Question
Questions under several heads:
I Elementary
1. Difference between Purusha and the Psychic being.
2. Surrendering one's experience.
(The joy of belonging to the Divine is still egoistic. One should wish to be the Divine, not to belong to Him).
3. Traditional vision is a bridle on self-giving.[1]
4. Saint without saintliness.[2]
5. Order and organisation are a bar to progress. Both are necessary to progress.
6. Mind does not keep the memory. Psychic does.
7. Intellectuals are stupid.
Intellect seeks explanations,
Supermind offers power.
8. People do not see the difference between aspiration and desire.
9. Body understands when it is on the point of being able to do. When do mind and vital understand? (Mind understands when the ideas are in harmony. Vital understands when the energies are to be released because of harmony.)
10. Conscience is the adversary.
11. The dying man revived by Mother, putting him in contact with his body's will.
12. Mother's body is everywhere - as socialistic ideas are everywhere, Her body is everywhere since she acted on the body.
13. People coming to the Ashram now will find their difficulties unmanageable .[3]
14. Reversal of consciousness is proof of spiritual life.[4]
15. 'You' should surrender. Who is 'you'?
16. What should you do if the Psychic should come out in a few months?
17. Three intuitions: witness, subliminal and supramental intuitions? What is subliminal intuition?
18. 'The Mother in me guides' - where does The Mother dwell in the sadhak?
19. Was 'descent' unknown prior to Sri Aurobindo?
20. When you are in bliss, a single thought brings you down to pain.
21. Life functions through duality and gunas. Why?
22. What is the rationale of the four-fold personality?
23. The universal is informed of gunas. Why?
24. The world forces have always fulfilled Sri Aurobindo's will. Explain how?
25. Mother and Sri Aurobindo have given up readily whatever is to be given up, for exampe, Sri Aurobindo's smoking.
What is the difference between giving up slowly or readily?
26. The will is free.
Determinism of fate is true. - Reconcile both the statements.
27. Which mantra can I choose? Gayatri, 'Sri Aurobindo', 'The Mother', and on what basis?
28. How does Synthesis of Yoga differ from The Life Divine in conception and expression?
29. Yoga of Self-Perfection (Book IV) is comprehensive and inclusive of the yoga of Works, Knowledge and Love. Where do we have a glimpse of it in the 25 chapters?
30. Why does man have to pray?
(Because it is still in ascent and the descent is not yet established).
II Academic
(Questions that were raised and answered very clearly in his writing but which always are a question to the general, and often the specialized reader)
1. Difference between prayer and consecration.
2. Difference between cellular will and central will.
3. Our consciousness is the same as the Lord's Consciousness.
4. Supreme Presence without physical mind produces fainting.
5. 'that' and 'That'.
6. Body makes the constant Presence possible.
7. Memory makes sincerity incomplete.
8. Mother sees things materially.
9. Remove pain by putting your hand on the spot.
10. Grow by giving (manifestation of a higher plane into a lower plane).
11. Physical mind is modest.
Physical mind is the greatest support to ego.
12. If mind abdicates, man would die.
13. Supramental cure cannot be short-lived.
14. Body exists not by natural law, but by the Divine.
15. Theories of evil are childish.
16. Supermind acts from spiritual will straight to matter, avoiding mind. It also acts on the vital. Why should mind be avoided? How can it be avoided?
17. A power greater than the one that concentrates the cells in their forms - what is the latter power?
18. Fear is not a negative thing, it is very positive.[5]
19. A measure of sincerity - a power to express what is received.[6]
20. What if it is a test? Rain on December 2.[7]
21. Surrender does not imply Trust.[8]
22. Small errors lead to catastrophes.
Slight sincerity yields extraordinary results.[9]
23. Life conquering death is a progress in the same plane.[10]
24. Subconscious is defeatist. [11]
25. A child can destroy Europe. [12]
26. In the scale of yogic attainments how do we rate Silence and Ananda? Which is of greater value?
27. Why does the physical repeat?
(Because it has been given the dynamism to move and not the capacity to know).
