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\n7 November 1956<\/font><\/span><\/b> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Shakti, the power of the Infinite and the Eternal descends
\nwithin us, works, breaks up our present psychological formations, shatters
\nevery wall, widens, liberates\u2026 she frees the consciousness from confinement in
\nthe body; it can go out in trance or sleep or even waking and enter into worlds
\nor other regions of this world and act there or carry back its experience. It
\nspreads out, feeling the body only as a small part of itself, and begins to
\ncontain what before contained it; it achieves the cosmic consciousness and
\nextends itself to be <\/span>com<\/span>mensurate with the
\nuniverse. It begins to know inwardly and directly and not merely by external
\nobservation and contact the forces at play in the world, feels their movement,
\ndistinguishes their functioning and can operate immediately upon them as the
\nscientist operates upon physical forces, accept their action and results in our
\nmind, life, body or reject them or modify, change, reshape, create immense new
\npowers and movements in place of the old small functionings of the nature. We
\nbegin to perceive the working of the forces of universal Mind and to know how
\nour thoughts are created by that working\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n


\nThe
\nSynthesis of Yoga, pp. 172-73<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Sweet Mother, how are our thoughts created by the forces of the
\nuniversal Mind? <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Because the
\nforces of the universal Mind enter into our heads. We are bathed in forces, we
\nare not aware of it. We are not something enclosed in a bag and independent
\nfrom the rest: all forces, all vibrations, all movements enter into us and s
\nthrough us. And so we have a certain mental force held in, that <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 344<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>is to say, ready to be used by the formative
\nor creative mental power. These are, as it were, free forces. As soon as a
\nthought <\/span>com<\/span>ing from outside or a force or movement enters our consciousness,
\nwe give it a concrete form, a logical appearance and all kinds of precise
\ndetails; but in fact all this belongs to a domain one is rarely conscious of. <\/span><\/p>\n

But this is not a special instance which occurs only from time to
\ntime: it is something constant. If a current of force is sing, with a
\nparticular thought formation, one sees it sing from one into another, and in
\neach one it forms a kind of centre of light or force which keeps the imprint<\/span> \u2014 <\/span>more or less pure, more or less clear, more or less mixed<\/span> \u2014 <\/span>of the initial current; and the result is what we call \u201cour\u201d
\nthought. <\/span><\/p>\n

But our thought is something which hardly exists. It can be \u201cour\u201d
\nthought only if, instead of being like a public place as we generally are in
\nour normal state<\/span> \u2014 <\/span>we are like a public place and all the
\nforces pass there, come and go, enter, depart, jostle each other and even
\nquarrel<\/span>
\n\u2014 <\/span>if instead of being like that, we are a
\nconcentrated consciousness, turned upwards in an aspiration, and open beyond
\nthe limits of the human mind to something higher; then, being open like this
\nbrings down that higher something across all the layers of reality, and this
\nsomething may enter into contact with our conscious brain and take a form there
\nwhich is no longer the creation of a universal force or a personal mind
\nstronger than ours, but the\u00a0 <\/span>direct
\nexpression and creation of a light which is above us, and which may be a light
\nof the highest kind if our aspiration and opening allow it. That is the only
\ncase in which one can say that the thought is our own. Otherwise, all the rest
\nis simply a sing notation: we note down, we invest a force with words, a force
\nthat’s altogether universal and collective, which enters, goes out, moves and <\/span>pas<\/span>ses freely from one person to another.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But how is the thought formed in the universal Mind?<\/span><\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\nPage – 345<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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In the
\nuniversal Mind? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

You say that it comes from outside, don’t you? <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Ideas have a
\nhigher origin than the mind. There is a region of the mind, higher than the
\nordinary mind, in which there are ideas, typal ideas, really prototypes; and
\nthese ideas descend and are clothed in mental substance. So, in accordance with<\/span> \u2014 <\/span>how to put it?… the quality of the receiver, they either keep
\nall their own qualities and original nature or become distorted, coloured,
\ntransformed in the individual consciousness. But the idea goes far beyond the
\nmind; the idea has an origin much higher than the mind. So, the functioning is
\nthe same from both the universal and the individual point of view; the
\nindividual movement is only representative of the universal one. The scale is
\ndifferent, but the phenomenon is the same. Of course, these are no longer
\n\u201cthoughts\u201d as we conceive thoughts; they are universal principles<\/span> \u2014 <\/span>but it’s the same thing<\/span> \u2014 <\/span>universal
\nprinciples on which the universes are built. <\/span><\/p>\n

The universe, after all, is only one person, only one
\nindividuality in the midst of the eternal Creation. Each universe is a person
\nwho takes form, lives, dissolves, and another takes shape<\/span> \u2014 <\/span>it is the same thing. For us, the person is the human individual;
\nand from the universal point of view the person is the universal individual; it
\nis one universe in the midst of all the universes.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 346<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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