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catabaptist ::: n. --> One who opposes baptism, especially of infants.
catabasion ::: n. --> A vault under altar of a Greek church.
catabiotic ::: a. --> See under Force.
catacaustic ::: a. --> Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. ::: n. --> A caustic curve formed by reflection of light.
catachresis ::: n. --> A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles". Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.
catachrestic ::: a. --> Alt. of Catachrestical
catachrestical ::: a. --> Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched.
cataclysmal ::: a. --> Alt. of Cataclysmic
cataclysmic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.
cataclysmist ::: n. --> One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.
cataclysm ::: n. --> An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth&
catacomb ::: n. --> A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.
catacoustic ::: n. --> That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics.
catadioptric ::: a. --> Alt. of Catadioptrical
catadioptrical ::: a. --> Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light.
catadioptrics ::: n. --> The science which treats of catadioptric phenomena, or of the used of catadioptric instruments.
catadrome ::: n. --> A race course.
A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.
catadromous ::: a. --> Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.
Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel.
catafalco ::: n. --> See Catafalque.
catafalque ::: n. --> A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.
catagmatic ::: a. --> Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.
cataian ::: n. --> A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach.
catalan ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Catalonia. ::: n. --> A native or inhabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of Catalonia.
catalectic ::: a. --> Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.
Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance.
catalepsis ::: n. --> A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.
catalepsy ::: n. --> Alt. of Catalepsis
cataleptic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.
catallacta ::: n. pl. --> A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.
catallactics ::: n. --> The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.
catalogize ::: v. t. --> To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue.
catalog ::: n. & v. --> Catalogue.
catalogued ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Catalogue
catalogue ::: n. --> A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. ::: v. t. --> To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue.
cataloguer ::: n. --> A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.
cataloguing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Catalogue
catalpa ::: n. --> A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean.
catalyse ::: pl. --> of Catalysis
catalysis ::: n. --> Dissolution; degeneration; decay.
A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as
catalytic ::: a. --> Relating to, or causing, catalysis. ::: n. --> An agent employed in catalysis, as platinum black, aluminium chloride, etc.
catamaran ::: n. --> A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.
Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed.
catamenial ::: a. --> Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
catamenia ::: n. pl. --> The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.
catamite ::: n. --> A boy kept for unnatural purposes.
catamount ::: n. --> The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.
catanadromous ::: a. --> Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous.
catapasm ::: n. --> A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.
catapeltic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a catapult.
catapetalous ::: a. --> Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
cataphonic ::: a. --> Of or relating to cataphonics; catacoustic.
cataphonics ::: n. --> That branch of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds; catacoustics.
cataphracted ::: a. --> Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.
cataphractic ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract.
cataphract ::: n. --> Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.
A horseman covered with a cataphract.
The armor or plate covering some fishes.
cataphysical ::: a. --> Unnatural; contrary to nature.
cataplasm ::: n. --> A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice.
catapuce ::: n. --> Spurge.
catapult ::: n. --> An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.
A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc.
cataract ::: n. --> A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.
An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.
A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
cataractous ::: a. --> Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.
catarrhal ::: a. --> Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.
catarrhine ::: n. --> One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.
catarrh ::: n. --> An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.
catarrhous ::: a. --> Catarrhal.
catastaltic ::: a. --> Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities.
catastasis ::: n. --> That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.
The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body.
catasterism ::: n. --> A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars.
catastrophe ::: n. --> An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes.
catastrophic ::: a. --> Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.
catastrophism ::: n. --> The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth&
catastrophist ::: n. --> One who holds the theory or catastrophism.
cata ::: --> The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic.
catatonic "jargon" A description of a system that gives no indication that it is still working. This might be because it has crashed without being able to give any error message or because it is busy but not designed to give any feedback. Compare {buzz}. [{Jargon File}] (2004-08-19)
catawba ::: n. --> A well known light red variety of American grape.
A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba grape.
catawbas ::: n. pl. --> An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.
catbird ::: n. --> An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.
catboat ::: n. --> A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.
catcall ::: n. --> A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise.
catchable ::: a. --> Capable of being caught.
catch-basin ::: n. --> A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer.
catchdrain ::: n. --> A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
catched ::: --> of Catch
catcher ::: n. --> One who, or that which, catches.
The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.
catchfly ::: n. --> A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.
catching ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Catch ::: a. --> Infectious; contagious.
Captivating; alluring. ::: n.
catch-meadow ::: n. --> A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.
catchment ::: n. --> A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.
catch ::: n. 1. A concealed, unexpected, or unforeseen drawback or handicap. 2. Anything that is caught, esp. something worth catching. v. **3. To take, seize, or capture, esp. after pursuit. 4. To become cognizant or aware of suddenly. 5. To receive. 6. catches, caught, catching.**
catchpenny ::: a. --> Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. ::: n. --> Some worthless catchpenny thing.
catchpoll ::: n. --> A bailiff&
catchup ::: n. --> Alt. of Catsup
catch ::: v. t. --> To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.
To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.
Hence: To insnare; to entangle.
To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as,
catchwater ::: n. --> A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.
catchweed ::: n. --> See Cleavers.
catchweight ::: adv. --> Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.
catchword ::: n. --> Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.
A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc.
catchwork ::: n. --> A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
catechetic ::: a. --> Alt. of Catechetical
catechetical ::: a. --> Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.
catechetically ::: adv. --> In a catechetical manner; by question and answer.
catechetics ::: n. --> The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.
catechin ::: n. --> One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and catechuin.
catechisation ::: n. --> The act of catechising.
catechised ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Catechise
catechiser ::: n. --> One who catechises.
catechise ::: v. t. --> To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith.
To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct.
catechising ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Catechise
catechismal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechetical.
catechism ::: n. --> A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.
A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers.
catechistic ::: a. --> Alt. of Catechistical
catechistical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism.
catechist ::: n. --> One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.
catechize ::: v. t. --> See Catechise.
catechuic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin.
catechumenate ::: n. --> The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.
catechumenical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.
catechumenist ::: n. --> A catechumen.
catechumen ::: L. catechunenus, Gr. --> One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.
catechu ::: n. --> A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc.
categorematic ::: a. --> Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.
categorical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a category.
Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer.
categorically ::: adv. --> Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.
categoricalness ::: n. --> The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
categories ::: pl. --> of Category
categorist ::: n. --> One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies.
categorize ::: v. t. --> To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.
category ::: n. --> One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
category "theory" A category K is a collection of objects, obj(K), and a collection of {morphisms} (or "{arrows}"), mor(K) such that 1. Each morphism f has a "typing" on a pair of objects A, B written f:A-"B. This is read 'f is a morphism from A to B'. A is the "source" or "{domain}" of f and B is its "target" or "{co-domain}". 2. There is a {partial function} on morphisms called {composition} and denoted by an {infix} ring symbol, o. We may form the "composite" g o f : A -" C if we have g:B-"C and f:A-"B. 3. This composition is associative: h o (g o f) = (h o g) o f. 4. Each object A has an identity morphism id_A:A-"A associated with it. This is the identity under composition, shown by the equations id__B o f = f = f o id__A. In general, the morphisms between two objects need not form a {set} (to avoid problems with {Russell's paradox}). An example of a category is the collection of sets where the objects are sets and the morphisms are functions. Sometimes the composition ring is omitted. The use of capitals for objects and lower case letters for morphisms is widespread but not universal. Variables which refer to categories themselves are usually written in a script font. (1997-10-06)
catelectrode ::: n. --> The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery.
catelectrotonic ::: a. --> Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.
catelectrotonus ::: n. --> The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.
catel ::: n. --> Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income.
catena ::: n. --> A chain or series of things connected with each other.
catenarian ::: a. --> Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve.
catenary ::: a. --> Alt. of Catenarian ::: n. --> The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.
catenated ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Catenate
catenate ::: v. t. --> To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain.
catenating ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Catenate
catenation ::: n. --> Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation.
catene ::: pl. --> of Catena
cate ::: n. --> Food. [Obs.] See Cates.
catenulate ::: a. --> Consisting of little links or chains.
Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc.
cateran ::: n. --> A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier.
cater-cornered ::: a. --> Diagonal.
cater-cousin ::: n. --> A remote relation. See Quater-cousin.
catered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Cater
caterer ::: n. --> One who caters.
cateress ::: n. --> A woman who caters.
catering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Cater
cater ::: n. --> A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.
By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.
The four of cards or dice. ::: v. t.
caterpillar ::: n. --> The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm,
caterwauled ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Caterwaul
caterwauling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Caterwaul ::: n. --> The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.
caterwaul ::: v. i. --> To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise. ::: n. --> A caterwauling.
catery ::: n. --> The place where provisions are deposited.
cates ::: n. --> Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.
cat-eyed ::: a. --> Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.
catfall ::: n. --> A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.
catfish ::: n. --> A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.
catgut ::: n. --> A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.
A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
catharical ::: a. --> Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.
Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.
catharine wheel ::: --> See catherine wheel.
catharist ::: n. --> One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.
cat-harping ::: n. --> One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.
cat-harpin ::: n. --> See Cat-harping.
catharsis ::: n. --> A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.
cathartic ::: a. --> Alt. of Catharical ::: n. --> A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
cathartin ::: n. --> The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.
cathay ::: n. --> China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)
cathead ::: n. --> A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.
cathedral ::: 1. A large and important church of imposing architectural beauty. 2. Of, relating to, or resembling a cathedral.
cathedralic ::: a. --> Cathedral.
cathedral ::: In Night’s bare session to cathedral Light
cathedral ::: n. --> The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne. ::: a. --> Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.
Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or
cathedra ::: n. --> The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority.
cathedrated ::: a. --> Relating to the chair or office of a teacher.
catheretic ::: n. --> A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.
catherine wheel ::: --> Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.
A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name.
catheterism ::: n. --> Alt. of Catheterization
catheterization ::: n. --> The operation of introducing a catheter.
catheterized ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Catheterize
catheterize ::: v. t. --> To operate on with a catheter.
catheterizing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Catheterize
catheter ::: n. --> The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine.
catheti ::: pl. --> of Cathetus
cathetometer ::: n. --> An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated
cathetus ::: n. --> One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle.
cathode ::: n. --> The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode.
cathode ray tube "hardware" (CRT) An electrical device for displaying images by exciting phosphor dots with a scanned electron beam. CRTs are found in computer {VDUs} and {monitors}, televisions and oscilloscopes. The first commercially practical CRT was perfected on 29 January 1901 by Allen B DuMont. A large glass envelope containing a negative electrode (the cathode) emits electrons (formerly called "cathode rays") when heated, as in a {vacuum tube}. The electrons are accelerated across a large voltage gradient toward the flat surface of the tube (the screen) which is covered with phosphor. When an electron strikes the phosphor, light is emitted. The electron beam is deflected by electromagnetic coils around the outside of the tube so that it scans across the screen, usually in horizontal stripes. This scan pattern is known as a {raster}. By controlling the current in the beam, the brightness at any particular point (roughly a "{pixel}") can be varied. Different phosphors have different "{persistence}" - the length of time for which they glow after being struck by electrons. If the scanning is done fast enough, the eye sees a steady image, due to both the persistence of the phospor and of the eye itself. CRTs also differ in their {dot pitch}, which determines their spatial {resolution}, and in whether they use {interlace} or not. (1994-11-17)
cathodic ::: a. --> A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence.
cat-hole ::: n. --> One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
catholical ::: a. --> Catholic.
catholic ::: a. --> Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.
Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.
Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics; as, the Catholic emancipation act. ::: n.
catholicism ::: n. --> The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.
Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view.
The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto.
The doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church, or adherence thereto.
catholicity ::: n. --> The state or quality of being catholic; universality.
Liberality of sentiments; catholicism.
Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.
Adherence to the doctrines of the church of Rome, or the doctrines themselves.
catholicize ::: v. t. & i. --> To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.
catholicly ::: adv. --> In a catholic manner; generally; universally.
catholicness ::: n. --> The quality of being catholic; universality; catholicity.
catholicon ::: n. --> A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.
catholicos ::: n. --> The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.
catholiques . . brahmaniques [French] ::: Catholic . . Brahminic (both in plural).
catilinarian ::: a. --> Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline&
cationic cocktail "hardware" (Or "Downy cocktail") Diluted fabric softener sprayed on computer room carpets to prevent static electricity from being built up by feet shuffling on carpet. The {canonical} cationic cocktail is one part unscented liquid fabric softener (in the US, usually "Downy" brand) to five parts water. "Cationic" is the chemical term for the most common active ingredient in fabric softeners. The use of the term "cocktail" may be influenced by its use in other jargons, especially pharmacological and chemical, to denote a mixture which, like cationic cocktail, typically contains no alcohol and would be unwise to drink. (1998-04-04)
cation ::: n. --> An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion.
catkin ::: n. --> An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat&
catlike ::: a. --> Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.
catling ::: n. --> A little cat; a kitten.
Catgut; a catgut string.
A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
catlinite ::: n. --> A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes.
catmint ::: n. --> A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.
cat ::: n. --> An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.
A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a
catnip ::: n. --> Alt. of Catmint html{color:
cato-cathartic ::: n. --> A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
catonian ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.
catopron ::: n. --> See Catopter.
catopter ::: n. --> Alt. of Catoptron
catoptric ::: a. --> Alt. of Catoptrical
catoptrical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to catoptrics; produced by reflection.
catoptrics ::: n. --> That part of optics which explains the properties and phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies; -- formerly called anacamptics.
catoptromancy ::: n. --> A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.
catoptron ::: n. --> A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror.
catpipe ::: n. --> See Catcall.
cat-rigged ::: a. --> Rigged like a catboat.
cat-salt ::: n. --> A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.
cat-silver ::: n. --> Mica.
catskill period ::: --> The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.
catso ::: n. --> A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat.
catsos ::: pl. --> of Catso
catstick ::: n. --> A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat.
catstitch ::: v. t. --> To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.
catsup ::: n. --> A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc.
Same as Catchup, and Ketchup.
cat-tail ::: n. --> A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin.
catting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Cat
cattish ::: a. --> Catlike; feline
cattle ::: n. pl. --> Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
cat "tool" (From "catenate") {Unix}'s command which copies one or more entire files to the screen or some other output sink without pause. See also {dd}, {BLT}. Among {Unix} fans, cat is considered an excellent example of user-interface design, because it delivers the file contents without such verbosity as spacing or headers between the files (the {pr} command can be used to do this), and because it does not require the files to consist of lines of text, but works with any sort of data. Among Unix haters, cat is considered the {canonical} example of *bad* user-interface design, because of its woefully unobvious name. It is far more often used to {blast} a file to standard output than to concatenate files. The name "cat" for the former operation is just as unintuitive as, say, LISP's {cdr}. Of such oppositions are {holy wars} made. (1994-11-29)
catty ::: n. --> An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds.
caturvarna (Chaturvarna) ::: the fourfold order: brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra.
caturvarn.ya (chaturvarnya) ::: the ancient Indian system of the four caturvarnya orders (brahman.a, ks.atriya, vaisya, sūdra), representing four psychological types whose combination is necessary for the complete personality; these four types are symbolic of "four cosmic principles, the Wisdom that conceives the order and principle of things, the Power that sanctions, upholds and enforces it, the Harmony that creates the arrangement of its parts, the Work that carries out what the rest direct".
caturvarnya (Chaturvarnya) ::: [the system of] the four orders.
caturvyuha ::: fourfold manifestation (of God: krsna, Balarama, Pradyumna, Aniruddha); fourfold effective Power.
caturyuga (Chaturyuga) ::: [(a cycle of) the four yugas].
caturyuga (chaturyuga) ::: a series of four ages (satyayuga, treta, dvapara and kaliyuga), one hundredth of a pratikalpa, forming a cycle of apparent decline leading to a new cycle beginning on a higher level in a "cosmic circling movement" through which "God is perpetually leading man onwards to loftier & more embracing manifestations of our human perfectibility".
catuspad dharma ::: the perfect harmony of the four dharmas (brahmanyam, ksatram, vaisyam, saudram).
catustaya (Chatushtaya) ::: [a set of four; quartet].
catus.t.aya (chatushtaya; chatusthaya; chatusthay; chatustaya) ::: group catustaya of four, tetrad, quaternary; any of the seven parts of the sapta catus.t.aya, the system received by Sri Aurobindo as a programme for his yoga. The seven catus.t.ayas are: (1) samata catus.t.aya or santi catus.t.aya, (2) sakti catus.t.aya, (3) vijñana catus.t.aya, (4 sarira catus.t.aya, (5) karma catus.t.aya or lilacatus.t.aya, (6) brahma .. catus.t.aya, (7) (saṁ)siddhi catus.t.aya or yoga catus.t.aya. The first four catus.t.ayas are the catus.t.ayas of the adhara-siddhi; the last three are the general catus.t.ayas. The word catus.t.aya may also be applied to other groups of four, such as lipi catus.t.aya. catv catvaro
catus.t.aya (shakti chatusthaya; shakti-chatusthaya) ::: the second catus.t.aya, the quaternary of power, consisting of virya, sakti, daivi prakr.ti (or devibhava or Can.d.ibhava), and sraddha. sakti jiva sakti
catus.t.aya (shanti chatusthaya; shanti-chatusthaya) ::: the first catus.t.aya, the quaternary of peace, consisting of samata, santi, sukha, and hasya or (atma)prasada; also called the samata catus.t.aya.
catus.t.aya (sharirachatusthaya; sharira chatusthaya)—the fourth catus.t.aya, the quaternary of the body, whose members are arogya, utthapana, saundarya and ananda (or vividhananda) ssarira
catus.t.aya (yoga chatushtaya) ::: the quaternary of yoga; another name for the siddhi catus.t.aya. yog yogagnimaya agnimaya sarira
catvaro manavah ::: the four Manus (the spiritual Fathers of every human mind and body). [Gita 10.6]
Cat 3 {Category 3}
Cat 5 {Category 5}
Cataclysms are due to the influence of the sun, moon, planets, and ultimately also to the constellations. As all physical phenomena are manifestations of what originally occurs in the realms of mind and consciousness, the movements of the earth’s crust reflect the movements in the minds of the beings inhabiting it, for all nature is an organism and all things are ineluctably knitted together by cosmic forces.
Cataclysms [from Greek kataklysmos flood] The term originated among the Stoics, who taught that the world is visited periodically and alternately by deluge (cataclysm) and conflagration (ekpyrosis, “burning up”). This last teaching was taken over into early Christian theology in the idea that the world will perish in flame. The meaning of cataclysm, however, now includes both deluges and volcanic action. Theosophy holds that the earth is visited periodically and at long intervals by comparatively sudden changes, varying in geographic importance from a continental to merely local catastrophes. The whole period of the cataclysm includes a gradual beginning, a progressive intensification, a culmination, and a gradual diminution. Local transformations are often sudden, sharp, or violent, whereas those embracing a wide geographical field are usually much slower or of longer period, frequently seeming to be nothing more than the merely secular changes which human experience recognizes as customary.
Catacombs Subterranean caverns and galleries, some of the most celebrated being in and around Rome. These were constructed for sepulcher, but such was not the original purpose of many in other parts of the world, though many of these also were later used for burial and hence contain bones. This latter class was originally used as secret temples for the enactment of initiatory rites. “There were numerous catacombs in Egypt and Chaldea, some of them of a very vast extent. The most renowned of them were the subterranean crypts of Thebes and Memphis. The former, beginning on the western side of the Nile, extended towards the Lybian desert, and were known as the Serpent’s catacombs, or passages. It was there that were performed the sacred mysteries of the kuklos anagkes, the ‘Unavoidable Cycle,’ more generally known as ‘the circle of necessity’; the inexorable doom imposed upon every soul after the bodily death, and when it has been judged in the Amenthian region” (SD 2:379).
Catalepsy: A death-like state of physical coma, bodily rigidity, in which normal functions of the body, including sensations, are suspended and consciousness ceases; it may last from minutes to days. According to certain occultists, it is produced primarily in the astral body during the process of exteriorization.
Cataplexy: Catalepsy (q.v.) in animals.
CAT Common Abstract Tree Language. R. Voeller & Uwe Schmidt, U Kiel, Germany 1983. Universal intermediate language, used by Norsk Data in their family of compilers. "A Multi-Language Compiler System with Automatically Generated Codegenerators, U. Schmidt et al, SIGPLAN Notices 19(6):202-2121 (June 1984). [{Jargon File}]
Catechetic: Noun ordinarily employed in the plural, denoting the method and practice of imparting religious instruction orally by means of questions and answers, especially to children. -- J.J.R.
CATE {Computer Aided Test Engineering}
Categorematic: In traditional 1ogic, denoting or capable of denoting a term, or of standing for a subject or predicate- -- said of words. Opposite of syncategorematic (q.v.). -- A.C.
Categorial: A priori or non-empirical elements. (Alexander). -- H.H.
Categorical Abstract Machine Language "language" (Originally "CAML" - Categorical Abstract Machine Language) A version of {ML} by G. Huet, G. Cousineau, Ascander Suarez, Pierre Weis, Michel Mauny and others of {INRIA} and {ENS}. CAML is intermediate between {LCF ML} and {SML} [in what sense?]. It has {first-class} functions, {static type inference} with {polymorphic} types, user-defined {variant types} and {product types}, and {pattern matching}. It is built on a proprietary run-time system. The CAML V3.1 implementation added {lazy} and {mutable} data structures, a "{grammar}" mechanism for interfacing with the {Yacc} {parser generator}, {pretty-printing} tools, high-performance {arbitrary-precision} arithmetic, and a complete library. CAML V3 is often nicknamed "heavy CAML", because of its heavy memory and CPU requirements compared to {Caml Light}. in 1990 Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez designed a new implementation called {Caml Light}, freeing the previous implementation from too many experimental high-level features, and more importantly, from the old Le_Lisp back-end. Following the addition of a {native-code} compiler and a powerful {module} system in 1995 and of the {object} and {class} layer in 1996, the project's name was changed to {Objective Caml}. ["The CAML Reference Manual", P. Weis et al, TR INRIA-ENS, 1989]. (2003-04-12)
Categorical Imperative: (Kant. Ger. kategorischer Imperativ) The supreme, absolute moral law of rational, self-determining beings. Distinguished from hypothetical or conditional imperatives which admit of exceptions. Kant formulated the categorical imperative as follows "Act on maxims which can at the same time have for their object themselves as universal laws of nature." See Kantianism. -- O.F.K.
Categorical (Judgment): (Gr. kategorikos, affirmative, predicative) Aristotle: Affirmative explicit; direct. Commentators on Aristotle emphasized the opposition between categorical and conditional propositions, although Aristotle did not stress this connotation of the term. -- G.R.M.
Category 3 "hardware" (Cat 3, or "voice grade") An American Standards Institute standard for {UTP} cables. Used, e.g., for {100BaseVG} network cabling. (1998-06-30)
Category 5 "hardware" (Cat 5) An American Standards Institute standard for {UTP} cables. Used, e.g., for {100BaseTX} cabling. (1998-06-30)
Category: (Gr. kategoria) In Aristotle's logic (1) the predicate of a proposition; (2) one of the ultimate modes of being that may be asserted in predication, viz.: substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, position, state, action, passion. -- G.R.M.
Category of Unity: Kant: The first of three a priori, quantitative (so-called "mathematical") categories (the others being "plurality" and "totality") from which is derived the synthetic principle, "All intuitions (appearances) are extensive magnitudes." By means of this principle Kant seeks to define the object of experience a priori with reference to its spatial features. See Crit. of pure Reason, B106, B202ff. -- O.F.K Catharsis: (Gr. katharsis) Purification; purgation; specifically the purging of the emotions of pity and fear effected by tragedy (Aristotle). -- G.R.M.
Catharsis ::: The emotional release associated with the expression of unconscious conflicts.
CATIA "tool, product" A {CAD}/CAM system produced by Dassault Systemes and sold by {IBM}. CATIA is used heavily in the car and aerospace industries. It runs on various {Unix} platforms and {Windows NT}. {(http://catia.ibm.com/catmain.html)}. (2002-06-12)
CATNIP {Common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol}
CATO Fortran-like CAI language for PLATO system on CDC 1604. "CSL PLATO System Manual", L.A. Fillman, U Illinois, June 1966.
Catoptromancy: An ancient Greek method of divination by observing images reflected in a mirror suspended in a fountain.
Catvari arya-satyani: (Skr.) "The four noble truths" of Gautama Buddha's (q.v.) teaching: Suffering exists; it has a cause; it may cease; there is a path leading to its cessation. -- K.F.L.
TERMS ANYWHERE
1. A curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something. 2.* Fig.* That by which any one is attracted or ensnared and caught; a snare; a catch.
1. A physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible. 2. A mental representation; idea; conception. 3. Form; appearance; semblance. 4. A type; embodiment. 5. An idol or representation of a deity. 6. A person or thing that resembles another closely; counterpart, double or copy. 7. A concrete representation, as in art, literature, or music, that is expressive or evocative of something else. images, image-face.
1. A religious feast day; a holy day. 2. A period of cessation from work or one of recreation; vacation. holiday"s.
1. A suggested explanation for a group of facts or phenomena, either accepted as a basis for further verification (working hypothesis) or accepted as likely to be true. 2. An assumption used in an argument without its being endorsed; a supposition.
1. Lacking education or knowledge. 2. Unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge.
1. The state of being one; oneness. 2. A whole or totality, as combining all its parts into one. 3. The state or fact of being united or combined into one, as of the parts of a whole; unification. Unity, unity"s, unities.
abdicate ::: to renounce (a throne, power, responsibility, rights, etc.), esp. formally.
A block, pile, table, stand, mound, platform, or other elevated structure on which to place or sacrifice offerings to a deity. 2. With reference to the uses, customs, dedication, or peculiar sanctity of the altar. 3. A place consecrated to devotional observances. altar’s, altars, altar-burnings, mountain-altars.
ABOVE-HEAD CENTRE. ::: Above the head extends the higher consciousness centre, sahasradala padma, the thousandpetalled lotus, commanding the higher thinking mind and the illumined mind and opening upwards to the intuition and overmind. The sahasradala centralises spiritual mind, higher mind, intuitive mind and acts as a receiving station for the intuition proper and overmind.
It is the seventh and highest centre. Usually those who take the centres in the body only count six centres, the sahasrāra being excluded. It is sometimes or by some identified with the brain, but that is an error; the brain is only a channel of communication situated between the thousand-petalled and the forehead centre. The former is sometimes called the void centre, śūnya, either because it is not in the body, but in the apparent void above or because rising above the head one enters first into the silence of the self or spiritual being.
Wide Crown centre.
accent ::: 1. The way in which anything is said; pronunciation, tone, voice; sound, modulation or modification of the voice expressing feeling. 2. A mark indicating stress or some other distinction in pronunciation or value. accents.
active ::: originating or communicating action, exerting action upon others; acting of its own accord, spontaneous.
ADESA. ::: Impulsion; inner command. The Divine speaks to us in many ways and it is not always the imperative ādeśa that comes. When it does, it is clear and irresistible, the mind has to obey and there is no question possible, even if what comes is contrary to the preconceived ideas of the mental intelligence. But more often what is said is an intuition or even less, a mere indication, which the mind may not follow because it is not impressed with its imperative necessity. It is something offered but not imposed, perhaps something not even offered but only suggested from the Truth above.
a difficult, complicated or intricate situation; an entanglement.
Advocate, the eternal
afflatus ::: the miraculous communication of supernatural knowledge; hence also, the imparting of an over-mastering impulse, poetic or otherwise; inspiration. A creative inspiration, as that of a poet; a divine imparting of knowledge, thus it is often called divine afflatus.
a game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify one of the other players. The game has been around for at least 2000 years and probably longer. It is known to have been played in Greece about the time of the Roman Conquest.
AGNI. ::: Fire; Fire of Sacrifice; the Fire-God; Flame of Divine Force; illumined will; Divine Will; Fire of human aspiration; flame of purification or transformation in the psychic being; psychic fire.
The psychic fire is the fire of aspiration, purification and Tapasya.
Without Agni the sacrificial flame cannot bum on the altar of the soul. That flame of Agni is the seven-tongued power of the Will, a Force of God instinct with Knowledge. This conscious and forceful will is the immortal guest in our mortality, a pure priest and a divine worker, the mediator between earth and heaven. It carries what we offer to the higher Powers and brings back in return their force and light and joy into our humanity.
Agni and colours ::: the principle of Fire can manifest all the colours and the pure white fire is that which contains in itself all the colours.
"All depends on the meaning you attach to words used; it is a matter of nomenclature. Ordinarily, one says a man has intellect if he can think well; the nature and process and field of the thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata, and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another — Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man of intellect? I would prefer to use for the general faculty of mind the word intelligence. Ford has a great and forceful practical intelligence, keen, quick, successful, dynamic. He has a brain that can deal with thoughts also, but even there his drive is towards practicality. He believes in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a school of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has, on the other hand, a great discovering scientific intellect, not, like Marconi, a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have, of course, an ‘intellect" of a kind; all, for instance, can discuss and debate (for which you say rightly intellect is needed); but it is only when one rises to the realm of ideas and moves freely in it that you say, ‘This man has an intellect".” Letters on Yoga
“All depends on the meaning you attach to words used; it is a matter of nomenclature. Ordinarily, one says a man has intellect if he can think well; the nature and process and field of the thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata, and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another—Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man of intellect? I would prefer to use for the general faculty of mind the word intelligence. Ford has a great and forceful practical intelligence, keen, quick, successful, dynamic. He has a brain that can deal with thoughts also, but even there his drive is towards practicality. He believes in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a school of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has, on the other hand, a great discovering scientific intellect, not, like Marconi, a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have, of course, an ‘intellect’ of a kind; all, for instance, can discuss and debate (for which you say rightly intellect is needed); but it is only when one rises to the realm of ideas and moves freely in it that you say, ‘This man has an intellect’.” Letters on Yoga
All depends upon the order of thin gs which the colours indi- cate in a particular case. There is an order of significances in which they indicate various psycbolo^cal dynamisms, c.g. faith, love, protection, etc. There is another order of significances In which they indicate the aura or the activity of divine beings,
". . . all division is intended to enrich by an experience of various sweetness of unification the joy of realised unity.” The Life Divine
“… all division is intended to enrich by an experience of various sweetness of unification the joy of realised unity.” The Life Divine
All lights are indications of a Force or Power. It is the work of the Lights and Forces they represent to act in their descent on the lower nature and change it. Light clatifics the conscious- ness and works as a force and makes knowledge possible.
allotted ::: 1. Divided or distributed by share or portion; apportioned. 2. Assigned as a portion, set apart, dedicated.
already ::: 1. Core Meaning: an adverb indicating that something has happened before now. 2. Happened in the past before a particular time, or will have happened by or before a particular time in the future. 3. Unexpectedly early.
altar ::: 1. A block, pile, table, stand, mound, platform, or other elevated structure on which to place or sacrifice offerings to a deity. 2. With reference to the uses, customs, dedication, or peculiar sanctity of the altar. 3. A place consecrated to devotional observances. altar"s, altars, altar-burnings, mountain-altars.
Amal: “I believe that capitalization indicates that these are not only states but also powers which can display even personality.
Amal: “I suppose they are the movements of the consciousness which try to catch in advance various glimpses of Truth, before the Truth is realised.”
Amal: “There are several levels between the mind and the Supermind. One of them is that of the Ideal. A common classification by Sri Aurobindo is: the Higher Mind, the Illumined Mind, the Intuition, the Overmind Intuition, the Overmind, the supramentalised Overmind. In an early chapter of The Life Divine, there is a triple scheme: the Phenomenal, the Ideal, the Real. The Ideal here would cover all the planes between mind and Supermind.”
Amal: “This must be sat-chit-ananda - Being, Consciousness and Bliss. Here the threefold reality seems subsumed under one category doing duty for the three.
amidst ::: in the middle of; surrounded by; among; amidst is often used of things scattered about, or in the midst of others.
An animal other than a human, especially a large four-footed mammal. 2. Fig. Animal nature as opposed to intellect or spirit. 3. A large wild animal. 4. A domesticated animal used by man. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.)
ananke ::: "In Greek mythology, personification of compelling necessity or ultimate fate to which even the gods must yield.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
Ananke ::: “In Greek mythology, personification of compelling necessity or ultimate fate to which even the gods must yield.” (Mother India) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
Anarchs ::: Authors or advocates of anarchy; leaders of revolt.
"And if there is, as there must be in the nature of things, an ascending series in the scale of substance from Matter to Spirit, it must be marked by a progressive diminution of these capacities most characteristic of the physical principle and a progressive increase of the opposite characteristics which will lead us to the formula of pure spiritual self-extension. This is to say that they must be marked by less and less bondage to the form, more and more subtlety and flexibility of substance and force, more and more interfusion, interpenetration, power of assimilation, power of interchange, power of variation, transmutation, unification. Drawing away from durability of form, we draw towards eternity of essence; drawing away from our poise in the persistent separation and resistance of physical Matter, we draw near to the highest divine poise in the infinity, unity and indivisibility of Spirit.” The Life Divine
“And if there is, as there must be in the nature of things, an ascending series in the scale of substance from Matter to Spirit, it must be marked by a progressive diminution of these capacities most characteristic of the physical principle and a progressive increase of the opposite characteristics which will lead us to the formula of pure spiritual self-extension. This is to say that they must be marked by less and less bondage to the form, more and more subtlety and flexibility of substance and force, more and more interfusion, interpenetration, power of assimilation, power of interchange, power of variation, transmutation, unification. Drawing away from durability of form, we draw towards eternity of essence; drawing away from our poise in the persistent separation and resistance of physical Matter, we draw near to the highest divine poise in the infinity, unity and indivisibility of Spirit.” The Life Divine
And still we can recognise at once in the Overmind the original cosmic Maya, not a Maya of Ignorance but a Maya of Knowledge, yet a Power which has made the Ignorance possible, even inevitable. For if each principle loosed into action must follow its independent line and carry out its complete consequences, the principle of separation must also be allowed its complete course and arrive at its absolute consequence; this is Overmind in its descent reaches a line which divides the cosmic Truth from the cosmic Ignorance; it is the line at which it becomes possible for Consciousness-Force, emphasising the separateness of each independent movement created by Overmind and hiding or darkening their unity, to divide Mind by an exclusive concentration from the overmental source. There has already been a similar separation of Overmind from its supramental source, but with a transparency in the veil which allows a conscious transmission and maintains a certain luminous kinship; but here the veil is opaque and the transmission of the Overmind motives to the Mind is occult and obscure. Mind separated acts as if it were an independent principle, and each mental being, each basic mental idea, power, force stands similarly on its separate self; if it communicates with or combines or contacts others, it is not with the catholic universality of the overmind movement, on a basis of underlying oneness, but as independent units joining to form a separate constructed whole. It is by this movement that we pass from the cosmic Truth into the cosmic Ignorance. The cosmic Mind on this level, no doubt, comprehends its own unity, but it is not aware of its own source and foundation in the Spirit or can only comprehend it by the intelligence, not in any enduring experience; it acts in itself as if by its own right and works out what it receives as material without direct communication with the source from which it receives it. Its units also act in ignorance of each other and of the cosmic whole except for the knowledge that they can get by contact and communication,—the basic sense of identity and the mutual penetration and understanding that comes from it are no longer there. All the actions of this Mind Energy proceed on the opposite basis of the Ignorance and its divisions and, although they are the results of a certain conscious knowledge, it is a partial knowledge, not a true and integral self-knowledge, nor a true and integral world-knowledge. This character persists in Life and in subtle Matter and reappears in the gross material universe which arises from the final lapse into the Inconscience. …
another ::: adj. 1. Being one more or more of the same; further; additional. 2. Very similar to; of the same kind or category as. 3. Different; distinct; of a different period, place, or kind. pron. **4. A person other than oneself or the one specified. 5. One more; an additional one. another"s**.
apocalypse ::: 1. Any revelation or prophecy. 2. A prophetic revelation, esp. concerning a cataclysm in which the forces of good permanently triumph over the forces of evil.
appeal ::: 1. An earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea. 2. An application or proceeding for review by a higher tribunal. 3. The power or ability to attract, interest; attraction. appealed, appealing, sense-appeal.
a rod, esp. a forked stick supposed to be useful in locating underground water, metal deposits, etc.
art ::: v. archaic** A second person singular present indicative of be, now only poet., not in modern usage. All other references are to art as the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. Also, the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria. art"s, arts, art-parades.
ascetic ::: one who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals, whether by seclusion or by abstinence from creature comforts, and practices extreme self-denial, rigorous self-discipline or self-mortification. ascetic"s, ascetics.
ASPIRATION. ::: The call in the being for the Divine or for the higher things that belong to the Divine Consciousness.
A call to the Divine; aspiration for the discovery and embodiment of the Divine Truth and to nothing else whatever.
An aspiration vigilant, constant, unceasing- the mind’s will, the heart’s seeking, the assent of the vital being, the will to open and make plastic the physical consciousness and nature.
There is no need of words in aspiration. It can be expressed or unexpressed in words.
Aspiration need not be in the form of thought; it can be a feeling within that remains even when the mind is attending to the work.
Aspiration is to call the forces. When the forces have answered, there is a natural state of quiet receptivity concentrated but spontaneous.
In aspiration there is a self-giving for the higher consciousness to descend and take possession ; the more intense the call, the greater the self-giving.
Aspiration keeps the consciousness open, prevents an inert state of acquiescence in all that comes and exercises a sort of pull on the sources of the higher consciousness.
The intensity of aspiration brings the intensity of the experience and by repeated intensity of the experience, the change. It is the psychic that gives the true aspiration; if the vital is purified and subjected to the psychic, then the vital gives intensity.
Aspiration in the physical consciousness ::: the physical consciousness is always in everybody in its own nature a little inert and in it a constant strong aspiration is not natural, it has to be created. But first there must be the opening, a purification, a fixed quietude, otherwise the physical vital will turn the strong aspiration into over-eagerness and impatience or rather it will try to give it that turn.
ASTROLOGY. ::: Many astrological predictions come true, quite a mass of them, if one takes all together. But it does not follow that the stars rule our destiny; the stars merely record a destiny that has been already formed, they are a hieroglyph, not a Force, - or if their action constitutes a force, it is a transmitting energy, not an originating Power. Someone is there who has determined or something is there which is Fate, let us say; the stars are only indications. The astrologers themselves say that there are two forces, daiva and puruṣakāra, fate and individual energy, and the individual energy can modify and even frustrate fate. Moreover, the stars often indicate several fatepossibilities; for example, that one may die in mid-age, but that if that determination can be overcome, one can live to a predictable old age. Finally, cases are seen in which the predictions of the horoscope fulfil themselves with great accuracy up to a certain age, then apply no more. This often happens when the subject turns away from the ordinary to the spiritual life. If the turn is very radical, the cessation of predictability may be immediate; otherwise certain results may still last on for a time ; but there is no longer the sure inevitability.
"A third step is to find out that there is something in him other than his instrumental mind, life and body, not only an immortal ever-developing individual soul that supports his nature but an eternal immutable self and spirit, and to learn what are the categories of his spiritual being, until he discovers that all in him is an expression of the spirit and distinguishes the link between his lower and his higher existence; thus he sets out to remove his constitutional self-ignorance. Discovering self and spirit he discovers God; he finds out that there is a Self beyond the temporal: he comes to the vision of that Self in the cosmic consciousness as the divine Reality behind Nature and this world of beings; his mind opens to the thought or the sense of the Absolute of whom self and the individual and the cosmos are so many faces; the cosmic, the egoistic, the original ignorance begin to lose the rigidness of their hold upon him.” The Life Divine
“A third step is to find out that there is something in him other than his instrumental mind, life and body, not only an immortal ever-developing individual soul that supports his nature but an eternal immutable self and spirit, and to learn what are the categories of his spiritual being, until he discovers that all in him is an expression of the spirit and distinguishes the link between his lower and his higher existence; thus he sets out to remove his constitutional self-ignorance. Discovering self and spirit he discovers God; he finds out that there is a Self beyond the temporal: he comes to the vision of that Self in the cosmic consciousness as the divine Reality behind Nature and this world of beings; his mind opens to the thought or the sense of the Absolute of whom self and the individual and the cosmos are so many faces; the cosmic, the egoistic, the original ignorance begin to lose the rigidness of their hold upon him.” The Life Divine
::: ". . . a true occultism means no more than a research into supraphysical realities and an unveiling of the hidden laws of being and Nature, of all that is not obvious on the surface. It attempts the discovery of the secret laws of mind and mental energy, the secret laws of life and life-energy, the secret laws of the subtle-physical and its energies, — all that Nature has not put into visible operation on the surface; it pursues also the application of these hidden truths and powers of Nature so as to extend the mastery of the human spirit beyond the ordinary operations of mind, the ordinary operations of life, the ordinary operations of our physical existence. In the spiritual domain which is occult to the surface mind in so far as it passes beyond normal and enters into supernormal experience, there is possible not only the discovery of the self and spirit, but the discovery of the uplifting, informing and guiding light of spiritual consciousness and the power of the spirit, the spiritual way of knowledge, the spiritual way of action. To know these things and to bring their truths and forces into the life of humanity is a necessary part of its evolution. Science itself is in its own way an occultism; for it brings to light the formulas which Nature has hidden and it uses its knowledge to set free operations of her energies which she has not included in her ordinary operations and to organise and place at the service of man her occult powers and processes, a vast system of physical magic, — for there is and can be no other magic than the utilisation of secret truths of being, secret powers and processes of Nature. It may even be found that a supraphysical knowledge is necessary for the completion of physical knowledge, because the processes of physical Nature have behind them a supraphysical factor, a power and action mental, vital or spiritual which is not tangible to any outer means of knowledge.” The Life Divine
“… a true occultism means no more than a research into supraphysical realities and an unveiling of the hidden laws of being and Nature, of all that is not obvious on the surface. It attempts the discovery of the secret laws of mind and mental energy, the secret laws of life and life-energy, the secret laws of the subtle-physical and its energies,—all that Nature has not put into visible operation on the surface; it pursues also the application of these hidden truths and powers of Nature so as to extend the mastery of the human spirit beyond the ordinary operations of mind, the ordinary operations of life, the ordinary operations of our physical existence. In the spiritual domain which is occult to the surface mind in so far as it passes beyond normal and enters into supernormal experience, there is possible not only the discovery of the self and spirit, but the discovery of the uplifting, informing and guiding light of spiritual consciousness and the power of the spirit, the spiritual way of knowledge, the spiritual way of action. To know these things and to bring their truths and forces into the life of humanity is a necessary part of its evolution. Science itself is in its own way an occultism; for it brings to light the formulas which Nature has hidden and it uses its knowledge to set free operations of her energies which she has not included in her ordinary operations and to organise and place at the service of man her occult powers and processes, a vast system of physical magic,—for there is and can be no other magic than the utilisation of secret truths of being, secret powers and processes of Nature. It may even be found that a supraphysical knowledge is necessary for the completion of physical knowledge, because the processes of physical Nature have behind them a supraphysical factor, a power and action mental, vital or spiritual which is not tangible to any outer means of knowledge.” The Life Divine
ATTACHMENT. ::: All attachment is a hindrance to sadhana. Goodwāl you should have for all, psychic kindness for all, but no vital attachment.
To become indifferent to the attraction of outer objects is one of the first rules of yoga, for this non-attachment liberates the inner being into peace and the true consciousness.
Even after the liberation, one has to remain vigilant, for often these things go out and remain at a far distance, waiting to see if under any circumstances in any condition they can make a rush and recover their kingdom. If there has been an entire purification down to the depths and nothing is there to open the gate, then they cannot do it.
Attachment to things ::: the physical rejection of them is not the best way to get rid of it. Accept what is given you, ask for what is needed and think no more of it - attaching no importance, using them when you have, not troubled if you have not. That is the best way of getting rid of the attachment.
aura ::: “Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is aware only of thoughts, feelings, etc., that rise to the surface and these he takes for his own. Really they come from outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation, etc., which take particular form in him and rise to the surface after they have got inside. But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the Theosophists the Aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there they try to get in again. Or they go to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance.” Letters on Yoga
auspice-hour ::: an auspice is any divine or prophetic token; a favourable sign or propitious circumstance, esp. an indication of a happy future. Sri Aurobindo combines the word ‘hour" with auspice to emphasize a special moment.
authors or advocates of anarchy; leaders of revolt.
bacchic ::: of or relating to Bacchus; drunken and carousing; riotously intoxicated.
catch ::: n. 1. A concealed, unexpected, or unforeseen drawback or handicap. 2. Anything that is caught, esp. something worth catching. v. **3. To take, seize, or capture, esp. after pursuit. 4. To become cognizant or aware of suddenly. 5. To receive. 6. catches, caught, catching.**
cathedral ::: 1. A large and important church of imposing architectural beauty. 2. Of, relating to, or resembling a cathedral.
cathedral ::: In Night’s bare session to cathedral Light
beast ::: 1. An animal other than a human, especially a large four-footed mammal. 2. Fig. Animal nature as opposed to intellect or spirit. 3. A large wild animal. 4. A domesticated animal used by man. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) beast"s, Beast"s, beasts, wild-beast. ::: —the Beast. Applied to the devil and evil spirits.
beings ::: things or entities that exist, esp. things or entities that cannot be assigned to any category.
BELLS. ::: Indicate the evening or attempt to open to the enmity and opposition to God, considered as an intense, impa- tient and perverse form of Love, is conceived as a possible means of realisation and salvation.
betray ::: 1. To be false or disloyal to. 2. To lead astray; deceive. 3. To divulge, disclose in a breach of confidence, a secret. 4. To show signs of; reveal; indicate. betrays, betrayed, betraying, moon-betrayed.
binding posts ::: stakes, stout poles, columns, or the like, that are set upright in or on the ground; (with prefixed word indicating special purpose).
bloom ::: n. **1. The flower of a plant. 2. Fig. A condition or time of vigour, freshness, and beauty; prime. 3. Fig. Glowing charm; delicate beauty. blooms. v. 4. To bear flowers; to blossom. Also fig. 5. To be in a healthy, glowing, or flourishing condition. 6. To flourish or grow. 7. To cause to flourish or grow; to flourish. Chiefly fig. blooms, bloomed.**
boundary ::: something that indicates a border or limit, or the border or limit so indicated. boundary"s, boundaries.
brink ::: 1. The upper edge of a steep or vertical slope, esp. the margin of land bordering a body of water. 2. Any extreme edge; verge. 3. A crucial or critical point, esp. of a situation or state beyond which success or catastrophe occurs.
But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an cn\ironmenlal consciousness (called by the Thco- sophists the Aura) into which they' first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of you, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion, or force of illness and prevent it from entering into you. If things tn you arc thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there they try to gel in again or they go to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or csen perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance.
"By Force I mean not mental or vital energy but the Divine Force from above — as peace comes from above and wideness also, so does this Force (Shakti). Nothing, not even thinking or meditating can be done without some action of Force. The Force I speak of is a Force for illumination, transformation, purification, all that has to be done in the yoga, for removal of hostile forces and the wrong movements — it is also of course for external work, whether great or small in appearance does not matter — if that is part of the Divine Will. I do not mean any personal force egoistic or rajasic.” Letters on Yoga
“By Force I mean not mental or vital energy but the Divine Force from above—as peace comes from above and wideness also, so does this Force (Shakti). Nothing, not even thinking or meditating can be done without some action of Force. The Force I speak of is a Force for illumination, transformation, purification, all that has to be done in the yoga, for removal of hostile forces and the wrong movements—it is also of course for external work, whether great or small in appearance does not matter—if that is part of the Divine Will. I do not mean any personal force egoistic or rajasic.” Letters on Yoga
cadence ::: 1. Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory. 2. Music. A sequence of notes or chords that indicates the momentary or complete end of a composition, section, phrase, etc. 3. The flow or rhythm of events. 4. A recurrent rhythmical series; a flow, esp. the pattern in which something is experienced. 5. A slight falling in pitch of the voice in speaking or reading. cadences.
calamitous ::: disastrous; catastrophic, ruinous; devastating.
cap ::: a special head covering worn to indicate rank, occupation, or membership in a particular group.
caricature ::: a grotesque imitation, misrepresentation or distorted image, as a drawing or description of a person which exaggerates characteristic features for comic effect.
caught ::: pt. and pp. of catch.
cause ::: 1. A person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect. 2. A basis for an action or response; a reason. 3. Grounds for action; motive; justification. 4. Good or sufficient reason. 5. The principle, ideal, goal, or movement to which a person or group is dedicated. Cause.
challenge ::: 1. A call or summons to engage in a contest, fight, or competition. 2. A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question. v. **3. To invite; arouse; stimulate; provoke. challenges, challenged, challenging.**
change ::: v. 1. To make the form, nature, content, future course, etc. of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone. 2. To become different or undergo alteration. changes, changed, changing, ever-changing.* n. 3. The act or fact of changing; transformation or modification of anything. Change, changes, soul-change.
chased ::: 1. Followed rapidly in order to catch; overtake; pursued. 2. Put to flight; driven away by force.
chase ::: v. **1. To follow rapidly in order to catch or overtake; pursue. 2. To follow or devote one"s attention to with the hope of attracting, winning, gaining, etc. 3. To put to flight; drive out. ::: —chases, chased.* *n. 3. The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture thunder-chase.**
CHEIROMANCY. ::: Each man is an individual by himself with his own peculiar formation different from others and made by minute variations in the general human plan, — this is true of small physical characteristics, it is evidently equally true of psychological characteristics ; it is not unreasonable to suppose a correlation between the two. On that basis cheiromancy may very well have a truth in it, for it is a known fact that the lines in an individual hand are different from the lines in others and that this, as well as differences of physiognomy, may carry in it psychological indications is not impossible.
childish ::: 1. Of, like, or befitting a child. 2. Marked by or indicating a lack of maturity; puerile.
chrysoprase ::: a brittle, translucent, semiprecious chalcedony (q.v.), a variety of the silica mineral quartz. It owes its bright apple-green colour to colloidally dispersed hydrated nickel silicate. Valued in ancient times as it shone in the dark.
Citta-suddhi (purification of the mental or moral habits form- ed in the citta) was preached by the yogins as a first movement towards realisation and they got by it the saintliness of the saint and the quietude of the sage but the transformation of the nature of which w« speak Is something more than that, and this trans- formation does not come by contemplation alone.
claw ::: n. **1. A sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird. v. 2. To tear, scratch, seize, pull, etc., with or as if with claws. clawed.**
clay ::: 1. A natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminium: used for making bricks, pottery, etc. 2. The material which is said to form the human body. 3. The human body, esp. as opposed to the spirit. clay-kin.
cloven hoof ::: 1. A divided or cleft hoof, as in deer or cattle. 2. Evil or Satan, often depicted as a figure with cleft hooves.
coarse ::: 1. Composed of relatively large parts or particles. 2. Lacking in fineness or delicacy of texture, structure, etc. Not refined or delicate, rough.
coastal ::: of, relating to, bordering on, or located near a coast.
Coilas ::: (Most often spelled Kailas). One of the highest and most rugged mountains of the Himalayan range, located in the southwestern part of China. It is an important holy site both to the Hindus, who identify it with the paradise of Shiva and also regard it as the abode of Kubera, and to the Tibetan Buddhists, who identify it with Mount Sumeru, cosmic centre of the universe.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
coilas ::: (Most often spelled Kailas.) "One of the highest and most rugged mountains of the Himalayan range, located in the southwestern part of China. It is an important holy site both to the Hindus, who identify it with the paradise of Shiva and also regard it as the abode of Kubera, and to the Tibetan Buddhists, who identify it with Mount Sumeru, cosmic centre of the universe.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
Colour and light are always close to each other, colour being more indicative, light more dynamic. Colour incandescent be- comes light.
Colour indicates the pby of forces mental, physical and vital, but forces making for ealigbteiunent of these parts of the being.
commune ::: 1. To communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity. 2. To be in intimate communication or rapport. communes, communed, communing.
communicated ::: 1. Had an interchange, as of ideas. 2. Conveyed information about; imparted knowledge of; made known. communicates, communicating.
communicant ::: a person who communicates, informs or imparts.
communiqué ::: an official communication or announcement, esp. to the press or public.
compass ::: an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north.
complex ::: involved or intricate, as in structure; complicated.
concentration ("s) ::: exclusive attention to one object; close mental application.
CONSCIOUSNESS ::: The faculty of being aware of anything through identification. The Divine Consciousness is not only aware but knows and effects. To be aware of a vibration, for instance, does not mean that you know everything about it.
consecrated ::: solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose.
consecrates ::: dedicates solemnly to a service or goal. consecrated.
consecration ::: a sanctification of something by setting it apart as dedicated to God.
CONTRADICTIONS. ::: Every man is full of contradictions because he is one person, no doubt, but made up of different personalities. So long as one does not aim at unity in a single dominant intention, like that of seeking and self-dedication to the Divine, they get on somehow together, alternating or quar- relling or muddling through or else one taking the lead and compelling the others to take a minor part — but once you try to unite them in one aim, then the trouble becomes evident.
convey ::: 1. To take or carry from one place to another; transport. 2. To communicate or make known; impart. conveys, conveyed.
copy ::: n. 1. A imitation or reproduction of an original; a duplicate. 2. A reproduction or an image. copies. v. 2. To make a reproduction or copy of.
correspondence ::: communication.
cosmic mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Nevertheless, the fact of this intervention from above, the fact that behind all our original thinking or authentic perception of things there is a veiled, a half-veiled or a swift unveiled intuitive element is enough to establish a connection between mind and what is above it; it opens a passage of communication and of entry into the superior spirit-ranges. There is also the reaching out of mind to exceed the personal ego limitation, to see things in a certain impersonality and universality. Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes, — towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested, must in the nature of things be the original mind-action of which ours is only a derivative and inferior process.” *The Life Divine
"If we accept the Vedic image of the Sun of Truth, . . . we may compare the action of the Higher Mind to a composed and steady sunshine, the energy of the Illumined Mind beyond it to an outpouring of massive lightnings of flaming sun-stuff. Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; . . . At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies, — not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden Lid it veils the face of the greater Truth from our sight, intervening with its flood of infinite possibilities as at once an obstacle and a passage in our seeking of the spiritual law of our existence, its highest aim, its secret Reality.” The Life Divine
"There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. All the attempt of man to arrive at universal sympathy, universal love and the understanding and knowledge of the inner soul of other existences is an attempt to beat thin, breach and eventually break down by the power of the enlarging mind and heart the walls of the ego and arrive nearer to a cosmic oneness.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"[The results of the opening to the cosmic Mind:] One is aware of the cosmic Mind and the mental forces that move there and how they work on one"s mind and that of others and one is able to deal with one"s own mind with a greater knowledge and effective power. There are many other results, but this is the fundamental one.” Letters on Yoga
"The cosmic consciousness has many levels — the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind, and above the higher planes of cosmic Mind there is the Intuition and above that the overmind and still above that the supermind where the Transcendental begins. In order to live in the Intuition plane (not merely to receive intuitions), one has to live in the cosmic consciousness because there the cosmic and individual run into each other as it were, and the mental separation between them is already broken down, so nobody can reach there who is still in the separative ego.” Letters on Yoga*
crabbed ::: 1. Difficult to understand; complicated; obscure. 2. Difficult to read; cramped; as crabbed handwriting.
creed ::: 1. A formal statement of religious belief; a confession of faith. 2. Any system or codification of belief or of opinion. creeds.
cry ::: 1. To entreat loudly; supplicate. 2. To call loudly; shout. 3. To sob or shed tears because of grief, sorrow, or pain; weep. 4. To utter or shout (words of appeal, exclamation, fear, etc.) 5. To utter a characteristic sound or call. Used of an animal. cries, cried, criedst, criest, crying.
crypt ::: 1. An underground vault or chamber, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place. 2. A cellar, vault or tunnel. 3. A location for secret meetings, etc. crypts.
daedal ::: n. **1. Complex or intricate. adj. 2.** Skilful or ingenious.
DARSHAN. ::: ScU*revclation of the Deity to the devotee. It is an unveiling of his presence temporary or permanent, and may come as a vision or may come as a close feeling of his presence which is more intimate than sight and a frequent or constant communication with him ; that happens by the deepen- ing of the being into its inner self and growth of consciousness or by growth of the intensity of bhakti. When the crust of external consciousness is sufficiently broken by the pressure of increasing and engrossing bhakti, the contact comes.
debate ::: 1. A discussion involving opposing points; an argument. 2. A formal contest in which the affirmative and negative sides of a proposition are advocated by opposing speakers.
debris ::: the scattered remains of something broken or destroyed; rubble or wreckage.
dedicate ::: to set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate. dedicated.
defence ::: 1. Something that defends, as a fortification, something built to resist an enemy. 3. The act of defending against attack, danger, or injury.
delicate ::: 1. Distinguishing subtle differences. 2. Of instruments: precise, skilled, or sensitive in action or operation. 3. Marked by sensitivity of discrimination and skillful in expression, technique, etc. 4. Exquisitely or beautifully fine in texture, construction, or finish. 5. Exquisite, fine, or subtle in quality, character, construction, etc. 6. (of colour, tone, taste, etc.) Pleasantly subtle, soft, or faint.
delicately ::: 1. In a delicate manner. 2. Fine or soft in touch or skill; gently, exquisitely fine.
delirium ::: 1. A more or less temporary disorder of the mental faculties, as in fevers, disturbances of consciousness, or intoxication, characterised by restlessness, excitement, delusions, hallucinations, etc. 2. A state of violent excitement or emotion.
destroyed, eradicated, as if by pulling out roots.
Dionysion ::: Madhav: “Dionysian, belonging to the god of wine, the wine that is intoxicating joy; as if one had drunk from the cup of the god of wine.” The Book of the Divine Mother
diplomat ::: one who is tactful and skilful in negotiating and managing delicate situations, handling people, etc. diplomatic.
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dire ::: 1. Causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible. 2. Indicating trouble, disaster, misfortune, or the like. 3. Urgent; desperate. direr.
directing ::: showing or indicating the way for.
DISQUALIFICATIONS. ::: One who fears monotony and wants something new would not be able to do yoga or at least this yoga which needs an inexhaustible perseverance and patience.
divine life ::: Sri Aurobindo: "A life of gnostic beings carrying the evolution to a higher supramental status might fitly be characterised as a divine life; for it would be a life in the Divine, a life of the beginnings of a spiritual divine light and power and joy manifested in material Nature.” *The Life Divine ::: "The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man"s real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would be only an insect crawling among other ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.” The Life Divine
::: "Divinisation itself does not mean the destruction of the human elements; it means taking them up, showing them the way to their own perfection, raising them by purification and perfection to their full power and Ananda and that means the raising of the whole of earthly life to its full power and Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
“Divinisation itself does not mean the destruction of the human elements; it means taking them up, showing them the way to their own perfection, raising them by purification and perfection to their full power and Ananda and that means the raising of the whole of earthly life to its full power and Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
DIVINISATION. ::: Taking up of the human elements, show- ing them the way to their own perfection, raising them by purifi- cation and perfection to their full power and Ananda and that means the raising of the whole earthly life to its full power and Ananda.
This divinisation of the nature is a metamorphosis, a change from the falsehood of our ignorant nature into the truth of God- nature.
dogmas ::: “Only those thoughts are true the opposite of which is also true in its own time and application; indisputable dogmas are the most dangerous kind of falsehoods.” Essays Divine and Human
dost ::: second person singular, present indicative of do.
dot ::: n. 1. A small round mark made with or as with a pen, etc.; spot; speck; point. 2. Anything relatively small or specklike. dots. *v.* 3. To scatter or intersperse (with dots or something resembling dots). 4. To stud or diversify with or as if with dots, as trees dotting the landscape. dotted, dotting.
Dreams from the subconscient ::: It is one of the most embar- rassing elements of yogic experience to find how obstinately the subconscient retains what has been settled and done with in the upper layers of the consciousness. But just for that reason these dreams are often a useful indication as they enable us to pursue things to their obscure roots in this underworld and excise them.
Dreams of physical mind and yogic dreams ; The dreams of the physical mind are an incoherent jumble made up partly of responses to vague touches from the physical world round which the lower mind-faculties disconnected from the will and reason, the bttddhi, weave a web of wandering phantasy, partly of disordered associations from the bram-memory, partly of reflections from the soul travelling on the mental plane, reflections which are, ordinarily, received without intelligence or co-ordination, wildly distorted in the reception and mixed up confusedly with the other dream elements, wnlh brain-memories and fantastic responses to any sensory touch from the physical world. In the yogic dream-state, on the other hand, the mind is in clear pos- session of itself, though not of the physical world, works cohe- rently and is able to use either its ordinary will and intelligence with a concentrated power or else the higher will and intelli- gence of the more exalted planes of mind. It withdraws from experience of the outer world, it puts its seals upon the physical senses and their doors of communication with material things ; but everything that is proper to itself, thought, reasoning, reflec- tion, vision, it can continue to execute with an increased purity and power of sovereign concentration free from the distractions and unsteadiness of the waking mind. It can use too its will and produce upon itself or upon its environment mental, moral and even physical effects which may continue and have their after-consequences on the waking state subsequent to the cessa- tion of the trance.
DREAMS. ::: Sometimes they are the formations of your own mind or vital ; sometimes they are the formations of other minds wth an exact or modified transcription in yours ; sometimes for- mations come that are made by the non-human forces or beings of these other planes. These things are not true and need not become true in the physical world, but they may still have effects on the physical if they are framed wlh that purpose or that tendency and, if they are allowed, they may realise their events or their meaning — for they are most often symbolic or sche- ‘ matic — in the inner or the outer life.
There are other dreams that have not the same character but are a representation or transcription of things that actually hap- pen on other planes, in other worlds under other conditions than ours. There are, again, some dreams that are purely symbolic and some that indicate existing movements and propensities in us.
Symbolic dreams may symbolize anything, forces at play, the underlying structure and tissue of things done or experienced, actual or potential happenings, real or suggested movements or changes in the inner or outer nature. The exact meaning varies with the mind and the condition of the one who sees them.
drive ::: v. 1. To impel; constrain; urge; compel. 2. To manoeuvre, guide or steer the progress of. 3. To impel (matter) by physical force; to cause (something) to move along by direct application of physical force; to propel, carry along. 4. To send, expel, or otherwise cause to move away or out by force or compulsion. 5. To strive vigorously and with determination toward a goal or objective. 6. To cause and guide the movement of (a vehicle, an animal, etc.). n. 7. A strong organized effort to accomplish a purpose, with energy, push or aggressiveness. 8. Impulse; impulsive force. adj. 9. Urged onward, impelled. 10. Pertaining to an inner urge that stimulates activity or inhibition. drives, drove, drov"st, driving, driven.
drunken ::: delirious with or as if with strong drink; intoxicated.
drunk ::: intoxicated as with an alcoholic liquor; overcome or dominated by a strong feeling or emotion. honey-drunk. (Also, pp. of drink.)
elaborate ::: 1. Worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness. 2. Marked by intricate and often excessive detail; complicated.
EMOTION, Emotion h a good element in yoga ; but emo- tional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire for their purification ; they will then become a help and no longer a cause of suffering.
"Emotion is a good element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire for their purification; they will then become a help on the way and no longer a cause of suffering.” Letters on Yoga*
“Emotion is a good element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire for their purification; they will then become a help on the way and no longer a cause of suffering.” Letters on Yoga
ensnare ::: 1. To catch or trap in a snare. 2. To trap or gain power over someone by dishonest or underhand means.
Environmental consciousness ::: The extension of ourselves into the general or universal Nature ; surrounding atmosphere which we carry about with us and by which we communicate with the universal forces.
EPILEPSY. ::: Epilepsy is not possession ; it is an attack or at most a temporary seizure. Insanity always indicates posses- sion. The hereditary conditions create a predisposition. It is not possible for a vital Force or Being to invade or take possession unless there are doors open for it to enter. The door may be a vital consent or affinity or a physical defect in the being.
eudaemonised ::: made happy. In ethics, the view that the ultimate justification of virtuous activity is happiness. Virtuous activity may be conceived as a means to happiness, or well-being, or as partly constitutive of it.
evangelist ::: 1. A preacher of the Christian gospel. 2. Any zealous advocate of a cause. (Employed by Sri Aurobindo as an adjective.)
evidence ::: something that makes plain or clear; an indication or sign. self-evidence.
evil ::: n. 1. Morally bad or wrong; wicked, sinful, as opposed to good. 2. Anything causing injury or harm. Evil, evil"s, Evil"s. adj. 3. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous; disastrous. 4. Harmful; injurious. 5. Boding ill.
express ::: 1. To represent by a sign or a symbol; indicate; symbolize. 2. To set forth in words; state; verbalise. 3. To represent symbolically. 4. To manifest, reveal or communicate, as by a gesture; show. expresses, expressed, expressing.
expressive ::: 1. Serving to express or indicate. 2. Of, involving, or full of expression. 3. Indicative or suggestive (of).
fabricates
::: "Faith is the soul"s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.” *Letters on Yoga
“Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.” Letters on Yoga
feign ::: 1. To make up; invent; fabricate. 2. To represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of. 3. To imitate deceptively. 4. To make believe, pretend. feigns, feigned, feigning.
figment ::: something invented, made up, or fabricated by the mind.
fine ::: 1. Of superior quality, skill, or appearance. 2. Superior or consummate in quality. 3. Exhibiting careful and delicate artistry. 4. Characterized by refinement or elegance. 5. Subtle or precise; refined. finer, fine-curved, fine-linked.
firm ::: 1. Resistant to externally applied pressure. 2. Not subject to change; fixed and definite.; not likely to change. 3. Securely fixed in place. 4. Steadfast and determined. 5. Indicating firmness and steadfastness. 6. Definitely established; decided; settled. firm-based.
fit ::: v. 1. To adjust in order to render appropriate. 2. To be adapted to or suitable for (a purpose, object, occasion, etc.). fits. adj. 3. To be appropriate or suitable for. 4. Having the right qualifications; qualifying; competent.
flash ::: n.** 1. A brief, sudden burst of bright light. 2. A sudden thought, insight, inspiration, or vision. 3. A momentary brightness. 4. A very brief moment; instant. flashes, lightening-flash. v. 5. To move or proceed rapidly. 6. To communicate or reveal through flashes. 7. To appear or occur suddenly; come into perception. 8. To cause to flash, as powder by ignition or a sword by waving. flashes, flashed, flashing.**
flat ::: 1. Lacking interest or excitement; dull. 2. Without qualification; total.
foreboding ("s) ::: n. **1. A strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment. adj. 2.** Foretelling or predicting; indicating beforehand; portending.
foreshadowed ::: shown or indicated beforehand; prefigured. foreshadowing.
forge ::: n. 1. A special fireplace, hearth, or furnace in which metal is heated before shaping. v. 2. To form (metal, for example) by heating in a forge and beating or hammering into shape. 3. To form or make, esp. by concentrated effort or energy; shape, fabricate, fashion, mould. 4. To imitate (handwriting, a signature, etc.) fraudulently; to counterfeit; to commit forgery. forged.
gleam ::: n. **1. A brief beam or flash of light. 2. A brief or dim indication; a trace. 3. The appearance of radiant beauty. Gleam, gleams. v. 4. To emit a gleam; flash or glow briefly or faintly. gleams, gleamed, gleaming, gleam-ridge. ::: *
glimpse ::: n. 1. A very brief, passing look, sight, or view. 2. A momentary shining, a flash. lit. and fig. glimpses. v. 3. To catch sight of briefly or momentarily. 4. To obtain a brief, incomplete view of. Now only poet. glimpses, glimpsed, glimpsing.
glory ::: n. 1. Majestic and radiant beauty and splendour; resplendence. 2. Great honour, praise, or distinction accorded by common consent; renown. 3. A state of extreme happiness or exaltation. 4. A state of absolute happiness; gratification. Glory, glory"s, glories, self-glory. v. 5. Rejoice proudly (usually followed by in). glories, gloried, glorying.
godhead ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . the Godhead is all that is universe and all that is in the universe and all that is more than the universe. The Gita lays stress first on his supracosmic existence. For otherwise the mind would miss its highest goal and remain turned towards the cosmic only or else attached to some partial experience of the Divine in the cosmos. It lays stress next on his universal existence in which all moves and acts. For that is the justification of the cosmic effort and that is the vast spiritual self-awareness in which the Godhead self-seen as the Time-Spirit does his universal works. Next it insists with a certain austere emphasis on the acceptance of the Godhead as the divine inhabitant in the human body. For he is the Immanent in all existences, and if the indwelling divinity is not recognised, not only will the divine meaning of individual existence be missed, the urge to our supreme spiritual possibilities deprived of its greatest force, but the relations of soul with soul in humanity will be left petty, limited and egoistic. Finally, it insists at great length on the divine manifestation in all things in the universe and affirms the derivation of all that is from the nature, power and light of the one Godhead.” *Essays on the Gita
Godhead ::: “… the Godhead is all that is universe and all that is in the universe and all that is more than the universe. The Gita lays stress first on his supracosmic existence. For otherwise the mind would miss its highest goal and remain turned towards the cosmic only or else attached to some partial experience of the Divine in the cosmos. It lays stress next on his universal existence in which all moves and acts. For that is the justification of the cosmic effort and that is the vast spiritual self-awareness in which the Godhead self-seen as the Time-Spirit does his universal works. Next it insists with a certain austere emphasis on the acceptance of the Godhead as the divine inhabitant in the human body. For he is the Immanent in all existences, and if the indwelling divinity is not recognised, not only will the divine meaning of individual existence be missed, the urge to our supreme spiritual possibilities deprived of its greatest force, but the relations of soul with soul in humanity will be left petty, limited and egoistic. Finally, it insists at great length on the divine manifestation in all things in the universe and affirms the derivation of all that is from the nature, power and light of the one Godhead.” Essays on the Gita
graphic characters or figures that indicate the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to express it.
grin ::: to smile broadly, esp. as an indication of pleasure, amusement, vulgar merriment, or the like.
grip ::: n. 1. A tight hold; a firm grasp. stone-grip. *v. 2. To seize, catch; to take firm hold or possession of. Also fig. *grips, gripped.
group ::: n. 1. An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation. groups. v. 2. To arrange in or form into a group or groups. grouped.
GURU. ::: One who has realised the Truth and himself possesses and is able to communicate the light, the experience, a guide who is strong enough to take by the hand and carry over difficult passages as well as to instruct and point out the way.
hast ::: second person singular present indicative of have.
heady ::: 1. Having an intoxicating quality. 2. Exciting; exhilarating.
heal ::: 1. To restore to health or soundness; cure. 2.* Fig. To restore (a person) to spiritual wholeness. 3. To become whole and sound; return to health. 4. To bring to an end or conclusion, as conflicts between people or groups, usually with a strong implication of restoring former amity; settle; reconcile. *heals, healed, healing.
HHART. ::: The scat of tuo pouers, in front the hicher vital or emotional beinc. behind and concealed the soul or psychic being.
hide-and-seek ::: a children"s game in which one player tries to find and catch others who are hiding.
high-pitched ::: 1. Acoustically, a pitch that is perceived as above other pitches. 2. Marked by or indicating lofty character or intense emotion.
hint ::: n. 1. A brief or indirect suggestion; a tip. 2. Perceived indication or suggestion; note; intimation. 3. A very slight or hardly noticeable amount. hints, heaven-hints. v. 4. To indicate or make known in an indirect manner. hinted.
How these magnificent lines from Savitri continue to reverberate in the mind and heart and soul I do not know. I know only this, that Savitri, as Mother has said, is”a mantra for the transformation of the world.” As understanding grows within, not in the mind but in the inner cathedral which is always drenched in light, certain lines repeat themselves as mantra and I share what comes to me in a spirit of wonder and hushed elation.
"If discipline of all the members of our being by purification and concentration may be described as the right arm of the body of Yoga, renunciation is its left arm. By discipline or positive practice we confirm in ourselves the truth of things, truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of love, truth of works and replace with these the falsehoods that have overgrown and perverted our nature; by renunciation we seize upon the falsehoods, pluck up their roots and cast them out of our way so that they shall no longer hamper by their persistence, their resistance or their recurrence the happy and harmonious growth of our divine living.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“If discipline of all the members of our being by purification and concentration may be described as the right arm of the body of Yoga, renunciation is its left arm. By discipline or positive practice we confirm in ourselves the truth of things, truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of love, truth of works and replace with these the falsehoods that have overgrown and perverted our nature; by renunciation we seize upon the falsehoods, pluck up their roots and cast them out of our way so that they shall no longer hamper by their persistence, their resistance or their recurrence the happy and harmonious growth of our divine living.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights, — yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam.” Letters on Yoga
“I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights,—yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam.” Letters on Yoga
If we regard the Powers of the Reality as so many Godheads, we can say that the Overmind releases a million Godheads into action, each empowered to create its own world, each world capable of relation, communication and interplay with the others. There are in the Veda different formulations of the nature of the Gods: it is said they are all one Existence to which the sages give different names; yet each God is worshipped as if he by himself is that Existence, one who is all the other Gods together or contains them in his being; and yet again each is a separate Deity acting sometimes in unison with companion deities, sometimes separately, sometimes even in apparent opposition to other Godheads of the same Existence. In the Supermind all this would be held together as a harmonised play of the one Existence; in the Overmind each of these three conditions could be a separate action or basis of action and have its own principle of development and consequences and yet each keep the power to combine with the others in a more composite harmony. As with the One Existence, so with its Consciousness and Force. The One Consciousness is separated into many independent forms of consciousness and knowledge; each follows out its own line of truth which it has to realise. The one total and many-sided Real-Idea is split up into its many sides; each becomes an independent Idea-Force with the power to realise itself. The one Consciousness-Force is liberated into its million forces, and each of these forces has the right to fulfil itself or to assume, if needed, a hegemony and take up for its own utility the other forces. So too the Delight of Existence is loosed out into all manner of delights and each can carry in itself its independent fullness or sovereign extreme. Overmind thus gives to the One Existence-Consciousness-Bliss the character of a teeming of infinite possibilities which can be developed into a multitude of worlds or thrown together into one world in which the endlessly variable…
If we would understand the difference of this global Overmind Consciousness from our separative and only imperfectly synthetic mental consciousness, we may come near to it if we compare the strictly mental with what would be an overmental view of activities in our material universe. To the Overmind, for example, all religions would be true as developments of the one eternal religion, all philosophies would be valid each in its own field as a statement of its own universe-view from its own angle, all political theories with their practice would be the legitimate working out of an Idea Force with its right to application and practical development in the play of the energies of Nature. In our separative consciousness, imperfectly visited by glimpses of catholicity and universality, these things exist as opposites; each claims to be the truth and taxes the others with error and falsehood, each feels impelled to refute or destroy the others in order that itself alone may be the Truth and live: at best, each must claim to be superior, admit all others only as inferior truth-expressions. An overmental Intelligence would refuse to entertain this conception or this drift to exclusiveness for a moment; it would allow all to live as necessary to the whole or put each in its place in the whole or assign to each its field of realisation or of endeavour. This is because in us consciousness has come down completely into the divisions of the Ignorance; Truth is no longer either an Infinite or a cosmic whole with many possible formulations, but a rigid affirmation holding any other affirmation to be false because different from itself and entrenched in other limits. Our mental consciousness can indeed arrive in its cognition at a considerable approach towards a total comprehensiveness and catholicity, but to organise that in action and life seems to be beyond its power. Evolutionary Mind, manifest in individuals or collectivities, throws up a multiplicity of divergent viewpoints, divergent lines of action and lets them work themselves out side by side or in collision or in a certain intermixture; it can make selective harmonies, but it cannot arrive at the harmonic control of a true totality. Cosmic Mind must have even in the evolutionary Ignorance, like all totalities, such a harmony, if only of arranged accords and discords; there is too in it an underlying dynamism of oneness: but it carries the completeness of these things in its depths, perhaps in a supermind-overmind substratum, but does not impart it to individual Mind in the evolution, does not bring it or has not yet brought it from the depths to the surface. An Overmind world would be a world of harmony; the world of Ignorance in which we live is a world of disharmony and struggle. …
implore ::: to appeal to as in prayer or supplication; beseech.
incapacity ::: lack of ability, qualification, or strength; esp. to receive.
incommunicable ::: impossible to be transmitted or communicated. Incommunicable.
indeed ::: without a doubt; certainly; in fact; in reality. (Used for emphasis, to confirm and amplify a previous statement, to indicate a concession or admission, or, interrogatively, to obtain confirmation.)
index ::: 1. An alphabetized list of names, places, and subjects treated in a printed work, giving the page or pages on which each item is mentioned. 2. A sequential arrangement. 3. Something that reveals or indicates; a sign.
indicator ::: one who or that which points to or towards the presence, existence, or reality of (something); is a sign or symptom of, betokens.
inextricable ::: intricately involved; incapable of being disentangled, loosed, or undone. inextricably.
INNER CONSCIOUSNESS (Divisions) ::: There are five main divisions. At the top above the head arc layers (or as we call them planes) of which we arc not conscious and which become conscious to us only by sadhana — those above the human mind — that is the higher consciousness. Below from the crown of the head to the throat are the layers (there are many of them) of the mind, the three principal being one at the top of the head communicating with the higher consciousness, another between the eye-brows where is the thought, sight and will, a third in the throat which is the externalising mind. A second division is from the shoulders to the navel ; these are the layers of the higher vital presided over by the heart centre where is the emotional being with the psychic behind it. From the navel downwards is the rest of the vital being containing several layers. From the bottom of the spine downward are the layers of the physical consciousness proper, the material, and below the feet is the sub- conscient which has also many levels.
::: ". . . in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates a self-aware force of existence of which mentality is a middle term; below mentality it sinks into vital and material movements which are for us subconscient; above, it rises into the supramental which is for us the superconscient. But in all it is one and the same thing organising itself differently. This is, once more, the Indian conception of Chit which, as energy, creates the worlds.” *The Life Divine
“… in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates a self-aware force of existence of which mentality is a middle term; below mentality it sinks into vital and material movements which are for us subconscient; above, it rises into the supramental which is for us the superconscient. But in all it is one and the same thing organising itself differently. This is, once more, the Indian conception of Chit which, as energy, creates the worlds.” The Life Divine
INTEGRAL YOGA ::: This yoga accepts the value of cosmic existence and holds it to be a reality; its object is to enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light, the Divine Ānanda. But for that, the surrender of the mortal mind, life and body to the Higher Consciousnessis indispensable, since it is too difficult for the mortal human being to pass by its own effort beyond mind to a Supramental Consciousness in which the dynamism is no longer mental but of quite another power. Only those who can accept the call to such a change should enter into this yoga.
Aim of the Integral Yoga ::: It is not merely to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter.
Conditions of the Integral Yoga ::: This yoga can only be done to the end by those who are in total earnest about it and ready to abolish their little human ego and its demands in order to find themselves in the Divine. It cannot be done in a spirit of levity or laxity; the work is too high and difficult, the adverse powers in the lower Nature too ready to take advantage of the least sanction or the smallest opening, the aspiration and tapasyā needed too constant and intense.
