{"id":4141,"date":"2013-07-13T01:53:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2013-12-01T21:38:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T05:38:27","slug":"14-19-nov-1969-vol-11-notes-on-the-way-volume-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/11-notes-on-the-way-volume-11\/14-19-nov-1969-vol-11-notes-on-the-way-volume-11","title":{"rendered":"-14_19 Nov 1969.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-style: none;border-width: medium\">\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\">19<br \/>\n November 1969<\/font><\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\"> <\/font> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>This morning about <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>eight o&#8217;clock<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>, I could<br \/>\nhave said many things&#8230;. Because there came a day when many problems had<br \/>\ncropped up as a consequence of something that had happened, then this morning<br \/>\n(towards the end of the night), I had the experience that was the explanation.<br \/>\nAnd for two hours I lived in an absolutely clear perception (not a thought: a<br \/>\nclear perception) of the why and how of creation. It was so luminous, so clear;<br \/>\nit was irrefutable. It lasted at least for four or five hours and then it<br \/>\npetered out; gradually the experience diminished in intensity and clarity&#8230;. I<br \/>\nhad just seen many people, then&#8230; it is difficult to explain now. But all had<br \/>\nbecome so limpid; all the contrary theories, everything was at the bottom (<i>Mother looks from above<\/i>), and all the<br \/>\nexplanations, all that Sri Aurobindo had said and also some things that <span class=\"SpellE\">Th<\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\">&#1614;<\/span>eon had said were<br \/>\nseen as a consequence of the experience: each thing in its place and absolutely<br \/>\nclear. At that time I could have said it, but now it will be a little<br \/>\ndifficult. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Is it not so? In spite of what one has read and all the theories<br \/>\nand explanations, something was left (how to say it?) difficult to \u201cexplain&#8221;<br \/>\n(it is not \u201cexplaining&#8221;: that is quite trivial). For example, suffering and<br \/>\nthe will to inflict suffering, that side of the Manifestation. There has been,<br \/>\nof course, as though a prevision of the original identity of hatred and love,<br \/>\nbecause the thing was going to the extremes, but as for all the rest it was<br \/>\ndifficult. Today it is so luminously simple, yes, it is that, so obvious !&#8230; (<i>Mother looks at a note which she had<br \/>\nwritten<\/i>.) Words are nothing. And then I had scribbled with a pencil that<br \/>\nwrote badly&#8230;. I don&#8217;t know if you can see the words. To me they represented<br \/>\nsomething very exact: now they are nothing but words. (<i>The disciple reads<\/i>): <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Stability and change<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 197<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Inertia and<br \/>\ntransformation<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Yes, in the<br \/>\nLord they were evidently identical principles. And it was particularly that,<br \/>\nthe simplicity of this identity. And now they are nothing but words. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Stability and change <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Inertia and transformation <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Eternity and progress <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Unity =&#8230; (<i>The disciple is<br \/>\nnot able to make out the words<\/i>.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It was not I<br \/>\nwho wrote it, that is to say, not the ordinary consciousness, and the pencil&#8230;<br \/>\nI do not know any more what I have put down. (<i>Mother tries to read the words, but in vain.<\/i>) It was the vision of the<br \/>\ncreation \u2013 the vision, the understanding, the how, the why, the whither,<br \/>\neverything was there, the whole of it together, and clear, clear, clear&#8230;. I<br \/>\ntell you, I was in the midst of a golden glory<span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>\u2013 luminous, dazzling. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Well, the earth was there as the centre representing the creation,<br \/>\nand then there was the identity of the inertia of the stone, of what is most<br \/>\ninert, and then&#8230; (<i>Mother tries once<br \/>\nmore to read the words<\/i>.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I do not know if it will come. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(<i>Mother goes into a long<br \/>\nconcentration<\/i>.