There are relations, personal, intimate as life itself, sweet as love, encompassing like the sky, deep like deep waters. A friend walks at our side; a Lover is with us in our heart’s secrecy; a Master of the Work and the Ordeal points our way; a Creator of things uses us as his instrument; we are in the arms of the eternal Mother.

SRI AUROBINDO

1. Summary

Who is Divine?

- The Supreme Truth and the Only Reality

- Absolute and Infinite Peace, Consciousness, Existence, Power and Ananda.

- Absolute Love, Purity, Wideness and Oneness.

Why should we have intimacy with the Divine?

- To unite our Psychic Being with the Divine

- To merge and unite the Human Love with the Divine Love

- To listen to the Voice of the Psychic and get the Constant Guidance

- To Establish Permanent Ananda in our Being

- To Get the Divine Protection for our Soul after Death

How should we have intimacy with the Divine?

- Intimacy Through Prayers/Mantras

- Intimacy Through Talk / Writing a Diary

- Intimacy Through Aspiration of Physical

- Intimacy Through Calm, Peace, and Silence within

- Intimacy Through Our Soul/Psychic

- Intimacy Through Joy of Self-Giving / Surrender

- Intimacy Through Detachments from all Desires

- Intimacy Through Savitri

- Intimacy Through a Cosmic Soul

- Intimacy Through Nature

- Intimacy Through the Supermind

- Intimacy Through Time / Mahakala

- Intimacy Through Music

- Intimacy Through Mother’s Voice

- Intimacy Through Reading Books

- Intimacy of Sadhaks with Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

- Intimacy Through Knowledge

- Intimacy Through Truth

- Intimacy Through Practice of Confession

- Intimacy Through Possession of the Divine

- Intimacy Through Love for the Divine

- Intimacy Through Perseverance and Receptivity

- Intimacy Through Constant Purification

- Intimacy through Work

2. Who is Divine?

The Divine is:

- The Supreme Truth and the Only Reality

- Absolute and Infinite Peace, Consciousness, Existence, Power and Ananda.

- Absolute Love, Purity, Wideness and Oneness.

- Everywhere and in everything

- In the sinner as well as in the saint

- In the ignorant man as well as in the sage

- Not far, but in ourselves, deep inside and above the feelings and the thoughts.

- The savour of all life and the reason of all activity,

- The goal of our thoughts.

- Our highest Self and the self of all Nature, the eternal and universal Purusha.

- Source, the living Sun of Light and Knowledge and Consciousness and spiritual realization

- With you, helping and guiding you.

- The companion who never fails,

- The friend whose love comforts and strengthens.

- The unalloyed happiness, the blissful felicity, but this felicity is perfect only when it is integral.

- The sure friend who never fails, the Power, the Support, the Guide.

- The Light which scatters darkness,

- The conqueror who assures the victory.

- All-merciful

- Always One that is Many

- Infinite and immortal being

- Indeed what you expect of Him in your deepest aspiration.

- The perfection towards which we move

- That from which all comes, in which all lives, and to return to the truth of the Divine

- Neither personal nor impersonal, formless nor formed

- In the psychic, behind the heart

- Our true aim and the one perfection to which we must aspire

- Supramental knowledge comprehending all and supramental will effecting all

- Not only above Nature; it is master of Nature and cosmos

- Universal and individual as well as transcendent and absolute

- Our Spiritual Destiny

- Not bound by human philosophies

- Always in the depth of everybody’s heart

- Doing Yoga for those who are ready to do everything according to the Divine’s Will.

- Self‐illumined, Sweet, Compassionate and full of Love.

- The only thing worth living for.

The Divine alone is:

- True — all the rest is falsehood

- Real — all the rest is illusion.

- Love — all the rest is selfish sentimentality

- Life — all the rest belongs to the kingdom of death

- Light — all the rest is semi-obscurity

- Support — that never fails.

- Light and Vastness, Truth and Compassion.

- Unmixed and never fails.

- Our object.

In the Divine

- Is found the key of all mysteries and all powers.

- In the Divine is life, light and joy.

- In the Divine is the sovereign peace.

- By the Divine all is transfigured and glorified.

With the Divine

- Is peace and certitude and even the solution of all difficulties

Outside the Divine

- All is falsehood and illusion, all is mournful obscurity.

The Divine gives us

- All that we need to lead us as quickly as possible to the goal.

We are created only to

- Discover the Divine

- Unite with the Divine for his manifestation.

- Think only of the Divine.

- Live only for the Divine.

- Aspire only to the Divine.

- Love only the Divine.

- Work only for the Divine.

- Serve only the Divine.

- Be attached only to the Divine.

- Want only the Divine

- Seek only the Divine.

- Adore the Divine.

- Be with the Divine to be in Peace

Divine has three Aspects for us:

1. Spirit and Master of our own being within us whom we have to serve and learn to express his will in all our movements so that we may grow out of the Ignorance into the Light

2. Cosmic Self and Spirit that is in and behind all things and beings, from which and in which all is manifested in the universe — — although it is now a manifestation in the Ignorance.

3. Transcendent Being and Spirit — All bliss and light and divine knowledge and power, and towards that highest divine existence and its Light we have to rise and bring down the reality of it more and more into our consciousness and life.

Notes:

What we call ourselves is only the ego — our true self is the Divine.
As we progress and purify ourselves of our egoism, our friendship with the Divine becomes more and more clear and conscious.
Duty towards the Divine is far more sacred than any social or family duty; it is all the more sacred because within the human collectivity it is almost wholly ignored or misunderstood.

- The Mother

- To live in the Divine with a life quite new, a life solely made of the Divine, of which the Divine should be the sovereign Lord — and so all troubles will be transformed into serenity, all anguish into peace.

3. Why Should We Have Intimacy with the Divine?

In Integral Yoga, we do not reject life but accept life as a way to bond with the Supreme or Divine. Our Life’s Main aim or goal is to develop intense closeness and intimacy with the Divine at physical, mental, vital and psychic and all planes and all places. This way we can receive the Divine splendor, fullness and joy of life.

Attachment for the Divine wraps itself around the Divine and finds all its support in Him so as to be sure never to leave Him.

Affection for the Divine: a sweet and confident tenderness that gives itself unfailingly to the Divine.

We can have true intimacy with the Divine when we make complete surrender to the Divine and total receptivity to His influence, without any conditions to this intimacy.

Some of the major reasons on why we should have intimacy with the Divine are as follows:

1. To unite our Psychic Being with the Divine

We are born to have intimate relationship with the Divine. If we start connecting with that intimate and unnameable Presence or ecstacy within us, our life will be meaningful. It can only be possible through the turning of our Psychic Being towards the Divine. If we can unite the Centre of our being, i.e., the Psychic being with the Divine Power, The Divine Truth, Knowledge and Love, we can unite with the Divine completely.

The Mother:

All is relative except the Supreme. The Supreme alone is absolute; but as the Supreme is at the centre of each being, each being carries in himself his absolute.

After all, it is very simple, we have only to become what we are in the depths of our being. 18 May 1954

2. To merge and unite the Human Love with the Divine Love

Human love is full of desire and selfish motive. Psychic love is a form taken by divine love in the human being according to the needs and possibilities of the human consciousness. If our love is psychic in its nature, it always brings the sense of oneness or at least of an inner intimate closeness of being. The Divine Love is based upon oneness and the psychic derives from the Divine Love. The Divine’s love is that which comes from above poured down from the Divine Oneness and its Ananda on the being. Divine love is absolutely intense, intimate and full of unity, closeness and rapture using all the nature for its expression.

The Omnipresent, Eternal Spirit remains immutably One. The various ways of serving and understanding It make no difference to Its Reality.

The Mother:

It pleases Him to be like that. He is like that.

And simply, the secret is to be in the “it pleases Him”.

Not to be only what is objectified; to be also in That which objectifies. That is everything.

The Mother:

Friendship with the Divine: delicate, attentive and faithful, ever ready to respond to the smallest appeal.

Closeness to the Divine will always grow with the growth of consciousness, equanimity and love.

[Types of relationships]

The Lord and his Shakti
God and his devotee
The father and his child
The master and his disciple
The Beloved and Lover
The Friend and co-worker
The child and his mother

To give oneself to the Divine, to receive and be the Divine, to transmit and spread forth the Divine: these are the three simultaneous movements which constitute our total relation with the Divine.

3. To listen to the Voice of the Psychic and get the Constant Guidance

The more intimate we become with the Divine, our mind, vital and body will grow within and allow the Psychic to dominate and govern our being, and we can constantly listen to the voice of the psychic in all our activities. Our outer mind and vital get the highest intimations from the soul on what to do rightly and how to turn inward and vast and broad. Always, when the soul is in front, one gets the right guidance from within [as to] what is to be done, what is to be avoided, what is the wrong thing or the true thing in thought, feeling, action. But this inner intimation emerges in proportion as the consciousness grows more and more pure. If we stay connected with our Source and make an intimate relationship with the Supreme, we can get constant inner guidance from the Divine. We must have the purity of our adoration and seeking the Divine. This will gradually lead to a very strong and concrete realisation of the constant Presence.

Integral intimacy with the Divine: the entire being no longer vibrates except with the Divine’s touch.

There is nothing more beautiful than to unite with the divine Consciousness.

One is sure to find what one seeks — if one seeks it in all sincerity; for what one seeks is within oneself.

None can say to the Divine, “I have known Thee”, and yet all carry Him in themselves, and in the silence of their soul can hear the echo of the Divine’s voice. 13 November 1954

One can live the Divine even though unable to express the Divine, one can realise and be the Divine’s infinity though unable to define or explain the Divine. 15 December 1954

For him who is in union with the Divine, everywhere is the Divine’s perfect felicity, in every place and in every circumstance it is with him.

