{"id":4392,"date":"2013-07-13T01:55:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:55:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:55:40","slug":"31-14-march-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\/31-14-march-1951-vol-04-questions-and-answers-volume-04","title":{"rendered":"-31_14 March 1951.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><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">14 March 1951<\/font><\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<\/font> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>\u201cWhen you come to the Divine, you must<br \/>\nabandon all mental conceptions; but, instead of doing that, you throw your<br \/>\nconceptions upon the Divine and want the Divine to obey them. The only true<br \/>\nattitude for a Yogi is to be plastic and ready to obey the Divine command<br \/>\nwhatever it may be&#8230;\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">Questions and Answers 1929 (19 May)<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>What is \u201cplasticity\u201d? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>That which can<br \/>\neasily change its form is \u201cplastic\u201d. Figuratively, it is suppleness, a capacity<br \/>\nof adaptation to circumstances and necessities. When I ask you to be plastic in<br \/>\nrelation to the Divine, I mean not to resist the Divine with the rigidity of<br \/>\npreconceived ideas and fixed principles. I knew a man who declared: \u201cI am<br \/>\nwholly consecrated to the Divine, I am ready to do whatever He tells me to do;<br \/>\nbut I am not at all worried, for I know that He would never tell me to kill <span class=\"GramE\">anybody !\u201d<\/span> I answered, \u201cHow do you know <span class=\"GramE\">that<br \/>\n?\u201d<\/span> He was indignant. This is want of plasticity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>If one is plastic in all circumstances,<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t it a weakness? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\">But you are<br \/>\nnot asked to be plastic to the will of <span class=\"GramE\">others !<\/span> Nobody<br \/>\nasked you to be plastic in relation to <span class=\"GramE\">others<\/span>. You are<br \/>\nasked to be plastic to the divine Will<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> \u2013 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">which is not quite the same <span class=\"GramE\">thing !<\/span><br \/>\nAnd that requires a great strength because the very first thing that will<br \/>\nhappen to you is to be exposed to the will of almost everyone around you. If<br \/>\nyou have a family, you will see the attitude of the <span class=\"GramE\">family !<\/span><br \/>\nThe more plastic you are to the divine Will, the more opposition you will meet<br \/>\nfrom the will <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 207<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/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 class=\"GramE\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">of<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\nothers who are not accustomed to be in contact with that Will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>If everybody<br \/>\nexpressed the divine Will, there would be no conflict any longer, anywhere, all<br \/>\nwould be in harmony. That is what one tries to do, but it is not very easy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But it is difficult to know the divine<br \/>\nWill, isn&#8217;t it? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>We have already<br \/>\nstudied the subject at length. Don&#8217;t you remember what we said? There are four<br \/>\nconditions for knowing the divine Will: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The first<br \/>\nessential condition: an absolute sincerity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Second: to<br \/>\novercome desires and preferences. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Third: to silence<br \/>\nthe mind and listen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Fourth: to obey<br \/>\nimmediately when you receive the order. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>If you persist you<br \/>\nwill perceive the divine Will more and more clearly. But even before you know<br \/>\nwhat it is, you can make an offering of your own will and you will see that all<br \/>\ncircumstances will be so arranged as to make you do the right thing. But you<br \/>\nmust not be like that person I knew who used to say, \u201cI always see the divine<br \/>\nWill in others.\u201d That can land you <span class=\"GramE\">anywhere,<\/span> there is<br \/>\nnothing more dangerous, for if you think you see the divine Will in others, you<br \/>\nare sure to do their will, not the divine Will. There too we can say that not<br \/>\none among many, many human beings acts in accord with the divine Will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>You know the story<br \/>\nof the irritable elephant, his mahout, and the man who would not make way for<br \/>\nthe elephant. Standing in the middle of the road, the man said to the mahout,<br \/>\n\u201cThe divine Will is in me and the divine Will wants me not to move.\u201d The<br \/>\ndriver, a man of some wit, answered, \u201cBut the divine Will in the elephant wants<br \/>\nyou to <span class=\"GramE\">move !\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">Mother passes on to another question: illnesses.