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Part III: Birthday Messages

Birthday Reports

Once I had a long talk with Mother and what she told me was very interesting. I was deeply moved. The next day I asked Mother if she would write for me what she had said. She wrote out:

 

12.2.1932

Champaklal,

1. Be always faithful to the Divine in your heart.

2. Let nothing interfere with the absoluteness of your consecration or stop your progress which has been up to now quite satisfactory.

3. Take the present circumstances and the coming back of… as a test and face it victoriously.

4. Be vigilant.

The Mother

 

As you see she gave me four directions. I decided to carry them out in earnest. And each year I would ask Mother about my progress on these four counts. In other words, whether I had passed or failed this examination. Here is an account of the results declared by Sri Aurobindo and Mother, year by year.

 

11.2.1933

Mother,

Last year I received the examination paper from you. Four things were given. Mother, how many marks do I get? Passed or failed?

1. Passed well.

2. Progressing steadily.

3. Not bad.

4. Satisfactory.

The Mother

 

February 1934

The progress has been good in all four.

The Mother

 

19.3.1935

I pray far Mothers answers for all the four separately.

It can be generally said for all four that there is progress.

Sri Aurobindo

 

20.3.1935

Isn’t it the meaning of your answer yesterday that in comparison with last year there has been no progress this year? Is it true that you are not satisfied with my progress?

No, I did not mean that. I meant what I said that there had been progress in all the four points.

Sri Aurobindo

Last year I received from Mother “good progress” and this year only “progress”. Is there no difference between the two?

You are going on all right; do not worry about it.

The Mother

 

1.2.1936

I pray far Gracious Mother’s answer far all the four separately this year also.

There has been a good general progress this year and you have become much more conscious.

Sri Aurobindo

With love and special blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1937

I pray for Mother’s answer for all the four separately this year also.

1. This is progressing very well.

2. Here you have done well.

3. There is improvement here.

4. Here also.

Sri Aurobindo

 

2.2.1938

1. Quite successful.

2. The progress continues to be satisfactory.

3. Quite all right.

4. There is improvement, but more is needed.

Love and blessings to our dear child.

The Mother

 

2.2.19401]

1. Satisfactory.

2. Satisfactory.

3. Satisfactory.

4. Be always vigilant.

Sri Aurobindo
The Mother

 

2.2.1941

We think that answers on these points are no longer needed. You have only to go forward straight on the path.

With our love and blessings

The Mother

 

Birthday Messages

 

2.2.1930

Red lotus – Symbol of the manifestation of the Supreme upon earth.

White lotus – Symbol of the Divine Consciousness.

The Mother

 

2.2.1930

To Champaklal,

Let this year be a year of progress and transformation – one more step on the way leading to the Divine Realisation.

The Mother

 

Le 2 Février 1933

à Champaklal pour sa fête,

Et les choses qui paraissaient les plus difficiles, les plus improbables, et peut-être même les plus impossibles, deviennent réalisables intégralement, puisque Ta Présence nous assure que le monde matériel lui-même est préparé pour manifester la forme nouvelle de Ta Volonté et de Ta Loi.

avec mes bénédictions.

La Mère

 

2.2.1933

To Champaklal for his birthday.

The things which seemed most difficult, most improbable, perhaps, even most impossible, become wholly realisable, because Thy Presence is our assurance that the material world itself is prepared to manifest the new form of Thy Will and Thy Law.

With my Blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.19402

Tranquillise and widen your consciousness; go deeper into your soul.

Sri Aurobindo

This year make an effort to achieve equanimity.

The Mother

 

2.2.1941

A clarified consciousness with strength to reject all inconscience and receive all that comes from the Light, this should be the aim before you.

Sri Aurobindo

This year you must wholly overcome and throw out the hostile suggestion that has been harassing you, rejecting it in such a way that it will never come back again. Your home, your place and your fulfilment are here.

The Mother

 

2.2.1942

Aspire always to grow more and more conscious so that all the small obstacles shall disappear from the physical consciousness and the obscurer parts of the vital nature.

Sri Aurobindo

In front of the repeated attacks from the enemy you must keep your faith intact and endure till the Victory is won.

The Mother

 

2.2.1943

Keep yourself ready by faith and self-opening to receive the Light when it comes.

Let this year be for you the year of a complete opening and of the breaking of all limitations.

The Mother

 

2.2.1944

Let the mind be quiet and receive the Light; let the vital be quiet and receive the Force that delivers.

Sri Aurobindo

Let this year bring to you the true faith – a faith that no darkness can obscure.

The Mother

 

2.2.1945

Let the year that is beginning mark a definitive stage in the growth of your psychic being and its power over your nature and your life.

Sri Aurobindo

I am glad to be able to say that your openness and your receptivity have increased during last year. Do not stop now and let them become perfect in the year to come.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1946

Continue to open yourself and the psychic consciousness will grow in you and the Light refine and illumine whatever is left of the shadows in the mind and vital being.

