The Mother: I don’t understand what you mean. Why acknowledge and accept a bad habit?  It is better to reject these thoughts, because they help to bring the attack.  I think it would be far more advisable to get into the habit of  and refusing to speak about unwholesome and dangerous topics; but


The Mother: obviously if your getting together arouses in both of you the very thing you want to overcome , it is surely better to refrain from it.  If your conversations are restricted to remarks of this kind, they have no more importance than all the countless ignorant remarks  which the members of the Ashram are in the habit of exchanging among themselves when they think they are capable of knowing what I do and why I do it.  Possibly


The Mother: — but as a general rule there are rarely any reasonable reasons for this kind of uneasiness, except that the vital has a small movement of dissatisfaction or revolt.  I hope you picked them up and kept them.  The outer nature is always full of imperfections until it is transformed by the divine Presence. But it is wrong to let these things depress you.   That is what is called a premonitory dream.


The Mother: You saw beforehand what was going to happen.  That is quite true.  Yes, it is better to do only what comes from deep within yourself.  No, I don’t ﬁnd it good at all. You should go to bed by ten at the latest.


The Mother: Sleep is a matter of habit. If you get into the habit of always going to bed at the same time, sleep will come automatically.   Some people carry around them these ideas of despair and depression and are harassed by them. These ideas are contagious, like an illness, and one catches them just as one catches any other illness.  You must learn to reject them when they come.


The Mother: That is impossible — there would be too many people to avoid.  That is impossible by any outer method; it is only by acquiring an inner discrimination that these things can be known.  As a general rule it is better not to give advice unless you are asked for it. But if you receive some advice from someone, you should think it over carefully and try to take advantage of it.   Because the outer nature is ignorant, obscure and foolish, so naturally its behaviour and its action are also ignorant, obscure and foolish.


The Mother: You were probably more active and less open to vital contacts in the evening than in the morning.  Yes, this is true. But discrimination grows through exercise and control. In other words, you ask me if what you have observed is correct, and with the help of my answers you can rectify your observations.   Speaking about others is not only useless but most often harmful.


The Mother: You can always say, “Mother does not like us to gossip about others.”  So much the worse for him!   Fix your consciousness higher than the vital.  Always to maintain an attitude of concentration on the Divine


The Mother: Life is more important than making rules that are too rigid. It would be better to resolve not to smile in expectation of a vital interchange.  Knowing them is indeed necessary, but it is not good to ﬁx one’s  attention too constantly on them; it does not help to remove them — on the contrary.  Obviously, when I give a prayer on such an occasion I concentrate a certain force in it. By showing the prayer to others you destroy a great deal of the effect of this force.


The Mother: Yes, and as a rule I do not like answering questions about others. In yoga each one should attend to his own progress — the progress of others has nothing to do with him.  Certainly, and the best thing is precisely to refrain from all ideas about people, for then there isn’t any risk of having wrong ideas.   Yes, it is quite possible if the mind is interested and engrossed in something more useful.  Yes, it is preferable.


The Mother: That depends on what you mean by him; if it is to exchange a few words or to do some work together from time to time, it does not matter. But long conversations should be avoided.  Indeed, I fail to see what pleasure one ﬁnds in hurting other people’s feelings. It is not nice and shows so much pretentious foolishness.  They may not be exaggerated, but in any case they are not very kind, and kindness is an indispensable step towards the widening and illumination of the consciousness.


The Mother: Equanimity  Trust Modesty  Self-giving.   It is quite possible that he left without any reason.


The Mother: One does so many things without any conscious motive.  Certainly, that is preferable.   If the dream has a signiﬁcance (which is not sure), it would mean that a certain type of hostile force took the likeness of Y in your consciousness. Lights going out are always the symbol of the consciousness descending into unconsciousness.  Probably a part of your nature which is not yet converted has risen to the surface and is active at present.


The Mother: Put the light and the knowledge on it patiently until it gets converted.  That is exactly what I mean; you have only to call Sri Aurobindo or myself and ask that this obscure part be enlightened and converted.   What little you do know, you can tell to others, but take care to warn them that you do not know much and that you are not sure of the correctness of your answers .


The Mother: You mean: if one has faith in the god of a religion, how can one have faith in the incarnate Divine? That is quite right.  Yes, you may take the geography books, but you must take great care of them so that they don’t get torn or stained or eaten by insects.  It is because affection creates an attachment in him, and all attachment is contrary to Yoga.   Affection always creates attachment, unless one is a yogi.


The Mother: Who told you this extraordinary tale?  Certainly there is no electricity such as men use in the physical world. But there are as many lights as one could wish for — even most beautiful, most brilliant ones, so that unless one is forewarned one might believe oneself to be on a very high plane.   The lights in the vital world are vital lights, of course.


The Mother: That is because your vision is not fully developed in that world or because you go to dark places there. But that does not mean that the whole vital world is dark!   Will for it, and call on the enlightened part to intervene each time that the parts which are still obscure, ignorant and egoistic try to dominate your being.   Usually it is because the question is badly stated; often it is because it would not be good to reply.


The Mother: Feeling sad is of no use. All the energy you waste in feeling sad would better be used in transforming the wrong movement.  There is nothing impossible about a prompt conversion; the difﬁcult thing is to make it last.  If the psychic consciousness were fully awakened, it would decide. But in this case it is one part of the mind arguing with another and, at best, it is the mental Purusha that steps in and decides.


The Mother: Yes. The mind suddenly sees clearly and is converted, but then it is attacked again by obscurity and falls back into its old habits.   Persist in bringing it into contact with the light until the conversion becomes lasting.


The Mother: I think it is a mutual effect — and women complain that men do the same thing to them. The remedy is to turn the consciousness towards the Divine alone.  Each one has his own remedies and habits, which may be good  for him, but it would be a great mistake to generalise and try to apply them to other people.   In any case, it is the restless and unquiet vital.


The Mother: No, it is all right since you are sleeping very badly.  And a concentration, a will to reject the restlessness.  These are various fragments of the mind opposing and contradicting one another, and they are not all at the same stage of development.   So long as it is in order to reject or conquer them .


The Mother: I thought you were using the word “ghosts” to mean vital entities. Those beings are certainly not the ones who can help you in your sadhana.   By willing to do so, and by always refusing to believe in their suggestions.  Yes, they do exist, but since they do not belong to the vital world that is nearest to the physical, it is more difﬁcult for them to enter into contact with human beings.


The Mother: Their action is sometimes perceptible in the mind, and in the psychic it is very clear.   This is probably the symbol of certain forces of the lower nature trying to seize hold of what is already given to the Divine.  Two parts of the vital being were struggling together, each one in turn getting the upper hand.  Just as there are people on earth who like to help others.  Instead of asking yourself such questions, it would be better to remain very quiet, concentrated and calm, so that the happiness may last.


The Mother: Do not identify yourself with the conversation. Watch it all from above and from a distance, as if someone else were listening and speaking, and say no more than is absolutely indispensable.  The force was probably a bit too much for the body, which found it difﬁcult to bear — hence the trembling.   Just answer evasively with a word or two, without attaching any importance to it.


The Mother: The power to bear is found in calm and quietness.   It is not only quite possible to be free of all doubt, it is an absolutely indispensable condition; but before being able to state with assurance that one is free from doubt, one should wait for a few months at least, in order to make sure.  In any case this kind of discussion is quite useless — it does not help to overcome doubt.


The Mother: Be very sincere and straightforward, tolerate nothing in yourself that you could not show me without fear, and do nothing that you would feel ashamed of doing before me.   There is also a spiritual ego, and even the gods who live in the Overmind have their egos.  It is not enough to surrender; the ego must be dissolved, must merge with the Divine, disappear in Him.   I think it is useless to speculate just now about what may happen in the Supermind.


The Mother: I have no preference in this or in any other matter. For each person the decision depends on his own need.   No. I did not complete the sentence.


The Mother: I meant that I do not decide according to, but according to each one’s need.   If it disturbs you, you need not listen to what she says or explain Sri Aurobindo’s letters to her.  But obviously it is much better if you can overcome the weakness that makes you feel disturbed, because that is the true cure.  The love that one contains in silence acts within oneself for puriﬁcation and transformation. The love that one turns outwards — if one does it in a pure and disinterested way — may occasionally help others.


The Mother: But most often they receive it wrongly... So you must do as your instinct guides you.  That is quite natural — you have wasted it right and left; instead  of concentrating on the Divine what came from the Divine, you have squandered it on others and lost it.  Both are partly true and partly false. It is wise to receive the descending Force in silence and concentration, but this silence and concentration should not come from the vital’s resentment at not being allowed to follow its whims.


The Mother: This concentration and silence should not only be full of a but also of a. Then one knows that the movement is true and unmixed.   Have no preference about anything except to carry out the divine will.   One achieves it by persistently willing it.


The Mother: It is not at all impossible that I should appear in various forms, even in the form of a young girl.   They are symbols of bad thoughts and perverted or obscure energies.  Just wait until your mind starts working again.  When I saw you as I left, your atmosphere was very agitated and your consciousness quite superﬁcial.


The Mother: I could clearly  see that contact with all those women is not doing you any good.  That is absurd.  It is not by dying but by living that one can realise love.  It is no use getting upset or tormenting yourself. Only in peace and calm can the good experience return.


The Mother: It is impossible to give any external rule, since each case should receive its own particular solution. The inner attitude must be  and perfectly sincere.    true You must make an effort to attain this attitude — waiting is not enough.  I cannot see any beneﬁt in these familiarities — surely they do not help to raise the consciousness.  What nonsense is this!!


