The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo         THE FORCE OF BODY-CONSCIOUSNESS         THERE is a state of consciousness in which you perceive that the effect of things, circumstances, movements, all the activities of life upon yourself depends almost exclusively upon your attitude towards them. You become then conscious, conscious to the extent of realising that things in themselves are neither good nor bad, they are so only in relation to ourselves: their effect, I say, depends entirely upon the way in which we regard these things.         If we take, for example, a circumstance as a gift from God, as a divine Grace, as an outcome of the total harmony, it will hel

"Man" and "The Divine"         A disciple: Mother, who am I?                The Divine under many disguises.         *         Q: What is God?               God is the perfection that we must aspire to realise.         *         For those who are afraid of a word:         This is what we mean by "Divine": all the knowledge we have to acquire, all the power we have to obtain, all the love we have to become, all the perfection we have to achieve, all the harmonious and progressive poise we have to manifest in light and joy, all the new and unknown splendours that have to be realised.         *         With regard to the Truth

   A Divinely Chosen Country         India has become the symbolic representation of all the difficulties of modern mankind.         India will be the land of its resurrection - the resurrection to a higher and truer life.         *         In the whole creation the earth has a place of distinction, because unlike any other planet it is evolutionary with a psychic entity at its centre. In it, India, in particular, is a divinely chosen country.   *         From time immemorial (some scholars say 8000 years BC before the Christian era) India has been the land of spiritual knowledge and practice, of the discovery of the Supreme Reality and u

    SECTION III         Conversations         Invoking the Grace         Q: Does the intervention of the Grace come through a call?     When one calls? I think so. Anyway, not exclusively and solely. But certainly, yes, if one has faith in the Grace and an aspiration and if one does what a little child would when it runs to its mother and says: "Mamma, give me this", if one calls with that simplicity, if one turns to the Grace and says "Give me this", I believe it listens. Unless one asks for something that is not good for one, then it does not listen. If one asks from it something that does harm or is not favourable, it does not listen.         Q: What i

    The Great Adventure         In the supramental creation there will no longer be any religions. The whole life will be the expression, the flowering into forms of the divine unity manifesting in the world. And there will no longer be what individuals now call gods.         These great divine beings themselves will be able to participate in the new creation, but to do so, they will have to put on what we could call the "Supramental substance" on earth. And if some of them choose to remain in their world as they are, if they decide not to manifest physically, their relation with the beings of supramental earth will be a relation of friend, collaborators, equals, for the

 INDIA AND THE WORLD         One sees that the world in general is at present in a sort of disequilibrium and chaos. Does this mean that it is preparing itself for the manifestation of a new force, for the descent of the Truth? Or is this the result of the action of hostile forces in revolt against this descent? And what place does India occupy in all this?         It is both at the same time. It is a chaotic means of preparation. India should be the spiritual guide explaining what is happening and helping to shorten the movement? But, unfortunately, in her blind ambition to imitate the West, she has become materialistic and neglectful of her soul.         13.10.19

   SECTION II        Interviews        The Mother on Corrections in Savitri        An interview with Amal Kiran on 8 June 1999        According to your book Our Light and Delight [p. 23], the Mother once told you, "I won't allow you to change even a comma in Savitri." Is this true?         AMAL: Yes, but she meant I could not change anything according to my own ideas. After that I made it clear to her that corrections would be only according to Sri Aurobindo's latest version. Some words had been misread and I had suggested what might be the right reading. But we would not dare to change anything on our own. I told her this. And Mother quite understood the s

A Message From The Mother                                                                                                                                                            Given to Bhanabhai Patel in his Autograph Book                                                                                                                              Only those who are capable of transmitting, along with a written word, the Divine force                                                                                                                                                    and consciousness, ought to give their autograph'     

 A Conversation with the Mother         Mother: Is it January?              Yes, Mother - it is January.         Read what is written here.         this year of Sri Aurobindo's centenary, let us strive to be worthy of Him... " And then?         "...by following His teaching faithfully in order to prepare the advent of the superman. Happy New Year. "         What flower is this? (pointing to the painted flower) "Superhumanity".         Eh?              This is "superhumanity". The name of this flower is "superhumanity".         Which flower is it?              This flower - it is the dahlia.          Dahl

Mother on The Ashram         None of the present achievements of humanity, however great they are, can be for us an ideal to follow. The wide world is there as a field of experiment for human ideals.         Our purpose is quite different and if our chances of success are small just now, we are sure that we are working to prepare the future.         I know that from the external point of view we are below many of the present achievements in this world, but our aim is not a perfection in accordance with the human standards. We are endeavouring for something else which belongs to the future.         The Ashram has been founded and is meant to be the cradle of the