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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Some Answers from The Mother_Volume-16/Series Twelve.htm
SERIES
TWELVE
Series Twelve
To a student
in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre
of
Education who began writing to the Mother at the
age of
sixteen.
Sweet Mother,
I used to
have the habit of reading Savitri or one of
Your books
before going to bed at night. But now I have
lost
the habit and I do not even go to the Samadhi very
regularly.
I do not understand the true value of these
things.
Should one do them regularly or only when one
feels
like doing them? Why should one do these things
and how
should one do them?
One reads
Savitri to develop one's intelligence and to understand deeper things.
One concentrates at th
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SERIES THREE
Series Three
Letters to “My
little smile”
To “My little
smile”, one of the first children admitted
to the Sri Aurobindo
Ashram; she came at the age of
fourteen. Little
smile worked for many years embroi-
dering clothes for
the Mother and later became one of
her personal
attendants. She began writing to the
Mother at
the age of seventeen.
My dear little
smile,
You must not lose
patience or courage; everything will turn out all right.
The condition you
were in while embroidering the “Silence” flower,¹
cannot return as it was before, for in this world things never repeat themselves
in exactly the same
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SERIES FIVE
Series Five
To one of the
first children admitted to the Sri Aurobindo
Ashram; he came at the age of ten.
Interested as a youth
in music, painting and poetry, he later became a teacher
of music in the Sri Aurobindo
International Centre of
Education. He
began writing to the Mother at the age of
twelve.
Always do with
pleasure the work you have to do.
Work done with
joy is work done well.
14 March 1932
*
When you have a
desire you are governed by the thing you desire; it takes possession of your
mind and your life, and you become a slave. If you have greed for food you are
no longer the master
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THE MOTHER - 1970
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SERIES EIGHT
Series Eight
To a young captain in the
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Department of Physical Education.
Sweet Mother,
What is the difference
between the psychic change
and the spiritual
change?
The psychic change is the change that puts you
in contact with the immanent Divine, the Divine who is at the centre of each
being and of whom the psychic being is the sheath and the expression. By the
psychic change one passes from the individual Divine to the universal Divine
and finally to the Transcendent.
The spiritual change puts
you directly in contact with the Supreme.
9
September 1959
*
Sweet Mother,
How can one
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SERIES
FOUR
Series Four
Letters to a
Sadhak
To the sadhak in
charge of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram's
cows, bullocks and carts during the 1930s.¹
Special new ropes
for the bullocks have been prepared
by the
milkman. When the bullocks are working, it may
be safer to
use those ropes. As soon as the work is over,
the ropes
will be removed. Those ropes are not tight;
they are
loose, so it is no hardship to the bullocks.
Pray sanction
them.
I thought they
have strongly refused to have the ropes put upon them. The ropes may not be
tight, but most probably they will spoil the nose of the bullocks. There again
it see
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SERIES SIX
Series Six
To a young
sadhak who later became a teacher in the
Sri Aurobindo International Centre
of Education.¹I
I hope and
believe Your work does not depend upon
human
beings.
No, it does
not depend at all upon human beings. What has to be done will be done
despite all possible resistances.
Is there no
means of uniting my will with Yours?
Perhaps You
have no special will, for You want no-
thing.
I know
perfectly well what I want or rather what the divine Will is, and it is that
which will triumph in time.
What we want
to bri
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Some Answers from the Mother
THE MOTHER - 1970
SERIES ONE
Series One
Letters from the
Mother to Her Son
Our community is
growing more and more; we are nearly thirty (not counting those who are
scattered all over India); and I have become responsible for all this; I am at
the centre of the organisation, on the material as well as the spiritual side,
and you can easily imagine what it means. We already occupy five houses, one of
which is our property; others will follow. New recruits are coming from all
parts of the world. With this expansion, new activities are being created, new
needs are arising which require new skills.
16 Janu
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SERIES SEVEN
Series Seven
To the sadhak who was the dentist at the Sri Aurobindo
Ashram
during the 1930s and then served from 1938 to
1950 as one of Sri Aurobindo's
personal attendants.¹
To talk of surrender is
easy, very easy indeed. To think
of surrender in all its
complexity is not so easy, it is
not so easy at all. But
to achieve even the beginning of
a genuine surrender
of self -- oh, how difficult it is,
Mother!
There are
many things wrong with me, I know. But
there
must be something fundamentally wrong. What
is it,
Mother?
Nothing
special to you. It is the same difficulty that exists for all human beings:
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SERIES TWO
Series Two
To the sadhak in
charge of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Building
Department during the 1930s and early 1940s.
Sin belongs to the
world and not to yoga.
By his way of
thinking, feeling, acting, each one emanates vibrations which constitute his own
atmosphere and quite naturally attract vibrations of similar nature and quality.
So long as you are
capable of beating somebody, you open the door to the possibility of being
beaten yourself.
You are expecting
those who are working with you to be geniuses. It is not quite fair.
I have seen your
chit for washing soap. You got the last one on the 22nd