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\nASTROLOGY<\/font><\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Do not fear for your life − the astrologers do not always say the
\ntruth. <\/span><\/p>\n

7 November 1939<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

The stars have no decisive influence. It is only if one does not believe
\nin the Divine that one unnecessarily suffers by believing that they determine
\none\u2019s life. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have known many astrologers both in <\/span>Europe<\/span> and <\/span>India<\/span>. So far, nobody has been able to read the
\nfuture correctly. There are three reasons for the failure. First, the
\nastrologers do not know how to read the future properly. Secondly, the
\nhoroscope is always incorrectly made − unless a man is a mathematical <\/span>genius. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b9 Tape-recorded.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 37<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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\nAnd even
\nfor such a person it is very difficult to make a correct horoscope. Thirdly,
\nwhen people say that the stars in this or that house at the time of birth rule
\nyour life, they are quite wrong. The stars under which you are born are only
\n\u201ctape-recorders\u201d of physical conditions. They do not rule the future of the
\nsoul. There is something beyond, which rules the stars themselves and
\neverything else. The soul belongs to this Supreme Being. And if it is doing
\nYoga, then all the more it should never believe in the power of the stars or in
\nany other power. <\/span><\/p>\n

An astrologer who predicts a catastrophe for you is like a joker. Many
\njokers say things like, \u201cToday you will break your neck!\u201d But in spite of the
\njoke nothing happens. <\/span><\/p>\n

Only a great Yogi can tell you your future correctly. But even then there
\nis the Supreme Will which alone controls and decides everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

8 September 1961<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

X who has been studying astrology has
\nprepared my horoscope. I send it to you to see. Do you think the indications he
\nhas given in it for my future have any value? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The horoscope is
\nsufficiently vague and favourable<\/span> to be taken in
\nconsideration as the base of a mental conception for your future. <\/span><\/p>\n

The most important factor in a horoscope is the intuitive faculty of the
\nastrologer. <\/span><\/p>\n

6 May 1964<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

Why do you believe in what the astrologers say? It is the belief that
\nbrings the trouble. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Aurobindo<\/span> says that a man becomes what he
\nthinks he is. <\/span><\/p>\n

1965<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 38<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

Horoscopes have no importance for those who take up yoga, because the
\ninfluence that works through yoga is much more powerful than the influence of
\nthe stars. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

PALMISTRY<\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Palmistry is a very interesting art, but it depends for its exactitude
\nand truthfulness almost entirely upon the real ability of the one who practises<\/span> it. Moreover, it relates only to the material
\ndestiny and this destiny can be altered by the intervention of the higher
\nforces. <\/span><\/p>\n

3 January 1951<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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

NUMBERS<\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>1 − The One <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>2 − Decision for Creation <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>3 − Beginning of Creation <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>4 − Manifestation <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>5 − Power <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>6 − Creation <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>7 − Realisation<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>8 − Occult Formation <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>9 − Power of Static Fulfilment<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>10 − Power of Expression <\/span><\/p>\n

11 − Progress<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>12 − Perfect Manifestation Stabilised<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 39<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>1 − The Origin <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>2 − Appearance of the Creative Consciousness
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>3 − Sachchidananda<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>4 − Manifestation<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>5 − Power<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>6 − New Creation<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>7 − Realisation<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>8 − Double Enclosure ( protection from
\ninner and outer enemies )<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>9 − New Birth <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>10 − Perfection <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>11 − Progress <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>12 − Double Perfection
\n(spiritual and material) <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>14 − Transformations <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

This morning after Pranam<\/span>,
\nThou blest me with four flowers of Sincerity. I feel that there is special
\nsignificance in it, but I am unable to find out the same. May I know it?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

When I picked up the
\nflowers to give you, I felt that several were coming and I willed: \u201cLet it be
\nthe number of the states of the being in which the Sincerity (in the
\nconsecration to the Divine) will be definitively established.\u201d Four means
\nintegrality: the four states of being, mental, psychic, vital, physical. <\/span><\/p>\n

