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\nAPPENDIX<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Four Letters By Sri Aurobindo<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

I have said that the Divine does the
\nSadhana first for the world and then gives what is brought down to others.
\nThere can be no Sadhana without realisations and experiences. The Prayers are a
\nrecord of Mother\u2019s experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

4 January 1939<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

In some of the Mother\u2019s Prayers which are addressed to \u201cdivin
\nMa\u00eetre\u201d I find the words: \u201cavec notre divine M\u00e8re\u201d. How can the Mother and
\n\u201cdivin Ma\u00eetre\u201d have a \u201cdivine M\u00e8re\u201d? It is as if the Mother was not the \u201cdivine
\nM\u00e8re\u201d and there was some other Mother and the \u201cdivin Ma\u00eetre\u201d was not the
\nTranscendent and had also a \u201cdivine M\u00e8re\u201d! Or is it that all these are
\naddressed to something impersonal?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The Prayers are mostly written in an
\nidentification with the earth-consciousness. It is Mother in the lower nature addressing
\nthe Mother in the higher nature, the Mother herself carrying on the Sadhana of
\nthe earth-consciousness for the transformation, praying to herself above from
\nwhom the forces of transformation come. This continues till the identification
\nof the earth-consciousness and the higher consciousness is effected. The word
\n\u201cnotre\u201d is general, I believe, referring to all born into the
\nearth-consciousness \u2013 it does not mean the Mother of the \u201cDivin Ma\u00eetre\u201d and
\nmyself. It is the Divine who is always referred to as Divin Ma\u00eetre and
\nSeigneur. There is the Mother who is carrying on the Sadhana and the Divine
\nMother, both being one but in different poises, and both turn to the Seigneur
\nor Divine Master. This kind of prayer from the Divine to the Divine you will find
\nalso in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.<\/span><\/p>\n

21 August 1936<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>
\n379<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

There are some Prayers of the Mother of 1914 in which she speaks
\nof transformation and manifestation. Since at that time she was not here, does
\nthis not mean that she had these ideas long before she came here?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The Mother had been spiritually conscious
\nfrom her youth, even from her childhood upward and she had done Sadhana and had
\ndeveloped this knowledge very long before she came to <\/span>India<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n23   
\n<\/span><\/span>December 1933<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

There are many who hold the view that she was human but now
\nembodies the Divine Mother and her \u201cPrayers\u201d, they say, explain this view. But,
\nto my mental conception, to my psychic being, she is the Divine Mother who has
\nconsented to put on her the cloak of obscurity and suffering and ignorance so
\nthat she can effectively lead us \u2013 human beings \u2013 to Knowledge and Bliss and
\nAnanda and to the Supreme Lord.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The Divine puts on an appearance of
\nhumanity, assumes the outward human nature in order to tread the path and show
\nit to human beings, but does not cease to be the Divine. It is a manifestation
\nthat takes place, a manifestation of a growing divine consciousness, not human
\nturning into divine. The Mother was inwardly above the human even in childhood,
\nso the view held by \u201cmany\u201d is erroneous.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

I also conceive that the Mother\u2019s \u201cPrayers\u201d are meant to show us \u2013
\nthe aspiring psychic \u2013 how to pray to the Divine.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nYes.<\/span><\/p>\n

17 August
\n 1938<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage –<\/font><\/span>380<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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