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One Must Do Something a Little Unselfish — Mother

If you want to begin to do sadhana, you must do something which does not have an exclusively personal motive. One must do something a little unselfish, for if one is exclusively occupied with oneself, one gets shut up in … Continue reading →

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Hunt for all the little dark corners hidden in you — Mother

Evidently there is one difficulty: in your conscious being something does not want the difficulty, wishes sincerely to overcome it, but there are numberless movements in other parts of your consciousness of which you are not conscious. You say, “I … Continue reading →

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Making Truth Valuable — Mother

All of you who have come here have been told many things; you have been put into contact with a world of truth, you live within it, the air you breathe is full of it; and yet how few of … Continue reading →

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The secret of effort — Mother

As with everything in yoga, the effort for progress must be made for the love of the effort for progress. The joy of effort, the aspiration for progress must be enough in themselves, quite independent of the result. Everything one … Continue reading →

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Turning towards the Mother.

Q : Turn my consciousness towards You, Mother. The Mother : Never doubt my love, and then quite naturally you will turntowards me. 10 June 1935(CWM 17:101)

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Sincerity stronger than will — Mother

… there are people who tell me, “I don’t have the will- power.” That means you are not sincere. For sincerity is an infinitely more powerful force than all the wills in the world. It can change anything whatever in … Continue reading →

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The “subconscient” — Mother

What does “subconscient” mean, exactly? Subconscient? It is what is half conscious, you see. And we say “sub”, because that means “below” the consciousness. It is something more obscure than the consciousness, but which, at the same time, is like … Continue reading →

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The path to the psychic flame — Mother

Mother: Do you know where the aspiration comes from? Mona Sarkar: Yes, Mother, from the heart and from the psychic. Mother: Yes, my child, rather from the psychic; the true aspiration, it is from there; but first, one starts from … Continue reading →

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Relations with the Divine — Mother

“A spiritual Truth and Right have convicted the good and evil of this world of imperfection or of falsehood and unveiled a supreme good…. But behind all these and in them he has felt a Divinity who is all these … Continue reading →

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