Words Of The Mother

Three

 

Contents

 

PRE CONTENT

 

Part One

 

The Divine

The Divine working in the Universe

Nature and the forces of Nature

The Gods

Krishna and Radha

Kali, Mahakali....

The Avatar

Superior Beings

Adverse Forces

Religion

Occultism

Astrology

Palmistry

Numbers

Colours

Symbols

Morality and War

War and Violence

Safety and Protection

Wealth and Economics

Government and Politics

Human Unity

The World Today

Darkness and Light

The Past

The Present

The Future

Progress

Perfection

Success

Victory

Transformation

Transformation and the Parts....

The Supramental

The Supramental Manifestation....

The New Consciousness

The Supramental and....

Immortality

The New Creation

Old Age and Death

Rebirth

Suicide

Sleep and Rest

Dreams

Illness and Health

Inner Causes of Illness

Fear and Illness

Worry and Bother....

Wrong Thinking and Illness

Will to Conquer Illness

Control Of Desires

Peace and Quiet, ....

Cure by the Divine Grace

Doctors and Medicines

Message for Ashram....

General

New Year Messages

Darshan Messages

Messages for the Supramental....

Messages for the Mother's first....

Messages for Sri Aurobindo's....

Puja Messages

Christmas Messages

Birthday Messages

Messages for Certres...

Messages for Departments....

Miscellaneous Messages

Prayers and Calling the Divine

Prayers

Sadhana and Life

Change

Do the Right Thing

Soar High

The Divine's Help to Man

Beauty

General

Personal Advice

Longer Letters

Admonitions

Practical Affairs

Cooking and Eating

Borrowing Books....

Painting

Experiences of the Mother

Some Experiences....

New Experiences....

   

 

Part Two

 

 

Progress and Perfection   

PROGRESS

 

            Progress is the sign of the divine influence in creation.  

 

            Progress: the reason why we are on earth.  

 

            The purpose of earthly life is progress. If you stop progressing you will die. Every moment that you spend without progressing is one step closer to your grave.

 

            From the moment you are satisfied and aspire no longer, you begin to die. Life is movement, life is effort; it is marching forward, climbing towards future revelations and realisations. Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest.

 

            One has always something to learn and a progress to make, and in each circumstance we can find the occasion of learning the lesson and making the progress.

11 September 1934 

            Progress: to be ready, at every minute, to give up all one is and all one has in order to advance on the way.

29 June 1950  

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            There is no end to progress and every day one can learn to do better what one does.

26 April 1954 

            Do not think of what you have been, think only of what you want to be and you are sure to progress.

1 June 1954  

            Do not look behind, look always in front, at what you want to do − and you are sure of progressing.

2 June 1954  

            Let us keep flaming in our heart the fire of progress.

21 June 1954  

            What cannot be done today will surely be done later on. No effort for progress has ever been made in vain.

25 June 1954 

            Let us progress ourselves, it is the best way of making others progress.

23 July 1954 

            Stagnation means decomposition.

            No enterprise can flourish unless it is progressive.

            Go always forward towards a growing perfection.

                21 February 1957 

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            No institution can live unless it is progressive.

            The true progress is to come always closer to the Divine.

            Each year that passes must be marked by a new progress towards perfection.

                21 February 1957

            Whatever is new will always meet an opposition from conservative people. If we yield to this opposition, the world will never advance one step.

7 November 1961

            The world progresses so rapidly that we must be ready at any moment to overpass what we know in order to know better.

                3 March 1963

            In the constant march forward of the universe, whatever has been accomplished is nothing but the first step towards a greater realization.

 

            Each year that passes should be − and is necessarily − a new conquest.

 

            Everybody and everything can always progress and I am always working in view of a possible improvement, knowing that the greatest difficulty brings always the greatest victory and I trust that you are with me for that.

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PERFECTION

 

            Mixing will not make you perfect − perfection must come from within.

1 March 1936

            Perfection is not a maximum or an extreme. It is an equilibrium and a harmonisation.

