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this present incarnation was sexless — a warrior), an absolutely
calm and imperturbable warrior — no desires, no attachments....
Since my earliest childhood, I have done things which, to the human
consciousness, are "monstrous"; my mother went so far as to tell
me that I was a real "monster," because I had neither attachments
nor desires. If I was asked, "Would you like to do this?" I answered, "I
don't care" (my father especially, it would make him furious!).
If people were nasty to me, or if people died or went away, it
left me absolutely calm — and so: "You're a monster, you have no
feelings."
And with that preparation... It's eighty-six years since I came
here, mon petit! For thirty years I worked with Sri Aurobindo con-
sciously, without letup, night and day....
We shouldn't be in a hurry.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, March 28, 1964

The Mother is one but she comes before us with differing as-
pects; many are her powers and personalities, many her em-
anations and Vibhutis that do her work in the universe. The
One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious
Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided
that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest
mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother
is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above
all she creates. But something of her ways can be seen and felt
through her embodiments and the more seizable because more
defined and limited temperament and action of the goddess
forms in whom she consents to be manifest to her creatures.
CWSA 32: 14 Sri Aurobindo

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