The Mother

The Mother's Action in Meditation

When I spoke of the inner mind of the Ashram, I was only using a succinct expression for the "minds of the members of the Ashram" and I was not thinking of the collective mind of the group. But the action of the Mother in the meditation is at once collective and individual. She is trying to bring down the right consciousness in the atmosphere of the Ashram―for the action of the minds and vital of the Sadhaks does create a general atmosphere. She has taken this meditation in the evening as a brief period in which all is concentrated in the sole force of the descending Power. The Sadhaks must feel that they are there only to concentrate, only to receive, only to be open to the Mother and nothing else matters.

November, 1934

About the meditation and the seat, the Mother gives this meditation only for bringing down the true light and consciousness into the Sadhaks. She does not want it to be turned into a formality and she does not want any personal questions to arise there. It should solely be a meditation and concentration without personal or other desires or claims or ideas rising there and interfering with her object.

2-11-1934

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It is not by the physical presence but the Mother's concentration at the time of meditation which brings the quiet to those who can receive it.

6-3-1937

It is only Mother who can give orders here.

What Mother would like you to do is to come to the Meditation and Pranam putting aside all feelings of ego, anger, quarrel with others, demand for this or that, thinking only of your Sadhana and making yourself quiet to receive from her the only things that are really precious and needful.

22-9-1936

Q: When I try to meditate in the presence of the Mother, there is always a disturbing rush of thoughts as to what she is bringing down etc.

A: It is simply a bad habit of the mind, a wrong activity. It is not in the least useful for the mind to ask or try to determine what the Mother wills or is bringing―that only interferes. It has simply to remain quiet and concentrated and leave the Power to act.

11-1-1934

Q: During the period of concentration I get all sorts of useless thoughts and desires, which I forget afterwards. How am I to remember them and open them to the Mother?

A: Aspire at the time―they will of themselves be open to the Mother.

26-6-1933

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Q: During the general meditation with the Mother, my consciousness rose upwards in an utter passivity. I became unaware of my body up to the neck.

A: It means the whole mind was liberated for a while from imprisonment in the body sense and became free in the passivity of the wider self.

16-8-1934

Q: I feel that when the Mother comes down to give meditation in the Meditation Hall, the atmosphere of the Hall extends to all the Ashram houses. Am I right in my feeling?

A: It is natural that it should be so as the Mother, when she concentrates on the inner work, is accustomed spontaneously to spread her consciousness over the whole Ashram. So to anyone who is sensitive, it must be felt anywhere in the Ashram, though perhaps more strongly in the nearer houses on an occasion like the evening meditation.

7-11-1934