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1963
It is true that money is a force and a means, but it must never be allowed to become a ruler and a tyrant.
January 1
Do not indulge in your moodiness, it makes it much worse.
Do you think, you really think you are the only one upon earth to feel the falsehood and to suffer by it ? And to run away from it like a coward, do you think it will cure it?
You would be wise to leave all that to those who have the knowledge to cure the falsehood and to lead the world to the Truth — and for yourself—learn to be quiet, and to endure, because it is the shortest way to get out of trouble.
Then you will feel that the Love is there and that it is worth bearing all the rest.
January 25
You say you want to get rid of falsehood, here is a way.
Do not try to please yourself, do not try either to please the others. Try only to please the Lord; because He alone is the Truth — Every one of us, human beings, is a coat of falsehood put on the Lord and hiding Him. He alone is true; He is the Truth.
It is on Him that we must concentrate, and not on the coats of falsehood.
January 27
Give me in thought the thing that troubles you and I shall get you rid of it. In true love.
January 28
I am always with you — you have nothing to fear. But to be quiet, you must stop thinking of them even if they send letters and talk, cut all thinking connection with them.
If you try I shall help.
February 14 In your letter of yesterday which I received this morning you write something which will help to explain what I mean by "cutting the thinking connection."
When you feel such things and the fear comes in, even in your sleep — instead of thinking, (which certainly you must do) "here again are these people throwing their bad will and their falsehood upon me"— (or something similar), you must not think, and immediately call the Lord or me or both and pray, "here again I am attacked — help me, protect me, let your love and power be like a shield around me to prevent these adverse forces from touching me."
And you go on praying and repeating your call, thinking of nothing else until the attack is over — This is the surest, the safest and the quickest way.
And if at any other time you can succeed in thinking only of the things that do not disturb you, you can also little by little minimise the attacks and make your life more peaceful.
February 15 For the incidents about which you speak in your today's letter, the best, when you receive a shock, is to answer at once by this thought—"Let the Peace of the Lord be with you."—Not in spoken words but clearly in your mind, and continue thinking of the Lord's Peace and not of the unpleasant sensation— This is a good remedy and will minimise the bad effect. When you think of the Lord's Peace it acts as a call, and the more you think of it the more you surround yourself with it which is the most powerful protection.
February 16 Mother, I am eager to know about the Lord.... I mean Sri Aurobindo.
Sri Aurobindo is a permanent Avatar of the Lord — (as Krishna is).
Can I ever see Him ?
Certainly yes if you remember your night activities.
I wish I could see the marvel of the world into which we go at night.
I have seen you there sometimes. You go there but you do not remember.
But I cannot see Him.
One day you may see the Lord also but He has not a precise particular form — He has all possible forms and He is also beyond all forms.. ..
That is why He sends upon earth His Avatars so that the human beings can more easily meet Him, see Him and get in contact with Him.
But He is always with us all and we can all be in constant contact with Him if we do the needful, which is simply to love Him.'"
February 28
Mother, what is the difference between the Lord and Sri Aurobindo ?
There is no essential difference, but the Lord is All and Sri Aurobindo is a part but conscious of the Supreme Lord of whom He is an emanation.
Where is Sri Aurobindo at the moment ?
Sri Aurobindo is wherever He wants to be, because He is free; but He has a permanent home in the subtle physical — (the region closest to the earth — physical) where all those who wish to see Him can go and see Him.
What form has He got ?
There in the subtle physical, His form is similar to the one He had upon earth, but with the splendid peace of immortality.
What sort of world is the subtle physical ?
This subtle physical (or true physical) is a world where things are and happen somewhat like in the physical here but with a harmony, a beauty and a truth that do not yet exist upon earth.
Mother, to love You, to love the Lord or to love Sri Aurobindo ? Whom can I love ?
"Love, love, love as much as you can — the Lord, Sri Aurobindo and me — None of this love is wasted!
March 1
There is only one Will governing the world; it is the Will of the Lord— (I am only His executive Power). He is supreme Wisdom and supreme Truth, and He alone knows what is truly good for each one and everybody.
Only let me suggest that you should join your prayer to mine — it might bring a quicker result.
March ?
Indeed you are very clever and you know-quite well how to argue.
Yet there are two points on which I have something to say.
You ask at what time I pray, in order to join in the prayer. But you see, I have not a time for prayer or meditation — This body lives constantly, night and day, even when apparently it is busy with something else, in an invocation to the Supreme Lord, asking Him to manifest His supreme Truth in this world of falsehood, and His supreme Love in this world of disharmony. So, at any time when you feel like praying, you can do so and your prayer is sure to join mine.
The second point is that you say that the Lord gives to people prosperity, children and happiness whenever they ask for it — Quite true, but these things belong to the physical consciousness and need no preparation to be received; they (people) can have these things with remaining just as they are.
While you are asking for the greatest thing of all, the most difficult, the Truth — and to receive the Truth one must be prepared for
It, capable of seeing and feeling it — and this demands a big preparation. In fact, the Truth is always with us. And if we do not see It and feel It, it is because we are not capable of seeing and feeling It—This is the reason of the delay. The Lord answers at once all sincere prayer, but we are not aware of His answer.
