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\n12
\nOctober 1955 <\/font> <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mother reads The Great Secret:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

The Unknown Man. <\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

When is it going to happen, eh? There.
\nThat’s the question I was waiting for. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>(To a child<\/i>) What did you want to ask? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

What you said just now. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

You see, I know how to read thoughts.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

And so, if I were to say that it depends
\nupon you? It is not altogether true, but still there is something true in it.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

I think that this will happen the moment
\nthere is a sufficiently large number of consciousnesses which feel absolutely
\nthat it cannot be otherwise. Now, most people, the immense majority among you
\nhave to make an effort to imagine what it will be, and at best, speculate upon
\nit and perhaps hope that this transformation will make things more pleasing,
\nmore pleasant \u2013 something like that. But your consciousness is so attached to
\nwhat is, that it even finds it difficult to imagine that things can be
\notherwise. And until what must be becomes for a sufficiently big group of consciousnesses
\nan inevitable necessity, and all that has been and all that still is at present
\nappears like an absurdity which cannot last… it is at that moment that this
\ncan take place, not before.  <\/span><\/p>\n

There remains a problem, namely, whether
\nit is something which can take place and will take place individually before
\noccurring collectively. It is probable. But no individual realisation can be
\ncomplete nor even approach this perfection if it is not in harmony with at
\nleast a group of consciousnesses representative of a new world. In spite of
\neverything there is so great an interdependence of the individual and the
\ncollectivity, that the <\/span><\/p>\n

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individual realisation, despite all, is
\nlimited, impoverished by the irresponsive atmosphere \u2013 if I may say so \u2013 of
\nwhat surrounds it. And it is certain that the entire terrestrial life has to
\nfollow a certain curve of progress, so that a new world and a new consciousness
\ncan manifest. And that is why I said at the beginning that it depends at least
\npartially on you.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Have you ever tried to picture what this
\nnew consciousness could be and what a new race could be like, and finally what
\na new world could be like?  <\/span><\/p>\n

By analogy, it is quite obvious that the
\narrival of man upon earth has changed the earth-condition. I cannot say that
\nfrom a certain point of view this was for the greatest good of all, because
\nthere are many who have suffered terribly from it, and here it is obvious that
\nthe complications the human being has brought into life have not always been
\nvery favourable either for him or for others. But from a certain point of view
\nthis has brought about a considerable progress, even in the lower species: man
\nmeddled with the life of animals, he meddled with the life of plants, he
\nmeddled with the life of metals, of minerals; as I said, it was not always for
\nthe greatest joy of those he dealt with, but still it certainly changed their
\nconditions of life considerably. Well, in the same way, it is probable that the
\nsupramental being, whatever it might be, will considerably change the life of
\nthe earth. In our heart and our thought we hope that all the evils the earth
\nsuffers from will be at least ameliorated if not cured, and that the general
\nconditions will be more harmonious, and in any case more tolerable. This may
\nhappen, because it was the very nature of the mental consciousness which
\nincarnated in man, who acted for his own satisfaction, with his own development
\nin view and without much consideration for the consequences of his actions.
\nPerhaps the Supermind will act more harmoniously. In any case we hope so. That
\nis how we conceive of it. <\/span><\/p>\n

But I am asking you, in turn, a question:
\nhave you thought of it? Have you thought of what it could be?
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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(To
\na child<\/i>) You, have you thought about it? (To another child<\/i>) You? No? You have thought about it? Then tell me
\nwhat you have thought. Naturally I am not asking you to repeat to me what you
\nhave read in Sri Aurobindo’s books, because that’s not what is in question: you
\nmust endeavour to imagine and live something yourself.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Can’t you tell me? Nor you? You can’t tell
\nme? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Mother, because of our imperfection we have to do something. But when
\nthe supramental race descends, it will be perfect; then what will be there to
\ndo? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Perfect! Perfect in comparison with us but
\nnot in comparison with what will come later. The world is in perpetual movement
\nand perpetual progression, and it is very obvious that each time a new
\nconsciousness has manifested upon earth, one has felt that it would be…
\nperhaps not a definitive realisation but in any case a considerable progress.
\nAnd it is also very obvious that for… say, the consciousness of an elephant
\nor a dog… human capacities are something absolutely marvellous. To the extent
\nthey are able to understand it, imagine it, sense it \u2013 dogs sense them \u2013 human
\nfaculties are for them something divine. And it is because we, indeed, have
\ncome to a stage where we perceive something beyond (that’s what I have said in
\nthere, haven’t I?), it’s because of this that we are not satisfied with all
\nthat we do; it’s because of this that there is the feeling that whatever we may
\ndo, there is something which escapes us \u2013 that the real thing escapes us, that
\nwe are turning round it but don’t touch it. It’s because we are ready for this
\nsomething. Otherwise, if we did not understand that, we would be absolutely
\nsatisfied with what we can do and there would simply remain the effort to do it
\nbetter and better. It is the beginning of a new expression. This need, for
\ninstance, of something which would be more essentially true; something which
\nwould be… on which one could count, which does not collapse when one leans
\nupon it, some- <\/span><\/p>\n

