{"id":3849,"date":"2013-07-13T01:51:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2014-01-14T11:57:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:57:40","slug":"16-way-of-working-vol-13-words-of-the-mother-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/13-words-of-the-mother-volume-13\/16-way-of-working-vol-13-words-of-the-mother-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"-16_Way of Working.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\" id=\"AutoNumber1\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\">\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><font size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>WAY OF WORKING<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>People say that you always admire the things we do, no matter what they<br \/>\nare. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>What a strange idea! There are plenty of<br \/>\nthings and actions that I find bad and that I do not admire at all. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>12 May 1934 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I spent quite a lot of grey matter, putting before you argument after<br \/>\nargument. But you have not argued back. You are quite happily unconcerned.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 92<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;All the reasonings in your letter come<br \/>\nfrom the external physical mind. You cannot expect me to come down to that<br \/>\nlevel and discuss with you from there. I see things from another plane and in a<br \/>\ndifferent way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>19 July 1942 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It is quite inexact that in my<br \/>\nconsciousness there is a will to be late. The truth is that the will to be<br \/>\nready in time does not take precedence in me over the other wills: it is in its<br \/>\nplace among the others, not exclusive and unique but forming part of the whole<br \/>\nin which degrees of greatness and importance may not conform to what you think<br \/>\nor feel. In fact, your sense of relative importance is not the same as mine.<br \/>\nMoreover, you consider the problem in a linear and exclusive way, as if it were<br \/>\nseparate from other accompanying problems. It is nothing of the kind; each<br \/>\nproblem exists not in itself but in relation to all the others; and in order to<br \/>\nbe true, the solution must not neglect any of them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>If you can understand that, your<br \/>\ndifficulty is sure to disappear easily. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>16 November 1950<\/span><\/i><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Evidently, according to human laws I was wrong<br \/>\nin telling you that I would see you every month, since I was not sure of being<br \/>\nable to do so, even while not forgetting what I had said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>In truth, I live from moment to moment,<br \/>\naccording to the supreme Guidance and, consequently, am incapable of making<br \/>\nplans. I know that this is not comfortable for the human mentality which<br \/>\nbelieves it can decide everything in advance. But from the spiritual point of<br \/>\nview it is inevitable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Each sadhak must remember that he is not<br \/>\nalone. As far&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 93<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>as possible I am trying to give<br \/>\nsatisfaction to everybody and to give answers to reasonable questions whenever<br \/>\nit is necessary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It is a way of saying, a crude description<br \/>\nof something that actually happens but is much more subtle than that. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>If I were busy with one single person I<br \/>\ncould keep perhaps in my memory such precisions, but as I am consciously<br \/>\ndealing with more than a thousand people such precise details are not usually<br \/>\nnoted <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> and it is not necessary either <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> because the Consciousness always does the<br \/>\nwork in the way it has to be done. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>There is always a great difference between<br \/>\nwhat people are and do and what they ought to be and do. The consciousness is<br \/>\nquite aware of this and is constantly working to rectify and to change but it<br \/>\ndoes not work on separate points in a spasmodic way. It works on the whole in a<br \/>\ntotal and all-comprehensive way. The advance seems slow but it is more complete<br \/>\nand nothing is forgotten. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Truly speaking, <i>I have no opinion<\/i>. According to a vision of truth, everything is<br \/>\nstill terribly mixed, a more or less favourable combination of light and<br \/>\ndarkness, truth and falsehood, knowledge and ignorance, and so long as<br \/>\ndecisions are made and action is undertaken according to opinions, it will<br \/>\nalways be like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>We want to give the example of an action<br \/>\nthat is undertaken in accordance with a vision of truth, but unfortunately we<br \/>\nare still very far from realising this ideal, and even if the &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 94<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>vision of truth expresses itself, it is<br \/>\nimmediately distorted in its implementation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>So, in the present state of affairs, it is<br \/>\nimpossible to say, \u201cThis is true and that is false, this leads us away from the<br \/>\ngoal and that brings us nearer the goal.