{"id":4527,"date":"2013-07-13T01:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:56:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:56:38","slug":"04-25-january-1956-vol-08-questions-and-answers-volume-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/08-questions-and-answers-volume-08\/04-25-january-1956-vol-08-questions-and-answers-volume-08","title":{"rendered":"-04_25 January 1956.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 style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">25 January 1956 <\/font><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>\u201c<\/span><\/b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman'>Life, not a remote silent or<br \/>\nhigh-uplifted ecstatic Beyond \u2014 Life alone, is the field of our Yoga. The<br \/>\ntransformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking,<br \/>\nseeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an<br \/>\nintegrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the<br \/>\ndivine way of life must be its central<span>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>purpose.\u201d <\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'>\n<span><i><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 82<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span><span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>\n<span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Sweet Mother, will \u201cthe divine<br \/>\nway of life\u201d be established on earth only when the Supermind descends? <\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I think so. There seems to be no possibility of its happening<br \/>\nother-wise. But it is a very relative question. Perhaps our way of life could<br \/>\nbee a little more divine without being altogether divine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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%'>\n<span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>What do you mean by a \u201cdivine<br \/>\nway of life\u201d? <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>We always call \u201cDivine\u201d all that we are not but wish to be. All<br \/>\nthat seems to us infinitely superior, not only to all that we have done, but to<br \/>\nall that we feel we can do; all that surpasses both our conception and our<br \/>\npresent possibilities, we call \u201cDivine\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;I say this, not as a<br \/>\njoke, but because I am quite convinced that if we go back some thousands of<br \/>\nyears, when men spoke of the Divine \u2014 if ever they did speak of the Divine, as<br \/>\nI believe \u2014 they spoke perhaps of a state like that of the godheads of the<br \/>\nOvermind; and now this mode of being of the Overmind godheads who, obviously,<br \/>\nhave governed the earth and formed many things on earth for a very long time,<br \/>\nseems to us far inferior to what we conceive the Supermind to be. And this<br \/>\nSuper&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">Page \u2013 33<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>mind, which is, precisely, what we now call the Divine and try<br \/>\nto bring down on earth, will probably strike us in the same way a few thousand<br \/>\nor million years hence as the Overmind does today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;And I am sure that in the<br \/>\nmanifestation, that is, in His self-expression, the Divine is progressive.<br \/>\nOutside the manifestation He is something we cannot conceive; but as soon as He<br \/>\nmanifests in this kind of perpetual being, well, He manifests more and more of<br \/>\nHimself, as though He were reserving for the end the most beautiful things in<br \/>\nHis Being. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;As the world progresses,<br \/>\nwhat He expresses in the world bees what we might call more and more divine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;So Sri Aurobindo has used<br \/>\nthe word Supermind to explain to those who are in the outer and evolutionary<br \/>\nconsciousness and who have some idea of the way in which the earth has<br \/>\ndeveloped \u2014 to explain to them that this something which is going to be beyond<br \/>\nall this, and superior to human creation, to man, whom he always calls the<br \/>\nmental being \u2014 this something which is going to come will be greater and better<br \/>\nthan man; and so he calls it supramental in order to make himself understood.<br \/>\nBut we could just as well say that it is something more divine than what has<br \/>\nbeen manifested before. s<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;And this he himself says,<br \/>\nin what I read today, that it is infinite, that it has no limits.\u00b9 That is to<br \/>\nsay, there will always be a growing perfection; and what now seems to us<br \/>\nimperfect must have been the perfection for which certain ages in earth\u2019s<br \/>\nhistory aspired. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;There is no reason why<br \/>\nthis should stop. If it stopped, it would be finished. It would be a new<br \/>\nPralaya. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Mother, I have not understood this:<br \/>\n\u201cIt is for this meaningful development of consciousness by thought, will,<br \/>\nemotion, desire, action and experience, leading in the end to a supreme divine<br \/>\nself-discovery, that Man,<\/span><\/i><\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>\n<span><i><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">\u00b9 \u201cIn a certain sense it may be an error to<br \/>\nspeak of a goal anywhere in a progression which may well be infinite.