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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/06 October.htm
6 October 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of
Yoga, Chapter 1, “Calm – Peace –
Equality”.
“Absolute faith – faith that what is for the best will
happen, but also
that if one can make oneself a true
instrument, the fruit will be that which
one's will
guided by the Divine Light sees as the thing to be
done – kartavyam
karma.”
– Faith that always what is for the best
happens. We may for the moment not consider it as the best because we are
ignorant and also blind, because we do not see the consequences of things and
what will happen later. But we must keep the faith that if it is like that, if
we rely on the Divine, if we give
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December 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of
Yoga, Chapter 3, “In Difficulty”.
What is the meaning of “the mental witness”?
The witness we have spoken about several
times already, only here it is in the mind.
There are witnesses everywhere. It is a
capacity of the being to detach itself, to stand back and look at what is
happening, as when one looks at something happening in the street or when one
looks at others playing and does not himself play, one remain seated, looking
at the others moving but does not move. That's how it is.
In all the parts of the being there is one
side which can do this: put itself at the back, remain
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October 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of
Yoga, Chapter 1,“Calm – Peace
– Equality”.
Sweet Mother, what is “the freedom of the Self”?
It means that in the true inner being one
feels perfectly free, and is free from everything. One has the feeling of a
complete freedom free from all external influences, free from all lower
impulses, free from all bondage of thoughts, habits... (Silence) There, then.
(To
a child) Do you have a question?
Here I did not understand: “not to stand back for any
reason from her [the Mother's] solicitude”.
What? For no reason to stand back from her
solicitude? You do not understand that? Wh
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/29 September.htm
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September 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of
Yoga,
Chapter 1, “Calm – Peace –
Equality”.
“It is good for the physical to be more and more con-
scious, but it should not be overpowered by these
ordinary human reactions of which it becomes aware
or badly affected or upset by them. A strong equality
and mastery and detachment must come, in the nerves
and body as in the mind, which will enable the phy-
sical to know and contact these things without feeling
any disturbance; it should know and be conscious and
reject and throw away the pressure of the movements
in the atmosphere, not merely feel them and suffer.”
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October 1954
This talk is based
upon Sri Aurobindo's Bases of
Yoga, Chapter 1, “Calm – Peace –
Equality”.
Sweet Mother, what does “the reduction of the men-
tal being to the position of a witness” mean?
Have you never felt this? As though you
were a little behind or above things, and were looking at them taking place but
were not doing anything yourself? Witness means an observer, someone who looks
on and does not act himself. So, when the mind is very quiet, one can withdraw
a little in this way from circumstances and look at things as though he were a
witness, a spectator, and not participating in the action himself. This gives
you a great detachm
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-06/08 December.htm
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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