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QUOTES FROM THE MOTHER

It may be said that perfection is attained, though it remains progressive, when the receptivity from below is equal to the force from above which wants to manifest.

3.1.51

Collaboration and reciprocal goodwill are indispensable for good work.

11.8.54

The closer you come to the Divine the more you live under a shower of overwhelming evidences of His immeasurable Grace.

15.8.55 .

Before getting angry for the mistakes of others one should always remember one's own mistakes.

It is by combined and patient effort that. all good. work is done.

When you start a quarrel it is as if you were declaring war to the Divine's work.

For the work steadiness and regularity are as necessary as skill. Whatever you do, do it always carefully.

If mistakes were not to be effaced, then never the world could reach salvation.

There is no fire that can be compared with passion,

no misfortune equal to hatred,

no misery comparable with the agitation of the mind.

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He who follows the steep path that climbs the heights can easily slip down into the abyss.

Divine solicitude is supporting you in the disinterested work through which you will attain transformation.

Open to the New Light that has dawned upon Earth and your path will be illumined.

To be always happy, with an unclouded, unfluctuating happiness — of all things this is the most difficult to accomplish.

Our faith in the omnipotence of the Grace is never equal to what the Grace itself is.

July 1956

There is nothing which, in the last analysis, is not an instrument leading to the integral Victory of the Divine.

July 56

Be always ready to receive the Divine for He may come to you at any moment at all.

And because He has kept you waiting at the rendez-vous, that is not a reason for you to be late.

Sept. 56

In order to be able to conquer death and win immortality, one must neither fear death nor desire it.

To seek for pleasure is to ask for pain, for they are the obverse and reverse of the same thing.

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It is a mistake or a superstition to believe that a thing or an outer circumstance can be the cause of anything whatsoever. All things and all circumstances are the concomittant effects of a Force which acts from behind the veil.

The Force acts and each one reacts according to his own nature.

Unless your goal is the Divine Realisation upon earth, at whatever cost, take good care, do not come too close to the divine messengers for their action is like a hurricane that sweeps away all established things.

7.5.57

THE DANGERS OF INCONTINENCE OF SPEECH

Every word spoken uselessly is a dangerous gossiping. Every malicious word, every slander is a degradation of the consciousness.

And when this slander is expressed in a vulgar language and gross terms, then that is equivalent to a suicide — the suicide of one's soul.

9.8.57

My heart aspires to be vast enough for Thy Victory.

For those who use only their physical eyes, the victory cannot be apparent until it is total, that is to say, physical.

But this does not mean that it is not already won in principle.

2.10.57

Widen yourself as far as the extreme bounds of the universe — and beyond.

Take upon yourself always all the necessities of progress and dissolve them in the ecstasy of Unity. Then you will be divine.

13.11.57

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(about the gnostic supramental consciousness)

What gives the sense of a great simplicity; for ft is always when one goes down that the complications begin.

One speaks a great deal about this teaching but one does not follow it.

Human beings for the most part have the inveterate habit of deceiving themselves. They deceive themselves in hundreds of different ways, each more slyly tricky and subtle than the other, and all this with at once a perfect candour and a perfect in- sincerity.

TO THE WORLD VEGETARIAN CONGRESS

Love alone can overcome hate and violence.

Let the Divine Compassion express itself through you always and in all circumstances.

The divine compassion reaches out not only to the one who is eaten but also to the one who eats, not only to the one who is tortured but also the one who tortures.

1957.

To give oneself to the Divine, to receive and be the Divine, to transmit and spread forth the Divine: these are the three simultaneous movements which constitute our total relation with the Divine.

It is the supreme Wisdom that decides these things and not the ignorant human will.

And yet the Divine is everywhere in the ignorant man as well as in the sage

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S. is always present in our thoughts and living in our hearts.

For the thought the world is small, for the heart there is no distance.

Be faithful to your ideal and dedicate your work to the Divine.

The Lord will possess his universe perfectly only when the universe will have become the Lord.

Here is love and here the Presence, and the indestructible Wealth.

Get rid of all violence and you will no longer have any fear.

For those whose destiny it is to scale the summits, the least false step risks being a mortal danger.:

In the course of time and even in the course of your present life you can make your choice once and for all, irrevocably, and then you have only to confirm it with every new occasion; or else if you do not take a definite decision immediately,¹you will have to choose anew at each moment between the falsehood and the Truth.

One of the chief functions of the physical mind is to doubt. If you listen to it it will always find a thousand reasons for doubting. But you must know that the physical mind is working in ignorance and full of falsehoods.

The Divine Love is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by the human confusions.

¹ from the beginning

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In the Ashram one must do only what one may do publicly, for nothing remains hidden. As for my protection it is equally over all and not over some as against others.

You cannot expect another to be perfect unless you are yourself perfect. Now to be perfect is to be exactly what the supreme Lord wants you to be.

3.6.58

Better not count upon man.

July 59

It is not in man's nature to be faithful.

A Company that has no name, no business and no money, is not a Company, it is a fraud.

The only salvation is in an absolute sincerity and truthfulness.

25.3.63

A gift made through vanity is profitable neither to the giver nor to the receiver.

As long as there is within any being the possibility of an inner conflict, it means that he has still some insincerity in him.

It is better to state a truth than to disregard it; but it is much better still to live it than to state it.

There must be nobility in one's nature not to bear a grudge against someone who has done you good.

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To realise the progressive truth, theories must be modelled on practice and not practice adapted to the theory.

Men tolerate the presence of the Divine upon earth only on condition that He suffers there.

All that is conducive to the keeping of one's consciousness in the most material planes of the being would be criminal.

There is no greater victory than that of controlling oneself.

One must not take consequences for causes.

Goodwill for all and goodwill from all, is the basis of peace and harmony.

Whatever is your personal value or even your individual realisation, the first quality required in yoga is humility.

Mother is with all those who arc sincere in their aspiration towards a divine life.

26.3.71

For each problem there is a solution that can give satisfaction to everybody, but for finding this ideal solution each one must want it instead of meeting the others with the will to enforce one's own preference.

Enlarge your consciousness and aspire for the satisfaction of all.

All quarrels in the place where food is prepared, makes food undigestible. The cooking must be done in silence and harmony.

Insincerity leads on the path to ruin.

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Even within the confusion, there is the seed of the Divine order.

It is good to read a Divine Teaching.

It is better to learn it.

The best is to live it.

Indeed, the goodwill hidden in all things reveals itself everywhere to that one who carries goodwill in his consciousness.

This is a constructive way of feeling which leads straight to the Future.

Those who are ready for the transformation can do it anywhere and those who are not ready cannot do it wherever they are.

12.11.71

Take the division out of the heart and then speak of no division.

Whether I see you or not makes no difference to the help. It will always be there.

In an ardent faith lies salvation.

In the final analysis, it is the Supreme Lord who does all.

We must be faithful instruments.

29.8.72

I am no more living active life; if you are open, help is bound to come.

14.12.72

Let your consecration to Truth be complete and constant.

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