Kennedy has been assassinated, that means the possibility of war.
He was one of the instruments for the establishment of peaceits a setback for the entire political history of the earth.
But probably, it means basically that things werent ready: some parts would have been overlooked.
But I had been told this a few weeks ago, last month, while I was conducting a general survey. I heard someone who said (someone is a manner of speaking, I know who it is): Kennedy wont be able to do it. I thought the instrument was too small, I didnt think of this.
And then five of our air force chiefs have been killed in a helicopter crashhelicopters never crash, and they were the best possible pilots. Its an act of sabotage the Communists are doing a lot of sabotage. So that makes two accidents in a row.
But these accidents always occur at the time of Kali, in NovemberOctober and November.
November and February.
February, too?
Revolutions, big strikes, dangerous INNER events are always just before February 21. And the catastrophes of this kind in Novemberalways.
Sri Aurobindo too used to say that the most difficult period in the year was November to February.
(silence)
We must broaden and endure, thats all. Thats the only lesson there is to learn: broadening and endurancegoing on and on and on enduring.
As for the accident here [the five army chiefs], those killed were first-rate pilots. There is every indication that its an act of sabotage. Its the same thing again.
The Communists here sabotage everywhere (they sabotage the mail too, thats a nuisance), they sabotage a lot, sabotage everywhere.
Anyway, there we are, we have only to wait, endure, and broaden more and more.
(silence)
Kennedy wont be able to do it. According to the American constitution, the vice-president automatically becomes president, the next minute; and this vice-president symbolized the opposition to Kennedy. And within his own party, among the Democrats, there was already a division.
Well.
So, what have you brought me?
Nothing, Mother, except Agenda conversations.
That will soon sound repetitiousthings are moving fast.
(silence)
You were better yesterday, werent you?
Yes, better.
I even felt something lifted: I pressed and pressed hard, and whoops! it lifted.
But I feel quite a dark shadow following me.
Still?
Not like in the past.
No. You know, what lends force to the opposition is superstitious ignorancesuperstitious in the sense of a sort of faith or at least of belief in Destiny, in Fate. Its ingrained, as if woven into the human substance. They have the same superstition, the same superstitious belief in what is favorable to them as in what is unfavorable; in the divine Power as in the adverse powerits the SAME attitude. And thats why the divine Power doesnt have its full force, and also precisely why the adverse force has so much power over them, because its absolutely a movement of Falsehood, of Ignoranceof total Ignorance.
Recently, I was following the thing down to the smallest detail, in everybodys mentality. Even in those who have read Sri Aurobindo, who have studied Sri Aurobindo, who have understood, who have come into contact with that region of light, its still there its still there. Its very yes, its very tightly woven into the most outward and material part of the consciousness. Its a kind of submissiveness, which may be quite rebellious, but which gives a sense, as you said, of something hanging over your head and shoulders: a sort of Fate, of Destiny.
So there is the good destiny and the bad destiny; there is a divine force which one regards as something entirely beyond understanding, whose designs and aims are perfectly inexplicable, and the submission, the surrender consists in acceptingblindlyall that happens. Ones nature revolts, but revolts against an Absolute against which it is helpless. And all of that is Ignorance. Not one of all those movements is truefrom the most intense revolt to the blindest submission, its all false, not one true movement.
I dont know if its in Sri Aurobindos writings (I dont remember), but I hear very strongly (not for me, for mankind):
AWAKE AND WILL
Naturally men take will for their own whims, which have nothing to do with a willtheyre all impulses.
To will means to will with the supreme Will. And its as if it were the key that opens the door to the future:
AWAKE AND WILL
But beware of willing the wrong way because thats no longer a will, its a whimdont confuse the two. Will with the supreme Will.
We shouldnt hunch our shouldersit makes us grumble terribly within ourselves and its useless.
Oh, (Mother holds up her head) that feeling of the head rising above all that, of emerging above
But were so totally enslaved to very small things the very small things of the body: its needs (or supposed needs). I see all the entreaties that come from everywhere, and it all revolves around the same thing (even those who think theyve understood that the consciousness must be generalnot collective, but terrestrial theyre slaves to the reactions of their body), it all revolves around two things: sleep-food-sleep-food-sleep (Mother draws a circle). Even with those who profess that they have no interest in those things, they still have the power to cause reactions in their consciousness: a sleepless night or poor digestion, or an upset digestive system there you are. It has the power to weigh down on their faith and to take away its capacity of action. Its a kind of attachmentan involuntary and mechanical attachmentto that need for sleep and that need for food. And I dont mean people who love to eat or lazy people who like to sleep I dont even mean that, which is all the way down, thats not it: I mean those who arent interested in food and would really like to replace sleep with something else, something more interesting, even thoseall, all, all of them.
And even this body, which has been worked on and kneaded for years Its in the subconscient of the body. And so that was the answer, it was said to the body:
AWAKE AND WILL
(silence)
And as usual, it was full of humor. Something said: You grumble all the time, you moan all the time, you complain all the time, whats the use?AWAKE AND WILL!
And that submissiveness, you know, that acceptance of the worst, with the idea that it comes from the Lord! Not only that, but almost imagining the worst as a trial, as a test to find out if youre really surrendered thats another stupidity! If you need to imagine such things in order to find out if you really havent revolted, it means there is still somewhere the germ or residue of revolt.
And the fear of being selfish, the fear of being rebelliousit means its still there, otherwise you wouldnt have that fear.
(silence)
We are so small, so small. The smaller we are, the more we revolt. We want to break everything because we are so smallwhen you are vast, you dont need to break anything. You only have to be.
AWAKE AND WILL
***
November 20, 1963
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