Part III
BIRTHDAY MESSAGES
BIRTHDAY REPORTS
Once I had a- long talk with Mother and what she told me was very interesting. I was deeply moved. The next day I asked Mother if she would write for me what she had said. She wrote out:
Champaklal,
1. Be always faithful to the Divine in your heart. - 2. Let nothing interfere with the absoluteness of your consecration or stop your progress which has been up to now quite satisfactory.
3. Take the present circumstances and the coming back of... as a test and face it victoriously.
4. Be vigilant.
12.2.1932
THE MOTHER
As you see she gave me four directions. I decided to carry them out in earnest. And each year I would ask Mother about my progress on these four counts. In other words, whether I had passed or failed this examination. Here is an account of the results declared by Sri Aurobindo and Mother, year by year.
11.2.1933
Mother,
Last year I received the examination paper from you. Four things were given. Mother, how many marks do I get? Passed or failed?
1. Passed well.
2. Progressing steadily.
3. Not bad.
4. Satisfactory.
THE MOTHER
February 1934
The progress has been good in all four.
THE MOTHER
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19.3.1935
I pray for Mother's answers for all the four separately.
It can be generally said for all four that there is progress.
SRI AUROBINDO
20.3.1935
Isn't it the meaning of your answer yesterday that in comparison with last year there has been no progress this year? Is it true that you are not satisfied with my progress?
No, I did not mean that. I meant what I said that there had been progress in all the four points.
SRI AUROBINDO
Last year I received from Mother "good progress" and this year only "progress". Is there no difference between the two?
You are going on all right; do not worry about it.
THE MOTHER
1.2.1936
I pray for Gracious Mother's answer for all the four separately this year also.
There has been a good general progress this year and you have become much more conscious.
SRI AUROBINDO
With love and special blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1937
I pray for Mother's answer for all the four separately this year also.
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1. This is progressing very well.
'2. Here you have done well.
3. There is improvement here.
4. Here also.
SRI AUROBINDO
2.2.1938
1. Quite successful.
2. The progress continues to be satisfactory.
3. Quite all right.
4. There is improvement, but more is needed.
Love and blessings to our dear child.
THE MOTHER
2.2.1940¹
1. Satisfactory.
2. Satisfactory.
3. Satisfactory.
4. Be always vigilant.
SRI AUROBINDO
THE MOTHER
1. The report of 1939 is missing from the papers. [M. P. Pandit's note]
2.2.1941
We think that answers on these points are no longer needed. You have only to go forward straight on the path.
With our love and blessings
THE MOTHER
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BIRTHDAY MESSAGES
2.2.1930
Red lotus — Symbol of the manifestation of the Supreme upon earth. .White lotus — Symbol of the Divine Consciousness.
THE MOTHER
2.2.1930
To Champaklal,
Let this year be a year of progress and transformation - one more step on the way leading to the Divine Realisation.
THE MOTHER
Le 2Février 1933
à Champaklal pour sa fête,
Et les choses qui paraissaient les plus difficiles, les plus improbables, et peut-ètre mème les plus impossibles, deviennent réalisables intégralement, puisque Ta Présence nous assure que le monde matériel lui-mème est préparé pour manifester la forme nouvelle de Ta Volonté et de Ta Loi.
avec mes benedictions.
LA MERE
2.2.1933
To Champaklal for his birthday.
The things which seemed most difficult, most improbable, perhaps, even most impossible, become wholly realisable, because Thy Presence is our assurance that the material world itself is prepared to manifest the new form of Thy Will and Thy Law.
With my Blessings
THE MOTHER
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2.2.1940*
Tranquillise and widen your consciousness; go deeper into your soul.
SRI AUROBINDO
This year make an effort to achieve equanimity.
THE MOTHER
* Facsimiles of these messages, from 1940 onwards, have been published in Aspiring Swan, compiled and edited by Roshan and Apurva, 1992.
2.2.1941
A clarified consciousness with strength to reject all inconscience and receive all that comes from the Light, this should be the aim before you.
SRI AUROBINDO
This year you must wholly overcome and throw out the hostile suggestion that has been harassing you, rejecting it in such a way that it will never come back again. Your home, your place and your fulfilment are here.
THE MOTHER
2.2.1942
Aspire always to grow more and more conscious so that all the small obstacles shall disappear from the physical consciousness and the obscurer parts of the vital nature.
SRI AUROBINDO
In front of the repeated attacks from the enemy you must keep your faith intact and endure till the Victory is won.
THE MOTHER
2.2.1943
Keep yourself ready by faith and self-opening to receive the Light when it comes.
SRI AUROBINDO
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Let this year be for you the year of a complete opening and of the breaking of all limitations.
THE MOTHER
2.2.1944
Let the mind be quiet and receive the Light; let the vital be quiet and receive the Force that delivers.
SRI AUROBINDO
Let this year bring to you the true faith — a faith that no darkness can obscure.
THE MOTHER
2.2.1945
Let the year that is beginning mark a definitive stage in the growth of your psychic being and its power over your nature and your life.