28. To release the psychic lose all selfishness.
To release the spirit you must become selfless.
29. Define Silence, Peace, Light, Love, Delight, Power, Eternity, Immortality, Bliss, Purity, Infinity.
Constitution of mind makes Divine Consciousness sparkle as light.
III Serious and Interesting
(Questions for which answers are there in the writings but not at one specific point. The reader has to relate to more than one reference to ascertain the answer.)
1. What is reversal of consciousness?
2. What do we mean by experiencing Satchidananda in the physical sensation? What is its significance?
3. The rare adventure of raising the mind to Supermind.
4. Physical cannot change its consciousness while remaining unchanged?
5. Cancer of the Supramental being will remain cancer - what?
6. Avoidance of waste is blinkered sentimentality.
7. 'Shut up, you idiot', cures the disease. What is a disease? One in thousand is real.
8. Cellular and corporeal consciousness.
9. 'That' happens to sincere people.
10. Mother says you can switch in a minute.
11. Peace alone can give Eternity to Existence.
12. Supramental cannot be imitated? (Imitation is falsehood).
13. Physical has the taste of drama.
14. Mother left Her psychic in India.
She locked it up in 1950. It came out in 1963.
15. It is consciousness, not vision.
16. Intense aspiration is supramental vibration.
17. Westerners respond to a person - an ego. 'That is why I am here', Mother.
18. The healer receives from above, not from his body or Mother's.
19. Absence of accidents are natural to Supramental consciousness.
20. Constant presence of Ananda is a sign of Transformation.
21. The body does not have faith in its own faith. [13]
22. The faith of people is superstition.[14]
23. The same circumstance can either be good or bad.[15]
24. Mother asks us to become the Divine instead of worshipping Him. Does not the realised soul become the Divine?
IV Complex
(Questions which do not strike the reader at all and when raised, the answer presupposes a knowledge of the process of life, rather acute original thinking).
1. Psychic coming forward is essential for this yoga - why?
2. Why Mother could not see Sri Aurobindo until '59.
3. You need not pass through overmind to go to the Supermind. Can a person whose ego (mind) is not developed go to Supermind without developing ego (or mind)?
4. Physical mind transforming leads to Supramentalisation.
5. That being in the cells, nothing is impossible.
6. Direct action of matter on matter for healing.
7. If one body does it, all bodies can do it.
8. Endurance of the body comes when you come out of the rhythm of thought.
9. Mother only catches illness, never passes them on.
10. There is no difference between Mother's experience and that of the three people.
11. Mind cannot have lived understanding.
12. (Cells are the most fixed part of our being). Mother says cells have the possibility to bear transformation. If so, where does it come from?
13. Mother never tells people to purify themselves.
14. Body repeats mantra without consciousness intervening.
15. Eternity, not what lasts forever, but timelessness.
16. Physical matter is ill-treated since the advent of Man. So it expects only ill treatment.[16]
17. Power in action, not action on something. [17]
18. There is a Good which is not the opposite of Evil.[18]
19. Disorder arose when life entered matter.[19]
20. Tension releases power. [20]
21. Enter condition of no desire instead of renouncing it.[21]
22. Revolutions in February, catastrophes in November.[22]
23. Supramental becomes permanent only when it manifests in the physical mind - why not in the physical substance, why mind?[23]
24. Body feels a terrible force but cannot do a thing. [24]
25. Physical nature belongs to habit - why? Could be handled only by illness - why? [25]
26. The why of death is clear. The how of immortality...? [26]
V Unasked and Unanswered
(Questions that arise only when the mental experience becomes a yogic experience and which can be answered only on the basis of spiritual experience).
1. Transformation of matter must come from inside, it cannot be imposed from above.
2. Why or how is the Supramental substance denser than matter? Is not density indicative of darkness?
3. The mind of cells is repassing the process of human mental development to reach the key.
4. First time Instrument is made to work.
Supramental enriches the instrument.
