At the Feet of The Mother
The Mother's Writings
We have within us many states of being and each state of being has its own life.
Sri Aurobindo used to say, you know, that to wear a ring with his portrait and think that it protects you, is a superstition!
If you use power to show that you possess it, it becomes so full of falsehood and untruth that finally it disappears.
Freedom is a sort of instinctive need, a necessity for the integral development of the being. In its essence it is a perfect realisation of the highest consciousness, it is the expression of Unity and of union with the Divine.
Abdul Baha recounted how Bahai followers faced torment with ecstasy, regarding it not as sacrifice but as a profound offering of their lives.
In ancient Arabia, a persecuted divine being sought refuge in a pomegranate bush, its blood nourishing miraculous scarlet flowers symbolizing Divine Love.
A psychic being’s progress consist of — individualisation, the capacity to take up all experiences and organise them around the divine centre.
When I ask you to be plastic in relation to the Divine, I mean not to resist the Divine with the rigidity of preconceived ideas and fixed principles.