\u201d (The<br \/>\nSynthesis of Yoga}, p. 83)<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span><b><i><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;border:medium none;padding:0in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 34<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><i><b><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman'>\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman'>the mental being, has entered into the<br \/>\nmaterial body.\u201d <\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'>\n<span><i><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 82-83<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;Why has the mental being taken a material body? Is that what you<br \/>\nare asking? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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%'>\n<span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Sri Aurobindo says, \u201cleading in<br \/>\nthe end to a supreme divine self-discovery<\/span><\/i><\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The divine discovery is the discovery of the Divine in oneself.<br \/>\nSo man, that is, the mental being \u2014 for what we call man is a physical body<br \/>\nwith a mental being within, a mental being manifested in a body, a physical<br \/>\nbody \u2014 so the mental being has incarnated and become man in order to find<br \/>\nwithin himself the divine Being, the divine Presence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;Why? Are you asking why?<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a funny way of going about it! (Laughter) <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp; I don\u2019t know if he is<br \/>\ngoing to explain it here, I don\u2019t remember now, but one thing is certain, that<br \/>\nthis marvellous thing, the divine Presence in Matter, which is at the origin of<br \/>\nthe formation of the psychic being, belongs in its own right to life on earth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;So \u2014 we have already said<br \/>\nthis many times, I believe \u2014 our earth which from the astronomical point of<br \/>\nview seems to be only a small insignificant planet in the midst of all the<br \/>\nstars and all the worlds, our earth has been formed to bee the symbol of the universe<br \/>\nand the point of concentration for the work of transformation, of divine<br \/>\ntransmutation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;And because of that, in<br \/>\nthis Matter which was perhaps the most obscure and most inconscient of all the<br \/>\nMatter of the universes, there plunged and incarnated directly the Divine<br \/>\nConsciousness, from the supreme Origin right into the obscurest Matter, without<br \/>\ngoing through any intermediate stages, directly. Consequently, the two extremes<br \/>\ntouch, the Supreme and the most inconscient, and the universal circle closes.<br \/>\nAnd so earthly <\/span><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;border:medium none;padding:0in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 35<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>life is the easiest means, one might say, or the most rapid, of<br \/>\nbeing conscious of the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;And it is so true that<br \/>\neven the great cosmic Individualities, when they want to be converted or to unite<br \/>\nwith the Origin, take a physical body for that, because it is more convenient<br \/>\nfor them, for it can be done faster and better than if they had to progress<br \/>\nthrough all the states of being, from any one of the states of being in the<br \/>\nuniverse to the supreme Origin. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;It is easier to come down<br \/>\ninto a human body and find the divine Presence there, it is quicker. Imagine<br \/>\nthe serpent biting its tail, it makes a circle, doesn\u2019t it? So, if something<br \/>\nwants to be united with the Divine, it is easier to enter the tail than to go<br \/>\nthe whole round of the body! As the head bites the tail, well, if you enter the<br \/>\ntail you are immediately in contact with the head, otherwise you have to go all<br \/>\nthe way round to reach the head. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;(To the child) Mind you,<br \/>\nI am not quite sure if this is what he means, but any way it is one<br \/>\nexplanation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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%'>\n<span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(Silence)<\/span><\/i><\/span><i><span 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%'>\n<font size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Mother shows the white Champak flower she<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>\n<font size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>is holding in her hand. She has named the <\/span><\/font> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>\n<font size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>flower \u201cPsychological Perfection\u201d. <\/span><\/font> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Who remembers this? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>\n<span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(Counting the petals<\/span><\/i><\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>) One, two, three, four, five<br \/>\npsychological perfections. What are the five psychological perfections? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;For they can be changed.<br \/>\nAnd in fact, to tell you my secrets, every time I give it to someone, they are<br \/>\nnot always the same psychological perfections. That depends on people\u2019s needs.<br \/>\nEven to the same person I may give at different times different psychological<br \/>\nperfections; so it\u2019s not fixed. But the first time this flower was named<br \/>\n\u201cPsychological Perfection\u201d (I remember very well it was at a gathering up there<br \/>\nwhere Prosperity\u00b9<span>\u00a0 <\/span>now is,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span 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%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><span><i><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">\u00b9 \u201cProsperity\u201d is the place where, on the<br \/>\nfirst of every month, Mother used to distribute to the disciples what<br \/>\nthey needed for the month.