Sri Aurobindo

My dear child, now I can call you in truth my dear child as I feel you quite close to me having taken shelter in my arms for good – and you are welcome there with all my love.

The Mother

 

2.2.1947

An increasing advance on the road to the entire psychic change is what is most important in the sadhana, for that is the straight road to the spiritual transformation. Devotion, harmony and scrupulousness in work, a growing inner perception and consciousness, more and more fading of the more vehement movements of the vital ego are among the more prominent landmarks on the road.

Sri Aurobindo

My dear child, that which I had foreseen last year has proved to be quite true and this relation of the Mother and the child has much grown in reality, intensity and deepness.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1948

Matter, blind to the Light, deaf to the call, the material consciousness and material life are the last and most obstinate refuge of the Inconscient and its resistance. There, the nearer the light the higher it raises its wall of resistance. When that is overcome, the decisive transformation can have an open way.

Sri Aurobindo

My dear child,

Let your receptivity increase this year, to the extent of giving you the power to fully utilise the force that is at work for restoring perfect good health in you.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1949

Sri Aurobindo’s love and blessings on the occasion of your birthday.

The Mother

My dear child, now it is time for the faith to become truly active and to stand unshaken against all contradictions. Have the faith, the true faith, that you are cured and the cure is bound to come.

My love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1950 and 1951

To my most faithful child, the keeper of the true remembrance I give today the assurance of my full confidence. I did not write in this book in 1950 because it was to be the most important year of your life, the year that has put a seal to what you were and opened in front of you the door leading to what you will be: a true and complete child of our Lord whose presence here is more total than it has ever been.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1952

Patience

Perseverance

Endurance

Faith and an

Unshakable courage …

… We are approaching the goal.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1953

A steady progress and a clear understanding of what you must be. These are the gains of the finished year.

Now there is only to continue.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1954

In 1940 Sri Aurobindo wrote to you: “Tranquillise and widen your consciousness” and I insisted on achieving equanimity. Many things have happened since then, much progress has been done and yet these things remain still to be fully realised. Let these be accomplished during this year that begins for you. A silent equanimity both inside and outside will be a great achievement for you.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1955

This time it is a year of true progress which has brought you nearer to the goal and much closer to me.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1956

My dear child,

I can repeat what I said last year – but this time the progress is much bigger and the closeness to me much more true and intimate. You have advanced on the path at a great speed – and I can only tell you, continue.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1957

Bonne fête!

To my dear child.

You have continued, and this time the progress is much more concrete and complete. I have the strong feeling that I can rely upon you and this is very comfortable.

Let this progress spread to the body now and give you good health steadily.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1958

To my dear child –

One more year;

one more step towards perfect service in a total surrender.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1959

My dear child.

This year, the Grace has arranged circumstances in such a way that you are closer to me than you have ever been – and all through you have proved most reliable and effective, always ready, always there when you are needed, always doing what needs to be done. I am happy to tell you that on your birthday.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1960

Champaklal, my dear child.

I am glad to be able to say that you are progressing steadily. As you yourself remarked, your consciousness is growing and with one more effort you will soon emerge in the light and become wise.

This one more effort is the control of speech… let it be the boon from the Grace for this year!

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1961

Champaklal,

My dear child,

Bonne Fête!

Few words are needed.

All is going on well.

Steadily we are advancing towards the goal, and you are keeping pace with me.

My love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1962

Champaklal,

My dear child,

All is well. You are progressing rapidly – there is only to continue steadily and the way will open before you more and more clear.

My love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1963

Bonne Fête!

Champaklal, my dear child

The way is wide open and it is an artistic one, a fine way of expressing your soul, which will become more and more clear and powerful with the inner growth and flowering of your heart as a sincere expression of your eternal Soul.

With love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1964

Champaklal, my dear child

A big step has been taken, a great change has taken place, the presence of your Soul is clearly felt not only in what you do – which is steadily progressing –, but in what you are.

This is a decisive year for you, heralding the realisation.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1965

Champaklal

This year, I feel clearly that you have become a part of myself

For ever love

The Mother

 

2.2.1966

Bonne Fête!     Bonne Année!     Bon Progrès!

Champaklal,

Let this year see the advent of the true joy of working in the Divine’s Consciousness.

With love

The Mother

 

2.2.1967

Bonne Fête!

To Champaklal

with love and Blessings

The illness has come like a test and gone like a purification carrying away all that was standing in the way of the joy of an integral consecration.

The Mother

 

2.2.1968

Bonne Fête

To Champaklal

with love and blessings

The Mother

Champaklal,

I am happy to say that you are my true child and becoming more and more so.

The Mother

(The Mother told me: “I come to you. You will read it carefully. It is concrete, my experience.” She repeated it. – Champaklal)

 

2.2.1969

Bonne Fête!

Champaklal,

Let the full Light be with you in a silent adoration.

With my love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1969

Bonne Fête!

To Champaklal the faithful

With love and blessings for

a happy, healthy and useful year

in light, joy and love.

