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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/CWMCE/Questions and Answers_Volume-08/15 August 1956.htm
15 August 1956
“It is here that the emergence of the secret
psychic
being in us as the leader of the sacrifice is of the
utmost importance;
for this inmost being alone can
bring with it the full power of the spirit in
the act, the
soul in the symbol. It alone can assure, even while the
spiritual
consciousness is incomplete, the perennial
freshness and sincerity and beauty
of the symbol and
prevent it from being a dead form or a corrupted
and
corrupting magic; it alone can preserve for the act
its power with its
significance. All the other members
of our being, mind, life-force, physical or
body con-
sciousness are too much under the control of
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7 March 1956
Sweet Mother, what is this form
of sacrifice in which
animals are slaughtered upon
altars?
It is certainly one of the obscurest and most unconscious. And the
sacrifice spoken about here and in the Gita, is the sacrifice one makes of
oneself, not of others.
Because here it is written:
“Whoever the recipient,
whatever the gift, it is the
Supreme, the Eternal in
things, who receives and
accepts it.”
The Synthesis
of Yoga, p. 101-102
*
Happily for the poor creature which is sacrificed! Perhaps it
goes straight to the Divine.
It would be very
interesting to see…. Imagine a man who wants to win the Divine’s favour, or
t
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21 March 1956
Sweet Mother, here it is
written: “There is one funda-
mental perception indispensable towards any
integral
knowledge…. It is to realise the Divine in its essential self and
truth”
The Synthesis of Yoga, A. 106
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How can one understand the
Divine?
By being Him, my child. And that is the only way: by identity.
As Sri Aurobindo says, “We know the Divine and become the Divine, because we are
That already in our secret nature.” It is because He is the very essence of our
being that we can become Him and, consequently, understand Him; otherwise it would
be quite impossible.
How can we find the Divine
within ourselves?
Well, it is
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22 August 1956
Sweet Mother, what does Sri Aurobindo call “the
heaven of the liberated mind”?
The heaven
of the liberated mind? It is a metaphorical phrase. When the mind is liberated,
it rises to celestial heights. These higher regions of the mind Sri Aurobindo
pares with the sky above the earth; they are celestial pared with the ordinary
mind.
Is that all?
(Silence)
Somebody has asked me a question about trance — what in India is
called Samadhi, that is to say, when one passes or enters into a state of which
no conscious memory remains when one wakes up:
“Is the state of trance or Samadhi a sign of progress?”
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4 July 1956
Sweet Mother, it is said that if
one sees a shooting
star and at that moment
one aspires for something,
that aspiration is
fulfilled within the year. Is this true?
Do you know what that means? ― The aspiration must be
formulated during the time the star is visible; and that doesn’t last
long, does it? Well, if an aspiration can be formulated while the star is
visible, this means that it is all the time there, present, in the forefront of
the consciousness ― this does not apply to ordinary things, it has nothing to do
with that, it concerns a spiritual aspiration. But the point is that if you are
able to articulate your spiritual aspiration just at that m