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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/The Mother_Volume-25/Aspects and Powers of The Mother.htm
ASPECTS AND POWERS OF THE MOTHER
EXPLANATION OF SOME TERMS IN "THE
MOTHER"
1. FALSEHOOD AND IGNORANCE
Ignorance means Avidya, the separative consciousness and the
egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the
separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life. This Ignorance is the
result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the
light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth, ― truth of being,
truth of divine consciousness, truth of force and action, truth of Ananda.As a result, instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the
light of the d
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LIGHTS AND VISIONS OF THE MOTHER
THE MOTHER AND THE LIGHTS
All the lights are put out by the Mother from
herself.
DIFFERENT FORMS OF LIGHT
Light is a general term. Light is not knowledge but the
illumination that comes from above and liberates the being from obscurity and
darkness.
But this Light also assumes different forms such as the white
light of the Mother, the pale blue light of Sri Aurobindo, the golden light of
the Truth, the psychic light (pink and rose), etc.
13-10- 1934
THE MOTHER'S WHITE LIGHT
The lights are the Mother's Powers ― many in number. The white
light is her own characteristic power, that of the Divine
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SOME
EXPLANATIONS
SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE MOTHER'S SYMBOL
Q: I
have been frequently thinking of the Mother's symbol of "Chakra"
and its significance. I have understood it as follows: ,
Central circle —
Transcendental power.
Four inner petals
— Four powers working from the Supermind to Overmind.
Twelve outer petals
— Division of four into twelve powers from Overmind to Intuition and mind.
Do you think I have
understood the significance correctly ?
A:
Essentially (in general principle) the 12 powers are the vibrations
that are necessary for the complete manifestation. These are the 12 seen
from the beginning above the Mother's head. Thus there are real
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INTERPRETATIONS OF SOME "PRAYERS"
¹ AND CONVERSATIONS" ² OF
THE MOTHER
I.
"PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS"
Q:
In some of the Mother's Prayers
which are addressed to "divin Maître" I find the words: "avec notre
divine Mère". How can
the Mother and "divine Maître" have
a "divine Mère" ? It is as if the Mother was not the "divine
Mère'' and there was some other Mother and the "divin
Maître" was not the Transcendent and had
also a "divine Mère" ! Or is it that all these are addressed
to something impersonal ?
A: 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
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WORKING OF THE MOTHER'S FORCE
THE MOTHER'S FORCE
Nothing can be done except through the force of the Mother.
*
All has to be done by the working of the Mother's force aided by your aspiration, devotion
and surrender.
30-10-1934
WHAT IS THE MOTHER'S FORCE ?
Q: You often speak of the "Mother's Force". What is it ?
A: It is the Divine Force which works to remove the ignorance
and change the nature into the divine nature.
18-6-1933
THE FORCE OF PRAKRITI AND THE MOTHER'S FORCE
When I speak of the Mother's force I do not speak of the force of Prakriti which carries in it things of the Ignorance but
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OPENING AND SURRENDER TO THE MOTHER
THE CENTRAL SECRET OF SADHANA
By remaining psychically open to the Mother, all that is necessary for work
or Sadhana
develops progressively, that is one of the chief secrets, the central secret of the Sadhana.
13-2-
1933
*
But it is not by upadeśa that this Sadhana is given or carried on.
It is only those who are capable by
aspiration and meditation on the Mother to open and receive her action and working within
this
Yoga.
21-6- 1937
*
It is a mistake to exercise the mind about these things and try to arrange
them with the ordinary mind. It is by confidence in the Mother that t
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Part One
The
Mother
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There are two powers that alone can effect in
their conjunction the great and difficult thing which is the aim of our
endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme
Grace from above that answers.
But the supreme Grace will act only in the conditions of the Light and the
Truth; it will not act in conditions laid upon it by the Falsehood and the
Ignorance. For if it were to yield to the demands of the Falsehood, it
would defeat its own purpose.
These are the conditions of the Light and Truth, the sole conditions under which
the highest Force will descend; and it is only the very hi
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PART
THREE
PRAYERS AND
MEDITATIONS
This collection of the Mother's Prayers and
Meditations —
Priéres et Méditations
—
is not complete. It contains only those that were
translatedby Sri Aurobindo from , the original French.
November 2, 1912
Although
my whole being is in theory consecrated to Thee, O 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
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TRUE RELATION WITH THE MOTHER
SPECIAL RELATIONS WITH THE MOTHER
It is certainly true that the Divine has no preferences or
dislikes and is equal to all, but that does not prevent there being a special
relationship with each. This relation, however, does not depend on the more or
less identification or union. The purer soul has an easier access to the Divine. The more developed nature has more lines on which to meet Him. The
identification creates a spiritual oneness. But there are other personal
relations which are created by other causes. It is too complex for all relations
to be determined by one cause.
Yes, Yogis whose progress does not d