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\n
\n27
\n November 1965<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\n  <\/span>
\n
\n   <\/span>
\n<\/font>This talk begins with Mother’s comments on
\nthe message distributed on the Darshan<\/span> day of November
\n24th.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is certainly a
\nmistake to bring down the light by force <\/span><\/i>― <\/span><\/i>to pull it down. The
\nSupramental cannot be taken by storm. When the time is ready it will open of
\nitself <\/span>― <\/span><\/i>but first there is a great deal to be done and that must be done
\npatiently and without haste.”<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Sri Aurobindo<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

It is good
\nfor reasonable people. They will say, \u201cThere, he does not promise miracles.”<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Why? Do many people have
\nthe tendency to \u201cpull down<\/span>”?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

People are
\nin a hurry, they want to see the results immediately. <\/span><\/p>\n

And then, they believe they are pulling down the Supramental <\/span>― <\/span>they pull down some small vital individuality who mocks at them
\nand in the end makes them play the shabby fool. This is what happens most often
\n<\/span>―<\/span> ninety-nine times out of a hundred.<\/span><\/p>\n

A small individuality, a vital entity who plays the big play and
\nmakes a great show, plays of light. Then the poor fellow who has \u201cpulled” is
\nbedazzled; he says, \u201cThere, it is the Supramental”, and he falls into a pit.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is only when you have touched, seen in some way and had a
\ncontact with the true Light, that you can distinguish the vital, and you
\nperceive that it is altogether like the plays of light on a stage, an
\nartificial light. But otherwise, others are dazzled <\/span>― <\/span>it is dazzling,<\/i> it is
\n\u201cwonderful”, and then they are deceived. It is only when you have seen <\/i>and when you have had the con-<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 22<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

tact with
\nthe Truth, ah! then you smile.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is quackery, but you must know the truth in order to recognise
\nquackery.<\/span><\/p>\n

At bottom, it is the same for everything. The vital is like a superstage<\/span> that gives shows <\/span>― <\/span>very
\nattractive, <\/i>dazzling, <\/i>deceptive; it is only when you know the
\nTrue Thing that you recognise immediately, instinctively, without reasoning,
\nand you say, \u201cNo, I do not want that.”\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And for everything it is so. Where it has taken a capital
\nimportance in human life is with regard to love. Vital passions, vital
\nattractions have almost everywhere taken the place of true feeling, which is
\nquiet, whereas the other puts you in ferment, gives you the feeling of
\nsomething \u201cliving”. It is very deceptive. And you do not know it, you do not
\nfeel it, you do not perceive it clearly unless you know the True Thing. If you
\nhave touched true love through the psychic and the divine union, then the other
\nthing appears hollow, thin, empty <\/span>― <\/span>an appearance and a
\ncomedy, more often tragic than comic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever one may say about it, however one may explain it, is of
\nno use at all, because he or she who is caught says immediately, \u201cOh, this is
\nnot what it is for others” <\/span>―
\n<\/span>what happens to yourself is never like what happens to others! One
\nmust have the true experience, then the whole vital appears like a masquerade <\/span>― <\/span>not attractive.<\/span><\/p>\n

And when you \u201cpull”, well, it is much more than ninety-nine times
\nout of one hundred… out of a million there is found only one case where one
\nhappens to pull the True Thing-this proves one was ready. Otherwise it is
\nalways the vital which you pull, the appearance, the theatrical show of the
\nThing, not the Thing itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

To pull is always an egoistic movement. It is a deformation of
\naspiration. True aspiration consists in a giving, a self-giving, whereas to
\npull means to want for oneself. Even if in the mind you have a vaster ambition <\/span>― <\/span>the earth, the universe <\/span>― <\/span>that means nothing,
\nthese are mental activities<\/span>.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 23<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

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

You felt nothing special on the Darshan<\/span>
\nday?<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>No<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

Sri
\nAurobindo was there from the morning till the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n

For, yes, for more than an hour he made me live, as in a concrete
\nand living vision of the condition of humanity and of the different strata of
\nhumanity in relation to the new or supramental creation. And it was wonderfully
\nclear and concrete and living…. There was all the humanity which is no longer
\naltogether animal, which has benefited by mental development and created a kind
\nof harmony in its life <\/span>―
\n<\/span>a harmony vital and artistic, literary <\/span>― <\/span>in which the large majority are content to live. They have caught
\na kind of harmony, and within it they live life as it exists in a civilised
\nsurrounding, that is to say, somewhat cultured, with refined tastes and refined
\nhabits. And all this life has a certain beauty where they are at ease, and
\nunless something catastrophic happens to them, they live happy and contented,
\nsatisfied with life. These people can be drawn (because they have a taste, they
\nare intellectually developed), they can be attracted by the new forces, the new
\nthings, the future life; for example, they can become disciples of Sri
\nAurobindo mentally, intellectually. But they do not feel at all the need to
\nchange materially; and if they were compelled to do so, it would be first of
\nall premature, unjust, and would simply create a great disorder and disturb
\ntheir life altogether uselessly.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was very clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there were some <\/span>― <\/span>rare individuals <\/span>―<\/span> who were ready to make the necessary effort to prepare for the
\ntransformation and to draw the new forces, to try to adapt Matter, to seek
\nmeans of expression, etc. These are ready for the yoga of Sri Aurobindo. They
\nare very few in number. There are even those<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 24<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

