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\n

Undated 1957<\/h3>\n

What is meant exactly by, ‘I am with you.’ Are we really always<\/i><\/p>\n

 heard
\nwhen we pray <\/i>of struggle with an inner problem – in<\/i><\/p>\n

 spite of our blunders and imperfections, even in spite of our ill<\/i><\/p>\n

 will and mistakes? And who hears? You who are with us?<\/i> <\/p>\n

Is it you in your supreme consciousness, an impersonal divine<\/i><\/p>\n

 force, the force of the yoga, or you, the embodied Mother with <\/i> <\/p>\n

your physical consciousness – a personal presence really in<\/i><\/p>\n

timate to our every thought and act, and not some anonymous<\/i><\/p>\n

 force? Can you tell us how and in what way you are present <\/i> <\/p>\n

with us?<\/i> <\/p>\n

It is said that Sri Aurobindo and you are one and the same <\/i> <\/p>\n

consciousness,
\nbut are the personal presence of Sri Aurobindo <\/i> <\/p>\n

and your own personal presence two distinct things, each play<\/i><\/p>\n

ing a particular role?<\/i> <\/p>\n

I am with you because I AM you or you are me. <\/p>\n

‘I am with you’ means a world of things, for I am with you at every level,
\non every plane, from the supreme consciousness to my most physical
\nconsciousness. Here, in Pondicherry, you cannot breathe without breathing my
\nconsciousness. It permeates the atmosphere in the subtle physical almost
\nmaterially and extends right to the lake, seven miles away from here. Beyond,
\nmy consciousness can be felt in the material vital, and then on the mental and
\nthe other higher planes everywhere. When I came here for the first time, I felt
\nSri Aurobindo’s atmosphere, felt it materially, ten miles from the shore – ten
\nnautical miles, not kilometers<\/span>! It was very sudden,
\nvery concrete, a pure and luminous atmosphere, light, so light that it lifts
\nyou up. <\/p>\n

A long time ago, Sri Aurobindo had this reminder, with which you are all
\nquite familiar, put up everywhere in the Ashram: ‘Always behave as if the
\nMother was looking at you; because she is, indeed, always present.’ <\/p>\n

This is not some mere sentence, these are not just words, it is a fact. I am
\nvery concretely with you, and those with a subtle vision can see me. <\/p>\n

Generally speaking, my Force is constantly here at work, constantly changing
\nthe psychological elements of your being to put them into new relationships and
\nto make clear to you the diverse<\/p>\n

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 facets of your nature so that you may see what must be changed,
\ndeveloped or eliminated. <\/p>\n

But besides all this, there is a special personal bond of affection between
\nyou and me, between all who have turned towards Sri Aurobindo’s teaching and me
\n– and of course, distance does not count; you may be in France, at the other
\nend of the world, or in Pondicherry, but this bond remains just as real and as
\nliving. Each time there is a call, each time I need to know something to send
\nout a force, an inspiration, a protection or whatever else, a sort of message
\nsuddenly comes to me, and I do what is needed. Obviously, these communications
\ncome to me at any moment whatsoever, and you may have seen me more than once
\nsuddenly stop in the middle of a sentence or some work: it means something,
\nsome communication is coming, so I concentrate. <\/p>\n

There is more than a bond with those whom I have accepted as disciples,
\nthose to whom I have said ‘yes’ – there is an emanation of myself. Whenever
\nnecessary, this emanation notifies me as to what is happening. In fact, I know
\nconstantly, but all these things are not registered in my active memory,
\notherwise I would be flooded – the physical consciousness acts as a filter:
\nthings are recorded on a subtle plane and remain there in the latent state,
\nrather like music that is silently recorded, and when I need to know something
\nwith my physical consciousness, I plug into this subtle plane and the tape
\nstarts playing. Then I can see things, their evolution and the present result. <\/p>\n

And if, for some reason or other, you write asking for my help, and I
\nanswer, ‘I am with you,’ this means that the communication with you becomes
\nactive, that you are even in my active consciousness for some time – the time
\nneeded. <\/p>\n

And this bond between you and me is never cut. There are people who left the
\nAshram a long time ago, in a state of revolt, and yet I continue to know them
\nand to take care of them. You are never abandoned. <\/p>\n

In truth, I feel responsible for everyone, even for people I have met for
\nonly one second in my life. <\/p>\n

Now, you know that Sri Aurobindo and I are always one and the same
\nconsciousness, one and the same person. Only, when this unique force or presence
\nis felt in your individual consciousness, it assumes different forms or
\nappearances depending upon your temperament, your aspirations, your needs, the
\nparticular cast of your nature. Your individual consciousness is<\/p>\n

