{"id":4529,"date":"2013-07-13T01:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4529"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:56:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:56:38","slug":"41-03-october-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\/41-03-october-1956-vol-08-questions-and-answers-volume-08","title":{"rendered":"-41_03 October 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\">3 October 1956 <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/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\"'>I have a whole flood of questions here! But before beginning to<br \/>\nanswer them, I am going to explain something to you. <\/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\"'>You must have noticed on several occasions that my way of talking<br \/>\nto you is not always the same. I don&#8217;t know if you are very sensitive to the<br \/>\ndifference, but for me it is quite considerable&#8230;Sometimes, either because of<br \/>\nsomething I have read or for quite another reason<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>following<br \/>\na question sometimes, but pretty rarely<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>it so<br \/>\nhappens that I have what is usually called an experience, but in fact it is<br \/>\nsimply entering into a certain state of consciousness and, once in that state<br \/>\nof consciousness, describing it. In that case what is said passes through the<br \/>\nmind, making use of it only as a \u201cstorehouse of words\u201d, it could be said; the<br \/>\nForce, the Consciousness which is expressing itself passes through the<br \/>\nindividual mind and attracts by a kind of affinity the words needed for its<br \/>\nexpression. That is the true teaching, something one rarely finds in books<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>it may be in books, but one must be in that state of consciousness<br \/>\noneself to be able to discover it. But with the spoken word, the vibration of<br \/>\nthe sound transmits something at least of the experience, which, for all those<br \/>\nwho are sensitive, can bee contagious. <\/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\"'>In the second case, the question asked or the subject chosen is<br \/>\nconveyed by the mind to the higher Consciousness, then the mind receives a<br \/>\nreply and transmits it again through the word. This is what usually happens in<br \/>\nall teachings, provided that the person who teaches has the ability to pass on<br \/>\nthe question to the higher Consciousness, which is not always the case. <\/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\"'>I must say the second method does not interest me very much, and<br \/>\nthat very often when the question or the subject dealt with does not give me<br \/>\nthe possibility of entering into an interesting state of consciousness, I would<br \/>\ninfinitely prefer to keep silent than to speak; it is a sort of duty to be<br \/>\nfulfilled which makes me speak. I am just telling you beforehand, for it has<br \/>\noften<br \/>\n&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\"'>Page &#8211; 311<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>happened<br \/>\nthat I have cut short our conversation<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>if it could<br \/>\nbe called a conversation<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>and abruptly passed on to meditation; it<br \/>\nwas in cases like this. But still, someone has happened to ask me to explain<br \/>\nthis difference and so I am speaking to you about it this evening. <\/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><\/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\"'>Apart from that, I have yet some other questions of a practical<br \/>\nnature, and in connection with these questions I saw something I am going to<br \/>\ntell you about<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>oh! it was not a vision with images, don&#8217;t<br \/>\nexpect something very entertaining. No, it is not that\u2026I was asked<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I am rewording it, this is not the exact text of the question: <\/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;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>What difference does the presence of the Supermind really make? In<br \/>\nwhat way does it change the tenor of problems, and how should life be<br \/>\nreconsidered following this manifestation? <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:3.0pt;line-height:150%'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/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\"'>I have been asked to give practical examples; I don&#8217;t quite know<br \/>\nwhat that may mean, but anyway, here is what I saw in a sort of mathematical<br \/>\nmood<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br \/>\n\u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>though the language of mathematics is<br \/>\nrather foreign to me<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>but I may call this a mathematical vein,<br \/>\nthat is to say, a mathematical way of looking at the problem. <\/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\"'>I think all of you have studied enough mathematics to know the <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>com<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>plexity of the <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>com<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>binations which may be produced by taking certain<br \/>\nselect elements of a set as a basis. I shall give you an example to make myself<br \/>\nclear, for I can&#8217;t use the terms which are employed in teaching you. For<br \/>\ninstance, the letters of the alphabet. There is a certain number of letters in<br \/>\nthe alphabet; well, if you want to calculate or know the number of <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>com<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>binations possible by taking all these letters together<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>how they may be organised, in how many ways they can be organised<br \/>\n&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\"'>Page &#8211; 312<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>you have<br \/>\nlearnt how very fantastic the figure