Chapter 15The Mother’s Presence · Spiritual Possibility due to the Mother’s Presence

did not discourage. If it had been a wrong or vital movement she would not have felt like that.

13 August 1934

* We believe that it is the Mother who does the sadhana in us, but we scarcely feel it. I suppose there must be some veil in us.

It is a veil which disappears when the Mother’s working as well as her presence is consciously felt at all times.

7 January 1935

* Is there any difference between the Mother’s Presence and the Divine Consciousness?

One can feel the Divine Consciousness impersonally as a new — one feels herself there present within or above or enveloping one or all these together.

8 July 1935

* The feeling of the Mother’s Presence or nearness does not depend on whether you write or do not write. Many who write often do not feel it, some who write seldom feel her always close.

11 June 1936

* You write: “One can feel the Divine Consciousness impersonally as a new consciousness only”2 but that the Mother’s presence is something more. You also wrote in another letter that the Divine Presence in the heart is much more than the consciousness. In what way is the Presence more than the consciousness?

I meant that one can feel the divine consciousness as an impersonal spiritual state, a state of peace, light, joy, wideness without feeling in it the Divine Presence. The Divine Presence is felt as 2 See letter of 8 July 1935 above. — Ed.