The Mother

The Mother's Emanations

Q: What is the exact significance of your statement: "Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you; because she is, indeed, always present"?

A: It is the emanation of the Mother that is with each Sadhak all the time. In former days when she was spending the night in a trance and not working in the Ashram, she brought back with her the knowledge of all that was happening to everybody. Nowadays she has no time for that.

16-7-1935

Q: All this is very interesting; and I suppose you have an equal number of emanations yourself. Their object must be to give us protection.

A: I am not aware of any emanations of mine. As for the Mother's, they are not there for protection, but to support the personal relation or contact with the Sadhak, and to act so far as he will allow them to act.

16-7-1935

Q: Kindly enlighten us a little more regarding the emanations. How do they support the personal relation? I

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thought that all personal relations were with the Mother direct, not through a deputy! When X says that he feels the Mother's physical touch, with whom does he have the contact―the Mother or the emanation? Then again, the different forms of the Mother that one sees in dreams―are they also her emanations?

A: It is terribly difficult to write of these things, for you are all as ignorant as blazes about these things and misunderstand at every step. The Emanation is not a deputy, but the Mother herself. She is not bound to her body, but can put herself out (emanate) in any way she likes. What emanates, suits itself to the nature of the personal relation she has with the Sadhak which is different with each, but that does not prevent it from being herself. Its presence with the Sadhak is not dependent on his consciousness of it. If everything were dependent on the surface consciousness of the Sadhak, there would be no possibility of the divine action anywhere; the human worm would remain the human worm and the human ass the human ass, for ever and ever. For if the Divine could not be there behind the veil, how could either ever become conscious of anything but their wormhood and asshood even throughout the ages?

(By the side of the question, "When X says that he feels the Mother's physical touch, with whom does he have the contact...?" Sri Aurobindo wrote, "With the Mother―the emanation helping―which is its business.")

19-7-1935

The Mother when she works in the supraphysical levels goes out in a different emanation to each Sadhak.

11-12-1933

Q: In an experience in the dream-state, we see the

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Mother sometimes. Is that form an emanation of her or is it her body itself?

A: An emanation. How can her physical body be seen in a dream experience?

7-7-1933

Q: During the afternoon sleep I seem to come often into contact with the Mother. Is it the Mother who sends her emanation?

A: Yes, or rather something of her is always with you.

14-12-1933