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>One might say like that&#8230; for the convenience of expression, I<br \/>\nwould say: the \u201cSupreme&#8221; and the \u201ccreation&#8221;. In the Supreme, it is a unity<br \/>\nthat contains all the possibilities perfectly unified, without any<br \/>\ndifferentiation; in creation, it is, so to say, the projection of all that<br \/>\nmakes up this unity by dividing the opposites, that is to say, by separating<br \/>\nthem (it is that which has been seized by someone who said that creation is<br \/>\nseparation):<\/span><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 198<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>for example,<br \/>\nnight and day, black and white, good and evil, etc., etc. \u2013 all that, but it is<br \/>\nour explanation. The whole of it, all together is a perfect unity, immutable<br \/>\nand&#8230; indissoluble. Creation means separation of all that constitutes this<br \/>\nunity \u2013 one might call it the division of consciousness. The division of<br \/>\nconsciousness starts from the unity conscious of its unity, in order to arrive<br \/>\nat the unity conscious of its multiplicity <i>in<br \/>\nthe unity<\/i>. And then it is this path which, because of its fragments, is<br \/>\ntranslated for us by space and time. For us, such as we are, it is possible for<br \/>\neach point of this consciousness to be conscious of itself <i>and<\/i> conscious of the original Unity. And that is the work which is<br \/>\nbeing done; that is to say, each infinitesimal element of this consciousness,<br \/>\nwhile keeping this state of consciousness, is in the process of rediscovering<br \/>\nthe state of the total original consciousness \u2013 and the result is the original<br \/>\nConsciousness conscious of its unity <i>and<\/i><br \/>\nconscious of the whole play, conscious of the innumerable elements of this<br \/>\nUnity. This for us is translated into the sense of time: moving from the<br \/>\nInconscient up to this state of Consciousness. And the Inconscient is the<br \/>\nprojection of the first Unity (if one can say it; all these words are<br \/>\naltogether senseless), of the essential unity which is only conscious of its<br \/>\nunity \u2013 yes, that is the Inconscient. And this Inconscient becomes more and<br \/>\nmore conscious in beings who are conscious of their infinitesimal existence and<br \/>\n<i>at the same time<\/i>, through what we<br \/>\ncall progress or evolution or transformation, become conscious of the original<br \/>\nUnity. And that, as it was seen, explains everything. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Words are nothing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Everything, everything from the most material to the most<br \/>\nethereal, <i>everything<\/i> finds its place<br \/>\nthere \u2013 clear, clear, clear, a vision. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>And evil, what we call evil, has its<i> indispensable<\/i> place in the whole. It will not be felt as evil the<br \/>\nmoment one becomes conscious of That \u2013 necessarily. Evil is this infinitesimal<br \/>\nelement looking at its infinitesimal consciousness; but as consciousness<\/span><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 199<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>is essentially one, it resumes, regains the<br \/>\nConsciousness of the Unity \u2013 the two together. It is that, yes, it is <i>that<\/i> which has to be realised. It is<br \/>\nthis wonderful thing, of this I had the vision at that moment&#8230;. And for the<br \/>\nbeginnings (are they the beginnings?), what is called in English the outskirts,<br \/>\nwhat is farthest from the central realisation, that becomes the multiplicity of<br \/>\nthings, and the multiplicity also of sensations, of feelings, of all&#8230; the<br \/>\nmultiplicity of consciousness. It is this act of separation that has created,<br \/>\nthat is creating the world constantly and that is creating everything at the<br \/>\nsame time: suffering, happiness, everything, everything that is created through<br \/>\nthis&#8230; what might be called \u201cdiffusion&#8221;; but it is absurd, it is not a<br \/>\ndiffusion \u2013 we ourselves live in the sense of space, so we speak of diffusion<br \/>\nand concentration, but it is nothing of the sort.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>And I understood why <span class=\"SpellE\">Th\u00e9on<\/span> used to say that we were living at the time of<br \/>\n\u201cEquilibrium&#8221;; that is to say, it is through the equilibrium of all these<br \/>\ninnumerable points of consciousness and of all these opposites that the central<br \/>\nConsciousness is rediscovered. And all that is said is stupid \u2013 at the same<br \/>\ntime as I say this, I see to what degree it is stupid. But one cannot do<br \/>\notherwise. It is something&#8230; something so <i>concrete<\/i>,<br \/>\nso true, yes, so <span class=\"SpellE\">ab-so-lu-te-ly<\/span>&#8230; that. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>As long as I was living that, it was&#8230; But perhaps I could not<br \/>\nhave said it at that time. That (<i>Mother<br \/>\npoints to the note<\/i>), I was obliged to take up some paper and jot it down,<br \/>\nand in such a way that I do not know any more what I jotted down&#8230;. The first<br \/>\nthing written was this: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Stability and change <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It was the<br \/>\nidea of the original Stability (one could say), which is translated in the Manifestation<br \/>\nby inertia. And the growth is translated by change. Then came: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Inertia and<br \/>\ntransformation<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 200<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But it is<br \/>\ngone, the sense is gone \u2013 the words had a sense. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Eternity and progress <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>They were<br \/>\nthe opposites (these three things). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Then there was a gap (<i>Mother<br \/>\ndraws a line under the triple opposition<\/i>), and once again a Pressure, and<br \/>\nthen I wrote this: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Unity = &#8230; (<i>three illegible<br \/>\nwords follow<\/i>) <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>And that was<br \/>\na much more true expression of the experience, but it is illegible \u2013 I think it<br \/>\nwas illegible deliberately. One must have the experience to be able to read it.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(The disciple tries to read the words:) <i>It seems to me that there is a word \u201crest<\/i>&#8221;? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Ah! It must<br \/>\nbe that. Rest and&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(<i>Mother goes into<br \/>\nconcentration.<\/i>) <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Is it not<br \/>\n\u201cpower&#8221;? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Ah! y<i>es<\/i>, \u201cPower and rest<br \/>\ncombined&#8221;. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Yes, that is<br \/>\nit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It was not I who chose the words, so they must have a special<br \/>\nforce \u2013 when I say \u201cI&#8221;, I mean the consciousness that is there (<i>gesture above the head<\/i>); it is not that consciousness;<br \/>\nit was something that was pressing down that compelled me to write. (<i>Mother recopies her note<\/i>\ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Stability and change <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Inertia and<br \/>\ntransformation<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 201<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Eternity and progress <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Unity = power and rest<br \/>\ncombined<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The idea is<br \/>\nthat the two combined restored that state of consciousness which wanted to<br \/>\nexpress itself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It was on the universal scale \u2013 not on the individual scale. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I put a line between the two to mean that they had not come<br \/>\ntogether. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But already, often, when<br \/>\nyou speak of this supramental experience, you say that it is a staggering<br \/>\nmovement and at the same time it is as though completely immobile. You have<br \/>\nsaid it often. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But you<br \/>\nknow, most often I do not remember what I have once said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>You say: the vibration is<br \/>\nso rapid that it is imperceptible, it is as though coagulated and immobile. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Yes. But<br \/>\nthis was really a Glory in which I lived for hours together this morning. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>And then all, all, all notions, all of them, even the most<br \/>\nintellectual, all became as&#8230; as though childishness. It was so obvious that<br \/>\none had the feeling: there is no need to speak of it ! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>All human reactions, even the highest, the purest, the noblest,<br \/>\nappeared so childish !&#8230; There is a sentence written by Sri Aurobindo<br \/>\nsomewhere that was coming all the while to me. One day, I do not remember<br \/>\nwhere, he had written something, a rather long sentence in which there was<br \/>\nthis: \u201cAnd when I feel jealous, I know that the old man is still there.&#8221; It is<br \/>\nnow perhaps more than thirty years since I read it \u2013 yes, almost thirty years \u2013<br \/>\nand I remember, when I read \u201cjealous&#8221;, I said to myself: How can Sri Aurobindo<br \/>\nbe jealous ? And so after&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 202<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>thirty years<br \/>\nI have understood what he meant by being \u201cjealous&#8221; \u2013 it is not at all what men<br \/>\ncall \u201cjealous&#8221;, it was altogether another state of consciousness. I saw it<br \/>\nclearly. And this morning it came back to me: \u201cAnd when I feel jealous, I know<br \/>\nthat the old man is still there.