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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-07/17 August 1955.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-07/25 May 1955.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-07/26 October 1955.htm
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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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-07/19 October 1955.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-07/10 August 1955.htm
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,
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-07/16 March 1955.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-07/9 February 1955.htm
9 February 1955
This talk is
based upon Bases of Yoga, Chapter 4,
“Desire – Food - Sex”.
Sweet Mother, here we
have: “The Sun and the Light
may be a help, and
will be…”?
Obviously
it is someone who had written an experience in which he was in contact with a
sun and a light, and he wanted to take the support of these as a help in the
sadhana. It is the answer to an experience.
Sweet Mother, is desire
contagious?
Ah,
yes, very contagious, my child. It is even much more contagious than illness.
If someone next to you has a desire, immediately it enters you; and in fact it
is mainly in this way that it is caught. It passes from one to another…
T
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-07/23 November 1955.htm
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November 1955
Mother reads from {The Synthesis of Yoga},
“The Four Aids”.
I did not understand the last part very well.
Which last part, my child?
“... the sadhak of the integral Yoga will not be satis-
fied until he has included all other names and forms
of Deity in his own conception”.
Yes.
Why? It says what it means. What is it
that you don't understand there? What don't you understand?
I don't understand the meaning.
(Silence)
But my child... You are told: there is
only one reality and all that is is only a multiple expression of a single
reality. Therefore, all the divine manifestations, all the forms it has ta
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-07/14 December 1955.htm
14 December 1955
Mother reads from (The Synthesis of Yoga),
“Self-Consecration”.
Sweet Mother, I haven't understood this paragraph
very well.
Which paragraph?
“The powers of this world and their actual activities,
it is felt, either do not belong to God at all or are for
some obscure and puzzling cause, Maya or another, a
dark contradiction of the divine Truth.”
It is a certain attitude which produces
this. He says it earlier, doesn't he? He explains it. There is an attitude in
which all material things appear to be not only not the expression of the
Divine but incapable of becoming that and essentially opposed to the spiritual
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-07/8 June 1955.htm
8 June 1955
Mother reads from Sri Aurobindo's Lights on
Yoga, “The Goal”.
Now then! We shall have impromptu,
improvised questions, not prepared ones. (To
a child) You have any?
Sweet Mother, here it is written: “This liberation, per-
fection, fullness
too must not be pursued for our own
sake, but for the sake of the Divine.” But
isn't the
sadhana we do done for ourselves?
But he stresses precisely that. It is
simply in order to stress the point. It means that all this perfection which we
are going to acquire is not for a personal and selfish end, it is in order to
be able to manifest the Divine, it is put at the service of the Divine. We do
not pu