Sweet Mother, Why do we celebrate Christmas here? What special meaning does this day have for us? And why is a distinction made here between Europeans and Indians on Christmas Day? *Long before the Christian religion made December 25th the day of Christ’s birth, this day was the festival of the return of the sun, the Day of Light.* It is this very ancient symbol of the rebirth of the Light that we wish to celebrate here. *As far as I know, everyone in the Ashram is allowed to come to the Christmas tree and the distribution. * The custom of sending special baskets to the Europeans and Americans comes from the fact that in thos

Money is not meant to make money, money is meant to make the earth ready for the advent of the new creation. It is to the Divine that all riches belong. It is the Divine who lends them to living beings, and it is to Him that they must naturally return. Wealth under the psychic influence: wealth ready to return to its true possessor, the Divine. A day shall come when all the wealth of this world, freed at last from the enslavement to the antidivine forces, offers itself spontaneously and fully to the service of the Divine’s Work upon earth.¹ 6 January 1955 page 53-54 , Words of The

(About A. B. Purani, a disciple who passed away on 11 December 1965) Purani His higher intellectual part has gone to Sri Aurobindo and united with him. His psychic is with me, and he is very happy and in peace. His vital is still helping those who seek his help. 5 March 1966 page 186 , Words of The Mother , volume 13 , CWMCE

zoo in Auroville We are always too attracted by animals, and it is more interesting to look to the future than towards the past. As far as I am concerned, a zoo does not interest me. We already tend to be too attached to animality rather than supermentality. 31 August 1972 page 247, vol -13, Words of The Mother Home

INVOCATION 15 August 1947 O our Mother, O Soul of India, Mother who hast never forsaken thy children even in the days of darkest depression, even when they turned away from thy voice, served other masters and denied thee, now when they have arisen and the light is on thy face in this dawn of thy liberation, in this great hour we salute thee. Guide us so that the horizon of freedom opening before us may be also a horizon of true greatness and of thy true life in the community of the nations. Guide us so that we may be always on the side of great ideals and show to men thy true visage, as a leader in the wa

What is concentration? It is to bring back all the scattered threads of consciousness to a single point, a single idea. Those who can attain perfect attention succeed in everything they undertake; they will always make a rapid progress. And this kind of concentration can be developed exactly like the muscles; one may follow different systems, different methods of training. Today we know that the most pitiful weakling, for example, can with discipline become as strong as anyone else. One should not have a will which flickers out like a candle. The will, concentration must be cultivated; it is a question of method, of regular exercis

Teachers who are not perfectly calm, who do not have an endurance that never fails, and a quietude which nothing can disturb, who have no self-respect — those who are like that will get nowhere. One must be a saint and a hero to be a good teacher. *One must be a great yogi to be a good teacher. One must have a perfect attitude to be able to exact a perfect attitude from the students. You cannot ask anyone to do what you don't do yourself. That is a rule. So look at the difference between what is and what ought to be, and you will be able to estimate the extent of your failure in class.* Mother, Once a worker goes to the school he becom

There is one thing that I must emphasise. Don't try to follow what is done in the universities outside. Don't try to pump into the students mere data and information. Don't give them so much work that they may not get time for anything else. You are not in a great hurry to ca h a train. Let the students understand what they learn. Let them assimilate it. Finishing the course should not be your goal. You should make the programme in such a way that the students may get time to attend the subjects they want to learn. They should have sufficient time for their physical exercises. I don't want them to be very good students, yet pale, thin, anaemic. Perhaps you will say t

Integral wealth of Mahalakshmi: wealth of feelings and action in all fields of activity − intellectual, psychological and material. page 19 , vol -15 , Words of The Mother , CWMCE