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...the birth of the Eternal on Earth. - The Mother

Steps in Her Living Presence

न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते ।
तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति ॥
"There is nothing in this world as purifying as Knowledge. He who is perfected in Yoga finds this knowledge within himself in due course of time."

Bhagavad Gita (4.38)

Questions and Answers (1929 - 31)

-The Mother

In 1929, on Sundays, the Mother met a small group of disciples at the home of one of them. After a period of meditation she answered any questions raised by the disciples. Portions of fifteen of these weekly talks, which were given in English, were noted down in shorthand by one of those present; the transcript was elaborated by another participant, and finally revised by Sri Aurobindo for publication.The talks, entitled Conversations of the Mother, were first published for private circulation towards the end of 1931.

- CWM Vol.3

The number of hours spent in meditation is no proof of spiritual progress. It is a proof of your progress when you no longer have to make an effort to meditate. Then you have rather to make an effort to stop meditating: it becomes difficult to stop meditation, difficult to stop thinking of the Divine, difficult to come down to the ordinary consciousness. Then you are sure of progress, then you have made real progress when concentration in the Divine is the necessity of your life, when you cannot do without it, when it continues naturally from morning to night whatever you may be engaged in doing. Whether you sit down to meditation or go about and do things and work, what is required of you is consciousness; that is the one need, to be constantly conscious of the Divine.

- The Mother

Questions and Answers (1929 - 31)

  • 07 April 1929      Yoga: for the sake of the Divine, Concentration
  • 14 April 1929      Dangers og Yoga, Two paths,Impulses,Difficulties
  • 21 April 1929      Visions, Dreams, Surrender, Entering the spiritual life
  • 28 April 1929      Offering, Remembrance, Freedom, Aim of creation
  • 05 May 1929      Intellect, Death, Inner pogress, Faith
  • 12 May 1929      some human beings who are like vampires
  • 19 May 1929      What is the nature of the power that thought possesses?
  • 26 May 1929      If our will is only an expression or echo of the universal will...

 

To be Continued...