Message of the Day: Meditation - தியானம் என்பது எவ்வாறு இருக்க வேண்டும்?

When you sit in meditation you must be as candid and simple as a child, not interfering by your external mind, expecting nothing, insisting on nothing. Once this condition is there, all the rest depends upon the aspiration deep within you. And if you call upon Divinity, then too you will have the answer. Each meditation ought to be a new revelation, for in each meditation something new happens. (ஒவ்வொரு தியானமும் ஒரு புதிய வெளிப்பாடாக இருக்கும், ஒவ்வொரு தியானத்திலும் ஏதேனும் ஒன்று நிகழ்கிறது.) Even if you are not apparently successful in your meditation, it is better to persist and to be more obstinate than the opposition of your lower nature.

                       
-The Mother, Words of the Mother

Message of the Day - How to ged rid of anger? - கோபத்தினை எவ்வாறு தவிர்ப்பது?

Whatever may be the difficulties and whatever may be the circumstances— Mother fully knows even to the minutest detail the circumstances, when we lose our temper and get irritated in our work, and knowing that fully well she says—whatever may be the circumstances, rudeness or curt behaviour is never permissible. (நமது சூழ்நிலையின் மிகச் சிறிய விஷயங்களைக் கூட அன்னை அறிவார். எந்தச் சூழலிலும் அல்லது பிரச்சனையிலும், நாம்  நமது கட்டுப்பாட்டை இழந்து, முரட்டுத்தனமாக (கனிவில்லாமல்) நடந்து கொள்வதற்கு அன்னையிடம் அனுமதியில்லை.)  There are difficulties in our way, but Mother says that as a rule our difficulties and our troubles are always such that we do have the capacity of  overcoming them. If we can remain at our best we shall always be able to tackle the situation without losing control. Remember, each time we lose control of ourselves, each time we get angry or we have to use the outer means of keeping discipline, it means that at that moment we have fallen low and we could not rise up to the situation. In everything, in every way, it boils down to one rule—always endeavour to make progress, try to be your true self. Even if you have not been able to do it today you must be able to do it tomorrow. But the full effect must be there. Before getting angry at the mistakes of others one should always remember one’s own mistakes. You must get rid of all inner as well as all outer movements of anger, impatience and dislike. If things go wrong or are done wrongly, you will simply say, “The Mother knows” and go on quietly doing or getting things done as well as you can without friction.  (கோபம், பொறுமையின்மை மற்றும் வெறுப்பினால் நம்மில் எழும் மனம் மற்றும் புறம் சார்ந்த அனைத்து நிகழ்வுகளில் இருந்தும் நாம் விடுபட வேண்டும். நாம் தவறு செய்தாலோ அல்லது வெளியே தவறு நிகழ்ந்தாலோ, " அன்னைக்குத் தெரியும்" என்று கூறுங்கள். அமைதியாக, எந்த தடையும் இல்லாமல் செயல்களைத் தொடருங்கள். )

                       
-The Mother, Words of the Mother

Message of the Day: Physical Nearness

Whether I see you or not makes no difference to the help. It will always be there. You must remove two falsehoods from your mind. 1) What you get from me has nothing at all to do with what the others have or have not. My relation with you depends on you alone; I give you according to your true need and capacity.  Even here, already you were alone with me; if there were no others you would receive nothing more. 2) It is a great mistake to think that physical nearness is the one thing indispensable for the progress. It will do nothing for you if you do not establish the inner contact, for without that you could remain from morning to night with me and yet you will never truly meet me. It is only by the inner opening and contact that you can realise my presence.

                       
-The Mother, Words of the Mother