Original recording of The Mother’s recitations of the Dhammapada and her explanations in French language
Music by Michel Montecrossa: ‘Soul Of The World’ • ‘Warm Light’ • ‘Song Of Change’
4 October 1957
Many are those who are not aware that one day we all must die.
And those who are aware of it appease their quarrels.
Dhammapada
11 October 1957
Just as the strong wind uproots a feeble tree, so Mara overwhelms the man who lives only in pursuit of pleasure, who does not control his senses, who knows not how to moderate his appetite, who is lazy and wastes his energies.
Dhammapada
“Evil, from the spiritual point of view, is truly that which leads us away from the goal, which sometimes even tears us away from the deepest purpose of our existence, from the truth of our being and prevents us from realising it.”
Mira Alfassa – The Mother
18 October 1957
Just as the strong wind has no hold upon a mighty rock, so Mara has no hold upon a man who does not live in pursuit of pleasure, who has good control of his senses, who knows how to moderate his appetite, who is endowed with unshakable faith and who wastes not his energies.
Dhammapada
“It is faith in one’s own possibilities, the certitude that whatever the difficulties, whatever the obstacles, whatever the imperfections, even the negations in the being, one is born for the realisation and one will realise.”
Mira Alfassa – The Mother
Tracks:
- 4.10.1957 ‘Life And Death’
- Soul Of The World
- 11.10.1957 ‘Weakness Leads To Evil’
- Warm Light
- 18.10.1957 ‘Strength Conquers Evil’
- Song Of Change
