Man knows God is all powerful and therefore expects HIM to fulfill all his wishes.  He never thinks there is another side to it.  Midas asked of God a boon that whatever he touches should turn into gold.  It resulted in his daughter becoming a golden statue.  Rights involve duties.  To insist on asking for the ‘right' unmindful of the consequences is man's swabhava.  God granted a miser's  prayer on condition that his neighbour will get double of it.  Mother's devotees have seen that whatever they ask for, She grants.  SHE once s

We are unconscious in many ways.  When we travel a short distance in the train, it never occurs to us how the train arrived in time and departed.  There is an organisation - a vast huge organisation - behind a train running between two stations or destinations.  When explained it will be obvious, simple, inescapable facts.  Paul Johnson says the Jews have the gift.  Mother would call it ‘Mentally conscious'.  The result will be a mental organisation.  Some 20 years ago a world famous economist doubted whether India could rise out of povert

Attention to people has never failed; rather it matures into affection. Suppose a company is making meagre profits, if the owner goes round the company and pays FULL attention to everyone and everything, before he finishes the full round, the profits will boom. Meteoric rise in companies occurs when new markets open, or a new fashion catches the eye of the public.

We are not aware that we are exercising our choice every minute. We take it as a way of life. There are literally thousands of occasions where one can witness two families - or individuals - of comparable circumstances at the end of thirty years of career separated by a vast social distance - one living cosily in a rural town enjoying the local social status and the other in Delhi or Washington riding the waves of social prestige in several fields. It is made possible by the conscious exercise of choice at every minute. The short term gain vs.

The word ORGANISATION is generally used to denote a company or institution. It is rarely understood in its original meaning, of which there are several. In short, it means making the most out of the least.  An ICS officer wrote a famous book on how partition could have been avoided. As a Revenue Minister of a state with a Muslim ruler, by organising, he could reduce the killings of 100,000 lives to 4000. At least since 1980, for anyone who has the development vision, India is a land of infinite opportunities.

A promise is given to another. A vow is taken for oneself. A good part of the population has financial difficulties of all descriptions, at all levels. I can offer one suggestion to them for immediate temporary relief. Such suggestions are as old as Thirukural or Ramayana. Suppose someone has debts from forty people totalling 87 lakhs and he is now faced with an emergency of a serious type for three lakhs of rupees, his getting that amount is not possible.

The purpose of a newspaper is to give news objectively. Presently news means news of politics. Some newspapers resort to sensationalism. Others, wishing to set standards of factual news, develop OPINIONS, which in time become sacred to them. Those who have done subtle psychological research into opinions know the process of their formation. It is easy to get into it, not so easy to get out of it.  I wonder how many of us recollect occasions or persons who have really changed their opinion OBJECTIVELY, not for a certain gain.

In the history of the world, we have witnessed power struggle of all descriptions. One who has all the power in his own hands giving it away to others is not heard of in the history of the world.  Mahatma Gandhiji did so. Therefore, he was unique. What is unique joins the list of wonders in the world. It is true some men are unique, and many things are unique. Its opposite also is true. Nothing can ever be unique.

There are people whose souls are ripe below the surface. They live an ordinary life on the surface, as the soul is not expressing itself. When they come to Mother, they are filled with a SILENCE one gets after twenty years of tapas, they hear venuganam, and find the hot road at 1 pm chill with birds singing celestial music, etc. Some of them come here to Mother and feel an exultation in Spirit, experiencing seven hours as a half an hour. One couple came to have darshan of Mother and Sri Aurobindo and did not find them in their seats. Instead, they saw an ocean of Light.

Man, with his developed faculties of Mind, is hopelessly groping in spite of his spectacular achievements. This is very well seen if you review the efforts of great Minds a hundred or two hundred years ago. Man was not less intelligent than today. But it is now clear that he was barking up the wrong tree. When a steam engine was fitted to a sailing ship and was brought for demonstration, the British Admiralty laughed at the idea and refused to look at it. It took 1600 years for man to realise that reading the Bible in English was as sacred as reading it in Latin.