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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/05 May.htm
5 May 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's
Elements of
Yoga, Chapter 4,
“Sincerity” and Chapter 5, “Faith”.
“Q: What is the right attitude to stick on to this path
till the Supramental Truth is realised?”
“A: There is the psychic condition and sincerity
and devotion to the
Mother.”
What is “the psychic condition”?
The psychic condition? That means being in relation with one's
psychic, I suppose, being governed by one's psychic being.
Sweet Mother, I don't understand very clearly the dif-
ference between
faith, belief and confidence.
But Sri Aurobindo has given the full
explanation here. If you don't understand, then...
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/30 June.htm
30 June 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's
Elements
of Yoga, Chapter 14, “Some Explanations”.
“Q: What is the place of occult power in Yoga?
“A: To know and use the subtle forces of the
supraphysical
planes is part of the Yoga
“Q: What is the meaning of occult endeavour and
power?
“A: It depends on the context. Usually it would
mean power to use the secret forces of Nature and an
endeavour by means of these forces. But ‘occult’ may
mean something else in another context.
“Q: Has every Yogi to pass through occult en-
deavour?
“A: No, everyone has not the capacity. Those
who do not have it, must wait till it is g
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/24 March.htm
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March 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“The
Four Austerities and the Four
Liberations”, Part I.
If one eats a heavy meal, why is the sleep disturbed
by nightmares?
Because there is a very close connection between
dreams and the condition of the stomach. Observations have been made and it has
been noticed that in accordance with what is eaten, dreams are of one kind or
another, and that if the digestion is difficult, the dream always turns into a
nightmare – those nightmares which have no reality but still are nightmares all
the same and very unpleasant – seeing tigers, cats, etc... Or else you experience things like... for instance, you are fa
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/14 April.htm
14 April 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“The Four
Austerities and the Four Liberations”, Part
III.
Sweet Mother, I did not understand this: “At the
beginning of this
manifestation, in the purity of its
origin, love is composed of two movements,
two com-
plementary poles of the urge towards complete one-
ness. On the one hand
there is the supreme power of
attraction and on the other the irresistible need
for
absolute self-giving.”
There is nothing to understand; it is a
fact. You don't know what “the power of attraction” means? You don't know what
“the need for self-giving” means?... Well, you put them face-to-face and whe
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/10 March.htm
10 March 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“The Fear
of Death and the Four Methods of
Conquering It”.
Why have you written “The Fear of Death” just now?
Because it was necessary to say this.
So far you had not said it, Mother, why do you say
it now?
Ah! There are many things I have not said.
One must indeed begin one day. I don't think or have the impression that there
was any occasion for it so far. Perhaps it came as the result of an
experience... Why, yes, I thought later
that people would see a special significance in it, but there isn't any!
(Laughter) Perhaps within you there is something.
There is one thing I have noticed, that
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/10 November.htm
10
November 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases
of Yoga, Chapter 2, “Faith – Aspiration
– Surrender”.
What does this mean exactly: “In Yoga it is out of
the inner victory that there comes the outer con-
quest”?
Yes. First you must attain the true
consciousness, be in contact with the Divine and let Him govern your action;
and then you can act upon outer circumstances, even actions, and overcome outer
difficulties. You must have the inner experience first before hoping to be able
to [...]¹ something external. In fact everything is founded upon an awareness
of the divine Consciousness, and unless this is done all the rest is uncertain.
Not
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/24 November.htm
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November 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases
of Yoga, Chapter 2,
“Faith – Aspiration –
Surrender”.
“To keep the psychic awake and in front”: what does
“in front” mean, Sweet Mother?
That is to say, in the forefront of the
consciousness, instead of being pushed behind, in a background which is only
very rarely seen; to keep it right in front of the consciousness, in the active
consciousness. In any case, you must want it and try to do it.
“Desire... leads to pulling down
the force”: what does
this mean?
You see, one has an aspiration for Light,
for Knowledge, for all kinds of things. Now, if a desire is mixed with
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/31 March.htm
31 March 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“The
Four Austerities and the Four
Liberations”, Part I.
“...the vital has three sources of subsistence. The one
most easily accessible
to it comes from below, from
the physical energies through the sensations.
“The second is on its own plane, when it is
suffi-
ciently vast and receptive, by contact with the univer-
sal vital forces.
“The third, to which it usually opens only in a
great
aspiration for progress, comes to it from above
by the infusion and absorption
of spiritual forces and
inspiration.”
Sweet Mother, here I have not understood. You have
said: “... a
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/07 April.htm
7
April 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“The
Four Austerities and the Four
Liberations”, Part II.
“When a thought is expressed in speech, the vibration
of the sound has a
considerable power to bring the
most material substance into contact with the
thought,
thus giving it a concrete and effective reality. That is
why one must
never speak ill of people or things or
say things, which go against the
progress of the divine
realisation in the world. This is an absolute general
rule. And yet it has one exception. You should not
criticise anything unless at
the same time you have the
conscious power and active will to
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/29 December.htm
29
December 1954
This
talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases
of
Yoga, Chapter 3, “In Difficulty”.
So? (To a child) No questions? (To
another) You have a question?
Sweet
Mother, why is it said that “those who have
the greatest power for Yoga... have too, very often...
the greatest imperfections”?
Why is it like that? (Silence)
Because one must have a very strong, very powerful nature, with great inner
strength in order to have a great capacity for yoga; and very strong natures
have also very strong difficulties.
People who are neutral, dull,
unimportant, usually go their own little way without being disturbed very much.
But they cannot do a