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WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

4 August 1954

Mother, what's interesting is this: What is there in us that has made us come here?

Ah, that is interesting! What is the reason of your being here? Well, it's for each one to find it. Have you found it, you? No, not yet? Why, that's another very interesting question!

If you... (Silence) If you asked yourselves this, you would be obliged to seek the answer somewhere, within--because it is within you, the answer. "What is there in us that has made us come here?" The answer is within. There is nothing outside. And if you go deep enough, you will find a very clear answer... (silence) and an interesting answer. If you go deep enough, into a sufficiently complete silence from all outer things, you will find within you that flame about which I often speak, and in this flame you will see your destiny. You will see the aspiration of [old p. 272]centuries which has been concentrated gradually, to lead you [new p. 272]through countless births to the great day of realisation--that preparation which has been made through thousands of years, and is reaching its culmination.

And as you will have gone very deep to find this, all your incapacities, all your weaknesses, everything in you that denies and does not understand, all that--you will feel that it is not yourself, it is just like a garment which serves in some way and which you have put on for the time being. But you will understand that in order to be truly capable of profiting fully by the opportunity to do what you wanted to do, what you have aspired to do for such a long time, you must gradually bring the light, the consciousness, the truth into all these obscure elements of the external garment, so that you may be able to understand integrally why you are here! And not only that you may understand it, but that you may be able to do it. For centuries this has been prepared in you, not in this... (Mother pinches the skin of her forearm) this is quite recent, isn't it?... but in your true self. And for centuries it has been awaiting this opportunity.

And then you enter immediately into the marvellous. You see to what an extent it is extraordinary... that things which one has so long hoped for, things for which one has prayed so much, made so many efforts, suddenly a moment comes when they are realised.

It is the moment when great things are done. One must not miss the opportunity.