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Divine Solicitude
The Mother said, "...with all my will I am working for the disappearance of suffering from the world".
And she was by the side of all those who asked for her help and guidance.
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Never forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you helping and guiding you. He is the companion who never fails, the friend whose love comforts and strengthens. Have faith and He will do everything for you.
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Day and night hundreds of calls are coming — but the Consciousness is always alert and it answers.
One is limited only materially by time and space.
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My little mother,
Peace, peace, give me your unalloyed peace and make me conscious of you.
Peace be with you, my child, the peace of Certitude and of confidence in my love which never leaves you.
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My dear mother,
I want to be like the lion on the envelope I am sending you this evening. My dear little lion,
I am in your heart that it may be happy, in your head that it may be peaceful, and in your hand that it may be skillful.
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.. .I am taking you into my arms and cradling you to my heart so that you may have true happiness and unalloyed peace.
Love from your little mother who is always with you.
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Have no fear — nothing has the power to take you away from me, for I am always with you — in you.
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I am with you because I am you or you are me.
I am with you, that signifies a world of things, because I am with you on all levels, on all planes, from the supreme consciousness down to my most physical consciousness. Here, in Pondicherry, you cannot breathe without breathing my consciousness....
.. .there is a special personal tie between you and me, between all who have turned to the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and myself, — and, it is well understood, distance does not count here, you may be in France, you may be at the other end of the world or in Pondicherry, this tie is always true and living. And each time there comes a call, each time there is a need for me to know so that I may send out a force, an inspiration, a protection or any other thing, a sort of message comes to me all of a sudden and I do the needful....
With those whom I have accepted as disciples, to whom I have said Yes, there is more than a tie, there is an emanation of me. This emanation warns me whenever it is necessary and tells me what is happening.
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When the baker wants to make the dough of his bread rise, he puts some leaven into it, and it is from within that the transformation takes place.
When the Divine wanted to rouse Matter, awaken it and make it rise towards God, He threw Himself into Matter under the form of love, and it is from within that the transformation takes place.
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.. .in the evening, at the balcony, there was a crowd. I believe it was the biggest crowd that we have ever had: it spread out into all the streets; as far as I could see, the streets were full of people.
Then I came out, and as I came out, there arose from this crowd like a... something between an imploring, a prayer and a protest about the condition the world is in, particularly this country. And that rose up in waves. I looked at it, and then... I said to myself: "It is not my day, it is Sri Aurobindo's day."... And when he was put in front, standing in front he simply said, simply: "The Lord knows best what he is doing."
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.. .at each Darshan I have the feeling that I am a different person.... Sometimes a kind of transposition of Sri Aurobindo, a veiled Sri Aurobindo, and then sometimes a person whom I know very well, but who is not this one: once I was like that. This has happened to me many times....
It is more an expression, a type of vibration, an atmosphere, more than exact features. Yes, it would be rather that, someone who exists in a permanent way somewhere and with whom we are in contact....
The body by itself has more than a feeling, a kind of... it is a knowledge — more than a knowledge, it is a fact: there are many, many beings, forces, personalities who manifest themselves through it, even sometimes several at the same time. That is a very common experience; we know, for example, that Sri Aurobindo is there, he speaks and sees, he has his own way of seeing and expressing himself, that happens very often....
And what was strange is that this time, the 24th, when I went to the balcony, it was someone... someone who looks from a sort of plane of eternity with a great benevolence mixed in... but with an absolute calmness, almost indifference, and the two are together, looking like that (Mother describes waves far down below), as if it was seen from very far away, from very high up, from very... how to say it? seen with a rather eternal vision. It was that which my body was feeling when I came out to the balcony. The body was saying: "I must aspire, there must be an aspiration so that the Force may descend upon all these people", and That, it was like this {sweeping gesture from above). Oh! very benevolent but a sort of indifference — the indifference of eternity, I do not know how to explain it. And all this the body feels as though something were making use of it.
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Why are we on earth?
To find the Divine who is in each of us and in all things.
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What is my true destiny?
The true destiny is to reach the Divine Consciousness.
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Who am I?
The Divine under many disguises.
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Thou art all love, O Lord, and Thy love shines resplendently in the depths of every thought and every heart.
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O victorious power of divine Love, Thou art the sovereign Master of this universe, Thou art its creator and its saviour, Thou hast permitted it to emerge from chaos, and now Thou leadest it to its eternal goal.
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O Love, divine Love, spread abroad in the world, regenerate life, enlighten the intelligence, break the barriers of egoism, scatter the obstacles of ignorance, shine resplendent as sovereign Master of the earth.
