not from any arbitrary decision of the mind.   My help, love and blessings are always with you.


The Mother:    To keep constantly a concentrated and in-gathered attitude is more important than having ﬁxed hours of meditation.


The Mother:   Keep your thought focussed upon it in a concentrated way.     Yes, concentration on the Presence is enough.


The Mother:   ()  New birth. Birth to a new consciousness.


The Mother: The psychic consciousness.  How to awaken in the body the aspiration for the Divine.   Turning one’s gaze inward. Looking within oneself.


The Mother: The ill-effects of uncontrolled speech.   Spiritual experience means the contact with the Divine in oneself (or without, which comes to the same thing in that domain). And it is an experience identical everywhere in all countries, among all peoples and even in all ages.    One must always be greater than one’s experience.


The Mother:   It is always better to control an experience of this kind rather than to be controlled by it. I mean that the experience in itself is good and useful, but it must come when we want it to come and not at any time when it chooses to come. It seems to me that it is better to allow this experience to come only when you are quietly at home or during meditation.


The Mother: When you are at work it is always better to remain fully aware of your body and its actions.   The initial error was to hope to recommence the same experience as the one you had in your youth.  In life, experiences are not repeated identically, and if they are not better, that is, higher and more true, they become necessarily worse.  After a happy and favourable experience it is necessary to rise from the human to the divine, otherwise one risks falling into the infernal and diabolic.    It can be useful for a time to have certain inner experiences, but this attitude is not to be kept permanently as it is only a partial truth and far from the whole truth of the integral yoga.


The Mother:    The true revelation is the revelation of the Divine.


The Mother:


The Mother: The descent of calm and light which you experience is a sign that the sadhana has actually begun in you; it shows that you are open now consciously to the Divine Force and its workings.  The descent of calm and light into the being is the beginning of the foundation of the yoga. At ﬁrst it may be felt in the mind and upper part only, but afterwards goes further down until it touches all the centres and is experienced in the whole body. At ﬁrst it comes only for a moment or two; afterwards it lasts for longer periods.  The other experiences show that the faculty of inner vision is opening; this is also a part of the yoga.


The Mother: The ﬁre seen by you must have been the ﬁre of aspiration lit in the vital being. The other things you saw are not deﬁnite enough to be interpreted.   Continue your progress.


The Mother: Our blessings and protection are always with you.    The best attitude is to be quiet and calm, and to let the experience follow its course, observing it  Blessings.


The Mother: In order that the experience may not be dangerously deformed and painful, one should keep an absolute calm.  It is only in the peace and the calm that the Divine Force expresses itself and acts.    It is much better to stop the experiences altogether. They seem to take you into levels which are undesirable and most unsafe; they are not at all necessary for any opening in the yoga.


The Mother:    ( )  Certainly I have not given you up, not in the least. You are quite capable of the realisation if you make up your mind to it, and the experience you relate seems to me a valid promise that it will come.  As for what I meant in my last letter it was simply that there were things which might act to delay your spiritual realisation and might be otherwise dangerous for you.


The Mother: This does not mean that the realisation will not come.     You had the experience you describe when the force was acting chieﬂy in the mind, the vital and, through it, in the physical. It is long since this time has passed.


The Mother: The force has come farther down in its action and now it is at work not only in the material but also in the subconscient and even in the inconscient. Unless you follow this descending movement and allow the force to act in your body and these material regions of the consciousness, you ﬁnd yourself stranded on the side of the road without being able to advance any further. And to allow this working of the force it is a detailed surrender of all movements, habits, tastes, preferences, sense of necessities, etc. that is urgently required.  Read carefully Sri Aurobindo’s article in the: it will help you to understand.    It is a withdrawal from the most external consciousness into the Purusha, the witness in the physical.


The Mother: One ﬁnds there a great repose, indeed.    Your attitude was quite correct and the best one to have in the occurrence.  They might have beenthe Aswins, the twinriders, the healers.


The Mother: Unquestionably yes. It is an important step towards the psychic depths.    Your observation is very crude.


The Mother: No rule can be laid down about suggestions and voices coming from “within”. Your “within” may mean anything. You must train your observation and try to distinguish between the sources from which the suggestions come. The voice or the suggestion may come from your own subconscient or it may come from something higher. If you know from where it comes, then you can decide whether you should follow it or not.§  In an age like ours success alone counts and the material satisfactions it brings.


The Mother: However, an ever-increasing number of dissatisﬁed people are seeking to know the reason of life. And, on the other hand, there are sages who know and strive to help suffering humanity and to spread the light of knowledge. When the two meet, he who knows and he who wants to know, there springs up a new hope in the world, and a little light penetrates the prevailing darkness.    The western mind always ﬁnds it difﬁcult to submit totally to a Guru and without total and unquestioning surrender to the Guru his help to you is paralysed.


The Mother: That is why generally I advise westerners to ﬁnd the guidance and the Presence within themselves; it is true that this process is very often open to uncertainty and self-deception, mistaking some voice of the ego in disguise for the Divine’s guidance.  In both cases, it is only an absolute sincerity and an unmixed humility that can be your safeguard.   With my blessings.