The Mother: Can Sri Aurobindo be helped by anyone or anything? It is , he is not helped!  After so often having the same experience of losing everything there, I cannot understand why you continue to go!   When I do not reply, it is because it is neither good nor bad, true nor false, and it would take too long to explain the truth.  I give it to you constantly, but you must not always lose it by continually repeating the same mistakes.


The Mother: The whole being must be governed by the psychic being and by that alone.  The less importance one attaches to these dark periods, the sooner they are over.  Be calm and quiet; it is only a crisis which will pass with the increase of consciousness.   I am not aware of anything special that is being done against my will. But you must not let yourself be disturbed.


The Mother: You must will to become more and more honest and sincere, and, for the rest, rely on the divine Grace.  It has been quite a widespread attack. When this happens, the best thing is to remain quiet without getting agitated either inwardly or outwardly.   It is behind the mind, behind the vital, in the psychic centre that one can ﬁnd the quietness that never wavers.


The Mother: I never cease pouring peace and quietness and calm on you why don’t you accept them?   Want them sincerely and integrally — not only with one part of your being.  Staying up late is surely not the way to prepare yourself to sleep well.  Because during the pranam I reestablished the contact between your ordinary consciousness and the psychic consciousness.  The extreme sweetness of the psychic consciousness always makes the outer consciousness weep with emotion.


The Mother: My love and peace are always with you — it is for you to learn to receive them.   Rather than avoiding this person or that, to no great effect, it would be so much better to change your consciousness, to close it to all these inﬂuences and keep it open only to the Divine!  If it is divine love that you mean, one can obtain it only by renouncing human love, which is a travesty and caricature of it.  Then quickly leave the path you have taken — do not waste your time wandering about and talking to girls. Start working in earnest again, study, educate yourself.


The Mother: occupy your mind with interesting and useful things rather than useless chit-chat, and do not give false excuses for your vital attractions. If your wish is truly sincere, you may be sure that you will have my force to help you to conquer.  Nothing could be easier — you have only to decide resolutely  that you want nothing but the divine life and turn away from everything else. You are sure to ﬁnd me immediately.


The Mother: There is no question of dying. Leaving your body is not a solution; you remain with your desires and it is worse. It is much more reasonable and true to let your desires die, understanding how useless and stupid they are.   Since you want the Divine Life so much, you need not be afraid of failure, for a sincere and sustained aspiration is always fulﬁlled.


The Mother: Make a ﬁrm resolution to overcome your weaknesses and you will see that it is not so difﬁcult as it seems. My force is with you to overcome the obstacles, and also my blessings.  To have so little courage at your age — it is shameful!


The Mother: Rest if you are tired, but never lose the will for victory.  Which proves that your pain is at least three-fourths imaginary.   I see no harm in your reading and telling stories, but it should not interfere with your studies. Besides, to develop your style you can very well write any stories you please.  You think that you are ill and that increases the illness.


The Mother: When you forget the illness, it goes away almost completely.  What hypocrisy!! I.  Yes, it is very base. It is because of such actions, constantly repeated, that these people never make any progress.


The Mother: It is not remaining outside the body that cures illness. it is thinking in the true way and refusing everything in one’s thought that could give support to the illness.  It is better for it to be occupied with that, , than with ﬂirtation or nonsense.  Because you are looking for it in the wrong place, or under a false form.


The Mother: The vital must have decided that my love would express itself in a particular way, and as it did not happen that way, the vital says, “There is no love!”   That is not quite true. If there were not something more in the physical contact than in the inner contact, there would have been no reason for me to take a body upon earth.  Every time I answer one of your questions, you tell me that you don’t understand my reply. What to do?


The Mother: You must learn to reﬂect a little and enter into a deeper kind of thought.  Y has just written to me about the great number of novels you read. I do not think that this kind of reading is good for you — and if it is to study style, as you told me, an attentive study of one good book by a good author, done carefully, teaches much more than this hasty and superﬁcial reading.  It is because your mind has not been sufﬁciently trained in the discipline of study.   In order to learn you must read with great care and carefully choose what you read.


The Mother: The discipline of intellectual study as it is practised in colleges in France. You can talk to Z about it; he will explain it to you.  Really! If he writes like Anatole France he must truly be a marvellous writer!  Because your body did not know that the illness was imaginary, and it needed a remedy in order to believe in the possibility of being cured.


The Mother: It is certainly better to be obliging than to be intensely selﬁsh.  But even in being obliging one should observe moderation.  Yes, you must never yield to the lower nature, not only when it manifests in you but also when it manifests in others. Never listen to bad advice, never follow bad examples, never accept any other inﬂuence than that of the Divine, and your uneasiness will disappear.


The Mother: It makes little difference from whom the inﬂuence comes; do not accept it.  I see no use in speaking about your depressions to other people.  It can help neither you nor them.  In your psychic being — I am always present there. It is there that you can ﬁnd me and must ﬁnd me, and when you have found  me there, in the depths of your heart, you will also recognise me in my physical form.


The Mother: means complete, entire, omitting nothing, total — the external being is very far from being integral. When we speak of “the integral being”, we mean the being in its totality, from the physical body to the true Self, the Divine Consciousness.  No, it is not the same thing. In several of his messages Sri Aurobindo has explained the difference between the psychic being, which is the divine element in man, and the states of being that belong to the overhead regions. Study Sri Aurobindo’s messages and books a little (instead of reading novels) — then you won’t ask me unnecessary questions.


The Mother: You are not so far from me as you think. You have only to calm the agitation of your mind and vital a little, remain a bit quiet  and concentrated, and at once you will ﬁnd my presence within you and around you.  It all depends on the effect that this literature has on your imagination. If it ﬁlls your head with undesirable ideas and your vital with desires, it is certainly better to stop reading this kind of books.  No, after identiﬁcation it is impossible.


The Mother: It would be more correct to say that you would be able to act only according to my will.  All these are false imaginations. If you told yourself, on the contrary, that I am always with you (which is true), it would help you to become conscious of my presence.   You have, absolutely everything still to learn. Above all you have to educate a mind that is still raw, ignorant and obscure, and has all the impudence of ignorance.


The Mother: The ﬁrst thing you must do is to learn a little humility and to recognise that you know — you read words, you read prayers, and you repeat the words, you copy the prayers, but ; you mix up all these ideas and notions in a brain that is still like a child’s, and then you have the illusion of understanding!  What do you mean by process? It is not a process; the disappearance of the uneasiness is the very natural result of concentrating the mind on study, which on the one hand provides it with a healthy activity, and on the other draws its attention away from this morbid contemplation of the little physical ego.   You know how to receive, since you feel the presence of love and joy, but you do not seem to know how to keep them. You must learn to treasure in yourself silently what you have received.


The Mother: By dissipation — by throwing out, either in thoughts, words or actions, the force and energy you have received.  What do you know about it? Can your mind have any knowledge of the future? And especially the supramental future!


The Mother: I do not think that I said any such thing. You must have misunderstood me. But Y is wrong to believe that I came upon earth to establish an Ashram! That would really be a very paltry objective.   Naturally it depends on what the pictures are; but most often they are concerned only with things of the ordinary life and so they draw the consciousness towards that.


The Mother: You must will with persistence, but not get impatient. Through calm determination you will achieve it more quickly. By getting restless, one wastes more time than one saves.  It all depends on the effect it has on you. If you come away feeling more peaceful and content, it is all right.


The Mother: If, on the contrary, it makes you feel melancholy and dissatisﬁed, it would be better not to go there. You have only to observe and see how it affects you, then decide accordingly.  It is better not to speak of these things. All sincere spiritual effort towards an increase of consciousness is a preparation.   No, nothing withdraws; it is the physical being which is unable, by nature, to hold the joy and love for very long, unless it is completely governed by the psychic.


The Mother: Yes, it is particularly at night that the physical being falls into obscurity and unconsciousness.  The movements of consciousness are like a pendulum. The more it swings in one direction, the more it swings back in the opposite direction.  One feels peaceful and happy, full of trust, full of a deep and true benevolence, and very close to the divine presence.   Yes, last night I asked you why you had not studied, and I said that to yield like that to the impulses of the vital was certainly not the way to control it.


The Mother: You must create a discipline for yourself and impose it on yourself at all costs if you want to put an end to vital bad will and mental depression. Without discipline one can do nothing in life, and all yoga is impossible.  What a funny idea! To punish your body for a fault that the vital has committed! It is not fair.


The Mother: You were right not to tell him; but it is quite true that in this world very little is done according to the divine will.  Outwardly, you are an unconscious child striving to become conscious.   Inwardly, you are an eternal soul attempting to manifest in a body.   Certainly the soul is in the body, but it is not — its presence is not evident and has very little effect on the life of the body.


The Mother: It is that part on any plane (physical, vital or mental) which is open to the psychic inﬂuence.  I have never left the earth since it was formed.  Krishna was an Avatar, but Buddha and Christ were only emanations. As for the second part of your question, I have no idea what you mean.   It means not to get agitated — I mean above all, in your feelings and thoughts.


The Mother: By the gradual infusion of light into the centre.  That is a very laudable sentiment — but the best thing would be to get yourself out of the depression so that there won’t be any risk of passing it on to others.   Force yourself to study and your depression will go away. Can you imagine a student in college coming and telling his teacher, “Sir, I didn’t do my homework today because I felt depressed”?


The Mother: Surely the teacher would punish him most severely.   Don’t you ﬁnd that you are thinking a bit too much about yourself? You remind me of a hypochondriac always feeling his pulse to see whether he has a temperature.  It won’t help at all not to inform me if you go on thinking about it. On the contrary, if you tell me about it, I can help you more easily.


