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December 1956
“Not to go on for ever repeating what man has already
done is our
work, but to arrive at new realisations and
undreamed-of masteries. Time and
soul and world are
given us for our field, vision and hope and creative
imagination
stand for our prompters, will and thought
and labour are our all-effective
instruments.
“What is there new that we have yet to accom-
plish? Love, for as yet we have only accomplished
hatred and self-pleasing; Knowledge, for as yet we
have
only accomplished error and
perception and con-
ceiving; Bliss, for as yet we have only accomplished
pleasure and pain and indifference; Power, for as yet
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14 November 1956
Mother
finishes reading Part One of The Syn
thesis
of Yoga.
Now we have
finished. Do you have something to ask about this subject, in conclusion? What
are your reflections? Your comments?
(Silence)
All right. What effect has this had on you? Has it helped you, did
you have the impression that it put you on the way, that it gave you the key of
the discovery?
Didn't you think anything? Didn't you feel anything, experience
anything? You did not…did you listen?
(Long silence)
Now the last question; if you do not answer, we won't talk about
it any more: Did this make you want to do yoga or not?
(Mother looks around.) A n
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4 April 1956
“On one side, he [the seeker] bees aware of a
witness recipient observing experiencing Consciousness
which does not appear to
act but for which all these
activities inside and outside us seem to be
undertaken
and continue. On the other side he is aware at the
same time of an
executive Force or an energy of Pro-
cess which is seen to constitute, drive and
guide all
conceivable activities and to create a myriad forms
visible to us and
invisible and use them as stable sup-
ports for its incessant flux of action and
creation.
Entering exclusively into the witness consciousness he
bees silent,
untouched, immobile; he sees that he
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11 April 1956
“On one side, he [the seeker]
is aware of an infinite
and self-existent Godhead in being who contains all
things in an ineffable potentiality of existence, a Self
of all selves, a Soul of
all souls, a spiritual Substance
of all substances, an impersonal inexpressible
Exist-
ence, but at the same time an illimitable Person who
is here
self-represented in numberless personality, a
Master of Knowledge, a Master of
Forces, a Lord of
love and bliss and beauty, a single Origin of the
worlds, a
self-manifester and self-creator, a Cosmic
Spirit, a universal Mind,
a universal Life, the con-
scious and living Reality
supporting the ap
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2 May 1956
Sri Aurobindo says that the
union has a threefold cha-
racter: first, the liberation
from the Ignorance and
identification with the
Real and Eternal….
This is the yoga of knowledge.
Then the dwelling of the soul
with or in the Divine….
That is the aim of the yoga of love.
Then, identity of nature,
likeness to the Divine: “to
be perfect as That is
perfect.”
The
Synthesis of Yoga, p. 122
*
That is to say, not only is there union in the depths, but there
is also union outwardly, in the activities. There is union in knowledge, union
in love and union in works. To put it otherwise: the yoga of knowledge, the
yoga of love
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18 April 1956
“At one pole of it the seeker
may be conscious only
of the Master of Existence putting forth on him His
energies of knowledge, power and bliss to liberate and
divinise; the Shakti may
appear to him only an imper-
sonal Force expressive of these things or an
attri-
bute of the Ishwara. At the other pole he may
encounter the World-Mother, creatrix of the universe,
putting forth the gods and the worlds and all things
and existences out of her spirit-substance. Or even if
he sees both aspects, it
may be with an unequal sepa-
rating vision, subordinating one to the other,
regard-
ing the Shakti only as a means for approaching the
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19 December 1956
“Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised pos-
sibles. It
veils an advanced state and a yet unaccom-
plished
journey.
“If thou wouldst have humanity advance, buffet all
preconceived ideas. Thought thus smitten awakes and
becomes creative. Otherwise it rests in a mechanical
repetition and mistakes that for its right activity.
“To rotate on its own axis is not the one move-
ment for the human soul. There is also its wheeling
round the Sun of an inexhaustible illumination.
“Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and
act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all
real act is a thought manifested
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11 July 1956
I have received three
questions, one of which would require some fairly unpleasant remarks which I
don’t want to make to you…. There are two others here which I could perhaps
answer: One is about a sentence in
The Synthesis of Yoga where Sri
Aurobindo speaks of the psychic being as “insisting” on
“beauty restored to its
priesthood of interpretation of
the Eternal.”
The Synthesis of Yoga p. 146.
I have been asked what this means.
To tell the truth, I
don’t know why; I don’t know if it is the old ascetic idea that beauty has no
place in yoga, or if it is the word “priesthood” of interpretation of the
Eternal, for which an explanation is bein
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28 March 1956
“If a departure from the world
and its activities, a
supreme release and quietude were the sole aim of the
seeker, the three great fundamental realisations¹ would
be sufficient for the fulfilment of his spiritual life:
con-
centrated in them alone he could suffer all other divine
or mundane knowledge to fall away from him and
himself disencumbered depart into the eternal silence.
But he has to take account of the world and its acti-
vities, learn what divine truth there may be behind
them and reconcile that apparent opposition between
the Divine Truth and the manifest creation which is
the starting-point of most spiritual experi
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3 October 1956
I have a whole flood of questions here! But before beginning to
answer them, I am going to explain something to you.
You must have noticed on several occasions that my way of talking
to you is not always the same. I don't know if you are very sensitive to the
difference, but for me it is quite considerable...Sometimes, either because of
something I have read or for quite another reason — following
a question sometimes, but pretty rarely — it so
happens that I have what is usually called an experience, but in fact it is
simply entering into a certain state of consciousness and, once in that state
of consciousness, describing it. In that case what is said pass