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7 March 1956
Sweet Mother, what is this form
of sacrifice in which
animals are slaughtered upon
altars?
It is certainly one of the obscurest and most unconscious. And the
sacrifice spoken about here and in the Gita, is the sacrifice one makes of
oneself, not of others.
Because here it is written:
“Whoever the recipient,
whatever the gift, it is the
Supreme, the Eternal in
things, who receives and
accepts it.”
The Synthesis
of Yoga, p. 101-102
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Happily for the poor creature which is sacrificed! Perhaps it
goes straight to the Divine.
It would be very
interesting to see…. Imagine a man who wants to win the Divine’s favour, or
t
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21 March 1956
Sweet Mother, here it is
written: “There is one funda-
mental perception indispensable towards any
integral
knowledge…. It is to realise the Divine in its essential self and
truth”
The Synthesis of Yoga, A. 106
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How can one understand the
Divine?
By being Him, my child. And that is the only way: by identity.
As Sri Aurobindo says, “We know the Divine and become the Divine, because we are
That already in our secret nature.” It is because He is the very essence of our
being that we can become Him and, consequently, understand Him; otherwise it would
be quite impossible.
How can we find the Divine
within ourselves?
Well, it is
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22 August 1956
Sweet Mother, what does Sri Aurobindo call “the
heaven of the liberated mind”?
The heaven
of the liberated mind? It is a metaphorical phrase. When the mind is liberated,
it rises to celestial heights. These higher regions of the mind Sri Aurobindo
pares with the sky above the earth; they are celestial pared with the ordinary
mind.
Is that all?
(Silence)
Somebody has asked me a question about trance — what in India is
called Samadhi, that is to say, when one passes or enters into a state of which
no conscious memory remains when one wakes up:
“Is the state of trance or Samadhi a sign of progress?”
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4 July 1956
Sweet Mother, it is said that if
one sees a shooting
star and at that moment
one aspires for something,
that aspiration is
fulfilled within the year. Is this true?
Do you know what that means? ― The aspiration must be
formulated during the time the star is visible; and that doesn’t last
long, does it? Well, if an aspiration can be formulated while the star is
visible, this means that it is all the time there, present, in the forefront of
the consciousness ― this does not apply to ordinary things, it has nothing to do
with that, it concerns a spiritual aspiration. But the point is that if you are
able to articulate your spiritual aspiration just at that m
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PART TWO
THE PATH OF YOGA
The Path
The mountain path leads
always in two directions, upward and downward ― all
depends on what we put behind us.
Life is a perpetual
choice between truth and falsehood, light and darkness, progress and regression,
the ascent towards the heights or a fall into the abyss. It is for each one to
choose freely.
29 February
1952
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In each one's life a
moment comes when he has to choose between the Path and the muddle. You cannot
put one foot here and one foot there. If you try to, you will be torn to
pieces.
A heart that does not
choose is a heart that will die.
You take up the
spiritual path only wh
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Difficulties in Work
This morning I felt tired after five
minutes' work. It
was only polishing furniture!
All manual work is
tiring the first few times one does it. But gradually the body gets used to it
and becomes strong. However, when you feel really tired, you must stop and
rest.
11 February 1933
*
With consecration the work can be done much more easily and happily. But
nobody must be asked a greater effort than what he can do.
27 February 1935
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The best way to work without getting tired is to offer the work you do
(whatever work it is) to the Divine and to find in the Divine the support you
need − for the Divine's Force is inexhaustib
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The Mind
MIND: ONLY AN INSTRUMENT
Mind:
its true worth depends on its surrender to the Divine.
Purified
mind: mind ready to surrender to the Divine.
Mental
surrender: this happens when the mind has understood that it is only an
instrument.
Conversion
of the mind: the mind has liberated itself from its arrogance and knows it is
only an instrument.
Clear
mind: the first step on the road to conversion.
Birth
of true mental sincerity: with its birth the mind will understand that it is
only a means and not an end in itself.
The
mind must learn to express only what is dictated by the Divine.
Page − 361
Power
of mental expression has no v
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Marriage and Children
To unite your physical lives, your material interests, to become
partners in order to face together the difficulties and successes, the defeats
and victories of life − that is the very foundation of marriage, but you
already know that it is not enough.
To be united in your sensations, to have the same aesthetic tastes and
enjoyments, to be moved in common by the same things, one through the other and
one for the other − that is good, that is necessary, but it is not
enough.
To be one in your deeper feelings, to keep a mutual affection and
tenderness that never vary in spite of all the blows of life and can withstand
every weariness and irri
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PART SEVEN
PARTS OF THE BEING
The Soul (the Psychic)
The
soul is that which comes out of the Divine without ever leaving Him and goes
back to Him without ever ceasing from manifestation.
The
soul is the Divine made individual without ceasing to be divine. In the soul
the individual and the Divine are eternally one.
Thus
to find one’s soul is to be united with the Divine.
It
can therefore be said that the role of the soul is to make of man a true being.
Theories
differ according to schools and sects, and each one puts forth excellent
reasons to support what it asserts.
There
is certainly truth in whatever one affirms and any case is not only possibl
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Peace and
Silence
CALM
Be very careful to
remain always calm and peaceful and let an integral equanimity establish itself
more and more completely in your being. Do not allow your mind to be too active
and to live in a turmoil, do not jump to conclusions from a superficial view of
things; always take your time, concentrate and decide only in quietness.
Mother, for several days I have been suffering a lot.
It is the inner being that suffers and always wants to
unite with the divine consciousness but cannot be-
cause of the outer consciousness. Mother, really I am
suffering.
You know that it is indispensable to be
calm; you must try hard to