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<font size="4">The Two Chains of the Mother*</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Excuse me if I sit like
this with my feet in the air. That's my way of making <span class=GramE>myself</span>
at home: I feel at home. ... So, you expect me to speak to you something?<o:p></o:p></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Well,
I have talked a lot in my rather long life, have I not? I have talked a good
deal, written much more. All that forms now my Collected Works: eight volumes
in English and as many volumes in Bengali. ...<o:p></o:p></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:232.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All of you are leaving our Centre of Education, a Centre
where you have been for so many years. To complete your Course and come out of
the Centre, it's all right; but to go where? It seems you have already come to
a decision, there are many amongst you who have made their choice. That's good,
for it means choosing one's life.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>.<o:p></o:p></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:232.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I wanted to tell you only one thing: you are going out but
wherever you go, you carry something within you, something that is permanent
and eternal since the beginning of the world. I have sometimes spoken of the
golden chain of the Mother; I have said too that Mother had two chains, one of
gold and the other of iron. These two chains are your eternal companions;
wherever you may go, you will carry these two with you. You are bound to the
Mother forever - forever, be sure of that. It's the prop of your life, it's
your aspiration. These are not chains of bondage but of freedom and entire
satisfaction. You may ask: what are these chains of gold and of iron? The
golden chain is in<o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt'>* A Talk to the outgoing students of the International
Centre of Educa­tion (SriAurobindo Ashram) on </span><st1:date Year="1978"
Day="25" Month="10"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>25-10-1978</span></st1:date><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>your</span> soul and the iron one
is in your body. The body, your body, is also bound to the Mother, to her
Presence and Influence. Body means not only the material body, but the physical
body, the inner body. Now, the imprint of the Mother's Presence, you carry that
in this physical body. You may not be always aware of that, but this makes no
difference, nothing at all. Here I may refer to something pertinent…One day
someone went to see the Mother on his birthday; it was our Prithwi Singh. Now,
Prithwi Singh plaintively said to the Mother: &quot;Mother, here I <span
class=GramE>am,</span> so near to you; it's my birthday, a day so nice and
precious to me, but I cannot see you, for I am blind in both of my eyes.&quot;
Then the Mother answered: &quot;What does that matter? You cannot see me but I
am seeing you.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:dotted 60.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And this is always so. You cannot see with your physical
eyes but the Mother's look is always upon you, her look of love and protection:
be sure and certain of that. You carry that within you for all time and
wherever you go, wherever in the entire world. You carry in you a portion, a
spark of her Love; and that will save you from many difficulties, from much
danger. If you can keep that in your active memory, it will be still more
beneficial. That's all.<o:p></o:p></p>

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