The Mother:  If you have faith and conﬁdence, it is not the human form of the guru that you worship, but the Supreme Lord who manifests through him.   Be not troubled and give yourself unreservedly to the Supreme Lord through whatever channel helps you.   With love and blessings.


The Mother:   I am not at all convinced by X’s theories. This seems to me to be merely the old human “animal” trying to satisfy its desires by mentalising them.  Generally speaking, when a man starts building yogic theories on his own particular work, one should always be wary.  All work can and should be done in a yogic spirit. But the “sacriﬁce” should be made to the and not to a human being.


The Mother:  To each one things are said according to his or her capacity of understanding.  It follows that the knowledge given to one may not be useful or good for another. That is why the personal teaching of the Guru must not be disclosed to others.   The disciples judge the forms by the Master, others judge the Master by the forms.


The Mother: The Indians believe (or have the experience) that the Divine lives in the human being. The Europeans don’t believe it. For them, he is somewhere above. He has incarnated only in Jesus Christ. So they don’t bow down to any human person.


The Mother: But if one bows down to a person who has embodied the Divine Consciousness — of course with faith — then that person can more easily transmit his consciousness (or experience) to the other.§   Well-known or unknown has absolutely no importance from the spiritual point of view.  One man who earnestly pursues the yoga is of more value than a thousand well-known men.   Of those who possess a true value the power of Yoga will increase the value, but from one who has only some false appearance of art, even that appearance will vanish or else lose its appeal.


The Mother:  Yoga can be spread by any exterior means.     Those who feel lonely in the world are ready for union with the Divine.     Sincerity is the key of the divine doors.


The Mother:  Be sincere.  Sincerity is the gate to Divinity.    Sincerity means to lift all the movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained.  Sincerity exacts the uniﬁcation and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will.


The Mother:   To be sincere, all the parts of the being must be united in their aspiration for the Divine — not that one part wants and others refuse or revolt. To be sincere in the aspiration — to want the Divine for the Divine’s sake, not for fame or name or prestige or power or any satisfaction of vanity.    Be perfectly sincere in your consecration to the Divine’s work.


The Mother: This will assure you strength and success.   Be sincere and absolute in your consecration to the Divine and your life will become harmonious and beautiful.    Fear not, your sincerity is your safeguard.


The Mother: If earnestly you say to the Divine, “I want only Thee” , the Divine will arrange the circumstances in such a way that you are compelled to be sincere.


The Mother:  Simple sincerity: the beginning of all progress.   To reach your spiritual goal, be sincere, that is to say, make of it the single purpose of your life.


The Mother: An uncompromising sincerity is the surest way to spiritual achievement.  Do not pretend — be.  Do not promise — act.  Do not dream — realise.


The Mother:   Be perfectly sincere and no victory will be denied to you.   In sincerity is the certitude of victory.  Sincerity!


The Mother: Sincerity! How sweet is the purity of thy presence!     Those who are earnest and sincere have always the Divine for companion.


The Mother:   The only salvation is in an absolute sincerity and truthfulness.     Absolute sincerity is required.


The Mother:   Sincerity, Fidelity are the two guardians of the Way.   We want to be sincere in spite of all contrary opinions; sincerity is our safeguard.    Develop — sincerity (that is, an integral adhesion to the Divine’s way).


The Mother: Reject — the pull of the old human habits.    INSINCERITY, PRETENSION AND SELF-DECEPTION Be perfectly faithful and sincere towards your true Self.  Allow no deception to creep into your consecration to the Divine.


The Mother:  Insincerity leads on the path to ruin.    In your sadhana what is important is sincerity at every point; if there is that, mistakes can be rectiﬁed and do not so much matter. If there is any insincerity, that pulls down the sadhana at once. But whether this constant sincerity is there or there is any falling off from it at any point, is a thing you must learn to see in yourself; if there is the earnest and constant will for it, the power to see will come.


The Mother: Sincerity does not at all depend on satisfying others — it is an inner matter and lies solely between you and me.     Be sincere and I am ready to correct your mistakes a thousand times if necessary.


The Mother: Those who are sincere, I can help and turn easily towards the Divine. But where there is insincerity I can do very little.    Yes. It is insincerity of the being, in which one part wants the Divine and another part wants something else.


The Mother: It is through ignorance and stupidity that the being is insincere. But with a persevering will and an absolute conﬁdence in the Divine Grace, one can cure this insincerity.     As long as there is within a person the possibility of an inner conﬂict, it means that there is still in him some insincerity.


The Mother:   Any inner conﬂict is the sign of a lack of sincerity.     Only those who are already very sincere know that they are not completely sincere.


The Mother:   When you are sure that you have attained absolute sincerity, you may be certain that you have plunged into falsehood.     It is no use thinking that one is very sincere.


The Mother: It is useless to think that one is not sincere. What is useful is to be sincere.     All division in the being is an insincerity.


The Mother: The greatest insincerity is to dig an abyss between your body and the truth of your being.   When an abyss separates the true being from the physical being, Nature ﬁlls it up immediately with all kinds of adverse suggestions, the most formidable of which is fear, and the most pernicious, doubt.  Allow nothing anywhere to deny the truth of your being — this is sincerity.


