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\n4 July 1956<\/font><\/span> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Sweet Mother, it is said that
\nif one sees a shooting star and at that moment one aspires for something, that
\naspiration is fulfilled within the year. Is this true? <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Do you know what that means? <\/span>― <\/span>The aspiration must be
\nformulated during the<\/i><\/span> time the star is visible; and that doesn\u2019t last
\nlong, does it? Well, if an aspiration can be formulated while the star is
\nvisible, this means that it is all the time there, present, in the forefront of
\nthe consciousness <\/span>―<\/span> this does not apply to ordinary things, it has nothing to do
\nwith that, it concerns a spiritual aspiration. But the point is that if you are
\nable to articulate your spiritual aspiration just at that moment, it means that
\nit is right in front of your consciousness, that it dominates your
\nconsciousness. And, necessarily, what dominates your consciousness can be
\nrealised very swiftly. <\/span><\/p>\n

 I had the opportunity to
\nmake this experiment. Exactly this. The moment the star was sing, at that very
\nmoment there sprang up from the consciousness: \u201cTo realise the divine union,
\nfor my body.\u201d That very moment. <\/span><\/p>\n

 And before the end of the
\nyear, it was done. <\/span><\/p>\n

 But it was not because of
\nthe star! It was because that dominated my whole consciousness and I was
\nthinking of nothing but that, I wanted only that, thought only of that, acted
\nonly for that. So, this thing which generally takes a whole lifetime <\/span>―<\/span> it is said the minimum time is
\nthirty-five years! <\/span>―<\/span> before twelve months had, it was done. <\/span><\/p>\n

 But that was because I
\nthought only of that. <\/span><\/p>\n

 And it was because I was
\nthinking only of that, that just when the star flashed by I could formulate it <\/span>―<\/span> not merely a vague impression <\/span>― <\/span>formulate it in precise words
\nlike this: \u201cTo realise union with the Divine\u201d, the inner Divine, the thing we
\nspeak of, the very thing we speak of. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 211<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

Therefore, what is important is not the star but the aspiration.
\nThe star is only like an outer demonstration, nothing else. But it is not
\nnecessary to have a shooting star in order to realise swiftly! What is
\nnecessary is that the whole will of the being should be concentrated on one
\npoint. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(Silence)<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/b>(Mother shows a series of written questions<\/span><\/i><\/span>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>What I have here isn\u2019t very interesting. There
\nis one very practical question which I have already explained to you several times,
\nbut perhaps it will be good to explain it yet once again. It is this: <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cWhen there is a clearly localised illness
\nin the body, what is the best way of opening the physical consciousness to
\nreceive the healing Force?\u201d <\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

For this <\/span>―<\/span> as for everything else in this domain which may be called the
\n\u201coutposts\u201d of occultism or the threshold of occultism <\/span>―<\/span> each one must find his own
\nmovement; for what is most effective for each one is the method for which he
\nhas been more or less prepared and which is most familiar to him. So it is very
\ndifficult to make a general rule. <\/span><\/p>\n

 But there is a
\npreparation which may be of a general kind. That is, to accustom the body
\nmethodically to understand that it is only the outer expression of a truer and deeper
\nreality and that it is this truer and deeper reality which governs its destiny <\/span>―<\/span> though it is not usually aware
\nof it. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>One can prepare the body
\nthrough a series of observations, studies, understandings,\u00b9 by showing it
\nexamples, making it understand things as one makes a child understand them,
\neither by observing its own movements <\/span>―<\/span> but generally, in this,
\none
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u00b9For
\nthe body, to understand is to have the capacity of execution, obtained through
\nthe contagion of example. For, \u201cto understand\u201d for the body means to be able to
\ndo. (Mother\u2019s note).<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/font> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 212<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

is comparatively blind! <\/span>―
\n<\/span>or by
\nobserving those of others. And in a more general way, this preparation will be
\nbased on recognised studies, on clear facts. Like this, for instance: that a
\ncertain number of persons, placed in exactly similar circumstances, experience,
\neach one of them, very different effects. One may go even further: in a given
\nset of definite circumstances, there is a certain number of particular,
\ndefinite individuals, in apparently quite identical conditions, and for some
\nthe effects are catastrophic, while others escape without any harm.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

