PREFACE

This is a spontaneous creation of the bounty of Divine Grace that descended while following an ideal "All life is Yoga", in the shape of visions, experiences and realizations; and guide lights in the form of letters from the Divine Masters of Yoga —the Mother and Sri Aurobindo to explain them. It is presented to the reader as a simple and joyful offering in the book form, with love and devotion. The author claims here nothing of his own. He is simply a vehicle for expression of Grace of the Divine Masters.

I am thankful to the copyright department of Sri Aurobindo Ashram for permitting me to publish the second revised edition of the book.

I should not miss this opportunity of thanking all those who have kindly extended their co-operation in giving the book its present shape.

I am particularly grateful to Sri G. N. Sharma who has written the detailed introduction to the present edition. Sri C. N. Sharma was formerly Principal of S. S. College at Jehanabad (Bihar); and now he is an inmate and devoted worker of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He is an eloquent exponent of the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.

I hope lovers of Aurobindonian literature will welcome the revised edition.

August 15, 1977

SKETCHES BY THE MOTHER

Two spirits saved out of a suffering world;

My soul and his indissolubly linked

In the one task for which our lives were born

To raise the world to God in deathless light

To bring God down to the world on earth we came,

To change the earthly Hie to life divine.

—Savitri