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thing which gives us a lasting, permanent
\nsupport; this need of eternity which we have in ourselves, this need of an
\nabsolute, of an absolute truth, an absolute good, an absolute beauty \u2013 this
\nindeed awakens at the moment one is ready to receive a new consciousness.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

It is certain that
\nfor a very long time, perhaps from the very beginning (not the beginning from
\nthe evolutionary standpoint, because there were periods of intermediate beings
\nwho were much nearer the animal than the true man), when this human form was
\ndeveloped enough and ready to receive something from above, when the first
\nbeings of the higher worlds incarnated in human forms, from that time there
\nwere always individuals who carried in themselves this need for eternity and
\nthe absolute. But it was something individual. And it is only gradually and
\nvery progressively, through consecutive periods of light and darkness, that in
\nthe whole of humanity something has awakened to the need of a higher good.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

It is quite obvious that now, through all
\nthe swirlings and all the stupidities, there is an awakening need, almost a
\nkind of sensation of what this could and should be \u2013 which means that the time
\nis near. For a very long time it has been said, \u201cIt will be, it will be\u201d, and
\nit was promised… thousands and thousands of years ago they had already begun
\nto promise that there would be a new consciousness, a new world, something
\ndivine which would manifest upon earth, but it was said, \u201cIt will be, it will
\nbe\u201d, like that; they spoke of ages, eons, thousands and millions of years. They
\ndid not have this sensation which we now have, that it must come, that it is
\nvery close. Of course human life is very short and there is a tendency to wish
\nto shorten the distances so that they may be in proportion to the dimensions;
\nbut in spite of all, there will come a moment when it happens… there will be
\na time when it happens, there will be a time when the movement swings over into
\na new reality… There was a time when the mental being could manifest upon
\nearth. The starting point might have been poor, very incomplete, very partial,
\nbut
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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all the same there was a starting point.
\nWhy can’t it be now?<\/span><\/p>\n

… That’s all. <\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps if those who from the beginning
\nhave proclaimed that it would be, those very people say, \u201cIt is going to be\u2026\u201d,
\nafter all, perhaps they are the best informed. I am considering how from the
\nbeginning of the earth’s history (we shall not go farther back to the
\nantecedents, you know, for we have already enough to do with the earth), from
\nthe beginning of the earth’s history, in one form or another, under one name or
\nanother, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great terrestrial
\ntransformations; and so when he tells you, \u201cWell, this is the right time\u201d,
\nperhaps he knows. That’s all that I can say.  <\/span><\/p>\n

So, if it is the right time, this is how
\nthe problem is put: there are people who are ready or will become ready, and
\nthese precisely will be the first to start on the new path. There are others
\nwho, perhaps, will become aware of it too late, who will have missed the
\nopportunity; I think there will be many of this kind. But in any case, my point
\nof view is this: even if there should be only half a chance, it would be worth
\nthe trouble of trying. For after all… I don’t know… I told you just now,
\nthere is a moment when life such as it is, the human consciousness such as it
\nis, seems something absolutely impossible to bear, it creates a kind of
\ndisgust, repugnance; one says, \u201cNo, it is not that, it is not that; it can’t be
\nthat, it can’t continue.\u201d Well, when one comes to this, there is only to throw
\nin one’s all \u2013 all one’s effort, all one’s strength, all one’s life, all one’s
\nbeing \u2013 into this chance, if you like, or this exceptional opportunity that is
\ngiven to cross over to the other side. What a relief to set foot on the new
\npath, that which will lead you elsewhere! This is worth the trouble of casting
\nbehind much luggage, of getting rid of many things in order to be able to take
\nthat leap. That’s how I see the problem.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

