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18 April 1956
“At one pole of it the seeker
may be conscious only
of the Master of Existence putting forth on him His
energies of knowledge, power and bliss to liberate and
divinise; the Shakti may
appear to him only an imper-
sonal Force expressive of these things or an
attri-
bute of the Ishwara. At the other pole he may
encounter the World-Mother, creatrix of the universe,
putting forth the gods and the worlds and all things
and existences out of her spirit-substance. Or even if
he sees both aspects, it
may be with an unequal sepa-
rating vision, subordinating one to the other,
regard-
ing the Shakti only as a means for approaching the
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19 December 1956
“Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised pos-
sibles. It
veils an advanced state and a yet unaccom-
plished
journey.
“If thou wouldst have humanity advance, buffet all
preconceived ideas. Thought thus smitten awakes and
becomes creative. Otherwise it rests in a mechanical
repetition and mistakes that for its right activity.
“To rotate on its own axis is not the one move-
ment for the human soul. There is also its wheeling
round the Sun of an inexhaustible illumination.
“Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and
act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all
real act is a thought manifested
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11 July 1956
I have received three
questions, one of which would require some fairly unpleasant remarks which I
don’t want to make to you…. There are two others here which I could perhaps
answer: One is about a sentence in
The Synthesis of Yoga where Sri
Aurobindo speaks of the psychic being as “insisting” on
“beauty restored to its
priesthood of interpretation of
the Eternal.”
The Synthesis of Yoga p. 146.
I have been asked what this means.
To tell the truth, I
don’t know why; I don’t know if it is the old ascetic idea that beauty has no
place in yoga, or if it is the word “priesthood” of interpretation of the
Eternal, for which an explanation is bein
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28 March 1956
“If a departure from the world
and its activities, a
supreme release and quietude were the sole aim of the
seeker, the three great fundamental realisations¹ would
be sufficient for the fulfilment of his spiritual life:
con-
centrated in them alone he could suffer all other divine
or mundane knowledge to fall away from him and
himself disencumbered depart into the eternal silence.
But he has to take account of the world and its acti-
vities, learn what divine truth there may be behind
them and reconcile that apparent opposition between
the Divine Truth and the manifest creation which is
the starting-point of most spiritual experi
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3 October 1956
I have a whole flood of questions here! But before beginning to
answer them, I am going to explain something to you.
You must have noticed on several occasions that my way of talking
to you is not always the same. I don't know if you are very sensitive to the
difference, but for me it is quite considerable...Sometimes, either because of
something I have read or for quite another reason — following
a question sometimes, but pretty rarely — it so
happens that I have what is usually called an experience, but in fact it is
simply entering into a certain state of consciousness and, once in that state
of consciousness, describing it. In that case what is said pass
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12 December 1956
Straight away we are leaping into the greatest difficulty! I
believe this one paragraph alone will be enough for this evening:
“What I cannot do now is the sign of what l shall do
hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning
of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was
a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal
created it out of His being.”
Thoughts
and Glimpses, Cent. Vol. 16, p. 378
*
Do you know
why this seems paradoxical to you? It is simply because Sri Aurobindo has not
put in the guide marks of the thought, hasn't led you step by step from one
thought to another. It is nothing else. It is al
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30 May 1956
“The Yogin’s
aim in the sciences that make for know-
ledge should be to discover and
understand the work-
ings of the Divine
Consciousness-Puissance in man
and creatures and things
and forces, her creative si-
gnificances, her execution of
the mysteries, the sym-
bols in which she arranges the
manifestation.”
The
Synthesis of Yoga, p. 133
*
I have already told you, explained to you, that outer forms, if
looked at not in themselves, for themselves, in their outer appearance alone,
but as the expression of a deeper and more lasting reality, all these forms ― as indeed all circumstances
and events ― all become symbolic of the Force
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11 January 1956
Mother, “this craving life-force or
desire-soul in us has
to be accepted at first, but
only in order that it may
be transformed.”
The Synthesis
of Yoga, p. 77
*
But even when we understand that it
is a desire and
must be rejected, there are difficulties in discerning if
it is a desire leading us to
the Divine or if it is purely
desire.
One deceives oneself only when one wants to deceive oneself. It is
very, very different.
But within, one understands.
Good. Well, then that’s enough, if one understands somewhere,
that’s enough. Is that all? No questions?
Mother, on January 6 you said, “G
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17 October 1956
Is delight the highest state? And if so, could it be
said that when one loses delight, one's consciousness
is lowered?
Sri
Aurobindo has said that the universe is built upon the delight of existence and
that delight, being its origin is necessarily also its goal, so this would mean
in fact that delight is the highest state.
But I don't need to tell you that this is not delight as it is
understood in the ordinary human consciousness….Indeed, that delight is beyond
the states which are generally considered as the highest from the yogic point
of view, as for instance, the state of perfect serenity, of perfect equality of
soul, of absolute detachmen
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9 May 1956
Sweet Mother, where does our
true spiritual life begin?
The true spiritual life begins when one is in communion with the
Divine in the psychic, when one is conscious of the divine Presence in the
psychic and in constant communion with the psychic. Then the spiritual life
begins, not before. The true spiritual life.
When one is united with
one’s psychic being and conscious of the divine Presence, and receives the
impulses for one’s action from this divine Presence, and when the will has
become a conscious collaborator with the divine Will that is the
starting-point.
Before that, one may be
an aspirant to the spiritual life, but one doesn’t have a spiritu