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8
December 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases
of Yoga, Chapter 2,
“Faith – Aspiration –
Surrender”.
Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of “the psychic
surrender in the physical”?
Why, we spoke about it last time, didn't
we? I think so. It is the psychic surrender expressing itself in the physical
consciousness; that is, the physical consciousness takes an attitude of psychic
surrender. The physical consciousness receives the influence of the psychic and
takes the attitude which psychic surrender gives. We said that; I am sure I
said something very much the same.
(To
a child) And you, you said you had something?
Here it is sai
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25 August 1954
This talk is based
upon Chapter 6 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo.
“There are other great Personalities of the Divine
Mother, but they were
more difficult to bring down
and have not stood out in front with so much
promi-
nence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are
among them Presences
indispensable for the supramen-
tal realisation, – most of all one who is her
Person-
ality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and
Ananda which flows from
a supreme divine Love, the
Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the
high-
est heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest
abysses of Matter, the Ananda that holds the k
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27 January 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“Physical Education”.
Mother, does a person's
body-formation express his
character?
No. Even the character itself is not a simple affair, that is, the
character of a person is not the expression of his true being but the result of
many things. For example, atavism may be expressed, that is, what comes from
the father, the mother, from both together which may have a different result;
from what has gone before them – the past history, grandfathers,
great-grandfathers, etc., and then from the environment in which people have
lived when they were very young and had no independence at all. That has a
consid
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21 July 1954
This talk is based upon Chapter 3 of The Mother
by Sri Aurobindo.
Which of you did not ask questions last
time?... The first one!
What is the difference between “the divine, spiritual
and supramental
Truth?”
If I could only hear what you are saying,
it would be easier!
(The child repeats the same questions more distinctly.)
The divine truth...
“...spiritual and supramental.”
I don't think there is much difference!
Sweet Mother, what does a “candid” faith mean?
Candid? It is simple, sincere and does not
doubt. We speak mostly of the candour of a child, who has a simple faith
without any doubts.
Sweet Mo
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24 February 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“Psychic Education and Spiritual
Education”.
Sweet Mother, here you have said: “From beyond the
frontiers of form a
new force can be evoked, a power
of consciousness which is as yet unexpressed
and
which, by its emergence, will be able to change the
course of things and
give birth to a new world.” Is the
force you are speaking about the Divine?
What do you call the Divine? Give me your
definition of the Divine. We have already dealt with this here once.
All that is upon earth is the expression of the Divine?
No, I am asking you what you call the
Divine. You have an ide
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9 June 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's
Elements
of Yoga, Chapter 11, “Transformations”.
“Q: When a sadhak gets dreams signifying some spirit-
ual truth, does it not indicate that his nature is getting
transformed?”
“A: Not necessarily. It shows that he has more con-
sciousness than ordinary people, but dreams do not
transform the nature.”
If you read a book it will help you to
transform yourself. But it is not the book which will transform you. A dream is
an indication, it gives you the exact picture of what is going on within you,
of the state you are in, of the state of your surroundings, and with these
indications you can do wh
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22
December 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of
Yoga, Chapter 3, “In Difficulty”.
When a being is possessed by a hostile force, what
becomes of his psychic?
It depends on the degree of the
possession. Usually it is something progressive. First there is an influence
under which one comes, and comes in a fragmentary way, not even totally in his being,
but in certain parts and for a time. This is the first stage. The second: the
influence becomes permanent and there is one part of the being which
deteriorates, which is constantly under this influence and expresses it. After
this, the being which has cast this influence tries to enter that part.
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28 July 1954
This talk is based upon Chapter 4 of The Mother by Sri
Aurobindo.
“Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this
force in its manifestation
on earth works on the vital
and physical planes and is indispensable to the
fullness
of the outer life. In its origin and its true action it be-
longs to the
Divine. But like other powers of the
Divine it is delegated here and in the
ignorance of the
lower Nature can be usurped for the uses of the ego
or held by Asuric influences and perverted to their
purpose.”
How does money manifest on other planes?
What other planes? He speaks of the vital
and physical, doesn't he?... that it i
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8
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