My first reaction was to find it stupid. But he wrote to me again to tell me that people at the workshop were very enthusiastic and that he had been much encouraged to do it and that he was quite happy and that it would be an opportunity for him to learn all that he didnt know, and so forth. It was pages long. So I wrote to him, You will go to Calcutta.
You know, they all need a lesson in order to learn; they cannot learn without a lesson from life. I, for one, try, I try to spare them the lessonif there were an inner opening, they would understand. But its no use. They need the lesson, let them have it! It doesnt matter.
He will learn his lesson, he will see.
They have been here ever since they were quite small and they have been helped as much as possible. The week before, he had written to me to say, How come we dont know how to benefit from the unique opportunity given us? And then (Mother laughs) three or four days later, he sends me this! Its hopeless. They are quite buried in Matter.
When people who know what life is come here, they are struck by the difference. But for those who have been here since they were quite small, its perfectly natural, the state is perfectly natural, they only see the drawbacks of it. And they dont know what life is, they see it as a marvelous thinglet them go and see what it is!
Its too easy, so they fall asleep.
Yes, thats right, its too easy.
But I have seen several of those boys who told me, Ah, but you can see: people are becoming automatons, they do things mechanically, they lose their aspiration.
Which means they are still too tamasic not to need the pressure of life and of lifes difficulties. We want to give them a possibility I know, that was the idea I had: to give those who have an aspiration the possibility to be concerned only with thatand they fall asleep.
But you noted the same fact for the body, too! You said that if there werent illnesses, difficulties
(Mother laughs) Yes, probably its the same thing!
(Mother goes into a contemplation, oblivious of the time)
V. is a young disciple who came to the Ashram as a child and never left it.
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