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12
May 1951
“Harmony and beauty of the mind and soul,
harmony
and beauty of the thoughts and feelings, harmony and
beauty in every
outward act and movement, harmony
and beauty of the life and surroundings, this
is the
demand of Mahalakshmi... Where love and beauty
are
not or are reluctant to be born, she does not come.”
Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, p. 31
*
When the
surroundings, circumstances, atmosphere, the way of living and above all the
inner attitude are altogether of a low kind, vulgar, gross, egoistic, sordid,
love is reluctant to come, that is, it always hesitates to manifest itself and
generally doe
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23 December 1950
Mother reads out her article “Concentration
and
Dispersion” (On
Education), then comments
on it:
To solve a
problem, to learn a lesson, a lot of concentration and attention is needed, everyone
knows that – an intellectual attention and concentration. But concentration is
not only an intellectual thing, it may be found in all the activities of the
being, including bodily activities. The control over the nerves should be such
as would allow you a complete concentration on what you are doing and, through
the very intensity of your concentration, you acquire an immediate response to
external touches. To attain this concentration you need a
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24 March 1951
You say, “Love is everywhere. Its movement
is there
in plants, perhaps in the very stones....”¹ If there is
love in a
stone, how can one see it ?
Perhaps the
different elements constituting the stone are coordinated by the spark of love.
I am sure that when the Divine Love descended into Matter, this Matter was
quite unconscious, it had absolutely no form; it may even be said that forms in
general are the result of the effort of Love to bring consciousness into
Matter. If one of you (I have my doubts, but still) went down into the
Inconscient, what is called the pure Inconscient, you would realise
what it is. A stone
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May 1951
Mother reads the first part of Chapter 6 of The Mother
by Sri Aurobindo.
What is a “hierarchy”?
It is a grouping
organised in order of merit. For instance, you have a chief at the centre and
you may have four persons around him, and around these four, 8, then 12, 24,
36, 48,124, and so on, each with his special mission, his special work, his
particular authority, and all referring in an ascending order to the centre.
That is a hierarchy. In governments they try to form hierarchies, but these are
untrue, they are arbitrary and not worth anything. But in all ancient
initiations there were hierarchies which were
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22 February 1951
“Yoga means union with the Divine, and the
union is
effected through offering – it is founded on the offer-
ing of yourself
to the Divine.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (28 April)
*
What is the
difference between surrender and offering?
The two words are
almost synonymous: “I make the offering of myself and I surrender myself”, but
in the gesture of offering there is something more active than in the gesture
of surrender. Unfortunately, soumission,
in French, is not the true word; in English we use “surrender”; between the
words “surrender” and “offering” there is hardly any difference. But the F
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23 April 1951
Mother reads Sri Aurobindo's
“The Divine
Superman” (Cent. Vol. 17, p. 74).
“Thou must reach thy own summit,” says Sri
Aurobindo. Is the summit the same for everybody
or does each one have his
particular summit ?
In the last analysis,
it is always the same summit- the divine oneness which is behind all things-
but everyone will reach his own summit, that is, through his own nature and own
way of manifesting the divine unity. This is what we were saying the other day:
each one represents a special way of having a relation with the Divine and
manifesting the Divine. You don't need to follow ano
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19 March 1951
“Mind is one movement, but there are many
varieties
of the movement, many strata, that touch and even
press into each
other. At the same time the movement
we call mind penetrates into other
planes... Now,
there are mental planes that stand high above the vi-
tal world
and escape its influence; there are no hos-
tile forces or beings there. But
there are others and
they are many that can be touched or penetrated
by the
vital forces.”
Questions and
Answers 1929 (26 May)
*
Which mental plane are you speaking of ?
Of the physical
mind. Certainly not of the higher mind, f
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26 February 1951
Mother reads a question asked during her talk
in 1929:
“In the initial
stages of Yoga, is it well for the Sa-
dhaka to read ordinary books?”
Questions and Answers 1929 (28 April)
*
It is a question I
have been asked many times. If someone can tell me the effect on him of the
reading of ordinary books, it will interest me very much.
Ordinary books
tire me.
It is a good sign.
They give rest to
the mind and have no effect on me.
No! The
subconscient records everything, and if you have the impression that an
ordinary boo
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26 March 1951
“At every moment one must know how to lose
all in
order to gain all.” What does this mean ?
We have already
spoken about this. When we enter upon the path of yoga, why do our dear ones
leave us ? One loses all worldly possessions, all one's attachments; sometimes,
even, one loses one's position, and to gain what ? – the most important thing,
the only thing which is valuable: the divine Consciousness. And to gain this one
must know how to lose all the goods of this world, to let go of all one's
possessions, all desires, all attachments, all satisfactions; one must know how
to lose all this if one wants to get the divine Con
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12 February 1951
“Some persons ask: `Why has not the Divine
come
yet?' Because you are not ready. If a little drop makes
you sing and dance
and scream, what would happen
if the whole thing came down?
“Therefore do we say to people who have
not a
strong and firm and capacious basis in the body and
the vital and the
mind: `Do not pull', meaning `Do not
try to pull at the forces of the Divine,
but wait in
peace and calmness.' For they would not be able to
bear the
descent. But to those who possess the neces
sary basis and foundation, we say,
on the contrary,
`Aspire and draw.' For they would be able to receive
and yet
not b