Method in the Integral Yoga ::: To concentrate, preferably in the heart and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness. One can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is the beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest one must not depend on one’s own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother’s Power and Presence.
Integral method ::: The method we have to pursue is to put our whole conscious being into relation and contact with the Divine and to call Him in to transform Our entire being into His, so that in a sense God Himself, the real Person in us, becomes the sādhaka of the sādhana* as well as the Master of the Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection. In effect, the pressure of the Tapas, the force of consciousness in us dwelling in the Idea of the divine Nature upon that which we are in our entirety, produces its own realisation. The divine and all-knowing and all-effecting descends upon the limited and obscure, progressively illumines and energises the whole lower nature and substitutes its own action for all the terms of the inferior human light and mortal activity.
In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sādhana. It requires a colossal faith, an absolute courage and above all an unflinching patience. For it implies three stages of which only the last can be wholly blissful or rapid, - the attempt of the ego to enter into contact with the Divine, the wide, full and therefore laborious preparation of the whole lower Nature by the divine working to receive and become the higher Nature, and the eventual transformation. In fact, however, the divine strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for the weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, courage and patience. It” makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills.” The intellect becomes aware of a Law that beneficently insists and a Succour that upholds; the heart speaks of a Master of all things and Friend of man or a universal Mother who upholds through all stumblings. Therefore this path is at once the most difficult imaginable and yet in comparison with the magnitude of its effort and object, the most easy and sure of all.
There are three outstanding features of this action of the higher when it works integrally on the lower nature. In the first place, it does not act according to a fixed system and succession as in the specialised methods of Yoga, but with a sort of free, scattered and yet gradually intensive and purposeful working determined by the temperament of the individual in whom it operates, the helpful materials which his nature offers and the obstacles which it presents to purification and perfection. In a sense, therefore, each man in this path has his own method of Yoga. Yet are there certain broad lines of working common to all which enable us to construct not indeed a routine system, but yet some kind of Shastra or scientific method of the synthetic Yoga.
Secondly, the process, being integral, accepts our nature such as it stands organised by our past evolution and without rejecting anything essential compels all to undergo a divine change. Everything in us is seized by the hands of a mighty Artificer and transformed into a clear image of that which it now seeks confusedly to present. In that ever-progressive experience we begin to perceive how this lower manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some elements or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefathers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy.
Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in Nature, in the other it becomes swift and selfconscious and the instrument confesses the hand of the Master. All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. Yoga marks the stage at which this effort becomes capable of self-awareness and therefore of right completion in the individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution.
Key-methods ::: The way to devotion and surrender. It is the psychic movement that brings the constant and pure devotion and the removal of the ego that makes it possible to surrender.
The way to knowledge. Meditation in the head by which there comes the opening above, the quietude or silence of the mind and the descent of peace etc. of the higher consciousness generally till it envelops the being and fills the body and begins to take up all the movements.
Yoga by works ::: Separation of the Purusha from the Prakriti, the inner silent being from the outer active one, so that one has two consciousnesses or a double consciousness, one behind watching and observing and finally controlling and changing the other which is active in front. The other way of beginning the yoga of works is by doing them for the Divine, for the Mother, and not for oneself, consecrating and dedicating them till one concretely feels the Divine Force taking up the activities and doing them for one.
Object of the Integral Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine’s sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine.
Principle of the Integral Yoga ::: The whole principle of Integral Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, truth-consciousness and Ānanda of the Supramental Divine.
Central purpose of the Integral Yoga ::: Transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the divine way of life.
Fundamental realisations of the Integral Yoga ::: The psychic change so that a complete devotion can be the main motive of the heart and the ruler of thought, life and action in constant union with the Mother and in her Presence. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light etc. of the Higher Consciousness through the head and heart into the whole being, occupying the very cells of the body. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living in that infinite consciousness.
Results ::: First, an integral realisation of Divine Being; not only a realisation of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are also necessary to the complete knowledge of it by the relative consciousness; not only realisation of unity in the Self, but of unity in the infinite diversity of activities, worlds and creatures.
Therefore, also, an integral liberation. Not only the freedom born of unbroken contact of the individual being in all its parts with the Divine, sāyujya mukti, by which it becomes free even in its separation, even in the duality; not only the sālokya mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the same status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda ; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the divine, sādharmya mukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory mould of the ego and its unification with the One Being, universal both in the world and the individual and transcendentally one both in the world and beyond all universe.
By this integral realisation and liberation, the perfect harmony of the results of Knowledge, Love and Works. For there is attained the complete release from ego and identification in being with the One in all and beyond all. But since the attaining consciousness is not limited by its attainment, we win also the unity in Beatitude and the harmonised diversity in Love, so that all relations of the play remain possible to us even while we retain on the heights of our being the eternal oneness with the Beloved. And by a similar wideness, being capable of a freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, we are able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in our mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world.
The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. In integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ānanda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ānanda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga.
Sādhanā of the Integral Yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by a self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening can come.
The yoga does not proceed by upadeśa but by inner influence.
Integral Yoga and Gita ::: The Gita’s Yoga consists in the offering of one’s work as a sacrifice to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This yoga adds the bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and the transformation of the nature.
Our yoga is not identical with the yoga of the Gita although it contains all that is essential in the Gita’s yoga. In our yoga we begin with the idea, the will, the aspiration of the complete surrender; but at the same time we have to reject the lower nature, deliver our consciousness from it, deliver the self involved in the lower nature by the self rising to freedom in the higher nature. If we do not do this double movement, we are in danger of making a tamasic and therefore unreal surrender, making no effort, no tapas and therefore no progress ; or else we make a rajasic surrender not to the Divine but to some self-made false idea or image of the Divine which masks our rajasic ego or something still worse.
Integral Yoga, Gita and Tantra ::: The Gita follows the Vedantic tradition which leans entirely on the Ishvara aspect of the Divine and speaks little of the Divine Mother because its object is to draw back from world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation beyond it.
The Tantric tradition leans on the Shakti or Ishvari aspect and makes all depend on the Divine Mother because its object is to possess and dominate the world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation through it.
This yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the yoga.
Integral Yoga and Hatha-Raja Yogas ::: For an integral yoga the special methods of Rajayoga and Hathayoga may be useful at times in certain stages of the progress, but are not indispensable. Their principal aims must be included in the integrality of the yoga; but they can be brought about by other means. For the methods of the integral yoga must be mainly spiritual, and dependence on physical methods or fixed psychic or psychophysical processes on a large scale would be the substitution of a lower for a higher action. Integral Yoga and Kundalini Yoga: There is a feeling of waves surging up, mounting to the head, which brings an outer unconsciousness and an inner waking. It is the ascending of the lower consciousness in the ādhāra to meet the greater consciousness above. It is a movement analogous to that on which so much stress is laid in the Tantric process, the awakening of the Kundalini, the Energy coiled up and latent in the body and its mounting through the spinal cord and the centres (cakras) and the Brahmarandhra to meet the Divine above. In our yoga it is not a specialised process, but a spontaneous upnish of the whole lower consciousness sometimes in currents or waves, sometimes in a less concrete motion, and on the other side a descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force into the body.
Integral Yoga and other Yogas ::: The old yogas reach Sachchidananda through the spiritualised mind and depart into the eternally static oneness of Sachchidananda or rather pure Sat (Existence), absolute and eternal or else a pure Non-exist- ence, absolute and eternal. Ours having realised Sachchidananda in the spiritualised mind plane proceeds to realise it in the Supramcntal plane.
The suprcfhe supra-cosmic Sachchidananda is above all. Supermind may be described as its power of self-awareness and W’orld- awareness, the world being known as within itself and not out- side. So to live consciously in the supreme Sachchidananda one must pass through the Supermind.
Distinction ::: The realisation of Self and of the Cosmic being (without which the realisation of the Self is incomplete) are essential steps in our yoga ; it is the end of other yogas, but it is, as it were, the beginning of outs, that is to say, the point where its own characteristic realisation can commence.
It is new as compared with the old yogas (1) Because it aims not at a departure out of world and life into Heaven and Nir- vana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object.
If there is a descent in other yogas, yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent — the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new coosdousness attain- ed by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life ; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life.
(2) Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic acbievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing of a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life, but yet to be organised and made directly active.
(3) Because a method has been preconized for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz., the total and integral change of the consciousness and nature, taking up old methods, but only as a part action and present aid to others that are distinctive.
Integral Yoga and Patanjali Yoga ::: Cilia is the stuff of mixed mental-vital-physical consciousness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse etc.
It is these that in the Patanjali system have to be stilled altogether so that the consciousness may be immobile and go into Samadhi.
Our yoga has a different function. The movements of the ordinary consciousness have to be quieted and into the quietude there has to be brought down a higher consciousness and its powers which will transform the nature.
intelligence ::: “Intelligence does not depend on the amount one has read, it is a quality of the mind. Study only gives it material for its work as life also does. There are people who do not know how to read and write who are more intelligent than many highly educated people and understand life and things better. On the other hand, a good intelligence can improve itself by reading because it gets more material to work on and grows by exercise and by having a wider range to move in. But book-knowledge by itself is not the real thing, it has to be used as a help to the intelligence but it is often only a help to stupidity or ignorance—ignorance because knowledge of facts is a poor thing if one cannot see their true significance.” Letters on Yoga
intelligent ::: 1. Indicating high intelligence; perceptive. 2. Having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree.
intercourse ::: dealings or communication between individuals, groups; traffic.
internal ::: 1. Of or relating to man"s mental or spiritual nature. 2. Of, relating to, or located within the limits or surface; interior; inner.
interpret ::: 1. To give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate. 2. To conceive the significance of; construe. interpreted, interpreting, interpreter, interpreters, interpretation, interpretation"s, world-interpreting.
"In the spiritual sense, however, sacrifice has a different meaning — it does not so much indicate giving up what is held dear as an offering of oneself, one"s being, one"s mind, heart, will, body, life, actions to the Divine. It has the original sense of ‘making sacred" and is used as an equivalent of the word yajna. When the Gita speaks of the ‘sacrifice of knowledge", it does not mean a giving up of anything, but a turning of the mind towards the Divine in the search for knowledge and an offering of oneself through it. It is in this sense, too, that one speaks of the offering or sacrifice of works. The Mother has written somewhere that the spiritual sacrifice is joyful and not painful in its nature. On the spiritual path, very commonly, if a seeker still feels the old ties and responsibilities strongly he is not asked to sever or leave them, but to let the call in him grow till all within is ready. Many, indeed, come away earlier because they feel that to cut loose is their only chance, and these have to go sometimes through a struggle. But the pain, the struggle, is not the essential character of this spiritual self-offering.” Letters on Yoga
“In the spiritual sense, however, sacrifice has a different meaning—it does not so much indicate giving up what is held dear as an offering of oneself, one’s being, one’s mind, heart, will, body, life, actions to the Divine. It has the original sense of ‘making sacred’ and is used as an equivalent of the word yajna. When the Gita speaks of the ‘sacrifice of knowledge’, it does not mean a giving up of anything, but a turning of the mind towards the Divine in the search for knowledge and an offering of oneself through it. It is in this sense, too, that one speaks of the offering or sacrifice of works. The Mother has written somewhere that the spiritual sacrifice is joyful and not painful in its nature. On the spiritual path, very commonly, if a seeker still feels the old ties and responsibilities strongly he is not asked to sever or leave them, but to let the call in him grow till all within is ready. Many, indeed, come away earlier because they feel that to cut loose is their only chance, and these have to go sometimes through a struggle. But the pain, the struggle, is not the essential character of this spiritual self-offering.” Letters on Yoga
In this simultaneous development of multitudinous independent or combined Powers or Potentials there is yet—or there is as yet—no chaos, no conflict, no fall from Truth or Knowledge. The Overmind is a creator of truths, not of illusions or falsehoods: what is worked out in any given overmental energism or movement is the truth of the Aspect, Power, Idea, Force, Delight which is liberated into independent action, the truth of the consequences of its reality in that independence. There is no exclusiveness asserting each as the sole truth of being or the others as inferior truths: each God knows all the Gods and their place in existence; each Idea admits all other ideas and their right to be; each Force concedes a place to all other forces and their truth and consequences; no delight of separate fulfilled existence or separate experience denies or condemns the delight of other existence or other experience. The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind,—although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too, its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature….
intimation ::: a subtle and inner hint or suggestion; indication. intimations.
intoxicated ::: 1. Affected by a substance that intoxicates. 2. Mentally or emotionally exhilarated.
intoxicating ::: affecting temporarily with diminished physical and mental control by means of alcoholic liquor, a drug, or another substance.
intoxication ::: overpowering exhilaration or excitement of the mind or emotions.
intricate ::: 1. Having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved. 2. Complex; complicated; hard to understand, work, or make. intricacy.
intrigue ::: a complicated maze; a puzzle; a labyrinth.
intuition ::: direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process. intuition"s, intuitions, half-intuition.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude.” *The Life Divine
"Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings"". When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"I use the word ‘intuition" for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness" and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” *The Life Divine - Sri Aurobindo"s footnote.
"For intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret Supermind. . . .” The Life Divine
". . . intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
"Intuition is above illumined Mind which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” Letters on Yoga
“Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings’’. When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” The Life Divine
“… intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
intuitive knowledge ::: Sri Aurobindo: " For the highest intuitive Knowledge sees things in the whole, in the large and details only as sides of the indivisible whole; its tendency is towards immediate synthesis and the unity of knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"The intuitive knowledge on the contrary, however limited it may be in its field or application, is within that scope sure with an immediate, a durable and especially a self-existent certitude.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"All intuitive knowledge comes more or less directly from the light of the self-aware spirit entering into the mind, the spirit concealed behind mind and conscious of all in itself and in all its selves, omniscient and capable of illumining the ignorant or the self-forgetful mind whether by rare or constant flashes or by a steady instreaming light, out of its omniscience.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
inward ::: 1. Located inside; within; inner. 2. Mental or spiritual; inner. 3. Directed or moving toward the interior. Also fig. inward-musing.
iron ::: n. 1. A silver-white metal, usually an admixture of some other substance, usually carbon, rendering it extremely hard and useful for tools, implements, machinery, constructions, and in many other applications. adj. 2. Inflexible; unyielding; firm. 3. Stern; harsh; cruel. 4. *Fig.* Resembling iron in firmness, strength, colour, etc.
I -The’thousand'petalled lotus, sahasradala, commands the higher thinking mind, houses the still higher illumined mind and at the highest opens to the intuition through which or else by an over- flooding directness the ovennind can have with the rest com- munication or .an liramediate contact,, (Colour ::: .blue with' gold light around.) i. ' j i i . n ,•,,/! i, ,i i i
It observes and distinguishes the different elements of our appa- rent or phenomenal being and rejecting identification with each of them arrives at their exclusion and separation in one common term as constituents of Prakrit!, of phenomenal Nature, crea- tions of Maya, the phenomenal consciousness. So it is able to arrive at its right ideotiflcadon with the pure and unique Self which is not mutable or perishable, not determinable by any phenomenon or combination of phenomena. From this point the path, as ordinarily followed, leads to the rejection of the phenomenal worlds from the consciousness as an illusion and the final immergence without return of the individual soul in the supreme.
Jhumur: Here you have the beginnings of the mind opening onto other planes of experience. Because mindhas no experience. This is the kingdom of the greater mind where it opens on to another phase of vision or experience or feeling. The heaven-bird is the feeling of poise that hasn’t taken off. It reminds me that in a certain place, the goal of the mental search is where ultimately the mind abdicates in light and one enters into what Shelley calls ‘thought wildernesses’. Before that concrete abdication there must be some sensation, some feeling of something other that is waiting for us, that has come from elsewhere. The mind has not quite yet abdicated but begins to pursue intuition, perception, feeling.”
Jhumur: “The sacrificial fire and all that it symbolises—aspiration, purification, etc.”
Jhumur: “You have the same word in French, capte—like a receiver that catches signals. I believe Sri Aurobindo often uses French words with the French connotation. Particularly I have noticed that sometimes he uses the word amour instead of love. When I asked myself why did he have to use a French word here, perhaps because it was a different kind of love, not the usual, something other. Time’s amour-song he says, and not a love song. There is something different about that song. It is not just a love song. It suggests something other when he uses a word from another language. It is not love that we ordinarily understand, he has added a quality of something special or rare or unusual by utilizing the same word but in another language. It gives it another colour.”
JNaNA, Knowledge direct without the use of a medium ; supreme self-knowledge ; -a spiritual seizing by a kind of identifi- cation with the object of knowledge.
Jupiter is usually thought to have originated as a sky god. His identifying implement is the thunderbolt, and his primary sacred animal is the eagle,[1] which held precedence over other birds in the taking of auspices[2] and became one of the most common symbols of the Roman army (see Aquila). The two emblems were often combined to represent the god in the form of an eagle holding in its claws a thunderbolt, frequently seen on Greek and Roman coins.[3] As the sky-god, he was a divine witness to oaths, the sacred trust on which justice and good government depend. Many of his functions were focused on the Capitoline (“Capitol Hill”), where the citadel was located. He was the chief deity of the early Capitoline Triad with Mars and Quirinus.[4] In the later Capitoline Triad, he was the central guardian of the state with Juno and Minerva. His sacred tree was the oak.
justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being.
KARMA YOGA. ::: It alms at the dedication of every human activity to the supreme Wilt. It begins by the renunciation of all egoistic aim for our works, all pursuit of action for an inter- ested aim or for the sake of a worldly result. By this renuncia- tion it so purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre^ of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy. To that our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities. Karmayoga is used, like the other paths, to lead to liberation from phenomenal existence and a departure into the Supreme. But here too the exclusive result is not inevitable. The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoislic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the
kind ::: 1. A class or group of individual objects, people, animals, etc., of the same nature or character, or classified together because they have traits in common; category. 2. Nature or character as determining likeness or difference between things. 3. One"s family, clan, kin, or kinsfolk. earth-kind, god-kind, self-kind.
kine ::: cattle.
king ::: 1. A male sovereign. 2. One that is supreme or preeminent in a particular group, category, or sphere. 3. Fig. One who or that which is preeminent in a particular category or group or field. king"s, kings, Kings, king-children, king-sages.
Krishna, Mahakali, Radha or else of other superhuman beings ; there is another in which they indicate the aura around objects or living persons — and that does not exhaust the list of possi- bilities.
labyrinth ::: An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adj.)
labyrinth ::: an intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one"s way; a maze. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adj.)
language ::: any system of formalized symbols, signs, sounds, gestures, or the like used or conceived as a means of communicating thought, emotion, etc. God-language.
larva ::: a developing insect in its first stage after coming out of the egg; a grub or caterpillar.
lasso ::: a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc. lassoes.
lead ::: v. 1. To go in advance; act as a guide; show the way. 2. To guide in direction, course, action, opinion, etc. 3. Of a way, road, etc.: To serve as a passage for, conduct (a person) to or into a place; hence, to have a specified goal or direction. 4. To pass or go through; live. 5. To result in; tend toward (often followed by to). 6. To indicate, as a clue, guide or indication of a route way, course. leads, leading, leadst.* n. 7. Anything or anyone who guides or directs by leading; going in front. ::: (Note: See also *sounding leads.)
lens ::: a ground or moulded piece of glass, plastic, or other transparent material with opposite surfaces either or both of which are curved, by means of which light rays are refracted so that they converge or diverge to form an image as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
Light is a manifestation of Force, the nature of the force being indicated by the colour of the Light.
LIGHT. ::: Light indicates the illuminalion of the consciousness.
Light. Lotus flower indicates open consciousness.
LION, indicates force and courage, and strength and power.
litany ::: a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations, each followed by an unvarying response.
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lore ::: 1. The body of knowledge, esp. of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject. 2. Knowledge acquired through education or experience.
::: "Love is, in its essence, the joy of identity; it finds its ultimate expression in the bliss of union.” On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
“Love is, in its essence, the joy of identity; it finds its ultimate expression in the bliss of union.” On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
lowings ::: the deep, low sounds characteristic of cattle.
Madhav: “Eidolon is an unsubstantial figure. The name we give is only such an unsubstantial label. The secret is not touched. Gold is to indicate that though the name as such may appear to be unsubstantial, there is some truth in it.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “the dragon bird, the vast enveloping bird of bliss; white to signify purity and fire to indicate the intensity of bliss.” Sat-Sang Vol. VIII
Madhav: “The earth is imaged to be travelling upon some wheel and it is a ‘jewelled wheel’, a perfectly designed, intricately constructed wheel. It is speeding and the earth is a prisoner of that speed.
MAHASARASWATI ::: the goddess of divine skill and of the works of the Spirit, and hers is the Yoga that is skill in works, yogah karmasu kausalam, and the utilities of divine knowledge and the self-application of the spirit to life and the happiness of its harmonies.
mantra ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The mantra as I have tried to describe it in The Future Poetry is a word of power and light that comes from the Overmind inspiration or from some very high plane of Intuition. Its characteristics are a language that conveys infinitely more than the mere surface sense of the words seems to indicate, a rhythm that means even more than the language and is born out of the Infinite and disappears into it, and the power to convey not merely the mental, vital or physical contents or indications or values of the thing uttered, but its significance and figure in some fundamental and original consciousness which is behind all these and greater.” *The Future Poetry
mantra ::: Sri Aurobindo: “The mantra as I have tried to describe it in The Future Poetry is a word of power and light that comes from the Overmind inspiration or from some very high plane of Intuition. Its characteristics are a language that conveys infinitely more than the mere surface sense of the words seems to indicate, a rhythm that means even more than the language and is born out of the Infinite and disappears into it, and the power to convey not merely the mental, vital or physical contents or indications or values of the thing uttered, but its significance and figure in some fundamental and original consciousness which is behind all these and greater.” The Future Poetry
mantra ::: : “The mantra as I have tried to describe it in The Future Poetry is a word of power and light that comes from the Overmind inspiration or from some very high plane of Intuition. Its characteristics are a language that conveys infinitely more than the mere surface sense of the words seems to indicate, a rhythm that means even more than the language and is born out of the Infinite and disappears into it, and the power to convey not merely the mental, vital or physical contents or indications or values of the thing uttered, but its significance and figure in some fundamental and original consciousness which is behind all these and greater.” The Future Poetry
manufactured ::: concocted or invented; fabricated.
manufacture ::: n. 1. The making or producing of anything; generation; or the thing produced, product. 2. Fictitious invention, fabrication, concoction. manufactures. *v. 3. To make or produce by hand or machinery, especially on a large scale. *manufactured.
mark ::: n. **1. A sign, symbol, action, event or other indication that distinguishes something. 2. A visible impression on something. 3. A distinctive trait or characteristic. 4. A fixed or recognized standard. caste-mark, hoof-mark, question-mark. v. 5. To make a visible trace or impression on, as with a spot, line, or dent. Also fig. 6. To record; to indicate in writing, note. 7. Fig. To designate as if by placing a mark upon; to indicate. 8. To take notice. marks, marked, marking.**
master ::: n. 1. One who has the power, knowledge and ability to control, manage, direct; as a teacher, guru, etc. with the authority and qualifications to teach apprentices. 2. A person eminently skilled in something, as an occupation, art, or science. 3. A person who has general authority over others. master"s, masters. *v. 4. To be or become completely proficient or skilled in; become an adept in. masters, mastered. adj. 5. Being master; exercising mastery; dominant. 6. Dominating or predominant. 7. Chief or principle. *master-clue, master-point.
maze ::: an intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth. mazes.
meaning ::: 1. The end, purpose, or significance of something. 2. What is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import. meanings.
mean ::: to have as its sense or signification; signify. means, meant.
MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS. ::: They are always more difficult to stop by the mental nail, because they do not In the least depend upon reason or any mental justification but are founded upon association or else a mere mechanical memory
metamorphosis ::: 1. Any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. 2. A change or succession of changes in form during the life cycle of an animal, allowing it to adapt to different environmental conditions, as a caterpillar into a butterfly.
Mind-centres ::: For the mind there are many centres. One in the throat (the outward-going or externalising mind) ; one between the eyes or rather in the middle of the forehead (the centre for inner thought, will and vision) ; one above, com- municating with the brain, which is called the sahasradala, thousand-petalled lotus and where are centralised the highest thought and intelligence, communicating with the greater mind planes (illumined mind, intuition, overmind) above.
mintage ::: fabricated product of a mint.
misuse ::: n. Wrong or improper use; misapplication.
moan ::: n. 1. A low, sustained, mournful cry, usually indicative of sorrow or pain. 2. A grumble or complaint. moaning. v. 3. To utter sounds in a low mournful manner. 4. To grumble or complain. moaned, moaning.
monument ::: 1. A structure, such as a building, pillar, statue or sculpture, erected as a memorial to a person or event, as a building, pillar or statue. 2. Any enduring evidence or notable example of something. 3. An exemplar, model, or personification of some abstract quality. monuments.
moralist ::: one who teaches or inculcates conformity to the rules of right or virtuous conduct.
movement ::: 1. The act or an instance of moving; a change in place or position. A particular manner of moving. 2. Usually, movements, actions or activities, as of a person or a body of persons. ::: movement"s, movements, many-movemented.
Sri Aurobindo: "When we withdraw our gaze from its egoistic preoccupation with limited and fleeting interests and look upon the world with dispassionate and curious eyes that search only for the Truth, our first result is the perception of a boundless energy of infinite existence, infinite movement, infinite activity pouring itself out in limitless Space, in eternal Time, an existence that surpasses infinitely our ego or any ego or any collectivity of egos, in whose balance the grandiose products of aeons are but the dust of a moment and in whose incalculable sum numberless myriads count only as a petty swarm." *The Life Divine
". . . the purest, freest form of insight into existence as it is shows us nothing but movement. Two things alone exist, movement in Space, movement in Time, the former objective, the latter subjective.” The Life Divine
"The world is a cyclic movement (samsâra ) of the Divine Consciousness in Space and Time. Its law and, in a sense, its object is progression; it exists by movement and would be dissolved by cessation of movement. But the basis of this movement is not material; it is the energy of active consciousness which, by its motion and multiplication in different principles (different in appearance, the same in essence), creates oppositions of unity and multiplicity, divisions of Time and Space, relations and groupings of circumstance and Causality. All these things are real in consciousness, but only symbolic of the Being, somewhat as the imaginations of a creative Mind are true representations of itself, yet not quite real in comparison with itself, or real with a different kind of reality.” The Upanishads*
moving rapidly, changing location rapidly; moving or acting with speed or haste.
multiplication (‘s) ::: the act or process of multiplying or the condition of being multiplied.
n. 1. An exercise serving an educational purpose; something to be learned or studied. lessons. *v. *2. To teach, instruct.
naked ::: 1. Having no clothing on the body; nude. 2. Being without addition, concealment, disguise, or embellishment. 3. Exposed to harm; vulnerable. 4. Plain, simple, unadorned. 5. Not accompanied or supplemented by anything else. 6. Devoid of a specified quality, characteristic, or element. 7. With no qualification or concealment; stark, plain. 8. Unsupported by authority or financial or other consideration. World-naked.
net ::: 1. A bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals. 2. Anything serving to catch or ensnare. cloud-net, drag-net.
“Nevertheless, the fact of this intervention from above, the fact that behind all our original thinking or authentic perception of things there is a veiled, a half-veiled or a swift unveiled intuitive element is enough to establish a connection between mind and what is above it; it opens a passage of communication and of entry into the superior spirit-ranges. There is also the reaching out of mind to exceed the personal ego limitation, to see things in a certain impersonality and universality. Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes,—towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested, must in the nature of things be the original mind-action of which ours is only a derivative and inferior process.” The Life Divine
nnd lo the justification of the cosnttc Iravait of knoufedpe in humanity.
of Force. The Force I speak of is a Force for illumination, transformation, purification, all that has to be done in the yoga, for removal of hostile forces and the wrong movements—it is also of course for external work, whether great or small in appearance does not matter—if that is part of the Divine Will. I do not mean any personal force egoistic or rajasic.” Letters on Yoga
One ought not to settle down into a fixed idea of one’s own incapacity or allow it to become an obsession ; for such an atti- tude has no true justification and unnecessarily renders the way harder. Where there is a soul that has once become awake, there is surely a capacity within that can outweigh all surface defects and can in the end conquer.
“On the surface of life all appears to be a game of Chance. There is no certainty about any movement; ups and downs, vicissitudes, cataclysms, actions, passions and thoughts crowd in medley and it is impossible to anticipate or regulate them with any definiteness. But a deeper scrutiny reveals a pattern behind all the apparent workings of Chance. What looks like Chance is itself a part of the process; it is called Chance because the particular operation does not take place within the framework of the laws erected by the limited empirical mind; there is really no Chance in the working out of the divine Intention that is this Universe.” Readings in Savitri Vol. III.
Orange often indicates occult pow’cr.
order ::: 1. A condition of methodical or prescribed arrangement among component parts such that proper functioning or appearance is achieved; methodical or harmonic arrangement. 2. A condition of logical or comprehensible arrangement among the separate elements of a group. 3. Conformity or obedience to law or established authority. 4. A sequence or arrangement of successive things. 5. An authoritative indication to be obeyed; a command or direction. order"s, orders.
or troubled or depressed or despondent, to go on with a steady faith in the Divine’s Will. But equality docs not include inert acceptance. If, for instance, then? is a temporary failure of some endeavour in the sadhana, one has to keep equality, not to be troubled or despondent, but one has not to accept the failure as an indication of the Divine Will and give up the endeavour. You ought rather to find out the reason and mean- ing of the failure and go forward in faith towards victory.
Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism of the human ego and to assume the figure of an independent will acting on its own isolated account, in a complete liberty without any determination other than its own choice and single unrelated movement. This idea ignores the fact that our natural being is a part of cosmic Nature and our spiritual being exists only by the supreme Transcendence. Our total being can rise out of subjection to fact of present Nature only by an identification with a greater Truth and a greater Nature. The will of the individual, even when completely free, could not act in an isolated independence, because the individual being and nature are included in the universal Being and Nature and dependent on the all-overruling Transcendence. There could indeed be in the ascent a dual line. On one line the being could feel and behave as an independent self-existence uniting itself with its own impersonal Reality; it could, so self-conceived, act with a great force, but either this action would be still within an enlarged frame of its past and present self-formation of power of Nature or else it would be the cosmic or supreme Force that acted in it and there would be no personal initiation of action, no sense therefore of individual free will but only of an impersonal cosmic or supreme Will or Energy at its work. On the other line the being would feel itself a spiritual instrument and so act as a power of the Supreme Being, limited in its workings only by the potencies of the Supernature, which are without bounds or any restriction except its own Truth and self-law, and by the Will in her. But in either case there would be, as the condition of a freedom from the control of a mechanical action of Nature-forces, a submission to a greater conscious Power or an acquiescent unity of the individual being with its intention and movement in his own and in the world’s existence.” The Life Divine
overmind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The overmind is a sort of delegation from the supermind (this is a metaphor only) which supports the present evolutionary universe in which we live here in Matter. If supermind were to start here from the beginning as the direct creative Power, a world of the kind we see now would be impossible; it would have been full of the divine Light from the beginning, there would be no involution in the inconscience of Matter, consequently no gradual striving evolution of consciousness in Matter. A line is therefore drawn between the higher half of the universe of consciousness, parardha , and the lower half, aparardha. The higher half is constituted of Sat, Chit, Ananda, Mahas (the supramental) — the lower half of mind, life, Matter. This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, depends on it indeed, but in receiving it, divides, distributes, breaks it up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds, each of which it is possible by a further diminution of consciousness, such as we reach in Mind, to regard as the sole or the chief Truth and all the rest as subordinate or contradictory to it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The overmind is the highest of the planes below the supramental.” *Letters on Yoga
"In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light.” The Life Divine
"The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind, — although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too, its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature.” The Life Divine
"The overmind sees calmly, steadily, in great masses and large extensions of space and time and relation, globally; it creates and acts in the same way — it is the world of the great Gods, the divine Creators.” *Letters on Yoga
"The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules and canons, it sees a universal and an eternal beauty while it takes up and transforms all that is limited and particular. It is besides concerned with things other than beauty or aesthetics. It is concerned especially with truth and knowledge or rather with a wisdom that exceeds what we call knowledge; its truth goes beyond truth of fact and truth of thought, even the higher thought which is the first spiritual range of the thinker. It has the truth of spiritual thought, spiritual feeling, spiritual sense and at its highest the truth that comes by the most intimate spiritual touch or by identity. Ultimately, truth and beauty come together and coincide, but in between there is a difference. Overmind in all its dealings puts truth first; it brings out the essential truth (and truths) in things and also its infinite possibilities; it brings out even the truth that lies behind falsehood and error; it brings out the truth of the Inconscient and the truth of the Superconscient and all that lies in between. When it speaks through poetry, this remains its first essential quality; a limited aesthetical artistic aim is not its purpose.” *Letters on Savitri
"In the overmind the Truth of supermind which is whole and harmonious enters into a separation into parts, many truths fronting each other and moved each to fulfil itself, to make a world of its own or else to prevail or take its share in worlds made of a combination of various separated Truths and Truth-forces.” Letters on Yoga
*Overmind"s.
overtake ::: 1. To catch up with and pass, as in a race; move by. 2. To come upon suddenly or unexpectedly; take by surprise. overtook, overtaken, overtaking.
pactise ::: Sri Aurobindo combines the word pact [an agreement or covenant] with ise, a noun suffix occurring in loanwords from French, indicating quality, condition, or function.
paged ::: indicated the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; Numbered the pages of; paginated.
patient ::: adj. Sustaining pain, delay, etc. calmly and without complaint; not easily provoked; persevering in long-continued or intricate work; expecting with calmness; enduring.
plain ::: n. 1. An extensive, level, usually treeless area of land. plains. adj. 2. Obvious to the mind; evident. 3. Not elaborate or complicated; simple.
pointillage ::: A word coined by Sri Aurobindo. The suffix age, originally in words adopted from Fr., is typically used in abstract nouns to indicate”aggregate”. Hence, pointillage indicates something made up of minute details; particularized. The root word, pointillism, refers to a method, invented by French impressionist painters, of producing luminous effects by crowding a surface with small spots of various colours, which are blended by the eye.
pointillage ::: a word coined by Sri Aurobindo. The suffix age, originally in words adopted from Fr., is typically used in abstract nouns to indicate "aggregate”. Hence, pointillage indicates something made up of minute details; particularized. The root word, pointillism, refers to a method, invented by French impressionist painters, of producing luminous effects by crowding a surface with small spots of various colours, which are blended by the eye.
portent ::: an indication or omen of something about to happen, esp. something momentous.
position ::: the place, situation, or location of a person or thing.
prefigured ::: suggested, indicated, or represented beforehand by a form or model; presaged or foreshadowed.
presence ::: 1. The state or fact of being present; current existence or occurrence. 2. A divine, spiritual, or supernatural spirit or influence felt or conceived as present. 3. The immediate proximity of someone or something.
Sri Aurobindo: "It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one"s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence" it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance, — the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” Essays Divine and Human
"But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” *The Life Divine
"The true soul secret in us, — subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil, — this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.” *The Life Divine
"If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance, — all Nature is its external proof, — we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” *The Life Divine
"The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being.” *The Life Divine
"There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time He conceals Himself, and then in His own right time He will reveal His Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"They [the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart] are quite different things. The psychic being is one"s own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"For it is quietness and inwardness that enable one to feel the Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” *Essays Divine and Human
The Mother: "For, in human beings, here is a presence, the most marvellous Presence on earth, and except in a few very rare cases which I need not mention here, this presence lies asleep in the heart — not in the physical heart but the psychic centre — of all beings. And when this Splendour is manifested with enough purity, it will awaken in all beings the echo of his Presence.” Words of the Mother, MCW, Vol. 15.
presence ::: “It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one›s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence’ it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance,—the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” Letters on Yoga
press ::: n. 1. A crowd, throng, or multitude. 2. A crowding, thronging, or pressing together; a collective force. 3. Pressure or demands of affairs; urgency, haste, hurry. v. 4. To exert weight, force or pressure. 5. To advance or carry on vigorously despite obstacles in one"s way. 6. To impress (a thing) upon the mind, etc., emphasize, inculcate. 7. To beset or harass; afflict. 8. To cause to move in some direction or into some position by pressure; to push, drive, thrust. 9. To compress or squeeze. 10. To squeeze out or express, as juice. 11. To urge or entreat strongly or insistently. 12. To hold closely as in an embrace; clasp. presses, pressed, pressing.
pressure ::: 1. The application of continuous force by one body on another that it is touching; compression. 2. A constraining or compelling force or influence.
::: "Pressure, throbbing, electrical vibrations are all signs of the working of the Force. The places indicate the field of action — the top of the head is the summit of the thinking mind where it communicates with the higher consciousness; the neck or throat is the seat of the physical, externalising or expressive mind; the ear is the place of communication with the inner mind-centre by which thoughts etc. enter into the personal being from the general Nature.” Letters on Yoga
“Pressure, throbbing, electrical vibrations are all signs of the working of the Force. The places indicate the field of action—the top of the head is the summit of the thinking mind where it communicates with the higher consciousness; the neck or throat is the seat of the physical, externalising or expressive mind; the ear is the place of communication with the inner mind-centre by which thoughts etc. enter into the personal being from the general Nature.”
prey ::: n. 1. An animal hunted or caught for food; quarry. Also fig. 2. A person or thing that is the victim of an enemy. v. 2. To hunt, catch, kill or eat as prey. Also fig. preyed.
primitive ::: 1. Of or relating to an earliest or original stage or state; primeval. 2. Simple, unsophisticated; crude, unrefined.
provocation ::: the act of provoking or inciting.
Purani: “—a fine expressive word coined by the poet. Fluttering indicates movement, a changing movement and hue suggests colour. The movement of ‘desire’ is very nicely indicated by this word—an unsteady movement, constantly changing colour.”
Purani: “He [Sri Aurobindo] does the same [improving spontaneously upon the original in the alchemy of his poetical process] with several Vedic symbols which he employs. It [gold-horned herds] indicates the descent of the ‘gold-horned’ Cows—symbolising the richly-laden Rays of Knowledge—into the Inconscient of the earth, its ‘cave-heart’. Generally in the Veda the action is that of breaking open the Cave of the inconscient and releasing the pen of Cows, the imprisoned Rays of Life for the conscious possessions by the seeker. Here is how a Vedic hymn speaks about it: ‘They drove upwards, the luminous ones,—the good milch-cows, in their stone-pen within the hiding cave.’ Rig Veda IV, 1-13. One sees in Savitri the process reversed and the Master’s vision lays open the original act of involution of the Light into the darkness of the Inconscient.” Sri Aurobindo’s”Savitri”: An Approach and a Study.
pylons ::: monumental gateways in the form of a pair of truncated pyramids serving as entrances to ancient Egyptian temples.
python ::: Any of various nonvenomous snakes of the family Pythonidae, that coil around and suffocate their prey. Also fig. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adj.)
python ::: any of various nonvenomous snakes of the family Pythonidae, that coil around and suffocate their prey. Also fig. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adj.)
quarrel ::: 1. An angry dispute; an altercation. 2. A cause of dispute, complaint, or hostile feeling.
questioning ::: n. 1. The act of asking or inquiring. 2. A matter of some uncertainty or difficulty. questionings. adj. 3. That questions or doubts. 4. Indicating or implying a question.
quest ::: “The quest of man for God, which becomes in the end the most ardent and enthralling of all his quests, begins with his first vague questionings of Nature and a sense of something unseen both in himself and her. Even if, as modern Science insists, religion started from animism, spirit-worship, demon-worship, and the deification of natural forces, these first forms only embody in primitive figures a veiled intuition in the subconscient, an obscure and ignorant feeling of hidden influences and incalculable forces, or a vague sense of being, will, intelligence in what seems to us inconscient, of the invisible behind the visible, of the secretly conscious spirit in things distributing itself in every working of energy. The obscurity and primitive inadequacy of the first perceptions do not detract from the value or the truth of this great quest of the human heart and mind, since all our seekings,—including Science itself,—must start from an obscure and ignorant perception of hidden realities and proceed to the more and more luminous vision of the Truth which at first comes to us masked, draped, veiled by the mists of the Ignorance. Anthropomorphism is an imaged recognition of the truth that man is what he is because God is what He is and that there is one soul and body of things, humanity even in its incompleteness the most complete manifestation yet achieved here and divinity the perfection of what in man is imperfect.” The Life Divine
Radha ::: “Radha is the personification of the absolute love for the Divine, total and integral in all parts of the being from the highest spiritual to the physical, bringing the absolute self-giving and total consecration of all the being and calling down into the body and the most material nature the supreme Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
rampart ::: 1. A fortification consisting of an embankment, often with a parapet built on top. 2. Anything serving as a bulwark or defence.
rapt ::: 1. Deeply engrossed or absorbed. 2. Entranced; transported with emotion; enraptured; ecstatic. 3. Indicating, proceeding from, characterized by, a state of rapture. 4. Carried off spiritually to another place, sphere of existence, etc. self-rapt.
ray ::: 1. A thin line or narrow beam of light or other radiant energy. 2. Radiance; light. 3. Physics, Optics. Any of the lines or streams in which light appears to radiate from a luminous body. 4. A straight line extending from a point. 5. A slight indication, esp. of something anticipated or hoped for. **Ray, soul-ray.
reach ::: n. 1. Range of effective action, power, or capacity, area, sphere, scope. 2. The range of influence, power, jurisdiction, etc. reaches. v. 3. To stretch out or put forth (a body part); extend. 4. To arrive at or get to (a place, person, etc.) in the course of movement or action. 5. To arrive at; attain. 6. To make contact or communication with (someone). 7. To extend in influence or operation. reaches, reached, reaching.
reason ::: “The reason itself is only a special kind of application, made by a surface regulating intelligence, of suggestions which actually come from a concealed, but sometimes partially overt and active power of the intuitive spirit.” The Synthesis of Yoga
reconcile ::: “True reconciliation proceeds always by a mutual comprehension leading to some sort of intimate oneness. It is therefore through the utmost possible unification of Spirit and Matter that we shall best arrive at their reconciling truth and so at some strongest foundation for a reconciling practice in the inner life of the individual and his outer existence.” The Life Divine
remote ::: 1. Located far away; distant in space or time; abstracted. (In lit. and fig. uses.) 2. Removed, as from the source or point of action. 3. Reserved and distant in manner; aloof. remotely, remoteness, remotenesses.
sacred ::: 1. Devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated. 2. Reverently dedicated to some person, purpose, or object; consecrated, hallowed. 3. Secured against violation, infringement, etc., as by reverence or sense of right; sacrosanct. 4. Entitled to veneration or religious respect by association with divinity or divine things; holy; venerable; divine.
satisfaction ::: 1. The state of being satisfied; contentment. 2. An instance of the fulfilment or gratification of a desire, need, or appetite.
Savitri ::: Purani: “The word ‘Savitri’ is derived from the word ‘Savitru’ which in its turn is derived from the root ‘su’ = ‘to give birth to’. The word ‘Soma’ which indicates an ‘exhilarating drink’, symbolising spiritual ecstasy or delight, is also derived from the same root ‘su’. It links therefore the creation and the delight of creation. Savitru therefore, means the Divine Creator One who gives birth to or brings forth from himself into existence, the creation. In the Veda, Savita is the God of illumination, the God of Creation. Usually, he is represented by the material sun which also illuminates the solar system and is its creator and sustainer in the material sense. Savitri therefore would mean etymologically ‘some one descended from the Sun’, ‘one belonging to the Sun’, ‘an energy derived from the Sun, the Divine Creator’. In our poem, Savitri is the princess who embodies the Divine Grace descended in human birth to work out with the aspiring soul of humanity his divine destiny.”“Savitri“—An Approach and a Study
scattered ::: adj. 1. Refracted and dispersed in all directions, as of light. 2. Lacking orderly continuity. 3. Distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals.
scatter ::: n. 1. The act of scattering or causing to separate and go in different directions. v. 2. To throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals. 3. To separate and go in different directions; disperse. scatters, scattered, scattering.
scale ::: n. 1. A progressive or graduated series or classification. 2. An ascending or descending collection of pitches proceeding by a specified scheme of intervals. 3. A standard of measurement or judgment; a criterion. 4. Relative or proportionate size or extent; degree, proportion. slow-scaled. *v. 5. To climb; ascend; move upward; mount. *scales.
scene ::: 1. The place where an action or event occurs. 2. A view or picture presented to the eye (or to the mind) of a place, concourse, incident, series of actions or events, assemblage of objects, etc. 3. The place in which the action of a play, movie, or other narrative occurs; a setting. 4. A subdivision of an act of a play marked by the entrance or departure of one or more actors. 5. An action, episode, complication of events, or situation, in real life. 6. Fig. A view or prospect of something to come. scenes, scene-shifters, earth-scene, earth-scene"s, life-scene, soul-scene, world-scene.
schooled ::: educated, trained (a person, his mind, powers, tastes, etc.); to render wise, skilful, or tractable by training or discipline.
scope ::: 1. A purpose or an aim. 2. Space for movement or activity; opportunity for operation. 3. Extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc. 4. The range of one"s perceptions, thoughts, or actions.
seated ::: 1. Located or established in a specified place. 2. Fixed or established firmly in a specified place, position or situation. 3. Installed in a position of office or authority.
seat ::: n. 1. Something such as a chair or bench, that may be sat on. 2. A chair for the king, bishop, etc., the throne of God or the angels; specifically as a center of authority. 3. A place in which something belongs, occurs, or is established; site; location. 4. A place in which administrative power or the like is centred. 5. A sitting body, court of justice. 6. The office or authority of a ruler or power such as a king, etc. seats, earth-seat. *v. 7. To set firmly in place or cause to sit down. 8. To establish (a person or thing) in a position of authority or dignity. *seats.
seek ::: to try to locate or discover; search for. seeks, seeking, seeking"s, seekings, all-seeking, heart-seeking, self-seeking.
Self. But there is another, a hidden consciousness within behind the surface one in which we can become aware of the real Self and of a larger, deeper truth of nature, can realise the Self and liberate and transform the nature. To quiet the surface mind and begin to live within is the object of concentration. Of this true consciousness other than the superficial there are two main centres, one in the heart (not the physical heart, but the cardiac centre in the middle of the chest), one in the head. The con- centration in the heart opens within and by following this inward opening and going deep one becomes aware of the soul or psy- chic being, the divine element in the individual. This being unveiled begins to come forward, to govern the nature, to turn it and all its movements towards the Truth, towards the Divine, and to call down into it all that is above. It brings the conscious- ness of the Presence, the dedication of the being to the Highest and invites the descent into our nature of a greater Force and
self identification lost by uniting with something higher.
self-knowledge ::: knowing of oneself, without help from another.
Sri Aurobindo: The possibility of a cosmic consciousness in humanity is coming slowly to be admitted in modern Psychology, like the possibility of more elastic instruments of knowledge, although still classified, even when its value and power are admitted, as a hallucination. In the psychology of the East it has always been recognised as a reality and the aim of our subjective progress. The essence of the passage over to this goal is the exceeding of the limits imposed on us by the ego-sense and at least a partaking, at most an identification with the self-knowledge which broods secret in all life and in all that seems to us inanimate. *The Life Divine
"Therefore the only final goal possible is the emergence of the infinite consciousness in the individual; it is his recovery of the truth of himself by self-knowledge and by self-realisation, the truth of the Infinite in being, the Infinite in consciousness, the Infinite in delight repossessed as his own Self and Reality of which the finite is only a mask and an instrument for various expression.” The Life Divine
"The Truth-Consciousness is everywhere present in the universe as an ordering self-knowledge by which the One manifests the harmonies of its infinite potential multiplicity.” The Life Divine
“Self-will in thought and action has, we have already seen, to be quite renounced if we would be perfect in the way of divine works; it has equally to be renounced if we are to be perfect in divine knowledge. This self-will means an egoism in the mind which attaches itself to its preferences, its habits, its past or present formations of thought and view and will because it regards them as itself or its own, weaves around them the delicate threads of I-ness’’ andmy-ness’’ and lives in them like a spider in its web. It hates to be disturbed, as a spider hates attack on its web, and feels foreign and unhappy if transplanted to fresh view-points and formations as a spider feels foreign in another web than its own. This attachment must be entirely excised from the mind.” The Synthesis of Yoga
sense ::: n. 1. Any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body. 2. Meaning, signification. 3. A more or less vague perception or impression. 4. Any special capacity or perception, estimation, appreciation, etc. 5. A mental or spiritual discernment, realization, or recognition of a dream, or of anything cryptic or symbolical. sense"s, senses, senses", sense-appeal, sense-formed, sense-life"s, sense-pangs, sense-pleasures, sense-railed, sense-shackled, soul-sense. v. 6. To apprehend, detect, or perceive, without or in advance of the evidence of the senses; to perceive instinctively. 7. To be inwardly aware; conscious of. sensed, sensing. *adj. *sensed.
sensual ::: 1. Of or relating to any of the senses or sense organs; sensory; physical rather than spiritual or intellectual. 2. Pertaining to, inclined to, or preoccupied with the gratification of the senses or appetites.
sentence ::: n. 1. A sequence of words capable of standing alone to make an assertion, ask a question or give a command, usually consisting of a subject and a predicate containing a finite verb. 2. An authoritative decision; a judicial judgement or decree, esp. a judicial decision of the punishment to be inflicted on one adjudged guilty. Hence, the punishment to which a criminal is sentenced. sentences. 3. A number of words forming a complete statement. sentenced.
". . . serpents indicate always energies of Nature and very often bad energies of the vital plane; but they can also indicate luminous or divine energies like the snake of Vishnu.” Letters on Yoga
“… serpents indicate always energies of Nature and very often bad energies of the vital plane; but they can also indicate luminous or divine energies like the snake of Vishnu.” Letters on Yoga
shadow ::: n. 1. A dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light. 2. Shade or comparative darkness, as in an area. 3. Darkness that is caused by the interception of light. 4. A phantom; a ghost. 5. An obscure indication; a symbol, type; a prefiguration, foreshadowing. 6. A hint or faint, indistinct image or idea; intimation. 7. A mere semblance. 8. A mirrored image or reflection. 9. Shelter; protection. 10. A dominant or pervasive threat, influence, or atmosphere, esp. one causing gloom, fear, doubt, or the like. Shadow, shadow"s, shadows. v. 11. To represent faintly, prophetically; to indicate obscurely or in slight outline; to symbolize, typify, prefigure. (Often followed by forth.) shadowed. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) shadowlike, shadow-hung, shadow-self, shadow-soul, shadow-Sphinx.
shadow ::: n. 1. A dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light. 2. Shade or comparative darkness, as in an area. 3. Darkness that is caused by the interception of light. 4. A phantom; a ghost. 5. An obscure indication; a symbol, type; a prefiguration, foreshadowing. 6. A hint or faint, indistinct image or idea; intimation. 7. A mere semblance. 8. A mirrored image or reflection. 9. Shelter; protection. 10. A dominant or pervasive threat, influence, or atmosphere, esp. one causing gloom, fear, doubt, or the like. Shadow, shadow’s, shadows. v. 11. To represent faintly, prophetically; to indicate obscurely or in slight outline; to symbolize, typify, prefigure. (Often followed by forth.) shadowed. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) shadowlike, shadow-hung, shadow-self, shadow-soul, shadow-Sphinx.
signal ::: n. 1. An indicator, such as a gesture or colored light, that serves as a means of communication. 2. Anything that acts as an incitement to action. Also fig. **signals. adj. 3. Used to give or act as a signal. signalling. 4. Serving as a warning, direction, command, or the like. signal fires, signal flares, signal light.**
significant ::: 1. Having or expressing a meaning; meaningful. 2. Having or expressing a covert meaning; suggestive; indicative.
sign ::: n. 1. An act or gesture used to convey an idea, a desire, information, or a command. 2. Any object, action, event, pattern, etc., that conveys a meaning. 3. A mark used to mean something; a symbol that sets something apart from others of its kind. 4. Something that indicates or acts as a token of a fact, condition, etc., that is not immediately or outwardly observable. 5. A signal. 6. A conventional figure or device that stands for a word, phrase, or operation; a symbol, as in mathematics or in musical notation. 7. A displayed structure such as a banner bearing lettering or symbols. 8. An act or significant event that is experienced as indication of divine intervention. 9. A portent of things to come. Sign, sign"s, signs, signless, sign-burdened, flame-signs. v. 10. To affix one"s signature to. 11. To indicate by or as if by a sign; betoken. signs, signed, signing.
silken ::: 1. Resembling silk in texture or appearance; smooth and lustrous. 2. Delicately pleasing or caressing in effect: as a silken voice.
sire ::: the male parent of an animal, especially a domesticated mammal such as a horse.
slight ::: adj. 1. Small in size, degree, or amount.2. Unimportant, trifling, trivial. 3. Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail. 4. Frail, flimsy, delicate. slightest. v. 5. To treat as of little importance; to disregard, disdain, ignore.
slogans ::: distinctive cries, phrases, or mottoes of any party, group, manufacturer, or person; catchwords or catch phrases.
smothered ::: completely covered; stifled; suffocated.
snake ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The snake indicates some kind of energy always — oftener bad, but it also can indicate some luminous or divine energy.” *Letters on Yoga
snake ::: “The snake indicates some kind of energy always—oftener bad, but it also can indicate some luminous or divine energy.” Letters on Yoga
sob ::: n. 1. The act or sound of weeping aloud with convulsive gasping. 2. Transf. A sound resembling that of loud weeping. sobs. v. 3. To weep with a convulsive catching of the breath.
solicitor ::: one who entreats, earnestly or respectfully requests, or petitions; one who solicits or begs favours; a pleader, intercessor, advocate.
Sometimes it comes of itself with the deepening of the conscious- ness by bhakti or otherwise, sometimes it comes by practice — a sort of referring the matter and listening for the answer. It does not mean that the answer comes necessarily in the shape of words, spoken or unspoken, though it does sometimes or for some it can take any shape. The main difficulty for many is to be sure of the right answer. For that it is necessary to be able to contact the consciousness of the Guru inwardly — that comes best by bhakti. Otherwise, the attempt to get the feeling from within by practice may become a delicate and ticklish job.
space ::: 1. The unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur. 2. The portion or extent of this in a given instance; extent or room in three dimensions. 3. An interval of time; a while. 4. Extent, or a particular extent, of time. 5. A place available for a particular purpose. Space, spaces, spaces", space-tenancy, feeding-space, mind-space, self-space, soul-space, soul-spaces, spirit-space, world-space. *v. 6. *spaces. Sets or places, arranges or puts, at determinate intervals or distances.
spot ::: 1. A mark on a surface differing sharply in colour from its surroundings. 2. A stain or blot. 3. A location; a locale. spots.
spread ::: 1. To extend or cause to extend over a larger expanse of space or time. Also fig. 2. To become stretched out or extended; expand, as in growth. 3. To be distributed or dispersed (a substance or a number of things) over a certain or area; to be scattered. 4. To spread out or open from a closed or folded state, like sails. 5. To distribute and expand widely. spreads, far-spread.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intelligence does not depend on the amount one has read, it is a quality of the mind. Study only gives it material for its work as life also does. There are people who do not know how to read and write who are more intelligent than many highly educated people and understand life and things better. On the other hand, a good intelligence can improve itself by reading because it gets more material to work on and grows by exercise and by having a wider range to move in. But book-knowledge by itself is not the real thing, it has to be used as a help to the intelligence but it is often only a help to stupidity or ignorance — ignorance because knowledge of facts is a poor thing if one cannot see their true significance.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Only those thoughts are true the opposite of which is also true in its own time and application; indisputable dogmas are the most dangerous kind of falsehoods.” Essays Divine and Human
::: Sri Aurobindo: "Radha is the personification of the absolute love for the Divine, total and integral in all parts of the being from the highest spiritual to the physical, bringing the absolute self-giving and total consecration of all the being and calling down into the body and the most material nature the supreme Ananda.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: “Radha is the personification of the absolute love for the Divine, total and integral in all parts of the being from the highest spiritual to the physical, bringing the absolute self-giving and total consecration of all the being and calling down into the body and the most material nature the supreme Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "The Mask is mentioned not twice but four times in this opening passage and it is purposely done to keep up the central connection of the idea running through the whole. The ambassadors wear this grey Mask, so your criticism cannot stand since there is no separate mask coming as part of a new idea but a very pointed return to the principal note indicating the identity of the influence throughout. It is not a random recurrence but a purposeful touch carrying a psychological meaning.” — 1948 Letters on Savitri*
Sri Aurobindo: "The quest of man for God, which becomes in the end the most ardent and enthralling of all his quests, begins with his first vague questionings of Nature and a sense of something unseen both in himself and her. Even if, as modern Science insists, religion started from animism, spirit-worship, demon-worship, and the deification of natural forces, these first forms only embody in primitive figures a veiled intuition in the subconscient, an obscure and ignorant feeling of hidden influences and incalculable forces, or a vague sense of being, will, intelligence in what seems to us inconscient, of the invisible behind the visible, of the secretly conscious spirit in things distributing itself in every working of energy. The obscurity and primitive inadequacy of the first perceptions do not detract from the value or the truth of this great quest of the human heart and mind, since all our seekings, — including Science itself, — must start from an obscure and ignorant perception of hidden realities and proceed to the more and more luminous vision of the Truth which at first comes to us masked, draped, veiled by the mists of the Ignorance. Anthropomorphism is an imaged recognition of the truth that man is what he is because God is what He is and that there is one soul and body of things, humanity even in its incompleteness the most complete manifestation yet achieved here and divinity the perfection of what in man is imperfect.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The reason itself is only a special kind of application, made by a surface regulating intelligence, of suggestions which actually come from a concealed, but sometimes partially overt and active power of the intuitive spirit.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "True reconciliation proceeds always by a mutual comprehension leading to some sort of intimate oneness. It is therefore through the utmost possible unification of Spirit and Matter that we shall best arrive at their reconciling truth and so at some strongest foundation for a reconciling practice in the inner life of the individual and his outer existence.” The Life Divine*
Sri Aurobindo: "Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is aware only of thoughts, feelings, etc., that rise to the surface and these he takes for his own. Really they come from outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation, etc., which take particular form in him and rise to the surface after they have got inside. But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the Theosophists the Aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there they try to get in again. Or they go to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance.” *Letters on Yoga
stamp ::: n. 1. An impression or shape formed by an implement or device, of something specified; an impression, a mark. 2. An official mark indicating genuineness, validity, etc. v. 3. To strike or beat with a forcible downward thrust of the foot. 4. To extinguish, crush, etc., by striking with a forcible downward thrust of the foot (fol. by out). 5. To fix or impress a stamp or mark permanently. 6. To mark (something) with an official impress, seal, or device. stamps, stamped, stamping.
stand ::: 1. To remain erect on one"s feet in a specified place, occupation, position, condition, etc. 2. To be, to continue or remain in a specified state, position, relation, etc. 3. To be set, placed, located, fixed or situated. 4. To take a position or place as indicated. 5. To have or adopt a certain policy, course, or attitude, as of adherence, support, opposition, or resistance. 6. To remain erect and firm under (a crushing weight, or the like), often with up. 7. To remain firm or steadfast, as in a cause. stands, stood, standing.
stars ::: “But it does not follow that the stars rule our destiny; the stars merely record a destiny that has been already formed, they are a hieroglyph, not a Force,—or if their action constitutes a force, it is a transmitting energy, not an originating Power. Someone is there who has determined or something is there which is Fate, let us say; the stars are only indicators.” Letters on Yoga
stars ::: Sri Aurobindo: "But it does not follow that the stars rule our destiny; the stars merely record a destiny that has been already formed, they are a hieroglyph, not a Force, — or if their action constitutes a force, it is a transmitting energy, not an originating Power. Someone is there who has determined or something is there which is Fate, let us say; the stars are only indicators.” Letters on Yoga
stifled ::: smothered; suppressed; suffocated.
stifling ::: suffocating; oppressively close.
straggled ::: wandered or strayed from the proper course or road; wandered about in a scattered fashion; rambled.
straggling ::: 1. Straying or falling behind others. 2. Proceeding or spreading out in a scattered or irregular group.
strangling ::: 1. Killing by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; or throttling by a cord, etc. around the neck. 2. Cutting off the oxygen supply of; smothering. Also fig. **strangled.**
strewn ::: scattered, spread widely; disseminated.
subtle ::: 1. So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive. 2. Fine or delicate in meaning or intent; difficult to perceive or understand. 3. Delicate or faint and mysterious. 4. Operating in a hidden, usually injurious way; insidious. 5. Characterized by skill or ingenuity; clever. 6. Insidious in operation. 7. Crafty or sly; devious; cunning. subtler, subtle-souled.
subtly ::: 1. In a subtle and delicate manner. 2. Difficult to understand; abstruse.
suggestion ::: 1. The act of proposing an idea or a course of action. 2. A hint or indication of the existence of something. 3. The sequential process by which one thought or mental image leads to another. suggestions.
superior ::: located higher than another; upper; being of a higher or celestial world.
surprise ::: to encounter suddenly or unexpectedly; take or catch unawares. To ‘take hold of" or affect suddenly or unexpectedly; a desire, emotion, etc.
tamed ::: brought from wildness into a domesticated state; subdued the wildness of.
tangled ::: interlaced or intertwined in a complicated and confused manner; matted, mixed up confusedly. Fig. complicated, intricate. green-tangled.
Tehmi: “Here Sri Aurobindo uses the word in a unique way, as a verb; to house as in a cathedral.”
Tehmi: “Reason is the eternal Advocate who has no true knowledge.”
Tehmi: “The cattle of the sun, the cows of the sun have gone down into the darkness of the caves and the Rishi’s have to rescue them. It is the parable of the light going into the darkness and we have to retrieve the light.”
Tehmi: “This is a reference to the custom of affluent Indian families who would scatter oiled grains of rice in front of the entrance to their homes to catch thieves who would stumble and fall.
temple ::: 1. A building or place dedicated to the worship of a deity or deities. 2. Fig. Something regarded as having within it a divine presence. temples, temple-door, temple-soil, temple-tower, rock-temple"s.
tender ::: 1. Kind, loving, gentle, mild, affectionate. 2. Delicate or soft. tenderer.
tense ::: any one of the inflected forms in the conjugation of a verb that indicates the time, such as past, present, or future, as well as the continuance or completion of the action or state.
"That is the way things come, only one does not notice. Thoughts, ideas, happy inventions etc., etc., are always wandering about (in thought-waves or otherwise), seeking a mind that may embody them. One mind takes, looks, rejects — another takes, looks, accepts. Two different minds catch the same thought-form or thought-wave, but the mental activities being different, make different results out of them. Or it comes to one and he does nothing, then it walks off saying, ‘O this unready animal!" and goes to another who promptly welcomes it and it settles into expression with a joyous bubble of inspiration, illumination or enthusiasm of original discovery or creation and the recipient cries proudly, ‘I, I have done this". Ego, sir! ego! You are the recipient, the conditioning medium, if you like — nothing more.” Letters on Yoga
“That is the way things come, only one does not notice. Thoughts, ideas, happy inventions etc., etc., are always wandering about (in thought-waves or otherwise), seeking a mind that may embody them. One mind takes, looks, rejects—another takes, looks, accepts. Two different minds catch the same thought-form or thought-wave, but the mental activities being different, make different results out of them. Or it comes to one and he does nothing, then it walks off saying, ‘O this unready animal!’ and goes to another who promptly welcomes it and it settles into expression with a joyous bubble of inspiration, illumination or enthusiasm of original discovery or creation and the recipient cries proudly, ‘I, I have done this’. Ego, sir! ego! You are the recipient, the conditioning medium, if you like—nothing more.” Letters on Yoga
that which cannot be appeased or placated.
"The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man"s real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would be only an insect crawling among other ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.” The Life Divine
“The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man’s real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would be only an insect crawling among other ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.” The Life Divine
The centre at the crown must be part of the sahasradala, the centre of communication direct between the individual being and the infinite consciousness above.
"The colours of the lotuses and the numbers of petals are respectively, from bottom to top: — (1) the Muladhara or physical consciousness centre, four petals, red; (2) the abdominal centre, six petals, deep purple red; (3) the navel centre, ten petals, violet; (4) the heart centre, twelve petals, golden pink; (5) the throat centre, sixteen petals, grey; (6) the forehead centre between the eye-brows, two petals, white; (7) the thousand-petalled lotus above the head, blue with gold light around. The functions are, according to our yoga, — (1) commanding the physical consciousness and the subconscient; (2) commanding the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements; (3) commanding the larger life-forces and the passions and larger desire-movements; (4) commanding the higher emotional being with the psychic deep behind it; (5) commanding expression and all externalisation of the mind movements and mental forces; (6) commanding thought, will, vision; (7) commanding the higher thinking mind and the illumined mind and opening upwards to the intuition and overmind. The seventh is sometimes or by some identified with the brain, but that is an error — the brain is only a channel of communication situated between the thousand-petalled and the forehead centre. The former is sometimes called the void centre, sunya , either because it is not in the body, but in the apparent void above or because rising above the head one enters first into the silence of the self or spiritual being.” Letters on Yoga*
“The colours of the lotuses and the numbers of petals are respectively, from bottom to top:—(1) the Muladhara or physical consciousness centre, four petals, red; (2) the abdominal centre, six petals, deep purple red; (3) the navel centre, ten petals, violet; (4) the heart centre, twelve petals, golden pink; (5) the throat centre, sixteen petals, grey; (6) the forehead centre between the eye-brows, two petals, white; (7) the thousand-petalled lotus above the head, blue with gold light around. The functions are, according to our yoga,—(1) commanding the physical consciousness and the subconscient; (2) commanding the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements; (3) commanding the larger life-forces and the passions and larger desire-movements; (4) commanding the higher emotional being with the psychic deep behind it; (5) commanding expression and all externalisation of the mind movements and mental forces; (6) commanding thought, will, vision; (7) commanding the higher thinking mind and the illumined mind and opening upwards to the intuition and overmind. The seventh is sometimes or by some identified with the brain, but that is an error—the brain is only a channel of communication situated between the thousand-petalled and the forehead centre. The former is sometimes called the void centre, sunya , either because it is not in the body, but in the apparent void above or because rising above the head one enters first into the silence of the self or spiritual being.” Letters on Yoga
the cosmological theory holding that the universe is expanding, based on the interpretation of the color shift in the spectra of all the galaxies as being the result of the Doppler effect and indicating that all galaxies are moving away from one another.
"The Cross is in Yoga the symbol of the soul & nature in their strong & perfect union, but because of our fall into the impurities of ignorance it has become the symbol of suffering and purification.” Essays Divine and Human*
“The Cross is in Yoga the symbol of the soul & nature in their strong & perfect union, but because of our fall into the impurities of ignorance it has become the symbol of suffering and purification.” Essays Divine and Human
"The elementary state of material Force is, in the view of the old Indian physicists, a condition of pure material extension in Space of which the peculiar property is vibration typified to us by the phenomenon of sound. But vibration in this state of ether is not sufficient to create forms. There must first be some obstruction in the flow of the Force ocean, some contraction and expansion, some interplay of vibrations, some impinging of force upon force so as to create a beginning of fixed relations and mutual effects. Material Force modifying its first ethereal status assumes a second, called in the old language the aerial, of which the special property is contact between force and force, contact that is the basis of all material relations. Still we have not as yet real forms but only varying forces. A sustaining principle is needed. This is provided by a third self-modification of the primitive Force of which the principle of light, electricity, fire and heat is for us the characteristic manifestation. Even then, we can have forms of force preserving their own character and peculiar action, but not stable forms of Matter. A fourth state characterised by diffusion and a first medium of permanent attractions and repulsions, termed picturesquely water or the liquid state, and a fifth of cohesion, termed earth or the solid state, complete the necessary elements.” The Life Divine*
“The elementary state of material Force is, in the view of the old Indian physicists, a condition of pure material extension in Space of which the peculiar property is vibration typified to us by the phenomenon of sound. But vibration in this state of ether is not sufficient to create forms. There must first be some obstruction in the flow of the Force ocean, some contraction and expansion, some interplay of vibrations, some impinging of force upon force so as to create a beginning of fixed relations and mutual effects. Material Force modifying its first ethereal status assumes a second, called in the old language the aerial, of which the special property is contact between force and force, contact that is the basis of all material relations. Still we have not as yet real forms but only varying forces. A sustaining principle is needed. This is provided by a third self-modification of the primitive Force of which the principle of light, electricity, fire and heat is for us the characteristic manifestation. Even then, we can have forms of force preserving their own character and peculiar action, but not stable forms of Matter. A fourth state characterised by diffusion and a first medium of permanent attractions and repulsions, termed picturesquely water or the liquid state, and a fifth of cohesion, termed earth or the solid state, complete the necessary elements.” The Life Divine
"The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the Divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoistic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the Divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoistic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being.” The Synthesis of Yoga
The hold of inertia always increases when the working of s3dhana comes down into the physical and subconscient. Before that the inertia is overpowered though not eradicated by the
"The intuitive knowledge on the contrary, however limited it may be in its field or application, is within that scope sure with an immediate, a durable and especially a self-existent certitude.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The intuitive knowledge on the contrary, however limited it may be in its field or application, is within that scope sure with an immediate, a durable and especially a self-existent certitude.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"The light outside means a touch or influence of the force indicated by the light (golden is Truth-light, blue some spiritual force from the upper plane) while the light within means that it has penetrated or is established or frequently active in the nature itself. Light above means a force descending upon the mind, light around a general enveloping influence.” Letters on Yoga
“The light outside means a touch or influence of the force indicated by the light (golden is Truth-light, blue some spiritual force from the upper plane) while the light within means that it has penetrated or is established or frequently active in the nature itself. Light above means a force descending upon the mind, light around a general enveloping influence.” Letters on Yoga
The light outside means a touch or influence of the force indi- cated by the light. The light within means that it has penetrated or is established or frequently active in the nature itself. Light above means a force descending upon the mind. Light around means a general enveloping influence. -
The merging of the little ego ia union with the Divine, puri- fication, surrender, the substitution of the Divine guidance for one’s own ignorant self-guidance based on one's personal Ideas and personal feelings is the aim of Karmajoga, the surrender of one's own will to the Divine Will.
The method of the Divine Manifestation is through calm and harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval.
The more intense the experiences that come, the higher the forces that descend, the greater become the possibilities of deviation and error. For the very intensity and the very height of the force excites and aggrandises the movements of the lower nature and raises up in it all opposing elements in their full force, but often in the dbguisc of truth, wearing a mask of plausible justification. There is needed a great patience, calm, sobriety, balance, an impersonal dciachmcnx and sincerity free from all taint of ego or personal human desire. There must be no attachment to any idea of one’s owm, to any experience, to any kind of imagination, mental building or vital demand ::: the light of discrimination must alx^i'ays play to detect those
The Mother: "Consciousness is indeed the creatrix of the universe, but love is its saviour. . . .” On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
The Mother: “Consciousness is indeed the creatrix of the universe, but love is its saviour….” On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
::: The Mother: "Consciousness is the faculty of becoming aware of anything through identification. The Divine Consciousness is not only aware but knows and effects.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol.15*. Consciousness.
The Mother: “Consciousness is the faculty of becoming aware of anything through identification. The Divine Consciousness is not only aware but knows and effects.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol.15.
The Mother: "For me poetry is beyond all philosophy and beyond all explanation.” On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
The Mother: “For me poetry is beyond all philosophy and beyond all explanation.” On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
The Mother: "In the physical world, of all things it is beauty that expresses best the Divine. the physical world is the world of form and the perfection of form is beauty. Beauty interprets, expresses, manifests the Eternal. Its role is to put all manifested nature in contact with the Eternal through the perfection of form, through harmony and a sense of the ideal which uplifts and leads towards something higher. On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
The Mother: “In the physical world, of all things it is beauty that expresses best the Divine. the physical world is the world of form and the perfection of form is beauty. Beauty interprets, expresses, manifests the Eternal. Its role is to put all manifested nature in contact with the Eternal through the perfection of form, through harmony and a sense of the ideal which uplifts and leads towards something higher. On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
::: The Mother: "True art means the expression of beauty in the material world. In a world wholly converted, that is to say, expressing integrally the divine reality, art must serve as the revealer and teacher of this divine beauty in life.” On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
The Mother: “True art means the expression of beauty in the material world. In a world wholly converted, that is to say, expressing integrally the divine reality, art must serve as the revealer and teacher of this divine beauty in life.” On Education, MCW Vol. 12.**
theodicies ::: systems of the vindication of God"s goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil.
“The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind,—although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too, its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature.” The Life Divine
The possibility of a cosmic consciousness in humanity is coming slowly to be admitted in modern Psychology, like the possibility of more elastic instruments of knowledge, although still classified, even when its value and power are admitted, as a hallucination. In the psychology of the East it has always been recognised as a reality and the aim of our subjective progress. The essence of the passage over to this goal is the exceeding of the limits imposed on us by the ego-sense and at least a partaking, at most an identification with the self-knowledge which broods secret in all life and in all that seems to us inanimate. The Life Divine
The process of the Kundalini awakened rising through the centres as also the purification of the centres is a Taniric know- ledge. In our yoga there is no willed process of the punfication and opening of the centres, no raising up of the Kundalini by a set process either. Another method is used, but stiff there is the ascent of the consciousness from and through the different fc\cls to join the higher consciousness above ; there is the open- ing of the centres and of the planes (mental, vital, physical) which these centres command ; there is also the descent which is the main key of the spiritual transformation.
There arc some who have the expansive tendency of the vital, others who have the concentrative. The latter are absorbed in their own intensity of endeavour and certainly they gather from that great force for progress and are saved the expense and loss of energy which frequently comes to the more communicative and also make themselves less open to reactions from others
"There is a clear distinction in Vedic thought between kavi, the seer and manîshî, the thinker. The former indicates the divine supra-intellectual Knowledge which by direct vision and illumination sees the reality, the principles and the forms of things in their true relations, the latter, the labouring mentality, which works from the divided consciousness through the possibilities of things downward to the actual manifestation in form and upward to their reality in the self-existent Brahman.” The Upanishads*
“There is a clear distinction in Vedic thought between kavi, the seer and manîshî, the thinker. The former indicates the divine supra-intellectual Knowledge which by direct vision and illumination sees the reality, the principles and the forms of things in their true relations, the latter, the labouring mentality, which works from the divided consciousness through the possibilities of things downward to the actual manifestation in form and upward to their reality in the self-existent Brahman.” The Upanishads
"There is no such thing as death, for it is the body that dies and the body is not the man. That which really is, cannot go out of existence, though it may change the forms through which it appears, just as that which is non-existent cannot come into being. The soul is and cannot cease to be. This opposition of is and is not, this balance of being and becoming which is the mind"s view of existence, finds its end in the realisation of the soul as the one imperishable self by whom all this universe has been extended. Finite bodies have an end, but that which possesses and uses the body, is infinite, illimitable, eternal, indestructible. It casts away old and takes up new bodies as a man changes worn-out raiment for new; and what is there in this to grieve at and recoil and shrink? This is not born, nor does it die, nor is it a thing that comes into being once and passing away will never come into being again. It is unborn, ancient, sempiternal; it is not slain with the slaying of the body. Who can slay the immortal spirit? Weapons cannot cleave it, nor the fire burn, nor do the waters drench it, nor the wind dry. Eternally stable, immobile, all-pervading, it is for ever and for ever. Not manifested like the body, but greater than all manifestation, not to be analysed by the thought, but greater than all mind, not capable of change and modification like the life and its organs and their objects, but beyond the changes of mind and life and body, it is yet the Reality which all these strive to figure.” Essays on the Gita
“There is no such thing as death, for it is the body that dies and the body is not the man. That which really is, cannot go out of existence, though it may change the forms through which it appears, just as that which is non-existent cannot come into being. The soul is and cannot cease to be. This opposition of is and is not, this balance of being and becoming which is the mind’s view of existence, finds its end in the realisation of the soul as the one imperishable self by whom all this universe has been extended. Finite bodies have an end, but that which possesses and uses the body, is infinite, illimitable, eternal, indestructible. It casts away old and takes up new bodies as a man changes worn-out raiment for new; and what is there in this to grieve at and recoil and shrink? This is not born, nor does it die, nor is it a thing that comes into being once and passing away will never come into being again. It is unborn, ancient, sempiternal; it is not slain with the slaying of the body. Who can slay the immortal spirit? Weapons cannot cleave it, nor the fire burn, nor do the waters drench it, nor the wind dry. Eternally stable, immobile, all-pervading, it is for ever and for ever. Not manifested like the body, but greater than all manifestation, not to be analysed by the thought, but greater than all mind, not capable of change and modification like the life and its organs and their objects, but beyond the changes of mind and life and body, it is yet the Reality which all these strive to figure.” Essays on the Gita
There were at one time three clerks of the remembrance, styled King’s Remembrancer, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer and Remembrancer of First-Fruits. In England, the latter two offices have become extinct, that of remembrancer of first-fruits by the diversion of the fund (Queen Anne’s Bounty Act 1838), and that of Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer on being merged in the office of King’s Remembrancer in 1833. By the Queen’s Remembrancer Act 1859 the office ceased to exist separately, and the queen’s remembrancer was required to be a master of the court of exchequer. The Judicature Act 1873 attached the office to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act 1879 transferred it to the central office of the Supreme Court. By section 8 of that Act, the king’s remembrancer is a master of the Supreme Court, and the office is usually filled by the senior master. The king’s remembrancer department of the central office is now amalgamated with the judgments and married women acknowledgments department. The king’s remembrancer still assists at certain ceremonial functions relics of the former importance of the office such as the nomination of sheriffs, the swearing-in of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Trial of the Pyx and the acknowledgments of homage for crown lands.
"These lights and visions are not hallucinations. They indicate an opening of the inner vision whose centre is in the forehead between the eyebrows.” Letters on Yoga
“These lights and visions are not hallucinations. They indicate an opening of the inner vision whose centre is in the forehead between the eyebrows.” Letters on Yoga
The seventh is sometimes or by some identified with the brain, but that is an error ::: the brain is only a channel of communi- cation situated between the*lhousand-petalled and the. fore-head centre. .The former is sometimes called the void centre, sunya, either because it is not -in the body, but in the apparent void above or because rising above the head, one enters first into the silence of the, self or spiritual being. ..
"The snake indicates an energy, sometimes a good one, more often a bad one (vital or hostile).” Letters on Yoga
“The snake indicates an energy, sometimes a good one, more often a bad one (vital or hostile).” Letters on Yoga
The state of grace ” is often prepared by a long tapasyii or purification in which nothing decisive seems to happen, only touches or glimpses or passing experiences at the most, and comes suddenly without warning. When it comes the fundamental difficulties can in a moment and generally do disappear.