SRI AUROBINDO
I am glad to be able to say that your openness and your receptivity have increased during last year. Do not stop now and let them become perfect in the year to come.
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1946
Continue to open yourself and the psychic consciousness will grow in you and the Light refine and illumine whatever is left of the shadows in the mind and vital being.
SRI AUROBINDO
My dear child, now I can call you in truth my dear child as I feel you quite close to me having taken shelter in my arms for good - and you are welcome there with all my love.
THE MOTHER
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2.2.1947
An increasing advance on the road to the entire psychic change is what is most important in the sadhana, for that is the straight road to the spiritual transformation. Devotion, harmony and scrupulousness in work, a growing inner perception and conscious- ness, more and more fading of the more vehement movements of the vital ego are among the more prominent landmarks on the road.
SRI AUROBINDO
My dear child, that which I had foreseen last year has proved to be quite true and this relation of the Mother and the child has much grown in reality, intensity and deepness.
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1948
Matter, blind to the Light, deaf to the call, the material consciousness and material life are the last and most obstinate refuge of the Inconscient and its resistance. There, the nearer the light the higher it raises its wall of resistance. When that is overcome, the decisive transformation can have an open way.
SRI AUROBINDO
My dear child,
Let your receptivity increase this year, to the extent of giving you the power to fully utilise the force that is at work for restoring perfect good health in you.
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1949
Sri Aurobindo's love and blessings on the occasion of your birthday,
THE MOTHER
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My dear child, now it is time for the faith to become truly active and to stand unshaken against all contradictions. Have the faith, the true faith, that you are cured and the cure is bound to come.
My love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1950 and 1951
To my most faithful child, the keeper of the true remembrance I give today the assurance of my full confidence. I did not write in this book in 1950 because it was to be the most important year of your life, the year that has put a seal to what you were and opened in front of you the door leading to what you will be: a true and complete child of our Lord whose presence here is more total than it has ever been.
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1952
Patience
Perseverance
Endurance
Faith and an
Unshakable courage ...
... We are approaching the goal.
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1953
A steady progress and a clear understanding of what you must be. These are the gains of the finished year. Now there is only to continue. With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
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2.2.1954
In 1940 Sri Aurobindo wrote to you: "Tranquillise and widen your consciousness" and I insisted on achieving equanimity. Many , things have happened since then, much progress has been done and yet these things remain still to be fully realised. Let these be accomplished during this year that begins for you. A silent equanimity both inside and outside will be a great achievement for
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1955
This time it is a year of true progress which has brought you nearer to the goal and much closer to me. With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1956
'My dear child,
I can repeat what I said last year - but this time the progress is much bigger and the closeness to me much more true and intimate. You have advanced on the path at a great speed - and I can only tell you, continue.
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1957
Bonne fête!
To my dear child.
You have continued, and this time the progress is much more concrete and complete. I have the strong feeling that I can rely upon you and this is very comfortable.
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Let this progress spread to the body now and give you good health steadily.
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1958
To my dear child —
One more year;
one more step towards perfect service in a total surrender.
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1959
My dear child.
This year, the Grace has arranged circumstances in such a way that you are closer to me than you have ever been — and all through you have proved most reliable and effective, always ready, always there when you are needed, always doing what needs to be done. I am happy to tell you that on your birthday.
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1960
Champaklal, my dear child.
I am glad to be able to say that you are progressing steadily. As you yourself remarked, your consciousness is growing and with one more effort you will soon emerge in the light and become wise.
This one more effort is the control of speech... let it be the boon from the Grace for this year!
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
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2.2.1961
Champaklal,
My dear child,
Bonne Fete!
Few words are needed.
All is going on well.
Steadily we are advancing towards the goal, and you are keeping pace with me.
My love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1962
Champaklal,
My dear child,
All is well. You are progressing rapidly - there is only to continue steadily and the way will open before you more and more dear.
My love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1963
Bonne Fête!
Champaklal, my dear child
The way is wide open and it is an artistic one, a fine way of expressing your soul, which will become more and more clear and powerful with the inner growth and flowering of your heart as a sincere expression of your eternal Soul.
With love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1964
Champaklal, my dear child
A big step has been taken, a great change has taken place, the
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presence of your Soul is clearly felt not only in what you do — which is steadily progressing —, but in what you are.
This is a decisive year for you, heralding the realisation.
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1965
Champaklal
This year, I feel clearly that you have become a part of' myself. For ever love
THE MOTHER
2.2.1966
Bonne Fête! Bonne Année! Bon Progrés!
Champaklal,
Let this year see the advent of the true joy of working in the Divine's Consciousness.
With love
THE MOTHER
2.2.1967
Bonne Fête!
To Champaklal
with love and Blessings
The illness has come like a test and gone like a purification carrying away all that was standing in the way of the joy of an integral consecration.
THE MOTHER
2.2.1968
Bonne Fête
To Champaklal
with love and blessings
THE MOTHER
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Champaklal,
I am happy to say that you are my true child and becoming more and more so.
THE MOTHER
(The Mother told me: "I come to you. You will read it carefully. It is concrete, my experience." She repeated it. — Champaklal)
2.2.1969
Bonne Fête!
