THE MOTHER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS             SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PONDICHERRY 1957   Reprinted from the Bulletin of Physical Education April, 1957             SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PRESS, PONDICHERRY Questions and Answers THE reality of the universe is what one calls God and God is essentially delight. The universe was created in delight and for delight; but this delight can exist only in the perfect unity of the creation with its creator.      This unity Sri Aurobindo describes1 as a kind of mutual possession. The Possessor, that is to s

THE MOTHER Questions and Answer,             Sri Aurobindo Ashram  Pondicherry August 1962     Reprinted from The Bulletin S. A. I. C. of Education August 1962           Questions and Answers I "The absolute of each being is his unique relation with the Divine and his own mode of expressing the Divine in the manifestation". — The Mother. IT is what one calls here in India, the truth of the being or the law of the being, the Dharma of the being, that which is the centre and the cause of the individuality.      Everyone carries his truth

THE MOTHER Questions and Answers             Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry November, 1962 Questions and Answers I It is said: "To become conscious of Divine Love, all other love has to be abandoned'". What is the way of rejecting the other love that is so obstinate and never leaves us easily ?       Go through; see what is behind; do not stop at the appearance; do not be satisfied with the outside form, look for the principle that is behind this love; do not be satisfied until you have found the origin of the feeling in itself. Then the external form will fall away by itsel

THE MOTHER   Questions and Answers             Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry  August, i960 Questions and Answers I You said, "The Supramental has come down on earth". What does it mean exactly ? You said also, "The things promised are fulfilled". What are these promised things ?      That truly is ignorance ! It has been promised long ago, it has been said long long ago—not only here, since the beginning of the earth ! All kinds of predictions have been made, by all kinds of prophets, in all traditions. It has been said, for example, "There will be a new heaven and a new

THE MOTHER Questions and Answers             Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry November, 1961 Questions and Answers In continuation of what The Mother said in answer to the following question which appeared in Bulletin August 1961 What are the -very first things that the supramental Force is going to dislodge or trying to dislodge, so that everything may be in its place,1 individually and cosmically ? DISLODGE ? Will it "dislodge" anything ? If we accept the idea of Sri Aurobindo, it will put every

       THE MOTHER Questions and Answers             3rd February, 1958 SOMETIME ago I had the experience of identification with ^ the animal life. It is a fact that animals do not understand us : their consciousness is so made that we escape them almost entirely. Yet I knew of some familiar animals, cats and dogs, cats particularly, that used tq make a conscious, almost yogic effort to join with us. But generally, when they look at us as we live and act they do not understand us, they do not see us as we are; we are for them a constant puzzle. Only a very small part of their consciousness has a link with us. And i

THE MOTHER Questions and Answers           Ski Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry February, 1961   Questions and Answers I Radha — Krishna "For there is concealed behind individual love, obscured by its ignorant human figure, a mystery which the mind cannot seize, the mystery of the body of the Divine, the secret of a mystic form of the Infinite which we can approach only through the ecstasy of the heart and the passion of the pure and sublimated sense, and its attraction which is the call of the the divine Flute-player, the mastering compulsion of the All-Beautiful

    THE MOTHER Questions and Answers         SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PONDICHERY 1956   Reimprime du Bulletin d'Education Physique Novembre, 1956                                   IMPRIMERIE DE SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PONDICHERY

  THE MOTHER   Questions and Answers             Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry November, 1960       Reprinted from The Bulletin of S. A. I. C. of Education November, 1960 Sri Aurobindo  Ashram Press. Pondicherry         Questions and Answers I Why can't we pass from the rational mind directly to the Supramental, now that the Supramental has descended ? Who has said that it cannot be done ? Sri Aurobindo gives here a description of what one should do to be able to come in contact with the Supramental and prepare the ground for

THE MOTHER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS               SRI AUROBINDO: ASHRAM PONDICHERRY 1957 Questions and Answers The birth of Sri Aurobindo is an eternal birth. I HAVE received a question today about a phrase I used on the 14th of August, the eve of Sri Aurobindo's birthday. The question seemed to me interesting, because it was concerning one of those phrases, somewhat cryptic, almost ambiguous on account of over simplification, but meant to be so in order that everyone may understand it according to the plane of consciousness where he is. I have told you many times that it is possible to understand t