<br \/>\nDuring the talk in 1929 someone asked whether illnesses were not due to<br \/>\nmicrobes<\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 208<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoPlainText\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/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 class=\"GramE\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">rather<\/font><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\"><br \/>\nthan to \u201cadverse forces\u201d or to fluctuations of yoga. Mother answered:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='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-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>\u201cWhere does Yoga begin and where does it<br \/>\nend? Is not the whole of your life Yoga? The possibilities of illness are<br \/>\nalways there in your body and around you; you carry within you or there swarm<br \/>\nabout you the microbes and germs of every disease. How is it that all of a<br \/>\nsudden you succumb to an illness which you did not have for <span class=\"GramE\">years<br \/>\n?<\/span> You will say it is due to a \u2018depression of the vital force&#8217;. But from<br \/>\nwhere does the depression come? It comes from some disharmony in the being,<br \/>\nfrom a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from<br \/>\nthe energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is<br \/>\ncreated what medical science calls a \u2018<span class=\"SpellE\">favourable<\/span><br \/>\nground&#8217; and something takes advantage of it. It is doubt, gloominess, lack of<br \/>\nconfidence, a selfish turning back upon <span class=\"GramE\">yourself<\/span> that<br \/>\ncuts you off from the light and divine energy and gives the attack this<br \/>\nadvantage. It is this that is the cause of your falling ill and not microbes.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">Questions and Answers 1929 (19 May)<br \/>\n<\/font> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\">One thing<br \/>\nthat is now beginning to be <span class=\"SpellE\">recognised<\/span> by everyone,<br \/>\neven by the medical corps, is that hygienic measures, for example, are<br \/>\neffective only to the extent that one has confidence in them. Take the case of<br \/>\nan epidemic. Many years ago we had a cholera epidemic here<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> \u2013 it<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> was bad<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> \u2013 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">but the<br \/>\nchief medical officer of the hospital was an energetic man: he decided to<br \/>\nvaccinate everybody. When he discharged the vaccinated men, he would tell them,<br \/>\n\u201cNow you are vaccinated and nothing will happen to you, but if you were not<br \/>\nvaccinated you would be sure to <span class=\"GramE\">die !\u201d<\/span> He told them<br \/>\nthis with great authority. Generally such an epidemic lasts a long time and it<br \/>\nis difficult to arrest it, but<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 209<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/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 class=\"GramE\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">in<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\nsome fifteen days, I think, this doctor succeeded in checking it; in any case,<br \/>\nit was done miraculously fast. But he knew very well that the best effect of<br \/>\nhis vaccination was the confidence it gave to people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Now, quite<br \/>\nrecently, they have found something else and I consider it wonderful. They have<br \/>\ndiscovered that for every disease there is a microbe that cures it (call it a<br \/>\nmicrobe if you like, anyway, some sort of germ). But what is so extraordinary<br \/>\nis that this \u201cmicrobe\u201d is extremely contagious, even more contagious than the<br \/>\nmicrobe of the disease. And it generally develops under two conditions: in<br \/>\nthose who have a sort of natural good <span class=\"SpellE\">humour<\/span> and<br \/>\nenergy and in those who have a strong will to get <span class=\"GramE\">well !<\/span><br \/>\nSuddenly they catch the \u201cmicrobe\u201d and are cured. And what is wonderful is that<br \/>\nif there is one who is cured in an epidemic, three more recover immediately.<br \/>\nAnd this \u201cmicrobe\u201d is found in all who are cured. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But I am going to<br \/>\ntell you something: what people take to be a microbe is simply the <span class=\"SpellE\">materialisation<\/span> of a vibration or a will from another<br \/>\nworld. When I learned of these medical discoveries, I said to <span class=\"GramE\">myself<\/span>, \u201cTruly, science is making progress.\u201d One might<br \/>\nalmost say with greater reason, \u201cMatter is progressing,\u201d it is becoming more<br \/>\nand more receptive to a higher will. And what is translated in their science as<br \/>\n\u201cmicrobes\u201d will be perceived, if one goes to the root of things, as simply a<br \/>\nvibratory mode; and this vibratory mode is the material translation of a higher<br \/>\nwill. If you can bring this force or this will, this power, this vibration<br \/>\n(call it what you will) into certain given circumstances, not only will it act<br \/>\nin you, but also through contagion around you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">During the talk in 1929, a disciple asked why we drank<br \/>\nfiltered water since we did not believe in microbes here. Mother answered:<br \/>\n<\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>\u201cIs any one of you pure and strong enough<br \/>\nnot to be affected by suggestions? If you drink unfiltered water +<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 210<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoPlainText\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/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 class=\"GramE\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>and<\/span><\/i><\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> think, \u2018Now I am drinking impure water\u2019,<br \/>\nyou have every chance of falling sick. And even though such suggestions may not<br \/>\nenter through the conscious mind, the whole of your subconscious is there,<br \/>\nalmost helplessly open to any kind of suggestion&#8230;The normal human condition<br \/>\nis a state filled with apprehensions and fears; if you observe your mind deeply<br \/>\nfor ten minutes, you will find that for nine out of the ten it is full of<br \/>\nfears&#8230;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And even if by discipline and<br \/>\neffort you have liberated your mind and <span class=\"GramE\">your<\/span> vital of<br \/>\napprehension and fear, it is more difficult to convince the body.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">Questions and Answers 1929 (19 May)<\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Why is it so difficult to convince the<br \/>\nbody, when one has succeeded in liberating oneself mentally and vitally? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Because in the<br \/>\nlarge majority of men, the body receives its inspirations from the <span class=\"SpellE\">subconscient<\/span>, it is under the influence of the <span class=\"SpellE\">subconscient<\/span>. All the fears driven out from the active<br \/>\nconsciousness go and take refuge there and <span class=\"GramE\">then,<\/span><br \/>\nnaturally, they have to be chased out from the <span class=\"SpellE\">subconscient<\/span><br \/>\nand uprooted from there. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Why does one feel afraid? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I suppose it is<br \/>\nbecause one is egoistic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>There are three reasons. <span class=\"GramE\">First,<br \/>\nan excessive concern about one&#8217;s security.<\/span> Next, what one does not know<br \/>\nalways gives an uneasy feeling which is translated in the consciousness by<br \/>\nfear. And above all, one doesn&#8217;t have the habit of a spontaneous trust in the<br \/>\nDivine. If you look into things sufficiently deeply, this is the true reason.<br \/>\nThere are people who do not even know that <span class=\"GramE\">That<\/span><br \/>\nexists, but one could tell them in other words, \u201cYou have no faith in your<br \/>\ndestiny\u201d or \u201cYou know nothing about Grace\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 211<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/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-US\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 <\/span><span class=\"GramE\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">anything<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> whatever,<br \/>\nyou may put it as you like, but the root of the matter is a lack of trust. If<br \/>\none always had the feeling that it is the best that happens in all<br \/>\ncircumstances, one would not be afraid. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The first movement<br \/>\nof fear comes automatically. There was a great scientist who was also a great<br \/>\npsychologist (I don&#8217;t remember his name now); he had developed his inner<br \/>\nconsciousness but wanted to test it. So he undertook an experiment. He wanted<br \/>\nto know if, by means of consciousness, one could control the reflex actions of<br \/>\nthe body (probably he didn&#8217;t go far enough to be able to do it, for it can be<br \/>\ndone; but in any case, for him it was still impossible). Well, he went to the<br \/>\nzoological garden, to the place where snakes were kept in a glass cage. There<br \/>\nwas a particularly aggressive cobra there; when it was not asleep, it was<br \/>\nalmost always in a fury, for through the glass it could see people and that<br \/>\nirritated it terribly. Our scientist went and stood in front of the cage. He<br \/>\nknew very well that it was made in such a way that the snake could never break<br \/>\nthe glass and that he ran no risk of being attacked. So from there he began to<br \/>\nexcite the snake by shouts and gestures. The cobra, furious, hurled itself<br \/>\nagainst the glass, and every time it did so the scientist closed his <span class=\"GramE\">eyes !<\/span> Our psychologist told himself, \u201cBut look here, I know<br \/>\nthat this snake cannot pass through, why do I close my <span class=\"GramE\">eyes ?\u201d<\/span><br \/>\nWell, one must <span class=\"SpellE\">recognise<\/span> that it is difficult to<br \/>\nconquer the reaction. It is a sense of protection, and if one feels that one<br \/>\ncannot protect oneself, one is afraid. But the movement of fear which is<br \/>\nexpressed by the eyes fluttering is not a mental or a vital fear: it is a fear<br \/>\nin the cells of the body; for it has not been impressed upon them that there is<br \/>\nno danger and they do not know how to resist. It is because one has not done<br \/>\nyoga, you see. With yoga one can watch with open eyes, one would not close<br \/>\nthem; but one would not close them because one calls upon something else, and that<br \/>\n\u201csomething else\u201d is the sense of the divine Presence in oneself which is<br \/>\nstronger than everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 212<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoPlainText\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/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-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>This is the only<br \/>\nthing that can cure you of your fear. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">Years afterwards this talk was followed up by a<br \/>\nquestion from a disciple (<\/font><\/span><font size=\"2\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>19 May 1965<\/span><\/font><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">): <\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>You say, \u201cIf one always had the feeling<br \/>\nthat it is the best that happens in all circumstances, one would not be<br \/>\nafraid.\u201d Is it really the best that happens in all circumstances? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\">It is the<br \/>\nbest, given the state of the world<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> \u2013 it <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">is not an absolute best. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>There are two<br \/>\nthings: in a total and absolute way, at each moment, it is the best possible<br \/>\nfor the divine Goal of the whole; and for one who is consciously connected with<br \/>\nthe divine Will, it is the most <span class=\"SpellE\">favourable<\/span> for his<br \/>\nown divine <span class=\"SpellE\">realisation<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I believe this is<br \/>\nthe correct explanation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>For the whole, it<br \/>\nis always, at every moment, what is most <span class=\"SpellE\">favourable<\/span><br \/>\nfor the divine evolution. And for the elements consciously linked with the<br \/>\nDivine, it is the best for the perfection of their union. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Only you must not<br \/>\nforget that it is constantly changing, that it is not a static best; it is a<br \/>\nbest which if preserved would not be the best a moment later. And it is because<br \/>\nthe human consciousness always has the tendency to preserve statically what it<br \/>\nfinds good or considers good, that it <span class=\"SpellE\">realises<\/span> that<br \/>\nit is <span class=\"SpellE\">unseizable<\/span>. It is this effort to preserve which<br \/>\nfalsifies things.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(Silence)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I saw this when I<br \/>\nwanted to understand the position of the Buddha who blamed the Manifestation<br \/>\nfor its impermanence; for him perfection and permanence were one and the same<br \/>\nthing. In his contact with the manifested universe he had observed a perpetual change,<br \/>\ntherefore he concluded that the manifested world <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 213<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoPlainText\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/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 class=\"GramE\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>was<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> imperfect and had<br \/>\nto disappear. And change (impermanence) does not exist in the <span class=\"SpellE\"><span class=\"GramE\">Unmanifest<\/span><\/span><span class=\"GramE\">,<\/span><br \/>\nhence the <span class=\"SpellE\">Unmanifest<\/span> is the true Divine. It was by<br \/>\nconsidering and concentrating on this point, that in fact I saw that his<br \/>\nfinding was right: the Manifestation is absolutely impermanent, it is a<br \/>\nperpetual transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But in the<br \/>\nManifestation, perfection consists in having a movement of transformation or an<br \/>\nunfolding identical with the divine Movement, the essential Movement; whereas<br \/>\nall that belongs to the <span class=\"SpellE\">inconscient<\/span> or <span class=\"SpellE\">tamasic<\/span> creation seeks to preserve exactly the very same<br \/>\nexistence instead of trying to last through constant transformation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>That is why some thinkers have postulated that<br \/>\nthe creation was the result of an error. But one finds all possible concepts:<br \/>\nperfect creation, then a \u201cfault\u201d which introduced error; the creation itself as<br \/>\na lower movement which must have an end since it had a beginning; then the Vedic<br \/>\nconcept, as Sri <span class=\"SpellE\">Aurobindo<\/span> has explained it, of an<br \/>\nunfolding or a progressive and infinite discovery<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> \u2013 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">indefinite and infinite<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> \u2013 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">of the All<br \/>\nby Himself&#8230; Naturally, all these, these are human interpretations. For the<br \/>\nmoment, as long as you express yourself in human terms, it is a human<br \/>\ntranslation. But according to the initial position of the human translator<br \/>\n(that is to say, whether it is the position which admits \u201coriginal sin\u201d or an<br \/>\n\u201caccident\u201d in the creation or a supreme conscious Will from the beginning in a<br \/>\nprogressive unfolding), in the yogic attitude, the conclusions or \u201cdescents\u201d<br \/>\nare different&#8230; There are Nihilists, <span class=\"SpellE\">Nirvanists<\/span>, <span