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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-04/5 March 1951.htm
5 March 1951
Mother reads a
passage about natural calami-
ties (Questions and Answers 1929, 5 May).
Why do disasters occur?
Because
a higher consciousness wants to manifest it-
self in the world, and man and Nature
resist it.
This is partly true. But I don't think Nature has this
feeling. When there is an earthquake, for instance, or a volcano erupts, if
there are men staying nearby and these events cause their death, obviously it
is for these men a catastrophe, but we could very well imagine that for Nature
it is good fun ! We say, “What a terrible wind !” Naturally, for men it is
“terrible”, but not
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Publisher's Note
This volume contains the Mother's talks from
December 1950 to May
1951. It is worth noting how they
originated. The Ashram school was
founded in 1943 and by 1950 the first students had
learned French
fairly well, By this time many more children had
come and there
were not enough teachers of French. So, when the
school year commenced
in December 1950, the Mother decided to take the
highest
class in French three times a week. This was the
beginning of these
gatherings, which came to be called "Mother's
classes".
The Mother usually began by reading a passage from
her own
writings or from the French translations of Sri
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January 1951
“An
aimless life is always a miserable life.”
“The
Science of Living”, On Education
*
Why?
If
one has an aim, one can follow quietly the way
which leads to the goal.
It is not necessary to have a goal in order to follow the way
quietly. So many men who have no goal follow quite calmly the course of their
daily round without making any effort!
An aim gives joy.
Sometimes it takes an entire lifetime to attain one's aim; one
would then find joy only at the end of one's life!
An aim is an ideal and an ideal is an enrichment.
Yes, but one may have an altogether material ideal; it is not the
ideal which gives joy.
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31 March 1951
Mother reads a question asked during her talk
in 1929:
“Can all physical ailments be traced to
some disorder
in the mind?”
Questions and Answers 1929 (16 June)
*
If there is one
mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses, it is fear.
But, each man can
make his own experiment. If one has a bad throat, this may be due to the fact
that the day before one was in a state of depression. Or perhaps one is very
unhappy, dissatisfied, one finds everything very bad, and the next day one gets
a cold in the head... Everyone must make his own observations.
“Each spot of the body is symbolical o
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5 April 1951
“Everything here is followed by the supermind; the
mind movements and not less the vital, the
material
movements, all the play of the universe have for it a
very deep
interest, but of another kind. It is about the
same difference as that between
the interest taken in
a puppet-play by one who holds the strings and knows
what
the puppets are to do and the will that moves
them and knows that they can do
only what it moves
them to do, and the interest taken by another who
observes the
play but sees only what is happening from
moment to moment and knows nothing
else. The one
who follows the play and is outside
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17 April 1951
“The spiritual life reveals the one
essence in all, but
reveals too its infinite diversity; it works for diversity
in oneness and for perfection in that diversity.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (4 August)
*
This is the very
motive of the creation of the universe, that is to say, all are one, all is one
in its origin, but each thing, each element, each being has as its mission the
revealing of one part of this unity to itself, and it is this particularity which
must be developed in everyone, while awakening at the same time the sense of
the original unity. This is “to work for unity in diversity”. And the
perfection in that diversity lies
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January 1951
“To
complete this movement of inner discovery, it is
good not to neglect the mental
development. For the
mental instrument can be equally a great help or a
great
hindrance. In its natural state the human mind
is always limited in its vision,
narrow in its under-
standing, rigid in its conceptions, and a certain effort
is
needed to enlarge it, make it supple and deep.”
“The
Science of Living”, On Education
*
Unfortunately, most people, the more they think, the more they
believe themselves superior. The mind is satisfied with itself and does not
aspire much for progress – thinks it knows everything. And many pe
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14 March 1951
“When you come to the Divine, you must
abandon all
mental conceptions; but, instead of doing that, you
throw your
conceptions upon the Divine and want the
Divine to obey them. The only true
attitude for a Yogi
is to be plastic and ready to obey the Divine command
whatever it may be...”
Questions and Answers 1929 (19 May)
*
What is “plasticity”?
That which can
easily change its form is “plastic”. Figuratively, it is suppleness, a capacity
of adaptation to circumstances and necessities. When I ask you to be plastic in
relation to the Divine, I mean not to resist the Divine with the ri
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March 1951
“The power of money is at present under
the influence
or in the hands of the forces and beings of the vital
world. It
is because of this influence that you never
see money going in any considerable
amount to the
cause of Truth. Always it goes astray, because it is in
the
clutch of the hostile forces and is one of the prin-
cipal means by which they
keep their grip upon the
earth. The hold of the hostile forces upon money-
power
is powerfully, completely and thoroughly organ-
ised
and to extract anything out of this compact
organisation
is a most difficult task. Each time that
you try to draw a little of th
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14 April 1951
Mother reads a question asked during her talk
in 1929:
“Is not surrender the same as sacrifice ?”
Questions and Answers 1929 (4 August)
*
Who is going to
answer? What is the difference?
Surrender comes spontaneously.
I congratulate
those whose surrender is spontaneous ! It is not so easy. No, that is not the
difference.
Sacrifice diminishes the being.
That is true, but
why ? One thing is so, so simple – is the very meaning of the word. To
sacrifice means to give up something to which one clings. To sacrifice one's
life is