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Everything <\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>can be used for the progress to be made; everything can be useful if we<br \/>\nknow how to use it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The important thing is never to lose sight<br \/>\nof the ideal we want to realise and to make use of all circumstances in view of<br \/>\nthis goal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>And finally, it is always better not to make<br \/>\nan arbitrary decision for or against things, and to watch the unfolding of<br \/>\nevents with the impartiality of a witness, relying on the Divine Wisdom which<br \/>\nwill decide for the best and do what is necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>29 July 1961<\/span><\/i><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>My way of seeing is somewhat different.<br \/>\nFor my consciousness the whole life upon earth, including the human life and<br \/>\nall its mentality, is a mass of vibrations, mostly vibrations of falsehood,<br \/>\nignorance and disorder, in which are more and more at work vibrations of Truth<br \/>\nand Harmony coming from the higher regions and pushing their way through the<br \/>\nresistance. In this vision the ego-sense and the individual assertion and<br \/>\nseparateness become quite unreal and illusory. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>When some extra confusion is created in<br \/>\nthe already existing confusion I direct upon it some special vibrations to<br \/>\nrestore as much as possible a better harmony. It is not the individuals as such<br \/>\nthat feel the \u201cblow\u201d, it is their clinging to or siding with the disharmony&#8230;<br \/>\nIn such cases there is never one side right and one side wrong, but all are to<br \/>\nblame in the measure of their adhesion to falsehood and confusion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 95<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>You don&#8217;t understand the way of my<br \/>\nworking. You can as well say, \u201cYou have the supramental force, why don&#8217;t you<br \/>\nuse it and finish all this muddle?\u201d But it is not like this that the work can<br \/>\nbe done. The world is not ready for the supramental force and if it is used<br \/>\nwithout preparing the base, things will shatter completely. I have to prepare<br \/>\nthe base and then bring down the force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Your human vision sees things in a<br \/>\nstraight line. For you it is either this way or that way. For me it is not like<br \/>\nthis. I see the whole thing as a mass of consciousness moving towards its end<br \/>\nor goal. For every small movement I have to see what its reactions will be on<br \/>\nthe whole mass, what repercussions may follow. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>When I say something should be done in this<br \/>\nway or that way, your human mind takes it as a principle and tries to apply it<br \/>\nrigidly in all cases. For me it is not like that. For me there are no rules, no<br \/>\nregulations and no principles. For me each one is an exceptional case, to be<br \/>\ndealt with in a special way. No two cases are similar. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>In the movement of this mass of<br \/>\nconsciousness I know that a certain point should move in a certain direction<br \/>\nfor reaching the goal more easily. With this point in view I declare that this<br \/>\nshould be done or not done, but I find that sometimes there is a big<br \/>\nobstruction in the way. Now, it can be dealt with in two ways: either I should<br \/>\nallow the point to change its direction and leave the barrier alone for the<br \/>\ntime being till more and more light falls upon it and it gets changed, or I<br \/>\nshould break the barrier. As I have said, every small movement has its<br \/>\nreactions and repercussions on the mass, so this breaking also will cause a<br \/>\nchain of reactions which may affect a much larger field. I am no respecter of<br \/>\npersons, but I have to see at every moment the changing circumstances due to<br \/>\nthe change of the person or persons concerned and the change of time and the<br \/>\nchannel through which the thing passes. I have to see with all these changes<br \/>\nhow best the thing can be done so that it may help the progress of&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 96<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>the mass. I have to see whether it is<br \/>\nworthwhile to break the barrier and have all the resulting consequences or<br \/>\nwhether it would not be better to leave it for the moment and tolerate the<br \/>\nhuman stupidity. What appears to you to be contradiction is not contradiction<br \/>\nwhen the whole thing is seen as one. There are various ways to reach the same<br \/>\nend. So if I find that breaking will cost much more than what it is worth, then<br \/>\nI allow you to go the way you like. But that does not prevent me from<br \/>\ncondemning the obstruction and saying that it ought to go.