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
The lights are the Mother's Powers―many in number. The white light is her own characteristic power, that of the Divine Consciousness in its essence.
15-7-1934
The white light is the Mother's light and it is always around her.
22-8-1933
The pale blue light is my light―white light is the Mother's (sometimes gold also). People generally see either the white or both the white and the pale blue around her.
4-9-1933
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The white light is the Mother's light. Wherever it descends or enters, it brings peace, purity, silence and the openness to the higher forces. If it comes below the navel, that means that it is working in the lower vital.
31-7-1934
The important experience is that of the white ray in the heart―for that is a ray of Mother's light, the white light, and the illumining of the heart by the light is a thing of great power in this Sadhana. The intuitions she [a Sadhika] speaks of are a sign of the inner consciousness growing in her―the consciousness which is necessary for Yoga.
28-7-1937
It [the Mother's light] is always there in the inner Purusha.
That means the light of the divine consciousness (the Mother's Consciousness, white light) in the vital. Blue is the higher mind, gold the divine Truth. So it is the vital with the light of the higher mind and the divine Truth in it emanating the Mother's light.
What you saw in vision was a supraphysical body of the Mother made probably of her white light which is the light of the Divine Consciousness and Force that stands behind the Universe.
30-1-1935
Q: Today while meditating in the Pranam Hall I saw in vision a range of mountains from which white light was coming out. What does this signify? To which plane does this vision belong?
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A: Mental. The mountain is the symbol of the ascent from the lower to the higher. The white light is the Mother's light, the light of the Divine Consciousness descending from the heights.
7-8-1933
It [the white water-lily] is the Mother's flower, the flower of divine consciousness.
15-4-1933
Q: Today as soon as the Mother took her seat in the Pranam Hall I saw that white light was playing both on her left and right sides. Was there any particular reason why I saw like this?
A: No. One can always see white light around the Mother, for it is her light, always there.
8-8-1933
Q: Last evening when the Mother was walking on the terrace I saw a light on Her body. What was it?
A: Many see light around the Mother. The light is there always.
26-7-1933
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