The Mother Handbook

            "ALAS,  sublime  Mother,  how  great  must  be  Thy  patience! Each time Thy conscious will attempts to manifest itself in order to rectify errors, to hasten the uncertain progress of the individual led astray by his own illusion of knowledge, to trace the sure path and give him the strength to walk steadily upon it without stumbling, almost always he pushes Thee away as a tiresome and short-sighted adviser. He is willing to love Thee in theory with a vague and inconsistent love, but his proud mind refuses to confide in Thee and prefers to wander all by itself rather than advance guided by Thee."

The Mother

TMCW-1/Prayers and Meditations/17.11.1914/p-276

           "There has never been here any real surrender, any giving up of yourself freely and simply into the hands of the Divine Mother. And yet that is the only way to succeed in the supramental Yoga. To be a Yogi, a Sannyasi, a Tapaswi is not the object here. The object is transformation, and the transformation can only be done by a force infinitely greater than your own; it can only be done by being truly like a child in the hands of the Divine Mother.”

Sri Aurobindo

  CWSA-32/The Mother with Letters on The Mother/p-143

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            The Mother book gives the message of the second Divine Call of Jivatma's union with Paraprakriti and attainment of Cosmic Consciousness. It aims at the possession of the tantric objective of dynamic Divine Shakti with the help of the Vedantic method. The Vedantic self-disciplines of Karma, Jnana and Bhakti Yoga have been restated in new terms and combinations of fivefold methods that of aspiration, rejection, surrender, faith and sincerity. Where first three are utilised to enter union with the static Divine and last three are meant to experience dynamic Divine union. And consecration is divided into two types, that of Purusha Yajna and Prakriti Yajna. Faith is also divided into two parts that of ascending faith and descending faith or the faith that helps in the ascent of the Soul and the faith that prolongs the descent of Shakti.

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            The first chapter of The Mother book gives importance to discernment of truth from falsehood and acceptance of the former by the rejection of the latter is the starting point of all Yoga. The second chapter gives importance to the psycho-spiritual Vedantic method to enter partial static and dynamic union with the Divine. The third chapter insists on the integration of this Divine union through faith, sincerity and surrender. The fourth chapter stresses the acceptance and utilisation of the Money power for the Divine Work. The fifth chapter hints at the essence of Karma Yoga and the attainment of dynamic oneness with the Divine Mother. The sixth chapter develops contact with the four mediatrix Spiritual Mother Powers, which are identified as an extension of the Yoga of Self-perfection hinted in The Synthesis of Yoga. This is also the supreme mystery, the Gita has hinted as four powers of Manu, ‘chatvaro manabastatha’ (The Gita-10.6) but never developed. These four Mediatrix Spiritual Mother Powers also complement the four Psychic Mother Powers, hinted in the Gita as chaturvarna. (The Gita-4.13) In each birth, we accumulate the Soul forces of Brahma Shakti, Kshetra Shakti, Vaisya Shakti and Shudra Shakti and in this birth, we can reconcile them for Supreme consummation. The reconciliation of the four Spiritual Mother Powers of Maheswari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati paves the passage clear for Yoga of Self-perfection and extension of Supramental/Bliss action. 

 

            The method of self-discipline proposed by The Mother book is simple, where purified intellect is utilised for ceaseless renunciation of lower Nature and ceaseless practice of consecration to experience Divine union in waking trance but its objective is difficult to realise and possess the Divine Mother. There are still many missing links and gulfs that will connect the static and dynamic Brahman and the movement of Consciousness between the Psychic being and the Spiritual Being. It proposes to initiate the transformation of Nature with the aid of Purusha Yajna and intensify this action by a more powerful Prakriti Yajna. Faith, sraddha, is identified as the central Truth of The Mother book, which reinforces the contact between static and dynamic Divine.  

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OM TAT SAT