{"id":5862,"date":"2013-07-13T02:04:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:04:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:04:34","slug":"042-october-8-1956-vol-01-volume-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/01-volume-01\/042-october-8-1956-vol-01-volume-01","title":{"rendered":"-042_October 8_1956.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>October 8, 1956<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(At about 6 a.m., before<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;Mother<br \/>\nappeared on the balcony)<\/i><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">&#8216;Be always at the height of yourself,<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">in all circumstances.&#8217;<br \/>\n<P>Then I wondered when and how I am at the height of myself. And this is what I saw:<br \/>\n<P>Two things which were parallel and concomitant &#8211; that is, they are always together:<br \/>\n<P>One &#8211; identity with the Origin, which imparts an absolute serenity and perfect detachment to the action.<br \/>\n<P>The other &#8211; identity with the supreme Grace, which obliterates and abolishes all errors committed in the action by whomsoever and whatsoever &#8211; and which annuls all the consequences of these errors.<br \/>\n<P>And the moment I perceived this, I saw that my third attitude in action,<br \/>\nwhich is the will for progress for the whole earth as<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 90<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>well as for each particular individual, was not the height of my being.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">**<br \/>\n<P><i>(later, at 10 a.m.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>One is never anything but a divine apprentice: the Divine of yesterday is only an apprentice to the Divine of tomorrow &#8230; No, I am not speaking of a progressive manifestation &#8211; that is much farther below.<br \/>\n<P>When I am at my highest, I am already too high for the manifestation.<br \/>\n<P>I have gone far beyond what I wrote this morning.<br \/>\n<P><i>What if the human is too heavy, too narrow, too obscure to follow you?<\/i><br \/>\n<P>No, it is exactly the opposite of what you are saying. It is not that the Divine in his divinity is opposed to his own manifested self &#8211; He is very far beyond, beyond the necessity for Grace; He perceives his unique and exclusive responsibility, and that it is He and He alone who must change in His Manifestation so that all may change.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">**<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(later, at 1 p.m.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P><i>Won&#8217;t you at least take a flower?<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I wanted to take this little rose <i>(&#8216;Tenderness for the Divine&#8217;), <\/i>for I consider it to be the manifestation nearest to divine Love. It&#8217;s disinterested, spontaneous, intimate.<br \/>\n<P>This is what I wanted to take with me to my super-heaven, as the most precious thing in the human heart.<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 91<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">ISBN 2-902776-33-0<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 8, 1956 (At about 6 a.m., before&nbsp;Mother appeared on the balcony) &#8216;Be always at the height of yourself, in all circumstances.&#8217; Then I wondered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-volume-01","wpcat-141-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862","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=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}