17 December 1954

Communion with the Divine: for him who has it, all circumstances can truly become an opportunity for it.

Through intense and intimate relationship with the Divine we can establish the Ananda permanently in all parts of our being. We can feel the possession of the Ananda through various signs of the Divine, intimations, visits, downrushes of Divine Love and Presence every moment. We should be ready to change our consciousness towards highest Divine consciousness. We should be ready to welcome the peace, light, knowledge etc. from the divine as we transition from the ordinary human nature to the spiritualized nature.

The joy of perfect union can come only when what has to be done is done.

5. To Get the Divine Protection for our Soul after Death

We should know and practice the intimacy with the Divine when we are alive and when we are conscious with Her Grace. At this stage, if we are able to feel the nearness and closeness to the Divine in psychic, vital, mental and physical level, we can feel the same nearness even after we leave our physical.

The Mother says: If the vital being is, during one’s life, incapable of feeling the nearness, the deep intimacy, how can one reasonably hope it will suddenly be able to do so just because it has left the body? It is ignorant childishness.

4. How should we have intimacy with the Divine?

1. Intimacy Through Prayers/Mantras

We should invoke the Divine Mother’s Presence by constantly remembering Her, chanting Her Name, Her Mantras or by doing Nama Japa (Chanting of Ma Ma) or Meditating on Her. If we constantly call Her, invoke Her, and allow Her to work within our being, both outer being and inner being, it will increase our intimacy with Her.

The Mother on Prayers

A prayer is not an amusement or an occupation to pass time, it can not be a substitute for detective novels. A prayer is a sacred thing and must be considered as such, it must be done seriously and with respect. I gave you a prayer because you repeatedly told me that you wanted the Divine, that your only aim in life was the Divine, that all the rest had no value for you. I presumed that you were sincere enough to receive this prayer and repeat it as it was given, with a sacred feeling.

To give a prayer is an initiation and it must be taken as such, seriously and respectfully, not just as something you do when you ‘feel like it’ or to keep busy. It must be repeated as a sacred thing; any other attitude is an insult to the Divine and a denial of one’s soul.

The Mother on OM

A mantra is a set of mystic words given by a guru to an adept of yoga, which, when chanted repeatedly, produces subtle changes in the nature and inner being of the adept. ‘OM’ is the seed sound that originates the universe. It is used at the beginning and the end of most mantras. It is an extremely powerful sound when recited correctly and with full faith.

Knowledge and power belong to the Divine and are bestowed when and on whom He chooses; covet them not. But devotion and love are man’s and by love and devotion you can enter into divine power and knowledge.

The Mother says:

However, there is one thing I must let you know; it is by a constant repetition that a prayer or a mantra acquires its power of realisation, it is by the vibration of the right sound that the power becomes effective. Of course, if the right feeling is there also, the effectivity still increases.

(Mother’s Correspondence with Huta)

Sri Aurobindo says, “Really speaking, this Yoga is not done by the power of man; it is done by the Divine Power and so She can bring about every change in the capacity of the Sadhaka. You should direct the aspiration towards the Supreme. When you have succeeded in doing it, you should watch all your inner activities and see what they are. You should have a fixed time for meditation and must be regular in doing it. You can write about your experience from time to time”.

The Mother says about the intimacy through prayers:

“You should write daily a prayer, expressing your aspiration, or your gratitude, or your adoration, the progress you want to make. It does not need to be long, only a few lines; and it will help you to understand yourself. You will write as if you were speaking to him and to me directly and thus you will create an intimacy with him and myself. ….It would be good if daily you could devote some time to prayer, worship and meditation in whatever place you find it easier.”

Nolini Da on Prayers

Built is the golden tower, the flame-child born. She has built this tower of new life and the child is here, the golden child. This golden child is in every one of you. You must find it, recognise it; this is the goal of your life, the mission and fulfilment of all that you want to do and be on earth. Some of you surely must have felt in you the presence of this child. Some may even have seen it as the Divine Child in you. These things — visitations as they are called — usually come in dreams. At least I know of some who have seen it, who came and told me of their miraculous experience. It is a possibility for everyone and if you happen to see it you must recognise it, hold it, grasp it with all love and affection. The Mother is still living and active among us and her Presence is still here, even concretely, for each one of you has the Divine Child in you.

I end with a prayer, a prayer that I made to the Mother some time ago; it was on behalf of the small children of our playground: Sweet Mother, your Playground children are angels. They have not become divine or godly, but they are angels, earthly angels. Keep them constantly under your eye, cradle them in your loving consciousness.

That was the prayer I made on your behalf to the Mother, and I am sure Mother has responded “Yes.”

Nolini kant Gupta

2. Intimacy Through Talk / Writing a Diary

We can directly talk to Her alone, constantly, and share all our daily life experiences incidents, small realizations, challenges, crisis, problems, visions, missions, plans for the Divine and so on. We can write them in a letter, or in a notebook or a diary or in a mobile App or in laptop. Medium does not matter at all. It is our feelings and love for the Divine that matters. The Mother used to receive the notes, diaries from Ashramites.

The Mother gave the following message to an Ashramite advising her how to write to her daily.

Q. Dear Mother, You told me to write something to You every day. But now I find nothing to say and I don’t know what to write. As for what I have written: since You told me that in order to become happy and good, I must want it with all my will and to work as before, I have started to do that. But when I have nothing to write to You, what can I write (in order, as You said, to keep the contact with You)? Mother, You will tell me.

The Mother: My little smile,

When you have nothing else to tell me, tell me at what time you got up — (like this, for example: this morning I woke up at such and such a time after having slept for so many hours; I got up, washed and dressed, then I ate my breakfast and started working at such and such a time, etc. etc.). You can tell me all the people you met and whom you spoke to, what you told them, etc. It will be a very good exercise in French and at the same time will create a further intimacy between us.

January 1933

19.12.55

My dear little child

I have received your nice letter and am sending at once the second diary so that you can begin to write at once. I propose that in one of the diaries (Sri Aurobindo’s) you should write daily a

prayer, expressing your aspiration, or your gratitude, or your adoration, the progress you want to make. It does not need to be long, only a few lines; and it will help you to understand your self. You will write as if you were speaking to him and to me directly and thus you will create an intimacy with him and myself. In the other diary you will write as you said.

My love and blessings are always with you.

3. Intimacy Through Aspiration of Physical

Even the body shall remember God.

Sri Aurobindo

We must start feeling Mother’s Constant Presence in each of our Physical cells. All cells should be consciously calling the Divine Mother, and invoke Her Force, Light, Power and Love. All the body’s cells must have only one Aspiration: to become conscious of the Divine. Physical should be prepared well to be the base of Supramental Force, so that Divine Mother can descend on our enlightened Psychic Being. With this aspiration of the cells constant, sustained, never failing, the world is sure to reach the transformation.

Intimacy with the Divine in the physical is possible only for the one who lives exclusively by the Divine and for the Divine.

The Mother says there is no separation between our Physical and the Supreme, and that in the reality of our being She is always united. For the intimacy within to be reestablished, the quietude must deepen so that the psychic may come out in the physical as it had done in the higher parts.

**Intimacy with the Divine in the Physical**

Is possible only for him who lives exclusively by the Divine and for the Divine.

Not only our physical cell, but also outer Physical forms carry a lot of meaning in our lives. We should start connecting with the Mater present outside our world.

4. Intimacy Through Calm, Peace, and Silence within

A deep spiritual calm no touch can sway

Upholds the mystery of this Passion-play…

In the mind’s silence the Transcendent acts

And the hushed heart hears the unuttered Word.

Only in Silence and immutable calm, we can experience the Infinite, we can bond with the Divine. It is the base of the universe, Creation was manifested on a pedestal of calm and peace. We must stop our outer activities and remain in as much calm within. It should not be an inert and dead calm, but should be intensely conscious dynamic calm, where we must experience the Truth, the Infinite Love and Power. We have to withdraw from outer consciousness due to outer turbulent activities or disturbing movements. Instead of being slave to outer circumstances, we have to disengage ourselves from this life current in these turbulent life, and start and carry on all our life activities from the base of an infinite calm, from the poise of a immutable calm.

Silence is the gate through which you enter the Divine. The senses silent, you will sense the Divine. The brain silent, you will understand Him. Your passions silent, you will love Him. Your desires silent, you will possess Him. We must practice complete silence in the Mind and Vital to turn towards the Divine.

After throwing out all mental and vital activities, it is easier to let the Silence descend into us.

Intimacy with the Divine Through Silence, Peace and Inner Calmness

Sri Aurobindo says, “Whatever you find there you must calm down. This calm you must go on deepening, so much so that you should feel quiet, wide, and large in consciousness. If you can establish this calm you will be able to do this Yoga. The calm must become deep and so settled that even while doing ordinary work you should feel it within yourself and see the activity as something quite separate from yourself.”

5. Intimacy Through Our Soul/Psychic

I dwell in the spirit’s calm nothing can move.

Sri Aurobindo says in Savitri, “The soul that can live alone with itself meets God.”

We usually make intimate relationships with rest of the world, family, friends, jobs, books, films, money, power, etc. but we usually forget the core essence of our human life — that is our Soul or Psychic. Every other intimacies will be a waste if we forget the True Reality of our Existence and hold onto outer world.

We have no other reasons to live in this world but to develop intimacy with the Divine from our psychic centre.

Intimacy with the Divine in the psychic: When we develop intimacy with the Divine from our psychic point of view, that will be our natural state of the fully developed psychic.

