Past, Present and Future THE PAST             Use the past as a spring-board to leap towards the future. 25 December 1953 *             Often we cling to that which was, afraid of losing the result of a previous experience, of giving up a vast and high consciousness and falling again into an inferior state. But we must always look forward and advance. 13 October 1954 *             The very memory of the past experience has sometimes to be swept away from the thoughts that it may not impede the work of perpetual reconstruction which alone, in this world of relativities, permits the perfect manifestation of the

Practical Affairs GENERAL       Under no pretext should the cycles be left outside in the sun. 27 February 1933 *       Do not worry about the French; you will learn it little by little.   Hydrogen Peroxide is costly. I should like to know if I can prescribe it. You might prescribe for the moment and later, when X is better, replace the Peroxide by Potassium Chlorate. 31 March 1935 *       The trees planted in the Subbu house do not belong to us but to the house owner and they cannot be cut without the house owner’s permission.       Any other action than the above one could lead us to great trouble. 1937 *       As yo

Death and Rebirth OLD AGE AND DEATH       Only those years that are passed uselessly make you grow old.       A year spent uselessly is a year during which no progress has been accomplished, no growth in consciousness has been achieved, no further step has been taken towards perfection.       Consecrate your life to the realisation of something higher and broader than yourself and you will never feel the weight of the passing years. 21 February 1958  *       From birth to death, life is a dangerous thing.       The brave pass through it without care for the risks.       The prudent take precautions.       The cowardly are afraid of everythi

Messages NEW YEAR MESSAGES ¹ 1933       Let the birth of the new year be the new birth of our consciousness.       Leaving the past far behind us, let us run towards a luminous future.   1934       Lord, the year is dying and our gratitude bows down to Thee.       Lord, the year is reborn, our prayer rises up to Thee. Let it be for us also the dawn of a new life. 1935       We surrender to Thee this evening all that is artificial and false, all that pretends and imitates. Let it disappear with the year that is at an end. May only what is perfectly true, sincere, straight and pure subsist in the year that is beginning. 1936 O

Experiences of the Mother TRANSCRIPTS OF EXPERIENCES       Compassion and gratitude are essentially psychic virtues. They appear in the consciousness only when the psychic being takes part in active life.       The vital and the physical experience them as weaknesses, for they curb the free expression of their impulses, which are based on the power of strength.       As always, the mind, when insufficiently educated, is the accomplice of the vital being and the slave of the physical nature, whose laws, so overpowering in their half-conscious mechanism, it does not fully understand. When the mind awakens to the awareness of the first psychic movements, it

Progress and Perfection PROGRESS             Progress is the sign of the divine influence in creation.               Progress: the reason why we are on earth.             The purpose of earthly life is progress. If you stop progressing you will die. Every moment that you spend without progressing is one step closer to your grave.             From the moment you are satisfied and aspire no longer, you begin to die. Life is movement, life is effort; it is marching forward, climbing towards future revelations and realisations. Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest.             One has always something to learn and a progress to

      In rebirth it is not the external being, that which is formed by parents, environment and circumstances − the mental, the vital and the physical − that is born again: it is only the psychic being that passes from body to body. Logically, then, neither the mental nor the vital being can remember past lives or recognise itself in the character or mode of life of this or that person. The psychic being alone can remember; and it is by becoming conscious of our psychic being that we can have at the same time exact impressions about our past lives.       Besides, it is much more important for us to fix our attention upon what we want to become than upon what we have been. 2 Apri

1956 29 février — 29 mars Seigneur, Tu as voulu et je réalise. Une lumière nouvelle point sur la terre, Un monde nouveau est né, Et les choses promises sont accomplies. 29 February - 29 March Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled.   Page - 103 24th April 1956             The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality.             It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unco

23 September 1953 “Each spot of the body is symbolical of an inner move- ment; there is there a world of subtle correspondences. But this is a long and complex subject and we can- not enter into its details just now. The particular place in the body affected by an illness is an index to the nature of the inner disharmony that has taken place. It points to the origin, it is a sign of the cause of the ailment. It reveals too the nature of the resistance that prevents the whole being from advancing at the same high speed. It indicates the treatment and the cure. If one could perfectly understand where the mistake is,

17 June 1953 “There is a true movement of the intellect and there is a wrong movement: one helps, the other hinders.” Questions and Answers 1929 (5 May) * What is the true movement of the intellect? What exactly do you understand by intellect? Is it a function of the mind or is it a part of the human being? How do you understand it? A function of the mind. A function of the mind? Then it is that part of the mind which deals with ideas; is that what you mean? Not ideas, Mother. Not ideas? What else, then? Ideas, but.. There is a part of the mind which receives ideas, ideas that are formed in a higher mind. Still, I