27 December 1933<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

COLOURS<\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Can one tell when the colour<\/span>
\nyellow indicates the mind and when it indicates light? <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage − 40<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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Greenish yellow is
\nmental. <\/span><\/p>\n

Orange yellow is the symbol of light. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

SYMBOLS<\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

The fox on the envelope means cleverness. <\/span><\/p>\n

8 January 1932<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

It is a hare − \u201cprudence\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

9 February 1932<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

Mother, what does the deer signify? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Gentleness and
\nswiftness of movement. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Generally a snake symbolises<\/span> a movement of
\nfalsehood. When something in the nature is in affinity with falsehood, snakes
\nare attracted. The nature of the falsehood is indicated by the nature of the
\nsnake and the plane where it appears. <\/span><\/p>\n

30 August 1932<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

Please tell me what the horse means. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The horse signifies the powers of the individual being, which must be
\ncontrolled (bridled). <\/span><\/p>\n

1 January 1933<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 41<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

What is the meaning of the drawing You
\nsent me on the envelope? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

It is a lamb<\/i>, which means \u201cpurity\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

4 January 1933<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What is the significance of the picture
\nYou sent me? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

This boar is the
\nsymbol of desires. <\/span><\/p>\n

1933 <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

(Significance of the falcon) <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Keen sight. <\/span><\/p>\n

1933<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

The snake is not the symbol of power but of\u00a0 <\/span>energy<\/i>,
\nand just as there are obscure and perverted energies, so too the snake can be
\nthe symbol of unregenerate and anti-divine forces. <\/span><\/p>\n

29 May 1934 <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

Does the cow really have a special
\nsanctity or is it merely a tradition based on economic needs? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Mere tradition
\nbased on old symbols. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Mother, what is the meaning of the house
\nin the picture? <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 42<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

I do not remember
\nthe picture I sent. A house is generally a place of rest and safety. <\/span><\/p>\n

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

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This little badge was chosen as it is − a single ball hanging from
\na cord made of countless silk threads − for the following reasons. <\/span><\/p>\n

The ball − the globe − is a symbol of universality,
\nintegrality, infinity. One, it becomes the symbol of the Supreme Oneness
\nmanifested in all the domains of the being − the multiplicity −
\nrepresented by the silk cord. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

In the picture which I received today from
\nThee, I see someone offering with two hands a full-bloomed red lotus, a lotus
\nbud and a garland. The background of the picture is yellow in colour<\/span>. What do all these signify? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The red lotus is
\nthe symbol of the Avatar and the offering of the red lotus is meant to suggest
\nthe full consecration to the Avatar; the yellow background represents the supramental<\/span> manifestation. <\/span><\/p>\n

8 November 1933<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\n\u00a0<\/span>Page – 43<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

What is symbolised<\/span>
\nby the waterfall in the picture you have given me? Is it not the current of
\nyour serene peace and of your divine force which constantly floods me? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, it is the
\nsymbol of the descent of the divine forces upon the physical plane. <\/span><\/p>\n

25 January 1934<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Water signifies many things such as fluidity, plasticity, suppleness,
\nthe purifying principle. It is the driving force and marks the beginning of organised<\/span> life.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Water corresponds to the vital, air to mind, fire to the psychic, earth to
\nmatter and ether to the spirit. <\/span><\/p>\n

20 August 1955<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

The diamond is the symbol of pure spiritual light. No hostile force can
\ncross it. If you put that light on a hostile force, he simply melts away. But
\nthe diamond light cannot be used indiscriminately in all cases, because human
\nbeings who shelter these adverse forces get very dangerously affected. <\/span><\/p>\n

Of course I am not speaking of material diamonds.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

What is the relation between the Supramental<\/span> Light and the solar light? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The solar light is
\nthe symbol of the supramental<\/span> light. <\/span><\/p>\n

9 July 1965<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span>Page – 44<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

We invoke the solar light, symbol of the Supreme Lord, to give us the
\nLight of Truth. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Symbols are a convention, and their value is the same as the value of
\nthe languages. <\/span><\/p>\n

10 April 1966<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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