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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/17 November.htm
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November 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases
of Yoga,
Chapter 2, “Faith – Aspiration – Surrender”.
Sweet Mother, here it is written: “The Truth for you
is to feel the Divine in you, open to the Mother and
work for the Divine till you are aware of her in all
your activities.” Why has he said “the Divine” once
and another time “the Mother”?
Probably he considers these the two
aspects of the problem. The truth is that there are people who can more easily
get into contact with an impersonal Divine than with a personal Divine. For
them, for certain minds, certain types of intelligence, it is easier; they
understand better or think they
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2 June 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's
Elements
of Yoga, Chapter 9, “Experiences and Visions”
and Chapter 10, “Work”.
No questions?... I was going to propose a
meditation.
What are the causes for not being able to meditate?
Because one has not learnt to do it.
Why, suddenly you take a fancy: today I am
going to meditate. You have never done so before. You sit down and imagine you
are going to begin meditating. But it is something to learn as one learn
mathematics or the piano. It is not learnt just like that! It is not enough to
sit with crossed arms and crossed legs in order to meditate. You must learn how
to meditate. Everywhere all kind
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June 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's
Elements
of Yoga, Chapter
12,”Difficulties and Progress”.
“Q: Do our thoughts (good and bad) about others af-
fect them in any way?
“A: Yes, there is an influence.
“Q: Is it possible that the desires, doubts, etc. of
one person can pass on to another?
“A: Anything can pass from one to another. It is
happening all the time throughout the world.”
Who has a questions?
Sweet Mother, why doesn't one receive the Divine as
one receives other things?
What do you understand by “other things”?
The questions has not been put very well.
Do you mean... Here what is spoken about
are the i
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17 March 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“The Four
Austerities and the Four Liberations”,
Part I.
Here you have said: “The avowed purpose of such
[ascetic] practices is
to abolish all sensation so that the
body may no longer stand in the way of
one's flight
towards the Spirit.”
In the old spiritual doctrines, the body
was always considered incapable of being transformed and only as something
inert and useless obstructing the path – the spirit had to be made to go out of
its body so that, free, it could have all possible experiences. And so they
ill-treated the body as much as they could to take away from it its vitality
and strength, to
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12 May 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's
Elements
of Yoga, Chapter 6,
“Surrender”.
“Q: If the Purusha does not consent to the action of
the Mother's Grace,
does it prevent the other beings
from receiving or feeling the Mother's Grace
for trans-
formations?
“A: No. The Purusha often holds back and lets
the
other beings consent or feel in his place.”
What does he exactly understand by Purusha?... The ego?
(Nolini) No, it is the conscious being. There is the
being and the
becoming. The conscious being is Puru-
sha, the becoming is Prakriti.
But then each inner being has its Purusha?
Or is there one Purusha in
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May 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's
Elements of
Yoga, Chapter 7, “Love”.
There is a pure affection for the Divine and a pure
love for the Divine. What is the difference?
That depends upon the meaning you give to
your words. It depends upon what you call affection. I don't know, but
generally affection means something personal and external and a little
superficial; it depends altogether on the meaning you give to your words.
Usually, when someone says, “Oh! I have much affection for him”, this means
that one has good feelings, a sort of friendliness but it is nothing very deep;
but one may also use the word in a deeper see. It is very difficult to
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May 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements
of Yoga, Chapter 8, “The Psychic Opening”.
Sweet Mother, when we see you in a dream, is it
always a symbolic dream?
No, not necessarily. It can be a fact.
This means that instead of seeing physically, one sees in the subtle physical
or the vital or the mind. But one sees something of me: for instance, if I send
out a force or a thought or a movement, an action to someone, in his atmosphere
this takes my form, in his mental consciousness it takes my form. So he sees
it. It is a fact. I send something and he sees it. It is not my whole being
(there the interpretation goes wrong most of the time), but it i
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THE MOTHER - 1954
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17 February 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“Psychic Education and Spiritual
Education”.
Once the being has entered into contact with the psy-
chic, why does the
psychic again hide itself?
It is not the psychic that hides itself,
it is the being which returns to its ordinary consciousness!... It is difficult
for it to remain at its highest. One slides down, falls back. Only, the second
time the discovery is easier. And each time the road is easier until one no
longer falls back.
Sweet Mother, I don't understand this: “Normally this
discovery [of the
eternal principle in oneself] is asso-
ciated with a mystic feeling, a religious
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10 February 1954
This talk is based upon Mother’s essay
“Mental Education”.
What is the
method of increasing the “capacities of
expansion and widening”?
I say there that a great variety of subjects should be
studied. I believe that is it. For instance, if you are at school, to study all
the subjects possible. If you are reading at home, not to read just one kind of
thing, read all sorts of different things.
But, Sweet
Mother, at school it is not possible to take
many subjects. We have to
specialize.
Yes, yes! I have heard that, especially from your
teachers. I don’t agree. And I know it very well, this is being continuously
repeated to me