The Mother: Certainly not on earth.  Not necessarily; but the soul needs to have achieved a  before it has the power to choose whether to return to the physical life or to rest outside the manifestation.   The essence of the soul is divine, but the soul (the psychic being) grows through all the forms of evolution; it becomes more and more individualised and increasingly conscious of itself and its origin.  It is not my action that changes, but your way of seeing it.  Studies strengthen the mind and turn its concentration away from the impulses and desires of the vital.


The Mother: Concentrating on study is one of the most powerful ways of controlling the mind and the vital; that is why it is so important to study.  It is the sign of a very good nature, but to be able to do it safely one needs to have complete control over oneself.   It is a matter of will. You must cultivate and strengthen your will — then your time will no longer be wasted in vain.


The Mother: One does not study for the sake of pleasure — one studies in order to learn and to develop one’s brain.  I was conscious.  Yes, it is very good to learn the habit of pausing a few seconds before acting in order to ask oneself whether the action is truly helpful from the standpoint of spiritual life.  I see no contradiction in these ideas. The Truth is received by  the psychic, which transmits it to the mind and vital.


The Mother: The Divine spoken of here is that which has been in contact with the earth from the beginning of time; the Supermind is a new aspect of the Divine, which up to now has not been manifested upon earth.  Yes, it is the mind, but with a ﬁrst inﬂuence of the ﬂame of Agni.  When the mind says this, it is referring to the vital soul, because that is what develops in life.  It is the ﬂame of puriﬁcation, the will for progress.   The vital soul is what the ancients called the “anima”, that which animates, gives life to the body.


The Mother: It is also sometimes called the etheric being.  Absurd!!!!  You are mixing up two different things. I can assure you that my action, whether inner or outer, is.


The Mother: The disturbance you feel is not proof of a lack of divinity in the action, but of a lack of plasticity and receptivity in your mind, your vital and your physical.  The only way to save yourself from these disturbances is through true humility — the humility that consists in knowing that at the moment you are utterly incapable of understanding me and that it is presumptuous stupidity to try to judge me.   Do not get upset — keep calm. Certainly the part of you that is speaking now has never tried to judge me. It is in calm that one can unify one’s being around the highest aspiration.


The Mother: A part of the physical mind and the most material vital.  It will come soon, I think, since you have recognised your mistake.  It is the part of the vital that is closest to the physical consciousness, the part that gives life to the body.  I do not think that it is good for you to talk to people about Yoga in this way — it gives you the illusion that you have something to teach them and it does not foster humility in you.   If you do not study, the inertia will go on increasing.


The Mother: There is a beauty on every plane of the being right up to the Divine himself. Material beauty is but a very poor translation of that beauty.  As long as you do not give him any advice, it does not matter much. As a general rule, however, the less one speaks about sadhana the better.


The Mother: No. Difﬁculties do arise, but there is no reason for them to cause depression.  Become conscious.   Yes, the emotional being.  Certainly — in fact it is impossible to overcome a difﬁculty if the consciousness gets lowered.


The Mother: On the contrary, in order to overcome difﬁculties, the consciousness must strive to rise above its ordinary level.  The central being is not the same in everyone — it is the part that governs the rest of the personality and imposes its will on it.  When the psychic being holds this central position in the personality, everything becomes very easy.  Yes, surely you will be able to do it. The part that has goodwill must grow stronger until it has the power to control the recalcitrant part and force it to be converted.


The Mother: Yes, it is very useful when it is properly done.   The psychic voice is silent — it manifests in the form of an understanding or knowledge rather than in words.  Yes, there is a great difference. It is much more difﬁcult to hear the psychic message than the voice of the mental Purusha — the latter is not infallible and is liable to err.


The Mother: The psychic never errs.  The vital Purusha awakens only when all the desires are mastered and the vital being is calm.  Your heart is not always closed. When it opens, the peace and love enter into you.  When one is very silent and attentive.


The Mother: The mental Purusha is always more or less awake in those who are in the habit of observing themselves.  Not necessarily; even if they come from the psychic, they may get mixed with other less elevated movements when they manifest in the mind or the vital.  Love and peace can also come from above, directly from divine regions.  One can hardly say that the Divine expresses himself through a , but rather by imparting a certain state of consciousness.  When the Light has descended into the physical consciousness.


The Mother: Indeed they very often are; the love gets changed into a kind of passion and the peace into inertia.   You must will for it persistently and one day it will happen.   The psychic.  You were wrong to open your pen when you were told not to — because it is I myself who said that if anyone tampered with his pen it would not be repaired for him.


The Mother: I will have it repaired this time, if possible, but you must promise me never to touch it again.  It is a fault. Not to take care of the material objects one uses is a sign of unconsciousness and ignorance. One has no right to use any material object unless one takes care of it.  Yes, and we must take care of them, not because we are attached  to them, but because they too manifest something of the Divine Consciousness.


The Mother: It is something one feels and there can be no doubt about it when it happens to you.   The psychic coming to the surface is the result rather than the method.  I understand very well what you mean. It is an experience that takes place when one enters into a new ﬁeld of consciousness.


The Mother: Happiness and love do not accompany all experiences.   The experience is only one of an awakening of consciousness.   It is up to you to make true in practice the ideal that your mind sets before you.


The Mother: There is at the same time a part of the being that lives in light and joy, and a part that lives in disturbance and obscurity. If you turn your attention towards the disturbance, you feel it. But if you turn your attention towards the light and joy, you live in them.   It is also a resistance in the brain, expressing those elements of the physical mind that refuse to be transformed.


The Mother: Or when one can go deep enough inside to enter into contact with one’s psychic being.  First you must detach yourself from it, stop identifying yourself with its movements.   They are connected with the material plane through the senseorgans (sight, hearing, etc.).


The Mother: By entering into it step by step, through attentive observation, with the light of the consciousness.   The mind cannot answer these questions nor understand the true reply.  Study, that is the best way to understand.  You don’t give enough time to study; that is why it doesn’t interest you.


The Mother: Everything one does with care necessarily becomes interesting.   Failing the psychic, the enlightened mind can prevent the vital from behaving foolishly.   The only unfailing method for getting rid of illnesses is to turn one’s attention away from them and refuse to give them any importance.  Because the ordinary consciousness drives it away.


The Mother: Remember it always and in all circumstances.   I do not have much faith in between human beings.  Generally speaking, it is the consciousness that is turned towards the Divine.  They understand them better, because they are closer to them.


The Mother: Getting upset and impatient certainly will not help this bad period to end any sooner. On the other hand, if you can maintain a little inner calm, you will get out of your difﬁculties more quickly. It is only in a state of calm that one can enter into contact with one’s psychic consciousness.  I hope not! But if you could be a little more peaceful within, your troubles would end more quickly.


The Mother: You are my child; you have only to become conscious of it.  Because they are still mentally immature.  Afﬁnities are almost instinctive and not very important. Only you must be careful that they do not become attachments.  These things are not so clear-cut and one may have started doing yoga in one part of the being even while the rest — the other parts of the being — still refuse to be transformed.


The Mother: Never forget the divine presence.   No, I do not change towards people according to their condition.  It is their impression of me that changes according to their mood at the moment.  To be at peace is a good thing. Do not risk spoiling the peace by talking about this state.


The Mother: It is the desire and rebellion that prevent your vital from feeling the Presence, but the fact that you do not feel it is no proof that it is not there.  I do not think it is bad either — but of course it is proportionate to the consciousness you possess.  An undesirable outside force does not always enter into us each  time that we have a good experience. On the contrary, the good experience ought to give us the strength to repel the outside force when it tries to enter.  Nothing is gained by lying, of course; on the contrary, one darkens one’s consciousness.


The Mother: If your consciousness were superhuman, divine, or even spiritual, you would see that same consciousness everywhere.  It is certainly not sadhana that stands in the way of inner peace — on the contrary, for the sadhana is based entirely on this inner peace, which is the essential condition for progress. To enter into contact with the psychic consciousness, a patient concentration is indeed necessary.   First of all, as a general rule, it is better if women do not visit the rooms of men. In this particular case, if she came to your room, I am afraid she would leave behind an atmosphere that would be very disturbing to your peace of mind.


The Mother: No, you have become more conscious. Before there was even more darkness, but you were not aware of it. You did not perceive it as darkness.  A transition period in which you have become more conscious but have not yet gained control.  Especially in the physical consciousness — until the physical gets illumined.


The Mother: Always choose the light instead of the darkness.  I am here and I am concentrating upon you all the light needed to dissolve any darkness whatever. It is up to you to receive it.  Do what I explained to you yesterday — make your brain work by studying regularly and systematically; then during the hours when you are not studying, your brain, having worked enough, will be able to rest and it will be possible for you to concentrate in the depths of your heart and ﬁnd there the psychic source; with it you will become conscious both of gratitude and true happiness.  My force and my help are constantly with you and my consciousness is enlightening you as you study.


The Mother: She must have come to me with some desire, and her desire, sensing that it would not be satisﬁed, made her sad and depressed.  It is more or less what happens to you too.  Now I know why the darkness always returns to you, even after I have driven it away. It is because the sense of gratitude has not yet awakened in you.


The Mother: Obviously.  Yes, that is it; you began to bargain in your giving and that has dried up the source. If, however, you resolve not to demand anything in return for what you give, you will soon rediscover the incomparable joy of loving.  Until the nature is entirely transformed, it is always mixed — the good and the bad side by side. So until the transformation is achieved, there will always be a mixture of egoism in all who come to me.


