{"id":4039,"date":"2013-07-13T01:53:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:53:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:01","slug":"13-30-june-1929-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/03-questions-and-answers-volume-03\/13-30-june-1929-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-13_30 June 1929.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n30 June
\n 1929<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/b>
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What
\nis the ground of the repulsion that one instinctively feels towards certain
\nanimals, such as snakes and scorpions? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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It is not an inevitable necessity that one should feel this or any
\nother repulsion. To have no repulsion at all is one of the fundamental
\nachievements of Yoga. <\/span><\/p>\n

The repulsion you speak of comes from
\nfear; if there were no fear, it would not exist. This fear is not based on
\nreason, it is instinctive; it is not individual, but racial; it is a general
\nsuggestion and belongs to the consciousness of humanity as a whole. When one
\ntakes up the human body, one accepts along with it a mass of these general
\nsuggestions, race ideas, race feelings of mankind, associations, attractions,
\nrepulsions, fears.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But from another viewpoint there is
\nsomething very personal in the nature of an attraction or repulsion; for these
\nmovements are not the same for everybody and depend mostly on the quality of
\nvibration of the vital being in different people. There are men who not only do
\nnot feel any repulsion for creatures like snakes, but have even a liking for
\nthem, a vital attraction and preference.\u00a0
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The world is full of things that are not
\npleasing or beautiful, but that is no reason why one should live in a constant
\nfeeling of repulsion for these things. All feelings of shrinking and disgust
\nand fear that disturb and weaken the human mind can be overcome. A Yogi has to
\novercome these reactions; for almost the very first step in Yoga demands that
\nyou must keep a perfect equanimity in the presence of all beings and things and
\nhappenings. Always you must remain calm, untouched and unmoved; the strength of
\nthe Yogi lies there. An entire calmness and quietness will disarm even
\ndangerous and ferocious animals when they confront you.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>
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Repulsion is a movement of ignorance. It
\nis an instinctive gesture of self-defence. But what best protects you against
\nany danger is not an unreasoning recoil but knowledge, knowledge of the nature
\nof the danger and a conscious application of the means that will remove or
\nnullify it. The ignorance from which these movements rise is a general human
\ncondition, but it can be conquered; for we are not bound to the crude human
\nnature from which the external being starts and which is all around us.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ignorance is dispelled by a growing
\nconsciousness; what you need is consciousness and always more consciousness, a
\nconsciousness pure, simple and luminous. In the light of this perfected
\nconsciousness, things appear as they are and not as they want to appear. It is like
\na screen faithfully recording all things as they pass. You see there what is
\nluminous and what is dark, what is straight and what is crooked. Your
\nconsciousness becomes a screen or mirror; but this is when you are in a state
\nof contemplation, a mere observer; when you are active, it is like a
\nsearchlight. You have only to turn it on, if you want to see luminously and
\nexamine penetratingly anything in any place.\u00a0
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The way to attain to this perfect
\nconsciousness is to increase your actual consciousness beyond its present
\ngrooves and limits, to educate it, to open it to the Divine Light and to let
\nthe Divine Light work in it fully and freely. But the Light can do its full and
\nunhindered work only when you have got rid of all craving and fear, when you
\nhave no mental prejudices, no vital preferences, no physical apprehensions or
\nattractions to obscure or bind you.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Repulsion is a movement of weakness. It
\ncomes because you have been touched and hurt and recoil from what hurts you.
\nThe atmosphere of a being or man or animal or its emanations may be harmful for
\nyou, although it may not be so felt by everybody, and directly it touches you,
\nyou shrink back from it. But if you were strong enough, you could stop the
\ndanger at a distance and not let it reach or hurt you. For you would see and
\nknow at once that there was something harmful there and put <\/span>
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a barrier of defence around you, and, even if the thing came near,
\nit would not be able to touch you; you would remain unhurt and unmoved by its
\npresence. <\/span><\/p>\n

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If
\nthe Divine that is all love is the source of the creation, whence have come all
\nthe evils that abound upon earth? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

All is from the Divine; but the One Consciousness, the Supreme has
\nnot created the world directly out of itself; a Power has gone out from it and
\nhas descended through many gradations of its workings and passed through many
\nagents. There are many creators or rather \u201cformateurs\u201d, form-makers, who have
\npresided over the creation of the world. They are intermediary agents and I
\nprefer to call them \u201cFormateurs\u201d and not \u201cCreators\u201d; for what they have done is
\nto give a form and turn and nature to matter. There have been many, and some
\nhave formed things harmonious and benignant and some have shaped things
\nmischievous and evil. And some too have been distorters rather than builders,
\nfor they have interfered and spoiled what was begun well by others. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Is
\nnot this material world of ours very low down in the scale in the system of
\nworlds that form the creation? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Ours is the most material world, but it is not necessarily \u201clow
\ndown\u201d, at least, not for that reason; if it is low down, it is because it is
\nobscure and ignorant, not because it is material. It is a mistake to make
\n\u201cmatter\u201d a synonym for obscurity and ignorance. And the material world too is
\nnot the only world in which we live: it is rather one of many in which we exist
\nsimultaneously, and in one way the most important of them all. For this world
\nof matter is the point of concentration of all the worlds; it is the field of
\nconcretisation of all the worlds; it is
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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the place where all the worlds will have to manifest. At present
\nit is disharmonious and obscure; but that is only an accident, a false start.
\nOne day it will become beautiful, rhythmic, full of light; for that is the
\nconsummation for which it was made.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n <\/font>H<\/a><\/font><\/span>OME<\/font><\/a><\/b>
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