Words of Long Ago - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

303 Pages·2003·0.86 MB·English

THE MOTHER
Words of Long Ago
Words of Long Ago
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The Mother
Words
of
Long Ago
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
VOLUME 2
COLLECTED WORKS OF THE MOTHER
Second Edition
ISBN 81-7058-670-4
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1978, 2004
Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
Pondicherry - 605 002
Website: http://sabda.sriaurobindoashram.org
Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry
PRINTED IN INDIA
The Mother in Tokyo, 1916
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Publisher’s Note
ThisvolumecontainsallwritingsoftheMotherfromtheperiod
before 1920, with the exception of Prayers and Meditations.
ThematerialincludestheMother’searliestknowncomposition,
astorywrittenin1893;notes,storiesandessayswrittenbetween
1904 and 1915; miscellaneous prayers and meditations written
between1914and1920;letters,reflectionsandessayswrittenin
Japanbetween1916and1920;andstoriesforchildrenadapted
from a book published in 1911.
The volume is divided into seven parts, according to the
natureanddateofthematerial.Mostofthepieceswerewritten
originallyinFrenchandappearhereinEnglishtranslation.The
texts in this edition are the same as those in the first edition.
Further information is provided in the Note on the Texts.
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Contents
Part1
ThePathofLaterOn 1
TheVirtues 5
ASapphireTale 8
ALeader 13
ToKnowHowtoSuffer 20
OnThought 22
OnDreams 32
TheSupremeDiscovery 40
Part2Meetings
7May1912 49
14May1912 51
21May1912 55
28May1912 58
4June1912 62
11June1912 64
18June1912 66
25June1912 69
2July1912 71
Part3
ThatWhichisSpeaking 77
OnThought–Introduction 78
OnThought–II 79
OnThought–III 87
TheCentralThought 97
Charity 99
TheDivinityWithin 107
TheMotherandAbdulBaha 108
Part4
PrayersandMeditations 119
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