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Series Eleven

Series Eleven
Letters to a Sadhak
To a sadhak of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

How can my effort to serve the Divine become more
perfect?
By wanting Him more and more in every part of your being —
integrally.
11 October 1966

*
In 1958 the Mother said, “If things go on advancing at
this speed, it seems more than possible, almost evident,
that what Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter is a prophetic
announcement: The supramental consciousness will enter a phase of realising power in 1967.”1
Have things advanced at the required speed?
Yes.
2 January 1967

*
May I try to make my nights conscious? I pray for
guidance.
1) A short concentration before going to sleep, with
an aspiration to remember the activities of the night
when you wake up.


Questions and Answers 1957 – 1958, CWM, Vol. 9, p. 315.

2) When you wake up, do not make any sudden
movement of the head and keep still for a few minutes, with a concentration to remember what happened
during your sleep.
3) Repeat these exercises every day until you begin
to perceive a result.
18 January 1967

*
In the human being, is the psychic being the entire soul
or do both the soul (in its essence as a divine spark in all
creatures) and the psychic being exist together?
The soul is the eternal essence at the centre of the psychic being.
The soul is in fact like a divine spark which puts on many states
of being of increasing density, down to the most material; it is
inside the body, within the solar plexus, so to say.2 These states
of being take form and develop, progress, become individualised
and perfected in the course of many earthly lives and form the
psychic being. When the psychic being is fully formed, it is aware
of the consciousness of the soul and manifests it perfectly.
1 February 1967

*
As soon as I meet or see certain people, certain lower
and wrong vibrations arise in me. This is an invariable
habit, in spite of the fact that I want to get rid of these
reactions. What should I do?
The radical method is to cut off all mental and vital connection
with these people; but until you know how to do this, you


By “solar plexus”, the Mother is referring to the heart (not the navel) region; this is
clear from statements she has made elsewhere; see, for example, in Series Thirteen of
this volume, the last paragraph of her reply of 20 September 1969.



Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

must persistently eliminate from your consciousness the effect
produced by their influence.
18 February 1967

*
You have said: “The Divine is with you according to
your aspirations. Naturally, this does not mean that he
gives way to the fancies of your outer nature — I am
speaking here of the truth of your being. Moreover, he
sometimes moulds himself according to your outer aspirations, and if you live like the devotees who alternate
between periods of estrangement and embrace, of ecstasy
and despair, the Divine too will be farther from you or
nearer, depending on what you believe. The attitude is
therefore very important, even the outer attitude.”
What is the meaning of “outer aspiration” and
“outer attitude”? What is the best outer attitude?
Unless one practises yoga in the physical being (outer being), it
remains ignorant — even its aspiration is ignorant and so is its
goodwill; all its movements are ignorant and so they distort and
disfigure the Divine Presence.
That is why the yoga of the body-cells is indispensable.
25 February 1967

*
“The Dawn that does not pass away”3 — what spiritual
state does this marvellous dawn represent?
Perpetual renewal.
6 March 1967

*


The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, 24 August 1914.

This is how I understand the Purusha:
The Lord is the Supreme Purusha, the Purushottama.
The Atman is the universal Purusha.
The Jivatman is the individual Purusha, and the
physical Purusha, the vital Purusha, the mental Purusha
and the secret Purusha in the heart are projections of it.
The soul is the Purusha that enters into the evolution.
Is my understanding correct?
This is one way of putting it. Mental definitions are never more
than approximations, ways of speaking.
10 March 1967

*
My body is very weak and full of unconsciousness and
tamas. How can this body become Your good instrument?
At the centre of each cell lies the Divine Consciousness. By
aspiration and repeated self-giving, the cells must be made transparent.
18 March 1967

*
“To be aware of the consciousness of the soul” — is this
the same thing as uniting with the Divine?
To become aware of the consciousness of the soul is the surest
and easiest way of uniting with the Divine.
25 March 1967

*


Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

You give everything we need, but my capacity to receive
is very limited since it takes me a long time to assimilate
even the little I am able to receive. Untroubled, I pray:
How can the situation be improved?
This difficulty usually comes from a lack of unification of the
being. Certain parts are recalcitrant and refuse to receive. They
have to be educated little by little, just as one educates a child
— and little by little too the situation will improve.
7 April 1967

*
Looking at the present state of the world, we can say
that the worst has already happened. We await the day
when the Lord will take the earth into His arms and “the
earth will be transformed”. Is that day drawing near?
It may very well be that this is what is happening now — but it
is not on the human scale.
One moment of the Lord probably means many years for
us!
12 April 1967

