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'.
THEME/S
Q: What kind of feeling is that which gets satisfaction and joy only in seeing the Mother?
A: It is psychic.
Q: What kind of feeling is that which gets satisfaction and joy only in remembering the Mother?
A: Psychic.
Q: What kind of feeling is that which gives a wound in the heart on hearing anything against the Mother?
Q: What kind of feeling is that by which one feels close to the Mother's presence in the heart even though she is physically far?
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Q: How shall I find out that I am in the full state of psychic love?
A: By the absence of ego, by pure devotion, by submission and surrender to the Divine.
9-5-1933
Q: When the whole nature is engrossed in feeling, thinking, acting round the word "Mother", would the psychic be realised?
A: That would of itself be the psychic state.
Q: Can there be a conscious contact with the Mother through the psychic before the latter comes forward fully?
A: Yes, the psychic is always there.
Q: Why do I not feel love and Ananda every time I see the Mother?
A: As for the love and Ananda, it depends on the psychic coming up.
29-7-1934
Q: Whenever an inner love springs out for the Mother, tears rush out too.
A: These are psychic tears of devotion etc.
25-8-1934
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Q: A lady visitor was leaving the Ashram today. No sooner did the Mother finish the Pranam ceremony than this lady began to weep. In fact, she tried hard to check herself as we all were still there, but it seems she could not help it. Was it not due to her psychic coming in front for the time?
A: It is not a question of the psychic coming in front. She has a psychic being which is awake and has long been in connection with the Mother on the inner plane.
28-8-1934
Q: A thrill comes from above and passes through my body, making the Adhara stilled for a while. I don't understand it much. What exactly is it?
A: Of course it is the thrill of the Mother's touch coming from above and felt by the psychic and vital together.
Q: We find that in the Mother's presence or by meeting her we come out of depression and experience ecstasy of joy. Does this take place by a psychic meeting or meeting on the inner vital level?
A: It depends on whether it comes by drawing vital force from her or simply by the joy of seeing her or by receiving something from her. In the 2 latter cases it is usually psychic or psychic-vital, in the former it is vital.
Q: If a man feels that he is the happiest child of the Mother, is it due to ego-feeling?
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A: It depends on the source of the feeling. If it is true happiness, then it is not ego. If it is due to a feeling of superiority, then it is ego.
Q: My psychic sometimes feels sad and lonely because it feels it cannot properly love the Mother.
A: It can't be the psychic in that case. The psychic never feels that it cannot love the Divine.
Q: Psychic love for the Mother―or else death: this is what one feels at times as a final resolution.
A: That is altogether the wrong attitude. It is once more the vital coming in―it is not a psychic attitude. If in asking for the psychic love, you take an attitude that is vital not psychic, how do you expect the psychic to come?
2-3-1935
Q: To concentrate only on being with the Mother's heart and want only to be hers and live for her and care for no other experience: what do you think of this attitude?
A: The attitude is good for awakening the psychic being and the inner being generally. But if the higher experience comes it should not be stopped.
12-3-1935
Q: Even higher or deeper experiences do not seem
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valuable at all if one cannot love the Mother with the true heart.
A: It is a mistake to think like that. The experiences prepare the different parts of the being for loving in the right way, so that it is not the soul alone that loves. So long as they are open to ignorance and ego they cannot receive and hold the love rightly.
23-10-1935
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