be<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>com<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>es\u2026Good. But<br \/>\nif you take the material world and go down to the most minute element<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>you know, don&#8217;t you, that they have come to absolutely invisible<br \/>\nthings, innumerable things<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>if you take this element as the basis and<br \/>\nthe material world as the whole, and if you imagine a Consciousness or a Will<br \/>\nplaying with all these elements at making all the possible <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>com<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>binations without ever repeating a single one&#8230;Obviously\u2026In<br \/>\nmathematics you are told that the number of elements is finite and that<br \/>\ntherefore the number of <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>com<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>binations is finite; but that is purely<br \/>\ntheoretical, for if you come down to practice and all these combinations had to<br \/>\nfollow each other, even if they went at so great a speed that the change would<br \/>\nbe almost imperceptible, it is quite obvious that the time needed to make all<br \/>\nthese combinations would be, apparently at least, infinite; that is to say, the<br \/>\nnumber of combinations would be so immense that no limit could be assigned to<br \/>\nit<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>at least no practical limit; the theory is not interesting for us,<br \/>\nbut practically it would be like that. <\/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\"'>So suppose that what I tell you is true, in this sense that there<br \/>\nreally is a Consciousness and a Will manifesting these combinations,<br \/>\nsuccessively, indefinitely, without ever repeating a single one twice; we come<br \/>\nto the conclusion that the universe is new at each moment of eternity. And if<br \/>\nthe universe is new at each moment of eternity, we have to acknowledge that<br \/>\nabsolutely nothing is impossible; not only that, but that what we call logic is<br \/>\nnot necessarily true, and that the logic, one could almost say the fantasy of<br \/>\nthe Creator, is unlimited. <\/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\"'>Therefore, if for one reason or other<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>which might perhaps be difficult to express<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>if for some reason a combination were not followed by the one<br \/>\nnearest to it but by another freely chosen by the Supreme Freedom, all our<br \/>\nexternal certitudes and all our external logic would instantly break down. <\/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\"'>For the problem is much more complicated than you think: it is not<br \/>\nonly on one plane, in one field, that is to say, what may be called a surface<br \/>\nof things, that there is this practically&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 313<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>infinite number of elements permitting of<br \/>\neternally new combinations, there is besides what may be called a depth, that<br \/>\nis to say, other dimensions. And the Creation is the result not only of surface<br \/>\ncombinations but of combinations of depths below this surface<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>what in other terms are called \u201cpsychological factors\u201d. But I am<br \/>\nat the moment taking a purely mathematical stand, although I don&#8217;t speak the<br \/>\nlanguage of mathematics, but still it is a mathematical conception. And so here<br \/>\nwe come to the problem:<\/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\"'>Every time a new element is introduced into the total set of<br \/>\npossible combinations, it causes what may be called a tearing of its limits:<br \/>\nthe introduction of something which makes all past limits disappear and new<br \/>\npossibilities come in and multiply infinitely the possibilities of old. So, you<br \/>\nhad a world which, according to the ancient knowledge, had twelve depths or<br \/>\ntwelve \u2014 how to put it?<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>successive dimensions; and into this world<br \/>\nof twelve dimensions, suddenly new dimensions are precipitated; then all the<br \/>\nold formulas are instantly transformed and the whole possibility of the old<br \/>\nunfolding becomes\u2026one can&#8217;t say increased but supplemented by an almost<br \/>\ninfinite number of new possibilities, and all this in such a way that all the<br \/>\nprevious logic becomes illogical in the presence of the new logic. <\/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\"'>I am not speaking at all of what the human mind has made of the<br \/>\nuniverse, for that is to reduce it to its own dimension; I am speaking of the<br \/>\nfact just as it is, of a total set of combinations which are realised<br \/>\nsuccessively, in accordance with an order and a choice which, obviously,<br \/>\ncompletely elude the human consciousness, but to which man has to some extent<br \/>\nadapted himself and which, with a great effort of study such as humanity has<br \/>\npursued down the centuries, he has succeeded in formulating well enough to be<br \/>\nable to hook himself on to something tangible\u2026It is obvious that modern<br \/>\nscientific perception is much nearer to something corresponding to the universal<br \/>\nreality than were the perceptions of the Stone Age, for instance<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>this without the shadow of a doubt. But even this is going to be<br \/>\nsud<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>denly<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 314<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;completely overpassed, exceeded, and probably turned quite topsy-turvy by the<br \/>\nintrusion of something which was not in the universe which was studied. <\/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\"'>Well, it is from this change, this sudden transformation of the<br \/>\nuniversal element which quite certainly is going to bring about a kind of chaos<br \/>\nin the perceptions, that a new knowledge will emerge. This, in the most general<br \/>\nway, is the result of the new manifestation.