*
Although there is a certain charm and poetry in the
fact that there is no formal date for the creation of
our Ashram, could it be said from the true occult point
of view that the Ashram was born with the Mother’s
arrival?
The Ashram was born a few years after my return from Japan,
in 1926.
17 April 1967

*




The Lord told You: “One day thou wilt be my head but
for the moment turn thy gaze towards the earth.”4
Sweet Mother, what does “thou wilt be my head”
mean?
The head is the original conceiving Consciousness.
22 April 1967

*
When I want to be closer to You, I see that I must overcome my ego. But when I think of overcoming my ego,
I see that I must be closer to You. How can I solve this
problem?
The Grace is there to solve it.
1 May 1967

*
How can I be Your good child?
By being yourself, quite simply, very simply.
5 May 1967

*
When I am able to offer You money or some object, it
brings me great joy, and when some part of my being
offers itself to You the joy I feel is greater still. But in
spite of this experience my whole being is not offered to
You. What stupidity! How can I change this?
We are made up of many different parts which have to be unified
around the psychic being, if we are conscious of it or at least
around the central aspiration. If this unification is not done, we
carry this division within us.


The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, 17 May 1914.



Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

To do this, each thought, each feeling, each sensation, each
impulse, each reaction, as it manifests, must be presented in the
consciousness to the central being or its aspiration. What is in
accord is accepted; what is not in accord is refused, rejected or
transformed.
It is a long endeavour which may take many years — but
once it is done, the unification is achieved and the path becomes
easy and swift.
10 May 1967

*
How can I get rid of the habit of feeling that I own the
material things that belong to me?
If you belong entirely and totally to the Divine, then all that belongs to you, all that forms part of your material being, belongs
to the Divine.
16 May 1967

*
Sometimes I think that the Agni You have kindled in me
is going to burn up everything that separates me from
You. What should I do to contribute to its fulfilment?
Each time that you discover in yourself something that denies
or resists, throw it into the flame of Agni, which is the fire of
aspiration.
19 May 1967

*
Is it possible to make my hands conscious so that they
do nothing imperfect, incorrect or wrong? What is the
way to do it, Divine Mother?
It is quite possible, by concentrating on the hands when they are
doing something.




The hands of painters, sculptors, musicians (especially pianists) are usually very conscious and always are skilful. It is a
question of training.
29 May 1967

*
I want to overcome a difficulty: it is that when I perceive
faults or weaknesses in myself, something tries to justify
them or to prevent me from attending to them.
This “something” is the insincerity of an ignorant self-esteem
which has not yet understood that it is nobler and loftier to
recognise one’s faults in order to correct them, than to conceal
them in the hope that they will not be noticed.
As for all psychological problems, here too sincerity, a total
and uncompromising sincerity, is the true remedy.
1 June 1967

*
Please tell me how I can get rid of the past, which clings
so heavily.
To get rid of the past is something so difficult that it seems almost
impossible.
But if you give yourself entirely and without reserve to the
future, and if this giving is constantly renewed, the past will fall
away by itself and no longer encumber you.
14 June 1967

*
One morning as I was reading Your book Prayers and
Meditations, I wished to know which movement comes
first, “to live in Thee” or “to live for Thee”. Before the
mind could set to work to find the answer, the reply that


Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

came to me spontaneously was this: “The two states are
complementary to each other.”
Yes, the two states are complementary, but that does not necessarily mean that they are simultaneous. Most often, “to live for
Thee” comes first and if the being is unified and sincere, “to live
in Thee” soon follows.
But of course, for the first to be perfect, the second must be
present.
24 June 1967

*
Your hands are open to give everything, but I can only
receive a small part of it because I am not receptive
enough.
This is the exact image of the state of the world which suffers
because it is not receptive, when it could live in beatitude if it
would open to the Divine Love.
But there is a remedy:
Sincere and constant aspiration.
6 July 1967

*
I have begun to see that both the personal effort of the
sadhak and its result depend on the Divine Grace.
About this, one could say humorously that we are all divine, but
we are hardly even aware of it, and what we call “ourselves” is
that in us which is unaware that it is divine.
13 July 1967

*
To establish the reign of the Divine on earth, who is
slower — man or the Divine Himself?




