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5
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)
*
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)
*
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
*
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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19
April 1951
“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
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8
January 1951
Mother reads out her article “What a Child
Should
Always Remember” (On Education).
You
say that one should have “the certitude of Truth's
final victory”. But doesn't
this certitude seem very dif-
ferent from, and often the very opposite of, what
one
teaches in ordinary life?
Yes. Generally it is believed that things always end badly in
Nature. Everyone knows the story of those who have met a lamentable end after
having enjoyed great success in their life; of those who had extraordinary
capacities and who finally lost them; of a nation which for a long period was
the model of a marvellous civilisation – the civilisation vanishes
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21 April 1951
“[This yoga] cannot be done if you insist
on identifying
these lowest things of the Ignorance with the divine
Truth or
even the lesser truth permissible on the way.
It cannot be done if you cling to
your past self and
its old mental, vital and physical formations and
habits;
one has continually to leave behind his past
selves and to see, act and live
from an always higher
and higher conscious level. It cannot be done if you
insist on `freedom' for your human mind and vital ego.
All the parts of the
human being are entitled to express
and satisfy themselves in their own way at
their own
risk and peril,
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15 February 1951
Mother reads the beginning of her talk of
21 April 1929 about dreams and visions.
Often I have dreams about railways. I
often miss the
train...
It is quite
symbolical!
... because I have too much luggage. I run
after it and
at times I succeed in catching up with it and jumping
into the
last coach.
The train, the
ship, and I suppose the aeroplane also are for those who do yoga, symbols of
the way and of the Force that leads you – if you lose your time or if you have
too much luggage or if you think of it too late, well, you miss the way and you
must run
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14
May 1951
“Chance can only
be the opposite of order and har-
mony. There is only one true harmony and that
is the
supramental – the reign of Truth, the
expression of
the Divine Law. In the Supermind,
therefore, chance
has no place. But in the lower Nature, the supreme
Truth is
obscured: hence there is an absence of that
divine unity of purpose and action
which alone can
constitute order. Lacking this unity, the domain of the
lower
Nature is governed by what we may call chance
– that is to say, it is a field
in which various con-
flicting forces intermix, having no single definite aim.”
“Chance”, Questions and Answers 1929-31
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25 December 1950
A disciple explains to the children that the
shortest day of the year corresponds to the
greatest declination of the sun to the south,
about the 21st of December; then the sun
again
mounts to the north.
Mother comments:
That is why the
25th of December was a festival of Light long before Jesus Christ. This
festival was in vogue long before Christianity; it originated in Egypt and very probably
the birthday of Christ was fixed on the same day as that of the return of the
Light.
Then Mother reads
the first part of her article
“Energy
Inexhaustible” (On Education).
How is it that as mental activities increase