{"id":4273,"date":"2013-07-13T01:54:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:54:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:54:44","slug":"09-26-june-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\/09-26-june-1957-vol-09-questions-and-answers-volume-09","title":{"rendered":"-09_26 June 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\">26 June 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%'><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\"'>\u201cBut there<br \/>\nis here still the necessity of a resort to the normal means of propagation and<br \/>\nthe gross method of physical Nature. A purely occult method, a resort to<br \/>\nsupraphysical processes acting by supraphysical means for a physical result<br \/>\nwould have to be possible if we are to avoid this necessity: the resort to the<br \/>\nsex impulse and its animal process could not be transcended otherwise. If there<br \/>\nis some reality in the phenomenon of materialisation and dematerialisation<br \/>\nclaimed to be possible by occultists and evidenced by occurrences many of us<br \/>\nhave witnessed,\u00b9<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> <i><span>\u00a0<\/span>a method of this kind would not<br \/>\nbe out of the range of possibility. For in the theory of the occultists and in<br \/>\nthe gradation of the ranges and planes of our being which Yoga-knowledge<br \/>\noutlines for us there is not only a subtle physical force but a subtle physical<br \/>\nMatter intervening between life and gross Matter and to create in this subtle<br \/>\nphysical substance and precipitate the forms thus made into our grosser<br \/>\nmateriality is feasible. It should be possible and it is believed to be<\/i><\/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:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">\u00b9 Sri Aurobindo is probably alluding,<br \/>\namong other things, to an incident which took place in 1921 in Pondicherry at<br \/>\nthe \u201cGuest House\u201d where he lived. A cook who had been dismissed had gone to a<br \/>\nlocal black magician to try to take his revenge, and a shower of stones began<br \/>\nto fall into the courtyard of the \u201cGuest House\u201d, regularly for several days.<br \/>\nThe people on the first floor could see the stones forming in front of their<br \/>\neyes and then falling into the courtyard. These stones were so real that they<br \/>\nhurt a young servant, and could be picked up. Strangely enough they were all<br \/>\ncovered with moss. Finally, when larger and larger stones started falling<br \/>\ninside closed rooms, and there was no longer any doubt about their occult<br \/>\norigin, Mother intervened with her inner power and the \u201cshower\u201d stopped. A few<br \/>\ndays later the cook\u2019s wife came running to ask for Sri Aurobindo\u2019s forgiveness:<br \/>\nthe cook lay dying in the hospital, struck by the \u201crecoil\u201d of his shower of<br \/>\nstones. Sri Aurobindo answered, \u201cFor this he need not die!\u201d And everything<br \/>\nreturned to normal. This incident is related in detail in <i>The Life of Sri Aurobindo <\/i>by A. B. Purani, 1964 Ed., pp. 282-83.]<\/font><\/span><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 127<\/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:3.0pt;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>possible<br \/>\nfor an object formed in this subtle physical substance to make a transit from<br \/>\nits subtlety into the state of gross Matter directly by the intervention of an<br \/>\noccult force and process whether with or even without the assistance or<br \/>\nintervention of some gross material procedure. A soul wishing to enter into a<br \/>\nbody or form for itself a body and take part in a divine life upon earth might<br \/>\nbe assisted to do so or even provided with such a form by this method of direct<br \/>\ntransmutation without passing through birth by the sex process or undergoing<br \/>\nany degradation or any of the heavy limitations in the growth and development<br \/>\nof its mind and material body inevitable to our present way of existence. It<br \/>\nmight then assume at once the structure and greater powers and functionings of<br \/>\nthe truly divine material body which must one day emerge in a progressive<br \/>\nevolution to a totally transformed existence both of the life and form in a<br \/>\ndivinised earth-nature. <\/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\"'><span><font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><font size=\"2\">The Supramental Manifestation, pp. 32-33<br \/>\n<\/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\"'>Mother, is<br \/>\nthis method of direct transmutation without passing through birth possible now,<br \/>\nsince now the Supermind is on earth? <\/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\"'>Is it possible? You are asking whether it is possible?\u2026 Everything<br \/>\nis possible. What do you want to know? Whether this has already been done? <\/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;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>Yes. <\/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\"'>Not as far as the most material plane; as far as the perceptible<br \/>\nsubtle physical \u2013 perceptible by the intermediary senses, between the physical<br \/>\nsenses and those of the subtle physical; for instance, like a breath felt as a<br \/>\ngentle breeze, like certain perceptions of smell, like subtle perfumes.