5. What is the difference between Total Surrender and formidable will to want what the Divine wants?
6. A new intermediary between Psychic and the Physical.
7. Body is not all right when it asks why.
8. Mother never asked Him questions.
9. Long after I am buried, my cells will be conscious.
10. Receive it as Ananda and give it as Love. They are the same.[27]
11. Mind and vital are organised. Body is in cellular tension. It quickens only in trance. One can handle the mind and the vital but not the body. [28]
12. Remove fear - we can bear a great deal of pain.[29]
Body decides to bear - the acuteness of pain vanishes.
Have inner calm - the pain turns into a pleasant, comfortable sensation.
Cells have faith that everything is for the good - Ecstasy comes.
13. Work will be done automatically for all those who surrender in faith. [30]
14. How to get faith? By persisting to accomplish. [31]
15. Unwillingness is matter's egoism. [32]
16. Mechanicality of material inconscience yields to firmness. [33]
17. Torture and bliss at the same time. How can they co-exist?[34]
18. Mother needs a question to respond. [35]
19. Why should the concentration behind the heart reveal the psychic and not the Purusha?
20. When one deconditions himself of all that he has acquired since birth, what will be the state of his consciousness? Can he so decondition himself of his prebirth acquirement? If so, what will be the consciousness status?
21. (The same as 20) It is not as if the human raises itself to the Supramental plane to evolve further, but the human raises itself to the unmanifest Divine and monitors Supramental evolution in himself from the Supramental plane - comment?
Ram and Krishna are overmental divinities leading evolution in the human.
22. Are Ram and Krishna unmanifest Divine leading the evolution of the humanity from the overmental plane?
Is the parallel compelling? Or is it necessary? Does it exist?
23. Is not `hastening the evolution' out of place in the scheme of God and one which expresses more of the human urge than the Divine's purpose?
Here, the answer is that involution and evolution are His intentions, each giving its own order of delight, thus evolution being more delightful than the earlier involution. So, a quicker evolution gives greater delight, fulfilling the Divine Intention more fully.
As mental or vital work is more fully rewarding than the physical, this evolution, even from the human point of view, is spiritual work at the level of the physical substance. Hence it is of far greater interest than any we know of, including 'Let Thy will be done.'
24. 'Soul in the mind' is better than `Soul in the body'. What are the ways or the points of expression in yogic results this assumption generates?
25. If the way of works leads to love and knowledge, does it mean love, knowledge and works do meet somewhere? If so, which is that plane? Why?
26. Brahman-Maya, Ishwara-Shakti, and Purusha-Prakriti are certainly experiences of a different order but still mostly in the range of spiritualised mind. Is it possible to more clearly define the relationship of each of these experiences with the different levels of the spiritual mind or outside it?
27. 'My life-long refuge, eternal refuge to curl up in the Lord has been taken away'.
Is it better to call 'Mother' or keep quiet in Peace?
28. Why do physicality and hostility go together?
29. Purna yoga uses the powers of the soul in the mind. (S.Y. p. 586)
What are the powers of the soul in the mind?
Intelligence and such faculties are powers of the mind.
Surrender is not a power of the mind or any part of the being.
Surrender is a power of the soul.
No part of the being can be controlled by itself, much less surrender.
Statements of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo which require a rational explanation
1. Purna Yoga does not accept a human Guru.
2. Karma is wiped out by Mother's Consciousness.
3. Opportunities missed bring in catastrophes.
4. Don't complain against anyone, if you cannot change him.
5. Truth will not act in conditions of falsehood. (Unless Truth acts in conditions of falsehood how can falsehood be removed?)
