WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

On meditation

Sweet Mother,

Often after a long meditation (an effort to meditate), I feel very tired and want to rest. Why is this and how can I feel differently?

So long as you are making an effort, it is not meditation and there is not much use in prolonging this state.

To obtain mental silence, one must learn to relax, to let oneself float on the waves of the universal force as a plank floats on water, motionless but relaxed.

Effort is never silent.

23 December 1964

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 16, p. 312