<br \/>\nNaturally, those who&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 128<\/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\"'>have an inner vision can see, but for the most material senses<br \/>\nthere is not \u2013 how shall I put it? \u2013 not the permanence given by the physical<br \/>\nbody as we know it materially. There are phenomena, yes, that can even be seen,<br \/>\nbut they are fleeting. There is no stability, the stability in matter, the<br \/>\nfixity has not been acquired. I mean there is a contact, there is even the<br \/>\ncontact of touch, there is a perception, but there isn\u2019t the permanence given<br \/>\nby the material body. They are transient phenomena which, naturally, don\u2019t give<br \/>\nyou the same feeling of an altogether tangible reality. Still, the influence is<br \/>\nconstant, the intervention is constant, the perception is constant, but there is<br \/>\nnot the stability of a body which\u2026well, which, when it goes out of the room and<br \/>\nreturns, it comes back the same as it went out, you understand? Or when you sit<br \/>\ndown in a certain place, it occupies that place in a very concrete way. <\/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\"'>I cannot say because I don\u2019t know everything that has happened and<br \/>\nis happening on earth, but as far as I know, this has not yet been achieved,<br \/>\nthis concrete permanence. <\/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 <\/span>Yet, it was of matter,<br \/>\nfor there was sight, touch, hearing. But hearing doesn\u2019t need to be very material:<br \/>\nthe sounds of the subtle physical life, its vibrations can be heard very well;<br \/>\nand quite strangely, it is hearing and smell which seem to be the most<br \/>\npermanent in the subtle physical world, more so than the perception of form \u2013<br \/>\nand also a certain sense of contact which is very, very concrete. Only, this<br \/>\nheavy material presence of a physical body which occupies an absolutely<br \/>\ndefinite and concrete place and prevents any other thing from occupying the<br \/>\nsame place, this does not yet seem to be possible; therefore, what has so far<br \/>\nbeen achieved has after all to be a little more fluid than the heaviest kind of<br \/>\nmatter. <\/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\"'>Does this<br \/>\nprogress depend on the human consciousness? <\/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\"'>You mean for a more complete materialisation?\u2026 It depends 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 &#8211; 129.<\/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\"'>power of manipulating the vibrations of matter. This power of<br \/>\nmanipulation is necessarily the result of a certain state of consciousness. And<br \/>\nall depends on the standpoint that is taken, for no individual progress can<br \/>\ncome about without what could be called the \u201cauthorisation\u201d of the divine Will.<br \/>\nUltimately, nothing in creation can happen without the sanction of the divine<br \/>\nWill. So\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><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'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Mother, will<br \/>\nthe first supramental body be like this? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Like what? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>A<br \/>\ntransformation without passing through a terrestrial birth? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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\"'>Ah! Excuse me, you must not confuse things. There are two things.<br \/>\nThere is the possibility of a purely supramental creation on one hand, and the<br \/>\npossibility of a progressive transformation of a physical body into a<br \/>\nsupramental body, or rather of a human body into a superhuman body. Then it<br \/>\nwould be a progressive transformation which could take a certain number of<br \/>\nyears, probably a considerable number, and would produce a being who would no<br \/>\nlonger be a \u201cman\u201d in the animal sense of the word, but would not be the<br \/>\nsupramental being formed fully outside all animality, for its present origin is<br \/>\nnecessarily an animal one. So, a transmutation may take place, a transformation<br \/>\nthat\u2019s enough to liberate the being from this origin, but all the same it<br \/>\nwouldn\u2019t be a purely and entirely supramental creation. Sri Aurobindo has said<br \/>\nthat there will be an intermediary race \u2013 a race or perhaps some individuals,<br \/>\nwe don\u2019t know \u2013 an intermediary rung which could serve as a passage or could be<br \/>\nperpetuated according to the needs and necessities of creation. But if one<br \/>\nstarts from a body formed in the same way as human bodies are at present, the<br \/>\nresult will never be the same as a being formed entirely according to the<br \/>\nsupramental method and&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 130<\/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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>process. It will perhaps be<br \/>\nmore on the superhuman side in the sense that all animal expression may<br \/>\ndisappear, but it won\u2019t be able to have the absolute perfection of a body<br \/>\nthat\u2019s purely supramental in its formation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>And in this<br \/>\ntransformed human body will there be a differentiation between man and woman? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>What, what are you saying? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><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'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>If the Supermind accepts this transformed body\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Accepts? What do you mean, \u201caccepts\u201d? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><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'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>I mean \u201cdescends\u201d in this half-human body \u2013 will there be a<br \/>\ndifferentiation? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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\"'>But it is not like that, it is not a bottle into which one pours<br \/>\nsome liquid! It\u2019s not that! <\/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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Are you asking<br \/>\nwhether the body will keep its masculine or feminine form? Probably this will<br \/>\nbe left to the choice of the being who enters the house, the occupant.\u2026Does it<br \/>\ninterest you very much, this difference? (Laughter) <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><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'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>You tell us that there won\u2019t be any difference, but so far there is<br \/>\nstill a great difference. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>From what point of view? If it is the physical appearance, I agree<br \/>\n\u2013 and yet, not so much as all that, but still\u2026From what point of view? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><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'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>From the point of view of the idea of sex, that there are two different<br \/>\nsexes. That still exists. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The idea! But that\u2019s the fault of the person who thinks! One&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 131<\/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\"'>can very well dispense with thinking. You know, these very petty<br \/>\nlimits of thought are things which ought to disappear before you can even<br \/>\nattempt to transform your body. If you still have these very petty ideas which<br \/>\nare purely animal, there is not much hope that you could begin the least<br \/>\nprocess for the transformation of your body. You must first transform your<br \/>\nthought.\u2026 For that is something which is still crawling far down below. If you<br \/>\nare not able to feel that a conscious and living being can be quite free, even<br \/>\nin a certain definite form, from all feeling of sex, it\u2026it means that you are<br \/>\nstill up to your neck in the original animality. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><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'><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>In the inner<br \/>\nthought one feels it, but in the actuality of material life\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>What about the actuality? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i>In the outer life I haven\u2019t yet realised<br \/>\nthat. In the inner\u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>You spend your time thinking about it? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>But one may live<br \/>\ntwenty-four hours out of twenty-four without giving a single thought to this<br \/>\ndifference! You must really be hypnotised by this affair. Do you suppose that<br \/>\nwhen I speak to you I think that you are a man and when I speak to Tara I think<br \/>\nshe is a woman? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><i>Still there is a difference! <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Ah! but it is not at all necessary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><i>In<br \/>\ntheory I understand. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><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'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>In theory! What theory?<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/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 132<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>\n<i><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>That there<br \/>\nis no difference. But when I am in contact with someone, either I am speaking<br \/>\nto a man or a woman. <\/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\"'>Well, it\u2019s a great pity both for you and for the other 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\"'>No, it is just the very opposite of what ought to happen! When you<br \/>\nare in contact with someone and speaking with him, it is precisely to what<br \/>\nsurpasses all animality that you should speak; it is to the soul you must<br \/>\nspeak, never to the body. Even more is asked of you, for you are asked to<br \/>\naddress the Divine \u2013 not even the soul \u2013 the one Divine in every being, and to<br \/>\nbe conscious of that. <\/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 if only<br \/>\none person is conscious and the other is a brute, what will happen? <\/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\"'>If you alone are conscious? And what do you know about it? And how<br \/>\nand on what plane do you judge that the other is not conscious? <\/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;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><i>His<br \/>\nway of replying. <\/i><\/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\"'>&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\"'>But perhaps he thinks the same of you! <\/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, I tell you that so long as it is not the divine Presence you<br \/>\naddress when you speak to someone, it means you are not conscious of it in<br \/>\nyourself. And then it\u2019s terribly presumptuous to judge what state the other<br \/>\nperson is in. What do you know about it? If you yourself are not conscious of<br \/>\nthe Divine in the other being, what right have you to say whether he is<br \/>\nconscious of it or not? On what basis? Your small outer intelligence? But it<br \/>\nknows nothing! It is quite incapable of perceiving anything whatever. <\/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>Unless your vision is<i> constantly<\/i> the vision of the Divine in<br \/>\nall things, you have not only no right but no capacity to judge the state which<br \/>\nothers are in. And to pronounce a judgment on&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 133<\/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%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>someone without having this vision spontaneously, effortlessly, is<br \/>\nprecisely an example of the mental presumptuousness of which Sri Aurobindo<br \/>\nalways spoke.\u2026And it so happens that one who has the vision, the consciousness,<br \/>\nwho is capable of seeing the truth in all things, never feels the need to judge<br \/>\nanything whatever. For he understands everything and knows everything.<br \/>\nTherefore, once and for all, you must tell yourselves that the moment you begin<br \/>\nto judge things, people, circumstances, you are in the most total human<br \/>\nignorance. <\/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\"'>In short, one could put it like this: when one understands, one no<br \/>\nlonger judges and when one judges, it means that one doesn\u2019t know. <\/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>Judging people is one<br \/>\nof the first things which must be totally swept away from the consciousness<br \/>\nbefore you can take even a step on the supramental path, because that is not a<br \/>\nmaterial progress or a bodily progress, it is only a very little progress of<br \/>\nthought, mental progress. And unless you have swept your mind clean of all its<br \/>\nignorance, you cannot hope to take a step on the supramental path. <\/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 fact, you have said<br \/>\nsomething terrible. When you said, \u201cI cannot speak to his soul if he is a<br \/>\nbrute\u201d, well, you have given yourself away\u2026you have stuck a label on yourself.