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SERIES EIGHT
Series Eight
To a young captain in the
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Department of Physical Education.
Sweet Mother,
What is the difference
between the psychic change
and the spiritual
change?
The psychic change is the change that puts you
in contact with the immanent Divine, the Divine who is at the centre of each
being and of whom the psychic being is the sheath and the expression. By the
psychic change one passes from the individual Divine to the universal Divine
and finally to the Transcendent.
The spiritual change puts
you directly in contact with the Supreme.
9
September 1959
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Sweet Mother,
How can one
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SERIES
FOUR
Series Four
Letters to a
Sadhak
To the sadhak in
charge of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram's
cows, bullocks and carts during the 1930s.¹
Special new ropes
for the bullocks have been prepared
by the
milkman. When the bullocks are working, it may
be safer to
use those ropes. As soon as the work is over,
the ropes
will be removed. Those ropes are not tight;
they are
loose, so it is no hardship to the bullocks.
Pray sanction
them.
I thought they
have strongly refused to have the ropes put upon them. The ropes may not be
tight, but most probably they will spoil the nose of the bullocks. There again
it see
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SERIES SIX
Series Six
To a young
sadhak who later became a teacher in the
Sri Aurobindo International Centre
of Education.¹I
I hope and
believe Your work does not depend upon
human
beings.
No, it does
not depend at all upon human beings. What has to be done will be done
despite all possible resistances.
Is there no
means of uniting my will with Yours?
Perhaps You
have no special will, for You want no-
thing.
I know
perfectly well what I want or rather what the divine Will is, and it is that
which will triumph in time.
What we want
to bri
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Some Answers from the Mother
THE MOTHER - 1970
SERIES ONE
Series One
Letters from the
Mother to Her Son
Our community is
growing more and more; we are nearly thirty (not counting those who are
scattered all over India); and I have become responsible for all this; I am at
the centre of the organisation, on the material as well as the spiritual side,
and you can easily imagine what it means. We already occupy five houses, one of
which is our property; others will follow. New recruits are coming from all
parts of the world. With this expansion, new activities are being created, new
needs are arising which require new skills.
16 Janu
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SERIES SEVEN
Series Seven
To the sadhak who was the dentist at the Sri Aurobindo
Ashram
during the 1930s and then served from 1938 to
1950 as one of Sri Aurobindo's
personal attendants.¹
To talk of surrender is
easy, very easy indeed. To think
of surrender in all its
complexity is not so easy, it is
not so easy at all. But
to achieve even the beginning of
a genuine surrender
of self -- oh, how difficult it is,
Mother!
There are
many things wrong with me, I know. But
there
must be something fundamentally wrong. What
is it,
Mother?
Nothing
special to you. It is the same difficulty that exists for all human beings:
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SERIES TWO
Series Two
To the sadhak in
charge of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Building
Department during the 1930s and early 1940s.
Sin belongs to the
world and not to yoga.
By his way of
thinking, feeling, acting, each one emanates vibrations which constitute his own
atmosphere and quite naturally attract vibrations of similar nature and quality.
So long as you are
capable of beating somebody, you open the door to the possibility of being
beaten yourself.
You are expecting
those who are working with you to be geniuses. It is not quite fair.
I have seen your
chit for washing soap. You got the last one on the 22nd
22. November 1967
(Mutter nimmt Blumen entgegen)
Ich werde sie ins Wasser stellen... Blumen, das ist die Schönheit des Lebens.
Ein Fortschritt ist eingetreten.
Ach, ja?
Am Ende der Sportschau [am 2. Dezember [[Alljährlich am 2. Dezember führen alle Schulkinder und Schüler eine gemeinsame Sportschau vor.]] werden alle Kinder im Chor beten, und ich selbst habe das Gebet geschrieben. Ich werde es dir vorlesen.
Die Idee stammt nicht von mir: man bat mich darum, und so
verfasste ich es.
Wahrscheinlich lasen sie das Bulletin und baten dann um ein Gebet - ein wirkliches Gebet des Körper
30. Oktober 1967
Man bat mich um eine Botschaft, um sie am 21. Februar von allen Radiostationen in Indien auszustrahlen. Ich sagte: "Gut, ich werde eine geben." Aber sie wollen sie im voraus haben. Und ich sah so deutlich: Wenn ich sie jetzt gebe, wird sie zu Kalis Periode des Kampfes gehören - ich habe sehr stark den Eindruck,
dass von Anfang nächsten Jahres an die Atmosphäre sich... (Geste eines Ansteigens) klären wird. Ich weiß nicht warum. So wäre es besser, bis Januar zu warten. Denn mental kann man sich immer etwas vorstellen und es dann aussprechen, aber für mich geschieht es nicht so: es kommt, oder es kommt ni
14. Juni 1967
(Seit acht Tagen war Mutter "krank", genau zu der Zeit, als sich der Konflikt zwischen Israel und Ägypten abspielte.)
Eine große Schlacht... Ich habe viel gelernt.
Aber es dauert an.
Ich habe Entdeckungen gemacht... Krankheiten, Unfälle, Katastrophen, Kriege, all dies geschieht, weil das materielle menschliche
Bewusstsein so klein und beschränkt ist, weil es eine zwanghafte Neigung zum Drama hat. Natürlich steht dahinter das Wesen des Vitals, das sich amüsiert, auch Einflüsse... kurz alles, was das göttliche Werk verzögern und die Dinge erschweren möchte. Alles, was seine Freude daran fin
25. November 1967
(Die Post betreffend)
Sehr oft ist es so: Täglich erhalte ich etwa fünfundzwanzig bis dreißig Briefe; ich habe Zeit, acht bis zehn davon zu lesen; während ich sie lese, kommt meistens keine Antwort - mindestens 98% sind auch überflüssig. Wenn es irgendeine Antwort gibt, kommt sie sehr schnell. Wenn die Antwort nicht sofort kommt, lege ich es manchmal (oft) beiseite, und später, wenn ich allein bin, kommt Sri Aurobindo und sagt mir: "Wenn du ihm das sagtest..." Dann schreibe ich unverzüglich. Das geschieht sehr häufig. Immer eine Antwort, oh, mit einem Sinn für das Lächerliche, mit Humor, es trifft