T Tagore, Rabindranath 16:6 Talk/ Talking about depression 17:68 about one's experience 4:76-77, 16:22, 86 about so-called spiritual thing 17:166 about work 17:166,285, 292-93 about yoga 17:21, 73, 83-84 attitude behind important 16:22 chit chat (idle small talk) 16:181, 17:10, 22-23, 62 control over 17:8, 73, 33-34 developing one's thought and 16:244 during work 17:207 keeping quiet and 16:194 in sleep 16:400 late night 17:60 only what is indispensable 17:51 open frank and cordial 17:285 remaining un affected by 17:50 spoiling peace 17:95 unnecessary 9:143, 16:181, 17:56 wasting love in excess 17:54 when i

Letters To My Little smile My love and blessings for you and for them. July 17, 1936 Maman, You said that there is something closed in me which is not opening to you and that that is why even when I want to feel your love in my heart (which you say is already there) I don't feel it. What is closed ? My heart ? or something else ? I don't understand all this. I want it to open to you and I want to feel your love in my heart always. But if it is really closed, how to open it ? What should I do to open it ? For really I want it to open to you and I want to be happy for ever. Your little child My dear little smile,

Letters To My Little smile My dear maman, I spent the morning hours (drawing with Tara) on the gown which she is going to embroider; and the afternoon hours I spent on the sari. In this sari with red roses my maman looks like " a fairy in a rose garden'. Your little smile Here is a lovely comparison, worthy of the sari which is really very beautiful. March 26, 1933 Here is the promised news: Today I have become the owner of the house in which you live. In two months work will begin and the first thing will be to break down the wall separating your house from the adjacent ground which will then be made into a beautiful garde

LETTERS TO CHANDULAL Portraits of Chandulal by the Mother (1931) Page-122 To Chandulal, the ever-smiling child, ( September 17, 1931) Page-123 Sweet Mother, grant that we may simply be, now and forever, thy little children. Patience The capacity to wait steadily for the Realisation to come. By his way of thinking, feeling, acting, each one emanates vibrations which constitute his own atmosphere and quite naturally attract vibrations of similar nature and quality. So long as you are capable of giving somebody a beating you open the door to the possibility of being given a beating yourself. Sin be

INTRODUCTION Here are two series of valuable correspondence. The first is between the Mother and Vasudha, one of the earliest members of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Vasudha came to Pondicherry as a girl of fourteen on 19 February 1928, about two months after my own arrival. She accompanied her brother Chandulal whose correspondence with the Mother forms the second series. I remember both brother and sister as they were in those baby-years of the Ashram as well as their lives as sadhaks in later times. Both stood happily in the sunshine of the Mother's love — and their work brought a special attention to their souls from that light of lights. The Mother used to ca

LETTERS TO CHANDULAL May we rise above the ordinary forms of manifestations, so that Thou canst find the necessary instruments for thy new manifestation. May we be always one with Thy Force, a Force which the earth does not yet know and to reveal which is the mission Thou hast given us. 0 the sweetness of Thy calm certitude, the power of Thy Peace 1 This makes a beautiful programme... it will make a still better realisation. August 12, 1932 It is with the concentration of our will and the intensity of our aspiration that we can hasten the day of victory. August 13, 1932 As to my belief in the efficacy of prayer, I believe

Letters To My Little smile My dear maman, The frames of our cots have been replaced. This evening Chandulal told me that you. had written to him a note this morning not to forget to fix the frames. I had already forgotten and when Chandulal told me that you had reminded him 1 was surprised. Your child It was not necessary for you to remember since I had not forgotten. November 2, 1933 My dear maman, This morning at 10.30 I went to the market with P. I bought some gold thread ( for the apron ), needles for the sewing machine and a crochet-needle. I have started the apron, it will be very beautiful, almost like the embroidery

The Mother ( October 11, 1954) Letters To My Little smile Portraits of Vasudha by the Mother (1931) Your portrait when you smile, with your head on my lap. My dear little smile, You should not lose patience, nor courage; things will turn out all right. The state in which you were while embroidering "Silence"1 (flowers) cannot return as it was, for in the world things are never exactly reproduced; everything changes and moves forward — but the state of mental peace you have experienced will be nothing in comparison with the one — much deeper and more complete — that you will experience. You must keep intact y

February 15, 1915 0 LORD of Truth, thrice have I implored Thy manifestation invoking Thee with deep fervour. Then, as always, the whole being made its total submission. At that moment the consciousness perceived the individual being mental, vital and physical, covered all over with dust, and this being lay prostrate before Thee, its forehead touching the earth, dust in the dust, and it cried to Thee, "0 Lord, this being made of dust prostrates itself before Thee praying to be consumed with the fire of the Truth that it may henceforth manifest only Thee." Then Thou saidst to it, "Arise, thou art pure of all that is dust." And suddenly, in a stroke, all the dust sank from it li