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8
January 1951
Mother reads out her article “What a Child
Should
Always Remember” (On Education).
You
say that one should have “the certitude of Truth's
final victory”. But doesn't
this certitude seem very dif-
ferent from, and often the very opposite of, what
one
teaches in ordinary life?
Yes. Generally it is believed that things always end badly in
Nature. Everyone knows the story of those who have met a lamentable end after
having enjoyed great success in their life; of those who had extraordinary
capacities and who finally lost them; of a nation which for a long period was
the model of a marvellous civilisation – the civilisation vanishes
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21 April 1951
“[This yoga] cannot be done if you insist
on identifying
these lowest things of the Ignorance with the divine
Truth or
even the lesser truth permissible on the way.
It cannot be done if you cling to
your past self and
its old mental, vital and physical formations and
habits;
one has continually to leave behind his past
selves and to see, act and live
from an always higher
and higher conscious level. It cannot be done if you
insist on `freedom' for your human mind and vital ego.
All the parts of the
human being are entitled to express
and satisfy themselves in their own way at
their own
risk and peril,
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15 February 1951
Mother reads the beginning of her talk of
21 April 1929 about dreams and visions.
Often I have dreams about railways. I
often miss the
train...
It is quite
symbolical!
... because I have too much luggage. I run
after it and
at times I succeed in catching up with it and jumping
into the
last coach.
The train, the
ship, and I suppose the aeroplane also are for those who do yoga, symbols of
the way and of the Force that leads you – if you lose your time or if you have
too much luggage or if you think of it too late, well, you miss the way and you
must run
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May 1951
“Chance can only
be the opposite of order and har-
mony. There is only one true harmony and that
is the
supramental – the reign of Truth, the
expression of
the Divine Law. In the Supermind,
therefore, chance
has no place. But in the lower Nature, the supreme
Truth is
obscured: hence there is an absence of that
divine unity of purpose and action
which alone can
constitute order. Lacking this unity, the domain of the
lower
Nature is governed by what we may call chance
– that is to say, it is a field
in which various con-
flicting forces intermix, having no single definite aim.”
“Chance”, Questions and Answers 1929-31
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25 December 1950
A disciple explains to the children that the
shortest day of the year corresponds to the
greatest declination of the sun to the south,
about the 21st of December; then the sun
again
mounts to the north.
Mother comments:
That is why the
25th of December was a festival of Light long before Jesus Christ. This
festival was in vogue long before Christianity; it originated in Egypt and very probably
the birthday of Christ was fixed on the same day as that of the return of the
Light.
Then Mother reads
the first part of her article
“Energy
Inexhaustible” (On Education).
How is it that as mental activities increase
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May 1951
“Harmony and beauty of the mind and soul,
harmony
and beauty of the thoughts and feelings, harmony and
beauty in every
outward act and movement, harmony
and beauty of the life and surroundings, this
is the
demand of Mahalakshmi... Where love and beauty
are
not or are reluctant to be born, she does not come.”
Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, p. 31
*
When the
surroundings, circumstances, atmosphere, the way of living and above all the
inner attitude are altogether of a low kind, vulgar, gross, egoistic, sordid,
love is reluctant to come, that is, it always hesitates to manifest itself and
generally doe
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23 December 1950
Mother reads out her article “Concentration
and
Dispersion” (On
Education), then comments
on it:
To solve a
problem, to learn a lesson, a lot of concentration and attention is needed, everyone
knows that – an intellectual attention and concentration. But concentration is
not only an intellectual thing, it may be found in all the activities of the
being, including bodily activities. The control over the nerves should be such
as would allow you a complete concentration on what you are doing and, through
the very intensity of your concentration, you acquire an immediate response to
external touches. To attain this concentration you need a
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24 March 1951
You say, “Love is everywhere. Its movement
is there
in plants, perhaps in the very stones....”¹ If there is
love in a
stone, how can one see it ?
Perhaps the
different elements constituting the stone are coordinated by the spark of love.
I am sure that when the Divine Love descended into Matter, this Matter was
quite unconscious, it had absolutely no form; it may even be said that forms in
general are the result of the effort of Love to bring consciousness into
Matter. If one of you (I have my doubts, but still) went down into the
Inconscient, what is called the pure Inconscient, you would realise
what it is. A stone
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May 1951
Mother reads the first part of Chapter 6 of The Mother
by Sri Aurobindo.
What is a “hierarchy”?
It is a grouping
organised in order of merit. For instance, you have a chief at the centre and
you may have four persons around him, and around these four, 8, then 12, 24,
36, 48,124, and so on, each with his special mission, his special work, his
particular authority, and all referring in an ascending order to the centre.
That is a hierarchy. In governments they try to form hierarchies, but these are
untrue, they are arbitrary and not worth anything. But in all ancient
initiations there were hierarchies which were
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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)
*
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