{"id":5757,"date":"2013-07-13T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5757"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:04:00","slug":"123-december-20-1972-vol-13-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/13-volume-13\/123-december-20-1972-vol-13-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"-123_December 20_1972.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>December 20, 1972<\/H3><br \/>\n<P>Do you have anything to ask?<\/p>\n<p><i>I had a question about Sri Aurobindo. I was wondering what<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;stage<br \/>\n  he had reached when he left &#8211; what stage in the transfor<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>mation? For instance, what difference is there between the <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>work you are doing now and what he was doing at the time?<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 326<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>He had accumulated a great deal of supramental force in his body, and as soon as he left he&#8230;. He was on his bed, you see, and I was standing beside him, and all the supramental force that was in him passed quite concretely from his body into mine &#8211; so concretely that I thought it was visible. I could feel the friction of the passage. It was extraordinary &#8211; extraordinary! It was an extraordinary experience. It went on for a long, long time like this <i>(gesture of the Force passing into Mother&#8217;s body)<\/i>. I was standing beside his bed, and it passed into me.<br \/>\n<P>Almost physical &#8211; it was a physical sensation. It lasted a long time.<br \/>\n<P>That&#8217;s all I know.<\/p>\n<p><i>But what I want to understand is at what stage he was in the  <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>inner work &#8211; for example, cleansing the subconscient and all<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;that? What difference is there between the work he had done<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;at the time and where you have reached now, if you will? I<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;mean, is the subconscient less subconscious or &#8230; ?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Oh, yes! Certainly, certainly!<br \/>\n<P>But that is the mental way of looking at things, you see &#8211; I don&#8217;t have it anymore.<\/p>\n<p><i>Yes, Mother.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Perhaps the difference lies in the general or collective<br \/>\n  intensity <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>of that Power, that Force?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>There is a difference in the POWER of the action.<br \/>\n<P>He himself &#8211; he himself has a greater action, a greater power or action now than when he was in his body. Besides, that&#8217;s why he left &#8211; because it had to be done that way.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s very tangible, you know. His action has become very tangible. Of course, it isn&#8217;t something mental at all. It is from another region. But it isn&#8217;t ethereal or &#8211; it&#8217;s tangible. I could almost say material.<\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;ve often wondered about the right inner movement needed to<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;go into that other region. There are basically two possible  <\/i>\n  <\/p>\n<p><i>movements: a movement inwards in the direction of the soul,<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;as it were, and a movement of annihilation of the individuality,<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 327<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>&nbsp;in which you are in a sort of impersonal vastness.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Both are needed.<\/p>\n<p><i>Both ?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother plunges in)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 328<\/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 20, 1972 Do you have anything to ask? I had a question about Sri Aurobindo. 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