The Mother: Do not worry — have trust; it is this lack of trust that veils your consciousness.  Do not think about yourself.   Observe silence in your mind, go into the solitude of your psychic being and you will ﬁnd me there.  This is a completely tamasic reply.


The Mother: My consciousness is always at work, but you on your side must .  Certainly you are living mainly in your mind, vital and physical.  A little concentration would do you no harm, but you must not overdo it.   You must exert your will.  If by solitude you mean not seeing people any more than is indispensable and not speaking with them unless it is absolutely necessary, then we are agreed.


The Mother: My dear child, I am only too willing to help you out of this absurd unhappiness, but I am afraid that it comes only from thwarted desires — and in that case you must ﬁrst renounce those desires and ambitions. But you can be sure that my help is always with you.  This is a hostile suggestion which is completely false and you must immediately reject it.   Certainly a part of your being is in harmony with the psychic life of the universe.  Just as there is a psychic life in human beings, there is a psychic life in the earth and doubtless in other worlds too.


The Mother: To make the consciousness progress towards the Divine.  Never doubt my love, and then quite naturally you will turn towards me.  Certainly the psychic consciousness has none of these difﬁculties; it has the constant experience of my presence and my love.   It is very good that you made an effort, but you must not get discouraged so quickly, just because you fail to succeed immediately. On the contrary, you must persevere in your effort until you do succeed.


The Mother: My help will always be with you.   By aspiration, prayer and concentration.  Above all, it is too.  Because the outer ignorance is very stubborn and will yield only to a persistent effort.


The Mother: Because the outer being — the one that misbehaves — is unaware of that presence or refuses to recognise it.  The only price to be paid is.   One can have the true attitude only when one has attained the consciousness of the divine Oneness; meanwhile it is good always to treat animals with respect, love and compassion.   Of course.


The Mother: Obscurity is everywhere in material things — inside and outside.   Look at a beautiful ﬂower.  That would be the sign of a total enslavement to the vital part that is suffering. You must learn to stand back and detach yourself from the lower, external movements.


The Mother: If one has neither the psychological nor the material means to bring them relief, I see no point in dwelling on them.   You must know whether you can do it without falling into a depression, which would be even worse than gossiping.  You ought to extinguish it if it is really you, or make use of it if it can purify you.


The Mother: All these things are hostile suggestions that ought to be rejected.  Have you got a fever? If so, ask the doctor to treat you. But if you don’t have fever, this ﬁre business is a wrong imagination that should be rejected.


The Mother: There is a sacred ﬁre that burns in the heart and envelops the whole being: it is Agni, who illumines and puriﬁes all. I kindle that ﬁre in you each time that you ask me for some progress; but it destroys nothing except falsehood and obscurity.   An integral puriﬁcation is a long and slow labour.  Yes, there are hells that are formed by human thought which exist in certain regions of the vital world.  That is nonsense.


The Mother: Concentrating on the lower nature is good; you should  concentrate on what you want to develop, not on what you want to destroy.  Peaceful, certainly; silence is not always possible.  I suppose that by “we” you mean human beings. Human beings have not ignorant and obscure.


The Mother: They have always been  that way, because material nature was unconscious and obscure long before man appeared.  Not exactly, but in silence one can receive it.   Yes,.


The Mother: No. Desire is useful only at the beginning of evolution to awaken consciousness from its torpor, but desire cannot lead one to Bliss — only self-giving can do that.  It is your psychic being, like all psychic beings, that loves me.   Either because they are not conscious of their psychic being, or because they do not know me.  Psychic love never bargains — but the vital always tries to derive some beneﬁt for itself in all circumstances.


The Mother: To the extent that the mind, vital and physical are under the control of the psychic being, they also love me.  Ego is the helper so long as it is needed to form the physical individuality, but when that is formed, ego must disappear.  Perfect detachment, equality, disinterestedness.   By learning to see the futility of its ﬂeeting and hollow satisfactions.


The Mother: Because in your previous life the time had not yet come when an integral transformation would be possible.  It is during one’s physical life on earth that one has the opportunity to purify oneself, to make spiritual progress.  Humanity in its present state is still at the animal stage; one must therefore go beyond this ordinary human state in order  to become a true man, capable of becoming conscious of the Divine.  Why do you listen to these stories? They are very stupid.


The Mother: Most often ghosts exist only in people’s imaginations. As for vital beings, if we do not fear them they can do us no harm. And with the divine protection what fear can one have? None.  The love and peace have not left you; it is you who no longer see them.


The Mother: No doubt it is again the same force you mention that is trying to make you blind.  An adverse will that sends suggestions — you must simply refuse to believe its suggestions, that’s all.  How can you say that you are not aware of it when you yourself write: “But often someone makes me blind and I no longer see  Your light”? What you call “someone” I call “adverse suggestions”.  It makes a mental formation that has some afﬁnity with the mind of the person who is to be inﬂuenced.


The Mother: This formation remains in that person’s mental atmosphere and slips in at the slightest opportunity. If the person is not conscious or watchful enough, he becomes aware of the formation only when it has already entered his brain and then he mistakes the formation for his own thought.  I do not think that things are as you say, and in any case, as far as you are concerned, the best thing is not to worry and to aspire calmly until your difﬁculties are dispelled.  It is always resistance that creates confusion.   Certainly it would be much better not to pay any attention to it.


The Mother: What do you mean by a test? It is certainly not something arbitrarily imposed on you. Your condition is always the natural outcome of your way of thinking, feeling and acting.  To have a premonition of something bad is of no use unless you take advantage of it to repel the bad thing.


The Mother: You can simply reject the idea that something bad is going to happen to you.  There is no question of your giving up yoga and I am quite sure that you will not do it. Nor is there any reason for you to die.  You will live and you will live for the Divine.   I don’t think there is anything for you to worry about.


The Mother: You are no further from me than you were before. It is still the same parts of your being that refuse to participate in the divine life; previously you were not aware of them, but now, on the contrary, you are becoming more and more conscious of them, and consciousness is a real progress — it is the way towards mastery.  You must educate them as one educates a child.  For the moment my will goes only as far as this: to do the work that is to be done upon earth. For the rest we shall see later on.


The Mother: That is true only for those who are living in the ordinary consciousness.   Certainly, without at least one of these three conditions, one runs a grave risk of being mistaken and taking one’s own subconscious will for the divine Will.   I ﬁnd this viewpoint terribly.  One must know how to in order to learn how truly to possess.


The Mother: I have told you that it is that you can overcome the depression.  Certainly your psychic being is my child, and it knows it very well.   I do not understand what you mean; I have never told you that you cannot be my child. I have told you, on the contrary, that in your psychic being you are my child, and that you will become fully conscious of it when you become conscious of your psychic being.  That is exactly what I understood — and I repeat that nothing (except your own will) can prevent you from being my child and becoming my faithful servant.


The Mother: Of course you must go to Him in calm and light.  There is no need at all to think of other lives; you must strive to realise the Divine in this life itself, and you will do it.  But you must not be impatient. It is your impatience that is causing your depression.   You are like someone plunged in the ocean who complains of a lack of water!


The Mother: You will not get cured by doing this thing or that — the cure must come.  No, it is not very desirable, but if you stop and then get depressed, that is even less desirable.   why  I think that one part of your consciousness does in fact perceive the divine Will quite clearly; but when you try to carry out this will integrally, your vital, thwarted in its desires and impulses, becomes depressed and refuses to cooperate, and that brings all progress to a halt.   That is just what I was afraid of when you spoke of stopping your walks with Y.


The Mother: It is not much use asking questions about things that are already past. If the effect was bad, you must overcome it, and if it is good, you must preserve it.   Probably as the result of a depression.


The Mother: Certainly fear is a great obstacle on the way.  There is no harm in being helpful and obliging.   That is quite absurd. My will, on the contrary, is that each one should always go forward peacefully and steadily, without ever falling back into these lower states.  I never put anyone in prison.


The Mother: It is her vital complaining.  The so-called freedom claimed by the vital is not any freedom at all, but a slavery to the lower desires and impulses.  I am on earth because it is on earth that the divine work must he done, and for no other reason.   Certainly.  Certainly there is resistance in almost everybody, and revolt in many.


The Mother: Do not worry; you have done your best to help X. If she does not want to listen, there is nothing you can do.  In children the psychic is often very much on the surface and it makes them peaceful and happy. As one grows up, the vital and the mind develop and take on more importance — and then the troubles and sorrows begin.   I see no reasonable cause for this sadness; to me it looks like something unreal, a sort of false imagination that has seized hold of you.


The Mother: Reject all that immediately.   Yes, it is the vital indulging in its depression.   You must strengthen your will.


The Mother: It has been paciﬁed so often, and each time it has shaken off the peace like a cloak of boredom.   Concentrate on the psychic consciousness.    Yes, without a doubt.


The Mother: Soon, if your will to become like that is persistent.  No, I wrote it because I thought it.  It is better not to feel it as long as you have not acquired the power to correct all the wrong vibrations.  Obviously if one is in contact with people, it is better to know what they are like.  Sometimes it is precisely when one is dissatisﬁed with oneself that one makes the most progress.


The Mother: I have already explained to you that the ﬁrst contact with the force gives the psychic being the power to dominate the consciousness and govern the being. But gradually the other parts (mental, vital and physical) revert to their old activities and the good condition gets veiled. You must have a persistent will to regain it.  In the child the psychic life is not veiled by the mental life.  Because the child is not fully moulded, he has a great capacity for growth and is able to progress with sufﬁcient plasticity.


The Mother: The childlike path is one of unquestioning trust, total dependence, unreserved surrender.  The childlike path is always better — but it is not so easy, for it must be taken spontaneously and in all sincerity.   X does not want any intermediary between herself and me, and she is right.   Yes, you are right; that is how things happen here.


