9.1.2015, Good Evening, My dear friends, Words of the Mother - III THE PAST Use the past as a spring-board to leap towards the future. 25 December 1953 * Often we cling to that which was, afraid of losing the result of a previous experience, of giving up a vast and high consciousness and falling again into an inferior state. But we must always look forward and advance. 13 October 1954 * The very memory of the past experience has sometimes to be swept away from the thoughts that it may not impede the work of perpetual reconstruction which alone, in this world of relativities, permits the perfect manifestation of the Divine. 21 November 1954 * Beware of the charm of memories. What past experiences leave behind is the effect they have had on the growth of the consciousness. But when you try to relive a memory by putting yourself in similar circumstances, you soon realise that they are empty of their power and charm, for they have lost their usefulness for progress. * Lasting remembrance: the remembrance of that which has helped the being to progress. * Past, Present and Future Sentimental remembrance: only those circumstances which helped us in our seeking for the Divine must be the object of this remembrance. * At certain periods, the whole terrestrial life seems to pass miraculously through stages which, at other times, it would take thousands of years to traverse. 11 December 1954 * At every moment one must know how to lose everything in order to gain everything, to shed the past as a dead body and be reborn into a greater plenitude. 12 December 1954 * For each person, everything depends on knowing whether one belongs to the past that perpetuates itself, to the present that is exhausting itself or to the future that longs to be born. 16 February 1963 * To do yoga, one of the most important things to achieve is to Sentimental remembrance: only those circumstances which helped us in our seeking for the Divine must be the object of this remembrance. * At certain periods, the whole terrestrial life seems to pass miraculously through stages which, at other times, it would take thousands of years to traverse. 11 December 1954 * At every moment one must know how to lose everything in order to gain everything, to shed the past as a dead body and be reborn into a greater plenitude. 12 December 1954 * For each person, everything depends on knowing whether one belongs to the past that perpetuates itself, to the present that is exhausting itself or to the future that longs to be born. 16 February 1963 * To do yoga, one of the most important things to achieve is to get rid of all attachment to the past. Let the past be past and concentrate only on the progress you want to make and the surrender to the Divine you have to achieve. My blessings and help are always with you. With love. 10 January 1967 The Mother Words of the Mother III Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry , p. 70&71
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