"The true essence of sacrifice is not self-immolation, it is self-giving; its object not self-effacement, but self-fulfilment; its method not self-mortification, but a greater life, not self-mutilation, but a transformation of our natural human parts into divine members, not self-torture, but a passage from a lesser satisfaction to a greater Ananda.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The true essence of sacrifice is not self-immolation, it is self-giving; its object not self-effacement, but self-fulfilment; its method not self-mortification, but a greater life, not self-mutilation, but a transformation of our natural human parts into divine members, not self-torture, but a passage from a lesser satisfaction to a greater Ananda.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"The universe is not merely a mathematical formula for working out the relation of certain mental abstractions called numbers and principles to arrive in the end at a zero or a void unit, neither is it merely a physical operation embodying a certain equation of forces. It is the delight of a Self-lover, the play of a Child, the endless self-multiplication of a Poet intoxicated with the rapture of His own power of endless creation.” The Supramental Manifestation
“The universe is not merely a mathematical formula for working out the relation of certain mental abstractions called numbers and principles to arrive in the end at a zero or a void unit, neither is it merely a physical operation embodying a certain equation of forces. It is the delight of a Self-lover, the play of a Child, the endless self-multiplication of a Poet intoxicated with the rapture of His own power of endless creation.” The Supramental Manifestation
The wall is indeed the wall of the ego which is based on the insistent identification of oneself with the outer personality and its movements. It is that identification which is the key-stone of the limitation and bondage from which the outer being su/Tcrs, prevenUng expansion, self-knowledge, spiritual freedom. But still the wall must not be prematurely broken down, because that may lead to a disruption or confusion or invasion of either part by the movements of the two separated worlds before they are ready to harmonise. A certain separation is necessary for some time after one has become aware of these two parts of the being as existing together. The force of the Yoga must be given time to make the necessary adjustments and openings, and to take the being inward and then from this inward poise to work on the outer nature.
“The world is a cyclic movement (samsâra ) of the Divine Consciousness in Space and Time. Its law and, in a sense, its object is progression; it exists by movement and would be dissolved by cessation of movement. But the basis of this movement is not material; it is the energy of active consciousness which, by its motion and multiplication in different principles (different in appearance, the same in essence), creates oppositions of unity and multiplicity, divisions of Time and Space, relations and groupings of circumstance and Causality. All these things are real in consciousness, but only symbolic of the Being, somewhat as the imaginations of a creative Mind are true representations of itself, yet not quite real in comparison with itself, or real with a different kind of reality.” The Upanishads
thine ::: used to indicate the one or ones belonging to thee.
This decisive touch comes most easily to the baby cat ” people, those who have at some point between the psychic and the emotional vital a quick and decisive movement of surrender to the Guru or the Divine. I have seen that when that is there and there is the conscious central dependence compelling the mind also and the rest of the vital, then the fundamental diffi- culty disappears. If others remain they are not felt as difficulties, but simply as things that have just to be done and need cause no worry. Sometimes no tapasya is necessary — one just refers things to the Power that one feels guiding or doing the sadhana and assents to its action, rejecting all that is contrary to it, and the Power removes what has to be removed or changes what
thoroughfares ::: places of passage from one location to another especially roads.
(though this cannot be altogether avoided). The others need to communicate what is in them and cannot wait for the fullness before they use what they have. Even they may need to yve out as well as to take in in order to progress. The only thing is that they must balance the two tendencies, concentrating to receive from above as much or more than they open sideways to distribute,
thou ::: used to indicate the one being addressed, especially in a literary, liturgical, or devotional context. Thou.
threat ::: 1. A person or thing that threatens. 2. An indication or warning of probable trouble or impending evil. threats.
threatens ::: is a menacing indication of something.
ticket ::: a paper slip or card indicating that its holder has paid for or is entitled to a specified service, right, or consideration.
tints ::: n. **1. A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation. v. 2.** Colours slightly.
tokens ::: things that serve as indications, proofs, or expressions of something else; symbols; signs.
trace ::: n. 1. A surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige. 2. Evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something non-material; a vestige. 3. A barely discernable indication or evidence of some quality, quality, characteristic, expression, etc. v. 4. To make one"s way over, through, or along (something). Also fig. 5. To follow a course, trail, etc.; make one"s way. 6. To follow, make out, or determine the course or line of, especially by going backward from the latest evidence, nearest existence, etc. 7. To locate or discover by searching or researching evidence; follow the history of. 8. To draw an outline of something. Also fig. 9. To decorate with tracery. 10. To copy (a design, map, etc.) by drawing over the lines visible through a superimposed sheet of transparent paper or other material. 11. To draw or delineate a plan or diagram of. traced, tracing.
tracery ::: any delicate, interlacing work of lines, threads, etc., as in carving or embroidery; network. Also fig.
traffic ::: 1. The movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc. 2. The business of moving passengers and cargo through a transportation system. 3. Social or verbal exchange; communication.
trance ::: 1. A semiconscious state, as between sleeping and waking; a daze. 2. A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state. 3. A state of deep musing or mental abstraction from external things; absorption, exaltation, rapture, ecstasy. trance-bound, trance-claimed, trance-closed, splendour-trance.
transaction ::: 1. The action of carrying on, or the completion of, an action or course of action. 2. The action of carrying on a communication, business agreement or exchange.
“‘Transformation’ is a word that I have brought in myself (like ‘supermind’) to express certain spiritual concepts and spiritual facts of the integral yoga. People are now taking them up and using them in senses which have nothing to do with the significance which I put into them. Purification of the nature by the ‘influence’ of the Spirit is not what I mean by transformation; purification is only part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change—the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose.” Letters on Yoga
transformation ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Transformation means that the higher consciousness or nature is brought down into the mind, vital and body and takes the place of the lower. There is a higher consciousness of the true self, which is spiritual, but it is above; if one rises above into it, then one is free as long as one remains there, but if one comes down into or uses mind, vital or body — and if one keeps any connection with life, one has to do so, either to come down and act from the ordinary consciousness or else to be in the self but use mind, life and body, then the imperfections of these instruments have to be faced and mended — they can only be mended by transformation.” *Letters on Yoga
"‘Transformation" is a word that I have brought in myself (like ‘supermind") to express certain spiritual concepts and spiritual facts of the integral yoga. People are now taking them up and using them in senses which have nothing to do with the significance which I put into them. Purification of the nature by the ‘influence" of the Spirit is not what I mean by transformation; purification is only part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change — the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose.” *Letters on Yoga
"It is indeed as a result of our evolution that we arrive at the possibility of this transformation. As Nature has evolved beyond Matter and manifested Life, beyond Life and manifested Mind, so she must evolve beyond Mind and manifest a consciousness and power of our existence free from the imperfection and limitation of our mental existence, a supramental or truth-consciousness and able to develop the power and perfection of the spirit. Here a slow and tardy change need no longer be the law or manner of our evolution; it will be only so to a greater or less extent so long as a mental ignorance clings and hampers our ascent; but once we have grown into the truth-consciousness its power of spiritual truth of being will determine all. Into that truth we shall be freed and it will transform mind and life and body. Light and bliss and beauty and a perfection of the spontaneous right action of all the being are there as native powers of the supramental truth-consciousness and these will in their very nature transform mind and life and body even here upon earth into a manifestation of the truth-conscious spirit. The obscurations of earth will not prevail against the supramental truth-consciousness, for even into the earth it can bring enough of the omniscient light and omnipotent force of the spirit conquer. All may not open to the fullness of its light and power, but whatever does open must that extent undergo the change. That will be the principle of transformation.” The Supramental Manifestation
The Mother: "Transformation. The change by which all the elements and all the movements of the being become ready to manifest the supramental Truth.”
"One thing you must know and never forget: in the work of transformation all that is true and sincere will always be kept; only what is false and insincere will disappear.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
trap ::: n. 1. A contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly. 2. Any device, stratagem, trick, or the like for catching a person unawares. v. 3. To catch in a trap; ensnare.
Two things render that culmination more facile than it would otherwise be. Overmind in the descent towards material creation has originated modifications of itself,—Intuition especially with its penetrative lightning flashes of truth lighting up local points and stretches of country in our consciousness,—which can bring the concealed truth of things nearer to our comprehension, and, by opening ourselves more widely first in the inner being and then as a result in the outer surface self also to the messages of these higher ranges of consciousness, by growing into them, we can become ourselves also intuitive and overmental beings, not limited by the intellect and sense, but capable of a more universal comprehension and a direct touch of truth in its very self and body. In fact flashes of enlightenment from these higher ranges already come to us, but this intervention is mostly fragmentary, casual or partial; we have still to begin to enlarge ourselves into their likeness and organise in us the greater Truth activities of which we are potentially capable. But, secondly, Overmind, Intuition, even Supermind not only must be, as we have seen, principles inherent and involved in the Inconscience from which we arise in the evolution and inevitably destined to evolve, but are secretly present, occult actively with flashes of intuitive emergence in the cosmic activity of Mind, Life and Matter. It is true that their action is concealed and, even when they emerge, it is modified by the medium, material, vital, mental in which they work and not easily recognisable. Supermind cannot manifest itself as the Creator Power in the universe from the beginning, for if it did, the Ignorance and Inconscience would be impossible or else the slow evolution necessary would change into a rapid transformation scene. Yet at every step of the material energy we can see the stamp of inevitability given by a supramental creator, in all the development of life and mind the play of the lines of possibility and their combination which is the stamp of Overmind intervention. As Life and Mind have been released in Matter, so too must in their time these greater powers of the concealed Godhead emerge from the involution and their supreme Light descend into us from above. …
uncertain ::: 1. Not determinate or fixed in point of time or occurrence. 2. About which one cannot be certain or assured; subject to doubt. 3. Not fully confident or assured of something. 4. Having no clear knowledge; in a state of doubt. 5. Not clearly identified, located, or determined. 6. Not clearly defined or outlined; vague; indistinct. 7. Not certain to remain in one state or condition; unsteady, variable, fitful. 8. Dependent on chance or unpredictable factors; doubtful; of unforeseeable outcome or effect. 9. Ambiguous.
uncharted ::: not shown or located on a map; unexplored; unknown, as a place or region.
v. 1. Lacking definite shape, form, or character; indistinct. 2. Not definitely established, determined, confirmed, or known; uncertain. 3. Indefinite or indistinct in nature or character. 4. Not clearly expressed; inexplicit. 5. Not clear in meaning or application. n. 6. An empty or obscure expanse.
vindicate ::: to provide justification or support for. vindicated.
warrant ::: authorization, sanction, or justification.
"We are not the body, but the body is still something of ourselves. With realisation the erroneous identification ceases — in certain experiences the existence of the body is not felt at all. In the full realisation the body is within us, not we in it, it is an instrumental formation in our wider being, — our consciousness exceeds but also pervades it, — it can be dissolved without our ceasing to be the self.” Letters on Yoga
“We are not the body, but the body is still something of ourselves. With realisation the erroneous identification ceases—in certain experiences the existence of the body is not felt at all. In the full realisation the body is within us, not we in it, it is an instrumental formation in our wider being,—our consciousness exceeds but also pervades it,—it can be dissolved without our ceasing to be the self.” Letters on Yoga
web ::: 1. Something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving; something of complicated structure or workmanship. 2. Fig. Something intricately contrived, especially something that ensnares or entangles. 3. An intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc. spider"s-web, wonder-web, word-webs.
—we may compare the action of the Higher Mind to a composed and steady sunshine, the energy of the Illumined Mind beyond it to an outpouring of massive lightnings of flaming sun-stuff. Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; for though we have applied that word for want of a better to any supra-intellectual direct way of knowing, yet what we actually know as intuition is only one special movement of self-existent knowledge. This new range is its origin; it imparts to our intuitions something of its own distinct character and is very clearly an intermediary of a greater Truth-Light with which our mind cannot directly communicate. At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies,—not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden Lid it veils the face of the greater Truth from our sight, intervening with its flood of infinite possibilities as at once an obstacle and a passage in our seeking of the spiritual law of our existence, its highest aim, its secret Reality. This then is the occult link we were looking for; this is the Power that at once connects and divides the supreme Knowledge and the cosmic Ignorance….
"We must, however, consider deeply and clearly what we mean by the understanding and by its purification. We use the word as the nearest equivalent we can get in the English tongue to the Sanskrit philosophical term buddhi.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“We must, however, consider deeply and clearly what we mean by the understanding and by its purification. We use the word as the nearest equivalent we can get in the English tongue to the Sanskrit philosophical term buddhi.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"We see that the Absolute, the Self, the Divine, the Spirit, the Being is One; the Transcendental is one, the Cosmic is one: but we see also that beings are many and each has a self, a spirit, a like yet different nature. And since the spirit and essence of things is one, we are obliged to admit that all these many must be that One, and it follows that the One is or has become many; but how can the limited or relative be the Absolute and how can man or beast or bird be the Divine Being? But in erecting this apparent contradiction the mind makes a double error. It is thinking in the terms of the mathematical finite unit which is sole in limitation, the one which is less than two and can become two only by division and fragmentation or by addition and multiplication; but this is an infinite Oneness, it is the essential and infinite Oneness which can contain the hundred and the thousand and the million and billion and trillion. Whatever astronomic or more than astronomic figures you heap and multiply, they cannot overpass or exceed that Oneness; for, in the language of the Upanishad, it moves not, yet is always far in front when you would pursue and seize it. It can be said of it that it would not be the infinite Oneness if it were not capable of an infinite multiplicity; but that does not mean that the One is plural or can be limited or described as the sum of the Many: on the contrary, it can be the infinite Many because it exceeds all limitation or description by multiplicity and exceeds at the same time all limitation by finite conceptual oneness.” The Life Divine
“We see that the Absolute, the Self, the Divine, the Spirit, the Being is One; the Transcendental is one, the Cosmic is one: but we see also that beings are many and each has a self, a spirit, a like yet different nature. And since the spirit and essence of things is one, we are obliged to admit that all these many must be that One, and it follows that the One is or has become many; but how can the limited or relative be the Absolute and how can man or beast or bird be the Divine Being? But in erecting this apparent contradiction the mind makes a double error. It is thinking in the terms of the mathematical finite unit which is sole in limitation, the one which is less than two and can become two only by division and fragmentation or by addition and multiplication; but this is an infinite Oneness, it is the essential and infinite Oneness which can contain the hundred and the thousand and the million and billion and trillion. Whatever astronomic or more than astronomic figures you heap and multiply, they cannot overpass or exceed that Oneness; for, in the language of the Upanishad, it moves not, yet is always far in front when you would pursue and seize it. It can be said of it that it would not be the infinite Oneness if it were not capable of an infinite multiplicity; but that does not mean that the One is plural or can be limited or described as the sum of the Many: on the contrary, it can be the infinite Many because it exceeds all limitation or description by multiplicity and exceeds at the same time all limitation by finite conceptual oneness.” The Life Divine
"What we have called specifically the Mind of Light is indeed the last of a series of descending planes of consciousness in which the Supermind veils itself by a self-chosen limitation or modification of its self-manifesting activities, but its essential character remains the same: there is in it an action of light, of truth, of knowledge in which inconscience, ignorance and error claim no place.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga*
“What we have called specifically the Mind of Light is indeed the last of a series of descending planes of consciousness in which the Supermind veils itself by a self-chosen limitation or modification of its self-manifesting activities, but its essential character remains the same: there is in it an action of light, of truth, of knowledge in which inconscience, ignorance and error claim no place.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
While indicates a force of purity, psjchic puritj , purity and power of the divine Truth White hsht is that of the pure conscious force from which all the rest come
wild ::: adj. 1. Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed. 2. Uninhabited; desolate; a wilderness. 3. Of great violence or intensity, as the sea, etc. 4. Unrestrained, untrammelled, or unbridled; behaving without restraint. 5. Unrestrained by reason or prudence. 6. Furiously disturbed or turbulent; stormy. wilder, wild-beast, wild-drakes.* *n. wilds. 7.* A desolate, uncultivated, or uninhabited region, esp. poetic.*
will, free ::: Sri Aurobindo: Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism of the human ego and to assume the figure of an independent will acting on its own isolated account, in a complete liberty without any determination other than its own choice and single unrelated movement. This idea ignores the fact that our natural being is a part of cosmic Nature and our spiritual being exists only by the supreme Transcendence. Our total being can rise out of subjection to fact of present Nature only by an identification with a greater Truth and a greater Nature. The will of the individual, even when completely free, could not act in an isolated independence, because the individual being and nature are included in the universal Being and Nature and dependent on the all-overruling Transcendence. There could indeed be in the ascent a dual line. On one line the being could feel and behave as an independent self-existence uniting itself with its own impersonal Reality; it could, so self-conceived, act with a great force, but either this action would be still within an enlarged frame of its past and present self-formation of power of Nature or else it would be the cosmic or supreme Force that acted in it and there would be no personal initiation of action, no sense therefore of individual free will but only of an impersonal cosmic or supreme Will or Energy at its work. On the other line the being would feel itself a spiritual instrument and so act as a power of the Supreme Being, limited in its workings only by the potencies of the Supernature, which are without bounds or any restriction except its own Truth and self-law, and by the Will in her. But in either case there would be, as the condition of a freedom from the control of a mechanical action of Nature-forces, a submission to a greater conscious Power or an acquiescent unity of the individual being with its intention and movement in his own and in the world"s existence.” *The Life Divine
will, self ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Self-will in thought and action has, we have already seen, to be quite renounced if we would be perfect in the way of divine works; it has equally to be renounced if we are to be perfect in divine knowledge. This self-will means an egoism in the mind which attaches itself to its preferences, its habits, its past or present formations of thought and view and will because it regards them as itself or its own, weaves around them the delicate threads of I-ness'' andmy-ness"" and lives in them like a spider in its web. It hates to be disturbed, as a spider hates attack on its web, and feels foreign and unhappy if transplanted to fresh view-points and formations as a spider feels foreign in another web than its own. This attachment must be entirely excised from the mind.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
wine ::: 1. The fermented juice of grapes or other fruits. 2. Something that invigorates, cheers, or intoxicates like wine. honey-wine, moon-wine, poison-wine.
wonderful ::: capable of eliciting wonder; filled with wonder; astonishing. Wonderful, the Wonderful, All-Wonderful, All-Wonderful"s. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a personification of the Deity.)
woodsman ::: a lumberman or wood-cutter, (in this instance, a personification of death).
Yellow IS the thinking mind The shades indicate different intensities of mental light
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1 Howard Gardner
1 Herbert Spencer
1 Eckhart Tolle
1 Claudio Naranjo
1 Bhagavad Gita
1 Heraclitus
1 Epictetus
1 African Proverb
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24 Catherine Ryan Hyde
23 Anonymous
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20 Catherine Coulter
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16 Catullus
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8 Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1:Faith, Princess, the Prism Cat repeated. It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.
~ Terry Brooks,#KEYS
2:resting easy
the cat sleeps too....
autumn rain
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
3:at dawn
a feral cat
cries for love
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
4:at sunrise
the stray cat
cries for love
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
5:Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there.
~ Robert Heinlein, JOB: A Comedy of Justice, (1984).,#KEYS
6:When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician ~ make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor ~ make good art. IRS on your trail ~ make good art. Cat exploded ~ make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before ~ make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and that doesn't even matter. Do what only you can do best: Make good art. Make it on the bad days, make it on the good days, too., #KEYS
7:Drink water from the spring where the horse drinks. A horse will never drink bad water.
Make your bed where the cat sleeps.
Eat the fruit that was touched by the worm.
Freely pick the mushrooms on which the insects sit.
Plant your tree where the mole digs.
Build your house where the snake suns itself.
Dig your well where the birds build their nests in hot weather.
Go to sleep and wake up with the chickens and you will reap the golden grain of the day.
Eat more green vegetables, and you will have strong legs and an enduring heart.
Swim more often and you will feel on land like a fish in the water.
Look at the skies more often and not at your feet, and your thoughts will be clear and light.
Keep silent more often, speak less, and silence will reign in your soul, and your spirit will be calm and peaceful.
~ Saint Seraphim of Sarov in Georgia,#KEYS
8:Sri Ramakrishna has described the incident: "The Divine Mother revealed to me in the Kāli temple that it was She who had become everything. She showed me that everything was full of Consciousness. The image was Consciousness, the Altar was Consciousness, the water-vessels were Consciousness, the door-sill was Consciousness, the marble floor was Consciousness - all was Consciousness. I found everything inside the room soaked, as it were, in Bliss - the Bliss of God. I saw a wicked man in front of the Kāli temple; but in him also I saw the power of the Divine Mother vibrating. That was why I fed a cat with the food that was to be offered to the Divine Mother. I clearly perceived that all this was the Divine Mother - even the cat. The manager of the temple garden wrote to Mathur Bābu saying that I was feeding the cat with the offering intended for the Divine Mother. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
9:The way the dog trots out the front door
every morning
without a hat or an umbrella,
without any money
or the keys to her doghouse
never fails to fill the saucer of my heart
with milky admiration.
Who provides a finer example
of a life without encumbrance-
Thoreau in his curtainless hut
with a single plate, a single spoon?
Gandhi with his staff and his holy diapers?
Off she goes into the material world
with nothing but her brown coat
and her modest blue collar,
following only her wet nose,
the twin portals of her steady breathing,
followed only by the plume of her tail.
If only she did not shove the cat aside
every morning
and eat all his food
what a model of self-containment she
would be,
what a paragon of earthly detachment.
If only she were not so eager
for a rub behind the ears,
so acrobatic in her welcomes,
if only I were not her god. ~ Billy Collins, Dharma,#KEYS
10:
Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo has said somewhere that if one surrenders to the Divine Grace, it will do everything for us. Therefore, what value has tapasya?
If you want to know what Sri Aurobindo has said on a given subject, you must at least read all that he has written on that subject. You will then see that he has apparently said the most contradictory things. But when one has read everything, and understood a little, one perceives that all the contradictions complement each other and are organised and unified into an integral synthesis. Here is another quotation from Sri Aurobindo which will show you that your question is based on ignorance. There are many others which you can read with interest and which will make your intelligence more supple: 'If there is not a complete surrender, then it is not possible to adopt the baby cat attitude; it becomes mere tamasic passivity calling itself surrender. If a complete surrender is not possible in the beginning, it follows that personal effort is necessary.' 16 December 1964
~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother, 308,#KEYS
11:Two Paths Of Yoga :::
There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasya (discipline), and the other of surrender. The path of tapasya is arduous. Here you rely solely upon yourself, you proceed by your own strength. You ascend and achieve according to the measure of your force. There is always the danger of falling down. And once you fall, you lie broken in the abyss and there is hardly a remedy. The other path, the path of surrender. is a safe and sure. It is here, however, that the Western people find their difficulty. They have been taught to fear and avoid all that threatens their personal independence. They have imbibed with their mothers milk the sense of individuality. And surrender means giving up all that. In other words, you may follow, as Ramakrishna says, either the path of the baby monkey or that of the baby cat. The baby monkey holds to its mother in order to be carried about and it must hold firm, otherwise if it loses its grip, it falls. On the other hand, the baby cat does not hold to its mother, but is held by the mother and has no fear nor responsibility; it to nor has nothing do but to let the mother hold it and cry ma ma.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
12:To See a World...
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill'd with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro' all its regions.
A Dog starv'd at his Master's Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus'd upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.
He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar.
The Beggar's Dog and Widow's Cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.
The Gnat that sings his Summer song
Poison gets from Slander's tongue.
The poison of the Snake and Newt
Is the sweat of Envy's Foot.
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know
Thro' the World we safely go.
Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night. ~ William Blake, Auguries of Innocence,#KEYS
13:The Two Paths Of Yoga :::
14 April 1929 - What are the dangers of Yoga? Is it especially dangerous to the people of the West? Someone has said that Yoga may be suitable for the East, but it has the effect of unbalancing the Western mind.
Yoga is not more dangerous to the people of the West than to those of the East. Everything depends upon the spirit with which you approach it. Yoga does become dangerous if you want it for your own sake, to serve a personal end. It is not dangerous, on the contrary, it is safety and security itself, if you go to it with a sense of its sacredness, always remembering that the aim is to find the Divine.
Dangers and difficulties come in when people take up Yoga not for the sake of the Divine, but because they want to acquire power and under the guise of Yoga seek to satisfy some ambition. if you cannot get rid of ambition, do not touch the thing. It is fire that burns.
There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasya (discipline), and the other of surrender. The path of tapasya is arduous. Here you rely solely upon yourself, you proceed by your own strength. You ascend and achieve according to the measure of your force. There is always the danger of falling down. And once you fall, you lie broken in the abyss and there is hardly a remedy. The other path, the path of surrender, is safe and sure. It is here, however, that the Western people find their difficulty. They have been taught to fear and avoid all that threatens their personal independence. They have imbibed with their mothers' milk the sense of individuality. And surrender means giving up all that. In other words, you may follow, as Ramakrishna says, either the path of the baby monkey or that of the baby cat. The baby monkey holds to its mother in order to be carried about and it must hold firm, otherwise if it loses its grip, it falls. On the other hand, the baby cat does not hold to its mother, but is held by the mother and has no fear nor responsibility; it has nothing to do but to let the mother hold it and cry ma ma.
If you take up this path of surrender fully and sincerely, there is no more danger or serious difficulty. The question is to be sincere. If you are not sincere, do not begin Yoga. If you were dealing in human affairs, then you could resort to deception; but in dealing with the Divine there is no possibility of deception anywhere. You can go on the Path safely when you are candid and open to the core and when your only end is to realise and attain the Divine and to be moved by the Divine. There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. The impulses and desires that come up by the pressure of Yoga should be faced in a spirit of detachment and serenity, as something foreign to yourself or belonging to the outside world. They should be offered to the Divine, so that the Divine may take them up and transmute them. If you have once opened yourself to the Divine, if the power of the Divine has once come down into you and yet you try to keep to the old forces, you prepare troubles and difficulties and dangers for yourself. You must be vigilant and see that you do not use the Divine as a cloak for the satisfaction of your desires. There are many self-appointed Masters, who do nothing but that. And then when you are off the straight path and when you have a little knowledge and not much power, it happens that you are seized by beings or entities of a certain type, you become blind instruments in their hands and are devoured by them in the end. Wherever there is pretence, there is danger; you cannot deceive God. Do you come to God saying, "I want union with you" and in your heart meaning "I want powers and enjoyments"? Beware! You are heading straight towards the brink of the precipice. And yet it is so easy to avoid all catastrophe. Become like a child, give yourself up to the Mother, let her carry you, and there is no more danger for you.
This does not mean that you have not to face other kinds of difficulties or that you have not to fight and conquer any obstacles at all. Surrender does not ensure a smooth and unruffled and continuous progression. The reason is that your being is not yet one, nor your surrender absolute and complete. Only a part of you surrenders; and today it is one part and the next day it is another. The whole purpose of the Yoga is to gather all the divergent parts together and forge them into an undivided unity. Till then you cannot hope to be without difficulties - difficulties, for example, like doubt or depression or hesitation. The whole world is full of the poison. You take it in with every breath. If you exchange a few words with an undesirable man or even if such a man merely passes by you, you may catch the contagion from him. It is sufficient for you to come near a place where there is plague in order to be infected with its poison; you need not know at all that it is there. You can lose in a few minutes what it has taken you months to gain. So long as you belong to humanity and so long as you lead the ordinary life, it does not matter much if you mix with the people of the world; but if you want the divine life, you will have to be exceedingly careful about your company and your environment.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Meow” means “woof” in cat. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 2:See the cat? See the cradle? ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 3:A cat has absolute honesty. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 4:One cat just leads to another. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 5:The cat always leaves a mark on his friend. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 6:The cat in gloves catches no mice. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 7:The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. ~ jules-renard, @wisdomtrove 8:There wasn't room to swing a cat there. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 9:What greater gift than the love of a cat. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 10:On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 11:A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 12:I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 13:Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 14:I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 15:Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food? ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 16:Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 17:My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 18:Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 19:Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 20:So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 21:The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. ~ geoffrey-chaucer, @wisdomtrove 22:Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 23:The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually beomes a cat. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 24:When I hear of Schrodinger's cat, I reach for my pistol. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 25:The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 26:Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 27:When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 28:Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 29:Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 30:God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 31:The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 32:I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge? ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 33:If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor? ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 34:Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 35:A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 36:If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 37:I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 38:Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 39:Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr! ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 40:I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 41:If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 42:Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier & 43:A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 44:There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 45:My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 46:The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 47:When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove 48:Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk... ~ geoffrey-chaucer, @wisdomtrove 49:I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 50:A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 51:It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 52:The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 53:Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 54:One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 55:In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 56:Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently & 57:You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 58:Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff! ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 59:When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind changes. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 60:Fiddle, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove 61:Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 62:When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 63:No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 64:Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 65:Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 66:If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 67:In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 68:Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove 69:terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 70:I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 71:I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 72:King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 73:One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).] ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 74:A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 75:I don't like the look of it at all, said the King: however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes. I'd rather not, the Cat remarked. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 76:I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created... that a cat should play with mice. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 77:I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 78:A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title? ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 79:But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 80:& 81:I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing slowly bit by bit. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 82:You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 83:As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 84:she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 85:There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 86:If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 87:I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 88:If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 89:Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice & 90:If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 91:Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 92:You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 93:I gave my cat a bath the other day... they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, it was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that... ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 94:Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 95:Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 96:Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 97:Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 98:A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 99:Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 100:The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names... ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 101:One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 102:I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a & 103:The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 104:& 105:Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 106:Seeing a cat loving her kittens stand and pray. God has become manifest there; literally believe this. Repeat "I am Thine, I am Thine", for we can see God everywhere. Do not seek for Him, just see Him. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 107:You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 108:The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 109:In the twenty-first century our personal data is probably the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer, and we are giving it to the tech giants in exchange for email services and funny cat videos. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 110:Alice came to a fork in the road. & 111:Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 112:I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!! ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 113:She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 114:Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling it. So we see from this that our explanation of the universe is not the whole of the solution. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 115:Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 116:Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous go by the wal; Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to ete a mous. ~ geoffrey-chaucer, @wisdomtrove 117:I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove 118:I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy& 119:Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 120:Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 121:What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’... . And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 122:If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark. You can try and try, and in the end the cat will look up at you and say, “Meow.” Wanting reality to be different than it is is hopeless. You can spend the rest of your life trying to teach a cat to bark. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 123:But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 124:At present, people are happy to give away their most valuable asset—their personal data—in exchange for free email services and funny cat videos. It’s a bit like African and Native American tribes who unwittingly sold entire countries to European imperialists in exchange for colorful beads and cheap trinkets. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 125:Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire... . Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 126:It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's what my English teacher said. I can't really remember. I read it last semester." - Your parents must be so proud you can read." - They are. They bought me a pony and everything when I did a book report on Cat in the Hat. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 127:One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works& 128:Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 129:The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 130:She [Alice] went on "And how do you know that you're mad?" "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" "I suppose so," said Alice. "Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad." ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 131:One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 132:In the heyday of European imperialism, conquistadors and merchants bought entire islands and countries in exchange for coloured beads. In the twenty-first century our personal data is probably the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer, and we are giving it to the tech giants in exchange for email services and funny cat videos. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 133:and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this! ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 134:The name that no human research can discover& 135:Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 136:Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 137:A man, and a cat, and a dog, are all animals. These particular examples, as man, or dog, or cat, are parts of a bigger and more general concept, animal. The man, and the cat, and the dog, and the plant, and the tree, all come under the still more general concept, life. Again, all these, all beings and all materials, come under the one concept of existence, for we all are in it. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 138:Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It’s not so important where it leads. that’s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 139:Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 140:In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be anything from a crowbar to a cat, though if I had a choice, I would prefer an angry cat, which I have found to be more effective than a crowbar. Although weaponless, I left the house by the back door, with two chocolate-pumpkin cookies. It's a tough world out there, and a man has to armor himself against it however he can. ~Odd Thomas ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 141:Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 142:Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 143:Love wouldn't deny a breath. It wouldn't deny a grain of sand or a speck of dust. It is totally in love with itself; and it delights in acknowledging itself through its own presence, in every way, without limit. It embraces it all, everything from the murderer and the rapist to the saint to the dog and cat. Love is so vast within itself that it will burn you up. It's so vast that there's nothing you can do with it. All you can do is be it. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 144:Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits are they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?" The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 145:The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 146:[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, & 147:With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 148:The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it! ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 149:I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 150:... But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 151:To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 152:Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no... Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction. Alice: Oh, thank you. I think I'll see him... Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too. Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people. Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. [laughs maniacally; starts to disappear] Cheshire Cat: You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 153:What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel! ~ roger-penrose, @wisdomtrove 154:What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? ... The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel ! ~ roger-penrose, @wisdomtrove 155:The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 156:I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 157:Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 158:Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 159:Time ends. That is the lesson of the “big bang”. It is also the lesson of the black hole, closer at hand and more immediate object of study. The black hole is a completely collapsed object. It is mass without matter. The Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland faded away leaving behind only its grin. A star that falls into an already existing black hole, or that collapses to make a new black hole, fades away. Of the star, of its matter and of its sunspots and solar prominences, all trace disappears. There remains behind only gravitational attraction, the attraction of disembodied mass. ~ john-wheeler, @wisdomtrove 160:Today Hindu revivalists, pious Muslims, Japanese nationalists and Chinese communists may declare their adherence to very different values and goals, but they have all come to believe that economic growth is the key to realising their disparate goals. Thus in 2014 the devout Hindu Narendra Modi was elected prime minister of India thanks largely to his success in boosting economic growth in his home state of Gujarat, and to the widely held view that only he could reinvigorate the sluggish national economy. Analogous views have kept the Islamist Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in power in Turkey since 2003. The name of his party – the Justice and Development Party – highlights its commitment to economic development, and the Erdoğan government has indeed managed to maintain impressive growth rates for more than a decade. Japan’s prime minister, the nationalist Shinzō Abe, came to office in 2012 pledging to jolt the Japanese economy out of two decades of stagnation. His aggressive and somewhat unusual measures to achieve this have been nicknamed Abenomics. Meanwhile in neighbouring China the Communist Party still pays lip service to traditional Marxist–Leninist ideals, but in practice is guided by Deng Xiaoping’s famous maxims that ‘development is the only hard truth’ and that ‘it doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice’. Which means, in plain language: do whatever it takes to promote economic growth, even if Marx and Lenin wouldn’t have been happy with it. In Singapore, as befits that no-nonsense city-state, they pursue this line of thinking even further, and peg ministerial salaries to the national GDP. When the Singaporean economy grows, government ministers get a raise, as if that is what their jobs are all about. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Because I´m a cat. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
2:Mouse, meet cat. Meow. ~ Sara Ney, #NFDB
3:I’m a cat burglar. ~ Sarah Monette, #NFDB
4:I won't ever give up. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
5:lick you stupid cat! ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
6:No cat is bad luck ~ Alan Brennert, #NFDB
7:Tell him I took the cat ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
8:A cat only has itself. ~ V S Naipaul, #NFDB
9:(Dinah was the cat.) ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
10:Have you seen this cat? ~ Emily Barr, #NFDB
11:I listen to the wind, ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
12:I'm a real cat. ~ Katherine Applegate, #NFDB
13:I wish I were that cat. ~ Dave Franco, #NFDB
14:Fear not for I am a cat ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
15:Girls love cat calendars. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
16:Never bet against a cat. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
17:A cat is only itself. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
18:A cat may look at a king. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
19:Find a girl, settle down, ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
20:Let God have His own cat. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
21:Let God have his own cat! ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
22:Para mí, leer es recordar. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
23:She looks like a wet cat. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
24:The cat, I remember. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
25:A cat is never vulgar. ~ Carl Van Vechten, #NFDB
26:A cat may looke on a King. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
27:Who will bell the cat? ~ William Langland, #NFDB
28:Alphonse, Kiel’s winged cat, ~ James Riley, #NFDB
29:Fine. It was Goddamn Cat, then. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
30:I just don't crave junk food. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
31:Meow” means “woof” in cat. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
32:Take your time, think a lot, ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
33:You fuck - you ate my cat! ~ Kendare Blake, #NFDB
34:I am human and I make mistakes. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
35:You broke my heart, you big cat, ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
36:Am I still married to a cat? ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
37:A were-cat scream echoed ~ Penelope Fletcher, #NFDB
38:Cat got your tongue, Nevada? ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
39:I can't dance at all by myself. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
40:If you want to be free be free ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
41:If you want to be you, BE YOU! ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
42:I'm gay, and I was born this way. ~ Cat Cora, #NFDB
43:I've always dressed like a dude. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
44:I've wanted you since Texas... ~ Cat Johnson, #NFDB
45:Never give up, no, never give up ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
46:No damn cat. No damn cradle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
47:No damn cat, no damn Cradle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
48:One cat leads to another. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
49:See the cat? See the cradle? ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
50:That's a fine-looking cat. ~ Kathleen Fuller, #NFDB
51:THE ONLY ONE WHO CARES Cat Grant ~ Cat Grant, #NFDB
52:Buster was queer as a cat fart. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
53:Chibi was a jewel of a cat. ~ Takashi Hiraide, #NFDB
54:For me, reading is remembering. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
55:GOD, I HATE THIS FLIPPING CAT! ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
56:Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
57:I am such a scaredy-cat. ~ Julianna Margulies, #NFDB
58:I assume you gave her the cat? ~ Cayla Kluver, #NFDB
59:I need to be able to face things. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
60:Let's to the Kit-Cat Clubb. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
61:Never work with kids or animals. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
62:Real mature London,Thanks a lot ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
63:Resilience is going to pay off. ~ Cat Zingano, #NFDB
64:The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog... ~ DMX, #NFDB
65:They have hijacked my religion. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
66:A cat has absolute honesty. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
67:It’s a cat, but not racist. ~ Lawrence Sanders, #NFDB
68:Music is part of God's universe. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
69:Pickle? Stupid name! Stupid cat! ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
70:A harmless necessary cat. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
71:how she’d had a cat named Frodo, ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
72:I'm not a crazy old cat lady! ~ Melanie Laurent, #NFDB
73:showed trees, sky, half a cat, ~ Danielle Steel, #NFDB
74:You have to be a medicine cat.... ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
75:A cornered rat will bite the cat, ~ Kanae Minato, #NFDB
76:Could anyone truly trust a cat? ~ Tess Gerritsen, #NFDB
77:He headed downstairs to his father’s ~ Cat Grant, #NFDB
78:I'm poor and my cat is huge. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
79:I think your cat wants a brownie. ~ Amy Clipston, #NFDB
80:I've never been no superficial cat. ~ Bernie Mac, #NFDB
81:No damn cat, and no damn cradle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
82:Sleekpaw was a yellow she-cat, and ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
83:That’s what I said,” said the cat. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
84:Time spent with a cat is never wasted. ~ Colette, #NFDB
85:A home without a cat is just a house. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
86:Can't keep it in, Gotta let it out. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
87:Damn fine ship’s cat you are. ~ Tim Lebbon, #NFDB
88:I hate this goddamn cat.” “I can tell. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
89:I'm a cat. You're a shiny object. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
90:I'm being followed by a moon shadow ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
91:My family gets to keep our cat. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
92:One cat just leads to another. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
93:The cat is the best anarchist. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
94:The fog comes on little cat feet. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
95:And though you want to last forever, ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
96:A woman hath nine lives like a cat. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
97:I am a cat. As yet I have no name ~ Soseki Natsume, #NFDB
98:Like a cat on a hot tin roof. ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
99:Never try to out-stubborn a cat. ~ Melissa McPhail, #NFDB
100:No, thanks, we’re not keen on cat pix. ~ Ira Levin, #NFDB
101:The black cat began to wash its face ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
102:The cat is the beautiful devil. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
103:There are dog people and cat people. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
104:Who are you and why are you my cat? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
105:Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. ~ Greg Kinnear, #NFDB
106:Intelligence in the cat is underrated. ~ Louis Wain, #NFDB
107:It probably took a lot to faze a cat. ~ E J Stevens, #NFDB
108:Like a cat I have nine times to die. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
109:My cat can eat a whole watermelon. ~ Crispin Glover, #NFDB
110:Never try to outstubborn a cat. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
111:The cat always leaves a mark on his friend. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
112:The cat is a dilettante in fur. ~ Theophile Gautier, #NFDB
113:Your cat ate my unicorn's breakfast. ~ Jen Calonita, #NFDB
114:and soon the cat was in the toilet. ~ Soman Chainani, #NFDB
115:California cat that chased off attacking ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
116:Don't pet the cat that's had a bath. ~ Susan Dennard, #NFDB
117:I could have more fun in cat litter. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
118:It's hard to get by just upon a smile. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
119:It's so French to be a cat person. ~ Melanie Laurent, #NFDB
120:Never try to out-stubborn a cat. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
121:The cat is nature's masterpiece. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
122:Am I still married to a cat? (Adrian) ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
123:An old cat sports not with her prey. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
124:A speckled cat and a tame hare ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
125:Fucking idiots live everywhere, remember? ~ Cat Grant, #NFDB
126:I am a kind of stray cat, aren’t I? ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
127:It's too late.
I chose life too late. ~ Cat Clarke,#NFDB
128:You are my cat, and I am your human. ~ Hilaire Belloc, #NFDB
129:I can never quite trust anybody anymore. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
130:I'm just incredibly interested in people. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
131:Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive. ~ Elizabeth Taylor, #NFDB
132:Nobody considers a covers record an album. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
133:Say what you think; think what you mean. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
134:The cat in gloves catches no mice. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
135:The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser. ~ Tycho Brahe, #NFDB
136:The sky was the color of cat vomit. ~ Scott Westerfeld, #NFDB
137:But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp! ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
138:GRIGSBY: Ship’s cat. Orange and obnoxious. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
139:I love this song," I say.
"I love you. ~ Cat Patrick,#NFDB
140:Mice don’t creep, I thought for a second. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
141:My cat walked on my face just after dawn. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
142:Never wear anything that panics the cat. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
143:No cat’s going to listen to her lies when ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
144:People and their religions don't affect me. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
145:set a cat among the philosophical pigeons. ~ Neil Smith, #NFDB
146:She glanced down at the cat bumping his head ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
147:Snobs are only fun in Jane Austen Novels. ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
148:The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron. ~ George Will, #NFDB
149:The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair ~ Walter de La Mare, #NFDB
150:With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag. ~ Bram Cohen, #NFDB
151:You look like the vamp who bled the cat. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
152:A cat is like a puzzle with no solution. ~ Anne Campbell, #NFDB
153:Baby I know, the first cut is the deepest. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
154:Dying - you can't do that to a cat. ~ Wis awa Szymborska, #NFDB
155:I always come back around. I make it work. ~ Cat Zingano, #NFDB
156:I created the same cocoon I always did. So ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
157:I listen to the wind, the wind of my soul. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
158:I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail. ~ Rona Barrett, #NFDB
159:Soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
160:The word of a cat is not to be relied upon. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
161:Will you carry the words of love with you? ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
162:Addiction versus ambition: it starts small. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
163:A dimple in the chin means the devil within, ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
164:An old cat is a good friend to talk to. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
165:As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have. ~ Adam Rex, #NFDB
166:I'll never stop appreciating how lucky I am. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
167:I'm a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian. ~ Mr T, #NFDB
168:I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
169:I'm in an on-off relationship at the moment. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
170:In the cat world, good manners are a must. ~ Hiro Arikawa, #NFDB
171:My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay ~ Larry Smith, #NFDB
172:Oh God! If you save me I will work for you. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
173:She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
174:So many wicked ways to scandal-skin a cat. ~ James Ellroy, #NFDB
175:The harm done is often difficult to repair. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
176:The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. ~ Jules Renard, #NFDB
177:There wasn't room to swing a cat there. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
178:A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lyon. ~ Samuel Palmer, #NFDB
179:Because sometimes, laughter is what you need ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
180:Don't let the tattoo fool you. I'm no angel. ~ Cat Johnson, #NFDB
181:Each cat has a distinct purrsonality. ~ Richard L Peterson, #NFDB
182:I'm a cat, and you have to earn my trust. ~ Kendall Jenner, #NFDB
183:I’m a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
184:I'm more a dog person than a cat person. ~ Quentin S Crisp, #NFDB
185:I support British designers as much as I can. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
186:Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts. ~ Thelonious Monk, #NFDB
187:Miles from nowhere. Guess I'll take my time. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
188:Now I'm not making love to anyone's wishes, ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
189:One can't teach a cat not to catch birds ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
190:the cat's bell tinklingin the peonieshere and there ~ Issa, #NFDB
191:There is no such thing as "Just a cat. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
192:The words of the songs speak for themselves. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
193:Tomorrow is Monday so it must be the weekend ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
194:A cat will blink when struck with a hammer. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
195:Communal well-being is central to human life. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
196:Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
197:Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
198:I am a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
199:It's the Divine Comedy, not the Divine Tragedy. ~ Cat Bauer, #NFDB
200:I was always relieved when Monday came. Beep. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
201:Postscript: H - Bring warm clothes and a cat ~ Kirby Larson, #NFDB
202:Sleep hath no enemy like an unrelenting cat. ~ Kathy Reichs, #NFDB
203:We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson]. ~ Billy Corgan, #NFDB
204:What greater gift than the love of a cat. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
205:Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat? ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
206:All things can be forgiven if we can progress. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
207:Anger is manageable; sadness is heartbreaking. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
208:But he - he hated pity as a cat hates water. ~ Richard Adams, #NFDB
209:Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself. ~ Laird Barron, #NFDB
210:Every cat knows some things need to be buried. ~ Ruth Graham, #NFDB
211:Every Dog Has A Day But A Cat Has 365 ~ Lilian Jackson Braun, #NFDB
212:I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
213:Man just went past with a cat on his head, ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
214:Man just went past with a cat on his head. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
215:My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
216:My dear, I’m a cat. Everything I see is mine. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
217:No favor can win gratitude from a cat. ~ Jean de La Fontaine, #NFDB
218:The cat does not negotiate with the mouse. ~ Robert K Massie, #NFDB
219:The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away. ~ E W Howe, #NFDB
220:Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
221:While the cat's away, the mice will play. ~ James Arthur Ray, #NFDB
222:You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat. ~ Doris Day, #NFDB
223:A cat will never drown if she sees the shore. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
224:And there was just the cat, You. All alone. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
225:Anti-cat is one jump away from anti-Semitism. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
226:Cat doesn’t have to be like a person, he’s Cat. ~ K J Charles, #NFDB
227:Gris. Out of the frying pan and into the fire. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
228:Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed! ~ C J Cherryh, #NFDB
229:I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
230:I really am a cat transformed into a woman. ~ Brigitte Bardot, #NFDB
231:I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
232:My cat speaks sign language with her tail. ~ Robert A M Stern, #NFDB
233:No threatening the cat!" Mr. Snuggly said. ~ Charlaine Harris, #NFDB
234:No ThunderClan cat will ever harm that warrior. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
235:One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness. ~ Edward Dahlberg, #NFDB
236:On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
237:Some bad habits are tougher to shake than others. ~ Cat Grant, #NFDB
238:To be calm when you've found something going on ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
239:A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar. ~ Eartha Kitt, #NFDB
240:A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
241:All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat. ~ Jean Luc Godard, #NFDB
242:Cat and Dog were ganging up on Ferret last night. ~ Wendy Mass, #NFDB
243:Dammit Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
244:I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
245:I would like to write as mysterious as a cat ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
246:Love you no matter what, so just suck it up.” But ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
247:She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
248:The crazy cat lady in love with the vampire. ~ Kristen Painter, #NFDB
249:this has more aspects than a cat has hair. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
250:Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
251:You can't tell a cat what his heart should feel. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
252:And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon ~ Harry Chapin, #NFDB
253:Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
254:I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
255:I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
256:In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch, #NFDB
257:I never thought I'd be on the same stage as Kiss. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
258:Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
259:My mom was kinda like a cat. She slept a lot. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
260:The only one waiting at home for me is my cat! ~ Makoto Shinkai, #NFDB
261:There are no bad dogs. Every cat gets more lives. ~ Mike Dooley, #NFDB
262:A cat chooses its owner, not the other way around. ~ Helen Brown, #NFDB
263:CLOVERFOOT—gray tabby she-cat RIPPLETAIL—white tom ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
264:Every evil overlord needs a fluffy cat to stroke. ~ Sally Thorne, #NFDB
265:Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
266:I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady. ~ Juliette Lewis, #NFDB
267:I let my music take me where my heart wants to go. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
268:Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
269:Like a one eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store. ~ Big Joe Turner, #NFDB
270:No threatening the cat!” Mr. Snuggly said. No ~ Charlaine Harris, #NFDB
271:That’s like the dog calling the cat’s arse hairy! ~ Marian Keyes, #NFDB
272:The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
273:The night was as black as the inside of a cat. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
274:There was a cat, and they ignored each other. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
275:They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
276:They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
277:You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man? ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
278:All this fuss about a couple of small explosions. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
279:Cat de sus poti sa sari, daca locuiesti pe Marte? ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
280:I don't like sycophants. Unless you're a cat. ~ Primadonna Angela, #NFDB
281:If only I could talk … —Doctor Ellington, the cat ~ Margaret Weis, #NFDB
282:I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.” No ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
283:No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat ~ James Herriot, #NFDB
284:No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
285:Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
286:So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess. What else is new? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
287:there is no such thing as disciplining your cat. ~ Jackson Galaxy, #NFDB
288:Was this normal cat behavior, Mr. Dursley wondered. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
289:Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
290:A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt. ~ Paul Gallico, #NFDB
291:Don’t judge me, owner of a cat named Popsicle.” I ~ Megan Erickson, #NFDB
292:I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat. ~ Nina Simone, #NFDB
293:I know I'm not useless. I'm a cat. I'm purrrrfect. ~ Shannon Mayer, #NFDB
294:Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back? ~ Nikola Tesla, #NFDB
295:It’s cat food — it’s for people like you!” Saladin ~ Gordon Korman, #NFDB
296:My cat is not insane, she's just a really good actress. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
297:No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat. ~ James Herriot, #NFDB
298:One of the best partners in writing?
A cat! ~ Primadonna Angela,#NFDB
299:Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear. ~ Earl Derr Biggers, #NFDB
300:Robbie Keane was like the cat that got the cheese ~ Stan Collymore, #NFDB
301:The cat made a comma of sweat across his bare thighs. ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
302:The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
303:The classified cat watches from the kitchen window. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
304:Time spent with a cat is never wasted. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, #NFDB
305:A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. ~ Jean Burden, #NFDB
306:A hungry cat does no favour to a trapped bird! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
307:Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious. ~ Brittany Murphy, #NFDB
308:From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
309:I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter. ~ Russel Honore, #NFDB
310:If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
311:I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
312:I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree. ~ Carson McCullers, #NFDB
313:My hair looked like I had combed it with an angry cat. ~ David Wong, #NFDB
314:Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
315:SHIMMERPELT—silver she-cat LIZARDTAIL—light brown tom ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
316:The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. ~ Scott Westerfeld, #NFDB
317:Trying not to think about it is only making it worse. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
318:Writing is also my cat. Writing lets me face it. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
319:You don't own a cat, he is a free citizen. Take ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
320:Your world and the cat's world are not the same. ~ Taisen Deshimaru, #NFDB
321:Almost any domestic cat can run faster than Usain Bolt. ~ John Lloyd, #NFDB
322:A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat . ~ John Donne, #NFDB
323:As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
324:I am talking to a cat. A cat is talking to me. ~ Katherine Applegate, #NFDB
325:I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion ~ Eyedea, #NFDB
326:I’m like a cat. I swear I have
nine lives ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,#NFDB
327:I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
328:Leave me alone, I’m only speaking to my cat today ~ Elizabeth Lennox, #NFDB
329:Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat. ~ Maureen Johnson, #NFDB
330:mouth cat’s-cradled with filaments of gleaming cheese. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
331:My career is there for everyone to see and delve into. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
332:So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess.
What else is new? ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
333:The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. [ ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
334:The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
335:The small bottle of cat’s blood was on the nightstand. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
336:To my Rainbow Cat, for always believing in me. ~ Carlton Mellick III, #NFDB
337:Where did they go? Mice will do that—just disappear. I ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
338:You haven’t slept for two days, I kept telling myself. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
339:Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
340:Dammit, Bard, you’re going to set the cat on fire.” Lila ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
341:Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room. ~ E V Lucas, #NFDB
342:If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
343:If your cat's speaking Latin, you might have a problem. ~ Jason Hawes, #NFDB
344:I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
345:I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
346:Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
347:More question. You know that curiosity killed the cat? ~ Gemma Malley, #NFDB
348:My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys. ~ Jenna Bush, #NFDB
349:My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
350:Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? ~ George Clinton, #NFDB
351:Allie-Cat? Oh help me Rhonda. He’s given me a pet name. ~ Elle Kennedy, #NFDB
352:By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer. ~ Colette, #NFDB
353:Do you have my pussy? Oh God, cat!
Do you have my cat? ~ M A Stacie,#NFDB
354:FEATHERPELT—gray tabby she-cat HOOTWHISKER—dark gray tom ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
355:I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?' ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
356:I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
357:I’m not in the mood for guessing games with a cat. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse, #NFDB
358:It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. ~ Theophile Gautier, #NFDB
359:Little cat's paws of trepidation frolicked up my spine. ~ Eilis O Neal, #NFDB
360:Must not kill the demon cat. Must not kill the demon cat. ~ Jaye Wells, #NFDB
361:My cat has been Petrified.I want to see some punishment! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
362:Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
363:Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
364:Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well. ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
365:Putting a cat into a stable doesn’t make it a horse ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
366:screeching cat with a violent case of diarrhea! ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
367:She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf. ~ Derek Walcott, #NFDB
368:The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of ~ Scott Westerfeld, #NFDB
369:The pressure... It's not real unless you let it be real. ~ Cat Zingano, #NFDB
370:Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found. ~ Stanley Spencer, #NFDB
371:A cat is only technically an animal, being divine. ~ Robert Wilson Lynd, #NFDB
372:Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass. ~ Michael J Fox, #NFDB
373:Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
374:If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20. ~ Greg Kinnear, #NFDB
375:So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
376:Te pedí que no te marcharas sin despedirte, Cat. ~ Laura Gallego Garc a, #NFDB
377:You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
378:Already had a taste of you. I want more. Tell me you don't. ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
379:but she wouldn’t have been a Cat Person if she had not. ~ Anne McCaffrey, #NFDB
380:I have the biggest hair in the world - and that's official! ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
381:I'm like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don't leave. ~ Michelle M Pillow, #NFDB
382:One does not buy someone a cat and it mean nothing. ~ Dominique Eastwick, #NFDB
383:One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant. ~ Jonah Goldberg, #NFDB
384:People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
385:The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated. ~ Jennifer Stone, #NFDB
386:There, now my principles are in confusion and I hate it. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
387:There was an awkward silence
Until I throw a rock at it ~ Cat Patrick,#NFDB
388:The she-cat he had seen in the woods . . . was his sister! ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
389:Who in their right mind wonders how a cat takes his coffee? ~ Robin Kaye, #NFDB
390:Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
391:If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
392:I will never be able to outthink my emotional retardedness. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
393:Lucent and delicate, Drama entered, mincing like a cat. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
394:My shrug was so nonchalant it would make a cat jealous ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
395:Roen said, "I can't quit. I have rent, and a cat to support. ~ Wesley Chu, #NFDB
396:Sam’s heart felt as if it were being licked by a cat. ~ Philip Jos Farmer, #NFDB
397:She's not merely my cat. She's my friend. She's my family. ~ Bree Despain, #NFDB
398:She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
399:she watched the children the way a snake might watch a cat. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
400:The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
401:A more capable cat is never impressed by a less capable cat. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
402:And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor. ~ Seth Grahame Smith, #NFDB
403:But you know what they say: mo’ prescriptions, mo’ problems. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
404:Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
405:Curiosity kille the cat, but satisfaction brought it back ~ Eugene O Neill, #NFDB
406:fourth cat?” “The fourth must be found soon,” fretted Broken ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
407:Good, cause look what the cat just drug in, or threw up. ~ Candace Knoebel, #NFDB
408:His fingers made the string figure called a ‘cat’s cradle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
409:If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's. ~ Kristen Stewart, #NFDB
410:Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back? ~ W Bernard Carlson, #NFDB
411:Jewellery is a great way to take your look from day to night. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
412:Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all. ~ Del Shannon, #NFDB
413:The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient. ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
414:The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends. ~ Hector Hugh Munro, #NFDB
415:We live in a world so horrifying, it frightens even the dead ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
416:We’re the new playthings in the neighborhood, don’t you know? ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
417:When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
418:You can make a lot of money with a good cat." -Ty Warner ~ Zac Bissonnette, #NFDB
419:You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
420:A dog's life! and not so much as a cat to help me... ~ Henri Fr d ric Amiel, #NFDB
421:Cissy could read big thick books, not just The Cat In The Hat. ~ M A Harper, #NFDB
422:Did you know that Dog Heaven and Cat Hell were the same place? ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
423:I created cat myths, which cats tell each other in the night. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
424:I shortened my name to Cat for a reason – as in Cataclysm. ~ Amanda Bouchet, #NFDB
425:It’s a cat. Boy, you couldn’t slip anything past me tonight. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
426:It's like trying to train an ADD cat in a mouse factory. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
427:Just like a cat, to mould her environment to suit her whim. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
428:Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
429:Petting the cat makes you feel better, Fennel asserted smugly. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
430:Phury nodded. "And if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
431:Quick, how do you pick up a cat?"
"Buy her a drink. ~ Elizabeth Chandler,#NFDB
432:Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
433:The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he’s cut out. ~ Lord Buckley, #NFDB
434:The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans. ~ Konrad Lorenz, #NFDB
435:The cat’s manner of rejection was like cold, white light. ~ Takashi Hiraide, #NFDB
436:There's more than one way for a girl to Google a cat. ~ MaryJanice Davidson, #NFDB
437:This is your decision, Fireheart. No cat can make it for you. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
438:Ughhh, that stuff tastes like vomit mixed with cat litter! ~ Chris Columbus, #NFDB
439:We live in a world so horrifying, it frightens even the dead. ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
440:And with two elderly ladies, the secrets couldn’t be so bad. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
441:Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
442:Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back. ~ Eugene O Neill, #NFDB
443:Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ~ Eugene O Neill, #NFDB
444:He said the only real monsters in this world are human beings. ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
445:I miss my brother. Prince was a funny cat. Great sence of humor. ~ Spike Lee, #NFDB
446:No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen. ~ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, #NFDB
447:Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof. ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
448:Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat; "we're all mad here. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
449:Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
450:She flipped off the cat?
She said he was judging her. ~ Tiffany Reisz,#NFDB
451:Sorry it took me so long, Katie-Cat," said her father. ~ Trenton Lee Stewart, #NFDB
452:Sosil said a cat licking herself meant a guest was coming. ~ Sholom Aleichem, #NFDB
453:That's the kind of person she was, a cat-kicker. What a bitch. ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
454:the litter of Schrödinger's cat is all over our decision tasks ~ Tali Sharot, #NFDB
455:Then again, I’ve never been overly fond of rational thoughts. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
456:The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat. ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
457:This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat. ~ Agnes Varda, #NFDB
458:To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. ~ Erasmus Darwin, #NFDB
459:You call my cat Princess Fancy Pants, Ace, we got problems. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
460:You," she managed to say hoarsely," are a very bad kitty cat. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
461:A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
462:All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat. ~ Eugene Ionesco, #NFDB
463:A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time. ~ Ray Davies, #NFDB
464:Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB
465:But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
466:Cu cat intelegi mai mult libertatea, cu atat o pierzi mai mult. ~ John Fowles, #NFDB
467:Dear Gris, if there's one thing I can't abide it's a bad poet. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
468:Don't be a chicken, be a cat!" said Cecil. "Be adventurous". ~ Valerie Martin, #NFDB
469:Everyone’s got secrets, Jem. It’s what makes people interesting. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
470:Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
471:The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
472:The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts. ~ Agnes Repplier, #NFDB
473:The rest of the trailer reeked of cat piss and abject poverty. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
474:To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
475:What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish? ~ Thomas Gray, #NFDB
476:What type of world are we living in, if we're destroying books? ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
477:You'll still be my light in the dark, Cat. Even if you fall. ~ Amanda Bouchet, #NFDB
478:Cat Hats: Sixteen Paper Hats to Put on Your Unsuspecting Kitty. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
479:he pours three types of blood into the hole—cat, rat, and human. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
480:He smiled like a cat who’d just eaten a pet shop full of canaries, ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
481:I am a dog person and not a cat person, definitely a dog person. ~ Will Shortz, #NFDB
482:I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs ~ Daryl Hannah, #NFDB
483:One of the quickest ways to a cat's brain is through its stomach. ~ Ian Dunbar, #NFDB
484:Put a cat to guard the sheep and the wolves would eat well. ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
485:Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private. ~ Leonard Michaels, #NFDB
486:Sometimes, it will ignore me completely, because it’s a cat. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
487:The cat is both alive and dead.” “Who mentioned a fecking cat? ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
488:The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies. ~ Kirk Hammett, #NFDB
489:When you take advice from a cat, there are always consequences. ~ Elora Bishop, #NFDB
490:Why don’t the men have “Take Our Sons to the Cat-House Night”? ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
491:Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
492:and a large, muscular male cat with humanoid features discuss ~ Dominique Adair, #NFDB
493:An enormous cat lay in a comforting, rumbling mass on her lap. ~ M Louisa Locke, #NFDB
494:As the ancients said, The cat triumphant purrs like a tiger. ~ Anthony C Yu, #NFDB
495:He had all the sleek, smug self-possession of a cat in season. ~ Gerald Durrell, #NFDB
496:I am NOT alone. I am accompanied by a large cat and a small girl. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
497:It was either a very big cat or quite a small tiger,” said Harry. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
498:Just because you are family doesn’t guarantee you’ll be friends. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
499:Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat ~ Don Marquis, #NFDB
500:My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden. ~ Ann Widdecombe, #NFDB
501:Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in. ~ Jen Calonita, #NFDB
502:That is the kind of shit I want to watch. Topless booby cat fighting ~ T L Swan, #NFDB
503:We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles. ~ Rue McClanahan, #NFDB
504:When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
505:When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash. ~ Jim Davis, #NFDB
506:You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
507:You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit. ~ Wesley Snipes, #NFDB
508:You have the curiosity of a cat and common sense of a goldfish. ~ Susan Dennard, #NFDB
509:A cat that looks bored is a cat that's getting ready to pounce. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
510:All of this toxicity comforted me. It made me feel less alone. But ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
511:Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,And therefore let 's be merry. ~ George Wither, #NFDB
512:If you don't mourn a dead cat properly, you'll never get over it. ~ Hiro Arikawa, #NFDB
513:If you don’t mourn a dead cat properly, you’ll never get over it. ~ Hiro Arikawa, #NFDB
514:I’ll never behave like a cooing dove over any cat, she decided. As ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
515:I ruin everything,” Julian said. “I’m not good at people.” “Were ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
516:It looked like he’d just slurped down a propofol milk shake. “Come ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
517:Lord, cat. Announce yourself next time. I don’t have no nine lives. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
518:lying on marble
the lazy cat
gazes at dying stars ~ Elancharan Gunasekaran,#NFDB
519:Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat ~ Robert Graves, #NFDB
520:Shit. He spoke cat. This was not good. Gun knew all my secrets. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
521:Sleepwalking?"
"Nightmare?"
"Homicidal psycho jungle cat! ~ Bill Watterson,#NFDB
522:Sometimes, it will ignore me completely, because it’s a cat. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
523:That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
524:The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood. ~ Lloyd Alexander, #NFDB
525:The simplicity of knowing what’s coming isn’t so simple after all. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
526:When the prey of the sabre-toothed cat died out, so did the cat. ~ Ronald Wright, #NFDB
527:Aunt Agnes said, “It's hard to make a good Christian out of a cat. ~ Richard Peck, #NFDB
528:A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
529:Cu cat este mai mare criza, cu atat mai rapida este evolutia. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
530:Hear me now, Oliver Rivington. You will not use gestures with me. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
531:how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time? ~ Sharon Creech, #NFDB
532:I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay. ~ Jenna Bush, #NFDB
533:I’ll stay home with my Kindle and my cat. They never disappoint. ~ Melanie Harlow, #NFDB
534:In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. ~ Alberto Giacometti, #NFDB
535:I was younger then. Still playing cat and mouse with the universe. ~ John Gardner, #NFDB
536:just cus your cat had kittens in the oven don't make em biscuits ~ Melinda Haynes, #NFDB
537:Look at her and Cat—and yes, Gabe, before he had turned into Darth ~ Nancy Holder, #NFDB
538:My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'. ~ Studs Terkel, #NFDB
539:My head is a mess.” Page stepped closer. “That’s all of us, mate. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
540:Poate ca omul, cu cat e mai nebun, cu atat poate deveni mai puternic. ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
541:Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. ~ Robert Graves, #NFDB
542:Really, The smart thing to do was to stop dating and get a cat. ~ Jennifer Crusie, #NFDB
543:'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken? ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
544:The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing. ~ Michael J Rosen, #NFDB
545:There is no creature better at delicate rudeness than a cat... ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
546:Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse? ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
547:After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca. ~ Shauna Singh Baldwin, #NFDB
548:All futures are tinted by the way in which you choose to view them. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
549:Anger comes from fear. Anyone who’s ever cornered a cat knows that. ~ Sarah Hilary, #NFDB
550:A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
551:A teleporting cat! Is she yours?" Dr. Daniel McCleod. "Suki ~ Ellen Dawn Benefield, #NFDB
552:Avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu-atit ti-e mai sete. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
553:Ce-a cautat la mine?Nu atat dragoste, cat satisfactia vanitatii lui. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
554:Curiosity killed the cat and the snooping seventeen-year-old girl. ~ Josh Malerman, #NFDB
555:Female high schoolers in underwear and cat's ears are what I find hot! ~ NisiOisiN, #NFDB
556:friend of mine says you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one. ~ Louis Bayard, #NFDB
557:I'm always looking for the comfiest place to lie down, like a cat. ~ Naomie Harris, #NFDB
558:It’s a cat.
Boy, you couldn’t slip anything past me tonight. ~ Kim Harrison,#NFDB
559:I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
560:Life is sometimes like a cat, the more you chase it the faster it runs. ~ Ken Wahl, #NFDB
561:Love heats my blood, blood spins my head, and my head falls in love. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
562:Mort(e) is wonderful and weird, never saccharine and always startling. ~ Cat Rambo, #NFDB
563:Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails. ~ Ray Davies, #NFDB
564:Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos. ~ Georgia May Jagger, #NFDB
565:The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
566:This might work. We might survive. We might not have to eat cat food. ~ K A Tucker, #NFDB
567:You’d be surprised how many of those fat-cat bankers is still around. ~ D M Pulley, #NFDB
568:You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet. ~ Hugh Hefner, #NFDB
569:You mean you have a cat who looks after you when you’re hurt or ill? ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
570:God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
571:Hang onto that goal and you do what you have to do to make it happen. ~ Cat Zingano, #NFDB
572:I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. ~ Lawrence Block, #NFDB
573:I peed and washed my hands—these are the details you need to know—and ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
574:Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. ~ George F Kennan, #NFDB
575:Nothing sadder on this earth than a human being without a cat. She ~ Rita Mae Brown, #NFDB
576:On land, every animal larger than a cat seems to have died out. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
577:That does not mean he is smarter than I am. I mean, can he draw a cat ? ~ Meg Cabot, #NFDB
578:There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream. ~ Charles Kingsley, #NFDB
579:The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. ~ Agnes Repplier, #NFDB
580:Your dog thinks you're a god. Your cat thinks the dog's an asshole. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
581:blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. ~ Thomas A Harris, #NFDB
582:Cat got on the porch this morning, bout give me a cadillac arrest ~ Kathryn Stockett, #NFDB
583:Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph ~ Studs Terkel, #NFDB
584:Even weird breed of cat like Nazi Germany comprehensible to I Ching. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
585:Here me now, Alistair, I do not want anything to do with your shame. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
586:He smiled like a cat with fresh chipmunk blood on his whiskers. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
587:I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
588:I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
589:I don't even own my own name on the internet - somebody else bought it. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
590:I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
591:If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
592:if one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one. ~ David Markson, #NFDB
593:In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat. ~ Alberto Giacometti, #NFDB
594:It's true. I......I wanted to be born in the year of the cat......! ~ Natsuki Takaya, #NFDB
595:I was part of Quintuplets, I played a cat - this is my first drama. ~ David Giuntoli, #NFDB
596:My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy. ~ Cat Cora, #NFDB
597:Pussy cat, pussy cat, I love you, yes I do. You and your pussy cat nose. ~ Tom Jones, #NFDB
598:Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
599:Trebuie sa fi vrut sa mori ca sa stii cat de placut e sa traiesti. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
600:We're raising a cat together now?" I smile. "Yes. So don't eat him. ~ Karpov Kinrade, #NFDB
601:You can't just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car. ~ Lenny Bruce, #NFDB
602:A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk. ~ Tamora Pierce, #NFDB
603:Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it. ~ Cat Zingano, #NFDB
604:are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
605:As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat. ~ P N Elrod, #NFDB
606:but hell, Cat was staring at him as if she wanted him for a midnight snack. ~ Kim Law, #NFDB
607:Cat, you ruined mom's dress!"
"Honey, it was ruined when she bought it. ~ Dr Seuss,#NFDB
608:He drives a newish-looking silver van.
Man in van = obviously dodgy. ~ Cat Clarke,#NFDB
609:He sat. The white cat still contemplated him with large, moist eyes. ~ Richard Wright, #NFDB
610:I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it. ~ Sammy Hagar, #NFDB
611:I can take shit from my brother-in-law. I can't take it from my cat too. ~ Erin Hayes, #NFDB
612:I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
613:Involvements with glamorous female cat burglars never end up well. ~ Genevieve Cogman, #NFDB
614:I suggest starting with a cat; they have unusual personalities. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
615:It’s indignity you can’t stand, Hannibal, you’re like a cat that way. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
616:Nothing is over yet, she told herself. The cat's still inside. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
617:She sounded about as displeased as a cat who’d just cornered a mouse. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
618:The cat in gloves catches no mice. Make hay while the sun shines. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
619:The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
620:The cat was on the window ledge, gazing intently into the garden. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
621:To enjoy rodeo properly, you gotta be close enough to see the snot fly. ~ Cat Johnson, #NFDB
622:Truly, he felt like “a cat biting on a urine bubble—all empty delight! ~ Anthony C Yu, #NFDB
623:What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in? ~ Eddie Izzard, #NFDB
624:Why did his mind pick its way as delicately as a cat through cactus? ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
625:As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger. ~ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, #NFDB
626:Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
627:Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale. ~ Florence Nightingale, #NFDB
628:Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave ~ Jude Watson, #NFDB
629:'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph. ~ Studs Terkel, #NFDB
630:DI Cartwright: The cat is booby trapped? DI Quill: Welcome to my world. ~ Paul Cornell, #NFDB
631:Funny how possibility can lift you. Funny how reality can slam you down. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
632:humans tend to blame cats for things that aren’t really the cat’s fault. ~ Gwen Cooper, #NFDB
633:I began to get the idea that this wasn’t the brightest cat I’d ever met. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
634:I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
635:If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
636:I have a hangover that feels like someone let a cat loose inside my face. ~ Charles Yu, #NFDB
637:I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge? ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
638:I moved through my getting-ready-for-work routine like I was underwater. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
639:In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
640:I tried to stop her but it’s like getting a feral cat into a shoe box. ~ Scarlett Cole, #NFDB
641:I was hoping I’d get to meet the famous cat who started all this ruckus. ~ Gwen Cooper, #NFDB
642:Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
643:There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
644:The thought of going to sleep forever was delicious. I was so very tired. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
645:We've got all night to make up for years of wondering about it." - Butler ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
646:What do you mean she left me the embryos? I'm supposed to get the cat. ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB
647:Which just goes to show that my cat has considerably more sense than me. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
648:Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love? ~ Matsuo Basho, #NFDB
649:You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why? ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
650:You’re in my bones, Grace. Can’t stand straight without you, baby. Can’t. ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
651:You see me no more comfortable in it than a cat coiffed with a calabash. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
652:Cat got your tongue,” she purred. “Don’t worry. I’ll give it back later. ~ Liliana Hart, #NFDB
653:CINDERHEART—gray tabby she-cat LIONBLAZE—golden tabby tom with amber eyes ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
654:I kind of wanted to rub all over him a like a cat or something. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
655:It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. ~ Eleanor Farjeon, #NFDB
656:I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
657:My house feels like a proper home. It's very relaxed with a hippyish vibe. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
658:nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
659:Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
660:Sleep in my arms like a little cat; I love your snoring and your smell. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
661:Sometimes loving a man is like loving a cat. You can never be loved back. ~ Kanza Javed, #NFDB
662:The best model of a cat is another cat..., specially the same cat. ~ Arturo Rosenblueth, #NFDB
663:The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
664:The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #NFDB
665:The ginger she-cat behind him is Scarlet, and the silver tabby is O’Hara. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
666:... when it comes to multiple-cat homes, that's where rules go to die. ~ Jackson Galaxy, #NFDB
667:A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
668:A waning moon hung over the cityscape like a Cheshire cat’s looming smile. ~ Sierra Dean, #NFDB
669:But still I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
670:Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness. ~ Carl Van Vechten, #NFDB
671:Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back. ~ Jacqueline Carey, #NFDB
672:Do not put this product in a big vat and drop rats into it from a cat-walk. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
673:Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
674:,"I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours."-Cheshire Cat ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
675:If I had a cat I'd buy another one so I could kick one and then the other. ~ Greg Abbott, #NFDB
676:I understand how important hair is to a woman's self-esteem and confidence. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
677:Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
678:She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
679:The cat’s A.I. was realistic, right down to the total lack of loyalty. ~ Dennis E Taylor, #NFDB
680:You have to understand that not everything in the world is black and white. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
681:You're going to find Tigerstar. Against that fiend, every cat is helpless. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
682:You’ve got sex hair … or crazy cat lady hair. They’re remarkably similar. ~ Molly Harper, #NFDB
683:Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat. ~ Cassandra Peterson, #NFDB
684:Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
685:Can I ride you next time? You can be my battle cat! That would be so cool! ~ Alanea Alder, #NFDB
686:He nuzzled under my chin like an overly enthusiastic, slightly amorous cat. ~ Alexis Hall, #NFDB
687:I am the cat who walks alone. And to me all supermarkets are alike. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
688:I could be anyone. I could be a crazy woman who feeds him only cat food! ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
689:If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor? ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
690:I’m not giving you any more chances.” But I always gave him more chances. I ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
691:It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB
692:I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat. ~ Winnie Holzman, #NFDB
693:....resembles a cat rolled in paint that has had a seizure.....on canvas. ~ Terry Maggert, #NFDB
694:She picked up the lazy cat. “I’ll just hang out down here with Cat-Mandu. ~ Christa Faust, #NFDB
695:Together we kill many chicken, eat cat every day, howl at moon, oh boy. ~ John R Erickson, #NFDB
696:Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
697:Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat."
-Dess ~ Scott Westerfeld,#NFDB
698:A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
699:Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice? ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB
700:Don’t go there again,” Pinestar growled. “You’re a Clan cat, not a kittypet! ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
701:His mind is trying to catch the thought as a cat tries to catch a shadow. ~ Jerry Spinelli, #NFDB
702:I am cat,” Rowl said smugly, “which means I have made better use of my time. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
703:I smile. On the inside though, so no one can see. A secret smile just for me. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
704:I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. ~ John Green, #NFDB
705:Nothing gets you to mend your heart quicker than throwing yourself into work. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
706:once i knew the blinking cat could not really blink, was just paper and ink. ~ Lynda Barry, #NFDB
707:The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat. ~ Norbert Wiener, #NFDB
708:The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
709:The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
710:There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
711:Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in. ~ Charles Martin, #NFDB
712:You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it. ~ Richard Hammond, #NFDB
713:A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
714:A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels. ~ Caryl Chessman, #NFDB
715:Aikman, whose vocal stylings are reminiscent of a cat choking on a lug nut. ~ Jeff Pearlman, #NFDB
716:Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. ~ Oliver Herford, #NFDB
717:Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won’t ever make em muffins. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
718:Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
719:I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice. ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB
720:If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
721:I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
722:I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
723:Kind of just existed from day to day, on weird plateau of feeling nothingness. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
724:Not for me. I hate fish. It’s for Goddamn Cat. I want him served that regularly. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
725:Old Herriot may be limited in some respects, but by God, he can wrap a cat. ~ James Herriot, #NFDB
726:Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
727:The cat's purring was the motor that ran the Japanese woman's dreaming. ~ Richard Brautigan, #NFDB
728:There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
729:The she-cat carried on walking without looking back. “Mapleshade,” she mewed. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
730:Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat. ~ Emile Chartier, #NFDB
731:who still looked as if some cat had hit him over the head with a dead pigeon. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
732:Why so scrawny, cat?
Starving for fat fish or mice...
Or backyard love? ~ Matsuo Bash,#NFDB
733:Yes, I’d seen bright stars last night, but I’d shut my eyes against the glare. ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
734:Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
735:A liquid movement below on the tarmac; a cat, hunting in the shadows. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
736:A strange moment when the world stayed exactly the same, and changed forever. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
737:Don’t you get it Cat? You’re the key. I knew it the day I laid eyes on you. ~ Amanda Bouchet, #NFDB
738:If a cat spoke, it would say things like 'Hey, I don’t see the problem here. ~ Roy Blount Jr, #NFDB
739:If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way, ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
740:I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
741:I’m an archaeologist who likes cats, not a cat burglar who likes old stuff. ~ Kristi Charish, #NFDB
742:I'm as alone as that cat, much more alone because I know it and he doesn't. ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
743:I'm a sucker for curiosity's whims.
Does that make me a cat person? ~ Richelle E Goodrich,#NFDB
744:I really had no control over my cat. Hell, who actually had control over any cat? ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
745:Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
746:Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr! ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
747:No cat ever had such a friend as you. I'd give my life for you; you know that. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
748:Oh, and shut the bedroom door unless you don’t mind a voyeuristic cat, ~ Aimee Nicole Walker, #NFDB
749:Ready for this?” I asked my deirfiúr. “Like a cat’s ready for tuna,” Del said. ~ Linsey Hall, #NFDB
750:The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
751:the knife cuts into the
sun.
the plate
breaks.
the cat yawns. ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
752:There are hundreds of good reasons for having a cat, but all you need is one. ~ Susy Clemens, #NFDB
753:There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
754:What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
755:As my mom used to say,"If wishes were horses, we'd be up to our eyeballs in shit. ~ Cat Adams, #NFDB
756:Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best. ~ Anita Baker, #NFDB
757:Even the cat smiles
When the hen swallows water
With back-tilted head. ~ Richard Wright,#NFDB
758:he’s twitchier than a long-tailed cat on the front porch of a Cracker Barrel, ~ Dot Hutchison, #NFDB
759:I can't lie... My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at poker! ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
760:Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
761:(some Frenchman said that the cat is the soul of the house, and we agree). ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
762:The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
763:There are fit men everywhere, so I'm working my way through them, one at a time! ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
764:They treat me like some sort of pet cat but claws I have, and claws I will use ~ Paul Doherty, #NFDB
765:Unk, you crazy son-of-a-bitch, I love you. I think you are the cat’s pajamas. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
766:When a man that attractive licks his lips, a girl's got to look. And imagine... ~ Cat Johnson, #NFDB
767:You mean she’s fallen in love with a cat who lives by a different set of rules? ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
768:A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar. ~ Heather O Neill, #NFDB
769:A cat is an excuse for a lonely woman to talk to herself. That's what a cat is. ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
770:All of a sudden I feel as nervous as a longtail cat in a room fulla rockin chairs. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
771:A man who carries a cat by the tail learns a lesson he can learn in no other way. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
772:But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
773:Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
774:I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
775:If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
776:I'm in wheelchair, man. You gonna tell me I can't have my seeing-eye cat with me? ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
777:I’m like the curious cat. You know what they say—satisfaction brought him back. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
778:It was the stupidest thing the cat had ever heard of, an AA program in prison. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
779:--I wouldn't throw that cat out of bed.
