By wanting Him more and more in every part of your being—integrally.
11 October 1966
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In 1958 the Mother said, “If things go on advancing at this speed, it seems more than possible, almost evident, that what Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter is a prophetic announcement: The supramental consciousness will enter a phase of realising power in 1967.”fnQuestions and Answers 1957–1958, CWM, Vol. 9, p. 315.
Have things advanced at the required speed?
Yes.
2 January 1967
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1) A short concentration before going to sleep, with an aspiration to remember the activities of the night when you wake up.
3582) When you wake up, do not make any sudden movement of the head and keep still for a few minutes, with a concentration to remember what happened during your sleep.
3) Repeat these exercises every day until you begin to perceive a result.
18 January 1967
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The soul is the eternal essence at the centre of the psychic being. The soul is in fact like a divine spark which puts on many states of being of increasing density, down to the most material; it is inside the body, within the solar plexus, so to say.fnBy “solar plexus”, the Mother is referring to the heart (not the navel) region; this is clear from statements she has made elsewhere; see, for example, in Series Thirteen of this volume, the last paragraph of her reply of 20 September 1969. These states of being take form and develop, progress, become individualised and perfected in the course of many earthly lives and form the psychic being. When the psychic being is fully formed, it is aware of the consciousness of the soul and manifests it perfectly.
1 February 1967
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The radical method is to cut off all mental and vital connection with these people; but until you know how to do this, you 359must persistently eliminate from your consciousness the effect produced by their influence.
18 February 1967
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You have said: “The Divine is with you according to your aspirations. Naturally, this does not mean that he gives way to the fancies of your outer nature—I am speaking here of the truth of your being. Moreover, he sometimes moulds himself according to your outer aspirations, and if you live like the devotees who alternate between periods of estrangement and embrace, of ecstasy and despair, the Divine too will be farther from you or nearer, depending on what you believe. The attitude is therefore very important, even the outer attitude.”
What is the meaning of “outer aspiration” and “outer attitude”? What is the best outer attitude?
Unless one practises yoga in the physical being (outer being), it remains ignorant—even its aspiration is ignorant and so is its goodwill; all its movements are ignorant and so they distort and disfigure the Divine Presence.
That is why the yoga of the body-cells is indispensable.
25 February 1967
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Perpetual renewal.
6 March 1967
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360This is how I understand the Purusha:
The Lord is the Supreme Purusha, the Purushottama.
The Atman is the universal Purusha.
The Jivatman is the individual Purusha, and the physical Purusha, the vital Purusha, the mental Purusha and the secret Purusha in the heart are projections of it.
The soul is the Purusha that enters into the evolution.
Is my understanding correct?
This is one way of putting it. Mental definitions are never more than approximations, ways of speaking.
10 March 1967
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At the centre of each cell lies the Divine Consciousness. By aspiration and repeated self-giving, the cells must be made transparent.
18 March 1967
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To become aware of the consciousness of the soul is the surest and easiest way of uniting with the Divine.
25 March 1967
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361This difficulty usually comes from a lack of unification of the being. Certain parts are recalcitrant and refuse to receive. They have to be educated little by little, just as one educates a child—and little by little too the situation will improve.
7 April 1967
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It may very well be that this is what is happening now—but it is not on the human scale.
One moment of the Lord probably means many years for us!
12 April 1967
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The Ashram was born a few years after my return from Japan, in 1926.
17 April 1967
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362The Lord told You: “One day thou wilt be my head but for the moment turn thy gaze towards the earth.”fnThe Mother, Prayers and Meditations, 17 May 1914.
Sweet Mother, what does “thou wilt be my head” mean?
The head is the original conceiving Consciousness.
22 April 1967
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The Grace is there to solve it.
1 May 1967
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By being yourself, quite simply, very simply.
5 May 1967
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We are made up of many different parts which have to be unified around the psychic being, if we are conscious of it or at least around the central aspiration. If this unification is not done, we carry this division within us.
363To do this, each thought, each feeling, each sensation, each impulse, each reaction, as it manifests, must be presented in the consciousness to the central being or its aspiration. What is in accord is accepted; what is not in accord is refused, rejected or transformed.
It is a long endeavour which may take many years—but once it is done, the unification is achieved and the path becomes easy and swift.