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O Sweet Master, O supreme Giver of illumination and purity, grant that all substance and every activity may be no more anything other than a constant manifestation of Thy divine Love and Thy sovereign serenity....
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Sweet Mother,
How should one spend the Darshan days, December fifth and ninth, and one s birthday?
In search of a knowledge truer than ordinary knowledge.
The fifth and the ninth in understanding what death is.
The birthday in finding out the purpose of life.
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Because of the rhythm of the universal forces, a person is supposed to have a special receptivity on his birthday each year.
He can therefore take advantage of this receptivity by making good resolutions and fresh progress on the path of his integral development.
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My dear child,
"He who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite."
Never forget this promise of Sri Aurobindo and keep courage in spite of all difficulties. You are sure to reach the goal, and the more you keep confidence, the quicker it will come.
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I have had innumerable examples of the power of right attitude....
I can give you a little example. You remember the night of the great cyclone, when there was a tremendous noise and splash of rain all about the place. I thought I would go to Sri Aurobindo's room and help him shut the windows. I just opened his door and found him sitting quietly at his desk, writing. There was such a solid peace in the room that nobody would have dreamed that a cyclone was raging outside. All the windows were wide open, not a drop of rain was coming inside.
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Sweet Mother,
I want an electric lamp in the corridor of my room.
It would be more proper to write (and above all, to think): "Would it be possible to have an electric lamp in the corridor?"
The ego would do well to become a little more modest.
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When humanity was first created, the ego was the unifying element. It was around the ego that the different states of being were grouped; but now that the birth of superhumanity is being prepared, the ego has to disappear and give way to the psychic being, which has slowly been formed by divine intervention in order to manifest the Divine in the human being.
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Why are men obliged to leave their bodies?
Because they do not know how to keep up with Nature in her progress towards the Divine.
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When man lives by and for the Divine, his life will be longer [than 100 years], and one day the Divine will reveal to him the secret of immortality.
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I simply want to be beautiful.
Do sincerely some physical culture and you will succeed.
Messages for the inauguration of a house
Let this new house be filled with an ardent aspiration for the Divine Realisation and, in answer to the call, the Divine Presence will be there.
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Let this house be a symbol of the psychic, the temple of the eternal divine Presence.
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What can one do against obsession when there is very intense suffering? Look at a beautiful flower.
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The Grace is there to give the supreme strength to whoever takes the resolution. My dear child,
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Let this year bring you the power to smile in all circumstances. For, a smile acts upon difficulties as the sun upon the clouds — it disperses them.
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Sweet Mother,
Are you with us during the collective meditation at the Playground?
Certainly, I am always there.
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Each man has... a mission to fulfill, a role to play in the universe, a part he has been given to learn and take up in the cosmic Purpose, a part which he alone is capable of executing and none other. This he has to learn and acquire through life-experiences, that is to say, not in one life but in life after life.
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One reads Savitri to develop one's intelligence and to understand deeper things.
One concentrates at the Samadhi to grow in devotion and to put oneself in contact with Sri Aurobindo in order to receive his help.
If these things have any value for you, you must do them regularly....
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About Savitri
1)The daily record of the spiritual experiences of the individual who has written.
2)A complete system of yoga which can serve as a guide for those who want to follow the integral sadhana.
3)The yoga of the Earth in its ascension towards the Divine.
4)The experiences of the Divine Mother in her effort to adapt herself to the body she has taken and the ignorance and the falsity of the earth upon which she has incarnated.
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The importance of Savitri is immense.
Its subject is universal. Its revelation is prophetic.
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The first thing one learns on the way is that the joy of giving is far greater than the joy of taking.
Then gradually one learns that to forget oneself is the source of immutable peace. Later on, in this self-forgetfulness, one finds the Divine, and that is the source of an ever-increasing bliss.
Sri Aurobindo told me one day that if men knew this and were convinced of it, they would all want to do yoga.
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The Divine is the sure friend who never fails, the Power, the Support, the Guide. The Divine is the Light which scatters darkness, the Conqueror who assures the victory.
With my blessings.
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For centuries and centuries humanity has waited for this time. It is come. But it is difficult.
I don't simply tell you we are here upon earth to rest and enjoy ourselves, now is not the time for that. We are here... to prepare the way for the new creation....
So I have called you to tell you that. Take what you can, do what you can, my help will be with you. All sincere effort will be helped to the maximum.
It is the hour to be heroic.
Heroism is not what it is said to be: it is to become wholly unified — and the Divine help will always be with those who have resolved to be heroic in full sincerity....
You are here at this moment, that is to say upon earth, because you chose it at one time — you do not remember it any more, but I know it — that is why you are here.