class=\"GramE\">Illusionists<\/span>; there are all the religions which admit the<br \/>\ndevil&#8217;s intervention under one form or another; then there is the pure <span class=\"SpellE\">Vedism<\/span> which is the eternal unfolding of the Supreme in a<br \/>\nprogressive objectification. And according to taste, one places himself here,<br \/>\nanother there or elsewhere, with all the nuances between. But according to what<br \/>\nSri <span class=\"SpellE\">Aurobindo<\/span> has felt to be the most total truth,<br \/>\naccording to this conception of a progressive universe, one is led to say that<br \/>\nat every minute what happens is the best possible for the<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 214<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/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 class=\"GramE\"><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">unfolding<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\nof the whole. It is absolutely logical. And I believe that all contradictions<br \/>\ncan arise only from a more or less pronounced tendency towards this or that,<br \/>\nfor one position or another. All who admit the intrusion of a \u201csin\u201d or an<br \/>\n\u201cerror\u201d and the conflict resulting from it between forces which pull back and<br \/>\nthose which pull forward, may naturally contest the <span class=\"GramE\">possibility.<\/span><br \/>\nBut one has to say that for him who is spiritually linked with the supreme Will<br \/>\nor the supreme Truth, for him it is necessarily, at every instant, the best<br \/>\nthat happens for his personal <span class=\"SpellE\">realisation<\/span>. In all<br \/>\ninstances it is like that. An unconditional best can be admitted only by one<br \/>\nwho sees the universe as an unrolling, as the <span class=\"SpellE\">Supreme&#8217;s<\/span><br \/>\nself-awareness of Himself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(Silence)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" 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-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>To tell you the<br \/>\ntruth, all these things are of no importance; for that which is, goes in every<br \/>\nway entirely and absolutely beyond everything that human consciousness can<br \/>\nthink about it. It is only when you are no longer human that you know; but as<br \/>\nsoon as this knowledge is expressed, human limits <span class=\"SpellE\">reimpose<\/span><br \/>\nthemselves and then you cease to know. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>This is<br \/>\nincontestable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>And because of<br \/>\nthis incapacity, there is a kind of futility also in wanting to reduce the<br \/>\nproblem altogether to something which human reason can understand. In this case<br \/>\nit is very wise to say like someone I knew: \u201cWe are here, we have a work to do,<br \/>\nand what is needed is to do it as well as we can, without worrying about the<br \/>\nwhy and how.\u201d Why is the world as it is<span class=\"GramE\">?&#8230;<\/span> When we<br \/>\nare capable of understanding, we shall understand. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>From the practical<br \/>\npoint of view, this is evident. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\">Only,<br \/>\neach one takes a position&#8230; I have all the examples here. I have a sample<br \/>\ncollection of all attitudes and see very clearly their reactions. I see the<br \/>\nsame Force \u2013 the same, one Force<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> \u2013 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">acting in this sample collection and producing<br \/>\nnaturally different effects; but these \u201cdifferent\u201d effects, to a deeper <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 215<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/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 class=\"GramE\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">vision<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">,<br \/>\nare very superficial: it is only \u201cIt pleases them to think in this way, that&#8217;s<br \/>\nall, it just pleases them to think thus.\u201d But as a matter of fact, the inner<br \/>\njourney, the inner development, the essential vibration is not affected<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> \u2013 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">not at all.<br \/>\nOne aspires with all his heart for Nirvana, another aspires with all his will<br \/>\nfor the <span class=\"SpellE\">supramental<\/span> manifestation, and in both of<br \/>\nthem the vibratory result is almost the same. And it is a whole mass of<br \/>\nvibrations which is prepared more and more <span class=\"GramE\">to<\/span>&#8230; to<br \/>\nreceive what must be. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>There is a state,<br \/>\na state essentially pragmatic, spiritually pragmatic, in which of all human<br \/>\nfutilities, the most futile is metaphysics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 216<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoPlainText\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 March 1951 &nbsp; \u201cWhen you come to the Divine, you must abandon all mental conceptions; but, instead of doing that, you throw your conceptions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-04-questions-and-answers-volume-04","wpcat-124-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","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=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}