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22 March 1957
The following story was told by Mother during
a Friday class.
This evening I am going to read to you a short story which seemed
quite instructive to me. It is a tale of ancient times, of what used to happen
before there were printing presses and books, of the days when only the Guru or
the Initiate had the knowledge and gave it only to those he considered worthy
of having it. And for him, usually, “to be worthy of having it” meant putting
into practice] what one had learnt. He gave you a truth and expected you to
practise it. And when you had put it into practice, he consented to give you
another.
Now things happen quite differently. Everybody and
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2 April 1958
Mother, you
said that when one consciously makes a
mistake it is
much more serious than if one makes it
unconsciously.
When you make a mistake because you don’t know that it is a
mistake, through ignorance, it is obvious that when you learn that it is a
mistake, when the ignorance has gone and you have goodwill, you don’t make the
mistake any more, and so you come out of the condition in which you could make
it. But if you know it is a mistake and make it, this means that there is
something perverse in you which has deliberately chosen to be on the side of
confusion or bad will or even the anti-divine forces.
And it is quite obvious that if one ch
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26 June 1957
“But there
is here still the necessity of a resort to the
normal means of propagation and
the gross method
of physical Nature. A purely occult method, a resort
to supraphysical processes acting by supraphysical
means for a physical result
would have to be possible
if we are to avoid this necessity: the resort to the
sex
impulse and its animal process could not be trans-
cended otherwise. If there
is some reality in the
phenomenon of materialisation and dematerialisation
claimed to be possible by occultists and evidenced by
occurrences many of us
have witnessed,¹ a method of
this kind would not
be out of the range of possi-
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March 1958
Mother, won’t
you please speak to us about the
“reversal”
you have already mentioned to us several
times?
You said that a reversal was necessary to
obtain the
new consciousness.
A reversal?
What kind of
reversal do we need, now? You said
“a reversal
of consciousness”.
That is a way of speaking. It doesn’t mean
that you should walk on your head!…It is an image.
Yes, Sri
Aurobindo has said this too,¹ so…
So, if the image leads you to some kind of perception, it is good,
but it is not with this (Mother points to
the head) that you can understand. If it gives you an impression which
explains things to you
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1 October 1958
Sweet
Mother, what is an ideal of moral perfection?
There are thousands of moral perfections. Everyone has his own
ideal of moral perfection.
What is usually called moral perfection is to have all the
qualities that are considered moral: to have no defects, never to make a
mistake, never to err, to be always what one conceives to be the best, to have
all the virtues – that is, to realise the highest mental conception: to take
all the qualities – there are many, aren’t there? – all the virtues, all that
man has conceived to be the most beautiful, most noble, most true, and to live
that integrally, to let all one’s actions be guided by that, all the movem
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February 1958
“The
metaphysical objection [to a teleological cosmos]
is more serious; for it seems
self-evident that the Abso-
lute can have no purpose in manifestation except the
delight
of manifestation itself: an evolutionary move-
ment in Matter as part of the
manifestation must fall
within this universal statement; it can be there only
for
the delight of the unfolding, the progressive execution,
the objectless seried self-revelation. A universal total-
ity may also be considered as
something complete in
itself; as a totality, it has nothing to gain or to add
to
its fullness of being. But here the material world is not
an integra
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November 1957
I have a
question about the first page where Sri
Aurobindo
says, “A spiritual evolution, an evolution
of
consciousness in Matter in a constant developing
self-formation
till the form can reveal the indwelling
Spirit, is
then the key-note, the central significant
motive
of the terrestrial existence.”
The Life Divine, p. 824
*
So, from the
point of view of form, in what way is
man superior
to other animals?
I think this is quite easy to find.
Sri Aurobindo speaks of the form that is capable of manifesting
the Spirit. The very nature of the manifestation of the Spirit is
consciousness, understanding
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9 July 1958
“Religion
has opened itself to denial by its claim to
determine the truth by divine
authority, by inspiration,
by a sacrosanct and infallible sovereignty given to
it
from on high; it has sought to impose itself on human
thought, feeling,
conduct without discussion or ques-
tion. This is an excessive and premature
claim,
although imposed in a way on the religious idea by
the imperative and
absolute character of the inspira-
tions and illuminations which are its warrant
and justi-
fication and by the necessity of faith as an occult
light and power
from the soul amidst the mind’s
ignorance, doubts, weakness, incertitudes. Faith is
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6 February 1957
“Death
is the question Nature puts continually to Life
and her reminder to it that it
has not yet found itself.
If there
were no siege of death, the creature would be
bound
forever in the form of an imperfect living. Pur-
sued
by death he awakes to the idea of perfect life and
seeks
out its means and its possibility.”
Thoughts and Glimpses, Cent. Vol. 16, p.
386
*
There seems to be matter enough here for us not to need to go any
further. This is a question which every person whose consciousness is awakened
a little has asked himself at least once in his life. Th
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1 May 1957
“In the admission of an activity such as sports
and
physical exercises into the life of the
Ashram it is evi-
dent that the methods and the first objects to be
attained must belong to what we have called the
lower
end of the being. Originally they have been
introduced
for the physical education and bodily
development of
the children of the Ashram School and these
are too
young for a strictly spiritual aim or
practice to enter
into their activities.…Yet what can be
attained within
the human boundaries can be something very
consi-
derable and sometimes immense: what we call
genius
is part of the development of the human
range