{"id":4493,"date":"2013-07-13T01:56:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:56:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:56:23","slug":"05-15-april-1953-vol-05-questions-and-answers-volume-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/05-questions-and-answers-volume-05\/05-15-april-1953-vol-05-questions-and-answers-volume-05","title":{"rendered":"-05_15 April 1953.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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 <\/span>15 April 1953 <\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

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You have written: \u201cDo not try to pull at
\nthe forces of the Divine.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n


\nQuestions and
\nAnswers 1929 (14 April)<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

             <\/span>
\n
\nCan
\none pull the divine forces by violence?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, if you
\ncall very strongly, if you aspire very strongly, you may pull down a large
\nnumber of forces into you, but you will not be able to digest them, assimilate
\nthem. It is the same thing as with food; when you swallow all that you have at
\nhand in one gulp, that causes indigestion, it chokes you. You cannot bear it.
\nSo if you want to go fast, if you hurry, you send a kind of call and pull
\ntowards you too great a number of forces, forces which otherwise would have
\ncome less quickly. <\/span><\/p>\n

Just
\na little hidden ambition is enough to.. There are people who do not do Yoga for
\nthe sake of Yoga but to obtain a result, to have powers, to know one thing or
\nanother. <\/span><\/p>\n

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But then that means they are not sincere?
\nHow is it then that the Divine responds? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

You think
\nthat the Divine has a small human judgment! You must not project human ideas
\nupon the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

If
\nyou are not sincere, what happens is that your own consciousness is veiled. Take,
\nfor example, a man who tells lies; his consciousness gets veiled and after a
\nwhile, he can no longer distinguish falsehood from truth. He sees images and
\ncalls them truth. One who is wicked loses his aspiration, loses his capacity of
\nrealisation, loses all possibility of understanding, feeling and realising.
\nThat is the punishment. <\/span><\/p>\n

One
\nputs veils, obstacles between oneself and the Divine. That is how one punishes
\noneself. The Divine does not with-<\/span> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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draw; one
\nmakes oneself incapable of receiving him. The Divine does not distribute in
\nthis way rewards and punishments, it is not at all like that. <\/span><\/p>\n

When
\none is insincere, when one has bad will, when one is a traitor, one punishes
\noneself instantaneously. Insincere people lose even the little bit of
\nconsciousness that would make them know that they are wicked; they become as
\nthough unconscious. They end up by not knowing anything at all any longer. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

What is it that you call \u201cthe basis of
\nequanimity in the external being\u201d? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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

It is good
\nhealth, a solid body, well poised; when one does not have the nerves of a
\nlittle girl that are shaken by the least thing; when one sleeps well, eats well
\nWhen one is quite calm, well balanced, very quiet, one has a solid basis and
\ncan receive a large number of forces. <\/span><\/p>\n

If
\nanyone among you has received spiritual forces, forces of the Divine Ananda,
\nfor example, he knows from experience that unless he is in good health he
\ncannot contain them, keep them. He begins to weep and cry, gets restless to
\nexpend what he has received. He must laugh and talk and gesticulate, otherwise
\nhe cannot keep them, he feels stifled. And so by laughing, weeping, moving
\nabout he throws out what he has received. <\/span><\/p>\n

To
\nbe well balanced, to be able to absorb what one receives, one must be very
\nquiet, very calm. One must have a solid basis, good health. One must have a
\nvery solid basis. That is very important. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

What is the difference between outer
\nequality and the equality of the soul? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The
\nequality of the soul is a psychological thing. It is the power to bear all
\nhappenings, good or bad, without being sad, discouraged, <\/span>
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desperate,
\nupset. Whatever happens, you remain serene, peaceful. <\/span><\/p>\n

The
\nother is the equality in the body. It is not psychological, it is something
\nmaterial; to have a physical poise, to receive forces without being troubled. <\/span><\/p>\n

The
\ntwo are equally necessary if one wants to progress on the path. And other
\nthings still. For example, a mental poise; such that all possible ideas, even
\nthe most contradictory, may come from all sides without one\u2019s being troubled.
\nOne can see them and put each in its place. That is mental poise.<\/span> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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