A collection of short prose pieces on the Mother and her four great Aspects - Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati, along with 'Letters on the Mother'.
Integral Yoga
This volume consists of two separate but related works: 'The Mother', a collection of short prose pieces on the Mother, and 'Letters on the Mother', a selection of letters by Sri Aurobindo in which he referred to the Mother in her transcendent, universal and individual aspects. In addition, the volume contains Sri Aurobindo's translations of selections from the Mother's 'Prières et Méditations' as well as his translation of 'Radha's Prayer'.
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Q: For a long time I was thinking of meeting the Mother but was hesitating to ask for an interview. Last night in dream I met her and had a talk with her. Was it the real Mother I met or some constructed figure of my dream-mind?
A: Of course, it was the Mother you met and the meeting must have been due to your thought about meeting her.
9-6-1935
Q: Kindly let me know the significance of my frequently coming to the Mother on the supraphysical plane. Did my vital come to the Mother for refreshing its energy, for purification, etc.?
A: This kind of vital coming to the Mother all the Sadhaks have in their sleep and dream, if they are a little conscious there. Even those who are not Sadhaks or others who do not know her come, but they are not aware of it. The vital plane is a supraphysical plane. The vital moves about in its own plane and is not limited by the physical mind or its consciousness or experience.
13-7-1937
It [coming to the Mother on a supraphysical plane] may be for any object or without any specific object―there is no rule in such matters.
14-7-1937
Q: I saw twice in dream that the Mother was giving me soup with her hand and I was bowing down at her feet.
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Why did I see like this? What is the spiritual meaning of the soup which the Mother was giving us?
A: The soup was instituted in order to establish a means by which the Sadhak might receive something from the Mother by an interchange in the material consciousness. Owing to the past association probably you see like that when your material consciousness in dream receives something from the Mother.
27-7-1933
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