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object:1966-01-31
book class:Agenda Vol 07
author class:The Mother
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter


1966 Mon 31 January
January 31, 1966

(Satprem's letters to Mother having disappeared, he does not remember what caused the "sadness" Mother refers to here, probably certain ways of being in life that he found hard to accept, or perhaps his own incapacity to tolerate life in the world as is it and his tendency to dart off to the heightsunless it was the abyss. Satprem then asked Mother if he should not start writing a new book, "The Sannyasin," in which he would attempt to exorcize a certain refusal of life as it is.)

Tell me, why do you feel sad?

Because if you have realized that there is a progress to be made, theres no need to feel sad anymore. Its when one has a progress to make and doesnt realize it that one should feel sad!

I took a good look, and it is indeed possible that by writing this book you will get rid of something thats lingering onits possible. My hope was that it could go away simply through the inner movement; but when I received your note yesterday, I took a good look and thought, Yes, its probably necessary.

It has a drawback, but it will have that advantage. I am not referring to external drawbacks, that cant be helped, well have to manage.1 I mean for yourself: it concentrates you in an almost hypnotic way on that part of your being which is almost imprisoned in the form, in the form of expression, that is to say, the author, the writer. Yet I know, and its very clear, that your external being was formed in large part for that, but from a higher standpoint: more as a means than as an end.

You see, your book on Sri Aurobindo is exceptional in all respects and it was a sort of summit in expression. There was also the fact that Sri Aurobindo was always there while you were writing it. When it came, I had the sense of a summit that cannot be exceeded. Thats why I no longer thought about other books: my consciousness used this book on Sri Aurobindo as a starting point towards something else, something more complete. But when I read your letter yesterday, I thought, Maybe, after all, there is indeed something that has to be expressed; maybe it will be the right way to get rid of a past thats lingering on.

Thats what I wanted to tell you.

If you must do it, its better to do it, and to do it with this idea, with this aspiration for a whole state of consciousness to be expressed in order to go away into the past, not to keep clinging to your present consciousness.

Cant it be also a means to make a truth descend, a truth-force, as the book on Sri Aurobindo was, but in another way?

Thats possible. Its possible, but (laughing) Ill tell you afterwards!

Just two days ago, I wrote to someone (someone who is a bit under the influence of ascetic ideas), and I told that person, Those thoughtsthose thoughts and that type of actionbelong, from the spiritual standpoint, to the ascetic belief, but it-is-no-longer-true. And I said it with terrible force: IT-IS-NO-LONGER-TRUE. And I saw that at one point in the history of the earth it was necessary to obtain a certain result, but now ITS NO LONGER TRUE. Voil. It has given way to a higher and more complete truth. From that point of view, your book can obviously be the expression of this new force.

Its possible, its by no means impossible.

Its a whole world of spiritual thought and existence to which Id like to give its most perfect expression, while demolishing it at the same timenot demolishing but showing that its only one side, one part.

Yes, thats right.

(silence)

I also felt that something else had to be written, going over your whole Agenda as I did for Sri Aurobindo (that has come to me several times very clearly), going over your whole Agenda from the beginning, and then You know that before I wrote the book on Sri Aurobindo, I took all his works to read them again, and while I read them I seemed to be told, This passage that passage this passage noted down all kinds of passages. And when afterwards I wrote the book, all those selected passages automatically came to mingle with what was coming to me. And Ive had the same impression with all these Agenda conversations: one day I should read them all again in that same consciousness and pick out a number of passages, which, afterwards, would crystallize into a book.

Yes, but not yetnot yet.2

Not yet, no, I clearly feel its not for now.

Its not for now. Not for now, its for later.

No, to me, if you write this book, well see, because it depends if If that Truth descends, well, it will descend and then you will automatically express it. Of course, we can aspire for it to be that way. But we cant tell before it is so.

At any rate, whats quite certain is that this book can serve you as a rung to rise above the past and overcome certain difficulties in your nature. And then of course, from that point of view I immediately approve.

So theres no problem left at all, it only has to get done.

There seems to remain a doubt in your consciousness?

Even with this doubt, there was no hesitation; I wanted to tell you, Do it.

The question is more of a subtle order: its to know whether the thing is really there, in the inner or higher worlds, and I have to do it, or whether its a decision of my writers ego that wants to write.

The thing is there (how can I explain?).