6. Love purifies without transformation.
7. Ashram is a cradle of new civilisation.
8. Thought and will are together in Supermind.
9. If politics is to be avoided, how can the yogi influence politics?
10. Perhaps the present civilisation is a revival of an earlier civilisation which lapsed.
11. The cells know they are immortal. They do not know they can be transformed.
12. The body cures itself.
13. One in a thousand is a real disease.
14. Separation of the mental act from the Person makes you see the ego.
15. A leaf or a fruit or a cup of water is necessary as offering.
16. Siddhis come from the body consciousness.
17. If one body does it, every body can do it.
18. Twelve accomplished yogis are necessary.
19. Mother never believed in publicity.
20. Truth or the abyss.
21. At the end of the ascent to truth, it is not Truth that awaits, but a plunge into the unknown.
22. This yoga can be done only by the Divine.
23. Purna Yoga can be accomplished by descent, not by ascent.
24. You become that which you aspire for.
25. Knowledge is to be sought inside, not outside.
26. The world is not ready.
27. The soul goes to Satchidananda in sleep.
28. Intense aspiration is supramental vibration.
29. This is not the time for the dissolution of the physical ego.
30. Women can do yoga.
31. Man has lost many of his senses.
32. Auroville will prevent war.
33. Achieve in three months thirty years of result.
34. Wish fulfilment on seeing a meteor.
35. As soon as your letter reaches the Ashram, Mother begins to act, your problems are solved.
36. Even if you pray after the event, Mother grants.
37. Mother is able to rectify even past events.
38. The more truthful you are, the more prosperous you are.
39. Benevolent beings protect Her property.
40. Gods are a limitation of Her work.
41. She protects people forever, even if She had met them only for a second.
42. Overmind can be bypassed and Supermind reached.
43. Thought and will are fused together.
44. Flowers are a better medium for Mother.
45. Birthdays are special occasions.
46. World Forces always fulfilled His will.
47. Mother blesses thousands at one time.
48. Cleanliness... is very important. Why?
49. The broken machine at the Press worked.
50. Your past is revealed to you when you pass through the origin.
51. Your knowing your past helps, not when another tells you.
52. Work gives you greater progress.
53. She was never in trance.
54. Meditation is not necessary.
55. Sri Aurobindo emerges out of a photo.
56. Mother hears the calls of people.
57. Ashramites have disease because they have to.
58. Supramental cure is permanent.
59. Money must move.
60. Money must be won for the Divine.
61. Karma, if not repeated, vanishes.
62. Anyone can do anything.
63. If one subject is well learnt, education is over.
64. Concentrate on your body, you fall ill.
Concentrate on your heart, you are sad.
Concentrate on your mind, you go mad.
65. You will be happy if you do not expect others to do what you want.
66. Women are better links for the Supermind.
67. Violence can be used only in self-defence.
68. There is no difference between ordinary life and spiritual life.
69. You must love your enemy.
70. The Indian farmer is closer to the Divine.
71. The British have spoiled India.
72. India is the Guru of the world.
73. A child can destroy Europe.
74. Mother grants the highest aspiration.
75. Mother gives more than we ask for.
76. Mother gives unasked.
77. She gives everyone in the field where they pray.
78. She gives you work that you hate.
79. She gives exactly your need.
80. She creates new laws, rules.
81. She makes misers generous to you.
82. She cures you without medicine.
83. She cures you through medicine.
84. You reach the top of your profession.
85. She protects you without your knowing or Her knowing.
86. Faith cures 99%, grace 100%
87. Silent will effectuates itself.
88. Mother's consciousness is protective. How?
Sylvia of Australia.
89. At the end of work, one should feel joy.
90. Maximum utilisation brings in further supply.
91. Taking another man's point of view accomplishes more.
92. Evil cannot be conquered by Good.
93. There is a Good which is not the opposite of evil. [36]
94. You receive it as Ananda, give it as love. [37]
95. Cheerfulness is a better foundation than depression, for sadhana.
96. Mother is a Force in action.
97. Knowledge by identity.
98. Reversal of consciousness.
99. Supramental cannot be imitated.
100. Mother sees with eyes closed.
101. Give up the right to happiness to feel Ananda.
Renounce pleasure to express Ananda.