10 May 1967
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If you belong entirely and totally to the Divine, then all that belongs to you, all that forms part of your material being, belongs to the Divine.
16 May 1967
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Each time that you discover in yourself something that denies or resists, throw it into the flame of Agni, which is the fire of aspiration.
19 May 1967
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It is quite possible, by concentrating on the hands when they are doing something.
364The hands of painters, sculptors, musicians (especially pianists) are usually very conscious and always are skilful. It is a question of training.
29 May 1967
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This “something” is the insincerity of an ignorant self-esteem which has not yet understood that it is nobler and loftier to recognise one’s faults in order to correct them, than to conceal them in the hope that they will not be noticed.
As for all psychological problems, here too sincerity, a total and uncompromising sincerity, is the true remedy.
1 June 1967
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To get rid of the past is something so difficult that it seems almost impossible.
But if you give yourself entirely and without reserve to the future, and if this giving is constantly renewed, the past will fall away by itself and no longer encumber you.
14 June 1967
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Yes, the two states are complementary, but that does not necessarily mean that they are simultaneous. Most often, “to live for Thee” comes first and if the being is unified and sincere, “to live in Thee” soon follows.
But of course, for the first to be perfect, the second must be present.
24 June 1967
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This is the exact image of the state of the world which suffers because it is not receptive, when it could live in beatitude if it would open to the Divine Love.
But there is a remedy:
Sincere and constant aspiration.
6 July 1967
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About this, one could say humorously that we are all divine, but we are hardly even aware of it, and what we call “ourselves” is that in us which is unaware that it is divine.
13 July 1967
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To man the Divine seems slow.
In the eyes of the Divine man is slow indeed!
But perhaps in these two cases, the slowness is not the same.
20 July 1967
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First the dead man must have a daughter in order to be reborn in her child.
It is not an absolute rule—far from it—but the case is quite frequent in India where the belief in frequent reincarnations is still quite common.
30 July 1967
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That is correct.
7 August 1967
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The body is able to bear the pressure of time because it knows and feels quite concretely that it does not itself live and act, but that only the Supreme Lord exists and that He alone lives and acts.
This, moreover, is the secret of all endurance.
12 August 1967
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367The phrase would be even more amusing if he had written: “Thank God for making me an atheist.”
22 August 1967
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If I did say this (probably not quite in these words), it could only refer to a universal family open to all differences and even all divergences.
But in any case, mutual misunderstanding and lack of collaboration can only come from the outer physical and vital being which is formed in this life and is not yet under the rule and influence of the psychic. As soon as one is united with one’s psychic, all the conflicts due to clashing bad wills can no longer exist.
24 August 1967
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Painters use shadow to bring out the light.
Shadow is the symbol of the inconscient. This is where men rest at night from the effort of the day to become conscious. When consciousness becomes all-powerful, shadow will no longer be necessary and will disappear.
4 September 1967
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368It is said that there are certain methods in the Tantras to open the chakras from below, whereas in the integral yoga the chakras open from above by the descent of the Mother’s force.
What is the difference between the results of the opening of the chakras in these two systems?
In Sri Aurobindo’s integral yoga, there are no such rigid rules and distinctions. Each one follows his own path and has his own experiences. Nevertheless, Sri Aurobindo has often said and written that his yoga begins where the others leave off.
This is to say that yoga ordinarily consists in awakening the physical consciousness and making it rise gradually towards the Divine. Whereas Sri Aurobindo has said that to do his yoga, one must already have found the Divine and united with Him—then the consciousness descends through all the states of being down to the most material, bringing the Divine Force with it so that the Force can transform the whole being and finally divinise the physical body.
20 September 1967
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Because most people, when they hear the word “unity”, understand uniformity and nothing can be further from the truth.
25 September 1967
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369Spontaneity in feelings and action comes from a permanent contact with the psychic, which brings order into the thoughts and automatically controls the vital impulses.
30 September 1967
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The cells of the body thirst for the Divine Consciousness and when they are brought into contact with It their aspiration becomes very intense.
21 October 1967
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That is the best state for advancing swiftly on the path.
