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And in general is it better?<\/p>\n
Yes. I don’t know, how do you see it yourself?<\/i><\/p>\n
(Mother laughs) <\/i>I mean, is it better on the whole? … Can’t you
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Yes, yes, of course I can hear! You mean the whole of …<\/i><\/p>\n
\n Page 294<\/font><\/p>\n Of you?<\/p>\n Oh, me…. I don’t know, I’m a speck of dust … that is trying<\/i><\/p>\n to (Mother nods her head)<\/i><\/p>\n But I don’t know what "me" is. Whenever I see that "me," it<\/i><\/p>\n seems (Mother laughs)<\/i><\/p>\n Everything good in me isn’t "me" at all.<\/i><\/p>\n That I understand!<\/p>\n So I really don’t know.<\/i><\/p>\n That’s very good.<\/p>\n Yes, but the person I "inhabit," if I may say so, seems so dark, <\/i><\/p>\n so small, so … oh, so uninteresting!<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Listen, it’s the Divine who made us the way we are….<\/p>\n Yes, Mother.<\/i><\/p>\n … Our unconsciousness is what prevents us from knowing it, otherwise we would always be in a kind of luminous peace, and simply: what You want, Lord, what You want … (Mother opens her hands in a gesture of total surrender). <\/i>Like that. For me – I mean, for this sort of … for this (Mother pinches the skin of her arms), <\/i>which has lived so many years but doesn’t know anything anymore, and can’t do anything anymore, there’s only … (same gesture of surrender, hands offered to the Lord).<\/i> Whatever conscious will is left is used to remain attentive – attentive, absolutely still and peaceful (gesture of listening to the above)<\/i>. To try not to obstruct or distort what the Lord … (Mother corrects herself) <\/i>what the Divine wants. That’s all. And not a personal Divine: the Divine Consciousness at work in the world. We know nothing, we know absolutely nothing, we are totally stupid really, but if we can be like this (gesture, hands open): <\/i>receptive – receptive in a silence … a silence that worships … Light, Light … a perfect Knowledge and unerring Will…. (Mother opens her hands You have nothing to say?<\/p>\n No, Mother.<\/i><\/p>\n Or ask?<\/p>\n One always has a feeling of … yes, of always being full of all<\/i><\/p>\n sorts chasm between a life you know is tranquil and vast, and a<\/i><\/p>\n person who is…. You feel the disparity between the two is <\/i>\n <\/p>\n getting more and more poignant.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Yes, that’s exactly what I am living through. But then I’ve learned (Mother opens her hands)<\/i> That is it. Do you understand? (Mother plunges in)<\/i> Page 296<\/font><\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 11, 1972 (After inquiring about Satprem’s health.) And in general is it better? Yes. I don’t know, how do you see it yourself? (Mother…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-volume-13","wpcat-140-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619","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=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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