New Year Messages by The Mother
1933
Let the birth of the new year be the new birth of our
consciousness.
Leaving the past far behind us, let us run towards a
luminous future.
1934
Lord, the year is dying and our gratitude bows down to
Thee.
Lord, the year is reborn, our prayer rises up to Thee.
Let it be for us also the dawn of a new life.
1935
We surrender to Thee this evening all that is artificial
and false, all that pretends and imitates. Let it disappear with the year that
is at an end. May only what is perfectly true, sincere, straight and pure
subsist in the year that is beginning.
1936
O Lord! Grant that this year may be the year of Thy
Victory.
¹Messages given annually on New Year’s Day (January 1).
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We aspire for a perfect faithfulness which would make us
worthy of it.
1937
Glory to Thee, O Lord, who triumphest over every
obstacle!
Grant that nothing in us may be an impediment to Thy
work.
1938
Lord, grant that everything in us may be ready for Thy
Realisation. On the threshold of the new year we bow down to Thee, O Lord,
Supreme Realiser.
1939
Will be the year of purification.
O Lord, all those who take part in the divine work
implore Thee that by a supreme purification they may be liberated from the
domination of the ego.
1940
A year of silence and expectation… Let us find, O Lord,
our entire support in Thy Grace alone.
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1941
The world is fighting for its spiritual life menaced by
the rush of hostile and undivine forces.
Lord, we aspire to be Thy valiant warriors so that Thy
glory may manifest upon the earth.
1942
Glory to Thee, O Lord, conqueror of every foe ! Give us
the power to endure and share in Thy victory.
1943
The hour has come when a choice has to be made, radical
and definitive.
Lord, give us the strength to reject falsehood and emerge
in Thy truth, pure and worthy of Thy victory.
1944
O Lord, the world implores Thee to prevent it from
falling back always into the same stupidities.
Grant that the mistakes recognised may never be renewed.
Grant lastly that its actions may be the exact and
sincere expression of its proclaimed ideals.
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1945
The earth will enjoy a lasting and living peace only when
men understand that they must be truthful even in their international dealings.
O Lord, it is for this perfect truthfulness that we
aspire.
1946
Lord, it is Thy Peace we would have and not a vain
semblance of peace, Thy Freedom and not a semblance of freedom, Thy Unity and
not a semblance of unity. For it is only Thy Peace, Thy Freedom and Thy Unity
that can triumph over the blind violence and the hypocrisy and falsehood that
still reign upon earth.
Grant that those who so valiantly struggled and suffered
for Thy Victory, may see the true and genuine results of that victory realised
in the world.
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1947
At the very moment when everything seems to go from bad
to worse, it is then that we must make a supreme act of faith and know that the
Grace will never fail us.
1948
Forward, for ever forward!
At the end of the tunnel is the light…
At the end of the fight is the victory !
1949
Lord, on the eve of the new year I asked Thee what I must
say. Thou hast made me see two extreme possibilities and given me the command
to keep silent.
1950
Don’t speak. Act.
Don’t announce. Realise.
1951
Lord, we are upon earth to accomplish Thy work of
transformation. It is our sole will, our sole preoccupation. Grant that
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it may be also our sole occupation and that all our
actions may help us towards this single goal.
1952
O Lord, Thou hast decided to test the quality of our
faith and to pass our sincerity on Thy touchstone. Grant that we come out
greater and purer from the ordeal.
1953
Lord, Thou hast told us: Do not give way, hold tight. It
is when everything seems lost that all is saved.
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1954
My Lord, here is Thy advice to all, for this year: “Never
boast about anything, let your acts speak for you.”
1955
No human will can finally prevail against the Divine’s
Will. Let us put ourselves deliberately and exclusively on the side of the
Divine, and the Victory is ultimately certain.
1956
The greatest victories are the least noisy.
The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by
beat of drum.
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1957
A Power greater than that of Evil can alone win the
victory.
It is not a crucified but a glorified body that will save
the world.
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1958
O Nature, Material Mother, thou hast said that thou wilt
collaborate and there can be no limit to the splendour of this collaboration.
1959
At the very bottom of the inconscience most hard and
rigid and narrow and stifling I struck upon an almighty spring that cast me up
forthwith into a formless limitless Vast vibrating with the seeds of a new
world.
1960
To know is good,
to live is better,
to be, that is perfect.
1961
This wonderful world of delight waiting at our gates for
our call, to come down upon earth…
1962
We thirst for perfection. Not this human perfection which
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is a perfection of the ego and bars the way to the divine
perfection.
But that one perfection which has the power to manifest
upon earth the Eternal Truth.
1963
Let us prepare for the Hour of God.
1964
Are you ready?
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1965
Salute to the advent of Truth.
1966
Let us serve the Truth.
1967
Men, countries, continents !
The choice is imperative:
Truth or the abyss.
1968
Remain young, never stop striving towards perfection.
1969
No words - acts.
1970
The world is preparing for a big change.
Will you help?
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1971
Blessed are those who take a leap towards the Future.
1972
Let us all try to be worthy of Sri Aurobindo’s centenary.
1973
When you are conscious of the whole world at the same time, then you can become conscious of the Divine.
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