who have the
\nsense of sacrifice and are ready for a hard, painful life, if that would lead
\nor help towards this future transformation. But they should not, they should
\nnot in any way try to influence the others and make them share in their own
\neffort; it would be altogether unfair <\/span>― <\/span>not only unfair, but
\nextremely maladroit, for it would change the universal rhythm and movement, or
\nat least the terrestrial movement, and instead of helping, it would create
\nconflicts and end in a chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it was so living, so real that my whole attitude (how to say
\nit? <\/span>―<\/span> a passive attitude which is not the result of an active will),
\nthe whole position taken in the work has changed. And that has brought a peace <\/span>― <\/span>a peace and a calmness and a confidence altogether decisive. A
\ndecisive change. And even what seemed in the earlier position to be obstinacy,
\nclumsiness, inconscience, all kinds of deplorable things, all that has
\ndisappeared. It was like the vision of a great universal Rhythm in which each
\nthing takes its place and… everything is all right. And the effort for
\ntransformation, reduced to a small number, becomes a thing much more precious and
\nmuch more powerful for the realisation. It is as though a choice has been made
\nfor those who will be the pioneers of the new creation. And all these ideas of
\n\u201cspreading”, of \u201cpreparing”, or of \u201cchurning Matter”… are a childishness.
\nIt is human restlessness.<\/span><\/p>\n

The vision was of a beauty so majestic, so calm, so smiling. Oh!
\nIt was full, truly full of the divine Love. And not a divine Love that
\n\u201cpardons”-it is not at all that, not at all! Each thing in its place,
\nrealising its inner rhythm as perfectly as it can.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a very beautiful gift.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, all these things people know in some part, intellectually,
\nlike that, in idea; they know all that, but it is quite useless. In everyday
\npractice you live in another way, with a truer understanding. And there, it is
\nas though you touched the things <\/span>― <\/span>you saw them, you
\ntouched them <\/span>―
\n<\/span>in their higher disposition.<\/span><\/p>\n

It came after a vision of plants and the spontaneous beauty <\/span>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 25.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

of plants
\n(it is something so wonderful), then of the animal with so harmonious a life
\n(so long as men do not intervene), and all that was in its right place; then of
\nthe true humanity as humanity, that is to say, the maximum of what a mental
\npoise could create of beauty, harmony, charm, elegance of life, taste of living
\n<\/span>― <\/span>a taste of living in beauty, and, naturally, suppressing all that
\nis ugly and low and vulgar. It was a fine humanity <\/span>― <\/span>humanity at its maximum, but nice. And perfectly satisfied with
\nits being humanity, because it lives harmoniously. And it is perhaps also like
\na promise of what almost the whole of humanity will become under the influence
\nof the new creation. It appeared to me that it was what the supramental
\nconsciousness could make of humanity. There was even a comparison with what
\nhumanity has made of the animal species. It is extremely mixed, naturally, but
\nthings have been perfected, bettered, utilised more completely. Animality<\/span>, under the mind’s influence, has become another
\nthing, which is, naturally, something mixed because the mind was incomplete. In
\nthe same way there are examples of a harmonious humanity among well <\/span>― <\/span>balanced people, and this seemed to be what humanity could become
\nunder the supramental influence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only, it is very far ahead. You must not expect that it will be
\nimmediately <\/span>―
\n<\/span>it is very far ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is clearly, even now, a period of transition which may last
\nquite long and which is rather painful. Only, the effort, sometimes painful
\n(often painful) is compensated by a clear vision of the goal to attain, of the
\ngoal that will be attained: an assurance, yes, a certainty. But it would be
\nsomething that would have the power to eliminate all error, all deformation,
\nall the ugliness of the mental life <\/span>― <\/span>and then a humanity very
\nhappy, very satisfied with being human, not at all feeling the need of being
\nanything other than human, but with a human beauty, a human harmony.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was very charming, it was as though I lived in it. The
\ncontradictions had disappeared. It was as though I lived in this <\/span>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 26<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

perfection.
\nAnd it was almost like the ideal conceived by the supramental consciousness, of
\na humanity become as perfect as it can be. And it was very good.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this brings a great repose. The tension, the friction, all
\nthat disappeared, and the impatience. All that had completely disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

That is to say, you
\nconcentrate the work instead of diffusing it a little everywhere?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

No, it may
\nbe diffused materially, because the individuals are not necessarily collected
\ntogether. But they are few in number.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This idea of a pressing need to \u201cprepare”
\nhumanity for the new creation, this impatience has disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