\u00b9 <\/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\"'>From an altogether restricted, external and limited point of view,<br \/>\nI shall now speak to you of certain things which don&#8217;t belong to my own<br \/>\nexperience but which I have heard about; for instance, that there is a greater<br \/>\nnumber of what are called \u201cchild prodigies\u201d. I haven&#8217;t met any, so I can&#8217;t tell<br \/>\nyou what is truly prodigious about these children, but still, according to the<br \/>\nstories that are related, there are obviously some kind of new types which seem<br \/>\nastonishing to the ordinary human consciousness. It is examples of this kind, I<br \/>\nbelieve, that we would like to know in order to understand what is<br \/>\nhappening\u2026But it is possible, in fact, that things are happening now which we<br \/>\nare not used to watching. But it is a question of interpretation. The only<br \/>\nthing I am sure of is what I have just told you, that the quality, the number<br \/>\nand the nature of the possible combinations in the universe are suddenly going<br \/>\nto change so considerably that it will probably be quite bewildering for all<br \/>\nthose who do research. <\/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\"'>Now, we shall see.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>(Silence)<\/span><\/i><\/b><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%'><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-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">\u00b9When this talk was first published in<br \/>\n1962, Mother added the following <\/font> <\/span><font size=\"2\"><\/b><b><span>com<\/span><\/b><\/font><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">ment about \u201cthe new element\u201d: \u201cIt is not a<br \/>\nquestion of \u2018new things\u2019 in the sense that they did not exist before, but that<br \/>\nthey were not manifested in the universe. If they were not already there,<br \/>\ninvolved, they could never have e! That is obvious. Nothing can exist which<br \/>\ndoes not already exist from all eternity in the Supreme, but in the<br \/>\nmanifestation it is new. The element is not new but it is newly manifested, it<br \/>\nhas newly come out of the Non-manifest. New, what does that mean? It has no<br \/>\nmeaning, a `new thing&#8217;! It is new <i>for<\/i><br \/>\nus in the Manifestation, that is all.\u201d <\/font> <\/span><font size=\"2\"><\/b><br \/>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 315<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><\/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:9.0pt;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;I could perhaps add a practical word to what I have just<br \/>\ntold you; it is only an illustration of a detail, but it will be an indirect<br \/>\nanswer to other questions which were asked some time ago about the so-called<br \/>\nlaws of Nature, causes and effects, \u201cinevitable\u201d consequences in the material<br \/>\nfield, and more particularly from the point of view of health; for example,<br \/>\nthat if one doesn&#8217;t take certain precautions, if one doesn&#8217;t eat as one should,<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t follow certain rules, necessarily there are consequences. <\/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\"'>It is true. But if this is seen in the light of what I have just<br \/>\nsaid, that no two universal combinations are alike, how can laws be established<br \/>\nand what is the absolute truth of these laws?&#8230;It does not exist. <\/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\"'>For, if you are logical, of course with a little higher logic,<br \/>\nsince no two things, two combinations, two universal manifestations are ever<br \/>\nthe same, how can anything repeat itself? It can only be an appearance but is<br \/>\nnot a fact. And to fix rigid laws in this way<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>not<br \/>\nthat you cut yourself off from the apparent surface laws, for the mind makes<br \/>\nmany laws, and the surface very obligingly seems to ply with these laws, but it<br \/>\nis only an appearance<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>but anyway this cuts you off from the<br \/>\ncreative Power of the Spirit, it cuts you off from the true Power of the Grace,<br \/>\nfor you can understand that if by your aspiration or your attitude you<br \/>\nintroduce a higher element, a new element<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>what we may<br \/>\nnow call a supramental element<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>into the existing combinations, you can<br \/>\nsuddenly change their nature, and all these so-called necessary and ineluctable<br \/>\nlaws become absurdities. That is to say that you yourself, with your<br \/>\nconception, with your attitude and your acceptance of certain alleged<br \/>\nprinciples, you yourself close the door upon the possibility of the miracle<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>they are not miracles when one knows how they happen, but<br \/>\nobviously for the outer consciousness they seem miraculous. And it is you<br \/>\nyourself, saying to yourself with a logic that seems quite reasonable, \u201cWell,<br \/>\nif I do this, that will necessarily happen, or if I don&#8217;t do that, necessarily<br \/>\nthis other thing will happen\u201d, it is you yourself who close the door<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>it is as though you were<br \/>\n&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\"'>Page &#8211; 316<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>putting an<br \/>\niron curtain between yourself and the free action of the Grace. <\/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\"'>How nice it would be to imagine that the Supreme Consciousness,<br \/>\nessentially free, presiding at the universal Manifestation, could be full of<br \/>\nfantasy in its choice and make things follow one another not according to a<br \/>\nlogic accessible to human thought but in accordance with another kind of logic,<br \/>\nthat of the unforeseen! <\/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\"'>Then there would no longer be any limits to the possibilities, to<br \/>\nthe unexpected, the marvellous; and one could hope for the most splendid, the<br \/>\nmost delightful things from this sovereignly free Will, playing eternally with<br \/>\nall the elements