To reach the Gate of the Divine Mother, we must be ready to pull back from all those forces that seeks our attention away from Divine. We must learn to devote ourselves exclusively to the pursuit of soul’s objective. We must learn to live alone with the soul by disengaging ourselves from the external life of ignorance created by physical, mental and vital nature. We must withdraw from all the pre-occupations of life which lead us towards material life, towards fulfilling our little desire and ego. We should not only practice withdrawal from outer life nature, but also should cultivate the company of our soul elements, in our deeper self. We should no longer depend on any external objects for the satisfaction of our wants and seekings. We can experience the fulfillment, delight, the ecstasy of the Divine in the solitude of our soul, where we can commune with our sole ideal.

Let’s read few lines from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri:

His Spirit’s stillness helped the toiling world.

The glory of the integer of his soul.

The Union of the Real with the unique,

A gaze of the Alone from every face,

The Presence of the Eternal in the hours

Widening the mortal mind’s half look on things,

Bridging the gap between man’s force and Fate.

Made whole the fragment-being we are here.

This inner work of the soul made the constant ascent of the world possible towards its Origin.

What is created by spiritual progress is an inner closeness and intimacy in the inner being, the sense of the Mother’s love and presence.

**Intimacy with the Divine in the Psychic**

The natural state of the fully developed Psychic.

6. Intimacy Through Joy of Self-Giving / Surrender

Surrender or Self-Giving is the beginning and end of this yoga. We need to give ourselves completely. We need to immerse in that Joy of Self-Giving.

What is aimed at by us is a spiritual truth as the basis of life, the first words of which are surrender and union with the Divine and the transcendence of ego. So long as that basis is not established, a sadhak is only an ignorant and imperfect human being struggling with the evils of the lower nature.

The Mother says: If man surrenders totally to the Divine, he identifies himself with the Divine.

The Mother says: My dear little smile, I know of only one way: to give oneself — a complete consecration to the Divine. The more one gives oneself, the more one opens; the more one opens, the more one receives; and in the intimacy of this self-giving one can become conscious of the inner Presence and the joy it brings.

Give yourself without calculating and without expecting anything in return, and then you will become capable of receiving.

Tender love from your mother. (25 July 1936)

Intimacy with the Divine

Complete surrender to the Divine and total receptivity to His influence are the conditions for this intimacy.

Sri Aurobindo on Giving Money to The Mother:

If you give the money to the Mother, that can’t be commercial; commerce implies personal profit, and here your profit is only spiritual.

7. Intimacy Through Detachments from all Desires

I am held no more by life’s alluring cry. Savitri

The Mother says, “so long as there are desires, no true intimacy can be established.”

If we are full of desires, demands, expectations at the mental, vital and physical planes, thinking that they are our needs, we will be always perpetually disillusioned. As vital demands are in an unending flow, it will never be satisfied. We have to observe our vital movements, watch its movements of desire, greed, lust, violence, danger, depression; And Step back from reacting instantly. We have to detach from our objects of desire with equality, and purify our hearts. Turn all our thoughts only for the Divine. We have to master our conduct and develop an Ideal Character progressively after refining and purifying our senses.

Intimacy with the Divine in the Vital
To have intimacy with the Divine, we need only a pure calm and desire less vital, that will help us to enter this marvelous state.

Desire lost opens the way to the enjoyment of Delight supernal. Generally when people speak of vital intimacy they mean something very external which does not need to be brought down since it is common in human life. If it is the inner vital intimacy with the Divine, then of course that makes the union more complete, provided it is based on the psychic.

Why cannot one love or experience [the Cosmic Divine or the Transcendent Divine] concretely? many have done it. And why assume that He is immobile, silent and aloof? The Cosmic Divine can be as close to one as one’s own self and the Transcendent as intimate as the closest friend or lover. It is only in the physical consciousness that there is some difficulty in realising it.

The Mother says: If you think for yourself or feel for yourself or act for yourself, you become a misappropriator, a dishonest trustee — a thief of force.

Never seek through your desire-soul the person you love. You invite thereby not only misery to yourself but bring a curse upon one you profess to love.

Place always a space of detachment between yourself and your beloved; make the Divine your mediator.

Then shall you secure pure and perfect enjoyment -whose true name is Bliss; and then too can you become the instrument to bring a bliss and blessing to the object of your love.

This is the secret of the sweetest and most exquisite and intimate relation possible with persons or things, that it should be made and established in and through the Divine.

Close not your senses -however earthly they may be. Fling them all wide open -open always and everywhere, but to the Divine.

The closer we come to the Divine, the stricter are the conditions we have to fulfil, the severer grow the tests through which we have to pass.

An absolute and thorough winnowing and cleansing is demanded in him who aspires to be the Divine’s favourite.

**Intimacy with the Divine in the Vital**

8. Intimacy Through Savitri

A casual passing phrase can change our life. — Savitri

Savitri is full of Mantras, inspirations, revelations of Supreme Divine. It has the power to change the mankind, power to transform the humanity from present mortal state to immortal state. We should take the benefit of one of the greatest creations of Mankind — Savitri and immerse ourselves in these powerful mantras from Divine. This Epic is not an ordinary book, but it is the breath and Force of the Supreme. He has chosen the highest ever conscious force for our fallen race and allowed the humans to unfold their consciousness and higher and higher faculties will begin to blossom to reach the God’s Consciousness. We have to start living in Savitri every moment to get the Divine guidance towards perfection.

The Mother says:

Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, of the Eternal. If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself will serve as a guide towards Immortality.

To read Savitri is indeed to practise Yoga, spiritual concentration; one can find there all that is needed to realise the Divine. Each step of the Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other Yogas. Surely, if one follows sincerely what is revealed here in each verse one will finally reach the transformation of the Supramental Yoga. It is truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; its support is always there for him who wants to follow the path. Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possesses by way of knowledge, and I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a manner that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM. My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature; how the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny — all is there. You can find there all the answers to all your questions.

The Mother says: Indeed, Savitri is something concrete, living, it is all replete, packed with consciousness, it is the supreme knowledge above all human philosophies and religions. It is the spiritual path, it is Yoga, tapasya, sadhana, everything, in its single body. Savitri has an extraordinary power, it gives out vibrations for him who can receive them, the true vibrations of each stage of consciousness. It is incomparable, it is truth in its plenitude, the truth Sri Aurobindo brought down on the earth. My child, one must try to find the secret that Savitri represents, the prophetic message Sri Aurobindo reveals there for us. This the work before you, it is hard but it is worth the trouble.

No, words express nothing of what Savitri is, at least I do not find them. It is of immense value — spiritual value and all other values; it is eternal in the subject, and infinite in its appeal, miraculous in its mode and power of execution; it is a unique thing, the more you come in contact with this, the higher will you be uplifted. Ah, truly it is something! It is most beautiful thing he has left for man, the highest possible. What is it? When will man know it? When is he going to lead a life of truth? When is he going to accept this in his life? This yet remains to be known.

Few more Mantras from Savitri:

The calm and luminous Intimacy within

Approves her work and guides the unseeing Power.

A consciousness lit by a Truth above

Was felt; it saw the light but not the Truth:

It caught the Idea and built from it a world;

It made an Image there and called it God.

Yet something true and inward harboured there.

The beings of that world of greater life,

Tenants of a larger air and freer space,

Live not by the body or in outward things:

A deeper living was their seat of self.

In that intense domain of intimacy

Objects dwell as companions of the soul;

The body’s actions are a minor script,

The surface rendering of a life within.

All forces are Life’s retinue in that world

And thought and body as her handmaids move

The World-Soul

Infinite, coeval with the mind of God,

It bore within itself a seed, a flame,

A seed from which the Eternal is new-born,

A flame that cancels death in mortal things.

All grew to all kindred and self and near;

The intimacy of God was everywhere,

No veil was felt, no brute barrier inert,

Distance could not divide, Time could not change.

The House of the Spirit and the New Creation

The moment’s thought inspired the passing act.

A word, a laughter, sprang from Silence’ breast,

A rhythm of Beauty in the calm of Space,

A knowledge in the fathomless heart of Time.

All turned to all without reserve’s recoil:

A single ecstasy without a break,

Love was a close and thrilled identity

In the throbbing heart of all that luminous life.

A universal vision that unites,

A sympathy of nerve replying to nerve,

Hearing that listens to thought’s inner sound

And follows the rhythmic meanings of the heart,

A touch that needs not hands to feel, to clasp,

Were there the native means of consciousness

And heightened the intimacy of soul with soul.

Satyavan and Savitri

Intimacy with the Divine through Savitri

The Parable of the Search for the Soul

Above her brows where will and knowledge meet

A mighty Voice invaded mortal space.

It seemed to come from inaccessible heights

And yet was intimate with all the world

And knew the meaning of the steps of Time

And saw eternal destiny’s changeless scene

Filling the far prospect of the cosmic gaze.

The Book of Yoga

Ascending still her spirit’s upward route

She came into a high and happy space,

A wide tower of vision whence all could be seen

And all was centred in a single view

As when by distance separate scenes grow one

And a harmony is made of hues at war.

The wind was still and fragrance packed the air.

There was a carol of birds and murmur of bees,

And all that is common and natural and sweet,

Yet intimately divine to heart and soul.

The Book of the Double Twilight

Or quarried from the living rocks of God

Win immortality by perfect form.

They are too intimate with eternal things:

Vessels of infinite significances,

They are too clear, too great, too meaningful;

No mist or shadow soothes the vanquished sight,

No soft penumbra of incertitude.

