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

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

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

* THE MOTHER - 1970

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

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

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

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

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:

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