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18 November 1953
“In rebirth it is not the external being,
that which is
formed by parents, environment and circumstances, -
the mental,
the vital and the physical, - that is born
again: it is only the psychic being
that passes from
body to body. Logically, then, neither the mental nor
the
vital being can remember past lives or recognise
itself in the character or
mode of life of this or that
person. The psychic being alone can remember; and
it is by becoming conscious of our psychic being that
we can have at the same
time exact impressions about
our past lives.
Besides, it is much more important for us
to fix
o
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1 July 1953
“The human being is at home and safe in
the material
body; the body is his protection. There are some who
are full of
contempt for their bodies and think that
things will be much better and easier
after death with-
out them. But in fact the body is your fortress and
your
shelter. While you are lodged in it the forces of
the hostile world find it
difficult to have a direct hold
upon you… Directly you enter any realm of this
[vi-
tal] world, its beings gather round you to get out of
you all you have, to
draw what they can and make it
a food and a prey. If you have no strong light
and
force radiating from within y
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8 July 1953
“The mind is an instrument of action and
formation
and not an instrument of knowledge; at each moment
it is creating
forms. Thoughts are forms and have an
individual life, independent of their
author: sent out
from him into the world, they move in it towards the
realisation of their own purpose of existence. When
you think of anyone, your
thought takes a form and
goes out to find him; and, if your thinking is
associa-
ted with some will that is behind it, the thought-form
that has gone out
from you makes an attempt to real-
ise itself.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (19 May)
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Do prayers and aspirations al
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22 April 1953
The following brief passage about sleep
and
dreams, is part of a longer, incompletely re-
corded talk.
When one sleeps, how can one distinguish
the nature
of the visions?
They do not
leave the same impression at all.
In
order to know things well, one must educate oneself, develop the conscious being.
But there are all kinds of different things, there are mental and vital
projections exactly as in the cinema; then there are visions you may have if
you are exteriorised in the mental and vital regions; the great difference is
that these dreams are imposed upon you, you are taken in...1 Here a
whole passage is missing. Then there are coun
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13 May 1953
“There are some who, when they are sitting
in medi-
tation, get into a state which they think very fine and
delightful.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (21 April)
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What is this state?
Whatever it
may be, they think their state is delightful and remarkable. They have a very
high opinion of themselves. They believe they are remarkable people because
they are able to sit quietly without moving; and if they don’t think of
anything, that is remarkable. But usually it is a kind of kaleidoscope that is
going on in their head, they do not even notice it. Still, those who can remain
for a moment without moving, without speaking and thinking, hav
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27 May 1953
“There is a state of consciousness in
union with the
Divine in which you can enjoy all you read, as you
can all you
observe, even the most indifferent books
or the most uninteresting things. You
can hear poor
music, even music from which one would like to run
away, and yet
you can, not for its outward self but
because of what is behind, enjoy it. You
do not lose
the distinction between good music and bad music, but
you pass
through either into that which it expresses.
For there is nothing in the
world which has not its
ultimate truth and
support in the Divine.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (28 April)
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15 July 1953
“Each man has some fad or one preferred
shibboleth
or another, each thinks that he is free from this or
that prejudice
from which others suffer and is willing
to regard such notions as quite false;
but he imagines
that his is not like theirs, it is for him the truth, the
real
truth. An attachment to a rule of the mind is an
indication of a blindness
still hiding somewhere.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (19 May)
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Are superstitions mental rules?
No, not
rules but mental formations. Generally a superstition originates in an experience.
For instance, there is a certain superstition in Europe, and you are told:
“Never wa
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30 December 1953
What do you mean by the instinct of
destruction in
children?
It is not
there in all children. I have known many who, on the contrary, were very
careful.
Children
are not as “concretised”, materialised in their physical consciousness as older
people - as one grows up, it is as though one is coagulated and becomes more
and more gross in one’s consciousness unless through a willed action one
develops otherwise. For instance, the majority of children find it very
difficult to distinguish their imagination, their dreams, what they see within
themselves from outer things. The world is not as limited as when one is older
and more precise. And they ar
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16 December 1953
Sweet Mother, you have said: “…Many
methods have
been framed to attain this perception [of the psychic
being in us]
and finally to achieve this identification
[with the psychic being]. Some
methods are psycho-
logical, some religious, some even mechanical.”
“The Science of Living”, On Education
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Will you give some examples of this?
Mechanical,
these are the Asanas, Hathayoga. It is done with this intention. Religious,
these are for those who believe in a particular religion and pray and perform
religious ceremonies. When one believes in a religion – no matter which – one
abides by the discipline of the religion and p
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24 October 1956
I have something here, I don't know if it will take us very far,
but still it will make a good change. All these last few weeks the subject was
always progress: how to progress, what hindered progress, how to use the supramental
Force, etc. This is going on, I have a whole packet still! But we may change
the subject for once.
Someone has asked me a question about death: what happens after
death and how one takes a new body.
Needless to say, it is a subject which could fill volumes, no two
cases are alike: practically everything
is possible in the life after death as everything is possible on earth when one
is in a physical body, and all statements when