The Mother interaction with members , devotees and public figures A Abhay Singh Antonin Raymond A B Patel Amal Kiran 's mother Anil Mukherjee Amrita-da Alice Bailey Alexandra David Neil Anand Dr. Agarwal Anjini-bhen Abhijit Albert''s father Armand Roider - healer Andre

But then what is this consciousness we feel like a force inside us? For instance, sometimes in meditation it rises, then descends; it's not fixed anywhere. What is this consciousness? The Shakti! Some receive it from above; for others, it rises from below (gesture to the base of the spine). As I once told you, the old system always proceeds from below upwards, while Sri Aurobindo pulls from above downwards. This becomes very clear in meditation (well, in yoga, in yogic experience): for those who follow the old system, it's invariably the kundalini at the base [of the spine] rising from center to center, center to ce

X told me that in 6 months, he would come here to spend an entire month for the initiation and preparing for the initiation. He spoke to me of this in the street after having seen P, and in an enigmatic way he told me something along these lines: 'Yes, strong men are needed here. The Power is needed.' I did not clearly understand, for it was said with a lot of innuendo behind it. page 289 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , March 1959

The transition between the two appears really possible only through the entry - the conscious and willed entry - of a supramentalized consciousness into a body that we could call an "improved physical body," in other words, the human physical body as it is now, but improved: the improvement produced, for instance, by a TRUE physical training, not in its present exaggerated form but in its true sense. It's something I have seen fairly clearly: in an evolution (physical training is developing very fast nowadays, it's not even half a century since it started), in evolution, that physical training will bring an improvement, that is, a suppleness, a balan

-444_The Mother's answers.html (On that day, Mother gave the following answer to a question asked by one of the Ashram's associations:) What is the change the world is preparing for?How can one help it? A change of consciousness. When our consciousness changes, we will know what the change is. The change does not need our help in order to come, but we need to open up to the consciousness so that it may not come in vain for us. page 85 , Mother's Agenda , volume 11 , 21st Feb - 1970 Sri Aurobindo says that "the soul is naked and unashamed,"[[Aphorism 350 - "Only the soul that is na

(Mother picks up a letter on her table) What does he write? [Satprem reads an endless letter:] He asks, "Should I sell my car for less than 35,000 rupees? Can I consult 'I Ching' and go deeper into its study?..." Consult what? "I Ching." I don't know, it's a Chinese name. Ah, yes, they're all hooked on that. It's a book in which you find an answer to any question. But naturally, you bend all the words you read to your thought. But can you see that! I have a stack of letters like this one, there isn't even one or two truly asking something that I alone can answer. In fact, that's the

-434_The Mother's prayers.html Glory to You, O Lord, all-triumphant Supreme, Grant that nothing in us shall be an obstacle to Your work, Grant that everything in us may be ready for Your manifestation. page 210 , Mother's Agenda , volume 8 , 5th July - 1967

(Regarding the Playground Talk of March 10, 1951: "In the physical form there is the 'spirit of the form,' and that spirit of the form persists for a time, even when outwardly the person is said to be dead. And as long as the spirit of the form persists, the body isn't destroyed. In ancient Egypt they had that knowledge; they knew that if they prepared the body in a certain way, the spirit of the form wouldn't go away and the body wouldn't be dissolved. In certain cases, they succeeded wonderfully. And if you go and violate the sleep of those beings who for thousands of years have remained like that, I can understand that they aren't too pleased, especially w

The photo in the armchair ... it's a bit too late; he was already beginning to feel that ... the world wasn't ready to go to the end. There is already the expression of suffering on his face. But the other photo is good. That's how I knew Sri Aurobindo: he had just come out of the photo in profile, in which he is very thin. As for Cartier-Bresson's photos, they were taken in 1950. It's a pity nothing was taken before. Oh, he would never have let himself be photographed! But when I saw the photo [of Cartier-Bresson, taken in 1950], when I saw he had that expression ... Because, with me, he never had it; he n