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>After all, sooner or later each and<br \/>\neverything in this mass of consciousness has to move towards the same goal. But<br \/>\nto lead the consciousness towards that goal I have to allow human beings to<br \/>\nmove with me and I have to appear in their own form and speak in their own<br \/>\nlanguage. I have to adopt a crude expression. I can see the stupidity of the way<br \/>\nin which I have to speak and lay down rules and regulations, but this is a<br \/>\nconcession that I must make to humanity; otherwise it would not be able to<br \/>\nunderstand anything. Even when I speak in their own language, people<br \/>\nmisunderstand me and make a mess. If I were to speak in the language of the<br \/>\nlight, then the whole thing would pass over their heads and they would be left<br \/>\ngaping without understanding anything. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>X has a very well-developed mind. I can<br \/>\nsay that his mind is very open towards the light. Twice I tried to speak to him<br \/>\nin the language of what Sri Aurobindo calls the mind of light, but even he<br \/>\ncould not understand it. He could catch a little, but the fullness of the sense<br \/>\nescaped him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>With the others it is still worse; they<br \/>\nfail to understand anything and look dazed. For the sake of these people I have<br \/>\nto make a compromise. I say that a certain thing is stupid, but I see that you<br \/>\ncannot remain without doing it, so I have to tolerate it. I see the relative<br \/>\nvalue of things and adopt the way that may be helpful in making the progress.<br \/>\nIn your interest and in the interest of the progress of the whole mass of<br \/>\nconsciousness, I may have to allow a good many things, but it does not mean&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 97<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>that I am blind to them and cannot see their<br \/>\nstupidity. Sometimes it is necessary that you should have an experience and so<br \/>\nthe thing is allowed. But when I say No definitely, it is dangerous to oppose<br \/>\nit. There can be many reasons for the same action; but it is not possible to<br \/>\nexplain them to your mind. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>In this particular case I had said No.<br \/>\nThen Y intervened. Now Y is a very nice person and he is very sincere in some<br \/>\nparts. I know that he is weak and has the habit of grabbing and possessing. I<br \/>\ncould have refused. But that would have given a big shaking to him. It would<br \/>\nhave been difficult for him to adjust himself. As I told you, I see the<br \/>\nrelative values and I saw that the thing was not worth the shaking and so I<br \/>\nhave given my permission. But that does not prevent me from saying that it is not<br \/>\nthe right thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><span><font size=\"3\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\";font-weight:700'><a name=\"1_RUMOURS\">RUMOURS<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Mother of joy, I am surprised to find there are people who think that<br \/>\nYou call only those sadhaks who cannot receive Your Grace from afar; and that<br \/>\nit is a sign of weakness on the part of those who see You from time to time. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Don&#8217;t bother about what people believe or<br \/>\nsay; it is almost always ignorant stupidities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I always wonder at people&#8217;s thinking they<br \/>\ncan know the reasons of my actions! I act differently for each one, according<br \/>\nto the necessities of his particular case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 98<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I would advise you never to listen to what<br \/>\nsadhaks say especially <i>advanced sadhaks. <\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>29 December 1931 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It is certainly not at all true that I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t care for the sadhaks and their sadhana. Why should the world conditions<br \/>\nbeing bad make me cease to care! It would be rather a reason for insisting more<br \/>\non a quick spiritual realisation as the only way out of the impasse. You should<br \/>\nnot believe in what you hear from people; so constantly nasty and disturbing<br \/>\nthings are being said which are quite untrue. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>8 October 1940 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;My dear child,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>All your letters are answered, but in the<br \/>\nsilence of your heart; you must learn to hear the answers there and not through<br \/>\nthe mouth of others. All help is given to you always, but you must learn to receive<br \/>\nit in the silence of your heart and not through exterior means. It is in the<br \/>\nsilence of your heart that the Divine will speak to you and will guide you and<br \/>\nwill lead you to your goal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But for that you must have full faith in<br \/>\nthe Divine Grace and Love. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>18 January 1962 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;Little child of mine, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>When your first letter came, I simply<br \/>\nwrote a word in French upon it and left it on my table <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> as I was expecting the second one; being<br \/>\nquite sure that you would receive my silent answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>To comfort you, I can say immediately and<br \/>\nonce and for all, that I never pay any attention to what people say of one<br \/>\nanother, whoever it is who speaks <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> and on your side I ask you never to take<br \/>\nseriously what somebody (<i>whoever it is<\/i>)<br \/>\nsays in&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 99<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>my name, because even with the best of<br \/>\nwills it is always <i>distorted.