30 Integral Yoga
28 The Mother
27 Satprem
6 Agenda Vol 10
6 Agenda Vol 09
4 Agenda Vol 06
3 Agenda Vol 13
3 Agenda Vol 12
3 Agenda Vol 08
0 1965-07-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Soon afterwards, Satprem proposes to Mother the publication of a few brief extracts from the previous and very interesting conversation on illnesses in Notes On The Way, a new series started in the Ashrams Bulletin on Satprems insistence. In fact, Satprem wanted the Ashram to benefit a little from the treasure of Mothers experienceat least a few drops of it. It was those Notes On The Way that were, after Mothers departure, cooly and fraudulently renamed Mothers Agenda by the heads of the Ashram in the hope of stealing the title, throwing people into confusion, and preventing at any cost the integral publication of the real Agenda, which they dared to declare not genuine, so afraid were they of Mothers clear perception of the people around her and of the Ashram in general. Satprem remembers how much he had to insist with Mother to be allowed to publish those Notes On The Way. Her reluctance is now easier to understand.)
I wondered if we couldnt use the last conversation for the next Notes On The Way?
Its unpublishable. It goes in the Agenda.
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0 1965-07-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem returns to the attack and asks Mother for her permission to publish some of these conversations in the Notes On The Way:)
No.
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0 1965-12-01, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the Notes On The Way, there is a lot of pruning to be done.1
The passage concerning sanctioned marriages must be cut, and so must the entire reference to the Ashrams composition. All that is too private to be published.
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0 1965-12-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(There follows a long and habitual discussion on the problem of the publication of Mothers words. As usual, Mother wants to cut everything out I dont want any Iand as usual Satprem literally has to fight to salvage a few fragments here and there. The present instance concerns the Notes On The Way.)
But I can see, lots of people read the Bulletin, and we have to be careful of what we print. So well have to go over this carefully.
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(The discussion goes on and Mother again wants to cut out the whole end of the conversation of November 27 which Satprem wanted to publish in Notes On The Way. It was about the double movement of Oneness and Multiplicity.)
Dont lose heart.
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0 1966-09-17, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So you dont have anything that can be used for Notes On The Way?
Maybe. Ill have to look again. But I dont think so.
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0 1967-01-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Then Mother listens to the English translation of the conversation of September 30, 1966, for Notes On The Way. It was question of the disappearance of the bone structure in the new being and the need for intermediary stages. Mother, speaking in English, turns to Nolini:)
Do you think people will understand? Not much?
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0 1967-10-28, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Nolini comes in to read Mother his English translation of Notes On The Way for the next Bulletin.)
I have been wondering about this: maybe if I didnt listen Id hear quite clearly! (Nolini stares at Mother with a certain bewilderment.) No, I said just before that when I want to see clearly, precisely, I close my eyes and see quite clearly. I do it spontaneously (I noticed it because Satprem asked me what was going on). And since I cant hear, maybe if I didnt listen and went within myself, like that, I would hear?There must be a trick!
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0 1967-11-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not understood, of course. Someone, C., wanted to translate Notes On The Way and A Propos into Hindi, in one volume. He spoke to R. about it, and R. wrote to me, People dont understand anything, and he feels the human language is unfit to express that, so how will it turn out in a translation?A platitude. It would be better to wait. I fully agree, I told him it would be better to wait. But it gave me the exact measure. Because R. and C. are people who are expected to understand, and they clearly dont understand anything. And then, Nolini was there, I gave him the letter to read, and he said, Oh, yes!For him too its the same thing, he hasnt understood! So its general. Because many people quote to me what I have said, or experiences theyve had, explanations they give in accordance with those Notes On The Way, and every time I see that they havent understood ANYTHING.
So it seems to me to be a general incomprehension.
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0 1968-06-15, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Everything is ready, Mother, except the Notes On The Way.
The Notes, well leave them out.
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0 1968-06-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its no use, I cant give it [for the Notes On The Way].
I was very, very conscious while speaking, but its difficult to express.
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0 1968-08-07, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, the Notes On The Way have helped them understand.
Oh, good.
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0 1968-08-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have two things here. One, a bit sarcastic and brief, can be used as Apropos in the next Bulletin. And I have others out of which, if you organize them, you can, I think, prepare the Notes On The Way.
The Apropos is very brief (Satprem reads out):
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0 1968-08-30, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Then Satprem reads Mother the Notes On The Way put together from the last conversation. Mother is unsure whether publishing those experiences is appropriate.)
The Bulletin goes everywhere, you understand. Its not a personal question, its from the point of view of the work and the effect it will have. Anyhow, I let the two of you [Satprem and Nolini] decide whether or not its appropriate for the work.
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0 1968-09-07, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Pavitra read the Notes On The Way [conversation of August 28, I think he hasnt understood one bit of it! Because yesterday he told me hed read it, and he very sweetly said he was asking for understanding.