It must first of all be
\nrealised in some.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Quite so.<\/span><\/p>\n

 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I was seeing, I saw that in such a concrete
\nway. Apart from those who are fit to prepare the transformation and the
\nsupramental realisation, and whose number is necessarily very restricted, there
\nmust develop more and more, in the midst of the ordinary human mass, a superior
\nhumanity which has towards the supramental being of the future or in the making
\nthe same attitude as animality<\/span>, for example, has
\ntowards man. There must be, besides those who work for the transformation and
\nwho are ready for it, a superior humanity, intermediary, which has found in
\nitself or in life this harmony with Life <\/span>― <\/span>this harmony human <\/span>― <\/span>and which has the same feeling of adoration, devotion, faithful
\nconsecration to \u201csomething” which seems to it so high that it does not even
\ntry to realise it, but worships it and feels the need of its influence, its
\nprotection, and the need to live under this influence, to have the delight of
\nbeing under this protection. It was so clear. But not this anguish, these
\ntorments of wanting something that escapes you because <\/span>― <\/span>because it is not<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 27<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

your destiny
\nyet to have it, and because the amount of transformation needed is premature
\nfor your life and it is that then which creates a disorder and suffering. <\/span><\/p>\n

For example, one of the very concrete things that brings out the
\nproblem well: humanity has the sexual impulse in a way altogether natural,
\nspontaneous and, I would say, legitimate. This impulse will naturally and
\nspontaneously disappear with animality<\/span>. Many other
\nthings will disappear, as for example the need to eat and perhaps also the need
\nto sleep in the way we sleep now. But the most conscious impulse in a superior
\nhumanity, which has continued as a source of… bliss is a big word, but joy,
\ndelight <\/span>―
\n<\/span>is certainly the sexual activity, and that will have absolutely no
\nreason for existence in the functions of Nature when the need to create in that
\nway will no longer exist. Therefore, the capacity of entering into relation
\nwith the joy of life will rise by one step or will be oriented differently. But
\nwhat the ancient spiritual aspirants had sought on principle <\/span>― <\/span>sexual negation <\/span>―
\n<\/span>is an absurd thing, because this must be only for those who have
\ngone beyond this stage and no longer have animality<\/span>
\nin them. And it must drop off naturally, without effort and without struggle.
\nTo make of it a centre of conflict and struggle is ridiculous. It is only when
\nthe consciousness ceases to be human that it drops off quite naturally. Here
\nalso there is a transition which may be somewhat difficult, because the beings
\nof transition are always in an unstable equilibrium; but within oneself there
\nis a kind of flame and a need which makes it not painful <\/span>― <\/span>it is not painful effort, it is something that one can do with a
\nsmile. But to seek to impose it upon those who are not ready for this
\ntransition is absurd.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is common sense. They are human, but they must not pretend that
\nthey are not.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is only when spontaneously the impulse becomes impossible for
\nyou, when you feel that it is something painful and contrary to your deeper
\nneed that it becomes easy; then, well, externally you cut these bonds and it is
\nfinished.<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 28<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

It is one of
\nthe most convincing examples.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the same with regard to food. It will be the same thing.
\nWhen animality<\/span> will drop off, the absolute necessity
\nof food also will drop off. And there will probably be a transition where one
\nwill have less and less purely material food. For example, when you smell
\nflowers it is nourishing. I have seen it, you nourish yourself in a more subtle
\nway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only, the body is not ready. The body is not ready and it
\ndeteriorates, that is to say, it eats itself. This proves that the time has not
\ncome, that it is only an experience <\/span>― <\/span>an experience that
\nteaches you something, teaches you that it will not be a brutal refusal to come
\ninto contact with the corresponding Matter and an isolation (one cannot isolate
\noneself, it is impossible), but a communion on a higher or deeper plane.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Those who have reached the higher regions of intelligence, but
\nhave not dominated the mental faculties in them, have an innocent need that
\neverybody should think like them and be able to understand as they understand.
\nAnd when they see that others do not, cannot understand, their first reflex is
\nto be horribly shocked; they exclaim, \u201cWhat an idiot!” But they are not at all
\nidiots <\/span>―
\n<\/span>they are different, they are in another domain. You do not go and
\nsay to an animal, \u201cYou are an idiot”; you say, \u201cIt is an animal.” Well, you
\nsay, \u201cIt is a man.” It is a man; only, there are those who are no longer men
\nand are not yet gods, and they are in a situation… rather awkward.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it was so soothing, so sweet, so wonderful, this vision <\/span>― <\/span>each thing expressing its kind quite naturally.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it is quite evident that with the amplitude and totality of
\nthe vision, there comes something which is a compassion that understands <\/span>― <\/span>not that pity of the superior for the inferior: the true divine
\nCompassion, which is the total comprehension that each one is what he must be.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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