March ?
Behind the weakest weakness there is the supreme Strength, the Lord's Force.
April 2
When you get upset or disturbed, remember that it is the EGO that gets upset and disturbed and tell him, "I do not want you, get away, out of me."
April 19 Right or wrong is not the question.
So many answers I have sent you (not written) to your letters, knowing very well that you would not be conscious of my answers but that, all the same, it would help.
One thing only remains to be said. Do not mistake your Ego and your physical consciousness for yourself, because when you do so, they make you do and say what they want and not what you want, which does not help the release you want.
May 26
I wrote that it was not a question of wrong and right, because it is only the Lord Who can know what is truly wrong and what is truly right.
Upon this earth, each being and especially each Ego is convinced that it is right and takes its desires for the truth.
But for me who can see and know, who am aware of the truth of things, if I did what your ego wants me to do, I would be a traitor to your soul and to my promise to deliver you
from your ego. This I cannot be, even if, in your unconsciousness, you get displeased.
May, 27
I had written that much when I received your letter and your questions. Some are already answered by what I have previously written.
You say, "the Ego and the physical consciousness are not me." It is your soul who can say that in truth. Certainly your soul is not the ego and the physical consciousness; but the mental, the vital and the physical beings have been formed by the ego and it is through the ego that they express themselves, it is through the ego that they get in contact with the others and react to these contacts. This is the difficulty, this is why it is almost impossible to get rid of the ego without a Divine intervention.
This which is an absolute and true fact can give you the measure of the mixing of the ego in your consciousness. The ego cannot be destroyed, but it can be overcome by a constant
and complete separation. This is the necessary preparation I spoke of. The Supreme does not work by tricks and magic, because they are not true — The Supreme does not obey the individual desires, because in that case He would be a slave and not the Lord.
He says this will be done under these conditions. And what He says is done.
Now to make you fully understand, I shall explain something more. All the elements of the human consciousness which gather and organize themselves around the soul form, through thousands of lives, the psychic being. This psychic being, when well constituted, becomes the conscious intermediary between the soul, the psychic being and the mental, vital and physical beings.
When the psychic being gets the liberation, it feels the ego and the physical consciousness, merely as movements of the universal Nature outside itself, quite foreign to itself; and these movements can no more affect the psychic being in any way.
May 27 ....Meanwhile, in spite of all adverse circumstances, try to get back into this detached condition in which the material things lose their hard reality.
It is the surest way to get rest.
June 6
You asked what is the difference between the liberation and the realisation.
The realisation of the soul is achieved when the whole being (including the physical consciousness and the ego) has got under the control of the soul through the psychic being, when all the activities of the being including the physical are governed exclusively by the soul in peace and quietness. This is the first step towards the Transformation which is the divinisation of the integral being and may come only after ages.
You say also that the realisation and the ego cannot go together — This is quite true and from the time of the realisation the nature of the ego is so much changed that we can say in
truth that there is no more ego, although nothing is lost or wasted of what it represents in the evolution.
But all this needs a very patient endeavour.
June 6
But here also a lot of patience is needed. This is only for the outside life.—-Inside all is all right, quiet and luminous.
June 9
To be aware of the liberation of your soul means that you are sufficiently conscious of your soul to feel that something deep in you is quite free, independent from people and circumstances, untouched by grief, displeasure or anger, always calm and with a quiet contentment.
This feeling can come suddenly or progressively and can stay for more or less time — all depends on how much and how often your consciousness is in contact with your soul.
The aim is that it should be constant, but this comes later on and little by little when all
the parts of your being turn towards your soul instead of turning to the exterior, the physical consciousness and being caught in it.
The best way to hasten this change is the habit of going within.
For going within you must sit comfortably or lie down, gather and bring back all the threads of your consciousness which are tied up to all the people and the things around you, all that you think of, all that you want to do — etc, etc.
Once this is done you focus all your attention inside yourself, deep inside your chest and you concentrate there until you reach a state of peace and immobility. You may not succeed from the first time — but you will try again and again until you succeed. — In the state of quiet and silent immobility, you will be in contact with your soul, unite with it and feel free.
Naturally with the practice all that becomes more and more easy and spontaneous.
June 23
Keep a quiet confidence and all will be all right.
June 28
All human beings are full of desires; their life is built by desires. The will of man is made of desire, his needs are desires.. He can get rid of all these desires only by a constant vigilance and steady elimination.
Each time that you feel excited or annoyed, each time that you are upset, you can be sure that there is a desire lurking behind the appearances.
The sign of the true and Divine Consciousness is perfect equality, constant equanimity and peace.
Excitement, irritation, sorrow, depression, upsetting belong all to the Physical Consciousness and must be surmounted in order to get rid of the Falsehood.
July 4
With my name send the fear away. Fear is the worst thing. A child of mine must never fear.
Now, child, I remind yon once more that you must not get excited and upset, that you must not have useless fears. It is all this excitement and this upsetting and most of all this fear that fall back upon you and disturb you so much.
Keep quiet in your mind, do not indulge in catastrophic imaginations and you will soon discover that the Victory of the Truth is certain because such is the Lord's Will.
