-16_Victory to the Mother - A Remembrance from Childhood (Vinay).htm 10 "Victory to the Mother" A Remembrance from Childhood Vinay I was studying in the Ashram School and was in the boys' Group 'A4'—the year was probably 1962. Usually in the evenings the Mother came to the school playground after playing at the tennis court. She would first go to the Interview Room and later take the salute of the students. We used to line up on Her way to the room and say to Her: "Bon Soir Douce Mere! Victoire a la Douce Mere!" [Good afternoon Sweet Mother! Victory to the Sweet Mother!] She always patted the cheek of every child before entering the room. And how shall the end

Prayers and Meditations July 6, 1914 What plenitude in the perception! The entire individual being, modest, humble, surrendered, adoring, calm and smiling, feeling one with all beings, unable to make any difference of value, in perfect solidarity with all things, is kneeling down before Thee together with them all; and at the same time the formidable omnipotence of Thy Force which is here, ready for the manifestation, waiting, building the propitious hour, the favourable opportunity: the incomparable splendour of Thy victorious sovereignty. The Force is here. Rejoice, O you who are waiting and hoping: the new manifestation is sure, the new manifestation is at hand

-32_I Remember (Anjani Dayanand).htm 2 I Remember An Interview with Anjani Dayanand 15th August 1964 was a momentous day in my life. That was the day when I had my first Darshan of the Mother. Dayanand had been a regular visitor since 1960. He used to bring Darshan and New Year Messages through which I got my initial introduction to the Mother. The New Year Message of 1964 "Are you ready?" was the turning point in my life. It made me ponder deeply. I tried to find the answer within myself. It came strongly on 14th August 1964. That day was momentous in that Dayanand was very ill, running high temperature, in Madras. And I told him that I wanted to go to Pondicherry Ashram for the Darshan the

-54_The Mother-My First Visit A Remembrance from Childhood (Madhavi).htm 8 The Mother—My First Visit A Remembrance from Childhood Madhavi There is a plan in the Mother's deep world-whim, A purpose in her vast and random game. This ever she meant since the first dawn of life, This constant will she covered with her sport, To evoke a Person in the impersonal Void, With the Truth-Light strike earth's massive roots of trance, Wake a dumb self in the inconscient depths And raise a lost Power from its python sleep That the eyes of the Timeless might look out from Time And the world manifest the unveiled Divine. Book I, 4 Pondicherry was a name th

The reminiscenses will be short. I came to India to meet Sri Aurobindo. I remained in India to live with Sri Aurobindo. When he left his body, I continued to live here in order to do his work which is, by serving the Truth and enlightening mankind, to hasten the rule of the Divine's Love upon earth. The Mother For ever love, O beautiful slave of God! Sri Aurobindo Page-26

-30_Two Blue Eyes Became Blue and White Waves (Meenakshi).htm 24 "Two Blue Eyes Became Blue and White Waves" Meenakshi Vanakkam, We have heard many researchers, professors and scholars in this particular school of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. I am just a kindergarten child and I am from the nursery of course. [Meenakshi resides in the nursery where plants for the gardens of Matrimandir are grown.] Antha Kangal, Antha Kangal Ennai, Ennai Paarkum; Ennai, Ennul Saerkkum Antha Kangal, Antha Kangal. Those eyes, those eyes. Me they see, me alone. Merge they, me to my inner self. Those eyes, those eyes. Whenever I think of the Mother, this poem

Foreword Lt.Gen. Ashoke Chatterjee (Retd) A bouquet of flowers has been offered to the Mother by her children in the form of personal reminiscences. Our grateful thanks to the offerings of these children who have consciously chosen to walk Her Sunlit path and have been aspiring for the realization of their infinite self being. These recollections will enthuse many more aspirants on their onward inward journey. Spirituality has always accepted the reality of the Supreme in humanity. The Mother descends into the individual form of the otherwise unknown and unknowable Godhead and leads us to work out the Will of the Divine. She guides us in transforming the entire Nature an

-50_Will You Help (Subash).htm 4 "Will You Help?" Subash Vanakkam! Unlike the earlier speakers in the series of talks on the Remembrance of Mother, I did not have any personal contact with Mother. I have not seen Mother in the context of Auroville or Ashram work, though I have had Mother's darshan in Her room on my birthday and with a group of Youth Camp participants, and Her balcony darshan seven times. So what I am going to talk is: how I came to Mother, and how She has been guiding me for the last 25 years. I come from Madurai in Tamil Nadu and am an engineering graduate. When I was doing second year in the engineering college I became acquainted with Sri Aurobindo's writings. I li

-11_These, You Have to Find within Yourself (Frederick).htm 6 "These, You Have to Find within Yourself" Frederick When I was asked to participate here I had some hesitation. I don't know where it comes from. I read in Tara's book, 'Growing up with the Mother', where the Mother has been quoted as saying, "You should take the past like a trampoline to help you leap towards the future." But there is a hesitation in me about recalling and remembering and getting trapped in memory. But at the same time I think, seeing again so many people who I have lost contact with and the very fact that I am sitting next to Shyamsundar, it maybe a direction towards the future. I also think of Navajata, who

-48_The Chosen One (Prem Malik).htm 2 The Chosen One Prem Malik Just before the Mother's birthday, around the 15th of February, we got news from Delhi that Toshi'S brother-in-law, who was quite young, had passed away because of heart attack. This was too much of a shock for Toshi and me and we therefore decided to immediately leave for Delhi. We informed the Mother and left the same evening, arriving there the next day. I had, before leaving Auroville or Pondicherry, said to Roger that I would not be able to come back, I felt, for at least a fortnight because all the ceremonies that are connected with the passing away of somebody so close would keep me in Delhi for at least two weeks. Roger w