A Vision The Mother says: "Just see. Look at me. I am here, come back in my new body—divine, transformed and glorious. And I am the same mother, still human. Do not worry. Do not be concerned about your own self, your progress and realisation, nor about others. I am here, look at me, gaze into me, enter into me wholly, merge into my being, lose yourself into my love, with your love. You will see all problems solved, everything done. Forget all else, forget the world. Remember me alone, be one with me, with my love.. ,"2 Published February 1978 2 One is reminded of Rabindranath Tagore's lines: Lo, from within our heart. O Mother, thou hast come forth

-007_The Soul^s Freedom.htm The Soul's Freedom l The pressure from above has been withdrawn and normalcy restored to the earth-consciousness. Pressure meant a separation: something foreign acting from elsewhere, an interference. As a process, as a passage needed for a time, for a special purpose and under special circumstances, it was necessary and welcome. But circumstances have changed. The higher consciousness has not to remain always high but to become level with the normal. Either the higher must come down and mingle totally with the lower, or the lower has to rise and merge altogether into the higher, or both meet and unite midway somewhere. Earth or material nature does

The Ashram: Inner and Outer I will tell you a story today, but of another kind. I will tell you of a dream or a vision that I had some time ago. It was an ashram—I say an ashram but it was not quite like our ashram, although there was a great similarity between the two. In some respects it was like our ashram and in other respects somewhat unlike it. First of all, the whole ashram was in one place, a consolidated organisation, not houses here and there scattered about: there were no buildings or houses belonging to other people or other organisations; also the buildings were beautiful to look at and the general layout artistic. But all the activities we have here

The Mother Abides Final Reflections 1973-1983 The Mother Abides Final Reflections 1973-1983 Nolini Kanta Gupta Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry First edition 2012 Rs 70 ISBN 978-81-7058-933-4 © Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 2012 Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department Pondicherry 605 002 Web http://www.sabda.in Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry PRINTED IN INDIA

The Two Chains of the Mother Well, I have talked a lot in my rather long life, have I not? I have talked a good deal, and written much more. All that forms now my Collected Works: eight volumes in English and as many volumes in Bengali. All of you are leaving our Centre of Education, a Centre where you have been for so many years. To complete your course and come out of the Centre, it's all right; but to go where? It seems you have already come to a decision; there are many amongst you who have made their choice. That's good, for it means choosing one's life. I want to tell you only one thing: you are going out, but wherever you go, you carry som

Part 2 The Ashram A Power, a Presence has come down near to us upon earth and is moulding infallibly the earth-substance into something which it has been always aspiring for, but has never attained till now in an appreciable degree. Today the possibility is an actuality before us. We have assembled here so that with each individual contributing his mite of sincerity and efficiency, a combined endeavour may create a wide and secure opening for the new Power and Presence to come into its own and possess a home in the material life here below. —Nolini Kanta Gupta Page-33 A Review of Our Ashram Life In its earl

Life-Sketch of Nolini Kanta Gupta Nolini Kanta Gupta was born on January 13, 1889, in Faridpur, East Bengal (now Bangladesh). Raised in Rangpur, he went for higher studies to Presidency College, Kolkata. When the province of Bengal was partitioned in 1906, Nolini became increasingly involved in the movement to free India from British rule. In his fourth year of college, he joined the Maniktola secret society, a revolutionary group, and in May 1908 was arrested for conspiracy. Along with Sri Aurobindo and others he spent one year in jail as an undertrial prisoner. After his acquittal he joined the staffs of Dharma and Karmayogin, two newspapers founded an