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What is a "Personalised" section?

A "personalised" section means that the content is refreshed per view for you, as if in answer to your inner aspiration.

How are the quotations in the Guidance section selected?

The content is selected from the words of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. It is the electronic equivalent of looking up any of Sri Aurobindo's or The Mother's works to receive an indication or answer. The explanation of the physical process follows..

The Mother explains the process:

Everybody can do it. It is done in this way: you concentrate. Now, it depends on what you want. If you have an inner problem and want the solution, you concentrate on this problem; if you want to know the condition you are in, which you are not aware of - if you want to get some light on the state you are in, you just come forward with simplicity and ask for the light. Or else, quite simply, if you are curious to know what the invisible knowledge has to tell you, you remain silent and still for a moment and then open the book. I always used to recommend taking a paper-knife, because it is thinner; while you are concentrated you insert it in the book and with the tip indicate something. Then, if you know how to concentrate, that is to say, if you really do it with an aspiration to have an answer, it always comes.

For, in books of this kind (Mother shows The Synthesis of Yoga), books of revelation, there is always an accumulation of forces - at least of higher mental forces, and most often of spiritual forces of the highest knowledge. Every book, on account of the words it contains, is like a small accumulator of these forces. People don't know this, for they don't know how to make use of it, but it is so. In the same way, in every picture, photograph, there is an accumulation, a small accumulation representative of the force of the person whose picture it is, of his nature and, if he has powers, of his powers. Now, you, when you are sincere and have an aspiration, you emanate a certain vibration, the vibration of your aspiration which goes and meets the corresponding force in the book, and it is a higher consciousness which gives you the answer.

Everything is contained potentially. Each element of a whole potentially contains what is in the whole. It is a little difficult to explain, but you will understand with an example: when people want to practise magic, if they have a bit of nail or hair, it is enough for them, because within this, potentially, there is all that is in the being itself. And in a book there is potentially - not expressed, not manifest - the knowledge which is in the person who wrote the book. Thus, Sri Aurobindo represented a totality of comprehension and knowledge and power; and every one of his books is at once a symbol and a representation. Every one of his books contains symbolically, potentially, what is in him. Therefore, if you concentrate on the book, you can, through the book, go back to the source. And even, by passing through the book, you will be able to receive much more than what is just in the book.

There is always a way of reading and understanding what one reads, which gives an answer to what you want. It is not just a chance or an amusement, nor is it a kind of diversion. You may do it just "like that", and then nothing at all happens to you, you have no reply and it is not interesting. But if you do it seriously, if seriously your aspiration tries to concentrate on this instrument - it is like a battery, isn't it, which contains energies - if it tries to come into contact with the energy which is there and insists on having the answer to what it wants to know, well, naturally, the energy which is there - the union of the two forces, the force given out by you and that accumulated in the book - will guide your hand and your paper-knife or whatever you have; it will guide you exactly to the thing that expresses what you ought to know…. Obviously, if one does it without sincerity or conviction, nothing at all happens. If it is done sincerely, one gets an answer.

Certain books are like this, more powerfully charged than others; there are others where the result is less clear. But generally, books containing aphorisms and short sentences - not very long philosophical explanations, but rather things in a condensed and precise form - it is with these that one succeeds best.

Naturally, the value of the answer depends on the value of the spiritual force contained in the book. If you take a novel, it will tell you nothing at all but stupidities. But if you take a book containing a condensation of forces - of knowledge or spiritual force or teaching power - you will receive your answer.



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OM Namo Bhagavate



OM Namo Bhagavate - The Mother


ॐ नमो भगवते

Mother's Agenda, 19 February 1965

The first word represents:
the supreme invocation
the invocation to the Supreme.

The second word represents:
total self-giving;
perfect surrender.

The third word represents:
the aspiration,
what the manifestation must
become—Divine.



OM Namo Bhagavate Sri Aravindaya


Om Namo Bhagavate : The Mother's chanting in 1971
Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Aravindaya




Poem by Sri Aurobindo


"I"

This strutting "I" of human self and pride
    Is a puppet built by Nature for her use,
And dances as her strong compulsions bid,
    Forcefully feeble, brilliantly obtuse.

Our thinking is her leap of fluttering mind,
    We hear and see by her constructed sense:
Our force is hers; her colours have combined
    Our fly-upon-the-wheel magnificence.

He sits within who turns on her machine
    These beings, portions of his mystery,
Many dwarf beams of his great calm sunshine,
    A reflex of his sole infinity.

One mighty Self of cosmic act and thought
Employs this figure of a unit nought.

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Prayers and Meditations : The Mother


August 28, 1914

O Lord, O eternal Master, my thought lies mute and powerless before Thee but my heart calls to Thee; awaken all my being that it may be for Thee, entirely, the needed instrument, the perfect servitor.

Oh, to be infinitely Thou, Thou in all things, Thou everywhere, Thou always, the absolute silence, the absolute movement...

To be nothing other than the One, all-containing, contained in all—free from every limitation and from all blindness.

O Supreme Triumphant, triumph over every obstacle.

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Meditations on Savitri


Savitri Book 7 Canto 2 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul

Above her brows where will and knowledge meet
A mighty Voice invaded mortal space.... ||116.2||
As the Voice touched, her body became a stark
And rigid golden statue of motionless trance,
A stone of God lit by an amethyst soul.... ||116.4||
Her heart listened to its slow measured beats,
“Why comest thou to this dumb deathbound earth,
O spirit, O immortal energy,
If ‘twas to nurse grief in a helpless heart
Or with hard tearless eyes await thy doom? ||116.5||
Arise, O soul, and vanquish Time and Death.” ||116.6||

Painting by Huta - Book 7 Canto 2 Painting #1

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