{"id":5741,"date":"2013-07-13T02:03:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5741"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:03:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:55","slug":"018-february-10-1972-vol-13-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/13-volume-13\/018-february-10-1972-vol-13-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"-018_February 10_1972.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>February 10, 1972<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(A note from Mother)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Human consciousness is so corrupt that people<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;prefer the<br \/>\n  misery and ignorance of the ego to the<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;luminous joy that comes from sincere surrender<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;to the Divine. Their blindness is so great that they<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;refuse even to attempt the experience and prefer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;to be subjected to the misery of their ego rather<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;than make the necessary effort to free themselves<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;from it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Their blindness is so total that they would not<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;hesitate to<br \/>\n  make the Divine a slave to their ego, if<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;such a thing were possible, just to avoid giving<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;themselves to the Divine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 62<\/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 10, 1972 (A note from Mother) Human consciousness is so corrupt that people &nbsp;prefer the misery and ignorance of the ego to the &nbsp;luminous&#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-5741","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\/5741","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=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}