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Words of the Mother

Mother reads from Sri Aurobindo’s The Synthesis of Yoga, “The Four Aids”.

Sweet Mother, here: “Last comes the instrumentality of Time, Kala; for in all things there is a cycle of their action and a period of the divine movement....” What is this period of the divine movement?

For each thing it is different. For each activity, each realisation, each movement, there is a definite period of time, which differs. There are countless periods of time which are entangled; but each thing is regulated by a kind of rhythm which is this thing’s own rhythm.

You see, for the facility of their outer existence, men have divided time more or less arbitrarily into years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, etc.; it is a rhythm that’s more or less arbitrary, because it has been created by man, but it has in itself a certain reality, for it corresponds to universal movements... as far as possible. And that is why, by the way, we celebrate the birthday, for example: because there is a certain rhythm in each one’s existence which is established by this regular return of circumstances analogous to those in which he was born....