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26 September 1956
“All or most of the works of life are at present or seem
to be
actuated or vitiated by the soul of desire; even
those that are ethical or
religious, even those that wear
the guise of altruism, philanthropy, self-sacrifice,
self-
denial are shot through and through with the threads
of its making. This
soul of desire is a separative soul
of ego and all its instincts are for a separative self-affir-
mation; it pushes always, openly or under more or
less shining masks, for its own growth, for possession,
for enjoyment, for conquest and empire.”
The
Synthesis of Yoga, A. 164
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Sweet Mother what is the “soul of desir
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25 April 1956
“Beyond the limited human
conception of God, he will
pas s to the one divine Eternal….”
The
Synthesis of Yoga, p. 121
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What man calls God is a limited consciousness of God, not the full
consciousness of God; so he will go beyond this limited consciousness of God
and towards the true Divine.
Sri Aurobindo means that
man has a limited knowledge, a limited consciousness and perception and
experience of God, not the full
experience of the Divine, and that he must pass beyond this knowledge and
perception in order to go to the vaster and truer perception.
Sweet Mother, the justification
of earthly existence…
Yes, the justification of
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8 February 1956
Sweet Mother, I have not
understood this: “At best we
have only the poor relative freedom which by us is
ignorantly called free will. But that is at bottom illu-
sory, since it is the
modes of Nature that express them-
selves through our personal will; it is force
of Nature,
grasping us, ungrasped by us
that determines what we
shall will or how we shall
will it. Nature, not an inde-
pendent ego, chooses what object
we shall seek, whe-
ther by reasoned will or
unreflecting impulse, at any
moment of our existence.”
The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 88
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Not understood? What do you mean, “not understood”? It’s a fact,
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12 September 1956
Sweet Mother, do we have a right to ask questions if
we don't practise what you say?
You always
have the right to do anything! (Laughter) You may ask all the questions
you like. Practise? Fundamentally, it is up to each one to choose, isn't it? — whether he wants to practise or not,
whether he considers it useful or not. That is something which cannot be
imposed; it must be done freely. But one may always ask questions.
Well, I am going to ask a question: “Why don't people practise?”
Do you know why they don't practise?
(Mother asks others in turn.) And you? And you?...Bah! Do you} know?
Perhaps because one is lazy!
That is on
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27 June 1956
Last week I spoke to you about
birth: how souls enter a body; and I told you that the body is formed in a very
unsatisfactory way for almost everyone ―exceptions are so rare that one
can hardly speak of them.
I told you that due to this
obscure birth one arrives with a whole physical baggage of things which
generally have to be got rid of, if one truly wants to progress, and someone
has quoted my own sentence which runs like this:
“You are brought here by force,
the environment is imposed on you by force, the laws of atavism of the milieu
by force…”
And now the person who wrote to me has asked
me who does all that.
Of course I could have
been more e
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December 1956
“Not to go on for ever repeating what man has already
done is our
work, but to arrive at new realisations and
undreamed-of masteries. Time and
soul and world are
given us for our field, vision and hope and creative
imagination
stand for our prompters, will and thought
and labour are our all-effective
instruments.
“What is there new that we have yet to accom-
plish? Love, for as yet we have only accomplished
hatred and self-pleasing; Knowledge, for as yet we
have
only accomplished error and
perception and con-
ceiving; Bliss, for as yet we have only accomplished
pleasure and pain and indifference; Power, for as yet
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14 November 1956
Mother
finishes reading Part One of The Syn
thesis
of Yoga.
Now we have
finished. Do you have something to ask about this subject, in conclusion? What
are your reflections? Your comments?
(Silence)
All right. What effect has this had on you? Has it helped you, did
you have the impression that it put you on the way, that it gave you the key of
the discovery?
Didn't you think anything? Didn't you feel anything, experience
anything? You did not…did you listen?
(Long silence)
Now the last question; if you do not answer, we won't talk about
it any more: Did this make you want to do yoga or not?
(Mother looks around.) A n
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4 April 1956
“On one side, he [the seeker] bees aware of a
witness recipient observing experiencing Consciousness
which does not appear to
act but for which all these
activities inside and outside us seem to be
undertaken
and continue. On the other side he is aware at the
same time of an
executive Force or an energy of Pro-
cess which is seen to constitute, drive and
guide all
conceivable activities and to create a myriad forms
visible to us and
invisible and use them as stable sup-
ports for its incessant flux of action and
creation.
Entering exclusively into the witness consciousness he
bees silent,
untouched, immobile; he sees that he
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11 April 1956
“On one side, he [the seeker]
is aware of an infinite
and self-existent Godhead in being who contains all
things in an ineffable potentiality of existence, a Self
of all selves, a Soul of
all souls, a spiritual Substance
of all substances, an impersonal inexpressible
Exist-
ence, but at the same time an illimitable Person who
is here
self-represented in numberless personality, a
Master of Knowledge, a Master of
Forces, a Lord of
love and bliss and beauty, a single Origin of the
worlds, a
self-manifester and self-creator, a Cosmic
Spirit, a universal Mind,
a universal Life, the con-
scious and living Reality
supporting the ap
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Sri Aurobindo says that the
union has a threefold cha-
racter: first, the liberation
from the Ignorance and
identification with the
Real and Eternal….
This is the yoga of knowledge.
Then the dwelling of the soul
with or in the Divine….
That is the aim of the yoga of love.
Then, identity of nature,
likeness to the Divine: “to
be perfect as That is
perfect.”
The
Synthesis of Yoga, p. 122
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That is to say, not only is there union in the depths, but there
is also union outwardly, in the activities. There is union in knowledge, union
in love and union in works. To put it otherwise: the yoga of knowledge, the
yoga of love