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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/Prayers and Meditations 1971/1915.htm
February 15, 1915
0 LORD of Truth, thrice have I implored Thy
manifestation invoking Thee with deep fervour.
Then, as always, the whole being made its total submission. At that moment the consciousness perceived
the individual being mental, vital and physical,
covered all over with dust, and this being lay prostrate before Thee, its forehead touching the earth,
dust in the dust, and it cried to Thee, "0 Lord,
this being made of dust prostrates itself before Thee
praying to be consumed with the fire of the Truth
that it may henceforth manifest only Thee." Then
Thou saidst to it, "Arise, thou art pure of all that
is dust." And suddenly, in a stroke, all the dust
sank from it li
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/Prayers and Meditations 1971/1918 to 37.htm
July 12, 1918
SUDDENLY, before Thee, all my pride fell. I understood how futile it was in Thy Presence to wish to
surmount oneself, and I wept, wept abundantly and
without constraint the sweetest tears of my life.
Tears sweet and beneficent, tears that opened my
heart without constraint before Thee and melted in
one miraculous moment all the remaining obstacles
that could separate me from Thee!
And now, although I weep no longer, I feel so
near, so near to Thee that my whole being quivers
with joy.
Let me stammer out my homage:
I have cried too with the joy of a child, "0 supreme and only Confidant, Thou who knowest
beforehand all we can say to Thee
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/Prayers and Meditations 1971/1914.htm
January 24, 1914
O THOU who art the sole reality of our being, 0
sublime Master of love. Redeemer of life, let me
have no longer any other consciousness than of
Thee at every instant and in each being. When I
do not live solely with Thy life, I agonise, I sink
slowly towards extinction; for Thou art my only
reason for existence, my one goal, my single support. I am like a timid bird not yet sure of its
wings and hesitating to take its flight; let me soar
to reach definitive identity with Thee.
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February 1, 1914
I TURN towards Thee who art everywhere and
within all and outside all, intimate essence of all
and remote from all, centre of condensation fo
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/Prayers and Meditations 1971/1912.htm
November 2, 1912
ALTHOUGH my whole being is in theory consecrated to Thee, 0 Sublime Master, who art the
life, the light and the love in all things, I still find
it hard to carry out this consecration in detail. It has
taken me several weeks to learn that the reason
for this written meditation, its justification, lies in
the very fact of addressing it daily to Thee. In this
way I shall put into material shape each day a little
of the conversation I have so often with Thee; I
shall make my confession to Thee as well as it may
be; not because I think I can tell Thee anything—
for Thou art Thyself everything, but our artificial
and exterior way of seeing and understanding is,
if it may be
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/Prayers and Meditations 1971/precontent.htm
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
This collection of the Mother's Prayers and
Meditations (Prières et Méditations) is not
complete. It contains only a few of them —
those that were translated by Sri Aurobindo
from the original French.
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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/Prayers and Meditations 1971/1917.htm
March 30, 1917
THERE is a sovereign royalty in taking no thought
for oneself. To have needs is to assert a weakness; to claim something proves that we lack what we
claim. To desire is to be impotent; it is to recognise
our limitations and confess our incapacity to over-
come them. If only from the point of view of a
legitimate pride, man should be noble enough to
renounce desire. How humiliating to ask something
for oneself from life or from the Supreme Conscious-
ness which animates it! How humiliating for us, how
ignorant an offence against Her! For all is within
our reach, only the egoistic limits of our being pre-.
vent us from enjoying the whole universe as completely and concre
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/Prayers and Meditations 1971/1916.htm
December 26, 1916
ALWAYS the word Thou makest me hear in the
silence is sweet and encouraging, 0 Lord. But I
see not in what this instrument is worthy of the
grace Thou accordest to it or how it will have the
capacity to realise what Thou attendest from it. All
in it appears so small, weak and ordinary, so lacking in intensity and force and
amplitude in comparison with what it should be to undertake this
overwhelming role. But I know that what the mind
thinks is of little importance. The mind itself knows
it and, passive, it awaits the working out of Thy
decree.
Thou biddest me strive without cease, and I could
wish to have the indomitable ardour that prevails
over every dif
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/Prayers and Meditations 1971/1913.htm
February 5, 1913
THY voice is heard as a melodious chant in the
stillness of my heart, and is translated in my head
by words which are inadequate and yet replete
with Thee. And these words are addressed to the
Earth and say to her:— "Poor sorrowful Earth, remember that I am present in you and lose not
hope; each effort, each grief, each joy and each
pang, each call of thy heart, each aspiration of
thy soul, each renewal of thy seasons, all, all with-
out exception, what seems to thee sorrowful and
what seems to thee joyous, what seems to thee ugly
and what seems to thee beautiful, all infallibly lead
thee towards me, who am endless Peace, shadowless Light, perfect Harmony,
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