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\nExperiences of the Mother <\/span><\/i><\/b>  <\/span><\/p>\n

TRANSCRIPTS OF EXPERIENCES<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Compassion and gratitude are essentially
\npsychic virtues. They appear in the consciousness only when the psychic being
\ntakes part in active life. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The vital and the physical experience them
\nas weaknesses, for they curb the free expression of their impulses, which are
\nbased on the power of strength. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>As always, the mind, when insufficiently
\neducated, is the accomplice of the vital being and the slave of the physical
\nnature, whose laws, so overpowering in their half-conscious mechanism, it does
\nnot fully understand. When the mind awakens to the awareness of the first
\npsychic movements, it distorts them in its ignorance and changes compassion
\ninto pity or at best into charity, and gratitude into the wish to repay,
\nfollowed, little by little, by the capacity to recognise<\/span>
\nand admire. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It is only when the psychic consciousness
\nis all-powerful in the being that compassion for all that needs help, in
\nwhatever domain, and gratitude for all that manifests the divine presence and
\ngrace, in whatever form, are expressed in all their original and luminous
\npurity, without mixing compassion with any trace of condescension or gratitude
\nwith any sense of inferiority. <\/span><\/p>\n

15 June 1952<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Divine is everywhere and in all, He is
\nall. Yes, in His essence and His supreme reality. But in the world of
\nprogressive material manifestation, one must identify not with the Divine as He
\nis, but with the Divine as He will be. <\/span><\/p>\n

30 June 1952<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 297<\/span><\/p>\n

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SOME EXPERIENCES OF THE BODY CONSCIOUSNESS<\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>One can say with equal exactitude that all
\nis divine and that nothing is divine. Everything depends upon the angle from
\nwhich one looks at the problem. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Similarly one can say that the Divine is perpetually
\nbecoming and also that he is immutable for all eternity. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>To deny and to affirm the existence of God
\nare both equally true; but each is true only partially. It is by rising above
\nboth affirmation and negation that one can approach the truth. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>One can say further that whatever happens
\nin the world is the result of the divine will and also that this will has to be
\nexpressed and manifested in a world that contradicts or deforms it. In
\npractice, these two attitudes lead in the one case to peaceful submission to
\nwhatever happens, and in the other, on the contrary, to a ceaseless struggle to
\nbring about the victory of what should be. In order to live the truth, one must
\nknow how to rise above the two attitudes and combine them. <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>April 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Keep your conviction if it helps you to
\nbuild your life, but know also that it is only one conviction and that others
\nare as good and true as yours. <\/span><\/p>\n

April 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Tolerance is full of a sense of
\nsuperiority; it should be replaced by a total understanding. <\/span><\/p>\n

April 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Truth is not linear but global; it is
\nnot successive but simultaneous.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 298<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nTherefore it cannot be expressed in words: it has to be lived. <\/span><\/p>\n

April 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>To acquire a perfect and total
\nconsciousness of the world as it is in all its details, one must have, at the
\noutset, no personal reaction to any of these details, no spiritual preference
\neven as to what they ought to be. In other words, a total acceptance with a
\nperfect indifference and neutrality is the indispensable condition for a
\nknowledge by integral identity. If there be a single detail, however small,
\nwhich escapes the neutrality, that detail escapes also the identification.
\nTherefore, the absence of all personal reaction, for whatever end it may be,
\neven the most exalted, is a primary necessity for a total knowledge. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>One can thus say, paradoxically, that we
\ncan know a thing only when we are not interested in it, or rather, more
\nexactly, when we are not personally concerned with it. <\/span><\/p>\n

April 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Every time a god has taken a body, it has
\nalways been with the intention of transforming the earth and creating a new
\nworld. But till today, he has always had to give up his body without completing
\nhis work. And it has always been said that the earth was not ready and that men
\nhad not fulfilled the conditions necessary for the work to be achieved. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>But it is the imperfection of the
\nincarnate god that makes the perfection of those around him indispensable. If
\nthe incarnate god embodied the perfection necessary for the required progress,
\nthen this progress would not be conditioned by the state of the surrounding
\nmaterial world. And yet without any doubt, interdependence is absolute in this
\nworld of extreme objectification; therefore a certain degree of perfection in
\nthe manifestation as a whole is indispensable for a higher degree of perfection to be realised<\/span> in the incarnate divine being.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 299<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nIt is the necessity
\nof a certain perfection in the environment that compels human beings to progress;
\nit is the inadequacy of this progress, whatever it may be, that drives the
\ndivine being to intensify his endeavour<\/span> for progress
\nin his body. Thus the two movements of progress are simultaneous and complete
\neach other. <\/span><\/p>\n

