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: On what basis did the Mother's action proceed in the case recently submitted to her?
A: Mother acted on her inner perception about the whole affair; she does not act only on the outer facts but on what she feels or sees lying behind them.
29-8-1935
Q: X's letter to me about her hip-joint pain was sent to the Mother by me not on the same day but on the next. Yet it seems from X's latest that her pain disappeared soon after that letter had reached me. Was there an automatic effect of the letter, even before the Mother was told of the letter's contents?
A: Y spoke to the Mother about X's pain on the same day―
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so it is not necessary to suppose an automatic effect of the letter itself. But such an automatic effect does often take place either immediately after writing or when the letter enters the Mother's atmosphere.
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