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SABCL - Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library

CWSA - Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo

CWM - Collected Works of The Mother

Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Some Answers from The Mother_Volume-16/Series Eight.htm
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   * Sweet Mother, How can one
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Some Answers from The Mother_Volume-16/Series Four.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Some Answers from The Mother_Volume-16/Series Six.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Some Answers from The Mother_Volume-16/Series One.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Some Answers from The Mother_Volume-16/Series Seven.htm
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:
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Some Answers from The Mother_Volume-16/Series Two.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/German/MUTTERS AGENDA BAND_08/1967-11-22.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/German/MUTTERS AGENDA BAND_08/1967-10-30.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/German/MUTTERS AGENDA BAND_08/1967-06-14.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/German/MUTTERS AGENDA BAND_08/1967-11-25.htm
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