WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Sweet Mother,

You have said in Your New Year message for this year: "Salute to the advent of Truth." Is it therefore very near? What must we do during 1965 to prepare ourselves to recognise it and receive it?

The best thing to do is to distinguish in oneself the origin of all one's movements--those that come from the light of truth and those that come from the old inertia and falsehood--in order to accept the first and to refuse or reject the others.

With practice one learns to distinguish more and more clearly, but one can establish as a general rule that all that tends towards disharmony, disorder and inertia comes from the falsehood and all that favours union, harmony, order and consciousness comes from the Truth.

This is only a hint, nothing more, about how to take the first steps on the path.

13 January 1965

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 16, p. 313