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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-05/2 September 1953.htm
2 September 1953
“All religions have each the same story to
tell. The
occasion for its birth is the coming of a great Teacher
of the world.
He comes and reveals and is the incar-
nation of a Divine Truth. But men seize
upon it, trade
upon it, make an almost political organisation out of
it. The
religion is equipped by them with a govern-
ment and policy and laws, with its
creeds and dogmas,
its rules and regulations, its rites and ceremonies all
binding upon its adherents, all absolute and inviolable.
Like the State, it too
administers rewards to the loyal
and assigns punishments for those that revolt
or go
astray,
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24 June 1953
“The beings of the vital world are
powerful by their
very nature; when to their power they add knowledge,
they
become doubly dangerous. There is nothing to be
done with these creatures; you should
avoid having
any dealings with them unless you have the power to
crush and
destroy them. If you are forced into con-
tact with them, beware of the spell
they can cast.
These vital beings, when they manifest on the physical
plane,
have always a great hypnotic power; for the
centre of their consciousness is in
the vital world and
not in the material and they are not veiled or dwarfed
by
the material consciousness as h
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5 August 1953
Does the psychic being always progress?
There are
in the psychic being two very different kinds of progress: one consisting in
its formation, building and organisation. For the psychic starts by being only
a kind of tiny divine spark within the being and out of this spark will emerge
progressively an independent conscious being having its own action and will.
The psychic being at its origin is only a spark of the divine consciousness and
it is through successive lives that it builds up a conscious individuality. It
is a progress similar to that of a growing child. It is a thing in the making.
For a long time, in most human beings the psychic is a being in the
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8 April 1953
“One of the commonest forms of ambition is
the idea
of service to humanity. All attachment to such service
or work is a
sign of personal ambition.”
Questions and Answers 1929 (14 April)
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Why do you say that this is ambition?
Why do you
want to serve humanity, what is your idea? It is ambition, it is in order to become
a great man among men. It is difficult to understand?.. I can see that!
The Divine is everywhere. So if one serves
humanity,
one serves the Divine, isn’t that so?
That’s
marvellous! The clearest thing in this matter is to say: “The Divine is in me.
If I serve myself, I am also serving the Divine!” (Laugh
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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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