{"id":5637,"date":"2013-07-13T02:03:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:03:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:22","slug":"127-december-30-1972-vol-13-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/13-volume-13\/127-december-30-1972-vol-13-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"-127_December 30_1972.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>December 30, 1972<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Mother distributes presents)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>So, a new year is coming&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><i>Do you have a feeling about the new year?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(after a silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Things have taken an extreme form. There&#8217;s a sort of lifting of the whole atmosphere towards an almost &#8230; inconceivable splendor, but at the same time, there&#8217;s a feeling that one can &#8230; die any moment &#8211; not &quot;die,&quot; but the body could dissolve. Both things together make up a consciousness in which&#8230;<i> (Mother shakes her head) <\/i>all past experiences seem puerile, childish, unconscious. And this &#8230; is stupendous and wonderful.<br \/>\n<P>But the body, the body has a single prayer &#8211; always the same:<\/p>\n<p>Make me worthy of knowing You<\/p>\n<p>Make me worthy of serving You<\/p>\n<p>Make me worthy of being You<\/p>\n<p><P>There.<br \/>\n<P>I can barely eat anymore, and I am not hungry. I feel a growing strength in me &#8230; but new in quality &#8230; in silence and contemplation.<br \/>\n<P>Nothing is impossible <i>(Mother opens her hands upward).<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 332<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<P>So if you don&#8217;t have any questions to ask&#8230;. If you want silence &#8230; conscious silence &#8230;?<\/p>\n<p><i>But am I making the right movement, I&#8217;m not sure?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Well, when you want to come into contact with the Divine, what movement do you make?<\/p>\n<p><i>I place myself at your feet.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother smiles,  <\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>takes Satprem&#8217;s hands<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;and plunges<br \/>\nin for half an hour)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Did you feel something?<\/p>\n<p><i>I was offered to the Sun.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 333<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 30, 1972 (Mother distributes presents) So, a new year is coming&#8230;. Do you have a feeling about the new year? (after a silence) Things&#8230;<\/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-5637","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\/5637","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=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}