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: I dreamt that the Mother is building a very big hospital. Dream of a millennium in advance?
A: It would be more of a millenium if there were no need of a hospital at all and the doctors turned their injective prodding instruments into fountain pens―provided of course they did not make misuse of the pens also....
Q: Why furious about injective instruments, sir? They are supposed to be very effective.
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A: That does not make an increase of hospitals, illnesses and injections the ideal of a millennium....
Q: But why the deuce are those instruments to be replaced by fountain pens?
A: I was simply adopting the saying of Isaiah the prophet, "the swords will be turned into ploughshares", but the doctor's instrument is not big enough for a ploughshare, so I substituted fountain pen.
19-7-1937
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