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“What
do you want the Yoga for? To get power?
To attain to peace and calm? To serve
humanity?
“None of these motives is sufficient to show that
you are meant
for the Path.”
Questions
and Answers 1929 (7 April)
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The main trouble is that you think with words, but these words are
empty of meaning; most of the time they are mere words – you talk of the
Divine, you talk of the Supreme, you talk of Yoga, you say many things, but
does all that correspond in your head to something concrete, to a thought, a
feeling, a clear idea, an experience? Or are they simply words?
It
is said that Yoga is the “final goal of life”, but
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17 February 1951
Mother begins
with a passage about “false
visions”
(Questions and Answers 1929, 21 April).
Is a vision false
if the being who appears in the vision
pretends to be what it is not?
I don't think it
is this that people mean when they speak of “false visions”. They say “false
visions” when they have seen something which they believe does not exist; and
the reply I always give them is, “Had you already thought of what you saw? Had
you made an effort to see it? Was it in your imagination or your wish? If so,
it must be false.” What you are now asking is something else: these spirits who
pretend t
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2 April 1951
You have said: “By Yoga the inner
transformation
that is in slow constant process in the creation is ren-
dered
more intense and rapid, but the pace of the
outer transformation remains almost
the same as in
ordinary life. As a result, the disharmony between the
inner and
the outer being in one who is doing Yoga
tends to be all the greater, unless
precautions are
taken...”
Questions and Answers 1929 (16 June)
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What are these precautions
?
That depends upon
people. Each case is different. Individual precautions would be different
according to individual reactions, difficulties,
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“There is even a necessity for the
existence of the hos-
tile 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 your nature, they
would
retire and leave you.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (5 May)
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The best way of
facing hostile forces is always to aspire, always to remember the Divine. And
never to fear.
Mother reads a question asked dur
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9 April 1951
Mother reads a passage about art and yoga
(Questions
and Answers 1929, 28 July), then
asks:
What is the
relation between art and yoga ? Can the artist and the yogi have the same source
of inspiration ? (Mother turns to a
disciple:) Amrita, will you tell us what relation there is between art and
yoga ?
A beautiful relation... Art can be a yoga
and yoga is
an art.
That's very fine !
I knew someone, an American lady, who said that spirituality was supreme good
taste, the best possible good taste. This is quite similar.
What do serpe
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February 1951
Mother reads the beginning of the talk of
14 April. Having spoken of the dangers of
Yoga (“If you cannot get rid of ambition,
do
not
touch the thing. It is fire that burns.”),
Mother speaks of the two methods of Yoga:
“There
are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasya (disci-
pline) and the other of surrender.”
Questions
and Answers 1929 (14 April)
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What is surrender?
It means that one gives oneself entirely to the Divine.
Yes, and then what happens? If you give yourself entirely to the
Divine, it is He who does the Yoga, it is no longer you; hence this is not very
difficult; while if you do tapasya, it
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17 March 1951
“In the workings of the universe whatever
happens is
the result of all that has happened before.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (26 May)
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What do you mean by this?
The universe is in
perpetual movement and it is the unfolding of the supreme Consciousness. So all that happens is conditioned by all that preceded it.
The universe continues to be what it is because of what it has been, and what
it has been was the result of what it was before. And what it will be... will
be the consequence of what it is !
Is the unfolding of the universe
continuous or does it
stop somewhere ? What is it that
gives us
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January 1951
“More than a third of our existence is passed in
sleep...“
“On
Dreams”, Words of Long Ago
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Physical sleep therefore well deserves our attention. I said
“physical sleep”, for we are inclined to believe that the whole of our being
goes to sleep when the body is asleep.
“It is often said that in sleep men's true nature is re-
vealed.”
Ibid.
*
Their true nature does not mean their deeper nature but their
spontaneous nature which is not under control, for the control of the will
ceases during sleep. And all that one does not do in the waking state, one does
during sleep because the control of the will is removed.
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29 March 1951
“The articles and dogmas of a religion are
mind-made
things and, if you cling to them and shut yourself up
in a code of
life made out for you, you do not know
and cannot know the truth of the spirit
that lies be-
yond all codes and dogmas, wide and large and free...
“In every religion there are some who have
evolved
a high spiritual life. But it is not the religion that gave
them their
spirituality; it is they who have put their
spirituality into the religion. Put
anywhere else, born
into any other cult, they would have found there and
lived
there the same spiritual life. It is their own capa-
city, it is some power of
their
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“This yoga can only be done to the end by
those who
are in total earnest about it and ready to abolish their
little human
ego and its demands in order to find
themselves in the Divine. It cannot be
done in a spirit
of levity or laxity; the work is too high and difficult,
the
adverse powers in the lower Nature too ready to
take advantage of the least
sanction or the smallest
opening, the aspiration and tapasya
needed too con-
stant and intense. It cannot be done if there is a petu-
lant
self-assertion of the ideas of the human mind or
wilful
indulgence of the demands and instincts and
pretensions of the