{"id":5558,"date":"2013-07-13T02:02:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:02:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:02:55","slug":"103-november-25-1967-vol-08-volume-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/08-volume-08\/103-november-25-1967-vol-08-volume-08","title":{"rendered":"-103_November 25_1967.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><br \/>\n<H3>November 25, 1967<\/H3><br \/>\n<P><i>Regarding Mother&#8217;s mail<\/i><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s very often like that: I get nearly twenty-five or thirty letters every day; out of them, I have time to read eight or ten, and at the time of reading them, most often there is no answer: they&#8217;re at least ninety-eight percent useless. When there is something [worthwhile in the letter], the answer comes right away. Or when there is no answer right away, sometimes (often) I put it aside, and when I am alone, Sri Aurobindo comes and says to me, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you tell him this?&#8221; Then I immediately write it down. It happens very often. And always an answer, oh, with a sense of ridiculousness, of humor touching the exact point where the weakness or unconsciousness is. That&#8217;s very funny. So I never try to find, naturally, never ever, it comes like that quite simply. When I have to answer, it comes; then I just have to take a paper, my pen, and I write it down. That&#8217;s the part of the work which isn&#8217;t work, but amusement.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">***<br \/>\n<P><i>Soon afterwards<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I gave you a speech, twice.<br \/>\n<P>Very early in the morning, while you must have been still asleep. Last night and the night before, very early, around four in the morning, I gave you a speech. Not quite &#8220;I&#8221; (and what&#8217;s &#8220;I,&#8221; in the first place, where is &#8220;I&#8221;? I don&#8217;t know), it&#8217;s &#8230; At times it comes from high above, like that, imperative; at other times, it comes from Sri Aurobindo, and that&#8217;s much more close, intimate. And it was Sri Aurobindo, both times. I gave you a speech.<\/p>\n<p><i>What was it?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>He must have told you! And for you, it will come back like this <i>(gesture from within); <\/i>one day, all of a sudden, it will reemerge from deep within you. I even saw that (the experience was rather complete), I saw it go within, and saw that one day it would reemerge and would simply be like an inspiration or a revelation, or even simply like a knowledge: &#8220;Ah! So that&#8217;s how it is!&#8221;<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 391<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>Very amusing.<br \/>\n<P>Sri Aurobindo spoke very clearly. He told you WHY things are like this. But he told me not to say it, he told me, &#8220;I am saying it to him and one day he will know it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>But on what subject?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>On the subject of what you told me last time: that your body left to itself doesn&#8217;t have any experience. He told you why. And he told you how to do it. But that I can repeat to you; I can repeat the &#8220;how to do it&#8221;: he told you that your body is still in a condition in which it has to go to school, and it&#8217;s your inner being, your consciousness, your true self that must teach it. He said, &#8220;It is still at a stage when it must be taught its lesson, and so it must learn its lesson.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P>There.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s very interesting, and very intimate.<br \/>\n<P>Then I asked him, &#8220;Should I tell him?&#8221; He said, &#8220;No, it must come out of himself, like that, it must be a sudden revelation, so that he will say, &#8216;Ah! yes &#8230;'&#8221;<br \/>\n<P>There. <i>(Laughing) <\/i>So I&#8217;ve given you a good little tug!<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 392<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 25, 1967 Regarding Mother&#8217;s mail It&#8217;s very often like that: I get nearly twenty-five or thirty letters every day; out of them, I have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-08-volume-08","wpcat-139-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}