The Bulletin should be calm and peaceful - not violent. We don't want to demolish anyone. We are merely sort of smoothing the way to make it easier for people to travel, nothing else. We needn't bring avalanches down on people! page 161 , Mother's Agenda , volume 3 , 24th May 1962 |
But in the first place, if it were a perpetual enchantment we wouldn't even appreciate it, because it would be completely natural - that's mainly it: we wouldn't appreciate it because it would just be completely natural. And nothing says we wouldn't long for a little hullabaloo for a change! We just might. This may be what the story of the earthly paradise is all about.... People in that paradise had a spontaneous knowledge: they lived with the same sort of consciousness animals have, just enough of it to get a little joy out of life, to feel the joy of life. But then they started wanting to know the why and the how and where they were going and what they were supposed to do and so forth - and so all their worries began ... they got tired of being peacefully happy. (silence) I think Sri Aurobindo wanted to say that error is an illusion like everything else, that there is no such thing as error: all possibilities are present, and since they ARE all present, they are often - they are NECESSARILY contradictory. Contradictory in their appearance. But all you have to do is look at yourself and ask, "What do I call error?" And if you face the thing squarely and ask, "What do I call error?" you immediately see how stupid it is - there is no error, you simply can't put your finger on it. I can't tell people all this in the Bulletin, mon petit - they'd go crazy! They mustn't be fed things too strong for them to digest. There's a person I won't name who has read Sri Aurobindo's books and thought he understood them. He has been following a yogic discipline (anyway, he "thought" he was doing yoga) ... and he pulled down the Force. The Force responded ... (Mother laughs). He wound up with a headache! He got frightened and wrote to me in these exact words: "This Force is the Lord's Force" (which is true, quite true), "and it has turned into fear. So (Mother laughs) fear is the Lord's principal perversion." There you have it. He read in books that the Lord is behind everything, that there is nothing that isn't the Lord; so it's the Lord who has become perverted in His manifestation, naturally.... The Force of the Lord came to help him and was changed into fear, so "the Lord's principal perversion is fear"! If you read that, you'd say he was going off his rocker.Yes, one can say absolutely anything with that kind of reasoning. Exactly! That's just what happens when you feed people something too strong, something they can't understand and assimilate: it creates incoherence in their brains. So none of this stuff can be published, though it's fine for the Agenda. How can it be told to people? page 375-76 - Mother's Agenda , volume 3 , 12th Oct. 1962 |
I have two things here. One, a bit sarcastic and brief, can be used as "Apropos" in the next Bulletin. And I have others out of which, if you organize them, you can, I think, prepare the "Notes on the Way." The "Apropos" is very brief (Satprem reads out): "The doctor recommends not to tire oneself. What is it that tires? - Only that which is useless. "Seeing sincere people, to whom it does good, is not a fatigue. "But those who come to judge theories and prac tices, those who, with their intelligence, think they are highly superior and capable of distinguishing the true from the false, who imagine they can decide whether a teaching is true and a practice is in accordance with the Supreme Reality, those are tiring and seeing them is useless, to say the least .... Oh, yes, I do understand! I understand that very well!(Mother laughs) I thought it could make an amusing little note. Oh, I've seen loads of such people, you know!..."... Let the higher intelligences putter along in their own sweet way, which will go on for millennia, and let them leave simple and goodwilled people, those who believe in the Divine Grace, free to move on quietly on their path of light." Then, here, I have several notes, I don't know what it is.... page 228 , Mother's Agenda , volume 9 , 28th Aug - 1968 |
(Regarding a text given by Mother for the next "Bulletin") There is only one solution for falsehood: (December 31, 1972) I am very keen on this! It's very true - very true. It may not be easy to understand, but it's VERY PROFOUNDLY true. All in us that veils or distorts or prevents the manifestation of the Divine is the falsehood.It means a whole lot of work!That's what I am doing all the time - every day and all day long, whenever I don't ... even when I see people. It is the only thing worth living for. page 360 , Mother's Agenda , volume 13 , 7th Feb - 1972-1973 |