26 October 1967
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Two extremely rich men who claim to be very religious and virtuous, are not paying what they owe according to their accounts. One of them refuses to speak to me about it and the other says, “Have trust in God, you will not lose your money.”
If the Mother could make these two men honest (even temporarily, long enough for them to settle this affair)…
It is said that Christ healed the sick and even raised the dead. One day an idiot was brought to him to be cured. But Christ 370slipped away, saying that to make a stupid man intelligent is an impossibility.
To make a dishonest man honest is an even more impossible miracle.
8 November 1967
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Kali’s force is necessary only for those who are not yet open to Divine Love. For one who is open to Divine Love, nothing more is needed.
11 November 1967
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When the body is converted, it knows how to collaborate.
29 November 1967
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The oldest tradition says that the first four emanations of the Mahashakti—Consciousness, Love, Truth and Life—cut themselves off (separated themselves) from their Supreme Origin and became Unconsciousness, Suffering, Falsehood and Death.
Then a second emanation was made to repair the damage. They are the Gods.
Naturally, this is a way of speaking which corresponds to a Reality that is difficult to put into words.
2 December 1967
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371Transformation demands a total and integral consecration. But isn’t that the aspiration of every sincere sadhak?
Total means vertically in all the states of being, from the most material to the most subtle.
Integral means horizontally in all the different and often contradictory parts which make up the outer being (physical, vital and mental).
4 December 1967
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Flowers are very receptive and they are happy when they are loved.
15 December 1967
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Whatever the past may have been, it is not time that is needed to establish contact with the Divine, but sincerity of aspiration.
19 December 1967
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Tears and anguish indicate the presence of a weak and paltry nature which is still unable to receive the Divine in all his power 372and glory. Not only are they unnecessary, they are useless and an obstacle to realisation.
23 December 1967
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Consciousness.
27 December 1967
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Day and night hundreds of calls are coming—but the Consciousness is always alert and it answers.
One is limited only materially by time and space.
3 January 1968
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It is because material wealth is controlled by the adverse forces—and because they have not yet been converted to the Divine Influence, though the work has begun.
That victory will form part of the triumph of Truth.
Wealth should not be a personal property and should be at the disposal of the Divine for the welfare of all.
4 January 1968
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373Undoubtedly.
Only the psychological change can be a solution.
6 January 1968
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The disciples of the Ashram have a sure and easy way to put their money at the disposal of the Divine: they offer it to the Mother.
But how can others do it? Can it be said that each one should get rid of the sense of property and spend his money according to the Divine command within, from time to time?
I am sure that if someone is advanced enough on the path to receive the knowledge that money is an impersonal power and should be used for the progress of the earth, this person will be developed enough inwardly to receive the knowledge of how best to make use of the money.
8 January 1968
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That is very interesting indeed. Was it a rose or a hibiscus?
27 January 1968
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374Yes, it is a very conscious flower—I have had many proofs of it.
27 January 1968
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A beginning of union comes even before constant remembrance. When the remembrance is constant, one often feels a Presence that imposes itself on the remembrance.
29 January 1968
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Beyond the creation lies the perfect Oneness, but potentially it contains duality since the Mahashakti will manifest for the needs of the creation.
5 February 1968
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Last Monday You spoke to me about the Transcendent which is both one and two at the same time. Naturally, I shall wait for the true consciousness to come in order to have this knowledge. But yesterday I tried to note down what You had said:
“The mind thinks about things in succession. But beyond and above, everything exists at the same time. The One is both one and two; the manifested and the unmanifested, everything exists at the same time. When 375It is objectified in the creation, in the manifestation, there is a succession: one, two… But this is only a way of speaking. There is no succession, no beginning. Beyond, in the perfect Oneness, everything exists at the same time, simultaneously. This cannot be understood, it must be experienced; one can have the experience of it.”
Please correct these lines.
They are correct.
9 February 1968
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These words do not apply to the physical world as it is at present.
The explanation is only an approximation. Still, one can say that the emanation is made up of the very substance of the emanator, whereas the formation is made up of a substance external to the formator.
To make a comparison, one could say that the emanation is like a child made from the substance of its mother and that the formation is like a living statue made out of a material external to the sculptor.
But naturally this is only a very approximate explanation.
