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\n12 February 1951<\/font><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cSome persons ask: `Why has not the Divine
\ncome yet?’ Because you are not ready. If a little drop makes you sing and dance
\nand scream, what would happen if the whole thing came down? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore do we say to people who have
\nnot a strong and firm and capacious basis in the body and the vital and the
\nmind: `Do not pull’, meaning `Do not try to pull at the forces of the Divine,
\nbut wait in peace and calmness.’ For they would not be able to bear the
\ndescent. But to those who possess the necessary basis and foundation, we say,
\non the contrary, `Aspire and draw.’ For they would be able to receive and yet
\nnot be upset by the forces descending from<\/span><\/i> the Divine.\u201d<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

Questions and Answers 1929 (14 April)
\n<\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>Why does the divine force upset people? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\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

Because it is too
\nstrong for them. It is as though you were in the midst of a big cyclone. It
\nhappens at times that the wind is so violent that you are not able to stand \u2013
\nyou have to lie down and wait till it blows over. Now, the divine forces are a
\nthousand times stronger than a cyclonic wind. If you do not have in you a very
\nwide receptivity, an extremely solid basis of calmness, of equality of soul and
\ninner peace, they come and carry you away like a gale and you cannot resist
\nthem. It is the same thing with light; some people get a pain in the eyes when
\nthey look at the sun and are obliged to put on dark glasses because sunlight is
\ntoo strong for them. But this is merely sunlight. When you are able to look at
\nthe supramental light, it appears to you so brilliant that sunlight seems like
\na black stain in comparison. One must have strong eyes and a solid brain to <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 96<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>bear that, one must be well prepared,
\nestablished in something extremely calm and vast \u2013 it is as though one had such
\na strong basis of tranquillity that when the storm passes, when the light comes
\nwith a great intensity, one is able to remain immobile and receive what one can
\nwithout being knocked over. But there is not one being in a million who can do
\nit. Only those who have had a foretaste of inner experience can know what this
\nmeans. But even if you enter consciously into the psychic, it is dazzling; and
\nit is within your reach because it is your own psychic being, and yet it is so
\ndifferent from your external consciousness that the first time you enter it
\nconsciously, it seems to you truly dazzling, something infinitely more
\nbrilliant than the most brilliant sunlight.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The psychic is what may be called \u201cthe Divine
\nwithin the reach of man\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Are there any signs which indicate that
\none is ready for the path, especially if one has no spiritual teacher? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, the most
\nimportant indication is a perfect equality of soul in all circumstances. It is
\nan absolutely indispensable basis; something very quiet, calm, peaceful, the
\nfeeling of a great force. Not the quietness that comes from inertia but the
\nsensation of a concentrated power which keeps you always steady, whatever
\nhappens, even in circumstances which may appear to you the most terrible in
\nyour life. That is the first sign. <\/span><\/p>\n

A second sign: you
\nfeel completely imprisoned in your ordinary normal consciousness, as in
\nsomething extremely hard, something suffocating and intolerable, as though you
\nhad to pierce a hole in a brass wall. And the torture becomes almost
\nunbearable, it is stifling; there is an inner effort to break through and you
\ncannot manage to break through. This also is one of the first signs. It means
\nthat your inner consciousness has reached a point where its outer mould is much
\ntoo small for it \u2013 the mould of ordinary life, of ordinary activities, ordinary
\nrelations, <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 97<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>all that becomes so small, so petty; you feel
\nwithin you a force to break all that. <\/span><\/p>\n

There is yet
\nanother sign: when you concentrate and have an aspiration, you feel something
\ncoming down into you, you receive an answer; you feel a light, a peace, a force
\ncoming down; and almost immediately \u2013 you need not wait or spend a very long
\ntime \u2013 nothing but an inner aspiration, a call, and the answer comes. This also
\nmeans that the relation has been well established. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

If there is an upsetting when the force
\ndescends, does it not mean that the vital is not ready and should it not be
\nforced to be ready? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\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

