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need anything (unlike man, you see, struggling to escape his slav-
ery): they were absolutely free….
…In those movements of consciousness, in this state of con-
sciousness, I am comfortable (Mother heaves a sigh). But it has taken
me a lot of discipline to concentrate here [in the body]: there was
always something, from my very childhood, that felt hemmed in,
squeezed, really... oh! And with a sense of something so power-
ful that if it ever went into action (gesture of unleashing), it would
smash everything.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, June 30, 1962

My reply is that the whole world should be in the Ashram!
But as I cannot contain the whole world, I have to contain at
least one representative of each type.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, November 8, 1960
Missioned from childhood
I prefer also to make no reply to the question about the
Mother, at least in the form in which you put it. All I care to say, and
it is all that is needed, is that she is doing the work for which she
took birth and has prepared herself uninterruptedly from her child-
hood. The Power is in her that can bring down a true supramental
creation, open the whole nature of the disciple to the supramental
Light and Force and guide its transformation into a divine nature.
It is because there is this Power in her that she has been entrusted
with the work.
But all are free in their inner being, free to accept or refuse, free
to receive or not to receive, to follow this way or another. What
the Mother can do for the disciple depends on his willingness or
capacity to open himself to her help and influence and on the com-
pleteness of his consent and confidence. If they are complete, the
work done will be perfect and true; if they are imperfect, the work
will be marred by the distortions brought in by his mind and his vital

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