The Mother
Prayers and Meditations is a compilation of 313 entries that The Mother (Mirra Alfassa) chose from her personal journals. These entries were mostly written between 1912 and 1917, when she was practicing yoga. Her early spiritual life and inner experiences are profoundly and intimately documented in the book, which also serves as a useful manual for anyone pursuing Integral Yoga.
Guidance In Work
This book, “Guidance in Work: Correspondence with a Disciple,” is a collection of letters between the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and a disciple named “R,” spanning from 1938 to 1971. It explores themes such as the significance of work as a form of spiritual practice (sadhana), addressing challenges in managing Ashram departments, and the importance of faith and receptivity to the Divine Will. The Mother provides insights on education, teaching methods, and personal struggles, offering compassionate advice to navigate spiritual and practical issues. Overall, the book reflects her teachings on merging spirituality with daily life, guiding individuals towards self-discovery and transformation.
On Education
The Mother’s book “On Education” is a collection of her writings, teachings, letters, and talks about integral education, emphasizing the full development of persons’ physical, vital, mental, psychic, and spiritual elements. It advocates for a transformative approach to education that prepares people for greater consciousness and a more peaceful way of life. The book emphasizes the roles of instructors and students, the value of discipline, sincerity, self-discovery, physical education, arts, and studying Sri Aurobindo’s works. It also investigates topics of truth, consciousness, love, and aspiration, providing important insights into living a divine and harmonious life on Earth.
Notes On The Way
This book, Notes on the Way, is a collection of conversations between the Mother and her disciples, focused on her spiritual experiences and insights from 1964-1973. It delves into topics such as the metamorphosis of the physical body, the descent of supramental consciousness, and the difficulties of overcoming falsity and ego to unite with the Divine. The Mother expresses her profound insights on the nature of creation, the role of the psychic being, and the importance of surrendering to the Divine for advancement. The book highlights the significance of sincerity, aspiration, and faith in the Divine for personal and social growth.
On Thoughts and Aphorisms
“On Thoughts and Aphorisms” is a compendium of Sri Aurobindo’s spiritual insights, supplemented with The Mother’s commentary that offer deeper readings of his aphorisms. The book delves into topics like as wisdom, devotion, karma, divine love, human nature, suffering, and spiritual truth, providing direction on self-realization and unity with the Divine. It emphasizes surrendering to the Divine, the transformational power of suffering and love, and overcoming the ego to embrace universal consciousness. Readers are urged to align with the Divine Will and discover the ultimate truth through personal growth and spiritual development.
Words Of Long Ago
Words of Long Ago is a collection of The Mother’s (Mirra Alfassa) early writings, lectures, and observations from the years before she moved to Pondicherry in 1920. It includes essays, children’s stories, and notes written between 1893 and 1913 in Paris, as well as letters and observations from her stay in Japan. The writings provide an inspiring spiritual perspective as well as practical advice on life’s purpose, personal development, and dealing with hardship. A fundamental subject is the importance of self-improvement and a conscious spiritual desire to reform oneself and contribute to global harmony.
More Answer From The Mother
Publisher’s Note: This volume contains the Mother’s correspondence with six members of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The material covers a thirty-five year period, from 1932 to 1968. All the correspondences are presented in chronological order. Two of them were written in English; four were written wholly or partly in French and appear here in translation. Further information is given in the Note on the Texts.
Publisher’s Note: This volume contains the Mother’s correspondence with fourteen persons; all but one of them were members of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The material covers a forty-five year period, from 1927 to 1972. The earliest items are letters of the Mother to her son; the latest are brief thoughts and prayers written in a young disciple’s notebook. Each of the correspondences is presented in chronological order, with the exception of Series Six, which is arranged by theme. Two correspondences were written in English; twelve were written wholly or partly in French and appear here in translation. Further information is provided in the Note on the Texts.
Words of the Mother 1 is a collection of Mirra Alfassa’s short statements and messages on the fundamental ideas and practices of Integral Yoga. The core premise is to make the search for and service to the Divine the primary aim of life. It teaches the fundamental principles of spiritual discipline (sadhana), such as sincerity, aspiration, faith, and surrender to the Divine Force. The book emphasizes the need of remaining calm inside and depending on the Mother’s consciousness to overcome obstacles and achieve a divine change of life on Earth.
Words of the Mother 2 is a collection of Mirra Alfassa’s concise written statements and teachings on various elements of spiritual life, designed to aid seekers on the Integral Yoga path. It discusses common human issues and limitations, as well as yoga’s foundational elements of sincerity, aspiration, faith, dedication, and surrender. The book also delves into practical topics such as human relationships and a spiritual approach to work and daily life. Overall, the volume highlights the significance of completely surrendering oneself to the Divine and practically applying a higher consciousness in all parts of life in order to attain spiritual transformation.
“Words of the Mother — 3” is a collection of Mirra Alfassa’s brief declarations, notes, messages, and conversations about different aspects of spiritual life. It is essentially a guide for disciples on how to apply spiritual truths in their daily lives, rather than a particular tale or essay. The importance of interior transformation is discussed, as well as the function of divine grace, the goal of perfection, and the expression of the Divine in earthly life.
