{"id":4259,"date":"2013-07-13T01:54:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:54:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:54:38","slug":"12-7-august-1957-vol-09-questions-and-answers-volume-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/09-questions-and-answers-volume-09\/12-7-august-1957-vol-09-questions-and-answers-volume-09","title":{"rendered":"-12_7 August 1957.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><i><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">7 August 1957<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#E2961A'><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:3.0pt;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Sri<br \/>\nAurobindo has written: \u201cThe descent of the Supermind will bring to one who<br \/>\nreceives it and is fulfilled in the truth-consciousness all the possibilities<br \/>\nof the divine life. It will take up not only the whole characteristic experience<br \/>\nwhich we recognise already as constituting the spiritual life but also all<br \/>\nwhich we now exclude from that category&#8230;.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">The<br \/>\nSupramental Manifestation, p. 47<\/font><\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>So, what are you asking? What is excluded? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>What do we exclude!\u2026It depends on the person. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But what are you asking, really? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>I don\u2019t see what we are excluding. <\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Ah! that\u2019s sensible. Here we profess we are excluding nothing.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s precisely the reason. We have taken up all human activities, whatever<br \/>\nthey may be, including those that are considered the least spiritual. But I<br \/>\nmust say it is very difficult to change their nature! But still, we are trying,<br \/>\nwe put all possible goodwill into it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>It is also said that the descent will make the<br \/>\nchange easier.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>\u00b9<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">\u00b9 A divine life on earth need not be a<br \/>\nthing apart and exclusive having nothing to do with the common earthly<br \/>\nexistence: it will take up human being and human life, transform what can be<br \/>\ntransformed, spiritualise whatever can be spiritualised, cast its influence on<br \/>\nthe rest and effectuate either a radical or an uplifting change, bring about a<br \/>\ndeeper communion between the universal and the individual, invade the ideal<br \/>\nwith the spiritual truth of which it is a luminous shadow and help to uplift<br \/>\ninto or towards a greater and higher existence.\u2026It is obvious that if the<br \/>\nSupermind is there and an order of supramental being is established as the<br \/>\nleading principle in earth-nature, as mind is now the leading principle, but<br \/>\nwith a sureness, a complete govern<\/font><\/span><span class=\"SpellE\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">ment<\/font><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 165<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>There are two points which resist strongly \u2013 all that has to do<br \/>\nwith politics and all that has to do with money. These are the two points on<br \/>\nwhich it is most difficult to change the human attitude. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In principle we have<br \/>\nsaid that we have nothing to do with politics, and it is true that we have<br \/>\nnothing to do with politics as it is practised at present. But it is quite<br \/>\nobvious that if politics is taken in its true spirit, that is, as the<br \/>\norganisation of human masses and all the details of government and regulation<br \/>\nof the collective life, and relations with other collectivities \u2013 that is, with<br \/>\nother nations, other countries \u2013 it must necessarily enter into the supramental<br \/>\ntransformation, for so long as national life and the relations between nations<br \/>\nremain what they are, it is quite impossible to live a supramental life on<br \/>\nearth. So it will just have to change; we shall have to deal with that too. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>As for financial<br \/>\nmatters, that is, finding a means of exchange and production which is simple \u2013\u201csimple\u201d,<br \/>\nwell, which should be simple, simpler than the primitive system of exchange in<br \/>\nwhich people had to give one thing to get another \u2013 something which could in<br \/>\nprinciple be world-wide, universal; this is also altogether indispensable for<br \/>\nthe simplification of life. Now, with human nature, just the very opposite is<br \/>\nhappening! The situation is such that it has become almost \u2013 intolerable. It<br \/>\nhas become almost impossible to have the least relation with other countries,<br \/>\nand that much-vaunted means of exchange which should have been a simplification<br \/>\nhas become such a complication that we shall soon reach a deadlock \u2013 we are<br \/>\nvery, very close to being unable to do anything, to being tied up in<br \/>\neverything. If one wants the smallest thing from another country, one has to<br \/>\nfollow such complicated and laborious procedures that in&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\"> of the earthly existence, a capacity of transformation of all<br \/>\nupon their level and within their natural boundaries of which the mind in its imperfection<br \/>\nwas not capable, an immense change of human life, even if it did not extend to<br \/>\ntransformation would be inevitable.