The issue

Near to earth’s wideness, intimate with heaven,

Exalted and swift her young large-visioned spirit

Voyaging through worlds of splendour and of calm

Overflew the ways of Thought to unborn things.

Ardent was her self-poised unstumbling will;

Ever he repeats in them his ceaseless births.

He is the Maker and the world he made,

He is the vision and he is the Seer;

He is himself the actor and the act,

He is himself the knower and the known,

He is himself the dreamer and the dream.

There are Two who are One and play in many worlds;

In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met

And light and darkness are their eyes’ interchange;

Our pleasure and pain are their wrestle and embrace,

Our deeds, our hopes are intimate to their tale;

They are married secretly in our thought and life.

The universe is an endless masquerade:

For nothing here is utterly what it seems;

It is a dream-fact vision of a truth

Which but for the dream would not be wholly true,

A phenomenon stands out significant

Against dim backgrounds of eternity;

9. Intimacy Through a Cosmic Soul

I contain the whole world in my soul’s embrace. Sri Aurobindo.

All world is a movement of the Spirit in itself and is mutable and transient in all its formations and appearances; its only eternity is an eternity of recurrence. Cosmic consciousness is that of the universe, of the cosmic spirit and cosmic nature, with all the beings and forces within it. The consciousness of the individual is part of this, but a part feeling itself as a separate being. But there is a wall of separative ignorance between. Once it breaks down he becomes aware of the cosmic self, of the consciousness of the cosmic nature, of the forces playing in it, etc.

The cosmic consciousness is that in which the limits of ego, personal mind and body disappear and one becomes aware of a cosmic vastness.

As we grow in our consciousness, from an individual soul to world soul and then a cosmic soul, our consciousness gets widened and widened. As mentioned in Savitri, everything in the cosmos had grown familiar and kindred because “The intimacy of God was everywhere”, i e., there was no veil, no barrier dividing consciousness from consciousness, being from being.

The intimacy of God was everywhere,

No veil was felt, no brute barrier inert,

Distance could not divide, Time could not change.

A fire of passion burned in spirit-depths,

A constant touch of sweetness linked all hearts,

The throb of one adoration’s single bliss

In a rapt ether of undying love.

From this world-Soul proceeds each new birth of the Eternal and it is “A flame that cancels death in mortal things”. One can feel “a sense of universal harmonies”, and “eternity of truth and beauty and good and joy made one”. From this centre, all finite life seemed to proceed and he saw that “A formless spirit became the soul of form”.

10. Intimacy Through Nature

We all have known how The Mother used to make direct connection with the trees, plants, animals, pets and so on. Even the trees used to come to Her in dreams and requested Her to protect them from extinction. A number of stories in Auroville and Pondicherry shows Mother’s direct connection with nature. Let us try to immerse ourselves in the beauty of Nature.

The following story reveals how Nature collaborated with the Divine Mother in 1957.

O Nature, Material Mother, thou hast said that thou wilt collaborate, and there can be no limit to the splendour of this collaboration.

This was the Mother’s New Year message for 1958, that she distributed on its eve; and on the 1st morning she played entrancing music on the organ as if confirming the meaning of the message in the language of the soul.

For the sadhaks and the others who had assembled to hear her, it was a blissful moment that wafted them to the heavens of high aspiration. But what exactly did the message mean? The question was asked in the Playground the same evening, and she explained the context in which the words of the message had suddenly come to her. On 30 October 1957 she had referred to Nature’s limitless abundance, her propensity to mix, separate, compound, shape, disintegrate the numberless elements or constituents in her possession as if all that was “just a pastime”, and also her readiness to promote any number of fantastic experiments: It is a huge cauldron: you stir it, and something comes out; it’s no good, you throw it back in and take something else. Imagine the dimension… thousands and thousands and thousands of [forms]; and… eternity before you!

That very evening the Mother had identified herself totally with Nature, participating in her processes and winning a new intimacy with her. Nature too responded with an equal implicit trust, and on 8 November, 1957, Mother had what amounted to a mystic experience. Suddenly Nature understood that the new Consciousness — the supramental — which the Mother was trying to embody wasn’t Nature’s enemy but only her collaborator. Nothing of Nature was to be denied, but readily accepted and integrated into the movements of the new Consciousness to achieve a new crown of fulfilment. When Nature was thus in a receptive mood, she received a direction from the supreme Reality to wake up and collaborate with the new Consciousness, and Nature too made an instantaneous response, rushing forward in “a great surge of joy” accepting the role of collaboration. Immediately “there came a calm, an absolute tranquility” so that the Mother’s “bodily vessel could receive and contain, without breaking, without losing anything, the mighty flood of this Joy of Nature”. It was an incandescently transfiguring moment for the Mother: And suddenly I heard, as if they came from all the corners of the earth, those great notes one sometimes hears in the subtle physical, a little like those of Beethoven’s Concerto in D-major, which come in moments of great progress, as though fifty orchestras had burst forth all in unison, without a single false note, to express the joy of this new communion between Nature and Spirit, the meeting of old friends who come together again after having been separated for so long.

Then these words came, “O Nature, Material Mother, thou hast said that thou wilt collaborate and there is no limit to the splendour of this collaboration.” And the radiant felicity of this splendour was sensed in perfect peace. That is how the message for the new year was born.

There was thus established a new concordat of collaboration between Nature and the Spirit (or the newly manifested Power of Consciousness, the Supermind), but the Mother also asked her audience of 1 January 1958 not to jump to conclusions and expect a spate of miraculism on the physical plane: It is something much deeper: Nature, in her play of forces, has accepted the new Force which has manifested and included it in her movements It is an inner, psychological possibility which has come into the world rather than a spectacular change in earthly events. … The miracles… are visible only to a very deep vision of things…. One must already be capable of following the methods and ways of the Grace in order to recognise its action. One must already be capable of not being blinded by appearances in order to see the deeper truth of things.

As mentioned in Savitri, Satyaban have lived contented in this forest because “not yet of thee aware”. I have here my kingdom of Nature which is “of a nobler kind.” Frankness of earth, intimacy of “infant God” I have enjoyed. Earth and sky are our “close belongings” and I have fully enjoyed and possessed them.

Intimacy with Universal Nature
This intimacy is only possible for those who are vast and without preferences or repulsions.

Tranquillity and a pleasant sweetness are then the first doors of entry. Through the second doors we come to a wide intimacy, an all-pervading unity, where man and nature have fused into one. This unity and universality breathe through and inspire such simple yet startling words.

Son of that king, I, Satyavan, have lived

Contented, for not yet of thee aware,

In my high-peopled loneliness of spirit

And this huge vital murmur kin to me,

Nursed by the vastness, pupil of solitude.

Great Nature came to her recovered child;

I reigned in a kingdom of a nobler kind

Than men can build upon dull Matter’s soil;

I met the frankness of the primal earth,

I enjoyed the intimacy of infant God.

In the great tapestried chambers of her state,

Free in her boundless palace I have dwelt

Indulged by the warm mother of us all,

Reared with my natural brothers in her house.

All in her pointed to a nobler kind.

Near to earth’s wideness, intimate with heaven,

Because man is in love with his ignorance which is the father of “his pain”. Man has lost contact with his inner soul, his inner voice. Intimations from the depth of his being come to him in vain. All uptil now — poets, seers, prophets — have failed. “Heaven’s flaming lights descend and back return”. “Eternity speaks, none understands its word”.

The earth looks up only to man for the fulfilment of her future. But very few rise to her expectation. In most men the fire burns dim and “invisible Grandeur sits unworshipped there”.

Even though they seemed to meet casually their inmost souls grew conscious of their past affinity and intimate relation, — “so utter the recognition in the deeps”

The nature of this change may be said to consist in the deepening and enlarging of the thought-mind of man, a more profound and intimate way of seeing life, of feeling and interpreting Nature. A greater “inwardness” seems to be the drive of the creative spirit.

Pleading man’s inability to rise to the Divine, he gives voice to one of the most sincere and powerful aspirations of the human heart, when he says:

“For it is with mouth of clay that I supplicate:

Speak to me heart to heart words intimate,

And all thy formless glory turn to love

And mould thy love into a human face”.

The aspiration of the human soul for ascent to the Divine which found a powerful expression in one of the inspired utterances of

In fact, it is these mighty cosmic forces from the subliminal and dark unknown but powerful forces from the subconscient that govern man’s life.

“Our lives translate these subtle intimacies;

All is the commerce of a secret Power.”

11. Intimacy Through the Supermind

The Supermind knows most completely and securely not by thought but by identity, by a pure awareness of the self-truth of things in the self and by the self, atmani atmanam atmana. I get the supramental knowledge best by becoming one with the truth, one with the object of the knowledge; the supramental satisfaction and integral light is most there when there is no further division between the knower, knowledge and the known, jnata, jnanam, jneyam, I see the thing known not as an object outside myself, but as myself or a part of my universal self contained in my most direct consciousness.

The supramental vision is a global vision.

Ø The mind dissects little fragments and opposes them to one another.

Ø The overmind connects everything with a single beam, but its beam terminates in a single point, and it sees everything from its own particular point of view; it is unitary and universal either by way of excluding all other perspectives or else by annexing them.

Ø The Supramental, or Supermind, sees not only the whole of things and beings within a single vision, connecting all the beams together without opposing anything, but it also sees the point of view of each separate thing, each being, each force; it is an all-encompassing view that does not terminate in a single, central point but in myriads of points: a single innumerable look.

Ø The Supermind does not set truth against truth to see which will stand and survive, but completes truth by truth in the light of the one Truth of which all are the aspects. . . . And he spoke of the light of the Thought that carries in it its own opposites. This is what the Mother calls thinking spherically. Only, we must rise higher in consciousness: the deeper one wants to go down into matter, the higher is it necessary to rise in consciousness.