How can you force
\nit? It escapes through your fingers, so to say. Your will thinks it has caught
\nit, and it eludes you. It is difficult to control. And force it to what? To be
\nready?…All that you will be able to get from it is that it will become inert,
\nthat is, it will hide in a corner, not stir any longer, and let the storm pass!
\nBecause for it the contact with the divine forces is like a storm. And when it
\nsees that the crisis is over, it will react: \u201cHere we are! Now, it is my turn!\u201d
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span>If you are upset, it means that you have
\nstill much work to do upon your vital before it can be ready, it means there is
\na weakness somewhere. For some, the weakness is in the mind. I knew a boy in <\/span>France<\/span> who was a fine
\nmusician, he used to play the violin admirably. But his brain was not very big,
\nit was just big enough to help him in his music, nothing more. He used to come
\nto our spiritual meetings and, all of a sudden, he had the experience of the
\ninfinite in the finite; it was an absolutely true experience; in the finite
\nindividual came the experience of the infinite. But this upset the boy so much
\nthat he could make nothing at all of it! He could not even play his music any
\nlonger. The experience had to be stopped because it was too powerful for him.
\nThis is an instance where the mind was too weak. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 98  <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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\u00a0<\/span>He had the experience, truly, not the idea
\n(ideas are generally something foreign to all men). One must have the
\nexperience before the idea; for most men think only with words \u2013 if you put two
\ncontradictory ideas together, they no longer understand, while the experience
\nis quite possible. So the mind must be a little wide, a little supple and
\nquiet, and instead of feeling immediately that everything you were thinking of
\nis now escaping you, you wait very quietly for something in your head to begin
\nto understand the content of the experience. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>There are people \u2013 many \u2013 who are weak
\nin their vital being. When they have this sensation of infinity, eternity, in
\ntheir very small person, in their very little strength, it is so different from
\nthe impression they have constantly, that they understand nothing whatever.
\nThen they fall sick or they begin to talk deliriously or to shout and dance. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>But if you are absolutely sincere and
\nlook at yourself clearsightedly, this cannot happen to you, for an experience
\nwhich comes inopportunely like that is always the result of some pride or
\nambition or some lack of balance within, due to having neglected one part of
\nthe being for the benefit of another. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Those who think they can advance in yoga
\nby leaving their body completely inert, their vital asleep and their mind in a
\nkind of stupefaction (for often, what they call \u201csilence\u201d is just
\nstupefaction), get completely upset, you may be sure, when an experience comes
\nto them. They lose their head, they do extravagant things or otherwise
\nsomething very unfortunate happens to them…One must have a solid
\nwell-balanced body, a well-controlled vital and a mind organised, supple, logical;
\nthen, if you are in a state of aspiration and you receive an answer, all your
\nbeing will feel enriched, enlarged, splendid, and you will be perfectly happy
\nand you will not spill your cup because it is too full, like a clumsy fellow
\nwho does not know how to hold a full tumbler. It is like that, you see, it is
\nas if you had a small vase there, quite small, which will remain small if you
\ndo not take care to make it bigger; then if all of a sudden it is filled
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 99<\/span><\/p>\n

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up with something
\nwhich is too strong, everything overflows!<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

When the consciousness feels imprisoned
\nwithin its too narrow external mould, what should be done? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\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

You must
\nparticularly not be violent, for if you are violent, you will come out of it
\ntired, exhausted, without any result. You must concentrate all the forces of
\naspiration. If you are conscious of the inner flame, you should put into this
\nflame all that you find strongest in you by way of aspiration, of a call, and hold
\nyourself as quiet as you can, calling, with a deep reliance that the answer
\nwill come; and when you are in this state, with your aspiration and
\nconcentrated force, with your inner flame, press gently upon this kind of outer
\ncrust, without violence, but with insistence, as long as you can, without
\ngetting agitated, irritated or excited. You must be perfectly quiet, must call
\nand push. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>It will not succeed the first time. You must
\nbegin again as many times as is necessary, but suddenly, one day…you are on
\nthe other side! Then you emerge in an ocean of light. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>If you fight, if you are restless, if
\nyou struggle, you will get nothing at all; and if you become irritable you will
\nonly get a headache, that is all. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Yes, it is that. To gather together all
\nyour power of aspiration, make of it something intensely concentrated, in an
\nabsolute tranquillity, to be conscious of your inner flame and throw into it
\nall you can that it may burn ever higher and higher, and then call with your
\nconsciousness and, slowly, push. You are sure to succeed one day. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Mother reads a comment made by someone <\/span><\/p>\n

during her talk in 1929: <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the case of some persons who turn to
\nthe Divine it happens that every material prop or everything they are fond of
\nis removed from their life. And if they <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\nPage – 100<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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\u00a0<\/span>love someone he also is taken away.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Questions and Answers 1929 (14 April)
\n<\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