\u201d <\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">The<br \/>\nSupramental Manifestation, pp. 47-49<\/font><\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 166<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>the end one will stay in one\u2019s own little corner and be satisfied<br \/>\nwith the potatoes one can grow in one\u2019s garden, without hoping to know anything<br \/>\nat all about what is going on and happening elsewhere. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Well, these two points are the most resistant. In the human<br \/>\nconsciousness this is most subject to the forces of ignorance, inconscience<br \/>\nand, I must say, quite generally, ill-will. This is what most refuses all<br \/>\nprogress and all advance towards the truth; and unfortunately, in every human<br \/>\nindividual this is also the point of resistance, the point that remains<br \/>\nnarrowly stupid and refuses to understand anything it is not used to. There it<br \/>\nis truly a heroic act to want to take up these things and transform them. Well,<br \/>\nwe are trying this also, and unless it is done, it will be impossible to change<br \/>\nthe conditions of the earth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It is relatively \u2013<br \/>\nvery relatively \u2013 easier to change economic and social conditions than<br \/>\npolitical and financial ones. There are certain general, global ideas from the<br \/>\neconomic and social point of view which are accessible to human thought:<br \/>\ncertain liberations, a certain widening, a certain collective organisation,<br \/>\nwhich do not seem absolutely senseless and unrealisable; but as soon as you<br \/>\ntouch on the other two questions, which are however of capital importance,<br \/>\nespecially the political question, it is quite otherwise.\u2026For, one might<br \/>\nimagine a life which would get rid of all financial complications \u2013 although,<br \/>\nwithout playing on words, it would be a veritable impoverishment. In what<br \/>\nfinancial possibilities and processes bring, there is a very considerable wealth<br \/>\nof possibilities, for if they were used in the right way and in the true<br \/>\nspirit, that would simplify all human relations and undertakings to a very<br \/>\ngreat extent and make possible a complexity of life which would be very<br \/>\ndifficult under other conditions. But I don\u2019t know why \u2013 except that the worst<br \/>\nusually precedes the best \u2013 instead of taking the way of simplification, men<br \/>\nhave followed the way of complication to such a point that, in spite of the<br \/>\naeroplanes which carry you from one end of the world to the other in two days,<br \/>\nin spite of all the modern&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 167<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>inventions which try to make life so \u201csmall\u201d, so \u201cclose\u201d that we<br \/>\ncould go round the world not in eighty days now but in a very few days, in<br \/>\nspite of all that, the complications of exchange, for instance, are so great<br \/>\nthat many people can\u2019t get away from home \u2013 I mean from the country they live<br \/>\nin \u2013 because they have no means of going to another one and if they ask for the<br \/>\nmoney they need to live in another country they are told, \u201cIs it very important<br \/>\nfor you to go? You could perhaps wait a little, because it is very difficult<br \/>\nfor us at the moment&#8230;.\u201d I am not joking, it is quite serious, this does<br \/>\nhappen. That means we are becoming more and more the prisoners of the place<br \/>\nwhere we are born, while all the scientific trends are towards such a great<br \/>\nproximity between countries that we could very easily belong to the universe<br \/>\nor, at any rate, to the whole world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>There. This is the<br \/>\nsituation. It has grown considerably worse since the last war; it grows worse<br \/>\nyear by year, and one finds oneself in such a ridiculous situation that,<br \/>\nunfortunately, as one is at the end of one\u2019s resources, to simplify what has<br \/>\nbeen made so complicated, there is an idea in the earth-atmosphere \u2013 an idea<br \/>\nwhich might be called preposterous, but unhappily it is much worse than<br \/>\npreposterous, it is catastrophic \u2013 the idea that if there were a great<br \/>\nupheaval, perhaps it would be better afterwards.\u2026One is so jammed between<br \/>\nprohibitions, impossibilities, interdictions, rules, the complications of every<br \/>\nsecond, that one feels stifled and really gets the admirable idea that if<br \/>\neverything were demolished perhaps it would be better afterwards!\u2026It is in the<br \/>\nair. And all the governments have put themselves in such impossible conditions;<br \/>\nthey have become so tied up that it seems to them they will have to break<br \/>\neverything to be able to move forward.