Ø I have come to this conclusion that the Supramental is something that will make Matter more susceptible and “responsive” to the Force: it has the power to move Matter; it can cause a material accident, it can cancel the consequences of an absolutely material event — -it is stronger than Matter.

12.Intimacy Through Time / Mahakala

We are all part of this great Cosmic Journey. We are bound to evolve towards supramental race. We have got in touch with Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga, in this Life, in this Birth.

Our Life is not just valuable to our close family members, or our society. But Our Life is valuable to this entire creation. The creation depends on how we live, how we bring meaning to entire universe, is entirely our choice.

Time presents itself to human effort as an enemy or a friend, as a resistance, a medium or an instrument. But always it is really the instrument of the soul.

The Mother says: The Divine never withdraws from you; it is you who move away from the Divine and imagine the contrary, as the earth might think it is the sun that is moving and not its own self.

The moment’s thought inspired the passing act.

An idiot hour destroys what centuries made,

Man sows misery with his own hands and reaps the results: “He walks by his own choice into hell’s trap”, “Nothing has been learnt from time and its history”.

Man’s life “is an episode in a meaningless tale”.

A net of death in which by chance we live.

All we have learned appears a doubtful guess,

The achievement done a passage or a phase

Whose farther end is hidden from our sight,

A chance happening or a fortuitous fate.

Sri Aurobindo (in Savitri)

Hour of God

Trivial amusements stimulate and waste

The energy given to him to grow and be.

His little hour is spent in little things.

Still even in man the plot is mean and poor.

A gross content prolongs his fallen state;

His small successes are failures of the soul,

His little pleasures punctuate frequent griefs:

Hardship and toil are the heavy price he pays’

For the right to live and his last wages death

The only thing that is important is your seeking and realising the Divine — all the rest is zero.

Await every moment, with all the concentrated expectancy of an imminent motherhood, the birth of the Divine in you. Await in calmness, await in breathless readiness.

In Time he waits for the Eternal’s hour.

Yet a spiritual secret aid is there;

When the divine working and the personal are combined in our consciousness, it appears as a

medium and a condition. When the two become one, it appears as a servant and instrument.

The ideal attitude of the sadhaka towards Time is to have an endless patience as if he had all eternity for his fulfilment and yet to develop the energy that shall realise now and with an ever-increasing mastery and pressure of rapidity till it reaches the miraculous instantaneousness of the supreme divine Transformation.

13.Intimacy Through Music

Mother’s Music creates an aura with chords of intense nearness and intimacy as well as an enveloping embracing largeness. We can directly feel the bonding with Supramental when you listen to this music. It has the power to ignite and awaken our soul, make it connected with the Supreme and liberate the soul. Mother’s Organ music carried the intimations of the Divine beyond the mental and vital comprehension. Gods come down and are attracted to listen to the Music when it is played by the Mother. It brings down something from the higher planes and that anyone can receive who is open to Her. It is not by knowledge of music that the understanding [of the Mother’s music] comes; nor is it by effort of the mind — it is by becoming inwardly silent, opening within and getting the spontaneous feeling of what is in the music.

Mother said to Shobha Di: What I want from you is music, but the music that flows from your soul. I want to see you create your own music.

14.Intimacy Through Mother’s Voice

All my speech is now a tune divine. — Sri Aurobindo (in Savitri)

Sri Aurobindo writes about Divine Hearing:

All sounds, all voices have become Thy voice: Music and thunder and the cry of birds,

Life’s babble of her sorrows and her joys, Cadence of human speech and murmured words,

The laughter of the sea’s enormous mirth, The winged plane purring through the conquered air,

The auto’s trumpet-song of speed to earth, The machine’s reluctant drone, the siren’s blare

Blowing upon the windy horn of Space A call of distance and of mystery,

Memories of sun-bright lands and ocean-ways, All now are wonder-tones and themes of Thee.

A secret harmony steals through the blind heart And all grows beautiful because Thou art.

Q. When is one said to be ready to hear the Mother’s voice from within?

Sri Aurobindo: When one has equality, discrimination and sufficient Yogic experience ― otherwise any voice may be mistaken for the Mother’s.

7–7- 1933

Q: In your book, “Bases of Yoga” one reads, “It is with the Mother who is always with you and in you that you converse”. Could you kindly explain to me how one converses with the Mother?

Sri Aurobindo: One hears the voice or the thought speaking inwardly and one answers inwardly. Only it is not always safe for the Sadhak if there is any insincerity of ego, desire, vanity, ambition in him ― for then he may construct a voice or thought in his mind and ascribe it to the Mother and it will say to him pleasing and flattering things which mislead him. Or he may mistake some other Voice for the Mother’s.

2–7–1936

Q: Can one rely solely upon the voice from within and be thus guided by the Mother?

Sri Aurobindo: If it is the Mother’s voice; but you have to be sure of that.

7–7–1933

Q: Is it not a fact that to hear the Mother’s voice inwardly and to recognise it as hers is easy?

Sri Aurobindo: No, to hear and recognise the Mother’s voice within is not easy.

8–7- 1933

Sahana Devi writes:

…like a flash of light tearing asunder the veil of darkness, pealed out a resonant chord from the organ and with it flooded out her voice in song. Her voice had a quality of magical power rising from the profundities as if endeavouring to awaken our consciousness to meet the light from above.

15.Intimacy Through Reading Books

Identification With The Mother’s Consciousness Through Reading Her Books

Each Book, each message, each letter of Sri Aurobindo’s and Mother’s Books carry the Force of the Supreme. We not only have to read it, but experience it, feel it within, and use the message practically in work. They are not ordinary books, which tire our mind, and pollute our vital being. It does not degrade our consciousness, but elevates our consciousness to high level if we read it silently.

Q: When I read the Mother’s “Prayers” and “Conversations” I often feel as if I come in contact with her consciousness. This makes me think whether it is possible by reading her books to make one’s consciousness so intense as to identify it with hers and as a result to elevate the vital and other parts also.

Sri Aurobindo: It is possible to intensely identify oneself with the Mother’s consciousness through what you read — in that case the result you speak of could come. It could also have an effect on the vital up to a certain point.

21–8–1935

The Mother on Reading Books:

Why read Sri Aurobindo’s books?

Q. Sweet Mother, how should one read your books and the books of Sri Aurobindo so that they might enter into our consciousness instead of being understood only by the mind?

The Mother: To read my books is not difficult because they are written in the simplest language, almost the spoken language. To draw profit from them, it is enough to read with attention and concentration and an attitude of inner goodwill with the desire to receive and to live what is taught.

To read what Sri Aurobindo writes is more difficult because the expression is highly intellectual and the language is much more literary and philosophic. The brain needs a preparation to be able truly to understand and generally a preparation takes time, unless one is specially gifted with an innate intuitive faculty.

In any case, I advise always to read a little at a time, keeping the mind as tranquil as one can, without making an effort to understand, but keeping the head as silent as possible, and letting the force contained in what one reads enter deep within. This force received in the calm and the silence will do its work of light and, if needed, will create in the brain the necessary cells for the understanding. Thus, when one re-reads the same thing some months later, one perceives that the thought expressed has become much more clear and close, and even sometimes altogether familiar.

It is preferable to read regularly, a little every day, and at a fixed hour if possible; this facilitates the brain-receptivity.

Q. Sweet Mother, with what attitude should I read Sri Aurobindo’s books when they are difficult and when I do not understand? Savitri, The Life Divine, for example.

The Mother: Read a little at a time, read again and again until you have understood.

16. Intimacy of Sadhaks with Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Almost all the Sadhaks who joined the Ashram came due to the magnetic attraction of Sri Aurobindo’s personality and philosophy. Many didn’t even know of the Mother but came to know about her after becoming inmates. The Mother was easily accessible and approachable in those days. The inmates would have her Darshan many times during the day, talk with her about their works and difficulties in sadhana and obtain the necessary guidance. Thus, they developed an intimacy with Her. They didn’t do anything specific to attract Their attention. With Sri Aurobindo the contact was only through correspondence. It was only in 1938 that after His accident, a few inmates were selected as His attendants. Apart from that there was never any personal contact on the outer level. Examples of intimacy are mentioned in books like Breath of Grace, Eternal Moments, Champaklal Speaks, Light and Laughter, Living in the Presence, etc.

Those who were with Sri Aurobindo during the early years found it difficult to cope up with the changes that were introduced after Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion and the Mother took charge of the newly formed Ashram. Some like Bijoy Nag, Barin Ghose left the Ashram after some years while others like Amrita Da, Nolini da, Champaklalji, Puraniji and many others stayed back and continued to serve both of Them.

The Mother was then not active in the Ashram matters, and Sri Aurobindo alone used to see visitors. When Pavitra-da approached Sri Aurobindo and the others, the first words He uttered were: ‘I’m a brother co you all;’ and that he remained till the end, not only to chose few, but to all of us. When the Mother saw him, She said: “He is my man, and he will do my work.”

Nirodbaran writes: Some of our people used to talk very glibly about the quality of our sadhaks here. They said, “Show us one Vivekananda here, if you have any;’ and we said, “None! Why do you want a Vivekananda? There is only one Vivekananda as we have only one Pavitra-da, one Amrita-da, one Nolini-da.”

While referring to greatness, Sri Aurobindo wrote to me: “I daresay that [my disciples are) in no way different from or inferior to Vivekananda or other adharas. 26 When did Vivekananda become great? After going to America and having lectured there. It’s rather difficult to know who is really great, that is why people pass these facile remarks!” Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are not in the habit of saying: “Here are great people like Pavitra and Nolini and Amrita.” These people live with us and we can exchange glances and word-lances with them!

