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object:1965-07-17
book class:Agenda Vol 06
author class:The Mother
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter


1965 Sat 17 July
July 17, 1965

(Regarding the last conversation, in which Satprem complained about his bad nights.)

But I just cant understand why its always that side that I remember, always the sewers, the filth. Because all the same there must be another side, mustnt there?

(Mother laughs) The reason is simple: that side is very, very close to the ordinary consciousness, so you remember; the other there isnt a sufficient connection, so when you wake up, you forget.

Thats the discouraging thing, besides, because one always remembers the bad side, not the rest!

Maybe its to see if we dont lose heart.

Just this morning1

(silence)

That must be why: its to see if we bear upnot even that: to see if our FAITH bears up.

(silence)

If we look at the question from a sufficient height, in order to manifest, this Truth-Power needs a response, you follow, and It doesnt want to have any preference: it matters little whether this point or that point, this or that will manifest It; It goes like this (gesture of a massive, general pressure), It imposes itself on the earth-atmosphere, and whats capable of responding responds. And then, on the point that responds, the Force manifests.

It isnt the Force that selects the point (I dont know if I am making myself understood): it is a global action, and whats capable of responding responds.

As for us, we want It, we aspire for It, we even know, and naturally, because we know, we have a sort of conviction that we are cut out to respond. But its not a question of conviction: it has to be a fact.

And for that well, we must bear up.

(silence)

On the contrary, I have the feeling that those who know more can do more, and more is asked of themit isnt that they are asked less: they are asked more.

And this body still belongs almost entirely to the old creation. And its own tendency is to say, Oh, thats not nice! We have goodwill, and the more goodwill we have, the more is demanded from us. But these are very human notions, very human. The more goodwill we have, the more is asked of usnot because of some decision or other: spontaneously, quite naturally.

We speak of transformation, even of transfiguration, but there is the passage from the old movement to the new movement, from the old status to the new status, which is a break in equilibrium; and always, for what still belongs to the old creation, a dangerous break in equilibrium is what gives you the feeling that everything eludes you, that you have lost your foothold. And thats when you need unwavering faith. But a faith that isnt like mental faith, which is self-supporting: it is a faith in the sensation. And that (Mother shakes her head) is very difficult.

(silence)

Its always the same thing: the old system of solitude is relatively very easy: you lie down, cut off all connections, remain in deep contemplation, and wait for the crisis to be over. It lasts for a time, you dont know how long. But when you are like this, surrounded with people, work, responsibilities (not moral ones: material ones), with things that materially depend on you, then you must find the way to go on, but without having anymore the support of the usual equilibrium.

Its a bit hard.

But it is clear that if we say, I am here because of You and for You and at Your service, well, it has to be true, thats all.
***

(Satprem returns to the attack and asks Mother for her permission to publish some of these conversations in the Notes on the Way:)

No.

I would have made cuts in them, at least.

Oh, but its more than cuts!

We have to cut the whole lot? All right!

No, but you can take selected passagesif they are impersonal.

Yes, but if we take selected passages (it can be done), then it takes on a dogmatic character. Its like declarations. If we remove the occasion on which it was said, it becomes a dogmatic statement.

Yes, but I dont want to give it. Thats categorical.

I quite understand. Only, the danger of those extracts is that it looks like a teaching: Mother decides its like this and like thatwhereas its not like that!

Yes, yes! (Mother does not want to hear any more.)
***

(A little later, Satprem proposes he could ask E. to buy magnetic tapes to record these conversations:)

Poor E.! Her husb and has ruined her.

She nursed her husband, she even almost brought him back to life, and when he recovered speech and consciousness, the first thing he did was to cut off her means of subsistence and discredit her! To thank her, he spread the word that he was no longer responsible for her. Anyway, thats life for you.2

Would you like to read her letter?

(extract from E.s letter, in the original English:)

I shall always remember, very vividly, the moment when Your Force took hold and created the rally that even the doctor couldnt understand, the rally that lasted so many weeks. May I tell You the little story?

The patient had been in convulsion, the whole right side of the body twitching horribly, speech impossible. There came an easing of it all, and I remember thinking, Why is that brain signaling that body to twitch sowhy? And I took hold of Montys right hand, seated there, on the edge of his bed. And the two right arms became like a big telephone switchboard hook-upyou know, the long cords. So, through the hook-up I called. I called to the Divine Mother, to You specifically, if I may say so, as is my wont. And this time, the You appeared, not above my head, as is usual, but above the patients head. And to that You I called three times, Mother, as you once taught me to do. That was all. Nothing more complicated than that. You were there, strategically positioned and I pronounced your Name three times. But there was a great current of Force that went through that telephone hook-up, so to speak, a great Power that came down the great long distance from the You through the little mans ailing brain and on down through his then quieting right arm and up through my long right arm to my think machine. And in that there was a deep peace and knowing. Miss Carter was seated on the other side of the bed, it so happened, at that moment, but she did not know that anything took place, even though I quietly closed my eyes for a bit. Odd, isnt it? It seems even odder as I write it. It was so normal as it took place. And it was so normal when, next morning, all trace of the tremor had vanished and all power of speech had returned to the delighted patient. And greater delight of all observers.

(11 July 1965)

What do you say about that?

Its interesting.

For my part, I was conscious here.

Our letters crossed in the mail. The day it happened there, I had the experience here and I perceived the Will act: Now he is going to get better and recover the use of speech and consciousness. It lasted two days, and hup! (gesture of an abrupt cut) it stopped.

It was exactly when she had over there the experience you have just read. Then, a few days later, I received her first letter in which she said that he had recovered and that his first act had been to vilify her with all those who were giving her credit. So I wrote to her: this is my experience; and she answered me what you have read.

And it stopped dead, with the feeling: now the proof has been made, its enough. He has lapsed into his coma again3I dont think he will now live long. Just long enough to prove human ingratitude.
***

Satprem rises to leave:

We must bear up. Besides, thats the only thing we can dowhat else can we do? (Laughing) Keep still.

Mother looks "tired."

Mother had already spoken of this case in the conversation of 26 June 1965: the man who was cured of a cancer of the brain but still did not believe in the intervention of a higher force.

The letter excerpted above also announced the patient's relapse.

***


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