July 24-25, 1959 [[Note written by Mother in French regarding a crucial experience to which She will later refer a number of times. ]] First penetration of the supramental force into the body. Sri Aurobindo alive in a concrete and permanent subtle physical body. 1. Shortly afterwards, Satprem left on a journey and returned only two months later. Page 25 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

Undated 1957 (Letter from Mother to Satprem) Thursday My dear child, Those to whom I have said, 'You are my children,' are always so, no matter where they are or what they do. Thus you are sure of always remaining my child - for the rest, act according to your heart, and you will always have my blessings. Signed: Mother Page 109 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

December 2, 1960 (After meditating together) A sort of unification is taking place [in you], as if you had become a more uniform whole within-without. I don't know how to explain this - it feels more unified, more organized - uniform. Not some parts more developed and others less so, some more luminous and others less so; it's much more uniform, and uniform even in the vibration, a kind of ... really a uniformity in all its movements, responses, vibrations, light. And this kind of powdering of the new light which I see is much more widespread. It's as if everything, everything ... what is happening is really a work of unifying - stabilizing, unifying. And this powdering of gold

August 15, 1959 (Letter from Mother to Satprem) ... And now, today,# I am writing you again because it is the day of great amnesties, the day when all past errors are effaced ... With all my unvarying and eternal love. 1. The color worn by sannyasis. 2. August 15th, Sri Aurobindo's birthday. Page 326 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

October 10, 1958 (The disciple asks to know what he must do and what his place is in the universal manifestation) In all religious and especially occult initiations, the ritual of the different ceremonies is prescribed in every detail; all the words pronounced, all the gestures made have their importance, and the least infraction of the rule, the least fault committed can have fatal consequences. It is the same in material life - if one had the initiation into the true way of living, one could transform physical existence. Page 207 If we consider the body as the tabernacle of the Lord, then medical science, for example, becomes the initiatory ritual of the service of

October 8, 1957 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Pondicherry, October 8, 1957 Mother, I come to ask your permission to leave India. For more than a year now, I have been fighting not to leave, but this seems to be the wrong strategy. There is no question of my abandoning the path - and I remain convinced that the only goal in life is spiritual. But I need things to help me along the way: I am not yet ripe enough to depend upon inner strength alone. And when I speak of the forest or a boat, it is not only for the sake of adventure or the feeling of space, but also because they mean a discipline. Outer constraints and difficulties help me, they force me to remain concentra

June 17, 1959 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Rameswaram, June 17, 1959 Sweet Mother, I have received your card of the 13th. I dare not write, for everything is too confused as concerns the immediate realities. The only thing that affirms itself with a certitude and a greater and greater force is my soul. I cling to It with all my strength. It is my only refuge. If I did not have that, I would throw my life overboard, for the outer circumstances and the immediate future seem to me impossible, unlivable. I was touched by your blessings for Sujata and myself. But there lies another impossibility. These last days I have come to realize that to blame all my 'crises' on

March 3, 1957 (Letter from Mother to Satprem) 3.3.57 I name you Satprem (true love) for it is only when you awaken to divine love that you will feel that you love. Signed: Mother Page 100 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

February 29, 1956 FIRST SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION (During the common meditationon on Wednesday the 29th February 1956) This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine. As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that THE TIME HAS COME', and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow2 on the door and the door was shattered to pieces. Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon ea

October 17, 1957 (On freedom) There are all kinds of freedom - mental freedom, vital freedom, spiritual freedom - which are the fruits of successive masteries. But a completely new freedom has become possible with the Supramental Manifestation: it is the freedom of the body. 1. Of Mother's French translation of these two books by Sri Aurobindo. Page 111 One of the very first results of the supramental manifestation was to give the body a freedom and an autonomy it has never before known. And when I say freedom, I don't mean some psychological perception or an inner state of consciousness, but something else and far better - it is a new phenomenon in the body, in the c