The Mother

 

A new decade from 70 to 80

 

2.2.1970

To Champaklal,

En avant!

Toujours

en avant3!

With love and blessings

The Mother

 

Birthday Cards

 

2.2.1956

Bonne Fête

to Champaklal

 

2.2.1957

To Champaklal

with love and blessings

 

2.2.1959

À Champaklal

Bonne Fête!

 

2.2.1959

To Champaklal

with blessings

 

2.2.1960

To Champaklal

Bonne Fête!

With love and blessings

 

2.2.1963

[Beneath the reproduction of a painting of a white lotus with the Mother’s feet in its centre and flames all around it.]

To Champaklal

Let it be the true image of your heart centre.

The Mother

(Mother said: “Champaklal, get it framed and keep it carefully.” – Champaklal.)

 

2.2.1963

Bonne Fête!

To Champaklal

the great doer of cards

this card to tell him my appreciation of all what he has done and my expectation for still better things to come.

In a growing closeness

with love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1964

To Champaklal,

Always with you

for ever

in eternal Love.

The Mother

 

2.2.1964

Bonne Fête!

To Champaklal,

Forward! always forward!

Higher! always higher!

Truer! always truer!

Blessings

The Mother

[Beneath a symbolic painting done by Tehmi4 and offered to the Mother. The Mother gave it to Champaklal on 2.2.1964]

The goal is eternal and infinite…

The Mother

 

2.2.1964

To Champaklal,

specially prepared for his birthday by Gautam

With love,

The Mother

 

2.2.1965

Champaklal

Master of the “cards”,

how to prepare a card for you?

Here is only some material for a card.

With full appreciation of you, your work and your devotion

and with blessings and love

The Mother

 

2.2.1966

To Champaklal

with love and blessings for a strong,

healthy, luminous and happy year,

The Mother

 

2.2.1966

Champaklal

Bon Progres!

The Mother

 

2.2.1966

Champaklal

Bonne Fête!

The Mother

 

2.2.1966

Champaklal

Bonne Année!

 

2.2.1966

(Card with a picture of a lion which the Mother gives saying, “friend”.)

 

2.2.1966

Bonne Fête!

Bonne Année!

Bonne Santé!5

Champaklal

Your being is like this aspiring swan surrounded by the Divine’s Love.

Let it be with Peace and Joy

in my love and

blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1967

Bonne Fête!

To Champaklal

With love and blessings for a wonderful year

The Mother

 

2.2.1968

Bonne Fête

To Champaklal the Faithful

with love and blessings for a happy, healthy and useful year

in light, joy and love

The Mother

 

2.2.1970

With love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1970

Bonne Fête a Champaklal!

From Mother

to

Champaklal

Love

Peace

Strength

Silence

Consciousness

The Mother

 

2.2.1970

Bonne Fête!

Champaklal!

 

2.2.1971

From Sri Aurobindo

to Champaklal

Bonne Fête!

Blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1971

To Champaklal

1st Prize of

Faithfulness

With my full love

bonne Fête

The Mother

 

2.2.1972

Bonne Fête

à

Champaklal

with love and blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1971

Mother said a few days before my birthday: “Champaklal, what do you want? You bring a beautiful card.” And when it was taken to her, she was very happy and began to feel it with her hand again and again. The following quotation had been pasted below Sri Aurobindo’s photograph:

“I do not want tens of thousands of disciples. It will be enough if I can get a hundred complete men, purified of petty egoism, who will be the instruments of God.”

Sri Aurobindo

The Mother wrote on this Card:

Bonne Fête

To Sri Aurobindo’s and Mother’s Champak

One of the hundred

with my love, appreciation, trust and blessings for ever.

En route vers la Réalisation6

The Mother

 

2.2.1972

Bonne Fête

to

Champaklal

with my love

 

2.2.1972

To Champaklal for his birthday,

from Saroja and Kumuda,

with Blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1973

Bonne Fête

To Champaklal

with all my love and confidence

and my blessings to reach the goal.

Let us all be eternally grateful to Him who has shown us and shows us constantly the way.

The Mother

 

2.2.1973

(in black ink)

Bonne (green ink) Fête! (mauve ink)

Champaklal (brownish ink)

The Mother (red ink)

 

2.2.1973

Bonne Fête

à mon Champaklal

Blessings

The Mother

 

2.2.1972

Bonne Fête

à Champaklal

 

Champaklal

with love

plenty of love

The Mother

 

14.3.1968

“Magnificent Champaklal, you look like a great yogi.”

The Mother

 

Champaklal at 71 (1974)

 

1 The report of 1939 is missing from the papers. [M.P. Pandit’s note

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2 Facsimiles of these messages, from 1940 onwards, have been published in Aspiring Swan, compiled and edited by Roshan and Apurva, 1992.

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3 Forward! Always Forward!

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4 Tehmi (b. 17.1.1917), an ardent devotee and dedicated teacher in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education since 1950.

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5 Happy Birthday! Happy New Year! Good Health!

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6 On the way to Realisation

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