THE MOTHER'S PRESENCE THE CONSTANT PRESENCE Live always as if you were under the very eye of the Supreme and of the Divine Mother. Do nothing, try to think and feel nothing that would be unworthy of the Divine Presence. THE MOTHER'S PERSONAL AND UNIVERSAL PRESENCE Q: You have written: "Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you; because she is, indeed, always present". You explained to me that this does not mean that she was physically present everywhere because that was impossible. But when I asked the Mother about this, she said that she was personally present at all places. How to reconcile these contradictory

THE MOTHER AND THE WORKING OF THE ASHRAM THE MOTHER'S SADHANA IN THE SADHAKS Naturally, the Mother does the Sadhana in each Sadhak — only it is conditioned by their zeal and their receptivity. 4-1-1935 * The Mother has her own experience in bringing down the things that have to be brought down — but what the Sadhaks experience she had long ago. The Divine does the Sadhana first for the world and then in others. 12-9-1934 * I have said that the Divine does the Sadhana first for the world and then gives what is brought down to others. There can be no Sadhana without realisations and experiences. The Prayers (Prayers and

-15_Mother's Help in Difficulties.htm MOTHER'S HELP IN DIFFICULTIES ASSURANCE OF VICTORY Be sure that the Mother will always be with you to carry you upon the path. Difficulties come and difficulties go, but, she being with you, the victory is sure. 18-7-1936 * The path you have now taken — to cleave to the Mother through all circumstances and let nothing shake you from that will bring the true solution of difficulties for you. For it seems the psychic being has started its work in you. 24-12-1935 * Remain firm and turned in the one direction — towards the Mother. THE DESCENT AND THE DIFFICULTIES Q: Is it true that the

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE MOTHER, Volume 25 of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, consists of three parts. Part I, The Mother. THE MOTHER was first published in 1928. The main part of this book describing the four Shaktis etc. and the opening portion were written in 1927. The rest was originally written as letters. Since its first publication the book has gone into thirteen editions up to 1971. Part II, Letters on the Mother. LETTERS OF SRI AUROBINDO ON THE MOTHER was first published in 1951. The letters included in this book were arranged under ten sections. These letters with additional material rearranged under eleven sections formed Part III of S

PART ONE THE MOTHER THE MOTHER

PART TWO LETTERS ON THE MOTHER THE MOTHER AND THE PURPOSE OF HER EMBODIMENT WHO IS THE MOTHER ? Q: Do you not refer to the Mother (our Mother) in your book, "The Mother" ? A: Yes. Q: Is she not the "Individual" Divine Mother who has embodied "the power of these two vaster ways of her existence" (Part One, p. 20.) ― Transcendent and Universal ? A: Yes. Q: Has she not descended here (amongst us) into the Darkness and Falsehood and Error and Death in her deep and great love for us ? A: Yes. 17-8-1938

SADHANA THROUGH WORK FOR THE MOTHER WORK FOR THE MOTHER AND SADHANA Work for the Mother done with the right concentration on her is as much a Sadhana as meditation and inner experiences. * Those who do work for the Mother in all sincerity are prepared by the work itself for the right consciousness even if they do not sit down for meditation or follow any particular practice of Yoga. It is not necessary to tell you how to meditate; whatever is needful will come of itself, if in your work and at all times you are sincere and keep yourself open to the Mother. NECESSITY OF WORK IN INTEGRAL YOGA To go entirely insid