April 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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NEW EXPERIENCES OF THE BODY CONSCIOUSNESS<\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>When one looks back on one\u2019s life, one
\nalmost always has the feeling that in such and such a circumstance, one could
\nhave done better, even though at every minute one was acting as dictated by the
\ninner truth. This is because the universe is perpetually in motion and what was
\nperfectly true before is only partially true today. Or to speak more exactly,
\nthe action that was necessary at the moment it was done would no longer be
\nnecessary now: another action would be more useful in its place. <\/span><\/p>\n

August 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>When we speak of transformation, the word
\nstill has for us a vague meaning. It gives us the impression that something is
\ngoing to happen and all will be well as a consequence. The notion reduces
\nitself almost to this: if we have difficulties, the difficulties will
\ndisappear; those who are ill will be cured of their illness; if the body is
\ninfirm and incapable, the infirmities and incapacities will be removed; and so
\non. But as I have said, it is all very vague, it is only an impression. Now a
\nremarkable thing about the body consciousness is that it is unable to know a
\nthing with precision and in full detail except when it is on the point of
\naccomplishing it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 300<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nSo, when the
\nprocess of transformation becomes clear, when one is able to know through what
\nsequence of movements and changes the total transformation will take place −
\nin what order, in what way, so to speak: which things will come first, which
\nthings will follow − when everything will be known in full detail, that
\nwill be a sure indication that the hour of realisation<\/span>
\nis near. Because each time you perceive a detail with exactness, it means that
\nyou are ready to accomplish it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For the moment, one can have a vision of
\nthe whole. For example, it is entirely certain that under the influence of the supramental<\/span> light, the transformation of the body
\nconsciousness will take place first; then will follow a progress in the mastery
\nand control of all the movements and functions of all the organs of the body;
\nafterwards this mastery will change little by little into a sort of radical
\nmodification of the movement and then of the constitution of the organs
\nthemselves. All that is certain, although the perception of it is not precise
\nenough. But what will finally take place − when the various organs have
\nbeen replaced by centres<\/span> of concentration of
\ndifferent forces, qualities and natures, each of which will act according to
\nits own special mode \u2014 all this is still merely a conception and the body does
\nnot comprehend it very well, because it is still far from realisation<\/span>
\nand the body can truly comprehend only that which it is on the point of being
\nable to do. <\/span><\/p>\n

August 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The supramental<\/span>
\nbody will be unsexed, since the need for animal procreation will no longer
\nexist. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The human form will retain only its
\nsymbolic beauty, and one can foresee even now the disappearance of certain
\nungainly  <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 301<\/span><\/p>\n

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protuberances,
\nsuch as the genital organs of man and the mammary glands of woman. <\/span><\/p>\n

August 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It is only in its external form, its most
\nsuperficial appearance − which is as illusive to the latest discoveries
\nof the Science of today as to the experience of the spirituality of the past −
\nthat the body is not divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

August 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>O Supreme Reality, O Supramental<\/span>
\nTruth, this body is totally vibrant with an intense gratitude. Thou hast given
\nto it, one after another, all the experiences that can lead it most certainly
\ntowards Thee. It has come to the point where identification with Thee is not
\nmerely the one thing desirable, but the only thing possible and natural. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>How am I to describe these experiences
\nthat are at two opposite extremes? From one end I would say: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u201cLord, to be truly near Thee, to be truly
\nworthy of Thee, one must drink to the dregs the cup of humiliation and yet not
\nfeel humiliated. The contempt of man makes one truly free and ready to belong
\nto Thee alone.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And from the other end I would say: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u201cLord, to be truly near Thee, to be truly
\nworthy of Thee, one must be lifted to the peak of human appreciation and yet
\nnot feel glorified. It is when men call one divine that one feels one\u2019s
\ninadequacy and the need to be truly and totally identified with Thee.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The two experiences are simultaneous: the
\none does not blot out the other; on the contrary, they seem to complete each
\nother and thereby become more intense. In this intensity the aspiration grows
\nformidable, and in answer to it Thy Presence becomes  <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 302<\/span><\/p>\n

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evident in the
\ncells themselves, giving to the body the appearance of a multicoloured<\/span>
\nkaleidoscope in which innumerable luminous particles in constant motion are sovereignly<\/span> reorganised<\/span> by an
\ninvisible and all-powerful Hand. <\/span><\/p>\n

August 1954<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 303<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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