--When did you get a cat? ~ Lesley Kagen,#NFDB
780:...of course, every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room. ~ Edward Verrall Lucas, #NFDB
781:Rocky was a regular guy, a loyal friend.
The trouble was he was only a cat. ~ Charles Simic,#NFDB
782:You know the type, some tight-laced spinster with a mouth like a cat’s ass. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
783:A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
784:Every cat looked sleek and well-fed; even slender Leafpool had grown quite plump. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
785:Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
786:hunched, furless cat scatters up a tree with something dead in its jaws. “I’m ~ Zoraida C rdova, #NFDB
787:I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
788:I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton. ~ Damian Marley, #NFDB
789:Leo was a weapon, and he didn’t care for the idea of being aimed by a stranger. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
790:Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog !
Grrrr! ~ Charles Dickens,#NFDB
791:She had white cat hair on her dark suit, she was a dedicated cat hugger. ~ Lilian Jackson Braun, #NFDB
792:Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog? ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
793:Style is a very personal thing and women should develop their own individual look. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
794:The cat didn't move. It just gave him a stern look. Was this normal cat behavior? ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
795:The glass-blower's cat is bompstable,” said Mr. Parker aloud and distinctly. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
796:The less I slept, the more emotionally and psychologically disorganized I became. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
797:There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
798:When the only tongue you’re getting is from your cat… it’s time to get out more. ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
799:Whiskers of the cat,
Webbed toes on my swimming dog;
God is in the details. ~ Dean Koontz,#NFDB
800:You’re twice the cat Tigerpaw will ever be. I could never be disappointed in you. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
801:Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
802:A excepción de sus hijas, Cat y Chris eran las personas más importantes de su vida. ~ Sarah Lark, #NFDB
803:Always looking out for me, my big sister, no matter what. Even on her dying breath. ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
804:Another syllogism. All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat. ~ Eug ne Ionesco, #NFDB
805:are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore, ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
806:By patching people up, I played my role in letting the war go on. I’m complicit. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
807:Cat's heated gaze meets mine, and she smiles. Another piece of my heart is hers. ~ Rachel Harris, #NFDB
808:Except it’s not treasure we’ve come to bury. Just my daughter’s castrated cat. He ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
809:He hissed and rocked his hips into her. “You like to bite?”
“I’m a cat, aren’t I? ~ Lia Davis,#NFDB
810:He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
811:how can you love a little cat
so much
in such a
short
short
time? ~ Sharon Creech,#NFDB
812:If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
813:I want to stay hidden in this apartment forever. I want to be kept like a house cat. ~ Nic Sheff, #NFDB
814:My wife calls me grumpy cat. I'm normally a very pleasant person to be around. ~ Jonathan Tucker, #NFDB
815:Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other. ~ Kinky Friedman, #NFDB
816:Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder. ~ Robert Lowell, #NFDB
817:You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat. ~ Cleveland Amory, #NFDB
818:You can tease it's mane all you like, but you can't turn a house cat into a lion. ~ Anne Fortier, #NFDB
819:A cat loped across my gaze with a squint-eyed, piratical look, and a suave grin. ~ William Styron, #NFDB
820:Come along. Let’s get out of here and go toast to youth and vampires and rebellion. ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
821:I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
822:If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
823:I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible. ~ Reginald Horace Blyth, #NFDB
824:I struggled to hold her. It was not unlike holding a cat. Some wild, ninja, cat. ~ Melissa Wright, #NFDB
825:I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers! ~ Tennessee Ernie Ford, #NFDB
826:It’s one thing being grateful for what you have, it’s quite another being satisfied. ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
827:It will have to be Jem. He's impossible to hate. Even that devil cat likes him. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
828:It will have to be Jem. He’s impossible to hate. Even that devil cat likes him. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
829:Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
830:Sorry I'm late guys, a black cat crossed my path so I had to go the long way. ~ Masashi Kishimoto, #NFDB
831:The river is of no use to a yorkshire cat, it is the moors he is looking for. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
832:And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
833:"As a liberated person walks soundlessly, like a cat, he also takes himself lightly." ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
834:Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
835:Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon. ~ Jamais Cascio, #NFDB
836:Felid might be. Some sort of cat, perhaps? They walked on past dimly lit corridors ~ Taran Matharu, #NFDB
837:Hawke didn't bother to respond to that - he'd eat the baby cat alpha for breakfast. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
838:I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey. ~ Charles Barkley, #NFDB
839:I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
840:Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
841:Night crawled across the desert sky like a black cat with phosphorus dandruff. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
842:She said you needed your rest. Besides, I’m a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
843:Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
844:twice and went still. “Just what a toy company needs,” Carter muttered. “A cat that ~ Shirley Jump, #NFDB
845:What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
846:Down there—in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger’s cat—things get freaky. ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB
847:I am allergic to cats, the cat in 'Don't Stop' was actually a very small fury human. ~ Ashton Irwin, #NFDB
848:I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
849:I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles. ~ Johnny Carson, #NFDB
850:I'm actually more of a cat guy than a dog person because I travel so much. I love cats. ~ Tim Allen, #NFDB
851:I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
852:Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
853:No one needs a cat . . . until you get one and wonder why you never had one before. ~ Kendra Elliot, #NFDB
854:That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right. ~ Alvah Bessie, #NFDB
855:The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
856:... there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
857:This is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
858:What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner. ~ Eileen Wilks, #NFDB
859:You have a vampire living in your basement, and you're stunned by a talking cat? ~ Charlaine Harris, #NFDB
860:A cat, by any other name, is still a sneaky little furball that barfs on the furniture. ~ Chris Rock, #NFDB
861:A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~ James K A Smith, #NFDB
862:But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
863:Curiosity killed the cat, you know, but satisfaction brought him back snap-ass happy. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
864:He showed his love and determination by burning her BMW and strangling her cat, then ~ David Morrell, #NFDB
865:If you want to be an expert in attracting others, choose a cat as your teacher! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
866:I got up the next day at noon, feeling as relaxed as a cat in a pool of sunshine, ~ Charlaine Harris, #NFDB
867:I have a rescue dog named Fideo, which means 'noodle' in Spanish, and a cat named Hutch. ~ Ana Ortiz, #NFDB
868:The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
869:There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one! ~ Barbara Holland, #NFDB
870:When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat. ~ Fred Allen, #NFDB
871:You can't swing a cat in Ancient Greece without hitting one of Zeus's ex-girlfriends. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
872:A cat can outrace the best thoroughbred horse if only it can grasp the idea of racing. ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
873:All I saw was one black cat, an insultingly paranoid type who shrank off as I drew near. ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
874:Carla lives for cat videos. She thinks they're the only thing the Internet is good for. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
875:If you attack Ann Coulter, you don't end up with your cat killed or your tires slashed. ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
876:I’m lookin in the mirror & I see a dollar sign, I had a cat scan & I had money on my mind ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
877:is that death
stalking me
now?
no, it’s only my cat,
this
time. ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
878:Music that sounded like a cat being stuffed into a wood chipper howled from the radio ~ Russell Blake, #NFDB
879:My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me. ~ Ashley Madekwe, #NFDB
880:No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail. ~ Brian Greene, #NFDB
881:Oh, boy," Jim said, giving an excited wiggle. "Cat fight! Wish I had some popcorn. ~ Katie MacAlister, #NFDB
882:Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet. ~ Robert Crais, #NFDB
883:The cat leaped into the front yard, went to the bathroom, then sat on the lawn, ~ William W Johnstone, #NFDB
884:The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story. ~ John le Carre, #NFDB
885:There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT!
Garfield, the cat. ~ Jim Davis,#NFDB
886:The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
887:Truthfully, her hands and presence had made me jumpier than a cat in a cucumber patch ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
888:A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. ~ Charles Horton Cooley, #NFDB
889:Alice: Where Should I go?
Cheshire Cat: That depends, where do you want to end up? ~ Lewis Carroll,#NFDB
890:Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love ~ Kobayashi Issa, #NFDB
891:Belinsky: 'Who is this Moloch that eats his children?'
Herzen: 'It's the Ginger Cat. ~ Tom Stoppard,#NFDB
892:Carter Kane, 14, died tragically in Paris when he was eaten by his sister’s cat Muffin. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
893:Crazy as a cuttlefish
Nasty as a RAT
Put her in a pie dish
Give her to the CAT! ~ Angie Sage,#NFDB
894:Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was a sausage-maker who disposed of the body. ~ Mark Forsyth, #NFDB
895:Dubbs frowns, and I expect her to keep arguing. Instead, she keeps petting the cat. ~ Caragh M O Brien, #NFDB
896:I’d rather be able to dream and fail than to never feel the pull of another way of life. ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
897:If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
898:I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
899:In the ‘looks of disappointment’ department, my cat has picked up where my father left off. ~ Tom Papa, #NFDB
900:I swear whatever pheromones Quinn Sullivan secreted were the equivalent of Janie-cat-nip. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
901:The best model of a cat is a cat.”91 Everything else is leaving out some sort of detail. ~ Nate Silver, #NFDB
902:There were actual people in the world whose idea of heaven would be a chocolate cat. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
903:there were meals to prepare and hearths to stock and cat fur covering most of the cottage. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
904:WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
905:With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
906:You be careful. I’d take you myself, but I’m busy as a cat in a mess of guitar strings. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
907:A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
908:[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society. ~ Theophile Gautier, #NFDB
909:And if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, "I love you ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
910:Another strained silence fell, like a mostly dead mouse dropped at one’s feet by a cat. She ~ Eva Leigh, #NFDB
911:But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed? ~ Frank Beddor, #NFDB
912:Cat were the gangster of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
913:Headlines would read GREER KARAS SHANKS RIVAL WOMEN IN CAT FIGHT OVER HOLLYWOOD SEX GOD. ~ Meghan March, #NFDB
914:Be that cat!!! she wrote, drawing it into the corner of her page, cool and aloof. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
915:I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been. ~ Edward Snowden, #NFDB
916:If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ~ Theophile Gautier, #NFDB
917:If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ~ Th ophile Gautier, #NFDB
918:I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair. ~ Rod McKuen, #NFDB
919:I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Audrey Hepburn’s cat was named Cat. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
920:I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
921:Oh my gods. The alpha of Clan Cat just got smacked with a rolled-up newspaper.
"Mom! ~ Ilona Andrews,#NFDB
922:Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
923:The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. ~ Theophile Gautier, #NFDB
924:The worst thing,' she whispered to the cat as she stroked it, 'is not to be useful. ~ Stuart M Kaminsky, #NFDB
925:What would friendship entail?
Well, on Wednesdays, we sacrifice a cat to Satan ~ Roshani Chokshi,#NFDB
926:You’d rather be known as the librarian who carries her cat in her gym bag?” she retorted. ~ Sofie Kelly, #NFDB
927:A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye. ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
928:After I die,” my daughter said, “I hope some of my atoms can find their way into a cat. ~ Natalie Angier, #NFDB
929:Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?
Um, maybe? ~ Scott Westerfeld,#NFDB
930:Brightheart, a pretty white she-cat with ginger patches on her fur like fallen leaves, had ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
931:Cat's passion for atmospheric architecture was only just second to her passion for Henry. ~ Val McDermid, #NFDB
932:Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body. ~ Mark Forsyth, #NFDB
933:If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement. ~ Sergio Aragones, #NFDB
934:I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.
~ Lewis Carroll Cheshire Cat ~ Lewis Carroll,#NFDB
935:I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend. ~ Tracey Emin, #NFDB
936:my cat is always looking at me like i am forgetting something crucial and he depends on it ~ Megan Boyle, #NFDB
937:Percy has a cat, named Footnote. Or as Virgil put it, Footnote has a human, named Percy. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
938:Sloan is like the cat that plays with the mouse before eating it, just because it can. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
939:Thank the Lord, Tucker’s a corgi,” Pewter, upset herself, blurted out. “Smart as a cat. ~ Rita Mae Brown, #NFDB
940:Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.' ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
941:A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
942:Atticus "three kinds of cat shit, Oberon."
Oberon "and an arrogant family of squirrels. ~ Kevin Hearne,#NFDB
943:Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
944:Maybe there’s something you can learn from being a cat instead of a little girl.” “What ~ Charles de Lint, #NFDB
945:Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
946:Rewarding a cat is a waste of time. They think they deserve the best whatever they do. ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
947:Smiling will kill your approach before it even gets started because it reliably scares the cat. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
948:The cat is obeying its blood instinct when it plays with the mouse! It's made that way. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
949:The stage, the show, the fans, that doesn’t matter because I’m always gonna fight my fight. ~ Cat Zingano, #NFDB
950:You don't need to say any special incantation or sacrifice a stray cat or something first? ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
951:After you, probably anyone can have me who wants me. A woman, many women. But never another cat. ~ Colette, #NFDB
952:Ah, Josie. She has a heart for strays. She’s like the proverbial cat lady, but with people. ~ Brinda Berry, #NFDB
953:All of my books are made of sweat, blood, laughter, cat hair, chocolate and inspiration. ~ Julie Anne Long, #NFDB
954:Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. ~ Andre Norton, #NFDB
955:Before curiosity kills it, the cat learns more of the world than a hundred uninquisitive dogs. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
956:cat, I discovered, was very much like a dog. But smaller, and without the self-esteem issues.) ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
957:Don’t ever worry what the boys who don’t appreciate originality think of you. They’re fools. ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
958:He moved like a jungle cat, all purposeful, calculated motion—wrapped up in fluid grace. ~ Brigid Kemmerer, #NFDB
959:If you aren't a pissed-off cat, you shouldn't make noises like one.~ Nyrae DawnFreeing Carter ~ Nyrae Dawn, #NFDB
960:I know what it's like to lose kits, Oakheart, I wouldn't wish that kind of grief on any cat. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
961:I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
962:I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it. ~ Young Jeezy, #NFDB
963:It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
964:Lang glanced over to where Fafhrd lay sprawled over Zig´s lap."Apparently she needs a cat fix. ~ Rhys Ford, #NFDB
965:Leafpaw winced; how could Mothwing believe that the only task of a medicine cat was to heal? ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
966:Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! ~ Theophile Gautier, #NFDB
967:Quit it," Kitty warns. "We're not getting a cat. Cats are blah. They're also very manipulative ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
968:Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success. ~ Cat Cora, #NFDB
969:Surely having one’s life stolen out from under one’s feet counted for more than livestock. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
970:The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
971:Why can't a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon? ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
972:All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
973:Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut? ~ Lilian Jackson Braun, #NFDB
974:Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble. ~ John R Erickson, #NFDB
975:Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat. ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
976:I can’t stay away from you,” he whispers...“Don’t stay away from me, then,” I whisper back... ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
977:If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve the man but deteriorate the cat—" Now ~ Ellen Datlow, #NFDB
978:If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
979:Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight? Ichigo: Five people and a cat ~ Tite Kubo, #NFDB
980:I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli? ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
981:I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Audrey Hepburn’s cat was named Cat.’ We ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
982:I'm talking about the heavy shit, Anastasia. You should see what I can do with a cane or a cat. ~ E L James, #NFDB
983:„Invinge durerea, razi cat se poate, caci tot la zi ajunge si cea mai lunga noapte... ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
984:It's hotter than a two-peckered alley cat up in here. Humidity must be close to a hundred. ~ Amanda Stevens, #NFDB
985:Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
986:Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters. ~ Cat Zingano, #NFDB
987:Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
988:The boy in the closet is your boyfriend. He loves you and will tell you all about last night. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
989:The cat still seemed to be somewhat there with him, but only as an absence, a cat-shaped hole. ~ Ruth Ozeki, #NFDB
990:The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered. ~ Johnny Carson, #NFDB
991:Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
992:Where the hell is your sense of self-preservation, woman? You reckless, beautiful, stray cat! ~ Sandra Ross, #NFDB
993:You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
994:A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~ Mark Twain ~ Jim Benson, #NFDB
995:Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle. ~ Karel Capek, #NFDB
996:Arise from sleep, old cat,
And with great yawns and stretchings...
Amble out for love ~ Kobayashi Issa,#NFDB
997:curiosity not only killed the cat but threw it in the river with weights tied to its feet. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
998:I felt like I was well on my way to becoming the neighborhood cat lady. All I needed were the cats. ~ J Lynn, #NFDB
999:If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain ~ James Bowen, #NFDB
1000:I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working. ~ Noel Gallagher, #NFDB
1001:I love it when the market reacts naturally to events. It's like a cat coughing up a fur ball. ~ Greg Gutfeld, #NFDB
1002:In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
1003:It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work. ~ Tim Berners Lee, #NFDB
1004:...Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and dog will have his day. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1005:My heart leaps as I remember this morning's note. This boy is my weirdo.
My weirdo is hot. ~ Cat Patrick,#NFDB
1006:One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1007:This time, his bear stayed quiet, finally getting with the “sneaky like a cat” program. Today ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
1008:you know what they say about curiosity and the cat... Piss the curious cat off and get filleted. ~ S M Reine, #NFDB
1009:You look like a cat beat your ass as comeuppance for everything dogs have done to them. ~ Shawntelle Madison, #NFDB
1010:Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?' ~ Prince Philip, #NFDB
1011:Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow. ~ Connie Willis, #NFDB
1012:Edith Pickering had the sort of austere features and fine bones that changed little with age. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
1013:I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature. ~ Patricia Moyes, #NFDB
1014:I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.' ~ Jeb Bush, #NFDB
1015:If you want mewing, why not get a cat?” said the robin. “Gracious, I never thought of that! ~ Walter R Brooks, #NFDB
1016:Kids are doing meth in every town in the country, Cat. Dang. Get your head out of your butt. ~ Lauren Myracle, #NFDB
1017:Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1018:The cat rubbed its face on Lilly’s arm, then curled into a ball and went back to sleep. ~ Ellen Marie Wiseman, #NFDB
1019:When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB
1020:Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight. ~ Clare Boothe Luce, #NFDB
1021:You look like the cat that swallowed the cream," Stephen said softly.
"That comes later. ~ K J Charles,#NFDB
1022:At heart, Curran was a cat. He liked soft things, high places, and enough room to stretch out. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1023:Caci avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu atat ti-e mai este. La fel este si gloria. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
1024:Cat lovers display an intensity lacking — thank goodness — in most human relationships. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
1025:Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. "His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat. ~ Bryan Davis, #NFDB
1026:Dorcas, you already reek like a Marseilles cat house; don't wheedle Mike for more stinkum. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
1027:Hollypaw cut him off. “No cat must know! Not when we don’t know exactly what the prophecy means. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1028:I don’t want Church to ever be dead! He’s my cat! He’s not God’s cat! Let God have His own cat! ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1029:If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him. ~ Drew Barrymore, #NFDB
1030:Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight?
Ichigo: Five people and a cat ~ Tite Kubo,#NFDB
1031:I’m a dog and she was a cat: I, slobbery and keen; she, self-contained and ultimately private. ~ Claire Messud, #NFDB
1032:I'm not a cat. And I'm not gonna turn into one even if you hug me . . . I was born like this. ~ Natsuki Takaya, #NFDB
1033:In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1034:It's great to admire other people's fashion choices, but I don't think you should idolise anyone. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1035:No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat. ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB
1036:No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens... ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1037:NOW THAT I WAS OUT of that bizarre . . . sobriety fog, I could see everything much more clearly! ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
1038:...the wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1039:You are speaking to a cat. If you do not believe this is magic, what do you think it is? She ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
1040:You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone. ~ William S Burroughs,#NFDB
1041:You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
1042:[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. ~ Theophile Gautier, #NFDB
1043:All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this... ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
1044:A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic! ~ Milton Jones, #NFDB
1045:Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1046:Give a cat a name you wouldn't mind shouting out in a strained, worried voice around midnight ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1047:Iar cel pe care nu-l puteti invata sa zboare, pe-acela invatati-l sa cada cat mai repede! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1048:I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1049:I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1050:I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't. ~ Jenny Downham, #NFDB
1051:People can read anything, but no one does. All they do is play games and watch cat holograms. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
1052:The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. “Calling cats,” it confided, “tends to ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1053:When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm? ~ Cat Johnson, #NFDB
1054:Who can tell what just criticisms Murr the Cat may be passing on us beings of wider speculation? ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1055:Why were you smiling like that?” “Smiling like what?” “Like the cat that got into the cream pot. ~ Joanne Fluke, #NFDB
1056:A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment. ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
1057:A dog has a million friends to a cat’s one,” she says. “Why, even snakes are sometimes praised! ~ The New Yorker, #NFDB
1058:A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1059:A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education. ~ Cat Cora, #NFDB
1060:And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back? ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1061:Bastard. I’ll never understand why men need to show the world their pricks. We’ve all seen them. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
1062:Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed. ~ Nick Denton, #NFDB
1063:Cloudberry, how she came from RiverClan after the ThunderClan medicine cat Ravenwing was murdered. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1064:Every cat is royal,” Mani declared in a tone that said he would be mad if you argued. “I am myself. ~ Gene Wolfe, #NFDB
1065:Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1066:for me, reading is remembering. the simplicity of knowing what's coming isn't so simple after all. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
1067:Her dog Custard is a Pomeranian. He looks like a golden dandelion fluff with cat feet. Mrs. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
1068:I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1069:I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will. ~ Cat Zingano, #NFDB
1070:I don´t want to be a ghost or a stupid sexy cat. I want to be something that I really want to be. ~ Ava Dellaira, #NFDB
1071:If I had a Yeti hiding in my closet I’d take the cat and go someplace else too,” Lula said. We ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
1072:knowing full well that I looked like something any self-respecting cat would refuse to drag in. ~ Nancy Atherton, #NFDB
1073:My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1074:Now I am all alone. My only comfort is my sweet little cat. I'm just an old woman, waiting to die. ~ Julie Berry, #NFDB
1075:So now that you've committed to a girl, maybe you can go to class more, or even get a cat," I said. ~ Kasie West, #NFDB
1076:The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story. —JOHN LE CARRÉ ~ Wendy Wax, #NFDB
1077:To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake. ~ Aileen Fisher, #NFDB
1078:When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1079:Y’know, if man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat. ~ Kenneth C Johnson, #NFDB
1080:A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
1081:A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him. ~ Dick Gregory, #NFDB
1082:For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can't tell a live cat from a dead cat. ~ Lynn Margulis, #NFDB
1083:He bought her six dresses and I brought her goddamn cat back from the dead, so who loves her more? ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1084:I'm actually scared of horror movies. I'm kind of Scaredy Cat when it comes to that stuff. ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt, #NFDB
1085:It could be a true future that Ilven saw—she’s a Saint after all.
Was. Was a Saint. ~ Cat Hellisen,#NFDB
1086:It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1087:Miss Marple made a ladylike noise of vexation like a cat sneezing to indicate profound disgust. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1088:Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
1089:She maintains only one cat of her own, a deaf, toothless antique named Tibby-Wibby Simpson Ross, ~ The New Yorker, #NFDB
1090:Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
1091:Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1092:The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1093:We’re lucky to have you, Featherwhisker,” Dappletail meowed. No cat spoke up for Goosefeather. With ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1094:At least, I’m not as terrible a magician as whoever enchanted that poor cat!
- Mildred Jaeger ~ Brad Strickland,#NFDB
1095:I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up. ~ Nicolas Cage, #NFDB
1096:In Paris one could have the eyes of a cat (as he did) and tell people it was a trick of fashion. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1097:Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1098:The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
1099:Without the people who thought the best of him, he had forgotten how to think the best of himself. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
1100:a cat has claws at the end of its paws, and a complex sentences has a pause at the end of its clause ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1101:A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch. ~ Charles M Blow, #NFDB
1102:Care killed a cat,” snapped Mary Poppins. “I wasn’t caring, I was only wondering,” corrected Michael. ~ P L Travers, #NFDB
1103:Cat got on the porch this morning, bout give me a cadillac arrest thinking it was Mister Johnny. ~ Kathryn Stockett, #NFDB
1104:He moves like a cat, hears like a dog, and hides like a rabbit. And strikes like a damn rattlesnake. ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB
1105:How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
1106:I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat ~ Don Marquis, #NFDB
1107:I don’t like love as a command, as a search. It must come to you, like a hungry cat at the door. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1108:I don't like love as a command, as a search. it must come to you, like a hungry cat at the door. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1109:I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1110:If you aren’t going to cause a stir when you enter a room, don’t bother. Stay at home and bore the cat. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1111:It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1112:It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1113:It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1114:Life is too short to spend an hour and a half on a mystery that will ultimately be solved by a cat. ~ Colin Bateman, #NFDB
1115:Once, I loved. I stumbled here and there, but I loved well. It was definitive, remarkable. My compass. ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
1116:The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat." ~ Elmer Davis, #NFDB
1117:Three will come, kin of the cat with fire in his pelt, who hold the power of the stars in their paws. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1118:Getting sweaty with a woman after some good sex was one thing, but he'd rather not start out that way. ~ Cat Johnson, #NFDB
1119:Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone. ~ Lenny Bruce, #NFDB
1120:I'm sorry.' The words fell out onto the table and flew away like dandelion seeds, never reaching him. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
1121:I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan. ~ Margo Martindale, #NFDB
1122:I think Zachariah just stole our cat. I swear I saw him putting Church into the backseat of a car. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1123:I will never let myself be caught like that—any marriage I make will be my own. A choice. A free one. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
1124:Life was the cat that dragged the parrot downstairs by its tail; his head banged against every step. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
1125:Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1126:Severin knew he was frightening to behold. He was, after all, a beast with the head of a black cat. Teeth ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
1127:Sister, who’s that? Is it the cat?” came Mrs. Wiggins’ voice from inside, followed by a deep sigh. ~ Walter R Brooks, #NFDB
1128:Well, life with Percy was probably extremely dull. “And Footnote, miss?” “Footnote?” “Himself’s cat. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
1129:When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her? ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1130:When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1131:With their broad chests and muscular bodies, maine coons are the defensive tackles of the cat world. ~ Miranda James, #NFDB
1132:You’re not supposed to smile at me like I’m a little kitten that stupidly thinks it’s a jungle cat. ~ Suzanne Wright, #NFDB
1133:A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye. ~ Heather O Neill, #NFDB
1134:But that’s the point. We wouldn’t even have wars if adults followed the rules they learned as children. ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
1135:For as Oscar Wilde once said, “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. ~ Cat Grant, #NFDB
1136:Ginny Weasley seemed very disturbed by Mrs. Norris’s fate. According to Ron, she was a great cat lover. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1137:How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice
"You must be," said the cat, "or you wouldn't have come here. ~ Lewis Carroll,#NFDB
1138:However, I’m a grown-up cat and I restrained myself, so, everyone, feel free to shower me with praise. ~ Hiro Arikawa, #NFDB
1139:I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier. ~ Mikhail Bulgakov, #NFDB
1140:I hear your chants. I hear your cat calls. And yes it's true. I'm obsessed with other men's balls. WORD! ~ Kurt Angle, #NFDB
1141:I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition. ~ Jim Davis, #NFDB
1142:It often happens that a human is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1143:Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1144:Lace: "Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?"
Cal: "Um, maybe? ~ Scott Westerfeld,#NFDB
1145:Look what the cat drug in.”
“If I were you, I wouldn’t mention pussy, unless you’re offering some. ~ Jennifer Foor,#NFDB
1146:Milo stepped back, grinned like the Cheshire Cat, and pointed at her. “Ahhh, I get you good, Dr. Warner! ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
1147:My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego. ~ Michelle M Pillow, #NFDB
1148:Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1149:The head makes war, but the heart makes peace. And, thankfully, the heart ends up ruling more than not. ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
1150:The only way to win this cat-and-mouse game, as the Cat said in Red Dwarf, was not to be the mouse. ~ Kerry Greenwood, #NFDB
1151:There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat. ~ Vita Sackville West, #NFDB
1152:Well, it’s no good crying over spilled potion, I suppose . . . but the cat’s among the pixies now . . . ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1153:What courage, man! What though care killed a cat? Thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1154:When I die they can take my work and wipe a cat’s ass with it. It will be of no earthly use to me. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1155:You and me are happening. It’s not an illusion, and there’s nothing confusing about it. It just is.” “It ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
1156:You don't have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird. ~ Ann Rinaldi, #NFDB
1157:Zach: *sends you a thousand cat pictures*
* * *
Me: Don’t threaten me with a good time. ~ Teagan Hunter,#NFDB
1158:FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
1159:He bought her six dresses, and I brought her god-damned cat back from the dead, so who loves her more?! ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1160:I can feel him. He feels real. He smells like wet cat. He has fingers. Cats do not have fingers. ~ Katherine Applegate, #NFDB
1161:I couldn't buy the lice off a sick cat," the cabbie answered from the very depths of self-deprecation. ~ Nelson Algren, #NFDB
1162:I have to chant, but I really want to curl up in bed and read chick lit and watch 30 Rock,” she said—and ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
1163:I know what it's like to have a power no other cat understands. It's the loneliest feeling in the world. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1164:Listen, little girl,” said Duke. “If there is one thing you don’t do, it’s try to break up a cat fight. ~ Mandy M Roth, #NFDB
1165:Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1166:Night was her time. The Keeper. Bond-mate of the cat. Protector of the night. Daughter of the moon. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
1167:Real cowboys don't line dance. We like to dance nice and close. Close enough to polish our belt buckles. ~ Cat Johnson, #NFDB
1168:Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1169:She had the expression of the cat who ate the canary and then threw it up in her owner's favorite shoes. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
1170:Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. Stop ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
1171:Sophie knew about power animals,everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot. ~ Michelle Tea, #NFDB
1172:So, what did you learn?
Curiosity asked the Cat, then
poked her carcass with a stick. ~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer,#NFDB
1173:There are those who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one... ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1174:Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1175:When bored, find a little cat and watch it; when very bored, find two little cats and watch them! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1176:When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw... ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1177:A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. ~ William Ralph Inge, #NFDB
1178:Anna would say that she was a cat like Gemma, with nine lives to spend, all nine precious and delicious. ~ Beth Kephart, #NFDB
1179:A stray cat’s skill lies in building up a complex web of connections in order to survive on the streets. ~ Hiro Arikawa, #NFDB
1180:But Little Bloody Bit would have Not a gram of that. She set upon their frigate Like a cat upon a rat. ~ J A Sutherland, #NFDB
1181:Does he think if he just dangles his boy bits at you like a cat toy you’ll go scampering after him?” “Of ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1182:His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1183:I choose what to wear depending on how I feel and what I'm comfortable in. That's when you look your best. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1184:I had a cat, though. I wanted to name the frogs, because I watched them grow, but there were too many. ~ Satoshi Tajiri, #NFDB
1185:I had never come across a talking cat before, but good manners, as my father used to say, cost nothing. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
1186:It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights. ~ James Denton, #NFDB
1187:It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1188:moments of perfect peace are rare and to be relished. We sat and savoured. The purring of the cat, th ~ Kerry Greenwood, #NFDB
1189:My cat's fully capable of speaking, but he says he's afraid of me turning it into a Kevin James vehicle. ~ Andy Kindler, #NFDB
1190:My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1191:No, he keeps the schedule of a cat. Long hours of slumber interrupted by brief periods of self-grooming. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1192:Over his shoulder, Evangeline prowls like a predatory cat, a glittering storm of knives at her fist. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
1193:Retail therapy—usually one of my first resorts—wasn’t working; I felt like a cat that smelled pit bull. ~ M L N Hanover, #NFDB
1194:Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
1195:You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it? ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1196:Any details on the mask?” “I think people are usually too busy looking at the black leather cat-suit. ~ Genevieve Cogman, #NFDB
1197:Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1198:God does not exist, God is not good. All that awaits us is the cat who will urinate on our grave. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky, #NFDB
1199:Here you complain about your boring life, yet when a talking cat drops into your lap, you seek to silence it! ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
1200:I love bold, colorful party dresses because they don't need accessories. Just throw one on and you're done. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1201:Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions! ~ Louis Ferdinand C line, #NFDB
1202:I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1203:I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with. ~ Hayao Miyazaki, #NFDB
1204:It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him. ~ Kathleen Hanna, #NFDB
1205:I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1206:I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me ~ George Whitefield, #NFDB
1207:I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome. ~ Marion Cotillard, #NFDB
1208:No one can make you feel anything you don’t want to feel,” my mother told me once, a complete delusion. He ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
1209:Then I laughed because here I was having a conversation with a cat about having a conversation with a cat. ~ Sofie Kelly, #NFDB
1210:There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1211:After all, there is nothing quite like losing a parent to knock the childishness out of a person’s spirit. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
1212:A great king should rather be a dog that killeth clean, than a cat that patteth and sporteth with his prey. ~ E R Eddison, #NFDB
1213:A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat. ~ Elayne Boosler, #NFDB
1214:And things weren’t getting better as I grew older. They just kept getting worse. Inhale, exhale. Fuck this. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
1215:A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'. ~ Bob Monkhouse, #NFDB
1216:Being injured isn’t bad, he reflected. It’s kind of a relief to have to let some other cat take care of me. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1217:Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie. ~ Dennis Miller, #NFDB
1218:For wolves and pigs and bears, thinking that they’re human is a tragedy. For a cat, it’s an experience. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1219:I am most displeased to hear that.” She sounded about as displeased as a cat who'd just cornered a mouse. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
1220:I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
1221:If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1222:If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?! ~ Jamie Campbell Bower, #NFDB
1223:I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like,” Magnus said easily, and stood up. “So let’s say Friday night? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1224:I think it’s just the whole package. I can’t pick you apart. I just love all of you. I think I always have. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
1225:Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1226:Michael’s a good cat but he tries so hard to keep it real that he can seem full of negativity, ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
1227:...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
1228:Remember the old saying, my lady,” he said slyly. “Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well. ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
1229:We would’ve been kicked out if we got caught—and you know me. I just live for getting kicked out of things. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
1230:When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1231:When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar. ~ Philip Kerr, #NFDB
1232:Young cat! If you keep
Your eyes open enough,
Oh, the stuff you will learn!
The most wonderful stuff! ~ Dr Seuss,#NFDB
1233:You really do think you're the cat's pajamas, don't you?" I asked Raphael, annoyed with his arrogance. ~ Katie MacAlister, #NFDB
1234:A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. ~ Joseph Epstein, #NFDB
1235:Can't say I'm surprised you were here. You have the curiosity of a cat and the common sense of a goldfish. ~ Susan Dennard, #NFDB
1236:He blinked at me lazily and I blinked back at half speed, an exchange I later learned was called a cat kiss. ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
1237:How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice. ‘You must be,’ said the Cat, ‘or you wouldn’t have come here.’ Alice ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
1238:Be that cat! she reminded herself. The one that stayed out of reach, and never - ever purred. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1239:If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1240:I feel sorry for ThunderClan, stuck with you as leader, when every cat knows the bad blood you’ve inherited. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1241:I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat. ~ Ralph Bakshi, #NFDB
1242:I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1243:I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1244:It’s kind of silly to tell the talking cat he doesn’t exist when he’s sitting right there arguing with you. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
1245:Love is so powerful that it always wins.
Truth is so powerful that it always wins.
All it takes is Time. ~ Cat Bauer,#NFDB
1246:No one really knows the cat population in America. Some conservative guesses put it in the millions. ~ William W Johnstone, #NFDB
1247:Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat. ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
1248:Run while you can, Cat. With every breath you take, this pirate is becoming less willing to let you go. ~ Elizabeth Lowell, #NFDB
1249:telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be about as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat. Some ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1250:The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1251:Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read. ~ Frances Hardinge, #NFDB
1252:When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made. ~ Louise Rennison, #NFDB
1253:You’ll know if she’s doing them right,” the medicine cat called over her shoulder, “because she’ll complain! ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1254:Are you asking me if I fuck my food?” The words sound overly harsh in the darkness.
“I suppose I am. ~ Cat Hellisen,#NFDB
1255:Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete. ~ Kate Griffin, #NFDB
1256:El-lie, Come out, come out, wherever you are! The cat's finally away. Time for the mouse to come out and play. ~ Kelly Oram, #NFDB
1257:God I have been - God I am. But quite frankly, sometimes it is all just a little too much for one small cat. ~ Paul Gallico, #NFDB
1258:Hi, Lady Jane!" A large grey cat leaped from some neighbouring shelf on his shoulder and startled us all. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1259:I can’t handle this, I thought immediately. . . . without Adderall. My addiction finished the thought for me. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
1260:I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you're different. ~ Cat Cora, #NFDB
1261:I’m so dull, the fucking cat runs away about three times a month just to get a little excitement. And ~ MaryJanice Davidson, #NFDB
1262:In fact, it’s probably easier to give a pill to a cat than to a man. Then again, a man can’t scratch you. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
1263:I wanted to walk away in denial, watch the news and believe the cat was faking the whole thing for attention. ~ Erika Lopez, #NFDB
1264:No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1265:No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight. ~ Cat Cora, #NFDB
1266:Riley : "Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on."
Mercy: "Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies. ~ Nalini Singh,#NFDB
1267:She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat. ~ Leopold von Sacher Masoch, #NFDB
1268:The symbologist made a cryptic sign. "That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl. ~ Jack Vance, #NFDB
1269:Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1270:This village,” James announced, “has too many damned secrets.” And with that, he stepped out into the snow. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
1271:Whatever happens, no cat will forget that the Clans fought first with their hearts and then with their claws. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1272:You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. ~ Diane Lane, #NFDB
1273:A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
1274:A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1275:Curiosity, as the saying goes, killed the cat. And it has frequently proved lethal to nonfelines as well. And ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
1276:Do you have a cat and is she sitting on your lap? Does her forehead smell like cedar trees and fresh sweet air? ~ Ruth Ozeki, #NFDB
1277:Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1278:George did likewise. “What do you think of him?” “Behaving like a cat on a hot bakestone,” said Tretower, ~ Elizabeth Bailey, #NFDB
1279:I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. ~ E B White, #NFDB
1280:If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt. ~ David Markson, #NFDB
1281:If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1282:Instead, I have the alien version of Grumpy Cat, and he just roped and tied me like a calf at a rodeo. Asshole. ~ Ruby Dixon, #NFDB
1283:It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1284:Meaning he could see a spot on the bottom of his food bowl, which somehow translated to starving in cat-speak. ~ Stacy Green, #NFDB
1285:My eldest cat, “Nigger-Man,” was seven years old and had come with me from my home in Bolton, Massachusetts; ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1286:Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea. ~ Eleanor Brown, #NFDB
1287:Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat. ~ Julian Huxley, #NFDB
1288:So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery? ~ Leopold von Sacher Masoch, #NFDB
1289:The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied. ~ Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, #NFDB
1290:Then he smiled, like a cat who had just been entrusted with the keys to a home for wayward but plump canaries. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1291:The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing like a cat. ~ Theodore Roethke,#NFDB
1292:Trying to explain moral principles to Khe Sahn was like reviewing a standard 1040 tax form with a house cat! ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1293:You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1294:You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1295:A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger. ~ John le Carre, #NFDB
1296:And then I heard the most beautiful sound of my life. Somewhere nearby, a cat let out an angry, hissing scream. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1297:Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. ~ Dan Greenburg, #NFDB
1298:If I could have any job I would be a cat... but that's not something I'm supposed to talk about in public. ~ Iliza Shlesinger, #NFDB
1299:I’m going to be really scared,” he muttered. “I don’t like badgers. Stormpaw is the meanest cat in ThunderClan! ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1300:I slid my hand over his heart.
"I'm clawing my way in there deep."
"I can feel it, Scarlett. Make it hurt. ~ Cat Porter,#NFDB
1301:I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them. ~ Cat Zingano, #NFDB
1302:It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball. ~ Kenneth Oppel, #NFDB
1303:Now thirteen and ferociously bright, she showed the stubbornness of an ox and the indifference of an alley cat. ~ Shulem Deen, #NFDB
1304:So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1305:The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1306:The cold…” Sarah ached. Her mother had always run from winter, a fawn racing away from a pack of snowy wolves. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
1307:This pattern-finding process is easier when the data is labeled with that desired outcome—“cat” versus “no cat”; ~ Kai Fu Lee, #NFDB
1308:Well-worn buckskin breeches, she decided, made it very difficult to maintain a businesslike sense of decorum. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
1309:What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food. ~ Anne McCaffrey, #NFDB
1310:You'd know if you were [a cat person]. It's like being a Christian or a Muslim. You just KNOW when you are one. ~ Helen Brown, #NFDB
1311:You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1312:You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1313:But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
1314:Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat. ~ Rip Esselstyn, #NFDB
1315:Going to college don't make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit. ~ Laura Lippman, #NFDB
1316:He has a great smile, a cat's smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
1317:He smiled, slow as pouring honey, and the moon shone off his milky teeth and the white corners of his eyes. And ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
1318:If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don't want to see another dog or cat born. ~ Wayne Pacelle, #NFDB
1319:It helps to think of him not as a two foot-tall squirrel cat but more of an eight-foot pissed-off lion. ~ Sebastien de Castell, #NFDB
1320:I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1321:Obey the Testing Goat, not Refactoring Cat! We don’t need to implement our new, shiny design in a single big bang. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1322:Sometimes, you have to ride the wave, Kit-Cat, and see what beach it lands on. Could be warm and sunny there. ~ Dakota Cassidy, #NFDB
1323:The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. ~ Carl Van Vechten, #NFDB
1324:There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us. ~ Russell Brand, #NFDB
1325:When the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
1326:Your brain is just another cat in the snow, and you can quote me on that because I love out of context quotes. ~ Stephen Guise, #NFDB
1327:Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1328:A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge. ~ Arthur Golden, #NFDB
1329:A roundworm has about three hundred neurons. A cat has about a billion, and you have about eighty-five billion. ~ David McRaney, #NFDB
1330:Cat scowled at him. "Why would I say anything about you? You think the whole world's sniffing your butt? ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
1331:Cat scowled at him. 'Why would I say anything about you? You think the whole world's sniffing your butt? ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
1332:Chibi is a friend with whom I share an understanding, and who just happens to have taken on the form of a cat ~ Takashi Hiraide, #NFDB
1333:Conraj starts to talk to the Cat, which sometimes purrs, like a polite acquaintance whose mind is on other things. ~ Tanith Lee, #NFDB
1334:Do you like that, sweetheart?” Do I sound like I don’t? I’m a mix between a cat meowing and a sheep baa-ing. ~ Corinne Michaels, #NFDB
1335:For Christmas my family bought me a new Scrabble board (the one that swivels!) and cat treats. Am I eighty five? ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
1336:He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird ~ Karen Chance, #NFDB
1337:I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
~ James Thurber,#NFDB
1338:I'm afraid the popularity of the domestic cat would drop very quickly if little kitty could roar its displeasure. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1339:I was going to buy Larry something, but he said I should spend it on something I always wanted. So I bought a cat. ~ J L Merrow, #NFDB
1340:Nobody ever thinks I’m up to no good. I let them think whatever they want and they fill in the gaps themselves. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
1341:Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
1342:Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do. ~ Karel Capek, #NFDB
1343:She definitely liked him, physically at least, the way she’d wrapped around him like a cat earlier proof of that. ~ Mina Carter, #NFDB
1344:Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the US, but I didn't click with anyone. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
1345:...today there are bars of light on the rug, but Muse Cat prefers his tomato box where he can dream in private... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1346:We can’t get a cat,” Valkyrie argued. “They don’t do anything except plot against you and multiply like Gremlins. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
1347:When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy. ~ Anthony Jeselnik, #NFDB
1348:...why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain ...that's why ... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1349:Feeling the weight of a cat's paws pressing into your shoulders in the middle of the night - not much beats that. ~ Hiro Arikawa, #NFDB
1350:fun and danger hardly put margarine on the toast or fed the cat. You give up toast and end up eating the cat. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1351:Hey, some days you had to get out the broom, hat, and big black cat and remind everyone who they were dealing with. ~ Linda Kage, #NFDB
1352:If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1353:I love that books allow us to experience other lives without us ever having to change where we live or who we are. ~ Cat Winters, #NFDB
1354:In his mind the movement of money forms a fine lattice-work, a three dimensional cat's-cradle of light and motion. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1355:In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1356:It’s like a cat trying to imagine the taste of sugar. Cats, unlike dogs and other omnivores, can’t taste sweetness. ~ Mary Roach, #NFDB
1357:The cat has caught the bird, and she will scratch out your eyes as well. You will never see your Rapunzel again. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
1358:The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1359:The cat is in the sack, but the sack is not closed. The cat is in it, but it's open...and it's a wild cat. ~ Giovanni Trapattoni, #NFDB
1360:Your cat just got cat hair on me.” “It’s only fair,” Min said. “Your suit just got expensive suit lint on him. ~ Jennifer Crusie, #NFDB
1361:A fat woman was dancing the cha-cha with a cat, and a thunderous chorus was singing the praises of Purina Cat Chow. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1362:After thoroughly inspecting his domicile, I, a cat of some breeding, chose the rug beneath the tea table as my bedroom. ~ Can Xue, #NFDB
1363:At this point, Chester started to bathe his tail, which is a cat's way of changing a subject he finds uncomfortable. ~ James Howe, #NFDB
1364:Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
1365:For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone. ~ Mikhail Bulgakov, #NFDB
1366:If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence. ~ Will Cuppy, #NFDB
1367:If you lay one hand on Simon, vampire, I'll have you chopped up into tiny pieces and fed to my cat. Understand? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1368:If your Spotify starts playing Ted Nugent after years of Arcade Fire, your cat will surely know something is up. ~ Breaking Burgh, #NFDB
1369:If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1370:I have a dog as well, and I'm not a vegan or anything. But I needlepoint and I have a cat, so it's not boding well. ~ Emmy Rossum, #NFDB
1371:I think I was a cat in another life, because all I want is to lie around sleeping in the world's biggest sunbeam. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1372:I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
1373:Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
1374:Well, Ista, said the Voice. Do you stay or go? You cannot hang forever in My doorway like a cat, you know. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
1375:You can tame feral cats, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age. ~ Temple Grandin, #NFDB
1376:A cat can be great company if you’re a cat person. If you’re not, well, let’s just say that you shouldn’t go there. ~ Theresa Weir, #NFDB
1377:A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories. ~ Roja Dove, #NFDB
1378:And so I shut down. Winter raged on, but I stopped thinking about my pregnancy. I pretended it all wasn’t happening. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
1379:Buttercup, miserable even with Prim’s constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1380:Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
1381:Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom. ~ Cat Cora, #NFDB
1382:Faith, Princess, the Prism Cat repeated. It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.
~ Terry Brooks,#NFDB
1383:If all I can feel is the very fraying edge of their grief, then I do not want to think how dark the center must be. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
1384:If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening. ~ Dan Harmon, #NFDB
1385:If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
1386:I had to stop sneaking around girls' houses like some kind of dumb-ass cat burglar. Clearly it got me nowhere good. ~ Kieran Scott, #NFDB
1387:I met Jane’s dog, Balloon, and saw the famous Scientology sauna, which was predictably gargantuan and ridiculous. An ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
1388:I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1389:Millstone sputtered, "I don't know where you're getting your information, G.T., but that's as bogus as a barking cat! ~ Joan Bauer, #NFDB
1390:Never mind,' she said, 'I don't see the point of a God.'
'And I don't see much point in a cat.' the Kami replied. ~ Kij Johnson,#NFDB
1391:romantic rendezvous you promised in the coffee shop? I don’t have much time; I’ve got to get back to the CAT scanner. ~ Robin Cook, #NFDB
1392:She gathered the cat up in her arms and held it to her chest as if it was the most precious thing in the world. ~ Jonathan Maberry, #NFDB
1393:...that cat's not going back in the bag." His eyes twinkled. "So I might as well throw in the dog and the pony too. ~ Debora Geary, #NFDB
1394:That cat was a traitor. And if by some miracle she lived through the night, he was getting downgraded to Tender Vitals. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1395:The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge
From rascals worse than they.
(from, Coriolanus) ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1396:This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen. ~ Jayma Mays, #NFDB
1397:What is a corrupted politician for a country which is like a fat fish? Just a cat, nothing but a piggish cat! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1398:Yo ho ho, Mr. Pall. I think it’s time we kicked a few butts, took a few risks, and called the cat rude names.” “We ~ Nathan Lowell, #NFDB
1399:You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1400:Being strong, showing that you will see things through no matter what comes your way, that's what matters most to me. ~ Cat Zingano, #NFDB
1401:But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat; "we're all mad here. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1402:Carefree, peaceful... those words reminds me of you." Matt says without hesitation, surprising me with his frankness. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
1403:Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
1404:I can say with sincerity that I like cats... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
1405:I’m a cat person, myself,” she said, vaguely. A low-level voice said: “Yeah? Yeah? Wash in your own spit, do you? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1406:Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
1407:Little Newt snorted. “Religion!”
“Beg your pardon?” Castle said.
“See the cat?” asked Newt. “See the cradle? ~ Kurt Vonnegut,#NFDB
1408:Mrs. Beverly Jean Reinhoffer is our cat, of whom Chris has full custody. I never liked her and was glad to see her go. ~ Lauren Fox, #NFDB
1409:Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss? ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1410:Of three things be wary-
of a feather on a cat,
The shepherd eating mutton,
And a guardsman that is fat. ~ Mercedes Lackey,#NFDB
1411:Only the insane equate pain with success."
"The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die."
Cheshire Cat ~ Lewis Carroll,#NFDB
1412:terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1413:That cat was a traitor. And if by some miracle she lived through the night, he was getting downgraded to Tender Vittles. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1414:The fact Cat had been an addict was news to me, but one thing was clear. Brock planned this revenge a long time ago. “Go ~ L J Shen, #NFDB
1415:The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be. ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
1416:Tigerclaw stared in disbelief. Was the life of his son dependent on an ancient medicine cat and an arrogant kittypet? ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1417:We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats. ~ Temple Grandin, #NFDB
1418:Alexia wondered what he thought of her as—a cat perhaps? Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
1419:Carefully, I arrange the teapot, the little white cup, and the sugar bowl before me like an army. Defense? Or attack? ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
1420:Hey, Cammie... tell Suzie she's a lucky cat."
Have sexier words ever been spoken? I seriously think not! ~ Ally Carter,#NFDB
1421:Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
1422:I am Abdumasi of the House of Abd, master of ships, champion cat gambler, and I challenge you to mortal up-fuckery! ~ Seth Dickinson, #NFDB
1423:I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1424:If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home. ~ Alex Ferguson, #NFDB
1425:I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks. ~ R L LaFevers, #NFDB
1426:In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon. ~ Margaret Wise Brown, #NFDB
1427:It meant he was a cat and he'd do whatever he pleased, when he pleased, and if I didn't like it, that was just to bad. ~ Laurie Cass, #NFDB
1428:It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
1429:I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat. ~ Linus Torvalds, #NFDB
1430:There’s a distinct bitter aftertaste of Lady’s Gown in the tea, and I welcome it. Anything to sleep without dreaming. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
1431:Where do you want to go?" was his responce. "I don't know" Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
1432:With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful. ~ Akif Pirincci, #NFDB
1433:A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him. ~ William Kunstler, #NFDB
1434:Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur. ~ Sue Thoele, #NFDB
1435:As instructed, I waited like a good boy. Of course I did. I’m a wise cat. I know what to do in any and all situations. ~ Hiro Arikawa, #NFDB
1436:'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.' ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
1437:Every good story deserves a happy ending – it’s a basic rule of storytelling. The boy next door certainly shouldn’t die. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
1438:Her nature is like a demonstrative cat's; she is delicate, acutely sensitive to cold, and incredibly caressing in her ways. ~ Colette, #NFDB
1439:I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies. ~ Patricia Moyes, #NFDB
1440:...in some ways he was as fastidious as a cat. (That is, he was intolerant of all messes except the ones he made.) ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
1441:It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1442:Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1443:Love not only stings when you lose it, when it’s ripped away from you. When it first bites, it can sting just as deeply. ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
1444:My job is to make the players I'm playing with better. I'm going to be the cat that does a lof of the other things.' ~ Tracy McGrady, #NFDB
1445:The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. ~ Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon, #NFDB
1446:The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m. ~ Caitlin Doughty, #NFDB
1447:The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse. ~ Steven Millhauser, #NFDB
1448:There's a reason you never see anyone's house with a Beware of Cat sign. Because they're not even worth mentioning. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
1449:which was a bit like a mouse chasing a cat, a giant mutant cat with laser eyes and a bellyful of smaller spiteful cats. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
1450:You can be a cat god and it doesn't mean shit at the end of the day if you don't have equal sympathy for the humans. ~ Jackson Galaxy, #NFDB
1451:You're the kind of woman who could easily be a distraction if I let you. If I want to come home alive, I can't let you. ~ Cat Johnson, #NFDB
1452:and even the feral, near-wild Third Cat, whose true name he had never discovered, as one has to do with cats, trailed ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
1453:And yeah, we look a little like Pepé Le Pew and his bewildered cat girlfriend, but we really do seem like a couple. ~ Becky Albertalli, #NFDB
1454:Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1455:Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
1456:Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered ~ Rick Reilly, #NFDB
1457:I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES! ~ Richard Curtis, #NFDB
1458:It’s a cat,” I said. “If Donut wants to spend time with you he’ll show up in your room and sit on your important things. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
1459:PEOPLE DON’T JUST CHANGE OVERNIGHT, do they? But Marco did: from a sweet boy into a fearsome predator, a bully, a thief. ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
1460:So I tapped down my nerves, added some sway to my hips and decided I would not be a mouse to his cat. I would be the dog. ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
1461:The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. ~ Carl Van Vechten, #NFDB
1462:The first time, it was a she-cat. I’d seen her before in a different dream. She was dead and then she came back to life. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1463:The satisfaction of seeing the cat eat and of it growing used to him made him relish meals and travel outside more often. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
1464:They had no idea that normal didn't exist for me anymore. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
1465:Watch out strange cat people, little red roosters on the prowl. If you see my little red rooster, please drive him home. ~ Howlin Wolf, #NFDB
1466:Who’s arguing now?”
“Cat…”
I smile innocently. It’s hard not to laugh. “Yes, Your Growliness?”
He growls. ~ Amanda Bouchet,#NFDB
1467:Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1468:But I killed you," said Alyss.
Did you?" Redd turned to The Cat. "Why wasn't I informed?"
--The Looking Glass Wars ~ Frank Beddor,#NFDB
1469:he’d been forced to rely on his charm. Which, as Cam would have put it, was like a wet cat trapped inside of a plastic bag. ~ Lia Davis, #NFDB
1470:Horses, dogs, pigeons, camels, reindeer, and cats have all been used to deliver mail. Only the cat service didn’t work out. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1471:I drive toward it not wanting it getting it getting it as the cat stretches yawns and rolls over into another dream. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1472:I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude. ~ Colette, #NFDB
1473:Katy. Her name was Katy. Reminded me of Kitty. Kitty cat. Kitten. Look at me, putting all these words together. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
1474:No one I know has ever seen the matriarch of House Sandwalker, although she’s rumored to be an imposing sort. For a bat. ~ Cat Hellisen, #NFDB
1475:Nothing in my tale seemed to surprised the woman. The cat, on the other hand, seemed not to find a word of it credible. ~ Margo Lanagan, #NFDB
1476:The Chairman likes you.” “Is that good?” “I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like,” Magnus said easily, and stood up. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1477:The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter. ~ Charles de Lint, #NFDB
1478:To Max, a quantum state was one where gambling was licensed, and Schrödinger’s cat lived somewhere on Laurel Avenue. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1479:What's that?" said the cat-- "Faith."
"To believe what I tell you about what your don't know," said the fish. ~ Margaret Wise Brown,#NFDB
1480:A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. – Lord Chesterfield, eighteenth-century statesman ~ Julie Klassen, #NFDB
1481:A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt. ~ Ethan Gilsdorf, #NFDB
1482:Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment. ~ Paul Gallico, #NFDB
1483:For me, Chibi is a friend with whom I share an understanding, and who just happens to have taken on the form of a cat. ~ Takashi Hiraide, #NFDB
1484:He hacked the FBI mainframe as a teenager and once sent an email from a former president's account, just because he could. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
1485:If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name. ~ Holly Golightly, #NFDB
1486:I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1487:I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
1488:It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1489:It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
1490:I wasn’t a cat person. Or a dog person. Or an any animal person, but that didn’t mean I wanted any harm to come to them. ~ Kathryn Croft, #NFDB
1491:Right. Forgot about that. It must be a terrible shock for fine ladies, never to see a proper cock until they’re married. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
1492:There is, however, a third theory which expresses the reality of time travel. Are you familiar with Schrodinger's Cat? ~ Marion G Harmon, #NFDB
1493:What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can. ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
1494:What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can... ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
1495:Amber nods. “I once went out with a witch. It didn't end well.”
“What happened?”
“I didn't get along with her cat. ~ David Levithan,#NFDB
1496:A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1497:At that moment, we were without doubt the greatest travellers in the world. And I was the world’s greatest travelling cat. ~ Hiro Arikawa, #NFDB
1498:Because I'm a Thunderclan cat like you," she replied, ad darker shadow in the darkness of the tunnel. "My name is Hollyleaf ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1499:Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. ~ Harry Lorayne, #NFDB
1500:Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.' Ellen: 'No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
728 Integral Yoga
298 Poetry
128 Occultism
98 Philosophy
90 Fiction
81 Christianity
61 Yoga
55 Psychology
52 Mysticism
17 Science
16 Mythology
11 Philsophy
10 Islam
8 Integral Theory
8 Hinduism
6 Education
6 Cybernetics
5 Buddhism
4 Sufism
4 Baha i Faith
2 Kabbalah
1 Zen
1 Theosophy
1 Thelema
1 Alchemy
443 The Mother
304 Satprem
194 Sri Aurobindo
164 Nolini Kanta Gupta
66 H P Lovecraft
52 Carl Jung
48 James George Frazer
48 Aleister Crowley
35 William Wordsworth
35 Sri Ramakrishna
31 William Butler Yeats
30 Percy Bysshe Shelley
28 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
26 Saint Augustine of Hippo
24 Robert Browning
24 John Keats
21 Walt Whitman
21 Aldous Huxley
19 Rabindranath Tagore
17 Plotinus
17 A B Purani
16 Swami Krishnananda
16 Friedrich Nietzsche
12 Jorge Luis Borges
12 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11 Ralph Waldo Emerson
11 Ovid
10 Swami Vivekananda
10 Muhammad
10 Lucretius
10 Li Bai
9 Saint John of Climacus
9 Plato
8 Lewis Carroll
7 Nirodbaran
7 Henry David Thoreau
7 George Van Vrekhem
6 Paul Richard
6 Norbert Wiener
6 Jordan Peterson
6 Anonymous
5 Sri Ramana Maharshi
5 Joseph Campbell
5 Baha u llah
4 Thubten Chodron
4 Rainer Maria Rilke
3 Vyasa
3 Saint Teresa of Avila
3 Peter J Carroll
3 Friedrich Schiller
3 Franz Bardon
3 Edgar Allan Poe
3 Bokar Rinpoche
2 Thomas Merton
2 Rudolf Steiner
2 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
2 Patanjali
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Ken Wilber
2 Kabir
2 Jean Gebser
2 Al-Ghazali
66 Lovecraft - Poems
48 The Golden Bough
35 Wordsworth - Poems
35 Agenda Vol 08
34 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
33 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
32 Agenda Vol 04
31 Yeats - Poems
30 Shelley - Poems
30 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
30 Magick Without Tears
30 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
28 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
27 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
27 Agenda Vol 06
26 The Synthesis Of Yoga
24 Questions And Answers 1953
24 Keats - Poems
24 Browning - Poems
24 Agenda Vol 13
24 Agenda Vol 09
24 Agenda Vol 07
22 The Life Divine
21 The Perennial Philosophy
21 Questions And Answers 1955
21 Agenda Vol 03
20 Whitman - Poems
20 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
20 Agenda Vol 05
20 Agenda Vol 02
19 Tagore - Poems
18 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
18 Liber ABA
17 Mysterium Coniunctionis
17 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
17 City of God
16 The Study and Practice of Yoga
16 The Practice of Psycho therapy
16 Record of Yoga
16 Agenda Vol 10
15 Questions And Answers 1954
15 Letters On Yoga IV
15 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
15 Agenda Vol 11
15 Agenda Vol 01
14 Savitri
14 Questions And Answers 1956
13 Words Of Long Ago
12 The Future of Man
11 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
11 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
11 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
11 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
11 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
11 On the Way to Supermanhood
11 Metamorphoses
11 Emerson - Poems
10 Talks
10 Quran
10 Of The Nature Of Things
10 Li Bai - Poems
10 Letters On Yoga I
10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
9 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
9 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
9 The Bible
9 Labyrinths
9 Essays On The Gita
9 Agenda Vol 12
8 The Human Cycle
8 Letters On Yoga II
8 Aion
7 Walden
7 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
7 The Phenomenon of Man
7 Preparing for the Miraculous
7 Faust
7 Collected Poems
7 Alice in Wonderland
6 Vedic and Philological Studies
6 The Secret Of The Veda
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 On Education
6 Maps of Meaning
6 Letters On Poetry And Art
6 Cybernetics
5 Words Of The Mother III
5 Twilight of the Idols
5 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
5 The Divine Comedy
5 Some Answers From The Mother
5 Raja-Yoga
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
5 Let Me Explain
5 Kena and Other Upanishads
5 Goethe - Poems
5 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
4 Rilke - Poems
4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
4 Hymn of the Universe
4 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
4 Essays Divine And Human
3 Vishnu Purana
3 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
3 The Integral Yoga
3 The Blue Cliff Records
3 Tara - The Feminine Divine
3 Schiller - Poems
3 Poe - Poems
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
3 Liber Null
3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
3 Borges - Poems
3 Bhakti-Yoga
3 5.1.01 - Ilion
2 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
2 Words Of The Mother II
2 The Red Book Liber Novus
2 The Practice of Magical Evocation
2 The Ever-Present Origin
2 The Book of Certitude
2 The Alchemy of Happiness
2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
2 Songs of Kabir
2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
2 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
2 General Principles of Kabbalah
2 Crowley - Poems
2 Anonymous - Poems
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Her step by step, as one discovers a forest, or rather as one fights with it, machete in hand - and then it melts, one loves, so sublime does it become. Mother grew beneath our skin like an adventure of life and death. For seven years we fought with Her. It was fascinating, detestable, powerful and sweet; we felt like screaming and biting, fleeing and always coming back: 'Ah! You won't catch me! If you think I came here to worship you, you're wrong!' And She laughed. She always laughed.
We had our bellyful of adventure at last: if you go astray in the forest, you get delightfully lost yet still with the same old skin on your back, whereas here, there is nothing left to get lost in! It is no longer just a matter of getting lost - you have to CHANGE your skin. Or die. Yes, change species.
--
Spirit nor even an improved Matter, but ... it could be called 'nothing,' so contrary was it to all we know. For the caterpillar, a butterfly is nothing, it is not even visible and has nothing in common with caterpillar heavens nor even caterpillar matter. So there we were, trapped in an impossible adventure. One does not return from there: one must cross the bridge to the other side. Then one day in that seventh year, while we still believed in liberations and the collected Upanishads, highlighted with a few glorious visions to relieve the commonplace (which remained appallingly commonplace), while we were still considering 'the Mother of the Ashram' rather like some spiritual super-director (endowed, albeit, with a disarming yet ever so provo cative smile, as though
She were making fun of us, then loving us in secret), She told us, 'I have the feeling that ALL we have lived, ALL we have known, ALL we have done is a perfect illusion ... When I had the spiritual experience that material life is an illusion, personally I found that so marvelously beautiful and happy that it was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life, but now it is the entire spiritual structure as we have lived it that is becoming an illusion! - Not the same illusion, but an illusion far worse. And I am no baby: I have been here for forty-seven years now!' Yes, She was eighty-three years old then. And that day, we ceased being 'the enemy of our own conception of the Divine,' for this entire Divine was shattered to pieces - and we met Mother, at last. This mystery we call
--
Where, then, was 'the Mother of the Ashram' in all this? What is even 'the Ashram,' if not a spiritual museum of the resistances to Something Else. They were always - and still today - reciting their catechism beneath a little flag: they are the owners of the new truth. But the new truth is laughing in their faces and leaving them high and dry at the edge of their little stagnant pond. They are under the illusion that Mother and Sri Aurobindo, twenty-seven or four years after their respective departures, could keep on repeating themselves - but then they would not be Mother and
Sri Aurobindo! They would be fossils. The truth is always on the move. It is with those who dare, who have courage, and above all the courage to shatter all the effigies, to de-mystify, and to go
--
This AGENDA is not even a path: it is a light little vibration that seizes you at any turning - and then, there it is, you are IN IT. 'Another world in the world,' She said. One has to catch the light little vibration, one has to flow with it, in a nothing that is like the only something in the midst of this great debacle. At the beginning of things, when still nothing was FIXED, when there was not yet this habit of the pelican or the kangaroo or the chimpanzee or the XXth century biologist, there was a little pulsation that beat and beat - a delightful dizziness, a joy in the world's great adventure; a little never-imprisoned spark that has kept on beating from species to species, but as if it were always eluding us, as if it were always over there, over there - as if it were something to become,
something to be played forever as the one great game of the world; a who-knows-what that left this sprig of a pensive man in the middle of a clearing; a little 'something' that beats, beats, that keeps on breathing beneath every skin that has ever been put on it - like our deepest breath, our lightest air, our air of nothing - and it keeps on going, it keeps on going. We must catch the light little breath, the little pulsation of nothing. Then suddenly, on the threshold of our clearing of concrete, our head starts spinning incurably, our eyes blink into something else, and all is different, and all seems surcharged with meaning and with life, as though we had never lived until that very minute.
Then we have caught the tail of the Great Possible, we are upon the wayless way, radically in the new, and we flow with the little lizard, the pelican, the big man, we flow everywhere in a world that has lost its old separating skin and its little baggage of habits. We begin seeing otherwise, feeling otherwise. We have opened the gate into an inconceivable clearing. Just a light little vibration that carries you away. Then we begin to understand how it CAN CHANGE, what the mechanism is - a light little mechanism and so miraculous that it looks like nothing. We begin feeling the wonder of a pure little cell, and that a sparkling of joy would be enough to turn the world inside out. We were living in a little thinking fishbowl, we were dying in an old, bottled habit. And then suddenly, all is different. The Earth is free! Who wants freedom?
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But what is not recognised in this view of things is that there are secrecies and secrecies. The material secrecies of Nature are of one category, the mystic secrecies are of another. The two are not only disparate but incommensurable. Any man with a mind and understanding of average culture can see and handle the 'scientific' forces, but not the mystic forces.
A scientist once thought that he had clinched the issue and cut the Gordian knot when he declared triumphantly with reference to spirit sances: "Very significant is the fact that spirits appear only in closed chambers, in half obscurity, to somnolent minds; they are nowhere in the open air, in broad daylight to the wide awake and vigilant intellect!" Well, if the fact is as it is stated, what does it prove? Night alone reveals the stars, during the day they vanish, but that is no proof that stars are not existent. Rather the true scientific spirit should seek to know why (or how) it is so, if it is so, and such a fact would exactly serve as a pointer, a significant starting ground. The attitude of the jesting Pilate is not helpful even to scientific inquiry. This matter of the Spirits we have taken only as an illustration and it must not be understood that this is a domain of high mysticism; rather the contrary. The spiritualists' approach to Mysticism is not the right one and is fraught with not only errors but dangers. For the spiritualists approach their subject with the entire scientific apparatus the only difference being that the scientist does not believe while the spiritualist believes.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A certain rationalistic critic divides the Upanishadic symbols into three categoriesthose that are rational and can be easily understood by the mind; those that are not understood by the mind and yet do not go against reason, having nothing inherently irrational in them and may be simply called non-rational; those that seem to be quite irrational, for they go frankly against all canons of logic and common sense. As an example of the last, the irrational type, the critic cites a story from the Chhndogya, which may be rendered thus:
There was an aspirant, a student who was seeking after knowledge. One day there appeared to him a white dog. Soon, other dogs followed and addressed their predecessor: "O Lord, sing to our Food, for we desire to eat." The white dog answered, "Come to me at dawn here in this very place." The aspirant waited. The dogs, like singer-priests, circled round in a ring. Then they sat and cried aloud; they cried out," Om We eat and Om we drink, may the gods bring here our food."
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The Gods are the formations or particularisations of the Truth-consciousness, the multiple individualisations of the One spirit. The Pitris are the Divine Fathers, that is to say, souls that once laboured and realised here below, and now have passed beyond. They dwell in another world, not too far removed from the earth, and from there, with the force of their Realisation, lend a more concrete help and guidance to the destiny that is being worked out upon earth. They are forces and formations of consciousness in an intermediate region between Here and There (antarika), and serve to bring men and gods nearer to each other, inasmuch as they belong to both the categories, being a divinised humanity or a humanised divinity. Each fixation of the Truth-consciousness in an earthly mould is a thing of joy to the Pitris; it is the Svadh or food by which they live and grow, for it is the consolidation and also the resultant of their own realisation. The achievements of the sons are more easily and securely reared and grounded upon those of the forefa thers, whose formative powers we have to invoke, so that we may pass on to the realisation, the firm embodiment of higher and greater destinies.
III. The Path of the Fathers and the Path of the Gods
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TheChhandyogya12 gives a whole typal scheme of this universal reality and explains how to realise it and what are the results of the experience. The Universal Brahman means the cosmic movement, the cyclic march of things and events taken in its global aspect. The typical movement that symbolises and epitomises the phenomenon, embodies the truth, is that of the sun. The movement consists of five stages which are called the fivefold sma Sma means the equal Brahman that is ever present in all, the Upanishad itself says deriving the word from sama It is Sma also because it is a rhythmic movement, a cadencea music of the spheres. And a rhythmic movement, in virtue of its being a wave, consists of these five stages: (i) the start, (ii) the rise, (iii) the peak, (iv) the decline and (v) the fall. Now the sun follows this curve and marks out the familiar divisions of the day: dawn, forenoon, noon, afternoon and sunset. Sometimes two other stages are added, one at each end, one of preparation and another of final lapse the twilights with regard to the sun and then ,we have seven instead of five smas Like the Sun, the Fire that is to say, the sacrificial Firecan also be seen in its fivefold cyclic movement: (i) the lighting, (ii) the smoke, (iii) the flame, (iv) smouldering and finally (v) extinction the fuel as it is rubbed to produce the fire and the ashes may be added as the two supernumerary stages. Or again, we may take the cycle of five seasons or of the five worlds or of the deities that control these worlds. The living wealth of this earth is also symbolised in a quintetgoat and sheep and cattle and horse and finally man. Coming to the microcosm, we have in man the cycle of his five senses, basis of all knowledge and activity. For the macrocosm, to I bring out its vast extra-human complexity, the Upanishad refers to a quintet, each term of which is again a trinity: (i) the threefold Veda, the Divine Word that is the origin of creation, (ii) the three worlds or fieldsearth, air-belt or atmosphere and space, (iii) the three principles or deities ruling respectively these worldsFire, Air and Sun, (iv) their expressions, emanations or embodimentsstars and birds and light-rays, and finally, (v) the original inhabitants of these worldsto earth belong the reptiles, to the mid-region the Gandharvas and to heaven the ancient Fathers.
Now, this is the All, the Universal. One has to realise it and possess in one's consciousness. And that can be done only in one way: one has to identify oneself with it, be one with it, become it. Thus by losing one's individuality one lives the life universal; the small lean separate life is enlarged and moulded in the rhythm of the Rich and the Vast. It is thus that man shares in the consciousness and energy that inspire and move and sustain the cosmos. The Upanishad most emphatically enjoins that one must not decry this cosmic godhead or deny any of its elements, not even such as are a taboo to the puritan mind. It is in and through an unimpaired global consciousness that one attains the All-Life and lives uninterruptedly and perennially: Sarvamanveti jyok jvati.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Sri Ramakrishna one day fed a cat with the food that was to be offered to Kali. This was too much for the manager of the temple garden, who considered himself responsible for the proper conduct of the worship. He reported Sri Ramakrishna's insane behaviour to Mathur Babu.
Sri Ramakrishna has described the incident: "The Divine Mother revealed to me in the Kali temple that it was She who had become everything. She showed me that everything was full of Consciousness. The image was Consciousness, the altar was Consciousness, the water-vessels were Consciousness, the door-sill was Consciousness, the marble floor was Consciousness — all was Consciousness. I found everything inside the room soaked, as it were, in Bliss — the Bliss of God. I saw a wicked man in front of the Kali temple; but in him also I saw the power of the Divine Mother vibrating. That was why I fed a cat with the food that was to be offered to the Divine Mother. I clearly perceived that all this was the Divine Mother — even the cat. The manager of the temple garden wrote to Mathur Babu saying that I was feeding the cat with the offering intended for the Divine Mother. But Mathur Babu had insight into the state of my mind. He wrote back to the manager: 'Let him do whatever he likes. You must not say anything to him.'"
One of the painful ailments from which Sri Ramakrishna suffered at this time was a burning sensation in his body, and he was cured by a strange vision. During worship in the temple, following the scriptural injunctions, he would imagine the presence of the "sinner" in himself and the destruction of this "sinner". One day he was meditating in the Panchavati, when he saw come out of him a red-eyed man of black complexion, reeling like a drunkard. Soon there emerged from him another person, of serene countenance, wearing the ochre cloth of a sannyasi and carrying in his hand a trident. The second person attacked the first and killed him with the trident. Thereafter Sri Ramakrishna was free of his pain.
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Sri Ramakrishna, dressed in a red-bordered dhoti, one end of which was carelessly thrown over his left shoulder, came to Jaygopal's garden house accompanied by Hriday. No one took notice of the unostentatious visitor. Finally the Master said to Keshab, "People tell me you have seen God; so I have come to hear from you about God." A magnificent conversation followed. The Master sang a thrilling song about Kali and forthwith went into samadhi. When Hriday uttered the sacred "Om" in his ears, he gradually came back to consciousness of the world, his face still radiating a divine brilliance. Keshab and his followers were amazed. The contrast between Sri Ramakrishna and the Brahmo devotees was very interesting. There sat this small man, thin and extremely deli cate. His eyes were illumined with an inner light. Good humour gleamed in his eyes and lurked in the corners of his mouth. His speech was Bengali of a homely kind with a slight, delightful stammer, and his words held men enthralled by their wealth of spiritual experience, their inexhaustible store of simile and metaphor, their power of observation, their bright and subtle humour, their wonderful catholicity, their ceaseless flow of wisdom. And around him now were the sophisti cated men of Bengal, the best products of Western edu cation, with Keshab, the idol of young Bengal, as their leader.
Keshab's sincerity was enough for Sri Ramakrishna. Henceforth the two saw each other frequently, either at Dakshineswar or at the temple of the Brahmo Samaj. Whenever the Master was in the temple at the time of divine service, Keshab would request him to speak to the congregation. And Keshab would visit the saint, in his turn, with offerings of flowers and fruits.
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Shivanath vehemently criticized the Master for his other-worldly attitude toward his wife. He writes: "Ramakrishna was practically separated from his wife, who lived in her village home. One day when I was complaining to some friends about the virtual widowhood of his wife, he drew me to one side and whispered in my ear: 'Why do you complain? It is no longer possible; it is all dead and gone.' Another day as I was inveighing against this part of his teaching, and also declaring that our program of work in the Brahmo Samaj includes women, that ours is a social and domestic religion, and that we want to give edu cation and social liberty to women, the saint became very much excited, as was his way when anything against his settled conviction was asserted — a trait we so much liked in him — and exclaimed, 'Go, thou fool, go and perish in the pit that your women will dig for you.' Then he glared at me and said: 'What does a gardener do with a young plant? Does he not surround it with a fence, to protect it from goats and cattle? And when the young plant has grown up into a tree and it can no longer be injured by cattle, does he not remove the fence and let the tree grow freely?' I replied, 'Yes, that is the custom with gardeners.' Then he remarked, 'Do the same in your spiritual life; become strong, be full-grown; then you may seek them.' To which I replied, 'I don't agree with you in thinking that women's work is like that of cattle, destructive; they are our associates and helpers in our spiritual struggles and social progress' — a view with which he could not agree, and he marked his dissent by shaking his head. Then referring to the lateness of the hour he jocularly remarked, 'It is time for you to depart; take care, do not be late; otherwise your woman will not admit you into her room.' This evoked hearty laughter."
Pratap Chandra Mazumdar, the right-hand man of Keshab and an accomplished Brahmo preacher in Europe and America, bitterly criticized Sri Ramakrishna's use of uncultured language and also his austere attitude toward his wife. But he could not escape the spell of the Master's personality. In the course of an article about Sri Ramakrishna, Pratap wrote in the "Theistic Quarterly Review": "What is there in common between him and me? I, a Europeanized, civilized, self-centred, semi-sceptical, so-called edu cated reasoner, and he, a poor, illiterate, unpolished, half-idolatrous, friendless Hindu devotee? Why should I sit long hours to attend to him, I, who have listened to Disraeli and Fawcett, Stanley and Max Muller, and a whole host of European scholars and divines? . . . And it is not I only, but dozens like me, who do the same. . . . He worships Siva, he worships Kali, he worships Rama, he worships Krishna, and is a confirmed advo cate of Vedantic doctrines. . . . He is an idolater, yet is a faithful and most devoted meditator on the perfections of the One Formless, Absolute, Infinite Deity. . . . His religion is ecstasy, his worship means transcendental insight, his whole nature burns day and night with a permanent fire and fever of a strange faith and feeling. . . . So long as he is spared to us, gladly shall we sit at his feet to learn from him the sublime precepts of purity, unworldliness, spirituality, and inebriation in the love of God. . . . He, by his childlike bhakti, by his strong conceptions of an ever-ready Motherhood, helped to unfold it [God as our Mother] in our minds wonderfully. . . . By associating with him we learnt to realize better the divine attributes as s cattered over the three hundred and thirty millions of deities of mythological India, the gods of the Puranas."
