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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/10 November.htm
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November 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases
of Yoga, Chapter 2, “Faith – Aspiration
– Surrender”.
What does this mean exactly: “In Yoga it is out of
the inner victory that there comes the outer con-
quest”?
Yes. First you must attain the true
consciousness, be in contact with the Divine and let Him govern your action;
and then you can act upon outer circumstances, even actions, and overcome outer
difficulties. You must have the inner experience first before hoping to be able
to [...]¹ something external. In fact everything is founded upon an awareness
of the divine Consciousness, and unless this is done all the rest is uncertain.
Not
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/24 November.htm
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November 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases
of Yoga, Chapter 2,
“Faith – Aspiration –
Surrender”.
“To keep the psychic awake and in front”: what does
“in front” mean, Sweet Mother?
That is to say, in the forefront of the
consciousness, instead of being pushed behind, in a background which is only
very rarely seen; to keep it right in front of the consciousness, in the active
consciousness. In any case, you must want it and try to do it.
“Desire... leads to pulling down
the force”: what does
this mean?
You see, one has an aspiration for Light,
for Knowledge, for all kinds of things. Now, if a desire is mixed with
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/31 March.htm
31 March 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“The
Four Austerities and the Four
Liberations”, Part I.
“...the vital has three sources of subsistence. The one
most easily accessible
to it comes from below, from
the physical energies through the sensations.
“The second is on its own plane, when it is
suffi-
ciently vast and receptive, by contact with the univer-
sal vital forces.
“The third, to which it usually opens only in a
great
aspiration for progress, comes to it from above
by the infusion and absorption
of spiritual forces and
inspiration.”
Sweet Mother, here I have not understood. You have
said: “... a
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/07 April.htm
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April 1954
This talk is based upon Mother's essay
“The
Four Austerities and the Four
Liberations”, Part II.
“When a thought is expressed in speech, the vibration
of the sound has a
considerable power to bring the
most material substance into contact with the
thought,
thus giving it a concrete and effective reality. That is
why one must
never speak ill of people or things or
say things, which go against the
progress of the divine
realisation in the world. This is an absolute general
rule. And yet it has one exception. You should not
criticise anything unless at
the same time you have the
conscious power and active will to
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/29 December.htm
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December 1954
This
talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases
of
Yoga, Chapter 3, “In Difficulty”.
So? (To a child) No questions? (To
another) You have a question?
Sweet
Mother, why is it said that “those who have
the greatest power for Yoga... have too, very often...
the greatest imperfections”?
Why is it like that? (Silence)
Because one must have a very strong, very powerful nature, with great inner
strength in order to have a great capacity for yoga; and very strong natures
have also very strong difficulties.
People who are neutral, dull,
unimportant, usually go their own little way without being disturbed very much.
But they cannot do a
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April 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's
Elements
of Yoga, Chapter 3,
“Aspiration”.
Mother, what is an “acute resistance”?
Acute? Acute is used in a figurative see. Acute
describes something pointed, don't you know? – and
perhaps this means an aggressive, sharp resistance which sinks deep like a
claw.
I did not understand very well the answer to this
questions: “Does the power of aspiration vary in differ-
ent sadhaks
according to their natures?”[Sri Aurobindo's answer: “No. Aspiration is the same
power in all; it differs only in purity, intensity and object.”]
Ah! Yes.
You see, I think the question has been put
badly. I belie
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/03 February.htm
3 February 1954
This talk is based upon Mother’s essay
“Vital Education”.
“In
some ancient initiations it was stated that the num-
ber of sees that man can
develop is not five but seven
and in certain special cases even twelve. Certain
races
at certain times have, out of necessity, developed more
or less perfectly
one or another of these supplement-
ary sees. With a proper discipline
persistently fol-
lowed, they are within the reach of all who are
sincerely
interested in this development and its results.
Among the faculties that are
often mentioned, there is,
for example,
the ability to widen the physical con-
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September 1954
This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of
Yoga, Chapter 1, “Calm – Peace – Equality”.
When one detaches oneself from the thought-mind,
does the mind continue to think?
Usually it continues to think, but this
does not affect you any longer. It is not exactly “thinking”, it is like a
market-place, you see. Things come, circulate, turn around, go out, come back,
cross, sometimes collide. It is absolutely like a market-place. These things go
on like that (Gestures).
The factory of thoughts is... this does
not occur very often. Some people have a particular kind of occupation which
lies in giving a particular form to the thought-forc
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11 August 1954
This talk is based upon Chapter 6 of The Mother
by Sri Aurobindo.
At the very beginning is written: “The four Powers of
the Mother.” Which
are these four powers, Sweet
Mother?
These!
The aspects, aren't they, Mother?
(Long
silence)
Yes.
What does this mean: “The Supreme is...
manifested
through her in the worlds as the one and dual con-
sciousness
of Ishwara-Shakti and the dual principle of
Purusha-Prakriti.... “?
What does this mean? It means what it
says. (Laughter) It means that in the world the single force of the creating
energy is divided in all the manifestation, even the most contrary
manifesta
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/31 December.htm
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December 1954
New Year's Eve. After a meditation, Mother
distributes her New Year's Message to every-
one.
I am going to read the prayer to you in French – it is a message not
a prayer – in French and in English. And then I have brought two of Sri
Aurobindo's replies to questions which have not been published anywhere, and
you will be the first to hear them. And then two... not poems, some lines; a very short little
poem and just a stanza from another poem, which are a magnificent illustration
of our message for the next year.
This message was written because it
is foreseen that next year will be a difficult year and there will be many
inner struggles and