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September 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's
Bases
of Yoga, Chapter 1. The book is
comprised
of extracts from letters written
in reply to the
queries of disciples.
“The forces that stand in the way of sadhana are the
forces of the lower mental, vital and physical nature.
Behind them are adverse powers of the mental, vital
and subtle physical worlds. These can be dealt with
only after the mind and heart have become one-
pointed and concentrated in the single aspiration to
the Divine.”
So?...
Sweet Mother, what are the adverse powers of the
subtle physical?
What are the adverse forces? There are as
many
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7 July 1954
A few days before
this class, Mother told the
children that she would proceed
differently
Aurobindo's The Mother. She herself (not the
children as previously) would read out pas-
sages from the book. Each child was
asked to
read beforehand the chapter to be taken up in
class and to prepare a questions based upon it.
The following talk is based upon Chap-
ter I of The Mother.
Sweet Mother, it is written here: “A....
submission... of
the inner Warrior who fights against obscurity and
falsehood.”1 Who is this “inner Warrior”?
It is the vital being when it is
converted. The vital turned completely to the Divine is like a
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November 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases
of
Yoga, Chapter 2, “Faith – Aspiration –
Surrender”.
“In this Yoga all depends on whether one can open
to the influence or not. If there is a sincerity in the
aspiration and a patient will to arrive at the higher
consciousness in spite of all obstacles, then the open-
ing in one form or another is sure to come.”
“The opening in one form or another is sure to
come”... Are there many kinds of openings?
Oh, yes! First of all there are many
different parts of the being and each one can open in its own way, you see; the
mental opening and the vital opening are very different i
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August 1954
This talk is based upon Chapter 6 of The Mother by Sri
Aurobindo.
Sweet Mother, I didn't understand this: “This is the
power of Mahalakshmi and there is no aspect of the
Divine Shakti more attractive to the heart of embodied
beings.”
That means men. It is another way of
saying human beings upon the earth, beings upon earth. There are also... it
means animals also. She is very, very loving towards animals and animals love
her very much; even the most ferocious ones become very gentle with her, and
that is why instead of using the words “human beings”, he has used “embodied
beings”, beings with a body upon earth.
(Silence)
Questions?
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3 March 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“The Fear
of Death and the Four Methods of
Conquering It”.
Sweet Mother, I did not understand the ending, the
last paragraph: “There
is yet another way to conquer
the fear of death, but it is within the reach of
so few
that it is mentioned here only as a matter of informa-
tion. It is to
enter into the domain of death delibe-
rately and consciously while one is still
alive, and then
to return from this region and re-enter the physical
body,
resuming the course of material existence with
full knowledge. But for that one
must be an initiate.”
What do you want to say? You hav
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14 July 1954
This talk could not be recorded very
clearly
because of the noise of the fireworks cele-
brating the French Republic Day.
The talk is based upon Chapter 2 of The
Mother by Sri Aurobindo.
Sweet Mother, does Sri Aurobindo make a difference
between the Divine
and the Shakti? Here he speaks of
“surrender of oneself and all one is and has
and every
plane of the consciousness and every movement to the
Divine and the Shakti”.
He has said that the Divine is the
Supreme. That's the origin. He has said, hasn't he? at the very beginning of
this chapter, I think, he has said, “The Divine...”
(The child reads the text) “...through
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November 1965
This talk begins with Mother's comments on
the message distributed on the Darshan
day of
November 24th.
“It is certainly a
mistake to bring down the light by
force ― to pull it down. The
Supramental cannot be
taken by storm. When the time is ready it will open
of
itself ― but first there is a great deal to be done
and that must be done patiently and without haste.''
Sri Aurobindo
*
It is good
for reasonable people. They will say, “There, he does not promise miracles.''
Why? Do many people have
the tendency to “pull
down''?
People are
in a hurry, they want to see the results immediately.
And then, they
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January 1970
I don't know very well
what attitude to take. I may
however simply put into a
question the problem that
is troubling me: is
everything directed?
You know, my
child, more and more and in an absolute way, I see
– I see – yes, I see, I feel: everything has been decided.
Everything decided.
And
everything has its reason for existence, which eludes us because our vision is
not wide enough.
And you understand, life, existence, indeed the world itself would
have no sense if it were otherwise.
Yes.
It is... it
is a kind of absolute conviction. And I see it. Yes, it is a thing I see.
How to say it?... I am now p
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Notes On The Way
7 October
1964
Things have clearly taken a turn for the better, not from the
ordinary point of view but from the higher. Yet the material consequences are
still there – all the difficulties are as though aggravated. Only, the power of
the consciousness is greater – clearer, more precise, and also the action upon
those who are of good will; they make quite considerable progress. But the
material difficulties are as though aggravated, that is to say, it is... to see
if we can stand the test!
It is like that.
It isn't long (since yesterday), something has cleared in the
atmosphere. But the way is still long – long, long. I feel it is very long. One
must
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22 January 1966
I experienced this morning, for two hours, a kind of blissful
state in which there was such a clear consciousness that all the forms of life,
in all the worlds and at all moments, are the expression of a choice ― one chooses to be like that.
It is very difficult to say with words.... The kind of obligation
in which one believes oneself to be living, to which one believes oneself to be
submitted, had completely disappeared, and it was quite a spontaneous and
natural perception that the life upon earth, and the life in other worlds, and
all kinds of life upon earth and all kinds of life in other worlds are simply a
question of choice: you have chosen to b