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Sri Ramakrishna employed a ruse to bring Jogindra to him. As soon as the disciple entered the room, the Master rushed forward to meet the young man. catching hold of the disciple's hand, he said: "What if you have married? Haven't I too married? What is there to be afraid of in that?" Touching his own chest he said: "If this [meaning himself] is propitious, then even a hundred thousand marriages cannot injure you. If you desire to lead a householder's life, then bring your wife here one day, and I shall see that she becomes a real companion in your spiritual progress. But if you want to lead a monastic life, then I shall eat up your attachment to the world." Jogin was dumbfounded at these words. He received new strength, and his spirit of renunciation was re-established.
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At Syampukur the devotees led an intense life. Their attendance on the Master was in itself a form of spiritual discipline. His mind was constantly soaring to an exalted plane of consciousness. Now and then they would catch the contagion of his spiritual fervour. They sought to divine the meaning of this illness of the Master, whom most of them had accepted as an Incarnation of God. One group, headed by Girish with his robust optimism and great power of imagination, believed that the illness was a mere pretext to serve a deeper purpose. The Master had willed his illness in order to bring the devotees together and promote solidarity among them. As soon as this purpose was served, he would himself get rid of the disease. A second group thought that the Divine Mother, in whose hand the Master was an instrument, had brought about this illness to serve Her own mysterious ends. But the young rationalists, led by Narendra, refused to ascribe a
supernatural cause to a natural phenomenon. They believed that the Master's body, a material thing, was subject, like all other material things, to physical laws. Growth, development, decay, and death were laws of nature to which the Master's body could not but respond. But though holding differing views, they all believed that it was to him alone that they must look for the attainment of their spiritual goal.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The early bird catches the worm and the twelve-
year-old prostitute attracts the ambassador.
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Equinox. The end of the paragraph refers to catullus,
his famous epigram about the youth who turned his
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
He was one of the earliest of the disciples to visit Kamarpukur, the birthplace of the Master, in the latter's lifetime itself; for he wished to practise contemplation on the Master's early life in its true original setting. His experience there is described as follows by Swami Nityatmananda: "By the grace of the Master, he saw the entire Kamarpukur as a holy place bathed in an effulgent Light. Trees and creepers, beasts and birds and men all were made of effulgence. So he prostrated to all on the road. He saw a torn cat, which appeared to him luminous with the Light of Consciousness. Immediately he fell to the ground and saluted it" (M The Apostle and the Evangelist by Swami Nityatmananda vol. I. P. 40.) He had similar experience in Dakshineswar also. At the instance of the Master he also visited Puri, and in the words of Swami Nityatmananda, "with indomitable courage, M. embraced the image of Jagannath out of season."
The life of Sdhan and holy association that he started on at the feet of the Master, he continued all through his life. He has for this reason been most appropriately described as a Grihastha-Sannysi (householder-Sannysin). Though he was forbidden by the Master to become a Sannysin, his reverence for the Sannysa ideal was whole-hearted and was without any reservation. So after Sri Ramakrishna's passing away, while several of the Master's householder devotees considered the young Sannysin disciples of the Master as inexperienced and inconsequential, M. stood by them with the firm faith that the Master's life and message were going to be perpetuated only through them. Swami Vivekananda wrote from America in a letter to the inmates of the Math: "When Sri Thkur (Master) left the body, every one gave us up as a few unripe urchins. But M. and a few others did not leave us in the lurch. We cannot repay our debt to them." (Swami Raghavananda's article on M. in Prabuddha Bharata vol. XXX P. 442.)
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
Mind is the weightless and uniquely human faculty that surveys the ever larger inventory of special-case experiences stored in the brain bank and, seeking to identify their intercomplementary significance, from time to time discovers one of the rare scientifically generalizable principles running consistently through all the relevant experience set. The thoughts that discover these principles are weightless and tentative and may also be eternal. They suggest eternity but do not prove it, even though there have been no experiences thus far that imply exceptions to their persistence. It seems also to follow that the more experiences we have, the more chances there are that the mind may discover, on the one hand, additional generalized principles or, on the other hand, exceptions that disqualify one or another of the already catalogued principles that, having heretofore held "true" without contradiction for a long time, had been tentatively conceded to be demonstrating eternal persistence of behavior. Mind's relentless reviewing of the comprehensive brain bank's storage of all our special-case experiences tends both to progressive enlargement and definitive refinement of the catalogue of generalized principles that interaccommodatively govern all transactions of Universe.
It follows that the more specialized society becomes, the less attention does it pay to the discoveries of the mind, which are intuitively beamed toward the brain, there to be received only if the switches are "on." Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery of the all-powerful generalized principles. Again we see how society's perverse fixation on specialization leads to its extinction. We are so specialized that one man discovers empirically how to release the energy of the atom, while another, unbeknownst to him, is ordered by his political factotum to make an atomic bomb by use of the secretly and anonymously published data. That gives much expedient employment, which solves the politician's momentary problem, but requires that the politicians keep on preparing for further warring with other political states to keep their respective peoples employed. It is also mistakenly assumed that employment is the only means by which humans can earn the right to live, for politicians have yet to discover how much wealth is available for distribution. All this is rationalized on the now scientifically discredited premise that there can never be enough life support for all. Thus humanity's specialization leads only toward warring and such devastating tools, both, visible and invisible, as ultimately to destroy all Earthians.
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Intellectually advantaged with no more than the child's facile, lucid eagerness to understand constructively and usefully the major transformational events of our own times, it probably is synergetically advantageous to review swiftly the most comprehensive inventory of the most powerful human environment transforming events of our totally known and reasonably extended history. This is especially useful in winnowing out and understanding the most significant of the metaphysical revolutions now recognized as swiftly tending to reconstitute history. By such a comprehensively schematic review, we might identify also the unprecedented and possibly heretofore overlooked pivotal revolutionary events not only of today but also of those trending to be central to tomorrow's most cataclysmic changes.
It is synergetically reasonable to assume that relativistic evaluation of any of the separate drives of art, science, edu cation, economics, and ideology, and their complexedly interacting trends within our own times, may be had only through the most comprehensive historical sweep of which we are capable.
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Y is complaining that cement dust falls in the cattle-feed when
it is prepared on the verandah.
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yoga, are still convinced that "a cat is a cat", as we commonly
say in French, and that one can rely only on one's physical eyes
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Equally, the vital and nervous energies in us are there for a great utility; they too demand the divine realisation of their possibilities in our ultimate fulfilment. The great part assigned to this element in the universal scheme is powerfully emphasised by the catholic wisdom of the Upanishads. "As the spokes of a wheel in its nave, so in the Life-Energy is all established, the triple knowledge and the Sacrifice and the power of the strong and the purity of the wise. Under the control of the LifeEnergy is all this that is established in the triple heaven."2 It is therefore no integral Yoga that kills these vital energies, forces them into a nerveless quiescence or roots them out as the source
annakos.a and pran.akos.a.
0.04 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Saturday the 14th is cattle festival day. Generally in all
the places, many things are observed on that day. Horns
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to do like that for our cattle. But I am tempted to beg
you for your kind gracious permission to use this kind of
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Lord, with our human life as its final stage, pursued through the different phases of self-concealment and self-revelation. The principle of Bhakti Yoga is to utilise all the normal relations of human life into which emotion enters and apply them no longer to transient worldly relations, but to the joy of the All-Loving, the All-Beautiful and the All-Blissful. Worship and meditation are used only for the preparation and increase of intensity of the divine relationship. And this Yoga is catholic in its use of all emotional relations, so that even enmity and opposition to God, considered as an intense, impatient and perverse form of Love, is conceived as a possible means of realisation and salvation.
This path, too, as ordinarily practised, leads away from worldexistence to an absorption, of another kind than the Monist's, in the Transcendent and Supra-cosmic.
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
the Dark Night, on the other hand, we catch only the echoes of the poem, which are
all but lost in the resonance of the philosopher's voice and the eloquent tones of the
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because the photo catches only the image of a moment, an instant of a person's appearance and of what that appearance
can reveal of a passing psychological condition and fragmentary soul-state. Even if the photograph is taken under the best
01.03 - Rationalism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now the question is, does Reason never fail? Is it such a perfect instrument as intellectualists think it to be? There is ground for serious misgivings. Reason says, for example, that the earth revolves round the sun: and reason, it is argued, is right, for we see that all the facts are conformableto it, even facts that were hitherto unknown and are now coming into our ken. But the difficulty is that Reason did not say that always in the past and may not say that always in the future. The old astronomers could explain the universe by holding quite a contrary theory and could fit into it all their astronomical data. A future scientist may come and explain the matter in quite a different way from either. It is only a choice of workable theories that Reason seems to offer; we do not know the fact itself, apart perhaps from exactly the amount that immediate sense-perception gives to each of us. Or again, if we take an example of another category, we may ask, does God exist? A candid Rationalist would say that he does not know although he has his own opinion about the matter. Evidently, Reason cannot solve all the problems that it meets; it can judge only truths that are of a certain type.
It may be answered that Reason is a faculty which gives us progressive knowledge of the reality, but as a knowing instrument it is perfect, at least it is the only instrument at our disposal; even if it gives a false, incomplete or blurred image of the reality, it has the means and capacity of correcting and completing itself. It offers theories, no doubt; but what are theories? They are simply the gradually increasing adaptation of the knowing subject to the object to be known, the evolving revelation of reality to our perception of it. Reason is the power which carries on that process of adaptation and revelation; we can safely rely upon Reason and trust It to carry on its work with increasing success.
But in knowledge it is precisely finality that we seek for and no mere progressive, asymptotic, rapprochement ad infinitum. No less than the Practical Reason, the Theoretical Reason also demands a categorical imperative, a clean affirmation or denial. If Reason cannot do that, it must be regarded as inefficient. It is poor consolation to man that Reason is gradually finding out the truth or that it is trying to grapple with the problems of God, Soul and Immortality and will one day pronounce its verdict. Whether we have or have not any other instrument of knowledge is a different question altogether. But in the meanwhile Reason stands condemned by the evidence of its own limitation.
It may be retorted that if Reason is condemned, it is condemned by itself and by no other authority. All argumentation against Reason is a function of Reason itself. The deficiencies of Reason we find out by the rational faculty alone. If Reason was to die, it is because it consents to commit suicide; there is no other power that kills it. But to this our answer is that Reason has this miraculous power of self-destruction; or, to put it philosophically, Reason is, at best, an organ of self-criticism and perhaps the organ par excellence for that purpose. But criticism is one thing and creation another. And whether we know or act, it is fundamentally a process of creation; at least, without this element of creation there can be no knowledge, no act. In knowledge there is a luminous creativity, Revelation or categorical Imperative which Reason does not and cannot supply but vaguely strains to seize. For that element we have to search elsewhere, not in Reason.
Does this mean that real knowledge is irrational or against Reason? Not so necessarily. There is a super-rational power for knowledge and Reason may either be a channel or an obstacle. If we take our stand upon Reason and then proceed to know, if we take the forms and categories of Reason as the inviolable schemata of knowledge, then indeed Reason becomes an obstacle to that super-rational power. If, on the other hand, Reason does not offer any set-form from beforehand, does not insist upon its own conditions, is passive and simply receives and reflects what is given to it, then it becomes a luminous and sure channel for that higher and real knowledge.
The fact is that Reason is a lower manifestation of knowledge, it is an attempt to express on the mental level a power that exceeds it. It is the section of a vast and unitarian Consciousness-Power; the section may be necessary under certain conditions and circumstances, but unless it is viewed in its relation to the ensemble, unless it gives up its exclusive absolutism, it will be perforce arbitrary and misleading. It would still remain helpful and useful, but its help and use would be always limited in scope and temporary in effectivity.
01.04 - Motives for Seeking the Divine, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The pull of that is indeed a categorical imperative, the self in us drawn to the Divine because of the imperative call of its greater Self, the soul ineffably drawn towards the object of its adoration, because it cannot be otherwise, because it is it and
He is He. That is all about it.
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- for these are the things that lead on towards the Divine so long as the absolute inner call that is there all the time does not push itself to the surface. But it is really that that has drawn from the beginning and is there behind - it is the categorical spiritual imperative, the absolute need of the soul for the Divine.
I am not saying that there is to be no Ananda. The selfgiving itself is a profound Ananda and what it brings, carries in its wake an inexpressible Ananda - and it is brought by this method sooner than by any other, so that one can say almost,
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But although Reason has been and is useful for the practical, we may say almost, the manual aspect of life, life itself it leaves unexplained and uncomprehended. For life is mobility, a continuous flow that has nowhere any gap or stop and things have in reality no isolated or separate existence, they merge and mingle into one another and form an indissoluble whole. Therefore the forms and categories that Reason imposes upon existence are more or less arbitrary; they are shackles that seek to bind up and limit life, but are often rent asunder in the very effort. So the civilisation that has its origin in Reason and progresses with discoveries and inventionsdevices for artfully manipulating naturehas been essentially and pre-eminently mechanical in its structure and outlook. It has become more and more efficient perhaps, but less and less soul-inspired, less and less-endowed with the free-flowing sap of organic growth and vitality.
So instead of the rational principle, the new age wants the principle of Nature or Life. Even as regards knowledge Reason is not the only, nor the best instrument. For animals have properly no reason; the nature-principle of knowledge in the animal is Instinct the faculty that acts so faultlessly, so marvellously where Reason can only pause and be perplexed. This is not to say that man is to or can go back to this primitive and animal function; but certainly he can replace it by something akin which is as natural and yet purified and self-consciousillumined instinct, we may say or Intuition, as Bergson terms it. And Nietzsche's definition of the Superman has also a similar orientation and significance; for, according to him, the Superman is man who has outgrown his Reason, who is not bound by the standards and the conventions determined by Reason for a special purpose. The Superman is one who has gone beyond "good and evil," who has shaken off from his nature and character elements that are "human, all too human"who is the embodiment of life-force in its absolute purity and strength and freedom.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the heart's profound audition they can catch
The murmurs lost by Life's uncaring ear,
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And catches here a look and there a gest:
Ever he repeats in them his ceaseless births.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The riddle grew plain and lost its catch obscure.
A larger lustre lit the mighty page.
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Pacing the vast cathedral of his thoughts
Under its arches dim with infinity
01.06 - Vivekananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The gospel of strength that Vivekananda spread was very characteristic of the man. For it is not mere physical or nervous bravery, although that too is indispensable, and it is something more than moral courage. In the speeches referred to, the subject-matter (as well as the manner to a large extent) is philosophical, metaphysical, even abstract in outlook and treatment: they are not a call to arms, like the French National Anthem, for example; they are not merely an ethical exhortation, a moral lesson either. They speak of the inner spirit, the divine in man, the supreme realities that lie beyond. And yet the words are permeated through and through with a vibration life-giving and heroic-not so much in the explicit and apparent meaning as in the style and manner and atmosphere: it is catching, even or precisely when he refers, for example, to these passages in the Vedas and the Upanishads, magnificent in their poetic beauty, sublime in their spiritual truth,nec plus ultra, one can say, in the grand style supreme:
Yasyaite himavanto mahitv
01.07 - The Bases of Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Our ideals have been mental constructions, rather than spiritual realitiesrealities of the deepest and highest being. And the power by which we sought to realise those ideals was mainly the insistence of our emotional urges, rather than Nature's Truth-Power. For this must be understood that the mental, the vital and the physical form a nexus of reality which works in its own inexorable law and so long as we are within them we cannot but obey the laws that guide them. Of these three strata which form the human adhara, it is the vital which holds the key to man's nature. It is the executive power, the force that fashions the realities on the physical plane; it is what creates the character. The power of thought and sentiment is often much too exaggerated, even so the power of the body, that of physical and external rules and regulations. The mental or the physical or both together can mould the vital only to a limited extent, to the extent which is allowed by the inherent law of the vital. If the demands of the mental and the physical are stretched too far and are not suffered by the vital, a crash and catastrophe is bound to come in the end.
This is the meaning of the Reformist's pessimism. So long as we remain within the domain of the triple nexus, we must always take account of an original sin, an aboriginal irredeemability in human nature. And it, is this fact which a too hasty optimistic idealism is apt to ignore. The point, however, is that man need not be necessarily bound to this triple chord of life. He can go beyond, transcend himself and find a reality which is the basis of even this lower poise of the mental and vital and physical. Only in order to get into that higher poise we must really transcend the lower, that is to say, we must not be satisfied with experiencing or envisaging it through the mind and heart but must directly commune with it, be it. There is a higher law that rules there, a power that is the truth-substance of even the vital and hence can remould it with a sovereign inevitability, according to a pattern which may not and is not the pattern of mental and emotional idealism, but the pattern of a supreme spiritual realism.
01.09 - William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We welcome voices that speak of this ancient tradition, this occult Knowledge of a high Future. Recently we have come across one aspirant in the line, and being a contemporary, his views and reviews in the matter will be all the more interesting to us.2 He is Gustave Thibon, a Frenchman-not a priest or even a religious man in the orthodox sense in any way, but a country farmer, a wholly self-edu cated laque. Of late he has attracted a good deal of attention from intellectuals as well as religious people, especially the catholics, because of his remarkable conceptions which are so often unorthodox and yet so often ringing true with an old-world au thenticity.
Touching the very core of the malady of our age he says that our modern enlightenment seeks to cancel altogether the higher values and install instead the lower alone as true. Thus, for example, Marx and Freud, its twin arch priests, are brothers. Both declare that it is the lower, the under layer alone that matters: to one "the masses", to the other "the instincts". Their wild imperative roars: "Sweep away this pseudo-higher; let the instincts rule, let the pro-letariat dictate!" But more characteristic, Monsieur Thibon has made another discovery which gives the whole value and speciality to his outlook. He says the moderns stress the lower, no doubt; but the old world stressed only the higher and neglected the lower. Therefore the revolt and wrath of the lower, the rage of Revanche in the heart of the dispossessed in the modern world. Enlightenment meant till now the cultivation and embellishment of the Mind, the conscious Mind, the rational and nobler faculties, the height and the depth: and mankind meant the princes and the great ones. In the individual, in the scheme of his culture and edu cation, the senses were neglected, left to go their own way as they pleased; and in the collective field, the toiling masses in the same way lived and moved as best as they could under the economics of laissez-faire. So Monsieur Thibon concludes: "Salvation has never come from below. To look for it from above only is equally vain. No doubt salvation must come from the higher, but on condition that the higher completely adopts and protects the lower." Here is a vision luminous and revealing, full of great import, if we follow the right track, prophetic of man's true destiny. It is through this infiltration of the higher into the lower and the integration of the lower into the higher that mankind will reach the goal of its evolution, both individually and collectively.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is an almost infinite variety of shades and combinations of character, and although there are categories of very
similar types, no two cases are identical.
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"If there is not a complete surrender, then it is not possible to adopt the baby cat attitude, - it becomes mere tamasic
passivity calling itself surrender. If a complete surrender is not
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have a religion: they learn a catechism when they are young and
that doesn't mean much; but out of people taken as they are
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In Europe such a contingency did not arise, because the religious spirit, rampant in the days of Inquisitions and St. Bartholomews, died away: it died, and (or, because) it was replaced by a spirit that was felt as being equally, if not more, au thentic and, which for the moment, suffused the whole consciousness with a large and high afflatus, commensurate with the amplitude of man's aspiration. I refer, of course, to the spirit of the Renaissance. It was a spirit profane and secular, no doubt, but on that level it brought a catholicity of temper and a richness in varied interesta humanistic culture, as it is calledwhich constituted a living and unifying ideal for Europe. That spirit culminated in the great French Revolution which was the final coup de grace to all that still remained of mediaevalism, even in its outer structure, political and economical.
In India the spirit of renascence came very late, late almost by three centuries; and even then it could not flood the whole of the continent in all its nooks and corners, psychological and physical. There were any number of pockets (to use a current military phrase) left behind which guarded the spirit of the past and offered persistent and obdurate resistance. Perhaps, such a dispensation was needed in India and inevitable also; inevitable, because the religious spirit is closest to India's soul and is its most direct expression and cannot be uprooted so easily; needed, because India's and the world's future demands it and depends upon it.
Only, the religious spirit has to be bathed and purified and enlightened by the spirit of the renascence: that is to say, one must learn and understand and realize that Spirit is the thing the one thing needfulTamevaikam jnatha; 'religions' are its names and forms, appliances and decorations. Let us have by all means the religious spirit, the fundamental experience that is the inmost truth of all religions, that is the matter of our soul; but in our mind and life and body let there be a luminous catholicity, let these organs and instruments be trained to see and compare and appreciate the variety, the numberless facets which the one Spirit naturally presents to the human consciousness. Ekam sat viprh bahudh vadanti. It is an ancient truth that man discovered even in his earliest seekings; but it still awaits an adequate expression and appli cation in life.
II
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However, coming to historical times, we see wave after wave of the most heterogeneous and disparate elementsSakas and Huns and Greeks, each bringing its quota of exotic materialenter into the oceanic Indian life and culture, lose their separate foreign identity and become part and parcel of the common whole. Even so,a single unitary body was formed out of such varied and shifting materialsnot in the political, but in a socio-religious sense. For a catholic religious spirit, not being solely doctrinal and personal, admitted and embraced in its supple and wide texture almost an infinite variety of approaches to the Divine, of forms and norms of apprehending the Beyond. It has been called Hinduism: it is a vast synthesis of multiple affiliations. It expresses the characteristic genius of India and hence Hinduism and Indianism came to be looked upon as synonymous terms. And the same could be defined also as Vedic religion and culture, for its invariable basis the bed-rock on which it stood firm and erectwas the Vedas, the Knowledge seen by the sages. But there had already risen a voice of dissidence and discord that of Buddha, not so much, perhaps, of Buddha as of Buddhism. The Buddhistic enlightenment and discipline did not admit the supreme authority of the Vedas; it sought other bases of truth and reality. It was a great denial; and it meant and worked for a vital schism. The denial of the Vedas by itself, perhaps, would not be serious, but it became so, as it was symptomatic of a deeper divergence. Denying the Vedas, the Buddhistic spirit denied life. It was quite a new thing in the Indian consciousness and spiritual discipline. And it left such a stamp there that even today it stands as the dominant character of the Indian outlook. However, India's synthetic genius rose to the occasion and knew how to bridge the chasm, close up the fissure, and present again a body whole and entire. Buddha became one of the Avataras: the discipline of Nirvana and Maya was reserved as the last duty to be performed at the end of life, as the culmination of a full-length span of action and achievement; the way to Moksha lay through Dharma and Artha and Kama, Sannyasa had to be built upon Brahmacharya and Garhasthya. The integral ideal was epitomized by Kalidasa in his famous lines about the character of the Raghus:
They devoted themselves to study in their boyhood, in youth they pursued the objects of life; when old they took to spiritual austerities, and in the end they died united with the higher consciousness.
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Unlike the previous irruptions that merged and were lost in the general life and consciousness, Islam entered as a leaven that maintained its integrity and revolutionized Indian life and culture by infusing into its tone a Semitic accent. After the Islamic impact India could not be what she was beforea change became inevitable even in the major note. It was a psychological cataclysm almost on a par with the geological one that formed her body; but the spirit behind which created the body was working automatically, inexorably towards the greater and more difficult synthesis demanded by the situation. Only the thing is to be done now consciously, not through an unconscious process of laissez-faire as on the inferior stages of evolution in the past. And that is the true genesis of the present conflict.
History abounds in instances of racial and cultural immixture. Indeed, all major human groupings of today are invariably composite formations. Excepting, perhaps, some primitiveaboriginal tribes there are no pure races existent. The Briton, the Dane, the Anglo-Saxon, and the Norman have combined to form the British; a Frenchman has a Gaul, a Roman, a Frank in him; and a Spaniard's blood would show an Iberian, a Latin, a Gothic, a Moorish element in it. And much more than a people, a culture in modern times has been a veritable cockpit of multifarious and even incongruous elements. There are instances also in which a perfect fusion could not be accomplished, and one element had to be rejected or crushed out. The complete disappearance of the Aztecs and Mayas in South America, the decadence of the Red Indians in North America, of the Negroes in Africa as a result of a fierce clash with European peoples and European culture illustrate the point.
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If religious toleration were enough, if that made up man's highest and largest achievement, then Nature need not have attempted to go beyond cultural fusion; a liberal culture is the surest basis for a catholic religious spirit. But such a spirit of toleration and catholicity, although it bespeaks a widened consciousness, does not always enshrine a profundity of being. Nobody is more tolerant and catholic than a dilettante, but an ardent spiritual soul is different.
To be loyal to one's line of self-fulfilment, to follow one's self-law, swadharma, wholly and absolutelywithout this no spiritual life is possible and yet not to come into clash with other lines and loyalties, nay more, to be in positive harmony with them, is a problem which has not been really solved. It was solved, perhaps, in the consciousness of a Ramakrishna, a few individuals here and there, but it has always remained a source of conflict and disharmony in the general mind even in the field of spirituality. The clash of spiritual or religious loyalties has taken such an acute form in India today, they have been carried to the bitter extreme, in order, we venture to say, that the final synthesis might be absolute and irrevocable. This is India's mission to work out, and this is the lesson which she brings to the world.
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The modern temper is especially partial to harmony: it cannot assert and reject unilaterally and categorically, it wishes to go round an object and view all its sides; it asks for a synthesis and reconciliation of differences and contraries. Two major chords of life-experience that demand accord are Life and Death, Time and Eternity. Indeed, the problem of Time hangs heavy on the human consciousness. It has touched to the quick philosophers and sages in all ages and climes; it is the great question that confronts the spiritual seeker, the riddle that the Sphinx of life puts to the journeying soul for solution.
A modern Neo-Brahmin, Aldous Huxley, has given a solution of the problem in his now famous Shakespearean apothegm, "Time must have a stop". That is an old-world solution rediscovered by the modern mind in and through the ravages of Time's storm and stress. It means, salvation lies, after all, beyond the flow of Time, one must free oneself from the vicious and unending circle of mortal and mundane life. As the Rajayogi controls and holds his breath, stills all life-movement and realises a dead-stop of consciousness (Samadhi), even so one must control and stop all secular movements in oneself and attain a timeless stillness and vacancy in which alone the true spiritual light and life can descend and manifest. That is the age-long and ancient solution to which the Neo-Brahmin as well the Neo-Christian adheres.
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Human beings could be classified under four principal categories
according to the attitude they take in life:
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In the first three categories, one is naturally subject to the
ordinary law of suffering, disappointment and sorrow.
It is only in the last category - if one has chosen it in all
sincerity and pursued it with an unfailing patience - that one
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But Im not at all discouraged, I just find it rather laughable. Only there are other far more serious things; for example, when you try to deceive yourselves that is not so pretty. One should not mix up cats and kings. You should call a cat a cat and a king a king and human instinct, human instinctand not speak about things divine when they are utterly human, nor pretend to have supramental experiences when you are living in a blatantly ordinary consciousness.
If you look at yourselves straight in the face and you see what you are, then if by chance you should resolve to But what really astounds me is that you dont even seem to feel an intense NEED to do this! But how can we know? Because you DO know, you have been told over and over again, it has been drummed into your heads. You KNOW that you have a divine consciousness within you. And yet you can go on sleeping night after night, playing day after day, doing your lessons ad infinitum and still not be not have a BURNING desire and will to come into contact with yourselves!With yourselves, yes, the you just there, inside (motion towards the center of the chest) Really, its beyond me!
0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
What I call a descent is this: first of all, the consciousness climbs in ascent, then you catch the Thing up above and redescend with it. This is an INDIVIDUAL event.
When this individual event has taken place sufficiently to allow a more general possibility to emerge, it is no longer a descent but a manifestation.
0 1957-10-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
During the flu epidemic, for example, I spent every day in the midst of people who were germ carriers. And one day, I clearly felt that the body had decided not to catch this flu. It asserted its autonomy. You see, it was not a question of the higher Will deciding, no. It didnt take place in the highest consciousness: the body itself decided. When you are way above in your consciousness, you see things, you know things; but in actual fact, once you descend again into matter, it is like water running through sand. In this respect, things have changed, the body has a DIRECT power, independent of any outer intervention. Even though it is barely visible, I consider this to be a very important result.
And this new vibration in the body has allowed me to understand the mechanism of the transformation. It is not something that comes from a higher Will, not a higher consciousness that imposes itself upon the body: it is the body itself awakening in its cells, a freedom of the cells themselves, an absolutely new vibration that sets disorders righteven disorders that existed prior to the supramental manifestation.
0 1957-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
These three categories of tests are: those conducted by the forces of Nature, those conducted by the spiritual and divine forces, and those conducted by the hostile forces. This latter category is the most deceptive in its appearance, and a constant state of vigilance, sincerity and humility is required so as not to be caught by surprise or unprepared.
The most commonplace circumstances, people, the everyday events of life, the most seemingly insignificant things, all belong to one or another of these three categories of examiners. In this considerably complex organization of tests, those events generally considered the most important in life are really the easiest of all examinations to pass, for they find you prepared and on your guard. One stumbles more easily over the little pebbles on the path, for they attract no attention.
The qualities more particularly required for the tests of physical Nature are endurance and plasticity, cheerfulness and fearlessness.
0 1958-02-03b - The Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Between the beings of the supramental world and men, there exists approximately the same gap as between men and animals. Sometime ago, I had the experience of identifi cation with animal life, and it is a fact that animals do not understand us; their consciousness is so constituted that we elude them almost entirely. And yet I have known domestic animals cats and dogs, but especially catswho made an almost yogic effort of consciousness to understand us. But generally, when they watch us living and acting, they dont understand, they dont SEE US as we are and they suffer because of us. We are a constant enigma to them Only a very tiny part of their consciousness is linked to us. And it is the same for us when we try to look at the supramental world. Only when the link of consciousness has been built shall we see itand even then, only that part of our being which has undergone the transformation will be capable of seeing it as it isotherwise the two worlds would remain as separate as the animal world and the human world.
The experience I had on February 3 proves this. Before, I had had an individual, subjective contact with the supramental world, whereas on February 3, I went strolling there in a concrete wayas concretely as I used to go strolling in Paris in times pastin a world that EXISTS IN ITSELF, beyond all subjectivity.
0 1958-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And so, physically, the body followed. My body has been taught to express the inner experience to a certain extent. In the body there is the body-force or the body-form or the body-spirit (according to the different schools, it bears a different name), and this is what leaves the body last when one dies, usually taking a period of seven days to leave.2 With special training, it can acquire a conscious lifeindependent and consciousto such a degree that not only in a state of trance (in trance, it frequently happens that one can speak and move if one is slightly trained or edu cated), but even in a cataleptic state it can produce sounds and even make the body move. Thus, through training, the body begins to have somnambulistic capacitiesnot an ordinary somnambulism, but it can live an autonomous life.3 This is what took place, yesterday evening it was like that I had gone out of my body, but my body was participating. And then I was pulled downwards: my hand, which had been on the arm of the chair, slipped down, then the other hand, then my head was almost touching my knees! (The consciousness was elsewhere, I saw it from outsideit was not that I didnt know what I was doing, I saw it from outside.) So I said, In any case, this has to stop somewhere because if it continues, my head (laughing) is going to be on the ground! And I thought, But what is there at the bottom of this hole?
Scarcely had these words been formulated when there I was, at the bottom of the hole! And it was absolutely as if a tremendous, almighty spring were there, and then (Mother hits the table) vrrrm! I was cast out of the abyss into a vastness. My body immediately sat straight up, head on high, following the movement. If someone had been watching, this is what he would have seen: in a single bound, vrrrm! Straight up, to the maximum, my head on high.
0 1959-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
He did not give me any further details about this war, except to say that the countries which will suffer the most will be the countries of the North and the East, and he cited Burma, Japan, China and Russia. He said rather categorically that Russia would be swept away and that America would triumph.
2) X gave me certain details about his powers of prediction, but perhaps it would be better not to speak of this in a letter. On that occasion, he told me that he did not want to keep any secrets from me: I want you to know everything. I want you to be chief disciple in my tradition. When the time comes, you will understand what I mean. With you I have full connection, not only connection in my mind, but in my blood and body.
0 1960-05-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
At times I sense theres an extraordinary secret to discover, just there at my finger tips; I feel that I am going to catch the Thing, to know
Sometimes, for a second, I see the Secret; there is an opening, and again it closes. Then once again it is unveiled for a second and I come to know a little more. Yesterday the Secret was there completely clear, wide open. But its not something that can be explained: words are silly, it must be experienced.
0 1960-05-28 - death of K - the death process- the subtle physical, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I know it. I know that this consciousness of the form exists since I have actually gone out of it. Once, long back, I was in a so-called cataleptic state, and after awhile, while still in this state, the body began living again2; that is, it was capable of speaking and even moving (it was Theon who gave me this training). The body managed to get up and move. And yet, everything had gone out of it!
Once everything had gone out, it naturally became cold, but the body consciousness manages to draw a little energy from the air, from this or that And I spoke in that state. I spoke I spoke very well, and besides, I recounted all I was seeing elsewhere.
0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
A cataclysm?
Ah, that, weve already had some. From all around, people are proclaiming that in 1962, there will be some people have even foreseen the end of the earth, but thats foolish! For the earth was built with a certain purpose, and before things are done, it will not disappear.
0 1960-08-10 - questions from center of Education - reading Sri Aurobindo, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
(Pavitra:) Yes, Mother; in this dictionary each verb is shown the category it is in, how it is conjugated
The verbs
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But this way of seeing is too far removed from the state of mind and spiritual edu cation in which X has lived,4 of course, for him to understand. Nor am I in favor of proselytizing (to convince X); it would disturb him quite needlessly. He has not come here for that. He came here for something special, something I wanted which he brought, and I have learnt it. Now its excellent, he is a part of the group in his own fashion, thats all. And in a certain way, his presence here is having a very good effect on a whole category of people who had not been touched but who are now becoming more and more favorably inclined. It was difficult to reach all the traditionalists, for example, the people attached to the old spiritual forms; well, they seem now to have been touched by something.
When Amrita,5 seized with zeal, wanted to make him understand what we were doing here and what Sri Aurobindo had wanted, it almost erupted into an unpleasant situation. So after that, I decided to identify myself with him to see I had never done this, because normally I only do it when I am responsible for someone, in order to truly help someone, and Ive never felt any responsibility in regard to X. So I wanted to see his inner situation, what could and could not be done. That was the day you saw him coming down from our meditation in an ecstatic state, when he told you that all separation between him and me had dropped awayit was to be expected, I anticipated as much!
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When I got there, I felt a moment of anguish; my feeling was that nothing could be done. Not for him in particular, but universally, for all those in his categoryit seemed hopeless.6 If that was perfection, then nothing more could be done. This lasted only a second, but it was painful. And then I tried that is, I wanted to bring my consciousness down into the highest cubethis eternal, universal and infinite consciousness which is the first and foremost expression of the manifestation but nothing doing. It was impossible. I tried for several minutes and saw that it was absolutely impossible. So I had to make a curious movement (I couldnt get through it, it was impassable), I had to come back down into the so-called lower consciousness (not lower, actuallyit was vast and impersonal), and from there I came out and regained my equilibrium. This is what gave me that splitting headache I told you about. I came out of there as if I were carrying the weight the weight of an irreducible absoluteit was dreadful. Unfortunately, I was unable to rest afterwards, and as people were waiting to see me, I had to talkwhich is very tiring for me. And this produced a bubbling in my head, like a this dark blue light of power in matter was there, shot through with streaks of white and gold, and all this was flashing back and forth in my head, this way and that way I thought I was going to have a stroke! (Mother laughs)
This lasted a good half hour before I could calm it down, make it quiet, quiet. And I saw that this came from the fact that he wanted to bring the Power down, to transmit the Power into the physical mind! But as soon as Im put in contact with the Power, you understand, it makes everything explode! (Mother laughs) It felt exactly like my head was going to explode!
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Oh, I had tried for years I had tried to catch silence in my head I never succeeded. I could detach myself from it, but it would keep on turning But at that moment, all the mental constructions, all the mental, speculative structures none of it remaineda big hole.
And such a peaceful, such a luminous hole!
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Only, there is all that comes from outside thats what is most dangerous. Constantly, constantlywhen you eat, you catch it oh, what a mass of vibrations! The vibrations of the thing you eat when it was living (they always remain), the vibrations of the person who cooked it, vibrations of All the time, all the time, they never stopyou breathe, they enter. Of course, when you start talking to someone or mixing with people, then you become a bit more conscious of what is coming, but even just sitting still, uninvolved with othersit comes! There is an almost total interdependenceisolation is an illusion. By reinforcing your own atmosphere (Mother gestures, as if building a wall around her), you can hold these things off TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, but simply this effort to keep them at a distance creates (Im thinking in English and speaking in French) disturbances.8 Anyway, now all this has been SEEN.
But I know in an absolute way that once this whole mass of the physical mind is mastered and the Brahmic consciousness is brought into it in a continuous way, you CAN you become the MASTER of your health.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
All this came to me yesterday. I kept Z with me for more than half an hour, nearly 45 minutes. He told me some very interesting things. What he said was quite good and I encouraged him a great dealsome action on the right lines which will be quite useful, and then a book unfortunately mixed with an influence from that artificial world (but actually, even that can be used as a link to attract people). He must have spoken to you about this. He wants to write a kind of dialogue to introduce Sri Aurobindos ideasits a good idealike the conversations in Les Hommes de Bonne Volont by Jules Romain. He wants to do it, and I told him it was an excellent idea. And not only one typehe should take all types of people who for the moment are closed to this vision of life, from the catholic, the fervent believer, right to the utmost materialist, men of science, etc. It could be very interesting.
This is what you see in life, its all like thateach thing has its place and its necessity. This has made me see a whole current of life I was very, very involved with people from this milieu during a whole period of my existence and in fact, its the first approach to Beauty. But it gets mixed.
0 1960-12-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And now, all these different attitudes which individuals, groups and categories of men hold are coming from every direction (while Im walking upstairs) to assert their own points of view as the true thing. And I see that for myself, Im being forced to deal with a whole mass of things, most of which are quite futile from an ordinary point of viewnot to mention the things of which these moral or religious types disapprove. Quite interestingly, all kinds of mental formations come like arrows while Im walking for my japa upstairs (Mother makes a gesture of little arrows in the air coming into her mental atmosphere from every direction); and yet, Im entirely in what I could call the joy and happiness of my japa, full of the energy of walking (the purpose of walking is to give a material energy to the experience, in all the bodys cells). Yet in spite of this, one thing after another comes, like this, like that (Mother draws little arrows in the air): what I must do, what I must answer to this person, what I must say to that one, what has to be done All kinds of things, most of which might be considered most futile! And I see that all this is SITUATED in a totality, and this totality I could say that its nothing but the body of the Divine. I FEEL it, actually, I feel it as if I were touching it everywhere (Mother touches her arms, her hands, her body). And all these things neither veil nor destroy nor divert this feeling of being entirely this a movement, an action in the body of the Divine. And its increasing from day to day, for it seems that He is plunging me more and more into entirely material things with the will that THERE TOO it must be done that all these things must be consciously full of Him; they are full of Him, in actual fact, but it must become conscious, with the perception that it is all the very substance of His being which is moving in everything
It was quite beautiful on the balcony this morning
0 1961-01-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its not a random experience coming now and then, its something you can witness minute by minute. You generally see it far more readily in others! But if you watch yourself carefully, you will catch yourself a thousand times a daylooking at things in a favorable way: Oh, its NOT the same thing! And besides, its NEVER the same for you as it is for your neighbor!
For Sri Aurobindo and Mother, the 'vital' represents the regions of consciousness or the centers of consciousness below the mind between the throat and the sex center, i.e. the whole region of emotions, feelings, passions, etc., which constitute the various expressions of the Life-Energy.
0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I was above, as usual (Mother points above her head, indi cating the higher consciousness), and I looked at that (Mother bends over, as if looking down at the earth), and said to myself, Hmm, this is getting dangerous. If it continues like this, it will result in in a war or a revolution or some catastrophea tidal wave or an earthquake. So I tried to counteract it by applying the highest consciousness to it, that of a perfect serenity. And I saw especially that this consciousness has been missioned to transform the earth through the Supermind and by the supramental Force, avoiding all catastrophes as far as possible: the Work is to be done as luminously and harmoniously as the earth would allow, even by going at a slower pace if need be. That was the idea. And I tried to counteract that whirlwind power with this consciousness.
(long silence)
0 1961-01-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To illustrate this, an interesting thing came upyesterday, I think. (All these experiences come to show me the difference, as if to give proof of the change.) Someone had had a dream about me whispered to him by the adverse forces for specific reasons (I wont go into the details). He was much affected by it, so he wrote down the dream and gave it to me. I was carrying his letter along with all the others, as I usually do, but suddenly I knew I had to read it right away: I read it. Then I saw the whole thing with such clarity, precision, accuracy: how it had come about, how the dream had been produced, its effect the whole functioning of all the forces. As I read along and it went on unfolding, I did what was necessary for him (he was present at the time) in order to undo what the adverse forces had done. Then at the end, when I had finished, said everything, explained what it was all about and what had to be done, something SO catEGORICAL came into me (I cannot verbalize this kind of experience, it is what I call the difference in power: something categorical). I took the letter, uttered a few words (which I wont repeat) and said, You see, its like this: so much for that, and I ripped the letter a first time. Then, thats for that, I tore it a second time and so on. I ripped it up five times and the fifth time I saw that their power was destroyed.
I have done these things beforeits a knowledge I already hadand it always had its effect when I did them; its not that I am passing from powerlessness to power, not at all. But its this kind of yes, something definite, absolutea kind of absolute in vision, in knowledge, in action and ABOVE ALL in powera kind of absolute that doesnt need to conquer obstacles and resistances, but ANNULS the resistance automatically. Then I saw that something had truly changed.
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here, I have brought you two flowers. They have two different yet very typically Indian fragrances: this one is Straightforwardness,1 and this is Simplicity.2 I have always found that this one (Mother holds out the Simplicity) has a cleansing fragrance: when you brea the it, ah, everything becomes cleanits wonderful! (Mother breathes in the flowers fragrance.) Once I cured myself of the onset of a cold with itthis can be done when you catch it at the very beginning. It fills you completely, the nose, the throat. And this [Straightforwardness] is right at the other end of the spectrum. I find it very, very powerfulstrange, isnt it?
Its not at all sweet-smelling.
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One could almost say that of all animals, the serpent is the most sensitive to hypnotic or magnetic power. If you have it (magnetic power comes from the most material vital), you can easily gain a mastery over snakes; all the people who like snakes have it and use it to make snakes obey them. Thats how I got out of my encounter with the cobra at Tlemcen7do you know the story? Theon had told me about this power and I was aware of it in myself, so I was able to make the cobra obey and he left. Afterwards (Ive told this story, too), I was visited by the King of Serpents I mean the spirit of the species. He came to me in Tlemcen after this and another incident when I helped a cat overpower a little asp (there are asps over there like Cleopatras, very dangerous)a big russet angora cat. At first it started to play with the asp, but then naturally grew furious. The asp struck at the cat, but the cat leapt aside with such swiftness that the asp missed it (I watched this going on for more than ten minutes, it was extraordinary). Just as the snake darted by, the cat would swat at it with all his claws outand the asp got scratched each time, so that little by little it ran out of energy, and at the end. I stopped the cat from eating it that part was disgusting!
Then after these two incidents, I received a visit one night from the King of Serpents. He was wearing a superb crown on his headsymbolic, of course, but anyway, he was the spirit of the species. He had the appearance of a cobra, and he was wonderful! A formidable beast, and wonderful! He said he had come to make a pact with me: I had demonstrated my power over his species, so he wanted to come to an understanding. All right, I said, what do you propose? I not only promise that serpents wont harm you, he replied, but that they will obey you. But you must promise me something in return: never to kill one of them. I thought it over and said, No, I cant make this promise, because if ever one of yours attacks one of mine (a being that depends upon me), my pact with you could not stop me from protecting him. I can assure you that I have no bad feelings and no intention of killingkilling is not on my program! But I cant commit myself, because it would restrict my freedom of decision. He left without replying, so it remains status quo.
I have had several experiences demonstrating my power over snakes (not so much as over catswith cats its extraordinary!). Long ago, I often used to take a drive and then stop somewhere for a walk. One day after my walk, as I was getting back into the car to drive away (the door was still open), a very large snake came out, right from the spot I had just left. He was furious and heading straight towards the open door, ready to strike (luckily I was alone, neither the driver nor Pavitra were there, otherwise). When the snake had come quite near, I looked at him closely and said, What do you want? Why have you come here? There was a pause. Then he fell down flat and off he went. I hadnt made a move, only asked him, What do you want? Why have you come here? You know, they have a way of suddenly falling back, going limp, and prrt! Gone!
How many, many experiences there were during those days at Tlemcen! Surely youve heard them. Were you there when I told the story about the big toad? A huge toad, covered with warts. No? The sitting room was upstairs in Theons house (the house was built on a hillside) and it was connected by large open doors to a small terrace that sat almost on top of the hill. I played the piano in this room every day. And one day, what did I see hopping in through the open bay windows but an enormous black toadenormous! He sat down on his backside right in the entrance and puffed up his throat: poff! poff! And for the whole time I played, he stayed there going Poff! poff!, as though in a state of delight! When I finished, I turned around and he gave me one last Poff! and hopped away. It was comical!
0 1961-02-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other is to find something worth concentrating upon that diverts your attention from your small, personal self. The most effective is a big ideal, but there are innumerable things that enter into this category. Most commonly, people choose marriage, because it is the most easily available (Mother laughs). To love somebody and to love children makes you busy and compels you to forget your own self a little. But it is rarely successful, because love is not a common thing.
Others turn to art, others to science; some choose a social or a political life, etc., etc.
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The worlds outer evolution is moving ahead so rapidlyin terms of scientific developments that this change CANNOT be put off for millions of years. Mans inner development needs to catch up with all that, doesnt it?
Yes, surelyoh, yes!
0 1961-03-21, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
First of all, on the mental plane (the physical-mind, the material mind) I saw an individual. I am not entirely certain of his identity (when I saw him last night I didnt associate him with anyone in particular) but from his outer appearance he is evidently a sannyasi. He was pursuing me, blocking my way and trying to stop me from doing my work (it was a long, long affair). But I was very conscious and could foresee everything he was about to do, so it had no effect. After a long while I emerged from this I had something else to do and I leftand on my way home he was everywhere, hiding and trying to catch me; but he didnt succeed in doing anything. And I knew he had been acting in this manner for a long time.
Then I woke up (I always wake up three or four times during the night) and when I went back to bed I had an attack of what the doctor and I have taken to be filariasis but a strange type of filariasis, for as soon as I master it in one spot it appears in another, and when I master it there it reappears somewhere else. Last night it was in the arms (it lasted quite a while, between 2:30 and 4 a.m.); but I was fully conscious, and each time the attack came, I went like this (gestures over the arms, to drive away the attack) and my arms were not affected at all. When it was over, I consciously entered the most material subtle physical, just beyond the body. I was sitting in my room there (an immense, cubic room) reading or writing something, when I heard the door open and close, but I was busy and didnt pay attention, presuming it was one of the people usually around me. Then suddenly I had such an unpleasant sensation in my body that I raised my head and looked, and I saw someone there. Do you know how the magicians in Europe dress, in short satin breeches and a shirt? He was wearing something like that. He was Indian, tall and rather dark, with slicked-down hairwhat you would normally call a handsome young man. He seemed to have been drawn1 there becausehe was standing in front of me staring into space, not looking at me. And the moment I saw him, there was the same sensation in all my cells as I have with what Ive been calling filariasis (its a special, minute kind of pain) and simultaneously all the cells felt disgusta tremendous will of rejection. Then I sat up straight (I didnt stand up) and said to him as forcefully as possible, How do you dare to come in here! I said it so loudly that the noise woke me up! I dont know what happened then, but things went much better afterwards.
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I hadnt thought of it at allnot at all. I have seen Zs thoughts several times, but not in this form: very, very angry thoughts but simply trying to catch my attention.4 But this was something else. X said it was Z, thats what X saw. He doesnt seem to have attached the slightest importance to my magicianobviously this person was just a screen. It must be someone who knows magic and is being used by another as an instrument. But when I saw it all this morning, I must say I didnt once think of Z. Its only X who said so.
But Z I dont know how to explain my relationship with him. He is sheltered by a light of benediction, so. When he was here I opened the doors for him to a realization he was incapable of having, something light years beyond him; and it gave him an appalling ambition, totally spoiling everything. From this point of view, its a great blessing for him; even if he becomes a dreadful Asura, it will come to a good end! It doesnt matter, its not important. Thats why this morning, even when I heard what X said about Z, it was the same thing: this great Light of the supreme Mother going out towards Z. His magic is not important, but if he indulges in it, too bad for him. It doesnt concern me: its Xs business and X is doing whats necessary and I believe (laughing) he hits hard!5
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Yes, its a problem. Thats why I dont categorically tell you not to do it, because after all, he shouldnt be massacred!
Yes, I cant do it superficially, you understand. I cant, its impossible for me.
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know, because N. said quite categorically: X told me that on arriving for this mornings meditation he had some difficulties and it took him five minutes to get over it; an adverse force was present. N. was quite positive and I even made him repeat it. Are you sure, I asked him, that it didnt happen when X came to you? No, N. replied, X met that force THERE. He said THERE! Yet that it could have been there, with all the force, light and peace that descended is incomprehensible to me. Because the first thing I do when I sit down is to make a thorough cleaning.
It ruffles me because its like a negation of my power. Till yesterday I had never experienced anything of the kind! On the 29th, you know, it will be forty-seven years since I first came here3thats not exactly yesterday! And ever since I began working with Sri Aurobindo, I have had the sense of this Power, it has never left me; so. It is disconcerting to have this kind of episode come up after such a long time.
0 1961-04-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Vedas, after all, were written by people who remembered a radical experience, which must have taken place on earth at a given moment, as an example of what was to come. (This always happens in the yoga: a first radical experience comes like a herald of the future realization.) So in the terrestrial yogain the yoga of the earth, of the planet earththere was a moment when it came; they who are called the forefa thers must have created, through their effort and their yoga, at least an image of the supramental realization. And those who wrote the Vedas, who composed all these hymns, remembered or kept the tradition of that experience. And oh, mon petit, it had the same effect on me as when I read the Yoga of Self-Perfection in The Synthesis of Yoga (Mother catches her breath): there is such a gulf between what we are, what life on earth and human consciousness now are, even among the most enlightened, the most advanced, and THAT!
I dont know if its because I have been so violently attackedbludgeonedby all these malevolent energies, but in any case, I sensed acutely the FORMIDABLE immensity of what has to be done in order for THAT to be realized.
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(The disciple asks for permission to poison some cats who have been disturbing him every night. Mother replies:)
I once had a cat with almost a childs consciousness, and someone poisoned it. And when he came back poisoned, dying, I cursed all people who poison cats. And thats serious, so you mustnt do it. It was a real curse I was with Sri Aurobindo, so it was seriousso dont do it.
But there is a way.
You know, I made a pact with cats, with the King of the catsit goes back very, very far. And its extraordinary (it happened in Tlemcen, entirely on the occult plane), extraordinary! For certain reasons, the King of the cats gave me a power over these creaturesand its true. Only I have to see them.
We shall try.
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cats are vital forces, incarnations of vital forces. The King of the cats that is, the spirit of the speciesis a being of the vital world.
For instance, cats can very easily incarnate the vital force of a dead person. I have had two absolutely astounding experiences of this.
The first was with a boy who was a Sanskritist and had wanted to come to India with us. He was the son of a French ambassadoran old, noble family. But he learned that his lungs were bad, and so he joined the Army; he enlisted as an officer, just at the start of the 1914 war. And he had the courage of those who no longer cling to life; when he received the order to advance on the enemy trenches (it was incredibly stupid, simply sending people to be slaughtered!), he didnt hesitate. He went. And he was hit between the two lines. For a long time, it was a no mans land; only after some days, when the other trench had been taken, could they go and collect the dead. All this came out in the newspapers AFTERWARDS. But on the day he was killed, of course, no one was aware of it.
I had a nice photo of him with a Sanskrit dedi cation, placed on top of a kind of wardrobe in my bedroom. I open the door and the photo falls. (There was no draft or anything.) It fell and the glass broke into smithereens. Immediately I said, Oh! Something has happened to Fontenay. (That was his name: Charles de Fontenay.) After that I came back down from my room, and then I hear a miaowing at the door (the door opened onto a large garden courtyard1). I open the door: a cat bursts in and jumps on me, like that (Mother thumps her breast). I speak to him: What is it, whats the matter? He drops to the ground and looks at meFontenays eyes! Absolutely! No one elses. And he just stayed put, he didnt want to go. I said to myself, Fontenay is dead.
The news came a week later. But the newspapers gave the date when they had moved out of the trenches and been killedit had been on that day.
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The other story dates farther back. I was living in another house (we had the whole fifth floor), and once a week I used to hold meetings there with people interested in occultism they came to have me demonstrate or tell them about occult practices. There was a Swedish artist, a French lady and a young French boy, a student and a poet. His parents were decent country people who bled themselves white to pay for his life in Paris. This boy was very intelligent and a true artist, but he was depraved. (We knew about it, but it was his private life and none of our business.) One evening, when four or five of us were to meet, this boy didnt turn up, although he had said he would. We had our meeting anyway and didnt think much about itwe thought he must have been busy elsewhere. Around midnight, when the people were leaving, I open the door. A big black cat was sitting in the doorway and, in a single bound, it jumps on me, just like that, all curled up in a ball. So I calm it down, I look at itAh, the eyes! They were this boys eyes. (I no longer recall his name.) Right away (at the time we were all involved in occultism), we knew something had happened; he had been unable to come and the cat had incarnated his vital force.
The next day, all the newspapers were full of a vile murder: a pimp had murdered this boyit was disgusting! Something utterly vile. And it had happened at the very moment he should have come the concierge had seen him going into the house with this pimp. What happened? Was it just for money or for something elsevice? Or what?
But both times, the incarnation was so (how to put it?) powerful that the eyes changed; the eyes of the cat changed completely into the eyes of the dead person. Unmistakable. Both came to me and both times there was the same movement, the same kind of feline howlyou know how they sound.
But I have had some cats. I had a cat who was the reincarnation of the mind of a Russian woman. I had a vision of it one day, it was so strangethis woman had been murdered at the time of the Russian Revolution, along with her two little children. And her mind entered a cat here. (How? I dont know.) But this cat, mon petit. I got her when she was very young. She would come and lie down, stretched out like a human being, with her head on my arm! (I used to sleep on a Japanese tatami on the floor.) And she would stay there, so well-behaved, didnt stir all night long! I was really amazed. Then she had kittens, and wanted to give birth to them lying stretched out, not at all like a cat. It was very difficult to make her understand that it couldnt be done that way! And one night after she had had her kittens, I saw her I saw a young woman in furs, with a fur bonnetyou could just see a tiny human face; she had two little ones and she came to me and placed them at my feet. Her whole story was there in her consciousness: how she and the two children had been murdered. And then I realized she was the cat!
The cat wouldnt leave her kittens for a moment! Not for anything. She wouldnt eat, wouldnt go outside to relieve herself, nothing: she stayed put. So I told her, Bring me your kittens. (If you know how to handle them, cats understand very well when theyre spoken to.) Bring me your little ones. She looked at me, went and brought one of her kittens, and placed it between my feet. Then she went to fetch the other one and placed it between my feet (not beside, between my feet). Now you can go out, I told her. And out she went.
I had another cat named Kiki. He had a wonderful color and was just like velvet. We used to have meditations and he would come, get up on a chair and go into trance; he would make the brusque movements of trance during the meditation. And I had to rouse him out of it, otherwise he wouldnt wake up!
Once this cat was stung by a scorpion. A foolhardy youngster, he used to play with scorpions. I had to rescue him one day; I came onto the verandah just when he was playing with a big scorpion. I caught the cat, put him on my shoulder and killed the scorpion. But another time I wasnt there, and he was stung. He came inside, done for. I clearly saw the signs that he had been poisoned by a scorpion. I put him on a table and went to call Sri Aurobindo. Kiki has been stung by a scorpion, I said. (He was dying, almost in a coma.) Sri Aurobindo pulled up a chair, sat down facing the table and began to gaze at Kiki. This lasted about twenty or twenty-five minutes. Then suddenly the cat relaxed completely and fell asleep. When he woke up, he was entirely cured.
Sri Aurobindo didnt touch him, he didnt do anything; he simply gazed at him.
I had another cat I called Big Boy. Oh, how beautiful he was! Enormous! A tail like the train of a gown. He was beautiful! Since there were all kinds of cats prowling around, including a big fierce tom cat who was extremely vicious, I was very afraid for this one when he was little and I got him used to spending his nights inside (which is hard for a cat to do). I forbade him to go out. So he spent his nights inside and when I got up in the morning, he got up too and came and sat down in front of me. Then I would say, All right, Big Boy, you can go, and he would jump out the window and go off but never before. And this is the one who was poisoned.
Because later on he would go roaming about; he had become terribly strong and would prowl around everywhere. At that time I was living in the Library house, and he would go off as far as the Ashram street (the Ashram didnt belong to us yet, the house was owned by all kinds of people), but when I would go out on the terrace across from Champaklals kitchen and call, Big boy! Big Boy! although he couldnt hear it, he could sense it, and he would come back galloping, galloping. He always came back, unfailingly. The day he didnt come back, I got worried; the servant went looking for himand found him moaning, vomiting, poisoned. He brought him to me. Oh, really! it was. He was so nice! He wasnt a thief or anythinghe was a wonderful cat. Someone had laid out poison for god knows what cat, and he ate it. I showed him to Sri Aurobindo and said, He has been killed.
Before that, I lost another one from that kind of typhoid cats get. He was called Browny and he was so beautiful, so nice, such a marvelous cat! Even when utterly sick, he wouldnt make a mess, except in a corner prepared just for that; he would call me to carry him to his box, with such a soft and mournful voice. He was so nice, with something sweeter and more trusting than a child. There is a trust in animals which doesnt exist in humans (even children already have too much of a questioning mind). But with him, there was a kind of worship, an adoration, as soon as I took him in my armsif he could have smiled, he would have. As soon as I held him, he became blissful.
That one too was beautiful, with such a color! Golden chestnut, I have never seen a cat like him. He is buried here beneath the tree I named Service. I put him beneath the roots myself. There had been an old mango tree there that was withering away. We replaced it with a little copper pod tree with yellow flowers.
These animals are so nice when you know how to handle them.
When I moved here to the Ashram, I said, We cant bring any cats into this house, its quite impossible. This was after Big Boys death, and we had had enough of cats. I gave away the others, but the first one, the mother of the whole line, was old and didnt want to leave, so I felt her behind. She stayed in a house over there, within the Ashram compound. And one dayshe was very old and could no longer move I saw her come dragging in and sit down on that terrace on the other side. (Now you cant see it any more the Service Tree has hidden it completely but in those days you could see it very clearly.) She came and sat down over there where she could watch me until she died. Quietly, without moving, she died watching me.
All these cat stories! If we had photographs, we could make a pretty little album of cat stories.
And extraordinary, extraordinary details! Showing such intelligence, oh! This woman I mean this cat who had been a womanif you knew how she brought up her children, oh! With such patience, such intelligence and understanding! It was extraordinary. One could tell long, long stories: how she taught them not to be afraid, to walk along the edge of walls, to jump from a wall to a window. She showed them, encouraged them, and finally, after showing and encouraging them very often (some would jump, others were afraid), she would give them a push! So of course they would jump immediately.
And she taught them everything. To eat, to. This cat would never eat before they had all eaten. She would show them what to do, give each one what it needed. And once they had grown up and she didnt have to look after them anymore, if they kept coming back she would send them away: Go away! Your turn is over, its finished. Go out into the world! And she would take care of the new ones.
Once one of her kittens was ill. She was pretty and gray colored, clear gray like a very soft fur, very pretty. She had caught this cat sickness and was lying down. And the mother was teaching all the little ones not to come near her; she would make them go all the way around, as if her instinct told her it was contagious. And you would see them (the sick kitten was right in their way) going all the way around, never coming near.
These cat stories went on for years and years.
And it isnt true that they dont obey! Its just that we dont know how to handle them. cats are extremely sensitive to the vital force, to vital power, and they can be made perfectly obedientand with such devotion! cats are said to be neither devoted nor attached nor faithful, but thats not true at all. You can have quite a friendly relationship with them.
And, an incredible thing this cat was very pretty, but she had a wretched tail, a tail like an ordinary cat; and one day when I was with her at the window, one of the neighbors cats wandered into the gardenan angora with three colors, three very prominent colors, and such a beautiful tail trailing behind! So I said (my cat was just beside me), Oh! Just see how beautiful she is! What a beautiful tail she has! And I could see my cat looking at her. My child, in her next litter she had one exactly like that! How did she manage it? I dont know. Three prominent colors and a magnificent tail! Did she hunt up a male angora? Or did she just will for it intensely?
They are really something, you cant imagine! Once, when she was due to give birth and was very heavy, she was walking along the window ledge and I dont know what happened, but she fell. She had wanted to jump from the ledge, but she lost her footing and fell. It must have injured something. The kittens didnt come right away, they came later, but three of them were deformed (there were six in all). Well, when she saw how they were, she simply sat on themkilled them as soon as they were born. Such incredible wisdom! (They were completely deformed: the hind paws were turned the wrong way roundthey would have had an impossible life.)
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Oh, what lovely cat stories! That was a whole period for many, many years. Many years.
Mind you, I would never have considered having any, but two cats were already there when I came to the house. They were not very interesting cats, but they became the parents of the one I just told you about (those boys who were living with Sri Aurobindo had already had some experience; they knew quite a few things about cats), and that was the origin of all the cats I had here. But people (you know how simplistic they always are!) believed I had some special attachment for cats, so then of course everybody started keeping cats! It was no use my telling them, No, its a particular study were making I wanted to see, to learn certain things, and I learned what I had to but now that I have moved to another house, the cat era is over; the old friends are gone, only the younger generation is left. I gave them all away and said) Thats enough. But its hard to make people understandsome people here have 25 cats! Thats unreasonable! Its not the way to deal with cats. You have to look after them as I did, and then it becomes interesting.
There was one I know I SAW it: when he died there was already the embryo of a psychic being, ready for a human incarnation. I made them progress like wildfire.
0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ah, but thats far more difficult than talkingfar more! Far more, infinitely more difficult than talking. If you are a bit clear, transparentits enough just to be like this, at a given moment (gesture of opening upwards), to catch the Light, and then you can talk about it. Once you have seen it, you dont forget it. But to do.
This paucity, this narrowness. Its relatively easy to get out of mental paucity, mental narrowness: one has only to pierce a hole, go beyond, and view things from above; and yes, immediately, it all widens. Thats relatively easy. But this vital and PHYSICAL paucity, material narrowness ohh!
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They are just as dogmatic as catholics or Protestants.
Yes, its the SAME thing. The same thing.
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One of my most terrible experiences took place in Venice (the cathedrals there are so beautifulmagnificent!). I remember I was painting they had let me settle down in a corner to paintand nearby there was a (what do they call it?) a confessional. And a poor woman was kneeling there in distresswith such a dreadful sense of sin! So piteous! She wept and wept. Then I saw the priest coming, oh, like a monster, a hard-hearted monster! He went inside; he was like an iron bar. And there was this poor woman sobbing, sobbing; and the voice of the other one, hard, curt. I could barely contain myself.
I dont know why, but I have had this kind of experience so very often: either a hostile force lurking behind and swallowing up everything, or else manruthless man abusing the Power.
--
At the age of eighteen, I remember having such an intense need in me to KNOW. Because I was having experiences I had all kinds of experiences but my surroundings offered me no chance to receive an intellectual knowledge which would have given me the meaning of it all: I couldnt even speak of them. I was having experience after experience. For years, I had experiences during the night (but I was very careful never to speak about them!)memories from past lives, all sorts of things, but without any base of intellectual knowledge. (Of course, the advantage of this was that my experiences were not mentally contrived; they were entirely spontaneous.) But I had such a NEED in me to know! I remember living in a house (one of these houses with a lot of apartments), and in the apartment next door were some young catholics whose faith was very they were very convinced. And seeing all that, I remember saying to myself one day while brushing my hair, These people are lucky to be born into a religion and believe unquestioningly! Its so easy! You have nothing to do but believehow simple that makes it. I was feeling like this, and then when I realized what I was thinking (laughing), well, I gave myself a good scolding: Lazybones!
To know, know, KNOW! You see, I knew nothing, really, nothing but the things of ordinary life: external knowledge. I had learned everything I had been given to learn. I not only learned what I was taught but also what my brother was taughthigher mathematics and all that! I learned and I learned and I learned and it was NOTHING. None of it explained anything to menothing. I couldnt understand a thing!
--
I remember a good-hearted priest in Pau [Southern France] who was an artist and wanted to have his church decorateda tiny cathedral. He consulted a local anarchist (a great artist) about it. The anarchist was acquainted with Andrs father and me. He told the priest, I recommend these people to do the paintings they are true artists. He was doing the mural decorationsome eight panels in all, I believe. So I set to work on one of the panels. (The church was dedi cated to San Juan de Compostello, a hero of Spanish history; he had appeared in a battle between the Christians and the Moors and his apparition vanquished the Moors. And he was magnificent! He appeared in golden light on a white horse, almost like Kalki.6) All the slaughtered and struggling Moors were depicted at the bottom of the painting, and it was I who painted them; it was too hard for me to climb high up on a ladder to paint, so I did the things at the bottom! But anyway, it all went quite well. Then, naturally, the priest received us and invited us to dinner with the anarchist. And he was so nicereally a kind-hearted man! I was already a vegetarian and didnt drink, so he scolded me very gently, saying, But its Our Lord who gives us all this, so why shouldnt you take it? I found him charming. And when he looked at the paintings, he tapped Morisset on the shoulder (Morisset was an unbeliever), and said, with the accent of Southern France, Say what you like, but you know Our Lord; otherwise you could never have painted like that!
Well.
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Unless one is ABSOLUTELY indifferent, truly one cannot last. This is quite clear. That is the way it must be (gesture of a becalmed sea). For suddenly you find yourself in a state which feels like it could last forevernothing matters, it goes on and on and on (Mother stretches out her arms, as if floating on a vast, infinite sea) like this, forever. I have been in this state very often, and you truly feel that. But the experience must not be in the head (that can be easily had); it has to be HERE (Mother slaps her knees), here in the body. When the body catches on to this, nothing is either disagreeable or agreeable to itit takes no pleasure, feels no disgust, no uneasiness, no anything. Its in a state, ah! (same gesture of a becalmed sea)
Its very interesting.
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I would be satisfied only if. Can one ever be satisfied? At any rate, I would begin to be satisfied only if this were a constant and total condition, active in all circumstances and at every moment, day and night. But is it possible with this INUNDATION pouring in from outside? Constantly! While walking this morning I was (how to put it?) something of a witness, watching what was coming in from outside. One thing after another, one thing after anotherwhat a mixture! From all sides, from everyone and everything and everywhere. And not only from here, but from far, far away on the earth and sometimes from far back in time, back into the pastthings out of the past coming up, presenting themselves to the new Light to be put in their place. Its always that: each thing wanting to be put in its place. And this work has to be done constantly. Its as if one keeps catching a new illness to be cured.
A fresh disorder to be straightened out.
--
Pralaya: The destruction of a universe at the end of a cycle. According to Hindu cosmology, the formation of each universe begins with an 'age of truth' (satya-yuga) which slowly degenerates, like the stars, till there is no truth left at all; it becomes a 'dark age'(kali-yuga) like ours, and ends with a cataclysm. Then a new universe is reborn out of this cataclysm and the cycle begins again. There is a correspondence here with a modern cosmological theory according to which a phase of contraction, of galaxies collapsing upon themselves, follows a phase of expansion and precedes a new explosion ('Big Bang') of the 'primal egg'and so on, in a recurring and apparently endless and aimless series of cosmic births which, like our own human births, develop, attain some sort of 'summit,' then collapse, always to begin again. According to Theon, our present universe is the seventh but where is the 'beginning'?
Note that modern astronomy is divided between the theory of endless phases of contraction-explosion-expansion, and the theory of a universe in infinite expansion starting with a 'Big Bang,' which seems quite as catastrophic, since the universe is then plunging at vertiginous speed into an increasingly cold, empty, and fatal infinity, like a bullet released from all restraints of gravity, until... until what? According to astronomers, an exact measurement of the quantity of matter in a cubic meter of the present universe (one atom for every 400 liters of space) should enable us to decide between these two theories and learn which way it will be best for us to die. If there is more than one atom per 400 liters of space, this quantity of matter will create sufficient gravitation to halt the present expansion of galaxies and induce a contraction, ending with an explosion within an infinitesimal space. If there is less than one atom per 400 liters of space, the quantity of matter and thus the gravitational effect will be insufficient to retain the galaxies within their invisible net, and everything will spin off endlesslyunless we discover, with Mother, a third position, that of a 'progressive equilibrium,' in which the quantity of matter in the universe proves in fact to be a quantity of consciousness, whose contraction or expansion will be regulated by the laws of consciousness.
When the veil of falsehood has gone: the supramental consciousness.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, no! Not at all. No. The cataleptic state of trance is like death, yes, except for the link that remainsonly a link remains, but otherwise one has entirely gone out. Actually, the body becomes cataleptic only when one has entirely gone out; otherwise everything that is most material in the vital remains.
I mean, arent the places you go to in sleep the same as the ones you go to in death?
--
Once when I was at Tlemcen with Theon (this happened twice, but Im not sure about the second time because I was alone), my body was in a cataleptic state and I was in conscious trance. It was a peculiar kind of catalepsy in the sense that my body could speak, though very slowly Theon had taught me how to do it. But this is because the life of the form always remains (this is what takes seven days to leave the body) and it can even be trained to make the body move the being is no longer there, but the life of the form can make the body move (in any case, utter words). However, this state is not without danger, the proof being that while I was working in trance, for some reason or other (which I no longer remember, but obviously due to some negligence on the part of Theon who was there to watch over me), the cord I dont know what to call itwent snap! The link was cut, malevolently,5 and when it was time and I wanted to return, I could no longer re-enter my body. But I was still able to warn him: The cord is cut. Then he used his power and knowledge to help me come back but it was no joke! It was very difficult.6 And this is when I had the experience of the two different states, because the part that had gone out was now without the bodys support the link was cut. Then I knew. Of course, I was in a special state; I was doing a fully conscious work with all the vital power, and I was in control not only of my surroundings but. You see, what happens is a kind of reversal of consciousness: you begin to belong to another world; you feel this quite distinctly. Theon instantly told me to concentrate (I was finding it all interestingMo ther laughs I was making experiments and getting ready to go wandering off, but he was terribly scared that I would die on him!). He begged me to concentrate, so I concentrated on my body.
When I re-entered, it hurt terribly, terriblyan excruciating pain, like plunging into a hell.
--
Satprem remembers that a few years earlier Mother had told him about the circumstances of this incident: during her work in trance, Mother discovered the lo cation of the 'mantra of life'the mantra that has the power to create life (and to withdraw it, as well). Theon, an incarnation of the Asura of Death, was of course quite interested and told Mother to repeat this mantra to him. Mother refused. Theon became violently angry and the link was cut (the link that connected Mother to her body). When he realized the catastrophe his anger had caused, Theon grew afraid (for he knew who Mother was) and he then, as Mother recounts, made use of all his power to help her re-enter her body. Later, Mother gave this mantra to Sri Aurobindo... who let it quietly sink into oblivion. For it is not through a mantra that the secret of life (or death) is to be mastered, but through knowledge of the true Powerin other words, ultimately, knowledge of the reality of Matter and the mechanism of death: it is the whole cellular yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Mother.
Tamas: inertia, obscurity.
0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Correct? Many doors are open, and through these open doors things immeasurable for you can act through what you have written, bringing infinitely more to the reading than you think you have put there. People will be brought into contact with the thing, and each one, according to his receptivity, will catch hold of something. And this is very importantit must not be touched.4
I dont mind reading it, but it will take up your time
0 1961-10-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, Mother, I have to catch hold of the thread.
You have to catch hold yes.
Well then, concentrate, call it! Make an invo cation, call it init is THERE, contact it. That is the thread to catchnot in the head.
But thats just it, you see-before working I always become completely silent and in that silence there is NOTHING. I could stay like that for hours!
--
Then, obviously, I catch hold of some idea sometimes its the right idea, sometimes it isnt.
Its not so much a question of an idea being right or not but of the vibration of the Force.
--
I will try to see. If I catch the thread, it will be all right but I must catch it.
You have to concretely feel that Sri Aurobindos full Power of expression is there (I dont mean the words, its not a question of words), but the power to transmit knowledge (not mental knowledge, experience). Its constantly there. So an attentive silence but be very patient, because as soon as the Force comes, something begins to stir in the mental regions. Then there is also a sort of eagerness to seize hold and it ruins the thing.
0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyway, it was because of Theon that I first found the Mantra of Life, the mantra that gives life, and he wanted me to give it to him, he wanted to possess itit was something formidable! It was the mantra that gives life (it can make anyone at all come back into life, but thats only a small part of its power). And it was shut away in a particular place,2 sealed up, with my name in Sanskrit on it. I didnt know Sanskrit at that time, but he did, and when he led me to that place, I told him what I saw: Theres a sort of design, it must be Sanskrit. (I could recognize the characters as Sanskrit). He told me to reproduce what I was seeing, and I did so. It was my name, Mirra, written in Sanskrit the mantra was for me and I alone could open it. Open it and tell me whats there, he said. (All this was going on while I was in a cataleptic trance.) Then immediately something in me KNEW, and I answered, No, and did not read it.
I found it again when I was with Sri Aurobindo and I gave it to Sri Aurobindo.
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When one is on that highest height, the body is in a cataleptic state.
I think I made this experiment in 1904, so when I arrived here it was all a work accomplished and a well-known domain; and when the question of finding the Supermind came up, I had only to resume an experience I was used to I had learned to repeat it at will, through successive exteriorizations. It was a voluntary process.
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I feel that this man himself is the obstacle and that if the book came out, it would be understoodnot everywhere, but it would be understood. Not by those shut up in catholicism (theres nothing to do for them), but Im sure its accessible to all who couldnt care less about that, who dont have Christian prejudices.
But I know that if we publish it here it will have a wide public in Europe and America swallowing it down like holy bread, and it will do a magnificent work. IF it comes from here. Not because of what they think of us [the Ashram], but because of what will be in it.
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Given the worlds present set-up, this is normal but if the supramental world were to be realized, it shouldnt remain normal. Clearly, a considerable change has to take place in the physical substance. That will probably be the essential difference between the bodies fashioned by Natures methods and those to be fashioned by supramental knowledgea new element will come in, and we will no longer be natural. But so long as this natural element is present, well, a certain amount of patience is probably requiredlet the body catch its breath, otherwise something gives way.
It gets much less winded, of course, when you have the inner equality of the divine Presence. So much fatigue is due to excess tension produced by desire or effort or struggle, by the constant battle against all opposing forces. All that can go.
0 1962-01-12 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And so long as you can keep that absolute immobility in the mind, the inspiration is absolutely pureit comes pure. When you can catch and hold onto this while youre speaking, then what comes to you is unmixed too, it stays pure.
This is an extremely deli cate functioning, probably because were not used to it the slightest movement, the slightest mental vibration disrupts everything. But as long as it lasts, its perfectly pure. And in a supramentalized life this has to be the CONSTANT state. Mentalized will should no longer intervene; because you may well have a spiritual will, your life may be the constant expression of spiritual will (its what happens to all who feel themselves guided by the Divine within), but it still comes through a mental transcription. Well, as long as its that way, its not the supramental life. The supramental life NO LONGER goes through the mind the mind is an immobile zone of transmission. The least little twitch is enough to upset everything.
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like opening a door just a crack and catching a glimpse of whats beyond.
It was the same experience when I told Sri Aurobindo that India was free; it was the Universal Mother speaking from what could be called Her originit was from that level and the thing took thirty-five years to come down on Earth.
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I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights,yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam. The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light above. The self-chosen field of these psychologists is besides poor, dark and limited; you must know the whole before you can know the part and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest. That is the promise of the greater psychology awaiting its hour before which these poor gropings will disappear and come to nothing.4
Questioned about the meaning of these words, Mother said, "The state I was in was like a memory."
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This in itself has to be conquered; I mean, the state in itself represents something to be conquered. Because you remember, I told you the other day about having such a tremendous experience in the body-consciousness1this this dull consciousness in the material world, which really gives the feeling of something inert, unchanging, incapable of responding; you could wait millions and millions of years and nothing would budge. And that experience came at the end of a rather critical passageit takes catastrophes to get it moving, thats whats so strange! And not only that, but the wisp of imagination it does have (if you can call it imagination) is invariably catastrophic. Whatever it anticipates is always for the worst the pettiest, meanest, nastiest kind of worstalways the worst. Its really, its the most sickening condition human consciousness and matter can be in. Well, I have been swimming in it for months, and my way of being in it is to go through every possible illness and to have every possible physical aggravation, one after another.
Just recently, as I told you, things truly became a little disgusting, dangerous, and for an hour or an hour and a half I did a sadhana like this (Mother clenches her fists), keeping hold of this body and body-consciousness. And the whole time the Force was at work there (it was like kneading a very resistant dough), something was saying to me, Look, you cant deny miracles any longer. It was being said to this consciousness (not to me, of course), this body-consciousness: Now you cant deny it miracles do happen. It was forced to see; there it was, gaping like an idiot being shown the skyAh! And its so stupid that it didnt even have any joy of discovery! But it was forced to see, the thing was right under its nosethere was no escaping it, it had to be admitted. But you know what, mon petit, as soon as I let up on the pressureforgotten!
0 1962-05-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This trip would not be an opening upwards, a flight towards a higher realization that, no. categorically no.
But thats not what I was after!
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And here (umbilical region): something like a quiet ease (theres no equivalent in French). A quiet ease. It has been all cramped up, and now it must widen. The inner life of the prana must be widened (the inner vital, the true vital, the being that has the experiences I told you about the piece of glass, the glimpse of the sea); thats what must widen. And vast, vast. It is all cramped up and it suffers. It has to be relaxed inwardly, by bringing in the Force, the Force of that new experience [April 13]: apply it there. And you simply let yourself go; if you could catch hold of the wave movement, that would be perfect.
Like this: relax, relax, relax. Youre floating on an infinite undulating movementfloating, floating, floating. Shall we try?
0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the dreams it gives me! Oh, theres a whole series of them, with particular styles and categories. You start down a flight of stairsno more stairs; you want to take a certain road the road closes; you want to catch someoneyou cant. All kinds of things. And although these dreams (I have a whole collection of them, in fact) recur with certain minor outward differences, they are all of the same type. Its a well-known type which I now classify as self-imposed troubles. When I get out of it and look, I see very clearly that its only this nasty habit we have of fretting over nothing! (Laughingly) Oh, whatever we want to do, immediately theres a compli cation, a difficulty.
Yes, these dreams arise from the subconscient; they are primarily subconscious habits. But the pain, the thorns in the garmentits so clear! (Mother laughs) And no way to get comfortable!
