"It is certainly a mistake to bring down the light by force - to pull it down. The Supramental cannot be taken by storm. When the time is ready it will open of itself - but first there is a great deal to be done and that must be done patiently and without haste." Sri Aurobindo That's good for sensible people. They will say, "There, he doesn't promise any miracles." Why? Are there lots of people who tend to "pull"? People are in a hurry, they want to see results right away. So then, they think they are pulling the Supramental down - and they pull some little vital entity that leads them on and afterwards pla

The feet are the symbol of physical life, and according to what I saw once (your dream seems related to that), EACH part of his body represented someone - or rather represented his, Sri Aurobindo's, MODE of expression in someone. [[Mother said several times that she "was" Sri Aurobindo's feet (see in particular Agenda VI, March 10, 1965). ]] One night I saw him like that, I told you. But it was extremely complex; I only noted two or three important things, but there didn't seem to be even one small part of his body that wasn't represented by someone.... So if we take the symbol of the feet to be the physical ... Not only the feet, but all the toes, di

The Christians say it's the spirit of evil, but this is due to a lack of understanding. Theon always told me that the true interpretation of the Biblical story of the serpent in the Garden of Eden is that humanity wanted to pass from a state of animal-like divinity to the state of conscious divinity by means of mental development, symbolized by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. And this serpent, which Theon always said was iridescent, reflecting all the colors of the prism, was not at all the spirit of evil, but the power of evolution - the force, the power of evolution. And it was natural that this power of evolution would make t

I have finished my translation [of the Synthesis]. When you have finished your book and we have prepared the next Bulletin and we have a nice quiet moment, we'll go over it again. And then I've begun Savitri - ah! ... As you know, I prepare some illustrations with H., and for her illustrations she has chosen some passages from Savitri (the choice isn't hers, it's A.'s and P.'s and made intelligently), so she gives me these passages one by one, neatly typed (which is easier for my eyes). It's from the Book I, Canto IV. page 37 - Mother's Agenda , volume 4 , 30th jan 1963

Yesterday I sent you something (there wasn't much of it, just a taste): it's a bit of the pistachio puree they make for me. Concentrated food. [[Mother was already seeking the 'new food.' ]] It's funny - I have got it into my head to make you a gourmand! (Mother laughs) Good-bye, mon petit. page 118 , Mother'a Agenda , volume 2 , 7th March - 1961 (Sujata:) Food, ever since childhood I haven't liked eating. But mon petit, I have never been interested in food! I have never liked eating. When I was small, they had to think up all sorts of tricks to make me eat, to me it was the most absurd and least interesting t

What do you have?... You don't have anything?... Some people came to see you? No, aside from one or two exceptions, I refuse to see anybody. Idon't know, but I've found that now it is better for me to remain quiet. Because I was told about someone who came to see you. The only person I've seen is E. Oh, he's a nice man![[Quite a number of the tapes used to record these conversations were procured thanks to this very nice German man. We would also like to mention an American couple, M.R., who gave the majority of the tapes, and a few others, with gratitude. ]] page 233 - Mother's Agenda , volume 1

(Satprem suggests he read certain past Agenda conversations to Mother. She refuses:) You know, I've almost felt like telling you that all this Agenda stuff isn't meant for circulation. It's only for when I have come to the end - and then what's in it won't matter at all. Or else I will have gone, leaving a note saying I don't want it published ... Why! ... and that I am giving it only to ... I will say to whom. So it doesn't matter. Actually, you could type it up just as it is on the tape. You want to read it to me mainly to get (laughing) some additions, hmm? There may be additions, but there are also

Love, in its essence and in its origin, is like a white flame obliterating ALL resistances. You can have the experience yourself: whatever the difficulty in your being, whatever the weight of accumulated mistakes, the ignorance, incapacity, bad will, a single SECOND of this Love - pure, essential, supreme - melts everything in its almighty flame. One single moment and an entire past can vanish. One single TOUCH of That in its essence and the whole burden is consumed page 20 , Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 10th Jan. 1961 And when the day comes for the manifestation of supreme Love - a crystalized, concentrated descent of supreme Love -