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subject class:Integral Yoga
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1967 Sat 13 May
May 13, 1967

(A disciple asks Mother for permission to bring an orang-outan in order for it "participate in the education.")

Some have already protested against Thoth (the disciple’s first ape), if now there’s an orang-outan they’ll reproach me!… Because, naturally, the servants were afraid, even the neighbours, anyway it wasn’t to their liking. Once, Thoth walked into the room, so the maid started screaming; the neighbour came (luckily he has enough sense), he remained quiet and simply looked at Thoth, with some severity, probably. Then Thoth left without anything happening. But at other times, when Thoth is not happy, he tears up bed sheets or whatever. Finally the neighbour came and told me the incident (that was long ago). I said to him, “You don’t know the first thing about animals! Happily you have a peaceful nature, but animals are extremely sensitive to our feelings or sentiments: if you are afraid, they instantly get afraid; if you are angry, they instantly get angry; and if you are gentle, kind, affable, they become gentle, kind, affable.” He understood quite well, and ever since all has been well. But he isn’t alone in the house…. An orang-outan is a big thing, you see!

That Thoth is really remarkable. Did I tell you what happened when I first saw him? (And I asked Y. very insistently whether she had taught him, but she hadn’t said anything at all to him—neither taught nor said anything.) He came with her, and as soon as he saw me (he was on Y.’s arm), he folded his hands! And then he made a speech to me: his mouth moved; there weren’t any sounds, but his mouth moved. And an expression … Then I complimented him, and he immediately leapt onto my knees, curled up in my arms, and … went off into a semi-trance—stopped moving, kept still. It lasted at least five minutes. After five minutes, I thought, “He can’t just stay here forever, he should go now!”—then he opened his eyes and went away!… The receptivity is far more remarkable than in human beings. Then he looked around him, looked out of the window, well, took interest in the place. Then he again looked towards me, came back on my knees, and rested against my shoulder.

Long afterwards, a year afterwards, I asked Y. if he was in the habit of greeting with folded hands; she told me, “He’s never done it, he did it only with you.” It’s clearly a special sensitivity. You know, the sign of an absolute trust, like that, curled up against me.

Now he is very tall, he is of mature years, he has teeth … teeth like a leopard’s, a leopard’s canine teeth. But he is as gentle as a lamb. But an orang-outan…

She wants M. to bring an orang-outan back from New Caledonia. Can you picture M. leading an orang-outan by the hand!… That would be quite charming! (Mother laughs)… And if he brought it to my room!

But animals really have a lot of charm. I must say we are on very good terms. The whole perversion brought into the human consciousness by mental activity isn’t there (except in those that have lived with man), but those that come straight from outside have a simplicity, a sort of ingenuousness which is very charming. And an uncanny receptivity, you know, much more spontaneous than human receptivity.

Now it’s different, there is a whole race of little children (I told you the other day), who are very receptive. And they are charming.

Charming.
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