--
One day I will certainly use the same method on those room changes, but for that it will have to become very clear and distinct, well defined in the consciousness. Because that change of room (intellectually you would call it a change of consciousness, but that means nothing at all; were dealing here with something very, very material) I have sometimes gone through it without experiencing ANY CHANGE OF EFFECT, which probably means I was centered not in the material consciousness but in a higher consciousness dwelling and looking on from elsewherea witness consciousness and I was in a state where everything flows flows like a river of tranquil peace. Truly, its marvelousall creation, all life, all movements, all things, and everything like a single mass, with the body in the midst of it all, blending homogeneously with the whole and it all flows on like a river of peace, peaceful and smiling, on to infinity. And then oops! You trip (gesture of inversion2) and once again find yourself SITUATEDyou ARE somewhere, at some specific moment of time; and then theres a pain here, a pain there, a pain. And sometimes I have seen, I have witnessed the change from the one to the other WITHOUT feeling the pains or experiencing the thing concretely, which means that I wasnt at all in the body, I wasnt BOUND to the body I was seeing, only seeing, just like a witness. And its always accompanied by the kind of observation an indulgent (but not blind) friend might make: But why? Why that again? Thats how it comes. Whats the use of that? And I cant catch hold of what makes it happen.
It will come.
--
Thats it, thats what we must catch hold ofa sort of cadence, a wave movement, and it has such vastness, such power! Its tremendous, really. And it doesnt disrupt anything. It doesnt displace anything, it doesnt clash with anything.4 And it carries the universe in its undulatory movementso smoothly!
(silence)
0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother refers to the previous conversation, in which she was looking for the reasons behind the passage from one room to another, from the room of pain to the true room: "I can't catch hold of what makes it happen. What's happening? What's going on?!")
I had an experience yesterday afternoon that might put us on the track.
--
Immediately, as soon as I am in that state, theres an instantaneous will to spread it around as much as possible, so that all who are close to me in some way, materially or spiritually, may benefit from it. Thats my very first movement. And its probably also how I catch the contagion of the wrong room!
Very probably. But after all, its necessary.
0 1962-06-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes. Because I had seen you couldnt see it, but I saw that if you were to speak to him it would be catastrophic! (Mother laughs) And as soon as I saw that, I told you Dont say anything.
But I did it KNOWINGLY, because I saw he needed help.
0 1962-06-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont try to know, I dont look, I dont know. I just have the sensation that its going VERY slowly, very slowly, and were we imprudent enough to try to go fast, it would probably result in serious setbacks or catastrophes.
From this standpoint the standpoint of this body and its activities I am maintained in a state of utter indifference. Everything people want to do, all their programs and projects and so forth all that is far, far removed from me (gesture towards a distant shore); its all a distant blur. I dont even look at it. It only comes to me when someone tells me something (gesture of a thought floating momentarily by), and then it goes.
0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But what in our present existence doesnt keep life from being divine? Nothing I know of! (Mother laughs) happily, Sri Aurobindo and I were the same on this point [a sense of humor]. Effortlessly, from a very young age, something in me has always laughed. It sees all the catastrophes, sees all the suffering, sees it all and cant help laughing the way one laughs at something that pretends to be but isnt.
In the end, thats how you manage to hold on. Its a great thing.
--
But this is still a period of preparation; the best thing to do now is to look and look and look again, observe and observe and observe again; and to have experiences, lots of experiences, because all that is nothing the thing ITSELF must be grasped. Weve got to catch the tail of the true functioning, so it can be substituted for the other at will. Thats it exactly.
And that requires minute-to-minute observation.
0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They tried, fought, operated: no movement, nothing moved. Then one day they declared him dead (by the way, according to doctors, when the body dies the heart beats on faintly for a few seconds; then it stops and its all over). In his case, those faint beats (not strong enough to pump blood) continued for half an hour the kind of heartbeats typical of the trance state. (They all seem to be crassly ignorant! But anyway, it doesnt matter.) And they all said, even the doctors, Oooh, he must be a great yogi, this only happens to yogis! I have no idea what they mean by that. But I do know that although those heartbeats arent strong enough to pump blood through the body (thus putting the body into a cataleptic state), they do suffice to maintain life, and thats how yogis can remain in trance for months on end. Well, I dont know what type of doctors they are (probably very modern), but theyre ignorant of this fact. Anyway, according to them he had those pulsations for half an hour (normally they last a few seconds). All right. Hence their remarks. And he was here the whole while, immutable. Then suddenly I felt a kind of shudder; I lookedhe was gone. I was busy and didnt note the time, but it was in the afternoon, thats all I know. Later I was told that they had decided to cremate him, and had done so at that time.
The violence of the accident had brutally exteriorized him, but when it happened he must have been thinking of me with trust. He came and didnt budgehe never knew what was happening to his body. He didnt know he was dead! And if.
--
It doesnt matter. Anyway, whats fast! To me look, since April 13, I find people are always in a hurry for nothing. Theyre always rushing as if they had a train to catch! But why! Its one of the big, big mistakes. Why rush? Its due to a sort of inner vibration, something that keeps vibrating on and on, spoiling everything.
Everything they do, they do fast, as if something were pushing themthey eat fast, move fast, sleep fast, they wash and dress fast, talk fast. But why? Why be in such a hurry?
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The meaning of this extraordinarily long talk is that I too am packing my bag. But I believe that this bundle is like the net of St. Peter, only crammed with the catch of the Infinite. I am not going to open the bag now. If I do that before its time, all would escape. Neither am I going back to Bengal now, not because Bengal is not ready, but because I am not ready. If the unripe goes amidst the unripe what work can he do?5
Your Sejda,6
0 1962-07-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have the feeling that, consciously or unconsciously (I dont know which), this gentleman has become a tool of catholic resistance. It is very strong in the Old World and in America as well, although there its more Christian than specifically catholic. But its terribly strong in France: it tries to take advantage of every opening and to block whatever might take a new turn.
It will give way.
0 1962-08-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have had other similar experienceson Durgas day, for instance, when Sri Aurobindo was still here (you know, thats the day when Durga masters an asura; she doesnt kill him, she masters him). Well, each year one particular type of thing was undermined (and my experiences were never mental: the experience would suddenly come, and AFTERWARDS I would realize it was Durgas day), and each time I used to tell Sri Aurobindo, Looktoday this (or that) thing has been cut off at the roots. Thats how it works with the adverse forcesyes, like something being uprooted from the world. Whatever has already spread out keeps going and follows its karma, but the SOURCE is dried up. Thats also what happened (it was in 1904, I believe) when the Asura of Consciousness and Darkness made his surrender and was converted; he told me, I have millions and millions of emanations, and these will keep on living, but their source has now run dry.4 How much time will it take to exhaust it all? We cant say, but the source has dried up and that is something extremely important. In 1920, that terror was trying to spread all over the world and to become really catastrophic; and then in my inner vision I could see that a whole movement had dried up at its source. This means that little by little, little by little, little by little the karma is being exhausted.
The same goes for these little physical movements. Things dont seem to be initiated any more, I mean theyre no longer being generated. But everything thats already present in the world has to be exhausted.
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, I am not speaking of what the universal Mother can know, thats quite another category! I am speaking of the experience of the psychic being, the purely terrestrial experience. Well, very few things seem in fact, none of them seem alien or unknown to me. The human state of mind, ah yes! Since my early childhood, I have been flabbergasted by the way people think and feelit seemed monstrous. But as for the circumstances and events of life, thats all more or less old hat.
The experiences that left the most acute impressions on me (Mother makes a poignant gesture)you know, the kind of things that make you say, Oh, no, not that again, Ive had enough!are connected with my lives as a monarch: empress, queen and the like oh! Those are painful impressions, the most painful of all. And I have a keen memory of a resolution taken in my last life as an empress: Never again! I said. Ive had enough, I want no more of it! Id rather be not even Id rather be, I chose deliberately: I WANT to be an obscure being in an obscure family, free at last to do what I want! And thats the first thing I remembered this time: Yes, its an obscure family, an obscure being in an obscure milieu, so I may be free to do what I want; there isnt a horde of people watching me and spying on everything I do and plaguing me with rules about what I ought to be doing.
--
Thats the first thing I told Sri Aurobindo: This was the resolution made by my psychic being (my psychic being was in a certain person I know who). And when I left, it declared categorically: I want NO MORE of this!
The rest doesnt matter much to me, it didnt leave such an acute impression.
0 1962-10-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like a rain of truth falling, and anyone who can catch even a drop of it receives a revelation. But unless they themselves advance at a fantastic pace, the Lord and His rain of truth will already be far, far away, and theyll have to run very fast to catch up!
This is an image I have always seen.
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With a bit of reflection its easy to understand: if it were a question of stopping something and starting something ELSE, it might be done rather rapidly. But to keep a body alive (to keep it functioning) and AT THE SAME TIME have enough of a new functioning so that it stays alive, and then a transformation that makes a very difficult combination to realize. I am fully aware of it, fully aware of the immense amount of time thats needed for this to be done without catastrophe.
Above all, of course, when we come to the heart: to replace the heart with the center of Power, a formidable, dynamic power! (Mother laughs) At what precise MOMENT are you going to eliminate the circulation and throw in the Force!
0 1962-11-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In fact, the aim of meditation is to catch hold of that. And any path whatsoever is good, since youre sure to catch hold of it: it is HERE. You dont have to go far to look for itit is right here.
It has become a kind of habit: I am eating a meal, for example, and swallow the wrong way or whatever (not even something violent, just a slightly uneasy sensation in the throat), I do this (gesture of drawing back) for one second, and its finished. Or I am speaking to someone and the right word doesnt come automatically: I just have to do this (same gesture), and there it is. It works for everything. It puts things back in order.
0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
X wrote N. to announcein precise and almost violent terms that it was the beginning of a general upheaval, a catastrophic world war.
I know its the will of that Asura Ive mentioned to you several times, the Lord of Falsehood who was born the Lord of Truth, and who knows that his hour is at hand (at hand relative to that world there) and has declared he will cause as much havoc as he can before disappearing. Quite recently, just before the present conflict broke out, I went to a realm in the vital world which is right above the earth, like a platform (not a mountain top, but a spot where you get an overall view, like the bridge of a ship, for instance, where the captain stands; it was a place like that in the vital world, overlooking all terrestrial life). I went there it was rather dark, very dark in factand that tall being was there (hes quite tall, higher than this roomMo ther looks up at the ceilinghe likes to look tall). Hes very tall and all black. (Thats more or less his natural state; he appears to humans blazing with light, but that doesnt fool someone with inner vision: its an icy light. But some people are fooled and take him for the supreme God. Anyway, thats an aside.) So he was there and I went to himnot to him: I went to that place and found him there. He was gloating and told me to take a look around.
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Ive had my eye on this gentleman since the Second World War (and even earlier), and I know thats just what he wants. He has foretold all sorts of catastrophic things. So I suppose thats what X is seeing too, without knowing where it comes from I dont know. I wonder. At any rate, he wrote it so categorically that you might nearly think he wanted it! I cant believe he wants it. I simply replied, Well, yes, its ONE possibility. Which of the two will prevail? That, I dont know. Its a secret the Lord doesnt reveal because He thinks (and this is altogether certain) that it wouldnt be good to know whats going to happenwe wouldnt do what had to be done. Its always that way: we dont know whats going to happen because then we wouldnt do what had to be done.
I do what He tells me to do, but He doesnt say what the consequences will be. And I dont ask Him; I know its none of my business.
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That was the impression: a very localized disease (anyone can catch it, but its still very localized). While here, this conflict seems to have FUNDAMENTALLY disrupted somethingprofoundly. Is it because people THINK it may have a global consequence? I dont know. Or is it truly the first sign of something very very momentous?
(silence)
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And with the consciousness here, I looked (of course I was asked how he could write or think such things), and I said that each realm has its own determinism, and if you see only that determinism, things seem absolutely decreed. Xs vision, I said, belongs to the vital-physical determinism of the earth (Life and Matter), in which the catastrophe seems inevitable; but there are higher realms whose intervention can change everything.
But one must see and live in those higher regions.
0 1962-11-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont forget what Sri Aurobindo saiddeclared (in writing): that in 1967 the supramental Power will be behind all the earths governments. Whether its these people or those or whoever, they will be directly, maybe not consciously, but directly under the influence of the supramental forces, which will make them do what has to be done. And so, of course, the first result will be a kind of worldwide collaborationhe explicitly told me that, and he wrote it down. Thats what he had seen. But he didnt say we would get there without without catastrophe. He never said that.
Well, mon petit.
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Personally, because every ten years (43, 53) something catastrophic has happened to me.
The qualifier5 we use depends on our limited individual vision, but the fact in itself is probably quite correct: there will be a serious upheaval. But this doesnt mean it will be catastrophic. You see, it may be precisely the opening to something higher, and a new birth to Truth. Personally, I am certain of a very rapid progress [for you], because I see it. But I dont see any personal catastrophes. I havent seen that at all.
Unless. Once, you know, when Sri Aurobindo was still here, I saw. But it was just a vision, and lots of visions come (this was especially true at that time) as possibilities formed in a given world and descending towards the terrestrial manifestation. They come for me to give them the support of my consent, if I find them interesting. So there are all kinds of things! And most of them get sorted out at that point. But anyway, I had a vision in which Pondicherry was completely engulfed by a bomb (in those days there werent such powerful bombsso the vision was partly premonitory). So if that happens! (Mother laughs) As a result of the bombing, I was trapped in a radioactive area (it had been buried underground but not flatteneda kind of cave had been formed), where I stayed for two thousand years.
0 1962-12-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, if you mean the puritans, the Protestants dreadful! Theyre the worst. catholicism still retains something of the occult sense, and after all, they have a certain adoration for the Virgin, which keeps them in contact with something thats not asuric.
The last Pope, whos dead now [Pius XII], had broadened both his own mind and Church doctrine a lot: he was a devotee of the Virgin.
0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And not only here: here, there, everywhere, all over the world. And it doesnt get recorded in the head (thats impossible! I would go mad), but it stays in the consciousness (Mother makes a gesture around her head) and I just have to stop and pay attention: What is it? (Mother catches the vibration coming to her) But you understand, how do you record all this in spoken or written words? We would have to write fifty lines at the same time! Its impossible.
But it is conscious.
0 1963-01-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now the sensation is altogether, altogether new. Its not the customary movement of words pouring in and so on: you search and suddenly you catch hold of somethingits no longer that way at all: as though it were the ONLY thing that remained in the world. All the restmere noise.
There, mon petit.
0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But can these useless things be withdrawn from the Manifestation without causing any catastrophes?
I dont know how to explain it. Putting it like this implies an arbitrary fiat, but theres no such thing: it isnt a gentleman who decides to withdraw certain things he no longer likes! Its not that way. They are things which, owing to their own propensity (what we might call their essential truth), had at a given moment their place in the Manifestation, and which, once they have lost their purpose, quite naturally leave the Manifestation I could put it in fifty different ways just as poorly, I cant see how to explain it properly. But the fact was evident. It was part of such a wonderfully complete and harmonious Whole that Harmony is beyond us, we cannot understand it, caught as we are in the sensation of opposites. But there, opposites do not exist, there are only things that Like the fact of the Supreme seemingly dominated by His creation, wholly obedient to His creationas though He had no power, no knowledge, no vision, so things follow their course in the chaos we know. Well, when we put it like this, there is something unbelievable and shocking about it, yet it was so very natural, so very true, and part of such a perfect whole!
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I do it exclusively for the joy of being in a world a world of overmental expression (I dont say supramental, I say overmental), a luminous, marvelous expression through which you can catch the Truth.
And it teaches me English without books! Now, whenever I have to write a letter, all the words come by themselves: the CONTENT of the word (just as I told you for moment and instant), now it works the same way with all words! Yesterday I wrote something in English for a doctor here (Mother looks for a paper): The world progresses so rapidly that we must be ready at any moment to over pass what we knew in order to know better. And you know, I never think: it just comes, either the sound or the written word (it depends on the case: now Ill see the written words, now Ill hear the sound). For instance, the word advance came first, and with it came quick, quickly, repeatedly [the world advances so quickly]. Then came progress, and quickly was out of the picture; and suddenly rapidly came forward. So I understood how it worked, how it works for all words! I understood: progress (the idea or inner meaning of progress) calls for rapidly; and advance calls for quickly. Putting it like this sounds like splitting hairs, but when I saw it, it was positively irrefutable! The word was alive, its content was alive, and along with it was its friend, the word that went with it; and the word that wasnt its friend was not to be seen, it wasnt in the mood! Oh, it was so funny! For that alone it is worth the trouble.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On a few occasions, you know, I was like this (Mother makes a gesture of hovering between two worlds7), as if I were really put in contact with what I have called the death of death. It was the unreality of death. From a COMPLETELY material standpoint. It was a question of cells and of the consciousness in the cells. Like when you are within an inch of something: There it is! Im going to catch it, there it is! But then it fades away. It has stayed as an impression.
A few seconds experience which gave me the sense that the most central problem was solved. And then.
0 1963-03-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One thing, though: suddenly I read (yesterday or the day before) a sermon delivered in the U.S.A. by an American (who is a rabbi, a pastor and even a catholic priest all at the same time!). He heads a group, a group for the unity of religions. A fairly young man, and a preacher. He gives a sermon every week, I think. He came here with some other Americans, stayed for two days and went back. But then, he sent us the sermons he had given since his return, and in one of them he recounts his spiritual journey, as he calls it (a spiritual journey through China, Japan, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and so on up to India). What shocked him most in India was the povertyit was an almost unbearable experience for him (thats also what prompted the two persons who were with him to leave, and he left with them): poverty. Personally, I dont know because Ive seen poverty everywhere; I saw it wherever I went, but it seems Americans find it very shocking. Anyway, they came here, and in his sermon he gives his impression of the Ashram. I read it almost with astonishment. That man says that the minute he entered this place, he felt a peace, a calm, a stability he had never felt ANYWHERE else in his life. He met a man (he doesnt say who, he doesnt name him and I couldnt find out), who he says was such a monument of divine peace and quietude that I only wished to sit silently at his side. Who it is, I dont know (theres only Nolini who might, possibly, give that impression). He attended the meditationhe says he had never felt anything so wonderful anywhere. And he left with the feeling this was a unique place in the world from the point of view of the realization of divine Peace. I read that almost with surprise. And hes a man who, intellectually, is unable to understand or follow Sri Aurobindo (the horizon is quite narrow, he hasnt got beyond the unity of religions, thats the utmost he can conceive of). Well, in spite of that Those who already know all of Sri Aurobindo, who come here thinking they will see and who feel that Peace, I can understand. But thats not the case: he was enthralled at once!
Its the same with people who get cured. That I know, to some extent: the Power acts so forcefully that it is almost miraculousat a distance. The Power I am very conscious of the Power. But, I must say, I find it doesnt act here so well as it does far away. On government or national matters, on the terrestrial atmosphere, on great movements, also as inspirations on the level of thought (in certain people, to realize certain things), the Power is very clear. Also to save people or cure themit acts very strongly. But much more at a distance than here! (Although the receptivity has increased since I withdrew because, necessarily, it gave people the urge to find inside something they no longer had outside.) But here, the response is very erratic. And to distinguish between the proportion that comes from faith, sincerity, simplicity, and what comes from the Power Some people I am able to save (naturally, in my view, its because they COULD be saved), this is something that for a very long time I have been able to foresee. But now I dont try to know: it comes like this (gesture like a flash). If, for instance, I am told, So and so has fallen ill, well, immediately I know if he will recover (first if its nothing, some passing trouble), if he will recover, if it will take some time and struggle and difficulties, or if its fatalautomatically. And without trying to know, without even trying: the two things come together.2 This capacity has developed, first because I have more peace, and because, having more peace, things follow a more normal course. But there were two or three little instances where I said to the Lord (gesture of presenting something, palms open upward), I asked Him to do a certain thing, and then (not very often, it doesnt happen to me often; at times it comes as a necessity, a necessity to present the thing with a commentfrom morning to evening and evening to morning I present everything constantly, thats my movement [same gesture of presenting something] but here, there is a comment, as if I were asking, Couldnt this be done?), and then the result: yes, immediately. But I am not the one who presents the thing, you see: its just the way it is, it just happens that way, like everything else.3 So my conclusion is that its part of the Plan, I mean, a certain vibration is necessary, enters [into Mother], intervenes, and No stories to tell, mon petit! Nothing to fill people with enthusiasm or give them trust, nothing.
0 1963-03-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The nations of the world legitimize that destructive madness of the arms race by saying its a way to prevent destruction through fear thats futile. As an argument, its futile, but thats the way they think. Its part of that same thirst or need for Security: nothing can be achieved except in peace, nothing can be arrived at except in peace, nothing can be realized except in peacewe need peace, individually, collectively, globally. So lets make horrifying weapons of destruction so that men will be so frightened that nothing will happenhow childish! But thats the current state of mind. It is still one of those in English they say device, a ploy (its not a ploy, its a meansbetween ploy and means) to urge the human race on towards its evolutionary goal. And for that, we must catch hold of the Divine: its a means of catching hold of the Divine. For there is nothingnothing, nothing exists from the point of view of Security, except the Supreme. If we ARE the Supreme, that is to say, the supreme Consciousness, supreme Power, supreme Existence, then there is Securityoutside of that, there is none. Because everything is in perpetual motion. What exists at one moment in time, as Sri Aurobindo says (time is an unbroken succession of moments), what exists at a given moment no longer exists the next, so theres no security. Its the same experience, seen from another angle, as that of Buddha, who said there was no permanence. And basically, the Rishis saw only from the angle of human existence, thats why they were after Immortality. It all boils down to the same thing.
(Mother remains in contemplation)
0 1963-03-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It goes on every night. It takes the form of all sorts of scenes, of symbols, of memories, from words to images. It comes in groups and categories of tendencies, it represents the various human tendencies in detailits infinitesimal. Its only because they are multiplied millions of times that they can have some importance but theyre nothing! Mere nothings. Yet thats just what blocks the way.
It really isnt of interest.
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But its so dull! So dull, so lackluster, so unchanging, souninteresting, really dull that the slightest light shines like a bright star! The smallest, slightest, tiniest progress seems like an extraordinary thing. Like, for example, the attitude in certain cells towards a physical disorder which, naturally, like all physical disorders, tends to recur. The attitude in the cells changesnot the disorder (!), the disorder changes only because of the cells reaction, thats what makes it change; but it recurs with clockwork regularity thats its job. It is the way its received by the cells, their reaction to it, that brings about the change. And there is now a difference in the cells reaction. The result of my observation (an impersonal, general observation) is that there are two types of change (I cant call it progress), two types of change in the reaction: a change that goes on improving, in the sense that the reaction grows less sharp, the cells are less affected and become not only more conscious but more IN COMMAND of the reaction (something people are not generally conscious of, but which is what brings about the cure). And, on the other hand, deterioration: under the unrelenting attack, the cells panic, become more and more affected and afraid, and it eventually results in a terrible mess and a catastrophe. Well, the whole thing is observed, studied, experienced; but (laughing) in ordinary medicine its explained away in two words! You see, what I see now is the process they dont know the process, only the result. And, well, I notice that as the consciousness grows, the cells panic less and less and a sort of mastery develops. Of course, its a pleasing observation, if I may say so, but it doesnt even make me happy! It seems rather obvious. Also the proportion is such that to get a really telling result, it would take years and years and years! Oh, how many years! How slow things are.
So I dont feel impelled to talk about it. Id rather concern myself with something else I do the work, but thats all.
0 1963-04-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had two experiences of that kind. The first was at Tlemcen3 and the second in Japan. There was an epidemic of influenza, an influenza that came from the war (the 1914 war), and was generally fatal. People would get pneumonia after three days, and plop! finished. In Japan they never have epidemics (its a country where epidemics are unknown), so they were caught unawares; it was an ideal breeding ground, absolutely unpreparedincredible: people died by the thousands every day, it was incredible! Everybody lived in terror, they didnt dare to go out without masks over their mouths. Then somebody whom I wont name asked me (in a brusque tone), What Is this? I answered him, Better not think about it. Why not? he said, Its very interesting! We must find out, at least you are able to find out whatever this is. Silly me, I was just about to go out; I had to visit a girl who lived at the other end of Tokyo (Tokyo is the largest city in the world, it takes a long time to go from one end to the other), and I wasnt so well-off I could go about in a car: I took the tram. What an atmosphere! An atmosphere of panic in the city! You see, we lived in a house surrounded by a big park, secluded, but the atmosphere in the city was horrible. And the question, What Is this? naturally came to put me in contact I came back home with the illness. I was sure to catch it, it had to happen! (laughing) I came home with it.
Like a bang on the head I was completely dazed. They called a doctor. There were no medicines left in the citythere werent enough medicines for people, but as we were considered important people (!) the doctor brought two tablets. I told him (laughing), Doctor, I never take any medicines. What! he said. Its so hard to get them!Thats just the point, I replied, theyre very good for others! Then, then suddenly (I was in bed, of course, with a first-rate fever), suddenly I felt seized by trance the real trance, the kind that pushes you out of your body and I knew. I knew: Its the end; if I cant resist it, its the end. So I looked. I looked and I saw it was a being whose head had been half blown off by a bomb and who didnt know he was dead, so he was hooking on to anybody he could to suck life. And each of those beings (I saw one over me, doing his business!) was one of the countless dead. Each had a sort of atmospherea very widespread atmosphereof human decomposition, utterly pestilential, and thats what gave the illness. If it was merely that, you recovered, but if it was one of those beings with half a head or half a body, a being who had been killed so brutally that he didnt know he was dead and was trying to get hold of a body in order to continue his life (the atmosphere made thousands of people catch the illness every day, it was swarming, an infection), well, with such beings, you died. Within three days it was overeven before, within a day, sometimes. So once I saw and knew, I collected all the occult energy, all the occult power, and (Mother bangs down her fist, as if to force her way into her body) I found myself back in my bed, awake, and it was over. Not only was it over, but I stayed very quiet and began to work in the atmosphere. From that moment on, mon petit, there were no new cases! It was so extraordinary that it appeared in the Japanese papers. They didnt know how it happened, but from that day on, from that night on, not a single fresh case. And people recovered little by little.
I told the story to our Japanese friend in whose house we were living, I told him, Well, thats what this illness isa remnant of the war; and heres the way it happens. And that being was repaid for his attempt! Naturally, the fact that I repelled his influence by turning around and fighting [dissolved the formation]. But what power it takes to do that! Extraordinary.
He told the story to some friends, who in turn told it to some friends, so in the end the story became known. There was even a sort of collective thanks from the city for my intervention. But the whole thing stemmed from that: What Is this illness? Youre able to find out, arent you? (Laughter) Go and catch it!
But that feeling of being absolutely paralyzed, a prey to somethingabsolutely paralyzed, you cant You are no longer in your body, you understand, you cant act on it any more. And a sense of liberation when you are able to turn around.
0 1963-04-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I arrived here yesterday. So far I have spent most of my time struggling against a horrible impression in my heart, my thought and my body, so strong that if I could, I would catch the first train home today. I have never had such an impression here. I almost wired you to call for your help. I shall try to hold out here as long as is decently possible, then will leave as soon as I can.
On the material level, the conditions are as wretched as possiblein a word, complete barrenness in complete squalor. My body isnt too brilliant, but I hope it will get better. On the mental and affective level = NIL. That leaves the one Thing without which all would collapse.
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I have just written a word to Mother to tell her that if I could, I would catch the first train home. When I arrived here, I got a horrible impression as never before, almost a panic. Everything was so terribly void and far away. Probably I have grown hypersensitive. If I were not afraid of yielding to that impression and if it werent rude to X, I would take noon train today. The new guest house is beyond description1: cement walls enclosed within cement walls; the plan is so wonderful that not a whiff of air can blow in here, nor can one see a single blade of grass. There are magnificent wrought-iron railings and openwork cement designs, but not even the most basic amenities. I absolutely refused to enter that sarcophagus, so they put me up in an adjoining house purchased by X and used as a garage. Its unspeakably filthy. It didnt even occur to them to offer me a mat. Finally they brought a bench for me to sleep on, which I refused. So much for the material conditions. I hope the body will get better. As soon as I can decently leave, I shall weigh anchor.
Signed: Satprem
0 1963-05-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Id like to ask you a little question. In this book on Sri Aurobindo, I say in passing that the three aspectsTranscendent, Immanent, Cosmicprobably correspond to the catholic Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Could you tell me the exact correspondence? The Father is clearly the Transcendent, but the Son?
The Son is the Immanent.
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I say this because Thon always announced the coming of the new world. He didnt speak of Supermind, he said: There shall be new heavens and a new earth. That was his explanation. So it may be that, originally, in the origin of the catholic religion, they too had the idea that after forty days (it could also mean forty centuries, maybe forty eons or forty ages), there would come the descent of the Holy Spirit in the form of flames that would enter those who are ready. I find this explanation more logical.
Of course, the bird, the white dove they speak of, could be the Universal. Maybe it would manifest openly as a result of that descent?
0 1963-06-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was a rather acute sensation that when the world, the earth, goes from one state to another, there is a sort of transition; it is always like a ridge between two mountains (gesture of a precarious balance), and there is a very perilous moment when the slightest thing can cause a catastrophewhich means a lot of things would have to be built anew. The same phenomenon exists too on a very small scale, for individuals, in the sense that when they go from one state of consciousnessa collection of states which constitutes their individualityto a higher state, or when they introduce into their state an element that will yield a higher synthesis, there is always a dangerous period when a catastrophe is possible. And the sensation I had last night was that the earth is now going through one such period of transition, and there isthere was or there isa possibility of catastrophe.
(silence)
0 1963-06-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So you get the feeling it will take centuriescenturies to change! Or else a catastrophe.
Though even a catastrophe (Mother shakes her head negatively) it shakes it all up, then everything sinks back to the bottom.
(silence)
0 1963-06-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was also the photo of the cardinal of India (the first and only cardinal in India), a straightforward man and a wholehearted believerhe must be a fanatical catholic, but with a sincerity, a fervor. The other fellow is very intelligentoh, he has a mouth I cannot look at, dreadful.
Anyway, well see what happens.
It seems Kennedy is catholic. That is a serious matter.
They say he was the first person the Pope saw after his whats the word for Popes?
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catholicism has two things that Protestantism lacks: the occult sense (not only the sense but even a certain occult knowledge), and the Mother the Virgin. The Protestants have something the catholics lack: the inner divine presence.
Its only through those two things that you can catch them. But
Well, well see.
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But in reality, catholicism finds its equilibrium because of Communism; so that the rapprochement between the two was a masterstroke. And I dont think the new man (who is a sly fox, I find) will want to lose the advantage the other had gained. The friendship with Russia is very clever. They are todays two platforms of influence in the earths atmosphere.
We shall see.
0 1963-07-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I find there are three noteworthy points: First, this man was already concerning himself with terrestrial affairs when he was a mere cardinal in Milan (in Milan he was very involved in labor problems there are many workers in Milan and that interested him, he liked to solve workers problems). Then there is the continuation of the other ones work: the rapprochement, so to say, with Russia, which is truly interesting. Last, there is the fact that Kennedy is catholic. And also, that all this is happening just now, I mean when AT LEAST (I dont say at best, I say at least) the foundation of the new world is being prepared.
The foundations are being prepared.
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But I think not think, I see that his belief is, first, simply a question of habit, because he was born in that religion, and then a question of political necessity I dont think he has the conviction that it is the pure Truth. Whereas the previous Pope really believed in it. This one knows too much in his supraconscient to believe that Christianity is the pure and exclusive Truth. Only, you see, when youre lucky enough to be the Pope, youve got to believe that the Pope is the Pope! Try to imagine, look at the global situation from a distance: of course the whole world isnt catholic, but there are catholics all over the world.
What seems bizarre to those who have gone beyond the petty, purely terrestrial limitshuman terrestrial limitsis that belief in a SINGLE divine manifestation on the earth; all the religions are based on that, everyone says, Christ was the only one, or Buddha was the only one, or elsewhere Mohammed was the only one, and so forth. Well, that only one is something IMPOSSIBLE as soon as you rise a little above the ordinary earth atmosphere it appears childish. You can understand the thing and accept it only as a sort of recurrent movement of the divine Consciousness on the earth.
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No, but under the cover of a synthesis or a broadening of the doctrine, they may very well be trying to expand further the power of catholicism over the world.
Of course. Oh, but its obvious. Thats their intention.
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That brought home to me the magnitude of the problemits terrestrial. There are catholics everywhere: in China, in Africa among the Negroes; people who dont give a thought to these things yet are under the sway and caught by the octopus.
Another time, when I was younger, I was in Italy, in Venice, painting in a corner of St. Marks cathedral (a marvelous place of great beauty), and I happened to be sitting right next to a confessional. One day, as I sat there painting, I saw the priest arrive and enter the confessional that man completely black, tall, thin, the very face of wickedness and hardness: a pitiless wickedness. He closeted himself in there. After a short while there came a rather young woman, perhaps thirty years old, gentle, very sweetnot intelligent but very sweetentirely dressed in black. She entered the box (he was already shut in and could no longer be seen), and they spoke through a grille. I should add that its far more medieval than in France, it was really it was almost theatrical. She knelt down there, I saw her long gown flowing out, and she was speaking. (I couldnt hear, she was whispering; besides, both of them spoke in Italian, although I understand Italian.) The voices were barely audible, there was no sound. Then all at once, I heard the woman sobbing (she was sobbing in spasms), and it went on till suddenlya collapse: she crumpled in a heap on the floor. Then that man opened the door, shoving aside her body with the door and he strode away without a backward glance. I was young, you know, and if I could have, I would have killed him. What he had just done was monstrous. And he was going away it was a chunk of steel that walked out.
Incidents of that sort have left me with a peculiar impression. The stories of the Inquisition had already given me a sufficient Now, of course, youve heard what I told you [the story of the Asura], and thats really my way of seeing the thing. But there was a time when I might have said, No religion has done more evil in the world than this one.
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In France, all those who have an awakening, a spiritual need, rush back to the catholic religion. Which means the octopus still has a great deal of power therea very great deal.
Some time ago, I dont remember on what occasion, I recalled the time when you couldnt say that the earth rotates, or even that its roundthey killed you! Can you imagine that.
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Mother is referring to Satprem's "worries" in the face of catholic expansionism.
Things have changed much since then.
0 1963-07-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Force seems to act more strongly at a distance than near at handits odd. That is to say, it catches hold of people and wont let go of them. Naturally, near at hand, there is always in me the constant will not to influence: to act without influencing, allowing a total freedom. And that to tell the truth, people arent ready for it. Yet thats how I understand things! I have the feeling that the world cannot be true unless its absolutely free.
And the more power you have, the less you should influence.
0 1963-07-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So there is a period when you are in suspense: no longer this, not yet that, just in between. Its a difficult period when you have to be very quiet, very patient, and above allabove allnever become afraid or irritated or impatient, because thats catastrophic. And the difficulty is that from all quarters and without letup come all the idiotic suggestions of ordinary thinking: age, deterioration, the possibility of death, the constant threat of illness, of the slightest thingillness, dotage decay. It comes all the time, all the time, all the time; and all the time this poor harried body has to remain very quiet and not to listen, preoccupied only with maintaining its vibrations in a harmonious state.
Sometimes I catch it (that must be something quite common among human beings) in a sort of hastea haste, a kind of impatience, and also, I cant say fear or anxiety, but a sense of uncertainty. The two together: impatience to get out of the present moment to the immediately next, and at the same time uncertainty as to what that immediately next moment is going to bring. The whole thing makes a vibration of restlessnesswhats the word in French?
Febrility, agitation?
Thats too muchagitation is too much, its rather a lack of rest. Not agitation really, but something that lacks the rest of certainty. I constantly catch my cells being like that. Naturally I react, but for them its a very normal state: always straining after the next moment, never the quietude of the present moment. The result (the words I use give a very concrete character to something rather fluid), the result is the feeling that you have to bear or endure, and the haste to get out of that enduring, along with the hope (a very faint and flimsy hope) that the next moment will be better. Thats how it is from moment to moment, from moment to moment, from moment to moment. As soon as the Consciousness comes (gesture of descent) and concentrates, as soon as I bring the Consciousness into the present moment, everything becomes quiet, immobile, eternal. But if I am not CONSTANTLY attentive, the other condition [of restlessness] comes almost as a subconsciousness: its always there. And VERY tiringit must be one of the most important sources of fatigue in mankind. Especially here (Mother touches her forehead and temples), its very tiring. Only when you can live in the eternity of the present minute does it all stopeverything becomes white, immobile, calm, everything is fine.
But it means constant vigilanceconstant. Its infinitely more difficult than when one worked even in the vital; in the vital, its nothing, its childs play in comparison. But here, phew! Because, you see, in the mind or the vital, its all movements of organization, of action, of choice, of decisionits very easy to decide, to rule! But that cellular tension is there EVERY SECOND: its the activity inherent in material existence. Its only when you go into samadhi that it stops. That is, when outwardly you are in trance. Then it stops.
0 1963-07-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And were Love to manifest before Truth, there would be catastrophes.
Its curious, for a-very long time, for months and almost years, something always stopped me when I asked for Loves manifestation, a sort of very clear impression: No, it isnt time yet, it isnt time yet. Until suddenly one day it started off and there came an overwhelming Response. That was several months ago, and ever since then there has been a Responsean ever-increasing Response.
0 1963-08-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, we dont know. I SEE those great currents: theyre like currents of madness that catch hold of people and things. At bottom, it may be really a rather acute conflict between the Yes and the No, that is to say, between all that struggles to hasten the coming of new things and all that refusesrefuses with increasing violence.
(silence)
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So that would have frightening results for the ordinary consciousness. I can see that very well, because at times that Power comes the Power comes and you feel as if everything is about to explode. Because it can tolerate only union, it can tolerate only an accepting responsereceiving and accepting. And not from any arbitrary will: from the VERY FACT of its existence, an all-powerful existenceall-powerful not in the way man understands allpowerfullness: really an all-powerfulness. That is, entirely, totally and exclusively existing. It contains everything, but what is contrary to its vibration is forced to change, you see, since nothing can disappear; but then that immediate, brutal, so to say, and absolute change is, in the world as it is, a catastrophe.
This is the answer I received to my problem.
0 1963-08-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had already told you about my misgivings.1 As to the motives for the decision, it always boils down to the same point: a sincere (though ambiguous) will of ecumenism, a broad rather than deep intellectual curiosity, permit mentalities such as those that give our firm its orientation and public image to pay some attention to academic essays regarded (wrongly so in the present instance) as dealing with the famous Eastern spirituality. But as soon as the essays are lived from within, the goodwill withdraws into its shell. The reaction is even worse if the author is a renegade, a Westerner who has gone over to the enemy side. (I can vouch for that!2) I must emphasize that this whole process is not only unintentional but, more than that, unconscious (which is not an excuse but an aggravating circumstance). The opposition put up against your first manuscript3 rather hardened with the second, a much more personal book, I mean less detached, still less objective than the firstand more ample. Through the medium of literature, you were able to convey whatever you liked. Through a direct essay, you will reach and so much the worse, or so much the betteronly those who seek. Our firm and its public do not belong, for that matter, to the category of those who seek.
Hes conscious!
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Its not even true, for as soon as a little something stirs within (gesture at the heart center), they plunge back into their catholicism.
Anyway
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I saw that, in fact: I showed A. some passages from the Agenda that I had selected; obviously A. likes me, also he makes an effort to understand spirituallywell, I clearly saw while he was reading that he doesnt understand. There was a whole part that was absolutely beyond his understanding, he didnt understand, and what little he could catch was just a husk.
So, to tell the truth, it doesnt matter.
0 1963-08-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It takes time simply because of the resistance of the old habits. If we could always let ourselves be carried along, things would go much fastermuch faster. All the time, a hundred times a day (more than that!), I tell myself, Why are you thinking of this? Why are you thinking of that? For example, if I have to answer someone (not always in writing, it can be an [occult] work, to organize something), the Force acts quite naturally, smoothly, without any resistance; then suddenly thought comes into the picture and tries to interfere (I catch it every time and I stop it every time; but its too often!), and all the old habit returns. That need to translate things into thoughts, to give them clear expression And then you hinder the entire process.
Oh, to let oneself live simply, simply, without compli cations.
0 1963-09-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was a time when I intervened (it was the time of the Swamis activities and all that). It was over you at that time. But lately I havent seen anything specialattacks do come periodically along with the suggestion of all kinds of catastrophic possibilities: nothing more particular to you than to others. Its part of the work, I dont pay any attention to it.
But as for a quite personal threat to you, things seem much better now than they were two years ago.
0 1963-09-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the same with catholicism. Yet, if I remember correctly, their God created the world with a part of himself, no?
No, no!
0 1963-09-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because NOTHING in the consciousness budged during those changeovers [back and forth from the true to the false movement]; the consciousness is like that, turned not upward, not inward, turned simply turned to the Lord, living in His Light, which, in the physical world, becomes a golden splendor. The consciousness is turned to That. There is nothing but That, its the sole reality, the sole truth. And It vibrates like this (Mother touches her hands, her arms), It vibrates in all the cells, everywhere. I go like this (Mother makes a gesture of collecting it in the air around), as if I picked it up. It isnt ethereal, its very material; it feels like an air that is thick but vibrant, very vibrant. The consciousness is like that. And all this goes on in the body. But with the presence of that old idiot which is immediately pessimistic, catastrophic, defeatisthow defeatist, oh it sees everything as a calamity. And then that wonderful character, after imagining the worse (in the space of a second, of course), it submits it all to the Lord and tells Him, Here, Lord, here is Your work, its all Yours, do what You will with it! The silly idiot, why did it have to prepare its catastrophes! A catastrophe, invariably a catastrophe, everything is catastrophic but it offers its catastrophe to the Lord!
And the answer is invariably a smile full of such patience, oh! That patience gives me a sense of wonder every second.
0 1963-10-05, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It didnt appear catastrophic?
No.
But in that consciousness, there arent any catastrophes, so I cant be sure.
There was only that: Why? They could have informed people just the same! But it was they in the plural: They should have. They were the all-powerful masters or the supreme masters. But there was nothing religious in the feeling, nothing spiritual either.
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So the only thing I can do is this (gesture of presenting): Look, Lord, see how ignorant and powerless we are, how utterly stupid we areits up to You to change it. How do you change it? You cant even imagine the change, you cant even do that. So all my time (same gesture)not from time to time: constantly, day and night, without letup, day and night without letup. If for an interval of one or two minutes this isnt done, there is something that catches up: Oh, all that time wasted! And if I take a close look at what happened, then I see; I see that for these few minutes, I was blissful in the Lord, letting myself live blissfully in the Lord; so I no longer presented things to Himit happens two or three times a day. A relaxation, you know, you let yourself flow blissfully in the Lord. And its so natural and spontaneous that I dont even notice it; I notice it when I resume my attitude (same gesture to the Heights) of transferring everything to the Lord every minute.
(silence)
0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Help is ever present, in the sense that you unquestionably feel that the Force acts (the Force, that is, the supreme Consciousness and supreme Knowledge), the Force acts with a sort of pressure on all people and all circumstances, in a favorable direction so that what happens may truly be the bestand the best hierarchically; in other words, the highest and purest (you know my definition of pure) is a sort of center in relation to which things get organized; they get organized hierarchically, each with its right to progress, but as if to favor whats closest to and most expressive of the Divine that is going on constantly, I see hundreds of examples of it all the time. Yet, from the point of view of outer circumstances, there is such a tension that you feel you are close to catastrophe.
Sri Aurobindo told me that there are three difficulties, and they are the three things that have to be conquered for the earth to be ready (this is from the purely outward point of view, I am not speaking of psychological factors): government, money, health.
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But because of my inner work, I become increasingly aware of things, increasingly aware of the Care, the Solicitude and the hierarchical Organization of circumstances so that the most precious and useful thing for the divine work is favoredof course not conspicuously so, but inwardly. And yet, in the three domainsgovernment, money and healththings always reach a POINT, a point of such tension and compli cation that if you didnt have the inner certitude, they would always seem to point simply to the catastrophe, the fall. And its ALWAYS at that point that (gesture of abrupt reversal) everything turns aroundnot before, not one minute before.
Its not to give me faith I have it; its not to give me consciousness I have it; its for an outward reason. I cannot yet grasp why. Because inwardly, even if I were told that everything would be demolished in the most tragic manner, I would say, Very well. And in all sincerity, you know, nothing anywhere in me starts protesting or vibrating, nothing at all. I say, All right. But I see I do see that in that tension, a certain power is released, like a power intense enough to cure a tamas, to change a tamas.1
0 1963-10-26, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I stopped the immediate effect (the immediate effect was almost catastrophic), I stopped it with my great method: that sort of inner immobility, and leaving everything in the Lords hands. Nevertheless, the next day, I was unwell (Im not quite well yet), as though the body had been terribly shaken.
Then I saw all kinds of thingsoh, bah! bah! An adverse organization in the most material vital to mislead unenlightened spiritual aspirations: I encountered that last night. There was a kind of preacher teaching how to do things, and for each thing I had to contradict and explainbecause he had quite an audience: he has that audience at night, and when people wake up, they arent conscious of it, and it influences them. It results in a kind of possession. It was (oh, I see that gentleman often), its a tall, black beinghe is black, jet black but he passes himself off as a great Initiate! People dont see him as he is (they must see him in a very attractive guise), and he preaches the very things that foster disintegration. He teaches you in detail how to doa very good teacher of mischief. But I argued with him about everything, explained everything in detail, very carefully, very conscientiously, and when it was over, I offered it all to the Lordso I dont know what happened to him!
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, thats what I felt. Would you believe that lately, for about two or three weeks, there has been a kind of craving for effects (what YOU call results), effects. To me, they were effects. And I said to myself, Thats odd, Ive never had that in my life, I am absolutely indifferent, why this craving?All the time I keep catching your illnesses! Say, thats not very nice! (laughter)
Ah, now I understand! I said to myself, Where is it coming from? Where is it coming from?
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Everyone is born with (what can I call it?) some special twist (laughing)I know my own twist, I know it quite well! (I dont talk about it because it isnt enjoyable.) But thats what remains last of all. With our idiotic human logic, we think, Thats what should go first, but its not true: its what goes last! Even when it all becomes clear, clear (gesture above), even when you have all the experiences, the habit stays on and it keeps coming back. So you push it back: it rises again from the subconscient; you chase it away: it comes back from outside. So if for one minute you arent on your guard, it shows up againoh, what a nuisance! But Sri Aurobindo wrote about this somewhere, I dont remember the words; I read it very recently, and when I read it, I thought, Ah, there it is! He knew it was that way. So it comforted me, and I thought, All right, then. He said that he who has purified his mind and so on and so forth, who is ready to work towards Perfection (its in the Synthesis, The Yoga of Self-Perfection), He is ready and patient for lapses and the recurrence of old errors, and he works quietly, waiting patiently till the time comes for them to leave. I thought, Very well, thats how it is now. I am patiently waiting for the time when (though I dont miss any opportunity to catch them by the tip of their nose, or the tip of their ear, and to say, Ha, youre still here!).
The first thing is to detach your consciousness, thats most important. And to say: I-AM-NOT-THIS, its something that has been ADDED, placed to enable me to touch Matter but it isnt me. And then if you say, That is me (gesture upward), youll see that you will be happy, because it is lovelylovely, luminous, sparkling. Its really fine, it has an exceptional quality. And thats you. But you have to say, That is me, and be convinced that its you. Naturally, the old habits come to deny it, but you must know that theyre old habits, nothing else, they dont matter that is you.
0 1963-11-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Revolutions, big strikes, dangerous INNER events are always just before February 21. And the catastrophes of this kind in Novemberalways.
Sri Aurobindo too used to say that the most difficult period in the year was November to February.
0 1963-12-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother smiles) You know, there are, broadly speaking, two categories of people: those who by nature receive, are receptive; who receive and like to receive and to feel they are receiving; and those who like to give and like the feeling of giving. So those who like to receive have the experience of receiving, while those who like to give (laughing) have the experience of giving. But basically, its all the same thing: its the Force circulating. The Force circulates, and you get the feeling (how can I explain it?) it depends on the position of the consciousness with regard to the individual ego.
When I noticed Ws difficulties, I put a lot of force on him, a lot, a great concentration to get him out of that tight corner, because I felt a kind of wavering in him, I felt he wasnt so steady on the path any more. Thats what worried me. So I put a very great concentration of force on him to set him on the right road again. And, as I said, the Force circulates; it circulates: it isnt something which goes out like that, like a little beam which you send out, which reaches its goal and stays there thats not it. Its a thing (round gesture) that spreads out with waves of concentration. And Ive noticed this for everybody (I did my first study on myself), but the ego must be completely (gesture of palms upward, immobile) must become nonexistent, must stop interfering, at any rate, in order to feel that great, universal Pulsation.
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Or else, when you are able to see things from above, you can direct concentrations and channel the Force, as it were [on people and events]. And Ive noticed (since it became a natural fact for me), Ive noticed those two categories of people (with all kinds of nuances and differences): those who are happy to receive, and who are therefore much more conscious of the moment when the Force comes IN, and those (they are generous by nature, but also dominating) who are happier when they have a feeling of giving; so they are far more conscious of the Movement when it goes out of their individuality.
Thats just what I knew of Ws nature: the ego in him is that he likes to be a guru thats when one is quite egoistic, but as one grows less so, there still remains that aspect of the nature that makes one more inclined to give than to receive. And as I had made a very strong concentration, quite naturally he felt the force going out of him.
0 1963-12-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Sujata:) I also have a whole year of Agenda to catch up with.
Oh, the Agenda. I keep talking on and on. He has a knack for making me talkbefore he comes, I decide, Today, I wont say anything, and then I dont know, he doesnt say anything, doesnt ask anything, and I dont know what happens but I start talking!4
0 1964-01-15, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this field of experience also includes the physical mindall the mental constructions that have a direct action on life and on the body; there is there an almost unlimited field of experiences. And everything takes the form not of a speculation or a thought, but of an experience. Ill give you an example to make myself understood. I wont tell you the thing as it occurred, but as I now know it to be. There is in France someone very devoted, born catholic, and who was seriously ill. He wrote to me asking what he should do; he said that people around him naturally wanted him to receive extreme unction (they thought he was about to die), and he wrote to ask me if it had any influence on the progress of his inner being and whether he should refuse categorically. I knew none of this [as Mother had not yet received the letter], but I had an experience here, in which a priest and altar boys came to give me extreme unction! (Thats how it presented itself to me.) They wanted to give me extreme unction, so I watched I watched, I wanted to see; I thought, Well, before dismissing them abruptly, lets see what it is. (I had no idea why they had come, you understand; someone had sent them to give me extreme unctionnot that I felt particularly sick! But anyhow thats how it was.) So before dismissing them, I watched carefully to find out if really it had a power of action, if extreme unction had the power to disturb the progress of the soul and tie it down to old religious formations. I watched and I saw how thin and tenuous it was, without force; I saw clearly that it could have some force only if the priest who performed it was a conscious soul and did it consciously, in relationship with an inner power or force (vital or other), but that if it was an ordinary man doing his job and giving the sacraments with the ordinary belief and nothing more, it was perfectly harmless.
Once I had seen that, suddenly (it was as if on a screen) the whole story vanished and it was over. It had come only to make me see it, thats all. But it presented itself in that way in order to make me watch intently, seriously, not as a mental consideration: a vision and an experience.
0 1964-01-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now, its a little better, but it has become Why not me? Mother has seen such and such a category of people, therefore the entire category has a right to be seen! The birthdays1 too, it depends on the ages and occupations: if I see people of a certain age and occupation on their birthdays, all those of about the same age and similar occupation have a RIGHT to comethey have the rightand it is my DUTY to see them. And when I say that I dont have the time theyre upset.
Its a farce, you know! And that farce has been going on since 1929.
0 1964-01-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I havent yet had the time to prepare the Bulletin: Im catching up with my work.
It doesnt matter. Besides people are arriving by the hundred. Next month is going to be a bit difficult although Ill see as few people as possible. But still
0 1964-01-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As though something were established that is UNSHAKABLE. And outwardly, things have never been so catastrophic. I find this interesting.
And then, even from the point of view of light, there was (till the last few days) a sort of bright light of a more or less childlike trust and a more or less childlike hope (especially among the people here), which (its rather comical to say) suddenly went out when the food supplies were cut at the dining room!
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She was looking at the sky, then she started seeing stars falling down everywhere, like a rain of stars over the earth. And then the ground had turned into an even mass of ice, like at the poles: it wasnt bright, but it was like ice everywhere on the ground. And a sort of ship rose on it, with a slightly gray color, with passengers, whose color was also not bright, but slightly gray, slightly blue, as though they had escaped from old thingsas though they had escaped from some catastrophe or were coming out of some catastrophe.1
Really!
0 1964-02-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it also shows one thing: if I let too wide a gap grow between me and the people around, it isnt good either, in the sense that if others arent able to bear what I might bring down, it will be another kind of catastrophe.
One must have patience.
0 1964-03-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday again, the experience was quite concrete and powerful: it isnt necessary to move, or to move anything, for this Truth-Consciousness to replace the consciousness of deformation or distortion. In other words, the capacity to live in and be this true Vibrationessential and trueseems to have the power to SUBSTITUTE this Vibration for the vibration of Falsehood and Distortion, to such an extent that For instance, the outcome of Distortion or of the vibration of distortion should naturally have been an accident or catastrophe, but if, within those vibrations, there is a consciousness that has the power to become aware of the Vibration of Truth and therefore manifest the Vibration of Truth, it canit mustcancel the other vibration. Which would be translated, in the external phenomenon, by an intervention that would stop the catastrophe.
There is a growing feeling that the True is the only way to change the world; that all the other processes of slow transformation are always at a tangent (you draw nearer and nearer but you never arrive), and that the last step must be this the substitution of the true Vibration.
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And it seems to me it occurs often enoughmuch more often than people think. For example every time an illness is cured, every time an accident is avoided, every time a catastrophe, even a global one, is avoided, all that is always the intervention of the Vibration of Harmony into the vibration of Disorder, allowing Disorder to cease.
So the people, the faithful, who always say, Through the Divine Grace this has happened, arent so wrong.
0 1964-07-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is said that divine Love doesnt manifest because, in the worlds present state of imperfection, the result would be a catastrophe thats a human vision. Divine Love manifests, has manifested eternally, will manifest eternally, and its the incapacity of the material world not only of the material world, but of the vital world and the mental world, and of many other worlds that arent ready, that are incapable but HE is there, He is there, right there! He is there permanently: its THE Permanence. The Permanence Buddha sought is there. He claims he found it in Nirvanait is there, in Love.
(silence)
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Obviously, in those activities, I dont have recourse to divine Love to find the solution of the problem I am not allowed to do so. So I understand that this is what was translated in peoples thought by the idea that divine Love cannot manifest entirely, otherwise there would be catastrophes3its not that at all, thats not at all the way it is. But its clear that in my consciousness the [supreme] contact has been made (with some degree of limitation, but still it has been made), and nothing takes placenothing, absolutely nothing, not even the most totally in-sig-nif-i-cant thingswithout, I cant even say the thought or the sensation (in English they say awareness, but its much fuller than that), the feeling (another impossible word), without the feeling of the Lords Presence, the supreme Presence, being there twenty-four hours a day. Throughout that activity of the night Ive just told you about, He was there, the Lords Presence was there all the time, every second, directing everything, organizing everythingBUT THAT WASNT THERE. And That, which I call Love, that Manifestation, is so formidably powerful that, as I once said, it is intolerant of anything elseThat alone exists. That exists, That isand its finished. Whereas the Lord (the Lord, what I call the Lord) is something else altogether; the Lord is all that has manifested, all that hasnt manifested, all that is, all that will be, and all, all is the Lordits the Lord. But the Lord (laughing) is necessarily tolerant of Himself! All is the Lord, but all is perceived by the Lord through the limitations of human perception!4 But everything, everything is thereeverything is there; everything, as it is every second; and with the perception of time, every second is different, in a perpetual becoming. This is supreme Tolerance: there is no more struggle, no more battle, no more destruction there is only He.
Those who have had this experience have generally stopped there. And if they wanted to get out of the world, they chose the Lords aspect of annihilation; they took refuge there and stayed thereall the rest no longer existed. But the other aspect the other aspect is the world of tomorrow, or of the day after tomorrow. The other aspect is an inexpressible glory. So all-powerful a glory that it alone exists.
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To come back to the ordinary world, the result is the epidemic in the Ashram,5 its people who lose their self-control, its and so forth. But I CANNOT see things the way they do I cannot find it so catastrophic! Its like when people leave their bodies, theyre in tears I cant! I just cant. You know, when you put something in a pot to cook, it boils.
(silence)
0 1964-07-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When things happen in that way, I always take them as organized by the Divine for the general progress. Rarely does there come a precise indi cation: No. When its no, its categorical. But I always see (Mother draws in the air movements of forces) that things move with a very supple movement: they seem to be heading here (gesture to the left), but its in order to go there (gesture to the right); they seem to be going this way (curve to the right), but its in order to get there (gesture to the left)all the time.
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0 1964-07-31, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They [the catholics] are furiously active in France.
Yes
Oh, but there has been something new here. Very recently, three days ago, a messenger from the Pope came to visit Pondicherry and, naturally, to meet the archbishop. There was a public reception and the archbishop invited people from the Ashram officially! Z was catholic and he went, and it seems the delegate delivered a great speech in which he kept repeating that the time of division is over, that the time has come for all those who love God to unite fraternally, and so onits a step forward.
Afterwards, there was a reception at the town hall. The delegate was sitting on the dais with the archbishop and the Chief Minister of Pondicherryno one else, all the others sat on chairs below. Then, as nothing was happening, Z thought it was just a waste of time (!), he went up on the dais and asked the minister to introduce him to the Popes delegate, which he did. Then Z said he was very happy with the delegates speech and thanked him for bringing such ideasyou can imagine the archbishops face!
0 1964-08-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I think you have in a corner of your being what I could call a grumbler. I became aware of thatnot particularly for you, but as one of the manifestations of that onion skin I mentioned just a moment ago (!) Some people in that way are grumblers, for them everything is an occasion to grumble and complain. Its very interesting, you know, because owing to the work I am doing, all those ways of being or reacting are taking place WITHIN me, and I catch myself being like this, being like that, doing this, doing that, being thereall the things one shouldnt be! Everything comes to me in that form: as if it took place within me. Ill catch myself being like that and Ill say, What! Some time ago, I was haunted by this for a long while: something which always sees the bad side of things, the difficulty, which even foresees the difficulty, which is in contact with all that protests, complains and grumbles I saw that very strongly. Then I started to work and work on it; and when I set to work, there is a sort of awareness that comes to me of the different places or elements where the same thing is: it shows itself very clearly, so then I can do something. But you know, its an incalculable work of every minute, and for a considerable number of people! Quite a lot. The larger part of the work is impersonal, in the sense that I dont know to whom its going or what, but it is often as an illustration (you know, like when you tell a story to make an idea better understood; they are illustrations to make me understand the work better), then I see in everyone the different ways of being and reacting. But its so incalculable in the perception, so constant, that its very hard to express I would have to say lots of things at the same time, which is impossible.
No, but theres obviously a link missing between something I sense in the background and something I am here.
0 1964-08-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had the experience (I knew what it was, but I didnt know the consequences or how to express it), I had the experience of my body consciousness going completely out of the body (that must be what happens when one dies, mustnt it?), and for apparently for ten or fifteen minutes, I dont know, it was over, the physical world no longer existed, the body no longer existed. But I was very conscious of a movement of forces and of an action; that corporeal consciousness was even repeating its mantra, that was very interesting: it was repeating its mantra and watching the effect of the mantra on the vibrations of forces. But the consciousness left the body over there (gesture to the bathroom) and came back into it here (on the bed). I was carried.. and what happened between the two, I dont know. But when you reenter your body (that is, when the most material part of the consciousness has left the body, when you faint or go into a state of cataleptic trance, and then reenter your body), its very painful, very painfulall the nerves hurt. So then, suddenly, I felt a lot of pain like that (it lasts two seconds, thats nothing), and then I felt that I was lying on cushions! (Laughing) My last impression was of standing over there!
Its the first time in my life that has happened. Always, whenever I fainted, I would remain conscious of what was happening to my body; often, I would even see it I would see it lying on the floor, for instance; but I would remain conscious. This is the first time.
0 1964-09-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As if certain parts of the consciousness were in a metamorphosis from the caterpillar state into the butterfly state, something like that.
Its just on the way. But far enough on the way to make the difference very perceptible. Once it is done, something will be established.
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes! (Mother laughs) Its odd, I have been with people who had all sorts of things, including fever, and I didnt catch anything;, and the other day, Z came.
They have again made a mess at the School, they are seized with such terrible whims of independence! Do you know the story? They put together a big display board on sleep for the childrens edu cation (thats their affair), but then they put at the bottom, without asking for my permission, a quotation of mine, which I am supposed to have written in 1952 and in which I am supposed to have said that children should be in bed by 9. Now, they show films till 9:30 or 10. So I received a shower of letters, from kids asking me, What should we do? As for me, I dont understand a thing, and I ask what that quotation is. Then I learn that not only did they stick it at the bottom of their display board, but they also circulated a note of mine in which I say, Children should go to bed at 9. I said, What! I never had that circulated! Maybe I said it years ago, but I said it just like that, like a remark that it would be better. It caused quite a to-do, Ive been assailed with protests. So when Z came, I asked him to explain this affair. He told me what they had done; it seems that the teachers, seeing that poster with my quotation (probably the teachers who dont like films or who are against this one or that one and found this was a good opportunity to kick up a row), said and VOTED among themselves that it should be made into a circular! They simply forgot to ask my permission.
0 1964-10-17, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We probably know a little bit of history starting from a particular cataclysm. But how many cataclysms have there been?
Yes, how many cataclysms have there been?
(silence)
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Is it in the wake of cataclysms that the animal became man? That doesnt seem to be very necessary.
No, the disruptive element is the Mind.
I am not aware of what people nowadays think they know, but, for example, when the animal reign dominated the earth, before it appeared and to make it appear, were there ever any catastrophes? Of course, you can vaguely feel an earth that slowly grows colder and is first purely mineral, then plants appear little by littleyou see that very well (Ive even seen very interesting photographs), but is it the fact of growing colder that itself caused catastrophes? Earthquakes, submersions, floods?
Yes, there was a period of great foldings.
0 1964-10-24a, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then, taking a good look, I understood that it is that mixture in peoples thoughts, in peoples feelings, in their approach to spiritual life, which is catastrophic they always want something, they always demand something, they always expect something. In fact, its a perpetual bargaining. Its not the need to give yourself, not the need to melt into the Divine, to disappear into the Divineno: they try to take, to obtain what they want.
And for several hours (it lasted several hours, from that moment till night) the atmosphere was clear, light, luminousand my body, my body was in such joy! As if it were floating in the air.
0 1964-11-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It wasnt a defined form, but it was a personal form. And it came in the wake of a series of experiences in which I saw the different attitudes of different categories of people or thinkers, according to their conviction. And it came as if that form were saying to my body (it was a PHYSICAL presence), as if it were saying, really with words (it was a translation; the words are always a translation I dont know what language the Supreme speaks (!), but it is translated, it must be translated in everyones brain according to his own language), as if He were telling me, Through you (that is, through this, the body) I am charging (it was like a conquest, a battle), I am charging to conquer the physical world. Thats how it was. And the sensation was really of an all-powerful Being whose proportions were like ours, but who was everywhere at once, and really of a physical charge to chase away all the dark little demons of Ignorance, and those little demons were like black vibrations. But He had something like a form, a color and above all, there was a contacta contact, a sensation. Thats the first time.
I have never tried to see a personal form, and it always seemed to me an impossibility, as if it were childishness and a diminishing; but this came quite unexpectedly, spontaneously, stunningly: a flash. I was so astonished. The astonishment made it go away.
0 1964-11-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He told me, I felt it was the sign of a catastrophe or a war.
It may be the sign of a victory.
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You have categorically refused the experiences that consist in going out of the present existence in search of anotheryou havent come for that and you dont want that. What you want is something very concreteits a little bit more difficult to have. But it will come.
I am not telling you this to comfort you, but because I SEE it this way: it will come. And whats interesting is that there is an identity in the movement:3 what has happened to you lately, that thinning down, is yet another example; thats precisely what Ive been preoccupied with these last few days that means something.
0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it has become very subtle, very hidden, difficult to ferret out. When almost everything was like that, it was visible, it was conspicuous; but that state changed very fast: the difficulty is whats hidden underneath and isnt voluminous enough to draw attention to itself. And, oh, those habits, those habits. For instance (magnifying it to make it more easily visible), the habit of foreseeing catastrophes.
And anything that disturbs the Inertia is, for Inertia, a catastrophe. In the world, the earthly world (its the only one I can speak of with competence; of the others, I have only overall visions), in the earthly world, for Inertia (which is the basis of the creation and is necessary to fix, to concretize things), anything that disturbs it is a catastrophe. That is to say, the advent of Life was a monstrous catastrophe, and the advent of intelligence in Life another monstrous catastrophe, and now the advent of Supermind is the final catastrophe! Thats how it is. And for the unenlightened mind, it really is a catastrophe! I know cases, for instance, of people who are sick: if they follow the routine of the doctor and medicines and treatment and disease, they get well; if by some mischance (!) they call on the Force and I apply it, the more I apply, the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena and they are terrified: Whats happening to me! Whats happening to me! As if it were absolutely catastrophic. The minute the Force comes and they feel just a bit of it, like one drop, they tense up, they resist, they panic, they become absolutely restless. Thats right: they become so restless, so absolutely restless! That is, the whole system spends its time rejecting and rejecting all that comes.
Its very interesting.
0 1964-12-02, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He has a political attachment to the dogma. For instance, after one of my conversations (I had a good number of conversations with him, three or four, on the mental level, and perfectly objective because his reactions were unexpected; to me they were very spontaneous, in the sense that I received answers that werent at all those I might have expectedwhich proves it was genuine), but for example, before his election, I met him once (there is a part of his mental being, a higher intelligence, thats very well formed, conscious, individualized), and I had a spontaneous conversation that I hadnt sought and which was very interesting. But at one point, I replied to something he said, and I told him with the force I have there [on that higher plane], The Lord is everywhereeven in hell the Lord is there. And then it caused such a violent reaction in him that, pfft! he vanished. I found it very striking. I dont know the dogma, but it seems that in hell, according to the catholics, whats worse than suffering, the fire and all that, is the absence of the Lord. It seems its a dogma that the Lord is absent from hell; and me, I was speaking of universal Oneness and I told him that.
There is another thing I remember very clearly, which struck me. It was after his election (but long before his trip to India was decided upon): he had come to India and he came to Pondicherry to meet me (not to meet me: he had come to Pondicherry, then he came and met me). Once in Pondicherry, he came and I saw him there, in the room where I receive people. We had a long conversation, a very long and interesting conversation, and suddenly (it was towards the end, it was time for him to go), when he rose, he was preoccupied by something. He told me, When you speak to your children about me, what will you tell them? You understand, the ego showing itself. So I looked at him (Mother smiles) and said, I will only tell them that we have been in communion in our love for the Supreme. Then he relaxed and left. It struck me. These things are very objective.
0 1965-01-12, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding an old Playground Talk of March 8, 1951, in which Mother spoke of the being that possessed and guided Hitler: Hitler was in contact with a being whom he considered to be the Supreme: that being would come and give him advice and tell him all that he had to do. Hitler would withdraw into solitude and wait long enough to come into contact with his guide and receive inspirations from him which he would afterwards carry out very faithfully. That being whom Hitler took for the Supreme was quite simply an Asura, the one called in occultism the Lord of Falsehood, and he proclaimed himself to be the Lord of Nations. He had a resplendent appearance and could pull the wool over anyones eyes, except one who truly had occult knowledge and could thus see what was there, behind the appearance. He could have deluded anyone, he was so splendid. He generally appeared to Hitler wearing a breast-plate and a silver helmet (with a sort of flame coming out of his head), and there was around him an atmosphere of dazzling light, so dazzling that Hitler could hardly look at him. He would tell him all that he had to dohe would play with him as with a monkey or a mouse. He had set his mind on making Hitler do all possible kinds of folly until the day when he would come a cropper, which is what happened. But there are many cases like that one, on a smaller scale, naturally. Hitler was a very good medium, he had great mediumistic capacities, but he lacked intelligence and discernment. That being could tell him anything and he would swallow it all. Thats what prodded him on little by little. And that being would do that as a pastime, he didnt take life seriously. For those beings, people are very small things with which they play as a cat plays with a mouse, until the day when they eat them up.)
I knew that being very well (for other reasons the story would be too long to tell), and once, I knew he was going to visit Hitler I went before he did: I took his appearance, it was very easy. Then I said to Hitler, Go and attack Russia. I dont exactly remember the words or the details, but the fact was that I told him, Go In order to have the supreme victory, go and attack Russia. That was the end of Hitler. He believed it and did ittwo days later, we got the news of the attack.1 And then, the next day, that is, when I came back from Hitler, I met that being and told him, Ive done your job! Naturally enough, he was furious!
0 1965-03-06, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He had deplored (laughing) some accusations of mine against people, especially against the catholic religion (although he isnt a catholic at allhe is a staunch Hindu), he thought it wasnt wise from a legal standpoint and that I risked running into trouble (!) So I told him privately, You know, the whole worlds opinion of me, everyones opinion is like zero, I couldnt care less. Then he gaped in horror! And I told him, Here, now you will meditate on this in all humility, and I gave him what youve just read.
But I dont want it to get around. It came strongly on that occasion, like a necessity, I had to say that, but the time hasnt come yet to declare it publicly.
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Maybe some day he will understand within. But I have looked at the problem a lot and I think he has reached the summit of his present evolutiononly in another life will he go farther. It would take a sort of inner catastrophe for it to be otherwise I dont wish a catastrophe on him. So its better to leave him alone.
As Mother's original note in English could not be found, it is retranslated here from the French.
0 1965-03-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are odd phenomena. You didnt meet this B. when he was here? He introduced me to certain things I was unaware of: it seems there are in various corners of the world people who have received messages, and in particular a being who calls himself Truth and who speaks in my name. He says, The Mother says the Mother says and also, The Mother will make declarations, and you will have to take them very seriously. All sorts of things like that (people whom I dont know). Then there is someone, among those same people who receive messages and revelations, a spirit (I dont know if he is that same Truth or someone else, I dont remember in detail), who said, who announced 1967this is interesting. And I dont know those people at all. And it doesnt seem possible to me that they could have had in their hands books by Sri Aurobindo or me, I dont think. He announced that in 67 (I repeat roughly), we would have reached the point of the push button that triggers the destruction (because in those countries, they boast of being able to trigger a terrible destruction by pushing a button), and just when the catastrophe is about to take place, the supreme Power, as he says in a picturesque way, will push its own button and everything will be transformedjust when people expect complete destruction, the complete transformation will come.
Thats the domain in which their imagination works. They receive messages of that sort. Which means that people seem to be feeling very strongly that just before the change there will be an extremely critical moment. Only, of course, they tell you that in a quiet tone, The transformation will come and everything will be saved thats all very well, but
0 1965-03-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
After perfect stillness, there is the movement of inner aspiration (I am always referring to the aspiration of the cells I am using words to describe something wordless, but there is no other way to express oneself), the surrender, that is to say, the SPONTANEOUS AND TOTAL acceptance of the supreme Will (which is unknown to us). Does the total Will want things to go this way or that way, that is, towards the disintegration of certain elements or towards? And then again, there are endless nuances: there is the passage from one height to another (I am speaking of cellular realizations, of course, dont forget that), I mean that you have a certain inner equilibrium, an equilibrium of movement, of life, and its understood that in order to go from one movement to a higher movement, there is almost always a descent, then a new ascent there is a transition. So does the shock received impel you to go down in order to climb up again, or does it impel you do go down in order to abandon old movements? Because there are cellular ways of being that have to disappear in order to give way to others; there are others that climb down in order to climb up again with a higher harmony and organization. This is the second point. And you should wait and see WITHOUT POSTULATING IN ADVANCE what has to be. There is especially, of course, the desire: the desire to be comfortable, the desire to be in peace and all that that must cease absolutely and disappear. You must be absolutely without any reaction, like this (gesture of immobile offering Upward, palms open). And then, when you are like that (you, meaning the cells), after a while the perception comes of the category the movement belongs to, and you just have to follow the perception, whether it is that something must disappear and be replaced by something else (which one doesnt know yet), or whether it is that something must be transformed.
And so forth. And its like that all the time.
0 1965-03-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In reality, I deserve some credit for asking people to eat well. You know that I had difficulties: for two days, it was nearly impossible for me to eatand I am so glad! But I always scold myself: its a weaknessa moral weakness. I am in a very good position to say so, because I have the same difficulty as you with those questions of food, and thats very bad. Its not out of personal taste for food that I am preaching (!), but in order to react against the other tendency. Every time something comes and prevents me from eating, immediately, spontaneously, the body says, Oh, thank you, Lord, I dont have to eat! I catch myself and give myself a slap.
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0 1965-04-28, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For so many, so many years I have had all kinds of experiences. For about sixty years I have been constantly looking after people who are said to be dyingconstantly. Well, there are almost as many cases as there are people there are categories, but the cases are innumerable (and I am not referring to external cases, to the material event: I am referring to the inner cases). This is to say that I have been put in almost constant contact with the phenomenon, and yet, it remains a problem. At least twice in this existence, I have gone through what people call death and both times the experience was different. The experience was different, yet the apparent fact was the same.
And if I look at it in a certain way (explanations, of course, are meaningless), if I look at it in a certain way, I mean, to have the true key one has it only with the Power. Well, that Power (Mother shakes her head)
0 1965-05-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To have them tested? Mon petit, you can see ten people, those ten people will tell you ten different things! The instability of the diagnosis is for me something absolutely certain. Because there arent two identical casesthere are analogies, there can even be families of cases, but there arent two identical cases; so in everyone there are variations. And unless the gentleman is very intuitive, he will start reasoning and then he is sure to make a mistake, or else to tell you some vaguenesses like you are nearsighted or you are farsighted (!) So much so that there arent two identical cases of cataract there are symptoms that repeat themselves and are very similar, with a very close analogy, but there arent two identical cases. And those who are truly sincere will tell you so, but there isnt one in a thousand! And they will make great speeches they will authoritatively announce something that they dont know.
(To Satprem:) Your brother wouldnt be happy if he heard me!
0 1965-05-29, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw the other dayit was very interesting, the very day he was on his way here (I wasnt thinking of him I never think of people), suddenly I saw all that the knowledge of the pundits and those who profess to follow a spiritual life (the whole class of sannyasins, pundits, purohits,1 etc.), all that that represents. (I am not referring to religions in other countries: its specific to India.) And they are people who have a knowledge, a mental knowledge, of course, but very precise and very exact, of the movements in relation to the Overmind: all the gods and godheads and their ways of being and the relationships between men and gods; and they have tried to organize and formulate the relationships men have with gods so that, as was said in the past, men would not be the cattle of the godsthey have tried to change the human position with regard to deities. Its interesting, its a whole interesting field which to me does not represent the true thing. They on their part think that is spiritual lifeits not spiritual life, but it is a higher mental region which borders on the Overmind, which even enters into the Overmind, and which is completely organized; its a sort of legislation of the relationships between men and gods. From that point of view, its interesting.
I saw that very clearly: the place it has in the universal organization. And if its in its place, then its quite all rightwhen a thing is in its place it becomes very good.
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Then its an individual question. It isnt a question of class or category: its the scientist who becomes ready to be something else.
(silence)
0 1965-06-02, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As for the sense of smell, the nature of my sense of smell changed long, long ago. To begin with, I practiced this (a long time ago, years, many years ago): being able to smell only when I wanted to and only what I wanted to. And it was perfectly mastered. It already prepared the instrument a great deal. I can see it was already a preparation. I can smell things I can smell the vibratory quality of things rather than simply their odor. There is a whole classifi cation of odors: there are odors that lighten you, as if they opened up horizons to youthey lighten you, make you lighter, more joyful; there are odors that excite you (those belong to the category of odors I learnt not to smell); as for all the odors that disgust you, I smell them only when I want towhen I want to know, I smell them, but when I dont want to know, I dont. Now its automatic. But my sense of smell was very much cultivated even when I was just a child, very long ago: at that time I cultivated the eyes and the sense of smell, both. But my eyes have been used for everything, for all the visions, so its something much more complex, while the sense of smell has remained as it was: I can smell peoples psychological state when I come near them; I can smell it, it has an odorthere are very special odors a whole gamut. Ive had that for a very, very long time, its something thats quite dominated, mastered. I am able not to smell anything at all: when, for instance, there are bad odors that upset the bodys system, I can cut off the connection completely.
But I dont notice a great change in this domain because it had already been cultivated very much, while my eyes are much more (how can I put it?) ahead, in the sense that there is already a much greater difference between the old habit of seeing and the present one. I seem to be behind a veil thats really the feeling: a veil; and then, suddenly, something lives with the true vibration. But thats rare, its still rare. Probably (laughing) there arent many things worth seeing!
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Not only did they think Mother deaf, but Satprem heard one of Mother's attendants tell him that the vagaries of her eyesight were due to cataract. Thus Mother was surrounded with people who thought her old and infirm or sick.
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0 1965-06-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For snakes, for instance, its quite remarkable. Some, when they dream of snakes, have the feeling theyre going to meet with catastrophes; I myself have had all sorts of dreams with snakes: I had to go through gardens full of snakes everywhereon the ground, in the trees, everywhere and not kindly snakes! But I knew very well what it meant; during the dream itself I knew it: it depended on certain mental conditions around me and ill willmental ill will.2 But if you have mental control and power, you can go through, they cannot touch you. And other people, when they see a snake, think it is the universal consciousness. So we cant say. Thon used to say that the serpent is the symbol of evolution, and those who were with him always saw rainbow-colored serpents, with all the colors, and it was the symbol of universal evolution Basically, to tell the truth, everyone has his own symbolism And for myself, I have seen that it depended on the periods in my life, on the activities, on the degree of development. There are things I see again now in which I see another meaning, which was behind the meaning I had seen.
Its very interesting, but it belongs entirely to the domain of relativity.
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I remember, for instance, there was a time when I used to see people in the form of animals! It was the indi cation of the type of nature they belonged to. And I remember, when I was still in France, having one day seen (I was sitting in a large room) hosts of small animals coming, especially rabbits, cats, dogs, all kinds of animals, birds; they kept coming and coming, all of them onto my knees! And there were hosts and hosts of them. And there suddenly entered the room a big tiger, which rushed at them all and vrff! sent them scurrying off in all directions! (Mother laughs) But the animals were people and the tiger, too, was someone.
Its amusing.
0 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We dont want catastrophes.
See conversation of April 17, 1965.