We enter here into
\na big problem…The notion of what is good for a being and what isn’t is not
\nthe same to his evolved consciousness as to the divine consciousness. What
\nappears to you good, favourable, is not always what’s best for you from a
\nspiritual point of view. It is this which must be learnt from the beginning,
\nthat the divine perception of what will lead you fastest to the goal is absolutely
\ndifferent from yours, and that you cannot understand it. That is why you must
\nsay to yourself from the beginning, \u201cIt is all right. I shall accept everything
\nand I shall understand later on.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>So often you come across persons who, before
\nthey began yoga, had a relatively easy life, and as soon as they come to yoga,
\nall the circumstances to which they were particularly attached break away from
\nthem more or less brutally. Then they are troubled; they do not perhaps have
\nthe frankness to admit it to themselves, they perhaps take recourse to other
\nthoughts and other words, but it comes to this: \u201cHow is it? I am good and I am
\nnot treated kindly!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>The entire human notion of justice is there.
\n\u201cYou try to become good and what cataclysms befall you! All the things you
\nloved are taken away from you, all the pleasures you have had are taken away
\nfrom you, all the people whom you loved leave you; it is indeed not worth the
\ntrouble to be good and to have made an effort.\u201d And if you follow your
\nreasoning far enough, all of a sudden you come upon the canker \u2013 so, you wanted
\nto do yoga out of self-interest, you wanted to be good out of self-interest,
\nyou thought your situation would be better and you would be given a bonbon for
\nyour wisdom! And that does not happen!…Well, this refusal is the best lesson
\nthat could ever be given to you. For as long as your aspiration hides a desire
\nand as long as in your heart there is the spirit of bargaining with the Divine,
\nthings will come and give you blows till you
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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wake up to the true consciousness within you which
\nmakes no conditions, no bargains. That’s all. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Since the time I have been doing yoga I
\nfind that all my affairs are going better than before. So I conclude…<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\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><\/i><\/p>\n

Perhaps your
\naspiration was truly sincere and disinterested. In such a case, things must
\nhappen like that. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

If someone who has been bad and wicked,
\nsuddenly decides to change, does he immediately hear the small inner voice
\nwhich warns every time one does something bad? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\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

Everything depends
\nupon the form the reversal, the inner conversion has taken. If the change is
\nsudden, yes, one can immediately become conscious of the small voice, but if it
\nis gradual, the best effects will also be gradual. It depends absolutely on
\neach case, one cannot tell. If a kind of tearing, an illumination takes place,
\nthen yes, one has immediately the inner indication. It can even be
\nretrospective. That is, while thinking of certain past acts, one may get a
\nclear vision of what one was compared with what one now is. Besides, each time
\nthere is a true change in the being, each time one overcomes a fault, one has
\nthe clear vision of a whole set of things which seemed quite natural and which
\nnow pass across the screen like a dark spot; you see the origin, the causes and
\nthe effects. If you have a precise, exact memory and have for a certain length
\nof time, say a period of ten years, made sincere efforts to transform yourself,
\nto consecrate yourself more and more, and if you could recollect what you were
\nbefore, you would say, \u201cIt is not possible, I was not like that!\u201d And yet you
\nwere indeed like that. There is such a distance between what one was before,
\nwhat seemed quite natural to you before and what seems to you natural now, that
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 102<\/span><\/p>\n

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you cannot believe
\nyou are the same person. This is the surest indication that you have truly
\nprogressed. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>       <\/span>When
\ncan one say that one has truly entered the spiritual path? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The first sign (it
\nis not the same for everybody) but in a chronological order, I believe, is that
\neverything else appears to you absolutely without importance. Your entire life,
\nall your activities, all your movements continue, if circumstances so arrange
\nthings, but they all seem to you utterly unimportant, this is no longer the
\nmeaning of your existence. I believe this is the first sign. <\/span><\/p>\n

There may be
\nanother; for example, the feeling that everything is different, of living
\ndifferently, of a light in the mind which was not there before, of a peace in
\nthe heart which was not there before. That does make a change; but the positive
\nchange usually comes later, very rarely does it come at first except in a flash
\nat the time of conversion when one has decided to take up the spiritual life.
\nSometimes, it begins like a great illumination, a deep joy enters into you; but
\ngenerally, afterwards this goes into the background, for there are too many
\nimperfections still persisting in you…It is not disgust, it is not contempt,
\nbut everything appears to you so uninteresting that it is truly not worth the
\ntrouble of attending to it. For instance, when you are in the midst of certain
\nphysical conditions, pleasant or unpleasant (the two extremes meet), you say to
\nyourself, \u201cIt was so important to me, all that? But it has no importance at
\nall!\u201d You have the impression that you have truly turned over to the other
\nside. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Some imagine that the sign of spiritual life
\nis the capacity to sit in a corner and meditate! That is a very, very common
\nidea. I do not want to be severe, but most people who make much of their
\ncapacity for meditation \u2013 I do not think they meditate even for one minute out
\nof one hour. Those who medi<\/span>– <\/span><\/p>\n

