THE MOTHER Questions and Answers             3rd February, 1958 SOMETIME ago I had the experience of identification with ^ the animal life. It is a fact that animals do not understand us : their consciousness is so made that we escape them almost entirely. Yet I knew of some familiar animals, cats and dogs, cats particularly, that used tq make a conscious, almost yogic effort to join with us. But generally, when they look at us as we live and act they do not understand us, they do not see us as we are; we are for them a constant puzzle. Only a very small part of their consciousness has a link with us. And i

THE MOTHER Questions and Answers           Ski Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry February, 1961   Questions and Answers I Radha — Krishna "For there is concealed behind individual love, obscured by its ignorant human figure, a mystery which the mind cannot seize, the mystery of the body of the Divine, the secret of a mystic form of the Infinite which we can approach only through the ecstasy of the heart and the passion of the pure and sublimated sense, and its attraction which is the call of the the divine Flute-player, the mastering compulsion of the All-Beautiful

    THE MOTHER Questions and Answers         SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PONDICHERY 1956   Reimprime du Bulletin d'Education Physique Novembre, 1956                                   IMPRIMERIE DE SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PONDICHERY

  THE MOTHER   Questions and Answers             Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry November, 1960       Reprinted from The Bulletin of S. A. I. C. of Education November, 1960 Sri Aurobindo  Ashram Press. Pondicherry         Questions and Answers I Why can't we pass from the rational mind directly to the Supramental, now that the Supramental has descended ? Who has said that it cannot be done ? Sri Aurobindo gives here a description of what one should do to be able to come in contact with the Supramental and prepare the ground for

THE MOTHER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS               SRI AUROBINDO: ASHRAM PONDICHERRY 1957 Questions and Answers The birth of Sri Aurobindo is an eternal birth. I HAVE received a question today about a phrase I used on the 14th of August, the eve of Sri Aurobindo's birthday. The question seemed to me interesting, because it was concerning one of those phrases, somewhat cryptic, almost ambiguous on account of over simplification, but meant to be so in order that everyone may understand it according to the plane of consciousness where he is. I have told you many times that it is possible to understand t

  Questions and Answers What is the significance of this message for 1957 that you have given us : ''A power greater than that of Evil can alone win the victory. It is not a crucified but a glorified body that will save the world.''  THIS message, if it is understood, is just that which can lead to its goal the best human good will showing itself at present upon earth. I wrote it in answer to an immense, pathetic, collective effort to awaken in men the true sense of brotherhood and to prevent all future war.       The message has taken a somewhat especial form, because the goodwill proceeded from a Christian country and I answered to a Christian conception,

  THE MOTHER   Questions and Answers               Reprinted from The Bulletin of S. A. I. C. of Education November,1959 Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry.           Sutras (i) Have no ambition, above all, pretend nothing, but be at each instant the utmost that you can be. (2) As for your place in the universal manifestation, the Supreme alone will fix it for you. (3) The Supreme Lord has decreed inviolably the place that you occupy in the world concert, but whatever be that place, you have the same right as all others equally to climb the supreme heights up

  THE MOTHER Questions and Answers           Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry  February, i960 Questions and Answers I Delight the Creator In order to make a true self-giving should not one arrive at a rather high degree of spiritual growth ? For, if one leads a life, more or less unconscious, the self-giving can be only more or less mental and it cannot be very real. How has one got to do it ? Is it possible from the very beginning to start with self-giving ? THAT depends on people. In some the psychic movement, the emotional impulse is stronger than the intellectual understanding. They feel an irres

THE MOTHER Questions and Answers           Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry April, 1962 Questions and Answers I Sri Aurobindo writes, "The Supreme has laid his luminous hand upon a chosen human vessel of his miraculous Light and Power and Ananda" ("The Synthesis of Yoga", p. 100) IT is as you like. One does not know who has begun ! But the two happen generally at the same time.      If you want an order of priority, it is evident that the Divine exists before the individual, then it is the Divine who must have chosen the first time. But it is a choice made before the terrestria

THE MOTHER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS             SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PONDICHERRY 1957 Questions and Answers       "Wherefore God hammers so fiercely at his world, tramples and kneads it like dough, casts it so often into the blood-bath and the red hell-heat of the furnace? Because humanity in the mass is still a hard, crude and vile ore which will not otherwise be smelted and shaped..." Sri Aurobindo — Thoughts and Glimpses AFTER all, the whole problem is to know whether humanity has reached that state of pure gold in which the ways of violence and destr