 

            Perfection is not a summit, it is not an extreme. There is no extreme: whatsoever you do, there is always the possibility of something better and exactly this possibility of something better is the very meaning of progress.

 

            Perfection is eternal; it is only the resistance of the world that makes it progressive.

 

            It may be said that perfection is attained, though it remains progressive, when the receptivity from below is equal to the force from above which wants to manifest.

3 January 1951 

            You cannot expect anybody to be perfect unless you are perfect yourself. And to be perfect means to be exactly as the Lord wants you to be.

3 June 1958  

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            Perfection is all that we want to become in our highest aspiration.

9 October 1966  

            Thirst for perfection: constant and multiple aspiration.  

SUCCESS 

 

            Never forget the goal. Never stop aspiring. Never halt in your progress, and you are sure to succeed.

 

            Power of success: the power of those who know how to continue their effort.

 

           It is not enough to try, you must succeed.

 

            One must never try for the sake of succeeding.

7 April 1952  

(Someone suggested that the popularity of an Ashram journal would increase if its readers were asked for their reactions and expectations. When the matter was referred to the Mother, she wrote:)  

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Let us become as vulgar as we can and success is sure to come.

16 January 1955 

            All that is done with the purpose of pleasing the public and obtaining success is vulgar and leads to falsehood. I enclose a deeper view of the subject.¹

            Blessings.

18 January 1965 

            Whatever circumstance is given to you, make the best use of it in line with the Truth; to take advantage of it is quite different.

            All success depends upon the measure of your truth.

 

            Success depends entirely on the sincerity.

27 June 1972 

            Success in supramental works: the result of patient labour and a perfect consecration.

 

            Spiritual success is the conscious union with the Divine.

 

¹ For those who are eager to get rid of falsehood, here is a way:

Do not try to please yourself, do not try either to please others. Try only to please the Lord.

Because He alone is the Truth. Each and every one of us, human beings in our physical body, is a coat of falsehood put on the Lord and hiding Him.

As He alone is true to Himself, it is on Him that we must concentrate and not on the coats of falsehood. 

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            Success is a harder ordeal to pass through than misfortune.

            It is in the hour of success that one must be especially vigilant to rise above oneself.

 

            As soon as you think that you have succeeded in a certain thing, the adverse forces make it a point to attack and spoil it. Moreover, when you think of success, you relax your aspiration and the slightest relaxation is sufficient to spoil the game. The best thing is not to think of it but to go on doing your duty. But sometimes when you go on thinking of your short-comings and failures and you get depressed, then you have to put the success before your nose and say, “Look at this.”  

VICTORY 

 

            We have come not for Peace but for Victory, because in a world governed by the hostile forces Victory must come before Peace.

February 1930  

            Two things you must never forget: Sri Aurobindo’s compassion and the Mother’s love, and it is with these two things that you will go on fighting steadily, patiently, until the enemies are definitively routed and the Victory is won for ever.

            Courage outside, peace inside and a quiet unshakable trust in the Divine’s Grace.

19 May 1933 

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            In front of the repeated attacks from the enemy you must keep your faith intact and endure till the Victory is won.

2 February 1942 

            The ultimate victory of the Divine is certain beyond all doubt.

6 April 1942  

            The Victory is certain and with this certitude we can face patiently any amount of wrong suggestions and hostile attacks.

 

            The certitude of the Victory gives an infinite patience with the maximum of energy.

 

            Let us have a sincere aspiration united to a constant goodwill and the victory is certain.

19 May 1954 

           The victory of yesterday must be only one step towards tomorrow’s victory.

7 September 1954  

           In the sincerity of our trust lies the certitude of our victory.

3 October 1954 

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     There is nothing which is not ultimately an instrument leading to the integral victory of the Divine.

July 1956 

Sweet Mother,

You have written:

“The ideal child is courageous. He always goes on fighting for the final victory, though he may meet with many defeats.”

What does “the final victory” mean? What is victory and what is defeat? What do they represent in our sports ?

 

I was not referring to victory in games, but to the victory of the consciousness over ignorance and stupidity.

19 March 1970 

           Victory will triumph over all obstacles.  

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