SERIES FIVE Series Five To one of the first children admitted to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram; he came at the age of ten. Interested as a youth in music, painting and poetry, he later became a teacher of music in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. He began writing to the Mother at the age of twelve. Always do with pleasure the work you have to do. Work done with joy is work done well. 14 March 1932 * When you have a desire you are governed by the thing you desire; it takes possession of your mind and your life, and you become a slave. If you have greed for food you are no longer the master

* THE MOTHER - 1970

SERIES EIGHT  Series Eight  To a young captain in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Department of Physical Education. Sweet Mother, What is the difference between the psychic change and the spiritual change?  The psychic change is the change that puts you in contact with the immanent Divine, the Divine who is at the centre of each being and of whom the psychic being is the sheath and the expression. By the psychic change one passes from the individual Divine to the universal Divine and finally to the Transcendent. The spiritual change puts you directly in contact with the Supreme.  9 September 1959   * Sweet Mother, How can one

SERIES FOUR Series Four Letters to a Sadhak To the sadhak in charge of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram's cows, bullocks and carts during the 1930s.¹ Special new ropes for the bullocks have been prepared by the milkman. When the bullocks are working, it may be safer to use those ropes. As soon as the work is over, the ropes will be removed. Those ropes are not tight; they are loose, so it is no hardship to the bullocks. Pray sanction them. I thought they have strongly refused to have the ropes put upon them. The ropes may not be tight, but most probably they will spoil the nose of the bullocks. There again it see

SERIES SIX Series Six To a young sadhak who later became a teacher in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.¹I I hope and believe Your work does not depend upon human beings. No, it does not depend at all upon human beings. What has to be done will be done despite all possible resistances. Is there no means of uniting my will with Yours? Perhaps You have no special will, for You want no- thing. I know perfectly well what I want or rather what the divine Will is, and it is that which will triumph in time. What we want to bri

Some Answers from the Mother THE MOTHER - 1970 SERIES ONE Series One Letters from the Mother to Her Son Our community is growing more and more; we are nearly thirty (not counting those who are scattered all over India); and I have become responsible for all this; I am at the centre of the organisation, on the material as well as the spiritual side, and you can easily imagine what it means. We already occupy five houses, one of which is our property; others will follow. New recruits are coming from all parts of the world. With this expansion, new activities are being created, new needs are arising which require new skills. 16 Janu

SERIES SEVEN Series Seven   To the sadhak who was the dentist at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram during the 1930s and then served from 1938 to 1950 as one of Sri Aurobindo's personal attendants.¹   To talk of surrender is easy, very easy indeed. To think of surrender in all its complexity is not so easy, it is not so easy at all. But to achieve even the beginning of a genuine surrender of self -- oh, how difficult it is, Mother! There are many things wrong with me, I know. But there must be something fundamentally wrong. What is it, Mother? Nothing special to you. It is the same difficulty that exists for all human beings:

SERIES TWO Series Two To the sadhak in charge of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Building Department during the 1930s and early 1940s. Sin belongs to the world and not to yoga. 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 beating somebody, you open the door to the possibility of being beaten yourself. You are expecting those who are working with you to be geniuses. It is not quite fair. I have seen your chit for washing soap. You got the last one on the 22nd

Tapasya A discipline imposed by the will for any spiritual end is tapasya. Tapasya: a discipline aiming at the realisation of the Divine. Mental tapasya: the process leading to the goal. Vital tapasya: the vital undergoes a rigorous discipline in order to transform itself. Integral tapasya: the whole being lives only to know and serve the Divine. Perfect tapasya: that which will reach its goal.            Page ― 45 No life can be successful without self-discipline. To be a man, discipline is indispensable. Without discipline one is only an animal. One begins to be a man only when one aspires to a higher and truer

Harmony and Goodwill HARMONY Harmony: let us strive that the day may come when this will be the means and the end. Harmony is my aim and all that leads to harmony makes me happy. Integral harmony: harmony between things, harmony between people, harmony of circumstances and above all harmony of all aspiration directed towards the Supreme Truth. A harmonious collective aspiration can change the course of circumstances. Collective harmony is the work undertaken by the Divine Consciousness; It alone has the power to realise it. There is a deep and true consciousness in which all can meet in love and harmony. Page ― 197