{"id":6006,"date":"2013-07-13T02:05:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:05:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:05:20","slug":"196-may-21-1960-vol-01-volume-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/01-volume-01\/196-may-21-1960-vol-01-volume-01","title":{"rendered":"-196_May 21_1960.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><br \/>\n<H3>May 21, 1960<\/H3><br \/>\n<P>What I call purity, the true purity, is not all those things morality teaches: it is non-ego.<br \/>\n<P>There must be nothing but Him.<br \/>\n<P>Him, not only because we have given Him everything and consecrated ourselves totally to Him (that is not enough), but Him because He has taken total possession of the human instrument.<br \/>\n<P>At times, I feel that I&#8217;ll never get over the difficulty. We are besieged by this enormous world of hostile forces &#8211; oceans of forces, churning and combining and submerging each other in gigantic pralayas,&#8217; then again regrouping and combining. When you see that, it feels as if you had to be the Divine Himself to get over the difficulty. Precisely so! (And it&#8217;s the hostile forces who help you to see this, it&#8217;s their role.) You have TO BE THE DIVINE, that is the solution, that is the true divine purity.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">**<br \/>\n<P>When X is here, I get the impression that things are going backwards instead of forwards. But once he&#8217;s left, I suddenly leap ahead. And then I perceive that the progress is a real progress, that things won have really been won and they don&#8217;t come undone again. That is X&#8217;s true power, a very material power. For I often feel that things could come into being, they could be realized in the consciousness above (and the vision is there, the Power is there, I have it &#8211; the invisible power over the earth). But when you come down to the material plane, everything is uncertain.<br \/>\n<P><i>* Pralaya: <\/i>apocalypse, end of a world.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 369<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>Whereas with X, once things have come down, they no longer dissipate. This is certainly why the Supreme put him on my path.<br \/>\n<P>For example, there was one difficulty he helped me resolve. I have always been literally pestered, constantly, night and day, by all kinds of thoughts coming from people &#8211; all kinds of calls, questions, formations&#8217; that have naturally to be answered. For I have trained myself to be conscious of everything, always. But it disturbed me in the work, particularly when I needed absolute concentration &#8211; and I could never cut myself off from people or cut myself off from the world. I had to answer all these calls and these questions, I had to send the necessary force, the necessary light, the healing power, I constantly had to purify all these formations, these thoughts, these wills, these false movements that were falling on me.<br \/>\n<P>What was needed was to effect a shift, a sort of transference upwards, a lifting up of all these things that come to me &#8211; so that each one, each thing, each circumstance could directly and automatically receive the force from above, the light, the response from above, and I would be a mere intermediary and a channel of the Light and the Force.<br \/>\n<P>Well, I tried hard but I couldn&#8217;t really find the way. At times, I almost seemed to have it, a mere nothing would have been enough; it was just a matter of getting the knack (and at heart, this is what Power is all about &#8211; to get the knack, to suddenly seize upon the means, the right vibration, what in India is called <i>siddhi). <\/i>Well, after his departure, all of a sudden it came. It happened while I was doing my japa, while I was walking up and down my room &#8230; As if I were holding all that in my arms &#8211; it was so concrete &#8211; and lifting it up towards the Light, along with this ascending OM, rising from the very depths, OM! &#8211; and I was carrying all these people, and it was spreading forth, PHYSICALLY spreading, and I was carrying the earth, I was carrying the whole universe, but in such a tangible, concrete way &#8211; all towards the Supreme Lord.<br \/>\n<P>And this was not the invisible power: it was concrete, it was tangible, it was MATERIAL.<br \/>\n<P>1. Formations, in occult language, refer to all the psychological movements and impulses, conscious or unconscious, constantly emanating from the disciples and others, and which leave an imprint in the subtle atmosphere or a wandering entity seeking to fulfill itself.<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 370<\/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>May 21, 1960 What I call purity, the true purity, is not all those things morality teaches: it is non-ego. 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