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Now I ask you also not to worry about this<br \/>\nschool affair. I will not write about it, but one day I intend to call you and<br \/>\nto explain how I see the whole thing. Afterwards you shall see how you feel<br \/>\nabout it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Meanwhile let the mind be at rest so that<br \/>\nthe Light may pass through. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>With all my love and blessings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>27 October 1963<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>When will you learn not to listen to all<br \/>\nthe rumours going about this place?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>15 July 1967 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Yes, all these false and idiotic rumours<br \/>\nhave come to me after turning round the Ashram. I attached no importance to<br \/>\nthem because most of the people here seem to live only for gossip and<br \/>\nfalsehood, and once and for all I have closed my consciousness to all that, in<br \/>\norder to avoid a Kali or a Durga manifestation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I hope that those who are faithful and<br \/>\nhave common sense will not lose their time listening to all that. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>All that you say about the food business<br \/>\nwas known to me <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> but you will admit that there is always a way of improving one&#8217;s action<br \/>\nand making it more luminous and comprehensive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>You must not get worried about the<br \/>\nmistakes and weaknesses of others, the only thing necessary is not to believe<br \/>\nwhat people say to you, especially if they speak in my name.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 100<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>When we get bitter we lose our Divine<br \/>\ncontact and become very \u201cbitterly\u201d human. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Beware of what is repeated to you in my<br \/>\nname the spirit in which it has been said is lost! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Be very careful to let no influence<br \/>\ndiminish your confidence in me and allow nothing or nobody to separate you from<br \/>\nme. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>A great misunderstanding has taken place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>You seem to believe that I say one thing<br \/>\nwhen I mean another. This is absurd. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>When I speak, I speak plainly and always<br \/>\nmean what I say. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>When I say: the first condition for yoga<br \/>\nis to keep quiet and calm <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> I mean it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>When I say that talk is useless and leads<br \/>\nonly to confusion, waste of energy and loss of the little light one may have I<br \/>\nmean that and nothing else. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>When I say that I have given nobody the<br \/>\nright to speak in my name and to interpret my words according to his own fancy,<br \/>\nI mean that and nothing else. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I hope that this is clear and decisive and<br \/>\nthis singular misunderstanding will now come to an end. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I have already warned those who go on spreading<br \/>\nrumours, more or less false, on what I am believed to have said or not said,<br \/>\nthat this is an act of treachery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>As this pernicious habit does not seem to<br \/>\nstop I must add that those who persist in so doing will be treated <span class=\"SpellE\">occultly<\/span> as traitors.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 101<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\"><a name=\"2_REMONSTRANCES\">REMONSTRANCES<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It is absolutely forbidden to send to<br \/>\nanybody one of my unpublished writings without my express permission. I am told<br \/>\nthat you have the intention of doing it so I hasten to inform you that it must<br \/>\nnot be done and ask you to return to me at once all the typed copies you may<br \/>\nhave. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>18 June 1964 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>To do something scrupulously is to do it<br \/>\nwith the utmost care, as honestly, as thoroughly as one can do it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Another time if there are words in what I<br \/>\nhave written that you do not understand, it is better to send me back your book<br \/>\nasking for an explanation. I will always give it to you and thus you will avoid<br \/>\nspeaking to others of what I have written to you <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> because it is not good to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It is a pity you have shown my answers to<br \/>\nyour questions. They were meant for you alone and nobody else. This has partly<br \/>\ndamaged the experience, as it was the vital and the mental wanting to take<br \/>\nadvantage of the situation to satisfy their own desires. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>About Mother&#8217;s playing tennis with sadhaks and students) <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I was told that our boys (young or old)<br \/>\nlike to play with me (the exact words were \u201cto give me a game\u201d) for some reason<br \/>\nor another, but to play truly and to learn to play they must play among<br \/>\nthemselves. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 102<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>You have this extraordinary opportunity of<br \/>\nbeing able to play a game and to take exercise in an atmosphere filled with<br \/>\nDivine Consciousness, Light and Power in such a way that each of your movements<br \/>\nis, so to say, permeated by the consciousness and the light and the power which<br \/>\nis in itself an intensive yoga; and your ignorant unconsciousness, your<br \/>\nblindness and lack of sensitiveness is such that you believe you are giving a<br \/>\ngame or even helping to play a good old lady for whom you feel a little<br \/>\ngratefulness and some kind of affection! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>5 June 1949 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I did not answer because their minds are<br \/>\nterribly restless, they do not know how to make use of the force and they spoil<br \/>\nmy formations. But you need not tell them that <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> send them only blessings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>13 May 1955<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>You must understand one thing. Before<br \/>\ngiving an answer to a question, I look at all the sides of the problem present<br \/>\nand future, so when the answer is given it is final. It is no use coming back<br \/>\nto the question any more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>12 June 1955<\/span><\/i><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>From Your long experience of over sixty years, have You found that Your<br \/>\nexpectation from us and from humanity has been sufficiently fulfilled?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>As I am expecting nothing I cannot answer<br \/>\nthe question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>X says, \u201cIt depends upon the Mother.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 103<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>No, it does not all depend upon me. If it<br \/>\ndid, everything would go smoothly. But there is always a person&#8217;s character in<br \/>\nbetween. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>20 August 1961 <\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>How can I give wise advice to foolish<br \/>\npeople?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Here are two questions that do not call<br \/>\nfor a reply: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>What have you done for the Divine to make<br \/>\nso many demands? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>What have you done to the Divine to<br \/>\nreceive so many blows? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>What have you given to the Lord or done<br \/>\nfor Him, that you ask me to do something for you? I do only the Lord&#8217;s work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Where you are mistaken is to believe that<br \/>\nI am cheated <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> this is impossible because their \u201dintention\u201d is for me much clearer<br \/>\nthan their words. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But if I were to be strict with all those<br \/>\nwho try to deceive me, very few would escape this strictness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Have you never been mistaken in any of<br \/>\nyour decisions? Yes, you have been mistaken, haven&#8217;t you? and many a time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Then, by what right do you think that when<br \/>\nmy decision is not the same as yours, it is I who am mistaken? &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 104<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I know that to be with me is, for you,<br \/>\nneither a need nor a joy but a duty, and that you are happier elsewhere, with<br \/>\nsome others. So I call you only when it is necessary &#8211; not when it pleases me,<br \/>\nfor it is long since I have put my pleasure in my pocket and left it there. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>This is why I did not see you, because I<br \/>\nknew that it was quite useless, as our respective outlooks upon life and action<br \/>\nare actually much too different. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>What can you do against me? You live in<br \/>\nyour body-conscious-ness and your body is perishable. I live in my<br \/>\nspirit-consciousness and my spirit is immortal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>There we are, Lord, it is those very<br \/>\npeople to whom you have shown most love who make you responsible for their<br \/>\ndifficulties.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 105<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAY OF WORKING &nbsp; People say that you always admire the things we do, no matter what they are. &nbsp; What a strange idea! 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