0 1965-07-03, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For me its very different: things always appear old to me, they seem to belong to a faraway past. Especially these last few days. This cold, for instance (Mother has a bad cold), I clearly saw why I caught it (outwardly the reason is very simple: the person who prepares my cards has a cold and I took the cold along with his cards), but why did I really catch it? Well, it corresponded to an arrowlike movement in the consciousness of the cells, and then, naturally, a lag: all that was refusing (refusing or unableit rather gives a feeling of drowsy things that arent too eager to make progress) is lagging behind, and naturally that manifests as a disorder.
Very well.
0 1965-07-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know for others but for a very long time in life when there is an illness (some illness of any kind) automatically the cells forget everything, all their sadhana and everything, and it is only slowly when you get out of the illness that the cells begin to remember. And then, my ambition was (I remember that, it was long ago, many years ago), my ambition was that the cells should remember when being illwhich is absurd because it would have been better to aspire to have no illness! But for a time it was like that. The first time that the cells remembered, oh, I was very happy. But now, it is the opposite; that is, as soon as the disorder comes, the cells first first they got a little anxious: Oh, we are so bad that we are still catching illnesses that was a period; and then, afterwards there was the impression: Oh, You want to teach us a lesson, we have something to learn that was already much better: a kind of eagerness. And now there is an intense joy and a kind of power; a power that comes, a power of aspiration and a power of realization that comes with the sense: We are winning a victory, we are winning a new victory.
That has been my condition over the last few days.
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For instance, the doctor had a cold, I knew it instantly; instantly I did what had to be done, and I didnt catch anything; but someone else had a cold, I wasnt on my guard, and while handling the things he handled, I caught it: I noticed it when it came init was already too late. I said, All right, then it followed its whole course. It was particularly violent, I think, because the cells were feeling, Ah! (the joy first), Ah, now were going to make some progress! Then a sort of force, of power of transformation came like that, along with the illness, and thats why the illness developed to the full. At one point it was going to exceed a certain limit and it would have become very inconvenient for the work, so I said, No, no! Take care, because I cant stop my work like that. As if to say, Enough of these bad jokes, you dont want to be ill any longer. Then a force came, something like a boxer.
It was very, very interesting.
0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are three states, we could say: the state of Harmony that is the one we reach towards all the time, and sometimes we catch it for a few seconds, then everything works out as if by miracle; then the usual state of Disorder, in which we are constantly on the verge of something unpleasant, in a precarious balance; and when the disorder grows more visible, there is what they call an illness, but it isnt real. You see, we think the body is in good health, that its balanced, and that something is introduced from outside, which causes you to fall ill, but its not like that! We are ALWAYS off balance, the body is always off balance (more or less), and it is something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work. So if we can call on that Will that Will for Harmony and if we can have the Flame within, that Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness, which is unreal, an unreal and false sensation and just one way of being of the general Disorder, and we enter into Harmony, and then everything is fine. Last night I experienced this again, and thats why I can assert with certainty: all sensations are false.
But when there are obvious external signs, bleeding, for instance [hemoptysis]?
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For two hours last night I saw that, with proof to back it up, examples. I looked, and I was almost horrified to see the extent to which senses distortand they distort (I dont know, there may be people who distort for the better, [laughing] Im not one of them! But they must be marvelous optimists), the senses distort all the vibrations and constantly turn them into disagreeable things, unpleasant ones at any rate, or even indi cations of danger, warnings of catastrophe. It was fairly repugnant. But I gave free rein to that whole movement in order to see clearly, and all the cellular and other organizations started moaning and groaning, as if saying, But this life is in-tol-er-a-ble, its intolerable. And I listened to that a little while to see; and here, there and everywhere, there was a general groan. And in the end (gesture of descent of the Will), in one second it all went away! It was a whole act those senses were putting on for themselves. We are ri-dic-u-lous beings, thats all (Mother laughs). That was my observation of last night.
Naturally, people arent openly and constantly like that because another consciousness is there a little and controls things, but if you leave them on their own I did the experiment, you see, of leaving that field of cellular consciousness fully free, and then there was moaning and groaning. But there was behind, in the background, deep down in the cells, that sort of faith, of absolute need for the Ananda; so they were complaining: We have been deceived; we are for That alone, why arent we given it? (I am adding words to it, but there were no words: there were sensations.)
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There are also mischievous spirits. Mischievous spirits that come and suggest all kinds of things. There is a zone there, very near the physical, very neara zone infested with worms, mon petit! All the bad suggestions of all possible catastrophes, of all malicious ill wills, of all desires. Its sickening. All that swarms as if you plunged your nose into a vase full of worms. Thats troublesome.
Well, yes! I will try to make a cocoon for you. Before you go to sleep, when you lie down, you must summon the white Light, my white light, and then I will be listening. Wrapped like that: a cocoon, a nice little cocoon, all white. That way you can sleep peacefully.
0 1965-07-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, but I dont want to give it. Thats categorical.
I quite understand. Only, the danger of those extracts is that it looks like a teaching: Mother decides its like this and like thatwhereas its not like that!
0 1965-07-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To begin with, last time I told you that this physical mind is being transformed; and three or four days ago, that is, before our last conversation, early in the morning I woke up abruptly in the middle of a sort of vision and activity, precisely in this physical mind. Which isnt at all usual for me. I was here in this room, everything was exactly as it is physically, and someone (I think it was Champaklal) opened the door abruptly and said, Oh, I am bringing bad news. And I heard the sound physically, which means it was very close to the physical. He has fallen and broken his head. But it was as if he were speaking of my brother (who died quite a long time ago), and during the activity I said to myself, But my brother died long ago! And it caused a sort of tension (gesture to the temples) because Its a little compli cated to explain. When Champaklal gave me the news, I was in my usual consciousness, in which I immediately thought, How come the Protection didnt act? And I was looking at that when a sort of faraway memory came that my brother was dead. Then I looked (its hard to explain with words, its complex). I looked into Champaklals thought to find out who he meant had fallen and broken his head. And I saw A.s face. And all that caused a tension (same gesture to the temples), so I woke up and looked. And I saw it was an experience intended to make me clearly see that this material mind LOVES (loves, thats a way of speaking), loves catastrophes and attracts them, and even creates them, because it needs the shock of emotion to awaken its unconsciousness. All that is unconscious, all that is tamasic needs violent emotions to shake itself awake. And that need creates a sort of morbid attraction to or imagination of those thingsall the time it keeps imagining all possible catastrophes or opening the door to the bad suggestions of nasty little entities that in fact take pleasure in creating the possibility of catastrophes.
I saw that very clearly, it was part of the sadhana of this material mind. Then I offered it all to the Lord and stopped thinking about it. And when I received your letter, I thought, Its the same thing! The same thing, its a sort of unhealthy need this physical mind has to seek the violent shock of emotions and catastrophes to awaken its tamas. Only, in the case of A. breaking his head, I waited two days, thinking, Let us see if it happens to be true. But nothing happened, he didnt break his head! In your case, too, I thought, I am not budging till we get news, because it may be true (one case in a million), so I keep silent. But this morning I looked again and saw it was exactly the same thing: its the process of development to make us conscious of the wonderful working of this mind.
Oh, indeed, as soon as there is a little scratch, something in the being immediately sees terrible illnessesimmediately.
Yes, thats right. But Sri Aurobindo said it to me. I asked him several times how it was that people (who consciously, outwardly, would rather have pleasant things and favorable events) are constantly attracting and attracting unpleasant things, even terrible catastrophes. I know some women (men too, but they are fewer), women who spend their time imagining the worst: they have children they imagine that each of them will meet with the worst catastrophes; someone goes away by caroh, the car will have an accident; they take the trainoh, the train will derail; and so forth. Well, thats why. Thats what Sri Aurobindo explained so well: all those parts of the being are terribly tamasic and it is the violence of the shock that awakens something in them; and that is why they attract those things as though instinctively. The Chinese, for example, have an extremely tamasic vital and an insensate physical: its sensation is totally blunted they are the ones who invented the most frightful forms of torture. It is because they need something extreme in order to feel, otherwise they dont feel. There was a Chinese who had a sort of anthrax, I think, in the middle of the back (generally an extremely sensitive spot, it seems), and because of his heart they couldnt put him to sleep to operate on him, so they were a bit worried. They operated without anesthesiahe was awake, he didnt move, didnt shout, didnt say anything, they were filled with admiration for his courage; then they asked him what he had felt: Oh, yes, I felt some scraping in my back! Thats how it is. Thats what creates the necessity of catastrophesof unexpected catastrophes: the thing that gives you a shock to wake you up.
What you are saying here about those morbid and diseased imaginations, I said it myself not long ago: the imagination is instantly defeatist and catastrophic.
Yes, its terrible.
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And you can catch yourself ten times a day.
Yes, yes, that state is almost constant.
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Yes, the difference is forty yearsmore than that: forty-five years. I was twenty, and it impressed me very much. That affair had a great repercussion. And it came back to me these last few days precisely with the whole perception of that catastrophic and defeatist habit. I had known it for a long time but it appeared to be quite beyond my control; while now its under control. Not only that, its disapproved of and deliberately rejected.1 Its as I said: I am tired of our unworthiness.
So, conclusion: Truth is on the march.
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It followed a long curve. It began with a deep disgust for its [the material minds] habitual activity; I started catching (not now: its been going on for weeks), catching all its routine and almost automatic activities I have said it several times: this material mind is defeatist, always pessimistic, meddlesome, grumbling, disgruntled, lacking in faith, lacking in trust. Even when it tends to be joyful and content, something comes and says, Ah, stop it, because youll get another knock. That sort of thing. It went on for weeks, and a continuous, constant work. It always ended in the offering. There was a beginning of progress when No, first I should tell all that happened before. To begin with, the japa, the mantra, for instance, was taken as a discipline; then from the state of discipline it changed into a state of satisfaction (but still with the sense of a duty to be done); then from that it changed into a sort of state of constant satisfaction, with the desire (not desire, but a will or an aspiration) for it to be more frequent, more constant, more exclusive. Then there was a sort of repugnance to and rejection of all that comes and disturbs, mixed with a sense of duty towards work, people and so on, and all that made a muddle and a great confusion. And it always ended in the transfer to the Supreme along with the aspiration for things to change. A long process of development.
Recently there was a sort of will for equality towards activities that had been tolerated or accepted only as an effect of the consecration and in obedience to the supreme Will. And then, all of a sudden they became something very positive, with a sense of freedom and a spontaneity of state, and a beginning of understanding of the attitude with which the action must be done. All this came very, very progressively. And then this morning, there was the experience.
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And it isnt a question of condensing, its not that: its a question of saying just the essentialof catching the essential behind all that and of saying it.
Do that, itll be fun!
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P.S. There may be a certain vanity in saying, Why Sri Aurobindo?Because this and that; that is still our mind trying to catch hold of things in order to put its explanations on them, as if nothing could be without its clarifi cations. Yet, the most potent events in our lives are those we do not explain, because their force goes on working in us without being frozen by ONE explanation there are many other levels of explanation, and there is a mute explanation that remains quietly in the depths, like an ever-calm water, as clear as a childs gaze. And there is still more vanity in saying that Sri Aurobindo is this but not tha the is this and that, and many other things, too; he is with the yes and the no, the for and the against, and with all that seeks without knowing, because everything seeks after Joy, through the yes and the no, through the darkness or the light, slowly and over the tottering centuries or all at once in an all-seizing light. From age to age, that Light comes down on the earth to help it become sooner what it always was and seeks after in its troubled heart; and that Light is clothed in one word or another, it takes on a sweet or a terrible face, or a vast and powerful one like an all-embracing sea, but it is the same Light always, and the soul that opens itself in that ray secretly recognizes a Face it has loved many a time. From century to century it uncovers itself the same child with folded hands, gazing at the world with love.
August 12, 1965
0 1965-08-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When someone reads me a letter, you understand, I make contact, I catch a few words, and then its all settled. And the decision comes or doesnt come from here it comes. And once I have announced the decision, its settled. But they all go on reading the letter! I say, Good Lord! Whats the use? Its all words and sentences.
For him, things have to follow their full course, point by point, and he adds to it!
0 1965-08-18, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats how he catches them.
No, its very good! Its comical.
0 1965-08-28, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember, when I told that experience, it was no longer something personal at all: if you can catch that.
"Initiating" in the sense of impelling.
0 1965-09-15a, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have received many things. I am beginning to attach importance to them because I have noticed that those things (which I always considered to be currents of thought going past that you catch as they go past) generally correspond to something thats going to happen, and theyre like a way of letting me know in advance. So now I pay some attention to them. Well, I have received many things: for instance, the Chinese idea of taking advantage of the opportunity to become active; then this Indonesia business2 that would also be used as an opportunity to make a move. And it appears, so I was told (I had seen itlots of things come), its a rumor (a rumor that spread up to the Government of India): the Prime Minister3 said we were threatened with a joining of China and Indonesia with Pakistan to give volume to the attack. He said it didnt matter. But anyway, its his duty to be optimistic.
It impressed me as as something global. It was awesome. Awesomeso much so that my body was shivering in my bed. It was awesome. I had to do a little sadhana to restore order.
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It seems, according to astrologers, that the combination of stars for the month of September is very bad for the earth. Naturally, this is always something to be cautious about, because it depends on peoples intuition, on their capacity to interpret, whether their vision is broad enough and so on, but it seems that all the signs are undeniable and indi cate that things are bad (thats vague, of course), catastrophic. I was told this before, they said it in July. Only, I never attach too much importance to their conclusions, because they are always And also, they say some very vague things that contradict each other. Personally, I dont know the first thing about all that, I am not trying to seein fact I NEVER try to see (what came last night came very spontaneously, without my trying to see). The work, of course, is devoid of thought, of verbal expression, and constant; but it has been constant for a long time: the first time was at the beginning of the year, I think, at least six months ago. The second time, I told you I had one night an experience [the pressure of the Supreme] before anything really serious had taken place. Well, the first experience I had, of the consciousness hurling a fantastic power on the earth, which was necessarily going to shake things up, was at least six months before that second experience. And for those six months, it was constant: as soon as I came into contact with the earth consciousness, it was there, and constant, constant. Then came that indi cation: the pressure of the supreme Lord. And the third step was yesterday evening.
Well see.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats what I call sincerity: if one can catch oneself every minute belonging to the old Stupidity.
And its precisely to make you see. I am translating mentally, but He seems to be saying, You see, things are like that because if they werent like that, you wouldnt have understood. And its so true that there is nothing to say.
0 1965-11-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He was catholic, I think.
Oh, catholic!
Ah, thats why he died. You know he was truly in favor of freedom, and not only freedom but union. And he was receptive. You know how he worked for the Blacks there (moreover, thats the external cause of his death). But he was the one I counted on, not without reason, as he had shown signs of assent to a union with Russia to establish peace on earth. Talks had already started and they had seized the opportunity of Chinas aggression against India. Naturally, that wasnt quite to the extremists liking, and in the atmosphere, the force which for centuries has acted behind the catholic religion wasnt at all in favor of that plan; so things worked out well and they killed him. The other one in Russia who had responded, Khrushchev, didnt die because he left in time!
But I didnt know, I thought Kennedy was Protestant.
0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was the whole humanity that isnt quite animal anymore, that has benefited from mental development and created a certain harmony in its lifea vital, artistic, literary harmony and the vast majority of which live satisfied with life. They have caught a sort of harmony and live in it a life as it exists in a civilized milieu, that is to say, somewhat cultured, with refinement in taste, refinement in habits. And this whole life has a sort of harmony in which they find themselves at ease, and unless something catastrophic happens to them, they live happy and content, satisfied with life. Those may be attracted (because they have taste, they are intellectually developed), they may be attracted to the new forces, the new things, the future life; for instance, they may mentally, intellectually become disciples of Sri Aurobindo. But they dont at all feel the need to change materially, and if they were to be forced to, it would be first of all premature and unjust, and it would quite simply create a great disorder and would upset their lives quite unnecessarily.
It was very clear.
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The message we distributed on the 24th,4 it was Sri Aurobindo who had told me to keep it for the 24th, that was very clear and very categorical, but I didnt know why. But now he has clearly shown me why and Ive well understood. Because this Power is becoming more and more obviousthis Truth-Power and naturally human thought, which is childish (it has the same attitude towards supramental thought as what we may call animal thought or sentiment has towards human thought or sentiment), has almost a need for superstition (superstition is an ugly word for something thats not ugly: its an ignorant, ingenuous and very trusting faith), and, well, as soon as you feel the influence of a Power, that faith makes you believe in the miracle, it makes you believe that the Supramental is going to manifest now, that you are going to become supramental, and that And quite amusingly, I usually have to send out two to three hundred of these messages every darshan (everyone asks me for some for his correspondents); and this time, I havent even given a hundred of them! (Laughing) Not even a hundred. Ah, its not so comfortable, of course, it comes and tells you, No, no, be sensible.
Its very amusing. I still have my whole stack here.
0 1965-12-04, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Basically, in order to feel at home in the world as it is today, one must belong to the category I spoke of the other day, of those who have established a harmony with all the human faculties, who are satisfied, and also who are egocentric enough not even to notice that things arent that way for others. Then its fine; otherwise Sri Aurobindo very much belonged (in his outward being) to the category of those who want things to change, who push for progress, who want to move on, who want to reject the past very much so. He had to make a great effort to be satisfied with things and people; it was his compassion that made him accept people around him as they were. Otherwise he used to suffer a lot.
And thats what wears out and tires and disorganizes.
0 1965-12-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But those things are very interesting. Because when he was in America, suddenly I saw he was going to get killed (after the first operation), and I said right away, I dont want him to die there, its stupid, its a silly business, a defeat, I dont want it. I sent him a talisman I had myself prepared (so that his human intelligence might have a little faith), then I worked on the other doctor, the American surgeon. And when Sanyal went and saw the surgeon for his operation, the surgeon told him, No, between your first operation and this one, Ive had a series of catastrophes, of fatal experiences with people who died; I dont want to do it because I feel I am going to cause you to die and I refuse. Then Sanyal said, I am willing to die, and the other answered, But I am not willing to kill you! And Sanyal came back here. And when he came back, I told him, Please excuse me, but thats my doing!
Now we shall see. If the other doctor has trust and he too has trust, its quite possible. But its neither this doctor nor any other that will have done it: its the Lord. Only He can do things. I told Sanyal when he came back from America, Its only the Lord that can cure you, nobody. Then he told me, Oh, yes, but there are means of intervening. I answered him, Any means you like, its all the same to me!
0 1965-12-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know (shall I be frank?), its purely a vital dissatisfaction. And I know that, because it has been (how can I put it?) my great difficulty with you. It was a hundred, a thousand times more violent formerly; now its beginning to calm down. Its a vital thats very intense in its desires (which may not be ordinary desires at all), but with a sort of almost aggressive intensity, and essentially dissatisfied. It was very, very strong before, years ago; now it has quieted down. But every time the vital comes into play (and one is obliged to let the vital play because of the physical health; one cant calm it down totally because that would make the physical body suffer), its like that. It gives me, if you like, the impression of a cats vital! cats have a wonderful vital (laughing), far, far more clever and intense than human beings have, but the cat claws, you know, and the feeling is: Im not happy, thats that. Im not happy! (Mother laughs)
No, but for instance, the first years when I was here, almost every night I had a sort of sign that I was moving along,1 making headwaytrifling signs, nothing to speak of: a car taking me along, a walk in a mountain, mere nothings, but they were telling me, Oh, good, Im getting on. Its all right, Im moving along. But for years now, not only have I had no sign, but all I see is negative things: I see pits, I see accidents, I see infernos, I see But I never see a sign telling me, Oh, yes, Im making headway. Its all right, Im getting alongnot that, never. So am I making headway? I dont know. What I am asking for is an encouragement, just a little gesture telling me, Yes, youre getting along, its all right. Youre getting along, dont fret.
0 1966-01-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was about those big shrimps that are called jumbo prawns here: they are as big as crayfish. Someone (a disciple here), who died rather a long time ago, came and brought me prawns; that is to say, I met him in the rooms downstairs There are rooms that are reproduced somewhere, in a sort of subconscient, in fact the subconscient that has to be transformed, organized and so on, and there exists a sort of reproduction of the rooms downstairs [below Mothers room], but not exactly the same (yet with the same layout), and a certain category of activities takes place there. Thats where we were together once, I told you: you were trying to clarify peoples ideas (!) Its the same place. Its not physical here, its in the subconscient. So then, there was that tall fellow who watched over the Samadhi for a long time, Haradhan; he was there. And when he saw me arrive, he told me, I have brought something for you. And in a sort of dark-blue cloth, he had wrapped two big prawns, which he gave me! There were already cooked, ready to be eaten. The cloth wasnt very much to my liking! So I thought, How can I make them a little cleaner before eating them? (Laughing) You know, its a farcea farce to make you understand your stupidity. I began by removing the (what is it called?), its not skin Oh, here too the word hasnt come, but on a tangent came cuirass! (Laughing) Cuirass and cartilage! Anyway I removed that, and as soon as I had removed it, I said to myself, You fool! Now its even more exposed than before! I looked for a way, and I ran to a corner (in the place of Pavitras laboratory), found a water tap and put my prawn under the tap. Immediately someone told me (not someone, the inner voice told me [laughing]), Your water is even dirtier than the cloth! So the consciousness came along with the light, and I was shown with such a clear vision the relativity of the measures we take, which are all preconceived ideas, based on no true knowledge. And finally he told me, Come on, eat, thats the best you can do! So I ate my prawn, and it was very good!
You know, we could write a farce. And scenes of such buffoonery!
0 1966-02-23, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding the Talk of April 14, 1951, in which Mother tells the story of two young men who met with accidents and used a cat as a vital support to inform Mother of their death.)
Charles de F.! Thats it, I remember, he was the son of an ambassador of France (to Austria, I think). He was sublieutenant. With his company he went out to attack a trench, and they all died. It was a massacre.
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The other2 also was a poet, but he was the son of some very good folks (I think they were from the lower middle class, or maybe even peasants, people from the country), very good folks who had made considerable effort to send their son for studies in Paris. He was a very good student. A boy of the same age: about twenty or twenty-one. A fairly good poet, intelligent, and he was especially interested in occultism. But as for him, he wasnt inwardly formed; it was only his vital consciousness that took over the cat.
But strangely, the look of the cats eyes changed completely.
The extremely interesting fact is that a little later Mother will see the same phenomenon (of this "dead person" uniting with Pavitra) anew, with the consciousness of the cells, and that new vision of the body will bring out details that had escaped Mother's occult vision, as if the body alone could see accurately what is "on the other side."
0 1966-03-04, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am absolutely conscious of the inadequacy of words, but through the words, we must catch hold of the Thing. The difficulty for human thought, and still more for expression, is that words always have a sense of beginning.
(silence)
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning, there was a very amusing story. I was rinsing my eyes and mouth; I do it before daybreak, that is, with electric light. And in my bathroom there is an emergency light. Its one of the latest inventions: its connected to the power and as long as there is power, the light remains off and a battery inside gets charged; as soon as the power fails, the light turns on and the battery is discharged to keep the light on. Its very well made, they invented it for hospitals and other places where any power failure must be avoided: as soon as the power goes, the light turns on instantaneously, and when the power returns, it goes off and gets recharged for the next time. They installed it for me in the bathroom. And this morning while I was washing my teeth, poff! the light went off. I continued, naturally, since I had that emergency light. But then, I did a study. The lights in C.s room (and everywhere) were on, it was only here, in this group of rooms. That was an odd phenomenon to begin with. Then I looked, and while I looked I noticed something I hadnt taken note of all these last few days: a will to disorganize all my personal life. And causing power failures is one of the known occult methods (I dont know how its done, in fact, but that man who wrote books and came here a very long time ago, Brunton, said it was one of the tricks known to those who practice occultism: a sudden failure of the lights). There are lots of other such tricks designed to disorganize peoples lives with the idea of frightening them or announcing catastrophes to them (I have always found this very childish). But then, I saw that there was (I think I know where, here, it comes from) a will for disorganization, and I saw the path it followed (winding gesture as if Mother were going back to the source). It had begun last night, in the middle of the night: when I got up around midnight, I saw a will wanting to preoccupy me with thoughts of money! And it was insisting: the thought that everything was going wrong, and so on. I saw that in the middle of the night. I was busy with other things, but I saw that will: formations; and naturally I dealt with them as they deserved. But I saw that it went on, trying to disturb people, to make them uncomprehending, and then to turn the power off, all sorts of silly things. Its not the first time it has happenedits not always the same people because generally, when they have tried and got a good knock in return, they dont try a second time, theyve had enough! But there are others who think they are very clever and want to prove to me (laughing) that they are right and I am wrongbecause ultimately it always comes to that! So I spent half an hour this morning, before they restored the power and I resumed my usual activities, half an hour having huge fun following the thread (same winding gesture going back to the source) wherever there was mischief, and then I very kindly answered.
In reality, people who live in the ordinary consciousness know very, very little of what goes on physicallyvery little. They think they know, but all they know is a very superficial appearance, just like like a sheet of paper wrapping a package; there is the whole package underneath with all that it contains, but all they see is an appearance (gesture of something as thin as cigarette paper). And they are so used to it that they always give an explanation. I asked, How is it that just this power connection here gave way? (Lights were on everywhere, only the connection here, which supplies my room, was off.) I asked to see. They told me, Oh, we dont know, maybe the wire was old and it broke! (Mother laughs) I said, Very well.
0 1966-05-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With the left eye, oh, it has extraordinary precision, but I cant read because (and still I could read, its an idea, just an impression), there is a sort of very, very small cloud in the corner, here. Theres nothing (laughing), I have no cataract! There was a time when it was fairly widespread in that corner, and I showed it (long ago, two years ago), I showed it to the doctor, who told me it was inside: its not on the surface of the eye, its inside. He told me, It wont go. I told him, Ah, wont it!in six months it was gone, completely gone. It came back just a littleit has come back, but it will go!
But these are queer things, as if someone were having fun doing experiments with my eyes.
0 1966-05-18, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the same with the gods, mon petit, the same thing! The relationship with all those beings of the Overmind, with all those gods, the form those relationships take depends on the human consciousness. You can be The scriptures say, Man is cattle for the gods but thats if man ACCEPTS the role of cattle. There is in the essence of human nature a sovereignty over all those things which is spontaneous and natural, when its not warped by a certain number of ideas and a certain amount of so-called knowledge.
We could say that man is the all-powerful master of all the states of being of his nature, but that he has forgotten to be so.
0 1966-05-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One is compelled to constant vigilance. The slightest slackening, you know, is catastrophic.
(long contemplation)
0 1966-07-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The resistance of inertia in consciousnesses and in Matter are the reason why that Action, instead of being direct and perfectly harmonious, becomes confused, full of contradictions, shocks and conflicts. Instead of everything working out normally, I might say, smoothly (as it should), all that resisting, opposing inertia causes things to start clashing together in a tangled movement, with disorder and destruction, which are made necessary only by the resistance but were NOT indispensable: they might not have beenthey should not have been, to tell the truth. Because that Will, that Power, is a Power of perfect harmony in which each thing is in its place, and It organizes everything wonderfully: It comes as an absolutely luminous and perfect organization, which you can see when you have the vision. But when It descends and presses down on Matter, everything starts seething and resisting. So to want to ascribe to the divine Action and the divine Power the disorder and confusion and destruction is yet more human nonsense. Its inertia (not to speak of ill will), its inertia that CAUSES the catastrophe. It isnt that the catastrophe is willed, or even that its foreseen: it is CAUSED by the resistance.
Then, added to this is the vision of the action of the Grace that comes and mitigates the results wherever possible, that is to say, wherever its accepted. And thats what explains that the aspiration, the faith, the complete trust of the human, terrestrial element, have a power of harmonization, because they allow the Grace to come and mend the consequences of blind resistance.
0 1966-07-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it was so extraordinary that the cells felt they couldnt live on without without That. That was the impression: That, or else dissolution. And when That had gone away It didnt go by accident but deliberately, and with the clear notion: Now no fuss, you must prepare yourself for That to stay. And it was so categorical (gesture like a Command from above), that there was no arguing. When That had left, there was a sort of suffo cation. Then the Command came, with the rigidity of a wall: No fuss, you must prepare yourself.
Then you return to your senses, and it all seems so oh!
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You remember, I dont know if it was in a letter or an article, Sri Aurobindo spoke of the manifestation of divine Love; he said, Truth will have to be established first, otherwise there will be catastrophes. I understand that very well.
But its a long time in coming! (Mother laughs)
0 1966-07-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Never (Mother takes on a categorical tone of voice), NEVER.
No accident ever happens.
0 1966-09-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the rather interesting thing is that (without any exception so far) all those who had an opportunity to give me money and didnt want towho didnt want to because of their attachment to their moneylost it. It was taken from them, either by the government or a financial catastrophe or an industrial catastrophe, or simply stolenlost.
A very long time ago (Sri Aurobindo was still here), an old Tamil financier came here with his wife. He lived to be very old; his wife died and he stayed on. And he gave money: he paid for his expenses, made little gifts now and then, but he was very rich. And when his wife died, he thought, Ah, what if I gave all that I have? Then he had second thoughts: One never knows, the Ashram might come to an end. And he left all his money with relatives of his who were bankers or whatever, and pfft! all gone. So he himself said, Theres my folly! I dont have it, anyway I dont have that money; if I had given it I would have had the credit of giving it; now I have neither the money nor the credit! (Mother laughs)
0 1966-09-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But even when you have the vision of the true thing, its RARELY wise to intervene. It becomes indispensable only if someone wants to do something that will necessarily end in a catastrophe. And even then (smiling), the intervention isnt always very effective.
Ultimately, its only when you are absolutely sure you have the vision of the truth that its legitimate to intervene. Not only that, but also the clear vision of consequences. In order to intervene in anothers actions, you must be a propheta prophet. And a prophet with total benevolence and compassion. You must even have the vision of the consequence the intervention will have in the others destiny. People are constantly giving each other advice: Do this, dont do that. I see that, they dont realize the extent to which they create confusion, they add to the confusion and disorder. And sometimes they harm the individuals normal development.
0 1966-09-17, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a new activity. At times I find myself (I catch myself doing something, to be precise) talking with people whom most of the time I dont know, then describing a scene: they can get such and such a thing done, they can be advised to do this or that thing, and it will end with such and such a thing. They are kinds of scenes from a book or scenes from a movie. Then, the same day or the next, someone suddenly tells me, I received a message from you and you told me to write to so-and-so and tell him such and such a thing! And I am not doing it mentally, its not that I think, A letter must be sent to so-and-so and such and such a thing must be done, not at all: I live I live a scene or narrate a scene, and its received by someone else (and I am not at all thinking of that someone else), its received by someone, this or that or this person, as a message in which I tell him to do this or that thing. And its happening here, in France, in America, everywhere. Its becoming amusing!
Someone writes to me, You told me this, and its one of my scenes! One of the scenes I livednot lived, lived and created at the same time! I dont know how to explain it. Its like a work of (Mother seems to feet an invisible substance between her fingers, as if fashioning it).
0 1966-09-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then, seeing all this, the imminence of the catastrophe, there was a sort of call or aspiration to bring down something that could at least neutralize that error. And it came, an answer I cant say I heard it with my ears, but it was so clear, so strong and precise that it was indisputable. I am obliged to translate it into words; if I translate it into words, I may say something like this: Thats why you have created Auroville.
And with the clear vision that Auroville was a center of force and creation, with (how can I explain?) a seed of truth, and that if it could sprout and develop, the very movement of its growth would be a reaction against the catastrophic consequences of the error of armament.
I found this very interesting because this birth of Auroville wasnt preceded by any thought; as always, it was simply a Force acting, like a sort of absolute manifesting, and it was so strong [when the idea of Auroville presented itself to Mother] that I could have told people, Even if you dont believe in it, even if all circumstances appear to be quite unfavorable, I KNOW THAT AUROVILLE WILL BE. It may be in a hundred years, it may be in a thousand years, I dont know, but Auroville will be, because it has been decreed. So it was decreed and done quite simply, like that, in obedience to a Command, without any thought. And when I was told that (I say, I was told, but you understand what I mean), when I was told that, it was to tell me, Here is why you have made Auroville; you are unaware of it, but thats why. Because it was the LAST HOPE to react against the imminent catastrophe. If some interest is awakened in all countries for this creation, little by little it will have the power to react against the error they have committed.
I found this very interesting, because I had never thought about it.
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Its fairly recent, it dates from two or three days ago. I had never been told this. It was said very clearlysaid, I mean seen, shown like this (gesture of a scene offered to the sight). So my interest in Auroville has considerably increased since then. Because I have understood that it isnt just a creation of idealism, but quite a practical phenomenon, in the hope in the will, rather, to thwart and counterbalance the effects the frightful effectsof the psychological error of believing that fear can save you from a danger! Fear attracts the danger much more than it saves you from it. And all these countries, all these governments commit blunder upon blunder because of that fear of the catastrophe.
All this is simply to tell you that if nations collaborate in the work of Auroville, even to a very modest extent [such as this offer of money from the French government], it will do them goodit can do them a lot of good, a good that can be out of proportion to the appearance of their actions.
You speak of the imminence of a catastrophe, but still Auroville will take some time to be realized?
No! I am speaking of the countries collaboration in CREATING something. Its not when Auroville has been completed: its the nations collaboration in creating something but creating something founded on the Truth instead of a rivalry in Falsehoods creation. Its not when Auroville is readywhen Auroville is ready, it will be one town among all other towns and its only its own capacity of truth that will have power, but that remains to be seen.
0 1966-09-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ah, if one could catch hold of that, everything could be cured.
She is overwhelmed, she says, I dont understand. And the doctor knows what it is, he has tried operations on this so many times.3
0 1966-10-08, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Are there many people (I am not referring to those who have a religion: they learn a catechism when they are quite small, so it doesnt have much meaning), but taking people as they come, are there many of them who believe in the Divine? Not in Europe, at any rate. But even here, there are quite a few who, by tradition, have a family deity, and yet when they are displeased they think nothing of taking the deity and throwing it into the Ganges! They do it, I know people who did it; they had a family Kali in their home, they took her and threw her into the Ganges because they were displeased with herif you believe in the Divine, you cant do such things, can you?
I dont know. Belief in the Divine? You thirst for a certain perfection, perhaps even to surpass yourself, to reach something higher than what is; when you are a philanthropist, you have an aspiration for mankind to be better, less unhappy and miserable, all kinds of things like thatyou can practice a yoga for that, but thats not believing. To believe is to have the faith that there cannot be a world without the Divine, thats what it is; the faith that the very existence of the world is proof of the Divine. And precisely not a belief, not something you thought over or were taught, none of all that: a faith. The faith which is a lived knowledge (not a learned knowledge) that the existence of the world is sufficient proof of the Divinewithout the Divine, no world. And its so obvious, of course, that you feel one has to be a bit stupid to think otherwise! And the Divine, not in the sense of raison dtre, goal, culmination, not all that: the world as it is is proof of the Divine. Because it IS the Divine in a certain aspect (a distorted enough aspect, but still).
0 1966-10-22, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the number of things keeps increasing (Mother looks around her). When I first came into this room, it was empty; when they made the music room, it was empty. Now (Mother makes an amused gesture pointing towards the heaps of things on the windowsills, the furniture, everywhere), theres no room left for anything! Its crammed to overflowing. So I wonder at peoplethose who feel deprived and those who are bored: to me, those two categories are unthinkable! How can one have time to be bored and how can one lack anything?!
The work keeps increasing (for everyone); the mail is something unbelievable! Its pouring in from everywhere. I got (Mother laughs) a letter from America, from someone I dont know at all, who listened to phonograph records of my voice. And, I dont know, its people who seem to have occult experiences or perhaps practice spiritualism, and he writes to tell me that he hears my voice and I am giving him revelations about himself. But then (laughing) fantastic revelations! He says its my voice, he doesnt doubt it (he accepts even the seemingly most fanciful things), but still, for safetys sake hed like to ask me (!) if I am indeed the one who has told him those things. And among the things I am supposed to have told him, I seem to have declared that he is a combined reincarnation of Buddha, Christ, Archangel Gabriel, Napoleon and Charlemagne! I am going to answer him that those five characters belong to different lines of manifestation and therefore they are rather unlikely to be combined in a single being (a single human being)!
0 1966-10-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was someone else who was there but there are always others, thats what people dont know! Others come all the time, all the time (Mother draws a circle above her head to suggest a circular dance): old ones, new ones, future ones, there is constantly something. Its very strange. And then the photograph catches it.
Yes, its very striking on this one; its less pronounced on the others.
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They are particular states of consciousness that grew precise and were expressed particularly well in certain individuals at certain momentsits not during the whole life of a whole individual, its not that: its states of consciousness that reached the height of their formation and intensity at certain moments. And then, it all comes back like a big merry-go-round (Mother draws a circular dance above her head and around her), all the time, through all times and all countries. The photo catches it, and when it comes to me, when I see it, I seem to be looking not at all at this person [Mother], but at someone I have known quite a lot, someone I have known quite well: But of course, its you, no doubt! But I cant put a name.
Yes, its like a merry-go-round of all the moments when the Consciousness manifested in people. Its very interesting. The body is now growing very impersonal.
But once, I had a curious experience with you. Ive never had visions with open eyes, but once (it struck me), many years ago, downstairs, you were telling me a story about cats and talking about the king of the cats you had met, the genius of the speciesand your face (it was extraordinary) was that of a cat! But a super cat, who was there in front of me! Yet I have no visions, absolutely none, but it was plainly visible. I found it very striking. It was quite extraordinary.
The bodys appearance had changed.
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Yes, those are things photographs catch. Theyre very sensitive.
Its strange.
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Because its an experience Ive had several times, and with all this work I am doing now, I understand better. You see, what seems to be perpetuated or preserved isnt individuals: its states of consciousness states of consciousness. Those states of consciousness manifest through many individuals and many different lives, and those states of consciousness are what progress towards a more and more luminous perfection. There are now, at present, all kinds of categories of states of consciousness that come one upon another in order to be put in contact with the Truth, the Light, the perfect Consciousness, and at the same time they have retained a sort of imprint (like a memory) of the moments when they manifested.
There is a big work of transformation of the material states of consciousness going on: the states of consciousness nearest to the Inconscient, the most material states of consciousness. They come like that [to present themselves to Mother], with one or two examples of their previous manifestation (perhaps even their first emergence from the Inconscient), and then I see the transition (along with what has transformed them, changed them or even simply altered them through successive manifestations), the transition up to the point when they are now presented before the supreme Consciousness for the final transformation. This is a perpetual work, so to speak, because, interestingly, its a work I can go on doing while seeing people. Generally my work was interrupted when I saw people, because I was busy with them and that diminished and limited the work: they represented a small aggregate of difficulties that enormously shrank the Action [of Mother]. But now its no longer like that. And the interesting point is that it places people in this or that curve of transformation of the consciousness. For some time I have been seeing a considerable number of people I had never seen before (with all the old or familiar people there was no difficulty, but with the new ones it generally caused a shrinking of the work), and now with this study of states of consciousness, people are placed: here, there, here (Mother draws different levels in space). And if they are receptive, they must go away [after seeing Mother] with a new impulse to transform themselves. Those who arent receptive just miss it; but they are no longer a disturbance: they come in and go out. And from that I know what state they are in I can even do it with photos, but when I see people its much more complete. Photos are no more than one moment of their being, while here, even what isnt being manifested is there, hidden behind, and can be seen, so I see the person more completely. Its very interesting. It transforms this whole burden of visitors into something interesting.
0 1966-11-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother does not refer to a category of so-called higher "beings," but to higher levels of being or states of being.
If it is the battle of Magenta, it is not Murat but MacMahon. It seems more likely to be Murat and another battle.
0 1966-11-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only the children dont. They are so innocent. Theres this little Asha who comes every morning. (She is the one who decided, I wasnt supposed to say no! She said, I am coming.) She comes every morning. In the beginning she used to do a pranam, but a serious one: she would remain there, rolling her head on my feet! But now she has found something else: she comes, doesnt say a word to anyone, looks at the people in the room, and when she sees everybody very busy, she slips under my table, catches hold of my hand, and then begins to play with itkissing it, turning it, pulling it. Then when she has finished this side, she comes to the other side! And with such lovely joy and trust, so lovely, so trusting: Oh, how a-mus-ing this is!
Thats nice.
0 1966-11-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Has one of the new pieces of Ashram gossip reached you two? I am supposed to have said that Maheshwari1 has manifested in a golden light, that Sri Aurobindo has come (where from, I dont know!) and said that the world wasnt ready and that was why there are catastrophes and cycloneshavent you heard the story? Anyway, I denied it. First, I said, Where could Sri Aurobindo come from? He is always here, so he doesnt need to come!
The story is unimportant, except that some people were distraught: they were expecting the end of the world! Sri Aurobindo saying the world isnt ready means its coming to an end!
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Did I tell you last time that in Bihar, the rain started that very evening? I found out how it occurred. Its P. who flew over Bihar, and he saw a desert, devastation: dry, dry, dry, nothing growing, cracked earth. Then he remembered certain experiences here.3 When he reached the airport, he was received officially and said, I would like to see the Chief Minister in private, without anyone else. He saw him and told him an experience he had had and had witnessed here [at Pondicherry]. And he said, Why dont you ask Mother? The other answered quite spontaneously, It would be better if you asked for us! Then he sent his telegram. The same evening it started raining. He wrote, saying, This first rain has been like divine nectar to me. He said that people there were entirely trusting and as well-disposed as could be. And he saw a relation between those droughts, those natural catastrophes, and the forces that stop money from coming; he saw they were affected by that experience of unexpected rain. For example, at the same time (a day or two later), he met some people who arent rich (the husb and has a good position, but they arent rich: they have a family, children). For some reason or other the husb and had been given a compensation of 10,000 rupees by the government, and quite spontaneously and naturally they went and saw P. and said to him, You must give this to Mother. He asked the lady, But why do you give all this? She spontaneously answered, But what would I do with this money? I dont need it. In other words, the true attitude. So it immediately made P. think that something is on the move.
And I saw this note of yesterday as indi cative of the key (I mean inwardly, in the universal attitudes). It was all clearly seen: men always believe that the guilty must be punished, that its the way out of the difficulty, but the true way is compassion and mercy. Its not that you are ignorant of the true movement and the false one, but you have SPONTANEOUS mercy, effortlessly and at all times. The vision was very clear that this is how progress is possibleif the fault were always punished, there wouldnt be anyone left to progress!
0 1966-11-23, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the Grace learning its lesson. It learns that It isnt yet as It should be. You understand, there are always two ways of looking at things; we can say, The world isnt ready and look at it with a smile (its a what can we call it? We could call it a selfish way), and the other way, which is to say, I am not capable yet. If I were really capable, all this [illnesses, catastrophes, etc.] wouldnt be necessary, everything would be done in a harmonious rhythm.
We could very well say, The Divine is learning his lesson. (Laughing) He has everything to learn! When He knows it well, the world will be as it should be, thats all.
0 1966-11-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is clearly a great movement. Yesterday again I saw a man who was governor of Madras for a while. He came here (he was passing through Pondicherry but wanted to stop here), and the man asked me, Is there a solution? And he added, We are all praying that you may give it. I answered (Mother smiles) that I had nothing to do with politics. But he represents a whole category of people in India who now think that there is indeed only one solution, which is precisely an attempt to realize a higher life.
There is a great movement.
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In my case, strangely, I seem to see through a thick veil, that is to say, everything is blurred. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, I see an object, some thing or other, clearly, so clearly, precisely, with a detailed accuracy, as if it were shown to me. Or else when reading a letter, for instance, if I read it without paying attention to anything else, I see perfectly well, but if I start thinking of an answer or concentrate, if the consciousness starts working, everything disappears and I cant see anything anymore the next minute, the words become clear again. Which means it doesnt depend on a defect of the sight or the material organ: its something else something else that one wants me to learn. Because it constantly comes back as if to show me something. But theres so much work and so many people that I dont always have the time to stop and concentrate to see what it is. I would have to catch the exact point when the sight comes and when it goes, and follow the conditions of the consciousness at that moment. I dont have the time.
Its really like an attempt to demonstrate to me that sight doesnt depend on the eyes.
0 1966-12-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But that inspiration comes from the highest region, the region beyond all individualizations. Thats why its something we find difficult to formulate and explain. Its complete, perfect in itself, but it doesnt have anything of the character of our mental formulation, not at all; it doesnt even have the character of a formulated idea. And its absolutely imperative, absolutely. But then, as soon as it touches the mental zone, it seems to attract words. My impression is that the more silent I am, the more precise it is; in other words, the more inactive the mind is, the more precise the expression. So thats what it is, its that force coming down and attracting words. Its not even ideas (it doesnt come through the region of ideas): its an experience, its something living which comes and which, to take expression, catches hold of words. What came on Sunday was like that: I was asked that question on the Grace, then I was seized by a concentrated, extremely strong silence for maybe a minute (not even that long), and it came. Then I spoke. I heard myself speaking. But then it clearly came through Sri Aurobindo.
If it were already written, fully ready somewhere, you couldnt change anything in it; when it was there you would feel its perfect in itself and you cant change anything in it.
0 1967-01-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because of the necessities of the transformation, this body may enter a state of trance that will appear cataleptic.
Then I knew it was Sri Aurobindo speaking, because he started taking his ironic tone, and he said:
0 1967-01-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem:) In the text of those Instructions [in the event of cataleptic trance], you also use the word injure; you say that in that trance state, your body will have to be kept labri de toute injure [sheltered from all injuries]. But I deliberately left the word, because in the original sense of the French word we speak of the injures du temps [the injury or assault of time]. Is that what youd like to keep in those Instructions?
That day he told me (it was he who told me to say that), The bites of insects, the bad contacts, things like that. He said, All injuries, poisoning by an insect, etc.
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You know, I have the impression, exactly an impression (its a transcription), the impression of being on the verge of finding a keya key or a way a procedure (I dont know how to put it: all this is popularization), but something which, if you got hold of it without being totally on the true side in one second you could be the cause of a horrifying catastrophe. Thats why the integral preparation of the consciousness must go hand in hand with the perception of the Power. And then, there are differences so subtle that for the understanding (I am not referring to the ordinary understanding, but even for a quite spiritualized and prepared state of consciousness, which is not THE consciousness), even an insignificant, almost imperceptible, tiny little movement could bring about a catastrophe.
What catastrophe? I dont know. Like a dissolution of the world.2
So you are there (Mother makes a gesture to indi cate a very narrow ridge), as if on an invisible borderline, with an extraordinary, almighty Power which, at the same time, makes you know and prevents you from knowing, with extraordinary, tiny subtleties of movement so that nothing happens too soon, that is, before everything is ready.
0 1967-01-28, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a whole category of a way of thinking. Those who think they have superior intelligence and scorn what they dont understand are countlesscountless. And thats the very sign of stupidity! On the other hand, there are many (they are generally regarded as simple-minded, but for my part, I appreciate those simple-minded people, they have a warmth of soul), they admire everything they cannot understand. They have a sort of dumb admiration, which is looked upon as silly, for anything they dont understand. But they at least have goodwill. While the others on the lofty heights of their so-called intelligence, anything they dont understand is worthless. This man came here and said, One cant work with these people, they are Indians! (Mother laughs) And he says it quite naturally.
You met someone the other day, I heard?
0 1967-02-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And when you are on the very lowest rung of the ladder of consciousness, those manners of speaking become increasingly concrete, absolute, hard, and exclusive of all that isnt themselves: those are religions. Oh, by the way, it seems the Pope was approached about Auroville and he asked if there would be a catholic church! They put the question to me. I said, No. No churches, no temples.
But it might be amusing if we put together one specimen of every religion from every country and every epoch. A city of religions, can you see that? The totem pole next to the cathedral! Oh, that would be very amusing! All the ancient religions the Egyptian, the Tyrian, the Scandinavian gods and then the new religions.
They would all quarrel with each other!
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Its a subject I found very interesting, in the beginning I even wanted to give a class1 on it, when the School had only thirty children or so: a class on religions showing the whole course, from the gods with the heads of birds or jackals to cathedrals. Oh, when I was just five, I was revolted by that God who really was a wicked character and caused bloodshed.
So we could have a city of religions. But we would have to re-create the atmosphere.
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No, a museum is too intellectuala city of religions. We would have to re-create the atmosphere and have a temple, churches, a cathedral, a totem pole (laughing) Wed entrust the Greek temple to Ananta!2 That would be really unique on earth.
But you know, there are still so many fanaticsmore than we think. You would think all that has disappeared with modern developmentnot at all.
0 1967-02-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But how is it done? Its a problem that interests me very much: how do you catch this new expression?
It can only be done This is my experience: if I want to express clearly what Sri Aurobindo says (he doesnt say, I dont know how to explain it its his consciousness doing thisgesture of projectionexpressing itself), well, first the mind must be silent, that goes without saying. But the difficulty is the passage to expression; thats what I have studied and where I have seen the extent of that sort of spontaneous and automatic attachment to the old habits.
0 1967-03-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One who has an individualized psychic being can survive even in the midst of collective catastrophes, if such is the choice of his soul.
How is the soul conscious of being and existing after death, once it is separated from its physical, vital and mental beings?
0 1967-04-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its probably part of the preparations. The only thing is, the results can be fairly catastrophic.
It could be part of a scientific discipline. But then, thats how it should be done, as a discipline, and under the supervision of those who know.
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In the last part, what he calls the cellular level is indeed the descriptionONE descriptionof cellular phenomena and activities on their level of consciousness, and also on the level of consciousness of the infinitesimal. He speaks of great currents and cellular transformations and all that; its quite correct, only.1 Its what is going on at present, but its just the consciousness reduced to the dimension of the infinitesimal. And its a reproduction of what takes place in the other dimensions. But, for example, after all this discipline of the cells that there has been for several years now, his description strikes me as the same thing SEEN THROUGH AN ILLUSION. And the illusion is caused by that very imbalance: the illusion of an absolute reality, while its a quite relative reality. You understand, its the difference between seeing something with a sense of relativity, with a whole immensity of other things, and seeing it all alone as an exclusive and unique reality. Its the sense of the harmony and balance of the Whole that is gone. And so, it becomes dreadful: as he says, some people may find it frightening. And thats precisely because that equilibrium is missing. Its the same thing in a smaller version in an individual: that vision of the whole which gives the proportion of every event, the importance of every event and every thing, changes completely when you have the sense of the Whole, and what appears frightening or catastrophic or marvellous becomes again just a part of the Whole. Its the sense of equilibrium that is gone. When I read the end, it gave me one more confirmation of my experience.
It may be necessary, in certain cases, to disrupt that equilibrium so as to come into contact with something new, but thats always dangerous. And the way of consecration and surrender to the supreme Power is infinitely superiorits slightly more difficult. Its more difficult than swallowing a drug, but infinitely superior.
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There is something interesting in this cellular consciousness: they have a sense of sincerity which is MUCH sharper, and what they call in English exacting, than in the vital and the mind (even the material vital and mind). There is a sort of absoluteness in the sincerity which is very remarkable, and they have a rigorousness between them which is quite wonderful. Its extremely interesting. If anything, any part, any movement, tries to cheat, they catch it like this (gesture of nipping it and wringing its neck), and in such a sharp and precise way. In all the vital or mental movements, there is always a kind of (sinuous gesture) suppleness, something that tries to adaptwhile here, oh its like this (inflexible gesture). So when there is invo cation, prayer, self-giving, surrender, trust, all those things become so pureso pure, so crystalline, you know, that oh!
And precisely, there is a growing conviction that a perfection realized in Matter is a perfection that is FAR MORE perfect than anywhere else. Thats what gives it a stability it has nowhere else. If there is something somewhere (when there is a great offering and then a joyous self-giving, joyous surrender), if there is something that comes in with even the slightest self-interest for instance, a suffering in some little corner (a pain or disorder), which hopes for or wishes or expects some improvement then it gets caught like this (same gesture of nipping and wringing its neck) and its told, Oh, insincere one! Give yourself unconditionally. Then its magnificent.
0 1967-04-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
"The sense of touch alone is fully developed (in the newborn). That allows it to remain in intimate contact with its mother and prolong the time of gestation, which is a period of intense development in the security of oneness. The least separation may cause an irreparable trauma, that 'fall on the head' which is the usual but abnormal condition of the newborn in civilized peoples. This is well-known to primitive peoples, where the mother keeps the naked child on her naked skin and never parts with it.... Until the other senses are specialized, it is chiefly through the surface of the skin that the child receives its edu cation.... If one wants it to incarnate really, to be friends with matter, its body to become as intimate as its soul, one must invent for it a yoga of caresses and play." (It is worth noting that an attempt to put these alluring and specious theories into practice was to have catastrophic results, as we shall see later in the Agenda: the main effect of the said "caresses" is to attract into the child's body vital forces of a dark order, and "genii of sex" rather than anything else, are likely to be incarnated.)
This is how Mother replied to the disciple who had sent her her study on the formation of the new child: "I have read your work with keen interestit deals with an important aspect of the problem. But a public presentation is impossible. Seeing and reading this, too many young girls would imagine they are destined to give birth to the 'solar child'that would be a disaster." Then Mother added: "In order to realize this work, one must have gone beyond all desire; and unfortunately, this is not generally the case as yet. Whereas ambition and vanity are rather widespread maladies."
0 1967-04-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Basically, Nature had arranged things, and as she had no limitation of time, they were arranged so as to last millennia and millennia and millenniashe went along at a leisurely pace, having fun on the way; she invented everything that could be invented and had fun. But things didnt move along very fast. And she has arranged things in such a way that if there is a pressure to move faster, oh, it causes catastrophes.
On the immense mass, the mass still plunged in Ignorance, it creates a sort of excitement that tends to become unhealthy. Those who are settled in a certain equilibrium protest; I have often heard them say, But we arent in a hurry, things are all right as they are! Why do you want to change them so fast, that will happen in its own time! Thats the attitude of those who have found a sufficiently harmonious equilibrium in life: Oh, you are in too much of a hurry, why do you want to upset everything? Let things just carry on on their own. It will happen in its own timelike that. All those who are somewhat sattvic, level-headed, have that kind of equilibrium. Then, among those who aspire, a small number are sincere, serious, level-headed, ready for anything: ready to go slowly, to go fast, to do much, to do little but they are steady and quiet. And finally, there is a band of people who like imbalance and, for them, its an opportunity for all kinds of crazy things. But the Pressure of the Force is clearly making itself felt everywhere.
0 1967-04-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here is the sequence of events: someone living here had a very bad cold some seven or eight days before the darshan. I said to myself, I must not catch it(in fact, Mother has a bad cold). So I did a special prayer not to catch it. But it has had consequences.
I told you about that experience (which has been growing increasingly concrete and constant) of the Vibration of Harmony (a higher harmony expressing the essential Consciousness in its aspect of love and harmony and, as it draws nearer to the manifestation, of order and organization), and of the nearly constant and general vibration of disorder, disharmony, conflictin reality, Matters resistance to this Action. The two vibrations are like this (Mother slips the fingers of her right hand between those of the left), as if they interpenetrated each other and a simple movement of consciousness sent you to one side or the other, or rather, the aspiration, the will for realization, put you into contact with the Vibration of Harmony, and the SLIGHTEST slackening made you lapse into the other. It has become constant. And then, on the 24th, right from morning there was a constant aspiration, a constant will for the triumph of the Vibration of Harmony. Then I sat down at my table as I always do, about five or ten minutes before it began. And instantly, with a puissancea puissance capable of crushing an elephantthis Vibration of Harmony came down like that, massive to the point that the body lost the sense of its existence altogether: it became That, it was conscious of nothing but That. And the first quarter of an hour literally flashed by in a second. Then, there were three people in the room; one of the three, or maybe all three, felt a malaise (nothing surprising!), and that woke me up: I saw the light (I burn a candle on my table) and I saw the time, but it wasnt me something saw. Then there was a sort of pacifying action on the place, and thengone again. And one second later, the call of the end!1
0 1967-05-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The way it comes is amusing too. Someone (for instance, X, Y or Z) reads me a letter; me, you understand, theres no me, I am absolutely absent, busy with the things I do: putting this away, doing that or this. Suddenly (gesture from above), Say this. Ah, very well. And then it comes. And its amusing: its words playing, it always makes me think of a cat playing with something, like that, with its mischievous eye, sending the ball away and catching it again, poking it with one paw and catching it again with the other; its exactly the same movement with words. Its someone having fun. You know who the someone is(!)
Sometimes, it has such an extraordinary sense of humour, with such subtletyhe just picks up the slightly ridiculous side of the person who wrote or asked the question, then answers with imperturbable seriousness. Admirable!
0 1967-05-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its been known for a long time that cats, the skin of cats, is full of electricity. It was used in the past to cure rheumatism.
He says this electricity could be used to reactivate dead or paralyzed or cancerous cells. And he concludes, The human body is virtually a living dry cell. The era of human electric energy is close at hand.
0 1967-06-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw Y. on the 31st. She stayed for about an hour and told me of her hopes: she sees the possibility of a sort of world television (I dont know how that would be arranged), with a telephone, and there would be a central office with a collection of answers to all possible questionseach question answered by someone eminent or qualified. The result would be the organization of a universal edu cationwell, terrestrial that would really be an edu cation for all countries, in which the knowledge and best qualities of every country in the artistic, literary and scientific fields would be gathered in a kind of transmitting centre, and all you would have to do would be to get into communi cation with it. So then, instead of having more or less incapable teachers to teach what they also know more or less, you would have the answer to every question, the most competent and best answer. Thus there would really be all over the earth an edu cation that would be the best possible, from which everyone would receive only what he wants; you wouldnt have to attend classes, a number of useless classes, in order to catch the little you want to know: you would have it just by getting into communi cation with the centre; you would ask for such and such a number and would get your answer.
If it could be realized, it would be very good. It means that the most beautiful works of art, the most beautiful teachings, all the best of what humanity is GOING to produce, would be collected and within reach of all those who had a television. There would be the image along with the explanation, or the text or speech. A kind of imposing central building where everything would be gathered. I found it rather attractive. I told her that we would have that in Auroville (not the central office: just a receiving set). She said that instead of teachers who teach poorly what they know, there would be the best teaching on each subject. (I didnt ask her WHO would select those people that remains the somewhat deli cate point.) But I found the idea very attractive. She said things are moving in that direction.
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Yes, that would be the true edu cation. Its not finding answers in a super-library, but catching hold of something up above and you have all the answers.
But thats more difficult, isnt it?
Maybe not. When I was a kid, I was quite conscious of being able to PULL something down from above, and that the answer was there, above. Children just dont know, in fact. If they were told, if they were shown and made to understand that the knowledge is there, that you can catch hold of it
Yes.
0 1967-06-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anything that started vibrating (I am not even talking about fearthose who have fear, that goes without saying, it means catastrophenot even fear: excitement), anything that started vibrating in that way attractedATTRACTEDthings (I saw the whole scene at once), attracted danger.
Naturally, my body was like this (imperturbable gesture), but that was nothing, because for me But P. became like this (same gesture), like an unmoving sword: calm, calm. Thats how I knew [what he was], I didnt know before. All the others (vibrating, excited gesture) phew!
0 1967-06-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive made discoveries. Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the vital being having fun, influences too anyway all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things difficult. And all that takes pleasure in that naturally encourages drama. But the seed of the difficulty is that pettiness, extreme pettiness of the physical consciousness the material physical consciousness which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama. Drama the slightest thing has to make a drama: if you have a toothache, it becomes a drama1; if you bang against something, it becomes a drama; if two nations quarrel, it becomes a dramaeverything becomes a drama. The taste for drama. The slightest upset in the body, the least disorder, which should go completely unnoticed, oh, it makes a big fuss, a drama. The taste for drama. I was thoroughly disgusted.
Everything, everything Like the loud buzz at a fair.
The attack was apparently violent, so violent that after studying and observing it I was forced to think that some people were amusing themselves doing black magic. Everything took on fantastic proportions. The same teeth Ive had for such a long time (in the same state for such a long time, that is!), which for years hadnt given me any trouble, suddenly fancied they too had to make a drama! So, a raging toothache, swellingabsolutely ridiculous, absolutely. And you know, this discovery of drama wasnt thought out, it wasnt an observation: it was an acute experience, caught hold of as you would catch a thief. I caught it. And its universal, all over the earth.
Because EVERYTHING was creating drama the loud buzz of a fair, the tumult, all of it, a big fuss. Like those people over there when they fought each other, the same fuss (gesture expressing the seething turmoil of the war). What a to-do they make! What with rights and duties and honour, oh! Then, as things were pretty bad (I was almost completely incapacitated2), I asked what it meant (Mother laughs), and he showed me the picture! Then I understood.
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You understand, once the thing had been seenseen and felt and lived completely they started slowing down there. I cant say things are quite all right as yet, far from it, but anyway I think the worst of the catastrophe has been averted.3
Grotesque.
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I wondered whether it was peculiar to the earth and if the other planets and suns werent in this idiotic situation? On an external level it would be interesting to know. But I am practically certain that death, for instance, is something that belongs exclusively to earth lifedeath as we FEEL it, as we understand it. Yet animals take part in it, but they dont have mans mental deformation. But the taste for drama is exclusively human, because those animals that live with man catch the malady, while those that dont live with man dont have it at all.
(silence)
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So the problem narrows down more and more. If your most material vital being goes out, it doesnt make you dieit puts you in catalepsy, but it doesnt make you die. What makes you die?
There are two things that make you die. One (the one that precedes the dramatic human existence) is wear and tear. What does wear and tear come from? From Ignorance, obviously. From Ignorance and the incapacity to renew forces; and that means the whole lower life: it decomposes, recomposes, decomposes again. But its only with animality and the beginning of a mental functioning that (Mother takes on a grandiloquent tone) death comes, such as we conceive it. But that is when the vital element that gives life (what we call life) breaks down. There are innumerable reasons for that, all of which stem from the same source. Of course, taken together, it is the incapacity to follow the movement of progress: the need to remix everything together in order to start all over again. But for those who are beginning to think, that no longer has any reason to exist.
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The taste for drama, the need for catastrophe.
Thats what was there, pressing and pressing on the earth to bring about all the conditions for a resounding grand finale (Mother shrugs her shoulders).
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Yes, everybody knows it: it happened at Tlemcen while I was working with Thon. I had gone out in a wholly material way, the body was in a cataleptic state, and something came, something occurred that cut the link. So the link was cut.
But what was the experience like at that time?
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What makes me think that there were external adverse wills is that from every side there kept coming fine-sounding wordsfine-sounding sentences, suggestions (dramatic suggestions, precisely) announcing a considerable number of catastrophes. They come from every side, like this (swarming gesture, like a rising tide), like so many snakes waiting there, kept at arms length, rushing up as soon as theyre given the opportunity to do so. Which proves that theres clearly something the matter.
Suggestions like this one, for instance: Oh, now youre well, you are strong and can speakah, but youll see what happens to you. Suggestions and suggestions. You understand, it can only come from rotten human thoughts. A swarm of things, each one uglier than the next one, comes like that. And you see them come (same gesture like a rising tide of snakes), you see them come like that. From the basest to the most violent.
0 1967-06-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They clearly are very receptive. I saw it straight away; when I was told that the Egyptians, and in particular this president,1 had decreed that the Israeli nation must disappear, I straight away saw there was a very strong reaction2(laughing) it brought about quite a categorical result!
Then I was asked another question:
0 1967-06-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are no catastrophes. The Supramental is a force of order and harmony. Thus what may seem to us at first glance to be a catastrophe is bound to actually put things in order, work in every way and every detail towards putting the earth in order.
September-October is generally the month of wars.
0 1967-06-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It means fighting against a millennial habit, you understand. Its the automatism of the material consciousness which is, yes, dramatic, almost catastrophic; sometimes dramatic and dramatic while imagining a conclusion that undoes the drama. But as soon as you express it all, it becomes much too concrete. Its better not to talk about it.
As soon as its said, it becomes artificial.
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Because now, the body itself really collaborates as much as it canas much as it canwith an ever-increasing goodwill and power of endurance, and the self-observation is truly reduced to a minimum (there is still some, like something touching lightly now and then, but not even for a few seconds). Self-observation, oh, that means a thoroughly disgusting, repugnant and catastrophic atmosphere. Its like that, FELT like that. And its becoming increasingly impossible, I see that, its visible. But there is still the whole weight of millennia of bad habits, which we could call pessimistic, that is, anticipating decay, anticipating catastrophe, anticipating well, all those things, and, ugh! thats the most difficult thing to purify, to clarify, to remove from the atmosphere. Its so INGRAINED that its absolutely spontaneous. That is the great, great, great obstacle that sort of sense of inevitable decay.
Naturally, from the mental standpoint, the entire earth atmosphere is like that, but in the mind it hardly matters at all: one ray of light and its swept away. But its INSIDE (pointing to her body), that habit that catastrophic habitwhich is terrible, terrible to contradict. And its INDISPENSABLE that it should disappear so the other can settle in.
So its a battle each and every minute, all the time, all the time.
0 1967-07-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, that relationship of simplicity (like that of a child) in which you very simply ask for the thing you feel the need for, but without mental compli cations; without explanations, without justifi cations, without all that useless farragosimply, Oh, I would like You have, for instance, quite a special feeling towards someone or something and you would like that someone or something to be perfectly harmonious, happy (which physically is expressed by good health or favourable circumstances), and so, spontaneously, simply, you say, Oh! (you pray), Oh, may it be like that! And it happens. Then the thought (the general human thought): This has happened, therefore its the expression of the Truth. And it becomes a principle: This is true, this is the way things should be. But up above, in that Consciousness that global Consciousness in that total Harmony, those things in themselves, in their material expression (good health, favourable circumstances) are of no more than minor importance, so to say, of almost nonexistent importance: things may be this way or that or this (they may be a hundred different ways), without its making any difference to the Harmony; but this particular way is chosen because of the simple, pure, candid beauty of the aspiration that is lovely, that is powerful in its simplicity. And, you know, without mental compli cation, without hypocrisy of any sort, without pretence of any sort: very simply, but from a luminous, pure, loving heart, without any egoism, just like that. So thats a lovely light which has its place; and because of it, things may be this way or that (good health, favourable circumstances), it doesnt matter, its unimportant. Human beings attach importance only to the external form, to what has manifested; they say, Oh, this is true, since it isand its a passing breath of air. But the cause of it, its origin has a place in that total, universal Harmony: a disinterested goodwill, love devoid of egoism, trust that doesnt argue or reason, simplicityingenious simplicity for which evil doesnt exist.4 If we could catch hold of that and keep it That trust for which evil doesnt existnot trust in what takes place here: trust up above, in that all-powerful principle of Harmony.
(long silence, then Mother repeats this prayer:)
0 1967-07-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a whole world of things people know out of force of habit, automatically, which have been completely erased (because all habits are increasingly being erased), so at times its embarrassing! And it comes back, all those things come back like that, as if on a screen (but the screen of consciousness), and those that correspond to a reality come forward like an image, with the reality behind, so then its very easy: you catch hold of the reality and its over. But with many theres only the image and nothing behind! So how do you replace them?
When it comes to languages, its very interesting. Those are things that come, stay for an hour or two, then go away; they are like lessons, things to be learned. And so, one day, there came the question of languages, of the different languages. Those languages were formed progressively (probably through usage, until, as you said, one day someone took it into his head to fix it in a logical and grammatical way), but behind those languages, there are identical experiencesidentical in their essence and there are certainly sounds that correspond to those experiences; you find those sounds in all languages, the different sounds with minor differences. One day (for a long time, more than an hour), it unfolded with all the evidence to support it, for all languages. Unfortunately, I couldnt see clearly, it was at night, so I couldnt note it down and it went away. But it should be able to come back. It was really interesting (Mother tries to recall the experience.) There were even languages I had never heard: Ive heard many European languages; in India, several Indian languages, chiefly Sanskrit; and then, Japanese. And there were languages I had never heard. It was all there. And there were sounds, certain sounds that come from all the way up, sounds (how can I explain?), sounds we might call essential. And I saw how they took shape and were distorted in languages (Mother draws a sinuous descending line that branches out). Sounds like the affirmative and the negativewhat, for us, is yes and noand also the expression of certain relationships (Mother tries to remember). But the interesting point was that it came with all the words, lots of words I didnt know! And at that time I knew them (it comes from a subconscient somewhere), I knew all those words.
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I had that experience in Italy when I was fifteen, while travelling with my mother, and it struck me very muchit was very striking indeed! It was the memory of having been strangled in the Doges prison. Quite a story. Afterwards I enquired; I enquired about the names, the facts, the events (I was able to enquire in Italy about what had happenedit was in Venice and it tallied marvellously). But the interesting thing, from an external point of view I was visiting the entire Palazzo ducale with my mother and a group of travellers shown about by a guide: they take you underground, where the prisons were lo cated. Then the guide started telling a story (which didnt interest me) when, all of a sudden, I was seized by a kind of force that came into me, and then, without evenwithout even being aware of it, I went to a corner and saw a written word. It was But then, there came at the same time the memory that I had written it. And the whole scene came back: I was the one who had written that word on the wall (and I saw it, saw it with my physical eyes, the writing was still there; the guide said that all the walls with writings on them made by the Doges prisoners had been kept intact). Then the scene went on: I saw, I had the sensation of people entering and catching hold of me (I was there with a prisoner I wasnt the prisoner: I was visiting him). I was there, and then some people came and seized me and (gesture to the neck) tied me up. And then (I was with a whole group of about ten people listening to the guide, near a small aperture opening onto the canal), then, the sensation of being lifted and thrown through that aperture. Well, you understand, I was fifteen, so naturally! I told my mother, Lets get out of here! (Mother laughs)
It was hard to restrain myself. We left.
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Now, this (Mothers being) is a rather special conscious being. The psychic of this life (laughing) was rather collective! Memories of catherine the Great, memories of Elizabeth, memories of two lives at the same time (!) at the time of Francis I,4 memories innumerable memories, and quite diverse. Each one Its not that you were in such or such person for a whole life: you were the important psychic MOMENT in those existences.
I stopped taking any interest in all that when I came here it was part of the occult knowledge, not of spiritual knowledge. I stopped taking any interest in it. But now that everything is being gathered together, it comes like that, like a part of the work, because the cells, when I had those visions, participated to some extent in the sense that they had the vibration in themselves; so all those vibrations have participated in the formation of all these cells, and now they relive it all. It gives them a possibility of breadth, of diversity, of synthesis and coordination of many, many things. And the sense of having thus lived for a long, long, long time.
0 1967-08-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, I had an experience of this sort quite a long time ago (a very long time), when I was still in France, in Paris. There was a student friend in the studio (because I studied in a painting studio for a long time), she was a very good painter, we were close friends, and I started telling her about the Cosmic Review and Thons teaching. She belonged to a catholic family of archbishops, even cardinals, anyway it was And she was extremely interested and wholly convinced: she felt a liberation of the spirit and aspiration. Then, after I had Sri Aurobindos teaching, I passed it on to her, and there she was really quite taken. But she often told me, As long as I am awake, everything is fine, but in my sleep Ill suddenly wake up in a dreadful panic: and if the catholic teaching is true, then Ill go to hell! And so, a torture. And she would tell me, When I am wide awake, I see how ridiculous it is
But all those who were baptized and went for a time to confession are part of an inner, a whole psychological entity, and its VERY DIFFICULT to break free of it; they are bound to a wholethere is there is an invisible Church, and all those people are in its grip. To break free of it, one must be a vital hero. A true hero, you understand. Because its very strong. I saw that all religions have in that way kinds of congregations in the invisible; but the Christian one is the strongest of them all from a terrestrial standpoint. Its much stronger than that of the Buddhists, much stronger than that of the Chinese, much stronger than the ancient Hindu religionsits the strongest. And naturally stronger than the more recent religions, too the strongest. And when you are baptized, you are bound. If you dont go to mass and have never been to confession, with a little vital energy you can get out of it, but those who have gone to confessionespecially confession and when you take communion, when you are given Christ to eat (another frightful thing).
0 1967-09-13, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(It is once again question of Mrs. Z, the catholic lady who lingers around the Ashram.)
I have a nasty little story to tell you. The other day, I forget when, F. met Mrs. Z, who told her (she too was in a concentration camp), I would like (word for word) I would like Satprem to go back to the concentration camp to see if his reaction now would be different! F. was so indignant that she couldnt help telling her, But that is a monstrous desire to have!
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It wouldnt matter in the least, yes, thats right. And thats what upsets them! You understand, for them you can have that salvation only if you are catholic.
Anyway, the matter is closed.
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It is said (but I am not sure about this, because it was simply repeated to me), a prominent catholic to whom I spoke my mind quite plainly, answered me, In the College of Cardinals, they are taught the truth and told this is not true. I said, God bless the cardinals, but their first duty should be to destroy this monstrous formation.
The most terrible thing is that she believes she is free!
0 1967-09-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(It is question of a rather painful letter Satprem has received from that same very catholic lady.)
Yes, the first impression was painful, then I took a good look; and at bottom, the whole trouble comes from the fact that this person has a very high opinion of herself, she judges everything from the height of her superiority for instance, that air of benevolent compassion for the Ashram. But that was my first impression when I saw her for the first time, and it has been growing since then and this letter has fully confirmed it.
So then, I didnt say anything, but yesterday I made F. talk about the lady, and she finally told me, There is something I have never told you because it made me uneasy, but today I will tell you. Soon after we first met, Mrs. Z told me one day (I repeat word for word), Because of MY position and YOUR position, I am convinced that we are destined to bring about the rapprochement of the catholic Church and the Ashram. F. told me, I didnt replydidnt argue, didnt answer, didnt say a word or anything, I just left it at that.
But I said to myself, There is the answer to everything She has put herself at the very top, on the summit of the catholic religion.
Yes, she told me the same thing.
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Before she came to see me, I didnt know she was a fervent catholic, I hadnt thought about it, but the first time she came to see me, I simply thought (I saw), My dear girl, you lack the humility indispensable for making progress. Thats all. Then everything has been unveiled little by little, and yesterday the picture was complete because it takes some cheek to say, We are destined to bring about the rapprochement of the catholic Church and the Ashram.
When I got her letter, the force in it literally turned my stomach.
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To come back to her catholic preoccupation, there have been some really interesting things. You know that the Pope, when he came here to Bombay, said things that I had told him like this (gesture of inner communi cation) when we had that conversation2 (he certainly does not know with whom he had that conversation, but I think he is conscious enough to know he had one). A conversation We had three conversations like that, but one was long, important, precise; he himself was taken, like that, and when the time came to leave each other for him to go back to his body and for me to go back to my workhe said to me, And what will you say to people about our meeting? I told you the story. And, well, the things he said when he came here to India were exactly what I had told him; the resolutions he passed there were exactly what I had told him which proves it has had some effect.
Have you heard about the latest decision? In the church, the priest always used to turn his back to the faithful while officiating: he would face the deity and turn his back to the faithful (the original idea was certainly that he represented the faithfuls aspiration and prayer: he addressed himself to the Divine). Now the Pope has said, Turn your altars around, face the public and represent the Divine. Its interesting. They are doing it here now, and the comical part is that theyve asked U. to do the work of turning the altars around. Thats how I know it, its U. who told me; they have asked him to go to all the churches here and turn the altars around. Its a big job because they are embedded.
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Mother probably means, "who would like to bring about unity under catholic auspices."
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0 1967-09-20, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only an observation, which is really very interesting: its that everyone has said the same thing, all those who have had the Experience have said the same thing but each one in his own way, so it looks like something different. Yesterday it was so clear, and again the whole morning, from early morning: this way, that way, this one here, that one there (Mother shows different facets), the philosophers, founders of religions, sages of all countries they have always said the same thing. For instance, the Buddhas teaching and, say, the Christian teaching, seem to be so different, but its always the same thing. That is to say, there is ONE state (if you catch hold of it), ONE state in which you are conscious of the divine Consciousness (not conscious of: conscious through or conscious with, I dont know how to explain its the divine Consciousness which is conscious, that is, the Consciousness in its essence), and there are no more problems there, no more compli cations, no more explanations, nothing anymoreeverything is as clear as can be. So then, each one has tried to explain that, and naturally it has become confused, incomplete, incorrect, with one explanation clashing with anotherwhile everyone is talking about the same thing!
It came yesterday in relation to a boy who sent me the letter from one of his friends, in which he said the usual nonsense: I dont believe in God because I cant see him. The usual little stupidity. And in that connection, I saw (I looked, like that, looked for a long time), I saw that the one who rejects, the one who asserts, the one all that, all of it is (how could I put it?) variations on the same theme, even when it appears to be saying the contrary.
0 1967-09-23, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats the beauty of it: as long as you are in the mind, you can go on reading indefinitely without catching hold of the thing!
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0 1967-10-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont mind seeing him. Oh, the catholics here hate us.
Yes. Thats also what I said in my declaration,2 but they told me it wasnt true! They had the cheek to tell me ( catholics who came to see me), Why did you say that? Its not true. We should stick this letter under their very nose. I KNOW this is how they speak to everybody. A kind of rage.
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I cant say I was very enthusiastic. I felt what you feel with almost all catholics, that there is something slightly (what should I call it?) evasive, not very clean.
Hypocritical?
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Thats simply from the intellectual standpoint. Because if he isnt a philosopher, if he doesnt live in ideas, it doesnt matter at all: its rather a question of EXPERIENCE. It seems that the experience he had3 was a descent of Ananda, something he had never felt before, which came to him all of a sudden. Then he told his Superior, Id like to go all alone into solitude, to the countryside, because he didnt like rites, ceremonies and all that. So that was the starting point, and then he felt the need to come to India. And in India he travelled all around, until he came here. He has been in Orders for only two or three years, its a recent conversion (not conversion from a religious standpoint but from the standpoint of life, because he must have been catholic since his childhood, but he desired to leave life and become a monk), thats recent.
But its a strange monastery, because Pavitra has had quite a sustained correspondence with an abbot who was in that monastery (he has a file this thick!), then it stopped abruptly, I dont know why.
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Its rather significant that for some time youve been seeing catholics come to you from every side!
Well, yes!
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In the wake of the events of February 11, 1965, during which the Ashram was besieged, several disciples hurt and a few buildings burnt down, Mother issued a declaration in which she impli cated the various elements responsible for that outburst of hatred. Among the very first to blame, she cited Pondicherry's catholics: "... First, the militant catholics, becausein spite of what the Pope declared after his visit to Indiathey are convinced that whoever is not a catholic must be an instrument of the devil ..."
In France.
0 1967-10-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To them, to catholics, sin is that miserable affair of sex. Yet they do bless marriage! They bless marriage, and when you are married by the Church, its for eternity! If you go to hell, you go to hell together; and if you go to heaven, you go to heaven together but you can never separate! (Mother laughs) Word for word, I am not making anything up.
But I told him, Yours is a barbarous religion.