But let me not compare them with others, for as Sri Aurobindo says “comparison is odorous” — has a bad smell. But even then, this much I can say: that they’re as great as anybody outside the Ashram.

Nirodbaran writes about Pavitra Da’s Mesmerising Story of Intimacy with The Mother and Sri Aurobindo:

We know how much Pavitra-da suffered and fought. Until the last moment, he did his work, and his suffering cannot be told in words. Every day, he used to go to the Mother, and although he took an hour to reach Her, he never failed. He couldn’t even raise his legs and so went as slowly as an ant. An ant goes slowly without any trouble, but for him each step was painful.

He never stopped working in spite of the pain. He knew very well what he was suffering from and all its consequences, but he was always cheerful. Is it humanly possible? Whether he was well or ill, nothing affected him, he was above circumstances. He reminds me of Sri Ramakrishna, who had cancer of the throat but still talked and worked.

His was the spirit that ruled over matter and mastered it. Like his Master, he fought for every inch of the ground. Though apparently he failed, he gained for us much ground. But these failures are never failures. Now, as you know, a mortal struggle is going on for immortality27 and he fought till the last — that’s our victory.

We shall remember him gratefully. May we profit by his bright example and may we be as true in our surrender to the Mother.

Nirodbaran writes: My question — a foolish question — to Sri Aurobindo was: “Why don’t you get supramentalised first?” He said, “Supposing we did that, would you be able to come near us?”

See the sacrifice! Even now it’s not very easy to be near the Mother, and if she were completely supramentalised? Even Nolini-da would have had to run away! (Laughter)

Ramakrishna had cancer due to the ills of his disciples, so what about Her? She has to swallow all that and become like ‘NeelaKantha’.

The Mother to Shabha Di:

The Mother — I have created a little world here. In this world there is everything, good, bad, everything that you can find in the world outside. To those who have taken up this life of sadhana, these daily happenings are like a touchstone. Each one deals with these happenings in accordance with his capacity of sincerity or insincerity. The ones who keeping their sincerity totally, completely intact come out successful through this test, are those who turn into sterling gold.

Taking my hands with exceeding tenderness into Hers and gazing at me intently, She spoke again:

The Mother — Shobha, my dear child, the Divine values your sincerity. That is why he sends into your life events in such a way that you are forced to be sincere. In every field of life every activity, try to remember me. If you cannot remember me, then call me. Keep calling me and everything will fall into place.

17.Intimacy Through Knowledge

A knowledge in the fathomless heart of Time. — Sri Aurobindo

By knowledge we mean in yoga not thought or ideas about spiritual things but psychic understanding from within and spiritual illumination from above. Knowledge is not a systematized result of mental questionings and reasonings, not a temporary arrangement of conclusions and opinions in the terms of the highest probability, but rather a pure self-existent and self-luminous Truth.

We can identify with the Divine just by expanding our knowledge. We can expand it through knowledge by identity.

We know the Divine and become the Divine, because we are That already in our secret nature. All teaching is a revealing, all becoming is an unfolding. Self-attainment is the secret; self-knowledge and an increasing consciousness are the means and the process. True knowledge, Sri Aurobindo said, is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

For true knowledge comes of, and means, identity of being. All other knowledge may be an apprehension of things but not comprehension. In the former, the knower stands apart from the object and so can envisage only the outskirts, the contour, the surface nature; the mind is capable of this alone. But comprehension means an embracing and penetration which is possible when the knower identifies himself with the object. And when we are so identified we not merely know the object, but becoming it in our consciousness, we love it and live it.

The mystic’s knowledge is a part and a formation of his life. That is why it is a knowledge not abstract and remote but living and intimate and concrete. It is a knowledge that pulsates with delight: indeed it is the radiance that is shed by the purest and intensest joy. For this reason, it may be that in approaching through the heart there is a chance of one’s getting arrested there and not caring for the still higher, the solar lights; but this need not be so. In the heart there is a golden door leading to the deepest delights, but there is also a diamond door opening up into the skies of the brightest luminosities.

Our progress is not measured by the amount of inventions we create, which are merely artificial means of recovering what we have estranged from ourselves, but by the amount of the world that we are able to reintegrate and recognize as ourselves. And this is joy — Ananda — because to be all that is to have the joy of all that is. The bliss of a myriad myriads who are one.

“Whence shall he have grief, how shall he be deluded, who sees everywhere the Oneness?”

We are now at a new way of Intimacy with the Divine through Knowledge by Identity.

We know a thing because we are that thing. Consciousness can move to any point of its universal reality, focus on any being, any event, and know it immediately and intimately, as one knows the beating of one’s own heart, because everything now takes place within; nothing is outside or separate anymore.

The first signs of this new consciousness are quite tangible: One begins to feel others too as part of oneself or varied repetitions of oneself, the same self modified by Nature in other bodies. Or, at the least, as living in the larger universal self which is henceforth one’s own greater reality. All things in fact begin to change their nature and appearance; one’s whole experience of the world is radically different from that of those who are shut up in their personal selves. One begins to know things by a different kind of experience, more direct, not depending on the external mind and the senses.

18. Intimacy Through Truth

Truth is the door of the spirit’s Ananda, its beatific nature.

We must realise the Truths of the spiritual heights, the spiritual depths, the spiritual intimacies and vastnesses as also the truths of the inner mind, the inner life, an inner or subtle physical beauty and reality.

Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition. For though we have applied that word to …a Supra-intellectual way of knowing, yet what we actually know as Intuition is only a special movement of Self-existent knowledge” — close, intimacy with the Truth, an inward expression of it.” — Life, Literature and Yoga.

It is here, in this humble yet intimate, ardent yet little understood communion of the small human self with a present and infinite Companion — an ‘immanent Ultimate’ within the compass of man’s heart, but beyond the span of his conceiving mind — that the transforming power exercised by prayer on human personality is most clearly seen.5 Prayer is thus not inaptly described as the premium that insures the possibility — certainty — of such a real meditative intimacy with the Infinite, such a life of unity with the Divine. We needn’t, however, be too absurdly dogmatic regarding the causal relationship between ‘prayer’ and ‘meditation’.

The Mother:

Many a time in the day and night it seems to me that I am, or rather my consciousness is, concentrated entirely in my heart which is no longer an organ, not even a feeling, but the divine Love, impersonal, eternal; and being this Love I feel myself living at the centre of each thing upon the entire earth, and at the same time I seem to stretch out immense, infinite arms and envelop with a boundless tenderness all beings, clasped, gathered, nestled on my breast that is vaster than the universe …. Words are poor and clumsy, O divine Master, and mental transcriptions are always childish.

In those who are slaves of vital beings, the desire for truth and light and spiritual achievement, even if it at all touches them, cannot balance the desire for money. 31 In our fight against the hostile forces of the vital world, — the creatures of falsehood, the agents of evil, the children of darkness, — the human body, with its layers of density and grooves of resistance, is a natural fortress of protection. The Yoga has to be done while in the body, as in a tabernacle, and there is always the infinite reserve power of the Mother to bale us out of our difficulties: No attachments, no desires, no impulses, no preferences; perfect equanimity, unchanging peace and absolute faith in the Divine protection: with that you are safe, without it you are in peril. And as long as you are not safe, it is better to do like little chickens that take shelter under the mother’s wings.

When the best has been achieved through physical, vital and mental education, there will be a cardinal insufficiency still: for, firstly, they cannot by themselves be integrated, and, secondly, even their sum will only be a frustrating incompleteness. It is psychic education alone that can team the other three purposively together, and also link them to the creative centre. Unfortunately, current educational systems have no idea of psychic education — thus tragi-comically playing Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. In their early years, children do have intimations of a higher consciousness which may puzzle or even startle their parents and elders.

It is these intimacies or soul touches that form as it were the inner lining to the mental clarities

19.Intimacy Through Practice of Confession

When one takes sincerely to surrender, nothing must be concealed that is of any importance for the life of the sadhana. Confession helps to purge the consciousness of hampering elements and it clears the inner air and makes for a closer and more intimate and effective relation between the Guru and the disciple.

The Mother on Confessions:

- And as soon as you tell me all the things that are troubling you, you will see that they have disappeared and you will feel free and happy. Keep your smile, little child; it is this that gives you your strength.

- Nothing is better than a confession for opening the closed doors. Tell me what you fear most to tell me, and immediately you will feel yourself closer to me.

- It is good to let me know immediately.

- Don’t bother about what people believe or say; it is almost always ignorant stupidities.

I always wonder that people imagine they can know the reasons for my actions! I act differently for each one, according to the needs of his particular case.

Sri Aurobindo on Confessions:

Laying All Movements Bare Before The Mother

One rule for you I can lay down, “Do not do, say or think anything which you would want to conceal from the Mother”. And that answers the objections that rose within you — from your vital, is it not? — against bringing “these petty things” to the Mother’s notice. Why should you think that the Mother would be bothered by these things or regard them as petty? If all the life is to be Yoga, what is there that can be called petty or of no importance? Even if the Mother does not answer, to have brought any matter of your action and self-development before her in the right spirit means to have put it under her protection, in the light of the Truth, under the rays of the Power that is working for the transformation — for immediately those rays begin to play and to act on the thing brought to her notice. Anything within that advises not to do it when the spirit in you moves you to do it, may very well be a device of the vital to avoid the ray of the Light and the working of the Force. It may also be observed that if you open yourself to the Mother by putting the movements of any part of you under her observation, that of itself create a relation, a personal closeness with her other then that which her general silent or not directly invited action maintains with all the Sadhaks.

