Comments on Chapter 4   "Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force in its manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness of the outer life. In its origin and its true action it belongs to the Divine. But like other powers of the Divine it is delegated here and in the ignorance of the lower Nature can be usurped for the uses of the ego or held by Asuric influences and perverted to their purpose. This is indeed one of the three forces — power, wealth, sex — that have the strongest attraction for the human ego and the Asura and are most generally misheld and misused by those who retain them.... For

2   In all that is done in the universe, the Divine through his Shakti is behind all action but he is veiled by his Yoga Maya and works through the ego of the Jiva in the lower nature.       In Yoga also it is the Divine who is the Sadhaka and the Sadhana; it is his Shakti with her light, power, knowledge, consciousness, Ananda, acting upon the Adhara and, when it is opened to her, pouring into it with these divine forces that makes the Sadhana possible. But so long as the lower nature is active the personal effort of the Sadhaka remains necessary.       The personal effort required is a triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender, — an aspiration vigilant, constant, uncea

Comments on Chapter 6  Mother reads the first part of Chapter 6 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo.         What is a "hierarchy"?   It is a grouping organised in order of merit. For instance, you have a chief at the centre and you may have four persons around him, and around these four, 8, then 12, 24, 36, 48,124, and so on, each with his special mission, his special work, his particular authority, and all referring in an ascending order to the centre. That is a hierarchy. In governments they try to form hierarchies, but these are untrue, they are arbitrary and not worth anything. But in all ancient initiations there were hierarchies which were expressions of in

Comments on Chapter 3   Which of you did not ask questions last time?... The first one!         What is the difference between "the divine, spiritual and supramental Truth?"   I don't think there is much difference!         Sweet Mother, what does a "candid" faith mean?   Candid? It is simple, sincere and does not doubt. We speak mostly of the candour of a child, who has a simple faith without any doubts.         Sweet Mother, do we push the divine Grace away from us every time we make a mistake?   Eh? You push it away every time you make a mistake?       Well, there are two different kinds of mistakes. There is the fa