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: Is it always necessary for us to understand what the Mother's Force is doing in us for the progress of our Yoga?
Page 152
A: Plenty of people progress rapidly without understanding what the Force is doing―they simply observe and describe and say "I leave all to the Mother." Eventually knowledge and understanding come.
17-7-1933
Q: With reference to the Mother you once said, "Ask for the consciousness of her force". Does it mean that I should aspire to know about her Force?
A: Yes, not know with the mind only, but to feel it and see it with the inner experience.
18-6-1933
Q: Suppose I am in a fix and call down the Mother's Force which is above me. Now, how am I to know whether or not it has descended?
A: By the feeling of it or the result.
26-6-1933
Q: Grant that it has descended, and I have started doing my lessons; could I then order it to guard me from outer influences and simultaneously keep me in complete touch with the Mother even when my mind is occupied in some other work?
A: You can't order anything to the Mother's force, the Mother's force is the manifestation of the Mother herself.
Page 153
Q: I am unable to understand how this force can deal with action.
A: You think the Mother's force has nothing to do with the action or that it is too feeble to act? Or what? What is a force meant for but to act?
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