Photo Collection
The Mother, handwritings
Personal messages
Messages, letters, notes
Never worry. Do with sincerity all you do and leave the results to the Divine ’s care.
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To come closer to the Truth, you must often accept not to understand.
PHOTO ID: 01899
SOURCE: Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.- XXII 4 11-1970.- P. 133
He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.
PHOTO ID: 01900
A happy beginning, a good continuation and no end – an endless progression
PHOTO ID: 01901
SOURCE: Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.- XXIII 1 02-1971-P P 161
You who are young, are the hope of the country. Prepare yourself to be worthy of this expectation. Blessings
PHOTO ID: 01902
SOURCE: Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.- XXIII 2 04-1971
To give to the Divine what one has in excess is not an offering. One should give at least something out of what one needs.
PHOTO ID: 01903
SOURCE: Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.- XXIII 3 08-1971
Let the past be past. Concentrate only on the Eternal
PHOTO ID: 01904
SOURCE: Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.- XXIV 4 11-1972
Faithfulness is the sure basis of success (18.4.1959)
14 May 1957
PHOTO ID: 15763
a beautiful house in a beautiful place offered by a beautiful heart (14.05.1961)
14 May 1961
PHOTO ID: 15764
My dear child,
I do not see that the Supramental will act in the way you expect from It. Its action will be to effectuate the Divine’s Will upon earth whatever that may be. On men Its action will be to turn their will consciously or unconsciously on their part towards the way in which the Divine’s Will wants them to go.
But I cannot promise you that the Divine’s will is to preserve the present human civilisation.
My love and blessings
A letter to Prithwi Singh
30 August 1945
PHOTO ID: 00502
SOURCE: Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: Correspondence (1933-1967) / Edited by Sujata Nahar and Michel Danino. - First edition. – Faridabad (India): Printed at Thomson Press.- p.122- ISBN 81-85137-4
(at the top - The Mother’s correction of Prithwi Singh’s letter)
It is purposely that I have left my body, I will not come back into it, I will return in a new body, the first body built in the supramental way.
(at the bottom - the Mother’s answer:)
I am sending you the corrected version — but it is for yourself alone and not to be shown to others.
With my love and blessings
12 June 1953
PHOTO ID: 00503
SOURCE: Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: Correspondence (1933-1967) / Edited by Sujata Nahar and Michel Danino. - First edition. – Faridabad (India): Printed at Thomson Press.- p.159- ISBN 81-85137-4
Q: Bien que je sois très éloigné de l’état où je pourrais toujours demeurer à Tes pieds, je Te prie de m’y conduire.
A: La façon la plus prompte est de t’unir de plus en plus à ton être psychique, car ton être psychique est très intimement proche de moi.
Bénédictions.
Q: Although I am very far from the state where I could always remain at Your feet, I pray to You to lead me there.
A: The quickest way is to unite more and more with your psychic being, because your psychic being is near to me very intimately.
20 June 1967
PHOTO ID: 09264
SOURCE: On the Path = En route: The Mother’s Correspondence with Shyam Sundar / Translated from French into English.– 1st ed. (1987).– Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1999.– 158 p.
Q: Dans le cas des choses profondes, la vraie compréhension vient souvent quand je n’essaye pas de comprendre.
A: C’est toujours le mental qui essaye de comprendre — les choses extérieures et superficielles, il peut les comprendre et même les expliquer — mais les choses profondes, il ne les comprend pas; elles appartiennent à un autre domaine, à une lumière plus haute et plus pure. C’est seulement quand le mental est silencieux que cette Conscience s’éveille en nous, et elle comprend.
Q: In the case of profound things the true understanding often comes when I do not try to understand.
A: It is always the mind that tries to understand – the outer and superficial things it can understand and even explain – but the profound things it does not understand; they belong to another domain, to a higher and purer light. It is only when the mind is silent that this Consciousness wakes up in us, and it understands.
10 April 1969
PHOTO ID: 09265
SOURCE: On the Path = En route: The Mother’s Correspondence with Shyam Sundar / Translated from French into English.– 1st ed. (1987).– Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1999.– 158 p.
Q: Pour établir le règne du Divin sur la terre, lequel est le plus lent, l’homme ou le Divin Lui-même?
A: Pour l’homme le Divin paraît lent.
Au regard du Divin l’homme est bien lent!
Mais peut-être que dans les deux cas, la lenteur n’est pas la même.
Q: To establish the reign of the Divine on earth, who is slower – man or the Divine Himself?
A: To man the Divine seems slow.
In the eyes of the Divine man is slow indeed!
But in these two cases the slowness is perhaps not the same.
20 July 1967
PHOTO ID: 09266
SOURCE: On the Path = En route: The Mother’s Correspondence with Shyam Sundar / Translated from French into English.– 1st ed. (1987).– Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1999.– 158 p.
Commerce under Sri Aurobindo’s Guidance, blessings
6 March 1973
PHOTO ID: 15844
India shall take her true place in the world only when she will become integrally the messenger of the Divine Life
24 April 1972
PHOTO ID: 15889
The time has come for the rule of falsehood to end. In the Truth alone is salvation.
25 December 1971
PHOTO ID: 15890
Our best help is faith - the Divine is all merciful. With love and blessings
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