Message of the day - New Year Messages by The Mother

1933 

Let the birth of the new year be the new birth of our consciousness.

Leaving the past far behind us, let us run towards a luminous future.

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1934

Lord, the year is dying and our gratitude bows down to Thee.

Lord, the year is reborn, our prayer rises up to Thee.

Let it be for us also the dawn of a new life.

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1935

We surrender to Thee this evening all that is artificial and false, all that pretends and imitates. Let it disappear with the year that is at an end. May only what is perfectly true, sincere, straight and pure subsist in the year that is beginning.

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1936

O Lord! Grant that this year may be the year of Thy Victory.We aspire for a perfect faithfulness which would make us worthy of it.

“At the very moment when everything seems to go from bad to worse, it is then that we must make a supreme act of faith and know that the Grace will never fail us.”

I mean, act according to our inner conviction regardless of all consequences and keep our faith unshaken in spite of the apparent so-called proofs to the contrary.

Surely, all this comes to teach us to have a quiet faith that what is truly needed we shall have and that, for the rest, we must not bother.

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In the final analysis everything really depends on the Divine Grace and we should look at the future with confidence and serenity, progressing at the same time as quickly as we can.

-The Mother

Message of the Day: He is our only help

Remember always the Divine and all you do will be an expression of the Divine Presence. In activity and in silence, in taking and in giving, always the glad remembrance of Thee.  All our thoughts, all our sentiments will move towards the Divine as a river towards the sea. Let all thoughts, all feelings, all actions, all hopes be turned towards the Divine and concentrated on Him. He is our only help and our only safety.   Yes, my child, it is quite true that the Divine is the sole refuge— with Him is absolute safety. - Words of the Mother

Message of the Day: Where does desire come from? ஆசை எங்கிருந்து எழுகிறது ?

Where does desire come from? The Buddha said that it comes from ignorance. It is more or less that. It is something in the being which fancies that it needs something else in order to be satisfied. And the proof that it is ignorance is that when one has satisfied it, one no longer cares for it, at least ninety-nine and a half times out of a hundred.   (நம்மில் இருக்கும் ஏதோ ஒரு எண்ணத்தை திருப்தி செய்வதற்காக எழும் எண்ணமே ஆசை. ) I believe, right at its origin it is an obscure need for growth,   as in the lowest forms of life love is changed into the need to swallow, absorb, become joined with another thing. This is the most primitive form of love in the lowest forms of life, it is to take and absorb. Well,the need to take is desire.So perhaps if we went back far enough into the last depths of the inconscience, we could say that the origin of desire is love. It is love in its obscurest and most unconscious form. It is a need to become joined with something, an attraction, a need to take, you see.   Take for instance... you see something which is—which seems to you or is—very beautiful,very harmonious,very pleasant; if you have the true consciousness, you experience this joy of seeing, of being in a conscious contact with something very beautiful, very harmonious, and then that’s all. It stops there. You have the joy of it—that such a thing exists, you see. And this is quite common among artists who have a sense of beauty. For example, an artist may see a beautiful creature and have the joy of observing the beauty,grace,harmony of movement and all that, and that’s all.It stops there.He is perfectly happy,perfectly satisfied, because he has seen something beautiful. An ordinary consciousness, altogether ordinary, dull like all ordinary consciousness—as soon as it sees something beautiful, whether it be an object or a person, hop! “I want it!” It is deplorable, you know. And into the bargain it doesn’t even have the joy of the beauty, because it has the anguish of desire. It misses that and has nothing in exchange, because there is nothing pleasant in desiring anything. It only puts you in an unpleasant state, that’s all.  The Buddha has said that there is a greater joy in overcoming a desire than in satisfying it. It is an experience everybody can have and one that is truly very interesting, very interesting.   There is a kind of inner communion with the psychic being which takes place when one willingly gives up a desire, and because of this one feels a much greater joy than if he had satisfied his desire. Besides, most usually, almost without exception, when one satisfies a desire it always leaves a kind of bitter taste somewhere.  There is not one satisfied desire which does not give a kind of bitterness; as when one has eaten too sugary a sweet it fills your mouth with bitterness. It is like that.You must try sincerely. Naturally you must not pretend to give up desire and keep it in a corner, because then one becomes very unhappy. You must do it sincerely. (ஆசைகளை விட்டுவிட்டோம் என்று எண்ணிக் கொண்டு, மனதில் அதற்கு ஓர் இடத்தை அளிக்காதீர்கள். அது உங்களுக்கு மகிழ்ச்சியை தராது. ஆசையை விடுவது என்பதனை உண்மையாகச் செய்ய வேண்டும்.)

Message of the Day - How to get rid of unpleasent thoughts?

Mother, at times unpleasant thoughts come and disturb us. How can we get rid of them? There are several methods. Generally—but it depends on people —generally,the easiest way is to think of something else.That is, to concentrate one’s attention upon something that has nothing to do with that thought, has no connection with that thought, like reading or some work—generally something creative,some creative work. For instance, those who write, while they are writing (let us take simply a novelist), while he is writing, all other thoughts are gone, for he is concentrated on what he is doing. When he finishes writing, if he has no control, the other thoughts will return. But precisely when a thought assails you, one can try to do some creative work; for example, the scientist could do some research work, a special study to discover something, something that is very absorbing; that is the easiest way. Naturally, those who have begun to control their thought can make a movement of rejection, push aside the thought as one would a physical object. But that is more difficult and asks for a much greater mastery. If one can manage it, it is more active, in the sense that if you reject that movement, that thought, if you chase it off effectively and constantly or almost repeatedly, finally it does not come any more. But in the other case, it can always return. That makes two methods. The third means is to be able to bring down a sufficiently great light from above which will be the “denial” in the deeper sense;that is,if the thought which comes is something dark (and especially if it comes from the subconscient or inconscient and is sustained by instinct), if one can bring down from above the light of a true knowledge, a higher power, and put that light upon the thought, one can manage to dissolve it or enlighten or transform it—this is the supreme method. This is still a little more difficult. But it can be done,and if one does it ,one is cured —not only does the thought not come back but the very cause is removed. The first step is to think of something else (but in this way, you know, it will be indefinitely repeated); the second is tofight;and the third is to transform.When one has reached the third step, not only is one cured but one has made a permanent progress.

                       

Message of the Day : It is He, the perfect spirit who fills all

THE UNIVERSE: MANIFESTATION OF THE DIVINE Do not forget even for a moment that all this has been created by Him out of Himself.  Not only is He present in everything, but also He is everything. The differences are only in expression and manifestation. If you forget this you lose everything.   It is He, the perfect spirit who fills all. The perfect spirit fills all. It is He who fills all. Who is He? The perfect spirit. It is He, the perfect spirit who fills all.   It is the Lord who sets all in motion from the depths of the being; it is His will that directs, His force that acts.  At the service of the Divine we are; it is the Divine who decides, ordains and puts in motion,directs and accomplishes the action.