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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-07/22 June 1955.htm
22 June 1955
Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “Planes
and
Parts of the Being”.
How can one awaken his Yogashakti?
It depends on this: when one thinks that
it is the most important thing in his life. That's all.
Some people sit in meditation, concentrate
on the base of the vertebral column and want it very much to awake, but that's
not enough. It is when truly it becomes the most important thing in one's life,
when all the rest seems to have lost all taste, all interest, all importance,
when one feels within that one is born for this, that one is here upon earth
for this, and that it is the only thing that truly counts, then that's enough.
O
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15
June 1955
Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “The Goal”.
Sweet Mother, what is “dynamic realisation”?
It is the realisation which is expressed
in action. There is a realisation in inaction like that of those who enter into
contemplations from which they don't come out, and who don't move; and then
there is a dynamic realisation which transforms all your action, all your movements,
all your way of being, your character. In the first case one's outer being
remains the same, nothing changes, and usually it destroys all possibility of
action, one can no longer do anything, one remains seated... In the second
case, it changes everything, your character, your way of
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2 February 1955
This talk is
based upon Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3,
“In Difficulty”.
What is the meaning of
“you must take the right attitude”?
He has explained this before. The right attitude is the attitude of trust, the
atti-
tude of obedience, the attitude of consecration.
“Let nothing and nobody
come between you and the
Mother's force… “
Who is this person?
This
person? Anybody at all. Anybody at all who… There are all kinds of ways of
letting someone come between you and the divine force. First of all it is to
attach a very great importance to your relation with someone. It is to listen
to the advice given to you by someone who
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March 1955
This talk is based
upon Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5,
“Physical Consciousness, etc.”.
Sweet Mother, here it is written: “There
is a Yoga-
Shakti lying coiled or asleep… “ How can it
be awak-
ened?
I think it awakens
quite naturally the moment one takes the resolution to do the yoga. If the
resolution is sincere and one has an aspiration, it wakes up by itself.
In fact, it is perhaps its awakening which gives the aspiration to do
yoga.
It is possible that it is a result of the Grace… or after some
conversation or reading, something that has suddenly given you the idea and
aspiration to know what yoga is and to practise it. Sometimes
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17 August 1955
Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “Surrender
And Opening”.
Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of “a horizontal
opening into the cosmic consciousness”?
You see, one always has the feeling either
of a vertical ascent to the heights of the Supreme Consciousness or a kind
of... how to put it?... horizontal widening into a universal consciousness.
A universal consciousness means becoming
aware of the forces which manifest in the universe and in all that is
manifested. For example, just this: there are many people here; well, let us
take these people as representing the universe. Now, if you want to unite with
them, you have a movemen
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25 May 1955
Mother reads from
Sri Aurobindo's The Human
Cycle, Chapter
14, “The Suprarational Beauty”.
I
can see that you haven't understood three-fourths of the thing. Now we shall go
slowly, step by step.
(To a child) Ask a question
just from where it begins; simply say, “Here, what does this mean?”
Here, Sweet Mother, it is
written: “…the intellectual
reason may well be an
insufficient help and find itself,
not only at the end
but from the beginning, out of its
province and
condemned to tread… diffidently…”
So?
So, by what do we begin
if it is not by the intellect?
By
what should one begin?
Yes, with the help of
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26
October 1955
Mother reads from {The Synthesis of Yoga},
“The Four
Aids”.
No questions!
There aren't any questions here, it is
clear as crystal.
Here it is written: “The word within may be the utter-
ance of the inmost soul in us which is always open to
the Divine or it may be the word of the secret and
universal Teacher” Why are they different, the
Divine and the universal Teacher?
The universal Teacher is only an aspect of
the Divine, you see. The Divine contains all the possible activities; the
Teacher is only one activity, the One who teaches. Sri Aurobindo
means that either it is a direct contact with the Divine or a contact
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19
October 1955
Mother reads from Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis
of Yoga, “The Four Aids”.
Sweet Mother, here: “Last comes the instrumentality
of Time, Kala; for in all things there is a cycle of
their action and a period of the divine movement….
“ What is this period of the divine movement?
For each thing it is different.
For each activity, each realisation, each
movement, there is a definite period of time, which differs. There are
countless periods of time which are entangled; but each thing is regulated by a
kind of rhythm which is this thing's own rhythm.
You see, for the facility of their
outer existence, men have divided time m
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10 August 1955
Mother reads from Lights on Yoga, “Surrender
and Opening”.
Here we are. Nothing to ask? Nobody has
anything to say?
(Silence)
We can meditate for five minutes. Let us
try collective meditation, shall we? It's going to be a little difficult. We
can try.
You would like to try on what we have
read?
Do not think, just concentrate like this:
let what we have read enter into you, and try to experience it; try.
Don't try to think, to turn over ideas,
have answers to questions, nothing of all that. Just remain like this (gesture), open.
It was about opening, right through. You
should let what was read enter into you, and then,
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16 March 1955
This talk is based
upon Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5,
“Physical
Consciousness, etc.”. This evening the
reading ends with the following lines:
“The subconscient is the main cause why all
things
repeat themselves and nothing ever gets
changed ex-
cept in appearance. It is the cause why
people say
character cannot be changed, the
cause also of the
constant return of things one hoped to have
got rid
of for ever… All too that is
suppressed without being
wholly got rid of sinks down there
and remains as
seed ready to surge up or sprout up at any
moment.”
But it is not
hopeless, because if it were hopeless never could we