Champaklal,
Let the full Light be with you in a silent adoration.
With my love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1969
Bonne Fete!
To Champaklal the faithful
With love and blessings for
a happy, healthy and useful year
in light, joy and love.
THE MOTHER
A new decade from 70 to 80
2.2.1970
To Champaklal,
En avant!
Toujours
en avant! ¹
With love and blessings
THE MOTHER
.¹ Forward! Always Forward!
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BIRTHDAY CARDS
2.2.1956
Bonne Fête
to Champaklal
2.2.1957
To Champaklal
with love and blessings
2.2.1959
A Champaklal
Bonne Fête!
2.2.1960
To Champaklal
with blessings
2.2.1961
To Champaklal
Bonne Fête!
With love and blessings
2.2.1963
[Beneath the reproduction of a painting of a white lotus with the Mother's feet in its centre and flames all around it.]
To Champaklal
Let it be the true image of your heart centre.
THE MOTHER
(Mother said: "Champaklal, get it framed and keep it carefully."
- Champaklal.)
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2.2.1964
Bonne Fête!
To Champaklal
the great doer of cards
this card to tell him my appreciation of all what he has done and my expectation for still better things to come.
In a growing closeness
with love and blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1964
To Champaklal,
Always with you
for ever
in eternal Love.
THE MOTHER
2.2.1964
Bonne Fête!
To Champaklal,
Forward! always forward!
Higher! always higher!
Truer! always truer!
Blessings
THE MOTHER
[Beneath a symbolic painting done by Tehmi¹ and offered to the Mother. The Mother gave it to Champaklal on 2.2.1964]
The goal is eternal and infinite...
THE MOTHER
¹ Tehmi (b. 17.1.1917), an ardent devotee and dedicated teacher in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education since 1950.
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2.2.1964
To Champaklal,
specially prepared for his birthday by Gautam
With love,
THE MOTHER
2.2.1965
Champaklal
Master of the "cards",
how to prepare a card for you?
Here is only some material for a card.
With full appreciation of you, your work and your devotion
and with blessings and love
THE MOTHER
2.2.1966
To Champaklal
with love and blessings for a strong,
healthy, luminous and happy year,
THE MOTHER
2.2.1966
Champaklal
Bon Progrés!
THE MOTHER
2.2.1966
Champaklal
Bonne Fête!
THE MOTHER
1966
Champaklal
Bonne Année!
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2.2.1966
(Card with a picture of a lion which the Mother gives saying, friend".)
2.2.1967
Bonne Fête!
Bonne Année!
Bonne Santé!¹
Champaklal
Your being is like this aspiring swan surrounded by the Divine's Love.
Let it be with Peace and Joy
in my love and
blessings
THE MOTHER
¹¹. Happy Birthday! Happy New Year! Good Health!
2.2.1968
Bonne Fête!
To Champaklal
With love and blessings for a wonderful year
THE MOTHER
2.2.1969
Bonne Fête
To Champaklal the Faithful
with love and blessings for a happy, healthy and useful year
in light, joy and love
THE MOTHER
2.2.1970
With love and blessings
THE MOTHER
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2.2.1970
Bonne Fête à Champaklal!
From Mother
to
Champaklal
Love
Peace
Strength
Silence
Consciousness
THE MOTHER
2.2.1970
Bonne Fête!
Champaklal!
2.2.1971
From Sri Aurobindo
to Champaklal
Bonne Fête!
Blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1971
To Champaklal
1st Prize of
Faithfulness
With my full love
bonne fête
THE MOTHER
2.2.1972
Bonne Fête
à
Champaklal
with love and blessings
THE MOTHER
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Mother said a few days before my birthday: "Champaklal, what do you want? You bring a beautiful card." And when it was taken to her, she was very happy and began to feel it with her hand again and again. The following quotation had been pasted below Sri Aurobindo's photograph:
"I do not want tens of thousands of disciples. It will be enough if I can get a hundred complete men, purified of petty egoism, who will be the instruments of God."
- Sri Aurobindo
The Mother wrote on this Card:
2.2.1972
Bonne Fête
To Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's Champak
One of the hundred
with my love, appreciation, trust and blessings for ever.
En route vers la Réalisation*
THE MOTHER
* On the way to Realisation
2.2.1972
Bonne Fête
to
Champaklal
with my love
2.2.1972
To Champaklal
for his birthday,
from Saroja and Kumuda,
with Blessings
THE MOTHER
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2.2.1973
Bonne Fête
To Champaklal
with all my love and confidence
and my blessings to reach the goal.
Let us all be eternally grateful to Him who has shown us and shows us constantly the way.
THE MOTHER
2.2.1973 {in black ink)
Bonne (green ink) Fête! {mauve ink)
Champaklal (brownish ink)
The Mother (red ink)
2.2.1973
Bonne Fête
à mon Champaklal
Blessings
THE MOTHER
2.2.1973
Bonne Fête
à Champaklal
Champaklal
with love
plenty of love
THE MOTHER
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