In fact it is the sublimest of adventures,
\nand if one has in him in the slightest the true spirit of adventure, it is
\nworth risking all for all. But those who are afraid, who wonder, \u201cAm I <\/span><\/p>\n

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not going to let go the substance for the
\nshadow?\u201d according to the most banal proverb one can imagine, those who tell
\nthemselves, \u201cBah! After all it is better to profit by what one has than to risk
\nlosing everything, we don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow, let us take
\nprecautions\u201d… unfortunately this is very widespread, extremely widespread…
\nwell, about those who are in this state of mind, I can assure you of one thing:
\nthat even when the thing occurs before their very nose, they will not perceive
\nit. They will say, \u201cIt is good, in this way I won’t regret anything.\u201d It is
\npossible. But perhaps later they will; this we do not know.  <\/span><\/p>\n

In any case what I call being sincere is
\nthis: if one thinks that this new realisation is the only thing which is truly
\nworth being lived; if what is, is intolerable \u2013 not only for oneself, perhaps
\nnot so much for oneself… but still, if one is not absolutely selfish and
\nmean, one feels that, truly, it has lasted long enough, that one has had enough
\nof it, that it must change \u2013 well, when one feels like that, one takes
\neverything, all that one is, all that one can, all that one has, and one throws
\noneself into it completely without ever looking behind, and come what may! I
\nindeed feel that it would be preferable even to plunge into an abyss in this
\nway than to be on the shore, trembling and wondering, \u201cWhat will happen to me
\ntomorrow if I take this rather rash step?\u201d There we are. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is preferable to buck up a little, as
\nthey say familiarly, and chance it! That’s my opinion.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Now if you have something else to say, say
\nit. (To a child<\/i>) And you, are you among
\nthe satisfied ones or among those who want this to change? I won’t ask
\nindiscreet questions!  <\/span><\/p>\n

(Silence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Mother, what you have just said implies that the transformation of
\nconsciousness and that of life go together, doesn’t it? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Because in the text it is said: One must first transform the
\nconsciousness, then life… <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

To tell you the truth, not very much is
\nasked for life at the moment: just a little \u2013 what I call little things. It is
\nobvious, yes… you see, if you were asked not to live completely like an
\nanimal… not completely, because not to live even partially is at present
\ndifficult… however, not to live completely like an animal, that is a change
\nin life. But it doesn’t go further than that. You are not asked to live like
\nethereal spirits; for the moment we go gently, progressively. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But this animality… <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

No, excuse me! You mean that one thinks
\nthat he can bring along his animality into the new consciousness? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

No, but until it is ready… <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But things are not as sharply cut as that.
\nFor the animality to disappear completely, the form must be totally
\ntransformed. As long as the body-functioning, for instance, remains what it is,
\nwell, we shall participate more than enough in the animality, you see; and this
\nindeed can only disappear when, ah well, we no longer have a heart, lungs, a
\nstomach, and all the rest. We say that this will come much later.  <\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, the only thing which is very
\nimportant for the moment is the change of consciousness. And don’t think that
\nthis is so easy. If you observe yourself attentively, you will perceive that
\nyou think, feel, experience and construct like a human animal, that is, like an
\ninfrarational being who is three-fourths subconscious, through almost the whole
\nof your day. It is possible that at certain moments you escape from this; but
\nyou still need an effort to escape from it. It may happen spontaneously, as by
\ngrace, at certain moments; but most of the time you have to <\/span><\/p>\n

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make an effort to be able to catch
\nsomething which is not purely this. At any time whatever of your day, if you
\ntake just a small step backwards and observe yourself, you will catch yourself,
\nyou will see that. When is it that… suddenly, you see, if I said all of a
\nsudden, here, now, \u201cLook at yourself!\u201d like that, without warning you
\nbeforehand, what was it, there in the field of your consciousness? If you catch
\nthat, you will see; certainly at least ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it
\nis the animal that’s there; an animal which is a little improved, you know, not
\naltogether a dog, not altogether a monkey, but still not very far from that.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

