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December 21, 1957<\/h3>\n

The other day you told me that in order to know things, you <\/i> <\/p>\n

plug into the subtle plane, and there it all unrolls as on a tape<\/i><\/p>\n

 recorder. How does this work, exactly?<\/i> <\/p>\n

There is a whole gradation of planes of consciousness, from the physical
\nconsciousness to my radiant consciousness at the very highest level, that which
\nknows the Will of the Supreme. I keep all these planes of consciousness in
\nfront of me, working simultaneously, coordinatedly, and I am acting on each
\nplane, gathering the information proper to each plane, so as to have the
\nintegral truth of things. Thus, when I have a decision to make in regard to one
\nof you, I plug into you directly from that level of the supreme consciousness
\nwhich sees the deep truth of your being. But at the same time, my decision is
\nshaped, as it were, by the information given to me by the other planes of
\nconsciousness and particularly by the physical consciousness, which acts as a recorder.\n<\/p>\n

This physical consciousness records all it sees, all your reactions, your
\nthoughts, all the facts – without preference, without prejudice, without
\npersonal will. Nothing escapes it. Its work is almost mechanical. Therefore I
\nknow what to tell or to ask you according to the integral truth of your being
\nand its present possibilities. Ordinarily, in the normal man, the physical
\nconsciousness does not see things as they are, for three reasons: because of
\nignorance, because of preference, and because of an egoistic will. You color
\nwhat you see, eliminate what displeases you. In short, you see only what you
\ndesire to see. <\/p>\n

Now, I recently had a very striking experience: a discrepancy occurred
\nbetween my physical consciousness and the consciousness of the world. In some
\ninstances decisions made in the Light and the Truth produced unexpected
\nresults, upheavals in the consciousness of others that were neither foreseen
\nnor desired, and I did not understand. No matter how hard I tried, I could not
\nunderstand – and I emphasize this word ‘understand.’ At last, I had to leave my
\nhighest consciousness and pull myself down into the physical consciousness to
\nfind out what was happening. And there, in my head, I saw what appeared to be a
\nlittle cell bursting, and suddenly I understood: the recording had been
\ndefective. The physical consciousness had neglected to register<\/p>\n

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 certain of your
\nlower reactions. It could not have been through preference or through personal
\nwill (these things were eliminated from my consciousness long, long ago). But I
\nsaw that this most material consciousness was already completely permeated with
\nthe transforming supramental truth, and it could no longer follow the rhythm of
\nnormal life. It was much more attuned to the true consciousness than to the
\nworld! I couldn’t possibly blame it for lagging behind; on the contrary, it was
\nin front, too far ahead! There was a discrepancy between the rhythm of the
\ntransformation of my being and the world’s own rhythm. The supramental action
\non the world is slow, it does not act directly – it acts by infiltration, by
\ntraversing the successive layers, and the results are slow to come about. So I
\nhad to pull myself violently down in order to wait for the others. <\/p>\n

One must at times know how not to know. <\/p>\n

This experience showed me once more the necessity to be perfectly humble
\nbefore the Lord. It is not enough merely to rise to the heights, to the
\nethereal planes of consciousness: these planes have also to descend into matter
\nand illuminate it. Otherwise, nothing is really done. One must have the
\npatience to establish the communication between the high and the low. I am like
\na tempest, a hurricane – if I listened to myself, I would tear into the future,
\nand everything would go flying! But then, there would no longer be any
\ncommunication with the rest. <\/p>\n

One must have the patience to wait. <\/p>\n

Humility, a perfect humility, is the condition for all realization. The mind
\nis so cocksure. It thinks it knows everything, understands everything. And if
\never it acts through idealism to serve a cause that appears noble to it, it
\nbecomes even more arrogant more intransigent, and it is almost impossible to
\nmake it see that there might. be something still higher beyond its noble
\nconceptions and its great altruistic or other ideals. Humility is the only
\nremedy. I am not speaking of humility as conceived by certain religions, with
\nthis God that belittles his creatures and only likes to see them down on their
\nknees. When I was a child, this kind of humility revolted me, and I refused to
\nbelieve in a God that wants to belittle his creatures. I don’t mean that kind
\nof humility, but rather the recognition that one does not know, that one knows
\nnothing, and that there may be something beyond what presently appears to us as
\nthe truest, the most noble or disinterested. True humility consists in
\nconstantly referring oneself to the Lord, in placing all before Him. When I
\nreceive a blow (and there are quite<\/p>\n

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 a few of them in my sadhana), my immediate,
\nspontaneous reaction, like a spring, is to throw myself before Him and to say,
\n‘Thou, Lord.’ Without this humility, I would never have been able to realize
\nanything. And I say ‘I’ only to make myself understood, but in fact ‘I’ means
\nthe Lord through this body, his instrument. When you begin living THIS kind of
\nhumility, it means you are drawing nearer to the realization. It is the
\ncondition, the starting point. <\/p>\n

** <\/p>\n

(Note written by Mother in connection with the conversation<\/i><\/p>\n

 of December 21, 1957)<\/i> <\/p>\n

At the very top, a constant vision of the Supreme’s will. <\/p>\n

In the world, an overall vision of what is to be done. <\/p>\n

Individually, at each moment and in each circumstance, the vision ‘of the
\ntruth of the moment, of the circumstance, of the individual. <\/p>\n

In the external consciousness, the impersonal and mechanical recording of
\nwhat is happening and of what are the people and things that comprise both the
\nfield of action and the limitations imposed upon this action. The recording is
\ninnately automatic and mechanical, without any kind of evaluation, as objective
\nas possible. <\/p>\n

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ISBN 2-902776-33-0<\/p>\n

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