The Mother: Before the Eternal Consciousness a drop of sincerity has more value than an ocean of pretension and hypocrisy.     I need not seem if I am.  It is better to be than to seem.


The Mother: No need of seeming when one is.    I need not appear to be good if my sincerity is perfect.  It is better to be than to seem.


The Mother: Be honest towards yourself — (no self-deception). Be sincere towards the Divine — (no bargaining in the surrender).   Be straightforward with humanity — (no pretence and show).


The Mother:  Human beings for the most part have the inveterate habit of deceiving themselves. They deceive themselves in hundreds of different ways, each more slyly tricky and subtle than the other, and all this with at once a perfect candour and a perfect insincerity.


The Mother: Whoever does Yoga is bound to have the calm and the strength needed to face.  But innumerable are those who deceive themselves, believe they are doing Yoga but only partially do so and are still full of contradictions.    Be wholly sincere, never try to deceive others. And try never to deceive yourself.


The Mother: Blessings.      Do not try to deceive the Divine.


The Mother:   The important point is to be sincere, always more sincere so that you never deceive yourself in the integrality of your aspiration.  This sincerity brings the sure help of the divine Grace.  Blessings.


The Mother: It is easy to see that the mistakes are due to a lack of sincerity in the being — the only way out of it is to become sincere. You have been given the power of will and of knowledge for that purpose.     It is not necessary to wait for the others to become sincere in order to become sincere yourself.


The Mother:  The greatest enemies of a perfect sincerity are preferences (either mental, vital or physical) and preconceived ideas. It is these obstacles that must be overcome.   An aspiration which is not mixed with any interested and egoistic calculation.   It is to the sincerity of your aspiration that the Love answers spontaneously.   Let your aspiration leap forward, pure and straight, towards the supreme consciousness which is all joy and all beatitude.


The Mother:  We must aspire with all our being for the manifestation to come soon and complete.   Prayer of Aspiration  Let us go to sleep with a prayer and wake with an aspiration for the New and Perfect Creation.   The urge of aspiration: nothing is too high, nothing too far for its insatiable ardour.


The Mother:   It never does any harm to express an aspiration — that gives force to it.     Aspiration is good, and if some demand is mixed up with it, you can be sure that it will not be granted.   Go on aspiring and the necessary progress is bound to come.


The Mother:  Daily we must aspire to conquer all mistakes, all obscurities, all ignorances.   We must always aspire to be free from all ignorance and to have a true faith.   A constant aspiration conquers all defects.


The Mother:    Day after day our aspiration will grow and our faith will intensify.   When the aspiration is awake, each day brings us nearer to the goal.    Each one is responsible only for the sincerity of his aspiration.


The Mother:  Our aspiration rises always identical, supported by a concentrated will.    All is mute in the being, but in the bosom of the silence burns the lamp that can never be extinguished, the fire of an ardent aspiration to know and to live integrally the Divine.


The Mother: The flame of the aspiration must be so straight and so ardent that no obstacle can dissolve it.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]    Beyond words, above thoughts the ﬂame of an intense aspiration must always burn, steady and bright.


The Mother: My love and blessings are with you.    In the silence of the heart burns the steady ﬁre of aspiration.   Keep the ﬁre burning steadily and wait quietly for the sure result.


The Mother:  Flame of aspiration: a ﬂame which illumines but never burns.      An integral and exclusive aspiration is sure to bring the Divine’s response.


The Mother:   ()  If in man the seed of aspiration is watered with the true spirituality then he will grow into Divinity.


The Mother:   As usual I will tell you to be quiet and peaceful.  Our only aspiration must be for spiritual progress. It is only for that that we must pray.


The Mother: With love and blessings.    Increase steadily your own aspiration. Try to perfect your consecration to the Divine and your life will be arranged for you.


The Mother: About what?  Patient aspiration.


The Mother: A constant and integral aspiration.     Aspiration and will.


The Mother:   Mental aspiration: its expression is clear and precise and very reasonable.     True aspiration is not a movement of the mind but of the psychic.


The Mother:   Psychic aspiration: constant, regular, organised, gentle and patient at the same time, resists all opposition, overcomes all difﬁculties.      Spiritual


The Mother: aspiration rises like an arrow caring for neither obstacles nor laggards.   Let the sun of aspiration dissolve the clouds of egoism.    ( ) Be sincere in your aspiration for progress.  Love and blessings.


The Mother:  ASPIRATION, CALLING AND PULLING  To aspire and to call for help are quite indispensable.   It is the vital that pulls down and the psychic that aspires.    There is certainly a great difference between calling and pulling — you can and must always call for help and the rest —


The Mother: the answer will be proportionate to your capacity of reception and assimilation. Pulling is a selﬁsh movement that may bring down forces quite disproportionate to your capacities and thus are harmful.   FAITH   Faith is spontaneous knowledge in the psychic.


The Mother:   Faith is a certitude which is not necessarily based on experience and knowledge.


The Mother: Faith — conﬁdence in the Divine and the unshakable certitude of the Divine’s Victory.     It is good to have this unshakable faith — it makes your path easier and shorter.


