SRI AUROBINDO INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF EDUCATION During the 1920s and 1930s, the Mother's educational guidance was limited to instructing a few individuals in French and offering general counsel in other courses of study. At that time, children were not permitted, as a rule, to live in the Ashram. In the early 1940s, a number of families were admitted to the Ashram and instruction was initiated for the children. On 2 December 1943, the Mother formally opened a school for about twenty children. She herself was one of the teachers. The number of pupils gradually increased during the next seven years. On 24 April 1951, the Mother presided over a convention where it was resolved to establi

PALMISTRY Palmistry is a very interesting art, but it depends for its exactitude and truthfulness almost entirely upon the real ability of the one who practises it. Moreover, it relates only to the material destiny and this destiny can be altered by the intervention of the higher forces. 3 January 1951 page 39, 30, Words of The Mother, vol -15

Sweet Mother, What do you give us in the morning at the balcony,¹// //and what should we try to do in order to receive what you are giving? Every morning at the balcony, after establishing a conscious contact with each of those who are present, I identify myself with the Supreme Lord and dissolve myself completely in Him. Then my body, completely passive, is nothing but a channel through which the Lord passes His forces freely and pours upon all His Light, His Consciousness and His Joy, according to each one's receptivity. The best way to receive what He gives is to come to the balcony with trust and aspiration and to keep oneself as /calm and quiet as one can in a sile

Physical Education Of all the domains of human consciousness, the physical is the one most completely governed by method, order, discipline, process. The lack of plasticity and receptivity in matter has to be replaced by a detailed organisation that is both precise and comprehensive. In this organisation, one must not forget the interdependence and interpenetration of all the domains of the being. However, even a mental or vital impulse, to express itself physically, must submit to an exact process. That is why all education of the body, if it is to be effective, must be rigorous and detailed, far-sighted and methodical. This will be trans

To sell the things received from Prosperity is an insult to the Divine and will bear its spiritual consequences. June 1971 page 187, vol -13, Words of The Mother

The flame of the aspiration must be so straight and so ardent that no obsstacle can dissolve it. The Mother, Replace the eagerness for fame by the aspiration for perfection. The Mother

(Message for Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India, who visited the Ashram) India must rise to the height of her mission and proclaim the Truth to the world. 15 November 1955 page 362-63 , Words of The Mother , volume 13 , CWMCE

Self-Control A wild horse can be tamed but one never puts a bridle on a tiger. Why is that? Because in the tiger there is a wicked, cruel and incorrigible force, so that we cannot expect anything good from him and have to destroy him to prevent him from doing harm. But the wild horse, on the other hand, however unmanageable and skittish he may be to begin with, can be controlled with a little effort and patience. In time he learns to obey and even to love us, and in the end he will of his own accord offer his mouth to the bit that is given to him. In men too there are rebellious and unmanageable desires and impulses, but

Faith is something much more integral – that is what Sri Aurobindo has written – much more integral than trust. You see, you have trust in the Divine, in the see that you are convinced that all that comes from Him will always be the best for you: whatever His decision and whatever the experience He sends you or the circumstances in which He puts you, it will all be always what is best for you. This is trust. But faith – that kind of unshakable certitude in the very existence of God – faith is something that seizes the whole being. It is not only mental, psychic or vital: it is the whole being, entirely, which has faith. Faith leads straight to experience.