(Mother listens to a few extracts from Sri Aurobindo for the August issue of the Bulletin.)
“Certainly, when the Supramental does touch earth with a sufficient force to dig itself into the earth consciousness, there will be no more chance of any success or survival for the Asuric Maya.”
18 October 1934
On Himself, 26.472
This is very good…. It’s magnificent!
The “Asuric Maya,” is it the whole present Falsehood?
Yes. Right now you feel… (gesture of struggling). It’s a truly extraordinary moment… but not exactly very pleasant! Things resist as they can.
(Satprem reads another text)
“All these good people lament and wonder that unaccountably they and other good people are visited with such meaningless sufferings and misfortunes. But are they really visited with them by an outside Power or by a mechanical Law of Karma? Is it not possible that the soul itself—not the outward mind, but the spirit within—has accepted and chosen these things as part of its development in order to get through the necessary experience at a rapid rate,…
Its wonderful, just what’s going on!
“…to hew through, durchhauen, even at the risk or the cost of much damage to the outward life and the body? To the growing soul, to the spirit within us, may not difficulties, obstacles, attacks be a means of growth, added strength, enlarged experience, training for spiritual victory? The arrangement of things may be that and not a mere question of the pounds, shillings and pence of a distribution of rewards and retributory misfortunes!”
Letters on Yoga, 22.449-450
The previous one and this one (I don’t know if there are any others), we could entitle them “Sri Aurobindo’s prophecies,” or “Sri Aurobindo said prophetically.”
It’s extraordinary, extraordinary!
It’s admirable, exactly as if he were speaking now (Mother takes on Sri Aurobindo’s tone): “All these good people…” (Mother laughs).
(another text)
“The ways of the Divine are not like those of the human mind or according to our patterns and it is impossible to judge them or to lay down for Him what He shall or shall not do, for the Divine knows better than we can know. If we admit the Divine at all, both true reason and Bhakti seem to me to be at one in demanding implicit faith and surrender.”
Letters on Yoga, 23.596
Oh, but this is admirable…. It’s wonderful! (Mother repeats, in a very humorous tone) “The ways of the Divine are not like those of the human mind or according to our patterns….”
(another text)
“To be free from all preference and receive joyfully whatever comes from the Divine Will is not possible at first for any human being. What one should have at first is the constant idea that what the Divine wills is always for the best even when the mind does not see how it is so,…
It’s exactly as if he were answering all that people are now saying!
“…to accept with resignation what one cannot yet accept with gladness and so to arrive at a calm equality which is not shaken even when on the surface there may be passing movements of a momentary reaction to outward happenings. If that is once firmly founded, the rest can come.”
Letters on Yoga, 23.597
Really interesting, just, just what’s needed.
(silence)
You haven’t said anything for a long time….
(silence)
I live in a constant sense of wonder! Every minute, what comes is what’s necessary: circumstances, reactions… everything, everything, there’s a constant vision of the wonderful way in which things are organized, the world is organized.
And what he says here, the way things are organized to make you advance fast and give you the maximum, the optimum condition of progress—that’s marvelous. And always it comes and presses on the very spot (Mother presses her thumb) where there was a weakness, an incomprehension… always.
(Mother goes into a contemplation)
It has been a long period during which the physical has replaced the absent mind and vital, and they have been replaced by something unlike what was there before. It’s very interesting, but it has to go to the end [before I can talk about it]. The work has to go to the end. And it’s a long-drawn-out work.
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