0 1967-10-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I also have deities (Mother catches hold of three bronze statuettes, immersed with some others under a flood of papers): this is a standing Ganesh; this is Garuda, Vishnus attendant; and this is Shivas bull. And there (a little farther on the table), I keep three Ganeshas: a tiny little silver Ganesh, between the legs of this deity (a modern-looking one), then another Ganesh, I dont know what its made of, and finally a bronze Ganesh. And in there (Mother points to a drawer in which she keeps money), I have three other Ganeshas: a bronze one, a silver one and a gold one! Its because he promised me that he would give me all the money I need, so this way (laughing) he cant say I forget him (or his promise either!).
This particular Ganesh (on the table) was given to me by a little boy maybe two and a half years old. When that little boy was a few months old and till the age of one, his mother always brought him to me and he would cry and scream and make scenes the parents were desperate. Each time I would tell them, Dont worry, all will be well, well be very good friends. Then the parents would look at me in disbelief. Now he is two and half or three, and as soon as he is in the stairway, waitingMo ther, Mother, Mother! (or Ma, I dont know). But when he comes in (he is the first of the family to enter the room), he comes with a flower; and it was he who gave me this Ganesh, but with such consciousness! He is wonderful. Yesterday, he was absolutely exquisite: he comes in first, so self-assured, so joyful, then gestures to me as if to say, Everything is just fine, dont worry! And I speak to himhe doesnt understand a thing of what I say, but he approves gravely. Absolutely exquisite.
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All degrees are there, of course. When its refusal or incapacity, then the person HIMSELF flees, saying, Theyre fools, they are trying to do something impossible and unrealizable. (I know many such people, they think they have superior intelligence.) But even to place themselves, its they themselves who do it. She came with the idea of a hierarchy. I said yes, everything is always according to hierarchy, especially all conscious individuals, but there is no arbitrary will that classes them: its the people themselves who spontaneously take their place without knowing it, the place they must have. Its not, I told her, its not a decision, we dont want categories: this category, that category, and so this person will go here, that person will go thereall that I said, is mental constructions, its worthless! The true thing is that NATURALLY, according to his receptivity, his capacity, his inner mission, everyone takes up the post which in the hierarchy he truly and spontaneously occupies, spontaneously without any decision.
What can be done to facilitate the organization is a sort of plan or general map, so that everyone need not build his position but will find it all ready for him thats all.
0 1967-10-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Requests for admission to Auroville have been pouring in at a frightening pace these last few daysevery day a stack as big as thisand naturally, everyone must send his photo along with his request and say why he wants to be in Auroville, what his skills are, and to which category he belongs: there is the category of those who want to work to build Auroville, and the category of those who want to come and sit peacefully there once its ready. And what a humanity, mon petit! In fact, all those who come are generally the malcontents. Now and then, one of them has a light in his eyes and a need for something he hasnt found (then its very good). There are those that werent successful in anything and are completely disgusted, so they wonder if they might not be successful there. Then there are the old ones who have worked hard and want to rest. There are very few young people the few young people are all people of worth (the ordinary youth arent interested). And the few youth I have seen are those who want to work: they dont want to come and take advantage of others work, they want to work. So well soon have a rather interesting team. But (laughing) with the well-fed old ones, I postpone decision, put under observation (Mother laughs). Yesterday, there were a number of them like that. Well see: if they want to be useful, that is, give money or things, or propose to do something, then well see; but those such as the well-fed gentleman, or the well-established fat lady who want to come and spend the rest of their lives in peace, to them we say, Wait a bit, well see!
The workers arent asked anything, that is, they dont have to pay: they can come and work, on condition that they prove they are useful. But those who want a piece of land or a house to live in have to pay. And then, some have limited confidence (laughing) and say, Ill give you a little money right now and I will pay the rest little by little, in installmentsthose I generally turn down. Some are so eager to come that they send money in advance, and when theres some life or something in them, I accept them. But to nearly all, except two or three, I say, Under observationwell see how they react!
0 1967-10-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body itself is learning that every time it thinks of itself, theres a small catastrophenot catastrophe, but I mean on the bodys scale: a cellular catastrophe every time there is even a slight turning in on itself. It must forget itself completely, forget itself, and most importantly, it must not try to find support, comfort, understanding, help or anything of the sort (horizontal gesture all around)only there (gesture with palms open upward and the two hands forming a kind of upside down triangle): the only support is the Divine. The only support. The only help, the only responsibility. All the rest. There isnt one thing coming from or towards a human being that isnt mixed; and the moment its mixed, it means conflict.
This is a time of extremes, even extremes in the downright material. Did I tell you both the other day that I had received the first flower of a plant which visibly was supramental powera flower like this (gesture), a hibiscus? And yesterday there was the first flower of another plant, also a hibiscus, this big, snow-white, with such a colour at the centre! An indefinable colour, it cant be described. Its golden pink, but so beautiful that you wonder how such colours can be physical. A flower this big (gesture, about fifteen centimetres), the first flower was yesterday. And that was VISIBLY (it expressed itself, you know) the Victory of Love, the Power of Love. Its as if all this physical Nature were, oh, like this (gesture of intense aspiration), tryingshe tries, and there is a Response. They are blessed not to have a mind.
0 1967-10-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But what Sri Aurobindo meant was that the movement, the general movement was towards a catastrophe, and this was to divert the current of force.
But I have wondered whether the Tower of Babel, insofar as the story is true, wasnt a similar attempt, an attempt to harmonize men? Its presented to us the other way round, but I have wondered if it wasnt that.
0 1967-11-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From time to time, some of the cells scold the others, thats very funny! They scold them, they catch hold of them, make silly remarks (in their own way) to those which want (Mother draws a tiny circle) to go on with the old habits: digestion must be done in a certain way, absorption must be done in a certain way, circulation must be done in a certain way, breathing must all the functions have to be done according to Natures method. And when it isnt like that, they are worried. Then those which know catch hold of them and give them a good bombardment of the Lord, its very funny!
There is something that renders into words (its wordless, but something in there renders into words), and so there are conversations between the cells (Mother laughs): You fool, why are you afraid? Dont you see its the Lord doing this to transform you? Then the other: Ah! And then it falls quiet, opens out, and waits. And the pain goes away, the disorder goes away, and then everything works out.
0 1967-11-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Strange. And its becoming more and more like that. As the body catches hold of the inner rhythm, it keeps increasing.
Its probably not physical.
0 1967-12-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When you realize those two attitudes simultaneously, the contagion is abolished: the mental contagion (the one Sri Aurobindo refers to here, the one you get when you admire something), the mental contagion, the vital contagion, and EVEN THE PHYSICAL CONTAGIONwhen the cells realize that, you stop catching illnesses. Because formerly (for a long time), whenever something occurred in the sphere of influence of the action, there used to be a repercussion (in Mother). For a very long time, it was dangerous. Then it became reduced to a sense of unease which would become conscious, and conscious of the why the why and the how. It was reduced to a state of unease, but it was still tiresome. And now its a kind of I cant say knowledge, because its not mental, but an awareness (theres no word for it in French), a perception and nothing more, it doesnt have any action (that is, any repercussion in Mothers body). So then, the whole problem lies there:
There are those who found this, the vertical ascent to the heights, and who isolated themselves from the world (they werent able to do that completely because they didnt have the knowledge, but they tried). Thats not the solution. Then there are those who want to help, the generous ones who are like this (gesture of horizontal expansion), and who catch everything, even the mental illnesses of all the people around them. The truth is the two together: this, the passive, receptive state (vertical gesture), and that, the active state of action and radiating influence (horizontal gesture). And the body has become wholly conscious of the dual movement and is working to realize it in detail.
A great problem has been solved.
0 1967-12-20, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its meant to break formulae, you know, thought formulae, mental categories, and its not my fault (I mean I didnt do it deliberately). It came like that (Mother reads her message):
The best way to hasten the manifestation of the Divines Love is to collaborate for the triumph of the Truth.
0 1968-01-12, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a key in the relationship between man and woman, but not in their sexual relations. The so-called left-hand Tantrics (of the Vama Marga) are to true Tantrism what Boccaccios tales are to Christianity, or what the sodden Roman Bacchus is to Dionysos of the Greek mysteries. I know Tantrism, to say the least. As for the cathars, whom I hold in the highest esteem, it would be doing them little honor to believe that they followed a sort of yoga of sexuality. Through my own experience I have often had the feeling of reliving the cathars experience, and I see plainly that if some of them attempted to mix sexual relations into the true relationship between man and woman, they soon realized their error. It is a dead-end road, or rather its only end is to show you that it leads you nowhere forward. The cathars were too sincere and conscious men to persist in a burdening experience. For ultimately, and that is the crux of the matter, the sexual experience in its very nature (whether or not there is backward flow or whatever its mode) automatically fastens you again to the old animal vibrations there is nothing you can do about it: however much love you may put into it, the very function is tied to millennia of animality. It is as if you wanted to plunge into a swamp without stirring up any mudit cannot be done, the milieu is like that. And when one knows how much transparency, clarifi cation and inner stillness it takes to slowly rise to a higher consciousness, or to allow a higher light to enter our waters without being instantly darkened, one fails to see how sexual activity can help you attain that still limpidity in which things can start happening??? The union, the oneness of two beings, the true and complete meeting of two beings does not take place at that level or through those means. That is all I can say. But I have seen that in the silent tranquillity of two beings who have the same aspiration, who have overcome the difficult transition, something quite unique slowly takes place, of which one can have no inkling as long as one is still stuck in the struggles of the flesh, to use a preachers language! I think the cathars experience begins after that transition. After it, the man-woman couple assumes its true meaning, its effectiveness, if I may say so. Sex is only a first mode of meeting, the first device invented by Nature to break the shell of individual egosafterwards, one grows and discovers something else, not through inhibition or repression, but because something different and infinitely richer takes over. Those who are so eager to preserve sex and to mystify it in order to move on to the second stage of evolution are very much like children clinging to their scootersit isnt more serious than that. There is nothing in it to do a yoga with, nothing also to be indignant about or raise ones eyebrows at. So I have nothing to criticize, I am merely observing and putting things in their place. All depends on the stage one has reached. As for those who want to use sex for such and such a sublime or not-so-sublime reason, well, let them have their experience. As Mother told me on the very same subject no later than yesterday, To tell the truth, the Lord makes use of everything. One is always on the way towards something. One is always on the way, through any means, but what is necessary is, as much as possible, to keep ones lucidity and not to deceive oneself.
I will try to find one or two passages from Sri Aurobindo to give you his point of view.
0 1968-02-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In my life, I have been given so many, so many experiences, as proof that EVERYTHING is possible. For instance, when I was twenty-two, one night, after an experience I had in the night (I forget the details of it) at the time women wore dresses that exactly touched the ground, just touched it without resting on it (gesture of skimming the ground), and in my experience at night, I had grown tallin the morning, there was one inch between the dress and the ground! Which means that the body had grown one inch WITH THE NIGHTS EXPERIENCE. You see, in the nights experience I had grown tall (I dont remember the details), and in the morning And Ive been given that material verifi cation for many such experiences, so as to be sure, so the body may be convinced without having to repeat the experiences over and over again. So it KNOWS, it knows there is nothing impossible, it knows impossible doesnt mean anything. But it doesnt depend on an individual will, you understand. The Consciousness which rules things is a marvel of wisdom, patience, compassion, endurance. When there is destruction or disorder, it means its absolutely unavoidable, absolutelybecause matters resistance in the individual or in things is so strong that it quite naturally brings about disorder or destruction. But that doesnt form part of the Action, the supreme Action, which is a marvel. The body has understood that; it has understood, it is patient. Only, from time to time (how can I put it?) There are people whom I prevent from dyingseveral people. I dont yet have the consciousness, the conscious power to cure them, but the possibility is there and I maintain it above them. That is to say, its not all-powerful in the sense that a certain receptivity, a certain response, a certain attitude are necessary which arent always there (human natures are very fluctuating, there are ups and downs and more ups and downs, and that makes the work very difficult), but at times, during a down spell, when a being suffers or sags, there is something in the consciousness [of Mother], a compassion (how can I explain that?) Affliction and all those movements are movements of weakness, but that is something at once very strong and very sweet, almost like sorrow, and the whole, entire consciousness in the body rises like a prayer and an aspirationa pure prayer: Why are things still in this pitiful state, why? Why? And it instantly has an effect [in the sick person]. Unfortunately, the effect doesnt last; it doesnt last because certain conditions in others are still necessary. But its wonderful, you know! Its something so wonderful. And it makes one understand the necessity of a presence on this side, a presence capable of feeling, understanding still IN THE OTHER WAY, so the suffering of others may be a reality. And that also is taken into account, that also means time is needed, patience is needed. Now the body knows ittheres no longer any impatience; there is only, now and then, that sort of sorrow, especially when beings are full of aspiration, goodwill, faith, and in spite of it this suffering is still there, clinging. That on one side, and on the other, one thing: there is still a sort of horror and reprobation of acts of cruelty, of THE cruelty; thats And then, there is this awesome Poweryou feel, you can feel that a mere nothing, a simple little movement would, oh, bring about a catastrophe. So you have to keep that still, still, still so what happens may always be the best.
Now stupidity, imbecility, ignorance, all those things are looked at with a patience which waits for them to grow. But bad will and crueltyespecially viciousness, cruelty, what LOVES to cause suffering thats still difficult, one still has to keep a hold on oneself. In figurative language (not language, but a way of being), its Kali that wants to strike, and I have to tell her, Keep still, keep still. But thats a human transcription. All those gods, all those beings are real, they exist, but its a transcription. True truth is beyond all that.
0 1968-02-14, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You catch hold of one tiny bit, one angle; you pierce a kind of little hole through which you can see on the other side, and with that you stir thousands of people.
So long as its not exclusive, that is, so long as the man or woman (whoever they are), the guru, doesnt come and say, I alone am the Truth (meaning the others dont know, I alone know), so long as theyre not like that, its quite all right. And when theyre enlightened enough to tell you, Yes, Ive caught hold of one little bit, I am giving it to you, but all other little bits are good But even if you put all the bits together, you are still far from THE Truth.
0 1968-03-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the relationship with the whole, there are roughly three we might call them means of defense, or attitudes one can take. The attitude of isolation, which cant be total unless you withdraw, and which is only very relatively effective. The attitude of attack: a power fighting and repulsing adversaries (that has a big drawback which is that if you use forces on the same plane, they are ineffective, or very relatively effective; and if its supreme forces, then the effect is rather catastrophic: it would amount to destroying in order to conquer, which is certainly not the Supremes intention). And finally, there is the way of the contagion of the higher Force, but that implies what expresses itself here as time. That is the attitude which has been adopted. But it implies timewhich is why ages go by.
The result is certain, with the least amount of damage. But that least amount is still quite considerable.
0 1968-03-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mentally, we can explain everything, but that doesnt mean anything at all: for the body, the material consciousness, its abstract. When the material consciousness catches hold of something, it knows it A HUNDRED TIMES BETTER than we can know it mentally. When it knows, it has the power: knowing gives it the power. Thats what is being slowly, slowly worked out. For an ignorant consciousness its slow and painful but for the true consciousness, its not that! Pain, joy, all that is such an absurd way of seeing thingsof feeling and seeing things.
There is an increasingly concrete perception that everything that there is nothing that doesnt hold its own joy of being, because thats THE way of being: without joy of being, there is no being. But its not what we mentally understand by joy of being. Its something which is hard to express. And this perception of suffering and joy (almost of evil and good), all of that is necessities of the work to enable it to be done in a certain field of unconsciousness. Because true consciousness is something entirely, totally different. Thats what the consciousness of the cells is now learning, and learning through a concrete experience; and all those appreciations of what is good and what is evil, of what is suffering and what is joy, all that seems misty. But the thing the Truth the concrete thing still hasnt been caught. Its on the way, one feels its on the way, but its not there yet. If one had it one would be the all-powerful master. And possibly one cannot have it until the world in its totality, or to a sufficient extent, is ready for the transformation.
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Now and then, one feels as if within an hairs breadth of all-powerfulness: one is just on the verge ah! (Mother makes the gesture of catching the thing) But then it fades away.
When one has got hold of that, the world will be able to change. And when I say one, I dont mean a person. There may be something equivalent to THE Person, but that That too, I am not sure its not a projection of our consciousness onto something eluding us.
0 1968-03-20, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont understand! He is a catholic?
Hes going to be appointed bishop in [such and such a country].
0 1968-04-10, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, thats right! But I am referring to the system all the way down, socialistic or communistic, which represents material needs. Basically, it corresponds to a sort of absence of government, because they dont have the power to govern others: they are forced to transfer their power to someone who exercises it, like a Lenin, for instance, because he was a brain. But all that all that has been tried out and has given proof of its incompetence. The only thing that could be competent is the Truth-Consciousness choosing instruments and expressing itself through a certain number of instruments, if one cant be found (just one isnt enough, either, that one would necessarily need to choose a whole collectivity). Those possessing this consciousness may belong to any class of society: its not a privilege arising from birth, but the result of personal effort and development. In fact, that would be an external sign, an evident sign of change on the political level: no question anymore of classes or categories or birth (all that is outdated), but those individualities that have reached a higher consciousness would have the right to govern, whatever class they belong toand no others.
That would be the true vision.
0 1968-05-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I might put it this way: the impression I got, but a very strong one (very strong, it lasted for at least two days, it was very strong), was of catholicism defending itself. And as in the mental region they couldnt touch P.L, they reached him from below and ruined his health they know how to do all that, they are very skilled occultists.
And he didnt have this immense balance (vast gesture above) thanks to which none of that has any effect. Hes still open.
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"POPE RESIGNING? (Vatican City, April 30) Speculation is growing again that Pope Paul may resign as head of the Roman catholic Church. Talk of such a possibility has become widespread not only in Vatican circles but also among civil officials in Rome. The State-run National Television network is said to have prepared a special programme on the Pope's career for broadcast instantly should he abdi cate. The usual Vatican informants cannot give credence to the resignation speculation. But they do not rule out the possibility."
The Hindu, 1 May 1968
0 1968-05-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One billion six hundred million. It seems, according to him, to represent more or less all of Christendom: not just the catholics, but the Christians.
Thats what I had been told. I had been told it was the first movement the first indi cation, the first movement of Christendoms conversion to the Truth. It was clearly indi cated that it had been DECREED. Thats what I had seen.
0 1968-06-05, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, but shes very catholic. That was at a time when P.L. was in orders.
Is she catholic?
Yes, shes even very pious. A nice woman, it seems. So P. L. asks if he shouldnt try to explain to her what hes doing here, to send her a few of your books and see how it acts. It might make her turn to something more interesting?
0 1968-06-15, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I dont know yet, whats not very clear, is what will be the fate of this residue? To peoples ordinary thought, its what they call death, that is to say, the rejection of the cells that werent able to enter this plastic state of consciousness. But the way the work is being done, there is no categorical division [into groups of conscious or unconscious cells in Mothers body]: there are imperceptible (almost) states of variations between the different parts of the being. So you wonder, Where? What? When? How? Whats going to happen? Its increasingly becoming a problem.
The whole inner functioning is becoming more and more the result of that conscious action and conscious will; with, even, in part (at least in part) clearly the true functioning already. You understand, the impression is of a remnant, but the remnant isnt something thats rejected: its something which hesitates, lags behind, has difficulty and triesit would be only too pleased: if, for instance, there is in one spot a perceptible disorder, a pain, the body no longer starts fidgeting, worrying, wanting medicine or doctors or interventions, no, not at all; it asks it goes, O Lord, like that. Thats all. And it waits. And generally, in the space of a few seconds, the pain goes away.
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But I feel one catches something. I, at least, feel I catch some thing. Maybe I am wrong.
Ah?
0 1968-06-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A catholic monk who stays in the Ashram.
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0 1968-07-06, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The cold, too, came from someone (I have no opportunity to catch cold), it was from someone. I know who it is, but
This is how it is: either change or dissolve.
0 1968-07-24, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As a rule I never pass on to others what I have (rather I catch what they have!), but this time everybody has a cold in one form or another! Everybody.
For me its clearly, very clearly a cleanup, but then a radical one.
0 1968-09-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the body is being given an edu cation: its being taught how to will the true way of being and willing. And over the entire material creation (gesture covering and enveloping the earth), there is a tissuewhich we might call catastrophica tissue of bad will. That is to say, a sort of web, yes, a defeatist webdefeatist, catastrophicwhere you botch what you wanted to do, where there are all possible accidents, all possible bad wills. Like a web. And the body is being taught to get out of it.2
Its as if mingled with the Force that realizes and expresses itself; its like something mingling with the material creation. And the body is being taught to break free from it. But its difficult, very difficult.
0 1968-09-21, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And with me, every time I go into an inner state of peace and tranquillity, something PULLS me like that, as if out of malice, and shakes me as though a catastrophe had happened!
Where does it come from?
0 1968-09-25, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, those who are fully conscious of their psychic cannot possibly deceive themselves, because if they refer their problem to the psychic, they can find the divine answer there. But even for those who are in contact with their psychic, the answer doesnt have the same character as the mental answer, which is precise, categorical, absolute, and imposes itself the psychic answer is more a TENDENCY than an assertion. Its something that can still have different interpretations in the mind.
Which brings me back to my experience of yesterday. After looking at the problem, I reached the conclusion that its impossible to reproach a human being who does the best he can according to his consciousness, because how can he go beyond his own consciousness? Thats precisely the error most people make: they judge someone else according to their own consciousness, but the other person doesnt have their consciousness! Therefore they cant judge (I am only talking about people of goodwill, of course). To the vision of a more complete or higher consciousness, someone else is in error, but to the person himself, hes doing as best as he can what he thinks he has to do.
0 1968-09-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, but as soon as I want to work, it gets veiled, as if something were cutting me off: I cant catch the inspiration, its blocked. Then if I insist, I get headaches and aching eyes.
Youve caught my disease!
0 1968-10-16, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As usual, an awesome cataract when one is at her feet.
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0 1968-11-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And P.L. says: That vision comes to me the very day when I am told that the Holy Father has given instructions to his closest collaborators for the formation of a program of action to shake the lethargy of millions of catholics asleep in the routine of unconscious religious practice.1 Here are the most important names in the committee: X Italys cardinal; Y, Frances cardinal; Z, the Popes factotum; then Msgr. Z
That same man.
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How many catholics does he say there are?
Five hundred million, I think.
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This is the beginning of the Roman catholic Church's great reforms.
Let us note that Mother does not mind in the least speaking of "Christ's reincarnation" rather than Sri Aurobindo'sas long as men move on.
0 1968-11-06, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Those Protestants are much worse than the catholics.
I always remember a Danish woman (she was the mother of Hohlenberg4 who came here), who once happened to come to Paris, and whom I had at lunch with me one day. If you had seen that woman I dont remember the occasion, but the talk turned to the catholics, and she flew into such a rage! She shouted, Those idolaters! (Mother laughs) It was frightful!
Theyre worse. Ive known both, seen both: the Protestants are worse. They are much more theyre hard. Very hard. They did away (laughing) with all that was artistic in the catholic religion! Theyve turned it into something
Its mental moralizing.
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They are relatively few, far fewer than the catholics.
But their religion is so shallow, so shallow and hollow that in reality its nothing. The day it gives way, theyll be quite dumbfounded.
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Thats what is happening in America, besides: its giving way right and left. With the catholics, there are still a few roots.
There was a time when I did a comparative study of all that I used to see and feel in all the religious sanctuaries, and thats really something interesting. In Protestant temples, it stopped at the mind, there was nothing elsenothing: dry, very dry. A mind, and behind it, nothing.
As for the catholics, it depended a lot on the church or the cathedralon the placea lot. Varied. So then, I would compare with all the other sanctuaries. You understand, in the course of my travels I would always go and seevery interesting.
Buddhist temples are VERY FINE. Obviously nihilistic, but there is always a very concentrated atmosphereconcentrated and SINCERE. A sincere effort.
0 1968-11-20, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And weve heard that a whole catholic school with chaplains is coming on a visit to the Ashram. From where? I dont know. From France, I believe.
But give these people all you can and they give you all the poison they can.
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A catholic monk who has been lodging at the Ashram for about a year.
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0 1968-12-21, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The strange thing is that there are kinds of demonstrations of the bodys natural tendency (I suppose its not the same thing for all bodies: it depends on the way it was built, that is, father, mother, antecedents, and so on), a demonstration of the body left to itself. This one, for instance, has a sort of imagination (its something odd), a dramatic imagination: it constantly feels its living catastrophes; and then, with its faith, which remains there, the catastrophe is turned into a realization; things of that sort, absurd. So for a while its left to that imagination (thats what happened these last few days), and when its sufficiently tired of that idiotic activity, it prays, you know, with all its intensity it prays for it to cease! Instantly, hup! the thing just goes like this (gesture of reversal), it turns around at one stroke, and the body is in a contemplation (not a faraway one, very close) of this wonderful Presence which is everywhere.
It goes like this, and like that (Mother abruptly turns over two fingers): it takes no time, theres no preparation or anything, it goes hup! hup! like this (same gesture), as if to show the bodys stupidity. Its something perfectly idiotic, like a factual demonstration of the stupidity of the body left to itself, and then of this wonderful Consciousness which comes and in which all that vanishes like something that has no consistency, no realityit vanishes. And like a demonstration that its not just in imagination but in the FACT: a demonstration of the Power at work for all this vain dream of life as it is (which, for the consciousness of this body, has become something so frightful), for it to be turned into a marvel, like that, simply through the turning around of the consciousness.
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So its constantly pushing, pushing like that to catch hold of the secret; you feel youre about to find it, and then Then theres a sort of lull in the aspiration: peace, peace, peace. You know, once or twice, the impression: Ah! Its going to be understood (understood, that is, LIVED; its not understood with the thoughtlived), and then (gesture of eluding). And a Peace coming down.
But the impression: It will be for tomorrow. But tomorrow what tomorrow?Not tomorrow on our scale.
0 1968-12-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In one minute To such a point that the body perceives that one minute like this (Mother slightly rotates two fingers) is a victory; and one minute like that (Mother rotates her two fingers the other way) is a catastrophe. And not only for itself (for itself, its on a small scale and concentrated, its not the same thing), but its general.
Its an observation that began today (for hours, you know), and quite acutely. But its newnew in its ASPECT; its the continuation of all that preceded, but in the aspect it has taken on, its completely new. In other words, the body consciousness may be becoming aware of it in a new way.
0 1969-02-05, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It went on for several hours. It wasnt the conception of a work, it was THE work itself, like like when there are levers and things you move to set other things in motion (Mother draws a big control panel in an electronic room), it was something like that, but it wasnt that at all! It was the organization of those groups of figures that determined the events and the ORDER of events (especially the order of events) and their lo cation on earth. And probably, while I was doing it, something wanted me to tell you, and left an impression that I had something to tell you; then everything went away. When I come back to this life, everything goes away; and its only because I now tried to remember that I could (gesture of contact with the memory) catch it: I tried, and it came back. But I realize (almost with surprise) that it must have lasted at least two hours, or moretwo to two and a half hours. I dont sleep at all, but I am active, absolutely active in the (Mother tries to situate the zone)whats being prepared to manifest on earth, I dont know if we should call it subtle physical or Its the creative zone of the physical, its there. And as I cant run from one place to another, what I do is linked through figures, like thatliving figures. Living figures: I organize them, group them together, and I remember what I did the previous day; I say, No, yesterday it was that way, but now it has to be this way, and with the knowledge that it will have to be changed again tomorrow. And thats what determines events. But the consciousness (the waking or ordinary consciousness) MUST NOT know whats decided there; it must know only a part necessary to the execution. Thats why there is a breakit remains, it keeps on living there like that (gesture behind the head), but it doesnt come through. Its wholly because at that time [during the dream] I made the decision to tell you about it that I could catch the memory, otherwise Although I SEE; I see those figures, thats why I can describe them, but they no longer mean anything for me. And I am not sure whether they are figures or letters. They were figures, I know they were; some figures were golden, others were blue (but those arent our material colors, neither our substance nor our material colors), and I kept arranging them: one group like this, another group like that (gesture like a moving puzzle), then I would choose. Strange. And I must have been very tall, because the figures were big; I would take them and place them (it was on a large surface), and as I placed them, it established a communi cation and organized the events immediately ahead.
Perhaps I do remember
0 1969-03-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Did I tell you the miracle that took place? You havent heard about it? In Auroville were going to build a big factory to mill wheat, but something huge (its to mill wheat for the whole of India!), huge. Machines are coming I dont know from where, huge too. And they chose to land them at Pondicherry because going from Pondicherry to Auroville is easier than from Madras to Auroville. Only, when the ship came and they saw the number and the size of crates, they got terribly scaredit wasnt possible. Here its a woman, P., who owns the landing barges, and she refused. I had her told that I needed her help and she had to do it (because she had claimed she wanted to serve me, so I took advantage of it!). I told her, I need your help, do it. She was obliged to do it. For two days, everything went well, but they had kept the biggest crate for the enda six-ton crate, huge and no one knew how to do it. They would have needed enormous cranes like the ones they have in Madras, but they dont have them here: they only had two puny cranes, which together didnt even WEIGH six tons! (Mother laughs) And those cranes were supposed to lift the crate from the ship and put it on the barge. There was no other way, only that way. So they tied the crate to the two cranes and started lifting and the two cranes went like this (gesture of tipping over). There were people belowpeople looking after the trans shipmentand everyone, including the ships captain, everyone stood there, terrified. Thats it, they thought, were done for, its catastrophe. The two cranes went like this (same gesture) and all of a sudden, they straightened up. No one ever knew how. They straightened up, carried the crate, and it was over.
It was so obviously a miracle the captain stood almost terrorstricken, everyone. And then, those crates were intended for someone here, M. (of Aurofood), to whom I had given a blessings packet the day before the landing, and he had it on him. So he went to see the captain and told him (showing the small packet), See this, its what straightened up the cranes.
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Yes, exactly. You see, A. wrote to me (shes a secretary to the government here), she wrote to tell me the results of the elections [the defeat of the Congress], and they were all desperate. So I saw, I said, Its absurd, THEY are the ones who attract the catastrophe! I answered her to keep an unshakable and tranquil trust.
Thats why in the past it was taught that all that happens is the effect of the Divines Will. The way it was put was limited (its always the same thing: the way things are put causes a restriction or a coloration, or its shown from a particular angle the thing loses its essential truth), but I am sure it was said for its psychological effect. The danger of this teaching is that people slump down and dont budge anymore, they stop doing anythingno more effort of progress, no more effort to do some good work, they remain like that: I dont have to do anything anymore, its God who does everything! Thats why it cant be put in that way. But it does have an advantage, that of leaving you absolutely peaceful. And I insist a lot on people having this peace, this tranquil peaceits COMPLETELY indispensable. I saw (with the help of this Consciousness, in fact), I saw the force of power acting; and when the instrument (that is, the individual or the group) is wholly peaceful and trusting, like that, vitally and mentally still, the force goes through without being distortednothing distorts itand acts with its full power. As soon as there is a human consciousness (either a mental or a vital one, or both) which is agitated, or questions, or has preferences, or thinks it knows very well, or it makes a sort of whirl and the Force loses three-fourths of its power!
0 1969-04-02, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At home I said, No one, because if I receive them at home, I cant work or do anything anymore. Thats categorical. But at the beach they come.
Just go into a meditation at the beach, and you dont hear anything!
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He would be affected, because he would be unable to do anything for catholicism anymore.
That would be a pity It would be a great pity. But its the worst that can happen to him.
0 1969-04-09, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had felt your reaction. It does not surprise me. It is precisely one of the general difficulties to be conquered. Perhaps the most hardened one (it seems especially localized in France): the intellectual difficulty It is really a veil that blocks ones view and makes one read or understand things on a very narrow range. It almost seems as if people are looking through a slit and catch a thin layer, tiny and bright, and all the rest eludes them: mountaintops are cut off, abysses are filled, and there remains one pure line. And if one happens to try and open them to a broader view, the line of sight gets lost in the mists or muggy vapors you mention. A curious phenomenon. I do not know if you trust me, but I will tell you that every sentence of Sri Aurobindo is the expression or translation of a precise experience, and not only is it like a world enclosed in a few words, but it also contains the vibration of the experience, almost the quality of light of the particular world he contacts; and through the words one contacts, or can very well contact, the experience. I tell you, Sri Aurobindo is full of marvelspure marvelsand I discover new ones every time I read his texts again, I say to myself, Oh, how well he saw this! And if there happens to be some haziness, I am sure a discovery remains to be made there. Sri Aurobindo never used one word too much. As soon as he comes to the mentally obviouswhat would be for you precisely the starting point of a brilliant developmen the cuts off. He smiles and leaves you hanging in midairoh, he is surprisingly discreet, as you yourself put it, for a man who wrote thousands of pages!
You have not stepped into Sri Aurobindo. On the other hand, I quite understand if intellectuals so easily step into Zen! But I do not want to compare merits. With Sri Aurobindo, I am content to see and smile. You have better understood my book, you say it has brought you more than Sri Aurobindo but of course! That does not surprise me, I am afraid: I simply entered the regions of the mentally obvious he neglected, I climbed down a number of degrees. The lines of force you felt are simply the little strings I hung here and there to try and hook people on to the true lines of force that seem to elude them completely, because they see and feel just at the level of the mental slit. But I will tell you again, if you have the least trust in me, that Sri Aurobindo is a tremendous giant and not one word of his is without a full meaning. Some time ago I wanted to have a music lover (a Westerner nurtured on true music like myself, formed in music) listen to a music of genius composed by an Indian; well, this poor boy could make no sense of it! He could not hear! His musical slit was open at one particular level, and he literally could not hear what was abovea true marvel, immense streams of music flowing straight from the Origin of Music.6 For him, it had no structure, it was shapeless musicwhereas I saw, I could see that marvel, I knew where it was coming from, I could touch that world, and as soon as that high musical tension slackened in the least, I instantly felt that it came down to touch a center on a lower level. It was the same thing in Egypt. For weeks I lived in an ecstatic state in Upper Egypt; I was with people who were looking at ruins, seeing beautiful statueswhile for me those statues were living, those places talked to me, those so-called ruins were full of overflowing life.
0 1969-04-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You get the feeling that if they pushed a little farther on (gesture of piercing above), they would catch something.
(Franois B.:) Mother, a few groups have pushed much farther on. This one [the Rolling Stones] is the most vital of all the groups. But there are others, more open, less rough. They are really ready to recognize you, but they dont know.
0 1969-04-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So then, there were scenes (I forget the details), rather unpleasant scenes, then a sort of riot, and the army had to open fire. Four people were killed.1 So the Communist government wants to arrest the four soldiers who opened fire, saying well, that they did quite wrong. They said that to the head of the army there, who said, If they come to arrest my men, I will arrest them! Ill arrest the police and put them in jail! I found it charming. But I had just seen N.S.2you know N.S., dont youwho had been sent by Indira to ask me questions about what should be done.3 She had just left when I was told about this other affair. I thought, How to have her told? (because Indira wont know what to dowhether to support the army or the police). Then I said, If she supports the police, the Chinese are here in two weeks; she must absolutely support the army So we had to catch up to N.S. (she had just left for Delhi), we had to catch up to her to tell her, Mother said you should And L. left behind to catch up with the plane.
Thats how it is. The previous days I had seen all kinds of catastrophic things. (I didnt know what the situation was.) When I was told, I instantly knew: I saw the Chinese HERE. Yes. It stirred me a lot, a lot. And with HORRIBLE things, horrible. So I had to send someone immediately to tell her, For heavens sake, support the army. Its Indias only hope. The army is good, but its not supported. But that shouldnt be told, because I am not supposed to concern myself with politics, so
But it seems that in three States the Communists WANT the Chinese to come. Thats dreadful. The Chinese, mon petit, you cant imagine what it is. Horrible! Theyre horrible. With a cold, terrible cruelty.
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One doesnt see, except, of course, a nuclear cataclysm. Otherwise, everywhere it only wants to devour.
Yes.
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I thought (there were all kinds of things going on, like pictures of possibilities), I thought it was in the bodys makeup, that it was coming out in order to be purified. Now I realize it may have been partly that, but that all those pictures correspond to things taking place at present [in the world]. And if they are true the things to come are rather catastrophic.
There is always this inner will to (gesture of pressure to establish peace). As if it were, I cant say a last conflict, but its becoming its becoming immediate.
0 1969-05-10, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday (laughing), this Consciousness made me see all the wills, or the vibrations (because ultimately it boils down to qualities of vibrations), all the vibrations that bring about anything from the smallest troubles to the biggest catastrophesits all of the same quality. And how the physical cells respond. And now and thennow and thenlike a reward for the effort: what needs to be done, the true thing. But that passesits like a dazzle, but it doesnt last. We are This Consciousness seems to have to go very fast, because from the point of view of consciousness, we are still quite in a quagmire, and it goes like this (gesture of an irresistible march forward), oh, it asserts itself.
And this poor body it doesnt complain. It doesnt complain; it goes on, almost constantly with some pain somewhere and its in a blissful state. Thats in the consciousness of the cells. There is something Constantly some pain somewhere, but it knows its because of its incapacity to hold out, thats all but it has to, it will have to.
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But the quantity of formations in the earth atmosphere that we might call defeatist, its tre-men-dous! You wonder how everything isnt smashed, its so Everybody is all the time, all the time shaping catastrophesexpecting the worst, seeing the worst, observing nothing but the worst. Their reactions Oh, you know, its down to the smallest things: the body observes everything. So when the reaction is in harmony, everything is fine; when there is that reaction I now call defeatist, if someone takes an object, he drops it. It happens all the time. Theres absolutely no reason whatsoever why it should happen: its the presence of the defeatist consciousness. Someone takes an object, and drops it; he wanted to do one thing, and he is made to do another.. And if (the body having been aware of it), if it makes the mistake of telling the person the thing AS IT IS, the person is completely upset! It happened again two days agoa very simple thing, you know, that is, just as it is, and the person is completely upset!
But you know, this Consciousness is amusing, it has put this body in contact with, if not all, at least a considerable number of desires that it should die! Everywhere, they are everywhere! It sees that, sees it as it is, but its not affected at all anymore, it doesnt care in the least. It seems to be fully protected from all the things that come. It doesnt care in the least. Most of the time, they even make it laugh. But its incredible! And then, from time to time, a little flame, its so lovely! And that Presence That Presence, that Presence These cells are like children: when they feel, everything, but everything disappears except that Presence; then there is like a sigh of relief. But outwardly, its invisible: if the body were suffering, it would amount to the same thing. Generally, when it suffers, it doesnt complain: it calls. It calls and calls and calls. And its quite aware that its absolutely useless, that if it only knew how to go into immobility, go into silence, it would be enough. As soon as it does it
0 1969-05-21, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At any rate, with this departure of Pavitra, one thing has been categorical: if there was in the body the least fear of death, or anxiety, its com-plete-ly gone. With Pavitras case, its completely gone, completely. The impression is: But but why do people make such a fuss about that!
There. its strange.
0 1969-06-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My work is the same, there are difficulties in accepting my ideas. I am regarded as a crank (I think so, though no one has talked to me about it, for there is a force protecting me). Yet, things at the Vatican, at the center of the Church, are changing. The struggle of the new forces against the traditional ones is now very strong. If the Pope accepts (his entourage is against it) to go to Geneva on June 10 and take part in the Assembly of Protestant Churches, and asserts there that we are not the only ones to possess the truth, I believe that will be a great step forward. But will he have the courage to accept that other religious movements too are seeking? Or will he remain rooted in the assertion that extra ecclesia non est salus,1 that the only depository of the Truth, the exclusive owner (!) of salvation is the catholic Church? For the time being, I am on the list of those accompanying him. Mothers assistance will have to be strong on that day
(after a silence)
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As a matter of fact, at the end of the previous conversation, Mother remained "gazing" for a very long time with an expression that had to be seen to be believed, and Satprem felt something like a cataract of luminous power coming down.
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0 1969-09-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some stones can contain a force of protection. Thats remarkable, mon petit! You can accumulate in a stone (amethysts especially) a force of protection,. and the protection ACTUALLY protects the person wearing the stone. Thats very interesting, I experienced it. I knew someone whom Id given such a stone (an amethyst) full of a POWER of protection, and while he wore itit was wonderful; then he lost it, and almost met with a catastrophe. Especially amethysts: the power of protection.
(Then in the same Talk, a child asks Mother the difference between what she calls the Divine and what people call God. Mother puts off the question until later.)
0 1969-10-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He told me he was acquiring such a force that he could face any obstacle, and will thus be capable of asserting in front of people the power of the divine force. I first want to become absolutely sure that I can manifest this force at any time and against any obstacle. Then I will show people, in a crowd of a thousand people, through a practical demonstration, by calling ten or fifteen sick people among them and curing them with this force. Then they will perforce be convinced that there is indeed a Force that can do anything. But for that, I must be ready. For eighty percent of the people will be against me, and to convince them I must be really strong, well armed and sure! Once I am ready, no one will be able to stop me. All governments and religions will collapse. I will write to the Pope, asking him what they are preaching now. What did Christ tell us in the Gospels! He told his apostles to go and heal the sick and drive demons away. What are the priests and the catholics doing today?
I asked him, Are you sure that is your mission?
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Because, Mother, what he will do, what he does in front of you (or in front of anyone) is to dart up, catch hold of his thing, and there you are, he pulls it.
But I can go above it!
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As for me, I understand very well how it takes place: theres a certain (I dont know if its a realization), but something that is there [gesture above], you catch hold of That, and you can catch it while prostrating yourself before a stone, while prostrating yourself at the Samadhi, while being in the street and everywhere, and its THE-SAME-THING.
Yes, yes.
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So if he is in front of you and catches that, its the same thing again!
(Mother laughs)
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Well, then, I understood something (that wasnt long ago).2 My impression was that when I am with you, it isnt something I catch up above, but rather something that comes FROM WITHIN.
Ah!
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A catholic monk who had come to the Ashram a year earlier. A.R., the heater, met him, and it was after this meeting that A.R. began speaking of his "healing mission."
That was in fact a great turning point in Satprem's life: the experiential understanding between the great "That" and the "something else" that flows through Mother. It thus took Satprem fifteen years to come close to Mother...
0 1969-11-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The physical consciousness (if we can call it consciousness: the consciousness contained in the cellsnot deep down, but the consciousness that makes the cells function) is accustomed to effort, struggle, misery, defeat so accustomed thats quite universal. In people, its only their mental consciousness (and often, when they are more advanced, their vital consciousness) that holds out; but their physical consciousness tends to foresee catastrophe, so accustomed it is: the end, you know, that end which for centuries and centuries was inescapable. It weighs down. Its very difficult. It takes a very slow and constant work to replace that sort of habit of defeat, basically, with a It mustnt be a will, it must be a faith; there must be faith. So then, for that faith to settle, first the cells must be wholly, completely surrendered, that is, constantly turned towards the Supreme with Let Your Will be done, whatever it is. It doesnt concern me, its not my business: let Your Will be done. So when that is well settled, little by little the true consciousness can come; the true consciousness that truth is Harmony, truth is Progress, truth is Light, truth is Then, little by little, it comes. But its a long work.
Only, as I said in the last Notes,2 what is learned is learned, there are no more fluctuations. But, of course, there are lots of cells. Scientifically, do you know how many?
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And there is a part, the part of the body most in contact with outside (Mother touches the region of the mouth and throat), this part, this center which is in contact with outside, all this oh, its difficult, very difficult. Now and then with an aspiration, there is a beginning of change, and then it causes a sort of catastrophe! Choking and coughing and horrible. Then I am obliged to calm things down and wait. It has to take time. The organism wouldnt have the power to withstand the disorder that creates.
Moreover, Sri Aurobindo told me straight out, he said to me, We cant hope it will take less than two years.
0 1969-11-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats itwhat isnt solidly accepted. I saw that. But now, its over. Now one can see all that and smileits all gone. In ACTION, I mean (in thought its a very long time since its been out of question), its in action, in ones way of acting with others there, one can catch oneself in the act! Thats the amusing thing.
(silence)
0 1969-11-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A little too combative. Some have accepted to collaborate, so I wouldnt like them to say Im going on announcing catastrophes for them!
Yes, obviously, its a bit threatening.
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The book, what you read me. Its very interesting, I was very interested, I felt very comfortable, but then there was a sort of its something that puts you (I dont know why) in contact with the whole part of the atmosphere that pulls you out of lifeBuddhism and all those things, the whole nihilism. It puts you in contact with that: the flight out of life. And its not intellectual, its not the ideas, not the words, not the facts, its What is it? I wondered a few times what made the book catch on to the nihilist atmosphere of Buddhism? Thats what would explain Its not that people dont like it, but its a non-creative force that acts. Why? I dont know.
But what this book tried to say, to show, is in fact the transition beyond that.
0 1969-12-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The image is very clear of all this humanity clinging and climbing, striving to catch like that, but actually not giving itselfit wants to take! And that wont do. It has to nullify itself. Then something else can come, can take its place.
The whole secret is there.
0 1969-12-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He says that for a few years, energies in Auroville have been s cattered: they are egoistic, everyone wants to build his own little hut, his own little story, or, at best, hopes to build a supercity, which will only be an improvement on all the existing cities of the world. In this Auroville, an axis, a center is missing. Whats missing is a unifi cation of the consciousnesses around a center, an axis. So he said that in the past, they built pyramids, they built cathedrals, and around those symbolic constructions, consciousnesses could unify
(Mother nods approvingly)
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That the Force is now at work is without a shadow of doubt. And there is such a great (how can I put it?) a very active will: NO RELIGION, no religion, no religious forms. Quite naturally, people immediately So thats why I have left them very free. That was why I didnt insist on building the center first, because thats in fact the cathedral of old, the temple of old, the whole thing of old (Mother makes a gesture of taking firm root), and then everything gets organized around that: a religionwe want NO religion.1
Yes, but we can pull down something other than religion.
0 1970-01-03, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday again, I wrote something in a letter to D., and as soon as the letter was sent, I said to myself, No, thats not the way you should have put it, its this way. Because I do it hurriedly and with a mental activity next to me [in those around Mother]: it doesnt express itself with noises but its there, and that makes it difficult for me to catch the thing. Then it comes afterwards [when people have left].
Thats why I said I would have to see those comments again.
0 1970-01-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, N. is familiar with the problem of lighting through prisms, because to catch a sunbeam well need prisms. He said he would solve the problem quite easily, hes looking into it. A few prisms will simply be put at a number of places, and theyll catch just one sunbeam.
There must be ONE beam. I SAW the beam.
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I dont know if its good to multiply the entrance points like that. There will be a practical problem to be solved: if there is a single entrance with a very severe watch there, its all right, but if there are several entrance points and not enough light, there will be catastrophes.
No, no, Mother, outside there will be a single entrance, but when one reaches the base of the shell and climbs up again, there would be that multiplicity of entrance points. Outside, there is only one way down, which ends here, at the foot of this spiral staircase.
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Is for them to go and catch all those things there!
He says, Otherwise, there is no hope.
0 1970-01-31, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The people who came to see S. told her they were from the [All India] Radio, can you imagine! (Despicable little fibs of the sort, full of lies.) They came and told her they were from the Radio; naturally, she received them, answered them, and then they asked some questions: Did you receive money? From whom? How? So of course, she answered the truth. Then she wrote to me. I gave her letter over to C. and told him, What on earth is all this about? He said that a few people here have been troubled like that. And they have a spying system everywhere so as to catch people who do that.
I just cant understand it, besides. What harm there can be in receiving money from here rather than from there, I dont know! What can be wrong in that I just dont understand.
0 1970-03-14, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And all, all circumstances are as catastrophic as they can be: troubles, compli cations, difficulties, everything, just everything goes at it relentlessly like that, like wild beasts, but its over. The body KNOWS that its over. It may take centuries, but its over. To disappear, it may take centuries, but its over now.
This wholly concrete and absolute realization that one could have only when going out of Matter (Mother brings a finger down), its sure, sure and certain that we will have it RIGHT HERE.
0 1970-04-01, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Huge! You see, Kali had a human size, but she was huge, up to the ceiling. She came in behind Kali and stood there, and she said, NOsimply, just like that (in a quiet categorical tone). So I (laughing) In those days, there was no radio, we would get the news by wire; so we got the news that the Germans were advancing on Paris, and at the same moment (that is, the day I had my vision), at the corresponding moment, without reason they were struck with panic, they turned back and went away. It was just the same moment. They were advancing on Paris; so Kali came in, saying, Paris is captured. And then She came (Mother brings her hand down sovereignly): NO. Like that. It really was remarkable, because I was simply sitting there, looking. And it happened in front of me.
I told Sri Aurobindo about it, he didnt say anything. It was he who would get the news. And later on, in the afternoon, he told me, Heres the news. It seems they were suddenly seized with panic; they thought, It cant bethere was no one to oppose them, the way was open, all clear, they didnt encounter anyone or anything, so they said to themselves, Its a trap. And (laughing) they ran away. They turned around and left. That was really interesting.
0 1970-04-22, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Usually I dont say anything (its the first time Ive said that), because there is still a sort of memory of what was [in the past], something remaining conscious that if those things are said quite simply as they are, then the impression people would get I dont know. The body doesnt care, but something is watchful I see that something as a person (whom I dont know, besides) watching over my body and over circumstances, and stopping me from doing certain things so there may be no catastrophes.
Its an impersonal person, I dont know; theres no personal relationship with it, but its someone whose responsibility is to see to this bodys well-being, and especially to its relations with others, because the body has reached the point where it really couldnt care less.
--
(At that precise moment, Satprem strongly had the following thought, which he almost told Mother: If a caterpillars vision were suddenly changed into a mans vision, it would clearly mean a bursting of its whole logic.)
(long silence)
0 1970-04-29, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes. But they told me too, thats how they broke the news to me! They told me that Rishabhch and had committed suicide. There was in me a categorical NO. I didnt say it. I didnt say, I waited; because if I had said something, they would have I didnt say anything, I waited. Then they told me that the police had demanded the body, and later on they said, Well, the police found there wasnt a drop of water in his stomach. So he didnt throw himself into the water. And it was the only thing he could have done.
But Mother, they went to the extent of going to find little Astha3 in her sports group, and they told her, Arent you ashamed, your grandfa ther committed suicide, arent you ashamed!
0 1970-05-02, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was two or three days ago, it came imperatively like that, in connection with some business. They have gatherings in Auroville, at Aspiration; I think its meditations, or something of the sort, I dont know. One of them came and put my photo; so another rushed to his room and came back with a cross! And he said, Well, if you put a photo of Mother, Ill put my cross. They told me that story. They told me, because the one who put the cross had come to see me with the others (they come once a week, a few of them, four or five), but I didnt know. He came and sat in front of me. I found him a rather inquisitorial air (I didnt know anything, you understand), and after they left I asked who he was. Then they told me he is a catholic, and they told me the story.1
Afterwards there came a whole series of things. But I must say theres literally an invasion there (at different places in Auroville) because its not watched over, some plots of land are free, and at the center especially, some people have settled there, and there are constantly people who come and settle without asking for permission. So there was a thought to have a badge for those who are really Aurovilians (Mother shows a specimen of badge). For a few days already theyve been thinking of organizing that: during the first year they will have a sort of identity card, and afterwards, if things are fine at the end of the year, youre given the badge.
0 1970-05-16, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sometimes one catches a glimpse of the heroism it takes to do the work youre doing.
(Mother laughs) The body is enduring enough, I cant complain.
0 1970-05-20, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I have often said to myself that if, all of a sudden, by means of accelerated evolution, a caterpillar were given human eyes
Yes!
0 1970-06-13, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother has Vasudha, her attendant, called, and with Sujatas help starts sorting out old papers. She comes across a 1967 file containing her Instructions in the event of a cataleptic trance: This body must be left in peace etc. Mother gives Vasudha a copy of it.)
***
--
You remember that we gave the book to P. L. [the disciple at the Vatican] so he would give it to a publisher he knows in Paris, Robert Laffont, because I wasnt too keen it should go into the hands of my usual publisher, with whom Ive had a good deal of trouble. But it so happens that before he went to Robert Laffont, P. L. had to go and see my usual publisher to sign the agreement for the Spanish translation of The Adventure of Consciousness. And heres what happened: P. L. writes to me, At first he raised, lots of difficulties. I told him I want no favors and am ready to pay him royalties straight away and sign the agreement. At one point, he asked me, But why are you interested in the problems and doctrines of India? I replied, Churches are in a crisis; and when the ship is sinking, theres no point discussing whether one should jump on the left or on the right! The spark of friendship flew at once; he told me he is Protestant and his father-in-law is a very important pastor in Paris, who was invited to the Vatican to hold a meeting between catholics and Protestants. Then we signed the agreement. I told him I attach a great importance to this book in the whole of Latin America. He told me that in France, too, Satprems Sri Aurobindo is selling very well, but that there is a certain misunderstanding with you. Then I told him that after I leave, I proposed to go and see Laffont, another publisher, for I had with me your latest book, The Sannyasin. And I showed it to him. No sooner did he see it than he implored me not to deprive him of its publi cation, not to go to Laffont, and to leave the book with him, for he desired to read it immediately! I told him I would think it over.
Its yes.
--
In 1969 to Geneva, where the catholic Church held a "reunion" with Protestant churches. Schemings prevented P.L. from accompanying the Pope.
***
0 1970-06-20, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Make knowledge a catch of the snare of Ignorance
And the Word a dart to slay my living Soul?
0 1970-07-04, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had, countless times, the experience that when the body can catch hold of that attitude (completely, I mean, even beyond the aspiration to union or to transformation: THIS WAY [same vast gesture]), its almost miraculous, instantaneous. But with a wrong movement it comes back. Its not established permanentlyhow do you manage to do that? I dont know. Probably there should no longer be anywhere the presence of the possibility of a wrong movement. But thats difficult.
You breathe, you eat, you and its the Divine.
0 1970-07-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I go out in the evening around 5:30 for a bit of fresh air. First I go to the Samadhi they catch me at the Samadhi and go around with me; then they come up to the beach and stay with me until I come home. So I see all kinds. I see lots of them.
Are some interesting?
0 1970-11-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There has been something like a small catastrophe! It is that in Africa all Indians are sent back, or their properties are confis cated, and its from Africa that we used to receive the cheese! (laughter) So we wont have cheese anymore but I still have this coming from Germany (Mother gives a tube).
There has been a bigger catastrophe in Pakistan.
What happened?
0 1971-01-16, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It nearly became serious when an ulcer erupted in the intestines. An ulcer erupted, and then naturally there was no question of eating. But I have noticed how those things, the so-called catastrophes or calamities or mishaps or difficulties or how they all come JUST at the right moment to help youJUST when its needed to help you. You see, everything in the physical nature that still belonged to the old world and its habit and ways of doing and being and acting, all that couldnt be (handled3 is the word), it couldnt be handled in any other way than this: by illness.
The doctors were quite concerned about the intestinal ulcer. If it had perforated, it would have been very, very serious the ordinary recourse is an operation, so. The doctors were quite concerned. But they didnt show anything, I didnt know about it I found out about the ulcer only when it was healed (I mean when it was in the process of healing).
0 1971-03-03, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I feel that it is the book that will give a new orientation there. Thats why I am insisting. And Russia. Russia, changed to the right side, it would be wonderful! I dont know why. Naturally I was Russian in a recent incarnation, when I was. Is it catherine?
catherine, yes.
And thats very much alive in me.
0 1971-03-10, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As there is a category of facts to which our senses are our best available but very imperfect guides, as there is a category of truths which we seek by the keen but still imperfect light of our reason, so according to the mystic, there is a category of more subtle truths which surpass the reach both of the senses and the reason but can be ascertained by an inner direct knowledge and direct experience. These truths are supersensuous, but not the less real for that: they have immense results upon the consciousness changing its substance and movement, bringing especially deep peace and abiding joy, a great light of vision and knowledge, a possibility of the overcoming of the lower animal nature, vistas of a spiritual self-development which without them do not exist. A new outlook on things arises which brings with it, if fully pursued into its consequences, a great liberation, inner harmony, unifi cationmany other possibilities besides. These things have been experienced, it is true, by a small minority of the human race, but still there has been a host of independent witnesses to them in all times, climes and conditions and numbered among them are some of the greatest intelligences of the past, some of the worlds most remarkable figures. Must these possibilities be immediately condemned as chimeras because they are not only beyond the average man in the street but also not easily seizable even by many cultivated intellects or because their method is more difficult than that of the ordinary sense or reason? If there is any truth in them, is not this possibility opened by them worth pursuing as disclosing a highest range of self-discovery and world discovery by the human soul? At its best, taken as true, it must be thatat its lowest taken as only a possibility, as all things attained by man have been only a possibility in their earlier stages, it is a great and may well be a most fruitful adventure.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1971-05-12, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But already quite some time ago I saw China invading India, even South India. And thats the worst of catastrophes the Chinese dont have a psychic being. The Chinese have a lunar origin and they dont have a psychic being (there are exceptions, but I mean in general), and so one can expect ANYTHING from themevery possible horror. Ive seen themall, everywhere horrible!
Ive seen the Chinese in this room.
0 1971-05-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Great History tells us that India must again be one, and that particular current of history is so imperative that twice already Destiny has managed to put India before the possibility of her reunifi cation. The first time was in 1965 when Pakistans foolish aggressiveness enabled India to counterattack and carry the battle right into the suburbs of Lahore and up to Karachi had she but had the courage to seize boldly her destiny. The hour was indeed for a decisive choice. The Mother declared categorically: India is fighting for the triumph of Truth, and She must fight until India and Pakistan become ONE again, for such is the truth of their being. At Tashkent, we yielded on the crest of a petty compromise which was to lead us into a second, more bloody and painful reef, Bangladesh. There too destiny graciously arranged to enable India to hasten to the aid of her massacred brethreneven the famous skyjacking incident of January4 was, as it were, arranged by the Grace so as to spare India from delaying her intervention until it was too late (or to spare her the shame of not intervening at all and allowing Pakistans planes to fly over her head loaded with weaponry and murderers to slaughter her brothers). But there again, yielding to the demands of the moment and to the small, shortsighted interests, we refused to accept the challenge of the Great Direction of our History, and we now find ourselves on the brink of a new compromise which will lead us inevitably to a third and even more disastrous and bloody reef. For one day India must inevitably face that which twice she has fled. Only each time the conditions are more disastrous for her and for the worldperhaps so disastrous that the whole earth will even be engulfed in another general conflict, while the whole story could have been resolved at the little symbolic point that is Bangladesh, at the right hour, with the right gesture and a minimum of suffering.
For let there be no doubt about it, the Bangladesh affair is not an Indian event, it is a world event. The division of India is not a local incident, it is a terrestrial Falsehood which must disappear if the division of the world is to disappear. And here again we hear the voice of Sri Aurobindo, six months before his passing, referring to yet another phenomenon which then seemed of such slight importance, so remote, a trifling local affair at the other end of the world: the invasion of South Korea in 1950, twenty-one years ago. And yet that small Korean symbol, like the small symbol of Bangladesh (or the one of Czechoslovakia in 1938), contained in seed the whole fatal course which is still carrying the world toward a sinister destiny: The affair of Korea, wrote Sri Aurobindo, is the first move in the Communist plan of campaign to dominate and take possession first of these northern parts and then of South East Asia as a preliminary to their manoeuvres with regard to the rest of the continentin passing, Tibet as a gate opening to India. Now, twenty-one years later, we see that Tibet and the whole of South East Asia have been swallowed up and the gate into India has truly been opened wide by the wound of the Pakistani Falsehoodalready, or very shortly, the Chinese are, or will be, in Khulna, some eighty miles from Calcutta, to help Yahya Khan to pacify Bengal. And Sri Aurobindo added, If they succeed, there is no reason why domination of the whole world should not follow by steps until they are ready to deal with America.
This is where we are today. That which we want to avoid returns upon us with tenfold force. The hour for political calculation, for the pros and cons of our petty mathematics of expediency (which always goes awry) is past. The time has come to rediscover the Great Direction of India, which is really the Great Direction of the world, and to place our faith in the Spirit that guides her Destiny, rejecting petty fears of a phantom world opinion and doing away with the little supports which only lend support to the Enemy. Tomorrow America will perhaps resume her economic aid to Pakistan on the pretext of counteracting the Chinese presence. The Bangladesh slaughter will be honorably justified by a pseudoregime which will operate with the blessings of the international community. But one does not cheat the tide of history: for the third time our little compromises will crumble and we will find ourselves confronted with a terrible ordeal, its intensity nourished by our own successive failures in the past. The sooner not only India, but America and Russia too, understand the unreality of Pakistan and the magnitude of what is at stake at the borders of India, the sooner may the looming catastrophe be halted before it becomes totally and definitely irrevocable. One thing is certain, wrote Sri Aurobindo a few months before his passing, that if there is too much shilly-shallying and if America gives up now her defence of Korea [we could say even more: the defense of Bangladesh] she may be driven to yield position after position until it is too late: at one point or another she will have to stand and face the necessity of drastic action even if it leads to war.
For the battle of India is the battle of the world. This is where the worlds tragic destiny is brewing, or its last-minute burst of hope into a new world of Truth and Light, for it is said that the deepest darkness lies nearest the most luminous light.
0 1971-07-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For me, all those formations (more than catastrophic, mind you), for me theyre nothing, they are totally irrelevant, but they do affect people, who go awry, and then. All things considered, the repercussions on my body are really minimal.
The body sees plainly, very clearly, the marvelous protection it has, you know, it would otherwise be slashed to pieces.
0 1971-09-04, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have noticed somethingalready quite some time ago, but lately it has become very, very concrete. When I speak, there is a Consciousness which is expressed, and that Consciousness is whats important but people catch the words and leave the Consciousness! So of course that makes a frightful muddle. Therefore its better not to speak.
Well, maybe it makes a muddle for some people, but not for allnot for all!
0 1971-10-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I found with yesterdays experiencewhat the experience demonstrated to meis that the physical being, which thought it was exclusively turned to the Divine, is turned in a (what shall I say?) an almost superficial way. That is to say, it is still capable of feeling certain occurrences as catastrophic. I was made to live all the possible things that could still happen to me, to the body, if things went wrong and precisely if men were driven by the adverse force. And I could see to what a degree (there were the most dreadful possibilities, you know), I saw to what a degree the body is not (imperturbable, immobile gesture). For several hours it was truly, oh, completely upset, ill with the horror of those possibilities.5 And then it was able to offer all that to the Divine and say, really say consciously: Your Will.
But there was that kind of incapacity we have to know truly the Divine Willespecially concerning the future, tomorrow, whats going to happen right at this minuteit was dreadful. How we know nothing, how utterly ignorant we are!
0 1971-12-25, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
More and more I am convinced that we have a way of receiving things and reacting to them that CREATES difficulties I am more and more convinced of it. Because, for example, I have rather unpleasant physical and material experiences about food. You know that for a very long time now I have completely stopped being hungry (I eat only to be reasonable, because one must eat, otherwise), and I have some small difficulty in swallowing, or breathing (ridiculous things), but everything changes depending on whether you pay attention to them or not, depending on an attitude like this (gesture of being focused on oneself) in which you watch yourself living, or an attitude in which youre (vast gesture) in things, in movement, in life; and a third attitude in which you pay attention only to the Divine. If you succeed in being like that all the time, there are no difficultiesand yet things are the same. Thats the experience: the thing in itself is as it is, but it is our reaction to it that differs. The experience is more and more conclusive. You see, there are three categories: our attitude with respect to things, the things in themselves (those two always give you trouble), and there is a third category in which everything, but everything is in regard to the Divine, in the Consciousness of the Divineall is marvelous, all is easy! And I am speaking of material things, of the material, physical life (for psychological things, weve known it for long), I mean material things like little discomforts of the body, or reactions, feeling pain or not, circumstances going wrong, not being able to swallow your dinner the most banal things you dont pay attention to when youre young and strong and in good health (you dont pay any attention to them, and its like that for everyone), but when you live in the consciousness of your body and what happens to it and its ways of receiving things that come and so onoh, its misery! When you live in the consciousness of others, of what they want, what they need, their relationship with youits misery! But if you live in the Divine Presence and its the Divine who does everything, sees everything, is everything its Peaceits Peace, time has no duration, everything is easy and. Not that you feel joy or feel its not so its the Divine who is there. And its the ONLY solution. Thats where the world is going: the Consciousness of the Divine the Divine who does, the Divine who is, the Divine. So then, the same IDENTICAL circumstance (I am not speaking of different circumstances), the same IDENTICAL circumstance (its my experience these last few days, so concrete, you know, so concrete); day before yesterday I was sick as a dog, and yesterday circumstances were the same, my body was in the same state, all was the same and yet all was peaceful.
I am thoroughly convinced of that.
0 1972-01-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The work is going on with increasing clarity. But its difficult. On its own, the physical is terribly pessimistic. It is steeped in atavistic habits of helplessness, contradiction, and also catastropheit is terribly pessimistic. What a work it is. Only gradually, by constantly turning to the Divine, can it start to hope things will improve a little.
Cant eat, you know, not a morsel. This physical world is terrible, terrible, terrible.
0 1972-03-08, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know it very well. I keep catching my body doing that all the time, in one part or another. It simply wants to putter along in the same old way.
Its like a slackening of aspiration, of tension.
--
I find it very difficult. You try to catch hold of yourself once, twice, ten times, but you get the feeling that its not the right way, that something else is needed, and really, if some higher Power doesnt do it FOR YOU, its simply hopeless.
Yes, exactly. But I have had experienceshundreds of experiencesshowing that the minute you take the true attitude, it is DONE.
0 1972-03-11, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is in fact in connection with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry that I am taking the liberty of writing Your Excellency. I am sure you are aware of the reputation it has earned beyond Indias borders; I have been following its work and achievements for years. Recently, I was told of the difficulties encountered by those in charge of the Ashram in regard to the proposed creation of a universitya project expressly favored by the Indian Government; some catholic students, in conjunction with a few priests, are displaying a strong opposition to this project.
I therefore request Your Excellency kindly to use his authority to avoid any incident that, at all events, would be highly detrimental to the harmony that His Holiness Pope Paul VI so much desires, in accord with the rules laid down by the Ecumenical Council Vatican II.
0 1972-03-18, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(No sooner has Satprem entered her room than Mother looks at him and declares categorically:)
Things are betterarent they?
--
You remember, I told you everything was like this (gesture on the brink of catastrophe), but now we are plainlyplainly on the bright side. From time to time (a little wobbly gesture), but plainly on the bright side.
Its much better.
0 1972-03-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I see that, theres usually a catastrophe the next day. But there was no catastrophe the next dayit seems to have fallen on you. I dont know a gigantic tidal wave.
(after a silence)
0 1972-03-30, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We are here to give up all desires and to turn towards the Divine and to become conscious of the Divine.1 To realize and manifest the Divine in our life is the way, not to become animals, living like cats and dogs.
Sujata enters.
0 1972-04-03, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On January 14, 1967, for the first time, Mother had spoken of this possibility of cataleptic trancefive years earlier.
This last sentence was intended for those who were all ears and were not supposed to be listening.
0 1972-04-05, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, I have seen such fascinating things, mon petit! For hours I was a spectator the consciousness witnessed an encounter between the Ego and the supermans consciousness (laughing) it was like a duel! The ego was arguing so glibly! It seemed to be saying, See, if you send me off, the world will become hellish! And it was showing the most frightful scenes: If I withdraw from this one, it said, this is what he will do; if I withdraw from that, this is what will happen (Mother laughs) Horrible things, you know, the most staggering catastrophes! It went on for hours.
At night I dont sleep, you know; I remain very still, and I am then a spectator of all those scenes.
0 1972-04-12, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, the resistance brings about catastrophes, and then people say, See! See your beneficient action, it is only causing catastrophes. Unbelievable, they are unbelievably stupid.
I see it in myself; never have I felt the resistance of the lower nature in such a.
0 1972-04-26, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The subconscient is full of stupid fears, of lack of trust and ill suggestions (although I am not so sure its the bodys fault, I have the feeling that some peopleat least one person, I dont know whoare sending catastrophic suggestions5). The body fights all it can to accept only the suggestions from the Divine, but theres still a pull.
Whenever I protest or complain, I am told (thats how it comes), I am told that things come to me from here or there (gesture to every side) for me to act upon them, for That to act upon the worldit has nothing to do with thought, it isnt a thought, this (the head) is very silent; its here (gesture above), and then like this (gesture rising from the bottom to be offered), from the subconscient. And all the work that is being done is not just for this body; the body is doing it for all those who are receptive. In which case I have nothing to say, everything is perfectly all right. If such is the case. Because (Mother turns her head toward the bathroom door) the body lives in particularly good conditions. It is very well taken care of.
--
Strangely enough, although I did not mention the scene in the book, it had remained deeply etched in me, and that's what Mother remembered: she remembered my own memories! One day, I had found myself in the midst of a huge tangle of fallen trees (when a giant tree falls, it uproots dozens of trees all around it), within a kind of green cataclysm redolent of torn earth and destruction, and in a silence of the end of the world.
***
0 1972-05-04, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Strange feeling. Since last night, a strange impression that the Divine has become (how to formulate it?) like a golden Force pressing down like this (gesture of pressure on the earth). They alone, who by their aspiration are able to pass through to the Divine Origin, will escape catastrophes.
There was a catastrophe in Madras: one of our best cars was in a very serious accident.
Only those who have an aspiration, a sincere and unconditional aspiration towards the Divine, only they will escape they will stand in a golden glory.
0 1972-05-06, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
it presses down on Matter, to force it, to compel it to turn INWARDLY to the Divinenot an external flight (pointing above) but inwardly turning to the Divine. And the apparent outcome seems to be inevitable catastrophes. But along with this sense of inevitable catastrophe, there come solutions to situations or events that look simply miraculous.
As if both extremes were becoming more extreme: the good getting better and the bad worse. Like that. And a stupendous Power PRESSING down on the world. Such is my impression.
--
This gives an idea of the change brought about in the world by the supramental Descent. Things that were insignificant are becoming quite categorical: a small mistake becomes categorical in its consequences while a little sincerity, a true little aspiration becomes miraculous in its results. The values are intensified in people. Even materially, the least little error has huge consequences, while the slightest sincerity of aspiration has extraordinary results.
The values are intensified, they stand out more.
0 1972-05-13, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
perhaps bringing a possibility of catastrophes, you said. Are you thinking of a collective danger?
America is doing horrible things. They have mined Haiphong.1 Nobody had ever dared do that so far.
--
I dont know if its just because of this transition period, or if the Supramental will in fact bring about very categorical results.
The same for the body: the least thing seems to produce consequences completely out of proportionin either good or bad. The customary neutrality of life is disappearing.
0 1972-05-31, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother remains absorbed a long time. She often asked Satprem if he had any "questions," but truly speaking Satprem didn't come to see Mother to "ask questions." Rather he wanted to efface himself all he could and let her experience flow out it she liked to give it expression, or remain silent if so she preferred He did not want his mind to grind thoughts, with its thousand questions, lest it should cloud the atmosphere and bring pressure upon Mother. Questions seemed pointless to him unless they arose on the spur of the moment, springing from within, because then they responded to something iN Mother. Indeed, Satprem wanted to be simply a sort of catalyst for what was happening in her. And then, too, seeing her gasping for breath very much affected him.)
So what do you have to say?
0 1972-06-28, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother first listens to some letters from Sri Aurobindo to Nirod, and in particular the following ones, which catch her attention and amuse her.)
Why not write something about the Supermind which these people find so difficult to understand?
0 1972-07-12, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not that death disappears, mind you (death as we see it, as we know it and in relation to life as we know it): thats not it, not it at all. BOTH are changing into something we dont yet know, which seems at once extremely dangerous and absolutely marvelous. Dangerous: the least mistake has catastrophic consequences. And marvelous.
It is the consciousness, the true consciousness of immortalitynot immortality as we understand it, something else. Something else.
0 1972-07-19, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the subconscient there is an accumulation of defeatism. Thats what keeps rising to the surface. As we ABSOLUTELY need to change that, the subconscient must be clarified so that the new race can come. We must clarify the subconscient. Its a mire. Its full of defeatismdefeatism, the first reaction is always defeatist. Its absolutely disgusting, mon petit, Ive seen it, I am working there a disgusting place. We absolutely must we must be categorical and vigorousfearless, you know. Change it MUST.
Its nasty.
--- Overview of noun cat
The noun cat has 8 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (18) cat, true cat ::: (feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats)
2. guy, cat, hombre, bozo ::: (an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll")
3. cat ::: (a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!")
4. kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian tea, African tea ::: (the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults")
5. cat-o'-nine-tails, cat ::: (a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat")
6. Caterpillar, cat ::: (a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work)
7. big cat, cat ::: (any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild)
8. computerized tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT ::: (a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis)
--- Overview of verb cat
The verb cat has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. cat ::: (beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails)
2. vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up ::: (eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cat
8 senses of cat
Sense 1
cat, true cat
=> feline, felid
=> carnivore
=> placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
=> mammal, mammalian
=> vertebrate, craniate
=> chordate
=> animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
guy, cat, hombre, bozo
=> man, adult male
=> male, male person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> adult, grownup
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
cat
=> gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
=> communicator
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> woman, adult female
=> female, female person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> adult, grownup
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian tea, African tea
=> stimulant, stimulant drug, excitant
=> drug
=> agent
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> substance
=> matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 5
cat-o'-nine-tails, cat
=> whip
=> instrument
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 6
Caterpillar, cat
=> tracked vehicle
=> self-propelled vehicle
=> wheeled vehicle
=> vehicle
=> conveyance, transport
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> container
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 7
big cat, cat
=> feline, felid
=> carnivore
=> placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
=> mammal, mammalian
=> vertebrate, craniate
=> chordate
=> animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 8
computerized tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT
=> X-raying, X-radiation
=> imaging, tomography
=> pictorial representation, picturing
=> representation
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun cat
3 of 8 senses of cat
Sense 1
cat, true cat
=> domestic cat, house cat, Felis domesticus, Felis catus
=> wildcat
Sense 2
guy, cat, hombre, bozo
=> sod
Sense 7
big cat, cat
=> leopard, Panthera pardus
=> snow leopard, ounce, Panthera uncia
=> jaguar, panther, Panthera onca, Felis onca
=> lion, king of beasts, Panthera leo
=> tiger, Panthera tigris
=> liger
=> tiglon, tigon
=> cheetah, chetah, Acinonyx jubatus
=> saber-toothed tiger, sabertooth
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cat
8 senses of cat
Sense 1
cat, true cat
=> feline, felid
Sense 2
guy, cat, hombre, bozo
=> man, adult male
Sense 3
cat
=> gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
=> woman, adult female
Sense 4
kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian tea, African tea
=> stimulant, stimulant drug, excitant
Sense 5
cat-o'-nine-tails, cat
=> whip
Sense 6
Caterpillar, cat
=> tracked vehicle
Sense 7
big cat, cat
=> feline, felid
Sense 8
computerized tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT
=> X-raying, X-radiation
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun cat
8 senses of cat
Sense 1
cat, true cat
-> feline, felid
=> cat, true cat
=> big cat, cat
Sense 2
guy, cat, hombre, bozo
-> man, adult male
HAS INSTANCE=> Adam
HAS INSTANCE=> Cain
HAS INSTANCE=> Abel
HAS INSTANCE=> Seth
=> Black man
=> white man
=> yellow man
=> babu, baboo
=> bachelor, unmarried man
=> bey
=> boy
=> boyfriend, fellow, beau, swain, young man
=> ex-boyfriend
=> bull, bruiser, strapper, Samson
=> dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse
=> ejaculator
=> Esquire, Esq
=> eunuch, castrate
=> father figure, father surrogate
=> father-figure
=> fellow, dude, buster
=> galoot
=> geezer
=> gentleman
=> grass widower, divorced man
=> guy, cat, hombre, bozo
HAS INSTANCE=> Ham
=> Herr
=> Hooray Henry
=> housefather
=> hunk
=> ex-husband, ex
=> inamorato
=> iron man, ironman
=> ironside
HAS INSTANCE=> Japheth
=> adonis
=> middle-aged man
=> Monsieur
=> old boy, old man
=> old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah
=> patriarch, paterfamilias
=> Peter Pan
=> ponce
=> posseman
=> Senhor
=> shaver
HAS INSTANCE=> Shem
=> signor, signior
=> signore
=> sir
=> stiff
=> stud, he-man, macho-man
=> Tarzan
=> widower, widowman
=> womanizer, womaniser, philanderer
=> wonder boy, golden boy
=> young buck, young man
Sense 3
cat
-> gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
=> cat
=> scandalmonger
=> tattletale, tattler, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth
=> yenta
-> woman, adult female
HAS INSTANCE=> Eve
=> Black woman
=> white woman
=> yellow woman
=> amazon, virago
=> maenad
=> bachelor girl, bachelorette
=> baggage
=> ball-buster, ball-breaker
=> B-girl, bar girl
=> bluestocking, bas bleu
=> bridesmaid, maid of honor
=> broad
=> cat
=> Cinderella
=> coquette, flirt, vamp, vamper, minx, tease, prickteaser
=> dame, madam, ma'am, lady, gentlewoman
=> debutante, deb
=> divorcee, grass widow
=> ex-wife, ex
=> dominatrix
=> donna
=> enchantress, temptress, siren, Delilah, femme fatale
=> eyeful
=> geisha, geisha girl
=> girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille
=> girl
=> girlfriend, girl, lady friend
=> girlfriend
=> gold digger
=> gravida
=> heroine
=> inamorata
=> jezebel
=> jilt
=> lady
=> maenad
=> matriarch, materfamilias
=> matriarch
=> matron
=> mestiza
=> mistress, kept woman, fancy woman
=> mother figure
=> nanny, nursemaid, nurse
=> nullipara
=> nymph, houri
=> nymphet
=> old woman
=> prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street
=> shiksa, shikse
=> smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish
=> sylph
=> unmarried woman
=> vestal
=> Wac
=> Wave
=> widow, widow woman
=> wife, married woman
=> wonder woman
Sense 4
kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian tea, African tea
-> stimulant, stimulant drug, excitant
=> amphetamine, pep pill, upper, speed
=> analeptic
=> aphrodisiac
=> butyl nitrite, isobutyl nitrite
=> kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian tea, African tea
=> methylphenidate, Ritalin
=> popper
Sense 5
cat-o'-nine-tails, cat
-> whip
=> cat-o'-nine-tails, cat
=> cowhide
=> horsewhip
=> knout
=> quirt
=> riding crop, hunting crop
=> scourge, flagellum
=> strap
Sense 6
Caterpillar, cat
-> tracked vehicle
=> Caterpillar, cat
=> half track
=> snowmobile
=> tank, army tank, armored combat vehicle, armoured combat vehicle
Sense 7
big cat, cat
-> feline, felid
=> cat, true cat
=> big cat, cat
Sense 8
computerized tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT
-> X-raying, X-radiation
=> computerized tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT
--- Grep of noun cat
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alley cat
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bear cat
bearcat
big cat
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blue cat
blue channel cat
bobcat
burmese cat
caffer cat
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cat's-claw
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