At the Feet of The Mother

The Mother’s Vision

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15.1 Art and Yoga

Jul 8, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

Art is nothing less in its fundamental truth than the aspect of beauty of the Divine manifestation. Perhaps, looking from this stand-point, there will be found very few true artists; but still there are some and these can very well be considered as Yogis.

14.7 Sleep and Dreams

Jun 25, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

It is better to fall asleep while concentrating than “like that”, scattered and strewn without knowing even where one is. To sleep well one must learn how to sleep.

14.6 Money

Jun 18, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

It is a catastrophe to have money. It makes you stupid, it makes you miserly, it makes you wicked. It is one of the greatest calamities in the world. Money is something one ought not to have until one no longer has desires.

14.5 The Need for Diversity

Jun 13, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

This habit of wanting to compel others to think as you do has always seemed very strange to me; this is what I call “the propagandist spirit”, and it goes very far.

14.4 Meat-Eating and Fasting

Jun 4, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

... fasting is above all good for those who believe in it — as everything. When you have the faith that this will make you progress, is going to purify you, it does you good. If you don’t believe in it, it doesn’t do much, except that it makes you thin.

14.3 No Two Things Are Identical

Mar 30, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

It is said that there are people who are very intelligent, and others who are foolish. Why ?

Why? But, my child, there are all kinds of things in Nature! No two things are identical.

14.2 Attraction and Repulsion

Mar 21, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

So, essentially, if one wants to develop spiritually, the first thing to do is to overcome one’s dislikes... and one’s likes. Look at all that with a smile.

14.1 Make Use of Reason

Mar 13, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

The laws of Nature are infrarational. This is the only superiority that man has, his having a reason, and when he doesn’t make use of it he becomes absolutely an animal. That’s the last excuse to give: “What do you want, it’s the law of Nature!”

13.7 A Flu Epidemic in Japan

Mar 4, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

There was a terrible fear. For example, people were seen walking about in the streets with a mask on the nose, a mask to purify the air they were breathing, so that it might not be full of the microbes of the illness. It was a common fear....

13.6 Indications from Books

Feb 23, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

... you took one of your books or Sri Aurobindo’s and opened a page at random, and read out a sentence. Can these sentences give one a sign or an indication? What should we do to get a true answer?

13.5 Twelve Senses

Feb 16, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

These are a sort of improvement of the senses we have; as for instance, hearing at a great distance — there are people who can hear noises at a great distance, who can smell at a great distance. It is a kind of perfecting of these senses.

13.4 The Stone-Throwing Incident

Feb 8, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

"... it was only at the level of the roof that the stones were seen — from the roof downwards, we saw the stones; just till the roof, above it there were no stones. This meant that it was like an automatic formation. In the air nothing could be seen: they materialised in the atmosphere of the house and fell."

13.3 The Practice of Magic

Jan 31, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

With the help of magical formulas one may produce a certain result, but this result is necessarily limited and has no particular interest for those who, through their inner development, spontaneously receive powers of which they have a higher knowledge, not a mechanical one. It is not for someone who is truly a yogi; it has no interest except that of curiosity.

13.2 The Occult World

Jan 26, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

... it is difficult to speak of all these worlds, these innumerable worlds, in a few minutes. It is a knowledge which needs a lived experience of many years, thoroughly systematic, and which requires, as I said, an inner preparation absolutely indispensable, to make it harmless.

13.1 The Capacity for Occultism

Jan 16, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

... one thing is absolutely essential, absolutely: you must not touch this occult science if you have the least fear in you. For instance, if in your dreams you meet terrible things and get frightened, you should not practise occultism.

12.5 Chance

Dec 27, 2019

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that is the supramental — the reign of Truth, the expression of the Divine Law. In the Supermind, therefore, chance has no place.

12.4 Miracles

Dec 22, 2019

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

It is the ignorant, limited, egoistic consciousness which demands miracles. As soon as one is enlightened, one knows that everywhere and always there is miracle.

12.3 Materialism and Spiritual Life

Dec 16, 2019

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

... insistence on the exclusive reality of the physical world, of physical pleasures, physical joys, physical possessions, is the result of the whole materialistic tendency of human civilisation. It was unthinkable in ancient times. On the contrary, withdrawal, concentration, liberation from all material cares, consecration to the spiritual joy, that was happiness indeed.