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0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then there is Apropos, then the Notes On The Way Ive wondered, Mother, if for February 21 we couldnt play a recording of what you said, for instance on the superman consciousness?
Do you think
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0 1969-06-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Soon afterwards, Satprem proposes to publish in Notes On The Way the text of the last conversation, of May 31, about the glorified body Visible to all.)
Arent people going to believe that weve gone mad?! No?
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0 1969-10-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mr. A.R. asked me if I had finished reading the Notes On The Way again. As for me, I asked him if he had found something after his studies of these last two days. Then there was a stream of words. He said:
I havent learned anything new. All that she [Mother] says I have known for twenty years. The very basis of my experience was the transformation of the cells, that was my starting point. According to what Mother writes, I think she only began this experience two years ago, and I understand she has now completed it. So for me, all that she says is true, correct, and it cannot be otherwise. Only, unlike her, I did not go through every stage of the experience in detail, right to the end. My method was direct straight, all the way up; I cut out all those stages and visions on the way, because otherwise I could not have done what I did. You understand, I couldnt attempt those details, because if I had, I would have lost my aim, I would have missed my realization. For her, its all right, because she was educated. She knows philosophy, metaphysics, science, and what not! Moreover, she had the good fortune of meeting Sri Aurobindo. I would like to meet him. But as for me, I was all alone. So I had no option. I dont regret it. I came here because I knew there was here someone who spoke my language. I got confirmation of my experiences, and I provide conirmation to her experience. Thats right. One might say that we have gone hand in hand into our experiencewe are on the same plane. Thats how I understand it. I dont know what she thinks of me, she didnt tell me anything. I wanted to talk with her, but I dont think she is inclined to speak much. So!
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0 1969-10-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Then Mother listens to the English translation of the Notes On The Way proposed by Satprem, the conversation of August 16 in which Mother spoke of the need to make a void and wait for the Command from above.)
I think people will find it incomprehensible, theyll all fall asleep!
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One cant know. As for me, I am convinced that one cant know, that one must be like this (Mother opens her hands upward). What Ive said here [in the Notes On The Way] is true: one must be like that, and then let the Consciousness act through oneself.
Thats what I tried to do. Dont you see any error in that?
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0 1969-11-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What you said last time [on the supramental Consciousness] might be used for Notes On The Way?
(Mother opens her eyes wide) I dont know I dont know.
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0 1969-12-03, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Then, regarding the forthcoming Notes On The Way in which Mother speaks of her experience of the supramental Consciousness-the conversation of November 19.)
What I said about the supramental consciousness, is it clear?
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0 1970-10-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Then Mother listens to the English translation of an extract from the infernal Agenda of September 9, which Satprem intended to publish in the forthcoming Notes On The Way. Nolini reads out his translation.)
Its not interesting.
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0 1971-05-26, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(M.:) The chapters following The Sociology of the Superman: Afterwards and The Conquest of Death, etc., vividly evoked for me what you say in Notes On The Way.
(Mother smiles) Yes, thats the yoga of the body.
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0 1971-09-08, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother had at first said, "Then it would be finished," then she changed it to "It would be the real beginning" when Satprem published this portion in Notes On The Way.
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0 1971-11-10, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Notes On The Way of 28 August 1971, which is to appear in the next Bulletin.
Aphorism 228.
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0 1972-06-21, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem reads to Mother a few fragments of Notes On The Way for the next Bulletin. Towards the end of the second fragment, Mother seems to be elsewhere. Suddenly, she moans and hides her face in her hands. We pray.)
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0 1972-10-07, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem reads to Mother some passages from the conversation of August 30 for the next Notes On The Way.)
Thats all?
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0 1973-03-10, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What do we do about the Bulletin the Notes On The Way?
Do you have something?
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1.08 - Sri Aurobindos Descent into Death, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
27 See Notes On The Way, pp. 117 ff.sri aurobi ndos de sce nt into death
189
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15.03 - A Canadian Question, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Notes On The Way: Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of EducationAugust 1972 (Notes on 25-3-72).
Sri Aurobindo:Letters on Yoga, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Vol. 22, pp. 307-8.
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1953-05-27, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
See Notes On The Way (13 March 1968 and 16 March 1968).
At the time of the publication of this talk, Mother added: "Now I would have answered: it is as if you asked whether the Divine would withdraw from Himself! (Mother laughs.) Well, that is the trouble: when you say 'Divine', they understand 'God'.... There is only That, That alone exists. That, what is it? That alone exists."
See Notes On The Way (13 March 1968).
A disciple asked the Mother how one could realise the Divine and know nothing about it? The Mother answered: "It is once more the same thing. One might add: 'and know nothing about it mentally.' They did not say: 'I have realised the Divine', because that did not correspond to any mental conception."
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