Meaning:
Sweet Mother,
What is the meaning of one’s birthday, apart from its commemorative character? How can one take advantage of this occasion?
Because of the rhythm of the universal forces, a person is supposed to have a special receptivity on his birthday each year.
He can therefore take advantage of this receptivity by making good resolutions and fresh progress on the path of his integral development.
The Mother – Some Answers from the Mother: CWM, Vol. 16, p.308
What is the meaning of the Mother seeing us on our birthdays?
About the birthdays. There is a rhythm (one among many) in the play of the world-forces which is connected with the sun and planets. That makes the birthday a day of possible renewal when the physical being is likely more plastic. It is for this reason that Mother sees people on their birthdays.
Sri Aurobindo – The Mother with Letters on the Mother: CWSA, Vol.32, p. 524
This day is truly an opportunity in life. One is so open and receptive that one can assimilate all that is given. I can do many things, — that is why it is important.
It is one of the days when the Lord Himself opens wide the doors for us. It is as though He were inviting us to further revive the flame of aspiration. It is one of the days which He gives us. We too, by our personal effort, could attain to this, but it would be long, hard and not so easy. And this — this is a chance in life — the day of Grace.
18.1.60
(Mother’s comment at a later date)
It is an occult phenomenon that occurs invariably, without our knowledge, on this particular day of the year. The soul leaves behind the body and journeys up and up till it merges into the Source in order to replenish itself and absorb from the Supreme, Its Power, Light and Ananda and comes down charged for a whole year. Then again and again… it continues like this, year after year.
The Mother – Sweet Mother Luminous Notes, p. 75-76
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.
Sri Aurobindo – The Mother with Letters on The Mother: CWSA, Vol. 32, pp.524 – 25
Sweet Mother,
I would like to know the true meaning of birthdays, 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.
The Mother – Some Answers from the Mother: CWM, Vol. 16, p.398
Today is my birthday. I want this day to be the beginning of a more spiritual life and therefore something has to be done. Please tell me what I must do.
It is not with the mind that one should decide what has to be done. It should be a spontaneous movement taking place in a sincere and constant aspiration.
The Mother – More Answers from the Mother: CWM, Vol. 17, p.169
Ah, let me show you a photo that was taken the other day, on P.’s birthday (Mother holds the photo out to the disciple).
It’s not me looking here: it’s when I give a “bath of the Lord.”
Even in the photo, the light in the eyes can be seen.
Some people get frightened, others on the contrary are happy—it’s an instantaneous sorting. And I know, I know what this look is: it’s the moment when there is no personal consciousness left, it’s completely gone. There isn’t the sense of a person anymore: it’s the Force.
The Mother – Agenda: Vol. 8, p. 351
Messages:
My dear child, my love and blessings are and will be with you throughout the year. Let them help you to make one more progress on the way towards the divine goal.
Let this year be a year of progress and transformation—one more step on the way leading to the Divine Realisation.
The Mother – Words of the Mother – III: CWM, Vol. 15, pp.198 – 99
Let this day of your birth be for you an occasion to give yourself a little more, a little better to the Divine. Let your consecration be more total, your devotion more ardent, your aspiration more intense.
Open yourself to the New Light and walk with a joyful step on the path.
Resolve on this day that it may be thus and the day will not have passed in vain.
The Mother – Words of the Mother – III: CWM, Vol. 15, p.199
With this new year that starts for you, you must start a new life, with a renewed resolution to drive away from your consciousness and action all that deforms, diminishes, obscures and finally stops your progress and impairs your health.
In your effort for inner growth and purification, you can be sure of being sustained and helped by my force and my blessings.
The Mother – Words of the Mother – III: CWM, Vol. 15, p.200
A grain of practice is worth a mountain of theories.
“Lord, on this anniversary day of my birth, grant that the power to know changes in me into a power to transform myself integrally.”
The Mother – Words of the Mother – III: CWM, Vol. 15, p.199
Bonne Fête
To mark one more step on the luminous road leading to the Divine Realisation in Peace, Love and Joy.
The Mother – Words of the Mother – III: CWM, Vol. 15, p.201