<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 36<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>where I go on the first<br \/>\nof the month; there was a gathering and we had decided the five psychological perfections),<br \/>\nat that time they were noted down, but as for me it is something very fluid \u2014 I<br \/>\ntold you it depends on the circumstances and needs \u2014 I don\u2019t remember what was<br \/>\nchosen the first time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;So, if someone knows it,<br \/>\nhe can tell us, we\u2019ll pare. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><\/span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><br \/>\n<span>I am not sure.<\/span><b> <\/b><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>You are not sure. Is there anyone who is sure? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><\/span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><br \/>\n<span>Aspiration, devotion, sincerity<br \/>\nand faith.<\/span><b> <\/b><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>That makes only four, so far. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><span 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'>\n<span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>And surrender. <\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Surrender? Someone told me something else. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;(To a disciple) You, do<br \/>\nyou know? Well, then, come and tell us. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><span 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'>\n<span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>In English, Mother? <\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Ah, no, my child, this is a French class, not in English! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><span 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'>\n<span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Faith, sincerity, aspiration,<br \/>\ndevotion, surrender. <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But that\u2019s what he just said. (Turning to another disciple} You <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>\u2013<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> a little<br \/>\nwhile ago, you told me \u201cfaithfulness\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><span 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'>\n<span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I said that, but it\u2019s not<br \/>\nfaithfulness, instead of faithfulness it\u2019s faith.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But why should there not be faithfulness? I didn\u2019t put it down,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 37<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>because I didn\u2019t try to<br \/>\nrecall anything, I simply wrote down what seemed to me the most important and<br \/>\nmost general. But it may be put in various ways. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;In any case, what is<br \/>\nalways there, in all combinations and to whomever I give it, the first among<br \/>\nthem all is sincerity. For if there is no sincerity, one cannot advance even by<br \/>\nhalf a step. So that is the first, and it is always there. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;But it is possible to<br \/>\ntranslate it by another word, if you prefer it, which would be \u201ctransparency\u201d. I<br \/>\nshall explain this word: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;Someone is in front of me<br \/>\nand I am looking at him; I look into his eyes. And if this person is sincere or<br \/>\n\u201ctransparent\u201d, through his eyes I go down and I see his soul \u2014 clearly. But \u2014<br \/>\nthis is precisely the experience \u2014 when I look at somebody and see a little<br \/>\ncloud, then I continue, I see a screen, and then sometimes it is a wall, and<br \/>\nafterwards it is something quite black; and all this must be crossed, and holes<br \/>\nbored in order to go through; and even then I am not sure if at the last minute<br \/>\nI may not find myself before a door of bronze so thick that I shall never get<br \/>\nthrough and see his soul; so, of such a person I can immediately say that he is<br \/>\nnot sincere. But I can also say, figuratively, that he is not transparent. That<br \/>\nis the first thing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;There is a second, which<br \/>\nis obviously, as indispensable if you want to go forward; it is to have faith.<br \/>\nOr another word, which seems more limited but is for me more important, because<br \/>\n(it is a question of experience) if your faith is not made of a complete trust<br \/>\nin the Divine, well, you may very easily remain under the impression that you<br \/>\nhave faith and yet be losing all trust in the divine Power or divine Goodness,<br \/>\nor the Trust the Divine has in you. These are the three stumbling-blocks: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;Those who have what they<br \/>\ncall an unshakable faith in the Divine, and say, \u201cIt is the Divine who is doing<br \/>\neverything, who can do everything; all that happens in me, in others,<br \/>\neverywhere, is the work of the Divine and the Divine alone\u201d, if they follow this<br \/>\nwith some kind of logic, after some time they will blame the Divine for all the<br \/>\nmost terrible wrongs which take place in<\/span><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 38<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>the world and make of Him<br \/>\na real demon, cruel and frightful \u2014 if they have no trust. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;Or again, they do have faith,<br \/>\nbut tell themselves, \u201cWell, I have faith in the Divine, but this world, I see<br \/>\nquite well what it\u2019s like! First of all, I suffer so much, don\u2019t I? I am very<br \/>\nunhappy, far more unhappy than all my neighbours\u201d \u2014 for one is always far more<br \/>\nunhappy than all one\u2019s neighbours \u2014 \u201cI am very unhappy and, truly, life is<br \/>\ncruel to me. But then the Divine is divine, He is All-Goodness, All-Generosity,<br \/>\nAll-Harmony, so how is it that I am so unhappy? He must be powerless; otherwise<br \/>\nbeing so good how could He let me suffer so much?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;That is the second<br \/>\nstumbling-block. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;And the third: there are<br \/>\npeople who have what may be called a warped and excessive modesty or humility<br \/>\nand who tell themselves, \u201cSurely the Divine has thrown me out, I am good for<br \/>\nnothing, He can do nothing with me, the only thing for me is to give up the<br \/>\ngame, for He finds me unworthy of Him!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;So, unless one adds to<br \/>\nfaith a total and complete trust in the Divine Grace, there will be<br \/>\ndifficulties. So both are necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;Now, we have put<br \/>\n\u201cdevotion\u201d in this series. Yes, devotion is all very well, but unless it is<br \/>\naccompanied by many other things it too may make many mistakes. It may meet<br \/>\nwith great difficulties<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;You have devotion, and<br \/>\nyou keep your ego. And then your ego makes you do all sorts of things out of<br \/>\ndevotion, things which are terribly egoistic. That is to say, you think only of<br \/>\nyourself, not of others, nor of the world, nor of the work, nor of what ought<br \/>\nto be done \u2014 you think only of your devotion. And you become tremendously<br \/>\negoistic. And so, when you find out that the Divine, for some reason, does not<br \/>\nanswer to your devotion with the enthusiasm you expected of Him, you despair<br \/>\nand fall back into the same three difficulties I was just speaking about:<br \/>\neither the Divine is cruel \u2014 we have read that, there are many such stories, of<br \/>\nenthusiastic devotees who abuse the Divine because He is no longer as gentle<br \/>\nand near to them as before,&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;border:medium none;padding:0in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 39<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>He has withdrawn, \u201cWhy<br \/>\nhast Thou deserted me? Thou hast abandoned me, O monster!&#8230;\u201d They don\u2019t dare<br \/>\nto say this, but think it, or else they say, \u201cOh! I must have made such a<br \/>\nserious mistake that I am thrown out\u201d, and they fall into despair. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;But there is another<br \/>\nmovement which should constantly accompany devotion\u2026. That kind of sense of<br \/>\ngratitude that the Divine exists; that feeling of a marvelling thankfulness<br \/>\nwhich truly fills you with a sublime joy at the fact that the Divine exists,<br \/>\nthat there is something in the universe which is the Divine, that it is not<br \/>\njust the monstrosity we see, that there is the Divine, the Divine exists. And<br \/>\neach time that the least thing puts you either directly or indirectly in<br \/>\ncontact with this sublime Reality of divine existence, the heart is filled with<br \/>\nso intense, so marvellous a joy, such a gratitude as of all things has the most<br \/>\ndelightful taste. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>There is nothing which gives<br \/>\nyou a joy equal to that of gratitude. One hears a bird sing, sees a lovely<br \/>\nflower, looks at a little child, observes an act of generosity, reads a<br \/>\nbeautiful sentence, looks at the setting sun, no matter what, suddenly this<br \/>\ncomes upon you, this kind of emotion \u2014 indeed so deep, so intense \u2014 that the<br \/>\nworld manifests the Divine, that there is something behind the world which is<br \/>\nthe Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;So I find that devotion<br \/>\nwithout gratitude is quite incomplete, gratitude must come with devotion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;I remember that once we<br \/>\nspoke of courage as one of the perfections; I remember having written it down<br \/>\nonce in a list. But this courage means having a taste for the supreme<br \/>\nadventure. And this taste for supreme adventure is aspiration \u2013 an aspiration<br \/>\nwhich takes hold of you completely and flings you, without calculation and<br \/>\nwithout reserve and without a possibility of withdrawal, into the great<br \/>\nadventure of the divine discovery, the great adventure of the divine meeting,<br \/>\nthe yet greater adventure of the divine Realisation; you throw yourself into<br \/>\nthe adventure without looking back and without asking for a single minute,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s going to happen?