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Collected Works of the Mother

CWM 1978

Contents

Editions

SABCL (30 vol.)

Major Works of Sri Aurobindo (22 vol)

CMW - Collected Works of the Mother (17 vol.)


Volume 1 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Prayers and Meditations (1912-1919)

Volume 2 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Words of Long Ago: Between 1911 and 1913 the Mother gave numerous talks to different groups in Paris.
Part 1: Words of Long Ago - 1, Essays and tales [Path of Later On - Virtues - Supreme Discovery]
Part 2: Words of Long Ago - 2, Meetings
Part 3: Words of Long Ago - 3, Other Talks
Part 4, (unpublished) Prayers and Meditations
Part 5, Notes and Reflections
Part 6, Pieces written in Japan between 1916 and 1920
Part 7, Tales of All Times (While in Japan the Mother translated and adapted some stories written by Mr. F. J. Gould)
Appendix: unpublished stories

Volume 3 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Questions and Answers: 1929 In 1929, on Sundays, the Mother met a small group of disciples at the home of one of them. After a period of meditation she answered any questions raised by the disciples
Questions and Answers: 1930-31 During 1930 and 1931 the Mother spoke with a group of disciples who met her in the room of the Ashram called "Prosperity".
On the Dhammapada (1958) From August 1957 to September 1958, in a weekly class with the children of the Ashram school, the Mother read from and commented on the Buddhist teachings as contained in the Dhammapada.
Appendix. Sri Aurobindo's explanations of certain phrases and passages in Questions and Answers 1929.

Volume 4 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Questions and Answers 1950-51
The Mother's talks: it is worth noting how they originated. The Ashram school was founded in 1943 and by 1950 the first students had learned French fairly well. By this time many more children had come and there were not enough teachers of French. So, when the school year commenced in December 1950, the Mother decided to take the highest class in French three times a week. This was the beginning of these gatherings, which came to be called "Mother's classes". The Mother usually began by reading a passage from her own writings or from the French translations of Sri Aurobindo's works; then she invited questions from the students and some of their teachers who also attended. Gradually, many other sadhaks of the Ashram joined the classes and asked questions. Therefore, the questions here are of various kinds and from many different levels of understanding.

Between June 1951 and March 1953 there were no "Questions and Answers", but what have been called the "Translation Classes" in which Mother translated into French certain works of Sri Aurobindo, including The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, the last six chapters of The Life Divine and a portion of The Synthesis of Yoga. However, during this period Mother continued to have talks with the children, but they were not consistently recorded.

Volume 5 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Questions and Answers 1953
Mother used to be present in the evenings at the playground of the Ashram during the training of the captains of the Department of Physical Education. While she watched their exercises, some children came and sat by her side; they were a new generation, much younger than the one present during the previous talks in 1950-51. They began to put questions to her. As their numbers increased Mother met them at a class on every Wednesday. Later, teachers and disciples joined the children, and when the classroom became too crowded, the meetings were held in the open playground. In this way what have been called the "Wednesday Classes" began in March 1953 and continued till November 1958.

Volume 6 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Questions and Answers 1954

Volume 7 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Questions and Answers 1955

Volume 8 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Questions and Answers 1956

Volume 9 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Questions and Answers 1957-58

Volume 10 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
On Thoughts and Aphorisms: The Mother's commentaries on Sri Aurobindo's Thoughts and Aphorisms
Jnana (Knowledge) First Period of commentaries (1958)
Jnana (Knowledge) Second Period of commentaries (1960-61)
Jnana (Knowledge) Third Period of Commentaries (1962-66)
Jnana (Knowledge) Fourth Period of Commentaries (1969-70)
Karma (Works) Fourth Period of Commentaries (1969-70)
Bhakti (Devotion) Fourth Period of Commentaries (1969-70).

Volume 11 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Notes on The Way: 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973.
During the years 1961 to 1973 the Mother had frequent conversations with one of her disciples [= Satprem] about the experiences she was having at the time. She called these conversations, which were in French, l'Agenda. Selected transcripts of the tape-recorded conversations were seen, approved and occasionally revised by the Mother for publication in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education; they appeared regularly from February 1965 to April 1973 under the titles "Notes on the Way" and "A Propos".

Volume 12 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
On Education:
Part One: Articles [Science of Living - 4 austerities and 4 liberations - Fear of Death - Helping Humanity - The Problem of Woman]
Part Two: Messages, Letters and Conversations
Part Three: Dramas.

Volume 13 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Words of the Mother 1:
Part One: Sri Aurobindo
Part Two: The Mother
Part Three: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Part Four: Auroville
Part Five: India
Part Six: Nations other than India.

Volume 14 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Words of the Mother 2:
Part One: Man's Relationship with the Divine
Part Two: The Path of Yoga
Part Three: Elements of Yoga
Part Four: Difficulties
Part Five: Human Relationships
Part Six: Work
Part Seven: Parts of the Being.

Volume 15 (Publisher's note with detailled contents on external Website)
Words of the Mother 3:
Part One: Letters, Messages and Other Short Written Statements
Part Two: Conversations.

Volume 16:
Some answers from the Mother: Mother's answers to the letters of 14 persons (from 1927 to 1972)

Volume 17:
Some answers from the Mother: Mother's replies to the letters of 6 disciples (from 1932 to 1973)


published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA



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