The Mother’s Love
Love is self-giving without asking for anything in exchange.
— The Mother.
Table of Contents
1 Who is the Mother? What are Her different aspects?. 4
2. Experience of The Mother’s Love in Our Life. 6
Experience of The Mother’s Love 11
3. Why Should We Love the Mother 13
To Have the Greatest Possible Spiritual Fulfillment 13
To Expand Our True Knowledge 13
To Be Protected by The Mother’s Golden Chain 14
To Bring the Harmony in the World 14
To Lead us from Suffering of Division to Bliss of Perfect Union 15
To Lead Us Closer to The Divine 15
To Take us to The Hour of Transformation 15
To Connect with Infinity and Eternity 15
To Experience Perfect Beauty and Perfect Delight 16
To Make the Union of the Creation with the Divine Complete 16
4. How Should We Love The Mother Every Moment?. 17
By Widening Our Inner Consciousness and All Cells 18
By Opening to The Mother Inwardly 18
By Total Self-Giving without any Demand/Conditions 19
By Staying Away from All Kinds of Fears 19
By Becoming Pure and Selfless 19
By Seeking Mother through the Gate of Psychic Being 20
By Abandoning All Other Love 21
By Making It Our Only Goal of Existence 21
By Participating in this Unique Hour of God 22
By Making Exclusive Relationship Through Nama Japa 23
By Opening the Mind, Vital and Physical to the Divine Love 23
By Offering Ourselves Like a Flower 25
By Immersing Ourselves in Universal Love 27
By Getting Ourselves from All Attachments 28
1 Who is the Mother? What are Her different aspects?
She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire.
The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God;
She is the Force, the inevitable Word,
The magnet of our difficult ascent,
The Sun from which we kindle all our suns,
The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts,
The joy that beckons from the impossible,
The Might of all that never yet came down.
The Mother of God is master of our souls.
The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Divine; or, it may be said, she is the Divine in its consciousness force.
The Ishwara as Lord of the cosmos does come out of the Mother who takes her place beside him as the cosmic Shakti the cosmic Ishwara is one aspect of the Divine.
I am the Shakti of Sri Aurobindo alone, and the Mother of all my children.
My children are all equally part of my consciousness and of my being. When transformed and realised, all will have an equal right to manifest each one an aspect of myself and Sri Aurobindo.
“I am charged by God to do his mighty work,
Uncaring I serve his will who sent me forth,
Reckless of peril and earthly consequence
I reason not of virtue and of sin
But do the deed he has put into my heart.
Four Aspects of the Mother
Maheshwari: (Wisdom): One is her personality of calm wideness and comprehending wisdom and tranquil benignity and inexhaustible compassion and sovereign and surpassing majesty and all-ruling greatness. Maheshwari’s natural place is in the higher consciousness above mind, for she is the
wideness and largeness and wisdom of the Divine.
- To the wise she gives a greater and more luminous wisdom; those that have vision she admits to her counsels; on the hostile she imposes the consequence of their hostility; the ignorant and foolish she leads according to their blindness.
- In each man she answers and handles the different elements of his nature according to their need and their urge and the return they call for, puts on them the required pressure or leaves them to their cherished liberty to prosper in the ways of the Ignorance or to perish. For she is above all, bound by nothing,
Mahakali: (Strength): Another embodies her power of splendid strength and irresistible passion, her warrior mood, her overwhelming will, her impetuous swiftness and worldshaking force. Mahakali acts most naturally through the
higher vital which is the instrument of force and power.
Mahalakshmi: (Harmony): A third is vivid and sweet and wonderful with her deep secret of beauty and harmony and fine rhythm, her intricate and subtle opulence, her compelling attraction and captivating grace.
Mahasaraswati: (Perfection): The fourth is equipped with her close and profound capacity of intimate knowledge and careful flawless work and quiet and exact perfection in all things.
2. Experience of The Mother’s Love in Our Life
It is not possible for the tongue of human speech to tell all the utter unity and all the eternal variety of the ananda of divine love.
[Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: The Mystery of Love]
What is Love?
Love must not cease to live upon the earth;
For Love is the bright link twixt earth and heaven,
Love is the far Transcendent’s angel here;
Love is man’s lien on the Absolute.
[Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — II: The Debate of Love and Death]
Love lacks ego. Ego lacks love.
Love is in its nature the desire to give oneself to others and to receive others in exchange.
[Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine — I: The Ascent of Life]
Love does not manifest in human beings alone; it is everywhere.
Love is a seeking for mutual possession.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: The Godward Emotions
Love is a yearning of the One for the One.
[Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — I: The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release]
When I have loved for ever, I shall know.
Love in me knows the truth all changings mask.
Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — II: The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness
Love dwells in us like an unopened flower
Awaiting a rapid moment of the soul,
[Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — II: Satyavan]
Love is a passion and it seeks for two things, eternity and intensity.
[Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: The Godward Emotions]
Love is the hoop of the gods
Hearts to combine.
[Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories — II: Act I]
Love and affection must be rooted in the Divine and a spiritual and psychic oneness in the Divine must be their foundation.
[Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga — IV: Human Relations and the Spiritual Life]
Love cannot live by heavenly food alone,
Only on sap of earth can it survive.
[Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — II: The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal]
Love and Ananda are the last word of being, the secret of secrets, the mystery of mysteries.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: The Mystery of Love
Love is the power and passion of the divine self-delight and without love we may get the rapt peace of its infinity, the absorbed silence of the Ananda, but not its absolute depth of richness and fullness.
[Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: Love and the Triple Path]
Love is a honey and poison in the breast
Drunk by it as the nectar of the gods.
Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — II: The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal
Love is not sexual intercourse. Love is not vital attraction and interchange. Love is not the heart’s hunger for affection. Love is a mighty vibration coming straight from the One. And only the very pure and very strong are capable of receiving and manifesting it.
Then an explanation on what I mean by “pure,” the very pure and very strong: To be pure is to be open only to the Supreme’s influence, and to no other.
The Mother — 25 Sep 1963, Pg 217, Vol 02, Mother’s Agenda
Victorious Love
Sure of itself, fearless, generous and smiling.
Love must not cease to live upon the earth;
For Love is the bright link twixt earth and heaven,
Love is the far Transcendent’s angel here;
Love is man’s lien on the Absolute.8
The soul can recognise its answering soul
Across dividing Time and, on life’s roads . . .
There is a Power within that knows beyond
Our knowings; we are greater than our thoughts,
And sometimes earth unveils that vision here.9
A miracle of the Absolute was born;
Infinity put on a finite soul,
All ocean lived within a wandering drop,
A time-made body housed the Illimitable.
To live this Mystery out our souls came here.
To live, to love are signs of infinite things,
Love is a glory from eternity’s spheres.
(Savitri)
What is True Love?
True love seeks for union and self-giving and that is the love one must bring to the Divine.
[Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga — II: Divine Love, Psychic Love and Human Love]
There is only one true love, the love from the Divine, which, in human beings, turns into love for the Divine.
THE MOTHER
What is Mother’s Love?
Never forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you helping and guiding
you. He is the companion who never fails, the friend whose love comforts and
strengthens. Have faith and He will do everything for you.
The Mother
Consciousness is indeed the creatrix of the universe, but love is its saviour ….”
The Mother
“I AM WITH YOU”
Mother gives always to each one the love he needs.
The Mother — 11 January 1933
I am always seated in your heart, consciously living in you.
The Mother. — 2 September 1935
Divine Love is not merely a sublimation of human emotions; it is a different consciousness, with a different quality, movement and substance.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga — II: Divine Love, Psychic Love and Human Love
Divine Love … is again not something ethereal, cold and far, but a love absolutely intense, intimate and full of unity, closeness and rapture using all the nature for its expression.
Sri Aurobindo
The God-lover is the universal lover and he embraces the All-blissful and All-beautiful.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: The Delight of the Divine
There is nothing which is beyond the reach of the God-lover or denied to him; for he is the favourite of the divine Lover and the self of the Beloved.
[Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: The Mystery of Love]
You see, Mahalakshmi is the Divine Mother’s aspect of love, the perfection of manifested love, which must come before this supreme Love (which is beyond the Manifestation and the Non manifestation) can be expressed — the supreme Love referred to in Savitri when the Supreme sends Savitri to the earth:
For ever love, O beautiful slave of God!
