Collected Works of the Mother

The 17-volume Collected Works of The Mother consists of nine volumes of talks and eight volumes of writings (prayers, reflections, essays, sayings, letters and personal notes). They are available to download from the Ashram website.

Volume 1: Prayers and Meditations

"This book comprises extracts from a diary written during years of intensive yogic discipline. It may serve as a spiritual guide to three principal categories of seekers: those who have undertaken self-mastery, those who want to find the road leading to the Divine, those who aspire to consecrate themselves more and more to the Divine Work."

Volume 2: Words of Long Ago

Part 1

• The Path of Later On
• The Virtues
• A Sapphire Tale
• A Leader
• To Know How to Suffer
• On Thought
• On Dreams
• The Supreme Discovery

Part 2 Meetings

• 7 May 1912: What is the most useful work to be done at the present moment?
• 14 May 1912: What is my place in the universal work?
• 21 May 1912: What is the greatest obstacle in ourselves to our consecration to impersonal work?
• 28 May 1912: What is the psychological difficulty which I can best study by experience?
• 4 June 1912: What improvements can we bring to our meetings?
• 11 June 1912: How can one become master of one's thought?
• 18 June 1912: The Power of Words
• 25 June 1912: What is the most useful idea to spread and what is the best example to set?
• 2 July 1912: Which minds are nearest to me and what is my ideal work among them?

Part 3

• That Which is Speaking
• On Thought: Introduction, II, III
• The Central Thought
• Charity
• The Divinity Within
• The Mother and Abdul Baha

Part 4

• Prayers and Meditations

Part 5 Notes and Reflections

• On the Mysteries of the Ascent towards God
• Two Parallel Movements
• Towards the Supreme Light
• Three Dreams
• The War

Part 6

• Woman and the War
• Woman and Man
• Impressions of Japan
• The Children of Japan
• To the Women of Japan
• Remembrances
• Myself and My Creed

Part 7 Tales of All Times

"These stories were written to help children to discover themselves and follow a path of right and beauty."

• One: Self-Control
• Two: Courage
• Three: Cheerfulness
• Four: Self-Reliance
• Five: Patience and Perseverence
• Six: The Simple Life
• Seven: Prudence
• Eight: Sincerity
• Nine: Right Judgment
• Ten: Order
• Eleven: Building and Destroying

Appendix

Stories not published in previous editions of Tales of All Times

• Twelve: The Giver
• Thirteen: The Conquest of Knoweldge
• Fourteen: Modesty
• Fifteen: The Family
• Sixteen: Sympathy

Volume 3: Questions and Answers 1929–1931

Volume 4: Questions and Answers 1950–1951

Volume 5: Questions and Answers 1953

Volume 6: Questions and Answers 1954

Volume 7: Questions and Answers 1955

Volume 8: Questions and Answers 1956

Volume 9: Questions and Answers 1957–1958

Volume 10: On Thoughts and Aphorisms

Volume 11: Notes on the Way

Volume 12: On Education

Volume 13: Words of the Mother I

Volume 14: Words of the Mother II

Volume 15: Words of the Mother III

Volume 16: Some Answers from the Mother

Volume 17: More Answers from the Mother

See also

• Tutorial for downloading the Collected Works of The Mother
• Excerpts from The Mother's works