Embracing the Divine: Insights from The Mother's Prayers and Meditations
* Deep and silent consecration captures the essence of true faith and devotion.
* The experience of supreme happiness, unmixed joy, and immutable peace is expressed through the surrender to the Divine will.
* The transformative power of Divine love is reflected in the speaker's purification of heart and release from uneasiness and anguish.
* The unity with the Divine results in a perception of eternal reality and freedom from limitations of time and space.
* The convergence of the speaker's will with the Divine brings about a sense of peace and a deep understanding of the Divine's grace.
https://incarnateword.in/cwm/01/17-august-1938
There are many who hold the view that she was human but now embodies the Divine Mother and her "Prayers", they say, explain this view. But, to my mental conception, to my psychic being, she is the Divine Mother who has consented to put on her the cloak of obscurity and suffering and ignorance so that she can effectively lead us—human beings—to Knowledge and Bliss and Ananda and to the Supreme Lord.
Sri Aurobindo:The Divine puts on an appearance of humanity, assumes the outward human nature in order to tread the path and show it to human beings, but does not cease to be the Divine. It is a manifestation that takes place, a manifestation of a growing divine consciousness, not human turning into divine. The Mother was inwardly above the human even in childhood, so the view held by "many" is erroneous.
I also conceive that the Mother's "Prayers" are meant to show us—the aspiring psychic—how to pray to the Divine.
Sri Aurobindo: Yes. -- 17 August 1938
https://incarnateword.in/cwm/01/4-january-1935
I have said that the Divine does the Sadhana first for the world and then gives what is brought down to others. There can be no Sadhana without realisations and experiences. The Prayers are a record of Mother's experiences. -- 4 January 1935
https://incarnateword.in/cwm/01/21-august-1936
The Prayers are mostly written in an identification with the earth-consciousness. It is Mother in the lower nature addressing the Mother in the higher nature, the Mother herself carrying on the Sadhana of the earth-consciousness for the transformation, praying to herself above from whom the forces of transformation come. This continues till the identification of the earth-consciousness and the higher consciousness is effected...
There is the Mother who is carrying on the Sadhana and the Divine Mother, both being one but in different poises, and both turn to the Seigneur or Divine Master. This kind of prayer from the Divine to the Divine you will find also in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. -- 21 August 1936
https://incarnateword.in/cwm/01/23-december-1933
There are some Prayers of the Mother of 1914 in which she speaks of transformation and manifestation. Since at that time she was not here, does this not mean that she had these ideas long before she came here?
The Mother had been spiritually conscious from her youth, even from her childhood upward and she had done Sadhana and had developed this knowledge very long before she came to India. -- 23 December 1933