Chapter 3On Pri`eres et M´editations de la M`ere · Hearing the Mother Read Her Pri`eres

[p. 296]. Is this not similar to the fact that when Rama came he had with him some Devas and other higher beings to assist him in his work on the earth? I believe there are various such “divine stones” (“divines pierres”) now in various coun-tries who will be gradually called to assist in the work of manifestation. Perhaps just now they are not awakened and called.

It is very probable. But at present it is only in France that anyone is awake, with some movement towards it in America. People from other parts have sometimes come and gone, but they were evidently not the stones chosen.

5 September 1936

* chaque instant savoir tout perdre pour tout gagner” [p. 311]. The Isha Upanishad says: “tena tyaktena bhu˜nj¯ıth¯ah.”. To gain all by losing all comes to the same thing as to enjoy by renouncing. Both ideas seem to have the same source in the depths.

Yes, certainly. It is essentially the same truth put in different ways. It might be put in a negative form — “if we cling to things as they are in their imperfection in the Ignorance, we cannot have them in their truth and perfection in the Divine Light, Harmony and Ananda.”

16 August 1935

* [In her prayer of 20 December 1916, the Mother wrote out a long “communication” she received in her evening meditation from ¸Cakya-Mouni (pp. 366–67). A disciple asked who this was.]

¸Cakya-Mouni is a name of Buddha — “the sage of the ¸Cakyas” — the clan to which Buddha belonged by birth and of which his father was the “king”.

* Last night I was reading the Mother’s prayer of 21 December 1916 and I was struck by this: “Il [mon ˆetre] sait que cet ´etat