August 15, 1959 (Letter from Mother to Satprem) ... And now, today,# I am writing you again because it is the day of great amnesties, the day when all past errors are effaced ... With all my unvarying and eternal love. 1. The color worn by sannyasis. 2. August 15th, Sri Aurobindo's birthday. Page 326 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

October 10, 1958 (The disciple asks to know what he must do and what his place is in the universal manifestation) In all religious and especially occult initiations, the ritual of the different ceremonies is prescribed in every detail; all the words pronounced, all the gestures made have their importance, and the least infraction of the rule, the least fault committed can have fatal consequences. It is the same in material life - if one had the initiation into the true way of living, one could transform physical existence. Page 207 If we consider the body as the tabernacle of the Lord, then medical science, for example, becomes the initiatory ritual of the service of

October 8, 1957 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Pondicherry, October 8, 1957 Mother, I come to ask your permission to leave India. For more than a year now, I have been fighting not to leave, but this seems to be the wrong strategy. There is no question of my abandoning the path - and I remain convinced that the only goal in life is spiritual. But I need things to help me along the way: I am not yet ripe enough to depend upon inner strength alone. And when I speak of the forest or a boat, it is not only for the sake of adventure or the feeling of space, but also because they mean a discipline. Outer constraints and difficulties help me, they force me to remain concentra

June 17, 1959 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Rameswaram, June 17, 1959 Sweet Mother, I have received your card of the 13th. I dare not write, for everything is too confused as concerns the immediate realities. The only thing that affirms itself with a certitude and a greater and greater force is my soul. I cling to It with all my strength. It is my only refuge. If I did not have that, I would throw my life overboard, for the outer circumstances and the immediate future seem to me impossible, unlivable. I was touched by your blessings for Sujata and myself. But there lies another impossibility. These last days I have come to realize that to blame all my 'crises' on

March 3, 1957 (Letter from Mother to Satprem) 3.3.57 I name you Satprem (true love) for it is only when you awaken to divine love that you will feel that you love. Signed: Mother Page 100 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

February 29, 1956 FIRST SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION (During the common meditationon on Wednesday the 29th February 1956) This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine. As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that THE TIME HAS COME', and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow2 on the door and the door was shattered to pieces. Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon ea

October 17, 1957 (On freedom) There are all kinds of freedom - mental freedom, vital freedom, spiritual freedom - which are the fruits of successive masteries. But a completely new freedom has become possible with the Supramental Manifestation: it is the freedom of the body. 1. Of Mother's French translation of these two books by Sri Aurobindo. Page 111 One of the very first results of the supramental manifestation was to give the body a freedom and an autonomy it has never before known. And when I say freedom, I don't mean some psychological perception or an inner state of consciousness, but something else and far better - it is a new phenomenon in the body, in the c

January 21, 1959 OM OM, Seigneur Suprême Prends possession de ce corps Manifeste-Toi en lui. (translation) OM OM, Supreme Lord Take possession of this body Manifest Yourself in it. 1. All these prayers were written by Mother and this title was given by Her. Page 339 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

May 28, 1960 K left his body. The operation had been extraordinarily, almost miraculously successful - one of those dreadful operations where they extract part of your body. He was quite all right for four days afterwards, then everything went wrong. During the operation and just afterwards, I had simply put the Force on him, as I always do in such cases, so that everything would turn out for the best. Then a few days ago, during my japa, a kind of order came - a very clear order - to concentrate on him so that he would be conscious of his soul and able to leave under the best conditions. And I saw that the concentration worked wonderfully: it seems that during his last days he was

August 11, 1959 (Letter from Mother to Satprem, on the road) 8.11.59 Satprem, my dear little one, Now I can tell you that not for one hour have I left you; I have been constantly near you, hoping that your inner eyes would open and that you would see me, watching over you and enveloping you with my force and my love. It is within yourself that I want you to find the certitude, truth and joy. Now I write you what I have wanted to tell you from the beginning: when you return to the Ashram, do not put on the orange robe' again, return with the clothing X has given you ... And we shall leave the care of deciding about the details of the future to the Supreme Lord.