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ate truly never
\nspeak about it; for them it is quite a natural thing. When it has become a
\nnatural thing, without any glory about it, you may begin to tell yourself that
\nyou are making progress. Those who talk about it and think that this gives them
\na superiority over other human beings, you may be sure, are most of the time in
\na state of complete inertia. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>It is very difficult to meditate. There are
\nall kinds of meditations…You may take an idea and follow it to arrive at a
\ngiven result \u2013 this is an active meditation; people who want to solve a problem
\nor to write, meditate in this way without knowing that they are meditating.
\nOthers sit down and try to concentrate on something without following an idea \u2013
\nsimply to concentrate on a point in order to intensify one’s power of
\nconcentration; and this brings about what usually happens when you concentrate
\nupon a point: if you succeed in gathering your capacity for concentration
\nsufficiently upon a point whether mental, vital or physical, at a given moment
\nyou pass through and enter into another consciousness. Others still try to
\ndrive out from their head all movements, ideas, reflexes, reactions and to
\narrive at a truly silent tranquillity. This is extremely difficult; there are
\npeople who have tried for twenty-five years and not succeeded, for it is
\nsomewhat like taking a bull by the horns. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>There is another kind of meditation which
\nconsists in being as quiet as one can be but without trying to stop all
\nthoughts, for there are thoughts which are purely mechanical and if you try to
\nstop these you will need years, and into the bargain you will not be sure of
\nthe result; instead of that you gather together all your consciousness and
\nremain as quiet and peaceful as possible, you detach yourself from external
\nthings as though they do not interest you at all, and all of a sudden, you
\nbrighten the flame of aspiration and throw into it everything that comes to you
\nso that the flame may rise higher and higher, higher and higher; you identify
\nyourself with it and you go up to the extreme point of your consciousness and
\naspiration, thinking of nothing else \u2013 simply, an aspiration which mounts,
\nmounts, <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>mounts, without thinking a minute of the
\nresult, of what may happen and especially of what may not, and above all
\nwithout desiring that something may come \u2013 simply, the joy of an aspiration
\nwhich mounts and mounts and mounts, intensifying itself more and more in a
\nconstant concentration. And there I may assure you that what happens is the
\nbest that can happen. That is, it is the maximum of your possibilities which is
\nrealised when you do this. These possibilities may be very different according
\nto individuals. But then all these worries about trying to be silent, going
\nbehind appearances, calling a force which answers, waiting for an answer to
\nyour questions, all that vanishes like an unreal vapour<\/span>.
\nAnd if you succeed in living consciously in this flame, in this column of
\nmounting aspiration, you will see that even if you do not have an immediate
\nresult, after a time something will happen. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

During the concentration that we have here\u00b9
\ntogether, on what should we concentrate? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\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><\/i><\/p>\n

Can anyone tell me
\nwhat this concentration is and why we have it? It is a very interesting
\nquestion, it concerns everybody. Can anyone tell me the difference between this
\nconcentration and a so-called \u201cordinary\u201d meditation? Why do we do it and what
\nhappens there? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

We make an offering of all our daily
\nactions. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, this is the
\nindividual side. And collectively, what is this concentration for? (He is on
\nthe way, note, he has taken half the first step). <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

We concentrate on our weak points and
\naspire for their disappearance.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b9 For a long time meditations used to take place in
\nthe Ashram building. Then, as the number of disciples increased and sports
\ngained importance, these meditations were replaced by collective \u201cconcentrations\u201d
\nat the Ashram Playground.<\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

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That is also an
\nindividual aspect. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>In the meditations we formerly used to have
\nthere [at the Ashram\u00b9], when we had a morning or evening meditation, my work
\nwas to unify the consciousness of everyone and lift it as high as I could
\ntowards the Divine. Those who were able to feel the movement followed it. This
\nwas ordinary meditation with an aspiration and ascent towards the Divine. Here,
\nat the Playground, the work is to unify all who are here, make them open and bring down<\/i> the divine force into them.
\nIt is the opposite movement and that is why this concentration cannot replace
\nthe other, even as the other cannot replace this one. What happens here is
\nexceptional \u2013 in the other meditation [at
\nthe Ashram<\/i>] I gathered together the consciousness of all who were present
\nand, with the power of aspiration, lifted it towards the Divine, that is, made
\neach one of you progress a little. Here, on the other hand, I take you as you
\nare; each one of you comes saying, \u201cHere we are with our whole day’s
\nactivities, we were busy with our body, here it is, we offer to you all our
\nmovements, just as they were, just as we are.\u201d And my work is to unify all
\nthat, make of it a homogeneous mass and, in answer to this offering (which each
\none can make in his own way), to open every consciousness, widen the
\nreceptivity, make a unity of this receptivity and bring down the Force. So at
\nthat moment each one of you, if you are very quiet and attentive, will surely
\nreceive something. You will not always be aware of it, but you will receive
\nsomething. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

In March 1964, the following question was put<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>to the Mother: <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

And now that you are no longer physically
\npresent at the Playground concentrations, what happens? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\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

I hope people have made some progress and
\ndo not need the physical presence to feel the Help and the Force. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b9 See foot note P. 105.<\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 106<\/span><\/p>\n

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