The Mother:   True faith does not depend on circumstances.     Faith in spiritual power must depend on circumstances.


The Mother:   A faith based on material proofs is not faith — it is a bargaining.


The Mother: Faith ﬁrst, knowledge afterwards.      They


The Mother: who have faith will go through.    It is indispensable to keep the faith and the will to conquer.§   Faith: you ﬂame up and triumph.


The Mother:   Faith is the surest guide in the darkest days.     In an unshakable faith lies all our hope.


The Mother:    The night always is full of promises and we must face it with full faith and conﬁdence.


The Mother:    At every moment all the unforeseen, the unexpected, the unknown is before us — and what happens to us depends mostly on the intensity and purity of our faith.


The Mother: If we had a truly living faith, an absolute certitude of the almighty power of the Divine, His manifestation could be so evident that the whole earth would be transformed by it.   Keep an immutable faith. Truth will triumph.    Have faith in the Divine, and go deep inside yourself. My help is always with you.


The Mother:  Have faith and go on.   Our best help is faith — the Divine is all merciful.   With love and blessings.   CONFIDENCE There is a great power in the simple conﬁdence of a child.


The Mother:  It is with the conﬁdence of a child that our heart implores the Divine.     The best way of meeting difﬁculties is a quiet and calm conﬁdence in the Grace.   Keep faith and conﬁdence and remain cheerful.


The Mother:  Be steady and conﬁdent.    Everybody is imperfect and has to progress. Keep ﬁrm and conﬁdent.   Be conﬁdent, you will become what you have to be and achieve what you have to do.   One must have entire conﬁdence in the Victory of the Divine — and this general Victory will include in itself the personal victory of all who will have remained faithful and conﬁdent.


The Mother:  With conﬁdence we shall advance; with certitude we shall wait.   CERTITUDE We must march on with the quiet certitude that what has to be done will be done.    Certitude: assured and calm it never argues.


The Mother:  Certitude of victory: it is not noisy but it is sure.    THE DIVINE GRACE  The Supreme has sent his Grace into the world to save it.


The Mother: It is the Divine Grace that must be prayed for — if justice were to manifest, very few would be those who could stand in front of it.     Justice is the strict logical determinism of the movements of Universal Nature. Illnesses are this determinism applied to the material body.


The Mother: The medical mind, basing itself upon this ineluctable Justice, strives to bring about conditions that should lead logically to good health. The moral consciousness acts in the same way in the social body and in the spiritual domain.  The Divine Grace alone has the power to intervene and change the course of Universal Justice. The great work of the Avatar is to manifest the Divine Grace upon earth. To be a disciple of the Avatar is to become an instrument of the Divine Grace.


The Mother: The Mother is the great dispensatrix — through identity — of the Divine Grace, with a perfect knowledge — through identity — of the absolute mechanism of Universal Justice.  And through her mediation each movement of sincere and conﬁdent aspiration towards the Divine calls down in response the intervention of the Grace.  Who can stand before Thee, Lord, and say in all sincerity, “I have never made a mistake”? How many times in a day we commit faults against Thy work, and always Thy Grace comes to efface them!  Without the intervention of Thy Grace, who would not often times have come under the merciless blade of the Law of Universal Justice?


The Mother: Each one here represents an impossibility to be solved, but as for Thy Divine Grace all is possible. Thy Work will be, in the detail as in the whole, the accomplishment of all these impossibilities transformed into divine realisations.     Divine Grace, Thy goodness is inﬁnite.


The Mother: We bow before Thee in gratitude.     Yes.  Yes.


The Mother: Yes.  The Divine Grace cannot be explained through words and mental formulas.    It is only the Divine’s Grace that can give peace, happiness, power, light, knowledge, beatitude and love in their essence and their truth.    Who is worthy or unworthy in front of the Divine Grace?


The Mother: All are children of the one and the same Mother.  Her love is equally spread over all of them.  But to each one She gives according to his nature and receptivity.    Say — “I have received his Grace: I must be worthy of it”, and then all will be well.


The Mother:  Let us give ourselves without reserve to the Divine, so best shall we receive the Divine Grace.    The Grace is equally for all. But each one receives it according to his sincerity. It does not depend on outward circumstances but on a sincere aspiration and openness.


The Mother:  Right use of the granted Grace: no deformation, no diminution, no exaggeration — a clear sincerity.   Call of the Divine Grace: not noisy but persistent and very perceptible to those who know how to listen.    THE DIVINE HELP  Whenever there is sincerity and goodwill, the Divine’s help also is there.


The Mother:  Be ever one-pointed in your surrender and sincere in your aspiration and you will constantly feel the presence of the Divine’s help and guidance.   With the Divine’s help nothing is impossible.   For nobody would sadhana be possible without the Divine’s help. But the help is always there.   The help is always there.


The Mother: It is you who must keep your receptivity living.  The Divine help is much vaster than what any human being is able to receive.     Those who will be able to become receptive by the mastery of the psychic upon the ego, will know what this help is and will have the full beneﬁt of it.


