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<font size="3">The
Mother – The Nature of Her Work</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; mso-pagination:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">I<span style='font-size:8.0pt'>T</span> seems I am to tell you something
about the Mother – a bit of her life, a bit of her activities.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Well, the first part of her life, as you all know,
the Mother passed in <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
she was born in <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
in <st1:City><st1:place>Paris</st1:place></st1:City>. So, naturally it was very
often pointed out to her that she was French, she was European. To this,
however, she was always protesting, saying, &quot;I am not European, I am not
French.&quot; It would indeed sound somewhat strange to say that her family
came in fact from <st1:country-region><st1:place>Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Her parents, her father and mother went to <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>
just a year before she was born, a year only. And in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
her family, it seems, belonged to a very ancient Egyptian family – perhaps
even to a royal family of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
the Pharaos. So she is not European or French by blood although she was
brought up as such. Strictly speaking, she would belong to the <st1:place>Middle
 East</st1:place>, that is to say, the portion joining east of <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>
and west of <st1:place>Asia</st1:place>. It means the union of <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>
and <st1:place>Asia</st1:place>, the two harmonised, and that reflects the
character of Mother's life and its destiny.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">As I said, she spent the first part of her life .in <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
But why <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>?
There is a meaning in the choice. We know now the meaning, the fundamental
meaning of her life, her mission and her work. She came to bring a new light.
She wanted a new world, not the old world with its old nature and old culture,
but a new world, a new human<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; mso-pagination:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">race. She brought with her the new light that is to re-create, re-shape
man and the world. What was the relation between the new man and France? For
the new light to come and manifest, you have first to receive it in your mind,
that is to say you must see and recognise that it is a new light and ask for
it. And mind is the first or the topmost receptacle in man. You may remember
here the opening line of <i>Dhammapada </i>containing the epitome of Buddha's
teaching:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span><i>&quot;Manopubbangama
dhamma&quot; </i>– mind is the foremost of all human functions. Mind
surpasses all, embraces all. Now, the light as it comes down and enters you,
the first thing it touches is your head, that is, your mind: you see it, you
are conscious of it. <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>
represents today just this mind of humanity at its best, the flowering of its
culture and civilisation. She was born there so that the highest mind of the
human race may receive that light through her. She passed her life there in the
company of the elite, the most cultured people of the time, scientists,
artists, poets, all of the highest and most refined status. She was there so
that through her contact and association she could bring into them the new
light. With this end in view she started a society, rather a group, and the
name given to it was <i>&quot;Le cosmique&quot;. </i>Cosmic means the whole
world; in other words, what she was doing, what she was giving, was for the
whole world, for all men, for East and West, for everybody. Also it means a
cosmic or world-embracing consciousness. She was creating a new type of the
mental world, through the highest mental development, to reach a still wider
mind – beyond the individual egoistic mind. As I have said, the mind, the
head, being the highest part in man, it is easy for man to receive the new
light through his head first of all. You may remember here, in this
connection, Sri Aurobindo's poem &quot;The Golden Light&quot;: how it comes
from above and first enters into the head, the brain. It illumines your
thoughts, develops your understanding, widens it, deepens it and sharpens it.
But understanding is not sufficient, you must love it,<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; mso-pagination:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">then only you begin to possess it. So the golden light enters your heart.
Then it proceeds farther down towards a more concrete and active expression, it
enters into the vital region as we call it. Lastly the golden light enters your
feet, that is, possesses your physical limbs, it becomes concrete materially
and present, as though solidified, in your very body: it builds the body
beautiful.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; text-indent:9pt; mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">The Mother thus brings the golden light into the
head of humanity, the top rung of his consciousness, and that work of
initiation, <i>diksha, </i>into the Life Divine she started in <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
From <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region> she
went to <st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
for the next stage of her work.. In <st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
she came to the <st1:place>Far East</st1:place>. She spent five years, five
long years in that country. <st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is the land of the Zen system of meditation, that is to say, a special way of
entering into an inner consciousness, not a rational mental consciousness but a
gaze inward into an occult and more sensitive region. The Japanese as a nation
represent indeed a very sensitive vitality, an artistic vitality that seeks
order and beauty in life, in the mode of living. For the golden light to
manifest and have its play in the physical world and possess its body as it
were, a vitality of this kind is necessary to acquire it and hold it. The Japanese
wrestlers are well-known for their vital strength, self-controlled strength;
usually they possess, almost all of them, you must have noticed, in pictures at
least, a big tummy, and it is, they believe, the store-house of vital strength.
This does not mean that r advise you to develop a big paunch, on the contrary.
However, even in physical activities, more than the mere physical strength, the
vital strength is necessary. Yes, the Japanese have a vital, strong,
controlled, ordered, sensitive. You may remember one or two Prayers of the
Mother in her <i>Prières et Méditations. </i>She speaks of the cherry-blossom
which is the emblem of the Japanese artistic sense, the feeling for beauty, a
purified sense-perception: not a rough and crude and violent (lower) vital, but
a fine, a pleasant intimate feeling and orderly happiness, that<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 5</span></p>