There are many things which men have
\ntransformed into marvellous virtues, which I have found in animals as spontaneous
\nmovements \u2013 and they at least have the advantage of not being proud and not
\nhaving any vanity. They did things spontaneously which, surely, were very
\nremarkable \u2013 very remarkable in devotion, abnegation, foresight, educative
\nsense. They did them spontaneously and without writing books on them and
\nboasting about them as something marvellous. Therefore much is needed to come
\nout of the animal, much more than one would think.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Mother, you were saying just now that it is very close… <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

What, very close? The event?  <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes. Otherwise we wouldn’t be speaking
\nabout it. If it had to happen in some thousands of years, it is obvious that we
\nwouldn’t need to be concerned with it except as a far-off dream. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

So this means that there is at least a fair minority that has changed? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Ah, that!… It is possible; but perhaps
\nnot many \u2013 I mean perhaps not many people.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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There are beings who could look at
\nthemselves at any moment whatever, and who wouldn’t find the animal. There are
\nnot many of them. One doesn’t speak of things unless one knows them \u2014 in any
\ncase, one should not. <\/span><\/p>\n

 (To
\na child<\/i>) So you have something to say? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Mother, what is the true reality of the universe? <\/span><\/i>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

(Long
\nsilence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you like, in a paradoxical form I would
\nsay: What the universe will become.  <\/span><\/p>\n

I could also say: Its starting point and
\nits culmination.  <\/span><\/p>\n

And also: What it is from all eternity. <\/span><\/p>\n

 Now, with all this, make up
\nsomething. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Mother, you have said in the text: \u201cAn intervention
\nwill come and prolong our life\u2026\u201d In that case our life will be prolonged until
\nwe could see the coming? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I haven’t read that to you, and it is
\npurposely that I didn’t read it to you. When one writes a drama for a public,
\none is obliged to say certain things which make it something accessible. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But it is true, isn’t it? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Whether it is the truth? Yes… That’s
\nall. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Mother, the appearance of mental man was gradual, wasn’t it, from the
\nanimal to man? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

That… There was all the same a time when
\nit became a man, isn’t that so? I told you that, from the standpoint of
\nevolution it seems like that. I indeed am not very well up in all this, you
\nsee, I can’t tell you how it happened, at least not what science
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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thinks it knows about what happened. I can
\ntell you only what I know.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Well, there was a time when what we call
\nthe human form, that is, with human capacities, was ready enough for a being
\nwith mental consciousness, entirely conscious, to be able to incarnate in it \u2013
\nand this indeed was truly the first man. Now, historically at what time this
\nhappened I can’t tell you; but it was a very long time ago. Sometime ago I came
\nacross some numbers, which seemed to me to be absolutely reasonable and
\naccurate \u2013 but that was extremely long ago. And for a very long time it was
\nlike… a kind of vast and quiet state, as when the sea has reached high-tide
\nand spreads out and is calm. It remained calm like that for a very, very, very,
\nvery long time; and it was only after very long that what we call human
\nactivity and human civilisation began to take place, and for this, even from
\nthe beginning of this till today… we have figures, haven’t we, approximately\u2026
\n? (turning to Pavitra) Pavitra, do you know them? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(Pavitra) I don’t remember them now<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

There are figures, but they are quite
\nenormous. And this is only the period that can be called historic \u2013 though it
\nisn’t so, ordinarily reckoning \u2013 but still, they have discovered signs,
\ndocuments, indications, something which can give you an idea of the time. Well,
\nall this happened only very long after the first mental consciousness
\nincarnated in a human form, which had become sufficiently human, you see, to
\nbecome a man; and probably before this form was produced there must have been
\nnumerous trials of Nature which spread out, perhaps over thousands and
\nthousands and millions of years. I don’t know. But there was a time, as I said,
\nwhen this mental consciousness was able to come and take possession of a form.
\nAfter this, as I also told you, for very, very long… in order that this form
\ncould adapt itself and perfect itself sufficiently to express this con- <\/span><\/p>\n