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 like a filter, a pointer, as it were; it makes a choice and settles
\nupon one possibility in the infinity of divine possibilities. In truth, the
\nDivine gives to each one exactly what he expects from Him. If you believe the
\nDivine to be distant and cruel, He will be distant and cruel, because it may be
\nnecessary for your supreme wellbeing to feel the wrath of God. He will be Kali’
\nfor the worshippers of Kali, and bliss for the bhakta.\u00b2 He will be the
\nAll-Knowledge of seekers after Knowledge, the Transcendent Impersonal of the
\nillusionist. He will be an atheist for the atheist, and the love of the lover.
\nHe will be fraternal and near, an ever faithful friend, ever helpful, to those
\nwho feel him as the inner guide of each movement, at each minute. And if you
\nbelieve that He can erase everything, He will erase all your faults, all your
\nerrors, tirelessly, and at each moment you will feel his infinite Grace. In
\ntruth, the Divine is what you expect of Him in your deep aspiration. <\/p>\n

And once you enter into this consciousness where all things are seen with a
\nsingle look, the infinite multitude of the Divine’s relationships with men, you
\nrealize how wonderful everything is, in every detail. You can also look at the
\nhistory of mankind and see how much the Divine has evolved depending upon what
\nmen have understood, desired, hoped for or dreamed; how he was materialistic
\nwith the materialist, and how each day he grows, draws nearer, becomes more
\nluminous, as the human consciousness widens. Everyone is free to choose. The
\nperfection of this endless variety of relationships between man and God
\nthroughout the history of the world is an unutterable wonder. Yet all this
\ntogether is but a second in the total manifestation of the Divine. <\/p>\n

The Divine is with you according to your aspirations. This does not mean,
\nnaturally, that He bends to the whims of your outer nature – I am speaking here
\nof the truth of your being. Yet sometimes He does fashion himself according to
\nyour outer aspirations; and if, like the devout, you live alternately in
\nestrangement and embrace, ecstasy and despair, the Divine too will be estranged
\nfrom you or draw near, according to your belief. Therefore, one’s attitude is
\nextremely important, even one’s outer attitude. People do not know just how
\nimportant faith is, how faith is miracle – the creator of miracles. For if at
\neach moment, you expect to be uplifted and drawn towards the Divine, He will <\/p>\n

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come and uplift you, and He will be there, very near, nearer and nearer. <\/p>\n

1. Kali: <\/i>the warrior (or destroyer) aspect of the Divine. <\/p>\n

2. Bhakta<\/span>: <\/i>one who follows the path of
\nlove. <\/p>\n

Undated 1957 <\/p>\n

THE MOTHER’S SUTRAS’ <\/p>\n

1) Be ambitious for nothing, above all pretend nothing, but be at each
\ninstant the utmost of what you can be.\u00b2 <\/p>\n

2) As for your place in the universal manifestation, only the Supreme can
\nassign it to you. <\/p>\n

3) It is the Supreme Lord who has ineluctably decreed the place you occupy
\nin the universal concert, but whatever be this place, you have equally the same
\nright as all others to ascend the supreme summits right to the supramental
\nrealization. <\/p>\n

4) What you are in the truth of your being is decreed in an irrevocable way,
\nand nothing nor anyone can stop you from being it; but the path you take to get
\nthere is left to your own free choice. <\/p>\n

5) On the road of the ascending evolution, every one is free to choose the
\ndirection he will take: the swift and steep climb towards the summits of Truth,
\nto the supreme realization, or turning his back to the peaks, the easy descent
\nto the interminable meanderings of endless incarnations. <\/p>\n

6) In the course of time and even in the course of your present life, you
\ncan make your choice once and for all, irrevocably, and then you have only to confirm
\n<\/i>it with every new occasion; or else if you do not take a definite decision
\nfrom the beginning, you will have to choose anew at each moment between the
\nfalsehood and the Truth. <\/p>\n

1. Sutra: <\/i>aphorism, in Sanskrit. <\/p>\n

2. <\/i>This first Sutra was ultimately destined to become the epigraph to
\nSatprem’s<\/span> first novel, L’Orpailleur<\/i><\/span>.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

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7) But even in the event you have not made the irrevocable decision at the
\noutset, should you have the good fortune to live during one of these
\nunimaginable hours of universal history when the Grace is present, embodied
\nupon earth, It will offer you, at certain exceptional moments, the renewed
\npossibility of making a final choice that will lead you straight to the goal.<\/p>\n

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<\/font><\/p>\n

ISBN 2-902776-33-0<\/p>\n

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