Replies to Prayers of the Physical Education Groups1  GROUP A Sweet Mother, for us Thou hast kept the path free from all dangers and difficulties, the path that surely leads to the goal; and when the final victory will be won, it will reach out to infinity. Mother, keep us always green, so that we may ad- vance without stop on the road Thou hast with such labour prepared for us. My little ones, you are the hope, you are the future. Keep always this youth which is the faculty to progress; for you the phrase “it is impossible” will have no meaning.  22 April 1949  * GROUP B Sweet Mother, we want to be Thy faithful soldie

National Education Our aim is not a national system of education for India, but an education for the world at large.   Sublime Mother, Our aim is no exclusive national system of edu- cation for India but an essential and fundamental edu- cation for all mankind. But, is it not true, Mother, that this education, because of India's special fitness (by virtue of its past cultural striving and attainment), is India's privilege and special responsibility towards herself and the world? At any rate, this essential edu- cation is India's national education to my mind. In fact, I regard this as the national education of each great country with

A Dream                        There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme truth; a place of peace, concord and harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his weaknesses and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and the concern for progress would take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the search for pleasure

VI ANSWERS TO A MONITOR                        Here our activities are so varied that it is difficult to stick to one thing and perfect it. Perhaps that is the reason why we are not able to go beyond a mediocre average. Or is it because of our lack of solid concen- tration? The cause of mediocre work is neither the variety nor the number of activities, but lack of the power of concentration.       One must learn to concentrate and do everything with full concentration. 4 July 1961 * It really is a problem to know how to create interest in the students, whether in games, athletics or gymna- stics. Even our enthus

which aim to teach: books on philosophy, art, the sciences, etc. There should be very few novels (the students read only too many novels), and no modern novels, unless they are of particularly good quality. Literature has its place in the “Bibliothèque Choisie”, so that the students can learn what literature is. The most important thing to be taken into consideration when selecting books, is the quality of the language and style,1 something “splendid” as in Flaubert. No translations, or very few, and only if they are of famous works one cannot say “masterpieces” because there are so few of them!2                                                                  (

Our Flag and Our Cover The flag that is shown on the cover of our Bulletin represents the symbol of a full-blown golden lotus with two rows of petals, four inside and twelve outside, at the exact centre of a silver-blue square. This blue is the blue of the spirit and the gold is the colour of the Supreme Mother. The red of the cover surrounding the flag signifies the illumined physical consciousness. This flag was originally chosen as the flag of the J.S.A.S.A.;1 but later, when we celebrated India's Independence Day (15 August 1947), we found that it also expressed the spiritual mission of the whole of India. So for us it is the symbolic flag of a resurgent, united and victo

To the Students, Young and Old                There are, in the history of the earth, moments of transition when things that have existed for thousands of years must give way to those that are about to manifest. A special concentration of the world consciousness, one might almost say, an intensification of its effort, occurs at such times, varying according to the kind of progress to be made, the quality of the transformation to be realised. We are at precisely such a turning-point in the world's history. Just as Nature has already created upon earth a mental being, man, so too there is now a concentrated activity in this mentality to bring forth a supramental consciousnes

The Science of Living To know oneself and to control oneself  An aimless life is always a miserable life.  Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself. To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these diff

 to me. Please tell me, how can I take interest in the things to which I am not drawn? There are a lot of things that we need to know, not because we find them specially interesting but because they are useful and even indispensable; mathematics is one of them. It is only when we have a strong background of knowledge that we can face life successfully.   History and geography can only become interesting to minds that are eager to know the earth on which they live. Before one can take an interest in these two subjects, one must widen the horizons of one's thirst for knowledge as well as one's field of consciousness. How can mathematics, history or

* THE MOTHER - 1969