102. Pure physical.
103. Stomach is not sincere.
104. Mother's nights were conscious.
105. Long after my body is buried, my cells will be conscious.
106. The heart stopping is passage to Supramental.
107. Mantra is what wells up by itself.
108. Sri Aurobindo and Mother did not die after kundalini awakening.
109. Storm water did not enter Sri Aurobindo's room.
110. Conscience is an adversary.
111. Trust and surrender.
112. Ego served till now. Now it is a bar.
113. We must accept life.
114. Whatever happens to you is the best.
115. No methods like asanas are necessary.
116. His blessings come only through Mother.
117. Sun fades before the Lord.
118. Peace gives eternity to existence.
119. A part of Her was in ecstatic realisation.
120. She left Her soul behind.
121. During the days of Sri Aurobindo, there was no epidemic.
122. She locked the psychic in 1950.
123. The bottom was knocked out in 1950.
124. One of them had to go in 1950.
125. "People do not understand."
126. Perceiving a detail accurately means you are ready to carry it out.
127. Body understands when it is on the point of being able to do so.
128. Body understands that it cannot understand.
129. Contraries complement each other.
130. Mother controlled the inner and outer movements of upto one hundred and fifty sadhaks.
131. Mother and Sri Aurobindo came down from the mental to the vital plane and later to the physical plane. [38]
132. The Mother of Ananda would not stay here because people around Mother do not feel Her and She could not manifest. [39]
133. Goodwill and aspiration make Man lend himself to the process. [40]
134. Union of the Supreme creative principle was felt by Mother in the body. [41]
A supramental entity had possessed Mother. A physically visible light, a kind of a phosphorescence, not the golden light of the Supermind, was there.
135. There are mental, vital and spiritual freedoms. With the advent of the Supermind, there is a new freedom, a freedom of the body. [42]
This happens when kundalini rises, though difficulties may remain.
Freedom of the body made Mother understand the mechanism of transformation.
136. Qualities needed to pass various tests:
nature - endurance, plasticity, cheerfulness and fearlessness.
spiritual - aspiration, confidence, enthusiasm, generosity in self-giving.
hostile - vigilance, sincerity and humility.
137. Nature understood that Supermind does not reject her. [43]
Nature has accepted the new force. [44]
138. Joy and felicity are parts of bliss. [45]
139. Diamond light melts hostile forces. [46]
140. Man recognises that anger and such emotions are wrong but in his own mind recognises the validity of material laws like health, food, and so on. Material laws have no validity in the new manifestation.[47]
141. Concrete reality is false reality.[48]
(Money lent five years ago has no legal reality. A greedy man's expectation of the entire project for himself has no practical reality. Contractual obligations like higher pay for higher work has no political reality. Each is real in its own plane, not in a higher plane.)
142. "Do you want surrender from me?" - Mother
143. Do not think about any work you have to do till you take it up.
144. No comparison in the eternal history to the shock of 1950. [49]
145. The psychic being is the intermediary between body-consciousness and True consciousness. [50]
146. Contagion of physical vibration.[51]
147. Supramental action leaps over the mind. It contacts the vital centres without going through the mind, from Spiritual will straight to matter.[52]
148. Human consciousness responds to outside matter. Identification with the Supreme makes all movements inner. [53]
149. Sri Aurobindo has given his body for the joy of the Divine.[54]
150. Pain is the symbol of ignorance. [55]
151. Though great yogic achievements, all processes working through mind are useless and spoil the experience. [56]
152. Almost always aspiration is psychic.[57]
153. There is a Nirvana behind mind, vital and body.[58]
Death is the Nirvana behind the body.[59]
154. Mother had put a dying man in contact with his body's will.
Everything is organised to give every possible joy. [60]
155. Mother felt a power greater than the one which concentrates the cells into form.[61]
156. Knowledge of the therapeutic field is contrary to Truth. [62]
157. Eternity, not what lasts forever, but timelessness.[63]
158. Power in action, not an action on something.
159. Yantram is meant for child souls.[64]
160. Become greater than I - there will be no more asura.[65]
161. Fear is not negative.[66]
162. If you ask `what will happen?' even out of curiosity, it becomes illness. [67]
163. Physical matter is so ill treated since the advent of Man that it expects only ill treatment.[68]
164. To work against wastage is blinkered sentimentality.[69]
165. Pain
Remove fear - can bear much pain
Body decides to bear pain - acuteness of pain vanishes.