The Mother:  Everyone is given his chance and the help is there for all — but for each the beneﬁt is proportionate to his sincerity.   Divine help: modest in appearance, powerful in action.    FAITH IN THE DIVINE GRACE AND HELP  Have a steady faith in the divine Grace.   Continue to have full faith in the Divine’s Grace, Will and Action and all will be all right.


The Mother:  All depends on the intensity of the faith and the ﬁrmness of the right attitude.   The Grace is always with you; concentrate in your heart with a silent mind and you are sure also to receive the guidance and the help you aspire for.   The Grace and the help are always there for all who aspire for them and their power is limitless when received with faith and conﬁdence.


The Mother: The Grace is always there ready to act but you must let it work and not resist its action. The one condition required is faith.  When you feel attacked, call for help to Sri Aurobindo and myself. If your call is sincere (that is to say, if you sincerely want to be cured) your call will be answered and the Grace will cure you.


The Mother:   Yes, faith in the Grace always brings about its intervention.    For the Grace to have a perfect and total result of its action, the faith must be.    Once more, the lack of faith of the human mind brings complications and pain where with a quiet faith in the Divine Guidance all could be very simple and easy.


The Mother: It is for the growth of this faith and conﬁdence that I have been working for many years.  Obviously the resistance is obstinate.     Why disappointing?


The Mother: If there is one in a hundred who has a true faith, it is already a miracle!      The Grace will never fail us — such is the faith we must keep constantly in our heart.


The Mother:   It is our lack of faith that creates our limitations.


The Mother: The Divine Grace is with us and never leaves us even when the appearances are dark.     The Supreme’s power is inﬁnite — it is our faith that is small.    At each moment of our life, in all circumstances the Grace is there helping us to surmount all difﬁculties.


The Mother:    In failure as well as in success, the Divine’s Grace is always there.


The Mother:    The closer you come to the Divine, the more you live under a shower of overwhelming evidence of His immeasurable Grace.


The Mother: Our faith in the omnipotence of the Grace is never equal to what the Grace itself is.     An absolute faith and trust in the Grace is, in the last analysis, the Supreme Wisdom.   Through this apparent chaos a new and better order is being formed.


The Mother: But to see it one must have faith in the Divine Grace.   Cheer up.


The Mother: Faith and total conﬁdence in the Divine’s Grace.    It is when all seems lost that all can be saved. When you have lost conﬁdence in your personal power, then you should have faith in the Divine Grace.


The Mother: I mean, act according to our inner conviction regardless of all consequences and keep our faith unshaken in spite of the apparent so-called proofs to the contrary.     Surely, all this comes to teach us to have a that what is we shall have and that, for the rest, we must not bother.


The Mother:  In the ﬁnal analysis everything really depends on the Divine Grace and we should look at the future with conﬁdence and serenity, progressing at the same time as quickly as we can.   In an ardent faith lies salvation.  In the ﬁnal analysis, it is the Supreme Lord who does all.  We must be faithful instruments.   Have faith and unshaken conﬁdence.


The Mother: The Divine Grace will do the rest.    Let us offer our will to the Divine Grace; it is the Grace that accomplishes all.   The Grace, the Grace alone can act. That alone can open the way, that alone can do the miracle.   Keep good faith in the Grace.


The Mother: She is the doer of all miracles.   We must learn to rely only on the Divine Grace and to call for its help in all circumstances; then it will work out constant miracles.


The Mother: However long the journey may be and however great the traveller, at the end is always found exclusive reliance on the Divine Grace.   The divine Grace alone shall be our support.


The Mother: TRUST IN THE DIVINE GRACE AND HELP The Grace is inﬁnite for him who sincerely trusts the Grace.      The Divine Grace is always with you and by your trust you allow its action to be effective.


The Mother:   It is in proportion to our trust in the Divine that the Divine Grace can act for us and help.   Integral trust in the Divine: the trust that gives the true support to life.    Our trust in the Divine must not depend upon outward circumstances.


The Mother:    Very few are those who can stand ﬁrm on the rock of their faith and trust in the Divine.    It is absurd to ask for help and yet to have no trust; on the contrary with conﬁdence everything becomes so easy.


The Mother:  With trust in the Divine’s Grace all obstacles can be surmounted.     When we trust in the Divine’s Grace we get an unfailing courage.


The Mother:  Have full trust in the Divine’s Grace and the Divine’s Grace will help you in all ways.    Like the child who does not reason and has no care, trust thyself to the Divine that His will may be done.   Whatever happens we must remain quiet and trust the Divine’s Grace.   Keep a, strong and, and a  in the Divine Grace.   Aspiration for trust in the Divine: an intense need for that immutable peace given by the certitude of the Divine Grace.


The Mother:   Nothing can be compared to the peace that comes from a total trust in the Grace.    Leave all care to the Divine’s Grace, including your progress, and you will be in peace.


The Mother:   In order to bring peace and wisdom one must be wise and peaceful; you say that you are weak, but nobody is asking you to rely on your own strength; your strength, your wisdom and your peace belong to the Divine and you must rely on Him alone. Have an absolute trust in the Grace, set aside your little personality and allow the Grace to act; it will make you do what is needed and everything will be all right.    The more one knows, the more one realises that one knows nothing.  For one who has total trust in the Divine, in His wisdom and mercy, there are no more problems.