20.Intimacy Through Possession of the Divine

The Divine is present everywhere, but in essence.

In the manifestation there is a varying and developing degree of the Presence.

We must allow the Divine to Possess us every level, every plane.

We cannot possess the Divine: our movement must not be a grasping for, the more we grasp at the Divine, the farther will it recede from us. Approach with self-abandonment: the greater the abandonment, the closer to us, will we find the Divine.

Let the Divine think through you, feel through you and act through you. Then only right and perfect use will be made of the instruments that compose your being.

Let the Divine’s Thoughts shine in your mind, Divine’s Love swell in your heart, let the Divine’s impel your limbs.

Let the taste of Immortality fill my mouth. . . all mortalities will turn insipid.

Sri Aurobindo says: I have launched myself in a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the infinite.

MOTHER of Delight-

Of Love that moves the sun and stars!

She is the Rapture that quickens our inmost heart,

She is Beauty’s self that enthrals our earthly senses; In her is the whole meaning of existence.

She has come down close and intimate to a humanity avid of joy;

She casts her noose of charm and captures us even by our weakness;

Our Aim is to Become God. Yoga is honing your consciousness, making it pure, wide, universal.

God is very easy to find out, By becoming one.

We have to be as vast as God to feel and Understand God.

There is a level of consciousness above the mind, art of training the consciousness, step by step is Yoga. Yoga is the most powerful mantra for whole of Humanity.

One look of Sri Aurobindo at a man’s heart, and it is conquered. There is a lustre in his eyes that infuses itself into the soul of man and sets it aflame. The flame goes on growing in intensity. He puts into the heart of man the flower-seed of Divine love that is sure to grow.

The brief perpetual sign recurred above ….

Dawn built her aura of magnificent hues

And buried its seed of grandeur in the hours.

An instant’s visitor the godhead shone:

On life’s thin border awhile the Vision stood

And bent over earth’s pondering forehead curve.

On the question of the Mother’s aura in general, Sri Aurobindo had written in November 1933:

What people see around the Mother is first her aura … and, secondly, the forces of Light that pour out from her when she concentrates, as she always does on the roof for instance …. People do not see it usually because it is a subtle physical and not a gross material phenomenon.

We must always behave as if Mother is watching us. We must immerse ourselves in Her Smile of Eternity from the Balcony during Darshan period. It is She who has possessed the whole of Humanity. When She looks at us, She looks at our Soul’s Journey in Present, Past and Future Births.

Integral Intimacy with the Divine
The whole being vibrates only to the Divine touch.

21. Intimacy Through Love for the Divine

Love is an intense self-expression of the soul of Ananda. Love is in its nature the desire to give oneself to others and to receive others in exchange; it is a commerce between being and being.

These reactions are intimately connected with the fact that Love, when it is worthy of the name, is always a seeking for union, for oneness, but also in its secret foundation it is a seeking, if sometimes only a dim groping for the Divine. in its depths is a contact of the Divine Possibility or Reality in oneself with the Divine Possibility or Reality in the loved.

But our aim is to go beyond mental ideas into the light of the supramental Truth, which exists not by ideative thought but by direct vision and identity. In the same way our aim is to go beyond emotion to the height and depth and intensity of the Divine Love and there feel through the inner psychic heart an inexhaustible oneness with the Divine which the spasmodic leapings of the vital emotions cannot reach or experience.

22.Intimacy Through Perseverance and Receptivity

To be receptive is to feel the urge to give and the joy of giving to the Divine’s Work all one has, all one is, all one does.

Lack of receptivity drives us away from the Divine.

Your attitude towards the change needed and new life is the right one. A quiet, vigilant but undistressed persistence is the best way to get it done.

1) to be convinced that you can change.

2) to will to change without accepting the excuses of the lower nature.

3) to persist in the will in spite of every fall.

4) to have an unshakable faith in the help you receive.

Try to be satisfied with what you receive — for it is a matter of receptivity, because — you can believe me — I give always much more than what the people are capable of receiving — and in two or three minutes they could have quite enough to go for a whole month. But the mind interferes with its ignorant demands and the whole thing is spoiled.

We must have a constant aspiration — the constancy of aspiration and receptivity to let the forces and the light come through.

23.Intimacy Through Constant Purification

Purity is to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine.

We should not even pretend with our own psychic being.

The most important thing for purification of the heart is an absolute sincerity.

No pretence with oneself, no concealment from the Divine, or oneself, or the Guru, a straight look at one’s nature and one’s movements, a straight will to make them straight. It does not so much matter if it takes time; one must be prepared to make it one’s whole life- task to seek the Divine. Purifying the heart means after all a pretty considerable achievement and it is no use getting despondent, despairful, etc., because one finds things in oneself that still need to be changed.

If one keeps the true will and true attitude, then the intuitions or intimations from within will begin to grow, become clear, precise, unmistakable and the strength to follow them will grow also. And then before even you are satisfied with yourself, the Divine will be satisfied with you and begin to withdraw the veil by which he protects himself and his seekers against a premature and perilous grasping of the greatest thing to which humanity can aspire.

24.Intimacy through Work

All Works are Equal in the Eyes of the Spirit.

Everything can be made into a means of finding the Divine. What matters is the spirit in which things are done. Work done in the true spirit is meditation.

You must do the work as an offering to the Divine and take it as part of your Sadhana. In that spirit the nature of the work is of little importance and you can do any work without losing the contact with the inner presence.

The Mother

I am quite satisfied with your way of doing the work and it is sure to help you to come nearer to me.

I make no difference between work and yoga. Work itself is yoga if it is done in a spirit of dedication and surrender.

Sri Aurobindo on Work: All acts are included in action, work is action regulated towards a fixed end and methodically and constantly done, service is work done for the Mother’s purpose and under her direction.

I mean by work action done for the Divine and more and more in union with the Divine — for the Divine alone and nothing else.

I do not mean philanthropy or the service of humanity or all the rest of the things — moral or idealistic — which the mind of man substitutes for the deeper truth of works. I do not mean by work action done in the ego and the ignorance, for the satisfaction of the ego and in the drive of rajasic desire. There can be no Karmayoga without the will to get rid of ego, rajas and desire, which are the seals of ignorance.

25. Intimacy through the Mother’s Feet

We can develop intimacy with the Divine by looking at the Mother’s Feet, the Lotus feet of the Divine Mother.

To heal with her feet the aching throb of life. — Sri Aurobindo

(Savitri)

The Mother:

Three typical modes of total self-giving to the Divine:

(1) To prostrate oneself at His feet, giving up all pride in perfect humility.

(2) To unfold one’s being before Him, open one’s whole body from head to foot, as one opens a book, exposing one’s centres so as to make all their movements visible in a complete sincerity that allows nothing to remain hidden.

(3) To nestle in His arms, to merge in Him in a loving and absolute trust.

These movements may be accompanied by three formulas or any one of them according to the case:

(1) Let Thy Will be done and not mine.

(2) As Thou willest, as Thou willest.

(3) I am Thine for eternity.

Generally, when these movements are done in the true way, they are followed by a perfect identification, a dissolution of the ego, giving rise to a sublime felicity.

Three Steps towards the Supreme Identification.

Give all you have, this is the beginning.
Give all you do, this is the way.
Give all you are, this is the fulfilment.

…it is the force of transformation, that is why it is dynamic. There is the light that penetrates to illumine the mass in the Inconscience, the force to stimulate the tamas and the joy to make it conscious. This force must penetrate this solid, obscure, rigid matter which is obstinate in its perversion and engulfed in falsehood, in order to facing light into the very bottom of this mass of inconscience, of this eternal obscurity that opposes with its immense and impenetrable energies in their unrelenting dynamism. There is a Presence which is bound up in matter by millions of cords. It is imprisoned there by an occult power from which it is very difficult to be free. Immobile, it rests in matter, forced by a blind compulsion in the insentient depths where nothing moves, where nothing ever can, there where everything disappears in a resistance that opposes with an invincible force. That is why this transforming force must act with a sustained power till matter feels and is made more conscious of my presence, of the light that is spreading. I force it down until the light penetrates into the very heart of matter.

You know, each step that I have placed on the earth, everywhere, everywhere, I have thrust this force and this light of transformation into the atoms and molecules of this matter which are under my feet, to awaken them to the necessity of this work of transformation. Each step that I have placed deliberately on the earth has sent vibrations, like echoes that ring and resound, into the inertia of this matter which sleeps in a torpor of inconscience in order to awaken it to a rhythm of harmony and to a consciousness of beauty and truth.

You know, wherever I have walked, wheresoever I have placed my feet, Wherever on the earth our feet have touched the ground, that place has become sanctified, pure and receptive to our touch, to the transforming Force that we have transmitted, that which has emanated from us, in order to act in the very depths of the inconscience. The light that has emanated from us has awakened these tiny particles from millions of years of torpor to a new consciousness, to the vibration of an unknown Ananda. They have retained this Consciousness and Ananda and have spread them all around to effectuate a change in their surrounding — as if to suffuse it through these molecules, by an influence impregnated with a divine sweetness…. I have touched the soul of the earth, of this matter which greets me with a gratitude that pours itself in an incomparable surrender and invites me further to liberate it from all bondage. I have kindled in the very depths a flame to burn all impurities and to make it pure. And what a work it is that is taking place! Wherever I look there is a spark of my light that beckons me.

