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The “subconscient” — Mother

What does “subconscient” mean, exactly? Subconscient? It is what is half conscious, you see. And we say “sub”, because that means “below” the consciousness. It is something more obscure than the consciousness, but which, at the same time, is like … Continue reading

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Remembering Jyotipriya

Dear Seekers, Today is the 121st birth anniversary of Jyotipriya. It is a day that our aspiration can quicken and flame more intensely by remembering her life and offering our gratitude. In the intimate soul-relation with the Mother her life … Continue reading

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The path to the psychic flame — Mother

Mother: Do you know where the aspiration comes from? Mona Sarkar: Yes, Mother, from the heart and from the psychic. Mother: Yes, my child, rather from the psychic; the true aspiration, it is from there; but first, one starts from … Continue reading

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Relations with the Divine — Mother

“A spiritual Truth and Right have convicted the good and evil of this world of imperfection or of falsehood and unveiled a supreme good…. But behind all these and in them he has felt a Divinity who is all these … Continue reading

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You can realize the Divine — Mother

I know by experience that there isn’t one being who, were it only once in his life, has had a great urge towards… it doesn’t matter how he calls it – let us say the Divine for facility of speech, … Continue reading

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Teaching and Practice — Mother

It is always better not to listen to talks especially on so-called spiritual matters. Each one must follow his own way and the others have nothing to do with it.  9 January 1938 An atmosphere of spirituality sometimes helps much … Continue reading

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Action of the Supramental Force — Mother

I asked you about your Force, or the supramental Force; what initial action is it taking now? Ah yes. Is it putting things in their places? In my experience, it is; and it has come to the point where the … Continue reading

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Remain a child — Mother

One must be a child all one’s life, as much as one can, as long as one can. Be happy, joyful, content to be a child and remain a child, plastic stuff for shaping. For me personally, I admit I … Continue reading

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Aspiration — Mother

Aspiration is like an arrow, like this (gesture). So you aspire, want very earnestly to understand, know, enter into the truth. Yes? And then with that aspiration you do this  (gesture). Your aspiration rises, rises, rises, rises straight up, very strong … Continue reading

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I take the greatest care to open the door within all of you — Mother

I take the greatest care to open the door within all of you, so that if you have just a small movement of concentration within you, you do not have to wait for long periods in front of a closed … Continue reading

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Judging others — Mother

Judging Others   The more a mind is ignorant, the more easily it judges everything it does not know or is incapable of understanding. I want the peace to come into your mind and also the quiet, patient wisdom which … Continue reading

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Sadhana at home – Sri Aurobindo

It is quite possible for you to do Sadhana at home and in the midst of your work – many do so. What is necessary in the beginning is to remember the Mother as much as possible, to concentrate on … Continue reading

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The Mother is the goal — Sri Aurobindo

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Discovery of the Divine – The Mother

People are occupied with outward things. That means that the consciousness is turned towards external things – that is, all the things of life which one sees, knows, does – instead of being turned inwards in order to find the … Continue reading

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Contact your soul through imagination — Mother

Is it right to see images when one meditates, as for example, a door opening?      Everything is right, if it has a result. Whatever the means it is all right. Why ? The images you speak of are not … Continue reading

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