Have inner calm - pain turns into pleasant comfortable sensation.
The cells have faith that all is for the good - Ecstasy. [70]
166. The work will be done automatically for all those who surrender in faith. [71]
167. Renunciation is childish. To give up old knowledge in favour of the new knowledge hurts. This is taken as renunciation.[72]
168. A measure of sincerity - the power to express what is received. [73]
169. Body is normal when it does not feel itself living. [74]
170. God is there in Hell too. [75]
171. The peace that prevents disorder is beyond Time.[76]
172. Peace and tension coexist. Reversal is imperceptible. [77]
173. Tension releases Power. [78]
174. Enter condition of no desire instead of renouncing it or satisfying it. Both are impossible. [79]
175. Everyone is born with a special twist. [80]
176. Call in the Lord. Pain goes away without your noticing it.
If you do not have the ambition of doing 'great things', the greatest of experiences is at your disposal. [81]
177. Revolutions in February, catastrophes in November.[82]
178. Awake and will. [83]
Submitting to the worst, as if it is surrender, is superstition. [84]
179. Faith is created by persisting to accomplish. [85]
180. Resistance causes body to suffer. [86]
181. Change of the body must come from inside.[87]
182. Trying to abolish the physical mind is still activity. Give it up. Call only Peace.[88]
183. The 'true physical' vibration does not respond to Falsehood. Stone could not touch 'C'. [89]
184. Nerves calming down is felt as heaviness. [90]
185. A state where Matter is put in relation to the Divine alone matters.[91]
186. Metaphysics is most futile.
187. The only strength of the scientists which he calls as weakness.[92]
188. Mantras lose power when given out. When Mother gave Satprem a mantra it became more powerful.[93]
189. Mother walks with Krishna, Sri Aurobindo and Herself.[94]
190. Ask the cells for the cure.[95]
191. Harmony in its perception is Ananda.[96]
192. In the centre of the cells there is a faith, a need for Ananda.
The healthy man is really sick.[97]
193. To feel the need to experience the joy of giving to the divine work all that one has, one is and one does, is receptivity. [98]
194. When Satprem is cross, Mother is sick. [99]
195. The material mind likes and needs catastrophe. [100]
196. The sense of importance of the cells makes disease. [101]
197. Love can manifest when the physical mind stops.[102]
198. Dissolving the physical mind makes eternity real.[103]
199. If the changing of their initiating power by the cells remains, it is evident immortality.[104]
200. The minutes are long. [105]
(The hours are short).
201. One can be free in thought, feelings and even impulses but not in habit. [106]
Cells have a thirst for Truth.
What is received and manifested in Peace stays.
202. The mind of the cell is the intermediary which responds to unconsciousness.
The possession by an idea of the material mind causes illness in Sanyal.[107]
203. Transformation is possible because of human contact. [108]
Human contact must be given up to know what happens in the cells.[109]
204. Matter is defeatist. Defeatism came with the infusion of vital into Matter.[110]
205. Mind of the cells is repassing the process of human mental development to reach the key. [111]
206. With That in the cells, nothing is impossible.[112]
207. Process of change occurs at the part that is dead.[113]
208. It is cellular consciousness, not corporeal consciousness. [114]
209. Perfection of sincerity is possible only in the material consciousness. [115]
210. Divine is the greatest Egoist. [116]
211. Cells are heroic. [117]
212. One dies only when he chooses to die - true for all. [118]
213. Intellectual cannot distinguish between thought and consciousness. [119]
214. Physical suffering alone can lift matter out of inertia. [120]
Ignorance in matter is falsehood.