The Mother:  The triumph of the Divine is. If we keep the trust, we shall never take the wrong path.   THE DIVINE GRACE AND DIFFICULTIES  It is only by remaining perfectly peaceful and calm with an unshakable conﬁdence and faith in the Divine Grace that you will allow circumstances to be as good as they can be.   to those who have put their entire trust in the Divine and in the Divine alone.


The Mother:   When, in your life, you meet with a hardship, take it as a Grace from the Lord and, indeed, it will become so.   [facsimile ]


The Mother:   In any case and whatever happens, always consider events as a gift from the Divine Grace which is leading you by swift paths towards the spiritual goal of your life.


The Mother: What can be done will be done, but it is a matter of regret that you waited so long for the warning.  In any case, the only thing which is really effective is to will what the Divine wills, and to keep an unshakable confidence in the supreme compassion of the Divine Grace, for through that it is always the best that happens; not the best according to human ideas but the best according to the supreme Truth.   Be calm and full of a solid and pure faith.


The Mother:  I have received your letter and understand your aspiration.  But the doctor says you have fever still and it is impossible to let you go, because it would be dangerous for your health.   So, the only thing to do is to accept quietly the conditions in which you ﬁnd yourself, knowing that for him who has faith in the Divine it is always the best for him that happens. The Divine does not want human beings to suffer, but, in their ignorance, human beings react in such a way that they bring suffering upon themselves. In peace, quietness and surrender is the only solution.


The Mother:   All depends on what you want. If you want Yoga, take that happens as the expression of the Divine Grace leading you towards your goal, and try to understand the lesson that circumstances give.


The Mother:   For those who have given themselves to the Divine each difﬁculty that confronts them is the assurance of a new progress and thus must be taken as a gift from the Grace.   When difﬁculties besiege you, know that the Divine Grace is with you.


The Mother: People believe that the Grace means making everything smooth for all your life. It is not true.  The Grace works for the realisation of your aspiration and everything is arranged to gain the most prompt, the quickest realisation.    The Grace is something that pushes you towards the goal to be attained. Do not try to judge it by your mind, you will not get anywhere, because it is something formidable which is not explained through human words or feelings.


The Mother: When the Grace acts, the result may or may not be pleasant — it takes no account of any human value, it may even be a catastrophe from the ordinary and superﬁcial point of view. But it is always the best for the individual. It is a blow that the Divine sends so that progress may be made by leaps and bounds. The Grace is that which makes you march swiftly towards the realisation.


The Mother: Of one thing we must be convinced — all that happens is exactly what must happen in order to lead us and the world as quickly as possible to the goal — the union with the Divine and ultimately the manifestation of the Divine.  And this faith — sincere and constant — is at once our help and protection.   DEVOTION Devotion: modest and fragrant, it gives itself without seeking for anything in return.


The Mother: Devotional attitude: moderate and self-effacing, it gives remarkable fruit.    A devotion that keeps concentrated and silent in the depths of the heart but manifests in acts of service and obedience, is more powerful, more true, more divine, than any shouting and weeping devotion.    Sincere devotion is much more effective than the Ganges water.


The Mother:  WORSHIP Worship: the form or outer expression of your devotion.   True worship: total and constant without demand or exigence.   OFFERING Life must blossom like a ﬂower offering itself to the Divine.    The only offering that truly enriches is the one made to the Divine.


The Mother:  Offering: the placing of your entire being, with all its movements true and false, good and bad, right and wrong, before the Divine for transformation.   Offer sincerely to the Divine your obscurities and you will be able to receive the light.   The offering of our being we make to the Divine must be integral and effective.   Integral offering: the surest road to realisation.   Unconditional integral offering: the joy of offering oneself without asking for anything in return.


The Mother:  CONSECRATION Consecration is the consummation, when the Light has illuminated all the parts of your being, with a central will acting on the feelings, impulses, thoughts, emotions, activities, directing them always towards the Divine and when you move no more from darkness to light or from falsehood to truth or from misery to happiness but from light to more light, from truth to greater truth, from happiness to increasing happiness.     It is in a sincere consecration to the Divine that we can ﬁnd relief from our too human sufferings.


The Mother: The quiet mind one gets through meditation is indeed of short duration, for as soon as you come out from meditation you come out at the same time from the quietness of mind. The true lasting quietness in the vital and the physical as well as in the mind comes from a complete consecration to the Divine; for when you can no more call anything, not even yourself, yours, when everything, including your body, sensations, feelings and thoughts, belongs to the Divine, the Divine takes the entire responsibility of all and you have nothing more to worry about.     A sincere consecration of all you are and all you do is for the sadhana much more effective than meditation.


The Mother:  True love and consecration lead much quicker to the Divine than an arduous Tapasya.     SELF-GIVING Self-giving is true prayer.


The Mother:  Self-giving: by this the whole being gets progressively uniﬁed round the central psychic being.  Give yourself up — it is the best way of ﬁnding yourself.     Give yourself, all that you are and what you do, to the Divine, and you will have peace.


