Chapter 2

Try to Be the True Child of the Mother

Words of Sri Aurobindo

You are the Mother’s child and the Mother’s love to her children is without limit and she bears patiently with the defects of their nature. Try to be the true child of the Mother: it is there within you, but your outward mind is occupied by little futile things and too often in a violent fuss over them. You must not only see the Mother in dream but learn to see and feel her with you and within you at all times. Then you would find it easier to control yourself and change, – for she being there would be able to do it for you.

Words of Sri Aurobindo

The sadhak feels alone and suffers when he does not have the Mother’s presence. Does the Mother likewise feel alone in the absence of her child? Is she more miserable than a human mother would be?

If that were the case the Mother would have to be in a profound state of million-fold misery all the time – for why should she be miserable only for the sadhak – why not for each soul that is wandering in the Ignorance? The child need not be miserable, but simply come back when the Mother calls.