(XI.I.702)
It’s to prepare the earth to receive the Supreme’s manifestation, the manifestation of His Victory.
Seen in that way, it becomes clear — comprehensible, and comprehensive, too: it has a content. — The Mother — Mother’s Agenda (Vol. 4)
— —
A burning Love from white spiritual founts
Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths.
[Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — I: The Adoration of the Divine Mother]
Beauty is his footprint showing us where he has passed,
Love is his heart-beats’ rhythm in mortal breasts,
Happiness the smile on his adorable face. — Savitri
A love that bore the cross of pain with joy
Eudaemonised the sorrow of the world,
Made happy the weight of long unending Time,
The secret caught of God’s felicity.
Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — I: The Adoration of the Divine Mother
He watched in the alchemist radiance of her suns
The crimson outburst of one secular flower
On the tree-of-sacrifice of spiritual love.
[Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — I: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life]
Experience of The Mother’s Love
I have seen many instances of the Mother’s Love in my life. I express my intense gratitude for Her Love and Protection for me from childhood till date.
I would like to give an example of The Mother’s Love for Vasudha Didi:
The singular nature of this child-mother and disciple-Guru relationship — its life-sparks, illuminations, ministrations of love — can be illustrated by a few extracts. Thus, on the 1st of February 1934, the Mother wishes Vasudha “A happy, calm, an invariable peace, a luminous silence.” Next day Vasudha writes: Mother, I shall capture You in my heart. I don’t need to think of peace and happiness. When You dwell in our hearts, these things are sure to be there. The Mother answers immediately: “You will not have to go far to seize me, for I am already in your heart and as soon as your eyes are opened you will see me there
…. “ Barely a few years have elapsed since her arrival in February 1928, and already Vasudha is mistress of herself and of the resources of language. She has progressed far in her sadhana indeed! It is not, however, roses, roses, all the way. There are unpredictable its moments of depression, there are the attacks by the ubiquitous adverse forces, and life even in the Ashram, life even in the immediacy of the Mother, becomes inexplicably difficult, and Vasudha pours out her anxieties, uncertainties and agonies at the Mother’s feet. And the Mother at once rushes to rescue and reassure her child:
Poor little one, I very gladly take you on my lap and cradle you to my heart to soothe this heavy sorrow which has no cause and to quell this great revolt which has no reason.
Let me take you in my arms, bathe you in my love and wipe away even the memory of this unfortunate incident.
Evidently the cure is not complete, for Vasudha writes a few days later to Sri Aurobindo complaining of unease and restlessness, and of an inability to retain the Mother’s presence all the time. In his reply Sri Aurobindo tells her that the disturbing fancies and forces are not really the emanations of her own mind but merely “foreign matter thrown on it from outside”. She should train her mind to throw back these alien things, and if she keeps herself “inwardly confident and open”, the Mother’s and his own help will do what is needed to be done. Vasudha is by now “Little Smile” to the Mother, and is the recipient of unending Grace from both her and Sri Aurobindo. Perhaps, difficulties come to Vasudha (as to many other sadhaks) only to provoke the Grace to act in due measure. So long as life is not wholly supramentalised, it is too much to hope that an inner poise can be continually maintained. There is a rhythm in these things — the alternations of elation and moodiness, faith and doubt, self-confidence and enervating defeatism. When Vasudha asks what is it in her that is closed to the Mother — is it the heart? the mind? or something else? — and how she is to effect the opening, the answer readily comes:
My dear little smile, I know of 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.
3. Why Should We Love the Mother
Love for the Divine
The vegetal kingdom gathers together its most beautiful possibilities to offer them to the Divine.
To Have the Greatest Possible Spiritual Fulfillment
To approach God by love is to prepare oneself for the greatest possible spiritual fulfilment.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: Love and the Triple Path
To Expand Our True Knowledge
The Mother: Think that: The Mother loves me and I am the Mother’s; if you base your life on that thought, everything will soon become easy.
Love fulfilled does not exclude knowledge, but itself brings knowledge.
[Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: Love and the Triple Path]
The growing of the love of God must carry with it in him an expansion of the knowledge of God.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: The Mystery of Love
If Divine Love were to manifest now in its fullness, it would be like an explosion. Matter is too rigid yet.