<br \/>\nThere you are. <\/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>All those who have<br \/>\ntruly and sincerely had the experience of the divine Presence, all those who<br \/>\nhave truly been in contact with the Divine, have always said the same thing:<br \/>\nthat sometimes, even often, it is in what is most decried by men, most despised<br \/>\nby men, most condemned by human \u201cwisdom\u201d, that one can see the divine light<br \/>\nshining. <\/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>They are not mere<br \/>\nwords, they are living experiences. <\/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>All these ideas of<br \/>\ngood and evil, good and bad, higher, lower, all these notions belong to the<br \/>\nignorance of the human mind, and if one really wants to come into contact with<br \/>\nthe divine life, one must liberate oneself totally from this ignorance, one<br \/>\nmust rise to a region of consciousness where these things&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 134<\/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\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>have<i> no<\/i> reality. The feeling of superiority and inferiority completely<br \/>\ndisappears, it is replaced by something else which is of a very different<br \/>\nnature \u2013 a sort of capacity for filtering appearances, penetrating behind<br \/>\nmasks, shifting the point of view. <\/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\"'>And these are not words, it is altogether true that<i> everything <\/i>changes its appearance, totally,<br \/>\nthat life and things are completely different from what they appear to be. <\/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>All this contact, this<br \/>\nordinary perception of the world loses its reality completely. This is what<br \/>\nappears unreal, fantastic, illusory, non-existent. There is something \u2013<br \/>\nsomething very material, very concrete, very physical \u2013 which becomes the<br \/>\nreality of the being, and which has nothing in common with the ordinary way of<br \/>\nseeing. When one has this perception \u2013 the perception of the work of the divine<br \/>\nforce, of the movement being worked out behind the appearance, in the<br \/>\nappearance, through the appearance \u2013 one begins to be ready to live something<br \/>\ntruer than the ordinary human falsehood. But not 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>There is no<br \/>\ncompromise, you see. It is not like convalescence after an illness: you must<br \/>\nchange worlds. So long as your mind is real for you, your way of thinking<br \/>\nsomething true for you, real, concrete, it proves that you are not there yet.<br \/>\nYou must first pass through to the other side. Afterwards you will be able to<br \/>\nunderstand what I am telling you. <\/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>Pass through to the<br \/>\nother side. <\/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 not true that<br \/>\none can understand little by little, it is not like that. This kind of progress<br \/>\nis different. What is more true is that one is shut up in a shell, and inside<br \/>\nit something is happening, like the chick in the egg. It is getting ready in<br \/>\nthere. It is in there. One doesn\u2019t see it. Something is happening in the shell,<br \/>\nbut outside one sees nothing. And it is only when all is ready that there comes<br \/>\nthe capacity to pierce the shell and to be born into the light of day. <\/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 not that one<br \/>\nbecomes more and more perceptible or visible: one is shut in \u2013 shut in \u2013 and<br \/>\nfor sensitive people there is even that terrible sensation of being compressed,<br \/>\nof trying to<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 135<\/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\"'>pass through and then coming up against a wall. And then one<br \/>\nknocks and knocks and knocks, and one can\u2019t go through.<\/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 so long as one is<br \/>\nthere, inside, one is in the falsehood. And only on the day when by the Divine<br \/>\nGrace one can break the shell and come out into the Light, is one free.<\/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 may happen<br \/>\nsuddenly, spontaneously, quite unexpectedly. <\/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>I don\u2019t think one can<br \/>\ngo through gradually. I don\u2019t think it is something which slowly wears and<br \/>\nwears away until one can see through it. I haven\u2019t had an instance of this so<br \/>\nfar. There is rather a kind of accumulation of power inside, an intensification<br \/>\nof the need, and an endurance in the effort which becomes free from all fear,<br \/>\nall anxiety, all calculation; a need so imperative that one no longer cares for<br \/>\nthe consequences. <\/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>One is like an<br \/>\nexplosive that nothing can resist, and one bursts out from one\u2019s prison in a<br \/>\nblaze of light. <\/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>After that one can no<br \/>\nlonger fall back again. <\/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 truly a new<br \/>\nbirth.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<font size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 136<\/span><\/font><\/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<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\"> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;color: #0000FF\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/09-questions-and-answers-volume-09\/00-Contents-Vol-09-questions-and-answers-volume-09\" style=\"text-decoration: none;font-weight: 700\">HOME<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 June 1957 &nbsp; \u201cBut there is here still the necessity of a resort to the normal means of propagation and the gross method of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-09-questions-and-answers-volume-09","wpcat-120-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}