and creating unceasingly a new world which logically would<br \/>\nhave absolutely nothing to do with the preceding one. <\/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\"'>Don&#8217;t you think it would be charming? We have had enough of the<br \/>\nworld as it is! Why not let it become at least what we think it ought to be? <\/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\"'>And I am telling you all this in order that each one of you may<br \/>\nput as few barriers as you can in the way of the possibilities to come. That&#8217;s<br \/>\nmy conclusion. <\/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\"'>I don&#8217;t know if I have made myself understood, but indeed a day<br \/>\nwill come, I suppose, when you will know what I meant. That&#8217;s all, then. <\/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%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span><font size=\"2\">Some time later, during a<br \/>\n\u201cFriday Class\u201d,<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><font size=\"2\">Mother spoke once again on<br \/>\nthe subject of<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><font size=\"2\">child prodigies. <\/font> <\/span><\/p>\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\"'>&nbsp;<\/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\"'>Recently, in one of the Wednesday classes, we talked about child prodigies.<br \/>\nSome say that the number of child prodigies is increasing considerably, and<br \/>\nsome<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br \/>\n\u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>even among Americans<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>say it is the influence and work of Sri Aurobindo, and others say<br \/>\nit is a result of atom bombs! But the fact is that there is a fairly large<br \/>\nnumber of child prodigies. I did not want to speak about it in much detail, for<br \/>\nI did not have any proofs in hand, that is, I did not have any good examples to<br \/>\ngive. It happens&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 317<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>that since<br \/>\nthen someone has brought me a French book written by a child of eight.\u00b9<br \/>\nNaturally there are people who dispute the possibility, but I shall explain to<br \/>\nyou later how such a thing is possible. <\/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\"'>The book is remarkable for a child of eight. This does not mean<br \/>\nthat if the age of the child were not known the book would be considered<br \/>\nwonderful; but there are, here and there, some sentences in it which are quite<br \/>\nastonishing. I have noted down these sentences and am going to read them out to<br \/>\nyou. <span><i>(Mother<br \/>\nskims through her book.)<\/i><\/span> <\/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\"'>A little phrase like this: \u201cIf we truly love one another, we can<br \/>\nhide nothing from each other\u201d&#8230;Obviously this is fine. <\/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\"'>And then something else written to a boy with freckles<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>you know what freckles are, don&#8217;t you? She writes to him: \u201cYou are<br \/>\nbeautiful, yes indeed, your freckles are so pretty; one would say that an angel<br \/>\nhad sown grains of wheat all over your face so as to attract the birds of the<br \/>\nsky there.\u201d Surely this is very poetic. <\/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\"'>And finally, something really fine which opens the door to the<br \/>\nexplanation I am going to give you: \u201cI am only an ear, a mouth; the ear hears a<br \/>\nstorm of words which I cannot explain to you, which an immense voice hurls<br \/>\nwithin me, and my mouth repeats them and nothing of what I say can pare with<br \/>\nthe streaming of light which is within me.\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\"'>Obviously this is very beautiful. <\/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\"'>It seems that here and there in her poems<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>she has written many<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>one can find<br \/>\nreminiscences of Maeterlinck, for instance; so people have concluded that it<br \/>\nwas not she who had written them, for at the age of eight one doesn&#8217;t read<br \/>\nMaeterlinck, that it must have been someone else. But in fact there is no need<br \/>\nat all to suppose a hoax, and the publisher indeed declares that he is sure of<br \/>\nwhat he is about, that he knows the child very intimately<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>in fact he was in a way her adoptive father, for her father was<br \/>\ndead<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br \/>\n\u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>and can guarantee that there<\/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;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%'><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"2\">\u00b9Minou Drouet, born in 1947, author of<br \/>\nArbre mon ami.<\/font><\/span><font size=\"2\"><\/b><\/font><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 style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page \u2013 318<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>is no deception. But it is not at all<br \/>\nnecessary to suppose a deception in order to explain this phenomenon. <\/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\"'>Authors, writers, who were inspired and serious in their creative<br \/>\nwork, that is to say, who were concentrated in a kind of consecration of their<br \/>\nbeing to their literary work, form within themselves a sort of mental entity<br \/>\nextremely well-constituted and coordinated, having its own life, <i>independent<br \/>\nof the body,<\/i><\/b> so that when they die, when the body returns to the earth,<br \/>\nthis mental formation continues to exist altogether autonomously and<br \/>\nindependently, and as it has been fashioned for expression it always seeks a<br \/>\nmeans of expression somewhere. And if there happens to be a child who has been<br \/>\nformed in particularly favourable circumstances<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>for<br \/>\ninstance, the mother of this little girl is herself a poetess and a writer;<br \/>\nperhaps the mother herself