11 March 1968
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It is true that the path is very long, but for one who follows it with sincerity, it is really very interesting, and at every step one is rewarded for one’s trouble.
16 March 1968
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376Yes, the land itself has a consciousness, even though this consciousness is not intellectualised and cannot express itself.
21 March 1968
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Politics and so-called justice are still, in humanity, what is most closed to the Truth. But their turn for conversion will also come, perhaps sooner than we think.
28 March 1968
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Waste of any kind is the result of unconsciousness.
Consciousness in its purity is perfect and infallible.
2 April 1968
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In theory, it applies to everyone. But the vast majority of human beings fall into unconsciousness, and if there is a contact with pure Being it is quite unconscious. Very few persons are conscious of this relation. It is usually the result of Yoga.
8 April 1968
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377[Concerning unconsciousness during sleep]
During sleep the inner beings become consciously active. When one wakes up, it is the waking being that is not conscious of the activities of the night.
16 April 1968
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It is not a paradox.
It is the same phenomenon as for the Divine who is at the centre of our being, etc. and at the same time is beyond the creation, the Divine towards whom the whole creation is moving, but whom it could never reach if it did not carry him in itself.
One must go beyond notions of space and Matter to be able to understand.
23 April 1968
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When I thought of writing to You this morning about the night of bonds and attachments that have enveloped me for the last three weeks, I felt that all these things have actually been there for a long time and that now Your Grace has brought them to my notice so that the next step may be taken.
Mother, the night has already been very long for me. But it matters little, so long as I can continue to hold myself at Your feet.
According to my experience, one should not try to destroy or to eliminate. One should concentrate all one’s effort on building up and strengthening the true consciousness, which will automatically do the work of unifying the being.
In this way, everything that has to be transformed will be transformed quite naturally, without clash or damage.
13 May 1968
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There are two actions which in practice merge into one.
(1) Never forget the goal that one wants to attain.
(2) Never allow any part of the being or any of its movements to contradict one’s aspiration.
This also makes it necessary to become conscious of one’s nights, because the activities of the night often contradict the aspiration of the day and undo its work.
Vigilance, sincerity, continuity of effort, and the Grace will do the rest.
20 May 1968
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The very notion of good and bad is completely changed.
One can say very simply that all that leads to the Divine is good, and all that leads away from the Divine is bad.
Many virtues lead away from the Divine by making men satisfied with what they are.
22 May 1968
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379Sri Aurobindo has written in Savitri:
“Yes, there are happy ways near to God’s sun;
But few are they who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in light.”fnSavitri, Book VI, Canto 2. What a joy it would be to possess the required purity!
When one is living among men with all their miseries, it is only the Grace that can bestow this state—even in those who by Tapasya have abolished their ego.
It is beyond all personal effort.
27 May 1968
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The simplest and most effective way is to offer it to the Divine; the more sincere and radical this offering is, the more quickly the result will come.
28 May 1968
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Are they not two ways of saying the same thing?—certainly two ways of doing the same thing.
3 June 1968
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It is what is usually called conscience, but in fact it is the psychic being. And one can hear it only if one is very attentive, because it does not make any clamour.
5 June 1968
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380Without sincerity nothing can be done. With total sincerity everything is possible.
12 June 1968
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It is inconscience.
Inconscience is the negation of all effort. Ignorance (that is, the acknowledgement that there is something to be known which we do not know) is the first effect of the divine influence on the inconscient.
15 June 1968
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Sri Aurobindo speaks of Savitri’s firmness of purpose in the following line:
“Immutable like a fixed eternal star.”fnSavitri, Book X, Canto 1. Can one say that such determination is demanded of the sadhak who aspires for transformation?
This is the great mystery of creation: immutable and yet eternally renewed.
17 June 1968
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Savitri says:
“Not only is there hope for godheads pure;
The violent and darkened deities
Leaped down from the one breast in rage to find
What the white gods had missed: they too are safe;
381A Mother’s eyes are on them and her arms
Stretched out in love desire her rebel sons.”fnSavitri, Book X, Canto 2. What had the white gods missed?
The conversion of the Asuras.
24 June 1968
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The vibrations of evil are in truth less powerful than the vibrations of good.
26 June 1968
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Only the Supreme Lord is perfectly sincere.
