27 July 1955        Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “Surrender and Opening”. He has said everything, I have nothing to add. Sweet Mother, here it is written: “The heart in this Yoga should in fact be the main centre of concentra- tion until the consciousness rises above.” But each one's consciousness is on a different plane! Yes, very different. Only it is always said: “Concentrate here, on the solar plexus, the centre, here, because it's here that one can most easily find the psychic, enter into contact with the psychic. That's why. That's what it means. Once the consciousness rises where does one find it? Above the head, above th

14 September 1955        Mother reads The Great Secret ¹: The Statesman. Sweet Mother, what should be the attitude of a true politician? But it's just the attitude of a true politician which I have given here. It's the ideal politician, my child. One can't make a better one. It is the circumstances, he says that himself: “a greater force than mine” it's the way the world is organised; he started with the best intentions, he tried his very best, he could do nothing, because one can't do anything in the present circumstances and with politics as it is practised at present. Usually people are not frank enough to say what I have made him say. I have made hi

11 May 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5, “Physical Consciousness, etc.”. Who is going to ask questions today?             Sweet Mother, how can we make the body immune to every attack? Well, Sri Aurobindo has written it later, hasn't he? He says that only the descent of the supramental Force can make the body immune to every attack. He says that otherwise it is only momentary and that it doesn't always work. He says that it can be practically immune but not absolutely so; and to be absolutely so, it is only by transforming the nature as it is into a supramental nature that one can make the body absolutely immune to all attacks.

28 December 1955 Mother reads from {The Synthesis of Yoga}, “Self-Consecration”. Sweet Mother, what is “an all-receiving concentration that is the very nature of the integral Yoga”? An all-receiving concentration? No – a concentration which is open to all that exists; it is a concentration which does not oppose anything. It is a concentration which is open. It means that one must not reject certain things from himself and practise an exclusive concentration on a particular point while neglecting all the others. All the possibilities should be admitted and pursued. Here it is written: “Our one objective must be the Divine himself to whom, k

24 August 1955        Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “Surrender and Opening”. So? Sweet Mother, when we concentrate on one of your photos – there are many photos, each one with a dif- ferent expression – does it make a difference for us, the one on which we concentrate? If you do it purposely, yes, of course. If you choose this photo for a particular reason or that other one for another reason, surely. It has an effect. It is as though you were choosing to concentrate on one aspect of the Mother rather than another; for example, if you choose to concentrate on Mahakali or Mahalakshmi or on Maheshwari, the results will be different. Tha

13 April 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5,  “Physical Consciousness, etc.”. Now, has anyone any questions? Sweet Mother, here it is written: “I find it difficult to take these psycho—analysts at all seriously… “ It means that he is laughing at them, simply that. (The child continues reading) “… when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of… “ “… of their torch-lights”. It is a joke; it's to say that it is a very tiny light of nothing at all and that they think they can judge spiritual experiences with this light which is no better than a small torch-light; it means something that has no strength. It i

5 January 1955 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of  Yoga, Chapter 3, “In Difficulty”. Sweet Mother, how can we create “the attunement of the nature with the working of the Divine Light and Power”? How can you do it? By trying. First you must be conscious of the kind of attunement you want to realise. You must become aware of the points where this harmony does not exist; you must feel them and understand the contradiction between the inner consciousness and certain outer movements. You must become conscious of this first, and once you are conscious of it, you try to adapt the outer action, outer movements to the inner ideal

29 June 1955        Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “Planes and Parts of the Being”. Sweet Mother, has the vital nature of man come out from his true vital being? Come out? What do you call coming out? You mean that first there was the true vital being and that this expresses itself in the physical nature, the earth nature, by the vital which we see? Yes! Mother, why is it so contradictory? Why is the external world so total a contradiction of the divine world? It is exactly the same thing. It is like that. The vital being, the true vital being which Sri Aurobindo describes, is the vital being which is in contact with the Divine, which is e

12 October 1955        Mother reads The Great Secret: The Unknown Man. When is it going to happen, eh? There. That's the question I was waiting for.  (To a child) What did you want to ask? What you said just now. You see, I know how to read thoughts. And so, if I were to say that it depends upon you? It is not altogether true, but still there is something true in it. I think that this will happen the moment there is a sufficiently large number of consciousnesses which feel absolutely that it cannot be otherwise. Now, most people, the immense majority among you have to make an effort to imagine what it will be, and at best, speculate up

16 November 1955 Mother reads from {The Synthesis of Yoga}, “The Four Aids”. (To a child) Have you prepared a question for your Birthday? What is the significance of 18? Of the number 18? It depends on how it is read. It can be read as 10+8; it can be read as 9+9; it can be read as 12+6. And each of these readings has a different meaning. If we take 10+8, it can indicate something quite immobile: because 10 indicates a static perfection, something which has reached its perfection and stops there; and 8 is a double enclosure, that is, something which is framed in, surrounded, demarcated, and which naturally stops there. So if we put 10 and