To man the Divine seems slow.
In the eyes of the Divine man is slow indeed!
But perhaps in these two cases, the slowness is not the same.
20 July 1967

*
May I know whether it is true that after death a dead
man very often returns in his daughter’s child?
First the dead man must have a daughter in order to be reborn
in her child.
It is not an absolute rule — far from it — but the case is quite
frequent in India where the belief in frequent reincarnations is
still quite common.
30 July 1967

*
I asked myself, “How can one express the inexpressible?” The reply came, “By living it, by becoming it, by
being it.” What does the Mother say?
That is correct.
7 August 1967

*
One thing escapes my understanding: how can You find
time to do all that You do? Perhaps physical time does
not exist for You!
The body is able to bear the pressure of time because it knows
and feels quite concretely that it does not itself live and act, but
that only the Supreme Lord exists and that He alone lives and
acts.
This, moreover, is the secret of all endurance.
12 August 1967

*


Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

Here is an amusing phrase from an anonymous author:
“Thank God, I am an atheist.”
The phrase would be even more amusing if he had written:
“Thank God for making me an atheist.”
22 August 1967

*
From what I understand, You said that the psychic beings
of the disciples of the Ashram all belong to the same family. In spite of this, there is often a lack of collaboration
among us. Why is that, Mother?
If I did say this (probably not quite in these words), it could only
refer to a universal family open to all differences and even all
divergences.
But in any case, mutual misunderstanding and lack of collaboration can only come from the outer physical and vital being
which is formed in this life and is not yet under the rule and
influence of the psychic. As soon as one is united with one’s
psychic, all the conflicts due to clashing bad wills can no longer
exist.
24 August 1967

*
How can one use shadow to realise the Light?
Painters use shadow to bring out the light.
Shadow is the symbol of the inconscient. This is where men
rest at night from the effort of the day to become conscious.
When consciousness becomes all-powerful, shadow will no
longer be necessary and will disappear.
4 September 1967

*




It is said that there are certain methods in the Tantras
to open the chakras from below, whereas in the integral
yoga the chakras open from above by the descent of the
Mother’s force.
What is the difference between the results of the
opening of the chakras in these two systems?
In Sri Aurobindo’s integral yoga, there are no such rigid rules
and distinctions. Each one follows his own path and has his
own experiences. Nevertheless, Sri Aurobindo has often said
and written that his yoga begins where the others leave off.
This is to say that yoga ordinarily consists in awakening the
physical consciousness and making it rise gradually towards the
Divine. Whereas Sri Aurobindo has said that to do his yoga,
one must already have found the Divine and united with Him —
then the consciousness descends through all the states of being
down to the most material, bringing the Divine Force with it so
that the Force can transform the whole being and finally divinise
the physical body.
20 September 1967

*
In the message for the radio You substituted the word
“union” for the word “unity”.5 May I know, Sweet
Mother, why this change was made?
Because most people, when they hear the word “unity”, understand uniformity and nothing can be further from the truth.
25 September 1967

*

“O India, land of light and spiritual knowledge! Wake up to your true mission in the
world, show the way to union and harmony.” — Message for the inauguration of All
India Radio, Pondicherry, 23 September 1967. Words of the Mother – I, CWM, Vol. 13,
p. 367.



Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

Does spontaneity come spontaneously or does one have
to follow a discipline to obtain it?
Spontaneity in feelings and action comes from a permanent contact with the psychic, which brings order into the thoughts and
automatically controls the vital impulses.
30 September 1967

*
You have taught me the importance of awakening the
divine consciousness in the body, and now I pray to You
to awaken my body’s aspiration towards You.
The cells of the body thirst for the Divine Consciousness and
when they are brought into contact with It their aspiration
becomes very intense.
21 October 1967

*
I have heard about the aspiration to be simply what You
want.
That is the best state for advancing swiftly on the path.
26 October 1967

*
Two extremely rich men who claim to be very religious
and virtuous, are not paying what they owe according
to their accounts. One of them refuses to speak to me
about it and the other says, “Have trust in God, you will
not lose your money.”
If the Mother could make these two men honest
(even temporarily, long enough for them to settle this
affair)...
It is said that Christ healed the sick and even raised the dead.
One day an idiot was brought to him to be cured. But Christ




slipped away, saying that to make a stupid man intelligent is an
impossibility.
To make a dishonest man honest is an even more impossible
miracle.
8 November 1967