And when the ego is abolished, only the Supreme Lord exists.
28 June 1968
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This is so true that one could rightly say: even while sleeping one must move forward.
But there comes a time when the ascent becomes a perfect repose.
2 July 1968
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382Sincerity is compared to an atmosphere or a sheet of glass. If the one or the other is completely transparent, it lets light through without distorting it.
Similarly, a sincere consciousness lets divine vibrations through without distorting them.
8 July 1968
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In the evolution, the individual is far ahead of the earth, but as long as he lives on earth there is a certain interdependence. But the condition of the earth is sure to become such that a supramental being will soon be able to live on it.
9 July 1968
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Naturally, each time that one makes a rule one makes a mistake.
Besides, although he has not taken up another physical body, the Buddha himself has returned to work in the earth-atmosphere.
26 July 1968
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383Oneness means identity in origin; but in the manifestation each entity follows its own path of conscious return to the Oneness.
28 September 1968
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In 1953 Mother said: “Whatever the way one follows, whether it be the religious way, the philosophical way, the yogic way, the mystic way, no one has realised transformation.”fnQuestions and Answers 1953, CWM, Vol. 5, p. 82.
Can one hope that the sadhaks have now made good progress towards this goal?
Now the conditions are such that every sincere effort must necessarily tend towards this goal.
30 September 1968
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Things are now arranged in such a way that as soon as one collaborates for the Divine Dawn in any form, one necessarily collaborates in the transformation.
7 October 1968
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All are the Divine, but very few are those who know it and fewer still are those who want to realise it consciously. This explains 384the long duration and difficulty of the creation if its goal is that all and everything should once more become consciously divine.
14 October 1968
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For that one must identify oneself with the Supreme Divine.
Once one is identified, when one turns towards the creation, one sees and knows that the Divine alone exists both in the Essence and in the manifestation.
16 October 1968
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Immunity does not come automatically from transformation.
One has to cut off all connection with the manifested world in order to be immune.
But in any case, transformation gives the power of victory.
18 October 1968
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Yes, equal and immutable.
But the capacity to perceive and receive it and the habit of distorting it differ with each one.
22 October 1968
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385“The ideal Sadhaka should be able to say in the Biblical phrase: ‘My zeal for the Lord has eaten me up.’ ”fnSri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 52.
Does this mean an intense, constant and integral aspiration?
Yes, it means that the entire being is absorbed in its consecration.
24 October 1968
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For most people, in their sleep, it is precisely what has been recorded in the subconscient during the day or previously which becomes active again and constitutes their dreams.
26 October 1968
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Aswapathy was very fortunate. For him,
“Each day was a spiritual romance,…
Each happening was a deep experience.”fnSri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book I, Canto 3.
This possibility is open to all whose aspiration is fervent.
1 November 1968
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It does not go away, but enters the subconscient and continues to act.
To remain conscious of it, one must reduce the range of the subconscient in oneself and thus increase the consciousness.
3 November 1968
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386To grow in consciousness is the very aim of life on earth. It is through the experience of successive lives that the range of the subconscient is gradually reduced.
By yoga and the effort to find the Divine in oneself and in life, one hastens the work considerably and it can be done in a few years.
5 November 1968
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“A knowledge which became what it perceived,
Replaced the
separated sense and heart
And drew all Nature into its
embrace.”fnSavitri, Book I, Canto 3.
Is Sri Aurobindo referring here to knowledge by identity?
Yes, it is a very exact description.
7 November 1968
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“A greater force than the earthly held his limbs,…
Unwound
the triple cord of mind and freed
The heavenly wideness of a
Godhead’s gaze.”fnIbid., Book I, Canto 5.
What does “the triple cord of mind” mean?
The cords symbolise the limitations of the mind; and there are three of them because there is a physical mind, a vital mind and a mental mind.
9 November 1968
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387Yes, there comes a time when nothing, absolutely nothing is outside the yoga and the Divine’s Presence is felt and found in all things and all circumstances.
11 November 1968
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“A last high world was seen where all worlds meet;
In its summit
gleam where Night is not nor Sleep,
The light began of the Trinity
supreme.”fnIbid., Book I, Canto 5.
Is the “Trinity supreme” Sachchidananda?