The Mother:  Give yourself entirely to the Divine and you will see the end of all your troubles.    It is a sincere self-giving that saves one from all difﬁculties and dangers.


The Mother:   Never say, “I have nothing to give to the Divine.” There is always something to give, for always you can give yourself in a better and more complete way.   To the Divine you are worth no more than what you have given Him.


The Mother:  To give to the Divine what one has in excess is not an offering.  One should give at least something out of what one needs.    If you remember what you have given to the Divine, He will have no need of remembering it Himself; and if you ever mention the gift or speak of it to anybody, it is not to the Divine that you have made the offering but to the demon of your vanity.   Entire self-giving: fully open, clear and pure.


The Mother:   Do not confuse the psychic realisation with the spiritual realisation, because the psychic realisation will leave you within time and space, within the manifested universe.  Whereas the effect of the spiritual realisation will be to project you outside all creation, outside time and space.  There is no joy more perfect than to give oneself totally to that which is greater than oneself. God, Supreme Origin, Divine Presence, Absolute Truth — it doesn’t matter what name we give Him or what aspect we most easily approach Him through — to forget oneself totally in an integral consecration is the surest path towards Realisation.


The Mother:   How beautiful, grand, simple and calm everything becomes when our thoughts turn to the Divine and we give ourselves to the Divine!     We must know how to give our life and also our death, our happiness and also our suffering.


The Mother:   Three typical modes of total self-giving to the Divine:  (1) To prostrate oneself at His feet, giving up all pride in perfect humility.  (2) To unfold one’s being before Him, open one’s whole body from head to foot, as one opens a book, exposing one’s centres so as to make all their movements visible in a complete sincerity that allows nothing to remain hidden.


The Mother: (3) To nestle in His arms, to merge in Him in a loving and absolute trust.  These movements may be accompanied by three formulas or any one of them according to the case:   (1) Let Thy Will be done and not mine.  (2) As Thou willest, as Thou willest .


The Mother: (3) I am Thine for eternity.  Generally, when these movements are done in the true way, they are followed by a perfect identiﬁcation, a dissolution of the ego, giving rise to a sublime felicity.   Three Steps towards the Supreme Identiﬁcation.  Give all you have, this is the beginning.  Give all you do, this is the way.


The Mother: Give all you are, this is the fulﬁlment.      With your thought, give your thoughts.


The Mother: With your heart, give your feelings.  With your body, give your work.    Above all words, above all thoughts in the luminous silence of an aspiring faith give yourself totally, unreservedly, absolutely to the Supreme Lord of all existences and He will do of you what He wants you to be.  With love and blessings.


The Mother:   SERVICE TO THE DIVINE   [facsimile] No joy can be greater than that of serving the Divine.   There is no greater joy than to serve the Divine.   We must be always, solely and exclusively, the servitors of the Divine.


The Mother:   We should be in no other service but in God’s alone.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]  Above all preferences we want to be at the service of the Divine.


The Mother:   To be at the Divine’s service is the surest means of attaining realisation.     ( )


The Mother: Both are equally good. Nevertheless, through service one can attain a fuller realisation than through meditation alone.


The Mother: All service done sincerely to the Divine is sadhana.  And all increase in the urge to serve is a sure sign of progress.


The Mother: Whatever you do in life must be done as a service to the Divine and nobody else.  Whatever you are, think or feel, you are responsible for it to the Divine and to nobody else.  He is the sole Master of your being and your life. If in all sincerity you surrender entirely to Him He will take charge of you and your heart will be in peace.  All the rest belongs to the world of Ignorance and is governed by ignorance which means confusion and suffering.


The Mother: Blessings.     Energy is in perpetual movement. It enters and leaves your physical being (mental, vital and material) and it is during your stay in what you call “you” that you must make of it an offering to the Divine and put it at His service.


The Mother: Then automatically you will do at each instant what the Divine wants you to do.     The whole life turned towards the Divine, offered to the Divine, at the service of the Divine, to become little by little an expression of the Divine.   SURRENDER


The Mother: Surrender: the decision to hand over the responsibility of your life to the Divine. This is done either through the mind or the emotion or the life-impulse or through all of them together.    To surrender to the Divine is to renounce your narrow limits and let yourself be invaded by It and made a centre for Its play.   If you are truly surrendered to the Divine, in the right manner and totally, then at every moment you will be what you ought to be, you will do what you ought to do, you will know what you ought to know.


The Mother: But for that you should have transcended all the limitations of the ego.    True surrender enlarges you; it increases your capacity; it gives you a greater measure in quality and in quantity, which you could not have had yourself.    Detailed surrender: a surrender which does not forget anything.


The Mother:   Detailed surrender means the surrender of all the details of life, even the smallest and the most insigniﬁcant in appearance. And this means to remember the Divine in all circumstances; whatever we think, feel or do, we must do it for Him as a way of coming close to Him, to be more and more what He wants us to be, capable of manifesting His will in perfect sincerity and purity, to be the instruments of His Love.     If man surrenders totally to the Divine, he identiﬁes himself with the Divine.


The Mother:   Perfect surrender: the indispensable condition for identiﬁcation.