*
Which is swifter for transformation: Divine Love or
Mahakali’s force?
Kali’s force is necessary only for those who are not yet open to
Divine Love. For one who is open to Divine Love, nothing more
is needed.
11 November 1967

*
By Your Grace, my body is now collaborating to get rid
of its laziness. That even the body has a will of its own
is a new experience for me.
When the body is converted, it knows how to collaborate.
29 November 1967

*
Which came first in the manifestation, the god or the
Asura?
The oldest tradition says that the first four emanations of
the Mahashakti — Consciousness, Love, Truth and Life — cut
themselves off (separated themselves) from their Supreme Origin
and became Unconsciousness, Suffering, Falsehood and Death.
Then a second emanation was made to repair the damage.
They are the Gods.
Naturally, this is a way of speaking which corresponds to a
Reality that is difficult to put into words.
2 December 1967

*


Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

Transformation demands a very high degree of aspiration, surrender and receptivity, doesn’t it?
Transformation demands a total and integral consecration. But
isn’t that the aspiration of every sincere sadhak?
Total means vertically in all the states of being, from the
most material to the most subtle.
Integral means horizontally in all the different and often
contradictory parts which make up the outer being (physical,
vital and mental).
4 December 1967

*
The fragrance of the flowers given by the Mother is often
something extraordinary.
Flowers are very receptive and they are happy when they are
loved.
15 December 1967

*
I have forgotten the Divine for so long in this life and in
former lives. But a drop of Your Grace can enable me to
make up for all the lost time.
Whatever the past may have been, it is not time that is needed
to establish contact with the Divine, but sincerity of aspiration.
19 December 1967

*
Can one’s aspiration for the Divine have the required
intensity and sincerity without the tears and anguish that
are mentioned in nearly all the old legends of the saints?
Tears and anguish indicate the presence of a weak and paltry
nature which is still unable to receive the Divine in all his power




and glory. Not only are they unnecessary, they are useless and
an obstacle to realisation.
23 December 1967

*
You put something into Your words which enables us to
see the Truth that words cannot convey. What is it that
accompanies Your words?
Consciousness.
27 December 1967

*
I think that always, at every moment, someone or other
is calling You, and You answer. Doesn’t this disturb Your
sleep or Your rest?
Day and night hundreds of calls are coming — but the Consciousness is always alert and it answers.
One is limited only materially by time and space.
3 January 1968

*
How is it that ordinarily the richer one is (materially),
the more dishonest one is?
It is because material wealth is controlled by the adverse forces
— and because they have not yet been converted to the Divine
Influence, though the work has begun.
That victory will form part of the triumph of Truth.
Wealth should not be a personal property and should be at
the disposal of the Divine for the welfare of all.
4 January 1968

*


Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

When Mother says that wealth should not be a personal
property, I understand that what should come is more
a change of psychological attitude on the part of those
who own money than any change in the law of property.
Undoubtedly.
Only the psychological change can be a solution.
6 January 1968

*
The disciples of the Ashram have a sure and easy way to
put their money at the disposal of the Divine: they offer
it to the Mother.
But how can others do it? Can it be said that each
one should get rid of the sense of property and spend his
money according to the Divine command within, from
time to time?
I am sure that if someone is advanced enough on the path to
receive the knowledge that money is an impersonal power and
should be used for the progress of the earth, this person will
be developed enough inwardly to receive the knowledge of how
best to make use of the money.
8 January 1968

*
The day before yesterday, as I was arranging my vase for
You, I said to a flower, “Oh, you are going to Mother!”
and it really smiled. The same thing happened again
yesterday and today.
That is very interesting indeed. Was it a rose or a hibiscus?
27 January 1968

*




A hibiscus gave me this experience.
Yes, it is a very conscious flower — I have had many proofs of
it.
27 January 1968

*
Is constant remembrance of the Divine the beginning of
union?
A beginning of union comes even before constant remembrance.
When the remembrance is constant, one often feels a Presence
that imposes itself on the remembrance.
29 January 1968

*
While speaking about the “Transcendent Mother” (and
the upper petal of the Transformation flower), You said,
“The Transcendent is both one and two (or dual) at the
same time.” What does this mean?
Beyond the creation lies the perfect Oneness, but potentially it
contains duality since the Mahashakti will manifest for the needs
of the creation.
5 February 1968

*
Last Monday You spoke to me about the Transcendent
which is both one and two at the same time. Naturally, I
shall wait for the true consciousness to come in order to
have this knowledge. But yesterday I tried to note down
what You had said:
“The mind thinks about things in succession. But
beyond and above, everything exists at the same time.
The One is both one and two; the manifested and the
unmanifested, everything exists at the same time. When


Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

It is objectified in the creation, in the manifestation, there
is a succession: one, two... But this is only a way of
speaking. There is no succession, no beginning. Beyond,
in the perfect Oneness, everything exists at the same
time, simultaneously. This cannot be understood, it must
be experienced; one can have the experience of it.”
Please correct these lines.
They are correct.
9 February 1968

*
What is the difference between an emanation and a
formation?
These words do not apply to the physical world as it is at present.
The explanation is only an approximation. Still, one can
say that the emanation is made up of the very substance of
the emanator, whereas the formation is made up of a substance
external to the formator.
To make a comparison, one could say that the emanation is
like a child made from the substance of its mother and that the
formation is like a living statue made out of a material external
to the sculptor.
But naturally this is only a very approximate explanation.
11 March 1968

*
The path is long, very long, almost interminable.
It is true that the path is very long, but for one who follows it
with sincerity, it is really very interesting, and at every step one
is rewarded for one’s trouble.
16 March 1968

*




It seems to me that the very land of Auroville aspires. Is
it true, Sweet Mother?
Yes, the land itself has a consciousness, even though this consciousness is not intellectualised and cannot express itself.
21 March 1968

*
Today You have shown me the basic incompatibility between human law and the Truth. But this is a problem
that confronts me very often.
Politics and so-called justice are still, in humanity, what is most
closed to the Truth. But their turn for conversion will also come,
perhaps sooner than we think.
28 March 1968

*
Can one say that all waste reflects a waste of consciousness?
Waste of any kind is the result of unconsciousness.
Consciousness in its purity is perfect and infallible.
2 April 1968

*
The Upanishad says that when one sleeps, one reaches
pure Being. Does this apply only to the Yogi or to
everyone?
In theory, it applies to everyone. But the vast majority of human beings fall into unconsciousness, and if there is a contact
with pure Being it is quite unconscious. Very few persons are
conscious of this relation. It is usually the result of Yoga.
8 April 1968

*


Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

(Concerning unconsciousness during sleep)
During sleep the inner beings become consciously active. When
one wakes up, it is the waking being that is not conscious of the
activities of the night.
16 April 1968

*
In the quotation chosen for tomorrow6 Sri Aurobindo
speaks of “the Truth that seeks to descend upon us” and
“is already there within us”. Please explain this paradox
which, as I can feel, is only apparent.
It is not a paradox.
It is the same phenomenon as for the Divine who is at the
centre of our being, etc. and at the same time is beyond the creation, the Divine towards whom the whole creation is moving,
but whom it could never reach if it did not carry him in itself.
One must go beyond notions of space and Matter to be able
to understand.
23 April 1968

*
When I thought of writing to You this morning about
the night of bonds and attachments that have enveloped
me for the last three weeks, I felt that all these things
have actually been there for a long time and that now
Your Grace has brought them to my notice so that the
next step may be taken.
Mother, the night has already been very long for me.
But it matters little, so long as I can continue to hold
myself at Your feet.

“In the spiritual order of things, the higher we project our view and our aspiration,
the greater the Truth that seeks to descend upon us, because it is already there within us
and calls for its release from the covering that conceals it in manifested Nature.”
Sri Aurobindo

According to my experience, one should not try to destroy or
to eliminate. One should concentrate all one’s effort on building up and strengthening the true consciousness, which will
automatically do the work of unifying the being.
In this way, everything that has to be transformed will be
transformed quite naturally, without clash or damage.
13 May 1968

*
How can one hasten the day when the whole being will
be able to say, “I am Yours — Yours alone”?
There are two actions which in practice merge into one.
(1) Never forget the goal that one wants to attain.
(2) Never allow any part of the being or any of its movements to contradict one’s aspiration.
This also makes it necessary to become conscious of one’s
nights, because the activities of the night often contradict the
aspiration of the day and undo its work.
Vigilance, sincerity, continuity of effort, and the Grace will
do the rest.
20 May 1968

*
Even “good and innocent movements” are said to take
on different colours in the light of the psychic flame.
The very notion of good and bad is completely changed.
One can say very simply that all that leads to the Divine is
good, and all that leads away from the Divine is bad.
Many virtues lead away from the Divine by making men
satisfied with what they are.
22 May 1968

*


Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

Sri Aurobindo has written in Savitri:
“Yes, there are happy ways near to God’s sun;
But few are they who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in light.”7
What a joy it would be to possess the required purity!
When one is living among men with all their miseries, it is only
the Grace that can bestow this state — even in those who by
Tapasya have abolished their ego.
It is beyond all personal effort.

