Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

5. On Three Works of the Mother

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When I read the Mother’s Conversations or her Prières, I often feel as if I come in contact with her consciousness. If one read these two books constantly and thought about them alone, could one not make one’s consciousness more and more intense till it becomes like Mother’s? Of course, it might be only the mental that would be intensified and elevated, but perhaps by that intensity the vital and other parts of the being could pass beyond their usual condition.

It is possible to intensely identify oneself with the Mother’s consciousness through what you read – in that case the result you speak of could come. It could also have an effect on the vital up to a certain point.

21 August 1935