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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-05/23 September 1953.htm
23 September 1953
“Each spot of the body is symbolical of an
inner move-
ment; there is there a world of subtle correspondences.
But this is a
long and complex subject and we can-
not enter into its details just now. The
particular place
in the body affected by an illness is an index to the
nature
of the inner disharmony that has taken place.
It points to the origin, it is a
sign of the cause of the
ailment. It reveals too the nature of the resistance
that
prevents the whole being from advancing at the same
high speed. It
indicates the treatment and the cure. If
one could perfectly understand where
the mistake is,
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17 June 1953
“There is a true movement of the intellect
and there
is a wrong movement: one helps, the other hinders.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (5 May)
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What is the true movement of the
intellect?
What
exactly do you understand by intellect? Is it a function of the mind or is it a
part of the human being? How do you understand it?
A function of the mind.
A function
of the mind? Then it is that part of the mind which deals with ideas; is that
what you mean?
Not ideas, Mother.
Not ideas?
What else, then?
Ideas, but..
There is a
part of the mind which receives ideas, ideas that are formed in a higher mind.
Still, I
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15 April 1953
You have written: “Do not try to pull at
the forces of
the Divine.”
Questions and
Answers 1929 (14 April)
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Can
one pull the divine forces by violence?
Yes, if you
call very strongly, if you aspire very strongly, you may pull down a large
number of forces into you, but you will not be able to digest them, assimilate
them. It is the same thing as with food; when you swallow all that you have at
hand in one gulp, that causes indigestion, it chokes you. You cannot bear it.
So if you want to go fast, if you hurry, you send a kind of call and pull
towards you too great a number of forces, forces which otherwise would have
come less quickly.
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18 March 1953
“We
are conscious of only an insignificant portion of
our being.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (7 April)
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What
are these insignificant parts of our being?
Almost all of them.
There are very few things
which are not insignificant; all your ordinary reactions, ordinary thoughts,
sensations, actions, movements, – all this is very insignificant. It is only at
times, when there is a flash of the higher consciousness through the psychic,
an opening into something else, a contact with the psychic being (which may
last for a second), at that moment, it is not insignificant. Otherwise, all the
rest is repeated in millions and millions of copie
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11 November 1953
Mother is about to begin reading the first pages
of
Quelques Paroles, Quelques Prieres.
The first
texts were written in 1912. Many of you were not yet born. It was a small group
of about twelve people who met once a week. A subject was given; an answer was
to be prepared for the following week. Each one brought along his little work.
Generally, I too used to prepare a short paper and, at the end, I read it out.
That is what is given here – not all, only these two. These two first ones.
Later, it was something else. The others appeared in Words of Long Ago.
There
were four meetings. The subject for the first meeting was: What is the aim to
be
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Appendix
(Extract from a talk of Sri Aurobindo with a
French scientist-disciple)
8 May 1926
In the West
the highest minds are turned not towards spiritual truth but towards material science.
The scope of science is very narrow, it touches only the most exterior part of
the physical plane.
And
even there, what does science know really? It studies the functioning of the
laws, builds theories ever renewed and each time held up as the last word of
truth! We had recently the atomic theory, now comes the electronic.
There
are, for instance, two statements of modern science that would stir up deeper
ranges for an occultist:
1.
Atoms are whirling systems
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25 November 1953
You have said: “It is in proportion to our
trust in the
Divine that the Divine Grace can act for us and help.”¹
If someone has no trust in the Divine,
but calls very
sincerely when he is in difficulty, in danger, what will
happen
to him?
How can he
call? The two things are contradictory. If he has no trust, he won’t even think
of the Divine! He won’t think of calling. It is contradictory. He thinks of
calling exactly in proportion to his trust… So?
You have said here: “To smile at an enemy
is to dis-
arm him.”²
“Smile” means what? One ought not to
smile at an enemy!
One ought
not to!.. What I have state
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1 April 1953
“Ambition has been the undoing of many
Yogis. That
canker can hide long. Many people start on the Path
without any
sense of it. But when they get powers,
their ambition rises up, all the more
violently because
it had not been thrown out in the beginning.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (14 April)
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What
do you call a “canker”?
It
is an image, as of a fine mango, very beautiful to look at, and when one opens
it, there is a worm inside. That is because the fly laid an egg before the
fruit was formed; outside there is no trace. Everything seems candid,
disinterested. But within, right at the bottom, there is a great ambition, the
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10 June 1953
“Attacks from adverse forces are
inevitable: you have
to take them as tests on your way and go courageous-
ly
through the ordeal. The struggle may be hard, but
when you come out of it, you
have gained something,
you have advanced a step. There is even a necessity
for
the existence of the hostile forces. They make your
determination stronger,
your aspiration clearer.
“It is true, however, that they exist
because you
gave them reason to exist. So long as there is some-
thing in you
which answers to them, their intervention
is perfectly legitimate. If nothing
in you responded, if
they had no hold upon any part of
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22 July 1953
“There are two factors that have to be
considered in
the matter [the causes of illness]. There is what comes
from
outside and there is what comes from your in-
ner condition. Your inner condition
becomes a cause
of illness when there is a resistance or revolt in it or
when
there is some part in you that does not respond
to the protection; or even
there may be something
there that almost willingly and wilfully calls in the
ad-
verse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement
of this kind in you;
the hostile forces are at once upon
you and their attack takes often the form
of illness.”
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