The Mother: Yes, you are right; I am always there in your heart, but something in your outer consciousness is too active and makes too much noise for you to be aware of this presence. It is only in silence and calm that you can become aware of it.  I have already told you: she is afraid that she may be inﬂuenced by you and she does not want to accept any other inﬂuence than ours.   I don’t think so; but some people make the effort naturally, without attaching much importance to it.  Yes, that is right.


The Mother: You must constantly aspire for the inner change, you must have the will for the light to come into the obscure physical mind, and you must calmly wait for the result of this aspiration and will.  If you cannot do both things at once, then just do one of them.  It is not intellectual but — the mental being has a faith and the vital being too can have its faith as well as the physical being. As for the psychic being, its faith is natural and spontaneous — faith is the very essence of the psychic being.   There is only one faith, but it manifests in different parts of the being.


The Mother: I suppose that what the person you refer to calls “blind faith” is the faith in the heart, which needs no to exist; but there is also the faith in the mind, which may be based on some kind of reasoning. To be sure of having an unshakable faith, one must have it in every part of the being.  Faith is the expression of a spiritual virtue.  As the mind develops, the simple and pure sincerity of the child disappears. It must be replaced with a more conscious, more spiritual sincerity — the psychic sincerity.


The Mother: is one of the most essential conditions of the spiritual life. One must know how to wait in order to receive.   It did not get carried there — it is there quite naturally, as all human consciousnesses are. What is exceptional is when the consciousness rises above this material plane.  My dear child, you have to ﬁnd the peace, the silence and the solitude within yourself, and in that solitude you will become conscious of my presence.


The Mother: My blessings are with you.   Yes, if you allow the ﬁre of aspiration to burn in you.  One keeps this ﬁre lit by throwing into it all one’s difﬁculties, all one’s desires, all one’s imperfections. In the morning and evening  when you come to me, you should ask me in your heart to keep the ﬁre lit and offer me all these things as fuel.


The Mother: It is in the midst of activity that the ﬁre must burn, so that it may set right all your movements.  As long as you aspire to keep the ﬂame lit, I will take care that it does not go out.  It is not your work to light the ﬁre. As I told you, I am always lighting it — you have only to open yourself to receive it and tend it with your goodwill.  Yes, that is good.


The Mother: This movement should be constantly renewed.   There are people to whom such a thing happens, but it is not  and certainly not desirable.  You are right, my dear child; those who are not happy here cannot be happy anywhere.  When you come to me, you should be peaceful and open.  Do not attach any importance to it.


The Mother: Certainly the suffering is not indispensable, nor even necessary.   It is indeed ignorance that makes one suffer .   Yes, this yoga is based on peace and joy, not on suffering.


The Mother: Ignorance always lacks humility — the more ignorant the mind, the more it judges and the more it revolts .  Make it calm and quiet — in calm it can receive the light.  This is precisely what I call mental agitation.  In spirit I always hold you in my arms like a little child, to help you and protect you — but is that what you mean?


The Mother: I don’t think that you expect me to hold you in my arms physically! If I had to hold all my children in my arms (starting with the 140 people of the Ashram), my body would really have to be bigger than it is!  And yet to an awakened consciousness, my presence is entirely concrete.   Will for this concentration and strengthen your will.


The Mother: Because the consciousness in you is more developed than the will.  Since you have asked me to answer you very frankly, I will tell you that I do not want to intervene because I am not sure that you will have the strength and ﬁrmness to persist in doing what I  tell you to do. And for spiritual life it is better to act in ignorance than to act in disobedience to the command of one’s guru.  To make all your actions conform to your highest aspiration and purest will.


The Mother: Just shake off all these wrong suggestions, which are not true, and stop believing in all this drama, which is purely imaginary.   As all suggestions come: they are mental formations that hover in the atmosphere and seize upon any mind that is ready to receive them.  Dangerous for what? If you mean for your spiritual progress, an attachment is certainly not considered to be a very desirable thing.


The Mother: A sentimental attachment is an attachment of the feelings; a vital attachment is an attachment of the senses. By “expression” I mean exchanging affectionate words or sensual gestures such as holding hands, caressing, etc.  I truly hope that you are not a hypocrite, for hypocrisy is a great obstacle on the spiritual path.  The ﬁrst condition is to keep your mind calm and peaceful. It is in calm that the Light can descend.


The Mother: My help is always with you, and also the strength to overcome your weaknesses and difﬁculties. But you must know how to receive and use them.   If there were no reactions, there would be no need to make an effort.  I have already told you that the ﬁrst condition is to quiet your mind and to make an effort to quiet your vital as well.  I do not understand what you mean by “passing through”.


The Mother: In any case it is always wiser to avoid anything that lowers the consciousness.  From the point of view of yoga the question does not even arise; yoga cannot tolerate this kind of vital satisfaction.   Sincerity demands that you confess immediately without my needing to question you.  Yes; by continuing to do things which you know very well ought not to be done, you are hardening yourself and veiling your consciousness more and more.  It is of the greatest importance that this will should assert itself and triumph.


The Mother: It is absolutely necessary.  I don’t see that it is easier. It depends on the person. The difference is that what men call “love” for another human being is not love at all, but a frightful mixture of sentimentality, weakness, ignorance and sensuality. It is obvious that such a feeling cannot be directed towards the Divine.


The Mother: Yes, it happens very often.  People receive the force and power that I give and use it to satisfy their own desires instead of using it to serve the Divine.   A great vigilance is required to avoid falling into the movements of the lower consciousness; and a still greater will is needed to get out of them. So arm yourself with patience and a strong will.


The Mother: Do not make a mountain out of such a little thing; later you will laugh at this affair — which you are taking so tragically now —  when a little more light and consciousness have penetrated into your lower vital.  I see no point in your asking me what I want or do not want — for my will is that you should rise above the lower consciousness and become conscious of your psychic being, so that your psychic being governs your life and your actions. At this point you must ask yourself what you are able and not able to do, and then act at each moment to the best of your ability.  I ﬁnd all this completely ridiculous and quite out of proportion to the circumstances.  Because your vital is contrary.


The Mother: If I had told it, “You must not leave X and you will never be able to leave her”, it would have had only one thought: to run far away from her!   Please don’t exaggerate like this. These reactions are “terrible”  only if you think they are. Set your mind straight, see how infantile and unimportant all this is, and all these “terrible” reactions will disappear completely.


The Mother: One can be perfectly sincere only when one is completely conscious. But keep your will to become more and more perfectly sincere — and everything will be all right.   The unenlightened parts of the being always enjoy doing that.  You must train the will as you would train the muscles — by methodical exercise.


The Mother: Never allow yourself to do something once you have decided not to do it.   Fool! Do not call for justice — that is, for the strict consequences of your actions. Only the divine Grace can pull you out of your difﬁculty.


The Mother: Always one carries in oneself the seed of all that one is and does.  But this seed may die before it develops, and that is what ought to happen to undesirable things.  I know perfectly well when people are lying, even when they lie very well and imagine that they can deceive me.  For the Grace to help you, you must fulﬁl the conditions, and the very ﬁrst condition is to reject all doubt, however slight. I repeat again: you would do well to read once more, carefully and attentively, the ﬁrst two chapters of.


The Mother: Strictly speaking, the Grace does not withdraw; people make it impossible for themselves to receive it. But you have only to take  the right attitude and keep it, so that the Grace can once more do its saving work.   The Mother  You must remain ﬁrm in your will and use persuasion — gradually the rebellious part will surrender. It refuses to surrender out of ignorance.


The Mother: That ignorance must be dissolved.  Remain quiet and trust in the Grace; it is always present and ready to help those who call on it with a sincere heart.   When you are doing your work, you should concentrate only on your work and not on the people — there is no need to speak to them or pay any attention to them.   Take one step back from the surface consciousness, enter just a little inside yourself, and you will become aware of it.


The Mother: To a certain extent, yes. Certainly in order to rise , one must be absolutely liberated from Justice, for Justice is part of the universe.  Yes, in fact that is just what most often happens among human beings.   It is on my orders that everyone is questioned about their requests.  True love is a self-forgetting.


The Mother: I am sure that the Grace has not withdrawn from you, but perhaps your consciousness has put itself into a condition where it can no longer feel the Grace.  No, it is not mistaken: In the heart it is a psychic contact; above the head it is a mental contact.   The higher mind.  No difference in its effect.  You are probably eating too quickly — you must be swallowing without chewing.


The Mother: You must chew the food thoroughly and eat calmly. Then one can eat more and the stomach does not get heavy.  The outer consciousness ﬁnds it difﬁcult to keep the ﬁre of aspiration burning always with the same intensity. But with your will you must watch over the purifying ﬁre and revive it when it fails.  They may exist side by side in one nature, but normally they do not have much to do with each other.


The Mother: Certainly not.  It is towards the Divine that you must be humble, an absolute and integral humility.   It is above all the psychic that feels the presence. But sometimes the mind and the vital and even the physical also perceive it.


The Mother: To develop the philosophical mind one must study philosophy methodically: the various schools, their theories, etc., etc.  If it is to learn French, you should take a textbook of French literature to study and then read one or two books by each author mentioned in the textbook, beginning at the beginning, that is, with the earliest authors.   One should not do good in the hope of getting a reward, but for the pleasure of doing good. Then one is always happy, whatever happens.  It is not impossible to feel the Presence without having psychic love.


