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12 December 1956
Straight away we are leaping into the greatest difficulty! I
believe this one paragraph alone will be enough for this evening:
“What I cannot do now is the sign of what l shall do
hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning
of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was
a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal
created it out of His being.”
Thoughts
and Glimpses, Cent. Vol. 16, p. 378
*
Do you know
why this seems paradoxical to you? It is simply because Sri Aurobindo has not
put in the guide marks of the thought, hasn't led you step by step from one
thought to another. It is nothing else. It is al
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30 May 1956
“The Yogin’s
aim in the sciences that make for know-
ledge should be to discover and
understand the work-
ings of the Divine
Consciousness-Puissance in man
and creatures and things
and forces, her creative si-
gnificances, her execution of
the mysteries, the sym-
bols in which she arranges the
manifestation.”
The
Synthesis of Yoga, p. 133
*
I have already told you, explained to you, that outer forms, if
looked at not in themselves, for themselves, in their outer appearance alone,
but as the expression of a deeper and more lasting reality, all these forms ― as indeed all circumstances
and events ― all become symbolic of the Force
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11 January 1956
Mother, “this craving life-force or
desire-soul in us has
to be accepted at first, but
only in order that it may
be transformed.”
The Synthesis
of Yoga, p. 77
*
But even when we understand that it
is a desire and
must be rejected, there are difficulties in discerning if
it is a desire leading us to
the Divine or if it is purely
desire.
One deceives oneself only when one wants to deceive oneself. It is
very, very different.
But within, one understands.
Good. Well, then that’s enough, if one understands somewhere,
that’s enough. Is that all? No questions?
Mother, on January 6 you said, “G
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17 October 1956
Is delight the highest state? And if so, could it be
said that when one loses delight, one's consciousness
is lowered?
Sri
Aurobindo has said that the universe is built upon the delight of existence and
that delight, being its origin is necessarily also its goal, so this would mean
in fact that delight is the highest state.
But I don't need to tell you that this is not delight as it is
understood in the ordinary human consciousness….Indeed, that delight is beyond
the states which are generally considered as the highest from the yogic point
of view, as for instance, the state of perfect serenity, of perfect equality of
soul, of absolute detachmen
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9 May 1956
Sweet Mother, where does our
true spiritual life begin?
The true spiritual life begins when one is in communion with the
Divine in the psychic, when one is conscious of the divine Presence in the
psychic and in constant communion with the psychic. Then the spiritual life
begins, not before. The true spiritual life.
When one is united with
one’s psychic being and conscious of the divine Presence, and receives the
impulses for one’s action from this divine Presence, and when the will has
become a conscious collaborator with the divine Will that is the
starting-point.
Before that, one may be
an aspirant to the spiritual life, but one doesn’t have a spiritu
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15 August 1956
“It is here that the emergence of the secret
psychic
being in us as the leader of the sacrifice is of the
utmost importance;
for this inmost being alone can
bring with it the full power of the spirit in
the act, the
soul in the symbol. It alone can assure, even while the
spiritual
consciousness is incomplete, the perennial
freshness and sincerity and beauty
of the symbol and
prevent it from being a dead form or a corrupted
and
corrupting magic; it alone can preserve for the act
its power with its
significance. All the other members
of our being, mind, life-force, physical or
body con-
sciousness are too much under the control of
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7 March 1956
Sweet Mother, what is this form
of sacrifice in which
animals are slaughtered upon
altars?
It is certainly one of the obscurest and most unconscious. And the
sacrifice spoken about here and in the Gita, is the sacrifice one makes of
oneself, not of others.
Because here it is written:
“Whoever the recipient,
whatever the gift, it is the
Supreme, the Eternal in
things, who receives and
accepts it.”
The Synthesis
of Yoga, p. 101-102
*
Happily for the poor creature which is sacrificed! Perhaps it
goes straight to the Divine.
It would be very
interesting to see…. Imagine a man who wants to win the Divine’s favour, or
t
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21 March 1956
Sweet Mother, here it is
written: “There is one funda-
mental perception indispensable towards any
integral
knowledge…. It is to realise the Divine in its essential self and
truth”
The Synthesis of Yoga, A. 106
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How can one understand the
Divine?
By being Him, my child. And that is the only way: by identity.
As Sri Aurobindo says, “We know the Divine and become the Divine, because we are
That already in our secret nature.” It is because He is the very essence of our
being that we can become Him and, consequently, understand Him; otherwise it would
be quite impossible.
How can we find the Divine
within ourselves?
Well, it is
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22 August 1956
Sweet Mother, what does Sri Aurobindo call “the
heaven of the liberated mind”?
The heaven
of the liberated mind? It is a metaphorical phrase. When the mind is liberated,
it rises to celestial heights. These higher regions of the mind Sri Aurobindo
pares with the sky above the earth; they are celestial pared with the ordinary
mind.
Is that all?
(Silence)
Somebody has asked me a question about trance — what in India is
called Samadhi, that is to say, when one passes or enters into a state of which
no conscious memory remains when one wakes up:
“Is the state of trance or Samadhi a sign of progress?”
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4 July 1956
Sweet Mother, it is said that if
one sees a shooting
star and at that moment
one aspires for something,
that aspiration is
fulfilled within the year. Is this true?
Do you know what that means? ― The aspiration must be
formulated during the time the star is visible; and that doesn’t last
long, does it? Well, if an aspiration can be formulated while the star is
visible, this means that it is all the time there, present, in the forefront of
the consciousness ― this does not apply to ordinary things, it has nothing to do
with that, it concerns a spiritual aspiration. But the point is that if you are
able to articulate your spiritual aspiration just at that m