To Have Victory Over Death
She seeks through the soul’s war and quivering pain
The pure perfection her marred nature needs,
A breath of Godhead on her stone and mire.
A faith she craves that can survive defeat,
The sweetness of a love that knows not death,
The radiance of a truth for ever sure.
(The promise of Savitri that through Divine Love death can be conquered.)
When you fear death it has already defeated you. Some day surely the world too shall be saved from death by Love.
LOVE is the Victor over all difficulties.
The Mother
To Be Protected by The Mother’s Golden Chain
Whoever gets my touch, whoever has a second of true aspiration, true love for me, he is finished for life, for all lives — he is bound to me. I have put a golden chain round his neck, his heart is bound eternally to me.
The Mother
Divine Love
A flower reputed to bloom even in the desert.
To Bring the Harmony in the World
Love illuminated fulfils the harmony which is the goal of the divine movement.
Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda: Agni, the Illumined Will
To Do Real Sadhana
For me sadhana consists in loving the Divine more and more integrally, more and more absolutely, with a love so total that it leads to identification.
THE MOTHER
To Lead us from Suffering of Division to Bliss of Perfect Union
Love leads us from the suffering of division into the bliss of perfect union, but without losing that joy of the act of union which is the soul’s greatest discovery and for which the life of the cosmos is a long preparation. Therefore to approach God by love is to prepare oneself for the greatest possible spiritual fulfilment. ”
[Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: Love and the Triple Path]
To Get the Greatest Remedy
The Mother: Self-love is the great obstacle. Divine Love is the great remedy.
To Lead Us Closer to The Divine
True love and consecration lead much quicker to the Divine than an arduous Tapasya. — The Mother
To Take us to The Hour of Transformation
The Mother:
And when the day comes for the manifestation of supreme Love — a crystallized, concentrated descent of supreme Love — that will truly be the hour of Transformation, for nothing will be able to resist That.
To Save This World
World Shall Be Saved by Love
Some day surely The world too shall be saved from death by love.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories — II: Act III
To Connect with Infinity and Eternity
To live, to love are signs of infinite things,
Love is a glory from eternity’s spheres.
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
“The Wise who know see but one half of Truth, (The capacity of intellect)
The strong climb hardly to a low-peaked height, (The capacity of vital mind)
The hearts that yearn are given one hour to love.” (The capacity of emotional
mind) — Savitri-372
(The heart that yearn human love will be tired within one hour whereas Divine love is
tireless in its nature and can be experienced through all eternity.)
To Experience Perfect Beauty and Perfect Delight
Without perfect love there cannot be perfect beauty, and without perfect beauty there cannot be perfect delight.
[Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings: The National Value of Art]
Abased, disfigured, mocked by baser mights
That steal his name and shape and ecstasy,
He is still the godhead by which all can change.
[Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — II: Satyavan]
Love that was once an animal’s desire,
Then a sweet madness in the rapturous heart,
An ardent comradeship in the happy mind,
Becomes a wide spiritual yearning’s space.
[Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — II: The Debate of Love and Death]
A lonely soul passions for the Alone,
The heart that loved man thrills to the love of God,
A body is his chamber and his shrine.
[Sri Aurobindo, Savitri — II: The Debate of Love and Death]
To Make the Union of the Creation with the Divine Complete
Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine. The material world in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed, “There is something that is worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love!” And with the awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace. Love cannot exist in its pure beauty, love cannot put on its native power and intense joy of fullness until there is this interchange, this fusion between the earth and the Supreme, this movement of Love from the Divine to the creation and from the creation to the Divine. This world was a world of dead matter, till Divine love descended into it and awakened it to life. Ever since it has gone in search of this divine source of life, but it has taken in its search every kind of wrong turn and mistaken way, it has wandered hither and thither in the dark. The mass of this creation has moved on its road like the blind seeking for the unknown, seeking but ignorant of what it sought. The maximum it has reached is what seems to human beings love in its highest form, its purest and most disinterested kind, like the love of the mother for the child. This human movement of love is secretly seeking for something else than what it has yet found; but it does not know where to find it, it does not even know what it is. The moment man’s consciousness awakens to the Divine love, pure, independent of all manifestation in human forms, he knows for what his heart has all the time been truly longing. That is the beginning of the Soul’s aspiration, that brings the awakening of the consciousness and its yearning for union with the Divine. All the forms that are of the ignorance, all the deformations it has imposed must from that moment fade and disappear and give place to one single movement of the creation answering to the Divine love by its love for the Divine. Once the creation is conscious, awakened, opened to love for the Divine, the Divine love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and the ends meet; there is the joining of the extremes, supreme Spirit and manifesting Matter, and their divine union becomes constant and complete.