The Mother: But it must be rather exceptional.  Corneille is not old French, Corneille is classical French. It is absolutely necessary to study classical French if one wants to stand a chance of speaking French correctly. You deﬁnitely should read the principal 17th century authors. This is essential in order to enter into the spirit of the language.


The Mother: Don’t be in a hurry; study quietly and seriously, without rushing, and make an effort to understand. You will ﬁnd all the words used by these authors in the dictionary.   You can add geography, grammar, history and arithmetic — it won’t do you any harm.   You should get seven hours of sleep.


The Mother: Four hours of concentrated study a day is enough.   Care more about loving than about being loved.  It is a good discipline both for the mind and the vital.


The Mother: Absurd!  There is some truth in what she says, but it is mixed with the usual falsehood of human sentimentality.  The union with everything and everyone must be attained , not directly and apart from Him.  No, it is not possible.


The Mother: The ﬂower means precisely: all work that is done, in all sincerity, in consecration to the Divine.   Certainly you should not worry about it, but you should have the will to progress.  Agni is the will for progress, the ﬂame of puriﬁcation that burns up all obstacles and difﬁculties. By giving you the ﬂower, I am encouraging you to let it burn in you.  One learns things better if one writes them.


The Mother: You can simply rest a minute or two and then continue.  He was a great and exceptional ﬁgure. Of course he had his faults and made mistakes — but far from destroying France he gave her an undying glory. I am telling you all this, but you need not go and repeat it to X.


The Mother: The protection is there; it is for you to ﬁnd out how to take advantage of it.   No. Usually they suffer because of a lack of sincerity.  Yes, that also happens.


The Mother: Yes.  Most often — but it also manages to suffer when its desires are satisﬁed.  That is true.  Usually it is so.


The Mother: You come to me thinking almost exclusively about yourself.  Surely, if instead of thinking about the love that I am giving you or that you would like me to give you, you thought about the love that you would like to feel for me, you would be more open and receptive.   You must also exert your will.  You have probably been doing tiring things in your sleep.


The Mother: Bodily fatigue is a physical rendering of certain activities and contacts originating in the vital. In one’s sleep one may go to evil places in the vital and meet evil beings.   If you are so sleepy, it shows that for one reason or another you need to sleep — it would not be good to resist.  You must use your will before going to sleep. Have the will for a quiet rest during your sleep.


The Mother: By a ﬁrm and steady will and a calm determination, by refusing to let external things disturb you, by trusting in the Divine Grace and surrendering to its decisions.  Certainly not. Who told you such nonsense?  Without sincerity the path of yoga is; without surrender it is impossible.


The Mother: Unless one has full trust in the Divine, the Divine help cannot bear its full fruit.  Obviously it is not very helpful, unless the book is very well written and you read it solely for the sake of learning French.  For children there should be a time for work and study and a time for play.   It is tamas.


The Mother: Your physical mind, which did not get used to the effort of learning when you were young enough.   No, no harm.   Without any doubt.  Regular study certainly cannot fail to develop it.


The Mother: It is all right; study can become part of sadhana.  At the moment you are making progress; but you must attach more importance to the stability and genuineness of the progress than to the appearance of progress. I mean that it is more important to make progress, even invisibly, than to look as if you were making it.   Clearly it would be much better.  Human relationships are obviously very unstable.


The Mother: Only relationships with the Divine can be permanent.   There is always a way to keep what you have gained. You must learn to use your will.  No, I didn’t refuse anything; they must have run out of notebooks and new ones will have to be made.


The Mother: But to tell the truth, you use a fantastic number of notebooks. I am sure that you have a large number of them in which only a few pages are written on, and they could well be used for something else. It is  never good to waste things — too many people in the world do not have what they need.  I don’t think that this kind of remark and the state of consciousness it implies can be very helpful to your sadhana.  Remarks of this kind are always based on and on the physical mind, which always tends to interpret things in an unkind way.


The Mother: Nothing could be further from the true knowledge, which is always based on an intimate understanding of things and on the psychic perception.  It all depends on the spirit in which you play. If you are alert and always careful to remain conscious, it is all right.   Obviously, playing before pranam cannot help your concentration.


The Mother: Organise your life, your work, your consciousness.  Organisation consists in putting each thing in its true place.  When you have found me, you will see that I am everywhere.  The ﬁrst step is to get into the habit of in your daily discipline.  I don’t think there is any point at all in my arranging all that for you.


The Mother: You have to discover, by progressive adjustment, the programme that suits you best and stick to it very carefully,  while keeping it a bit ﬂexible so that it can be adjusted to the demands of each new day.  A child’s love for his mother is full of a spontaneous and absolute trust. In you such a love can only be based upon a psychic opening, for the psychic is likened to a child precisely because it feels this spontaneous and absolute trust in the Divine.  You must make an effort to understand, otherwise all my explanations will be useless.  You must stop this someone or something from pulling you down.


The Mother: Surely you have a will — what is it for?  When you feel a darkness invading you and taking you away  from me, you can be sure that it is an alien inﬂuence which has entered your atmosphere.  Reading novels is never beneﬁcial.   Concentrate on the Divine.


The Mother: The causes are always complex, most often obscure, and they come from suggestions affecting the subconscious.   The monkey usually symbolises the uncontrolled physical mind.  In this case he probably wanted to steal the fruits of your spiritual aspiration.   I knew about it, but I always prefer my action to be carried out in silence.


The Mother: When there is an immediate need for a result, I tell two categories of people: 1) Those who are very goodwilled and aspire very much to know.  2) Those who are so shut up in their outer consciousness that they would never understand anything unless I told them plainly.   No special place so far as I know.  I did not say that play has no place in the yoga, I said that it had no place.


The Mother: Yes, you lack the mental calm that makes study proﬁtable and  you ﬁnd great difﬁculty in concentrating on what you are doing.  Playing can be a useful relaxation, especially for young children; it can be a vital pleasure if the vital turns it to its own advantage.  It all depends on your attitude when you play.  There are also jokes that are mean and ugly and ought to be carefully avoided.


The Mother: All jokes that wound or lower the consciousness are bad.  If you were concerned about yourself a bit less, perhaps you would progress more.   Such people are indeed very rare. Thinking about oneself is the  most widespread habit among human beings.


The Mother: Only a yogi can become free of it.  How fortunate that you are here to teach me what to do — otherwise, no doubt I wouldn’t know!!!  No, not necessarily ; but it is difﬁcult to avoid receiving something of their inﬂuence.  Without concentration one can achieve nothing.


The Mother: The doctor should decide about these things, if it is a matter of health.   I have nothing to say about it. Each one has to ﬁnd his own direction. Once you have chosen to live for the Divine, nothing else in the world should count; but so long as you have not taken the decision , you must ﬁnd in yourself the direction you want to give to your life.


The Mother: Only one who has totally consecrated himself to the Divine has the right to forsake his duty to his parents.  To discover one’s weaknesses and imperfections is already a great progress. The ﬁrst step towards progress is a sincere humility.   Not necessarily.


The Mother: Yes, it is much better.  You should not attach any importance to them. But it would be even better not to listen. Gossip is always harmful.  When you feel upset, you should sit down in a quiet place and ask for peace until you feel that the disturbance has disappeared.


The Mother: You must discipline the physical consciousness from within, and from within also will come the outer order of your physical life.  I mean that the physical consciousness must be disciplined by a force that acts from within.   We cannot take anyone like this: 1. Without having full information about the person — name, family, state of health, occupation, etc., etc. 2. Without having seen him.  3.


The Mother: And in any case we will only take a person on trial at ﬁrst, to ﬁnd out whether he is ﬁt to do this yoga or not.  So the ﬁrst thing for this boy to do is to write us a letter in English giving us all the necessary details and also explaining his reasons for wanting to do yoga.  And he should also send his photograph.  To obtain the divine love, all other love must be abandoned.  Not necessarily.


The Mother: There may be other reasons too. Only control over the subconscious can give an invariable resistance to every attack.   Yes, my blessings are with you.  And I also wanted to ask you something. You know that we are going to put up a new building, using the most modern methods.


The Mother: A great many workers are needed to supervise the work. I thought the time had come for you to take an active part in the overall work. Of course this will imply regularity, steadiness and a great sincerity. You would have to work eight hours a day except Sundays. The architect, who is arriving from Japan in a few days, will give you all the instructions required for the work.


The Mother: Tell me what you think of it, and whether I can put your name on the list of workers.  I am glad that the work pleases you. I am sure that it will do you a lot of good to work; it increases the receptivity considerably.  What you speak of cannot be done in an arbitrary way, nor through any conversation; it demands a change of consciousness, and only yoga can bring about that change.   It all depends on the subject and length of your conversations.


The Mother: A few words in passing do not matter, but if you start talking about so-called spiritual things, then it becomes dangerous.   Are you so sure?  If you want to learn to work, you must be modest, become aware of your imperfections and always maintain the will to progress.  One does not progress through boasting.


The Mother: Mr. Z wants a particular organisation; he himself has explained to me what he wants and. It is the resistance of egoism in certain people which is complicating the situation — otherwise everything would be very simple.  It is an excess of mental activity that prevents you from feeling my presence.   I fear that in this you are under inﬂuences that are none too healthy.


The Mother: This is absolutely correct.   Enter into a and. It is there that you can best realise the union.  Surely your vital has been thwarted in something, and probably something unimportant since you don’t even remember what it is.


The Mother: You should not pay too much attention to these changing moods of the vital which have no real value.   Yes, this is good. If you do not obey, it is you who become responsible for the slightest mistake; if on the other hand you scrupulously obey, the whole responsibility rests with the person who has given the orders.  On the contrary, it is very good; it teaches you to concentrate.