\u201d For if you ask what is going&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;border:medium none;padding:0in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 40<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>to happen, you never start, you always remain<br \/>\nstuck there, rooted to the spot, afraid to lose something, to lose your<br \/>\nbalance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;That\u2019s why I speak of<br \/>\ncourage \u2014 but really it is aspiration. They go together. A real aspiration is<br \/>\nsomething full of courage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;And now, surrender. In<br \/>\nEnglish the word is \u201csurrender\u201d, there is no French word which gives exactly<br \/>\nthat sense. But Sri Aurobindo has said \u2014 I think we have read this \u2014 that<br \/>\nsurrender is the first and absolute condition for doing the yoga. So, if we<br \/>\nfollow what he has said, this is not just one of the necessary qualities: it is<br \/>\nthe first attitude indispensable for beginning the yoga. If one has not decided<br \/>\nto make a total surrender, one cannot begin. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;But for this surrender to<br \/>\nbe total, all these qualities are necessary. And I add one more \u2014 for so far we<br \/>\nhave only four <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>\u2013<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> I add endurance. For, if you are not able to face difficulties<br \/>\nwithout getting discouraged and without giving up, because it is too difficult;<br \/>\nand if you are incapable\u2026well, of receiving blows and yet continuing, of \u201cpocketing\u201d<br \/>\nthem, as they say \u2014 when you receive blows as a result of your defects, of<br \/>\nputting them in your pocket and continuing to go forward without flagging \u2014 you<br \/>\ndon\u2019t go very far; at the first turning where you lose sight of your little<br \/>\nhabitual life, you fall into despair and give up the game<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;The most\u2026 how shall I put<br \/>\nit? the most material form of this is perseverance. Unless you are resolved to<br \/>\nbegin the same thing over again a thousand times if need be \u2014 You know, people<br \/>\ncome to me in despair, \u201cBut I thought it was done and now I must begin again!\u201d<br \/>\nAnd if they are told, \u201cBut that\u2019s nothing, you will probably have to begin<br \/>\nagain a hundred times, two hundred times, a thousand times; you take one step<br \/>\nforward and think you are secure, but there will always be something to bring<br \/>\nback the same difficulty a little farther on. You think you have solved the<br \/>\nproblem, you must solve it yet once again; it will turn up again looking just a<br \/>\nlittle different, but it will be the same problem\u201d, and if you are not determined<br \/>\nthat: \u201cEven if it comes&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;border:medium none;padding:0in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">Page &#8211; 41<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>back a million times, I<br \/>\nshall do it a million times, but I shall go through with it\u201d, well, you won\u2019t<br \/>\nbe able to do the yoga. This is absolutely indispensable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;People have a beautiful experience<br \/>\nand say, \u201cAh, now this is it!\u201d\u2026 And then it settles down, diminishes, gets<br \/>\nveiled, and suddenly something quite unexpected, absolutely commonplace and<br \/>\napparently completely uninteresting comes before you and blocks your way. And<br \/>\nthen you say, \u201cAh! what\u2019s the good of having made this progress if it\u2019s going<br \/>\nto start all over again? Why should I do it? I made an effort, I succeeded,<br \/>\nachieved something, and now it\u2019s as if I had done nothing! It\u2019s indeed<br \/>\nhopeless.\u201d For you have no endurance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;If one has endurance, one<br \/>\nsays, \u201cIt\u2019s all right. Good, I shall begin again as often as necessary; a<br \/>\nthousand times, ten thousand times, a hundred thousand times if necessary, I<br \/>\nshall begin again \u2014 but I shall go to the end and nothing will have the power<br \/>\nto stop me on the way.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;This is most necessary.<br \/>\nMost necessary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;So here\u2019s my proposal: we<br \/>\nput surrender first, at the top of the list, that is, we accept what Sri<br \/>\nAurobindo has said \u2014 that to do the integral yoga one must first resolve to<br \/>\nsurrender entirely to the Divine, there is no other way, this is the way. But<br \/>\nafter that one must have the five psychological virtues, five psychological<br \/>\nperfections, and we say that these perfections are: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;Sincerity or Transparency<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>Faith or Trust (Trust in the Divine, naturally)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>Devotion or Gratitude <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>Courage or Aspiration <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>Endurance or Perseverance. <\/span><span 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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>One form of endurance is<br \/>\n<span><i>faithfulness<\/i><\/span>, faithfulness to one\u2019s<br \/>\nresolution \u2014 being faithful. One has taken a resolution, one is faithful to<br \/>\none\u2019s resolution. This is endurance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;There you are. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>If one persists, there comes a time when one<br \/>\nis victorious. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>Victory is to the most persistent.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;border:medium none;padding:0in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">Page \u2013 42<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 January 1956 &nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cLife, not a remote silent or high-uplifted ecstatic Beyond \u2014 Life alone, is the field of our Yoga. 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