4. How Should We Love The Mother Every Moment?
Love for the Divine
The vegetal kingdom gathers together its most beautiful possibilities to offer them to the Divine.
By Widening Our Inner Consciousness and All Cells
Sri Aurobindo had also written to the effect, ‘If Divine Love were to manifest now in all its fullness and totality, not a single material organism would but burst.’ So we must learn to widen, widen, widen not only the inner consciousness (that is relatively easy — at least feasible), but even this conglomeration of cells. And I’ve experienced this: you have to be able to widen this sort of crystallization if you want to be able to hold this Force. I know. Two or three times, upstairs (in Mother’s room), I felt the body about to burst. Actually, I was on the verge of saying, ‘burst and be done with.’ But Sri Aurobindo always intervened — all three times he intervened in an entirely
tangible, living and concrete way … and he arranged everything so that I was forced to wait. The Mother — The Mother’s Agenda
By Opening to The Mother Inwardly
Love must be turned singly towards the Divine.
[Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga — IV: Desire]
Sri Aurobindo: It is quite wrong to say that the Mother loves most those who are nearest to her in the physical. I have often said this but people do not wish to believe it, because they imagine that the Mother is a slave of the vital feelings like ordinary people and governed by vital likes and dislikes. “Those she likes she keeps near her, those she likes less she keeps less near, those she dislikes or does not care for she keeps at a distance”, that is their childish reasoning. Many of those who feel the Mother’s presence and love always with them hardly see her except once in six months or once in a year — apart from the Pranam and meditation. On the other hand one near her physically or seeing her often may not feel such a thing at all; he may complain of the absence of the Mother’s help and love altogether or as compared to what she gives to others. If the childishly simple rule of three given above were true, such contrasts would not be possible.
Whether one feels the Mother’s love or not depends on whether one is open to it or not, it does not depend on physical nearness. Openness means the removal of all that makes one unconscious of the inner relation — nothing can make one more unconscious than the idea that it must be measured only by some outward manifestation instead of being felt within the being; it makes one blind or insensitive to the outward manifestations that are there. Whether one is physically far or near makes no difference; one can feel it, being physically far or seeing her little; one can fail to feel it when it is there, even if one is physically near or often in her physical presence.
Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on the Mother, CWSA volume 32, pages 507–508.
Closeness to the Divine will always grow with the growth of consciousness, equanimity and love.
By Total Self-Giving without any Demand/Conditions
True Love for the Mother
The true love for the Divine is self-giving, free of demand, full of submission and surrender; it makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargain, indulges in no violences of jealousy or pride or anger — for these things are not in its composition. In return the Divine Mother also gives herself, but freely — and this represents itself in an inner giving her presence in ‘your mind, your vital, your physical consciousness, her power re-creating you in the divine nature, taking up all the movements of your being and directing them towards perfection and fulfilment, her love enveloping you and carrying you in its arms Godwards.
By Staying Away from All Kinds of Fears
Closeness of the human soul to the Divine is the object, and fear sets always a barrier and a distance.
[Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: The Godward Emotions]
Perfect love is inconsistent with the admission of the motive of fear.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: The Godward Emotions
Oh, to become Thy divine love, pure and clearsighted, to be that always and everywhere! . . .
[The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, Page -78]
By Becoming Pure and Selfless
Psychic love is distinguished by an essential purity and selflessness — but the vital can put on a very brilliant imitation of that character.
[Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga — IV: Human Relations and the Spiritual Life]
By Enhancing Our Knowledge
Perfect knowledge indeed leads to perfect love.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: Love and the Triple Path
Love without knowledge is a passionate and intense, but blind, crude, often dangerous thing, a great power, but also a stumbling-block.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga — II: Love and the Triple Path
By Living For Truth
Adhere totally to the Truth and you will be ready to receive Divine Love.
