The Mother
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The principle of physical culture
By The Mother - Jul 15, 2014
“The more you give, the more you receive,” it is said. Does this apply to physical energy? Should one undertake physical work which seems beyond one’s capacity? And what should be one’s attitude while doing this kind of work?
The idea of perfect life
By The Mother - Jul 15, 2013
“Death is the question Nature puts continually to Life and her reminder to it that it has not yet found itself. If there were no siege of death, the creature would be bound forever in the form of an imperfect living. Pursued by death he awakes to the idea of perfect life and seeks out its means and its possibility.”
Effacing the memory of the body
By The Mother - Jul 15, 2013
Mother, there are people who suffer from certain illnesses year after year, we know. Now, if we observe this illness, we see that it comes at a particular time of the year and this goes on the next year also, and it is like that. But the time is fixed. Then what is the reason, and how can one get rid of this?
Physical laws
By The Mother - Jul 15, 2012
From the minute it (the body) is conscious, it is conscious of its own falsehood! It is conscious of this law, of that law, of this third law, that fourth law, this tenth law — everything is a ‘law’. We are subject to physical laws: this will produce such and such a result; if you do that, this will happen, etc.’ Oh! It reeks! I know it well. I know it very well. These laws reek of falsehood. In the body, we have no faith in the divine Grace, none, none, none, none! Those who have not undergone a tapasya (Yogic discipline or askesis) as I have say, ‘Yes all these inner moral things, feelings, psychology, all that is very good; we want the Divine and we are ready to … But all the same, material facts are material facts, they have their concrete reality, after all; an illness is an illness, food is food, and everything you do has a consequence, and when you are…’ — bah, bah, bah, bah, bah!
The freedom of the body
By The Mother - Jul 15, 2011
There are all kinds of freedom — mental freedom, vital freedom, spiritual freedom — which are the fruits of successive masteries. But a completely new freedom has become possible with the Supramental Manifestation: it is the freedom of the body.