Wheresoever I have placed my feet, there is an activity of the force of transfor¬mation which makes the earth-consciousness vibrate. How in this obscure and solid inconscience — this mass of ignorance, of impenetrable tamas, where never a light was seen — now one sees at last a clearing, a ray of light brightening up this tiny mass. In the very depths of the nucleus of these atoms I have kindled a flame which awakens with a quiver like a palpitation, in this inert mass of inconscience imprisoned in an immobile spiral of forces, as in the obscure eternity of ignorance. It reveals a world where nothing was. In these blind realms of matter where it lay inert and mute, in a deep slumber without life, there comes a vibration emanating from the Supreme Will and matter trembles, shudders and awakens in an ecstasy. (The Supreme, 62–64)

26. Intimacy through the Mother’s Gaze and Mother’s Smile

The Formless and the Formed were joined in her:

Immensity was exceeded by a look,

A Face revealed the crowded Infinite.

Incarnating inexpressibly in her limbs

The boundless joy the blind world-forces seek,

Her body of beauty mooned the seas of bliss.

Savitri

My child, I can gaze and gaze without wavering and my gaze merges into the immensity and eternity of space, where time does not exist; my gaze explores beyond all things, beyond all existence, beyond all known realities and leads towards that inexhaustible vastness where Truth remains inexplicable, where nothing is formulated, yet everything emanates from there. It is the source and the origin of all terrestrial or ultra-terrestrial existences, even beyond the manifestation, — something that cannot be expressed; yet it is the essence of an experience that has been lived.

You know, when I look and concentrate intensely, it is no longer I who look but the Lord who looks through my eyes: then I do not see any outer appearance, any material thing, all disappears from my view except the soul of the things with which I communicate and that tells me everything in that instant. It is so clear, so precise, in a perfect perception, invariable, spontaneous and true. In His vision I see pass in front of me the things which have no real similarity to the things I usually see. But it is real and seized by the Eternal Will. This look can arrest the course of events, change destiny with an unforeseeable power, annihilate the forces which oppose, create what is necessary for the New Creation, and preserve what needs to be transformed to collaborate with the Divine.

This gaze is the gaze of the Supreme, united by an interdependence, in a fusion, with the Consciousness which reflects the Beauty and Ananda of existence without deforming it. From this look emanates the joy of existence, the power of manifestation of the Eternal Truth, the divine Compassion, the love of perfect Union, the Benevolence without limit, as well as the wrath of God.

Suffering was lost in her immortal smile.

A Life from beyond grew conqueror here of death;

To err no more was natural to mind;

Wrong could not come where all was light and love.

This look of the divine consciousness in which love pours itself in an unending flow to save the world by an infinite compassion towards men and creatures without distinction, in a self-oblivion which leads by waves of immortal joys, radiating the symbols of the Infinite which go back to the Origin, this look born on the borders of two marvellously astonishing worlds, between the Unknown and the Invisible, lives in the powerful light of the suns which shine within, in the deep caves. It sees beyond the worlds and these common things, communes with the powers that built the worlds and that enters into the depths where secretly the aspiration is born, because this look has broken the hidden seals.

These eyes are like illumined mirrors seized by an unfathomable delight and love pouring in an interminable flow. This vision climbs back to the high summits where the spirit soars in the joy and harmony of the heavens of the Eternal Truth. The spirit of Beauty expresses itself in these eyes. This gaze full of divine compassion absorbs all the suffering s, pain and miseries of men and the creatures of this ruthless Nature dominated by the anti-divine forces, and renders them pleasant, loving, habitable, without which this world would be veritable hell. (Mother goes into trance and then She starts speaking as if Sri Aurobindo were present.) These eyes measure, survey sense rather than see things as one sees them (trance). His gaze so loving, sweet, full of sympathy pours out a divine compassion which relieves and consoles the miserable and agonising earth that is trying to free itself from the clutches of anti-divine and hostile forces. There is in His eyes the love that transfigures, the light that gives life, the energy which is released to protect, and the power to bless, to sustain and to help in the progress….

You know, I do a lot of things with my eyes; simultaneously there are several actions that are being carried out. By this look I can transfix someone so that he does not deviate from the path, so that he speaks only the truth, so that he submits himself and does not revolt, so that he collaborates with me. If I want, I can hypnotise him… so that he comes out of his negative tendencies; but I do not do it. I can communicate by subtle means to see the soul of the person, the veiled aspiration of his nature, the subtle bodies which accompany him, the aura which protects him, as concretely as I see you now. I see all that goes on in the atmosphere, in Nature, all around, which people do not see.

My gaze which passes beyond, penetrates and sees into the very depth of things, brooks no obstruction or barrier; it sees the atoms and molecules in their detailed functioning. This gaze that extends till Infinity, projects Eternity in its vision, contemplates Immortality in its sight. This infallible look descends by a silent contact and awakens the secret power which resides in the depths of the inconscience of the being which sleeps in eternity. The past, the present and the future accompany the person to announce the possibility of his realisation and the progress he is capable of making in his terrestrial existence. In a single glance I see them before me and his past, his immediate present with the promise of his future are revealed to me. And if I find him interesting and capable, he becomes a part of my consciousness, and accompanies me in his quest towards the Truth. In this way I see many things simultaneously and nothing escapes my view, whether it is visible or invisible. All this unfolds itself in front of me and is projected in the terrestrial atmosphere only when I consent and give the order. I ignore many things which want to manifest and I assign Nature to make her own choice, and she has her impeccable way of bringing out in this universe all that wants to evolve. But when I see some things which want to transform themselves, hasten their evolution.

You know, each of my eyes works independently: one projects itself in the infinite to discover the future, and the other scrutinises, sees, looks, surveys, explores and arranges so that nothing escapes its vision, in order to contemplate and to extend the Grace. In a single glance I know the history of the person who is before me. All the elements which constitute his being, all the movements of his thought, his impulse, his activity, his attitude, his aspiration, his development, his possibility, all, all that governs his life, I know in an instant, in a flash of time. For me this does not take time because his soul ad his aura with his subtle body unfold and spread the consciousness wide open in front of me, so that I may see them as clearly as possible. I do not examine them but on his own he tells me everything that I want to know about him.

It is interesting that those who know me a little, perceive how one of my eyes overflows with love, spreads light, charges and illumines the atmosphere with the divine joy, expresses the Supra-conscious, changes and witnesses the course of events and circumstances, brings Peace and hastens the divine manifestation upon earth; how this gaze moves further and further and disappears in the eternity of time and space. Whereas the other one concentrates and sees all that goes on inside as well as outside, his possibilities of realisation and according to his capacities pours a bit of love, light, peace and power to prepare him so as to communicate with his soul. That is how I communicate with his soul. You understand, it is my gaze which sees, prepares the instruments, then consents to bless in order to pour the divine love. In a glance I do all this.

You see, it is very difficult to fathom the depth and measure the vastness of this look full of immeasurable wisdom which seizes the soul. These eyes which shine with the transparency of a pure crystal seize and inflame the hearts, burn and consume all the imperfections, dispel and get rid of falsehood, ignorance and so many other evils of the world, as well as hatred and pain, that it is impossible to measure…. It cannot be. It surpasses infinity. Not only that, this look radiates and transforms all that it sees, perceives and touches and triumphs with an ineffable Grace. These eyes full of love, intensely charged by a sublime presence, illumine the hearts in the clear radiance of their light, and the soul of the person is reflected in the eyes. That is not all; these eyes which see nothing but the beauty in the world, communicate with and express the supra-terrestrial or supra-cosmic beauty, have extraordinary powers to bring out beauty in ugliness, transform evil and suffering into divine joy, change ignorance and obscurity into wisdom and light, and unconsciousness into consciousness. Voilà!

My child, if you can concentrate deeply into my eyes, then you will get all that you want to know, all that you want to comprehend, all that you want to realise, just by an intense concentration, just by the power of your will which expresses itself through your eyes. You can have all that you aspire for, all that you need. You can see the whole world in my eyes: the whole universe unfolds in my eyes, all that is beautiful in nature as well as in the heavens. And you will not need to go here and there looking for the so-called attractions and revelations of this world. All is in me, and all expresses itself through me. Take the trouble to find me there (Mother points to the heart) and you will see everything, everything through my eyes. Voilà!

Intimacy with the Divine

1. Summary

2. Who is Divine?

3. Why Should We Have Intimacy with the Divine?

1. To unite our Psychic Being with the Divine

2. To merge and unite the Human Love with the Divine Love

3. To listen to the Voice of the Psychic and get the Constant Guidance

5. To Get the Divine Protection for our Soul after Death

4. How should we have intimacy with the Divine?

1. Intimacy Through Prayers/Mantras

2. Intimacy Through Talk / Writing a Diary

3. Intimacy Through Aspiration of Physical

4. Intimacy Through Calm, Peace, and Silence within

5. Intimacy Through Our Soul/Psychic

6. Intimacy Through Joy of Self-Giving / Surrender

7. Intimacy Through Detachments from all Desires

8. Intimacy Through Savitri

9. Intimacy Through a Cosmic Soul

10. Intimacy Through Nature

11. Intimacy Through the Supermind

12.Intimacy Through Time / Mahakala

13.Intimacy Through Music

14.Intimacy Through Mother’s Voice

15.Intimacy Through Reading Books

16. Intimacy of Sadhaks with Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

17.Intimacy Through Knowledge

18. Intimacy Through Truth

19.Intimacy Through Practice of Confession

20.Intimacy Through Possession of the Divine

21. Intimacy Through Love for the Divine

22.Intimacy Through Perseverance and Receptivity

23.Intimacy Through Constant Purification

24.Intimacy through Work

25. Intimacy through the Mother’s Feet

Written by Sanjeev Patra

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