27 May 1968

*
What is the most effective way to overcome the ego?
The simplest and most effective way is to offer it to the Divine;
the more sincere and radical this offering is, the more quickly
the result will come.
28 May 1968

*
To remain turned upwards and to live in the true consciousness — the two seem complementary to each other.
Are they not two ways of saying the same thing? — certainly
two ways of doing the same thing.

3 June 1968

*
Who should be put on guard to give the alert: “Be
careful! Look upwards”?
It is what is usually called conscience, but in fact it is the psychic
being. And one can hear it only if one is very attentive, because
it does not make any clamour.
5 June 1968

*


Savitri, Book VI, Canto 2.

Is transparent sincerity a more effective, indispensable
means, or is it a realisation in itself?
Without sincerity nothing can be done. With total sincerity
everything is possible.
12 June 1968

*
What is the origin of man’s love for his own ignorance?
It is inconscience.
Inconscience is the negation of all effort. Ignorance (that
is, the acknowledgement that there is something to be known
which we do not know) is the first effect of the divine influence
on the inconscient.
15 June 1968

*
Sri Aurobindo speaks of Savitri’s firmness of purpose in
the following line:
“Immutable like a fixed eternal star.”8
Can one say that such determination is demanded of the
sadhak who aspires for transformation?
This is the great mystery of creation: immutable and yet eternally
renewed.
17 June 1968

*
Savitri says:
“Not only is there hope for godheads pure;
The violent and darkened deities
Leaped down from the one breast in rage to find
What the white gods had missed: they too are safe;


Savitri, Book X, Canto 1.



Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

A Mother’s eyes are on them and her arms
Stretched out in love desire her rebel sons.”9
What had the white gods missed?
The conversion of the Asuras.
24 June 1968

*
Isn’t the power of the Asuras as boundless as the power
of the gods?
The vibrations of evil are in truth less powerful than the vibrations of good.
26 June 1968

*
Can one say that total sincerity and the abolition of the
ego are closely interdependent?
Only the Supreme Lord is perfectly sincere.
And when the ego is abolished, only the Supreme Lord
exists.
28 June 1968

*
In spiritual life, even to sit down is to fall back.
This is so true that one could rightly say: even while sleeping
one must move forward.
But there comes a time when the ascent becomes a perfect
repose.
2 July 1968

*


Savitri, Book X, Canto 2.

Once Mother spoke to me about total sincerity. What
does transparent sincerity mean?
Sincerity is compared to an atmosphere or a sheet of glass. If the
one or the other is completely transparent, it lets light through
without distorting it.
Similarly, a sincere consciousness lets divine vibrations
through without distorting them.
8 July 1968

*
Can an individual achieve transformation even if the
universe continues to be such as it is?
In the evolution, the individual is far ahead of the earth, but
as long as he lives on earth there is a certain interdependence.
But the condition of the earth is sure to become such that a
supramental being will soon be able to live on it.
9 July 1968

*
The Buddha said that Nirvana results in the cessation
of rebirth. But isn’t the Divine always free to send back
into the manifestation the spark that extinguishes itself
in Him?
Naturally, each time that one makes a rule one makes a mistake.
Besides, although he has not taken up another physical
body, the Buddha himself has returned to work in the earthatmosphere.
26 July 1968

*


Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

If the universe is one, shouldn’t the liberation of one single person on earth have the power to liberate everyone?
Oneness means identity in origin; but in the manifestation each
entity follows its own path of conscious return to the Oneness.
28 September 1968

*
In 1953 Mother said: “Whatever the way one follows,
whether it be the religious way, the philosophical way,
the yogic way, the mystic way, no one has realised transformation.”10
Can one hope that the sadhaks have now made good
progress towards this goal?
Now the conditions are such that every sincere effort must
necessarily tend towards this goal.
30 September 1968

*
How can one collaborate in the transformation?
Things are now arranged in such a way that as soon as one
collaborates for the Divine Dawn in any form, one necessarily
collaborates in the transformation.
7 October 1968

*
The Divine is the goal, the path and the one who treads
the path. But isn’t a person who is not advancing towards
the Divine also the Divine?
All are the Divine, but very few are those who know it and fewer
still are those who want to realise it consciously. This explains


