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Offering to the Mother

Sometimes I find myself in situations where I have done nothing wrong, yet someone falsely blames or slanders me, and even those in authority seem to believe it. Personally, I do not feel the urge to defend or prove myself by explaining, because it seems to me that the person has already decided their position. ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐ŸŒธ[…]

Silence is always better when people try to insult you. Speaking up, retaliating over personal insults drags us down to the level of the person

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I read the following advice from the Mother to an artist learning to paint:ย Would you like me to draw birds or animals sometimes? If you likeโ€”but drawings from nature are best for learning. I have done this picture without anybody’s help. How is it? Will I be able to learn? โœ๏ธ๐ŸŽจโœจ […]

Poetry requires an inner hearing, the faculty of inspiration so to say, just as painting requires an inner vision, a faculty that reveals what is

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After I wrote to you, since then Mother has taken away the sting and bitterness and recoil I was feeling every time I thought about the incident. I will try to do what you say, but I feel ill-equipped to teach her these values of resilience and detachment when I struggle so much with them. It’s like the blind leading the blind. ๐ŸŒผ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป […]

This is just the right way, to recognise what needs to change and then offer them to Her with the aspiration for the needed change,

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Please refer to Prayers and Meditations prayer on August 13, 1914, where the Mother writes, โ€œโ€ฆaccept the offering of my being despite its little worth and its limitations: Come.โ€ My question is: if Mother is the Divine Mother, then why is She calling herself โ€œbeing of little worth and limitationsโ€? ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“–

Here is a letter of Sri Aurobindo himself explaining this in response to a similar question.

‘In some of the Mother’s prayers which are

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I am reading Letters on Yoga for 2 hours at night; initially, I was able to build a certain amount of concentration…. But for the last two days, I can’t.ย Many thoughts come and distract, most of the time, X’s memories, our intimate moments and many other thoughts come and drive me away. ๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿ˜ฃ๐Ÿฆ‹๐ŸŒป[…]

These are obviously attacks by forces that want to obstruct the gyana yagya that you have begun. Don’t pay much attention to these distractions and

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