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\n\t\t\tPublisher’s Note
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\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\tThis volume contains the Mother’s talks from
\n\t\t\tDecember 1950 to May
\n\t\t\t1951. It is worth noting how they
\n\t\t\toriginated. The Ashram school was
\n\t\t\tfounded in 1943 and by 1950 the first students had
\n\t\t\tlearned French
\n\t\t\tfairly well, By this time many more children had
\n\t\t\tcome and there
\n\t\t\twere not enough teachers of French. So, when the
\n\t\t\tschool year commenced
\n\t\t\tin December 1950, the Mother decided to take the
\n\t\t\thighest
\n\t\t\tclass in French three times a week. This was the
\n\t\t\tbeginning of these
\n\t\t\tgatherings, which came to be called "Mother’s
\n\t\t\tclasses".
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\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\tThe Mother usually began by reading a passage from
\n\t\t\ther own
\n\t\t\twritings or from the French translations of Sri
\n\t\t\tAurobindo’s works;
\n\t\t\tthen she invited questions from the students and
\n\t\t\tsome of their teachers
\n\t\t\twho also attended. Gradually, many other sadhaks of
\n\t\t\tthe Ashram
\n\t\t\tjoined the classes and asked questions. Therefore,
\n\t\t\tthe questions here
\n\t\t\tare of various kinds and from many different levels
\n\t\t\tof understanding.
\n\t\t\tFor the first three weeks the Mother read from her
\n\t\t\tessays on
\n\t\t\teducation and self-development which were published
\n\t\t\tabout that time
\n\t\t\tin the earliest issues of the quarterly Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo
\n\t\t\tInternational
\n\t\t\tCentre of Education. <\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\tFor the next ten weeks she
\n\t\t\t"took up her
\n\t\t\tearly conversations, Questions and Answers <\/i>
\n\t\t\t1929. For the last three
\n\t\t\tweeks she read from some letters and short essays of
\n\t\t\tSri Aurobindo
\n\t\t\tand from his book The Mother. <\/i>The
\n\t\t\tcomments of the Mother upon
\n\t\t\tthese texts form the basis of her talks.
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\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\tThe earliest talks were noted by hand, but most were
\n\t\t\trecorded on
\n\t\t\ta dictating machine. They were published for the
\n\t\t\tfirst time in an
\n\t\t\tincomplete form in French and English in the Bulletin: <\/i>extracts from
\n\t\t\tten talks appeared in various issues between 1957
\n\t\t\tand 1959; the rest
\n\t\t\t(four complete talks excepted) were serialised in
\n\t\t\tchronological order
\n\t\t\tfrom November 1963 to February 1967. The first
\n\t\t\tcomplete edition
\n\t\t\tof the French text, Entretiens 1950-51, <\/i>was
\n\t\t\tpublished in book-form in
\n\t\t\t1967. A complete translation, entitled Questions and Answers
\n\t\t\t1950-51, <\/i>was brought out in 1972.
\n\t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\tThe present volume, number four of the Collected
\n\t\t\tWorks of the
\n\t\t\tMother (Centenary Edition), is a reprint of the 1972
\n\t\t\tedition incorporating
\n\t\t\ta few minor revisions. The quoted passages from the
\n\t\t\ttexts
\n\t\t\tof Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are from the
\n\t\t\tCentenary Editions of  their works.
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