The thing is there in its old form.3 That you have things to say is beyond doubt, and that you will say them is beyond doubt; but it has remained in that form because of precisely because of a certain difficulty you complained about in your letter, and which persists. So its to get rid at the same time of a certain state of consciousness and, yes, of a certain difficulty. Your true consciousness, you know, the consciousness of your true being, is in a very rapid ascent; something in you isnt aware of that and lags behind, and thats what causes an unease in you. So its clear that writing is a good means (probably the best means) of getting rid of it: you throw it outside yourself by expressing it, and then its finished, youve got rid of it. Its the FORM, you understand, only the form; its always the same thing: the essence and spirit, and on the other hand the form. You are rising like an arrow, and you dont know it because something remains like that, hard, tight, and its only a form. Well, its better to get rid of it; its the most natural way for you to exteriorize the form, the state of consciousness and the difficulty, all of it together, at the same time as you write the book.

I am sure of it because I spent a large part of the night looking at it.

Yes, its fine, do it. It will certainly be a very interesting and excellent book, which will be helpful to many people, but anyway its not From our point of view, its secondary.

And now, of course, you are labeled, at least in France, in Germany, in the U.S.A. and here, as the author of the book on Sri Aurobindo: it will be a new book by the author of the book on Sri Aurobindo. So you will have a readership. All those things are secondary to me, but they are nonetheless true.

But what I am interested in The only thing I have to say in defense of the writers job is that, to me, writing is like a mantra: its embodying a vibration of truth.

Yes.

Thats the true purpose.

Yes, yes.

If that isnt there, Im not interested.

Thats certainly right.

But there is one thing Even as a writer (you in your present form and as a writer) you can, AS A WRITER, give many different expressions to that thing which you want to attract upon earth and express: you can express it in many different forms. We are now concerned with one particular form that you had conceived; well, what makes this form useful is that, to me (what I am going to tell you may be a bit commonplace), it can be used as a pickaxe, you understand, to root out the things you want to reject from your consciousness: a certain way of being of your consciousness thats receding into the past. And then, afterwards, you will rise to expressions of a higher order.

And, mind you, if we look at the problem from the terrestrial and human standpoint, its fully part of the things that can be very useful to mankind; if you were humanitarian, I would tell you: Without a shadow of doubt, it can be very useful.

So, I tell you, I saw that carefully last night, and I have reached this conclusion: it must be done. There, thats all.

But without sadnesswithout sadness.

To discover the obstacles, the failings, the resistances in ones own being, in ones own consciousness, isnt a defeat, its a great victory. And one shouldnt lament, one should rejoice.

But its full of failings!

Yes! (Mother laughs) Yes, I know that quite well, we are all full of failings.

I dont even know how to live!

Thats true indeed! (Mother laughs) Thats just why your difficulty is persisting, otherwise it should have been gone long ago. It should have been gone. It will go, but it has got a certain right to linger, a right given by yes, a certain attitude of your consciousness towards life. Thats in fact one of the things I saw.

Ah, let a whole past be dissolved, rejected outsideexpressed and rejected: Its over, now its over, I no longer have anything to do with you: I have given you birth.

Mind you, its very good, very useful to lots of people who lack that consciousness.4 Nothing in the world is useless, but things must be in their place. When one lingers on in a consciousness that must be exceeded, it becomes a failingone just has not to linger! One just has to reject it and use it as a springboard to jump higher, thats all. Thats how I see it. Thats how I see all the incapacities, all the failings, all the failures, I see them like that: All right, its a springboardhop! lets jump, now lets go beyond that.

When one does the work I am doing and is in contact with all the petty reactions of the physical body, of the most material consciousness mon petit, it would be absolutely disheartening and sickening to anyone having an ideal. But that thats how it is, so thats how it is: it must changewe are here so that it will become different. And as long as we arent conscious of it, it will never change. Therefore one must rejoice when one is conscious, thats all.

All discoveries are always graceswonderful graces. When you discover that you cant do anything, when you discover that you are a fool, when you discover that you have no capacity, when you discover that you are so petty and mean and stupid, well Oh, Lord, I thank You so much, how good You are to show me all this! And then, its over. Because the minute you discover it, you say, Now this is up to You. You will do what has to be done for all this to change. And the best part of it is that it does change! It does change. When you do like this (gesture of offering to the Heights), sincerely: Oh, take it, take it, take it, rid me of it, let me be only You

Its wonderful.

There.

Mother means the time that will have to be taken to write the book.

That will be eight years later, when Satprem will write his "trilogy" on Mother.

The first form of The Sannyasin, which was to be a sort of Greek tragedy, with chorus.

Rejecting the world as it is and climbing to the heights.

***
January 26, 1966


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