Part One

ARTICLES

In these articles I am trying to put into ordinary terms the

whole yogic terminology, for these Bulletins are meant

more for people who lead an ordinary life, though also for

students of yoga – I mean people who are primarily inter-

ested in a purely physical material life but who try to

attain more perfection in their physical life than is usual in

ordinary conditions. It is a very difficult task but it is a

kind of yoga. These people call themselves “materialists”

and they are apt to get agitated or irritated if yogic terms

are used, so one must speak their language avoiding terms

likely to shock them. But I have known in my life persons

who called themselves “materialists” and yet followed a

much severer discipline than those who claim to do yoga.

What we want is that humanity should progress; whe-

ther it professes to lead a yogic life or not matters little,

provided it makes the necessary effort for progress¹.  

The Mother

*

25 December 1950

¹Questions and Answers 1950-51, Cent. Vol. 4, p. 7.

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