Questions and Answers 1953, CWM, Vol. 5, p. 82.

the long duration and difficulty of the creation if its goal is that
all and everything should once more become consciously divine.
14 October 1968

*
One would like to have the fundamental realisation that
the Divine is all and everything.
For that one must identify oneself with the Supreme Divine.
Once one is identified, when one turns towards the creation,
one sees and knows that the Divine alone exists both in the
Essence and in the manifestation.
16 October 1968

*
Is immunity to the attack of adverse forces possible
without transformation?
Immunity does not come automatically from transformation.
One has to cut off all connection with the manifested world
in order to be immune.
But in any case, transformation gives the power of victory.
18 October 1968

*
Is the Divine Love equal for all even in the manifestation?
Yes, equal and immutable.
But the capacity to perceive and receive it and the habit of
distorting it differ with each one.
22 October 1968

*


Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

“The ideal Sadhaka should be able to say in the Biblical
phrase: ‘My zeal for the Lord has eaten me up.’ ”11
Does this mean an intense, constant and integral
aspiration?
Yes, it means that the entire being is absorbed in its consecration.
24 October 1968

*
Does the subconscient go on recording during sleep?
For most people, in their sleep, it is precisely what has been
recorded in the subconscient during the day or previously which
becomes active again and constitutes their dreams.
26 October 1968

*
Aswapathy was very fortunate. For him,
“Each day was a spiritual romance,...
Each happening was a deep experience.”12
This possibility is open to all whose aspiration is fervent.
1 November 1968

*
How can one keep what You give?
It does not go away, but enters the subconscient and continues
to act.
To remain conscious of it, one must reduce the range of the
subconscient in oneself and thus increase the consciousness.
3 November 1968

*

Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 52.


Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book I, Canto 3.

What should one do to reduce the range of the subconscient?
To grow in consciousness is the very aim of life on earth. It is
through the experience of successive lives that the range of the
subconscient is gradually reduced.
By yoga and the effort to find the Divine in oneself and in
life, one hastens the work considerably and it can be done in a
few years.
5 November 1968

*
“A knowledge which became what it perceived,
Replaced the separated sense and heart
And drew all Nature into its embrace.”13
Is Sri Aurobindo referring here to knowledge by
identity?
Yes, it is a very exact description.
7 November 1968

*
“A greater force than the earthly held his limbs,...
Unwound the triple cord of mind and freed
The heavenly wideness of a Godhead’s gaze.”14
What does “the triple cord of mind” mean?
The cords symbolise the limitations of the mind; and there are
three of them because there is a physical mind, a vital mind and
a mental mind.
9 November 1968

*

Savitri, Book I, Canto 3.


Ibid., Book I, Canto 5.



Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

“The days were travellers on a destined road,
The nights companions of his musing spirit.”15
Yes, there comes a time when nothing, absolutely nothing is
outside the yoga and the Divine’s Presence is felt and found in
all things and all circumstances.
11 November 1968

*
“A last high world was seen where all worlds meet;
In its summit gleam where Night is not nor Sleep,
The light began of the Trinity supreme.”16
Is the “Trinity supreme” Sachchidananda?
Yes.
15 November 1968

*
Through Krishna’s Grace, Arjuna realised the cosmic
Divine and Virat in the twinkling of an eye. What a
good Guru and what a good disciple!
Speed is not necessarily a sign of superiority.
These “instantaneous” conversions are most often the result
of many lives of preparation.
17 November 1968

*
“Our body’s cells must hold the Immortal’s flame.”17
Is this the secret of the luminous body?
It is a poetic way of expressing the transformation which is going
to take place and which is more complicated than that.
19 November 1968

*

Savitri, Book I, Canto 3.

Ibid., Book I, Canto 5.


Ibid., Book I Canto 3.

It seems to me, Mother, that when man does not accept the Divine, it is more out of ignorance than out of
wickedness. Isn’t it so?
It is undoubtedly out of ignorance and fear of what he doesn’t
know.
It is only the Asuras and a few great hostile beings who
refuse and oppose the Divine even though they know who He is.
21 November 1968

*
It seems to me, Mother, that the flame that calls and the
flame that responds are one and the same.
Essentially they are the same; but the plenitude of the response
far exceeds the intensity of the call. The response always exceeds
our receptivity by far.
25 November 1968

*
Can one say, Mother, that perfect receptivity comes only
with constant union with the Divine?
If we call “perfect receptivity” the receptivity that receives only
the Divine Influence and no other, it is certain — and at the same
time it is perfect purity.
This is what we should strive for.
27 November 1968

*
“None can reach heaven who has not passed through
hell.”18
But still, Mother, doesn’t the soul chosen by the
Divine go through hell in a different way than others?


