30 November 1955        Mother reads from {The Synthesis of Yoga},  “The Four Aids”. How is Time a friend? It depends on how you look at it. Everything depends on the relation you have with it. If you take it as a friend, it becomes a friend. If you consider it as an enemy, it becomes your enemy. But that's not what you are asking. What you are asking is how one feels when it is an enemy and how when it is a friend. Well, when you become impatient and tell yourself, “Oh, I must succeed in doing this and why don't I succeed in doing it?” and when you don't succeed immediately in doing it and fall into despair, then it is your enemy. But when you tell

19 January 1955 This talk is based upon  Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3,  “In Difficulty”. Sweet Mother, what is the work of the higher mind?            Work? What exactly do you want to know? What it ought to do? Or what should one…? Its role. The role of the higher mind? It ought to receive inspirations from above, ought to transmit them in the form of ideas to the most material mind, so that the latter may execute things, make formations. It serves as an intermediary between the higher power and the active mind. The higher mind is a mind of idea-formation and at the same time… (The noise of the wind drowns Mother's voice for a moment.) That'