  During the war there was a very large
\nnumber of such examples for study. In epidemics it is the same thing; in
\ncataclysms of Nature, like tidal waves or earthquakes or cyclones, it is the
\nsame thing. <\/span><\/p>\n

 The body understands
\nthese things if they are shown and explained to it as one explains things to a
\nchild: \u201cYou see, there was something\u00a0
\n<\/span>else that acted there, not only the plain material fact by itself.\u201d And,
\nunless some bad will is there, it understands. <\/span><\/p>\n

 This is a preparation.<\/span><\/p>\n

 Gradually, if you make
\nuse of this understanding, you must, with a methodical work of infusing
\nconsciousness into the cells of the body, infuse at the same time the truth of
\nthe divine Presence. This work takes time, but, if done methodically and
\nconstantly, it produces an effect. <\/span><\/p>\n

 So you have prepared the
\nground. <\/span><\/p>\n

 Suppose that as a result
\nof some illness or other, there is some sort of pain at a precise spot. At that
\nmoment all will depend, as I said at the beginning, on the approach most
\nfamiliar to you. But we can give an example. You are in pain, in great pain; it
\nis hurting very much, you are suffering a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n

 First point: do not
\nstress the pain by telling yourself, \u201cOh, how painful! Oh, this pain is
\nunbearable! Oh, it is being worse and worse, I shall never be able to bear it\u201d,
\netc., all this sort of thing. The more you go on thinking like this and feeling
\nlike this and the more your attention is concentrated on it, the pain increases
\namazingly. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 213<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

 So, the first point: to control yourself sufficiently not
\nto do that. <\/span><\/p>\n

 Second point: as I said,
\nit depends on your habits. If you know how to concentrate, to be quiet, and if
\nyou can bring into yourself a certain peace, of any kind <\/span>― <\/span>it may be a mental peace, it
\nmay be a vital peace, it may be a psychic peace; they have different values and
\nqualities, this is an individual question <\/span>―<\/span> you try to realise within
\nyourself a state of peace or attempt to enter into a conscious contact with a
\nforce of peace\u2026. Suppose you succeed more or less completely. Then, if you can
\ndraw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus <\/span>―<\/span> for we are not talking of
\ninner states but of your physical body <\/span>―<\/span> and from there direct it very
\ncalmly, very slowly I might say, but very persistently, towards the place where
\nthe pain is more or less sharp, and fix it there, this is very good.<\/span><\/p>\n

 This is not always enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

 But if by widening this
\nmovement you can add a sort of mental formation with a little life in it <\/span>―<\/span> not just cold, but with a
\nlittle life in it <\/span>―<\/span> that the only reality is the divine Reality, and all the cells of
\nthis body are a more or less deformed expression of this divine Reality <\/span>―<\/span> there is only one Reality, the
\nDivine, and our body is a more or less deformed expression of this sole Reality
\nif by my aspiration, my concentration, I can bring into the cells of the body
\nthe consciousness of this sole Reality,<\/i><\/b> all disorder must
\nnecessarily cease. <\/span><\/p>\n

 If you can add to that a
\nmovement of complete and trusting surrender to the Grace, then I am sure that
\nwithin five minutes your suffering will disappear. If you know how to do it. <\/span><\/p>\n

 You may try and yet not
\nsucceed. But you must know how to try again and again and again, until you do
\nsucceed. But if you do those three things at the same time, well, there is no
\npain which can resist. <\/span><\/p>\n

 That\u2019s all, then.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Silence)<\/span><\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\nPage – 214<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

Now, another question. It is about what I said last week in
\nconnection with the psychic, which sees from its psychic domain, which looks at
\nthe earth, seeking a place where it can reincarnate in favourable conditions.
\nThen I said that from the psychic domain it looks at the earth to see a
\n\u201ccorresponding light\u201d there. <\/span><\/p>\n

 Someone asks me what I
\nmean by a \u201ccorresponding light\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

 I simply mean a psychic
\nlight. For there are people who have a more or less awakened psychic, and this
\npsychic, more or less awakened, is visible from the psychic domain to psychic
\nbeings. So, when they see a light somewhere, they find it a favourable place to
\nmanifest\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

 (It begins to rain)<\/i><\/span> Now,
\nI think we are going to have a wet meditation, my children! <\/span><\/p>\n

 (To a disciple<\/i><\/span>) Take away
\nthis mike, these poor things don\u2019t like the rain. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(Meditation)<\/span><\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 215<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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