Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga
Fragment ID: 19219
You have said: “Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you; because she is, indeed, always present.”1 Does this mean that the Mother knows all our insignificant thoughts at all times, or only when she concentrates?
It is said that the Mother is always present and looking at you. That does not mean that in her physical mind she is thinking of you always and seeing your thoughts. There is no need of that, since she is everywhere and acts everywhere out of her universal knowledge.
It seems to me that the more we communicate our thoughts to her, the more we open ourselves to her forces and the more effective becomes our surrender to her. Am I right?
Yes, quite right.
12 August 1933
1 This message of Sri Aurobindo was first hung in the dining hall of the Ashram on 28 March 1928. – Ed.