Chapter 13The Mother’s Presence · She Is Always Present

Some like me have exceptionally great imperfections and de-fects. We have no claim for any Yoga, much less for the Integral Yoga. Sheerly out of her care and grace, the Mother has man-aged to keep us here; but the only return we have given is to tire her out.

It is so — if the sadhaks had been different in their reaction to the Mother’s grace, the work in the physical would have been much easier and less perilously subject to hostile attacks; perhaps it would have been done by now.

12 July 1936 Make yourself quiet and open — have complete confidence and you will feel the Mother’s presence with you.

9 October 1933

* It is by the constant remembrance that the being is prepared for the full opening. By the opening of the heart the Mother’s presence begins to be felt and by the opening to her Power above the Force of the higher consciousness comes down into the body and works there to change the whole nature.

7 August 1934

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am always with you and around you.” How am I to feel her presence always? Also, what does “conscious” mean and how does one become conscious?

The Divine Mother is everywhere and at all times she is with you. If one opens and becomes conscious, then one can feel her presence. It is because the nature is ignorant, full of itself and its desires that one cannot feel the presence. If one turns from self and desires and lives inwardly and outwardly for the Divine, then one begins to feel the divine Presence.

* The condition you describe is a very good one and it is evident from it that you opened sincerely to the Mother when you met her. Keep that sincere opening always and eventually a state of peace and joy and the sense of the Mother’s presence will become permanent.

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My dear Mother, peace in my vital, peace in my heart, peace everywhere.

Let the vital and the heart open always to the Mother’s presence — the true source of peace.

Why do I sometimes feel myself far from the Mother? I want to be able to feel her constantly with me.

away the forces of Ignorance to feel her with you always.

1 August 1933

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You have said: “Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you; because she is, indeed, always present.”1 Does this mean that the Mother knows all our insignificant thoughts at all times, or only when she concentrates?

It is said that the Mother is always present and looking at you. That does not mean that in her physical mind she is thinking of you always and seeing your thoughts. There is no need of that, since she is everywhere and acts everywhere out of her universal knowledge.

It seems to me that the more we communicate our thoughts to her, the more we open ourselves to her forces and the more effective becomes our surrender to her. Am I right?

Yes, quite right.

12 August 1933

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In what sense is the Mother “everywhere”? Is it because she has descended to the universal and has complete knowledge 1 This message of Sri Aurobindo was first hung in the dining hall of the Ashram on 28 March 1928. — Ed.