The Mother: Quotes about feelings

“It is a rather unpleasant sensation to feel yourself pulled by the strings and made to do things whether you want to or not — that is quite irrelevant — but to be compelled to act because something pulls you by the strings, something which you do not even see — that is exasperating. … I knew nobody who could help me and I did not have the chance that you have, someone who can tell you: "This is what you have to do!" There was nobody to tell me that. I had to find it out all by myself. And I found it. I started at five.”

The Mother

On developing her inner experiences, as narrated in later years to her disciples at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in "Birth and Girlhood", also in The Mother On Herself http://www.miraura.org/bio/herself.html

Feeling , Chance , Help

“Not once do you have the feeling that you are in contact with something other than a marvellously organised mental-physical domain.”

The Mother

On her feelings during stay in Japan, quoted in "Japan (1916-20)" and also in On the Mother: The Chronicle of a Manifestation and Ministry by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1 January 1995) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=WIPXAAAAMAAJ, p. 160

Feeling

“I started contemplating or doing my Yoga from the age of 4. There was a small chair for me on which I used to sit still, engrossed in my meditation. A very brilliant light would then descend over my head and produce some turmoil inside my brain. Of course I understood nothing, it was not the age for understanding. But gradually I began to feel, "I shall have to do some tremendously great work that nobody yet knows."”

The Mother

In Birth and Girlhood http://www.searchforlight.org/TheMother_lifeSketch1.htm, during her childhood days in when she was aware of her special purpose of life, her mission on earth, and also in On the Mother Divine by Pasupati Bhattacharya (1968) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=1loqAAAAYAAJ, p. 10

Age , Feeling , Understanding , Light

“The Best way to express one's gratitude to the Divine is to feel simply happy.”

The Mother

In "Paris (1897-1904)", also in Words of The Mother Sri Aurobindo Ashram, (1987) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ljoqAAAAYAAJ, p. 163
Sayings

Way , Feeling , Gratitude , Happiness

“They do not feel bound by the customary rules of conduct and have not yet found an inner law that would replace them.”

The Mother

On artists whom she had often found of rather loose morals, quoted in "Paris (1897-1904)" and in Mother India, Volume 20 (1968) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=YifkAAAAMAAJ, p. 46

Law , Feeling

“I don't feel that you are sincere, neither you nor your flock. You all went there to fulfill a social duty and social custom, but not at all because you really wanted to enter into communion with God.”

The Mother

Comment to a Priest who questioned her for not attending the Sunday service during her voyage on the ship Kaga Maru, quoted in Diary notes and Meeting with Sri Aurobindo http://www.searchforlight.org/TheMother_lifeSketchpart4.htm.

God , Feeling , Sincerity

“Yes, indeed, I do feel the weight of the world's miseries pressing upon me!”

The Mother

Response when her mother asked her: Why do you sit thus with a set face, as if the whole world were pressing upon you? in "Birth and Girlhood", and in The Mother (of Sri Aurobindo Ashram) by Prema Nandakumar (1977) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=R1sqAAAAYAAJ, p. 1

World , Feeling