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True meaning of birthday
I don’t see why people in general exalt their birthdays. Of course,
you wrote once that on birthdays the physical is more open and
receptive to the Mother than on other days.

It is not a question of a physical birthday or of the body —
it is taken as an occasion for opening a new year of life with
a growing new birth within. That is the meaning in which the
Mother takes the birthday.
CWSA 32: 424-25

Sweet Mother, I would like to know the true meaning of birth-
days, for it is an important day here.

From the viewpoint of the inner nature, the individual is more
receptive on his birthday from year to year, and thus it is an
opportune moment to help him to make some new progress
each year.
Blessings.
CWM 16: 398-99

Right Use of Birthday
Why should you decide beforehand that your birthday is
spoiled? You have only to throw off all these undesirable ideas and
feelings which proceed from a still imperfectly purified part of the
external being and take the right attitude which you should always
have when you come to the Mother. There should be no idea of what
others have or have not—your relation is between the Mother and
yourself and has nothing to do with others. Nothing should exist for
you but yourself and the Divine — yourself receiving, her forces flow-
ing into you.
To secure that better, do not spend the time at your dispos-
al in speech — especially if anything of the depression remains
with you, it will waste the time in discussing things which cannot

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