6 July 1955        Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “Planes and Parts of the Being”. Sweet Mother, here it is written: “Finally the soul or psychic being retires into the psychic world to rest there till a new birth is close.” Then, Mother, what happens to the central being afterwards? This depends absolutely on the different instances. We said that the central being and the psychic being are the same thing but the part which stays and is in the Divine stays and is in the Divine. The psychic is the delegate of this Divine in the earth life, for the growth on earth. But the part of the central being which is identified with the Divine remains identif

7 December 1955 Mother reads from {The Synthesis of Yoga}, “SeIf-Consecration”. Mother, one can make an offering of oneself only when one reaches quite a high level, but when one is leading a more or less unconscious life, the self-giving becomes more or less mental, doesn't it? And it is not effective. What should one do? Can one begin from the very beginning by self-giving? It depends on people, my child. There are people in whom the psychic movement, the emotional impulse is stronger than intellectual understanding. They feel an irresistible attraction for the Divine without knowing, without having the slightest idea of what it is,

13 July 1955        Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “Planes and Parts of the Being”. Now then! Sweet Mother, what does “cosmic spirit and cosmic Nature” mean? Universal. Cosmic is the synonym of universal. But what does “cosmic spirit” mean? Cosmic spirit? It is the cosmic spirit, it is the universal spirit, it is the spirit that's in the whole universe. There is a universe. You know what the universe is? Well, this universe has a spirit, and this spirit is the cosmic spirit; this universe has a consciousness and its consciousness is the cosmic, universal consciousness. One may very well imagine that the universe is only an entity in

20 July 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “Surrender and Opening”. What does “to seek after the Impersonal” mean? Oh! It's very much in fashion in the West, my child. All those who are tired or disgusted with the God taught by the Chaldean religions, and especially by the Christian religion – a single God, jealous, severe, despotic and so much in the image of man that one wonders if it is not a demiurge as Anatole France said – these people when they want to lead a spiritual life no longer want the personal God, because they are too frightened lest the personal God resemble the one they have been taught about; they want an impersonal Godhead, something

26 January 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, “In Difficulty”. Sweet Mother, who is this “Master of forces” who sees “the defects of the present machinery”? It is the divine Presence which sees from within what is incomplete and imperfect in the working of the present being. The divine Consciousness is present in the psychic being and it sees what is imperfect and at the same time it is aware of the attacks, and it knows what should be done to repulse them. But for this, one must be conscious of his psychic being. It is always the same thing. We always come back to the same thing. Why does one suffer when one commits suicide?

16 February 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga, Chapter 4,  “Desire – Food - Sex”. Sweet Mother, here it is said that one should have no attachment for material things; then, when you give us something, if we lose it and feel sad, it can be called attachment? It is better not to lose it. (Laughter) But in fact the thing ought to be only… It is not the thing itself to which one must be attached. It is to open oneself to what is within, what I put into the thing I give, this indeed is much more important. And, of course, there can always be an accident but it is certain that if one gives to a thing its inner symbolical or spiritual value, t

22 June 1955        Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “Planes and Parts of the Being”. How can one awaken his Yogashakti? It depends on this: when one thinks that it is the most important thing in his life. That's all.   Some people sit in meditation, concentrate on the base of the vertebral column and want it very much to awake, but that's not enough. It is when truly it becomes the most important thing in one's life, when all the rest seems to have lost all taste, all interest, all importance, when one feels within that one is born for this, that one is here upon earth for this, and that it is the only thing that truly counts, then that's enough. O

15 June 1955   Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “The Goal”. Sweet Mother, what is “dynamic realisation”? It is the realisation which is expressed in action. There is a realisation in inaction like that of those who enter into contemplations from which they don't come out, and who don't move; and then there is a dynamic realisation which transforms all your action, all your movements, all your way of being, your character. In the first case one's outer being remains the same, nothing changes, and usually it destroys all possibility of action, one can no longer do anything, one remains seated... In the second case, it changes everything, your character, your way of

2 February 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, “In Difficulty”. What is the meaning of “you must take the right attitude”? He has explained this before. The right attitude is the attitude of trust, the atti- tude of obedience, the attitude of consecration. “Let nothing and nobody come between you and the Mother's force… “ Who is this person? This person? Anybody at all. Anybody at all who… There are all kinds of ways of letting someone come between you and the divine force. First of all it is to attach a very great importance to your relation with someone. It is to listen to the advice given to you by someone who

30 March 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5,  “Physical Consciousness, etc.”. Sweet Mother, here it is written: “There is a Yoga- Shakti lying coiled or asleep… “ How can it be awak- ened? I think it awakens quite naturally the moment one takes the resolution to do the yoga. If the resolution is sincere and one has an aspiration, it wakes up by itself. In fact, it is perhaps its awakening which gives the aspiration to do yoga. It is possible that it is a result of the Grace… or after some conversation or reading, something that has suddenly given you the idea and aspiration to know what yoga is and to practise it. Sometimes