It was certainly with the progress of evolution, the march of evolution, when the mind began to develop for and in itself, that ALL the complications, all the deformations began. Indeed, this story of Genesis that seems so childish does contain a truth. The old traditions like Genesis resembled the Vedas in that each letter [[In Genesis, Hebraic letters. ]] was the symbol of a knowledge; it was the pictorial résumé of a traditional knowledge, just as the Veda contains a pictoral résumé of the knowledge of its time. But what's more, even the symbol had a reality in the sense that there was truly a period when life upon earth (the first manifestation of mentalized M

(Regarding the New Year message: "Men, countries, continents! The choice is imperative: Truth or the abyss." A disciple asks Mother, "What is the meaning of 'abyss' in your New Year Message?" Mother's reply, in English:) Right now there is a great tension. They have all taken positions as if to start war. It is the blind passion that men put into their international relations. At the base of it all there is fear, general distrust, and what they believe to be their "interests" (money, business) - a combination of these three things. When these three lowest passions of humanity are

(To Nolini:) Do you know? (Nolini:) At the beginning, when he came to Pondicherry [in1910]. At the very beginning.... But then, what does he mean when he says, "When I knew that God was a woman"! (Nolini:) He always used to say that Krishna and Kali were one and the same being. Ramakrishna, too, once became a woman: God was Krishna and he became a woman; for a long time he had that impression. Naturally, for me, the answer is this sense of humor! (Mother laughs) (Satprem:) Yes, you write to T., "Sri Aurobindo had the geniusof humor and one only has to admire

The Mother's victory is essentially a victory of each Sadhak over himself. It can only be then that any external form of work can come to a harmonious perfection. 12-11-1937 - The Mother -volume -25 - SABCL Why should the Mother be obliged to treat everybody in the same way? It would be a most imbecile thing for her to do that. Page 859 , Letters On Yoga Volume-23 , SABCL Since the beginning of the earth, wherever and whenever there was the possibility of manifesting a ray of the Consciousness, I was there. That which is speaking to you now, is a faithful servant of the Divine. From all time, since the beginning of the earth, as a faith

I told him Tibet would become independent again. He asked me when. I said, "I don't know." [[Mother replied, "All depends on the world's receptivity to the supramental consciousness." We publish in the Addendum an account of the Dalai Lama's questions and Mother's answers. ]] Sri Aurobindo's idea was an independent Tibet within a sort of great federation with India. But when will that happen? I don't know. Page 351 , L'Agenda de Mère - vol 13 – 1972-73 Home

Dreams or visions on the vital plane are usually either: (1) symbolic vital visions; (2) actual occurrences on the vital plane; (3) formations of the vital mind, either of the dreamer or of someone else with whom he contacts in sleep or of powers or beings of that plane. No great reliance can be put on this kind of experience, even the first having only a relative or suggestive value, while the second and third are often quite misleading. page 946, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL Home

A movement in the case of a work like mine means the founding of a school or a sect or some other damned nonsense. It means that hundreds or thousands of useless people join in and corrupt the work or reduce it to a pompous farce from which the Truth that was coming down recedes into secrecy and silence. It is what has happened to the “religions” and is the reason of their failure. Sri Aurobindo

Light is an emanation from the sun, but the sun is itself an emanation from God. When it is full of Him, then it is full of light. So the ancient Rishis used to say that He was in the sun. /Yo’sau purusah /etc. But this was only a manner of speaking. When the sun is full of God's presence, it is full of light and heat, when it is empty of Him, the light and heat are withdrawn. So too the human soul is like the sun: When it is full of light and heat, it is said to be alive, when the light and heat are withdrawn, it is said to die. But this too is only a manner of speaking. The soul is imperishable. When the body feels the presence of God within, it is conscious of l

Mother India is not a piece of earth; she is a Power, a Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. page 424 , Letters on Yoga , volume - 22 , SABCL India must remain India if she is to fulfil her destiny. Page 862, Bande Mataram , volume 1, SABCL So with India rests the future of the world. Whenever she is aroused from her sleep, she gives forth some wonderful shining ray of light to the world which is enough to illuminate the nations. Others live for centuries on what is to her the thought of a moment. God gave to her the book of Ancient Wisdom and bade