July 11
Most of the dreams are in the subconscient or in the vital — they can be useful for the inner progress, if properly understood.
July 15
The "Active consciousness" is the usual consciousness, the consciousness of every day and every circumstance — the one in which and by which you live and act in the ordinary life.
As a complement to my today's letter. "The world will trouble you so long as any part of you belongs to the world. It is only if you belong entirely to the Divine that you can become free." —Sri Aurobindo
This is an important letter — I have told you already many times that this world cannot be changed all on a sudden by the swift stroke of a fairy's magic wand. This world is a world of ignorance and falsehood and will remain so for still a pretty long time to come....
Now again you speak of death as Nothingness; but this is quite untrue, it is a big falsehood. Death is not nothingness, death is only a transition between two earthly lives upon earth, and the nature of the transition depends on the quality of the previous life. To die does not solve the problem or overcome the difficulty.
So, instead of thinking of giving up your body — which is a useless and harmful action, — you ought to give up the small, silly and selfish ego — and then all your troubles will be over.
July 23
"The divine Guide within is not offended by our revolt, not discouraged by our want of faith or repelled by our weakness; he has the entire love of the Mother and the entire patience of the teacher."
—Sri Aurobindo
I send you this quotation so that you may not be sorry for anything in the past and only think of the luminous future which is in front of all of us.
Love is at the origin of the world and Love is its Goal.
July 24
Upon earth, each human being has his own way of seeing and feeling things, and as no two of these ways are the same, each one is different from all the others, so, everybody disagrees with the others in one way or another and no real harmony can be established — This is why the world is such a painful chaos.
The Lord alone with His total Vision can create a harmony, by putting each being in its right place if the world surrenders to Him unreservedly. For it is only by uniting with Him that we can realise a harmony in our existence and get thus protected from the surrounding disharmony.
This is the only remedy.
August 30
The difficulties and mishaps are tests and must be considered as a Grace from the Lord — and then they will become so and lead you quickly to your goal.
September 4 For your ill-health, do not forget to try to bring down the Divine Peace. Because no illness can resist the Peace of the Lord, and even to remember and to try will give you some relief.
September 10
It is into the subconscient that you went last night; into the subconscient where are accumulated all the past impressions, thoughts, feelings, emotions, fears, disgusts, etc., etc. — rejected from the aspiring consciousness, but still hoping to come back to the surface on the first occasion — it is a world of concentrated falsehood where all is distorted, falsified, degraded—It is one of the places where the Divine is not only denied and unknown but violently disobeyed and rejected.
Before going to sleep, pray not to go there again, and to remain under the Divine protection.
On my side I shall do what can be done to help.
This subconscient world is one of the places where wander those who have put an end violently to their physical life. It is wiser to avoid going there at all.
September 12
Mother, then what is the vital world and its stuff? Is it the same as the subconscient or a bit civilized ?
The vital world is quite different from the physical subconscient which is closely connected with the human beings. The vital world is inhabited by vital beings who are not human, some are very beautiful and resemble gods, some are hideously ugly, but all or almost all are antidivine and try always to turn the human beings from their Divine Goal. The vital world itself in its higher regions is very beautiful, dangerously beautiful and attractive — in its lower parts it is dark and frightful — One must not go into the vital world without a special purpose or command and a special protection.
O Mother, is there any end to these horrible worlds and the miseries of human beings ?
There will be an end but not without a struggle.
Mother, I wonder, if Ton were not upon this earth, what would happen to poor human beings ? Bless Your Sweet Heart! You are here!
The dangers are great and many. The task is difficult and long. But the Divine's Help and Grace are with us and we are sure to succeed.
September 13
Mother, You wrote, "One must not go into the vital world without a special purpose, command and a special protection." True. But what are special purpose or command and a special protection ?
What I mean by special purpose is a work given by the Divine Who then gives His special protection.
I believe, a perfect purity and fearlessness are needed for the vital world, otherwise one gets lost in that world.
Yes.
Do You make any one go over there ?
I send nobody purposely into the vital world. But have helped several people who were in the habit of going there.
What is the purpose and importance of the vital world in the Spiritual life ? Does the vital world help in any way ?
The Vital is most important, for the transformation of the physical but its importance is rather little for those who want to escape life rather than transform it.
Mother, You wrote in Your previous letter, "There will be an end but not without struggle." What type of struggle is it ?
It is mostly a psychological struggle.
What I can do is to help those who have full faith to realise in this present life what, otherwise, would take hundreds of lives to realise.
September 14 But you must realise, little child, that it is the Divine Who does everything in spite of somewhat contrary appearances, and then your heart will be at peace.
November 27
I can understand that life is difficult, but the Lord's Force is Infinite and it is always available for those who pray for It sincerely.
December 22
The Lord alone can save you from these terrible attacks.—Pray again and again to Him to save you from them.
December 23
Won't you let the Lord be stronger than the horoscope ? For the Supreme Lord there is no horoscope which is absolute.
Have faith in the Lord's mercy and all can and will change.
December 31
"O Lord, With full faith, love and surrender we are ready for Thy Victory."
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