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I've received a letter from a friend in France who
speaks at length of someone who has written three volumes entitled
"Gnosis."
Ohh!
That person lives in Switzerland, he's a Russian
named B.M. He has a center with disciples. I asked for his photograph
and I'd like you to help me understand what type of man he is.
(Mother studies the photo) He is an intellectual, at any rate
- clearly not a spiritual man. He may have some vital powers (that's
generally what gets hold of people). Yes, an intellectual, an idealist.
Do you have his handwriting?
No.
He's terribly well-mannered, that's what bothers me! (l
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In some instances, my work has been thoroughly mucked up, and I don't like that.
It happened again recently: K.'s sister came because she had lost
her son - it had just occurred and he was still here (he hadn't left
yet). So I arranged everything, saw to the mother's condition and so
forth; I arranged it all nicely, very carefully keeping the son here and
telling his mother he would shortly return in some family member.
Everything was well organized.
But naturally that was against "the rules" - I make a habit of
doing everything against the rules, otherwise there would be no point in
my being here; the rules could just go on and on!
They have found some letters -- some old letters -- from Sri
Aurobindo to Barin and the lawyer[[C.R. Das, Sri Aurobindo's lawyer in
the Alipore bomb case. There are three letters; one dated November 18,
1922, to C.R. Das, and the two others to Barin, Sri Aurobindo's younger
brother, dated November 18, 1922 and December 1, 1922. The letters are
included at the end of this conversation. ]] -- extraordinary! They are
incredible. They give the measure of Sri Aurobindo as a man of action.
Even in 1920, he intended to undertake an action. To organize centers
all over India, the world, oh!... a plan!... And that was before the
liberation of the country!
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The other thing was the tantric initiation. But I wanted the conditions
of this initiation to be at least as favorable as those in Rameswaram,
by which I mean conducted by someone very capable and as far as possible
free from the whole formalistic and external side. A TRUE initiation -
someone who would be capable of pulling down the Power and putting you
in conditions rigorous enough for you to be able to hold this Power, to
receive it and hold it.
page 244 - Mother's Agenda, volume 1, 22th
Nov. - 1958
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These past few days I have been reading Perseus [[Perseus the Deliverer, a play in five acts by Sri Aurobindo. ]] - it
was performed here, so I knew a little of it but it never much
interested me. But reading it the way I read now, I have found it VERY
interesting, I have discovered all kinds of things, all kinds.
Yes, I have noticed that in the space of (I don't remember when
we performed it,[[ The play was performed some eight years earlier, in
December 1954. ]] you were already here) ... between then and now there
is at least a good fifty years' difference - a fifty-year change in
consciousness.
But in practice, I am a
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The Mother's Symbol
The central circle represents the Divine Consciousness.
The four petals represent the four powers of the Mother.
The twelve petals represent the twelve powers
of the Mother manifested for Her Work.
January 24, 1958
The Mother
page 28 , Mother's Agenda , volume - 13 , 1972-73 , 12th January 1972 .
Do you happen to remember where I wrote the twelve attributes of the
Mother (the symbol with twelve petals)? There's one, four, and twelve.
Yes, I think it was for Auroville.
For Auroville? But I said it years ago....
I saw it recently.
The
Sri Aurobindo has written somewhere that the movement of world transformation is double: first, the individual who does sadhana [[Sadhana: spiritual quest and discipline. ]] and establishes
contact with higher things; but at the same time, the world is a base
and it must rise up a little and prepare itself for the realization to
be achieved (this is putting it simply). Some people live merely on the
surface - they come alive only when they stir about restlessly. Whatever
happens inside them (if anything does!) is immediately thrown out into
movement. Such people always need an outer activity; take J. for
example: he fastened onto Sri Aurobindo's phrase, 'World Union,