Mother, Mother's collected works Volume15,Centenary edition, Sri Aurobindo,yoga

The whole of our life should be a prayer offered to the Divine.

When coming out of sleep you must keep quiet for a few moments and consecrate the coming day to the Divine, praying to remember Him always and in all circumstances.
Before going to sleep you must concentrate for a few minutes, look into the day that has passed, remember when and where you have forgotten the Divine, and pray that such forgettings should not happen again.

31 August 1953

Prayers - I

I belong to Thee. And I wish to know Thee so that all that I do may be only what Thou wantest me to do.

24 June 1972

When, in our despair, we cry to the Divine, always He answers to our call.

21 December 1954

In the name of my Lord,

for the sake of my Lord,

with the will of my Lord,

by the power of my Lord,

stop immediately harassing us.

Morning

O my Lord, my Sweet Mother,

Let me be Yours, absolutely Yours, perfectly Yours.

Your force, Your light and Your love will protect me against all evils.

Midday

O my Lord, Sweet Mother,

I am Yours and pray to be more and more perfectly Yours.

Night

O my Lord, Sweet Mother,

Your force is with me, Your light and Your love, and You will save me from all difficulties.

O Lord, Thy sweetness has entered into my soul, and Thou hast filled all my being with joy.

14 April 1935

My Lord, make me entirely Thine.

My Lord, let me be entirely and sincerely yours.

Morning and Evening Prayer

Lord, I want to be Yours and worthy of You; make me Your ideal child.

Integral prayer: the whole being is concentrated in a single prayer to the Divine.

When waking up every morning, let us pray for a day of complete consecration.

19 June 1954

Let us pray with all our heart that the divine work may be acomplished.

All sincere prayers are granted, but it may take some time to realise materially.

28 June 1954

All sincere prayers are granted, every call is answered.

21 July 1954

Sincere calls surely are heard and receive an answer.

We ought to be in a constant state of aspiration, but when we cannot aspire let us pray with the simplicity of a child.

25 July 1954

We pray that the Divine should teach us ever more, enlighten us more and more, dispel our ignorance, illumine our minds.

2 November 1954

It is never in vain that an ardent and sincere prayer is addressed to the Divine's Grace.

19 December 1954

The Supreme is divine knowledge and perfect unity; at each moment of the day let us call to Him so that we may be nothing else than Himself.

20 December 1954

We pray to the Divine to accept the ardent flame of our gratitude and of our joyous and fully confident adherence.

27 December 1954

Sri Aurobindo says in one letter:

"All prayer rightly offered brings us closer to the Divine and establishes right relation with him.''

What is meant by "rightly offered'' in this letter? Will You please elucidate?

With humility and sincerity.

It goes without saying that all bargaining spirit is an insincerity that takes away all value from the prayer.

8 May 1968

Nothing is difficult for those who call sincerely the Divine.

28 January 1973

O Lord, give me a perfect sincerity.

O Lord, let me be perfectly yours for ever.

Aspiration addressed to the Supreme:

Let all in me be always at Your service.

O Lord, awaken in me an ardent desire to know Thee.

I aspire that my life may be consecrated to Thy service.

Let me always follow Thy divine Guidance. Let me be aware of my true destiny.

1 January 1934

O Lord, Thy sweetness has entered into my soul, and Thou hast filled all my being with joy.

14 April 1935

My heart is at peace, my mind is free from impatience, and in all things I rely on Thy will with the smiling confidence of a child.

My Lord, every day, in all circumstances, let me repeat with the full sincerity of my heart, "May Thy Will be done and not mine.''

5 November 1941

Lord, with all my soul I want to accomplish what Thou directest me to do.

5 November 1943

My Lord, deliver me from all vanity; make me humble and sincere.

5 November 1944

A daily prayer

O Lord, let me be free from fear and worry so that I can always serve you to the best of my ability.

December 1948

Lord, give me the strength of a total and perfect sincerity that I may be worthy of Thy Realisation.

15 August 1950

O my heart, be great enough for the Victory.

My heart aspires to be vast enough for Thy Victory.

I aspire to be delivered from all egoistic weakness and all unconscious insincerity.

31 December 1950

Lord, grant that my vision of things may be direct and objective and my acts be completely transformed by it.

Lord, grant that a stupidity once committed and recognised may never be repeated.

My Lord, grant me this quiet trust in Thee which overcomes all the difficulties.

Grant me a quiet trust, a peaceful strength, an ardent faith and devotion.

Lord, grant that I may be entirely and eternally faithful to Thee.

Lord, grant me this Grace, that I may never forget Thee.

December 1958

My Lord, make the consciousness clear and precise, the speech thoroughly true, the surrender complete, the calm absolute and transform the whole being into an ocean of light and love.

Make me entirely transparent so that my consciousness may unite with Thine.

I aspire to place at Thy feet all the riches of this world.

O Lord, most humbly I pray that I may be at the height of my endeavour, that nothing in me, conscious or unconscious, may betray Thee by failing to serve in Thy sacred mission.

With a solemn devotion I salute Thee.

Selection from The Mother's collected Works Vol 15 .
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