WHITE ROSES   Enlarged Edition         WHITE ROSES   Enlarged Edition First Edition .... : 1963 Second Enlarged Edition : 1964           © Sri Aurobindo Ashram Published by Huta, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry Printed at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry Printed in India—1964       These are extracts from letters which I received from the Mother. She has graciously permitted me to publish them.                                                                — Huta  

1963        It is true that money is a force and a means, but it must never be allowed to become a ruler and a tyrant.         January 1         Do not indulge in your moodiness, it makes it much worse.         Do you think, you really think you are the only one upon earth to feel the falsehood and to suffer by it ? And to run away from it like a coward, do you think it will cure it?         You would be wise to leave all that to those who have the knowledge to cure the falsehood and to lead the world to the Truth — and for yourself—learn to be quiet, and to endure, because it is the shortest way to get out of trouble.         Then you will feel that t

1955         If you call or aspire with fear that you will not be heard and with doubts about the Divine's answer then the adverse forces that are always on the watch, slip into your consciousness through the fear and the doubts and do their mischief. So, you must call with a true and sincere faith.         June 1         One thing you must know and never forget — it is: all that is true and sincere will always be kept —• Only what is false and insincere will disappear.         October 5         We must and we will conquer, even if we have to fight again and again. I am never discouraged and ask you also not to be — because the Divine's final Victory is cer

1959        Of course, you must follow your inspiration and do full-heartedly the work which you feel you must do. It goes without saying that whatever you choose you must do it steadily and persistently if you want to obtain a result.         February 19         Do not be discouraged because of difficulties — Whenever one wants to achieve something in life, difficulties come — Take them as discipline (Tapasya) to make you strong and you will more easily overcome them.         March 10         I can only say that stability and perseverance are indispensable for success — but in all cases the Divine Grace is there helping those who call with trust and faith.

1961         From the point of view of spiritual realisation, the time has no concrete reality; all depends on the sincerity and intensity of the aspiration, on the steadiness of the effort. Some can do in a few weeks and even days what takes years for others. Moreover, as the mind and the vital, the chief factors of progress, are not submitted to the same rules of decay as the material body, the age factor loses all its importance when we speak of spiritual and intellectual growth; there is no time limit nor age limit for the mental progress which can go on steadily for hundreds of years.         Secondly, failure is not the sign of incapacity — far from that.         Re

1956         The Grace is sure to be victorious one day.       January 18         I never impose my will on anybody. It is only when somebody asks me what is my will in order to obey it, that I say clearly what my will is. But afterwards if this same person shows displeasure or discomfort in obeying that will, I never insist upon it or use coercion. I leave each one free to do what one feels best.         January 21         The Divine's love is always with you and that is the only thing that never fails in life.         February 2   Page-5       It is only by aspiration and prayer that ego can be overcome; a constant and sincer

1958   RESOLUTION         I shall belong to no human master but to the Supreme Lord alone.         January 12   PERFECT SURRENDER AND ADORATION         "My Lord, Thy Will not mine"....         January 14         Hope. . .hope for everyone.         January 15         Beauty, you are my way to the Divine.         January 15   Page-28       Even in the Inconscient, the Divine is there.         January 17         Even when you are unaware, the Grace showers its Light upon you.         January 20         The inexpressible delight of being totally Thine, O my swee

INTRODUCTION One's birthday is a very important day in one's life, not by its social overtones but as a valuable day that can be utilised in the pursuit of the higher consciousness. The Mother has explained this as an important incident in one's life, using the concept of instrumentality of time and its movement. Sri Aurobindo has said, YOGA SIDDHI, the perfection that comes from the practice of Yoga, can be best attained by the combined working of four great instruments. There is, first, the knowledge of truth, principles, powers and processes that govern the realisation - śāstra. Next comes a patient and persistent action on the lines laid down by the knowledge, the force of our pers

Champaklal ************************************ CHAMPAKLAL 'ONE 0F THE HUNDRED' To be free from ego and become an instrument of God is indispensable for sadhana, Sri Aurobindo conveyed this in the following words, "I do not want hundreds of thousands of disciples. It will be enough if 1 can get a hundred complete men, purified of petty egoism, who will be the instruments of God." On 2nd February 1972, the Mother wrote on Champaklal's birthday card, "Bonne Fête To Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's Champak, One of the hundred With my love, appreciation, trust and blessings for ever. En route vers la Réalisation." THE MOTHER Champaklal,