The Mother’s Agenda Vol. 1 is the first volume in Mirra Alfassa’s (The Mother) 13-volume spiritual journal. The work records her intensive, day-to-day research into the physical body’s cellular consciousness and the construction of the material universe, with the goal of determining the mechanism of death and how to reverse it. These chats with her pupil Satprem, which span more than 20 years, reflect modern physics theories and offer a “great passage” for humanity’s transformation to a new species beyond existing human limitations. Finally, the Agenda describes her unique yoga of physical change to construct a “Life Divine” on Earth, as envisaged by her colleague, Sri Aurobindo.
Volume 2 of Mirra Alfassa’s Mother’s Agenda (encompassing 1961) chronicles her journey into the “cellular mind” and the nature of the physical world. She investigates the concept of two parallel physical worlds: one governed by existing physical laws and the other a “true physical” plane of harmony, free of disease and death.
Mother’s Agenda Volume 3, which covers discussions from 1962, recounts Mirra Alfassa’s investigation into the consciousness of the body’s cells, with the goal of activating a “cellular mind”. This severe yogic technique entails overcoming intense physical and psychological challenges, including as reliving past traumas and combating negative energies. The goal is to find the “key to Matter” in order to transcend death and facilitate the transition to a new species.
Volume 4 of the Mother’s Agenda series, covering the year 1963, primarily details Mirra Alfassa’s intensive exploration into the physical cellular consciousness as the key to human evolution and the transformation of matter. It is part of a period marked by a radical shift in her spiritual discipline, moving toward the “Yoga of the Body”. The text describes her minute, “scientific” experiences in which she seeks to find the “process that will give the power to undo death” at the cellular level. These conversations with her disciple Satprem record her struggle to bring the supramental force into her physical cells, an endeavor she felt was hindered by the general unresponsiveness of her disciples and the world’s attachment to old physical laws.
Volume 5 of The Mother’s Agenda, covering the year 1964, details Mirra Alfassa’s advanced physical transformation experiences and practical occult work.
The Mother’s Agenda, Volume 6, is one of 13 volumes that record Mirra Alfassa’s profound spiritual examination of the physical body’s cellular consciousness. The book focuses on how established faiths became split and contrasts it with the emerging consciousness that seeks unity. It also covers current events, such as the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan and the Mother’s anxieties about possible Chinese attack against India. Finally, the entire agenda functions as an experimental logbook, kept by her apprentice Satprem, recording the process of modifying the physical nature of the body as a key to humanity’s transition to a new species.
Mirra Alfassa describes her escalating work on physical transformation and cellular consciousness in Volume 8 of The Mother’s Agenda, which covers the year 1967. She discusses her research into a “cellular mind” capable of radically modifying the rules of the human species, similar to how the thinking mind revolutionized the ape. A prominent theme is the necessity to transcend intellectual or traditional spiritual approaches in order to experience immediate, physical identification with the Divine Consciousness. Throughout the volume, she emphasizes the ultimate goal of overcoming death’s mechanism and paving the way for a new, supramental species.
Volume 9 of The Mother’s Agenda documents Mirra Alfassa’s yogic experiences from 1968, focusing on the challenges of physical metamorphosis. Conversations with Satprem emphasize the collaboration with the body’s cellular consciousness to facilitate the emergence of a new, supramental species. Alfassa shares her expanding consciousness and the diminishing sense of a personal “I,” transitioning to a universal awareness. The volume underscores the necessity of complete sincerity and surrender to the inner Divine Will to support this evolutionary change.
“The Mother’s Agenda” is a 13-volume documentation of Mirra Alfassa’s discussions with her disciple, Satprem, focusing on her spiritual exploration of the physical body’s cellular consciousness after Sri Aurobindo’s death. Volume 10 addresses topics such as the decline of global religions, Sri Aurobindo’s guiding vision of destiny, and discussions with Indira Gandhi. The work aims to uncover a “cellular mind” to transform humanity and transcend death, characterizing itself as a scientific account of an “experimental evolution” toward the next stage of human existence.
“The Mother’s Agenda” is a 13-volume account of Mirra Alfassa’s (The Mother’s) spiritual journey. Volume 11 focuses on her research into the consciousness within bodily cells and their physical metamorphosis in preparation for a new “supramental” species. For more details.
Mother’s Agenda Volume 12: 1971, part of a 13-volume work documenting Mirra Alfassa’s experiences, focuses on her intense spiritual exploration into the physical body’s cellular consciousness and her battle for the next evolutionary step.
The Mother’s Agenda, a massive thirteen-volume work, is a daily diary of Mirra Alfassa’s profound internal journey as well as a record of experimental evolution. It describes her investigation into the “cellular mind” and her revelation that physical matter has the power to change the very rules of the species, including death itself. The chats with Satprem span 22 years and parallel several modern physics ideas, providing insights into humanity’s transition to a hypothetical “next species”. Finally, Volume 13 documents the end of her physical life and her ongoing work of psychological and physical transformation via the supramental energy.
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