At the Feet of The Mother

The Mother’s Vision

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17.2 Yoga and Life

Sep 22, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

One must never make rules. Every minute one must endeavour to apply the highest truth one can perceive. It is much more difficult, but it’s the only solution. Whatever you may do, don’t make rules beforehand ...

17.1 Why Yoga?

Sep 19, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

When can one say that one has truly entered the spiritual path?

The first sign (it is not the same for everybody) but in a chronological order, I believe, is that everything else appears to you absolutely without importance.

16.5 A Child’s Dreams

Sep 4, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

One dreams of miracles when one is young, one wants all wickedness to disappear, everything to be always luminous, beautiful, happy, one likes stories which end happily. This is what one should rely on.

16.4 Learning to Know Oneself

Aug 29, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

Essentially there is but one single true reason for living: it is to know oneself. We are here to learn — to learn what we are, why we are here, and what we have to do. And if we don’t know that, our life is altogether empty — for ourselves and for others.

16.3 Distinguishing Good and Evil

Aug 21, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

It is not a question, of course, of giving a child philosophical explanations, but he could very well be given the feeling of this kind of inner comfort, of satisfaction, and sometimes, of an intense joy when he obeys this little very silent thing within him which will prevent him from doing what is contrary to it.

16.2 The Art of Living

Aug 9, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

To live in the right way is a very difficult art, and unless one begins to learn it when quite young and to make an effort, one never knows it very well.

16.1 Parents and Their Children

Jul 31, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

... when the child behaves nastily, they scold it. But they should begin by scolding themselves, telling themselves: “In what a horrible state of consciousness must I have been when I brought that child into the world.” For it is truly that.

15.3 Music

Jul 25, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

There certainly is a sound in all the manifested worlds, and when one has the appropriate organs one hears it. There are sounds which belong to the highest regions, and in fact, the sound we have here gives the feeling of a noise in comparison with that sound.

15.2 Modern Art

Jul 18, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

Why is modern art so ugly?

I believe the chief reason is that people have become more and more lazy and do not want to work.