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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-04/22 February 1951.htm
22 February 1951
“Yoga means union with the Divine, and the
union is
effected through offering – it is founded on the offer-
ing of yourself
to the Divine.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (28 April)
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What is the
difference between surrender and offering?
The two words are
almost synonymous: “I make the offering of myself and I surrender myself”, but
in the gesture of offering there is something more active than in the gesture
of surrender. Unfortunately, soumission,
in French, is not the true word; in English we use “surrender”; between the
words “surrender” and “offering” there is hardly any difference. But the F
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-04/23 April 1951.htm
23 April 1951
Mother reads Sri Aurobindo's
“The Divine
Superman” (Cent. Vol. 17, p. 74).
“Thou must reach thy own summit,” says Sri
Aurobindo. Is the summit the same for everybody
or does each one have his
particular summit ?
In the last analysis,
it is always the same summit- the divine oneness which is behind all things-
but everyone will reach his own summit, that is, through his own nature and own
way of manifesting the divine unity. This is what we were saying the other day:
each one represents a special way of having a relation with the Divine and
manifesting the Divine. You don't need to follow ano
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-04/19 March 1951.htm
19 March 1951
“Mind is one movement, but there are many
varieties
of the movement, many strata, that touch and even
press into each
other. At the same time the movement
we call mind penetrates into other
planes... Now,
there are mental planes that stand high above the vi-
tal world
and escape its influence; there are no hos-
tile forces or beings there. But
there are others and
they are many that can be touched or penetrated
by the
vital forces.”
Questions and
Answers 1929 (26 May)
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Which mental plane are you speaking of ?
Of the physical
mind. Certainly not of the higher mind, f
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26 February 1951
Mother reads a question asked during her talk
in 1929:
“In the initial
stages of Yoga, is it well for the Sa-
dhaka to read ordinary books?”
Questions and Answers 1929 (28 April)
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It is a question I
have been asked many times. If someone can tell me the effect on him of the
reading of ordinary books, it will interest me very much.
Ordinary books
tire me.
It is a good sign.
They give rest to
the mind and have no effect on me.
No! The
subconscient records everything, and if you have the impression that an
ordinary boo
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26 March 1951
“At every moment one must know how to lose
all in
order to gain all.” What does this mean ?
We have already
spoken about this. When we enter upon the path of yoga, why do our dear ones
leave us ? One loses all worldly possessions, all one's attachments; sometimes,
even, one loses one's position, and to gain what ? – the most important thing,
the only thing which is valuable: the divine Consciousness. And to gain this one
must know how to lose all the goods of this world, to let go of all one's
possessions, all desires, all attachments, all satisfactions; one must know how
to lose all this if one wants to get the divine Con
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12 February 1951
“Some persons ask: `Why has not the Divine
come
yet?' Because you are not ready. If a little drop makes
you sing and dance
and scream, what would happen
if the whole thing came down?
“Therefore do we say to people who have
not a
strong and firm and capacious basis in the body and
the vital and the
mind: `Do not pull', meaning `Do not
try to pull at the forces of the Divine,
but wait in
peace and calmness.' For they would not be able to
bear the
descent. But to those who possess the neces
sary basis and foundation, we say,
on the contrary,
`Aspire and draw.' For they would be able to receive
and yet
not b
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January 1951
“The
vital being in us is the seat of impulses and de-
sires, of enthusiasm and violence,
of dynamic energy
and desperate depression, of passions and revolt. It
can set
in motion everything, build up and realise, it
can also destroy and mar
everything. It seems to be,
in the human being, the most difficult part to
train.
It is a long labour requiring great patience, and it de-
mands a perfect
sincerity, for without sincerity one
will deceive oneself from the very first
step, and all
endeavour for progress will go in vain.”
“The
Science of Living”, On Education
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It is very difficult to find the bo
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11
January 1951
Mother comments upon some of the qualities
enumerated in her article “What a Child
Should Always Remember”
(On Education).
“To
be modest”
This is to take oneself at one's true worth.
Generally people pass from an excessive
appreciation of their personal value to an equally excessive discouragement.
One day they say, “I am wonderful”, and the next day, “Oh! I am good for
nothing, I can do nothing.” That is like a pendulum, isn't it? There is nothing
more difficult than knowing exactly what one is; one must neither overrate
oneself nor depreciate oneself, but understand one's limits and know how to
advance towards the ideal
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7 April 1951
Mother reads a
question put to her in 1929 by an English disciple:
“If the Divine that is all love is the
source of the crea-
tion, whence have come all the evils that abound upon
earth?”
Questions and Answers 1929 (30 June)
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Whence come the
evils ?... Who is going to answer me ? A philosophic answer, a scientific
answer, a psychological answer and a poetic answer !
They come from the same source as
ignorance and
obscurity.
A mystic answer, a
religious answer. Oh ! You have no imagination !
In order that the work on earth may b
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19 February 1951
To be able to enter the “earth-memory”
consciously,
a discipline is needed.¹ What discipline?
A discipline much more
difficult than the discipline of yoga! It is an occult discipline.
First of all, one must learn to go out of
one's body consciously and to enter into another more subtle body; to use one's
will to go where one wants to go, never to fear and sometimes to face
unexpected and even terrible things; to remain calm, to develop the mind's
visual sense, to accustom one's mind to be altogether peaceful and quiet...You
know, the list is long and I could continue like this for hours!
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