{"id":5666,"date":"2013-07-13T02:03:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:03:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:31","slug":"007-january-19-1972-vol-13-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/13-volume-13\/007-january-19-1972-vol-13-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"-007_January 19_1972.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>January 19, 1972<\/H3><br \/>\n<P>Last time I told you I was looking for the twelve attributes <i>(Mother takes out a sheet of paper). <\/i>Here they are, someone found this.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Sincerity<\/td>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Humility<\/td>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Gratitude<\/td>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Perseverance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Aspiration<\/td>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Receptivity<\/td>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Progress<\/td>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Courage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Goodness<\/td>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Generosity<\/td>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Equanimity<\/td>\n<td>\n<P align=\"center\">Peace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<P>The first eight concern the attitude towards the Divine, and the last four towards humanity.<br \/>\n<P>And we also found a text from Sri Aurobindo <i>(with a colored chart of the twelve petals):<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Centre and four powers, white. <\/p>\n<p>The twelve all of different color<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;in three groups: top group red, <\/p>\n<p>passing to orange towards yellow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Next group, yellow passing through green<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;towards blue. And third group, blue passing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;through violet towards red.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;If white is not convenient,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;the center may be gold (powder).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\">March 20, 1934<br \/>\n<P>The center is gold.<\/p>\n<p><i>But what did you need these twelve attributes for?<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n  <font size=\"2\">Page 41<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>They&#8217;re going to build twelve rooms around the Matrimandir, at ground level, and R. wanted each room to have a name: one of the twelve attributes of the Mother, and the corresponding color. [[It may interest the reader to know that according to Sri Aurobindo, these colors generally have the following significances, though the exact meaning may vary &quot;with the field, the combinations, the character and shades of the color, the play of forces&quot;: red = physical; orange = supramental in the physical; yellow = thinking mind; green = life; blue = higher mind; violet = divine compassion or grace; gold = divine Truth; white = the light of the Mother, or the Divine Consciousness. (See also <i>Agenda IV, <\/i>May 18, 1963.) ]]<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">*<sup>*<\/sup>*<br \/>\n<P><i>A little later.<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Nirod is reading me his correspondence with Sri Aurobindo. Strangely enough, there are all sorts of things that I said much, much later, I had no idea he had written them! Exactly the same things. I found that very interesting.<br \/>\n<P>In the correspondence, he tells Nirod in one of his letters (he repeated it several times), &quot;I may take a fancy to leave my body before the supramental realization &#8230;.&quot; [[March 30, 1935. <i>(Question:) Sri Aurobindo is bound to be wholly supramental and is being supramentalised in parts. If that is true-and it is-well, he can&#8217;t die till he is supramental-and once he is so he is immortal. <\/i>(Answer:) &quot;It looks very much like a <i>non-sequitur. <\/i>The first part and the last are all right-but the link is fragile. How do you know I won&#8217;t take a fancy to die in between as a joke?&quot; <i>(Question:) Some people say that yourself and the Mother would have been supramentalised long ago if only we had not kept you down. Is it really true? <\/i>(Answer:) &quot;I can&#8217;t say there is no truth in it.&quot; (Cf. <i>Bulletin, <\/i>August 1975.) ]]  He said that a few years before he died. He had sensed it.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>But he did speak of a transformation preceding the appearance of the first supramental being. That&#8217;s what he had told me. He told me that his body wasn&#8217;t capable of withstanding the transformation, that mine was more capable &#8211; he says it there too.<br \/>\n<P>But it&#8217;s difficult. As I told you the other day.<br \/>\n<P>Especially, especially for food &#8230; it&#8217;s become a real labor.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 42<\/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>January 19, 1972 Last time I told you I was looking for the twelve attributes (Mother takes out a sheet of paper). 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