These past few days I have been reading Perseus [[Perseus the Deliverer, a play in five acts by Sri Aurobindo. ]] - it was performed here, so I knew a little of it but it never much interested me. But reading it the way I read now, I have found it VERY interesting, I have discovered all kinds of things, all kinds. Yes, I have noticed that in the space of (I don't remember when we performed it,[[ The play was performed some eight years earlier, in December 1954. ]] you were already here) ... between then and now there is at least a good fifty years' difference - a fifty-year change in consciousness. But in practice, I am a

-436_The Mother's symbol.html The Mother's Symbol The central circle represents the Divine Consciousness. The four petals represent the four powers of the Mother. The twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother manifested for Her Work. January 24, 1958 The Mother page 28 , Mother's Agenda , volume - 13 , 1972-73 , 12th January 1972 . Do you happen to remember where I wrote the twelve attributes of the Mother (the symbol with twelve petals)? There's one, four, and twelve. Yes, I think it was for Auroville. For Auroville? But I said it years ago.... I saw it recently. The

Sri Aurobindo has written somewhere that the movement of world transformation is double: first, the individual who does sadhana [[Sadhana: spiritual quest and discipline. ]] and establishes contact with higher things; but at the same time, the world is a base and it must rise up a little and prepare itself for the realization to be achieved (this is putting it simply). Some people live merely on the surface - they come alive only when they stir about restlessly. Whatever happens inside them (if anything does!) is immediately thrown out into movement. Such people always need an outer activity; take J. for example: he fastened onto Sri Aurobindo's phrase, 'World Union,

Let me see the wallet (Mother looks at it) ... Ah, so that has nothing to do with it! As soon as the meditation began, I started seeing quite familiar scenes from ancient Egypt. And you, you looked a little different, but quite similar all the same ... The first thing I saw was their god with a head like this (gesture of a muzzle), with a sun above his head. A dark animal head with ... I know it VERY WELL, but I don't remember exactly which animal it is. One is a hawk,' but the other has a head like ... (Mother makes the same gesture) Like a jackal? Yes, like a jackal, that's it. Yes, that's what it was. With a kind of ly

Two or three days after I retired to my room upstairs, [[Mother withdrew on December 9. In fact, She had been unwell for already more than a month before withdrawing. On November 26, the last 'Wednesday class' took place at the playground; on November 28 the last 'Friday class', on December 6, the last 'Translation class'; on December i, the end of Mother's tennis and the last visit to the playground. page 252 - Mother's Agenda, volume 1, Dec.. - 1958

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As a child, when I was around ten or twelve years old, I had some rather interesting experiences which I didn't understand at all. I had some history books - you know, the textbooks they give you to learn history. Well, I'd read and suddenly the book would seem to become transparent, or the printed words would become transparent, and I'd see other words or even pictures. I hadn't the faintest idea what was happening to me! And it appeared so natural to me that I thought it was the same for everybody. But my brother and I were great chums (he was only a year and a half older), so I would tell him: "They talk nonsense in history, you know - it is L

Yes, in Orissa, for example. A large part of Orissa is entirely under Sri Aurobindo's influence, 7 Avril , 1971, vol - 12, L'Agenda de Mère I've just come from there [the music room where Mother receives visitors]. I saw some twenty people.... There was Orissa's Chief Minister (Orissa is the first province in India to give money for a pavilion in Auroville: they gave a lakh of rupees). He is a nice man. The people from Orissa, they are nice people; of all provinces, they are the ones who seem the most eager to forge ahead, to change something. And Bengal? Isn't it ahead? They're a bit ... fanciful. I mean, th

Then I looked, wondering, "And what was Christ's path?"... Basically, he always said, "Love thy neighbor," in other words brotherhood (but that's a modern translation). For him, the idea was compassion, charity (the Christians say it's the "law of Love," but we're not yet there - that will come much later). So I wrote: Jesus preached Compassion.... page 100 , Mother's Agenda , volume 4 , 27th March 1963