The Mother: It is because you are too dispersed — your consciousness rushes out into superﬁcial external things instead of remaining concentrated.  It was Sri Aurobindo who wrote that we are aware of the . Did you by any chance imagine that you have none? If you were more ready to recognise them, we would have less need to refer to them. In any case I take the opportunity to tell you one thing: you certainly have possibilities, which can become ﬁne capacities if properly developed — but for the moment they are no more than possibilities and it  would be good to bear in mind that it will take a lot of time, effort and patience to change them into realisations.


The Mother: It is a lack of practice rather than a lack of capacity.  Your vital is discontented because I have not given it the compliments it desired. But your psychic is always with me; it is happy that I am making you conscious of what needs to be changed in you, and it insists that I should do so in spite of the vital’s discontent.  Cross beyond the ignorance of a mind that judges without knowing, plunge into the depths of a calm and unassuming silence: there you will ﬁnd me.


The Mother: Before ﬁghting you should be sure that you know where the injustice lies. And only the Divine can have that knowledge.   For sadhana, any intimacy is certainly undesirable.  From the spiritual point of view it is not good always to be wanting to know whether what one is doing is good, whether one has made any progress, what point one has reached, etc., etc.  It is yet another opportunity to satisfy one’s “ego” by drawing attention to it.


The Mother: There is always a way of saying things to people which does not offend them.  The work is not going well because at Golconde there is an atmosphere of discord and disagreement which prevents the Force from working effectively. If each one made an effort to overcome his preferences and dislikes, the work would go much better.   When the outer contact is not possible, it is time to cultivate and obtain the inner contact.  It is not with the mind that one should decide what has to be done.


The Mother: It should be a spontaneous movement taking place in a sincere and constant aspiration.  No, the movement of the fan would be even more bothersome than the mosquitos.  Certainly this is the surest way to ﬁnd me.  As long as one relies on one’s own judgment of things, one is unable to discern and know the divine Will.   Reports never tell me anything; I never base my judgment on them.


The Mother: And what I hear from other people can never — make me lose conﬁdence in anyone.  This is.  Since the study of mathematics tires you, the best thing is to stop it.  You yourself asked to take up these studies. I do not see why you now complain about having no tranquillity.


The Mother: But if you feel that you are working too much, you can drop one thing or the other.   It seems to me that apart from the work at the Building Service, if you feel like studying, it would be better to read Sri Aurobindo’s books seriously and carefully, without hurrying. This will help you more than anything else for your sadhana.  It does not matter at all.  Since you are aware of the state you are in, it is time to take action and avoid the inﬂuences that estrange you from me and make you unhappy.


The Mother: Nothing is lost if you take immediate action.  Obviously it is enough to make anyone ill!...  It is not possible to serve two masters at once. You wanted to satisfy your ego and its desires and you have moved away  from your soul. Rediscover your soul and you will rediscover me — I have not changed place.


The Mother: All my help will be in vain unless you resolve to overcome your weaknesses.  If I give you two rupees each, I can see no valid reason why I should not give every member of the Ashram two rupees pocketmoney each month, and that makes a of 1500 rupees (). No further comment is needed.  You may go if you like, but since I do not see how it can help you to overcome your lower being and go beyond the limits of your ego, do not expect any ﬁnancial help from me in this affair.


The Mother: You may go if you like, but must give you the money needed. Do not expect me to do it because I will give you nothing for that purpose and I forbid you to ask money for it from any disciple or member of the Ashram, especially X.   C “


The Mother: P M”   ( Prayers and Meditations )  Certainly, communion and consecration are very different things.  The part of the being that experiences communion is not the same as the part that is not consecrated.


The Mother: Losing the sense of separativity is the last step before the Identiﬁcation, and in the Identiﬁcation itself there are several steps.  There are in everything, and what is perfect one day no longer seems to be perfect the next.   This can only happen when one has given up all personal preferences.  Because memory belongs to the mind and it was not the mind speaking but a consciousness from beyond.  Certainly not.


The Mother: Besides, as a general rule, you must never try to copy my experiences. I started to note them down , a state you are far from having achieved.   In order to do my work, I have had to identify myself with the material world and its imperfections.  Behind all appearances there is a harmony of forces and movements which is something like the harmony of all the different kinds of instruments in a perfect symphony.


The Mother: Faith conﬁrmed by the spiritual experience of what one has faith in.   This is for everyone — you as well as others — who is capable of taking this attitude with integral sincerity. But I ought to point out that it is even more difﬁcult than making an effort.  Idiot! What can be without mixture in the world as it is now?


The Mother: Nothing, nothing, nothing!  It is because we like immediate and visible results that we allow ourselves to be misled by the vital.   I wrote this because for a time I was not living at home, but with my mother, so I no longer had the responsibilities of the mistress of the house who has to see that everything is materially in order.  The material and vital forces are perverted — they must be regenerated so that they become capable of expressing the divine will.


The Mother: Because they love falsehood, vital agitation, violence, drama.  The peace of eternity seems to them as empty as death because they live exclusively in the mind and vital.   I use the word reality in the sense of truth of the being.  The descent of the Supermind.  I mean that the word should be reserved only for that which is conscious of the divine Presence.


The Mother: The subconscient of the subconscient.  I wrote this after meeting Sri Aurobindo for the ﬁrst time.  The instrument in question here is on earth, which has an ephemeral existence compared with the eternal consciousness.  You ought to know the Hindu tradition that the world is the  result of “the Divine Child who plays”.


The Mother: It is with Him that I was identiﬁed.  The consciousness is asleep in everyone until it is awakened.   A second or an eternity.


The Mother: There are experiences of a universal order which can be revealed only to those who have had them.  The force, the power, the consciousness, the knowledge, the love, etc., etc.    The being which has religious, devotional feelings.


The Mother: Wisdom lies in wanting what the Divine wants, not in deciding for yourself.   No, it is we who withdraw from him.  I was not addressing the Divine himself, but a Force, an emanation of the Divine, which had come down to do a particular work on earth and could have withdrawn if it had seen that the work it came to do was impossible.   The works that we do upon earth.


The Mother: If you had read the meditation carefully you would not have needed to ask this question — the two forces are and.  There are certain illnesses that people get particularly in Spring — boils, impurities of the blood, etc. — which the Japanese cure with teas made from cherry-blossoms. I did not know this when I had the experience.       Nothing is inevitable.


The Mother: At every moment an intervention may come from a higher plane into the material one and alter the course of circumstances. But in this particular case there is a conﬂict between a very powerful mental construction founded on medical opinion and your faith in the divine Grace.  The power of this medical suggestion lies in the fact that it insinuates itself into the subconscious and acts on the body from there, undetected even by the conscious mind unless it is in the habit of scouring the subconscious with the vigilance of a detective.  So there we are — I cannot promise you that your faith in the Grace will be intense and unshakable enough to overcome the harmful effect of these medical suggestions; and I feel that I have no right to tell you, “It is nothing,” when everything in your material consciousness is crying out, “Danger!”


The Mother: Rest assured that our help and our blessings are always with you.  Certainly we will be happy to keep you here until June.  You are quite right in saying that these closed doors are an effect of the imagination. The will to pass through always has the power to open them, just as the certainty of victory brightens the path.  Certainly when you are ready to return, after doing what you  want to do for your son, you have only to inform us and we shall be happy to receive you.


The Mother: Inner calm and peace and an ardent aspiration towards the Divine are the best preparation for receiving the help we can give, and you can be assured of receiving it from us.   Sudden conversions are usually neither integral nor lasting; they are ﬂashes of lightning which most often dissolve into smoke.   Slow and steady effort and persistent striving for progress are more reliable: “piano ma sano”.


The Mother: And recalling what happened during your sleep is certainly not indispensable to the discovery of your soul.  I am glad you are feeling well.   Be sure that our help and protection are always with you.  Do not let yourself be overwhelmed by the sense of vastness; bathe in it, rather, with joy and serenity.


The Mother: Were we conﬁned inescapably within the four walls of our personal consciousness, that would indeed be sad and overwhelming — but the inﬁnite is open to us; we have only to plunge into it.  Sri Aurobindo has read your letter and agrees with me that it is difﬁcult to make plans so far in advance, because circumstances are so unpredictable. One thing is settled, however: Sri Aurobindo has accepted you as a disciple — this is clearly shown by the fact that he has given you a new name. But being a disciple does not necessarily imply that one lives in the Ashram. In fact, there are more disciples living outside the Ashram than in it.


The Mother: Several conditions are needed to live in the Ashram, one of which is that one’s health should be good enough to allow one to conform to the Ashram discipline which does not provide any special arrangements for food, services and so on. Those arrangements can be made, for a limited period, for visitors; but for various reasons it is impossible to make them permanent. So when you are ready to return, let us know three or four months in advance so that we can see whether any practical arrangement can be made.  As for the readings, I think it would be better to spare yourself this strain for the time being. I think that the few private lessons you are giving are enough.


The Mother: I am glad to know that you have recovered, and hope that your health will get better and better.  I am sorry that you have been feeling sad these last few days.  You should not have. The light should always bring with it the joy of new progress. Now I think that everything will be all right.


The Mother: Do not worry. You have not done anything wrong, either consciously or unconsciously. I was referring to a set of inner and outer circumstances, a set of circumstances which is the inevitable outcome of the preceding set, and so on. Only yogic power, the power of the divine Consciousness, can break this chain of consequences.  You must leave with your heart full of peace and your mind full of hope.


