Sri Aurobindo
Autobiographical Notes
and Other Writings of Historical Interest
Part Four. Sri Aurobindo’s Ashram and Yoga 1927–1949
Notices of May 1928 [3]1
Meditation at 7.0 a.m. as before.
All fixed or daily times for sadhakas seeing the Mother are cancelled. Every day the Mother will call those whom she wants to see. Any others who need to see her will inform Nalini early in the morning or the night before and write the reason for their request which will be acceded to or otherwise dealt with according to circumstances and possibilities.
The soup will be distributed in the evening in the downstairs verandah of Sri Aurobindo’s house. All who take it must be present at 8.30 and remain seated in silence till the Mother comes. Before the distribution there will be a few minutes concentration all together.
The night meditations are cancelled for a time.
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On the 1st of each month the distribution from the stores will be made in the store-room in the presence of the Mother at 8 P.M.
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May 1928
1 Sri Aurobindo wrote this note after the Mother suffered a serious illness. He insisted at this time on introducing changes in the schedule of Ashram activities in order to lessen the pressure of work on her.