The Mother

Prayers and Meditations

Collected Works of the Mother
In 17 volumes

Volume 1

September 4, 1914

DARKNESS has descended upon the earth, thick, violent, victorious... All is sadness, terror, destruction in the physical world, and the splendour of Thy light of love seems darkened by a veil of mourning....

O sweet Mother, I merge into Thee in an immense love and an intense supplication to the Lord of all things that HE may show us the way, that HE may trace out for us the path of His work, so that we may tread it boldly.

Time presses: the divine powers must come, O Lord, to the help of the agonised earth.

O Mother, sweet Mother, Thou dost clasp all Thy children close to Thy vast breast, and Thy love enfolds them all alike.

I have become the purifying fire of Thy love. O Lord, silent Unthinkable One, accept the holocaust of this brazier of love, that Thy reign may come, Thy light triumph over darkness and death.

Manifest Thy power. From day to day, from hour to hour we implore Thee : “O Lord, manifest Thy power!”