The Mother: In the integrality and absoluteness of bhakti and surrender, we ﬁnd the essential condition of perfect peace leading to uninterrupted bliss.   The path is long, but self-surrender makes it short ; the way is difﬁcult, but perfect trust makes it easy.


The Mother: Surrender to the Divine is the best emotional protection.   The true repose is that of a perfect surrender to the Divine.     Surrender.


The Mother:   TO WILL WHAT THE DIVINE WILLS Surrender: to will what the Divine wills is the supreme wisdom.    To will what God wills — that is the supreme secret.    Will one with the Divine will: a condition that triumphs over all obstacles.


The Mother:  Divine Will — the will expressing the highest Truth.   Let us do our best in all circumstances, leaving the result to the Divine’s decision.   We must be satisﬁed with what the Divine gives us, and do what He wants us to do without weakness, free from useless ambition.


The Mother:  Whenever there is any difﬁculty we must always remember that we are here exclusively to accomplish the Divine’s will.    And when our adhesion to the Divine’s will is total then also our peace and joy become total.    The Divine’s will is that we should be like channels always open, always more wide, so that His forces may pour their abundance into the mould.   Our will must always be a perfect expression of the Divine’s will.


The Mother:  Our constant prayer is to understand the Divine’s will and to live accordingly.   We must lie before the Divine always like a page perfectly blank, so that the Divine’s will may be inscribed in us without any difﬁculty or mixture.   At each moment may our attitude be such that the Divine’s Will determines our choice so that the Divine may give the direction to all our life.   We must see only through the Divine’s eyes and act only through the Divine’s will.   We must know how to depend for everything and in everything on the Divine.


The Mother: He alone can surmount all difﬁculties.    In a total surrender to the Divine there can be no longer errors or faults or any insufﬁciency since it is what the Divine has willed that he does and it is done as the Divine has willed it.    Always the Supreme Will remains the eternal mystery calling for all our wonder and marvelling.


The Mother:   Like the child who does not reason and has no care we trust ourselves to the Divine that the Divine’s Will may be done.   To do at each moment the best we can and leave the result to the Divine’s decision, is the surest way to peace, happiness, strength, progress and ﬁnal perfection.


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.    There is a Supreme Consciousness that governs the manifestation. His wisdom is certainly much greater than ours. So we need not bother about what will happen.  Blessings.


The Mother:    The Lord is always victorious — in his own way, not in the human way — according to his own will, not according to the will of men.  The Lord is always present — only we do not realise it.


The Mother:  We are always free to make our proposals to the Lord, but after all it is only His will that is realised.    If one looks from high enough, whatever one does one never wastes one’s time since one acts according to one’s nature and — without knowing it — according to the will of the Lord.   Be quiet and offer yourself calmly and conﬁdently.


The Mother: All that happens is always the effect of the Supreme’s Will.  Human action can be the occasion but never the cause.    DIFFICULTIES OF SURRENDER   It is rare that somebody can surrender entirely to the Divine’s Will without having to face one or another of the difﬁculties.


The Mother:   How many efforts and struggles again to give ourselves, to surrender, once the individuality is constituted!    For if the struggle is not an actual one, that does not mean that it will not come one day in one form or another.


The Mother: For always, at least once in our life, we are placed in some circumstance to test whether we are ready for an entire surrender to the Divine Will; whether we are, before all, human beings striving to attain and manifest the Godhead; ready to renounce everything in the world — what seems to us good as well as what seems bad — for that supreme conquest. In that ascent towards the heights, both virtues and duties — that is to say our mental prejudices and preferences — stand far more in our way than our exterior weaknesses and faults. An error can always be used as a spring-board, whilst a virtue is more often a limit, a barrier that must be surmounted.  I will add, quoting a passage of, “All these are within us waiting to wall in the spirit with forms; but we must always go beyond, always renounce the lesser for the greater, the ﬁnite for the Inﬁnite; we must be prepared to proceed from illumination to illumination, from experience to experience, from soul-state to soul-state, so as to reach the utmost transcendence of the Divine and its utmost universality.”    The way in which most people surrender: Let God manifest his will but let it be the same as mine.


The Mother:  One thing you must know and decide: It is if you want the True Divine as He is, or if you want a Divine in keeping with your own conception of what He ought to be.   And if you have decided to surrender sincerely and totally to the Divine and to be and do what He wants you to be and do according to His own will, or if you want the Divine to do what you want Him to do and to act according to your own will.   I have forwarded your prayer to the Supreme Lord.


The Mother: But if you want to live in Ananda, you must not try to impose your will on the Divine, but, on the contrary, you must be ready to accept all that comes to you from Him, with an equal peace; because He knows better than we what is good for our progress.     The time is come to rely only on the Divine will and to  through you.  I repeat, the time has come at last not to rely any more on one’s own petty will, to hand over the whole affair to the Divine’s will and let it do its work through you, not only your mind and feelings but mainly through the body; and


The Mother: if you do it sincerely, all this body nonsense will disappear and you will be strong and ﬁt for your work.    When men will understand that the Divine knows better than they do what is the best for them, many of their difﬁculties will disappear.    If the Lord wills for you a hardship, do not protest. Take it as a blessing and indeed it will become so.