Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

4. The Mother in the Life of the Ashram

Fragment ID: 19697

X has often quoted things that the Mother told him, not only about me but about others. He says that she tells him these private things because she trusts him so much. But so many things are said in the Mother’s name! Often I have thought about how serious it is when someone says: “Mother said these things.”

People have put thousands of things in the Mother’s mouth that she never said. I have known them to say this and that to Mother and then go about putting it in Mother’s mouth, saying “Mother said to me.” Also things that they have not said to her and she never said. You should put no reliance on these statements.

15 January 1935