The Mother: You must leave with the assurance that our help and our force are going with you, and that our blessings are with you and will always be with you.   ( )  Do not fear; I can see beyond appearances and understand in silence or beyond words.  My arm will always be around you, to uphold and guide you.  Certainly you are my dear child, but I want her to be happy, not sorrowful, illumined, not ignorant.


The Mother: My blessings are very affectionately with you.  Since I did not see you at pranam, I was about to write and inquire whether the exhaustion you mentioned in yesterday’s letter was the reason. And just now I received your letter of this morning. What a pity that you had fever! But why?


The Mother: No apparent reason? In any case, I hope that it will soon be over.  Needless to say, our help, our force, our protection and our blessings are always with you; you must immerse yourself in them as in a soothing, healing bath. Let me add my tenderness.  It is difﬁcult for me to answer your question since I have no personal experience of utropine and its effects.


The Mother: But as a general rule I feel that when one goes to a doctor for treatment, one should do what he says. It is in cases of that utropine is supposed to be inadvisable. You could ask the doctor for an assurance that you are not suffering from nephritis — which seems very unlikely.  Our help and our blessings are always with you, affectionately.   This “Aspiration in the physical” with our blessings and all my love.


The Mother: Do not let the doctor’s words disturb you. Illnesses are never serious unless we accept them as such. Besides, I expect to hear very soon that you are better.  Here is a little “New Birth”.  Indeed, what better use could one make of an illness than to take the opportunity to go deep within oneself and awaken, take birth into a new consciousness, more luminous and more true.


The Mother: Our help and our blessings are always with you, affectionately.  Sri Aurobindo and I think it would be wiser for you to wait another week before coming to pranam. And the meditation twice a day will be possible only when you no longer feel any weakness at all, because at the moment there are many people and the physical atmosphere is rather heavy to breathe.  So we ask you to be patient a little longer, to allow your material strength time to return. Our help and protection are with you for that.


The Mother: Very affectionately.  I do not recall mentioning any passages in which Sri Aurobindo prophesies present events. I referred to certain pages in which Sri Aurobindo gives a very brief glimpse of at present  on earth, his Work of divinising matter, and I told you that it is hinted at in one of the chapters of “Thoughts and Glimpses”.  Do not worry; you told me long ago — in silence — what you “confessed” to me this evening.


The Mother: And I have always given you the same answer: do not worry; not all gifts need to be material ones — and self-giving is surely the best gift of all.  These spontaneous reﬂex actions reveal the subconscious. By tracking down these spontaneous impulses one can gradually clear a path into the virgin forest of the subconscient and bring the Light into it.  Do not worry, and above all do not feel sad! On the 12th  was probably a little too strong and, as a result, a little difﬁcult to digest.


The Mother: If you can simply remain quiet, , everything will settle down. Then the Light will reappear, brighter and more beautiful than ever.  Have no fear — nothing has the power to take you away from me, for I am always with you — in you.   Affectionately.


The Mother: Yes, it would be better not to take anything without consulting your doctor in Paris.   No, not necessary; as few doctors as possible, as few medicines as possible!!   Oh no, no drugs! The more drugs you take, the more you undermine your body’s natural resistance.


The Mother: To relieve tension, ten minutes of, inner and outer, are more effective than all the remedies in the world. In silence lies the most effective help.   With our blessings.


The Mother: To tell the truth, I think the doctor is right: your complaint is nervous. I mean that it is a functional disorder, not an organic one. The fact that you have a headache does not contradict this, for one can have a nervous headache and suffer very much from it. In any case, nervous or not, it is quite clear that if you were in constant contact with the Divine you would be perfectly all right.


The Mother: Our blessings are always with you.  Very affectionately.  It would be so nice not to take any injections! Wouldn’t it?  As for the other things, do not worry.


The Mother: The divine Grace is behind everything, even shortcomings, and with Its help there is  nothing that cannot be made an opportunity for progress.  Our blessings are always with you.  How you torment yourself — about nothing! I knew perfectly well that you were going to dine with the banker, and I found nothing wrong with that, any more than with your little musical gatherings or anything else of that kind. I have always considered that you were free to see whom you like and go where you please.


The Mother: Only once did I give you some advice about this, but that was simply a piece of advice, nothing more, and referred to a single, very precise case.   I hasten to send you this note in the hope that it will bring you the peace and tranquillity I wish for you always.   My blessings are with you unceasingly.


The Mother: My dear little X, If you want my way of seeing things, I must tell you that taking a good dose of faith and conﬁdence in the Divine Grace is better than all the pills and injections in the world.   With my blessings. I am always with you.


The Mother: My poor little X, I am truly very sorry to have to disappoint you, but the interview you want certainly cannot take place until the war is over.  Besides, for inner growth, I do not believe that words are necessary. In silence all our help is there at its most powerful.   With love and blessings.


The Mother: My little X, It is impossible to meditate with another person without , just as one cannot enter a place without breathing the air that is there.  When someone has a harmful atmosphere and a bad inﬂuence (I warned you of this), one must be careful, while meditating, not to put oneself into a state of receptivity with that atmosphere!  It is not wrong, but it is an act of ignorance. And needless to say, it cannot prevent you from being my little X or stop my arms from surrounding and protecting you.  Why do you want to break your silence?


The Mother: Silence is the door to all true spiritual realisations.  And I am with you always. Draw on my force in the silence; it will never fail you.   Our blessings.


The Mother: My dear little X,  When the demon of jealousy whispers a suggestion in your ear, you must be very careful not to listen to it.  When the war broke out, I told you that until it was over I would not give any interviews to sadhaks. I am doing what I said. All the regular interviews have been stopped.


The Mother: Occasionally, not always, I see a visitor before he leaves. Other than that, in all these months I have made only two or three exceptions,  about your affairs. If someone told you otherwise, why believe him? You must quickly chase these shadows far away from you and live constantly in the serenity of an unshakable trust.   I am always with you.


The Mother: If you listen carefully, you will hear my answers to your questions. When all grows silent and calm within you, you will feel my presence concretely, and no help is more real or more effective than that.   With my deepest affection and our blessings always.  My dear little X,


The Mother: I agree upon the 22nd — probably it will be about 5:30 at the top of the stairs — but in these days of extreme instability it is difﬁcult to make arrangements so far ahead. We must live from day to day our whole consciousness intent on the only luminous horizon: that of the divine Realisation.  Our blessings are with you, as well as my love.  My dear little X,  Dryness is ordinarily the sign of too great a concern with oneself (whether material or spiritual) and a consequent narrowing of the consciousness, which is no longer sufﬁciently in communion with the divine forces.


The Mother: The remedy: a completer self-giving to the Divine.   With my blessings and all my love.


The Mother: My dear little X, Do not worry; I only meant that you are not yet completely free from social ties — but that will surely come as the ﬂame of aspiration towards the Divine burns more and more ardently in you.   With my blessings and all my love.      Purodha Agnishikha  You can do this translation work occasionally but not to the extent of getting absorbed in it.


The Mother: The consciousness must remain free for the sadhana.   Love and blessings.   In answer to your letter I can tell you that if the value of the property is given to me I will certainly accept it. But I cannot ask for it, I can only take it as a free gift.


The Mother: My love and blessings are with you.  You can send it provided there is nothing objectionable in it — that is to say, no political or social controversy, etc.   Love and blessings to my dear child.  I do not want any life sketch of mine to be published.


The Mother: I have always refused the permission to all those who have asked it.   My love and blessings.   You must have worked too hard at the translation and that is why you are now dissatisﬁed and depressed. But I am sure the translation is all right and I see no reason to postpone its publication.


The Mother: With my love and blessings.  I have received Abhaya’s letter. You can write to him: “It is absolutely out of the question for anyone connected with the Ashram to intervene in politics of any kind. He must not go to Sir Akbar Hydari (it would be quite useless in any case).


The Mother: If he went and Sir Akbar spoke to us of it we will be obliged to disavow his action as not sanctioned by us.” You can send him our blessings.   My dear child, I am always present, close to you — in you — and my blessings are with you.   This is quite wrong, both Sri Aurobindo and myself want him to go because we are convinced that the atmosphere of Pondicherry is not favourable to the balance of his mind and the climate is not good for his health.


The Mother: Abhaya writes to me that he wishes to take you away with him to Gurukula.  I wanted ﬁrst to ask from you how do you feel about it.  Of course if you ask, I shall tell you that I do not see why you should go. But you must tell me frankly your own feeling.


The Mother: Love and blessings to my dear child.   ( )  I am quite pleased with your answer although it is not a surprise to me. I knew what was in your heart, but I wanted to have it in writing from you to be able to say categorically to Abhaya.


The Mother: You can be quite sure that I will not send you away from here.   Love and blessings to my dear child.   Yes, it is quite good.  I have absolutely no objection to it and wonder who could have told you that I had any!


The Mother: You can have the medicine prepared there if you like but we cannot take money as payment. All money that comes here must be an offering.  My love and blessings.    ( )


The Mother: Nobody has complained to me of your cart service and you can be sure that if I had something to tell you regarding your work I would  But you must not get worried about the mistakes and weaknesses of others; the only thing necessary is what people say to you, especially if they speak in my name.  My love and blessings.  These are vital perturbations which show themselves in the course of the sadhana and have to be eliminated. They must not be regarded as natural movements justiﬁed by the wrong action of others and bound to continue so long as there is the external causes.


The Mother: The real cause is internal and it can only be got rid of by yogic discipline, vigilance, self-detachment from the vital movement and a quiet but strict rejection.  My love and blessings.   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.  I am quite satisﬁed with your way of doing the work and


The Mother: it is sure to help you to come nearer to me.  My love and blessings.   ( )  For the sake of sadhana and for the sake of work, it is always better to.