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How is that we have met?
We have all met in previous lives. Otherwise we would not have come together in this life. We are of one family and have worked through ages for the victory of the Divine and its manifestation upon earth.
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In truth the Divine has chosen everyone and everything, and everyone and everything will return to Him. But for some it will take thousands of lives, while for others it will happen in this very lifetime.
It is the object of my Yoga to transform life by bringing down into it the Light, Power and Bliss of the divine Truth and its dynamic certitudes. This Yoga is not a Yoga of world-shunning asceticism, but of divine life.
Sri Aurobindo
The earthly, material life is essentially the life of progress.... as for the periods of progress, they are on the earth and in the body....
In yoga one can do in a very short time what takes otherwise an interminable time. But it is always in the body and always upon earth that it is done, not elsewhere. That is why when one is in a body one must take advantage of it and not waste one's time....
To grow in consciousness is the very aim of life on earth. It is through the experience of successive lives that the range of the subconscient is gradually reduced.
By yoga and the effort to find the Divine in oneself and in life, one hastens the work considerably and it can be done in a few years.
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I look at a rose, a thing that contains such a concentration of spontaneous beauty... one has only to see it to be sure that there is a Divine. It is a certainly... that there is nothing but That — something we cannot name, cannot define, cannot describe, but something we can feel and can more and more become. A Something that is more perfect than all the perfections, more beautiful than all the beauties, more marvellous than all the marvels, so that even the totality of all that exists cannot express it. And there is nothing but That.
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Remain very quiet, open your mind and your heart to Sri Aurobindo's influence and mine, withdraw deep into an inner silence (which may be had in all circumstances), call me from the depths of this silence and you will see me standing there in the centre of your being.
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Fix a time every day when you can be free and undisturbed; sit comfortably and think of your psychic being with an aspiration to enter into contact with it. If you don't succeed immediately, don't be discouraged; you are sure to succeed one day. I only ask that you let me know what time you have chosen so that I can help you more consciously.
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I have seen your psychic being, standing erect within your being, ready to take responsibility for your life and lead you to the Light and Truth. Its dignity is great, its determination unfailing; it will win the victory.
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For behind the appearances one perceives this Grace — infinite, wonderful, all-powerful — which knows all, organises all, arranges all, and leads us, whether we like it or not, whether we know it or not, towards the supreme goal, that is, union with the Divine, the awareness of the Godhead and union with Him.
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It is what Sri Aurobindo has said from the beginning, that, hidden in the depths, at the core of matter, there is the Divine Presence and that the whole terrestrial evolution is made to prepare the return of the creation to its origin, to this Divine Presence which is at the centre of everything....
To believe is to have the faith that there cannot be a world without the Divine....
A faith that is a living knowledge... that the existence of the world is enough to prove the Divine. Without the Divine, no world.
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Earth is not something separated from Him and alien to Him. It is a deformation of Himself which must once again become what it was in its essence, that is, the Divine...
.. .He is not a stranger, my child. You fancy that He is a stranger, but He is not, not in the least. He is the essence of your being — not at all alien. You may not know Him, but He is not a stranger; He is the very essence of your being. Without the Divine you would not exist. Without the Divine you could not exist even for the millionth part of a second.
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.. .Sri Aurobindo says that if the Divine were not at the centre of everything, He could never manifest in the world; it is the same thing when he says that essentially, in its origin and deepest structure, the creation is divine, the world is divine; and that is why this divinity will be able to manifest one day, become tangible, express itself fully in place of all that veils and deforms it at present.
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When you pick up a stone and look at it with your ordinary eyes and consciousness, you say, "It has no life, no consciousness." For one who knows how to see behind appearances, there is, hidden at the centre of this Matter — at the centre of each atom of this Matter — there is, hidden, the Supreme Divine Reality working from within, gradually, through the millennia, to change this inert Matter into something that is expressive enough to be able to reveal the Spirit within.
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The creation is a single whole advancing as a totality towards its single goal — the Divine — through a collective evolution which is continuous and endless.
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Supreme Lord, teach us to be silent, that in the silence we may receive Your force and understand Your will.
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There is a Power that no ruler can command;
there is a Happiness that no earthly success can bring;
there is a Light that no wisdom can possess;
there is a Knowledge that no philosophy and no science can master;
there is a Bliss of which no satisfaction of desire can give the enjoyment;
there is a thirst for Love that no human relation can appease;
there is a Peace that one finds nowhere, not even in death.
It is the Power, the Happiness, the Light, the Knowledge, the Bliss,
the Love, the Peace that flow from the Divine Grace.
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