BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTE

THE MOTHER,  Volume 25 of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, consists of three parts.

Part I,  The Mother.   THE MOTHER was first published in 1928.  The main part of this book describing the four Shaktis etc. and the opening portion were written in 1927.  The rest was originally written as letters.  Since its first publication the book has gone into thirteen editions up to 1971.

Part II,  Letters on the Mother.  LETTERS OF SRI AUROBINDO ON THE MOTHER was first published in 1951.  The letters included in this book were arranged under ten sections.  These letters with additional material rearranged under eleven sections formed Part III of  SRI AUROBINDO ON HIMSELF AND ON THE MOTHER  published in 1953.  In the present volume of the Centenary Edition this part has been further expanded by the inclusion of a large number of additional letters and the material has been rearranged under twelve sections.

Part III,  Prayers arid Meditations.  This collection is not complete.  It contains only the portions which Sri Aurobindo translated from the Mother's PRIÈRES ET MÉDITATIONS  written in French.  These translations were first brought out in book-form in 1941 and reprinted in 1948, 1954, 1962, 1969 and 1971.