{"id":4380,"date":"2013-07-13T01:55:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:55:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:55:36","slug":"06-4-january-1951-vol-04-questions-and-answers-volume-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/04-questions-and-answers-volume-04\/06-4-january-1951-vol-04-questions-and-answers-volume-04","title":{"rendered":"-06_4 January 1951.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n January 1951<\/font><\/span><\/b> <\/font><\/span><\/b>
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\n <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Mother reads out her article
\n\u201cTransformation\u201d <\/font> (On<\/font><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/font><\/span>Education)<\/font><\/span><\/i>,
\nthen comments on it: <\/font><\/span>
\n
\n <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

We want an integral transformation, the transformation of the body
\nand all its activities. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Formerly,
\nwhen one spoke of transformation one meant solely the transformation of the
\ninner consciousness. One tried to discover in oneself this deep consciousness
\nand rejected the body and its activities like an encumbrance and a useless
\nthing, in order to attend only to the inner movement. Sri Aurobindo declared
\nthat this was not enough; the Truth demanded that the material world should
\nalso participate in this transformation and become an expression of the deeper
\nTruth. But when people heard this, many thought that it was possible to
\ntransform the body and its activities without bothering in the least about what
\nwas happening within \u2013 naturally this is not quite true. Before you can
\nundertake this work of physical transformation, which of all things is the most
\ndifficult, your inner consciousness must be firmly established, solidly
\nestablished in the Truth, so that this transformation may be the final
\nexpression of the Truth \u2013 \u201cfinal\u201d for the moment at least. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The
\nstarting-point of this transformation is receptivity, we have already spoken
\nabout it. That is the indispensable condition for obtaining the transformation.
\nThen comes the change of consciousness. This change of consciousness and its
\npreparation have often been compared with the formation of the chicken in the
\negg: till the very last second the egg remains the same, there is no change,
\nand it is only when the chicken is completely formed, absolutely alive, that it
\nitself makes with its little beak a hole in the shell and comes out. Something
\nsimilar takes place at the moment of the change of consciousness. For a long time
\nyou have the impression that nothing is happening, that your
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 18<\/span><\/p>\n

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consciousness is the same as usual, and, if you have an intense
\naspiration, you even feel a resistance, as though you were knocking against a
\nwall which does not yield. But when you are ready within, a last effort \u2013 the
\npecking in the shell of the being \u2013 and everything opens and you are projected
\ninto another consciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I
\nsaid that it was a revolution of the basic equilibrium, that is, a total
\nreversal of consciousness comparable with what happens to light when it passes
\nthrough a prism. Or it is as though you were turning a ball inside out, which
\ncannot be done except in the fourth dimension. One comes out of the ordinary
\nthree-dimensional consciousness to enter the higher four-dimensional
\nconsciousness, and into an infinite number of dimensions. This is the
\nindispensable starting-point. Unless your consciousness changes its dimension,
\nit will remain just what it is with the superficial vision of things, and all
\nthe profundities will escape you. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Is
\nthere any one here who has already had the experience of this reversal of
\nconsciousness and who can explain what he has experienced?<\/span><\/p>\n

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

X: It
\nwas like a pain in the heart which lasted for a day. The next day, when I woke
\nup it was as if I were coming out from a profound meditation and all my
\nthoughts, all my actions seemed to be directed by something or someone who was
\nwatching beside my head. All the words which came out of my mouth were right.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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

What was this pain like? \u00a0<\/span>a \u00a0<\/span>pressure? \u00a0<\/span>a \u00a0<\/span>tearing apart? \u00a0<\/span>a \u00a0<\/span>tension? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

X: It
\nwas as though something in me was not happy, but all that changed during the night;
\nthe next day the uneasiness had gone. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\nPage – 19<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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It was undoubtedly a mental opening to the higher consciousness,
\nan ascent of the mental consciousness towards the higher consciousness. And it
\nwas probably a resistance in the emotional vital which caused the pain, that
\ndisagreeable sensation which disappeared during the night with the liberation
\nof the consciousness in a higher domain. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Y:
\nWhen I stood before Sri Aurobindo, I felt a kind of sharp pain. I prayed to Sri
\nAurobindo to give me something. And suddenly the pain was changed into an
\nintense joy. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

This was a contact with your psychic being. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Z:
\nOne has often the experience of an ascent of the consciousness above the earth.
\nOne seems to enter a region where all problems, all questions disappear rather
\nthan receive an answer. They seem no longer of any importance. But still this
\nis not \u201cgoing from knowledge to knowledge\u201d. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

This is an opening of the inner being to the divine Presence in
\nthe psychic centre, and there you know at every moment not only what must be
\ndone but why it should be done and how it should be done, and you have the
\nvision of the truth of things behind their appearances. Instead of seeing
\nthings in the usual way, that is, from outside, and so much from outside that,
\nexcept in a few rare cases, one is incapable even of knowing what another person
\nthinks (you must make a great effort, you see only the surface of things and
\nnothing of what goes on behind); well, after this inner opening and this
\nidentification with the Presence in the psychic centre, you see things from
\nwithin outwards, and the outer existence becomes an expression, more or less
\ndeformed, of what you see within: you are aware of the inner existence of
\nbeings and their form; their outer existence is only a
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 20<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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more or less deformed expression of this inner truth. And it is
\nbecause of this that I say that the basic equilibrium is completely changed.
\nInstead of being outside the world and seeing it as something outside you, you
\nare inside the world and see outer forms expressing in a more or less clumsy
\nfashion what is within, which for you is the Truth.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 21<\/span><\/p>\n

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