The Mother
The best way to hasten the manifestation of the Divine’s Love is to collaborate for the triumph of the Truth.
The Mother — 21 Feb 1968, Pg 186, Vol 15, CWM
By Living in Oneness
Divine Love is based upon oneness and the psychic derives from the Divine Love.
[Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga — II: Divine Love, Psychic Love and Human Love]
Awakened to the meaning of my heart
That to feel love and oneness is to live
And this the magic of our golden change,
Is all the truth I know or seek, O sage
Sri Aurobindo (in Savitri)
By Seeking Mother through the Gate of Psychic Being
Psychic Love
Strong and faithful, it has a beauty that does not belie.
Seek the Divine Love through the only gate through which it will consent to enter, the gate of the psychic being.
[Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga — IV: Sex]
It is the psychic being that feels love, bhakti and union with the Mother.
If you had made just one little decision to try to feel your psychic being, my time would not have been wasted. — The Mother — 25th August 1954
By Abandoning All Other Love
To be conscious of the Divine Love, all other love must be abandoned. The Mother.
By Making It Our Only Goal of Existence
Let divine love be your goal.
Let pure love be your way.
Be always true to your love and all difficulties will be conquered.
Love and blessings to my dear child.
9 September 1939 — The Mother
By Participating in this Unique Hour of God
Flaming Love for the Divine
Ready for all heroism and all sacrifices.
Anyhow, the work is being done very fast. This is truly what Sri Aurobindo called “the Hour of God”: it’s being done very fast.
I live completely outside time. A sort of non-existent existence. I think a few minutes have elapsed while it’s been a very long time. I am in a hurry. I need all those who love me to understand me. The Mother
And you, mon petit, it’s your destiny. It is your destiny: to become conscious and manifest the Divine — it is your destiny. You must…. Me, I am in a hurry because I see circumstances becoming more and more… acute — dangerous. Only a miracle can save us — that is to say, what we consider a miracle: an intervention… an intervention of the Divine Will in its purity, undistorted, uncontroverted, unobstructed– just That.
(silence)
We have to be at our highest — and it is still far from being what it should be.
I am in a hurry. I need all those who love me to understand me
- It’s only by clinging desperately to the Divine — but to the purest and most powerful Divine-that we can avoid a general conflagration. Not a single minute should be lost. ..
- I need, I need all those who love me to understand me.
- And so there is such an urgency … it’s frightening.
- Nothing is left, nothing, nothing, only, only a will- a will, an aspiration, a compelling need : oh ! the reign of the Divine must come.
- I am in a hurry. — The Mother [Mother’s Agenda]
By Making Exclusive Relationship Through Nama Japa
The Mother: For me, you know, japa means a moment when all physical life is EXCLUSIVELY for the Divine. A moment when nothing but the Divine exists — every single cell of the body, each second, is EXCLUSIVELY for the Divine, there is nothing but the Divine.
When you succeed in doing that, it’s good. Japa shouldn’t become so exclusive that it’s done twenty-four hours out of twenty-four, because then it’s equivalent to asceticism — but there should be a good dose of it. It’s almost the one luxury of life — that’s how it feels to me. The luxury of That alone, nothing but that divine vibration around you, within you, everywhere. Nothing but the divine vibration.
I am speaking of SELFIMPOSED japa and rules (or, if someone gives you the japa, rules you accept with all your heart and adhere to). These self-imposed rules should be followed as a gesture of love, as a way of saying to the Divine, “I love You.” Do you see what I mean? Like arranging flowers in a certain way, burning incense, dozens of little things like that, made beautiful because of what is put into them — it is a form of self-giving. — The Mother
By Opening the Mind, Vital and Physical to the Divine Love
Opening the Vital to the Divine Love
When we open our vital to the Divine Love, it will slowly percolate our entire being. We will observe that little by little it is no longer the ego that governs, but the Divine.
Love in the Physical for the Divine
Modest in appearance, but tenacious and charming; it does not make a fuss, but is very faithful.