\u2026(<i>Silence<\/i>)<br \/>\nThis is unfortunately a little more than a possibility, it is a very serious<br \/>\nthreat. And it is not quite certain that life will not be made still more<br \/>\nimpossible because one feels incapable of emerging from the chaos \u2013 the chaos<br \/>\nof complications \u2013 in which humanity has put itself. It is like the shadow \u2013<br \/>\nbut unfortunately a very active shadow \u2013 of the new&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 168<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>hope which has sprung up in the human consciousness, a hope and a<br \/>\nneed for something more harmonious; and the need becomes so much more acute as<br \/>\nlife, as it is at present organised, becomes more and more contrary to it. The<br \/>\ntwo opposites are facing each other with such intensity that one can expect<br \/>\nsomething like an explosion.\u2026&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(Silence)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>This is the condition of the earth, and it is not very bright. But<br \/>\nfor us one possibility remains \u2013 I have spoken about it to you several times<br \/>\nalready \u2013 even if, outside, things are deteriorating completely and the<br \/>\ncatastrophe cannot possibly be avoided, there remains for us, I mean those for<br \/>\nwhom the supramental life is not a vain dream, those who have faith in its<br \/>\nreality and the aspiration to realise it \u2013 I don\u2019t necessarily mean those who<br \/>\nhave gathered here in Pondicherry, in the Ashram, but those who have as a link<br \/>\nbetween them the knowledge Sri Aurobindo has given and the will to live<br \/>\naccording to that knowledge \u2013 there remains for them the possibility of<br \/>\nintensifying their aspiration, their will, their effort, to gather their<br \/>\nenergies together and shorten the time for the realisation. There remains for<br \/>\nthem the possibility of working this miracle \u2013 individually and to a small<br \/>\nextent collectively \u2013 of conquering space, duration, the time needed for this<br \/>\nrealisation; of replacing time by intensity of effort and going fast enough and<br \/>\nfar enough in the realisation to liberate themselves from the consequences of<br \/>\nthe present condition of the world; of making such a concentration of force,<br \/>\nstrength, light, truth, that by this very realisation they can be above these<br \/>\nconsequences and secure against them, enjoy the protection bestowed by the<br \/>\nLight and Truth, by Purity \u2013 the divine Purity through the inner transformation<br \/>\n\u2013 and that the storm may pass over the world without being able to destroy this<br \/>\ngreat hope of the near future; that the tempest may not sweep away this<br \/>\nbeginning of realisation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 169<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='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:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Instead of falling asleep in an easy quietude and letting things<br \/>\nhappen according to their own rhythm, if one strains to the utmost one\u2019s will,<br \/>\nardour, aspiration and springs up into the light, then one can hold one\u2019s head<br \/>\nhigher; one can have, in a higher region of consciousness, enough room to live,<br \/>\nto breathe, to grow and develop above the passing cyclone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This is possible. In a<br \/>\nvery small way, this was already done during the last war, when Sri Aurobindo<br \/>\nwas here. It can be done again. But one must want it and each one must do his<br \/>\nown work as sincerely and completely as he can.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 170<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='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><a name=\"01_14 August 1957\"><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\";font-weight:700'><font size=\"3\">14 August 1957<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/i><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#E2961A'><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>This evening, instead of answering questions, I would like us to<br \/>\nmeditate on the remembrance of Sri Aurobindo, on the way to keep it alive in us<br \/>\nand on the gratitude we owe him for all that he has done and is still doing in<br \/>\nhis ever luminous, living and active consciousness for this great realisation<br \/>\nwhich he came not only to announce to the Earth but also to realise, and which<br \/>\nhe continues to realise. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Tomorrow is the<br \/>\nanniversary of his birth, an eternal birth in the history of the universe.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 171<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='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%'><b><i><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><a name=\"02_21 August 1957\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\">21 August 1957<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#E2961A'><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Mother, for<br \/>\nquite some time there has been a feeling that the general consciousness in our<br \/>\nactivities has fallen, especially since the Ashram has grown so large. What is the<br \/>\nreason for it and how can we put it right? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Are you referring to all the activities of the Ashram or only to<br \/>\nsports?\u2026All the activities of the Ashram? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>I don\u2019t know very many, Mother: in the ones I<br \/>\nsee. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(After a long silence)<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> It is something rather complicated. I shall try to explain it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>For a very long time the Ashram was only a gathering of<br \/>\nindividuals, each one representing something, but as an individual and without<br \/>\nany collective organisation. They were like separate pawns on a chess-board \u2013<br \/>\nunited only in appearance \u2013 or rather by the purely superficial fact of living<br \/>\ntogether in the same place and having a few habits in common \u2013 not even very<br \/>\nmany, only a few. Each one progressed \u2013 or didn\u2019t progress \u2013 according to his own<br \/>\ncapacity and with a minimum of relations with others. So, in accordance with<br \/>\nthe value of the individuals constituting this odd assemblage, one could say<br \/>\nthat there was a general value, but a very nebulous one, with no collective<br \/>\nreality. This lasted a very long time \u2013 very long. And it is only quite<br \/>\nrecently that the need for a collective reality began to appear \u2013 which is not<br \/>\nnecessarily limited to the Ashram but embraces all who have declared themselves<br \/>\n\u2013 I don\u2019t mean materially but in their consciousness \u2013 to be disciples of Sri<br \/>\nAurobindo and have tried to live his teaching. Among all of them, and more<br \/>\nstrongly since the manifestation of the supramental Consciousness and Force,<br \/>\nthere has awakened the necessity for a true communal life, which would not be<br \/>\nbased only on<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 172<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>purely material circumstances but would represent a deeper truth,<br \/>\nand be the beginning of what Sri Aurobindo calls a supramental or gnostic<br \/>\ncommunity.\u2026 He has said, of course, that, for this, the individuals<br \/>\nconstituting this collectivity should themselves have this supramental<br \/>\nconsciousness; but even without attaining an individual perfection \u2013 even while<br \/>\nvery far from it \u2013 there was at the same time an inner effort to create this<br \/>\n\u201ccollective individuality\u201d, so to speak. The need for a real union, a deeper<br \/>\nbond has been felt and the effort has been directed towards that realisation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This has caused<br \/>\nsome\u2026disturbance, for the tendency was formerly so individualistic that certain<br \/>\nhabits have been upset, I don\u2019t mean materially, for things are not very<br \/>\ndifferent from what they were, but in a somewhat deeper consciousness. And<br \/>\nabove all \u2013 that is the point I want to emphasise \u2013 this has created a certain<br \/>\ninner interdependence which has naturally lowered the individual level \u2013 a<br \/>\nlittle \u2013 except for those who had already attained an inner realisation strong<br \/>\nenough to be able to resist this movement of what I might call \u201clevelling\u201d. And<br \/>\nthis is what gives the impression that the general level has fallen, which is<br \/>\nnot correct. The general level is on a higher plane than it formerly was, but<br \/>\nthe individual level has dropped in many cases, and individuals who were<br \/>\ncapable of one realisation or another have felt, without understanding why,<br \/>\nweighed down by a load they did not have to carry before, which is the result<br \/>\nof this interdependence. It is just a temporary effect which, on the other<br \/>\nhand, will lead to an improvement, a very tangible general progress. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Of course, if each<br \/>\nindividual was conscious, if instead of yielding to this kind of levelling<br \/>\neffect, he resisted it in order to transform, transmute, uplift the elements,<br \/>\ninfluences, currents he receives from the group, then the whole] would rise up<br \/>\ninto a higher consciousness far ahead of where it was before. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This is what I was<br \/>\naiming at \u2013 without explaining the thing to you in detail \u2013 when I spoke to you<br \/>\nof a more and more<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 173<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>urgent need to make an effort, and I intended, in fact, to explain<br \/>\nto you one day that the effort you could make individually, instead of being<br \/>\nfor only an individual progress, will spread, so to say, or have very important<br \/>\ncollective results. But I said nothing because for months I wanted to prepare<br \/>\nthe individual consciousness to admit, I might say, even perhaps to recognise,<br \/>\nthis necessity for a collective individuality. This is what must be explained<br \/>\nnow. There is no other reason for this kind of apparent fall which, in fact, is<br \/>\nnot one. It is the spiral movement of progress which makes it necessary to move<br \/>\naway from a certain realisation in order to make it not only vaster but also<br \/>\nhigher. If every one collaborates consciously and with goodwill, it will go<br \/>\nmuch faster. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It was an imperative necessity if one wanted this Ashram life to<br \/>\nbe viable. Everything that does not progress necessarily declines and perishes,<br \/>\nand for the Ashram to last it had to make progress in its consciousness and<br \/>\nbecome a living entity. There. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>We are rather far away<br \/>\nin the spiral from the line of realisation we had some years ago, but we shall<br \/>\ncome back to it on a higher level. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>So that is the answer.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>There may appear to be<br \/>\nmovements which seem to contradict what I have just told you, but that\u2026it is<br \/>\nalways like that, for every time one wants to realise something, the first<br \/>\ndifficulty one meets is the opposition of all that was inactive before and now<br \/>\nrises up to resist. All that does not want to accept this change naturally<br \/>\nwakes up and revolts. But that is of no importance. It is the same thing as in<br \/>\nthe individual being: when you want to progress, the difficulty you want to<br \/>\nconquer immediately increases tenfold in importance and intensity in your<br \/>\nconsciousness. There is but to persevere, that\u2019s all. It will pass.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 174<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='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%'><b><i><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><a name=\"03_28 August 1957\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\">28 August 1957<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#E2961A'><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Mother, Sri Aurobindo<br \/>\nsays here: \u201cWhether the whole of humanity would be touched [by the Supramental<br \/>\ninfluence] or only a part of it ready for the change would depend on what was<br \/>\nintended or possible in the continued order of the universe.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">The<br \/>\nSupramental Manifestation, p. 56 <\/font> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>What is meant by \u201cwhat was intended or<br \/>\npossible\u201d? The two things are different. So far you have said that if<span>\u00a0 <\/span>humanity changes, if it wants to<br \/>\nparticipate in the new birth\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It is the same thing. But when you look at an object on a certain<br \/>\nplane, you see it horizontally, and when you look at the same object from<br \/>\nanother plane, you see it vertically. (Mother shows the cover and the back of<br \/>\nher book.) So, if one looks from above, one says \u201cintended\u201d; if one looks from<br \/>\nbelow, one says \u201cpossible\u201d.\u2026 But it is absolutely the same thing, only the<br \/>\npoint of view is different. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But in that<br \/>\ncase, it is not our incapacity or lack of will to change that makes any<br \/>\ndifference. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>We have already said this many a time. If you remain in a<br \/>\nconsciousness which functions mentally, even if it is the highest mind, you<br \/>\nhave the notion of an absolute determinism of cause and effect and feel that<br \/>\nthings are what they are because they are what they are and cannot be<br \/>\notherwise. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It is only when you come out of the mental consciousness<br \/>\ncompletely and enter a higher perception of things \u2013 which you may call<br \/>\nspiritual or divine \u2013 that you suddenly find yourself in a state of<i> perfect<\/i> freedom where<i> everything <\/i>is possible.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 175<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='color:blue'><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(Silence)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Those who have<br \/>\ncontacted that state or lived in it, even if only for a moment, try to describe<br \/>\nit as a feeling of an absolute Will in action, which immediately gives to the<br \/>\nhuman mentality the feeling of being arbitrary. And because of that distortion<br \/>\nthere arises the idea \u2013 which I might call traditional \u2013 of a supreme and<br \/>\narbitrary God, which is something most<i><br \/>\nunacceptable<\/i> to every enlightened mind. I suppose that this experience<br \/>\nbadly expressed is at the origin of this notion. And in fact it is incorrect to<br \/>\nexpress it as an absolute Will: it is very, very, very different. It is<br \/>\nsomething else altogether. For, what man understands by \u201cWill\u201d is a decision<br \/>\nthat is taken and carried out. We are obliged to use the word \u201cwill\u201d, but in<br \/>\nits truth the Will acting in the universe is neither a choice nor a decision<br \/>\nthat is taken. What seems to me the closest expression is \u201cvision\u201d. Things are<br \/>\nbecause they are seen. But of course \u201cseen\u201d, not seen as we see with these<br \/>\neyes. (<i>Mother touches her eyes<\/i>&#8230;)<br \/>\nAll the same, it is the nearest thing. It is a vision \u2013 a vision unfolding<br \/>\nitself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The universe becomes<br \/>\nobjective as it is progressively seen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And that is why Sri<br \/>\nAurobindo has said \u201cintended or possible\u201d. It is neither one nor the other. All<br \/>\nthat can be said is a distortion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" 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 lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Objectivisation \u2013<br \/>\nuniversal <span class=\"SpellE\">objectivisation<\/span> \u2013 is something like a<br \/>\nprojection in space and time, like a living image of what is] from all<br \/>\neternity. 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