&#8221; To be \u201cjealous&#8221; for him did not mean what<br \/>\nwe call \u201cjealous&#8221;&#8230; It is this infinitesimal particle that we call the<br \/>\nindividual, this particle of infinitesimal consciousness which places itself at<br \/>\nthe centre, which is the centre of the perception, and which consequently<br \/>\nperceives things coming like that (<i>gesture<br \/>\ntowards oneself<\/i>) or going like that (<i>gesture<br \/>\noutward<\/i>) and all that does not come to it gives it a kind of perception<br \/>\nthat Sri Aurobindo called \u201cjealous&#8221;: the perception that things are going<br \/>\ntowards diffusion, instead of coming in towards <span class=\"SpellE\">centralisation<\/span>;<br \/>\nit was that which he called \u201cjealous&#8221;. So he said: When I feel jealous (this<br \/>\nwas what he meant to say), I know that the old man is still there; that is to<br \/>\nsay, this infinitesimal particle of consciousness can still be at the centre of<br \/>\nitself; it is the centre of action, the centre of perception, the centre of<br \/>\nsensation&#8230;.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(<i>Silence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Yes, I could notice \u2013 it is the time when I do all my physical<br \/>\nwork \u2013 I could notice that the whole work \u2013 could be done without any<br \/>\nalteration in the consciousness. It was not that which altered my<br \/>\nconsciousness; what veiled my consciousness was seeing people: it is when I<br \/>\nbegan to be here and to do what I have been doing every day: projecting the<br \/>\ndivine Consciousness upon people. But it came back&#8230; (how can one say it?) on<br \/>\nthe borders; that is to say, instead of <i>being<br \/>\n<\/i>within, I began to perceive it, when you asked me. But that feeling is no<br \/>\nlonger there \u2013 there was nothing <i>but that<\/i><br \/>\nany more ! That alone was there, and everything, everything has changed \u2013<br \/>\nappearance, meaning, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>That must be the supramental consciousness: I believe that this is<br \/>\nthe supramental consciousness.<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 203<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But one could conceive<br \/>\nvery well that for a consciousness wide and quick enough, if I may say so,<br \/>\ncapable of seeing not merely a bit of the path, but the whole path at the same<br \/>\ntime&#8230; <\/span><\/i><i><br \/>\n<span 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%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Yes, yes. <\/span><br \/>\n<span 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%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The whole would be a<br \/>\nmoving perfection<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>. <\/span><br \/>\n<span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Yes. <\/span><br \/>\n<span 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%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Evil is simply holding<br \/>\none&#8217;s vision on one small angle; then one says, \u201cIt is evil&#8221;, but if one sees the<br \/>\nentire path&#8230; In a total consciousness, obviously there is no evil. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>There are no<br \/>\ncontraries. No <i>contraries<\/i> \u2013 not even<br \/>\ncontradictions; I say: no contraries. It is that Unity, it is living in that<br \/>\nUnity. And that cannot be translated by thoughts or words. I am telling you, it<br \/>\nis&#8230; a vastness without limits and a light&#8230; a light without movement, and at<br \/>\nthe same time an ease&#8230; an ease not <span class=\"SpellE\">recognised<\/span> as<br \/>\nsuch. Now I am convinced that it is that, the supramental consciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>And necessarily, necessarily that must change the appearances<br \/>\ngradually. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(<i>Long silence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>There are no words that can explain the magnificence of the Grace,<br \/>\nhow the whole is combined so that all may go as quickly as possible. And<br \/>\nindividuals are miserable to the extent to which they are not conscious of it<br \/>\nand take a false position in regard to what is happening to them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But what is difficult to<br \/>\nthink is that at each moment<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>it must be&#8230; it is the<br \/>\nperfection<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 204<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Yes, that is<br \/>\nit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>At each instant, it is the<br \/>\nperfection<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>At <i>each<\/i> instant. There is no other thing&#8230;<br \/>\nWhen I was there, there was no other thing. And yet, as I have told you, it was<br \/>\nthe time when I was physically extremely busy \u2013 all the work was being done,<br \/>\nwithout disturbing <i>anything<\/i>; on the contrary,<br \/>\nI believe I was doing things much better than usual&#8230; I do not know how to<br \/>\nexplain. It was not, as it were, a thing \u201cadded&#8221;: it was quite natural. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Life as it is can be lived in that consciousness \u2013 but it is then<br \/>\nlived quite well !&#8230; Nothing needs to be changed, what is to be changed<br \/>\nchanges itself quite naturally. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I am going to give you an example. For a few days, I had some<br \/>\ndifficulty with&#8230; I will not name him; pressure had to be put on him to<br \/>\ncorrect some of his movements. Today he was conscious of it in quite a<br \/>\ndifferent way from the usual, and in the end he said that he was on the way to<br \/>\nchange (that is true), and all that not only without a word, but without any<br \/>\nmovement of the consciousness for putting pressure. There you are. That is a<br \/>\nproof&#8230;. All is done automatically, as an <i>imposition<\/i><br \/>\nof the Truth without any necessity of intervention: simply to remain in the<br \/>\ntrue consciousness, that is all, that is sufficient. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But then, in spite of everything, the body kept just a little<br \/>\nconsciousness of its needs all the while (although it was not busy with itself;<br \/>\nI was always saying: It is not busy with itself, it is not interested). But<br \/>\nthat is what Sri Aurobindo used to say: I feel I am still the old man. I<br \/>\nunderstood that this morning, for it was no longer there. Well, this sort of a<br \/>\nvery quiet perception of what is still not all right \u2013 a pain here, a<br \/>\ndifficulty there \u2013 very calm, very indifferent, but it is <i>perceived<\/i> (without its taking any importance), and even that gone,<br \/>\nwholly <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 205<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>swept away<br \/>\n!&#8230; I hope it won&#8217;t come back. It is really&#8230; this, I understand, it is a<br \/>\ntransformation. One is conscious in a golden vastness \u2013 my child, it is<br \/>\nwonderful \u2013 luminous, golden, peaceful, eternal, all-powerful. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>And how it is coming&#8230;. No word is there to express it indeed,<br \/>\nthis wonder regarding the Grace&#8230;. The Grace, the Grace is a thing that<br \/>\nsurpasses all comprehension, with its clear-seeing kindliness&#8230;. Naturally the<br \/>\nbody had the experience. Something had happened that I will not tell you and it<br \/>\nhad the true reaction; it had not the old reaction, it had the true reaction \u2013<br \/>\nit smiled, with the Smile of the supreme Lord \u2013 it smiled. That was there for a<br \/>\nwhole day and a half. And it was this difficulty which enabled the body to make<br \/>\nthe last progress, enabled it to live in this Consciousness: if all had been<br \/>\nharmonious, things could have lasted still for years \u2013 it is wonderful,<br \/>\nwonderful !<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>And how stupid men are ! When the Grace has come to them, they<br \/>\npush it away, saying, \u201cOh! What horror!&#8221;&#8230; That I have known for a long time,<br \/>\nbut my experience is&#8230; dazzling. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Yes, each thing is<br \/>\nperfectly, wonderfully what it ought to be at every moment. <\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Quite so. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But it is our vision<br \/>\nthat is not attuned<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Yes, it is<br \/>\nour separated consciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The whole has been brought with lightning rapidity towards the<br \/>\nconsciousness that will be the Consciousness of the point and of the all, at<br \/>\nthe same time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(<i>Long silence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(<i>Mother finishes recopying her note<\/i>.) There,<br \/>\nnow I am writing today&#8217;s date. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 206<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It is the 19th. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>19 November 1969<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>, supramental consciousness. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(<i>Silence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The first descent of the supramental force was a 29, and this is a<br \/>\n19&#8230; The 9 is something to note there&#8230;. So many things there are which we do<br \/>\nnot know ! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(<i>Silence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I have already had the experience, partially, that when one is in<br \/>\nthis state of inner harmony and no part of the attention is turned towards the<br \/>\nbody, the body works perfectly well. It is this&#8230; \u201cself-concentration&#8221; which<br \/>\nupsets everything. And this I have observed many times, many times&#8230;. In<br \/>\nreality one does <i>make<\/i> oneself ill. It<br \/>\nis the narrowness of consciousness, the division. If you let it work, there<br \/>\nis&#8230; everywhere there is a Consciousness and a Grace that do everything so<br \/>\nthat all may go well, and it is because of this imbecility that all goes wrong<br \/>\n\u2013 it is strange ! The ego-centric imbecility, it is that which Sri Aurobindo<br \/>\ncalls \u201cthe old man&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It is truly interesting. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 207<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 November 1969 &nbsp; This morning about eight o&#8217;clock, I could have said many things&#8230;. 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