215. Body is becoming impersonal. [121]
216. Compassion, Grace [122]
217. Mother has seen That happening to sincere people. [123]
218. Mind needs an opposition to function.[124]
219. What men force is tamasic.
Strength is fantastically fast. [125]
220. Great experience always comes after the call of the cells.[126]
221. Physical has a taste for drama.[127]
222. Direct action of matter on matter.[128]
223. Critical hostile voice that questions from the physical. [129]
224. Body makes the constant presence possible. [130]
225. With one small inversion, Mind will become prophetic. [131]
226. If one body does it, every body can. [132]
227. Body fainted but was conscious.[133]
228. No need to pass through mental knowledge. [134]
229. Endurance comes when you come out of the rhythm of thought. [135]
230. Body is inside the consciousness. [136]
231. Patience is the essence of compassion. [137]
232. Preparation of abolition of death looks like announcement of death.[138]
233. Matter's knowledge has Power. [139]
234. Hostility is inside you. [140]
235. Mother sees materially . [141]
236. The idiot can be changed. [142]
237. Mother's body could dissolve by one disequilibrium. [143]
238. Mother only catches illness, never passes it on to others.[144]
239. Overmind is forced to respect individual freedom. [145]
240. To see sincere people is not tiring. [146]
241. In USA they do not have the intelligence to understand. [147]
242. Faith converts catastrophe into realisation. [148]
243. Vital being of Mother receives only from the psychic or Supreme. [149]
244. The mind does not keep memory. The Psychic does. [150]
245. Body is not all right when it asks why or how. [151]
246. Divine is not Supreme Consciousness. [152]
247. Form is the result of falsehood spread over the world. [153]
248. Only women know how to use power. [154]
249. Joy of belonging to the Divine is egoistic. [155]
250. Sri Aurobindo is in many places. [156]
251. Astronauts are big children. [157]
252. Body repeats the mantra without consciousness intervening. [158]
253. We need not intervene if we are identified with the Supreme. [159]
254. It is consciousness, not vision. [160]
255. If the mind abdicates, man would die. [161]
256. Mind cannot have lived experience. [162]
257. Mother is here because Westerners respond to a person, the ego. [163]
258. Healer receives from above, not from his body or Mother's. [164]
259. Mother expected the healer to cure her back. [165]
260. Parents purge themselves in the children. [166]
261. A little effort, great progress. [167]
262. The secret is to give, not to take.[168]
263. Lightness, luminosity, movement at will and invulnerability are supramental qualities. [169]
264. Perception has nothing to do with the senses. [170]
265. Don't worship, become the Divine. [171]
How is it different from Advaita.
266. Intentional wrong comes back to you. [172]
267. Horrible pains come to Mother from bad will. [173]
268. Healing without repression. Repression is due to moral notion. [174]
269. Separation creates evil. [175]
270. That is directing the universe in microscopic detail. [176]
271. Supreme Lord gave Mother the gift of belonging to Him fully in Her body. [177]
272. Finding the balance between two consciousness, we can recreate the Divine.[178]
273. Its sensations are fabricated. [179]
274. Sri Aurobindo's work in the subtle physical helped to change the physical structure. [180]
275. Absence of accidents is natural to the Supramental Consciousness. [181]
276. Pain is a fierce form of delight.[182]
277. Permanence without fixity. [183]
278. 'To be You' - body
You is not the Supreme.
