A little later There was, yesterday afternoon and this morning, a long demonstration of how the Mind brought about and permitted a certain change in the evolution of Matter for the Divine's play, how rejection of the Mind is useful ONLY as a means of progress and evolution, and how it will be fully used when the new being - the complete, divine being - manifests. It was very interesting. A demonstration. It's the continuation of the demonstration [of August 31] which showed that ALL that has happened is necessary. But this can be really understood only when you have got rid of the Mind. As long as you are bound to it,

.. Then there is little S.U. (do you know S.U.?), who isn't too happy with her work and asked me if I couldn't help her make some progress. So I told her, "Read Satprem's book ...." She started reading Satprem's book. She told me "If I don't understand something, what do I do?" I said, "If you can't understand, ask me." So yesterday, she quoted a bit of a sentence to me (you know how they do: they take a bit of a sentence and ask you, "Whatever does this mean?!"). I answered. It was a sentence in which it was said that there were two "positions": the materialist and the spiritualist; then you mention me, saying we should take another position, a "third position."

It's like that famous Nirvana - you can find it behind everything. There's a psychic nirvana, a mental nirvana, even a vital nirvana. I think I already told you about the experience I had with Tagore in Japan. Tagore always used to say that as soon as he started meditating he entered Nirvana, and he asked me to meditate with him. We sat together in meditation. I was expecting to make a very steep ascent, but he simply went into his MIND, and there ... (what I do, you see, is tune in to the person I am meditating with, identify with him - that's how I know what happens). Well, he started meditating, and everything quite rapidly came to a halt, beca

(On January 18, Mother received the Dalai Lama. It should be noted that Mother had long ago admitted a number of Tibetan refugees to the Ashram and Auroville.) Anything to say? I'd be curious to know what you felt with the Dalai Lama? A truly benevolent man. Buddhist benevolence, you know, and he practices it marvelously. He seems to have no ... no selfishness in him (there's no word for it in French). I mean, a constant concern to do the right thing. page 350 , Mother's Agenda , vol 13 – 1972-73 I told him Tibet would become independent again. He asked me when. I said, "I don't know." [[Mother replied, "All depends on the

O my sweet Lord supreme Truth, I aspire that this food I take may infuse into all the cells of my body Your all-knowledge, Your all-power, Your all-kindness. Page 337 O my sweet Master, Lord God of Kindness and Mercy. What you want us to know, we shall know, what you want us to do, we shall do, what you want us to be, we shall be - forever. Om - namo - bhagavateh For it is You who is, who lives and who knows - it is You who does all things, You who is the result of every action. And the body says to the Supreme Lord: 'What You want me to be, I shall be, What You want me to know, I shall kno

/Have you heard the story of the flying saucer? / Ah, yes! I have studied it also. However, I am waiting to have a physical experience. I indeed saw a flying saucer pass over Pondicherry during the war, I saw it clearly, with open eyes, and going fairly slowly, coming from the sea to the land. It was light blue and had a slightly rounded shape like this. I saw it passing by and said to myself, “Why, I have a vision!” I rubbed my eyes but my eyes were open, completely open… Suddenly I saw a form passing in the sky like this; I told myself, “How strange it is!” but as no one had spoken about it till then, I thought that I had a vision. I see many thing

A letter from Sri Aurobindo to his younger brother Barin. April 7, 1920 Dear Barin, I have your letter, but have not succeeded in writing an answer till now. That I have even sat down to write now is a miracle; for me to write a letter is an event that takes place once in a blue moon - especially to write in Bengali, a thing I have not done for five or six years. If I can manage to finish this letter and put it in the post, the miracle will be complete! First, about your yoga. You wish to give me the charge of your yoga and I am willing to take it, but that means to give its charge to Him who is moving

-384_Sri Aurobindo's letter.html (Then Mother takes from the table by her side a few letters of SriAurobindo which she intends to publish, including these:) "The prestige of an institution claiming to bea centre of spirituality lies in its spirituality (Mother laughs), not in newspaper columns or famous people." This, I know, is about the Theosophical Society. I don't know whom he wrote it to. [[In fact, the text of this letter was given truncated to Mother. Sri Aurobindo was referring to the Ashram and not to the Theosophical Society. Here is the full text of the letter: "Queer idea all you fellows seem to have of the 'prestige' of the Asra

It was not by choice that I met all the four Asuras - it was a decision of the Supreme. The first one, whom religions call Satan, the Asura of Consciousness, was converted and is still at work. The second [the Asura of Suffering] annulled himself in the Supreme. The third was the Lord of Death (that was Theon). And the fourth, the Master of the world, was the Lord of Falsehood. page 367 - Mother's Agenda, volume 2, 5th Nov. - 1961

OM Sri Aurobindo Mira Open my mind, my heart, my life to your Light, your Love, your Power. In all things may I see the Divine. 16 July 1938 On Himself, 26.512 That's good. What do we do with all this? The first could make a message for the November darshan? For November, yes, that's very good. (Mother repeats) "The Light is closer to us ..." The other one could make a message for February? I don't much like my name in it. What about putting "Ma" [Mother] instead of "Mira"? But he put "Mira." I think you could put "Ma" instead of "M