Mental Love for the Divine
The nature offers its love in a fragrant blossoming.
By Living At Our Heights
The Mother:
Beauty of Supramental love (Flower of Auroville)
It urges us to live at its height
By Offering Ourselves Like a Flower
The Mother: “The flowers are the prayers of the vegetable world. The plants offer their beauty to the Supreme.”
Life must blossom like a flower offering itself to the Divine. Flowers are the moment’s representations of things that are in themselves eternal.
Love of flowers is a valuable help for finding and uniting with the psychic.
While Mother often mentioned Nature as an important portal into understanding the spiritual realm, she especially saw flowers as representing Nature’s aspiration for the Divine.
“We have much to learn from life…. Flowers know much better than we do. It’s spontaneous, it’s not thought, not willed: they are divine vibrations expressing themselves spontaneously.” — Agenda, January 14, 1967
… the pure psychic consciousness is instinctive to it. When, therefore, you offer flowers to me their condition is almost always an index to yours.” — CWM Vol 3, 138
There are three ways of blessing of the Mother: by sight, by touch and through flowers. And it is through flowers that her blessing is most effective.
— Sri Aurobindo
By Collaborating With the Mother’s New Creation
The Love Divine is the great conqueror. One day it will rule the earth and all
will be changed through its powerful action.
Let us work to hasten that day’s advent.
Counting on your collaboration.
The Mother
Great beings have taken birth in this world who came to bring down here something of the sovereign purity and power of Divine love. The Divine love has thrown itself into a personal form in them that its realisation upon earth may be at once more easy and more perfect. Divine love, when manifested in a personal being, is easier to realise; it is more difficult when it is unmanifested or impersonal in its movement. A human being, awakened by this personal touch, with this personal intensity, to the consciousness of the Divine love, will find his work and change made more easy; the union for which he seeks becomes more natural and close.
And the union, the realisation will become for him, too, more full, more perfect; for the wide uniformity of a universal and impersonal Love will be lit up and vivified with the colour and beauty of all possible relations with the Divine.
The Mother
I saw the Omnipotent’s flaming pioneers
Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life
Come crowding down the amber stairs of birth;
Forerunners of a divine multitude
Out of the paths of the morning star they came
Into the little room of mortal life.
Sri Aurobindo (Savitri)
Notes: The whole thing refers to the New Creation coming down from above — now down into the psycho-vital or physico-vital or even the subtle physical plane. This New Creation is the creation of the Divine Love — the Mother’s Love.
Morning Star — Venus, Goddess of Love — embodying New Creation.
Amber colour representing a particular plane of consciousness. Yellow+ red + a touch of brown — physico-vital or even subtle physical plane — the New Creation come down on that plane.
By Immersing Ourselves in Universal Love
For instance, love between human beings, in all its forms, the love of parents for children, of children for parents, of brothers and sisters, of friends and lovers, is all tainted with ignorance, selfishness and all the other defects which are man’s ordinary drawbacks; so instead of completely ceasing to love — which, besides, is very difficult as Sri Aurobindo says, which would simply dry up the heart and serve no end — one must learn how to love better: to love with devotion, with self-giving, self-abnegation, and to struggle, not against love itself, but against its distorted forms: against all forms of monopolising, of attachment, possessiveness, jealousy, and all the feelings which accompany these main movements. Not to want to possess, to dominate; and not to want to impose one’s will, one’s whims, one’s desires; not to want to take, to receive, but to give; not to insist on the other’s response, but be content with one’s own love; not to seek one’s personal interest and joy and the fulfilment of one’s personal desire, but to be satisfied with the giving of one’s love and affection; and not to ask for any response. Simply to be happy to love, nothing more. If you do that, you have taken a great stride forward and can, through this attitude, gradually advance farther in the feeling itself, and realise one day that love is not something personal, that love is a universal divine feeling which manifests through you more or less finely, but which in its essence is something divine.
The Mother — 19 Sep 1956, Pg 301, Vol 08, CWM
By Getting Ourselves from All Attachments
The Mother: To love truly the Divine we must rise above attachments.
All that is based on human relationship is unstable and transient, mixed and unsatisfactory; it is only what is established in the Divine and through the Divine that can last and give satisfaction.
