BIRTHDAY MESSAGES¹

      My dear child, my love and blessings are and will be with you throughout the year. Let them help you to make one more progress on the way towards the divine goal.

      Let this year be a year of progress and transformation − one more step on the way leading to the Divine Realisation.

 2 February 1930  

      Let this year be for you the year of a complete opening and of the breaking of all limitations.

 2 February 1943  

      Let this year bring you the true faith − a faith that no darkness can obscure.

 2 February 1944  

      Let this day of your birth be for you an occasion to give yourself a little more, a little better to the Divine. Let your consecration be more total, your devotion more ardent, your aspiration more intense.

      Open yourself to the New Light and walk with a joyful step on the path.

¹ Note: These are a few examples of the numerous short messages which the Mother wrote to people on their birthdays. She called this occasion “Bonne Fête”.   

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      Resolve on this day that it may be thus and the day will not have passed in vain.

      A grain of practice is worth a mountain of theories.

      “Lord, on this anniversary day of my birth, grant that the power to know changes in me into a power to transform myself integrally.”

      A bonne fête!

      A new birth also, the birth into a new consciousness in which you will be above all little personal reactions because you will constantly feel in your heart the presence of the Divine; may it give you the force to surmount all obstacles, all pettiness and all difficulties.

      With my love and my blessings.

 8 January 1963

      On this day, we take the decision to make a decisive step towards the victory of truth.

      Each year that passes should be − and necessarily is − a new conquest.

      Let a decisive step be taken this year towards His Victory.

 13 January 1963 

      With this new year that starts for you, you must start a new life, with a renewed resolution to drive away from your consciousness and action all that deforms, diminishes, obscures and finally stops your progress and impairs your health.

      In your effort for inner growth and purification, you can  

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be sure of being sustained and helped by my force and my blessings.

 27 January 1963  

      Bonne Fête!

      May this new year be for you a year of progress in the perfection of work and of consecration, in sincerity, energy and peace.

      With my blessings.

 16 January 1964 

    Bonne Fête!

      With my blessings for a year of perfect consecration and integral progress in love and peace.

16 January 1965 

     Bonne Fête

      In silent endurance, one step forward towards the victory, with the help of eternal love.

 13 January 1966  

     Bonne Fête

      To mark one more step on the luminous road leading to the Divine Realisation in Peace, Love and Joy.

 13 January 1967 

      Bonne Fête

      With my love for a life of collaboration and my blessings for the prolonged continuation of this happy collaboration in peace and love.

 13 January 1971

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      Bonne Fête

      With my love, my trust and my blessings for transformation. Forward to the Realisation.

 13 January 1973

MESSAGES FOR CENTRES AND ORGANISATIONS

(Suggested programme for a study group)

      1. Prayer

      (Sri Aurobindo, Mother − grant us your help in our endeavour to understand your teaching.)

      2.  Reading of Sri Aurobindo’s book.

      3. A moment of silence.

      4. One question can be put by whoever wants to put a question on what has been read.

      5. Answer to the question.

      6. No general discussion.

      This is it not the meeting of a group but simply a class for studying Sri Aurobindo’s books.

31 October 1942 

       I have read X’s letters and would like you to tell him that:

      1) I think it would be better to begin the circle without a too expensive basis to start with, so that the question of money will not be at the forefront and troublesome. Later on when the circle will have proved a success it can move to more expensive quarters. 

      2) The yearly subscription for the members can be fixed at Rs.10, but I propose that all those who wish to come to read and study Sri Aurobindo’s books can do so without being members  

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of the circle and on a small subscription of Rs. 2 for instance.

      3) It is better not to lend books and let them go out of the circle premises.

      4) I wish that apart from the yearly subscription, no money should be asked from those who send money here regularly because it would be so much taken from their contribution here.

      5) He must not form a committee except with people with whom he can fully agree and also who are accepted by Sri Aurobindo and myself here.

      6) He must not do anything without our written consent and to save time it is better if he writes directly to me in English, stating in a short and precise way the steps he intends to take.

      Finally you can send him my blessings and my recommendation to avoid all quarrels, bad feelings and misunderstandings.

      A word to finish:

      It is only egoism that is shocked to find egoism in others.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5 October 1943  (Message for the inauguration of the Sri Aurobindo Philosophical Circle, Hong Kong)

Let the eternal Light dawn on the eastern horizon.

26 June 1954

(Message for the inauguration of the Delhi Branch of Sri Aurobindo Ashram)

Let this place be worthy of its name and manifest the true spirit of Sri Aurobindo’s teaching and message to the world.

      With my blessings.

12 February 1956 

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      In Delhi at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram branch they need very badly somebody qualified who could give lectures on Sri Aurobindo’s teaching and organise the higher studies in the Ashram School.

      I am quite convinced that you are the best man to do that work. You have a very clear and deep understanding of Sri Aurobindo’s writings and at the same time your explanations are very attractive and comprehensible.

      Kindly let me know if you agree to this proposal, so that the necessary arrangements can be made.

      I feel quite sure that you have fully benefited by this time of rest you had with your family and that you are quite fit now.

      Blessings to all and for you with my love.

13 June 1958

      To all those who work and learn in the Delhi Branch of the Ashram, I send my blessings.

      Let each one do his very best and, peacefully, leave to the Supreme the care of the results.

21 August 1960

             (Message for the inauguration of Sri Aurobindo Nilaya, Santiniketan)

To open a centre is not sufficient in itself. It must be the pure hearth of a perfect sincerity in a total consecration to the Divine.

      Let the flame of this sincerity rise high above the falsities and deceptions of the world.

      With blessings.

21 December 1962 

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Sri Aurobindo’s Action

and

Sri Aurobindo Society

are equally working for the manifestation of the truth in the immediate future; and to help both equally is to work for this realisation.

      And my blessings are with all help and good will.

2 May 1971 

MESSAGES FOR DEPARTMENTS AND BUSINESSES

             (Message for Sri Aurobindo Ashram Atelier)

Obligeance, rectitude, régularité.

      Obliging, correct, regular.

      Blessings.

            (Message for Harpagon Workshop)

Let peace and good will always prevail here.

      With my blessings.

17 September 1952

           (Message for New Horizon Sugar Mills)

A happy beginning

      A good continuation

      and no end

      an endless progression.

14 May 1957 

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          (Message inscribed on the foundation-stone of New Horizon Sugar Mills)

Faithfulness is the sure basis of success.

12 April 1959 

MISCELLANEOUS MESSAGES

            (Message for the installation of Sri Aurobindo’s relics at Jeypore, Orissa, on 8 December 1970)

In each and every one, the highest consciousness must be the ruler of the life.

      Blessings.

          (Message for the inauguration of a youth camp organised by Sri Aurobindo’s Action)

Our life ought to be governed by the Love for Truth and the thirst for Light.

      Blessings.

26 September 1971

          (Message for the inauguration of a house)

Let this new house be filled with an ardent aspiration for the Divine Realisation and, in answer to the call, the Divine Presence will be there.

7 October 1951 

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