Yes.
15 November 1968
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Speed is not necessarily a sign of superiority.
These “instantaneous” conversions are most often the result of many lives of preparation.
17 November 1968
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“Our body’s cells must hold the Immortal’s flame.”fnIbid., Book I Canto 3.
Is this the secret of the luminous body?
It is a poetic way of expressing the transformation which is going to take place and which is more complicated than that.
19 November 1968
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388It is undoubtedly out of ignorance and fear of what he doesn’t know.
It is only the Asuras and a few great hostile beings who refuse and oppose the Divine even though they know who He is.
21 November 1968
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Essentially they are the same; but the plenitude of the response far exceeds the intensity of the call. The response always exceeds our receptivity by far.
25 November 1968
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If we call “perfect receptivity” the receptivity that receives only the Divine Influence and no other, it is certain—and at the same time it is perfect purity.
This is what we should strive for.
27 November 1968
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“None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.”fnSavitri, Book II, Canto 8.
But still, Mother, doesn’t the soul chosen by the Divine go through hell in a different way than others?
The quotation means that in order to reach the divine regions one must, while on earth, pass through the vital, which in some of its parts is a veritable hell. But those who have surrendered to the Divine and been adopted by Him are surrounded by the divine protection and for them the passage is not difficult.
29 November 1968
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“His failure is not failure whom God leads”fnSavitri, Book III, Canto 4.
Because it is part of the play?
It is the human mind that has the conception of success and failure. It is the human mind that wants one thing and does not want another. In the divine plan each thing has its place and its importance. So it is not success that matters. What matters is to be a docile and if possible a conscious instrument of the Divine Will.
To be and to do what the Divine wants, this is the truly important thing.
3 December 1968
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“The one original transcendent Shakti, the Mother stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal consciousness the Supreme Divine.”fnSri Aurobindo, The Mother, SABCL, Vol. 25, p. 20.
Similarly, can one say that the Supreme Divine carries the Mother in his eternal consciousness?
Beyond all question.
They are ONE in essence and manifestation.
5 December 1968
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390The ego was created for the work of individualisation; when the work is achieved, it is not unusual for the ego to accept its own dissolution .
7 December 1968
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All pleasure is a perversion, by egoistic limitation, of the Ananda which is the purpose of the universal manifestation.
11 December 1968
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“When we eat, we should be conscious that we are giving our food to that Presence in us.…”fnSri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 103.
When I try to take this attitude, the food tastes better and the atmosphere becomes quieter.
The Presence is always there whatever we do, and it is because of ignorance, negligence or absent-mindedness that we do not feel it. But each time that we are attentive and concentrated, we become aware of a wonderful transformation in all things.
13 December 1968
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Memory is a mental faculty and helps the mental consciousness. But feeling and sensation must also participate.
17 December 1968
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391To have the perception of the Presence, the participation of feeling is indispensable, and when sensation collaborates, then the perception becomes concrete and tangible.
19 December 1968
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“All things shall change in God’s transfiguring hour.”fnSavitri, Book III, Canto 4.
Can man delay or hasten the coming of this hour?
Neither the one nor the other in their apparent contradiction created by the separative consciousness, but something else that our words cannot express.
In the present state of human consciousness, it is good for it to think that aspiration and human effort can hasten the advent of the divine transformation, because effort and aspiration are needed for the transformation to take place.
21 December 1968
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In its essential truth, but one usually keeps the perception of the illusory appearance at the same time.
23 December 1968
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392Yes, one can put it that way. But above all, it is the attitude towards the outward appearance that changes completely.
25 December 1968
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The usefulness of seeing clearly instead of being blind.
The usefulness of no longer being deceived by outward appearances.
The usefulness of knowing the true purpose of life instead of living in ignorance and falsehood.
27 December 1968
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That probably depends on the yogi and his condition.
But when one is united with the Supreme Consciousness and when the body is undergoing transformation, the body keeps its automatic perception of the outer world; but this perception is more complete than the ordinary one, as if it revealed something of its content.
29 December 1968
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Certainly.
393In Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, the transformation of the body is indispensable so far as it can be done. Because the aim of this yoga is not an escape from the physical consciousness but a divinisation of that consciousness.
31 December 1968