Preparing the Children for the Future Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have put before man a new vision of the future. "A new centre of thought implies a new centre of education." A school was started to prepare the children from an early age for the new world. The Mother saw to all the developments, took a keen interest in the details of the organisation, and in the beginning, she herself taught the children of different age groups. Page-156 Nothing but a radical change of consciousness can deliver the world from its present obscurity. Indeed, this transformation of the consciousness, this manifestation of a higher and

Making the Body a Perfect Instrument "The perfection of the body, as great a perfection as we can bring about by the means at our disposal must be the ultimate aim of physical culture, " wrote Sri Aurobindo. "A total perfection is the ultimate aim which we set before us, for our ideal is the Divine Life. " "That cannot be unless the body too undergoes a transformation. " The following pages document the Mother's action in the domain of physical education — her participation in sports, her organising of the various activities and her Constant encouragement. Page-235 It is the Mother who is doing all... the wor

The Cradle of a New World A small group now formed around Sri Aurobindo and the Mother; it was the beginning of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram — the "cradle of a new world", as the Mother called it. Page-90 The Ashram was born a few years after my return from Japan, in 1926. * This Ashram has been created with another object than that ordinarily common to such institutions, not for the renunciation of the world but as a centre and a field of practice for the evolution of another kind and form of life which would in the final end be moved by a higher spiritual consciousness and embody a greater life of the

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References The passages have been selected from the following books and magazines: Title Collected Works of the Mother — Centenary Edition Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library Sweet Mother — Harmonies of Light At the Feet of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, Sahana Flowers and Their Messages, Auropress Edition, 1973 Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research A Glimpse of the Mother's Love and Action Mother India The Mother — Paintings and Drawings Mantras of the Mother All India Magazine Darshan Messages Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education The references for the C

The Mother Her Miraculous Touch The Mother Her Miraculous Touch Volume One SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PONDICHERRY First edition 2010 Rs 1250 (set of two volumes) ISBN 978-81-7058-970-9 © Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 2010 Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department Pondicherry 605 002 Web http://www.sabda.in Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry PRINTED IN INDIA She who is the Infinite, the Timeless, the One, - how can one speak of Her? We can only catch fleeting glimp

Manifold Experiences The Mother went to Japan in 1916. She sojourned there for about four years. But the contact with Sri Aurobindo remained. She would also write to him about her experiences. About one of them he said that it was "Vedic in the real sense". About the Mother's Prayers Sri Aurobindo says: "The Prayers are mostly written in an identification with the earth consciousness. It is the Mother in the lower nature addressing the Mother in the higher nature, the Mother herself carrying on the Sadhana of the earth consciousness for the transformation..." Page-58 March 4, 1915 .. .something in the depths of co

Working for the Earth-Consciousness The Mother returned to Pondicherry in 1920, on the 24th of April. Sri Aurobindo has said, "Sadhana and the work were waiting for the Mother's coming". Page-78 .Sadhana and the work were waiting for the Mother's coming. Sri Aurobindo * Sri Aurobindo's work is a unique earth-transformation. My work is... to bring down a higher spiritual light and power of a higher character which will make a radical change in the earth-consciousness. Sri Aurobindo * .. .anyone who wants to change earth-nature must first ac

The Mother Divine In 1926, Sri Aurobindo gave the Mother the full charge of the Ashram. She looked after the material needs of the aspirants, assigned to them their work, helped them in their daily activities and guided them in their spiritual progress. Page-102 The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence.... The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates. Sri Aurobindo * Nothing can be here or elsewhere but what she decides and the Supreme sanctions; nothing can take shape except what she moved by the Supreme perceives

Exploring Hidden Domains Part of the Mother's work consisted in the exploration and mastering of the hidden domains of consciousness. There are very few people who know that there exists in the universe an infinite number of gradations and that each one of these gradations has its own reality, its own life, its own law, its own determinism.... * An integral knowledge demands an exploration, an unveiling of all the possible domains of consciousness and experience. For there are subjective domains of our being which lie behind the obvious surface; these have to be fathomed and whatever is ascertained must be admi