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sciousness completely, a very, very, very
\nlong time was necessary \u2013 that is understood. Well, it is more than probable that
\n(not more than probable, certain), that it will happen again in the same
\nway. <\/span><\/p>\n

There will come a time when a human
\nconsciousness is in the required state for a supramental consciousness to be
\nable to enter this human consciousness and manifest.  <\/span><\/p>\n

But it is possible that before this
\nbecomes a new race like the human race, it may take very, very long. And it
\nwill be done progressively. But as I say, there is one thing: when it happens,
\nit will happen. It does not happen, does not stretch out like a rubber band,
\nyou see; there is a time when it happens, when the descent takes place, the
\nfusion occurs, the identification comes about. It can be done in a flash. There
\nis a moment when it occurs. Later it may take very, very, very long; one must
\nnot hope that overnight one is going to see supermen springing up here and
\nthere. No, it won’t be like that. Only, those who will have done what I have
\nsaid, those who will have thrown themselves in entirely, risked all for all,
\nthose will know it. But they will be the only ones to know; they will know when
\nit takes place. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The others will not be able even to see? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The others? They will not even be aware of
\nit! They will continue their stupid life, without knowing what has happened. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But all the same, they will be able to see this superman before them. <\/span><\/i>(Laughter) <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Sweet Mother, what will be the attitude of the superman towards man? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

What is the attitude of man towards the
\nanimal? No, let us hope that he is a little more kind! (Laughter<\/i>)
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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But you must not delude yourself. For the
\nsupramental consciousness man is truly stupid. Yes, even with all his
\nperfections, all his realisations, all that, even with all his accomplishments,
\nwell, he seems terribly stupid. Only, that’s no reason for ill-treating him.
\nBut I don’t think that the superman will ill-treat anyone, just because he will
\nhave a consciousness which will be able to pass behind appearances. Let us hope
\nthat he will be quite kind.  <\/span><\/p>\n

There we are. That’s all?  <\/span><\/p>\n

I think it is finished, unless someone has
\na very important question to ask me. Pavitra? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(Pavitra) What will be man’s attitude towards the superman?<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Ah! (Laughter<\/i>)
\nLet us hope that it is not the same attitude as the one which man has towards all
\nhis gods, because he has rather ill-treated them. His prophets and his gods, he
\nhas put them upon the cross, he has stoned them, has burnt them alive \u2013 indeed,
\nman has behaved rather badly with all those who came to preach a new life to
\nhim. Let us hope that man becomes a little more reasonable… Now he would put
\nthem in prison. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But man has also installed them in
\ntemples! <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

No, not the being itself: the image he has
\nmanufactured after the event, and of which he has made a… a political action.
\nExcuse me, it is god made in man’s image who has been put in temples and
\nadored, for purely political reasons. But those who were in relation with…
\nthose who manifested in themselves the Divine Reality, they have been very
\nbadly received, always. History is there to prove it. Now, you see, men don’t
\nthrow stones any more, except at the poor Negroes sometimes in America; they
\ndon’t burn people alive any more, it is no longer the fa- <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
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shion \u2013 but they imprison, that happens.
\nAnd in fact (I have said this already several times), what saves those who are
\nnot altogether men, is that today the world is in such a state of ignorance
\nthat people don’t even believe any more in the reality of their power. But
\ncertainly if the governments believed in the reality of their power, they would
\nhave a bad time of it…  <\/span><\/p>\n

But let us hope that… I should say then
\nas I said for men… that the superman will be quite kind. Well, let us hope
\nfor the superman that he will know how to defend himself, that he will have some
\nmeans of defence, not too visible but sufficient.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But Mother, if man cannot see him, he doesn’t need to defend himself,
\ndoes he? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

No. It is perhaps his greatest means \u2013 the
\ngift of invisibility. (Mother laughs<\/i>)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

 You see, you always ask: \u201cBut why
\ndoesn’t he become a being manifesting supramental forces? Why doesn’t he
\nsuddenly become luminous physically? Then we would be able to know that it is
\nhe.\u201d Well, you would see what happens to the poor fellow! And it would be only
\na small thing; to be a little luminous is only a very small thing!  <\/span><\/p>\n

That’s enough for today.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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