Arts On the physical plane it is in beauty that the Divine expresses Himself.   In the physical world, of all things it is beauty that expresses best the Divine. The physical world is the world of form and the perfection of form is beauty. Beauty interprets, expresses, manifests the Eternal. Its role is to put all manifested nature in contact with the Eternal through the perfection of form, through harmony and a sense of the ideal which uplifts and leads towards something higher.   Let beauty be your constant ideal. The beauty of the soul The beauty of sentiments The beauty of thoughts The beauty of the action   The beauty in the work so that nothing

STUDY My dear child, The true wisdom is to be ready to learn from whatever source the knowledge can come. We can learn things from a flower, an animal, a child, if we are eager to know always more, because there is only One Teacher in the world – the Supreme Lord, and He manifests through everything. With all my love.  9 March 1967 * To do good work one must have good taste. Taste can be educated by study and the help of those who have good taste. To learn, it is necessary to feel first that one does not know.  15 December 1965   * When you feel that you know nothing then you are ready to learn.¹   December 1965 * The whole ques

The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations 1 To pursue an integral education that leads to the supramental realisation, four austerities are necessary, and with them four liberations. Austerity is usually confused with self-mortification, and when someone speaks of austerities, we think of the discipline of the ascetic who, in order to avoid the arduous task of spiritualising the physical, vital and mental life, declares it incapable of transformation and casts it away ruthlessly as a useless encumbrance, as a bondage and an impediment to all spiritual progress, in any case as something incorrigible, as a load that has to be borne more or less cheerfully u

STUDIES ELSEWHERE I intended to let you go for your studies to England without telling you anything about it, because each one must be free to follow the path he has chosen. But after what you have written I feel compelled to write to you. No doubt from the exterior point of view, you will find in England all that you want for learning what human beings generally call knowledge, but from the point of view of Truth and Consciousness, you can find nowhere the atmosphere in which you are living here. Elsewhere you can meet with a religious or a philosophic spirit, but true spirituality, direct contact with the Divine, constant aspiration to realise Him in life, mind and actio

We want to give the example of an action that is carried out according to the truth-vision, but unfortunately we are still very far from realising this ideal; and even if the truth-vision is expressed, it is immediately distorted in its implementation. So, in the present state of things, it is impossible to say: this is true and this is false, this leads us away from the goal, this leads us nearer to the goal. Everything can be used for the sake of progress; everything can be useful if one knows how to use it. The important thing is never to lose sight of the ideal you want to realise and to make use of every circumstance for this purpose. After all, it is alway

14 March 1973 B- reads a letter to Mother from a teacher who expressed the desire “to get away from this agi- tation and to leave the school for this year. ” Then the circumstances that determined this decision were explained to Mother. As for me, I don't understand anything about all these matters. For me they are...What does A have to say about this?            A: I don't know what to tell you, Mother. Just tell me: what impression do you have? I have the feeling that a spirit of confusion has entered into the school and is making a...They mean the same thing and they use different terms, and so the terms clash. I know that they have a ver

-59_Mother's-Action-in-a-Class-of-Aged-16 to 18.htm In the course of each session, the ques- tions were formulated by each student indivi- dually and sent together to Mother. (The students wrote to Mother, asking to be allowed to work with her on a study on death. Mother gave these instructions orally to the teacher.}   The subject is: What is death? How should you begin? You must look into yourself, look inside; do not try to know by reading books or to find out what is happening in the vital and the mind: what you feel, what you think about death. The research should be carried out exclusively on a material plane: what is death, from the physical point of view? Y

-62_Correspondence-(b).htm Correspondence  (b) The teacher should not be a book that is read aloud, the same for everyone, no matter what his nature and character. The first duty of the teacher is to help the student to know himself and to discover what he is capable of doing. For that one must observe his games, the activities to which he is drawn naturally and spontaneously and also what he likes to learn, whether his intelligence is awake, the stories he enjoys, the activities which interest him, the human achievements which attract him. The teacher must find out the category to which each of the children in his care belongs. And if after careful observation he discovers two or three

VII CONVERSATIONS 5 April 1967 (Mother writes a note.) It is an answer to a question. Do you know what I told the teachers of the school? I have been asked another question. Here is the beginning of my reply: “The division between `ordinary life' and `spiritual life' is an outdated antiquity.” Did you read his question? Read it again to me. “We discussed the future. It seemed to me that nearly all the teachers were eager to do something so that the children could become more conscious of why they are here. At that point I said that in my opinion, to speak to the children of spiritual things often has the opposite result, and that

To Women about Their Body {Answers to Some Questions) 1. For God's sake can't you forget that you are a girl or a boy and try to become a human being? 2. Each idea (or system of ideas) is true in its own time and place. But if it tries to be exclusive or to persist even when its time is over, then it ceases to be true. The Mother * While handling children in the Group for Physical Education we meet certain problems with girl stu- dents. Most of these are suggestions put upon them by their friends, older girls, parents and the doctor. Please throw your light on the following questions so that we may be better equipped in our kn