Savitri, Book II, Canto 8.



Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

The quotation means that in order to reach the divine regions
one must, while on earth, pass through the vital, which in some
of its parts is a veritable hell. But those who have surrendered
to the Divine and been adopted by Him are surrounded by the
divine protection and for them the passage is not difficult.
29 November 1968

*
“His failure is not failure whom God leads”19
Because it is part of the play?
It is the human mind that has the conception of success and
failure. It is the human mind that wants one thing and does not
want another. In the divine plan each thing has its place and its
importance. So it is not success that matters. What matters is to
be a docile and if possible a conscious instrument of the Divine
Will.
To be and to do what the Divine wants, this is the truly
important thing.
3 December 1968

*
“The one original transcendent Shakti, the Mother
stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal
consciousness the Supreme Divine.”20
Similarly, can one say that the Supreme Divine carries the Mother in his eternal consciousness?
Beyond all question.
They are ONE in essence and manifestation.
5 December 1968

*

Savitri, Book III, Canto 4.


Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, SABCL, Vol. 25, p. 20.

Cannot the ego consent to its own abolition?
The ego was created for the work of individualisation; when the
work is achieved, it is not unusual for the ego to accept its own
dissolution .
7 December 1968

*
The human pleasure of possessing is a perversion of
what, Mother?
All pleasure is a perversion, by egoistic limitation, of the Ananda
which is the purpose of the universal manifestation.
11 December 1968

*
“When we eat, we should be conscious that we are giving
our food to that Presence in us.... ”21
When I try to take this attitude, the food tastes better
and the atmosphere becomes quieter.
The Presence is always there whatever we do, and it is because
of ignorance, negligence or absent-mindedness that we do not
feel it. But each time that we are attentive and concentrated, we
become aware of a wonderful transformation in all things.
13 December 1968

*
In order to be conscious of the constant Presence, is
memory a good aid?
Memory is a mental faculty and helps the mental consciousness.
But feeling and sensation must also participate.
17 December 1968

*


Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 103.



Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

When the Presence becomes concrete, does this indicate
the participation of feeling and sensation?
To have the perception of the Presence, the participation of feeling is indispensable, and when sensation collaborates, then the
perception becomes concrete and tangible.
19 December 1968

*
“All things shall change in God’s transfiguring hour.”22
Can man delay or hasten the coming of this hour?
Neither the one nor the other in their apparent contradiction
created by the separative consciousness, but something else that
our words cannot express.
In the present state of human consciousness, it is good for it
to think that aspiration and human effort can hasten the advent
of the divine transformation, because effort and aspiration are
needed for the transformation to take place.
21 December 1968

*
The Upanishad says: “When That is known, all is
known.” All is known in its essential truth or also
in detail?
In its essential truth, but one usually keeps the perception of the
illusory appearance at the same time.
23 December 1968

*


Savitri, Book III, Canto 4.

It seems to me that to know things in detail, the ordinary
instrumentation is necessary for the yogi too, but that the
yogi puts this knowledge to the test of the essential truth.
Yes, one can put it that way. But above all, it is the attitude
towards the outward appearance that changes completely.
25 December 1968

*
In fact, Mother, what is the yogi’s attitude towards the
outward appearance?
The usefulness of seeing clearly instead of being blind.
The usefulness of no longer being deceived by outward
appearances.
The usefulness of knowing the true purpose of life instead
of living in ignorance and falsehood.
27 December 1968

*
Is the perception of the illusory appearance automatic
for the yogi?
That probably depends on the yogi and his condition.
But when one is united with the Supreme Consciousness and
when the body is undergoing transformation, the body keeps its
automatic perception of the outer world; but this perception is
more complete than the ordinary one, as if it revealed something
of its content.
29 December 1968

*
Therefore, Mother, the transformation of the body is
necessary even to live in the Integral Knowledge!
Certainly.


Series Eleven – To a Sadhak

In Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, the transformation of the body is
indispensable so far as it can be done. Because the aim of this
yoga is not an escape from the physical consciousness but a
divinisation of that consciousness.
31 December 1968






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