{"id":5686,"date":"2013-07-13T02:03:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:03:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:37","slug":"024-february-23-1972-vol-13-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/13-volume-13\/024-february-23-1972-vol-13-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"-024_February 23_1972.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>February 23, 1972<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Mother gives Satprem some papers, most of which have been<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;published<br \/>\nin this Agenda as &quot;Notes.&quot;)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>And here is more of T.J.&#8217;s notebook &#8211; I haven&#8217;t reread it, I don&#8217;t know what she put in it. You&#8217;ll see if something is interesting.<\/p>\n<p><i>Normally, part of it is scheduled to be published in the next<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;Bulletin.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>No, only what&#8217;s worthwhile. Certain things are&#8230;. One or two things are revelations, but I don&#8217;t know if she included them. I had one or two important revelations; they seemed like nothing, but they were&#8230;. But I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re included.<\/p>\n<p><i>Do you want me to read them to you?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>There&#8217;s not enough time, mon petit. Do you have something?<\/p>\n<p><i>Nothing particular. How was the 21st?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(after a silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>From the standpoint of the work, it was very important, but physically&#8230;. I had trouble on the balcony. There was a formation (from whom I don&#8217;t know); I had seen it already for some time (I have a vague idea who it comes from, but I am not sure &#8230; and in fact I don&#8217;t care): I felt I was going to die on the 21st.<\/p>\n<p><i>!!!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>But&#8230;.<br \/>\n<P>It was a formation. Naturally, it had no effect, except physically when I went out on the balcony: it was difficult.<\/p>\n<p><i>But you stayed out for a long time.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>I stayed for five minutes.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 70<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>It was a long time, much longer that usual.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Ah? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>Yes.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>That&#8217;s because I was determined to hold out.<br \/>\n<P>I think that &#8230; (all these are big words for small things) I think that I have won a victory. But it was difficult.<br \/>\n<P>Something changed afterwards.<br \/>\n<P>In terms of consciousness, it&#8217;s fabulous, but it would take hours to describe.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>But life isn&#8217;t organized as it should be&#8230;. You see, the sense of time is different; sometimes I go into a certain consciousness &#8211; I think only a few minutes have elapsed, while it&#8217;s been a very long time.<br \/>\n<P>Inwardly, it&#8217;s going very well &#8211; very well. That&#8217;s all I can say&#8230;. The body is learning, but teaming slowly.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I don&#8217;t know about those papers I gave you. There were one or two very important things. I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re there.<br \/>\n<P>What&#8217;s the last one?<\/p>\n<p>Life on earth is essentially a field for progress; <\/p>\n<p>how short life is for all the progress we have to<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;make!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>To waste time seeking the gratification of one&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;petty<br \/>\n  desires is sheer folly. True happiness can be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;attained only by finding the Divine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>There were others after this one &#8230;. [[This last note is dated February 19. If there were any others between the 19th and the 23rd, they have disappeared. ]]<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Satprem leafs through the pages<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;and<br \/>\ncomes across this passage.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Almost all human miseries come from the fact<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;that human<br \/>\n  beings are almost always persuaded<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 71<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;they know better than the Divine what they need<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;and what life is supposed to bring them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother plunges in)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">*<sup>*<\/sup>*<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(A note dated February 23)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Supreme Lord, Perfection we must become,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Perfection we must<br \/>\n  manifest.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This body lives only by You and says to You <\/p>\n<p>over and over again:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\">&quot;What You will<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">What You will&quot;<\/p>\n<p>until the day it knows it automatically because<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;its<br \/>\n  consciousness will be completely united<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;with Yours.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 72<\/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>February 23, 1972 (Mother gives Satprem some papers, most of which have been&nbsp;published in this Agenda as &quot;Notes.&quot;) And here is more of T.J.&#8217;s notebook&#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-5686","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\/5686","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=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}