THE MOTHER'S SUTRAS

1) Be ambitious for nothing, above all pretend nothing, but be at each instant the utmost of what you can be.²

2) As for your place in the universal manifestation, only the Supreme can assign it to you.

3) It is the Supreme Lord who has ineluctably decreed the place you occupy in the universal concert, but whatever be this place, you have equally the same right as all others to ascend the supreme summits right to the supramental realization.

4) What you are in the truth of your being is decreed in an irrevocable way, and nothing nor anyone can stop you from being it; but the path you take to get there is left to your own free choice.

5) On the road of the ascending evolution, every one is free to choose the direction he will take: the swift and steep climb towards the summits of Truth, to the supreme realization, or turning his back to the peaks, the easy descent to the interminable meanderings of endless incarnations.

6) 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 from the beginning, you will have to choose anew at each moment between the falsehood and the Truth.

page 119 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , 1957
To know life utterly ... Oh, there is a very interesting thing in this regard! And it's strange, but this particular knowledge reminds me of one of my Sutras' (which I read out, but no one understood or understood only vaguely, 'like that'):

'It is the Supreme Lord who has ineluctably

decreed the place you occupy in the universal con

cert, but whatever be this place, you have equally

the same right as all others to ascend the supreme

summits right to the supramental realization.'

There is one's position in the universal hierarchy, which is something ineluctable - it is the eternal law - and there is the development in the manifestation, which is an education; it is progressive and done from within the being. What is remarkable is that to become a perfect being, this position - whatever it is, decreed since all eternity, a part of the eternal Truth - must manifest with the greatest possible perfection as a result of evolutionary growth. It is the junction, the union of the two, the eternal position and the evolutionary realization, that will make the total and perfect being, and the manifestation as the Lord has willed it since the beginning of all eternity (which has no beginning at all! ).

page 208 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , 10th Oct. - 1958

(Mother brings with her the continuation of the first seven

Sutras written by Her, probably in 1957.')

They are in two groups.

The first group ends with a helping hand to those who have made the wrong choice (!):

7) But even in the event you have not made the irrevocable decision at the outset, should you have the good fortune to live during one of these unimaginable hours of universal history when the Grace is present, embodied upon earth, It will offer you, at certain exceptional moments, the renewed possibility of making a final choice that will lead you straight to the goal.

That was the message of hope.

And then it continues (Mother reads):

8) All division in the being is an insincerity.

9) The greatest insincerity is to carve an abyss between one's body and the truth of one's being.

10) When an abyss separates the true being from the physical being, Nature immediately fills it with all the hostile suggestions, of which the most deadly is fear and the most pernicious, doubt.

I wrote that before reading Sri Aurobindo's aphorism on "the sentinels of Nature." I found it very interesting and I said to myself, 'Well! That's exactly what came to me!'

There is still one more (but it is not the last):

11) Allow nothing, nowhere, to deny the truth of your being: that is sincerity.

page 212-13 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , 17th Oct. - 1958