had an aspiration, a wish that her child would be a<br \/>\nremarkable, exceptional being<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>anyway, if the child who is conceived is<br \/>\nformed in particularly favourable circumstances, an entity of this kind may<br \/>\nenter into the child at the time of birth and try to use him to express itself;<br \/>\nand in that case, this gives a maturity to the child&#8217;s mind, which is quite<br \/>\nextraordinary, exceptional and which enables him to do things of the kind we<br \/>\nhave just read. <\/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\"'>We could say, without fear of sounding quite absurd, that if what<br \/>\nshe has written surprisingly resembles certain things in Maeterlinck or has the<br \/>\ncharacteristics of his writings, even with certain almost identical turns of<br \/>\nphrase, we could very well imagine that a mental formation of Maeterlinck has<br \/>\nincarnated in this child and is using this young instrument to express itself. <\/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 are similar examples, for instance, among musicians. There<br \/>\nare pianists who have individualised their hands and made them so wonderfully<br \/>\nconscious that these hands are not deposed<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>not the physical<br \/>\nhands: the hands of the subtle physical and vital<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>they<br \/>\nare not deposed, do not dissolve at the time of death. They remain as<br \/>\ninstruments to play the piano and always try to incarnate in the hands of<br \/>\nsomeone playing the piano. I have known some cases of people who, as they were<\/span><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 style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 319<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0<\/span>about to play, felt as though other hands<br \/>\nentered into theirs and started playing really marvellously, in a way they<br \/>\ncould not have done themselves. <\/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\"'>These things are not as exceptional as one might believe, they<br \/>\nhappen quite often. <\/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\"'>I saw the same thing in someone who used to play the violin and<br \/>\nanother who played the cello<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>two different cases<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>and who were not very wonderful performers themselves. One of them<br \/>\nwas just beginning his studies and the other was a good performer, but nothing<br \/>\nmarvellous. But all of a sudden, the moment they played the positions of<br \/>\ncertain musicians, something of that musician entered into their hands and made<br \/>\ntheir performance absolutely wonderful. <\/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 was even a person<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>a woman<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> \u2014 <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>who used to play the cello, and the moment she played Beethoven,<br \/>\nthe expression of her face completely changed into Beethoven&#8217;s and what she<br \/>\nplayed was sublime, which she could not have played unless something of<br \/>\nBeethoven&#8217;s mind had entered into her. <\/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%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Mother, isn&#8217;t this exceptional faculty harmful for the persons who<br \/>\nplay? <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/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\"'>Why do you<br \/>\nsuppose it would do them harm? It does them good! <\/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\"'>It is always good to make a progress or to exceed oneself. <\/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;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>But for the child? <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/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%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>I don&#8217;t<br \/>\nunderstand. For the child? <\/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%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Yes. She is already fully mature at the age of eight<\/span><\/i><\/b><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%'><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\"'>But it is<br \/>\nsomething wonderful to be at the age of eight the expression of something which<br \/>\nsurpasses the intelligence! In what way do you suppose it could harm her? I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t quite understand your question.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page &#8211; 320<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/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:.5in;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>When one grows<br \/>\nup, one becomes less plastic. <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/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\"'>No. You mean<br \/>\nthat what often happens is that a child prodigy is no longer a prodigy at all when<br \/>\nhe grows up. But, precisely, those who have studied these cases say that what<br \/>\nis exceptional about the things happening now is that child prodigies bee, as<br \/>\nthey put it, prodigious men, that is, the exceptional faculty remains in them<br \/>\nand becomes more firmly established as they grow up. <\/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\"'>But I don&#8217;t see how it can be bad, it can only be good. In what<br \/>\nway can it be bad? It is as if you said, \u201cIf one has a beautiful soul, that is<br \/>\nbad!\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\"'>When something of a higher nature enters into you, it is a grace,<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t it?&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\"'>Page &#8211; 321<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\";color:blue'><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:0;text-indent: .25in;border: medium none;padding: 0in;line-height:150%\">\n  <b><font size=\"2\"><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 October 1956 &nbsp; I have a whole flood of questions here! 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