279. Force flows through the body. A question creates a point. [184]
280. Mother cures someone identifying with her body. This is an example of Divine Will acting through the psychic. [185]
281. Material law can be changed if one is in the subtle physical. [186]
282. God laughs at us when our souls find our troubles disappearing as we stop worrying.[187]
283. Progress is possible if mind does not want to understand. [188]
284. Life is organised around the duality of good and bad. [189]
285. In the subtle physical the living and dead are together. [190]
286. Instead of rejecting the falsehood, seize the masked Truth. [191]
287. Kundalini rising did not give death to Mother or Sri Aurobindo. [192]
288. The body has a formidable power. [193]
289. Satprem's prayer for Mother was wonderful to Mother. [194]
290. Changing from sensation to consciousness, pain comes down. [195]
291. Ananda of creation for one or two hours.[196]
292. The secrets are simple. [197]
293. Take a leap into the Future.
294. Physical nature could be handled only through illness. [198]
295. Mother's pain did not concern Her. [199]
296. Mother is improving without Her will. [200]
297. Reversal of consciousness is proof of spiritual life. A new world brings a new reversal of consciousness. [201]
298. Use the one who created disorder to restore order. [202]
299. Faith of people is superstition. True miracle must follow natural rules. [203]
300. True victory, not for this side or that. [204]
301. Fear of difficulties out of Atavism. Fear of early man, loss of physical ego. [205]
302. Non-material suffering is childish to the body. [206]
303. It does not depend upon attitudes in the physical as in the vital.[207]
Cancer of the Supramental being will remain cancer.
304. Solidity of matter is an illusion. [208]
305. Entire earth, all human effort, is a deception. [209]
306. Mother has become circumstances. [210]
307. Active Silence. [211]
308. Pleasure and displeasure are possible only because of the body. [212]
309. Mother needs a question to respond. [213]
310. The why of death is clear. The how of immortality is not.[214]
Knowledge will come only after the experience. We have knowledge of death, not of immortality.
311. The same circumstances can either be good or bad. [215]
312. Sincerity with an intense realisation that All is His work can change pain into bliss.[216]
313. 'Things will be taken care of' is no longer sufficient. An absolute integrality, sincerity is needed.[217]
314. To merge the individual consciousness and total consciousness into a consciousness which is one at once, is the key. [218]
315. New mind is forming; so Mother is not able to speak. New health is forming, hence pain. [219]
316. We have a way of receiving things that creates difficulties. [220]
317. With the thing remaining as it is, if our reaction changes, difficulties will be removed even for material things.[221]
318. It is not even aspiration, an inescapable fact.[222]
319. Expecting others and life to behave as we like is the cause of suffering. [223]
320. Unification of the being around the psychic being creates sincerity. [224]
321. Sri Aurobindo's will never failed.[225]
322. Wonderful work for the Ashram - someone to go around to establish unity at a higher level.[226]
323. Human nature prefers defeats according to its own liking. [227]
324. Gods are not interested in earth.[228]
325. Mind was asked to let Nature take care of things. Now Nature is asked to let higher consciousness take care of them.[229]
326. Body should found itself on the consciousness, instead of the subconscient. [230]
327. Small error, great loss.
Small effort, great gains. [231]
328. Major change in life after the Descent.
It has lost its neutrality. It is compelled to change. [232]
329. Turning to Mother as a person is more effective than turning to Sri Aurobindo, That, the Force - Satprem. [233]
330. Joining the Ashram now will stir up difficulties.[234]
331. The body does not have faith in its own faith.[235]
332. Knowledge is not yet possible, faith alone can save. [236]
333. Life conquering death is victory in the same plane. [237]
334. Subconscious is defeatist. [238]
335. We are the Divine who has forgotten Himself. [239]
336. Sadness is superficial consciousness. [240]
337. Consciousness replaces thought. [241]
338. Everything that has to disappear has to pass through Mother's body. [242]
339. Firmness against material inconscience's repetition. [243]
What is Firmness?
340. The subconscient accumulates all contradictions.[244]
341. Mother is puzzled as to the change in Time sense. [245]
342. Mantra is Mother's external resource. [246]
343. You remember what the psychic participated in. Psychic is in the 4th dimension. [247]
344. Real force is in Silence. [248]
345. Mother's nervous system is transformed to the Supramental. [249]
346. It is not painful; Body is frightened as it is new. [250]
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[3] 1972, pg. 209
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[13] 1972, pg. 223
[14] 1971, pg. 126
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[16] 1963, pg. 255
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[23] 1972, pg. 59
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[25] 1971, pg. 23
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[27] 1963, pg. 227
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[32] 1972, pg. 82
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[34] 1973, pg. 355
[35] 1971, pg. 227
[36] 1963, pg. 311
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[41] 1954, pg. 86
[42] 1957, pg. 112
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