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<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; mso-pagination:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">is what the cherry-blossom means. Mother described also a vision of hers,
a beautiful picture it was, a Japanese mother and her child: it was an image of
the new child that was born in humanity. A new world is thus ushered in in the
land of the cherry-blossom, the hew vital world, for all the world.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">The Mother is creative consciousness; wherever she
happens to be, wherever she is called upon to be, her very presence moves for
creation, creating a new world and a new dimension of being and consciousness,
according to the need of time and place. And it is a whole world she creates
and her creation endures, for it is an added achievement in the evolution of
the. human being.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">To this end, a neat strong orderly vital world of
which we were speaking, itself requires a competent body to support it and
manifest it. The golden light must come into the feet. And that was the work
she was doing here and it is for that that she created the Ashram. You all know
the special emphasis she laid on physical education in order to prepare the
body and senses to receive the golden light. She always said, physical
education gives you the basis for the new consciousness, the new light, we must
have a strong body, a beautiful body, a body that endures: for the new light is
powerful, it is not merely light, it is force, one must be able to bear it and
carry out its commands.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style='text-indent:9.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Indeed, she came here in
order to give a shape, a concrete and physical form, an earthly body to this
Divine Light. Now the body beautiful is not by itself an end and fulfilment; in
order to secure it you must secure a beautiful vital. Not only so, for a
fulfilment in the body and in the vital one must possess a mind beautiful. The
physical education that the Mother has arranged for us here is to prepare us
for the body beautiful. And the school that she has organised is for the
cultivation of the mind. The cultivation of the mind, however, means not only
storing it with information on various kinds of subjects, the study of books:
it means a purification and clearance of the mind, the mental stuff itself,
an<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 6<o:p></o:p></span></p>


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<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; mso-pagination:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">elevation of consciousness to seek and recognise the new light. I have
said that you are to receive the new light through the head at first, but
through the heart also, and dynamically through your vital energy. You must not
only see and recognise it, but love it and be devoted to it. And here comes the
Mother's central work, her special gift, her grace to us. When you love a
thing, you love, as it is said, through the heart, but there is love and love
and there is a heart within the heart. True love, the love that is Divine, is
within this inner heart which is your soul, the real being or person in you,
and the soul coming out, coming to the front as we say, is the Mother's special
Grace here, her gift to all of you, to each one of you here. She has given you
your soul. I have often said that it is a special privilege here for each one
of us, for each one of you, to carry this being, this inner being, this
intimate person, the Divine Child who is you. It<b> </b>is this that is
building your divine personality, it is this that will give you in the end a
mind beautiful, a vital beautiful, a body beautiful – all that you need, all
that is perfect and flawless in your life here in this world. You may remember,
many of you, the famous line of <i>Savitri </i>that you must have heard from
Mother's own lips:</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; mso-pagination:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">&quot;Built is the golden tower, the flame-child born.&quot;</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; mso-pagination:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">She has built this tower of new life and the child is there: the Golden
Child. This golden child is in every one of you. You must find it, recognise
it, that is the goal of your life, the mission and fulfilment of all what you
want to do and be on earth. Some of you surely must have felt in you the presence
of this child. Some may have seen it even as the Divine Child in you. These
things - visitations as they are called - usually come in dreams. At least I
know of some who have seen them, who came and told me of their miraculous
experience. It is a possibility for everyone and if you happen to see it you
must recognise it, hold it, grasp </p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; mso-pagination:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">it with all love and affection. The Mother is still living and active
among us and her Presence is still there, even concretely, for each one of you
has the Divine Child in you. </p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">I end with a prayer, a
prayer that I made to the Mother sometime ago, it is on behalf of the small
children of our playground:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; mso-pagination:
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<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&quot;Sweet Mother, your
playground-children are angels. They have not become divine or godly, but they
are angels, earthly angels. Keep them constantly under your eye, cradle them in
your loving consciousness.&quot; </p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; text-indent:9pt; mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">That was the prayer I made on your behalf to the
Mother, and I am sure Mother has responded “Yes”. </p>


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