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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Let the inner contact with the Mother increase―unless that is there, the outer contacts if too much multiplied easily degenerate into a routine.
I mean the inner contact in which one either feels one with her or in contact with her or aware of her presence or at the very least turned towards her always.
16-3-1935
Q: Today I had an intense desire to go in the Mother's rooms upstairs so as to be near and close to her.
A: But the coming near to the Mother should be in the inner rooms, not the outer. For in the inner rooms one can always enter and even arrange to stay there permanently.
8-3-1935
Q: How is it that in writing a letter to you the higher things increase and become stronger?
A: I suppose it is because in the act of writing or rather in its
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beginning you enter into contact with the Mother and the Force.
10-5-1936
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