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Four Methods of Conquering Death — Mother

The method to be followed in order to overcome the fear of death will differ according to the nature of the case and the state of the consciousness. These methods can be classified into four principal kinds, although each one … Continue reading

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Consecrate Your Life to The Realization of Something Higher — Mother

February 21 1958 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 … Continue reading

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To Thee Our Infinite Gratitude — Mother

To Thee who hast been the material envelope of our Master, to Thee our infinite gratitude. Before Thee who hast done so much for us, who hast worked, struggled, suffered, hoped, endured so much, before Thee who hast willed all, … Continue reading

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It is No Longer Necessary to Clutter One’s Brain — Mother

“I am not a Jnani, for I have no knowledge except what God gives me for His work. How am I to know whether what I see be reason or folly? Nay, it is neither; for the thing seen is … Continue reading

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Who can Understand Sri Aurobindo? — Mother

Question: Sweet Mother, Often when I read Sri Aurobindo’s works or listen to his words, I am wonder-struck: how can this eternal truth, this beauty of expression escape people! It is really strange that he is not yet recognised, at … Continue reading

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Sri Aurobindo Is Full of Marvels — Mother

I do not know if you trust me, but I will tell you that every sentence of Sri Aurobindo is the expression or translation of a precise experience, and not only is it like a world enclosed in a few … Continue reading

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People Are Not Aware — Mother

People are not aware of the workings of Grace except when there has been some danger, that is, when there has been the beginning of an accident or the accident has taken place and they have escaped it. Then they … Continue reading

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One Must Do Something a Little Unselfish — Mother

If you want to begin to do sadhana, you must do something which does not have an exclusively personal motive. One must do something a little unselfish, for if one is exclusively occupied with oneself, one gets shut up in … Continue reading

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Hunt for all the little dark corners hidden in you — Mother

Evidently there is one difficulty: in your conscious being something does not want the difficulty, wishes sincerely to overcome it, but there are numberless movements in other parts of your consciousness of which you are not conscious. You say, “I … Continue reading

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Making Truth Valuable — Mother

All of you who have come here have been told many things; you have been put into contact with a world of truth, you live within it, the air you breathe is full of it; and yet how few of … Continue reading

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The secret of effort — Mother

As with everything in yoga, the effort for progress must be made for the love of the effort for progress. The joy of effort, the aspiration for progress must be enough in themselves, quite independent of the result. Everything one … Continue reading

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Turning towards the Mother.

Q : Turn my consciousness towards You, Mother. The Mother : Never doubt my love, and then quite naturally you will turntowards me. 10 June 1935(CWM 17:101)

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Sincerity stronger than will — Mother

… there are people who tell me, “I don’t have the will- power.” That means you are not sincere. For sincerity is an infinitely more powerful force than all the wills in the world. It can change anything whatever in … Continue reading

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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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